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BBC News", "Storm Christoph flooding: Financial help offered to victims - BBC News", "Storm Christoph: Travel disruption as snow and rain sweep in - BBC News", "Troubles victims: Thousands of relatives call for action - BBC News", "Glastonbury 2021: Festival axed 'with great regret' - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Biden's inauguration speech calls for unity - it won't be easy - BBC News", "Saga cruises says all customers must be vaccinated - BBC News", "Amanda Gorman: Inauguration poet calls for 'unity and togetherness' - BBC News", "Kamala Harris becomes first female, first black and first Asian-American VP - BBC News", "Covid: Infections 'must be brought down' to help NHS - BBC News", "Covid-19: What might a 'tighter' NI lockdown look like? - BBC News", "Manchester sinkhole: Houses collapse in Gorton street - BBC News", "Covid: £800 house party fines to be introduced in England - BBC News", "Brexit: 'I was asked to pay an extra £82 for my £200 coat' - 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BBC News", "President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed' - BBC News", "Dartford mother-of-three died after liposuction in Turkey - BBC News", "Biden inauguration in pictures - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 'Patience and perspective' needed in Wales - BBC News", "Racism in ballet: Black dancer's 'humiliation' at racist comments - BBC News", "Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork - BBC News", "Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article - BBC News", "Edinburgh's giant pandas may 'return to China' over Covid losses - BBC News", "Families rescued in Peak District after getting trapped in snow - BBC News", "Covid: Liverpool's leaders call for new national lockdown - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at hospitals - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Scottish cabinet to consider further measures - BBC News", "Cold snap creates 'pop-up' ice hockey rink - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Schools' phased return defended by first minister - BBC News", "Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands - BBC News", "Irish Eurovision singer and Bagatelle frontman Liam Reilly dies - BBC News", "Zoe Davison: Racing trainer dies on same day two of her horses win at Plumpton - BBC Sport", "West Brom 0-4 Arsenal: Arsenal see off Baggies in ruthless display - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: New strain of virus 'accelerating' spread - BBC News", "Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Five teenagers arrested after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £39m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Covid: Not much room for lockdown changes, Wales' first minister warns - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation - BBC News", "Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 - BBC News", "New Year snow flurries fall across England - BBC News", "Covid-19: New variant 'raises R number by up to 0.7' - BBC News", "Suspected Islamists kill dozens in attacks on two Niger villages - BBC News", "Covid: What could 'tougher' measures mean for us? - BBC News", "Pep Guardiola: Man City boss may stay in management longer than planned - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Anti-lockdown protesters arrested at Hyde Park demo - BBC News", "Benjamin Mendy: Man City 'disappointed' after defender breaches Covid-19 protocols - BBC Sport", "Ryan Garcia stops Luke Campbell after surviving knockdown in Dallas - BBC Sport", "County Antrim poultry flock to be culled after bird flu detected - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Restrictions 'could continue' amid rising cases - BBC News", "Hospitals across UK 'must prepare for Covid surge', senior doctor warns - BBC News", "Covid: Regional rules 'probably going to get tougher', says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Covid: Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens in hospital with virus - BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson warns of tougher measures amid Covid surge - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "Covid: Snowdonia National Park wardens 'getting abuse' during lockdown - BBC News", "Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: James Maddison and Harvey Barnes send Foxes second - BBC Sport", "Covid: Nurseries 'teetering on the edge' during pandemic - BBC News", "Archie Lyndhurst: CBBC star died in his sleep, says mother - BBC News", "SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early - BBC News", "Covid-19: Protect us from unlawful killing charges - medics - BBC News", "Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man said he had travelled 100 miles 'for a McDonald's' - BBC News", "RAF veteran receives Covid jab at Salisbury Cathedral - BBC News", "Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd: Alisson saves thwart leaders at Anfield - BBC Sport", "Chris Cramer: Tributes paid after former BBC and CNN journalist dies aged 73 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Patchy supply' hampering vaccine rollout - BBC News", "Covid-19: NI hospitals prepare for peak of latest virus surge - BBC News", "Branson's Virgin rocket takes satellites to orbit - BBC News", "Covid-19: Nisra records highest ever weekly deaths - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Parents' joy as free childcare resumes - BBC News", "Online clothes sellers targeted by 'creepy' messages - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "Sudan's Darfur region: 'More than 80 killed' in clashes - BBC News", "Lai Chi-Wai raises HK$5.2m for charity climbing Nina Towers - BBC News", "Covid: Airport support scheme to open in England - BBC News", "As it happened: NHS England under extreme pressure, says NHS chief - BBC News", "Virtual library gives children in England free book access - BBC News", "Gerry Marsden: Funeral held for Pacemakers star - BBC News", "Covid: Church of England services hit by pandemic - BBC News", "Sri Lanka v England: Tourists wobble chasing 74 after Jack Leach takes 5-122 - BBC Sport", "Universal Credit: Benefit increase only 'temporary', says Raab - BBC News", "G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer - BBC News", "Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs' - BBC News", "Home Office 'working to restore' lost police records - BBC News", "Eurostar: Government urged to 'safeguard' rail firm's future - BBC News", "Covid-19: Running a roadside van when a pandemic cuts traffic - BBC News", "Coronavirus: William and Kate hear from emergency workers - BBC News", "Covid: People broke lockdown rules in 200-mile drive to see friends - BBC News", "Covid-19: More mass jab centres, airport support and a virtual library - BBC News", "Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive - BBC News", "Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island - BBC News", "Universal credit: MPs urge PM to keep £20 benefit 'lifeline' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Further 1,295 deaths recorded in the UK - BBC News", "Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia dies with Covid aged 70 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach - BBC News", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Freeman targets 400,000 vaccinations every week - BBC News", "Lockdown Christmas hits: Lidl pink prosecco and takeaways - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled - BBC News", "Fresh calls for NI mother and baby homes inquiry - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update - BBC News", "Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - BBC News", "Human remains found in search for missing cyclist Tony Parsons - BBC News", "Johnson: 24-7 Covid-vaccine hubs as soon as supply allows - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: The six new lockdown rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: British tourist blamed for Lauberhorn ski race cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Covid-19: We can make this the peak by following rules, says Hancock - BBC News", "Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum £10 an hour - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do the rules compare to last year? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal to save 2,000 jobs - BBC News", "Furlough fraud: I'm still registered as furloughed for a job I quit' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Stricter rules within days - BBC News", "China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy - BBC News", "Media billionaire David Barclay dies, aged 86 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Lockdown lifting 'unlikely' as deaths pass 5,000 - BBC News", "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech - BBC News", "PMQs: Some food parcels are an 'insult to families' - PM - BBC News", "Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 100,000 vaccine doses administered in NI - BBC News", "Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing - BBC News", "Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals - BBC News", "Covid: Birmingham hospitals move 200 doctors to intensive care duties - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p from April in Scotland - BBC News", "Naomi Campbell's Kenya tourism role causes row - BBC News", "Heavy snow causes widespread disruption in Scotland - BBC News", "Covid-19: New test rule for England arrivals pushed back to Monday - BBC News", "David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app - BBC News", "GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC News", "Covid-19: Lockdown measures 'starting to show signs of some effect' - PM - BBC News", "Covid-19: Alabama crowds ignore coronavirus to celebrate championship - BBC News", "Covid-19: New treatment, NHS staff struggles and free meals row - BBC News", "Trump impeachment process: Who are the key players? - BBC News", "Gurlitt's last Nazi-looted work returned to owners - BBC News", "Cramlington woman celebrates 100th birthday with covid jab - BBC News", "People's sonic boom surprise caught on camera - BBC News", "Libby Squire murder trial: Pawel Relowicz 'prowled streets for victim' - BBC News", "Battery lodged in baby's throat for four months - BBC News", "As it happened: Record number of daily deaths reported in UK - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Pfizer v Oxford AstraZeneca v Moderna - BBC News", "Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Fulham: Ivan Cavaleiro earns a point for Premier League strugglers - BBC Sport", "Call for better coronavirus masks for all medical staff - BBC News", "Covid: Play your part in fight against virus, says Patel - BBC News", "YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports record 1,564 daily deaths - BBC News", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan: Hundreds march over arrested man's death - BBC News", "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot - BBC News", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ban shoppers without face masks - BBC News", "Trump impeached for second time - BBC News", "YFN Lucci: US rapper wanted in Atlanta for suspected murder - BBC News", "Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows - BBC News", "Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Who broke into the building? - BBC News", "Britain's Got Talent: Filming postponed due to coronavirus concerns - BBC News", "Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful scenes' in US - BBC News", "National Express to suspend all services - BBC News", "Fears schools will be overwhelmed by laptopless pupils - BBC News", "Trump allowed back onto Twitter - BBC News", "Trump auction for Arctic oil rights sees little interest - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Three teenagers charged with murder after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Biden says BLM protest would have been treated 'very differently' - BBC News", "Essex lorry deaths: Dad learned of son's fate on social media - BBC News", "As it happened: PM sets out Covid vaccine rollout plan - BBC News", "Teachers' grades to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England - BBC News", "Adrian Chiles confirmed in Emma Barnett 5 Live slot - BBC News", "Covid: Seven mass vaccination hubs announced for England - BBC News", "Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Two Louisville officers fired over roles in shooting - BBC News", "Stella Tennant: Family confirms model's death was suicide - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated - BBC News", "Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered - BBC News", "Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Belfast Trust cancels urgent cancer surgeries - BBC News", "Capitol riots: How a Trump rally turned deadly - BBC News", "Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress - BBC News", "Muted response as Clap for Heroes returns - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Moment protesters storm US legislature - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events - BBC News", "Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights - BBC News", "Covid: UK travel curbs to keep out South Africa variant - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Pro-Trump protesters storm the US legislature - in pictures - BBC News", "'Mr Christmas' lights switched off for last time in Croxley Green - BBC News", "Inside one GP surgery's Covid vaccine roll-out - BBC News", "Covid-19: Baby's mother issues mottled skin warning - BBC News", "Trump’s Twitter downfall - BBC News", "ICU hospital staff: 'Scared, sad, petrified, worried' - BBC News", "Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn - BBC News", "Capitol siege: Trump's words 'directly led' to violence, Patel says - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Murder-accused teenagers appear in court - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "McDonald's pauses walk-in takeaways in lockdown - BBC News", "US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington - BBC News", "'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff - BBC News", "Alex Rodda murder: Matthew Mason guilty of killing schoolboy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson makes daily jab pledge as Army helps rollout - BBC News", "Organ donor mum wishes she could help her children in need of kidneys - BBC News", "Meat factories warn Covid absences could hit supplies - BBC News", "Covid tests for Channel hauliers to continue 'until further notice' - BBC News", "Aston Villa plan to play youngsters against Liverpool in FA Cup after Covid outbreak - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout widens as hospital pressure rises - BBC News", "Sainsbury's Christmas sales rise despite smaller turkeys - BBC News", "Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? - BBC News", "Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker says brain tumour has 'shrunk significantly' - BBC News", "Lockdown: 'I've borrowed £4m just to remain closed' - BBC News", "Capitol siege: An eyewitness account from inside the House chamber - BBC News", "Asos frontrunner to buy Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands - BBC News", "Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Top adviser warns France at 'emergency' virus moment - BBC News", "Covid-19: Essex student helps 600 refugees out of 'period poverty' - BBC News", "Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Care home worker thought cancer misdiagnosis was a 'cruel joke' - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims could be out of homes for days - BBC News", "SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched - BBC News", "England in Sri Lanka: Tourists complete six-wicket win and take series 2-0 - BBC Sport", "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Pressure on NHS front line 'relentless' - Hancock - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death than average - BBC News", "Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat' - BBC News", "Snow: Severe weather warnings in place across UK - BBC News", "Covid-19: MPs call for school reopening plan, and will France have a third lockdown? - BBC News", "Putin condemns Navalny protests as Western concern grows - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not a moment to ease measures,' says Matt Hancock - BBC News", "Robert Rowland: Former Brexit MEP dies in Bahamas diving accident - BBC News", "Pandemic prompts Super Bowl ad rethink in US - BBC News", "Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC News", "South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK - BBC News", "US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts' - BBC News", "Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? - BBC News", "'Droves' of Pampas grass pickers at South Shields beach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Mansfield newlyweds, 90 and 86, in vaccination plea - BBC News", "'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents - BBC News", "Covid: Call for long-term plan to help 'burnt-out' nurses - BBC News", "Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger - BBC News", "Dylan Freeman: Mother admits killing disabled son - BBC News", "'Running Man' robber jailed after nearly 13 years on the run - BBC News", "Travellers: Shocking lack of pitches for families, charity warns - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims face 'months' before returning home - BBC News", "Jenners: Building's owner says store 'will remain' despite Frasers move - BBC News", "PTSD: Eyes can reveal previous trauma, study reveals - BBC News", "Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists - BBC News", "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants - BBC News", "Channel 4 Deepfake Queen complaints dropped by Ofcom - BBC News", "Debenhams shops to close permanently after Boohoo deal - BBC News", "Covid: Dutch curfew riots rage for third night - BBC News", "Gordon Brown: Trust has broken down in way UK is run - BBC News", "Q&A: Cwm Taf maternity problems - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Over-70 vaccine letters start but blue envelope delay - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Failings 'affected two-thirds of women' - BBC News", "Mastercard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU - BBC News", "Frank Lampard: Chelsea sack manager with Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive - BBC News", "Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary - BBC News", "Covid: Hays Travel to close 89 shops as lockdown delays 'bounce back' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer self-isolates for third time - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Ways to 'accelerate' vaccine plans being examined - BBC News", "Welsh Valentine's Day: 'Why we mark St Dwynwen's Day' - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Mothers ignored and made to feel worthless - BBC News", "Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police investigate potential breaches at republican funeral - BBC News", "Skewen flooding: Villagers warned not to return to homes - BBC News", "Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled - BBC News", "Covid: Volunteers in Maesteg clear snow for vulnerable to get vaccine - BBC News", "Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: Bruno Fernandes settles FA Cup thriller - BBC Sport", "Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC News", "Couple killed in Cameron House Hotel fire named - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Police support Crown probe into care home deaths - BBC News", "Covid: Sir Billy Connolly receives his first vaccine jab - BBC News", "Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report - BBC News", "Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container' - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say - BBC News", "Festival season 'still possible' despite Glastonbury cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'New variant may be associated with higher mortality' - PM - BBC News", "Inquiry uses legal powers to seek Salmond evidence - BBC News", "Bus driver jailed after passenger's death in Swansea crash - BBC News", "Covid: James Bond film No Time To Die delayed for third time - BBC News", "Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives - BBC News", "Birmingham mosque becomes UK's first to offer Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Hotel quarantine for UK arrivals to be discussed - BBC News", "St Agnes Cold War bunker for sale - BBC News", "Covid: Side-by-side in a London mosque - funerals and a food bank - BBC News", "Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? 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east London.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "Driving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" next week, the Met Office warns.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect the area, close to Niger's border with Mali.", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Manchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breaches Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.", "Mexican-American Ryan Garcia gets up from the canvas to stop Britain's Luke Campbell with a body shot in Dallas, Texas.", "About 30,000 birds are to be culled at the farm near Clough in north Antrim.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describes her as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wishes her well.", "Boris Johnson says regional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The decision to keep car parks open is under \"constant review\", says one national park.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Calls are made for \"front-line\" nursery staff to be supported with funding and vaccines.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "He told police he drove to Devizes for a McDonald's even though the town does not have a branch.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Mother Sara Powell-Davies welcomes its return, but nurseries say they fear for the future.", "Women are sent sexually explicit messages and requests for \"worn\" garments.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Fighting erupted after a man was stabbed in a row between two men from different ethnic groups.", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "The government is aiming to provide grants by April to mitigate the impact of Covid travel rules.", "Patient numbers have risen by 15,000 since Christmas, but infections are stabilising, says Sir Simon Stevens.", "Pupils in England can read works by popular authors online while schools stay closed in lockdown.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later.", "England need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic final session in Galle.", "A decision on whether to extend £20 Universal Credit rise is unlikely before March's Budget, minister says.", "The leaders of the US, France, Germany and other leading economies will meet in Cornwall in June.", "The government is planning new laws to stop England's monuments being removed \"on a whim\" by protesters.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "With traffic down and more people working from home, what is the future for these lay-by businesses?", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.", "But Sir Simon Stevens says the health service has never been in a more precarious situation.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia tested positive for the virus shortly after Christmas but the cause of his death is not clear.", "The man told police he had travelled 14 miles from his home to search for the fictional characters.", "Hashem Abedi and Ahmed Hassan are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh in May.", "Scotland's health secretary says 400,000 jabs could be administered every week by the end of February.", "Lidl, Just Eat and Asos say demand for fizz, takeaways and clothes all rose during December.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Black people are more than four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act in England.", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and NHS Wales chief executive.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry vanished more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.", "The prime minister wants round-the-clock vaccination but adds supply is currently the limiting factor.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The health secretary urges people to follow rules, saying \"individual decisions\" make a difference.", "Rival supermarkets defend their pay, with Asda saying looking at hourly rates does not tell the whole story.", "Some restrictions have been tightened amid concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Amid reports of mass furlough fraud the BBC hears from one worker who quit work but still gets furlough pay.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says because of the \"precarious\" situation in relation to the pandemic more restrictions will be brought in.", "A report from a group of Tory MPs adds to internal pressure on the government to harden its stance.", "Together with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning hotels, retail and newspapers.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson over the provision of \"disgraceful\" food parcels.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "One operator told the BBC his staff were working up to 16 hours a day to help traders.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "The increase is to further discourage shoppers from buying single-use plastic bags.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Sir David will showcase an augmented reality app as part of a drive to prove the uses of 5G.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".", "But Boris Johnson does not rule out tougher restrictions in England, saying they are kept under review.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "These are the lawmakers with a big influence on the impeachment process against the former president.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Pawel Relowicz committed \"sexually motivated\" burglaries before Libby Squire's death, jurors hear.", "Doctors believed 11-month-old Sofia-Grace Hill was rejecting food because she had tonsillitis.", "It comes as Boris Johnson is quizzed by MPs on the government's coronavirus response.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Parents of disabled children are calling for teachers in special schools to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "The Democrats say they sheltered in a safe room alongside others who refused to wear masks.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Police in Atlanta want to question YFN Lucci, 29, over a fatal shooting in the city last month.", "More than 700 intensive care staff at nine hospitals were asked about their experiences for a study.", "Her novel Heart for a Compass is a fictional historical saga inspired by her great-great-aunt.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "Production was to begin later this month but filming and transmission will now be later than hoped.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "Allowing pupils without laptops into schools could limit the impact of the closures, say head.", "The president will be banned \"permanently\" if he breaks the platform's rules again.", "An Alaska state agency emerged as the main bidder at the sale, which was opposed by environmentalists.", "Two boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, are charged with murder after the death of Olly Stephens, 13.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex.", "Boris Johnson has \"no doubt\" there is enough supply to vaccinate the first four priority groups by 15 February.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The broadcaster will be a part-time replacement for the new Woman's Hour host.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Events in Washington spark dismay and criticism of America's politics and leader.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "More than 113,000 Scots have now been given their first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "The president is accused of inciting a riot with his divisive rhetoric - he's unlikely to stay silent.", "Health officials say it was the only option due to the demand for beds as a result of Covid-19.", "A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "News photographers captured extraordinary scenes as Trump supporters stormed the building.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "Dave Edwards lit up his home for 42 years but died before the recent festive season.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "George is recovering after spending three nights in hospital with coronavirus.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "On Wednesday the UK recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths and hospitals are struggling to cope.", "The Tesla and SpaceX owner replaces Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet.", "The home secretary says the US president fuelled the violence, as the PM condemns the \"disgraceful scenes\".", "Two boys and a girl are accused of murdering 13-year-old Olly Stephens in Reading.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Matthew Mason beat 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death to stop their sexual relationship being revealed.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Sarah Bingham's son and daughter have the same rare illness and she is a donor match for both.", "Industry body calls for the early vaccination of workers to keep supply chains running smoothly.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool.", "GPs in England receive doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn of \"stretched\" wards.", "Families had smaller gatherings, but sales still rose 9.3% in the Christmas trading period, it says.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there.", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "The new lockdown has pushed pubs and restaurants into yet more debt, some of which may never be repaid.", "Jamie Stiehm was in the House of Representatives press gallery when protesters smashed at the door.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "The head of France's scientific council suggests a third lockdown is needed amid spread of variants.", "Ella Lambert says the period pain she experiences inspired her to help others.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "Janice Johnston had 18 months of needless chemotherapy, causing her numerous physical problems.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "England complete a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.", "A former Boeing manager says more investigations are needed on the plane, grounded after two crashes.", "Nearly 38,000 people are in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, the health secretary says.", "The highest-risk job roles were in restaurants, care work and manufacturing.", "From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to £190bn a year, a report says.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The crackdown on Alexei Navalny and his supporters fuels calls in the EU for tougher sanctions.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "The changes affecting some customers take effect as finances are squeezed by Covid and Christmas.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after having to twice postpone their wedding.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "A Royal College of Nursing survey found almost 80% were more stressed because of the Covid pandemic.", "As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "Ambrose O'Neill disappeared after the first day of his trial in 2008.", "Only 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any available spaces, research from a charity suggests.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "The building's owner vows it will continue as a department store despite the departure of current tenant, the House of Fraser.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.", "The media regulator decided not to pursue complaints about decency over the channel's satire.", "Online retailer Boohoo will buy the brand for £55m, but not its shops, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The UK's nations and regions are being treated as if they were \"invisible\", the former PM warns.", "What is behind the review of specialist care for mothers and babies in the south Wales valleys?", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "A new report focuses on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.", "The move sparks concerns that customers could see prices rise if merchants pass on the higher cost.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announces he is receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he will be working from home until next Monday.", "A pilot programme for 24/7 vaccinations is among options being considered by the Scottish government.", "Why one family finds St Dwynwen's Day - the Welsh patron saint of lovers - more relevant to their heritage.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier visited the site of the flooding which led to 80 people being evacuated.", "About 118,000 placements for young people are yet to be filled due to coronavirus lockdowns.", "Community spirit praised as helpers clear 7cm of snow so vulnerable patients could get Covid jab.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for rapid testing and priority access to vaccines.", "The two men were guests at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond when the blaze broke out.", "The force said its role is designed to inform prosecutors and does not indicate a crime has taken place.", "The 78-year-old Scottish comedian received his first dose of the vaccine near his home in Florida.", "A report criticises the union after it told its members not to volunteer due to safety concerns.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "The majority of applications for the discretionary part of the test and trace grant are unsuccessful.", "Despite Glastonbury's cancellation, smaller festivals could still go ahead, experts say.", "Boris Johnson says it's more important than ever to be vigilant in following rules and staying home.", "The probe into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond wants to see messages between SNP and government officials.", "Eric Vice, 64, was driving to Swansea University when he hit a bridge.", "The premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, is pushed back again due to Covid.", "Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.", "The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, hopes the centre will dispel false information about the vaccination.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "A bunker built during the Cold War is being auctioned with a guide price of £25,000.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "UK retailers may abandon goods EU customers want to return because it is cheaper than bringing them home.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann warns restrictions are likely to continue after latest extension.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.", "The TV presenter says Mr Trump went on with the conversation, believing it to be Morgan.", "A 14-year-old boy is suspected of murder over \"inconceivable violence\" before Keon Lincoln's death.", "The Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs was recently rated \"weak\" by the care inspectorate for its Covid response.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "A national charity renews its plea for donations to help museums hit by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Paula Badosa reveals she has the virus and apologises for making complaints about quarantine rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "A £500 payment is already available for those on low incomes who cannot work from home, No 10 says.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "A teachers' union says a review delivers a \"scathing\" verdict on how exams were handled in 2020.", "Fines of £800 will be handed to anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people from next week.", "Thousands of files hacked from Scotland's environment watchdog appear on the \"dark web\" after it rejected a ransom demand.", "Boris Johnson says England's measures will be reviewed once the priority groups have had the vaccine.", "Paddy McElhone, 24, was shot in the back by a soldier near his home outside Pomeroy in August 1974.", "Investigators have been targeting offenders who operate online since the first coronavirus lockdown.", "CCTV footage has been released showing fire breaking out in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "Two people died in the blaze at the Cameron House hotel in West Dunbartonshire three years ago.", "A consortium including the fashion chain will no longer bid to buy Topshop and Topman out of administration.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "Clothing was the hardest-hit sector last year, seeing a 25% drop in sales overall.", "Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League comes to an end as Ashley Barnes fires home a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.", "The Japanese car maker has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Parts of Skewen remain underwater with people unable to return to their flooded homes.", "Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after failing to find a \"workable quarantine\" solution following his positive test for coronavirus.", "Simon Midgley's mother says she still does not have answers about how her son died in the fire at Cameron House.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "The minority \"blatantly flouting\" restrictions will face enforcement action, a senior officer says.", "The couple paid themselves the sum despite heavy losses at Mrs Beckham's fashion brand.", "Muller Milk & Ingredients in Somerset confirms 47 dairy workers have tested positive for Covid-19.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Many of those who took part in the Capitol riot are believed to have subscribed to extremist views.", "The curbs may even continue until Easter in an attempt to drive down Covid-19 case numbers.", "Stars of the Essex-based reality show pay tribute to a \"true gentleman\" and \"one of the good guys\".", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest hears.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Under house arrest in Canada on bank fraud charges, Ms Meng has reportedly received death threats.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "The S21 Ultra's support for an S Pen will fuel speculation that the Note range's days are numbered.", "But the expert says the new Covid variant means any relaxation of rules will be a \"gradual process\".", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "One in three trusts in England was running above safe levels of bed occupancy by the end of 2020.", "Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Some urgent procedures including cancer surgery are postponed in one health board area due to Covid.", "Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.", "Hundreds of students say it is not right they will have to wait months for rebates during Covid-19.", "Some housed in the military camp say the conditions are so bad it causes them psychological trauma.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "Armie Hammer dismisses supposedly leaked messages and says he can now not be apart from his children.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Jack Dorsey acknowledges that banning the president undermines the ideals of an open internet.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "Arrivals from most of South America - and from Portugal - will be stopped from Friday.", "Dozens cancel Covid jabs and poor road conditions have a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances.", "Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a \"no-brainer\" that workers should get immunised.", "Scientists are racing to find out more about variants of the coronavirus that are spreading fast.", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer is explaining what went wrong with the launch.", "Samantha Hicks attributed her baby's kicking to sickness having been in hospital with Covid-19.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK.", "Services in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, the Rail Delivery Group says.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "A Scottish shellfish firm owner says he is on the brink of bankruptcy as EU customers desert his business.", "The 19-year-old mounted pavements and jumped red lights through London and three counties.", "Nintendo's first theme park, modelled on levels of its Mario games, was due to open on 4 February.", "More than 45% of this priority group has now been vaccinated, compared with about 30% in London.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "New Brexit trade rules mean Britain's biggest supermarket faces problems importing some fruit, meat and ready meals.", "James Howells threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin - now worth £210m - by mistake in 2013.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "It tops up doses already promised as officials worry that Africa is at the back of the vaccine queue.", "England's cancer, critical care, A&E and routine treatments all hit as hospitals accommodate virus patients.", "Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.", "The government defends its plan to switch to a grant scheme to feed children at half term.", "Our voter panel is divided over the charge of incitement with Trump supporters warning it will deepen divisions.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers could bring in possible measures after a new Covid variant was found in South America.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus have landed in the city of Wuhan.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "The home secretary says her focus is on enforcement but doesn't rule out tougher restrictions next week.", "Dom Bess takes 5-30 as a dreadful Sri Lanka batting display leaves England in control after day one of the first Test at Galle.", "A blind social media star could wait years for a new guide dog due to delays linked to the pandemic.", "The government wants bosses to do more to help victims as reports of domestic abuse soar in lockdown.", "Andy Murray is still hopeful of playing in the Australian Open despite not travelling to Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher and partner Roy Horn were an institution in Las Vegas and beyond.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The retailer insists it has no plans to move online, despite warning shop closures could cost it £1bn.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "The woman, who was Tasered by officers, is taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.", "Sarah Link lived in a caravan on her own drive so she could carry on working and protect her mother.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "Officers \"will not hesitate\" to take action against those breaking the rules, home secretary says.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says social media giants are \"taking editorial decisions\".", "The Labour leader urges ministers to give councils more money instead to protect family budgets.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "Eleanor Wadsworth flew hundreds of aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes, to the front line in WW2.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "But for now, people must stay at home during lockdown and alleviate 'serious' pressure on the NHS.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Electricity is gradually being restored after a huge outage triggered by a power station fault.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Scott McTominay celebrates captaining Manchester United for the first time with an early winner to see off Watford in the FA Cup third round.", "A 107-year-old woman from County Meath is attempting to attend a virtual Mass in every county.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "If Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday, the entire network will go offline.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "Almost 50,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The Labour leader rejects a second independence referendum but calls for other changes to devolution.", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "Boris Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to outline further steps as virus cases rise.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "The British coin collection will also mark the 75th anniversary of the death of novelist HG Wells.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "An NHS chief executive says it 'beggars belief' people took pictures of empty corridors.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions\" by the end of March.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Dan Eliasson, head of the civil contingencies agency, flew to the Canary Islands to see his daughter.", "Tributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The group of more than 200 engineers say Google must live up to its 'Don't be evil' pledge.", "Nóra Quoirin's family say they are disappointed at the ruling and still think she was abducted.", "Boris Johnson warns of \"tough\" weeks ahead, as coronavirus infection rates continue to surge.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "The border crossings between the UK and the European Union face their first day of significant traffic under new rules.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The Labour leader calls for an immediate lockdown in England to get the virus \"back under control\".", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "Lockdown losses mean renewing the 10-year contract to lease Yang Guang and Tian Tian may be unaffordable.", "Police help dozens of motorists who became stranded after heavy snow fell in the Peak District.", "Parliament will be recalled for Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\" as case numbers rise by 2,464.", "Schools in Wales given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", despite concerns by unions.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Her Majesty said the now 75-year-old show had \"played a significant part in the evolving of women\".", "Schools will close for most pupils from Tuesday as people are told to stay at home in new lockdown.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "The government said suspected jihadists ambushed the two villages near Niger's border with Mali.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Championship club said \"several first-team staff and players\" had tested positive.", "England all-rounder Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at Hambantota airport in Sri Lanka.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "The bid approach is the latest attempt by a casino operator to tap into the online gambling boom.", "The locally-produced Covaxin jab was approved on Sunday before completion of third stage trials.", "Supermarkets say card payment problems that led to long queues are resolved, but cause still unknown", "Total deaths involving Covid pass 6,000, including 467 in the week ending 15 January.", "A Cardiff head teacher says keeping schools closed affects disadvantaged pupils most severely.", "The money comes from the liquidation of a firm co-founded by the disgraced film producer.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey says she is \"pinching herself\" over her win.", "Another 7,700 registered with coronavirus on the death certificate brings the total to nearly 104,000.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The UK is the second market - after the US - to get Facebook's latest news feature.", "The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Scientists propose 10 golden rules for restoring forests to maximise benefits for the planet.", "Parents reveal the perils of juggling teaching with work and family life.", "The new measures are likely to apply to British residents arriving in England from high-risk countries.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility for everything that the government has done\".", "Major incidents were declared in north and south Wales as Storm Christoph causes flooding.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Ex-cabinet minister wants \"Britain's favourite animal\" to get same protections as bats and badgers.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Several pupils at the school admitted visiting other households, breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "Lawyers for SMG deny claims it was penny-pinching before the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "Crew are asking to be designated 'key workers' so they can go home without risking public health.", "Campaigners claim changes to the way decisions were made led to a \"shocking\" fall in cases going to court.", "Comedians Meera Syal, Romesh Ranganathan and Adil Ray make a video urging people to get the vaccine.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "The Belfast grammar school says it will use \"other academic criteria\" in the absence of transfer tests.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "It comes as the foreign secretary says the UK will return to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid \"as soon as possible\",", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "The BBC brought a judicial review over reporting restrictions in a now abandoned legal case against Scotland's child abuse inquiry.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The company acknowledges its \"Birdwatch\" idea could be \"messy\", but says it is worth trying.", "Parents and teachers are frustrated and worried about the impact of school closures on children.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "A plan to put the anti-slavery activist on the banknote was delayed under ex-President Donald Trump.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "The Stormont-commissioned research examined institutions run by churches and other religious groups.", "English-speaking parents whose children go to Welsh-language schools say they struggle to help them.", "Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "The Welsh Government misses its target of giving 70% of over-80s the vaccine by last weekend.", "Leaders in the House have brought their article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate.", "The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "The Welsh Ambulance Service boss warns that difficult weeks lie ahead in Covid-19 fight.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "At the age of 14, he sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian teenager to murder police officers.", "The owner of a toy retailer says high transport costs may mean larger toys become more expensive.", "Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence help England seal victory over Sri Lanka on the final morning of the first Test in Galle.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "A group of pensioners seek compensation for what they say was the excessive pricing of landlines.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Nóra Quoirin's parents do not accept the findings of an inquest into her death in Malaysia.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Jonathan Brooks is charged with the attempted murder of Graeme Perks, who was attacked in his home.", "Police have described the killers of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson as a \"pack of animals\".", "Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll but has seen delay and discord over vaccines.", "A red deer had to be put down after being savaged by a red setter in London's Richmond Park.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "Phil Neville leaves his role as manager of England's women and takes over at Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.", "Students call for more support as they continue their studies through another lockdown.", "The Jewish employee had warned co-workers about the danger of Nazis during the Capitol Riots.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "Small armed groups gathered in several US cities but most state capitols were quiet amid high security.", "Annual growth of 2.3% puts China on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Someone is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, the health secretary says.", "The Perth-born actor was best known for screen roles including \"Chancer\" in City Lights and \"Pete Galloway\" in River City.", "Students at Aberystwyth are told not to return unless \"absolutely necessary\".", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "A shortage of computer chips is leading to car factories shutting down for days at a time.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Democrats plan to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Monday, for inciting the invasion of the US Capitol, sources say.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "While GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled, IGCSEs, often used in independent schools, will continue.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "The man charged the 92-year-old £160 and came back a week later asking for a further £100.", "Seventeen million doses have been ordered by the UK and are expected to arrive in spring.", "Sweet Melody becomes the band's fifth number one, and their first since Jesy Nelson left.", "But some performances may be pre-recorded if artists can't travel to Rotterdam.", "The deaths of a further 93 people have been recorded - with the number of patients in hospital at record levels.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Secret recordings revealed \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Students say they will refuse to pay for accommodation they cannot use during lockdown.", "It is the third vaccine to be approved for UK use, after the Pfizer and Oxford jabs.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "We asked people around the US how they responded to the chaotic scenes from the US Capitol.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "Shark attacks are rare in the country and it is thought to be the first such death since 2013.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "The lender says it expects \"downward pressure on house prices\" in 2021 following annual rise of 6% last year.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma becomes full-time president of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "Marks & Spencer's clothes sales overall fall nearly a quarter, but pyjamas are back in fashion.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The men were detained when special forces stormed the Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "Top Democrats call for the president to be removed as he commits to an \"orderly\" transition of power.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "It comes as all of Wales has snow and ice warnings for the next few days.", "The Korean car company originally said it was in talks with the tech titan before backtracking.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 January.", "Satellite data shows that 2020 and 2016 are essentially tied as the hottest years since records began.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms an extended closure of schools.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "A series of streamed music events, shows and releases will mark five years since the singer's death.", "With attendance as high as 50% in some areas, heads call for pupil limits in England's lockdown schools.", "Ramsey was loved by fans for her role as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy film series.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "The first cyclone of Australia’s season has been downgraded but continues to cause danger.", "Reversing earlier assurances, officials say tracing data can be used for criminal investigations.", "Boris Johnson tells a briefing that nearly a quarter of people over 80 have received a Covid-19 jab.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "Sea Shepherd says the collision happened after it came under attack in the Gulf of California.", "Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but said more aid and a clear plan would be needed.", "Boris Johnson made the decision on restrictions \"in the face of new information\", the chancellor says.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The children's commissioner for England and Labour's leader call on firms to help low-income families.", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "A growing divide over education, jobs, and ethnicity threaten the fabric of society, says Nobel laureate's study.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?", "Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "The cancellations, although rare, reflect the pressure some hospitals are under from Covid.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Demand surges as shoppers rush to secure online delivery slots following news of another lockdown.", "In the tightening of restrictions across the UK there is much that's an echo of March - but a lot that's different too.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks Celtic have questions to answer on the grounds for their winter trip to Dubai and says the club's social distancing \"should be looked into\".", "The stationery chain which has 127 stores and around 1,500 employees says shop closures hit it hard.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "Former Buckingham Palace caterer Adamo Canto attempted to sell some items on eBay, a court hears.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "A hearing will decide whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The famous building on London's Oxford Street has been put on the market by administrators.", "Strict new Covid-19 restrictions come into force in Scotland, prohibiting people from leaving their homes.", "A fresh move to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence is under way.", "The personal trainer says he wants to \"give children structure\" during lockdown.", "Regulators say the plane is safe to resume service after two fatal crashes led to its grounding.", "Insurers reject claims that by covering ransomware bills they are funding organised crime.", "But loss of taste and smell may be less likely to affect those with the new strain, a study suggests.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is \"not ecstatic\" about reports the PM will visit Scotland on Thursday.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "Philippa Day was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home assessment.", "The 83-year-old Hollywood royalty is also known as an active climate change campaigner.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson says most people in Scotland are focused on defeating Covid rather than another referendum.", "Images of Jonathan Mok's swollen eye were posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The financial regulator will consult \"shortly\" on a rise from the current limit of £45.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a banned driver in a stolen car drive into a police officer on his motorbike.", "The PM sets the date he hopes England's lockdown will begin to ease, but warns of a \"perilous situation\".", "Boris Johnson also says he shares the \"frustration\" of parents who want to get children back to school.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "Families loaded up on the latest technology and sales increased in China.", "The maps depict the famous sea battle in which the English fleet was victorious in 1588.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "The Army sends a bomb disposal unit to a site where the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is produced.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "The Oscar-nominated actor and his choreographer wife describe as \"difficult\" their decision to split.", "It is the first time the world-famous event will take place in the autumn.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "A \"legacy of poor decisions\" in 2020 and before the pandemic led to 100,000 deaths, scientists say.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "Bailiffs move in to remove people who dug a 100ft tunnel to block the high-speed rail line.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is concerned the UK's travel restrictions will not go far enough.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "Leon Briggs was \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers, a jury hears.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Nurse Eva Gicain says when she held Elleana for the first time she \"didn't want to let go\".", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Has the PM effectively admitted we're heading for a full year of limits on our lives?", "Lockdown led to a surge in reports of fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms, regulator says.", "Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for more than three years.", "Labour calls for key workers to be added to the first phase of the vaccination programme.", "Residents hit upon the idea after the annual street parade was cancelled because of the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs why the UK's coronavirus death toll is the highest in Europe.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "The social media platform removed posts after wrongly identifying the place name as offensive.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Details from a briefing by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for health.", "David Solomon is being punished for the bank's involvement in the fraudulent Malaysian investment fund.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, suffered multiple fractures after coming off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai.", "The “phased” lifting of restrictions will depend on data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations.", "The government faces legal action over its decision to allow the use of a pesticide that harms bees.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba is undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer, the Championship club has announced", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to bolster security in Washington DC.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "Unison chooses Christina McAnea to replace Dave Prentis, who has been in the job for 20 years.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "James Brokenshire will take leave from his Home Office job during further surgery for lung cancer.", "Medical director warns Wrexham Maelor is under huge pressure as numbers of seriously ill patients rise.", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "M&S is buying the brand out of administration, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.", "University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "A document advises doctors that the minimum level of oxygen required in the blood is being reduced.", "Scotland's first minister says she has doubts about whether Celtic's trip to Dubai was \"really essential\".", "\"Numbers are increasing not decreasing\" - inside an emergency body storage facility in Surrey.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "A number of Scottish schools, pupils and parents report Microsoft Teams running slowly or not at all.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Luke Evans portrays the policeman who brought John Cooper to justice for two double murders.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Manchester United will host Premier League champions Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "A study finds that the financial burden on poorer families has increased during the pandemic.", "The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "An industry group wants more state help for people like Jon Wilding, whose business is hit by the pandemic.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges technical problems on the first day the vast majority of pupils in Scotland begin the new term at home.", "About 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the beginning of next month, the health secretary says.", "He wants businesses to do more to protect the planet as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.", "It comes after a Celtic player tested positive less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip there.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Celtic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.", "Details and reaction to Health Minister Vaughan Gething's vaccination rollout plan.", "Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says too many abusers' sentences are not tough enough.", "Lisa Montgomery's lawyers argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy, but her victim's community said otherwise.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "The content will not count in a mobile data allowance to help keep costs of online learning down.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The health secretary says UK vaccine rollout is on track but urges everyone to play their part by following Covid rules.", "The warning from England's chief medical officer comes as seven mass vaccination centres open.", "Joe Biden's presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January.", "In one health board, 30% of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Even experienced exporters are struggling with the system, says the British Meat Processor Association.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford promises more protection to shop workers.", "It comes after reports that protections including the 48-hour work week could be dropped.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "He helped kick-start punk and new wave, and was an influence on the Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses.", "Move follows concern over a new Covid variant which an expert says has already been found in the UK.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.", "Craig Ross was quoted as saying food bank users were \"far from starving\" and more at risk of diabetes.", "The Home Office says it is working to \"assess the impact\" of the issue, which has been resolved.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "Scientists warn UK deaths will continue to rise as the global death toll passes two million.", "Coronavirus restrictions in England affected services, with pubs and hairdressers badly hit.", "Antonio says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour when he was sectioned.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "The NHS fears some communities are being targeted with misinformation, a leading doctor says.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "A variant that is thought to be more infectious has not been found in the UK, scientist says.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Pharmacist Llyr Hughes said 50 patients would be given the Covid vaccine at his pharmacy on Friday.", "The R number in the UK is officially estimated at 1.2-1.3 as a further 1,280 deaths are reported.", "Hospitals with large critical care capacity are taking patients from other areas to ease pressures.", "The Saved by the Bell actor became ill last week and was taken to hospital.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "Wayne Rooney is named as Derby County's new manager, with the ex-England captain also announcing his retirement from playing.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The government says the funding will connect \"left-behind\" communities.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "It is claimed they were seen drinking on Welsh Parliament premises when a ban on its sale in pubs was in force.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "It brings the total number of deaths to 97,329.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "Police uncover a string of late-night \"incredibly selfish\" parties in Kensington and Chelsea.", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Photographs of National Guard members sheltering underground spark anger among lawmakers.", "Some elderly people have been told to travel miles to get the jab or face having to wait to get it.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Presented as a safe pair of hands, he struggled to make himself heard during tumultuous times.", "Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "As the UK rejects £500 Covid pay outs, how are others countries getting people to stick to the rules?", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Injections are to be delivered at Black Country Living Museum where the series has in part been filmed.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Anybody struggling to get to an appointment will be able to rearrange, a health board says.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is \"difficult to justify\", says BMA.", "Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "An intensive care doctor says medics are seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people dying.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on Wednesday's figure.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "As the UK prepares to sever EU ties, Stanley Johnson says he has always regarded himself as French.", "Campaigners say cutting of the 5% VAT rate on tampons and sanitary towels ends a 'sexist' tax.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "The British dance band make some of their biggest hits available for the first time.", "The new year celebrations featured a tribute to the NHS and a message from David Attenborough.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Joe Anderson says Labour should pick another candidate while he seeks to clear his name.", "Former Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty dies at the age of 92 following a long illness.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "The designer of the scene says it is not the first time it has been targeted.", "Several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle despite warnings to stay away.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "Staff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", NHS Providers warn.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Primary schools in only 10 of London's boroughs are due to reopen next week.", "One of hip-hop's most influential MCs, masked rapper MF Doom died in October, his family confirm.", "It comes as most people heeded warnings to stay home - but police issued fines to those who didn't.", "With a Brexit deal done, we look at the challenges to come at British borders.", "The UK’s new single market is not as big as the country, it now needs to encompass the whole world.", "Some lorries heading for Ireland have already been turned away from Welsh ports over wrong paperwork.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething urges \"patience\" as the vaccine programme steps up in Wales.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "The finance minister had visited the Caribbean while his province is under strict Covid lockdown.", "The UK will now leave a 12-week gap between both parts of the Covid vaccination, rather than 21 days.", "The trade border means most commercial goods entering NI from GB now require a customs declaration.", "Boris Johnson celebrates the \"freedom in our hands\" as the long Brexit process comes to a conclusion.", "Firework displays and some religious rituals go ahead, although Covid mutes celebrations.", "The station will reflect on the world's longest-running serial drama across its output on Friday.", "The deal - yet to become a treaty - enables Spanish workers to continue entering Gibraltar freely.", "Omar Elabdellaoui, who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray, suffers burns and is taken to hospital.", "A new campaign is launched to urge people not to become complacent about the Covid restrictions.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "Kim Jong-un calls the US his \"biggest enemy\" and says plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "A self-employed father-of-three calls on UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its Covid support.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Advertising campaign warning people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths are recorded in the UK.", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "The gym owners were given a £1,000 fine after three people were found inside on Friday.", "The friends said they were relieved people would not have to fear being fined for taking a walk.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "West Ham manager David Moyes says footballers must not be \"picked on\" for breaching coronavirus guidelines.", "Councillor Kevin Hughes missed his mother's funeral after testing positive for coronavirus.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "Thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic, figures show.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Eva Williams was unable to travel to the United States for treatment due to coronavirus.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "The new more infectious variant requires tougher measures to control the spread of Covid, say scientists.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Tory rebels hope to get another chance to outlaw trade deals with countries involved in mass killings.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "US tariffs on Scotch whisky and cashmere remain in place as UK fails to reach deal with Washington.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "People accused of crimes in England and Wales - and alleged victims - wait years for a resolution.", "One person is killed and at least 10 are injured after vehicles collide on the Tohoku Expressway.", "Top medical adviser suggests schools in England may reopen region by region after lockdown.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Out of 23,000 professors in UK universities only 155 are black, official figures reveal.", "Court cases face serious delays in the UK and lawyers say more investment in technology would help.", "The government is being scrutinised over trade deals with countries with poor human rights records.", "People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are \"mistaken\", says Lord Sedwill.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Matt Hancock says he will stay at home and urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "The unnamed man lived in Verbier, where the incident happened, police said.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Many parents struggle to meet their children's needs during the pandemic, say researchers.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "Paul Reid was the first person to reach Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, after the bomb was detonated.", "Nicola Sturgeon says although there is \"cautious grounds for optimism\" on case numbers, the strictest rules will remain in place.", "Live updates from Trump's last hours in office before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.", "The artwork has been returned to an Italian museum - whose staff were unaware it was missing.", "A survey by consumer group Which? raises concerns over coronavirus leading to more cashless stores.", "Creator of the BBC crime drama says he \"always wanted to end Peaky with a movie\".", "University of Edinburgh scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by MND.", "Tory MPs want Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries deemed responsible for genocide.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The BBC speaks to Nirmal Purja, from the team of the first climbers to reach the K2 summit in winter.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "Are court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? Helen Grady investigates.", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "India pull off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988 and take one of the all-time great series.", "The first minister says her statement to MSPs will concern the duration of Scotland's restrictions.", "Some 10% of the UK population is showing signs of recent infection, a doubling since October, says ONS.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "A further 1,610 people die with Covid in the UK as Scotland extends its lockdown to mid-February.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "Staff say there was a Covid outbreak after the \"party\" in a shut patisserie at Marylebone station.", "Hackers are selling Depop app account details on the dark web for as little as 77p each online.", "The bank has named the branches that will close between April and September, but aims to avoid redundancies.", "Large parts of northern and central England are expected to face sustained heavy rain from Tuesday.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "One hospital boss said a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worse before they get better.", "He wrote 30 novels about relationships and adventures involving young African American characters.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "He will lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.", "New 2020 car registrations sink to a 30-year low and see biggest one-year drop since the Second World War", "The bakery chain says it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "All eyes are on the Senate runoff in Georgia, a key race that could help define Biden's presidency.", "Latest figures show more than 90,000 people in Scotland had received a first vaccination by late December.", "But there are fears bottlenecks in the system may hamper how fast NHS can deliver vaccines.", "The 19-year-old suffered life-changing injuries during the \"vicious\" assault in north London.", "Founder Annemarie Plas says the initiative will return on Thursday under the new name of Clap for Heroes.", "The US star says she had \"no idea\" what questions were included in a game bearing her image.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The hip-hop star and producer says he is \"doing great\" and \"getting excellent care\".", "A hearing is deciding whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "The government closed schools to help reduce the virus spread but says nurseries should stay open.", "Investment company Hipgnosis buys a half share of 1,180 songs by the Canadian folk rocker.", "The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.", "Cases have fallen below England's but the new variant is spreading fast, the health minister says.", "As Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building, politicians halted debate inside.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The investigators were turned back, with Beijing saying \"there might be some misunderstanding\".", "President Trump and others have made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in two Senate election run-offs.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "One scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "Gordon Ramsay remembers late chef Albert Roux as \"the man who installed gastronomy in Britain\".", "The streaming giant is criticised for \"unfortunate\" timing during the new lockdowns.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Stores seek to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy in new lockdown.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.", "The overnight temperature plunged below -12C in the north west Highlands.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge.", "A driver, who caused a Fife crash that led to his passenger losing her baby, admits causing death by dangerous driving.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Judge rules he has an incentive to abscond if allowed to leave jail before major appeal hearing.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Head teachers warn replacement grades for GCSEs and A-levels must not repeat last year's \"disaster\".", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "Poet Helen Mort is calling for a change in the law after images of her were edited with porn.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "The government says it is considering the move to prevent the virus spreading \"across the UK border\".", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "The House of Commons approves the government's decision to impose tough restrictions across the country.", "FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.", "The BMA in Scotland says it is concerned about the potential impact of delaying the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.", "There will be a \"gradual unwrapping\" of England's lockdown, Boris Johnson tells MPs ahead of a vote later.", "Police say organisers padlocked the door from the inside to stop officers getting in.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "The first minister denies claims she knew about harassment allegations earlier than she told parliament.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw.", "Philip Gannaway served in Wales in World War One and his grave lies thousands of miles from home.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Despite the furlough scheme, employers decided to cut a record number of jobs during 2020.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Firms say they have been advised by officials to set up EU hubs, but the government says it is not policy.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "The claim comes after a coroner ruled two deaths on the M1 motorway were avoidable.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.", "Ministers are urged to intervene amid rising Covid infection numbers at the Swansea office.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "A Sunday Times poll shows 51% of people in favour of holding a border poll in NI within five years.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "He replaces Paul Davies who quit after drinking alcohol with other politicians in the Senedd.", "Conor McGregor is left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier wins their rematch at UFC 257 by technical knockout.", "The UK health secretary also says the UK has identified 77 cases of the Covid South Africa variant.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Tens of thousands braved a police crackdown to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Some guests were found hiding in cupboards when police raided student flats in Birmingham.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.", "TV footage from China shows the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "The Countryfile star will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "A 20-year-old man who spent a week in intensive care says many young people are in denial about Covid.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"horrifying\" death toll underlines the need to follow restrictions.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Customers will only be able to collect from Waitrose stores following a \"change in tone\" from the government.", "The father of a Reading terror attack victim asks why the killer was not considered a danger.", "Deliveries may be delayed in 28 areas due to \"resourcing issues\", the postal group says.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Anna Wintour hit back at claims that the informal picture downplayed Ms Harris's achievements.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Officials say 170 individuals involved in deadly Capitol riots have been identified, and many more will be.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The celebrated 94-year-old broadcaster is the latest celebrity to have a first dose of the vaccine.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A supermarket worker says door staff are facing abuse when they challenge those not wearing masks.", "The facility at the ExCeL Centre also has the capital's first mass vaccination centre on site.", "Overall, patients are now more likely to survive, but death rates are high in intensive care.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "A slump in demand for fashion and homeware during lockdown left many retailers struggling.", "Last year saw 697,000 deaths registered in the UK - 14% above what would be expected.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "People are still holding house parties, raves and gambling gatherings, the UK's most senior police officer says.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "The increasing number of staff off work could prevent the NHS Louisa Jordan opening to Covid patients.", "The Northern Lights were visible overnight from Shetland, Moray and the Highlands.", "The manager of a care home says they were promised the jab on New Year's Eve - but none have arrived.", "Downing Street defends the PM, while the Met Police chief says he did not act \"against the law\".", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "There has been speculation over moves to make lockdown stricter, as infection rates remain high.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest number of weekly deaths and the highest number since April.", "More than a third of people using screens more in lockdown reported eyesight changes, a study suggests.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick turns down Donald Trump's offer, citing the Capitol riots.", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office.", "The laptops and tablets will be delivered to schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Ministers are reluctant to make the rules even tougher at the moment - but would never rule it out.", "A Typhoon aircraft \"safely escorts\" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The number of incidents reported to the child safeguarding panel in England rose by a quarter.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "Sea port managers fear the shift may be part of a long-term trend to ship from the Irish Republic.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Heavy rain is causing flooding and travel disruption, with a warning for ice also forecast.", "Douglas Jones had been enjoying his dream job before the pandemic forced him to return home to southern Scotland.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Joanna Lumley speak out about employees allegedly owed a total of £200,000.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "The UK prime minister wants girls' education in developing countries to be a key international focus.", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but cleaners and porters have been worse hit.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "People in parts of eastern England woke to a thick covering of snow on Saturday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Holiday firms are expecting a \"bumper year\" once lockdown restrictions are lifted.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "The latest UK government data also shows a further 1,295 deaths with 28 days of a positive test.", "Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrates England as a spirited Sri Lanka rally on the third day of the first Test in Galle.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "Centrist Armin Laschet is now in a good position to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor.", "Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain in the US by March.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "A Belfast mother says there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted in Malaysia.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "At least three people have died in a suspected gas blast that destroyed four floors of a building.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "Some 1,820 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours - surpassing yesterday's previous high.", "The package will also see police target dealers and health services help people with addictions.", "Congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and US.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Boris Johnson faced questions on the UK's border policy, and the deletion of police records.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "There has been a fourfold increase in mortgage products for those offering a 10% deposit.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "Doris Hobday's family say they are \"totally heartbroken\" to lose her in this way.", "The big social networks are clamping down on threats of violence amid a tense wait for results.", "Some of the UK's biggest music stars sign an open letter demanding action over post-Brexit touring.", "The President-elect has a laundry list of priorities for his first 100 days in the White House.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Taking down pictures and clearing out desks is part of a huge operation readying for a new president.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "Holidaymakers in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the travel firm says.", "Boris Johnson calls it an \"outrageous\" error which officers are working \"round the clock\" to rectify.", "The new president is sworn into office by Chief Justice John G Roberts.", "The 22-year-old from LA is the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.", "Kamala Harris makes history as she is sworn in as US vice-president.", "Delays to smear tests in lockdown prompt cervical cancer charities to call for home-testing kits.", "It comes as industry workers warn their livelihoods are at risk due to Brexit border problems.", "Nine Met Police officers who broke lockdown rules have been asked to \"reflect on their choices\".", "Paul Pogba scores a superb winner as Manchester United reclaim top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge'. Read the 46th president's address in full.", "Online audiences for singalongs in the Llangollen church have \"exploded\", Father Lee Taylor says.", "Out-of-date tax systems mean people are falling through the cracks for help, MPs say.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The ex-government adviser said the Tories would be seen as the \"nasty party\" by ending the top-up.", "They are all laughing at the camera, but what are the stories of the women next to Kamala Harris?", "More than 2,000 properties in Manchester are affected as police warn some occupants will have Covid.", "Services and waiting times must improve at the NHS's child gender-identity service, inspectors say.", "A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "The role of a president's inaugural cabinet goes beyond just policy - let's take a closer look.", "The body of Joy Morgan was found two months after a man was convicted of her murder.", "From \"the best talent in politics\" to \"Sloppy Steve\" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. And boy, did he.", "The health minister asks the Ministry of Defence to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals.", "A National Audit Office report calls on the corporation to produce \"a long-term financial plan\".", "The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.", "More work is needed to understand its benefits in schools in England given the new variant, health officials say.", "The BBC's James Cook returns to Monklands Hospital eight months on to find the staff struggling against the odds.", "President Biden inked 15 executive orders, moving to rejoin the Paris climate accord.", "His most famous Discworld novels were written in the house in Somerset, the estate agent says.", "Police say the van \"careered\" off the road and the man was rescued from the overturned vehicle.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her father.", "Members of our voter panel all wish Joe Biden well, but they're divided over his chances of success.", "As Donald Trump prepares to leave office, here are some of the key moments of his presidency.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden makes his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States.", "Parts of England prepare for widespread floods as Boris Johnson announces emergency Cobra meeting.", "Images from Joe Biden's swearing-in and first day as the 46th US President.", "The cupped clap of a butterfly's wings may be the key to their flying abilities and their survival.", "Relegation-threatened Fulham lose some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but show battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is named Paris St-Germain boss following Thomas Tuchel's sacking.", "People driving to visit beauty spots in Wales are breaking Covid rules, a Snowdonia park warden says.", "The first doses of the latest coronavirus vaccination to be approved are due to be given on Monday.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Arsenal continue their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "New detectorist Owen Thomas says \"the link with a life that's gone\" appeals to him.", "Just one ticket matched all seven numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "A court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery can be executed on 12 January, despite appeals from lawyers.", "A last-ditch attempt to overturn the result is overturned, days before the White House changes hands.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.", "Volunteers at All Saints Church in East Horndon have praised those who donated £8,700 for repairs.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Amanda Quinn, diagnosed with rapid early onset dementia, says lockdown has been a \"scary\" time.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.", "The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, \"passed away suddenly\" aged 65.", "The cryptocurrency's gain so far this year was almost $5,000 - after the value surged 300% in 2020.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect 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Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "The EU has maintained its diplomatic mission in the UK after Brexit\n\nA diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.\n\nThe UK is refusing to give Joao Vale de Almeida the full diplomatic status that is granted to other ambassadors.\n\nThe Foreign Office is insisting he and his officials should not have the privileges and immunities afforded to diplomats under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt is understood not to want to set a precedent by treating an international body in the same way as a nation state.\n\nAs it stands, the ambassador would not have the chance to present his credentials to the Queen like other diplomatic heads of mission.\n\nThe British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has written to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to express his \"serious concerns\".\n\nThe issue is expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers next Monday when they meet for the first time since the post-Brexit transition period ended on 31 December.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wants to treat the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nThis means EU diplomats would not have the full protection of the Vienna Convention, giving them immunity from detention, criminal jurisdiction and taxation.\n\nThe rights given to staff of international organisations are more ad hoc and less fixed.\n\nThe EU argues it is not a typical international organisation because it has its own currency, judicial system and the power to make law.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab last November, seen by the BBC, Mr Borrell says: \"Your service have sent us a draft proposal for an establishment agreement about which we have serious concerns.\n\nAmbassadors of nation states have certain privileges - including being able to present their credentials to the Queen\n\n\"The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character of the EU, nor do they respond to the future relationship between the EU and the UK as an important third country.\n\n\"It would not grant the customary privileges and immunities for the delegation and its staff. The proposals do not constitute a reasonable basis for reaching an agreement.\"\n\nEU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the \"privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961\".\n\nOne EU source said: \"It seems petty. This is not about privileges, it's about principle. What does it say about the UK, about how much the British signature is worth?\"\n\nSome in the EU also fear hostile states might copy the UK and downgrade the protections granted to EU diplomats in their own countries. This could open them up to being harassed and make them easier for them to be expelled.\n\nA European Commission spokesman said: \"The UK, as a signatory to the Lisbon Treaty, is well aware of the EU's status in external relations, and was cognisant and supportive of this status while it was a member of the EU.\n\n\"The EU has 143 delegations, equivalent to diplomatic missions, around the world. Without exception, all host states have accepted to grant these delegations and their staff a status equivalent to that of diplomatic missions of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and the UK is well aware of this fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nothing has changed since the UK's exit from the European Union to justify any change in stance on the UK's part.\n\n\"The EU's status in external relations and its subsequent diplomatic status is amply recognised by countries and international organisations around the world, and we expect the United Kingdom to treat the EU Delegation accordingly and without delay.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Engagement continues with the EU on the long-term arrangements for the EU delegation to the UK. While discussions are still ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the detail of an eventual agreement.\"", "\"You need to take care of each other,\" President Macron told students in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has promised all university students two meals a day for one euro (88p; $1.21) to help them cope during lockdown.\n\n\"We must be able to provide better support,\" he said at a meeting with students in Paris on Thursday.\n\nIt follows protests in which students called for more help to tackle loneliness and financial problems.\n\nFrance is currently under a 18:00-06:00 curfew, and coronavirus cases have risen steadily in recent weeks.\n\nMr Macron, who addressed students at Paris-Saclay university, also said the government would provide subsidies to pay for counselling and other mental health services.\n\nThe subsidies would take the form of a voucher which students can redeem if they feel the need to talk to a mental health professional, the president said.\n\nHe added that the discounted meals would be available from university canteens and other nearby outlets that are providing takeaways.\n\n\"We remain in a period of uncertainty,\" Mr Macron said. \"We will have a second semester that will have the virus and a lot of constraints.\"\n\n\"You need to take care of each other,\" he added.\n\nThe president spoke a day after students took to the streets to demand more attention from the government. They sought to raise awareness of the rising mental health problems many say they are suffering as a result of the pandemic.\n\nA combination of isolation, inactivity and concerns about the job market has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.\n\nRyan Kennedy says the French government is failing to take student issues seriously\n\n\"I've lived alone in a studio apartment since September - it's the first time I've ever lived alone,\" Ryan Kennedy, a 19-year-old law student in Montpellier, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"Not a day goes by without a friend calling me because they're struggling with their mental health.\"\n\nHeïdi Soupault, a political science student from Strasbourg, sent a letter to Mr Macron last week. \"I no longer have dreams,\" she said. \"If we have no hope or prospects for the future at 19, what do we have left?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our mental health goes downhill in situations like this.\"\n\nMany of the protesting students are calling for a return to face-to-face teaching. Some first-year students will be able to return to the classroom from 25 January.\n\nBut, on Thursday, Mr Macron said all students should be allowed on campus once a week providing certain measures are in place.\n\n\"Given what your generation has already gone through, we cannot but take into account your right to some on-site presence, to exchange with your teachers, and to meet with other students,\" he said.\n\nFrance has had a curfew in place since December, but this was tightened on 16 January to the current hours of 18:00-06:00.\n\nBars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and ski resorts remain shut. Schools, however, are open with extra testing in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Food supply problems into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are \"clearly a Brexit issue\", Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the shortages were \"part of the reality\" of the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"Let's not pretend Brexit doesn't force that kind of change,\" he said, speaking on ITV's Peston programme\n\nOn Tuesday, the NI secretary said images of empty supermarket shelves had \"nothing to do with the protocol\".\n\nRather, Brandon Lewis argued the disruption caused by coronavirus before Christmas was responsible for the shortages of some food products.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol between the UK and the EU requires health certifications on animal-based food products entering NI from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney said it meant \"very real change\" for some businesses, as there now had to be a \"certain number of checks\" on goods from Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said that some companies were not ready for this.\n\nMr Coveney said the Republic of Ireland would work with the UK and EU to \"make sure\" supermarket shelves were not empty in the future.\n\nHe said the Brexit divorce deal agreed with the EU by then-prime minister Theresa May would have caused less separation from Northern Ireland from the UK.\n\nAsked about Mr Coveney's comments, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the disruption had been \"down to both\" Covid and Brexit - but defended the situation.\n\nSpeaking on the Peston programme she said \"there was always going to be a period of adjustment for businesses\" and \"we are now seeing a more rapid flow of goods into Northern Ireland those supermarket shelves are being stocked\".\n\nMs Truss said the government would continue to support businesses, and that \"predictions of Armageddon haven't happened\".", "The education secretary has said he would \"certainly hope\" schools in England could reopen before Easter.\n\nGavin Williamson said he was \"not able to exactly say\" when pupils would go back but schools would be given two weeks' notice before reopening.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools remain closed, apart from to vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister wanted schools to open as quickly as possible but would follow the evidence.\n\n\"If we can open them up before Easter then we obviously will do but that is determined by the latest scientific evidence and data,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe Downing Street spokesman was also less specific about the promise of two weeks' notice, saying: \"We want to give schools as much notice as possible.\"\n\nSchools have been closed to most pupils so far this term, with primary schools closing after one day back, in response to rising Covid levels.\n\nPupils have been told they will be learning at home until at least half-term in mid-February.\n\nBut Mr Williamson was pressed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he could guarantee that schools would reopen at all this term, before the Easter holidays.\n\n\"I want to see them, as soon as the scientific and health advice is there, open at the earliest possible stage - and I certainly hope that would be certainly before Easter,\" said the education secretary, who's responsible for schools in England.\n\nHe said schools and parents would have \"absolutely proper notice\" of when children were going to return, which he said would be a \"clear two weeks\" for teachers and families to get ready.\n\nA lesson from the first lockdown was that it's much harder to reopen schools than to close them.\n\nParents and teachers have to be persuaded again it's safe to go back, families need advance notice to plan their work and childcare, schools need to organise their staffing.\n\nAnd there are other parents who will be pushing for schools to go back as soon as possible, in addition to the vulnerable and key workers' children already attending.\n\nFor Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, already under pressure, it means a high-stakes balancing act - and it clearly remains uncertain whether this will happen for all schools before the Easter holidays.\n\nWhat seems likely, from Mr Williamson and England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries, is that this could be a patchwork return beginning after half-term, rather than a single starting date, depending on local levels of the virus.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union, the National Education Union, said schools and parents needed certainty and not a \"stop-start approach\".\n\nLast week Mr Williamson indicated to the Commons education committee that schools in some parts of the country might stay closed at the end of the lockdown, with a return to the \"contingency\" arrangements, under which schools in areas of high infection would be shut.\n\nOn Tuesday, England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries also said schools might reopen region by region in a phased return after half-term.\n\nLabour has accused the education secretary of causing \"chaos and confusion\" and called on him to resign.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said providing two weeks' advance notice of opening was \"good news coming from an education secretary who normally gives them about 24 hours' notice\".\n\nSir Keir said the government needed to \"give children the ability to learn at home now\" and \"get on with the blindingly obvious\" task of getting testing in place in schools.\n\nAsked about his own future, Mr Williamson said: \"Our focus is making sure that we get the very best of remote education out to all children across the country, making sure that we return schools at the earliest possible moment.\"\n\nIn terms of his own achievements, the education secretary said: \"I'll let other people do the grading.\"\n\nSchools have also been closed by other governments in the UK. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they will remain closed until at least the middle of February, while in Wales the next review of restrictions will be on 29 January.\n\nThe government has also paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges, with health officials saying the new variant meant the risk of missing infections had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Gavin Williamson: \"You would struggle... to find many people who would give him more than an F.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson emphasised that mass testing in schools would continue, clarifying that it was the daily tests for those who had been in contact with a positive case which had been stopped.\n\nThe education secretary was also challenged on the fairness of setting tests as part of the replacement for cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, considering pupils will have missed different amounts of time in school.\n\nMr Williamson said the tests were only \"one element\" for deciding replacement results, which would be based on teachers' grades.\n\n\"That's why we're asking teachers to make a judgement in the round. We're asking teachers to look at the work they've been doing over the whole period of time they've been studying the course,\" he said.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "US President Joe Biden is now speaking from the White House about how his administration will tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe says he has been meeting with his Covid response team, and it will “take months” to turn around the situation in the country.\n\nToday he is going to unveil a “national strategy” on Covid-19, he says, which is “comprehensive” and is based on “science and not politics”.\n\nThe plan, which consists of 198 pages, will start with an “aggressive, safe and effective” vaccination campaign.\n\nBut it will take months to protect everyone, he says, so in the meantime, \"mask up\", he tells the American people.\n\nWearing a mask, he says, is \"a patriotic act\".\n\nTo follow our coverage of his first day, head here.", "The emergency department at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is the biggest and busiest in Scotland.\n\nAmbulances keep arriving, bringing more patients. In a curtained cubicle, one man is explaining to the doctor that he's been in pain for days, but he put off coming in \"because of everything that's going on\".\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, who runs the department, says that while there might be fewer patients coming through his door, there are no longer any \"easy wins\".\n\n\"Those that are coming are the sick people,\" he says. \"We are undoubtedly seeing the effects of people not seeking healthcare for six to 10 months.\n\n\"We are seeing disease that we wouldn't always see and we are seeing it further down the road.\n\n\"We are making more diagnoses that potentially would be made in primary care or outpatient clinics. On top of that we've got lots of Covid patients coming through the door.\n\n\"So it is those two things together that currently put the NHS under that significant pressure.\"\n\nAll over Scotland, hospitals are under severe pressure, with some treating significantly more coronavirus patients than they did during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nPublic visitors are not allowed at the QEUH, but BBC Scotland was given special permission to film to highlight the impact of Covid and the importance of following lockdown rules.\n\nOn the day of the BBC's visit, there are 244 Covid patients. Critical care is running at capacity, and across the whole hospital it's a constant challenge to find space for new patients.\n\nDr Whitelaw says the level of unpredictability is extreme. His team has run out of spare beds.\n\n\"We are ten months into strange and difficult times. It's winter, no-one's had a holiday, no-one's had much downtime.\n\n\"Hospitals are fuller in winter, beds are tighter and patients are sick\".\n\nUpstairs, one ward that previously treated patients with infectious diseases like flu or norovirus, is now a Covid ward. All 28 beds are full.\n\nSome patients here are recently diagnosed, others are coming to the end of their isolation, while some have been stepped down from critical care, but need rehabilitation.\n\nSenior charge nurse Karen Paton says it feels like patients are now sicker for longer.\n\n\"We've had this going on for more or less a year now and staff are beginning to feel the emotional distress of it,\" she says.\n\n\"Having to deal with patients succumbing to coronavirus, and just having the emotions of all the patients not being able to have contact from their families.\n\n\"I think it's beginning to take its toll on everybody.\"\n\nCovid patient Gerry Gilroy says QEUH staff have been \"superb\"\n\nIn one room on the ward is Gerry Gilroy, who tested positive for Covid in late December. By 8 January, the day of his 66th birthday, he could barely get out of bed and couldn't eat.\n\n\"It just hit me and I knew there was something not right,\" he says.\n\n\"I know how serious it is. I never thought it would hit me. It's been a bit of an experience but thankfully I'm on the mend.\n\n\"The staff here are superb. When I get out of here, if I can do something for the NHS I'm going to. Doctors, cleaners, nurses, all top drawer.\"\n\nThe impact of Covid is being felt across the hospital. The acute receiving area used to be the first stop for people who needed urgent surgery.\n\nNow it's where medics like Dr Colin Perry assess Covid patients sent in by their GP or NHS 24. It's another area that's full.\n\n\"In the first wave our ICU was busy and it remains very busy, but during that period we had free beds,\" says Dr Perry.\n\n\"This time we have much more pressure on the downstream ward areas, so it is harder to manage the wider needs of the hospital and make room for patients to move through the system.\n\n\"The numbers are far higher than they were a year ago.\"\n\nRepurposing so many wards to treat coronavirus patients has meant some routine work had to be postponed, but staff are working to prioritise all different kinds of treatment.\n\nHelen Dorrance is a senior surgeon who specialises in bowel cancer at the QEUH. On the day the BBC visits she is operating on patients from another hospital to help relieve pressures there.\n\nDemand for critical care makes it difficult to operate some services, but cancer treatment is still running.\n\n\"We work together as a team across the region to make sure people who are the highest priority get dealt with,\" she says. \"But everyone gets their fair share and access to the care they need.\n\n\"It's not a choice, we do have to provide the best care we can for Covid patients and my critical care colleagues are stepping up to the mark.\n\n\"But the rest of us are making sure the rest of the service runs the way it should, so if you have your heart attack or stroke the right people are there to give you the best care.\"\n\nComing to hospital for any reason during the pandemic is a different experience, and services are stretched.\n\nBut the emergency department's Dr Whitelaw adds that no matter what happens, they will cope.\n\n\"We don't come to work to worry or be fearful, we come to work to do our best and to help,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's an uncertainty about what the next two to three weeks look like.\n\n\"It might be very, very challenging but I have absolute faith that the staff here will continue to do everything that is required.\n\n\"I think the public should be reassured that no matter what is thrown at us we will definitely get through it.\"", "A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge for damage, after heavy rainfall. On Thursday morning, there were more than 200 flood warnings in place across the country", "There is still no long-term decision on whether to cut fees as a review recommended\n\nUniversity tuition fees in England will be frozen at a maximum of £9,250 for the next academic year.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said a longer-term decision on cuts to fees would be delayed until the next Comprehensive Spending Review.\n\nBut education sector groups said the government \"is wasting an opportunity\" to help university students.\n\nMinisters also set out plans to improve post-16 vocational education including student loans for adult learners.\n\nThe DfE also launched a consultation on changing the timetable for applying to university - to a so-called \"post-qualification admissions\" system.\n\nThis would mean admissions being based on the grades achieve by students, rather than not relying on predictions.\n\nThe government outlined its plans for higher education reforms for over-18s in response to a landmark review, commissioned by the government from finance expert Philip Augar. Its recommendations were published in May 2019.\n\nPlanned reforms include making £2.5bn available for technical qualifications for adult learners through the National Skills Fund, a lifelong student loan entitlement for up to four years of higher education and the prioritising of funding for STEM subjects.\n\nBut the Augar review's recommendations to reduce tuition fees to £7,500, alongside implementing reforms to minimum entry standards and foundation years at universities, were not addressed in this latest response.\n\nThe DfE said given the pandemic \"now is not the right time to conclude the review in full\".\n\nAny further reforms are expected to be announced at the next Spending Review.\n\nMr Augar also suggested the return of maintenance grants for poorer university students as part of his review, but there was not mention of this in the interim response.\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: \"Sadly this interim response confirms that there will not be a radical change to the current system.\n\nThe Augar review recommended tuition fees should be cut to £7,500 and maintenance grants reintroduced\n\n\"The Westminster government is wasting an opportunity to make a real difference for students and institutions.\"\n\nProf Julia Buckingham, president of Universities UK , welcomed the prospect of lifelong loans, saying \"it is encouraging to see government's commitment to making lifelong learning opportunities more accessible to all\".\n\nHowever, Prof Buckingham said \"government should provide maintenance grants for those who need them the most, including those considering studying shorter courses on a modular basis\".\n\nAs part of its Skills for Jobs White Paper, published alongside higher education reforms, the DfE said it wanted to \"put an end to the illusion that a degree is the only route to success and a good job and that further and technical education is the second-class option\".\n\nA white paper is a policy document produced by the government to set out their proposals for future legislation.\n\nIn December, the government announced that tens of thousands of adults without an A-level or equivalent would be able to benefit from nearly 400 fully-funded courses from April.\n\nIt was the first major development in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee (LSG) scheme, which was launched in September.\n\nThe government wants to boost the status of vocational education\n\nMr Johnson said it would mean \"everyone will be given the chance to get the skills they need, right from the very start of their career\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"These reforms are at the heart of our plans to build back better, ensuring all technical education and training is based on what employers want and need, whilst providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job.\"\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce director general Adam Marshall welcomed the plans to put the skills needs of businesses at the heart of further education.\n\n\"As local business leaders look to rebuild their firms and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to ensure that the right skills and training provision is in place to support growth,\" he added.\n\nBut organisations representing school and college leaders are also sceptical that there is enough funding for the further education sector to deliver on the proposals.\n\nIn November, an the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said FE colleges and sixth forms faced significant financial uncertainty.\n\nChief executive of the Association of Colleges David Hughes said: \"Colleges have been calling for this, after years of being overlooked and underutilised, but government has to not only recognise the vital college role, it also needs to increase funding.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A9 south of Inverness was among the worst affected routes\n\nHeavy snowfall during Storm Christoph has caused travel disruption in parts of Scotland.\n\nVehicles were stuck on the A9 south of Inverness and many roads in the Borders were affected by snow.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing was closed for a time earlier due to the risk of falling ice before later reopening.\n\nAn amber alert for south-east Scotland was lifted at 08:00 but yellow alerts are in place in other parts of the country until Friday.\n\nTraffic was queued on the A9 after lorries and cars became stuck in snow between Tomatin and Carrbridge.\n\nTractors were used to tow lorries on to cleared stretches of the road.\n\nHeavy snow has also closed the main route to Applecross at the Bealach na Ba.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has been reopened after being closed earlier due to the risk of falling ice\n\nThe A939 Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road in Moray was closed after Police Scotland shut the snowgates due to the wintry conditions.\n\nSnow had also affected traffic on parts of the M8.\n\nOn the Highlands' Far North Line, a landslip between Fearn and Tain stations has affected services.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said a section of the railway was open with a 5mph speed restriction in place.\n\nChris Tracey, Bear Scotland's south east unit bridges manager, said the Queensferry Crossing was temporarily closed for the safety of bridge users.\n\nHe said: \"We had already mobilised additional ice patrols in response to the weather forecast and the bridge was closed at 04:00 when staff observed ice falling from the structure.\"\n\nThe bridge was reopened after the risk had passed.\n\nEdinburgh is one of the areas where heavy snow has fallen\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to avoid travelling in the affected areas.\n\nChief Superintendent Louise Blakelock said: \"Government restrictions on only travelling if your journey is essential remain in place and with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If you deem your journey is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nAvalanche debris on Turnhouse in the Pentland Hills photographed from Penicuik\n\nPeople heading for the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, have been urged to be aware of potential avalanche risk after avalanche debris was spotted on Turnhouse Hill.\n\nTweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the \"full depth\" avalanche had enough snow to knock a person off their feet, or even bury them.\n\nTeam leader Dave Wright said avalanches in the Pentland Hills were unusual and walkers, skiers and snowboarders might not appreciate the potential risk.\n\nHe said there had been heavy snowfalls in the hills this week and the avalanche occurred at some point on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the potential avalanche hazard in all six mountain areas covered by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service - Glen Coe, Lochaber, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Northern and Southern Cairgorms - has been classed as \"considerable\".\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow covered a slice of Scotland from south of Edinburgh to close to the Scotland-England border and was valid until Thursday morning.\n\nHowever, further alerts remain in place.\n\nA Bear NW Trunk Roads' tractor clears snow ahead of a lorry on the A9 at the Slochd\n\nIn north-east Scotland and Orkney, a yellow warning for heavy rain and potential flooding is in place until 04:00 on Friday.\n\nYellow warnings for snow and ice are also in place in parts of northern and western Scotland until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nTransport Scotland said it was \"closely monitoring\" the road network and a multi-agency response team would be operational during the weather warnings.\n\nA snow-covered car in Carlops, in the Scottish Borders\n\nDrivers woke up to snow-covered cars in Haddington, East Lothian\n• None In pictures: Scotland in the snow", "Last March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with Northern Ireland's past\n\nThousands of relatives of Troubles victims have signed an open letter calling for the British and Irish governments to fully investigate decades of violence.\n\nIt calls for the long-delayed set up of an independent team of detectives to pursue new prosecutions and other measures to recover information.\n\nThese are measures included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\n\nThe letter is addressed to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nIt asks for their assurances that their \"human rights as victims will no longer be disregarded or denied\".\n\n\"The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability,\" they said.\n\nThe letter, signed by 3,500 relatives, is being published in the Irish News, Andersonstown News, and US publication the Irish Echo.\n\nThe letter is being printed in several newspapers\n\nMore than 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles and thousands more injured.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to \"intensify\" engagement with victims' groups in addressing the legacy of the past.\n\nThe Stormont House proposals included a new independent investigation unit to re-examine all unsolved killings and a separate truth recovery mechanism to enable families to gain answers in cases where prosecutions are unlikely.\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nHe proposed that after a paper review exercise, most unsolved cases would be closed and a new law would be enacted to prevent the investigations from being reopened.\n\nMark Thompson, chief executive of Belfast-based lobby group Relatives for Justice, said about half of those who signed the open letter are 35 years and under.\n\nHe said the letter \"represents the current and future generations\" and that it \"underlines the ongoing trauma and intergenerational impact that the killing of a relative has also had on surviving families\".", "Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe news was announced on Thursday on the Worthy Farm event's Twitter page.\n\n\"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place,\" said festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.\n\n\"And that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Michael & Emily.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes in the same week that the future of UK music was up for debate at a DCMS inquiry into streaming, and in Parliament regarding post-Brexit music touring visas.\n\nThe full statement on the festival website read: \"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the Festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nIt confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket will now be offered the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume. It had been due to take place in June 2021.\n\n\"We are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden shared his \"disappointment\" at the lack of a Glastonbury 2021, on Twitter.\n\n\"This regrettable but understandable decision is recognition that public health comes first\" he posted, \"and that right now, getting 200k fans together in just a few months looks very difficult to make safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to help the arts on recovery, including looking at problems around getting insurance. I'm Glastonbury will be back bigger and better next year.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said news of this year's cancellation was \"devastating\".\n\nSir Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for ministers to act to protect our world-renowned festivals like this one with a government-backed insurance scheme. Our plea fell on deaf ears and now the chickens have come home to roost,\" he said.\n\n\"The jewel in the crown will be absent but surely the government cannot ignore the message any longer - it must act now to save this vibrant and vital festivals sector.\"\n\nOn 5 January the government responded to a report by UK Music called Let the Music Play: Save Our Summer 2021, which outlined a range of measures that could help the industry get back up and running.\n\nThe government said: \"We know these are challenging times for the live events sector and are working flat out to support it.\n\n\"Our £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund has already seen more than £1bn offered to arts, heritage and performance organisations to support them through the impact of the pandemic, protecting tens of thousands of creative jobs across the UK, including festivals such as Deer Shed Festival, End of the Road and Nozstock.\"\n\nLast year's 50th anniversary Glastonbury was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nMichael and Emily Eavis previously said that Glastonbury \"lost millions\" after cancelling in 2020\n\nLast month, organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC she hoped this year's festival could go ahead, despite the \"huge uncertainty\" surrounding live music in the pandemic.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare,\" she told the BBC, \"but I think we're still quite a long way from being able to say we're confident 2021 will go ahead.\"\n\nEavis said Glastonbury lost \"millions\" in 2020. Her father, Michael, has previously warned the festival \"would seriously go bankrupt\" if they had to cancel again next year.\n\nBut that scenario is unlikely \"as long as we can make a firm call either way in advance\", Eavis clarified to the BBC.\n\nNo line-up details had been confirmed for 2021. But just before Christmas, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the event was not in his calendar, as it would be a \"superspreader\".\n\nAt the start of January, MPs were told that some of the UK's biggest music festivals could be called off by the end of this month.\n\nThe festival normally welcomes 200,000 people to Pilton in Somerset every year\n\nEvents are \"rapidly approaching the determination point\", after which they'll have to pull the plug, said the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nOrganisers will be in \"absolutely dire straits\" financially if the season is cancelled, added Anna Wade, of Winchester's Boomtown Fair.\n\nThey were speaking to MPs examining the plight of music festivals in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Scientists tracking the spread of coronavirus in England say infection levels in the community may have risen at the start of the latest lockdown.\n\nInfections in 6-15 January were up by 50% on early December, with one in 63 people infected, Imperial College London's initial findings suggest.\n\nSwab tests from 143,000 people indicate 1.58% had the virus during in early January - up from 0.91% in December.\n\nMinisters say the report does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown.\n\nThe latest round of results from Imperial College's React-1 infection survey - one of the country's largest studies into Covid-19 infections - are interim with the full set of results to be published in a week's time.\n\nBut Imperial College London's Prof Paul Elliott warned if the high prevalence continues \"more lives will be lost\".\n\nThe report also says there are \"worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections\" and Prof Elliott said the third lockdown - introduced on 6 January - was not having the same impact as the first, in April.\n\nLondon had the highest level in the January period - 2.8%, up from 1.21% in early December.\n\nProf Elliott old BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R rate - which represents how many people an infected person will pass the virus on to - was \"around 1\".\n\n\"We're seeing this levelling off, it's not going up, but we're not seeing the decline that we really need to see given the pressure on the NHS from the current very high levels of the virus in the population,\" he said.\n\n\"To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwhelmed, infections must be brought down,\" Prof Elliot added.\n\nBefore the Covid rules were tightened, the restrictions faced by people in England varied depending on where they lived.\n\nThe researchers say the government's latest daily case figures, which show a slowdown, may reflect a drop in cases just after Christmas, which is only now being registered.\n\nAnd they suggest infection levels may have gone up in early January as a result of people's activity increasing after the Christmas holiday period.\n\nThey admit there is some uncertainty in their data amid a \"fast-changing situation\" but say it is more up to date than the daily government figures because it does not rely on those being tested developing symptoms and then waiting to have their infections confirmed by a laboratory.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nThe findings of the study are seemingly at odds with recent figures from NHS Test and Trace, which has been reporting recent decreases in daily infections and has prompted some experts to suggest that we might be beginning our journey out of the woods.\n\nThe researchers behind the study say the test and trace figures may be reflecting an initial drop in infections just after Christmas, which is only now being registered on the official figures.\n\nThe study's more up to date findings indicate that infection levels did not continue to fall in the first two weeks of January and may even have gone up. So why has this happened?\n\nData on people's movements has shown that there's been increased activity which the scientists involved say has kept transmission of the virus at a high level. The Department of Health says that the study does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown in England.\n\nBut if this trend continues, say the scientists, the numbers admitted to hospital with severe Covid illness, will not fall in the short term, as some had hoped.\n\nThis is one set of figures over a short number of days so there might be a more optimistic picture when the study reports its full set of results in a week's time. But there is no getting away from the fact that ministers will be disappointed not to have seen a fall at this stage.\n\nUnless things change, even tougher measures will have to be considered.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there will be \"tough weeks to come\" but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring as the vaccine programme accelerates.\n\nIt comes as another 60 NHS Covid-19 vaccination centres in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, will welcome their first patients later.\n\nMinisters have sought to reassure people in the top four priority groups for the Covid vaccination that they will get their jab by the government's mid-February target, following complaints from some GPs about unpredictable supplies.\n\nSome 4.6m people in the UK have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nFacebook mobility data, which tracks people's movements, suggested a fall in activity at the end of December but a rise at the start of the new year.\n\nAnd Prof Elliott said everyone should \"reduce their mobility as much as we can\".\n\nA new, more transmissible variant and the fact larger households and deprived communities were more likely to be affected, may also be factors.\n\nThe Imperial survey is one source of data used to estimate the UK's reproduction (R) number, along with other surveys, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for example, and figures on confirmed cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the React findings showed \"we must not let down our guard over the weeks to come\".\n\n\"It is absolutely paramount that everyone plays their part to bring down infections,\" he said.\n\n\"This means staying at home and only going out where absolutely necessary, reducing contact with others and maintaining social distancing.\"", "Police checkpoints have seen officers questioning people about whether their travel is essential\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December, in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions had been eased in the run-up to Christmas, which led to a sharp spike in cases in January, causing severe pressure on the health service.\n\nMedically-trained military personnel will be deployed to help, but a union has questioned the move and said NI should have entered a stricter lockdown sooner.\n\nWith Stormont ministers extending the current lockdown, could other measures could be on the table?\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that NI is already in tight lockdown restrictions and has been for almost a month.\n\nBut the current measures are now set to remain in place until at least 5 March.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said health officials had not requested any other measures be toughened up at this time, given the duration and extent of the current rules.\n\nThe initial lockdown began last March, with non-essential retail not permitted to open again until 12 June.\n\nBy law people are required to stay at home during the lockdown unless they have a reasonable excuse, such as going out for exercise, medical or food needs.\n\nPeople are also required to wear face masks in shops and on public transport, with only a limited number of exemptions.\n\nThose who breach the rules can face fines, with businesses that break the law also able to be fined if they do not follow the rules.\n\nHowever, DUP minister Edwin Poots has expressed concern that not enough has been done by the PSNI to enforce the laws.\n\nIt is a difficult balance for the executive to strike.\n\nThey previously announced that \"Covid marshals\" would be deployed in the retail sector to ensure social distancing in queues and adherence to the rules.\n\nMinisters want to ensure as many people as possible follow the restrictions voluntarily while ensuring the PSNI has enough powers to manage the situation.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has not ruled out revisiting whether the level of fines people can face should be increased, and said he would raise the matter with his executive colleagues.\n\nThe 2020 lockdown saw many businesses right across Northern Ireland forced to close, with retail and hospitality among them.\n\nThere was confusion over whether construction and manufacturing should stop, with the executive later clarifying that essential work on building sites could continue.\n\nIn the latest lockdown, the sector has been permitted to remain fully open.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all non-essential construction has been ordered to stop during a fresh lockdown there.\n\nLike in the previous lockdown, people have again been told to work from home unless they cannot.\n\nBut it is worth pointing out many companies have had time to prepare since last March, making their workplaces Covid-secure to allow more staff to attend in person.\n\nThe executive has a defined list of essential businesses here.\n\nFace coverings in shops are mandatory in Northern Ireland's shops\n\nThere has also been confusion about what elements of the retail sector can operate.\n\nAll but essential retail shops were told to close on 26 December, and click-and-collect is only allowed for those essential retailers.\n\nBut concerns were later raised that some larger chains were \"gaming\" the regulations by selling non-essential items, with smaller independent shops who had to close arguing they were being treated unfairly.\n\nThe executive met with retailers last week to discuss this, but it seems unlikely it will act to define essential items in regulations.\n\nA similar situation in Wales last year led to criticism after supermarkets were told by law not to sell certain items.\n\nThe majority of pupils are in an extended period of remote learning until after half-term in February, but some children of key workers and vulnerable children are still permitted to attend the classroom.\n\nLast week it emerged that at least eight times as many pupils in Northern Ireland attended schools in the first week of term in 2021 compared to the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nThough part of this is due to special schools remaining open for all pupils, unlike in March to June last year.\n\nThe executive could potentially revisit the list of services it defines as meeting the \"key worker\" definition for childcare, if it wanted to reduce this further.\n\nIt is also possible schools could remain closed to most pupils for a longer period, in line with extending the lockdown to 5 March.\n\nThe executive says workers, builders, tradespeople and other professionals can continue to go into people's houses to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.\n\nBut it does not define further what this type of work should include.\n\nIt is possible ministers could tighten the circumstances in which work can be carried out in someone's home, but the guidance already specifies a limited number of exemptions for allowing others inside your home during the lockdown.\n\nHouse moves are also allowed under the regulations, although they were paused in the first lockdown.\n\nMusic lessons and private tutoring are permitted in someone's home, with mitigations.\n\nDuring the first week of lockdown from 26 December, people were told not to leave their homes between 20:00 and 06:00 every day - effectively amounting to a curfew.\n\nMinisters could decide to impose the measure again, if they felt that was necessary - but initially it was imposed to stop house parties over New Year's Eve.\n\nAll but essential travel is not permitted outside of Northern Ireland, and anyone entering Northern Ireland must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival or face a fine.\n\nHowever, there is no formal travel ban on passengers from Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive had voted by a majority before Christmas not to impose such a ban, despite calls from Sinn Féin for it to happen.\n\nOther parties argued that the public health advice did not propose a ban in law, and that travel from the Republic of Ireland to NI should be restricted as well due to its rise in cases.\n\nThe current guidance states that anyone coming into NI from within the Common Travel Area who is staying for more than 24 hours should self-isolate for 10 days, but there are exemptions for those who \"cross the border\" regularly for work or other essential reasons.\n\nThe executive also does not have a formal limit in law for travelling to exercise, unlike in the Republic of Ireland where it is 5km (3 miles).\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said there is an \"advisory limit\" of 10 miles for exercise in Northern Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "\"I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock.\"\n\nEllie Huddleston, a 26-year-old Londoner, thought she would treat herself to some new work clothes in the January sales.\n\nHaving spotted a bargain, she placed an order for a coat and a number of blouses from two of her favourite clothes brands based in Europe.\n\nBut both deliveries were delayed, held up in customs checks for at least a week, she says.\n\nShe was surprised when she then received a text from courier company DPD, containing a link asking her to pay £58 in customs duties, VAT and additional charges for her £180 order.\n\nOn top of that, the UPS courier for the second parcel showed up at her door several days later, asking for an extra payment of £82 for her £200 coat.\n\nThese charges, imposed by new government rules, have to be collected by the courier firms on the authorities' behalf.\n\n\"I didn't even know when the parcels would be coming - so I sent both back without paying the extra fees and won't be ordering anything from Europe again any time soon,\" Ellie says.\n\nWhen the UK was part of the European Union's customs union, goods could move freely between the country and other member states without import taxes being charged.\n\nBut Ellie was one of the shoppers caught unaware of the fact that those rules have changed since the UK's official exit.\n\nEU retailers sending packages to the UK now need to fill out customs declaration forms. Shoppers may also have to pay customs or VAT charges, depending on the value of the product and where it came from.\n\nHowever, customs charges are the responsibility of the customer, not the retailer, who often has no idea of how much the eventual extra cost might be.\n\nThey cannot be paid in advance and are levied only when the item reaches the UK.\n\nAnother unhappy customer, Graeme from Manchester, paid £300 to buy two pairs of suede winter boots from a German firm online.\n\n\"You couldn't get them anywhere in the UK, so I had no choice but to order them from Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe next thing he knew, courier UPS had sent him a text message saying he had to pay £147 extra before the boots could be delivered. He paid up, but is still waiting for the goods to arrive.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible to find out what the charges would be beforehand,\" he says, \"so I had to take a shot in the dark.\n\n\"I didn't imagine that it would be half as much again.\"\n\nCourier companies are adding charges to some deliveries from the EU\n\nUnder the new rules, anyone in the UK receiving a gift from the EU worth more than £39 may now face a bill for import VAT - with many items charged at 20%.\n\nFor goods costing more than £135, customs duties may also apply, which can range from 0% to 25% of the product you're buying if they have not been paid by the sender already.\n\nThe extra charges are usually collected by the courier on behalf of the government, with customers asked to pay before they can pick up their package.\n\nSome specialist European retailers, such as bicycle part firm Dutch Bike Bits and Belgium-based Beer On Web, recently said that they would stop all deliveries to the UK because of the VAT changes, which came into force on 1 January.\n\nSome firms have started charging additional \"handling fees\" to shoppers to cover costs associated with extra customs checks and paperwork that must be filled out.\n\nRoyal Mail, for example, is charging an £8 fee it says \"reflects the cost of clearing items through customs and presenting them to Border Force\".\n\nMeanwhile, delivery firm DHL says it is charging UK customers 2.5% of the amount paid to clear customs, with a minimum charge of £11.\n\nMail and freight company TNT is also adding £4.31 on all shipments from the UK to the EU and vice versa. It has said this reflects the increased investment it has had to make in adjusting its systems to cope with Brexit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Logistics UK told the BBC that the handling fees were \"a commercial decision by individual businesses\".\n\nBut Michelle Dale, senior manager at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said that new charges could present a major problem for firms in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think what we'll find is that a lot of trade with the EU from a business-to-customer perspective will come to a stop until some of these rules are eased,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The new VAT model ensures goods from EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way and that UK businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from VAT-free imports.\n\n\"The new system also addresses the problem of overseas sellers failing to pay the right amount of VAT when they sell goods in the UK. We anticipate this will bring in £300m in tax every year, to fund essential UK public services.\"\n\nThere is speculation the rules may change, but until they do, Ellie says she won't be buying from European firms.\n\n\"With all that uncertainty around things and whether or not these charges might change, I'd rather just avoid the hassle,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Nearly nine million people had to borrow more money last year because of the impact of coronavirus, government figures show.\n\nSince June last year, the proportion of workers borrowing £1,000 or more had increased from 35% to 45%, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSelf-employed people were more likely than employees to borrow money.\n\nThere was also a large increase in the proportion of disabled people borrowing similar sums, the ONS added.\n\nThis was adding to a \"widening financial gap\" between households.\n\nOverall, young people and low earners have been worst hit by the pandemic, according to the ONS survey.\n\nThose aged under 30 and those with household incomes of less than £10,000 were about 35% and 60% respectively more likely to be furloughed than the population as a whole.\n\nMeanwhile, higher-paid workers were more likely to be on full pay if they were unable to work.\n\nThere has been much focus on a glut of savings ready to be unleashed into the economy when pandemic restrictions are lifted.\n\nThis ONS report shines a light on the reality of this for many ordinary Britons, having to borrow more, amid a hit to incomes during the recession.\n\nDisproportionately this has hit the low paid and the young, and this would have been far worse without the government's support package.\n\nMore homeowners and the over-30s by December expected to be able to save for the year ahead. Fewer renters and under 30s expected to be able to save.\n\nThough the analysis does not include the latest national lockdown, the economic impact of schools closure is also clear.\n\nEmployed parents were twice as likely to experience income loss, though that gap closed when schools reopened. The fear is that this trend will have returned over the past month.\n\nGueorguie Vassilev from the ONS said: \"Many people took a financial hit in the first months of the pandemic, either being furloughed or working fewer hours.\n\n\"What we are seeing now, though, is a widening financial gap between households, where some people are relying on savings or borrowing to make ends meet. Those hardest hit are people on low pay, young people and parents of dependent children.\"\n\nParents living with children were almost twice as likely to report a reduction in income as the rest of the population, the ONS added.\n\nThis gap gradually narrowed throughout the year as schools reopened. Parents were less likely to have a reduced income during the November lockdown than in the first lockdown, as schools stayed open.\n\nHave you needed to borrow a substantial amount of money because of the impact of the pandemic? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden invited Taiwan's envoy to his inauguration - what does it mean?\n\nBiden’s inauguration was marked by many historic “firsts”, and one of them could be a sign of potential future clashes between Beijing and Washington. Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US, was formally invited to the inauguration - the first time this has happened in more than four decades. A video shared on her social media shows her standing in front of the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony. “Democracy is our common language and freedom is our common objective,” Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US said. China views the self-ruled island as part of its territory that it will eventually retake, by force if necessary. And the status of Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in US-China relations, as the US is by far Taiwan’s most important friend. Hsiao’s presence at the inauguration signals the US may continue to demonstrate strong support for Taiwan, despite the fact that many Taiwanese people are concerned that Biden will take a less confrontational stance towards Beijing compared with Trump. By contrast, it’s unclear whether China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended Biden’s inauguration. Earlier today, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Cui had been invited, but did not confirm whether he was present in the ceremony. Hua reiterated China’s position of opposing official interactions between Taiwan and the US. It’s a long-running unspoken rule that Beijing and Taipei’s top diplomats in Washington do not attend the same event, because sharing a stage could be seen as Beijing acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign country.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says that from an educational point of view, he wants \"to keep the extent to which they [children] are out of school to a minimum\".\n\nBut Mr Weir said that decisions about schools during the Covid-19 pandemic must \"be weighed up against the wider public health advice\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme after it was announced that current restrictions will be extended, Mr Weir said that \"nobody wants to see restrictions last longer than they have to\".\n\nHe said the decision to extend lockdown was taken \"very reluctantly but there is a broad consensus in the executive that these are necessary measures that have to be taken to ensure we remain on top of the virus\".\n\nMr Weir added that schools have operated on a slightly different timetable to the rest of the restrictions, and that next week's discussions will consider keeping them closed until 5 March, in line with decisions taken by ministers today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While some young people have found it hard at times, others have learnt new skills\n\nYoung people have been asked to share their experiences of how they have coped during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland said her national survey was important because sometimes views of younger people can be \"surprising\".\n\nShe said the information provided would also help inform the Welsh Government ahead of some tough decisions it will need to make in the future.\n\nA similar survey was carried out in the first lockdown last year.\n\nA recent Prince's Trust Youth Index survey asked young people across the UK about their thoughts and feelings towards the pandemic.\n\nMore than 2,000 responded including 200 from Wales.\n\nIt found 63% of 16 to 25-year-olds said the pandemic had left them \"always\" or \"often\" feeling anxious - 64% said they were feeling like they were \"missing out on being young\".\n\nBBC Wales spoke to a number of children and young people about their thoughts on a variety of issues including home schooling, loneliness and finding out what they are doing to stay positive.\n\nAngel, 16, from Cardiff, is studying for her GCSEs.\n\n\"I've just been confused a lot of the time. All the information out there and it's really hard to process and get to a point where you're in a mindset where you know what's happening.\n\n\"There's such a high level of uncertainty you're constantly worried or actually doubting what's going to happen next.\n\n\"When you have goals for the future it's something to help you get through this but when you're in the circumstances we're in now, it's really hard to find the motivation and a purpose for what you're doing now.\"\n\nTo try and stay positive Angel has been trying to get out for walks during her school breaks or watch Netflix.\n\nShe said she has also tried to learn some sign-language during lockdown and attempted yoga.\n\nEmrys and Clara have been learning home skills\n\nEmrys, 11, from Bridgend, said he misses not having the structure of a school day and seeing his friends.\n\nHe added: \"I'm a social person. I have friends, I chat with them, I play with them, and it's hard not being with my friends but I mean the family will have to do.\"\n\nHe and his six-year-old sister, Clara, have enjoyed going for walks with their parents and have been learning some new skills including washing dishes, cooking dinner and baking cakes.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-year-old Sophie has found it difficult to not get bored during long periods of time in the house.\n\n\"I'd say I cope OK with it at some points, but then not okay with it at other points,\" she added.\n\nSophie said it can be hard sometimes to find things to do\n\nAlicia is studying for her A-levels and has friends who have dropped out of their studies this year because of the stress and anxiety caused by the uncertainty about exams and their futures.\n\nThe 17-year-old also said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being able to see many of her close friends for almost a year.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are, it's less of a luxury now, I need to be able to go out to see them and to work.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Sarah, 16, from Swansea enjoyed going to her local youth club and took part in a local drama group but it how now moved online, giving a different experience.\n\n\"It's quite sad because I used to enjoy being able to do those things whenever it was on, but I think I'm getting used to do everything online,\" she said.\n\nAs a person who does not cope very well with not knowing what will happen next, the pandemic has caused anxiety at times for Sarah.\n\n\"I am finding it quite scary but hopefully things will change and I'll be able to go back soon,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if you're really struggling with something, talking really helps so it would be nice to see people in person.\"\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland conducted a survey of pupils in Wales during the first lockdown\n\nChildren's helpline MEIC Cymru said it had seen a 10% increase in the number of calls from young people, parents, and carers during the pandemic compared with previous years.\n\nStephanie Hoffman, Head of Social Action at Promo Cymru, the charity which runs the helpline, said: \"We're seeing what I'd say are many more substantive contacts, so a lot more contact dealing with really serious issues to do with social well-being, mental health and relationships, as opposed to what we might have seen more of in the past.\n\n\"Now we're dealing with situations which can be quite complicated.\"\n\nOf the survey, Ms Holland said: \"We've heard a lot from adults showing concern for children at the moment, such as parents, carers and professionals working with children about the potential impact of the lockdown on children.\n\n\"Those voices are important to hear, but it's also important we hear directly from children and young people because sometimes they can be surprising.\"\n\nWe know that Covid-19 vaccinations have been on people's minds in Wales - with many wanting to know when they or their loved-ones will receive theirs.\n\nIf you have a question about this issue, a story you'd like to share or a query about anything else related to coronavirus, you can sent it to us using the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nBy the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.\n\nBut Boris Johnson warned there were \"unquestionably going to be a tough few weeks\" while the vaccine was rolled out and urged people to observe lockdown.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to flood-hit Didsbury in Manchester, the prime minister said it was still \"too early\" to say when some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in England.\n\nHe said figures from an Imperial College London survey showed the new variant of the virus to be \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nThe study suggests there was a rise in infections in the community at the start of the latest lockdown in England.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres have opened in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.\n\nTwo million jabs a week are needed for the government to achieve its target of offering a vaccine to all over 70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nGiving a statement in the Commons, Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the country had an \"immense infrastructure in place that, day by day, is protecting the vulnerable and giving hope to us all\".\n\nDescribing this as a \"huge feat\", he said the government was making \"good progress\" towards its target.\n\nAsked about difficulties in getting vaccines to rural areas and whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be prioritised for these as it is easier to store, Mr Hancock said the challenge was that supply was \"lumpy\", with manufacturers working \"as fast as possible\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said new variants of the virus showed vaccination needed to go \"further and faster\".\n\nHe asked if there was a contingency plan in place in case vaccines needed to be redesigned to contain mutations.\n\nMr Hancock said the early indications were that the new variant was dealt with by the vaccine \"just as much as the old variant\".\n\nHe also said 63% of residents in elderly care homes had now received a vaccine.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is now chairman of the Common's Health Select Committee, asked about establishing \"quarantine hotels\" to combat new strains, as well as whether there should be further restrictions on household mixing outside bubbles and mandating FFP2 masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said the clinical advice was that the current guidelines on personal protective equipment (PPE) were \"right and appropriate\" and said \"very significant measures\" had been brought in for international travel.\n\nIn Northern Ireland more than 160,000 people have received a first vaccine dose, while in Wales, where more than 175,000 people have received a jab, people waiting for theirs have been urged to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted her country's vaccine programme was not lagging behind, during First Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nIn England the rollout of the vaccine started with people aged 80 and over. In some regions where the majority of these have been vaccinated, the programmes are now moving on to the over 70s.\n\nHome Secretary Priri Patel, who will lead a Downing Street press conference later, said ministers were working to ensure police and other front-line workers are moved up the priority list, while Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast he hoped teachers and support staff could be moved up the list.\n\nMeanwhile, pumps and sandbags were brought in to protect supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the risk of flood water at a warehouse in Wrexham, north-east Wales.\n\nYoung people in Wales have been asked to share their experiences of the pandemic in a survey by the nation's Children's Commissioner.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Politicians in pearls, the colour purple and warm woollen mittens - these are just a few of Washington's favourite things from the 2021 Inauguration.\n\nWith America's leaders in the spotlight on the inauguration - and world - stage, sometimes what they wear can say more than their speeches.\n\nDC-based fashion consultant Lauren Rothman says Americans have always taken an interest in what political leaders don for inaugural celebrations. And in 2021, with an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis as well as the swearing-in of the first female vice-president, things feel \"even more loaded\".\n\nIt's all about optics for the politically fashion-minded, says Ms Rothman, who helps style politicians for events including inaugurations past.\n\nSo let's see how outspoken this year's inauguration crowd really was, from the Bidens to Bernie Sanders - with a little help from some real fashion experts.\n\nVice-President Kamala Harris' purple ensemble has already made an impact.\n\n\"Symbolically, it's a bipartisan colour because it marries [Republican] red and [Democratic] blue,\" says Ms Rothman, noting a number of elected officials or spouses had opted for purple today.\n\nBut that's not the only reason purple has a special place for US women in politics. The suffragettes often wore the colour in the 1900s while campaigning for women's right to vote.\n\nProfessor Elka Stevens, coordinator of the fashion design programme at Howard University, also notes it's a colour of significance in the black community - one tied to the Christian experience as well. Ms Harris' pearl necklace also made reference to a tradition in her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest all-black sorority in the US.\n\nAdd it all up and Ms Harris' choice of pearls and a purple sharp-cut Christopher John Rogers coat was \"an excellent first building block on what the legacy is of how to look like a woman in power\", Ms Rothman says.\n\nBoth Mrs Biden and Ms Harris also took care to choose emerging US brands for their inaugural looks. Ms Harris' outfit, from head-to-toe, showed off African-American designers.\n\nAnd we can't forget Doug Emhoff either, America's \"first second gentleman\".\n\n\"He chose to do everything that he should, which is to not distract and perfectly fit in,\" says Rothman.\n\nWe can't discuss political fashion without bringing up Michelle Obama.\n\nHer purple Sergio Hudson sweater and palazzo pants plus coat look, along with perfectly curled hair, did not disappoint fans of the former first lady.\n\n\"It's a different dress code and different expectation for women who are first ladies versus people who aren't, like women who are elected,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nFrom baring her arms to wearing both high-end and High Street fashion, Mrs Obama was \"legacy-making\" in a way that hearkened back to Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, Ms Rothman says.\n\nShe also put many \"independent and ethnic American designers\" on the map during her eight years in the White House.\n\nNewly former First Lady Melania Trump, too, had a clear style, often spotted in sleek looks from well-known brands (think Chanel, Hermès).\n\nOne of her favourite designers was French-American Hervé Pierre, but Prof Stevens also notes she faced a challenge dressing all-American as many US labels said they would not dress her.\n\nFor her final look of the day, Melania swapped out the all-black suit she left the White House in for a Gucci dress with a bold orange print.\n\n\"The curtain is down and she's onto the next phase of her life,\" says Ms Rothman of the sharp contrast. \"I think that's what she's using her clothing to signal: that DC is over.\n\nHe may not win the best-dressed award any time soon, but veteran Senator Bernie Sanders certainly won Twitter with his extra large mittens.\n\nMr Sanders' pair of eye-catching woolly mittens were given to him two years ago by a Vermont schoolteacher who made them from repurposed sweaters and recycled plastic bottles. Those, coupled with a snap of him alone in a crossed-arm pose, made for prime meme fodder.\n\n\"What we love about it is that it's so authentically Bernie,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nWhen asked for his thoughts on all the stir his inauguration look caused, Mr Sanders simply said: \"In Vermont we dress warm...and we're not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that's what I did today.\"\n\nInauguration 2021 featured performances from Jennifer Lopez (in a crisp white ensemble) and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it was Gaga's custom black-and-red Schiaparelli gown that stole the show or, more specifically, the large golden dove-shaped brooch she wore atop it.\n\nAside from the Hunger Games comparisons, the almost operatic outfit served another fun purpose in Ms Rothman's eyes.\n\n\"She brought the inaugural ball to the stage in a year where you're not going to get all of the dress up, the ball gowns that we have come to look at and adore and criticise.\"\n\nYouth poet laureate Amanda Gorman was another star on today's stage.\n\nThe self-described \"skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother\", touched on many heavy themes in her verses, but her outfit was a breath of fresh air.\n\nYellow is a colour of hope, energy, light. And her bright red Prada headband was a bold complement. To Prof Stevens, it was almost crown-like.\n\n\"It also honed attention on her hair, because no one else had that particular hairstyle. And we know that hair can be political as well.\"\n\nOur last noteworthy youthful garb of the day was Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter to the vice-president.\n\nHer dainty white collar atop a bejewelled plaid Miu Miu coat was particularly striking - or in the words of Teen Vogue, \"just *chef's kiss*\" - and to Prof Stevens, reminiscent of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\n\"I really thought about our democracy, justice, the collars [Ginsburg] wore and the messages she would send. I think this was [also] an ode to femininity.\"\n\nAnd as for her brother Cole's look? Prof Stevens' takeaway was: \"You need some gloves, young man.\"\n\nAnd last but not least, let's consider the new president and first lady.\n\nProf Stevens says the political dress mirrored a desire to project comfort and to reassure the nation that US democracy is safe and its way of life is \"going back to something familiar\" despite Covid-19.\n\nThere may not have been anything ground-breaking in Mr Biden's Ralph Lauren suit; perhaps the more interesting aspect is the way he wore it.\n\n\"As a Washington insider he's been wearing suits for decades,\" says Ms Rothman. \"He showed that he knows what works.\"\n\nAlso notable with both Biden's ensembles today: the colour blue. Prof Stevens notes that blue is recognised as a colour of trustworthiness; of stability; of confidence, especially for men.\n\nAs for Jill Biden's custom-made, Swarovski-crystal-accented aquamarine coat from the up-and-coming New York Makarian label?\n\nBoth Prof Stevens and Ms Rothman say it signalled responsibility and modesty.\n\n\"We already know [the Bidens] are very united, but it signalled that they're here and ready to do the work,\" Ms Rothman says.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of some older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nA housebound 84-year-old woman said she was told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she could not get to her GP surgery.\n\nStuart Wilson said his mother Julia was immobile and she required two people with a hoist to get her up.\n\nHe said her surgery in Sketty, Swansea, called on Tuesday offering a jab but they were told it would take time to arrange a house visit.\n\nWelsh Government said a mobile service could take a jab to the housebound.\n\nDr Chris Johns, from Sketty Medical Centre, said: \"I can give assurances that no housebound patient is being asked to wait this long for their vaccination.\n\n\"This is a massive undertaking by GPs and we would ask older patients, if they are mobile, to attend one of our vaccination clinics instead.\"\n\nHe said teams have already made close to 200 house calls to vaccinate those unable to come to the surgery and over the next few weeks GPs would continue to go to patients' homes \"where necessary\".\n\nMore than 175,000 vaccines have been administered across Wales so far.\n\nUnder Welsh Government plans, the goal is for everyone over the age of 70 to be offered a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nMr Wilson said the call left his mother \"concerned and distressed\" so with her permission he spoke to the GP surgery himself.\n\nShe has been with the surgery, which is the Sketty branch of Sketty and Killay Surgeries, for about five years, and they are familiar with her condition as she receives home visits for flu jabs.\n\n\"What I can't understand is how they can invite somebody for a vaccination and then turn around and say because you're housebound, they can't give it yet,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not asking for preferential treatment; we're not asking to be bumped up the list. I was disgusted by the total lack of information.\"\n\nMr Wilson said he knew of three other cases where patients have been given the same information.\n\nHe said disabled people should receive equal treatment. He has also taken the issue up with the disability rights association, Disability Wales, who have been asked to comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Those who cannot attend their appointment or cannot travel to the vaccination venue can let your health board know through the NHS booking system. They will then be offered another appointment on another day or at a more convenient location.\n\n\"There are also plans in place for people who are housebound and for care homes, which will mean the vaccine can be safely taken to them using a mobile service if they are unable to attend a GP surgery or mass vaccination centre.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh Government has been criticised over the speed of rolling out vaccines to the over 80s age group.\n\nSteve Hockridge's 92-year-old mother Sheila suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in Cardiff.\n\nHe contacted her surgery but was told they had \"no information\" about when she would receive a vaccine.\n\n\"My confidence in the Welsh Government has been knocked,\" he said.\n\n\"After all the clarity during this pandemic, with this area they seem to be very, very secretive, giving different messages [which are] quite often conflicting.\"\n\nIn Wrexham, Helen Field said her mother, Eileen, 94, was also still waiting to hear about her vaccine.\n\n\"Our relations over the border in the Wirral area who are in a similar age group of over 80s and 90s have all received their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference is quite alarming and I just want to know what's going on in Wales and why they are so slow in putting the vaccines out?\n\n\"Nobody can seem to give us any information and it seems to be so poorly organised.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Every day in Wales we are speeding up the vaccination programme.\n\n\"Thousands more people are receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine and more clinics are opening with 45 vaccination centres operating or due to be operating shortly, and more than 250 GP surgeries being involved by the end of this month. As of 20 January, more than 175,816 people in Wales have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nNI's largest healthcare union has said it has not objected to military personnel being brought in to help medical staff deal with Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Unison said it had questions over the move and there had \"disappointingly\" been no consultation.\n\nAn initial statement from the union on the subject was criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described it as \"appallingly inappropriate\".\n\nA new statement issued on social media, from the union's regional secretary Patricia McKeown, said the first statement had been \"misunderstood\".\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, she acknowledged the initial statement had caused \"stress and hurt\" to Unison members and apologised for that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nIn the union's initial statement, issued on Wednesday, it said it would ask Mr Swann for \"detailed reasons\" for the move.\n\nIt said this would include \"seeking information as to what other avenues of support have been sought, such as securing additional staffing from private sector healthcare providers\".\n\nHowever, following criticism, Ms McKeown said in a new statement on Thursday morning that the union was \"happy to clarify\" its position.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, Unison has not objected to assistance from military personnel.\"\n\nShe added: \"In our experience the deployment of military personnel into public services is a decision taken as a last resort.\n\n\"We were immediately concerned that a request for aid of this nature indicates a crisis that is moving out of control.\n\n\"This is why it is important that we know in advance what options are being explored.\"\n\nThe union said it was important to get detailed information on how, when and where external personnel would be deployed and what the management and accountability structures will be in place for them.\n\nSteve Aiken described the first Unison statement as appallingly inappropriate\n\nSpeaking on Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, Ms McKeown said: \"We put a statement out last night, it said what we were going to do, but it didn't say why we were going to do it.\n\n\"That caused stress and hurt to our members and I am very, very sorry for that. That's why we corrected it.\"\n\nShe added that if military personnel were being brought in \"it means that all options have been exhausted, there's a big decision facing us now and that decision is a stronger lockdown\".\n\nThe earlier statement from the union, issued on Wednesday night, had been criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"Judging by the number of healthcare workers who have contacted me tonight they are absolutely incredulous at the Unison statement this evening.\n\n\"Getting help is what is needed - time for Unison to withdraw its appallingly inappropriate remarks.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley said: \"This statement from Unison is extremely disappointing and is out of step with both Unison's own members and the wider public.\n\n\"I have already been contacted by health service staff making clear that this does not represent their views.\"\n\nHis party colleague Paul Frew tweeted: \"Utterly appalling. A lot of anger tonight for a union that is supposed to support its membership.\"\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Ulster, West Belfast People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said: \"We all recognise that we're in a really desperate situation, a really difficult situation.\n\n\"But people want to see the health service expanded permanently and not just a short-term fix which people have questioned on a number of grounds.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said nurses and doctors were exhausted.\n\n\"What we're really talking about here is a surge of some personnel in order to support out frontline nurses who are dead on their feet,\" he said.\n\n\"The here and now is about saving lives.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin responded to Mr Swann's decision by saying it would not \"rule out\" any measures that help save lives and that \"any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into an orange and green issue is divisive and a distraction\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust, Dr Cathy Jack, told Stormont's health committee that the move would ensure staff can continue to deliver care to as many patients as possible.\n\nShe said the military personnel are \"band 4 medically-trained technicians\" who will \"be working under normal management structures\".\n\n\"This is another group of highly-trained individuals that will support staff and I welcome this.\"\n\nDr Jack said discussions were \"ongoing\" about how private health care providers could help in this phase of the pandemic.\n\nShe said a small number of private lists were being used for surgeries with low-risk cancers and more would be freed up in March \"to allow us to try and catch up on the backlog\".\n\nThe Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request means armed forces staff will assist nurses and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said the Army has previously carried out pandemic roles in Northern Ireland with \"aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning\".\n\nThe health minister added it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.", "An algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest\n\nAt first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches - but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.\n\nAnd scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space.\n\nThe pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.\n\nThe breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.\n\nAnd all the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning - a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety of backdrops.\n\n\"We just present examples to the algorithm and tell it, 'This is an elephant, this is not an elephant,'\"Dr Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath, said.\n\n\"By doing this, we can train the machine to recognise small details that we wouldn't be able to pick up with the naked eye.\"\n\nAfrican elephants are listed as vulnerable to extinction\n\nThe scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.\n\n\"It has a high density of elephants,\" University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said.\n\n\"And it has areas of thickets and of open savannah.\n\n\"So it's a great place to test our approach.\n\n\"While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go.\n\n\"And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft.\"\n\nConservationists will have to pay for access to commercial satellites and the images they capture.\n\nBut this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.\n\nThe scientists say it could also be used in anti-poaching work.\n\n\"And of course, [because you can capture these images from space,] you don't need anyone on the ground, which is particularly helpful during these times of coronavirus,\" Dr Duporge said.\n\n\"In zoology, technology can move quite slowly.\n\n\"So being able to use the cutting-edge techniques for animal conservation is just really nice.\"", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic, figures show.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nMany of these involved police officers being \"coughed and spat on\" by suspected rule-breakers, the CPS said.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nAssaults on emergency workers, which were the most common prosecution, were \"particularly appalling\" and incidents were still taking place, said director of public prosecutions Max Hill.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to do everything in my power to protect those who so selflessly keep us safe during this crisis.\"\n\nAccording to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions - there were 1,137 charges brought for breaking coronavirus laws.\n\nThese included a man who claimed 15 people having a party at his house in Manchester were part of his support bubble and another man in Wales caught travelling between counties to solicit the services of a sex worker.\n\nOverall, 2,106 defendants were prosecuted for 6,469 coronavirus-related offences, with a conviction rate of 90%, according to the CPS.\n\nOther crimes flagged as being coronavirus-related by the CPS, included 480 charges for public order offences, 466 for criminal damage and 464 for common assault.\n\nThese included offences such as coughing and spitting while threatening to infect another person with the virus, thefts of essential items and fraudsters taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nMr Hill added: \"The CPS has had to adapt to a raft of new laws and regulations intended to keep the public safe during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our guiding principle throughout has always been to support the police in ensuring the right person in charged with the right offence.\"", "Marmite is one of Unilever's many brands\n\nUnilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.\n\nThe consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs \"and helped them break the cycle of poverty\".\n\nIt said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.\n\nUnilever is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.\n\nOxfam called the move a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nUnilever, whose products include Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build \"a more equitable and inclusive society\".\n\n\"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide,\" it said.\n\n\"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030.\"\n\nThe wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.\n\nThe firm said it was working with partners to establish exact rates of pay in the 190 countries where it operates.\n\nHowever, Unilever's chief human resources officer Leena Nair said it would pay twice as much as the minimum wage in some countries.\n\nUnilever said it already paid its own employees at least a living wage, but it wanted to secure the same for more people beyond its workforce, specifically focusing on the most vulnerable workers in manufacturing and agriculture.\n\nWhile there is no doubting Unilever's desire to improve the lot of those who make its products, there is also a commercial reason for its living wage initiative.\n\nIt wants all of its suppliers to pay their staff a decent wage by 2030, a plan that has the potential, given Unilever's enormous size and global reach, to change the lives of millions of people.\n\nBut the company also believes the move will give it an advantage in the fierce battle to attract buyers.\n\nAlan Jope, Unilever's Scottish-born chief executive, says customers want to buy products with good credentials, and that this desire has only increased during the pandemic.\n\nMr Jope's comments suggest that the next consumer battlegrounds might not be price, convenience or range of product, but environmental and social considerations.\n\nUnilever wants to get ahead of that trend, and plans to do well by doing good.\n\n\"We will work with our suppliers, other businesses, governments and NGOs - through purchasing practices, collaboration and advocacy - to create systemic change and global adoption of living wage practices,\" it added.\n\nIt has more than 60,000 direct suppliers worldwide, from smallholder farmers to major companies.\n\nAll of them will be covered by its commitment, it said, with millions of people set to benefit.\n\nUnilever already audits its suppliers over climate change commitments, and will use these existing arrangements to make sure workers are being paid a living wage.\n\nSuppliers not willing to sign up may lose their contracts with the firm, Ms Nair said.\n\nAlso by 2030, Unilever said, it would equip 10 million young people with essential job skills.\n\nAdditionally, it committed to spending €2bn (£1.8bn) with suppliers owned and managed by people from under-represented groups by 2025 in an effort to improve diversity.\n\n\"The two biggest threats that the world currently faces are climate change and social inequality,\" said Unilever chief executive Alan Jope.\n\n\"The past year has undoubtedly widened the social divide, and decisive and collective action is needed to build a society that helps to improve livelihoods, embraces diversity, nurtures talent, and offers opportunities for everyone.\"\n\nUnilever chief executive Alan Jope says the firm wants to be a \"positive force in the world\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Unilever wanted to be a \"positive force in the world in tackling this persistent and worsening issue of social inequality.\"\n\n\"Without healthy societies, we don't have a healthy business,\" he said.\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of ethical initiatives by Unilever, including promoting vegan food products and experimenting with a four-day working week.\n\nGabriela Bucher, executive director at Oxfam International, welcomed Unilever's announcement, calling it \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nShe said: \"Unilever's plan shows the kind of responsible action needed from the private sector that can have a great impact on tackling inequality and help to build a world in which everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive.\"\n\nLaura Gardiner, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said commitments such as Unilever's show how some employers \"are leading the way in spreading the living wage through both their business networks, and across their global operations\".\n\nFood services giants Sodexo and Compass Group, which are on the Living Wage Foundation's list of recognised service providers, have made similar supply chain commitments in the UK.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "Wales' former Chief Medical Officer Dame Deirdre Hine thinks the vaccine targets are achievable\n\nPeople waiting for the Covid vaccine need to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\", Wales' former chief medical officer has said.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine said Wales had made a \"very good start\" on delivering jabs.\n\nAged 83, she needs the vaccine herself and accepted there was \"understandable anxiety\" for those still waiting, but said: \"I think we should all quieten down and wait.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nStuart Wilson said he was \"appalled\" his 84-year-old housebound mother had been told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she cannot get to her GP surgery.\n\nDame Deirdre is regarded as one of Wales' leading medical experts, having not only held the chief medical officer post, but being the woman who established the Welsh breast cancer screening programme.\n\nA past president of the British Medical Association and Royal Society of Medicine, she also oversaw the official inquiry into the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK.\n\nIt's not surprising that people are worried and concerned... but I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective\n\nShe told BBC Wales the response from governments had moved forward since then.\n\n\"I can detect some lessons that have been learned from the previous pandemic, the one I reported on. Because, although we had a vaccine then, the arrangements for delivering it were very much less clear and much more protracted than it has been this time.\n\n\"The arrangements for the GPs to deliver, and now pharmacists to deliver, all of that is a tremendous improvement on what I saw at the last pandemic.\"\n\nIn September, Dame Deirdre accused successive governments across the UK of taking \"their eye off the ball\" and failing to prepare for a global pandemic.\n\nShe also correctly warned of the \"real danger\" of a damaging second wave of Covid and has remained critical of failures to get adequate testing and tracing capability up and running in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"I would say the testing and tracing is another matter, and I think there has been justifiable criticism of that.\"\n\nDame Deirdre, who lives in Cardiff, said she was still \"waiting impatiently\" for her vaccine appointment, but called on people to see the bigger picture.\n\n\"Let's get it in perspective. This is a massive logistical exercise, together with a narrow pipeline of supply of the vaccine, and so I'm not a bit surprised that it's taking as long as it is to get round to everybody. But I have every confidence that they will.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, along with other UK nations, has committed to vaccinating all four of the highest priority groups by the middle of February, including the over-80s.\n\nLatest figures on vaccination in Wales show that, as of 20 January, there had been 175,816 people to get a first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for 5.6% of the population in Wales, while 7.1% have received a vaccination in England, 7.3% in Northern Ireland, and 5.7% in Scotland.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has denied Covid-19 vaccines were being held back, following comments from First Minister Mark Drakeford that the supply had to last until February to prevent \"vaccinators standing around with nothing to do\".\n\nMr Drakeford later said on social media that \"nobody is holding back vaccines\" and Mr Gething added: \"We're rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDame Deirdre said she believed the targets were achievable, but people's anxieties were \"understandable\".\n\nShe added: \"Some recent research by Imperial College shows that people in my age group, people over 70, are the people most worried about this pandemic and about their own safety.\n\n\"So it's not surprising that people are worried and concerned, dismayed, when they don't get the letter and then that turns to anger. But I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective.\n\n\"If you'd asked me last May and June whether we would even have a vaccine, I would have been highly sceptical.\n\n\"Then once you've got the vaccine, there is the whole logistical exercise of the publicity, letting people know what's likely to happen, getting the personnel assembled to do that, getting the premises.\n\n\"And it's not easy, it's not easy to do all that very, very quickly.\"", "Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced racial harassment while being a ballet dancer.\n\nThe French performer is the first black female dancer at Berlin's principal ballet company Staatsballett.\n\nMs Gomes claims she was told she did not fit in because of her skin colour, and was asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers.\n\nThe company has responded by saying her allegation \"deeply moves us\" and an internal investigation is underway into racism and discrimination at Staatsballett.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool City Council issued their call after local cases nearly trebled in the past fortnight\n\nLiverpool's leaders have called on the government to impose a new nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon and the city council's cabinet said urgent action is needed because the rise in coronavirus cases had reached \"alarming levels\".\n\nThey said it was \"self-evident\" the tier system has not curbed the variant.\n\nIt had been concentrated in London and south-east England but is believed to be spreading north.\n\nCases in Liverpool have almost trebled in the past two weeks to 350 per 100,000.\n\nThis is despite the city successfully leading the national pilot for community testing, which resulted in it becoming the first city to be taken out of tier 3 and moved into tier 2.\n\nHowever, the recent rise in cases meant Liverpool returned to tier three on Thursday.\n\nWendy Simon is the acting mayor for Liverpool\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, Ms Simon said: \"I think the difficulty with this new strain of the virus is the speed at which it is infecting.\n\n\"What we have seen in these last weeks is that the tier system hasn't worked with this particular strain of the virus.\n\n\"The way the numbers are going, we're likely to go into tier four very, very quickly.\"\n\nMs Simon said officials wanted to \"pre-empt that catastrophe\" and \"recover the economy quicker\", adding: \"We feel these three things - the mass vaccination, the mass testing and certainly a lockdown for a period - is what we need to get the city up and running again.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on us all to act promptly and bring it under control as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ms Simon joined officials at the Labour-run city council to urge the government to \"listen to those at the frontline, both in our hospitals and frontline services\".\n\n\"We as a nation can cope with a lockdown,\" the statement said. \"We have before and we can again.\"\n\nThe city's leaders also called for \"an additional package of welfare and economic support\" to address the \"pain for our retail and hospitality sectors\".\n\nA further 57,725 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.\n\nThe sharp rise in numbers is partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, is \"largely a reflection of a real increase\".\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nLiverpool launched the national pilot for community testing in November\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister said regional restrictions in England were \"probably about to get tougher\".\n\nHe said possible changes included keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down,\" and warned of a \"tough period ahead\".\n\nHe said increasing vaccination would provide a way out of restrictions and that he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "A farmer's field in Scotland has been transformed into a \"pop-up\" ice hockey rink.\n\nLocals in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, have been taking advantage of the clear skies and icy conditions.\n\nOne said the frozen rink had been playing host to skaters and hockey players of all ages and abilities, from six to 60.", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.\n\nThe drugs regulatory authority gave the green light to the jabs developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University and by local firm Bharat Biotech.\n\nIndia plans to inoculate some 300 million people on a priority list this year.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nOn Saturday India held nationwide drills to prepare more than 90,000 health care workers to administer vaccines across the country, which has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General of India said both manufacturers had submitted data showing their vaccines were safe to use.\n\nHowever, opposition politicians and some doctors have criticised a lack of transparency in the approval process.\n\nDr Swapneil Parikh, an infectious diseases researcher based in Mumbai, told the BBC doctors were in a difficult position.\n\n\"I understand there is a need to go through the process quickly, remove regulatory hurdles,\" he said. \"However... [governments and regulators] have a duty to be transparent about the data they have reviewed and the process involved in making the decision to authorise a vaccine, because if they don't do this, it can affect the public's faith in the process.\"\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.\n\nAdar Poonawalla, the company's CEO, told the BBC in November that he aimed to ramp up production to 100 million doses a month after receiving regulatory approval.\n\nThe jab, which is known as Covishield in India, is administered in two doses given between four and 12 weeks apart. It can be safely stored at temperatures of 2C to 8C, about the same as a domestic fridge, and can be delivered in existing health care settings such as doctors' surgeries.\n\nThis makes it easier to distribute than some of the other vaccines. The jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech - which is currently being administered in several countries - must be stored at -70C and can only be moved a limited number of times - a particular challenge in India, where summer temperatures can reach 50C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adar Poonawalla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe local vaccine, however, was approved despite the absence of data on how efficient it can be. It has yet to go through large-scale trials.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General, V.G. Somani, said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nMr Somani said it had been approved \"in public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\nIndia, which makes about 60% of vaccines globally, plans to immunise about 300 million people by July 2021. It will prioritise health care workers, the emergency services, and those who are clinically vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions.\n\nIndia's existing vaccination programme already reaches about 55 million people a year, administering 390 million free jabs against a dozen diseases. It stocks and tracks the vaccines through a well-oiled electronic system.\n\nIndia immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world\n\nPfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved for use in jurisdictions including the UK, the US and the EU, is also seeking emergency authorisation in India.\n\nIn all, some 30 vaccine candidates are being developed in India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Wales went into a new lockdown on 20 December\n\nWales is likely to remain in lockdown for the rest of January as the first minister said he does not \"see much headroom for change\".\n\nMinisters are to review restrictions ahead of an announcement on Friday.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said it was \"very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment\" with the NHS \"under huge pressure\".\n\nWithout further changes, restrictions could be kept until the next three-week review at the end of January.\n\nMr Drakeford also said the Welsh Government was unlikely to tighten restrictions despite the emergence of a new more contagious variant of the virus.\n\nHe said there could be some tweaks \"at the margins\" but no wholesale changes because \"it's difficult to see what more could be done\".\n\nThe government introduced a new four-level system of Covid-19 restrictions on 20 December with people told to stay home and avoid all but essential travel.\n\nA study has found the new variant of Covid-19 to be \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford does not believe the Welsh Government needs to change the system of restrictions it introduced before details of the new variant emerged.\n\n\"We'll keep our plans under review but level four restrictions in Wales are very strict indeed and it's difficult to see what more could be done to them,\" he said.\n\n\"If they need to be tweaked at the margins to take account of the new variation that's what the cabinet here will consider.\"\n\nHe has dismissed calls by teaching unions to suspend the phased return of face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe government's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review the current restrictions ahead of an announcement by the first minister on Friday.\n\nBut when asked whether he expected any changes, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment.\n\n\"Our health service remains under huge pressure and the coming weeks will be very difficult indeed with winter pressures on the one hand and growing numbers of people suffering with coronavirus in our hospitals on the other.\n\n\"We'll review it, as we said we would, but when I look at the figures I don't see much headroom for change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have not criticised the decision to remain in lockdown, but have called for greater scrutiny.\n\nSuzy Davies, Member of the Senedd for South Wales West, said questions would remain \"about how legitimate the decisions of the Welsh Government are\" until MSs had the opportunity to question them in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the announcement was unsurprising given the pressures on the NHS, but called on the Welsh Government to ensure a \"rapid rollout\" of the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Price also called for financial support for people forced to self-isolate and businesses \"during the hardest winter of our time\".\n\nAfter Friday's decision, the next three-week review announcement is not expected until 29 January.\n\nA further 56 people have died after contracting coronavirus in Wales, along with 4,011 new cases, according to data published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dozen people were fined in London for playing dominoes\n\nTwelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.\n\nPolice officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.\n\nThe owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has been asked to consider issuing a fine to the owner of the restaurant for breaching tier four Covid-19 restrictions, the Met said.\n\nA video released by the Met shows the restaurant owner saying: \"They're playing dominoes.\"\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"The rules under tier four are in place to keep all of us safe, and they do not exempt people from gathering to play games together in basements.\n\n\"The fact that these people hid from officers clearly shows they knew they were breaching the rules and have now been fined for their actions.\"\n• None Met breaks up more than 50 New Year's Eve parties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "A woman takes her dog for an early walk in Allendale in Northumberland\n\nMany parts of England have seen snow flurries accompany the arrival of New Year.\n\nAreas which welcomed in 2021 with several centimetres of snow included Northumberland, parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe Met Office has warned worse is to come with more wintry showers forecast.\n\nDriving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" as the cold weather continues next week, it said.\n\nSeveral football matches were cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches.\n\nGround staff at West Bromwich Albion were faced with heavy snowfall prior to their Premier League match with Arsenal at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening.\n\nGround staff clear snow from the pitch prior to the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich on Saturday\n\nFurther snow is predicted mainly inland and particularly over higher ground where above 200-300m a further few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\nThe chill in the air is due to high pressure to the north of the UK, which is dragging air from the east \"which at this time of year is cold\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe cold easterly winds are set to develop next week, bringing wintry showers - particularly around eastern parts - while hazardous freezing fog, frost and ice risks will all continue, forecasters said.\n\nSledging in the snow around Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nTwo women looking out over the snow covered Huntcliff sea cliffs in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast\n\nMeteorologist Alex Burkill said: \"Obviously it's very cold and it's going to stay cold through this week.\n\n\"Whilst there will be some wintry hazards around, it's not really until the end of the week until we see any significant snow.\"\n\nColston Bassett in Nottinghamshire got a light dusting of snow on Saturday\n\nA buried garden Buddha after heavy overnight snow in Buxton in Derbyshire\n\nRAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The message for those who have to drive is to adjust their speed according to the conditions and leave extra stopping distance so 2021 doesn't begin with an unwelcome bump and an insurance claim.\n\n\"Snow and ice are by far the toughest driving conditions, so if they can be avoided that's probably the best policy.\"\n\nA plough clears snow from the roads in Allendale, Northumberland\n\nA man takes his dogs for an early morning walk through the snow in Allenheads, Northumberland\n\nWaterfowl were still active at a snowy Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.\n\nGuardiola, 49, has previously talked of limiting his time in football to pursue other interests.\n\n\"Before, I thought I was going to retire soon. Now I'm thinking I'm going to retire older. So, I don't know,\" Guardiola said.\n\nThe Spaniard signed a new two-year deal at City in November and has won six major trophies at the club.\n\nPrior to his arrival in Manchester, Guardiola, who turns 50 this month, spent four years as manager of Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich.\n\n\"Experience helps you, especially the way I live my profession,\" he added.\n\nGuardiola's five-year stay at City represents the longest commitment he has made to a club in his management career.\n\nHe has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups since joining them in 2016.\n\nDespite going into Sunday's match at Chelsea on the back of a six-game unbeaten run and with two games in hand on most clubs around them in the table, he is cautious about talk of winning a third league title.\n\n\"If you think about what [can] happen in January, February - the two games [in hand], we can lose these two games and anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"So, in the Premier League, every game is so tough and it is better to be calm. The real Premier League, the people I spoke to before I landed here, said everyone can lose to everyone. I didn't see this until now.\n\n\"Now is the first time when I see in the Premier League, one team is able to lose or win seven, and after draw, and after lose. The results are unpredictable.\"\n\nAmong the challengers this season are arch rivals Manchester United, who City face in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have been rejuvenated in recent weeks, shrugging off the disappointment of a Champions League exit with some excellent domestic form.\n\n\"Ole is happier than me,\" said Guardiola, whose preparations have been affected by five players testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"But I am not much concerned about United. I am so busy with what we have to do and what we can do with the players.\n\n\"They are there because they deserve it. Since I arrived I expected them to be there all the time. Sometimes in the last seasons it has not been possible, especially in the Premier League.\"\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police Events This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breached Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.\n\nA spokesperson for the France international said the 26-year-old held a dinner party with guests from outside his household.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\nCity said they would conduct an internal investigation.\n\nMendy was named on the bench for City's Premier League game away to Chelsea on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\n\"While it is understood that elements of this incident have been misinterpreted in the reports [carried by newspapers earlier], and that the player has publicly apologised for his error, the club is disappointed to learn of the transgression and will be conducting an internal investigation,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Mendy said: \"Benjamin and his partner allowed a chef and two friends of his partner to attend his property for a dinner party on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Ben accepts that this is a breach of Covid-19 protocols and is sorry for his actions in this matter. Ben has had a Covid test and is liaising with Manchester City about this.\"\n\nExplaining why Mendy was in his matchday squad on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports: \"First of all the club made a statement; second Benjamin already had Covid in the past - he's been tested every day like all of us and he's negative. He knows what he has done and he will learn in the future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, goalkeeper Ederson, forward Ferran Torres, and midfielder Tommy Doyle are among six City players out of the Chelsea game because of coronavirus.\n\nThe trio have tested positive for the virus, adding to the cases of Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, defender Garcia became the sixth City player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nGarcia, along with a member of staff who also returned a positive test, will now self-isolate.\n\nCity previously postponed their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.\n\nThere have been a number of apparent coronavirus breaches by players at Premier League clubs in recent days.\n\nTottenham criticised three of their players after they attended a party over Christmas, while Fulham are looking into reports that striker Aleksandar Mitrovic allegedly broke coronavirus rules.\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson also apologised after midfielder Luka Milivojevic was pictured with Mitrovic at a gathering in London.\n\nFulham's match against Burnley on Sunday was postponed after an increase in positive cases at the club.\n\nCity also had to cancel their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLuke Campbell's hopes of another world title shot suffered a severe blow as Ryan Garcia rose from the canvas to land a superb stoppage in Dallas.\n\nIn a gripping lightweight fight, Briton Campbell landed a left hook in round two to floor Mexican-American Garcia.\n\nSome asked how the much-hyped Garcia might respond to adversity and while he fought on emotion, he found answers.\n\nCampbell survived a tough attack in the fifth, but a well-placed body shot ended the contest two rounds later.\n\n\"You taught me a lot,\" Garcia, 22, told 33-year-old Campbell as the opponents embraced in the beaten man's corner at the American Airlines Center.\n\nThe jubilant reaction from Garcia's team - including gym-mate Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - hinted at relief, but unquestionably emphasised the statement they knew their man had made.\n\nIn beating a fighter of Campbell's pedigree - and by rising from the canvas to do so - this win served up plenty of answers about Garcia, whose social media following led him to be identified as the world's 12th most marketable athlete in October.\n\n\"I think I showed a lot of people who I really am. I showed today I am special,\" he told DAZN.\n\n\"They wanted to show me as a social media fighter. Anybody who puts you down, remember you're not who people tell you who you are - you are who you choose to be. I chose to be a champion tonight.\n\n\"He caught me, I was like, 'I got dropped, this is crazy'. I've never been dropped in my life. I had to adjust. I knew I could beat him, I just had to get back up.\"\n\nGarcia is the first man to beat Campbell by stoppage. Shortly after the fight Campbell told Garcia in his dressing room that he punched harder than anyone he had ever faced. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist then told his Twitter followers that Garcia has a \"massive future ahead\".\n\nThis stoppage win will add to the kind of hype that has led some American broadcasters to suggest Garcia's star status could bring new fans to the sport in the years to come.\n\nThe 1-3 bookmakers' favourite was carried to the ring on a throne while Campbell waited in the ring in Texas.\n\nBut within two rounds a heavy left hook put Garcia on his back and it is to his credit he got up, took the fight to his rival and won rounds in the aftermath.\n\nGarcia had only twice gone past round four, and his last two bouts had lasted less than 180 seconds in total. He carried a fizz in his punches throughout and a left hook-right hand combination in the fifth rocked Campbell and sent him into the ropes as the bell sounded.\n\nIn a contest that ebbed and flowed, Campbell found some poise after a relentless attack from Garcia when the action resumed at the start of the sixth.\n\nBut a round later, Campbell braced for an attack to his head only for Garcia to beautifully drive a left hand to the body that left him on all fours.\n\nGarcia's team raced into the ring, lifted their man and placed a crown on his head.\n\nHis 21st win in as many fights could earn him a world title shot next, or his preferred bout with American Gervonta Davis.\n\nFor now, it has justified the hype and underlined his threat. After the fourth loss of his career, Campbell will need to regroup if he is to attempt to win a world title for the third time.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "A large poultry flock is to be culled in County Antrim, after an outbreak of bird flu.\n\nThirty thousand birds are to be destroyed as a precautionary measure at the farm near Clough.\n\nIt is the first time the disease has been detected in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland since 1998\n\nThe outbreak affected a business rearing young hens for egg production and it is understood there are other poultry farms in the area.\n\nIt will mean certain movement restrictions in 3km and 10km protection zones around the affected farm, with potential trade implications for other poultry businesses there.\n\nBird flu is a notifiable disease carried by migratory wild birds. It can spread quickly and rapidly causes death in affected flocks.\n\nRestrictions were put in place earlier in the winter in an attempt to prevent transmission to commercial flocks which make up a key part of Northern Ireland's important agri-food industry.\n\nSince 23 December there has been a requirement for all poultry flocks, no matter how small, to be housed.\n\nPublic health advice is that bird flu- or avian influenza - poses a low risk to human health and the Food Standards Agency advises that it does not present a food risk.\n\nPoultry is a £750m a year industry in Northern Ireland which employs 5,000 people. There are around 24 million birds on 650 farms, most of them in counties Tyrone and Antrim.\n\nThe disease has been detected in a number of wild birds in Northern Ireland this winter and in commercial flocks in both Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the short term it will mean no movements on or off poultry farms in the area, with a licensing system being introduced in the coming days.\n\nPoultry products from outside the restricted zone can continue to be traded with EU member states and products from within the zones can be sold on home markets.\n\nOther countries will apply their own rules depending on their assessment of the situation.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey repeated his message for poultry owners to apply rigorous biosecurity measures.\n\n\"Given the level of suspicion and the density of the poultry population around the holding, it is vital that as a matter of precaution, we act now and act fast,\" he said.\n\n\"I have therefore taken the decision to cull the birds as well as introduce temporary control zones around the holding in an effort to protect our poultry industry and stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"An epidemiological investigation is under way to determine the likely source of infection and determine the risk of disease spread.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? Have you recently been treated in a hospital, or due to be treated? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Jo Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nA statement was released on her Twitter account on Saturday night in which her team thanked people for their good wishes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Ms Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wished her well.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, her Twitter account said she had been \"laid low with Covid for a while\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Stevens, who is Labour's shadow culture secretary, was elected as an MP in May 2015.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted: \"All of our thoughts and best wishes are with Jo for a speedy recovery.\n\n\"Thank you to Jo's constituency team for continuing to support Cardiff Central constituents at this difficult time.\"", "The rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December – and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East. But that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all, most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut many public health experts are warning more needs to be done.That’s why we have seen so much debate about schools in recent days.There is a determination to get primary school children back – they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school-age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nIt looks like there is going to be a very difficult trade-off that needs to be made between the damage to education and wellbeing of children and the risk of further spread of the virus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Police said a car which had been parked on a bend in the road in Snowdonia was an \"accident waiting to happen\"\n\nStaff looking after a car park in a Welsh national park have been \"getting abuse\" as crowds continue to gather at popular beauty spots.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snowdonia National Park said the decision to keep car parks open was under \"constant review\".\n\nShe explained closing them could lead to unauthorised parking and would exclude locals with mobility issues.\n\nWales is at alert level four, meaning non-essential travel is banned and exercise must start and finish at home.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nA red Honda was towed away at Pen y Pass, near Llanberis, after police said it had been parked unsafely on a bend, in snowy conditions.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March, campsites, caravan parks and tourist hotspots were closed by the Welsh Government after \"unprecedented\" crowds gathered at beauty spots.\n\nThe Welsh Government decided to close beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Pen y Gwryd in Snowdonia\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had chosen not to close its car parks again because the areas remained open to people living nearby.\n\n\"Closing car parks can lead to unauthorised parking on roads, so we are keeping them open at the moment,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The mountains are open for people to be able to exercise from their front doors. Keeping car parks open allows people with mobility issues to exercise as well.\n\n\"We are working closely with police and Gwynedd council and we are reviewing it constantly.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police say beauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy\" since Christmas\n\nShe said its busiest car park, at Pen y Pass near Snowdon, had been overseen by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period, but in a more educational role than in previous years.\n\n\"Places like Pen y Pass are usually manned anyway but their role has changed slightly. They are getting some abuse, which is a shame,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are adopting a similar approach to police: engaging with people, asking what their plans are then educating them.\n\n\"The majority of the time people are going 'I misunderstood that', or people are saying 'I'm doing what I want anyway'.\"\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nWales is in an alert level four lockdown\n\nPenny Brockman, of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, called on people to help protect themselves and others, including rescue volunteers, by following government guidelines.\n\n\"It is important for people's well-being to walk, but there are probably lots of wonderful places in their own local areas,\" she added.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted a picture of Hamilton the police horse \"staying at home\" in his stable, urging people to be \"more like him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "Nurseries have stayed open during the latest lockdown, unlike schools\n\nNurseries are \"teetering on the edge\" and will \"find it hard to survive with next-to-no funding\" as children are kept home in lockdown, an owner said.\n\nLittle Stars near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by 35% - and Emma Matthews says nurseries are \"running on empty\".\n\nUnlike schools, they have remained open and an industry association wants support so they are around to \"provide places for children in the future\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said funding was available through councils.\n\nDescribing childcare workers as \"front-line\", the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru also called for anxious staff to be made a priority for the Covid vaccine as they work with little protective equipment.\n\n\"We feel we have poured our heart into serving families and want acknowledgement for the early years and the vital part we play in the community,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nLittle Stars furloughed some staff during the lockdown last March, with nurseries open for children of keyworkers only.\n\nLittle Stars nursery near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by more than a third\n\nThey reopened fully last summer and this has remained under Welsh Government guidance.\n\nHowever, many parents have decided not to send children - some because they are adhering to stay-at-home rules, are self-isolating, have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay bills, or are on furlough.\n\n\"The reasons are varied and valid why parents decide to pull children out,\" Ms Matthews added.\n\n\"The situation isn't great and some say 'we will wait and see next week'. It's very difficult to formulate a plan then or to furlough. We are teetering on the edge.\"\n\nLittle Stars is down the road from the new Grange hospital that opened in Cwmbran last November\n\nBefore coronavirus, the nursery looked after 65 children each day - but last week, 47 attended, made up of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.\n\nThere were also 11 babies due to start in January - but only one is attending because of reasons such as new mothers extending their maternity leave.\n\nMs Matthews believes facilities should be open for children of keyworkers only - allowing nurseries to access support for those not attending.\n\nA baby, a toddler and a staff member from Little Stars had coronavirus - and employees are worried for themselves and their families.\n\nIn Wales eligible children can access 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nThey are unable to wear personal protective equipment because of their close contact with children, and describing workers as \"front-line\" who \"keep the economy going\", Ms Matthews said they should be in the priority group for the vaccine and weekly testing.\n\n\"Social distancing is the challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"Face, space and hands... we can only do hands. The others are impossible.\"\n\nThe facility received a grant of £10,000 at the start of the pandemic and a rate relief grant of £1,000, but Ms Matthews wants more support.\n\n\"It's about valuing the service,\" she said. \"It wasn't a very stable industry pre-Covid. But it's made it very fragile now.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to give more help, allowing nurseries to survive and \"provide places for children in the future\" by NDNA Cymru.\n\nIt also said early years staff \"must be a priority for the vaccine to enable them to continue providing support for our youngest children and their families\".\n\nWhile nurseries were closed to all but keyworkers initially, they have been open since summer 2020\n\n\"We all know it's impossible to social distance from toddlers and babies who need close care from nappy changing to the contact and affection that supports their development and learning,\" added chief executive Purnima Tanuku.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said while the rates of coronavirus in Wales remain high, cases in children under five continue to be relatively low.\n\n\"Childcare providers have worked very hard to ensure settings are safe, with low numbers of children on site,\" she added.\n\nThe spokeswoman said funding is provided to councils, enabling them to help childcare settings experiencing financial difficulties and the Childcare Offer for Wales continues to be in place for all eligible children.\n\n\"We are following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation about the people who should be vaccinated first - all those in the priority groups will be immunised as safely and as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nMost school children in Wales will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland said she\"empathises with the concerns of staff\" and thanked them for their work \"during an extremely difficult period\".\n\n\"Nurseries play a really important part in young children's wellbeing and development,\" she said.\n\n\"Any services that can remain open for children is to be welcomed due to the importance for their health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "The man from Luton was fined £200 for travelling to Devizes and also had his car seized for having no insurance\n\nA man told police he had driven from Luton to Devizes to visit a McDonald's, even though the town does not have a branch of the burger chain.\n\nWiltshire Police called his actions a \"flagrant breach\" of lockdown regulations and fined the man £200.\n\nThe 34-year-old was stopped on Estcourt Street in Devizes, a distance of more than 100 miles (160km) from Luton.\n\nHis car was also seized for having no insurance, police added.\n\n\"The distance travelled across numerous counties to Devizes, which doesn't have a McDonald's restaurant, is a flagrant breach of the regulations currently in place.\n\n\"The majority of people across Wiltshire continue to act responsibly and we thank you for that, however, it is important to protect the NHS that we all stick to the rules,\" said police.\n\nThe man was stopped on Thursday evening.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Sara Powell-Davies said she was lucky her nursery was able to open following lockdown\n\nA mother with two young children has said it was \"incredibly stressful\" trying to manage without free childcare during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government's scheme was suspended in April, with funds redirected to pay for childcare for key workers' children.\n\nNow the offer, available to working parents of three and four-year-olds, has been reinstated.\n\nBut there are concerns many nurseries have been operating at a loss.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-old children are able to claim up 30 hours of early-years education and childcare a week for 48 weeks a year under the Childcare Offer for Wales.\n\nThose whose children become eligible in the autumn term, can apply from September.\n\nSara Powell-Davies, from Caerphilly, said it had been really hard to manage without the help during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe mother to three-year-old Tirion and one-year-old Cadel said the free childcare saved the family about £200 a month.\n\n\"It does make a massive difference to our finances every month,\" she said.\n\nMrs Powell-Davies said, while she was lucky Cadel's nursery was open, after-school clubs would not run in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, which would make juggling childcare around work a challenge.\n\n\"It's incredibly stressful trying to manage this anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"We do rely on support like private nursery provision, after-school care [and] wraparound because we don't have any family that is able to support us.\n\n\"So, this is our lifeline.\"\n\nChildcare Offer for Wales gives those eligible 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nChildcare providers are paid £4.50 per hour for every child who takes up a place through the childcare offer.\n\nBut the National Day Nurseries Association said many of its members were operating at a loss as fewer children had been attending and costs had gone up to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku called on the Welsh Government to set up a \"transformation fund to be able to support the sector until occupancy levels pick up and to really review the hourly rate to reflect the additional cost they've had to incur\".\n\nLyn Bourne, of Britannia Day Nursery, said nurseries were a \"forgotten industry\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic, around 70 children attended Britannia Day Nursery in Caerphilly - now there are about 40.\n\nOwner Lyn Bourne said the nursery was losing money every week, but was determined to keep going.\"It is hard financially and emotionally, but we decided we wanted to keep going so we've just done our best to do that,\" she said.Ms Bourne said she hoped the childcare offer would help some parents to bring children back, but said nurseries needed extra financial help from the government too.\"Nurseries are closing every week,\" she said.\"We seem to be a forgotten industry, but we're so important.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed that coronavirus guidance restricting children to groups of eight in childcare would be lifted.\n\nDeputy Minister for Social Care Julie Morgan said: \"Bringing the offer back will not only help parents, but it is crucial for providers too in supporting their businesses to recover after what has been a period of great uncertainty and anxiety for many.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the hourly rate was under review and it was considering extending the offer to parents in education or training or \"on the cusp\" of returning to work.\n\nHe added: \"The childcare offer being restarted funded childcare for an average of 13,000 children per month before the pandemic, a significant investment in the Welsh childcare sector.\n\n\"We have also relaxed some of the regulatory requirements on childcare settings in the national minimum standards to make it easier for them to operate under the current restrictions.\"", "Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and \"worn\" garments.\n\nBoth businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms.\n\nWomen have been sent '\"creepy\" messages on Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and Depop, the BBC has learned.\n\nSome were asked for additional items including worn tights, explicit photos and used underwear.\n\nWhen inappropriate profiles were blocked or reported, some would reappear with a different account, sources told the BBC.\n\n\"During lockdown, the messages have gotten really creepy,\" said Sara Faye, who has sold her clothes on Depop for years.\n\n\"They always want to know how many times it has been worn and if it is dirty.\"\n\nMs Faye used to post images of herself in the clothes on the platforms but has now stopped because of the messages.\n\nWomen often model the clothing they're selling in the photos\n\n\"Don't message me on an innocent second-hand website, just because you can see a hot girl in the photos,\" she added. \"It feels like a violation, you should be able to sell your clothes online without getting harassed.\"\n\nSellers were sometimes offered additional money for used clothing or explicit images.\n\nJennifer Savin - a Cosmopolitan features writer, who recently investigated the topic - was offered ��5 for more than 50 intimate images after posting items on eBay.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of users out there, just trying their luck,\" she told the BBC. \"Who knows if they'd even pay up if they were to be sent the explicit content in the first place?\"\n\nOne online seller, who relies on the profits made on these platforms for a living, said \"it was a balance between feeling safe and needing the money.\"\n\nEstablished clothing brands have also reported receiving inappropriate messages and requests on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium sells vintage clothes and receives many such comments every week.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium says it receives many inappropriate messages every week\n\n\"I get a lot of messages about the model, especially if there are shirts with close-up images,\" said owner Lynnette Peck.\n\n\"I had a fetishist asking what [shoes] smelt like, who wore them and if I could take a photo of myself wearing them.\"\n\nShe has now stopped selling certain items on the website, after receiving explicit photographs through Facebook Messenger.\n\nNaomi Edmondson, who runs lingerie brand Edge o'Beyond, said the business was \"constantly bombarded with creepy comments from men\", often asking for sex.\n\n\"We get so many creepy messages and comments it's too time-consuming to report them all,\" she said. \"A few times I have felt concerned for safety.\n\n\"We create lingerie to empower women, we do not welcome the minority of men who think it's acceptable to send explicit pictures.\"\n\nSome of the women the BBC spoke to said they hadn't reported the messages because they were \"embarrassed\", \"ashamed\" or \"didn't want to risk losing their accounts\".\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Depop and eBay all said they take these kinds of messages seriously and would take action against those who violated policy.\n\nThey all urged users to report and block any accounts which break the rules.\n\nFacebook - which also owns Instagram - said it has built a \"global safety and security team as well as powerful technology\" to remove accounts as quickly as possible.\n\nDepop said it aims to respond to 95% reports of inappropriate behaviour within three hours, during business hours.\n\n\"The issue of women receiving creepy messages when selling clothes online is not a new phenomenon,\" said Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning because to sell on most popular online selling platforms, including eBay and Depop, it is mandatory for users to provide a postal address - likely to be their home address.\"\n\nBut that is technically against the terms and conditions of most selling platforms.\n\n\"The very nature of selling second-hand clothes means that sellers will often post photos of themselves wearing the items,\" she says.\n\n\"That can, unfortunately, attract unwanted attention from buyers who might wish to buy worn clothes rather than just second-hand items.\"\n\nAlthough sites restrict the selling of certain used items, such as underwear, private messaging provides a \"loophole\", she added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "UN peacekeepers ended their mission in Darfur last month\n\nThe number of people killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Sudan's West Darfur state has risen to 83, a medical body has said.\n\nThe fighting in the state capital, El Geneina, began on Saturday after a row in which a man was stabbed to death.\n\nA state-wide curfew has been imposed and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sent a delegation to investigate.\n\nA conflict in Darfur that began in 2003 forced millions to flee and, despite a peace process, tensions remain.\n\nSaturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Union handed over security to the Khartoum authorities after 13 years there, reports the BBC's Youssef Taha.\n\nSimilar clashes in El Geneina last year, which saw Arab pastoralists fight with non-Arab groups, caused hundreds of casualties.\n\nThe most recent fighting was centred around a camp for people who had been displaced by the Darfur conflict. A deadly row between two men escalated into a fight involving armed militias, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said the death toll had risen from 48 to 83, and the number of wounded from around 100 to 160.\n\nMembers of the armed forces were among the victims, it said.\n\nCasualties were likely to rise further as fighting was continuing, the medical body added.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that troop reinforcements would be sent to the area\n\nThe announcement was made after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met top security officials to discuss the violence.\n\nA peace deal involving most, but not all, groups in Darfur was signed last year.\n\nThe Darfur conflict began under the presidency of Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the region.\n\nJustice for the people of Darfur was a key rallying cry for civilian groups who backed the ouster of the president after nearly three decades in power.\n\nThe Sudanese Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional government to deal with the \"unruly armed groups which have been freely moving and terrorising civilians since the collapse of the former regime\", Sudan's news agency reports.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nLast year Mohanad Hashim visited Kalma camp where some of the millions of people who fled flighting ended up:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "A financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday.\n\nThe aim was to provide grants by the end of this financial year, he said.\n\nIndustry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nUnder the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nAll arrivals to the UK after that time will need to isolate for up to 10 days, although the quarantine period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.\n\nPeople will also have to show proof of a negative test taken in the previous 72 hours before travelling.\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show that Public Health England would also be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate, while enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\".\n\nHe added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Courts said the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic and that further details would follow soon.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It will involve grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the Airport Operators Association said the scheme would be a relief. However, it said support equivalent to business rates would only go so far and with the pandemic crisis deepening, a broader package of support was needed for all four nations, to see the sector through the next few months.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said the measures would \"provide much-needed support to many embattled airports, helping them through the challenging months ahead\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes to the UK's travel rules at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nThe new rules will be in place until at least 15 February, he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing on Friday that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nThe travel industry said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTravel operators had already been forced to cancel holidays before the latest restrictions were announced.\n\nEarlier this week, Jet2 suspended all flights and holidays until 25 March over \"ongoing uncertainty\" and budget travel provider EasyJet on Thursday began cancelling holidays up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Saturday, another 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.\n\nBack home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he says.\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he says.\n\nWhile looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.\n\n“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.\n\nInternet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term.\n\nFormed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week.\n\nThe aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged.\n\nOak National Academy is funded by the Department for Education and has provided more than 28 million lessons since the start of the school term on 4 January.\n\nIn the last two weeks, 4.1 million pupils accessed its resources.\n\nThe latest lockdown has seen schools in England close except for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nMatt Hood, principal of Oak National Academy, said: \"It's incredible to be able to add to our offer something vital for children's literacy and their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nJonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said it was \"essential\" to enable as many children as possible to \"access a world of great literature\".\n\nHe added: \"Many children's literacy skills were profoundly affected by the first lockdown and school closures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to support children, families and teachers during this new lockdown period.\"\n\nDescribing the virtual library as a \"fantastic resource\", Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said learning and children's development must continue while schools remain closed.\n\nHe said: \"Reading is hugely beneficial not only for children's literacy skills, but also their mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe first book to feature will be Dame Jacqueline Wilson's The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and will be available to access free for a week from 17 January.\n\nDame Jacqueline said with schools closed, the free online library is needed more than ever, adding: \"I think it's vitally important that every child should have an opportunity to access books.\"", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19.\n\nMany of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers.\n\nMost mosques in London did not open for Friday prayers.\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says parishes that are able to follow guidelines will still open.\n\nDespite coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely.\n\nPlaces of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February.\n\nThe Church of England has told the BBC more than half of its parishes - including some cathedrals - will not open for communal prayer on Sunday. Many have moved their worship online.\n\nThe Church said some of its clergy were shielding, and all parishes were making their own decision.\n\nLincoln Cathedral took the decision to suspend in-person worship and move services online earlier in the week.\n\nRev Canon Nick Brown, Precentor of Lincoln, said the decision was taken \"with a very heavy heart\" but explained: \"To bring people together in worship is at the very heart of our purpose, but having considered expert advice we believe that the best way to help limit the spread of Covid-19 is to suspend public services for the time being.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says it will keep its churches under review to make sure \"the highest standards of safety are maintained\". It is also organising online masses in many parishes.\n\nBritain's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had criticised previous orders for churches to close.\n\nWith more than half of the Church of England's parishes closed for communal worship, thousands of Christians are being deprived of spiritual sustenance, at a time when many feel sorely in need of it.\n\nOther religions are also grappling with the issue and have worked hard to make their places of worship Covid-compliant by, for example, introducing strict booking and ticketing systems.\n\nMany church parishes have adapted by moving services online, a trend mirrored in some Jewish and Muslim denominations. These have been largely successful, and in some cases attracted new audiences from thousands of miles away. However, it's difficult to replicate the sense of community when people can physically and regularly meet up.\n\nOne Rabbi I spoke to last summer admitted he was worried some of his synagogue regulars, kept away by Covid-19, might never return.\n\nThere's also a financial aspect. Places of worship rely heavily on the generosity of believers. Weekly donations have been hit by church closures, and many revenue-generating schemes, such as hiring out church halls, have been cancelled. Many of the country's ancient cathedrals make much of their income from tourist admission fees.\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken different approaches, with all places of worship currently closed in Scotland, for example. Some Christian leaders, largely accepting of initial closures during the first lockdown, have gradually spoken out in favour of being able to make the decision themselves.\n\nBut with most shops and sporting facilities closed in England, some campaigners, such as the National Secular Society, have railed against what they say is \"a worrying deference to religious entitlement\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board has told the BBC although most mosques in England and Wales did open for Friday prayers, the majority in London did not - and it says it has asked its members in areas where the infection rate is rising to work closely with Public Health England and local authorities.\n\nUnder the latest lockdowns in the UK, there are changes to usual practices for worshippers of all religions.\n\nIn the areas of the UK where communal worship is allowed, a number of measures are in place, such as carrying out services in the shortest possible time, and ensuring worshippers do not mingle with anyone not in their own household or support bubble.\n\nFaith leaders have accepted the need for restrictions.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain urges \"strong caution for mosques wishing to continue remaining open to the public for worship... and for tremendous care to be exercised\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, who has been in charge of the Church of England's plans for resuming services, has said \"some may feel that it is currently better not to attend in person... Clergy who have concerns, and others who are shielding, should take particular care and stay at home\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are the rules for places of worship?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need further 36 runs to win\n\nEngland need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic end to the fourth day in Galle.\n\nChasing only 74, the tourists slipped to 14-3 as Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya before captain Joe Root was run out after a mix-up with Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBairstow, who survived a run-out chance of his own, and debutant Dan Lawrence saw England to 38 without further loss before bad light ended play early.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence will resume on 11 and seven respectively at 04:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 359, with Lahiru Thirimanne scoring 111 - his first century for almost eight years - and Angelo Matthews 73.\n\nJack Leach, playing his first Test since 2019, took 5-122 and Dom Bess 3-100 to finish with match figures of 8-130 and set up what should still be a comfortable England victory despite a wearing pitch.\n\nEngland won their most recent series in Sri Lanka 3-0, but their record in Asia - and playing spin - is poor and it reared its head again in a remarkable start to their fourth-innings chase.\n\nSibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, was bowled for two not offering a shot, while Crawley, who was dropped on one, added only eight before a drive was superbly caught at gully by Kusal Mendis.\n\nEngland contributed to their own problems as captain Root, who scored a magnificent 228 in the first innings, was run out by a direct hit by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, colliding with bowler Dilruwan Perera after Bairstow called for a risky single.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence restored calm in a 24-run stand to steer England to stumps, and they remain firm favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka had run Bairstow out just after Root it would have been very interesting,\" former England captain Michael Vaughan said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\nSri Lanka, whose first-innings effort of 135 in just 46.1 overs was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", showed significantly more character and application in the second.\n\nOpener Thirimanne, 76 not out as the hosts resumed on 156-2, moved to his second Test century - 54 innings after his first, the third longest gap in Test history - with a cut for four off Bess.\n\nThe left-hander averaged 22 in 36 Tests before this match and his place was in serious doubt, only for captain Dimuth Karunaratne to be ruled out before the game with a thumb injury.\n\nAfter Thirimanne got a faint inside edge to the excellent Jos Buttler off Sam Curran, former captain Mathews played a dogged 219-ball innings containing only two fours to ensure Sri Lanka at least wiped out a 286-run first-innings deficit.\n\nWhen he edged Leach to Root at slip to be last man out, Sri Lanka were left wondering what might have been had they shown the same discipline first time round.\n\nBess, who took 5-30 in the first innings despite struggling with his length, improved throughout the second innings and took a wicket in the first over of his three spells on Sunday.\n\nHe had nightwatchman Embuldeniya caught by Sibley at short cover off the 12th ball of the day, before returning to have stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal held at slip by Root, and Dickwella caught behind as he attempted to guide the ball to third man.\n\nLeach, who has missed England's past 11 Tests - in part due to illness - yorked Dasun Shanaka and had the dangerous Wanindu Hasaranga superbly taken by Root at slip, before Perera became Buttler's first stumping in Test cricket.\n\nThe wicket of Mathews rounded off Leach's five-wicket haul, the first time two England spinners had achieved the feat in the same match since Derek Underwood and John Emburey in Sri Lanka in 1982.\n\n'It will only mean something if we win' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach on BBC Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't say I bowled well. It has been hard graft out there and I have certainly found I am probably a little rusty.\n\n\"At times I felt I could have done a better job, but the pleasing thing is I felt I bowled better as the game went on.\n\n\"We will come back tomorrow, knock these off and then I can be happy about my five wickets. It will only mean something if we win.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It has been an exciting day's play. Sri Lanka hung in there.\n\n\"Credit to Sri Lanka - we pelted them but on days three and four have shown they are a team that can compete in home conditions.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russel Arnold: \"The start of England's innings was hectic. We saw panic from England, but Bairstow and Lawrence now look like they have it under control.\"\n• None Find all the resources you need to help with education at home\n• None The hilarious hit history podcast is back for a new series", "There are warnings more children could be plunged into poverty\n\nA decision on whether the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit will be kept in place is unlikely before March's Budget, a top minister has indicated.\n\nCampaigners say the uplift, worth more than £1,000 a year, has been a lifeline for the vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nLabour will use a Commons debate on Monday to add pressure on ministers to agree now to extend it beyond 31 March.\n\nBut Dominic Raab told the BBC it was a \"temporary measure\" and the Budget would spell out support \"in the round\".\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Marr, the foreign secretary confirmed that Conservative MPs would be told to abstain in Monday's debate, meaning Labour's \"opposition day\" motion will be approved.\n\nWhile the motion will not be binding on ministers and won't change policy, the BBC's Ben Wright said not opposing it represented an attempt by the government to \"neutralise\" the issue for the time being.\n\nIt showed, he added, how concerned ministers were about the prospect of a rebellion by Tory MPs - many of whom want an end to the uncertainty over the issue - if they had been asked to vote against it.\n\nThe standard Universal Credit allowance, which is claimed by more than 5.5 million households, was increased by £20 a week in April 2020 as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's early Covid economic response.\n\nWhile it was designed as a temporary response to help those unable to work or struggling due to the lockdown, opposition parties and charities say failing to extend will cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected, with millions of households facing an income loss equivalent to £1,040 a year.\n\nThe organisation has warned 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nIts director Helen Barnard said a decision could not be delayed any longer.\n\n\"The chancellor has said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better and our evidence shows it is those with the least who are often suffering the most,\" she said.\n\n\"No one can seriously argue that cutting support for those on the lowest incomes in April will do anything other than weaken our already fragile economy.\"\n\nAsked whether the government should act now, Mr Raab said Monday's debate was a \"political\" move by the opposition and not about the government's overall financial support during the pandemic.\n\nHe promised to \"look at everything in the round\" to make sure support for the most vulnerable was available.\n\n\"Obviously in March there will be a Budget where again that holistic approach can be taken by the chancellor, but we've put that support in place to make sure that the most vulnerable communities can be protected at this very difficult time,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nThe government says it has injected an extra £7bn into the welfare system during the pandemic, including boosting Working Tax Credits by more than £1,000 a year for a 12-month period.\n\nLabour has urged the government to \"see sense\" on Universal Credit, saying that it would be both morally and economically wrong to \"take £1,000 a year from Britain's families\" at the peak of the unemployment crisis.", "The leaders of most of the world's biggest economies will get a brief taste of the English seaside this June as they gather for the G7 summit.\n\nCornwall's Carbis Bay, known for its sandy beach and clear waters, will be the venue for discussions on debt, climate change and post-Covid recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it the \"perfect location for such a crucial summit\".\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7.\n\nLeaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the event, from 11 to 13 June, as guests.\n\nVisit Cornwall estimates the county will make £50m, with the summit providing a boost to tourism and the area's international profile.\n\nBut the likes of US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are unlikely to enjoy an ice cream and a barefoot stroll through Carbis Bay's surf.\n\nG7 summits require security cordons, with anti-globalisation protests having affected several previous get-togethers.\n\nMeasures in place for the meeting in Biarritz, France, in 2019, saw the seaside resort likened to a temporary \"fortress\".\n\nThe Cornish meeting will be the first face-to-face G7 since the pandemic started. Last year's event - scheduled to take place at Camp David, Maryland - took place online instead.\n\nThe previous two UK-hosted meetings were at Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh, in 2013, and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, in 2005.\n\nBoris Johnson invoked the leading role of Cornwall's mining communities in the industrial revolution\n\nThis year, delegates will be put up - with Covid restrictions in place - at the Tregenna Castle Resort, overlooking nearby St Ives, and other locations.\n\nThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth will host international media.\n\nThe UK is hosting the summit as president of the G7 for the year.\n\n\"As the most prominent grouping of democratic countries, the G7 has long been the catalyst for decisive international action to tackle the greatest challenges we face,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that leaders should approach the economic challenges of Covid \"by uniting with a spirit of openness to create a better future\".\n\n\"Two-hundred years ago Cornwall's tin and copper mines were at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution and this summer Cornwall will again be the nucleus of great global change and advancement,\" the prime minister said.\n\nVisit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell said the summit would \"not only showcase the beauty of Cornwall but give us the opportunity to communicate our heritage, culture and the connections\".\n\nLocal leaders said it would provide a \"fantastic opportunity\" to showcase the county on the world stage.\n\nThe government said it would announce more of its plans \"in due course\".\n\nThe G7 meeting comes five months ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.", "A statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour last June, after being pulled down and rolled through the streets\n\nThe government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed \"on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said generations-old monuments should be \"considered thoughtfully\".\n\nThe legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto.\n\nIt will be revealed in Parliament on Monday.\n\nThe plans follow the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston last year and a wider discussion on the removal of controversial monuments.\n\nFour people were later charged with criminal damage over the removal of the Colston statue, and six people accepted conditional cautions over their involvement.\n\nIn the paper, the communities secretary said Britain should not try to edit or censor its past.\n\nMr Jenrick said any decision to remove heritage assets in England would require planning permission and a consultation with local communities, adding that he wanted to see a \"considered approach\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Our view will be set out in law, that such monuments are almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away.\"\n\nMr Jenrick added that he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation's history, saying this was \"at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a 'cultural committee' of town hall militants and woke worthies\".\n\nHe said: \"We live in a country that believes in the rule of law, but when it comes to protecting our heritage, due process has been overridden. That can't be right.\n\n\"Local people should have the chance to be consulted whether a monument should stand or not.\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Metropolitan Police say they are seeking to identify those responsible for the damage\n\nThe death of George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis sparked anti-racism protests across the world.\n\nDuring largely peaceful demonstrations in the UK, the controversial Colston statue was dumped into Bristol Harbour and a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill was vandalised with the words \"was a racist\".\n\nSpeaking in June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country - and the whole of Europe - from a fascist and racist tyranny.\n\n\"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should ... be at risk of attack by violent protesters.\n\n\"Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial.\"\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers, the Bristol charity which runs institutions named after Edward Colston, said it was right that the statue was removed, along with other memorials to \"a man who benefited from trading in human lives\".\n\nThey said it was part of acknowledging Bristol's \"dark past\" and building \"a city where racism and inequality no longer exist\".\n\nFollowing the toppling of the statue, Colston's Girls School changed its name to Montpelier High School and the city's Colston Hall music venue is now known as the Bristol Beacon.\n\nA statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed on the empty plinth without permission in July and was removed shortly afterwards.", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Few people get as unique a take on the movement, mood and feelings of the public than the business owners that sit in its lay-bys.\n\nSince the start of lockdown they have juggled highs and lows.\n\nFrom supporting lorry drivers unable to stop at closed service stations to seeing their customers told to stay at home - and in turn not spend money with them.\n\nSome are now questioning their future and role in a workforce predicted to change its patterns and work from home more in the future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"Travelling nearly 300 miles for a piece of cosmetic plastic for your car is not essential at this time,\" said North Wales Police's Intercept team.\n\n\"The regulations have been broadcast far and wide. Please be mindful you will be reported if your journey is not essential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February. Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use. NHS England said the new centres would offer \"thousands\" of jabs a week. It comes as another 324,233 vaccine doses have been administered across the UK, taking the total above 3.5 million. Check when you will be eligible for a jab.\n\nA financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs. Aviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday. The aim is to provide grants before the end of this financial year, he said. Industry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules. Under the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nMore than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services today, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19. Many of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers. It has also been revealed that most mosques in London remained closed on Friday, meaning Muslims had to make alternative arrangements for Friday prayers. Despite current coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely. Places of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February. Remind yourself of the rules where you live for places of worship.\n\nChildren in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged. The latest lockdown has seen schools in England close to all but children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has expressed his pride at the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for stepping up and having their Covid-19 vaccinations. In a video call with frontline workers, Prince William spoke about his grandparents after being told medics have witnessed \"vaccine hesitancy\" among some communities during the jab rollout. He praised NHS staff behind the rollout of the vaccine, and described the programme as \"tremendous\", saying it didn't \"just happen\". Staff joked they had been \"thinking and dreaming\" of vaccines all day and night with some describing working seven-day weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video call, the Duke of Cambridge said the vaccination programme was \"tremendous\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd it's been almost a month since people in some parts of the UK were allowed to meet in Christmas \"bubbles\", so what impact did this have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of NHS England reveals Covid-19 jabs are being done much faster than people are newly catching the virus\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated four times faster than new cases of the virus are being detected, NHS England's chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC that 140 people a minute were now being given the jab, usually the first dose of two.\n\nBut he said the NHS had never been in a more precarious position, with 75% more Covid patients than at the April peak.\n\nIt comes as a further 298,087 people received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.\n\nThere were also 671 more deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and another 38,598 positive tests.\n\nSir Simon told the Andrew Marr Show some hospitals would open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a trial basis in the next 10 days.\n\nHe said England was on course to deliver 1.5 million doses this week. Scotland has delivered a total of more than 224,000 first doses, Wales has given over 126,000 and Northern Ireland nearly 118,000 - although Scotland and Wales do not report figures at the weekend.\n\nHalf of all over-80s have now been vaccinated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. \"Each jab brings us one step closer to normal,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC that the UK was making \"good progress\" in ensuring every adult was offered a vaccine by September and \"if it can be done more swiftly, that's a bonus\".\n\nMore people have now been vaccinated than have had positive tests since the pandemic began, with 10 more mass vaccination sites due to open in England on Monday.\n\nSir Simon said hospitals and staff were under \"extreme pressure\", however. Asked if the NHS has ever been in a more precarious situation, he said \"no\", adding that the pandemic was a \"unique event\" in its 72-year history.\n\nSomeone was being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, Sir Simon said, and since Christmas patient numbers had risen by 15,000 - the equivalent of 30 full hospitals.\n\nIt means there are 75% more Covid-19 patients in hospital than there were in the April peak, the NHS chief executive said.\n\nAlthough there were promising signs infection rates were falling, he said they were still too high and rising in some areas and age groups, including the over-60s.\n\nHe said the number of critical care beds had been increased by 50% since the first wave of the pandemic but a \"very small number\" of patients were still having to be transferred between regions when hospitals were full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary said there would be increased UK border checks next week\n\nAsked about the ratio of nurses to patients in London intensive care units, Sir Simon said there were sometimes three patients for every nurse rather than the one-to-one ratio normally expected. But patients were receiving the \"highest quality care possible\".\n\nAbout 53,000 NHS staff are currently off work due to the virus, he added.\n\nSir Simon said the health service would only be able to maintain the vaccination rate and \"hold the line if people continue to do the right thing and prevent the transmission of coronavirus\".\n\nVaccinating priority groups by the spring would not mean that \"with one bound we are free\" of coronavirus restrictions, he said. But he added: \"I don't think we will have to wait until the autumn.\"\n\nHe said he suspected that there would be enough supply of the vaccine - \"the crucial thing\" - to begin lifting restrictions before then.\n\nSir Simon also warned that although starting with the most vulnerable groups reduced the risk of deaths, a quarter of hospital patients with the virus were currently under 55 - and therefore not a priority unless they have a medical condition that puts them at additional risk.\n\nAsked about suggestions that some vaccination centres were having to throw away leftover doses, he said: \"The guidance from the chief medical officer is crystal clear: every last drop of vaccine should be used.\"\n\nMany centres were finding they were able to get six doses out of a five-dose vial, and Sir Simon said they should keep a reserve list of staff and high-risk patients who could be contacted to receive a vaccination at short notice.\n\nDr Rosie Shire from the Doctors' Association UK told the BBC that as well as sometimes getting six doses out of the five-dose Pfizer vials, they had also got 11 or 12 doses out of 10-dose AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut she said the uncertain dose count made it harder to know how many last-minute appointments to book in order to use up the supply.\n\nMr Raab said that he was not aware of any delays to supplies from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca and said he was \"confident we have the flexibility\" to deliver enough doses.\n\n\"It is an enormous challenge. We are meeting it,\" he said. \"But we take nothing for granted.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the risk that new variants could prove resistant to vaccines or more deadly meant the UK had to take the \"precautionary approach\" of requiring all travellers to quarantine on arrival from Monday, closing the travel corridors which previously been exempt.\n\n\"We don't want to find in two or three weeks time that our vaccine roll out is imperilled because we haven't taken the precautionary measures on travel corridors,\" he said.\n\nChecks by Border Force on the passenger locator forms filled out on arrival would be increased, Mr Raab said, as would the follow-up calls by Public Health England intended to ensure people were isolating for up to 10 days.\n\nAsked whether the UK would introduce quarantine hotels to ensure people maintained their isolation, he said all potential measures were under review but there was a challenge in the \"workability\" of the proposal.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in the city.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating.\n\nThe Catholic Church said the cause of his death was not yet clear.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nA statement from the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Archbishop.\n\n\"The Pope's Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, has been informed.\n\n\"It will be for Pope Francis to appoint a new Archbishop to succeed Archbishop Tartaglia, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"His loss to his family, his clergy and the people of the Archdiocese of Glasgow will be immeasurable but for the entire Church in Scotland this is a day of immense loss and sadness.\n\n\"He was a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect.\n\n\"His contribution to the work of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland over the past 16 years was significant and we will miss his wisdom, wit and robust Catholic spirit very much.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe statement concluded: \"On behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, we commend his soul into the hands of God and pray that he may enjoy eternal rest.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was a lifelong Celtic fan and the club tweeted their tribute to him: \"We are saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who was a huge supporter of the club and regularly attended matches at Celtic Park.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic offers their sincere condolences to Philip's family and Scotland's Catholic community at this sad time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the archbishop was \"a fine man who was much loved within the Catholic community and beyond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"I always valued my interactions with him and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts are with his loved ones and wider community. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Tragic news about the sudden passing of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia. My condolences to his friends and family.\n\n\"His death will be keenly felt within the Catholic Church and across the wider community.\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\" who \"knew its people and the challenges faced by ordinary citizens, regardless of their faith or beliefs\".\n\nCouncillor Susan Aitken added: \"He was also unafraid to use his position to challenge deprivation, austerity and the ill-effects of welfare reform when he believed it was his duty to call them out.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was born in Glasgow on 11 January 1951 - the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia.\n\nAfter attending St Thomas' Primary in Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St Mungo's Academy before moving to the national junior seminary at St Vincent's College, Langbank.\n\nHe later attended St Mary's College, at Blairs, Aberdeen, before completing his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\n\nOn returning to Scotland, he was an assistant and then parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, St Patrick's, Dumbarton, and St Mary's, Duntocher.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was ordained by then Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, on 30 June 1975.\n\nHe was a leading opponent of proposals to legalise same-sex marriage in Scotland and also criticised ministers over anti-bigotry legislation.\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow is the largest of Scotland's eight dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of about 200,000. It comprises 95 parishes and is served by about 200 priests.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was the eighth person to hold the office since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.\n\nHe followed Archbishop Mario Conti and Archbishop Thomas Winning, who later became Cardinal Winning.", "The player told police he had travelled from his home in Bedworth to hunt the characters\n\nA man has been fined for breaking lockdown rules after travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go.\n\nHe admitted to Warwickshire Police he had driven from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth.\n\nHe was fined £200 for \"contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse\".\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play in ensuring they slow the spread of the virus,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.\"\n\nPokemon Go is a Japanese augmented reality game for smartphones. First launched in 2016, it allows players to hunt for characters that \"appear\" in real-life places.\n\nIt has been downloaded around the world more than one billion times.", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court\n\nThe Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned.\n\nHashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last year.\n\nAnother man who is awaiting sentencing for terror offences is also charged with assaulting the same person.\n\nThe three men are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 7 April.\n\nAbedi, who was jailed in August for murdering the 22 victims of the May 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is also charged with assaulting a second prison officer during the same incident on 11 May.\n\nHassan, from London, whose Parsons Green tube bomb injured 51 people in September 2017, was jailed for attempted murder the following year.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 22, from Manchester, is the third person charged. Last year, he admitted possessing terrorist documents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 400,000 people could be given the Covid-19 vaccine every week by the end of February, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has told MSPs.\n\nHealth teams are ramping up the rollout of jabs, with 1,100 vaccination centres now open and using two vaccines.\n\nMinisters aim to vaccinate care home residents, NHS staff and over-80s by the first week of February.\n\nThey then hope to have completed the over-70 group by mid-February and over-65 and vulnerable groups by March.\n\nThis would see 1.4m people given the jab, and Ms Freeman said the government's \"priority is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, the BMA Scottish GP Committee has warned the vaccine supply is \"stuttering\" and blamed \"bureaucratic hold-ups\" for delaying distribution.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, the health secretary said Scotland faces \"a more perilous situation than at any point in this pandemic\", with the new variant of coronavirus \"increasing in its dominance\" of infections north of the border.\n\nHowever Ms Freeman said there was hope in the form of the vaccination programme, which she said was \"scaling up rapidly\".\n\nA first dose of vaccine has now been given to just over 80% of care home residents and 55% of staff, along with 52% of frontline NHS staff.\n\nAnd in the eight days since 4 January, just over 2% of those aged 80 or over in the community have been given a first dose.\n\nMs Freeman said that age was \"the greatest risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid, and represents well over 90% of preventable mortality\".\n\nThe government is prioritising giving a first dose to as many people as possible, which Ms Freeman said provides \"very high protection\", with a second dose of the same vaccine then administered within 12 weeks.\n\nMs Freeman said that by the end of February, an average of 400,000 people should be getting a jab per week.\n\nJeane Freeman said the vaccine programme was \"scaling up rapidly\"\n\nThe government is also working to set up large vaccination centres in the community, which could handle up to 20,000 vaccinations a week in a single location.\n\nSites include the Event Complex conference centre in Aberdeen, Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and Ms Freeman said work was ongoing to secure more centres in the Glasgow area in particular.\n\nA total of 4.5m adults in Scotland are in line to be vaccinated.\n\nMs Freeman said she was aware that people would \"want to know when it will be their turn\", saying a national advertising campaign would be established to \"inform the public\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"clear not enough people are being vaccinated each day and timetables are slipping\".\n\nHe also asked Ms Freeman whether there were delays to the creation of a national booking system, after speculation that it could hold up the start of mass vaccinations.\n\nThe health secretary said she did not believe it was the case that timetables were slipping, and said there were no delays to the national booking system - adding that it would be \"ready from the beginning of February to do its job\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Labour's Monica Lennon asked how quickly the country could move to a 24 hours a day rollout of vaccines.\n\nMs Freeman said this was \"entirely possible\" once the mass vaccination centres are open, saying she \"would anticipate that would be by the end of February or early March\".\n\nShe said: \"The will is there to do that, if that is what it takes, because the objective is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.\"\n\nThe BMA Scottish GP Committee has said practices \"don't know when their next supply is coming in\".\n\nIts chairman, Dr Andrew Buist, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme the Scottish government \"must do everything possible to ensure vaccine supply is as good as it can be\".\n\nHe said: \"I've spoken with the chief medical officer about this and emphasised we should remove any bureaucratic hold-up to the distribution of this vaccine.\n\n\"People are obviously very anxious to get it as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know what the priority groups are, we have the practices ready and running to give it to their patients. We just need to get the vaccine to them.\"\n• None All over-80s to be vaccinated by February", "More than six million glasses of pink prosecco were enjoyed by Lidl customers over the festive period as strict Covid rules prompted people to indulge.\n\nThe discount supermarket reported record total sales for the four weeks to 27 December with revenue up 18%.\n\nTakeaway firm Just Eat and online fashion retailer Asos have also reported stellar sales for the period.\n\nAll three benefited as restaurants and non-essential shops faced strict curbs or were forced to close.\n\nDemand was so strong, Lidl said it had shifted 7,000 glasses of mulled wine and almost 17,000 deluxe mince pies every hour in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt also sold more than 2.7 million servings of panettone, the festive Italian cake.\n\nLidl continued to press ahead with its store expansion programme in the period, opening four new stores in December at a time when many businesses are closing down.\n\nBoss Christian Härtnagel said: \"Despite this Christmas being a difficult time for many across the country, we are pleased to have been able to help our customers enjoy themselves.\n\n\"As we look ahead to this year, we remain committed to our expansion and investment plans,\" he added.\n\nJust Eat said delivery orders in the UK surged 58% in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe takeaway firm, which operates around the world, said this had been its third consecutive quarter of growth, reflecting the huge demand for takeaway food as restaurants have faced curbs and closures.\n\nBoss Jitse Groen said the firm's progress in the UK was \"particularly exciting\" with demand up nearly five-fold in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nIts UK sales force has also doubled compared with last year.\n\nIt was a similar story for Asos, whose sales for the four months to 31 December rose 36% to £554.1m, something it credited in part to restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nThe fashion retailer, which also operates across Europe and the US, said its active customer base was now 24.5 million, up 1.1 million on the same period last year.\n\nRichard Lim, head of analysts Retail Economics, said: \"Lockdowns, fewer opportunities to mix socially and cancelled Christmas parties have decimated the demand for new outfits this year.\n\n\"But what consumers did spend was focused towards casual-wear and channelled online where the retailer was well position to leverage this opportunity.\"", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people.\n\nMinisters say changes to how people are sectioned in England and Wales will see them treated \"as individuals, with rights, preferences, and expertise\".\n\nBlack people are over four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, relative to population.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind said the changes \"cannot come soon enough.\"\n\nPeople are detained under the mental health act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.\n\nHow long they are detained for varies - but once detained, they are immediately considered to be \"sectioned\".\n\nUse of the Mental Health Act has increased markedly - from 2005/6 to 2015/16, the number of people detained in hospital increased by 40%.\n\nNHS data for England shows there were at least 50,893 new detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 - but the overall total will be higher as not all providers submitted data.\n\nOf those detentions, 5,336 people were black or black British.\n\nThe data also shows that in 2019/20 there were 321 detentions per 100,000 population for people who were black or black British - while there were 73 detentions per 100,000 for white people.\n\nWith the act disproportionately used against black people, the reforms will see a Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework introduced across all NHS mental health trusts - which the government describes as a practical tool to improve the outcome for BAME communities.\n\nWhat ministers call \"culturally appropriate advocates\" will also be developed, so patients from all ethnic backgrounds can be supported.\n\n\"We need to bring mental health laws into the 21st Century,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"I want to ensure our health service works for all, yet the Mental Health Act is now 40 years old.\n\n\"This is a significant moment in how we support those with serious mental health issues, which will give people more autonomy over their care and will tackle disparities for all who access services - in particular for people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe reforms will also ensure that autism or a learning disability cannot be a reason for detaining someone under the act.\n\nIn future, a clinician will have to identify another psychiatric condition to order their detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to be sectioned?\n\nThe current Mental Health Act dates from 1983 and the aim of these reforms, which are widely supported, is to give people greater say over their care and to rebalance the system between the state and the individual.\n\nAmong the recommendations are plans to introduce statutory advance choice documents which will allow people to express their preferred treatment before they reach a crisis and need hospitalisation.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of what is now a long overdue process,\" said Sophie Corlett, director of external relations at the mental health charity Mind.\n\n\"At the moment, thousands of people are still subjected to poor, sometimes appalling, treatment, and many will live with the consequences far into the future.\n\n\"Our understanding of mental health has moved on significantly in recent decades but our laws are rooted in the 19th Century.\"\n\nThe recommendations, set out in a government White Paper, build on the proposals from an independent review of the act, which was ordered by then prime minister Theresa May in October 2017 and which published its conclusions in December 2018.\n\nMinisters intend to publish a Mental Health Bill in 2022, following a consultation on their plans.", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "The numbers of care home residents and staff testing positive for Covid-19 have hit their highest levels.\n\nThere were 1,507 positive tests in care homes in Wales in the most recent week, a 78% rise on the week before.\n\nAcross Wales, 37,026 residents and staff were tested by either the NHS or the Lighthouse laboratories the week beginning 4 January, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nBroken down, 6,466 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 582 (9%) were positive in results from NHS laboratories.\n\nAlso, 248 care home workers tested positive, with about 96% of tests negative.\n\nBut there were another 677 positive test results from Lighthouse labs, which do not distinguish between residents and care home staff.\n\nAll of these categories saw the highest numbers yet recorded.\n\nResidents and staff are supposed to be tested weekly at care homes in Wales.\n\nCare Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing , which showed 137 care homes in Wales (13%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the most recent week available and 31.8% within the last month.\n\nSwansea had 17 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 1 January; Cardiff had 15 homes with at least one case and Bridgend was next with 13 care homes.", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "Tony Parsons was last seen on 29 September 2017\n\nPolice have discovered human remains during a search for a man who went missing more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.\n\nTony Parsons, from Tillicoultry, was last seen on 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nDetectives said the discovery was made during a detailed search of a remote site close to a farm near the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.\n\nPolice said that Mr Parsons' family have been made aware of the discovery.\n\nEfforts to recover the remains will continue over the coming days before a post mortem is held to establish their identity.\n\nTwo men, both aged 29, were arrested and then released pending further inquiries in December in connection with the disappearance of Mr Parsons.\n\nPolice have been carrying out searches in the area in recent days\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Somerville said: \"This is clearly a significant development and extensive work is ongoing to recover the remains and confirm their identity.\n\n\"We have informed Mr Parsons' family, who are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in the investigation are with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Parsons cycled through Glencoe village and was last seen at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel\n\nThe former navy officer, who was 63 when he went missing, was last seen outside the hotel at about 23:30. He then continued south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum but there were no more sightings of him after that.\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nMr Parsons had caught the train to Fort William on the day he was last seen with the intention of cycling the 104-mile (167km) journey home to Tillicoultry.", "Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows, Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe prime minister said the plan was to extend opening hours of vaccination centres - at the moment, most sites run from 08:00 to 22:00.\n\nThe 24-7 service will be piloted in a small number of places first - with NHS staff likely to be offered the option of overnight vaccinations first.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said supply was the limiting factor at the moment.\n\nThe NHS had just over a million doses available last week and used up most of them.\n\nThis week, there are thought to be more but not yet enough to vaccinate two million people - the weekly target the government is aiming to reach in the coming weeks.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said there would be 24-7 vaccination \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK has access to two vaccines at the moment - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and another produced in partnership by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine made by the US company Moderna has been approved but is not yet available to the UK.\n\nMr Johnson praised the work of the more than 200 hospitals and 1,000 GP-led NHS vaccination sites running at the moment.\n\n\"They are going exceptionally fast,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of Monday, 2.4 million people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nThere is actually enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all the highest at-risk groups.\n\nThe problem is that not all of it has been packaged into vials or passed through the final safety checks.\n\nThere should soon be two million doses available each week for the NHS to use.\n\nBut the key question once that is achieved is how quickly and by how much supply can increase from there.\n\nTo make full use of the network of vaccination centres - the ambition is to have 2,700 up and running - many millions of doses will be needed each week.\n\nThere is huge global demand for these vaccines.\n\nAnd while the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is made in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one is made abroad as is the Moderna vaccine.\n\nSupplies of the latter are not expected until the spring.\n\nThis is an issue the government is likely to be grappling with for some time.\n\nBut despite the concerns, it should also be recognised the UK has been quick out of the blocks.\n\nOnly two countries have vaccinated a larger proportion of the population than the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was vital the government moved quickly.\n\nSpeaking about the planned 24-7 vaccination, he said: \"I obviously welcome that and urge the prime minister and the government to get on with this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of the vaccination programme, was also asked about supply, at an appearance before the Science and Technology Committee.\n\nHe said he had a \"clear line of sight\" for the expected numbers that would be available to the NHS for the next few months but refused to give any more detail.\n\n\"The more we show off about how many vaccine batches we're receiving, the more difficult life becomes for the manufacturers,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca vice president Sir Mene Pangalos said one of the issues the firm was facing was that infections among staff had begun to hinder production.\n\n\"I feel that it is critical that those who are working on vaccines are immunised because if you have an outbreak at one of the centres, which we've had actually or in one of the groups in Oxford that's working on new variants, or those working on the regulatory files everything stops.\"", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'Together we can make this the peak'\n\n\"We can make this the peak\" of the coronavirus pandemic \"if enough people follow the rules\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was \"those individual decisions\" that determine the virus's spread and it \"comes down to the behaviour of everyone\".\n\nPeople \"shouldn't take the mickey out of the rules,\" he said.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLatest figures show there are now more than 35,000 people in hospital with Covid - an increase on the spring peak.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to be questioned by MPs on the vaccine rollout later.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also due to announce whether there will be any changes to lockdown restrictions later. Ministers have been discussing the possibility of tightening the current restrictions.\n\nWhen asked on BBC Breakfast if this was the peak of this wave of the pandemic, Mr Hancock replied: \"I want it to be, but that comes down to the behaviour of everyone.\n\n\"Together we can make this the peak if enough people follow the rules which are incredibly clear.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.\n\nOn the news that patients at a hospital in London are to be discharged early and sent to a hotel to help free up beds for critically ill coronavirus patients, Mr Hancock said moving patients to hotels \"isn't something we are actively putting in place\".\n\nKing's College Hospital said it would help to create space for the \"high numbers\" of new admissions and would \"temporarily accommodate mainly homeless patients who are ready to safely leave hospital and will benefit from further support from community partners\".\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nAsked about images of elite footballers celebrating goals with hugs, Mr Hancock said: \"I think elite sport is important because these are tough times, and being able to watch the football on the telly is really important because there's loads of things that you can't do.\"\n\nHe said the Premier League has \"special arrangements to ensure that players are safe\" as well as a testing regime.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks, saying they were \"on track\" to deliver it to 14 million people by mid-February.\n\nVaccines deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi later told the Commons' science and technology committee that he was \"confident\" of achieving this target.\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose. Mr Hancock said 40% of the 3.4m people over 80 in England had been vaccinated so far.\n\n\"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said it was \"pretty clear\" that because of the new strain the Covid-19 infection rate was not going to go down as quickly as it did during the first wave.\n\n\"It now looks like the peak for NHS demand may actually be in February,\" he said.", "Morrisons will become the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour from April.\n\nIt will increase its minimum pay for up to 96,000 workers from £9.20.\n\nRetail trade union Usdaw negotiated the £10 per hour basic rate which is 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.\n\nHowever, other big supermarkets appear unlikely to follow any time soon, with Asda saying that just looking at hourly rates does not tell the full story.\n\nMorrisons said for the majority of its workers the pay increase will be approximately 9%.\n\nPart of the increase will result from changing the company's annual bonus scheme from a discretionary yearly payment into a guaranteed amount in workers' hourly rates.\n\nIt will boost the weekly pay of someone working 36.75 hours a week from £330.10 to £367.50.\n\nUnion members still need to approve the deal. The result will be announced on 12 February and, if accepted, the new rates will be paid from 5 April 2021.\n\n\"The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets,\" said Joanne McGuinness, Usdaw national officer after the Morrisons announcement.\n\n\"It's been a tough time for food retail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic in difficult circumstances,\" said Ms McGuinness.\n\n\"They provide the essential service of keeping the nation fed and deserve our support, respect and appreciation. Most of all they deserve decent pay and this offer is a welcome boost.\"\n\nIn addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a higher London weighting.\n\nRates for inner London will be 85p and for outer London 60p per hour, up from 75p in inner London and 50p in outer London.\n\nDavid Potts, Morrisons chief executive said: \"It's a symbolic and important milestone that represents another step in rewarding the incredibly important work that our colleagues do up and down the country.\"\n\nMorrisons' move propels it to the top of the supermarket pay league, leapfrogging Aldi and Lidl. Will other big rivals follow suit?\n\nSupermarket staff have become frontline heroes in this pandemic and there's a new-found respect for the vital work they do in keeping us fed day-in day-out.\n\nMany consumers may welcome the idea of higher rewards for those staff.\n\nBut supermarkets have already taken on a lot of extra costs in ramping up their operations as well as recruiting thousands of extra staff.\n\nAnd there are no shortage of workers looking for jobs right now, which could keep a lid on pay.\n\nLidl has already announced plans to increase its hourly wage for staff from March, increasing the rate for 20,000 workers from £9.30 to £9.50.\n\nWithin London's M25 motorway boundary the rate has increased from £10.75 to £10.85 an hour.\n\n\"It is only right that we increase the income for our colleagues who are the backbone of our business.,\" said chief executive Christian Härtnagel.\n\n\"This is about recognising their hard work and dedication in keeping the nation fed during a year like no other.\n\nAsda, which pays £9.18 outside London and either £9.76 or £10.31 inside the capital, pointed out that it pays above National Living Wage rules and never employs on 'zero hours' contracts.\n\nAn Asda statement said: \"On top of a competitive wage structure, Asda colleagues also receive a host of benefits which contribute to their yearly earnings, these including colleague discount in our stores and online, special discounts for shops and a yearly performance-based bonus.\n\n\"So simply looking at the hourly rate doesn't tell the full story.\"\n\nSainsbury's basic hourly pay is £9.30, and a statement to the BBC made no mention of any immediate intention to raise the rate.\n\nA spokesperson said, \"Our colleagues do a brilliant job and we are so proud of how they continue to go above and beyond for our customers.\n\n\"We have made two thank you payments to frontline workers in recognition of this in the last year and regularly review colleague pay to make sure we offer leading rates.\"\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"Our hourly minimum starting pay across the UK for non-management Partners in Waitrose is currently £9.10 following a short induction period, with scope for higher pay according to performance.\n\n\"We review Partner pay annually each April and will do so again this year.\"\n\nM&S said their minimum pay for workers is £9.00 an hour, but pointed out that those that worked during the pandemic last April and May were handed a 15% pay reward on top of the rate.\n\nLatest available data suggests Aldi currently pays £9.40 an hour, Tesco £9.30 and Co-op £9.", "As Scotland's hospitals fill with Covid patients and the daily-registered death toll passes 5,000, there are concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact it did during last year's lockdown.\n\nSome of the restrictions announced by Nicola Sturgeon in early January have now been tightened even further.\n\nHow do Scotland's current lockdown rules compare to those imposed last March?\n\nLast March outdoor exercise was allowed only if people were alone or with someone from the same household. It was initially limited to once a day, before this restriction was eased in May 2020.\n\nAll exercise had to be done close to home. No mixing with other households or other any outdoor relaxation was allowed.\n\nNow up to two people from separate households can meet for outdoor sport or exercise. Children under 12 years old do not count towards this number.\n\nThere is no limit on how many times you can go out to exercise each day, but you should still stay close to home and avoid crowded areas.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's clinical director, says police enforcement is used as \"last resort\" against people who break the rules.\n\nThese rules are not expected to change in Scotland. However, the UK government has warned that exercise restrictions may be tightened after \"large groups\" have flouted their own two-person rule.\n\nLast March non-essential shops were ordered to shut along with cafes, bars, restaurants and cinemas. Supermarkets and pharmacies were among premises which could stay open.\n\nIn July a new law made it compulsory to wear a face covering in shops across Scotland.\n\nAll pubs, restaurants and cafes must remain closed in Scotland's level four areas - although they can still serve takeaway food. The definition of \"essential retail\" has also been narrowed, forcing homeware shops and garden centres to close once again.\n\nRules on click and collect will be tightened from 16 January. The service will be limited to retailers selling essential items and access inside premises for collection will not be allowed.\n\nTakeaway customers will also no longer be allowed inside premises for pick-up from 16 January. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nSchools and nurseries were closed last March, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying there were too many absent staff to continue.\n\nMany teachers prepared homeworking packs and some online learning. Parents and pupils had to get used to home schooling.\n\nChildren of essential workers and vulnerable pupils were looked after by staff in childcare hubs.\n\nSchools began the January 2021 term largely via online and remote learning.\n\nAs before, only children of key workers and vulnerable children are allowed in classrooms - but this time there is more focus on learning than simply child care.\n\nThe number of pupils attending school is much higher than last year.\n\nProf Leitch suggests this may be because Scotland has \"too much open\" in the rest of society with working adults in greater need of childcare. He said a \"sweet spot\" needs to be found to keep children and adults safe.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes pupils can return to the classroom in February, but this plan is to be kept under review.\n\nSee where coronavirus case rates have been rising in Scotland with this interactive map.\n\nPeople were told to stay at home except for essential shopping for food or medicine, going out for their daily exercise, or to care for the vulnerable.\n\nEmployers were asked to make provisions for staff to work from home. Wearing of face coverings on public transport was not initially required, but became mandatory in Scotland in June.\n\nIt is a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes. A \"reasonable excuse\" can include essential shopping, exercise or caring responsibilities.\n\nPeople should only go out to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home. It is illegal to travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK unless the journey is essential.\n\nThere are no expectations of enhanced travel restrictions, as the rules are already \"pretty tight\" says Prof Leitch.\n\n\"We have a stay at home law, it is illegal to fly overseas, it is illegal to travel, it is illegal to leave your home without a reason to do so,\" he added.\n\nThe latest contact tracing figures from Public Health Scotland show that since November, shops have accounted for 19% of the places visited by people the week before their positive test.\n\nWhile these figures don't tell us whether people contracted the virus in a specific location, they do suggest the most likely sources.\n\nThe number of cases traced to shopping-related locations increased by 83% between 27 December and 3 January.\n\nOther large increases were seen when:\n\nIn March \"essential\" was the key word for all employers. Businesses were told they could only stay open if what they do was \"essential\" to the effort of tackling Covid or the wellbeing of society.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said building sites should close unless they involved work on an \"essential building\" such as a hospital. Visits from tradespeople were allowed only for \"essential repairs\".\n\nOutdoor workplaces, construction, manufacturing, veterinary services and film and TV production can remain open. Employers have been told to plan for the minimum number of people needed on site to operate safely and effectively.\n\nHome visits by tradespeople are still allowed for essential maintenance. This guidance is being put into law from 16 January.\n\nProf Leitch says the Scottish government continues to examine rules around what constitutes essential and non-essential construction.", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "Sally told the BBC she is still waiting for her P45 despite handing in her notice in November\n\nHairdresser Sally had a surprise when she looked at her tax record with HM Revenue and Customs: \"It said I'd still been getting furlough pay from a job I left in November.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money: \"That was a revelation - none of it had landed in my bank account.\"\n\nHers is among more than 21,000 reports of suspected furlough fraud currently being handled by HMRC.\n\nThe money is either due to fraudulent claims, or is being paid out in error.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, commonly called the furlough scheme was launched in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus crisis, to minimise unemployment. Under the scheme, the government pays 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe number of tip offs to the taxman has spiralled since last April, from 3,000 to 21,378 reports of suspect payments by early January.\n\nSally's former employer told the BBC she did not know Sally had resigned\n\nAt the peak of its use in early May, the scheme was supporting 8.9 million jobs.\n\nIt was extended in January until the end of April 2021 and now also applies to those who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities, or because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe scheme has been widely supported for its role in supporting employers and jobs during the pandemic, but it has been found to be open to abuse.\n\nTax lawyer Anita Clifford said at the 'extreme end' of furlough fraud were 'dormant companies being resurrected' and 'fake employees'\n\nSally believes her former employer broke the rules after she resigned from the salon last year.\n\nShe told the BBC she sent her resignation letter and returned her uniform to her employer in the post in November, but \"heard nothing back\". A client later contacted her asking if she was OK, as they had heard she was off work, \"sick\".\n\nSally started to get her paperwork together to register as self-employed but when she opened her online HMRC account, she noticed she was registered as receiving payments equivalent to those she was getting while on furlough - although the money was not reaching her account.\n\nShe left it a couple of weeks in case her resignation was taking a few weeks to be processed.\n\nTo date, Sally has still has not received a P45, and says she is still registered as being paid through the furlough scheme.\n\nHMRC has called on anyone concerned about suspected abuse of the team to get in touch with the department\n\n\"In the middle of the pandemic, where people are losing homes because they can't get any help, I think it's quite sickening,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wrong, and it makes a mockery of all those people who are suffering.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Sally's former employer, who has denied the claims, saying she did not know that Sally had resigned, and had struggled to get in touch with her.\n\nTax barrister, Anita Clifford, from the firm Bright Line Law, said Sally's experience was \"a classic example\".\n\n\"Whether it's a mistake, or whether some actors are doing it deliberately, continuing furlough payments for former employees is a classic way of defrauding the system.\"\n\nHMRC has previously stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud.\n\nMs Clifford told the BBC that she was seeing businesses coming forward, \"worried about the mistakes that they've made\".\n\nBut she added examples of furlough fraud could be more extreme, where some businesses \"are seeking to claim money for completely fake employees\".\n\n\"In time to come, we'll certainly see enforcement activity, and people very worried about being on the receiving end of a criminal prosecution for some of these things.\n\n\"Certainly where you have dormant companies being resurrected, in order to claim money from the furlough scheme, you have fake employees... businesses being quite unscrupulous, you're not using the funds to pay salaries, I think those are the businesses you'll eventually see being looked at very seriously for criminal prosecution,\" she said.\n\nHMRC told the BBC: \"The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is part of the collective national effort to protect jobs. This is taxpayers' money and fraudulent claims limit our ability to support people and deprive public services of essential funding.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities\n• None What happens when furlough ends?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in Glasgow.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said that Archbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating at home.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet clear.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia, who was 70, was ordained a priest in 1975 and served as Archbishop of Glasgow since 2012.\n\nThe spokeswoman said it would be for Pope Francis to appoint a new archbishop, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.", "Senior Conservatives have called for a \"reset\" in UK policy towards China, including sanctions against officials responsible for human rights abuses.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission demanded a rethink in relations after hearing evidence of abuses from torture to slavery.\n\nIt urged the UK to work with allies to respond to China's behaviour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the UK plays a \"leading role\" in highlighting abuses.\n\nThe Commission made the recommendations in a new report endorsed by two former Conservative foreign secretaries, Lord Hague and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.\n\nIt adds to growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China.\n\nThe Commission says it has heard first-hand evidence of human rights violations in China from dissidents, lawyers, and human rights campaigners.\n\nThis included violations of media freedom, clampdowns on Uighur Muslims, modern day slavery, and the establishment of an \"Orwellian surveillance state,\" it added.\n\nThe group said this showed the need for a \"comprehensive review\" of China policy across UK government departments.\n\nIt also called for the UK to diversify its supply chains to reduce \"strategic dependency\" on China and further efforts to highlight rights issues at the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab announced fines on Tuesday for UK firms doing business in China if they cannot show that their products aren't linked to forced labour in the country's Xinjiang region.\n\nIn December, the BBC revealed new evidence that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the cotton fields of Xinjiang.\n\nMPs and peers are separately pushing for new laws to block trade deals with countries found guilty of genocide, something which for now the government is resisting.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the idea was \"well-meaning\" but it would be wrong to \"sub-contract\" the issue of when to break off trade talks to the courts.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission, established in 2005, aims to highlight human rights concerns and keep the issue high on the party's agenda.", "David (right) and Frederick Barclay receiving their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.\n\nSir David, together with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail and media.\n\nHis death was announced in the Telegraph, which reported that he died on Sunday after a short illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, a former columnist for the paper, paid tribute to Sir David.\n\n\"Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe Barclay brothers, who had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, were known for being media shy and rarely gave interviews.\n\nBorn in Hammersmith, west London, in 1934, Sir David was profoundly shaped by his childhood memories of war, and the death of his father when he was 12.\n\nHe and his twin Frederick - who was 10 minutes younger - started out as painters and decorators, before moving into property and eventually hotels.\n\nTheir success in property and hotels helped them take over Ellerman Lines, a shipping business with interests in brewing, in 1983.\n\nThis provided a launch pad from which they would become billionaires.\n\nAt various times, their hotel portfolio has included a number of trophy assets, including the Ritz Hotel in London, which they sold in March last year.\n\nIn 2012, the BBC’s Panorama reported that the Ritz had not paid any corporation tax since it had been taken over by the Barclays in 1995.\n\nAt the time, Sir David said they had “acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme.”\n\nIn 2015, the twins sold off the hospitality group Maybourne, which included luxury hotels like Claridges.\n\nThe brothers first ventured into media ownership with their 1992 purchase of The European, a pan-European newspaper that shut down in 1998.\n\nThey also bought The Scotsman in 1995 and Sunday Business in 1997.\n\n“After these ventures in the publishing arena, the brothers had nurtured since the 1980s an ambition to own the Telegraph group,” The Telegraph said.\n\nThey acquired the Telegraph Group in 2004 for £665m from Canadian media magnate Conrad Black's Hollinger group.\n\nThe brothers also had a number of forays into retail, including Shop Direct, fashion retailer Very and delivery firm Yodel.\n\nThe pair were knighted in 2000 for services to charity. By this point their foundation was thought to have donated about £40m to charity and medical research.\n\nThe notoriously private twins' relationship was the subject of an extraordinary legal case last year, in which Sir David's three sons were accused by his brother of bugging conversations at the Ritz Hotel, which they previously owned.\n\nIn its obituary the Telegraph said Sir David had been a voracious reader, obsessed with newspapers, business, economics and politics, and had always said he had been educated at the \"university of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "A Huawei patent has been brought to light for a system that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nThe filing is one of several of its kind involving leading Chinese technology companies, discovered by a US research company and shared with BBC News.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nIt now plans to alter the patent.\n\nThe company indicated this would involve asking the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) - the country's patent authority - for permission to delete the reference to Uighurs in the Chinese-language document.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUighur people belong to a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives mainly in Xinjiang province, in north-western China.\n\nGovernment authorities are accused of using high-tech surveillance against them and detaining many in forced-labour camps, where children are sometimes separated from their parents.\n\nBeijing says the camps offer voluntary education and training.\n\nChina's technology companies deny selling software that can be used to pick out Uighur people from the rest of the population by their appearance\n\n\"One technical requirement of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's video-surveillance networks is the detection of ethnicity - particularly of Uighurs,\" said Maya Wang, from Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"While in the rest of the world, such targeting and persecution of a people on the basis of their ethnicity would be completely unacceptable, the persecution and severe discrimination of Uighurs in many aspects of life in China remain unchallenged because Uighurs have no power in China.\"\n\nHuawei's patent was originally filed in July 2018, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .\n\nIt describes ways to use deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques to identify various features of pedestrians photographed or filmed in the street.\n\nIt focuses on addressing the fact different body postures - for example whether someone is sitting or standing - can affect accuracy.\n\nBut the document also lists attributes by which a person might be targeted, which it says can include \"race (Han [China's biggest ethnic group], Uighur)\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News visited the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\", in 2019\n\nA spokesman said this reference should not have been included.\n\n\"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination,\" he said.\n\n\"Identifying individuals' race was never part of the research-and-development project.\n\n\"It should never have become part of the application.\n\n\"And we are taking proactive steps to amend it.\n\n\"We are continuously working to ensure new and evolving technology is developed and applied with the utmost care and integrity.\"\n\nThe patent was brought to light by the video-surveillance research group IPVM.\n\nIt had previously flagged a separate \"confidential\" document on Huawei's website, referencing work on a \"Uighur alert\" system.\n\nIn that case, Huawei said the page referenced a test rather than a real-world application and denied selling systems that identified people by their ethnicity.\n\nOn Wednesday, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee and leads the Conservative Party's China Research Group, told BBC News: \"Chinese tech giants supporting the brutal assault on the Uighur population show us why we as consumers and as a society must be careful with who we buy our products from or award business to.\n\n\"Developing ethnic-labelling technology for use by a repressive regime is clearly not behaviour that lives up to our standards.\"\n\nIPVM also discovered references to Uighur people in patents filed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company Sensetime and image-recognition specialist Megvii.\n\nSensetime's filing, from July 2019, discusses ways facial-recognition software could be used for more efficient \"security protection\", such as searching for \"a middle-aged Uighur with sunglasses and a beard\" or a Uighur person wearing a mask.\n\nA Sensetime spokeswoman said the references were \"regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand the importance of our responsibilities, which is why we began to develop our AI Code of Ethics in mid-2019,\" she said, adding the patent had predated this code.\n\nMegvii's June 2019 patent, meanwhile, described a way of relabelling pictures of faces tagged incorrectly in a database.\n\nLike Huawei, Megvii now plans to withdraw the original version of its patent\n\nIt said the classifications could be based on ethnicity, for example, including \"Han, Uighur, non-Han, non-Uighur and unknown\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it would now withdraw the patent application.\n\n\"Megvii recognises that the language used in our 2019 patent application is open to misunderstanding,\" it said.\n\n\"Megvii has not developed and will not develop or sell racial- or ethnic-labelling solutions.\n\n\"Megvii acknowledges that, in the past, we have focused on our commercial development and lacked appropriate control of our marketing, sales, and operations materials.\n\n\"We are undertaking measures to correct the situation.\"\n\nIPVM also flagged image-recognition patents filed by two of China's biggest technology conglomerates, Alibaba and Baidu, that referenced classifying people by ethnicity but did not specifically mention the Uighur people by name.\n\nAlibaba responded: \"Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates our policies and values.\n\n\"We never intended our technology to be used for and will not permit it to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nProtests have been held across the world to highlight China's treatment of Uighur people\n\nAnd Baidu said: \"When filing for a patent, the document notes are meant as an example of a technical explanation, in this case describing what the attribute-recognition model is rather than representing the expected implementation of the invention.\n\n\"We do not and will not permit our technology to be used to identify or target specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nBut Human Rights Watch said it still had concerns.\n\n\"Any company that sells video-surveillance software and systems to the Chinese police would have to ensure that they meet the police's requirements, which includes the capacity for ethnicity detection,\" Ms Wang said.\n\n\"The right thing for these companies to do is to immediately cease their sale and maintenance of surveillance equipment, software and systems, to the Chinese police.\"", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that “the lockdown measures we had in place, combined with tier four measures, are starting to show some signs of effect.”\n\nLooking at cases of Covid-19 in England, the average for the week ending 1 January was almost 55,000 cases.\n\nThese people will have been infected before England’s lockdown came in on January 6, although much of the country was under very strict measures before then.\n\nSo, using publicly available data, it might be too early to make this assessment.\n\nAnd in the past month, we’ve seen that a couple of days of decline can quickly be followed by a sustained increase in cases.\n\nBut what is clear is that hospital admissions from coronavirus appear to be increasing (they usually peak up to a couple of weeks after high numbers of cases).\n\nThe latest seven day average (ending on January 7) saw 3,705 people admitted to hospital daily in England – that’s the highest throughout the entire pandemic.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up\n\nA coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.\n\nIt shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nThe Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nSinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.\n\nSeveral countries, including Indonesia, Turkey and Singapore, have placed orders for the vaccine.\n\nLast week researchers at the Butantan Institute, which has been conducting the trials in Brazil, announced that the vaccine had a 78% efficacy against \"mild-to-severe\" Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut on Tuesday they revealed that calculations for this figure did not include data from a group of \"very mild infections\" among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance.\n\nWith the inclusion of this data, the efficacy rate is now 50.4%, said researchers.\n\nBut Butantan stressed that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases.\n\nThe Sinovac trials have yielded different results across different countries.\n\nLast month Turkish researchers said the Sinovac vaccine was 91.25% effective, while Indonesia, which rolled out its mass vaccination programme on Wednesday, said it was 65.3% effective. Both were interim results from late-stage trials.\n\nThe latest figures for China's coronavirus vaccine show just how difficult it is to compare vaccines.\n\nOn the face of it, the 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries - the numbers of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer.\n\nA figure for efficacy is reached by looking at how many people developed Covid after being given the vaccine, compared with how many were affected when given a dummy injection. Normally, that is based on people developing obvious symptoms but in this Brazilian trial, people with no symptoms also appear to have been included.\n\nSo it's only when the full data from all trials of this vaccine are published that scientists can analyse its real efficacy, and compare like with like. Only limited data for this Sinovac vaccine is currently available - and experts say that is confusing the picture.\n\nIn the long term, many vaccines against Covid are needed to vaccinate the world and, inevitably, some will perform better than others - but giving as many people as possible some protection is the priority.\n\nThere has been concern and criticism that Chinese vaccine trials are not subject to the same scrutiny and levels of transparency as its Western counterparts.\n\nBoth the Sinovac vaccine and the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have requests for emergency use authorisation pending with regulators in Brazil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe latest news comes as Brazil is dealing with a major spike in cases. The country currently has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world at over 8.1 million, just behind the US and India.\n\nThe BBC World Service's Americas editor Candace Piette says the country is suffering one of the world's deadliest outbreaks but as yet, has not announced when its vaccination programme will begin.\n\nThe delay has been caused in large part by the government's haphazard and divided approach to vaccination, says our correspondent.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "Customs operators have pleaded with the government to prioritise vaccinations for staff they insist are key front-line workers in the effort to keep vital supplies flowing into the UK.\n\nOne operator told the BBC his staff were working flat out - often up to 16 hours a day - to help traders comply with the new post-Brexit customs requirements.\n\n\"A Covid outbreak would be disastrous. Customs clearance staff should be identified as key workers and fast-tracked for vaccination.\"\n\nAnother said he had written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and his local MP for Ashford, Damian Green saying any coronavirus-related staff shortages could force them to close.\n\n\"We have 14 staff. Two have already had to self-isolate, if we lose any more we would have to consider closing\".\n\nRod McKenzie of the Road Haulage Association supports the argument to accelerate vaccinations of port and customs staff.\n\n\"Customs agents are absolutely swamped, they are understaffed by tens of thousands and although volumes have been light thanks to pre-Christmas and pre-Brexit stockpiling, we are approaching a critical point:\"\n\nSteve Cock of logistics firm KGH said that volume would begin to build this week and described Friday as \"a moment of truth\" as volumes would be close to normal, imposing the first serious test of the system's capacity.\n\nThe government told the BBC that vaccination priorities were based on clinical vulnerability determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAlthough the government said it would be looking at key workers beyond the current priorities - like teachers - that would not come till after phase 1 of the current programme ends. That is not expected till late March at the earliest.\n\nAlthough the ports themselves have been running reasonably smoothly, that is because many traders aren't getting as far as the ports as their documentation is not complete.\n\nThe Dover-Calais crossing last week saw only 40% of its usual traffic for this time of year. Many foreign hauliers have been avoiding the UK for fear of getting stuck on the wrong side of the channel or raising their prices by as much as six times to compensate for the additional risks of congestion.\n\nCracks in the system have already started to show with large European delivery firm DPD cancelling road deliveries from the UK to the EU while Ocado, M&S, and Fortnum and Mason have cited problems delivering to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland.\n\nFish and seafood exports have been particularly hard hit.\n\nMany small traders who usually club together to share the cost of space on large lorries headed to their primary markets in the EU have hit serious roadblocks.\n\nProducts of animal origin now need Export Health Certificates signed off by veterinary professionals.\n\nThe burden of getting multiple certificates for single lorries has brought exports to the EU to a virtual standstill for some traders.\n\nThe focus in the UK is understandably primarily on food supplies into the UK and although there are some limited shortages being reported in fruit and vegetable supplies, shelves in the UK are showing very few gaps.\n\nThe problems are more acute in Northern Ireland, which for the purposes of trade is still part of the EU customs area. For that reason, what is happening to food exports from GB to Northern Ireland is perhaps a useful proxy for what is happening to UK food exports to the EU.\n\nThe last thing the UK-EU trade machinery can afford right now is for critical staff - caught in the crossfire of pandemic and Brexit - to be laid low.", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The minimum cost of carrier bags in Scotland is set to double to 10p from 1 April.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the move was to deter the use of single-use plastic bags.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nMs Cunningham said: \"Thanks to the people of Scotland, the introduction of the charge has been successful in reducing the amount of single-use carrier bags in circulation.\n\n\"While the 5p bag charge was suitable when it was first introduced, it is important that pricing is updated to ensure that the charge continues to be a factor in making people think twice about using a single-use carrier bag.\"\n\nSome retailers have pledged to donate their carrier bag charges to good causes, with £2.5m raised in 2019.\n\nPrior to the charge being introduced in 2014, 800 million single use carrier bags were issued annually in Scotland.\n\nBy 2015 this fell by 80% with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 that the number of plastic carrier bags being found on Scotland's beaches dropped by 40% two years in a row with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.\n\nKeep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Barry Fisher said: \"Since 2014 the single use carrier bag charge has significantly helped reduce the number of bags being given out by retailers - saving thousands of tonnes of single use plastic realising a significant net carbon saving and reducing the chances of these items becoming littered.\n\n\"However, there is still an opportunity to challenge individual behaviours and improve consumer awareness which the doubling of the charge will help do.\n\nDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government is looking into creating an exemption on the bag charge for certain deliveries and collections, as was the case last year at the onset of the pubic health crisis.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. 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This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir David will appear in \"very high-resolution holographic video\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to front an augmented reality app letting users see exotic plants and animals in their own surroundings, as part of a government drive to prove the uses of 5G.\n\nThe Green Planet AR app has been given £2.3m government funding as one of nine 5G test projects given a total of £28m.\n\nIt will be released alongside The Green Planet, Sir David's forthcoming BBC series that will show plants in detail.\n\nThe five-part documentary series is expected to be broadcast in 2022.\n\nAugmented reality superimposes virtual objects on to the world around us, meaning the app's users will be able to use their smartphones to see Sir David and \"meticulously detailed graphics of exotic plants and animals\" as if they were in front of them.\n\nThe app will help prove \"how new technology can reconnect us with the natural world whilst demonstrating the power of 5G to a huge new audience\", according to Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman.\n\nThe app will be available in \"set locations\" around the UK. Developer Factory 42 said it does not yet know how many locations, but they could include parks, visitor attractions like Kew Gardens and urban settings. Users will need a 5G-enabled device.\n\nThe other projects sharing the £28m funding include one to provide live, multi-angle HD video streams and replays on phones at sporting events; one to allow people to experience exhibits at The Eden Project in Cornwall from their own homes; and one to control the 113 cranes at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nThey follow nine other 5G trial projects that were awarded a total of £35m in February 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nA-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.\n\nIn a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".\n\nHe promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.\n\nHead teachers said the \"devil was in the detail\" for these plans.\n\nThe letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.\n\nIn the letter to Ofqual he said: \"A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.\n\n\"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students.\"\n\nMr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.\n\n\"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade,\" the letter says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"The top priority is for all those that work in schools\"\n\n\"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.\n\n\"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm.\"\n\nA consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out \"broad and sensible parameters\" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.\n\n\"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year \"following last summer's grading debacle.\"\n\nBut he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.\n\n\"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice,\" he added.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.\n\nShe said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.\n\nTaking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would \"never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open\".\n\nHe said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.", "The prime minister has said lockdown measures are \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but he has refused to rule out extra restrictions in England.\n\nAt PMQs, Boris Johnson said measures were kept under \"constant review\" after Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was obvious more restrictions were needed.\n\nMr Johnson added that vaccine centres would move to 24-7 \"as soon as we can\".\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being \"overtopped\", and appealed to people to follow lockdown rules.\n\nHe said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced new restrictions in Scotland from Saturday, including limiting click and collect services to essential items only and restricting takeaways.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said stronger restrictions were needed in England and accused Mr Johnson of being \"slow to act\".\n\nHe asked the prime minister why restrictions were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the government acted \"within 24 hours\" of advice on the new Covid-19 variant\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\n\n\"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect and we must take account of that too.\"\n\nHe added it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nQuestioned by the liaison committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was \"far, far too early\" to say there could be any relaxation of the lockdown in the middle of February, and \"we've got to work very hard to achieve that\".\n\nHe acknowledged that it was a \"tragedy\" that so many children were missing face-to-face teaching at school and said reopening schools was \"the priority\".\n\nTier four - the highest level in England's tier system which bans households mixing indoors - was introduced on 21 December in parts of south-east England, including London.\n\nIt was then widened to include more of southern England on Boxing Day. England has been in a national lockdown since 5 January.\n\nMr Johnson also said the vaccination programme was going \"exceptionally fast\" but \"at the moment the limit is on supply\" of the vaccine.\n\n\"We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,\" he told MPs, saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details \"in due course\".\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was \"entirely possible\" to offer round-the-clock vaccinations in Scotland once mass sites were up and running by late February or early March.\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible, it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation, saying: \"Most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help.\"\n\nHe said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first Covid patients have begun receiving a new treatment it's hoped will prevent sufferers becoming seriously ill. The patients are part of a large-scale trial testing the effect of inhaling a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection. Developed at Southampton University Hospital and produced by biotech company, Synairgen, early findings suggest the treatment cuts the odds of severe illness by almost 80%. Find out more here.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of those enrolled on the clinical trial\n\nMany hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic have been left struggling to cope, a new study suggests. Researchers at King's College London questioned 709 workers at nine units in England and nearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said it should be a \"wake-up call\" for managers about the need to provide more mental health support. Some staff are they're also facing abuse online and at protests from Covid sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford says caterers must urgently improve the quality of food parcels being provided for low-income families. Catering company Chartwells has apologised after photographs of some parcels were shared online and heavily criticised. The packages - more on them here - are being sent to children who would normally receive free school meals in England. The row could well come up when Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces MPs' questioning later. Our education correspondent looks closely at Mr Williamson - a man whose political obituary has been written so many times he must sometimes feel like the walking dead.\n\nTwitter user Roadside Mum complained about the parcel she received\n\nNurse Kate Fraser said administering the vaccination to Ms Curry had been \"emotional\"\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Britain's top police officer, Dame Cressida Dick, says it's \"preposterous\" to suggest some people are not aware of what the lockdown laws now tell them to do. So how much do you know? Try our quiz.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Democrats, including Jamie Raskin (centre), voted to impeach President Donald Trump, as did 10 Republicans\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over his alleged role in the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHis impeachment for \"incitement to insurrection\" was approved by 232 representatives including 10 Republicans.\n\nDemocrats led the effort to charge Mr Trump with encouraging the riots.\n\nBut some Republicans had backed calls for impeachment.\n\nSo, who are these key players, and what do we know about them?\n\nWhen the impeachment charges go to the Senate for trial, the case for the prosecution will be made by a team of lawmakers, led by Mr Raskin, a Democratic representative from Maryland since 2017 and a former professor of constitutional law.\n\nThe impeachment of Mr Trump represents the continuation of an extremely challenging start to 2021 for Mr Raskin, 58.\n\nJamie Raskin (left) helped to draft the article of impeachment against President Trump\n\nThe congressman's 25-year-old son, Tommy Bloom Raskin, took his own life on New Year's Eve and was laid to rest in early January.\n\nA day after the funeral, Mr Raskin found himself hunkering down with colleagues, shielding from a violent mob that rampaged through the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify November's presidential election result.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the day of the assault, Mr Raskin helped to draw up an article of impeachment against President Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Washington Post, Mr Raskin said his son, who was studying law at Harvard University, would have considered last week's violence \"the absolute worst form of crime against democracy\".\n\n\"It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going,\" Mr Raskin said.\n\nIn total, nine Democrats, including Mr Raskin, have been named as impeachment managers. One is Representative Madeleine Dean, from Pennsylvania, who is one of three women on the team.\n\nMs Dean started her career in law, opening her own three-woman practice in Pennsylvania before teaching English at a university.\n\nHaving been active in state politics for decades, she was elected to the House in 2018, using her seat to champion women's reproductive rights, gun law reform, and healthcare for all, among other issues.\n\nMadeleine Dean has called for a quick trial of President Trump in the Senate\n\nIn an interview with MSNBC, Ms Dean, 68, said she favoured a \"speedy trial\" in the Senate if Mr Trump was impeached.\n\n\"This isn't about a party. This isn't about politics. This is about protection of our constitution, of our rule of law,\" Ms Dean said.\n\nAs the Speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi has been in the spotlight since the riots in the Capitol.\n\nMs Pelosi leads the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, so the 80-year-old had a huge influence over the decision to introduce an article of impeachment against Mr Trump.\n\nMs Pelosi had the House proceed with impeachment after former Vice-President Mike Pence did not invoked constitutional powers to force out Mr Trump, who was then president.\n\nMr Pence said at the time he believed such a move was against the country's interests.\n\n\"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,\" Ms Pelosi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nMr McConnell, a 78-year-old Republican senator for Kentucky, is one to watch in the Senate.\n\nThe upper chamber's former majority leader remains the man at the helm of the upper chamber's Republican caucus.\n\nDubbed the \"Grim Reaper\" by Democrats, Mr McConnell was a thorn in the side of former President Barack Obama, often manoeuvring to frustrate his legislative agenda and judicial appointments.\n\nHe was also the driving force behind Mr Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial in 2019.\n\nIn his last few weeks as Senate leader, Mr McConnell also delayed Mr Trump's trial until after the former president left office, saying there was no time for a \"fair or serious trial\" ahead of Mr Biden's inauguration.\n\nMr McConnell has not publicly commented on whether he supports convicting or acquitting Mr Trump, but he has sent some mixed messages.\n\nMitch McConnell had been loyal to President Trump until the Capitol riots\n\nThough he spent the last four years in the president's corner, the minority leader said the rioters were \"provoked by\" Mr Trump and that he plans to hear out both sides in the trial.\n\nBut later on in January, he also joined the majority of Republican senators to vote for a motion to toss out the impeachment case as unconstitutional now that Mr Trump is no longer in the White House.\n\nMr McConnell may no longer have the final say on all things impeachment, but as Democrats need Republican support to convict Mr Trump with the required two-thirds majority, he still has a key role to play in the upcoming proceedings.\n\nWith just over a week to go before the trial, Mr Trump parted ways with his legal team, including attorneys Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier.\n\nThey were quickly replaced by David Schoen, a trial lawyer, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney, who will lead the defence efforts for the former president.\n\nIn a statement, both attorneys said they didn't believe the push to impeach Mr Trump is constitutional.\n\nDavid Schoen, left, and Bruce Castor will lead the defence efforts for the former president\n\nMr Castor added: \"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history.\n\n\"It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.\"\n\nMr Schoen has previously represented Roger Stone, former adviser to Mr Trump. Stone received a presidential pardon in December.\n\nThe lawyer also made headlines in the past for meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in his final days to discuss possible representation, and for later saying he did not believe the death of the US financier and sex offender was suicide.\n\nMr Castor, a former Pennsylvania district attorney, is known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005. The comedian was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault in a 2018 retrial of his case.\n\nMs Cheney, 54, is third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House. As the daughter of former Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney, she has a high profile in the party.\n\nSo, her support for impeachment is particularly significant.\n\nLiz Cheney has accused President Trump of inciting the attack on Congress\n\nMr Trump had \"summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack\", Ms Cheney said of the Capitol riots.\n\n\"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,\" the Wyoming representative said.\n\nHowever, in a recent test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Mr Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted last week to consider stopping the trial before it even starts.\n\nMs Cheney survived a House Republican vote - 145-61 - to oust her from her leadership position after breaking ranks with other GOP lawmakers last month to impeach the former president.\n\nShe is also now facing a primary challenger for her Wyoming congressional seat after voting to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nBlocking Mr Trump from ever running for office again is one rationale that may motivate some Republicans to impeach the president.\n\nThat reasoning could be attractive to Republican senators like Mr Sasse, who is seen as a possible contender for the presidency in 2024.\n\nElected to the Senate in 2014, the 48-year-old has been an ardent critic of Mr Trump.\n\nBen Sasse refused to overturn the results of November's presidential election in Congress\n\nMr Sasse was firmly opposed to a Republican effort - cheered on by Mr Trump - to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in Congress.\n\nOn the question of impeachment, Mr Sasse said he would \"definitely consider whatever articles they might move\" in the House.\n\nA two-thirds majority would be needed to convict Mr Trump in the Senate, meaning at least 17 Republicans - including Mr Sasse - would have to vote for it.\n\nIn Mr Trump's first impeachment trial in 2020, it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who presided over the proceedings.\n\nThis time, he declined to participate, handing the job over to the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat, who will take the gavel in this second impeachment trial.\n\nMr Leahy was first elected to the Senate in 1974, and is the longest serving lawmaker in the upper chamber.\n\nHe will be presiding in his role as the Senate's president pro tempore - a constitutional officer, responsible for presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws\" when presiding over an impeachment trial.\n\n\"It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "Libby Squire was not seen alive after travelling to Oak Road playing fields with Pawel Relowicz, a court heard\n\nA man accused of raping and murdering a student committed a string of \"sexually motivated\" burglaries in the months before her death, a court has heard.\n\nJurors heard \"trophies\" - underwear and sex toys - stolen from other women were found after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors claim he was \"prowling the streets\" of Hull's student area in search of a victim when he intercepted the \"extremely vulnerable\" Ms Squire.\n\nSheffield Crown Court previously heard the defendant drove Ms Squire - who had earlier been refused entry to a nightclub - to the Oak Road playing fields.\n\nOnce there, jurors were told, he subjected her to an \"act of sexual violence\" before he disposed of her body in the River Hull.\n\nHer remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright QC said Mr Relowicz would claim Ms Squire had \"instigated consensual sexual intercourse\", and he had left her \"safe and well\" on the fields.\n\nRichard Wright QC continued to outline the case against Pawel Relowicz on Wednesday\n\nHowever, Sam Alford, who lives nearby, reported hearing a woman's \"desperate screams\" coming from the direction of the river, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors allege the screams were Ms Squire's and a man seen \"emerging from the darkness\" and fleeing the area was the defendant.\n\n\"Libby was never seen again\", Mr Wright told jurors.\n\nThe screams, and scratches to the defendant's face were evidence Ms Squire had \"fought him off\", the court heard.\n\nMr Wright said the evidence established \"that she was raped by a man whose entire motivation for coming into contact with her that night was to take her away from safety to a remote area well known to him and there to subject her to his uncontrollable sexual urges\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a pathologist concluded he could not establish how Ms Squire died despite \"an obvious bruise\" to the inside of her right thigh.\n\nMr Wright told jurors a CCTV recording made after the last sighting of Ms Squire showed Mr Relowicz performing a sex act in the middle of a street.\n\nA condom found at the scene days later yielded a DNA profile matching the defendant, the court heard.\n\nIn the year leading up to Ms Squire's disappearance, Mr Relowicz exposed himself to women in public and watched them through windows as they changed or had sex, the court heard.\n\nHe also \"burgled their homes with the purpose of stealing their underwear and sexual toys or other objects,\" Mr Wright said.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nFollowing his arrest on 6 February, Mr Wright said, police recovered the pink holdall \"full of sex toys... and some photographs of young women and several pairs of women's knickers and thongs\".\n\nA statement made by Ms Squire's mother, Lisa Squire, was read out in court describing her daughter having battled mental health issues including an eating disorder, self-harming - cutting the top of her arms, legs and chest - and depression.\n\nShe said her eldest child had been afraid of water since she was young, to the point she would not go near a swimming pool when on holiday. She was also scared of the dark, jurors were told.\n\nStatements by Ms Squire's boyfriend Connor James-Pye were also read out, in which he described Libby as being \"a happy drunk\" and that she \"didn't understand moderation\".\n\nHowever, on the night she disappeared, the court heard Ms Squire \"didn't want to go out because she had a lecture the next morning, but she didn't want to let the girls down\".\n\nMr James-Pye last heard from his girlfriend at about 22:30 on 31 January, jurors heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The button battery was stuck in Sofia-Grace's throat for four months\n\nAn 11-month-old girl who was rejecting solid food had a button battery lodged in her throat for four months.\n\nDoctors thought Sofia-Grace Hill had tonsillitis or a viral infection until an X-ray revealed the battery the size of a 10p in her oesophagus.\n\nShe underwent a two-hour operation to remove it and is now on a liquid only diet.\n\nA surgeon said her survival may be due to the battery being old and without charge.\n\nDad Calham, from Swindon, first noticed something was wrong in January 2020 and had countless paramedic call-outs and visits to the GP and local hospital.\n\nShe had a two-hour operation to remove the battery\n\nHe was convinced there was something else going on as Sofia-Grace would only eat pureed food.\n\nAfter another hospital trip in May, she was given an X-ray which showed the battery lodged in her oesophagus was causing serious damage as it had corroded.\n\nMr Hill said: \"I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know.\"\n\nThe button battery is the size of a 10p\n\nSofia-Grace had a feeding tube fitted to help her with food and to stop her throat from closing.\n\nEvery two weeks she has a general anaesthetic to stretch her oesophagus but faces the prospect of further surgery.\n\nMr Hill said: \"The damage has left a pocket in her oesophagus which needs to close but Sofia is improving week by week with regular dilations which is improving her oesophagus.\n\n\"But I know the chance of survival in the first weeks after this happens is very low so we are moving in the right direction.\"\n\nSofia-Grace is improving week by week, her dad said\n\nMr Hill is unsure how Sofia-Grace, now almost two-years-old, got hold of the button battery and warned parents about the dangers.\n\nHe said: \"Just get rid of them or lock them away and don't give your child car keys to play with. Always trust your instincts as a parent.\"\n\nJanet McNally, consultant paediatric surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who is treating Sofia-Grace, said her survival may be because the battery was old and had lost its charge.\n\nShe said that without someone seeing a child swallow a battery or obvious symptoms it was not unusual for it to be missed.\n\n\"Clinicians and the government have been warning of the dangers of button batteries for a long time. But not all parents are aware of how dangerous they can be.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's variant: Two 'spike' changes flagged up\n\nAs MPs have been mentioning today - a coronavirus variant has been found circulating in the Amazonas state of Brazil, and was picked up in Japan in travellers from the region. It’s different from the UK and South African variants, but it contains common mutations - two changes to the virus’ \"spike\" in particular which have been flagged as potentially making the virus more infectious. This is not going to be the last mutation we hear about. At the moment changes are mainly being picked up in areas that do lots of genetic tracking of the virus - it’s almost certain there are other mutations already circulating unseen in other parts of the world. And the virus will continue to mutate - it’s just a question of how, how much and how fast. For now there’s no evidence the virus is becoming more dangerous - but if more people catch it then, left unchecked, more will potentially become ill or die. But the vaccines, which target several different areas of the virus’ spike, should still work - though that’s something that scientists the world over will be monitoring very closely.", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Parents say teachers at special schools often provide medical care and should be treated like other front-line workers\n\nParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are calling for teachers in special schools to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nMany parents have been told their children cannot attend school because of safety concerns about the virus.\n\nNow they want staff in special schools to be prioritised for the vaccine and considered front-line workers.\n\nThe government said special schools should encourage pupils to attend.\n\nLaura cares for son Oscar alone and says their respite support collapsed during the pandemic\n\nStaff in special schools are often required to provide personal and medical care for pupils, such as clearing tracheotomies, on top of regular teaching responsibilities.\n\nThe schools also offer precious respite to many families of disabled children who require a lot of additional care.\n\nLaura Godfrey, 33, from Norwich, is mum to nine-year-old Oscar, who usually attends a school for children with complex needs. His return was delayed at the start of term, despite government advice for these schools to remain open.\n\n\"His school provision is essential to us as a family. Oscar's mental health suffered a lot in the first lockdown, as did mine. It was a very dark time.\"\n\nHe is currently attending school, but Laura worries it could be forced to close in the event of an outbreak.\n\nShe is calling for staff at special schools to be given PPE and access to the vaccine, to keep schools open and protect vulnerable pupils.\n\n\"They should be recognised and treated as front-line staff and afforded the same protections.\"\n\nLaura's calls have been echoed by Mark Powell, CEO of the Dorset-based Diverse Abilities charity which runs a special school in Poole.\n\nStaff at Langside School in Poole were provided with PPE at the start of the pandemic\n\nThe school bought its own PPE in order to remain open during the pandemic but said it was \"very difficult and extremely costly\".\n\nMr Powell described PPE as a \"wonderful barrier to prevent the spread of the virus\" but said it had also been \"a devastating barrier to the development and well-being of our pupils\".\n\n\"The fact we have nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists on site to form part of our children's school provision means that our school can be classified as a health setting, which are at the top of the list for priority vaccinations.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the impact of being out of education \"can be greatest on vulnerable children and those with education, health and care plans\".\n\nIt said special schools should \"continue to welcome and encourage pupils to go into school full-time\" where possible and \"ensure pupils with Send can successfully access remote education\" if they are unable to attend.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend President Trump.\n\nThe Google-owned service has prevented his account from uploading new videos or live-streaming material for a minimum of seven days, and has said it may extend the period.\n\nThe firm said the channel had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.\n\nThe president had posted several videos on Tuesday night, some of which remain online.\n\nGoogle has not provided details of what Mr Trump said in the video it banned, however the BBC has discovered it was a clip from a press conference he had given on Tuesday.\n\nThe move came hours after civil rights groups had threatened to organise an ads boycott against YouTube.\n\nPresident Trump's YouTube channel remains live but he cannot post new videos\n\nJim Steyer - who previously helped coordinate similar action against Facebook last year - had called on Google to go further and take the president's channel offline.\n\n\"We hope they will make it permanent. It is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack to get here, but appears that the major platforms are finally beginning to step up,\" he tweeted after the suspension.YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel\n\nGoogle said that Mr Trump could still face his page being closed if he falls foul of its three-strikes policy.\n\n\"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It now has its first strike and is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of seven days.\n\n\"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Apple chief Tim Cook told CBS News that those involved with the riots on the US Capitol last week should be held accountable.\n\n\"Everyone that had a part in it needs to be held accountable. I think no one is above the law. We're a rule of law country.\"\n\nHe did not mention President Trump by name, but added: \"I don't think we should let it go. This is something we've got to be serious about.\"\n\nMr Trump had already been suspended by Facebook and Instagram following last week's rioting on Capitol Hill, until at least the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nTwitter has gone further by imposing a permanent ban.\n\nAmazon's Twitch has also disabled his account on its platform. And Snapchat has locked his account.\n\nShopify, Pinterest, TikTok and Reddit have also taken steps to restrict content associated with the president and his calls for the results of the US election to be challenged.\n\nYouTube has often been behind its social media rivals when it comes to moderating user-posted content.\n\nOver the years it has come under fire from campaign groups and big advertisers for not acting swiftly.\n\nNow it has followed Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat in restricting Donald Trump's access to its platform.\n\nAnd as so often, there's a lack of transparency about exactly what prompted the President's suspension.\n\nIt's only saying that a video violated its policies on incitement to violence, but is indicating that the issue was the President's remarks to reporters on Tuesday where he refused to take responsibility for the attack on Congress.\n\nOf course, those comments were broadcast on TV channels, including the BBC, and are still widely available.\n\nIt's not long ago that the social media landscape was being described as the Wild West when it came to moderating content - now the platforms suddenly seem eager to appear more cautious than the mainstream media.\n\nIt's amazing what the threat of regulation can do.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bonnie Watson Coleman is one of three Democratic lawmakers to have tested positive since the invasion of the US Capitol\n\nThree US lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after sheltering for hours with colleagues during last week's deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHouse Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider have announced their diagnoses.\n\nLast Wednesday they hunkered down in secure rooms, seeking refuge from an invasion of Congress in which five people died.\n\nSome Republicans were not wearing masks during the ordeal, footage suggests.\n\nVideo shared by Punchbowl News shows several lawmakers apparently refusing facemasks offered to them.\n\nHowever, CBS pictures from inside the chamber show Ms Jayapal was herself not wearing a mask at one point.\n\nMedical experts fear more lawmakers may have contracted the disease, potentially amounting to a super-spreader event at a time when coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise in the US.\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections (22.6 million) and deaths (367,000) in the world, with no sign of the epidemic abating, despite the limited roll-out of vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nOver the weekend, top congressional doctor Brian Monahan told lawmakers and congressional staff who sheltered together from the riots to get tested.\n\n\"The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others,\" Mr Monahan said. \"During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.\"\n\nMr Monahan did not say how many lawmakers were in the room, but called on them to observe social-distancing measures and wear masks.\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was the first lawmaker to confirm she had tested positive on Monday. In a tweet, the 75-year-old cancer survivor said she was resting at home with \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, and Illinois congressman Mr Schneider revealed they had tested positive on Tuesday.\n\nAll three Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of refusing to wear masks as they huddled together for safety last Wednesday.\n\n\"Any member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives,\" Ms Jayapal wrote, calling for mask transgressors to be fined.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe wearing of masks has been an explosive political issue throughout the pandemic in the US, with some lawmakers openly refusing to don a face covering.\n\nA Republican congressman, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, tested positive for Covid-19 after participating in a House vote to reject Arizona's presidential election results on Wednesday.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr LaTurner's spokesperson told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper that he was not in the secure area of the Capitol building where multiple members have since tested positive.\n\nOn Friday Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had warned that Wednesday's rioting would probably have significant health consequences.\n\n\"You have to anticipate that this is another surge event,\" he told the McClatchy news agency. \"You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.\"\n\nCoronavirus has swept through the heart of the American political establishment during the pandemic. One notable outbreak happened in September last year, when an event was held at the White House to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.\n\nSoon after, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus, along with numerous other senior government officials.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "US rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police in Atlanta, Georgia, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local man last month.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested over the killing of the 28-year-old victim.\n\nAuthorities have appealed for help in locating YFN Lucci, 29 - whose birth name is Rayshawn Bennett.\n\nHe is wanted on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity, police told US media.\n\nThey say another man was wounded in the incident.\n\nLast month YFN Lucci released new material under the title Wish Me Well 3.\n\nIn 2018 rapper Cardi B was forced to defend her then-fiancé Offset against allegations of homophobia after he used a lyric by YFN Lucci that included the word \"queer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking.\n\nOne in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nNursing staff were more likely to report feelings of distress than doctors or other clinical staff in the anonymous web-based survey, which was carried out in June and July last year.\n\nVictoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.\n\nHer worst moment was breaking the news of a death on the phone, she said, adding that the screams from the patient's relatives \"will honestly stay with me forever\".\n\n\"Telling someone over the phone and all you can say is 'I'm really sorry', whilst they're crying their heart out, is quite traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.\n\n\"The guilt is just too much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the study, which has been published online but has not yet been peer-reviewed:\n\nThe researchers say the findings are, in some ways, not surprising given the pressures ICU staff have faced.\n\nTheir workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.\n\nLead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\" for NHS managers.\n\nHe said: \"The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high-quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.\"\n\nProf Greenberg said it was important to have \"occupationally focused\" mental health care to try to keep staff fighting fit or, where this was not possible, to ensure they got help to access the right sort of care.\n\nAnd he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.\n\nProf Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was \"really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got sickness rates high all around us and colleagues from all specialities, where they're not accustomed to seeing such ill patients, coming out and trying to help.\n\n\"Understandably the impact of that on everybody's mental health is not insignificant either... it's such a tough place to be in.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"This is an incredibly tough time for NHS staff working on the front line which is why we have invested £15m in support, including 38 local mental health and well-being hubs and a service for staff with complex mental health needs, such as trauma and addiction.\n\n\"The public can also help to support doctors and nurses by following the 'hands, space, face' guidance to reduce pressure on hospitals and save lives.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by mental health issues, the organisations listed at this link might be able to help", "Sarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy\n\nSarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.\n\nHer Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess's great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.\n\nShe has previously written children's books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.\n\nShe said: \"I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world.\"\n\n\"It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names,\" she added.\n\n\"But although her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, were close friends with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, I was unable to discover much about my namesake's early life, and so was born the idea which became Her Heart for a Compass.\"\n\nThe story will include some real people and events and also draw on the duchess's own experiences but she said \"my imagination took over\".\n\n\"I have long held a passion for historical research and telling the stories of strong women in history through film and television,\" she added.\n\nFor the big screen, she conceived the idea for the 2009 movie Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and written by Julian Fellowes.\n\nShe was a producer on the film and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a minor part. The duchess also worked on a documentary about Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Prince Albert's mother.\n\nShe recently revived her children's book series, Budgie the Helicopter.\n\nHeart for a Compass was written with the collaboration of established Mills & Boon novelist Marguerite Kaye, who has created more than 50 novels for the imprint, set in a variety of eras.\n\nThe duchess's novel is a saga that takes in events at Queen Victoria's court and the grand country houses of Scotland and Ireland, and crosses into the slums of London and on to the bustle of 1870s New York.\n\nMills & Boon described the story as a \"fascinating journey of a woman, born into the higher echelons of society, who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass (her heart) and discover her raison d'être - and falling in love along the way\".\n\nMills & Boon is the UK's top publisher of romantic fiction and says it sells one of its novels every 10 seconds.\n\nThe stories are \"written by women, for women, it has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time\", it adds.\n\nOther well-known names to venture into the Mills & Boon world include Made in Chelsea and I'm A Celebrity star Georgia Toffolo, whose debut romance novel, Meet Me in London, came out last year.\n\nBest-selling authors have also created stories for Mills & Boon under a pseudonym, including Destiny writer Sally Beauman (Vanessa James) and The Shell Seekers author Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser). PG Wodehouse also contributed a story in 1912.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "The Christmas Day special saw Ashley Banjo (r) sit in for Simon Cowell\n\nThe filming of the next series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.\n\nProduction on the show was due to begin later this month but will now start at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nITV said it had decided to move \"the record and broadcast\" of the show's 15th series\" to safeguard \"the well-being of everyone involved\".\n\nThe filming of the programme's audition shows typically involves hundreds of people congregating en masse.\n\nIt is understood this has been considered to be unviable due to lockdown restrictions currently in place.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ITV thanked viewers for their \"continued love and support\" for the long-running programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BGT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe filming of last year's Christmas special was also postponed after at least three crew members tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Christmas Day programme saw former contestants return to perform again alongside the show's panel of celebrity judges.\n\nThe show saw Ashley Banjo sit in for Simon Cowell, who spent much of last year recovering from an electric bicycle accident.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to get pupils connected in Wolverhampton is well under way\n\nThere are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.\n\nPupils are learning remotely in England after schools were closed on Tuesday to all but children of key workers and those deemed vulnerable.\n\nBut those without laptops or space to study are now eligible to attend school, under government guidance.\n\nHeads' union, NAHT, said the move could reduce the effect of the shutdown.\n\nSchools were ordered to close to most pupils as a way of limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.\n\nNearly a third of the 2,000 head teachers who joined an online union meeting on Wednesday afternoon reported having between 20 and 30% of pupils in school, the NAHT said.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"It is critical that key worker child school places are only used when absolutely necessary to truly reduce numbers and spread of the virus.\n\n\"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.\n\n\"It is important that all vulnerable pupils have access to a school place, but the government must provide laptops and internet access for every pupil that needs one, so that they can access home learning to take some of the strain off the demand for school places.\n\n\"Nearly half of head teachers who we polled during a webcast on Wednesday evening said that had received fewer than 10% of the laptops they'd requested.\n\n\"It is essential that this is rectified immediately, so that we can keep school attendance figures at a level which will have the desired impact on getting transmission rates under control.\"\n\nJane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, said the rule change could leave her having to accommodate an extra 200 pupils on top of those already on the key worker and vulnerable children list.\n\nShe told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would \"defeat the object\" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.\n\nMrs Girt said her secondary, which has more than 1,500 students, had received 261 laptops from the government since March but about 50% of pupils were sharing a device with another family member.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs on Wednesday that 560,000 devices had been given out to schools in 2020 and a further 50,000 so far this week.\n\nAnd Gavin Williamson reiterated that those without access to remote learning via digital devices could attend school.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are much better prepared to deliver online learning, with the delivery of hundreds of thousands of devices at breakneck speed, data support and high quality video lessons.\"\n\nBut Ofcom estimates there are up to 1.5m pupils without digital devices in their homes, on which they can learn.\n\nAmanda Bailey, director of the child poverty commission in north-east England, said pupils without internet access tended to be concentrated in disadvantaged areas and this meant some schools would be \"largely fully open\", she said.\n\n\"And we know that the most deprived communities are the ones most vulnerable to the health impact of the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"Our main concerns are that we're now nine months into this situation and we're still talking about families not having sufficient access to digital devices or data or the internet.\"\n\nLabour Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Wolverhampton's champion for digital innovation, said the guidance massively expands the number of children who are entitled to go into school.\n\nShe said although plans to support those needing access while self-isolating in her city are at an advanced stage, with rental schemes being accessed and donations sought, the new lockdown changes the game completely.\n\nShe called for a national plan for the transition to remote learning.\n\nCouncillor Momenabadi said: \"Even after Gavin Williamson's statement in the Commons, children across the country are still waiting for that national plan.\n\n\"And even on the devices they've said will arrive; how will these be distributed, when will they arrive, will they arrive in time to ensure that no child misses out on their education?\"\n\nWill you have to send your child back to school because you are unable to supervise home learning? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.\n\nPosting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.\n\nTwitter said that it would ban Mr Trump \"permanently\" if he breached the platform's rules again.\n\nThe move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him \"indefinitely\" on Thursday.\n\nTwitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.\n\nMr Trump tweeted several message on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed Capitol Hill \"patriots\". He also said \"We love you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter said: \"After the Tweets were removed and the subsequent 12-hour period expired, access to @realDonaldTrump was restored.\n\n\"Any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram. That suspension will be reviewed after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nThe social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after the US Capitol attack.\n\nFacebook's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post \"are simply too great\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Facebook had removed the president's posts \"because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent - would be to provoke further violence\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Mark This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said it was clear Mr Trump intended to undermine the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.\n\n\"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump's favoured platform, Twitter, suspended the president for 12 hours on Wednesday.\n\nThe company said it required the removal of three tweets for \"severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy\".\n\nIt said the president's account would remain locked for good if the tweets were not removed.\n\nTwitter has now confirmed the offending tweets have been removed, and he is free to tweet again.\n\nSnapchat also stopped Mr Trump from creating new posts, but did not say if or when it would end the ban. YouTube also removed Wednesday's video.\n\nThe president's supporters stormed the seat of US government and clashed with police, leading to the death of one woman.\n\nThe violence brought to a halt congressional debate over Democrat Joe Biden's election win.\n\nIn the House and Senate chambers, Republicans were challenging the certification of November's election results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nBefore the violence, President Trump had told supporters on the National Mall in Washington that the election had been stolen.\n\nHours later, as the violence mounted inside and outside the US Capitol, he appeared on video and repeated the false claim.", "The controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been ongoing since 1977\n\nThe Trump administration has held the first sale for rights to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but it drew no interest from major companies.\n\nAn Alaskan state agency emerged as the primary bidder at the auction, which has been heavily criticised by environmental groups.\n\nThe sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped.\n\nThe tepid interest comes amid big changes in the energy industry.\n\nMajor companies, including oil giant Exxon, Shell and BP, have said they are focusing their spending on renewable energy, amid a huge slump in oil prices, in part triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the sale was an \"epic failure\" for the Trump administration and the Alaska Republicans, who had backed the move as a way to create jobs and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.\n\n\"After years of promising a revenue and jobs bonanza they ended up throwing a party for themselves, with the state being one of the only bidders,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We have long known that the American people don't want drilling in the Arctic Refuge, the [Alaska native] Gwich'in people don't want it, and now we know the oil industry doesn't want it either.\"\n\nThe refuge is home to more than 200 species of bird including the Northern shrike\n\nMr Kolton said his organisation would continue to fight in court to reverse the sale of the land, which is home to caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds.\n\nThe wildlife refuge is estimated to hold some 11 billion barrels of oil.\n\nOpening the wilderness for drilling and development has been a long-term priority for Alaska Republicans, but development was expected to be costly since the area has minimal roads and infrastructure.\n\nAfter decades of controversy, the sale was finally authorised by the US Congress in 2017 as part of a major package of tax cuts. The auction comes just weeks before Donald Trump is due to leave office on 20 January.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden had vowed to protect the refuge and environmental groups have also challenged the sale, which they say threatens land that provides a vital home to wildlife.\n\nA federal court rejected arguments by environmental groups seeking to block the auction on Tuesday.\n\nPolar bears are particularly at risk of dying in oil spills\n\nAt Wednesday's auction, the Bureau of Land Management said it had received bids for 12 of the 22 tracts of land offered, covering more than 600,000 acres.\n\nThe Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency, was the sole bidder on at least eight of the 12 tracts.\n\nSome bids submitted were \"incomplete\", the bureau said.\n\nThe state agency has said it plans to work with private companies on development of the refuge, which encompasses more than 19,000 million acres overall.\n\nOn social media platform Twitter, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the sale \"historic for Alaska and tremendous for America\".\n\n\"Opening [Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] for responsible resource development could put more oil in our pipeline, put Alaskans to work, bring billions of dollars of investment to our state, support American energy independence, and provide critical revenues to our state and local communities,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Alaskans have waited two generations for this moment; I stand with them in support of this day.\"", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a boy, 13, was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a girl, aged 13, will appear in Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nTwo other boys, also aged 13, have been released on bail, with strict conditions, until 1 February.\n\nThe girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nIn a statement, Oliver's family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe family described the ordeal as \"every parents' worst nightmare\".\n\nThey also sought to highlight those who helped at the scene, including \"a Good Samaritan that tried valiantly to save Oliver\", an off-duty doctor who offered help, and the emergency services.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nParents laying flowers at nearby Highdown School called the killing \"utterly senseless\" and said their children who attended school with Olly were \"devastated\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown urged anyone with information to contact police and not to share any images or footage on social media.\n\n\"This continues to be a very difficult time for the family of Olly. Our thoughts remain with them,\" he said.\n\n\"The Stephens family appreciate all of the kindness shown to them but they have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex\n\nThe father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son's death through social media.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nHis father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until \"we saw his body by our own eyes\" at the hospital.\n\nEight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside the container for at least 12 hours.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how it became a \"tomb\" as temperatures reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C (101F).\n\nThe people trapped inside had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nAt a sentencing hearing set to last three days in front of Mr Justice Sweeney, some of their final desperate phone messages were played in court.\n\nIn one message, a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nIn the background, a voice could be heard pleading: \"Come on everyone. Open up, open up.\"\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read out statements from the victims' families, and the mother of another 15-year-old who died, Dinh Dinh Binh, said her family had \"not been able to get back to our normal life yet\".\n\n\"Our economic conditions and work are negatively affected,\" she said. \"We have had to sell some properties of the family to afford our life.\"\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nTran Hai Loc and his wife Nguyen Thi Van, both 35, were found huddled together in the trailer, and left behind two children, aged six and four.\n\nThe children's grandfather, Tran Dinh Thanh, said: \"At the moment their children are very small - this incident will affect their future.\n\n\"Every day, when they come home from school they always look at the photos of their parents on the altar. The decease of both parents is a big loss to them.\"\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nPhan Thi Thanh, 41, had sold the family home and left her son with his godmother before setting off on the journey.\n\nHer son, who is now being looked after by his father in the UK, said he felt \"very heartbroken with mum not around\".\n\nHaulier boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, was described as a ringleader of the operation. He closed his eyes as the phone messages were played to the court. Other defendants hung their heads.\n\nBoth Maurice Robinson (l) and Ronan Hughes (r) admitted 39 counts of manslaughter in connection with the case\n\nHughes had previously admitted manslaughter, as had 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson, from County Armagh, who discovered the bodies in the trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, of Newry, County Down, who dropped off the trailer at Zeebrugge port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of the same charge by a jury.\n\nThey will be sentenced alongside Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, who were convicted for their role in the smuggling.\n\nGheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison were both found guilty of manslaughter\n\nMr Polnay said: \"These defendants were party to a sophisticated, long-running and profitable conspiracy to smuggle [mainly] Vietnamese migrants to the UK, in the back of lorries, in a deliberate and intentional breach of border control.\"\n\nThe fee was between £10,000 and £13,000 for each migrant, for the \"VIP route\", the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay said seven smuggling trips were identified between May 2018 and 23 October 2019, but there was \"an irresistible inference that there were more events than those that were fortuitously detected\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is inevitable that part of the politics of a pandemic is the perceived relative performance of different countries.\n\nYou can pick your metric to make your comparison, and plenty have.\n\nThe death toll in the UK, and the economic slump, have come in for particular criticism.\n\nBut the government has, for some time, sought to emphasise how the UK is ahead of the game on vaccinations.\n\nThe UK was considerably quicker than the EU, for instance, in licencing the first vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nAt today's news conference, the Prime Minister has pointed out that the UK has already given more people a first jab for Covid than all the other countries in Europe put together.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England, added that the UK has jabbed four times as many people as Germany and 300 times more than France.\n\nBut he acknowledged the scale of the ongoing challenge - trying to vaccinate as many people in the next five weeks as normally happens in five months with the flu jab.\n\nOne final thought: ministers tend to suggest international comparisons are pointless or premature when the comparisons are less than flattering.\n\nThey're rather keener on them when the numbers look better.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Adrian Chiles first joined 5 Live for its launch in 1994\n\nAdrian Chiles has been confirmed as the broadcaster who will replace Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday mornings.\n\nNaga Munchetty now presents the same show from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nChiles has previously presented the same time slot on Fridays, along with the BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day 2, as well as ITV's Daybreak show.\n\n\"Adrian is a wonderful broadcaster who our audience trust and respect,\" said 5 Live controller Heidi Dawson.\n\n\"He has that unique ability to put listeners at ease and make them smile, whilst remaining relentless in his questioning of those in positions of power.\"\n\nChiles, who will present the show on Thursdays and Fridays, joined the station at its launch in 1994 and has featured regularly on shows like Wake Up To Money, and 5 Live Drive.\n\nFollowing his move to mid-morning, Chiles' Question Time Extra Time show will be replaced by a new programme, hosted by Colin Murray.\n\nBarnett, who has moved to BBC Radio 4 to host Woman's Hour, defended herself this week after a guest who was booked to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme dropped out due to remarks the presenter made about her off-air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Capitol riots: How the world's media reacted\n\nShock and contempt for the violent storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters is evident in many reports and commentary on the event from around the world.\n\nFrom Germany's Die Welt daily describing \"disturbing, sad, terrifying scenes\", to the Nigerian Tribune saying \"Trump supporters defile US democracy\", many criticise the outgoing president for what what they see as his role in degrading America's institutions and democracy.\n\nOne commentator in Argentina's leading daily Clarin called it \"the 'scorched earth' legacy of Donald Trump\".\n\n\"Narcissism prevailing over all dignity, he harasses institutions, tramples on democracy, divides his own camp,\" says an editorial in France's Le Figaro.\n\n\"In refusing to quit, Donald Trump exposes the fragility of the American system in a final destructive offensive,\" a columnist says in France's Le Monde. Another headline in the paper calls him \"the insurrectional president\".\n\nIn Turkey, the pro-government Turkiye paper notes: \"Trump's stubbornness stirred the US\".\n\n\"I expect Trump to be tried after this turmoil,\" said one pundit on Egypt's MBC Misr TV, adding that \"the US is no longer a superpower in the full sense of the word\".\n\nSeveral of America's adversaries seized the opportunity to portray the incident as an example of the country's structural weaknesses and what they see as its hypocrisy.\n\n\"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold' — it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill,\" tweeted China's daily Global Times.\n\n\"Capital vandals show fragility of US democracy,\" claimed a headline in the paper.\n\nIn Iran, state TV and radio inaccurately reported that the mayor of Washington DC had imposed \"martial law\", instead of the 12-hour curfew on the capital, which is what actually happened.\n\nAnd in Russia, where the first day of the Orthodox Christmas is currently being celebrated, footage of Trump's supporters ransacking the Capitol dominates state TV.\n\nMorning bulletins have focused on the events in America\n\nRolling news channel Rossiya 24 has played scenes of the violence at length, with no comment other than the caption \"Attack on the Capitol\".\n\nSome channels have also shown sympathy for the pro-Trump supporters, suggesting that they had cause to feel \"cheated\" over November's presidential election, and talked up claims that the event represents a crisis for US and even Western democracy.\n\nRossiya 24 said they were \"dissatisfied with the most scandalous election in US history\", while Rossiya 1 said it was the US system of democracy that was \"to a large degree the cause of today's events\".\n\nEven for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump's departure won't address.\n\nIt is \"a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,\" says one commentator in Poland's conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.\n\n\"Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about 'the best country in the world' lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Medical staff are \"well over half way through\" vaccinating Scotland's care home residents with their first dose against Covid-19.\n\nThe first minister said this was \"extremely important\", as care homes accounted for more than a third of Covid-related deaths in the past week.\n\nBy Sunday more than 113,000 people in Scotland had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nSome 1,100 vaccination centres are set to be operational within a week.\n\nThe government has set a target of giving a first dose to everyone over the age of 80 in Scotland within the next four weeks.\n\nScotland has about 30,000 residents living in care homes for older people.\n\nA further 78 deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, the highest daily number during the second wave of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Records of Scotland said the virus had been mentioned on 183 death certificates in the week to Sunday - with 63 of these deaths occurring in care homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this underlined the importance of rolling out the vaccine in care homes, saying it would hopefully start to significantly reduce the risk of residents dying due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd she said the government would start issuing a daily update on how many people had been given the jab from next week.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to make sure as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so.\"\n\nAs of Sunday, a total of 113,459 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine began to be rolled out on Monday, and will be reflected in statistics from next week.\n\nA total of 36 people have had a second dose of the vaccine, with efforts now focused on giving a first jab to as many people as possible\n\nThis means that people will now not receive their second dose for up to 12 weeks rather than within 21 days - a move that has been criticised by some medics.\n\nBut Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said the first dose gave \"substantial\" protection against the virus.\n\nThe vaccine is being rolled out to health and social care workers in the first instance, then care home residents and other over-80s.\n\nEventually everyone in Scotland over the age of 18 - a total of 4.4m people - will be given a jab, although the government has refused to set targets beyond the initial phase due to uncertainty over supplies.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is in a race between the vaccine and the virus\n\nThe UK government had already committed to publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, and the Scottish Conservatives had been pushing for the Scottish government to follow suit.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said that \"publishing these numbers will increase transparency and give the public confidence that progress is being made in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Scotland that he had been getting inquiries from constituents about when they could expect to get a jab, saying people \"need to know roughly where they are on that list and when they can expect to receive that vaccine\".\n\nScottish Labour called on the government to backdate the statistics and to publish \"a detailed breakdown of how many people in each priority group has been vaccinated\".\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, said: \"Quicker progress must be made on securing vaccinations sites and vaccinators, including the contribution that community pharmacy teams can make.\"\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said over-80s should not worry if they had not yet been contacted about a vaccine appointment.\n\nShe said these were being \"aligned with availability of supply\" in different local areas.\n\nThe first minister said there was \"no need to phone your GP\", and that people would be \"contacted with an appointment as soon as possible\".\n\nShe also said the government was considering \"as a matter of ongoing review\" whether tighter restrictions may still be needed.\n\nScotland has been in a new lockdown since Tuesday, and Ms Sturgeon said it was \"probably too early\" for this to be reflected in the number of new infections.\n\nHowever she warned that the number of interactions people are having needed to be \"radically\" cut in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nShe said shutting down construction, manufacturing and click-and-collect businesses was \"the kind of thing we need to look at if we have a concern that we are not sufficiently reducing the number of people who are out and about and interacting\".", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nThis is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.\n\nFor weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through \"trial by combat\".\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not \"fight\" for their president.\n\n\"This isn't their Republican Party anymore,\" he said. \"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.\"\n\nThen the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted \"stop the steal\" and \"bullshit\" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.\n\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede,\" the president said. \"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\n\nAs the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.\n\nFirst, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was \"largely ceremonial\".\n\nThen Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.\n\nThe House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.\n\n\"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty,\" said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. \"I will not allow the people to be ignored.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started\n\nIn the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.\n\n\"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,\" McConnell said. \"We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost.\"\n\nThe Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to \"stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic\".\n\nHis words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol\n\nThe drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.\n\nIn Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an \"insurrection\" in Washington.\n\n\"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times,\" he said. \"An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.\"\n\nHe concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and \"demand an end to this siege\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are\n\nMinutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.\n\nInstead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being \"stolen\", he told his supporters \"to go home, we love you, you're very special\".\n\nIt was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the \"very fine people on both sides\" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his \"stand back and stand by\" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.\n\nTrump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.\n\nFor the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.\n\nIf this is the \"at long last, have you left no sense of decency\" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.\n\nAs the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.\n\n\"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history,\" he said. \"A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.\"\n\nMore noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.\n\n\"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty,\" tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. \"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.\"\n\nThe condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.\n\n\"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.\n\nCBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.\n\nWhether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy\n\nWednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.\n\nThey will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.\n\nCrisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.\n\nAnd once he decamps for his new Florida home, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.", "The Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel urgent cancer surgery.\n\nThese are known as red flag cancer cases where an operation is expected to impact on a person's recovery and even surviving the disease.\n\nThe Department of Health has confirmed to the BBC that it's estimated that one in 60 people in NI have Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood the trust expects \"many 100s\" of new Covid patients in the next three weeks.\n\nThe demand for bed space is described as \"highly significant\", while a source added that all is being done to \"find beds and staff\".\n\nThey continued: \"People in here are moving heaven and earth to find beds in anticipation of what is coming and that's why some cancer patients even those who have been told their case is urgent are having their surgery cancelled.\"\n\nEffectively the move means that choices are already being made within the health service about who should receive critical treatment.\n\nThe daughter of a 66-year-old woman who was told her surgery has been cancelled has described the move as \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"Mummy was diagnosed with cancer of the lining of the bladder in November, it's since spread to the muscle wall of her bladder. She was told in December her surgery was urgent - but now it's been cancelled.\n\n\"She is so frightened, it is just horrendous and I'm sure mum is not alone.\"\n\nWhile a cancer patient might have been told their case is critical and that treatment is necessary within weeks, some Covid patients are also being told that in order to survive they require treatment immediately.\n\nWith the number of cases soaring this is worse than the first lockdown and according to health professionals there is worse to come.\n\nThe BBC understands that the health minister is expected to respond to the problem in the coming days.\n\nIt is hoped that he will announce a regional approach to tackling cancelled surgeries among the various health trusts.\n\nNorthern Ireland's other health trusts have also begun to cancel operations due to pressures created by coronavirus.\n\nThe Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern trusts have said they will be cancelling planned surgeries.\n\nHospitals have said they were facing a surge in coronavirus cases following Christmas.\n\nOn Thursday, 599 people were in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe Belfast Trust apologised for the \"distress\" caused by the cancellations.\n\n\"Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel all planned inpatient surgery this week due to rising numbers of Covid cases,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe trust said it was contacting those affected and \"will rearrange this surgery as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to ensure continuity of care throughout this challenging time\".\n\nThe Northern Trust said it had \"regrettably\" cancelled the majority of its planned or elective surgeries to \"both free up staff to support the significant COVID-19 surge experience in the Trust and to reduce the clinical risk to patients who are or may be exposed to the virus\".\n\nIt apologised and said it would contacting people.\n\nThe Western Trust said it is \"facing unprecedented pressures due to the escalating rate\" of Covid infections.\n\nDirector of Acute Hospitals, Geraldine McKay, said routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries have now been postponed until further notice.\n\nShe said the decision was \"very regrettable, but necessary\".\n\n\"Red flag and some time critical procedures and clinics will continue, but will be reviewed daily,\" she said.\n\nShould the number of Covid patients further increase, she added, the trust will \"have no option but to move to perform emergency and trauma surgery only\".\n\nA spokesperson for the South Eastern Trust said it was still carrying out some planned surgery, but the majority would be cancelled by next week.\n\nThe Southern Trust said it had taken its decision in response to the \"very significant recent increase\" in the number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nIt said this had been compounded by an increase in trauma workload and recent icy weather.\n\nThe trust said it would continue to provide day surgery and endoscopy across its hospital sites.\n\nOf the 3,359 planned procedures scheduled across NI between 29 December 2020 and 4 January, 3,267 went ahead as planned, according to the Health and Social Care website.\n\nThere were 92 cancellations which amounted to about 3% of all surgeries.", "During a speech earlier in the day, President Trump had asked his supporters to march towards the Capitol in protest. They breached the building while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's win.\n\nProtesters made it all the way to the Senate floor and the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nHere are the key moments in a dark day for US democracy.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "As violent Trump supporters surged past barricades and into the US Capitol, news agency photographers - who were there to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's election win - captured extraordinary scenes.\n\nThe last time government buildings were breached in Washington was in 1814 and the invaders were British soldiers.\n\nBut in 2021 a Trump supporter, carrying the Confederate flag, is walking freely through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the American Civil War. In this image, the oil paintings of political figures in the background emphasise this imagery of the past.\n\nThere have been renewed calls for the Confederate flag to be banned across the US following the anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man.\n\nHowever Mr Trump has defended use of the flag, calling it a matter of free speech.\n\nOne man in a Trump beanie here walks between the red guide ropes, as many visitors might do on a guided-tour to view the Crypt, the Statuary Hall and the Rotunda.\n\nBut this man is carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House, as he poses in front of a painting depicting the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in the war of independence.\n\nAnother man, identified as Jake Angeli, an ardent Trump supporter who has attended a number of the president's rallies, shouts as he makes his way to the Senate Chamber.\n\nHis incongruous garments set him apart from other protesters wearing black hoodies. These Trump activists stand by taking selfies, but he has clearly come here to be photographed by others.\n\nThe apparent lack of a security presence is in sharp contrast to other Washington protests where there is a highly visible presence of heavily armed security forces protecting US institutions.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, identified as Richard Barnett, sits with one boot disrespectfully on a desk that is at the very centre of power in Congress. It is in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nIn the scene, unimaginable days earlier, Barnett in his baseball cap and checked shirt resembles a raconteur regaling friends with tales of his exploits.\n\nThe image went viral as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Ms Pelosi's desk.\n\nThis dramatic image shows how the formal proceedings came to a violent halt as Capitol police officers drew their guns on doors being attacked by protesters intent on entering the House Chamber.\n\nMany commentators asked if they were watching a coup unfold as doors were barricaded and firearms brandished.\n\nThe composition is reminiscent of a scene in a Hollywood Western, the lawmen bracing for the doors to be breached.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden made an impassioned TV address describing the scenes as \"an assault on democracy\" - this chilling picture encapsulates what he meant.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "Ryanair is making big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January in response to the latest Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt warned that few, if any, flights would operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January until \"draconian\" restrictions were removed.\n\nCustomers hit by the cancellations will be advised by email of entitlements to free moves or refunds, it said.\n\nRyanair also cut its full year traffic forecast from currently \"below 35 million\" to 26-30 million passengers.\n\nThe airline said that new Covid restrictions could reduce traffic in February and March to as little as 500,000 passengers each month. It expects January traffic to fall below 1.25 million.\n\nIt said it did not expect these latest flight cuts and further traffic reductions to materially affect its net loss for the year to 31 March 2021, since many of the flights would have been loss-making.\n\nRyanair hit out at Irish and UK governments for the latest lockdowns.\n\n\"The WHO have previously confirmed that governments should do everything possible to avoid brutal lockdowns, because lockdowns 'do not get rid of the virus',\" Ryanair said in a statement.\n\n\"Ireland's Covid-19 travel restrictions are already the most stringent in Europe, and so these new flight restrictions are inexplicable and ineffective when Ireland continues to operate an open border between the Republic and the North of Ireland.\"\n\nIt called on the Irish Government to accelerate the rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that the Danish Government, with a similar five million population, has already vaccinated 10 times more citizens than Ireland shows that emergency action is needed to speed Covid vaccinations in Ireland.\"\n\nRival low-cost carrier Norwegian said its traffic figures had been hit heavily by the pandemic, with customer numbers down 94% compared to the same period the previous year.\n\nIn December, 129,664 customers flew with Norwegian, with the capacity and total passenger traffic both down by 98%.\n\n\"2020 has been a very challenging year and we now find ourselves fighting for survival,\" said Jacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian.\n\n\"The vaccination is now being rolled out across the world and is good news for both the aviation industry and those who want to travel.\"", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "Mr Christmas' light displays attracted thousands of visitors over the years\n\nThe family of a man known affectionately as Mr Christmas has turned off his festive lights for the last time.\n\nDave Edwards, 86, lit up his home in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, with extravagant light displays for 42 years to raise money for charity.\n\nHe died from cancer on the eve of his annual switch-on in November.\n\nHis daughter Sharon Markham called on local residents to \"continue to light up Croxley every year\".\n\nMr Edwards started putting up the light display with his wife - who died three years ago - as a competition with a house across the street, and continued to build on the set over the years.\n\nDave Edwards was dubbed Mr Christmas due to the illuminations at his home in Croxley Green\n\nPeople would travel miles to see the festive lights\n\nMrs Markham said each year they raised about £5,000 for charity, but this year a \"record amount\" of more than £10,000 had been donated.\n\nWhen his family said the 2020 display would be the last due to Mr Edwards's failing health, people across the village rallied together by installing their own displays in his honour.\n\nSharon Markham said her parents were \"such amazing people but their light will always be shining\"\n\nResidents of Croxley Green placed a banner opposite Mr Christmas' home to thank him for his displays and fundraising\n\nTurning off the lights at 21:23 GMT on Wednesday, in an event filmed for the Mr Christmas Facebook page, Mrs Markham thanked the community for its support over the years.\n\n\"Without you we could not have achieved the things we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought turning the lights on was hard enough but switching them off - this moment has been worrying me for months and now it's finally here.\n\n\"For now, though, we say goodbye and we thank Mr and Mrs Christmas for all the joy they have brought us all.\n\n\"We ask you all to continue to light up Croxley every year.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "George had mottled skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down\n\nThe mother of a baby who was treated in hospital for Covid-19 has urged parents to be alert to symptoms such as mottled skin and sickness.\n\nMyer Rudelhoff's four-month-old son George spent three nights in Basildon hospital, in Essex.\n\nHe had patchy skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a sickness bug. I had no idea it was caused by coronavirus.\"\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children can be a sign of coronavirus according to some researchers, but the officially recognised symptoms are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nMrs Rudlehoff, who lives in Basildon, noticed her son had a temperature on New Year's Eve but put it down to teething.\n\nGeorge began vomiting the following evening and on 2 January she called NHS 111, who told her to take him to hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I really did not want to go. I was so scared about him getting the virus there, I had no idea he had it.\n\n\"He got so poorly so quickly when we arrived and was really lethargic. They took a swab and, when they said he was positive, I burst into tears. It was such a shock.\"\n\nMyer Rudelhoff was scared to take her son to hospital but realised he was too poorly and needed treatment\n\nThe mother-of-two said she presumed it was not Covid-19 because he did not have a cough, though he did develop a mild one a few days later while in hospital.\n\nShe said the staff were \"amazing\" and she wanted to reassure parents \"not to be afraid to go to hospital\" if their children were ill.\n\nNurses told her they had treated several other children with the same mottled skin and sickness and asked her to share her story to raise awareness of these symptoms.\n\nMrs Rudelhoff's post on Facebook was shared nearly 7,000 times within three days.\n\nIn the post, she said she felt \"upset, angry and frustrated\" because she had taken the illness very seriously but George had still managed to catch it. He was the only member of the family who tested positive.\n\nGeorge was discharged from hospital and was making a good recovery at home, she said.\n\nGeorge is now making a good recovery at home and is being looked after by his big brother Stanley\n\nDr Kilali Ominu-Evbota, paediatric consultant at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"It's great to hear that George is now back home and on the road to recovery.\n\n\"George's family did the right thing and we encourage parents to seek medical advice with their GP or via the NHS 111 service in order to get the correct treatment for their child.\"\n\nBasildon has an infection rate of 1,265 cases per 100,000 people - compared to the average England rate of 606.9.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Upset stomach' in children may be coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "For the first since April the UK has recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths – one of the highest figures of the pandemic.\n\nRight now, London is at the epicentre of this crisis. Hospitals now have more Covid patients being admitted every day than they did at the peak in April. Many doctors and nurses say they're reaching breaking point.\n\nThe BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh has been allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at London's University College Hospital, which is one of the busiest in the capital.\n\nRead more: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week'", "Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday.\n\nHe takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017.\n\nMr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThat makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined.\n\nMr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark \"how strange\".\n\nAn older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.\n\n\"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves,\" it reads.\n\nThe tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: \"A Blue Senate is very bullish and a potential 'game changer' for Tesla and the overall electric vehicle sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years.\"\n\nExpected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, \"which continues to have an iron grip on the market today\", he added.\n\nMr Bezos is also using his personal wealth to fund space exploration\n\nMr Bezos has also seen his fortunes rise over the past year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant Amazon benefited from stronger demand for both its online store and cloud computing services.\n\nHowever, he gave a 4% stake in the business to his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott after they split, which helped Mr Musk overtake him.\n\nIn addition, the threat of regulation has meant Amazon's stock has not risen as high as it might otherwise have done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nThe owner of a business which has only just made its first annual profit and is still a minnow compared to the likes of Toyota - or Amazon - is now the world's richest person.\n\nIt is the fact that Tesla's share price has increased more than seven-fold in the past year that has sent Elon Musk's fortune rocketing past that of Jeff Bezos.\n\nTo believe the electric car-maker's worth could rise so rapidly in just 12 months is the ultimate example of irrational exuberance.\n\nIt means that Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.\n\nMind you, his many fans will point out that the somewhat eccentric tycoon has constantly confounded the sceptics who bet that he would go bust.\n\nAnd of course 20 years ago another tech visionary was staring disaster in the face when the dot com bubble burst and big profits seemed a distant dream - but Jeff Bezos went on to make those who bet on Amazon very rich indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nDonald Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nFour people have died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nPresident Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nMs Patel said the president's words had fuelled the violence and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, President Trump later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHe has been suspended from his Facebook and Instagram accounts for at least two weeks, and possibly indefinitely. Twitter has also frozen his account.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to Democrat Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the scenes were \"awful beyond words\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"His comments directly led to the violence, and so far he has failed to condemn that violence and that is completely wrong.\"\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nPoliticians across the UK's political parties lined up to condemn the scenes in Washington.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nIt is a truism of British diplomacy that every occupant of 10 Downing Street has to get on with every occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of their politics or character.\n\nPersonal consideration is pushed aside. What matters is the national interest and staying close to one of Britain's closest allies.\n\nThus even now, even after Donald Trump's incitement of the Capitol mob, even though there are less than two weeks until the inauguration, even as close Republican allies jump ship, Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were reluctant to criticise the president by name in their initial response overnight.\n\nYes, they condemned the violence. But of Mr Trump, not a word. This caution was matched by the Prime Ministers of fellow so-called Five Eyes intelligence allies, Australia and New Zealand, both of whom also both failed to mention Mr Trump in their condemnatory tweets.\n\nIn contrast, European leaders were quick to blame the president personally.\n\nIt was only this morning that a British minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, felt able to follow suit in strong terms.\n\nSo was this natural and sensible diplomatic caution in the midst of a febrile crisis?\n\nOr was this, as some Labour figures are already claiming, a function of the closeness between the current UK government and the Trump administration?\n\nIt was only a few weeks ago that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sun that he would miss Donald Trump because he was a good friend to Britain.\n\nWhatever one's views, it is certainly the case that the British government is seen on the international stage by some has having ideological proximity to Mr Trump.\n\nChanging that reputation is seen by many diplomats as a priority in the months ahead, a task made more urgent by events overnight.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in Crown Court.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a 13-year-old girl have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have all been remanded in youth detention custody and a provisional trial date has been set for 21 June.\n\nThe three teenagers, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had appeared at Reading Youth Court earlier on Thursday before the Crown Court hearing.\n\nThe defendants only spoke at the youth court to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nThe court heard the girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Crown Court hearing was told a potential trial was estimated to last five or six weeks.\n\nPolice were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nOlly was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, his family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "Matthew Mason will be sentenced later this month\n\nA man who killed a schoolboy after paying him to stop their sexual relationship being revealed has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMatthew Mason admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda with a wrench in Ashley, Cheshire, in 2019.\n\nThe 19-year-old paid Alex more than £2,000 after he contacted his then girlfriend about \"flirty\" messages, Chester Crown Court heard.\n\nMason, of Ash Lane in Ollerton, will be sentenced on 25 January.\n\nLawyers acting for Mason, who denied murder, had claimed the killing was the result of self-defence or a loss of control.\n\nBut the jury rejected this and found him guilty of murdering Alex by a majority of 10 to two.\n\nAs the verdict was returned, Mason appeared to be crying in the dock.\n\nMembers of Alex's family were also in tears. In a statement, they said they had \"never come across a more selfish, cold and calculating person\" as Mason.\n\n\"Mason has attempted to blame Alex and discredit his name throughout this trial and thankfully the jury were able to see through his web of deceit,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Alex's father Adam Rodda said the trial had been \"very difficult\" for the family and they were relieved Mason had been found guilty of murder.\n\n\"We wouldn't have accepted anything else, we would have been distraught if any other verdict had been given. We prayed and we are obviously delighted that justice has been done,\" he said.\n\nAlex Rodda was killed in woodland in Cheshire\n\nOn the evening of 12 December, Mason said he had picked Alex up from his home and drove him to a remote area of woodland where he told him he could not afford to give him any more money.\n\nThe agricultural engineering student, who was the son of a farmer, told the court he had taken the wrench with him to \"scare him\".\n\nHe claimed that, once in the woods, Alex had threatened to ruin his life \"financially or socially\" and pushed him to the floor, grabbing the wrench and hitting Mason with it.\n\nMason said he managed to get the wrench from Alex and recalled hitting him with it twice, although the court heard evidence of further blows.\n\nAlex, a pupil at Holmes Chapel High School, was struck at least 15 times to the head and his body was found by refuse collectors the next morning.\n\nEvidence showed Alex had been struck at least 15 times with the wrench\n\nThe jury heard Mason had paid Alex more than £2,000 to stop him reporting their \"intimate sexual relationship\".\n\nIn the month before the murder, Alex contacted Mason's girlfriend to tell her that her boyfriend had been messaging him \"in a flirty way\" and had sent an explicit photo and video.\n\nMason denied the claim but began making payments to the 15-year-old's bank account.\n\nBy the time of Alex's death, Mason had transferred more than £2,200 and was asking friends and family to borrow money, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mason, who lived with his family on a farm near Knutsford, admitted having sex with Alex but said he thought it was \"wrong\".\n\nHe told the court he did not believe his friends would accept him if he was gay or bisexual.\n\nIn the week before Alex's death, Mason made internet searches for phrases including \"what would happen if you kicked someone down the stairs\", \"everyday poison\" and \"the mysteries of Cheshire unsolved deaths of missing people\".\n\nBut he told the court he had been searching the terms because he was suicidal.\n\nAlex's body was found in woodland by refuse collectors\n\nAfter killing Alex, Mason had a drink with friends in the Red Lion pub in Pickmere and The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, Cheshire Police said.\n\nHe later returned to the woods and the prosecution believe he dragged Alex's body to the side of the road and attempted to put him inside his car.\n\nAfter failing to do this, he drove away. But a witness had taken a photo of his Renault Clio car parked on the track and reported this to police.\n\nMason was identified as the owner and arrested the next day.\n\nPolice said Mason had dried blood on his hands and there was a bin bag in his boot with a blood-stained fleece, the wrench and Alex's jacket in it.\n\nDet Insp Nigel Reid said: \"Mason had murder on his mind as he drove Alex to his death under the pretence of sexual activity.\n\n\"He chose a secluded place to kill him in cold blood, a place he believed he would go unseen and his crime undetected.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Sarah Bingham said she is a match donor for her daughter Ariel and eldest son Noah (far right)\n\nA mother with two children who need kidney transplants said she wishes she could help both of them, but can only donate one organ.\n\nSarah Bingham's son Noah, 20, and daughter Ariel, 16, have the same rare genetic condition.\n\nMrs Bingham, 48, is a donor match for her children and said her maternal instinct is to donate to both of them.\n\nBut her organ was always due to go to her daughter and two family friends are matches for her son.\n\nHer husband Darryl, 49, is not a match, so cannot be a donor for their children.\n\nBoth Noah and Ariel have nephronophthisis, which causes inflammation and scarring to the kidneys.\n\nMrs Bingham, of Hexham, Northumberland, said although her son is \"very poorly\", he undergoes regular dialysis and is in a stable condition.\n\nHer daughter's kidney function \"has been deteriorating more in the last year\" and she will probably need a transplant first.\n\nMrs Bingham said: \"I was all set to give a kidney to my daughter and then my son went into renal failure and he also needs a kidney. Obviously, I've only got one that I can donate.\n\n\"The renal teams don't push you [to make a decision], because you're putting yourself on the line to donate a kidney.\n\n\"You have to make that call yourself, but obviously as a mum when you've got two children who both need kidney transplants and you've expected to give your kidney to one, and suddenly the other one needs one as well, you feel this dilemma.\"\n\nNoah Bingham is in a stable condition thanks to regular kidney dialysis\n\nProblems began in 2016 when Ariel started to feel constantly tired.\n\nHer fatigue was initially put down to exam stress, but tests at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary found she had the kidney condition.\n\nMrs Bingham was told she would be a suitable donor for Ariel when the time came.\n\nThen, in 2019, Noah became ill and was diagnosed with the same condition.\n\nHe is stable, but would need to put on weight to undergo a transplant.\n\nThe couple have another son Casper, 12, who is being tested to see if he also has the condition.\n\nDarryl Bingham is not a suitable match for his two eldest children\n\nProf John Sayer, a kidney specialist at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who is treating Noah, said nephronophthisis affects about one in 100,000 people.\n\n\"There's clearly a dilemma because there's a shortage of donors for patients needing kidney transplants.\n\n\"But kidney failure itself is not rare. There are 4,500 people across the country waiting for a transplant.\"\n\nHe added patients often face a \"gruelling and terrifying\" wait of about three years for a donor organ.\n\nIn December, Mr Bingham completed the challenge of walking 12,000 steps every day for 12 days to raise money for Kidney Research UK, which has supported the family.\n\nMrs Bingham said that if Ariel's condition was to deteriorate first she would get her kidney\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some supermarkets faced issues over the festive period due to ports disruption\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".\n\nIt argued frontline workers in meat factories should get early vaccinations due to the risk of a rapid spread of the new strains of the virus among key workers.\n\nThe government has set out who will get vaccinated first, which starts with care home residents and the oldest and most vulnerable people.\n\nBut Nick Allen, chief executive of the BMPA, said it would be logical to also prioritise key workers in the food industry.\n\n\"As the new coronavirus variant takes hold across the whole of the UK, we are hearing widespread reports of rapidly rising absences in the food supply chain,\" he said.\n\nSome firms supplying supermarkets \"are seeing a tripling of staff having to take time off work through illness or enforced self-isolation\", he added.\n\nPressures on staff during the lockdown include illness, having to self-isolate, and childcare while some schools are closed under England's lockdown.\n\nDue to the specialised nature of meat production, if even a few key factory personnel such as the foreman or managers are absent, production can stop, Mr Allen said.\n\nEarly vaccinations should not be restricted to the meat industry, according to Mr Allen. All key workers in the food industry should get early vaccinations, he said.\n\nEven supermarkets themselves are having problems with absences, he suggested.\n\n\"The key food supply chains ought to be prioritised,\" he said. \"All food industry key workers should be prioritised [for vaccination]\".\n\nThe government is advised on vaccinations by a group of experts called the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 Chair for the JCVI, said the committee's advice on vaccine prioritisation \"was developed with the aim of preventing as many deaths as possible.\"\n\n\"As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age,\" he said.\n\n\"It is estimated that vaccinating everyone in the priority groups would prevent 99% of deaths, including those associated with occupational exposure to infection,\" the professor added.\n\nSainsbury's boss Simon Roberts also called for early vaccinations for key workers on Thursday.\n\n\"My view is that priority has to be given to those that need it first,\" he said. \"Those on the frontline should be part of that as and when capacity becomes available.\"\n\nAbsence rates for Sainsbury's staff are lower than at the peak of the crisis, but are rising, and have stepped up in the last few days, he said.\n\nThe Sainsbury's absence rate is currently 8%. The business has 172,000 employees.\n\nAsda said that it had seen an increase in employees self-isolating and shielding in line with the rising UK infection rate.\n\nHowever, it said that absence rates were still lower than at the peak of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are taking proactive steps to manage colleague absences by retaining temporary colleagues hired over the Christmas period and are bringing in additional temporary colleagues in those stores that need them the most,\" and Asda spokesman said.\n\nTesco has asked clinically vulnerable staff to stay at home.\n\nMorrisons, meanwhile, is also seeing more absences, but the rate is still more than half that of the peak of the pandemic. It is also a bigger business having taken on 26,000 extra staff during the crisis.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium said: \"While absence rates are currently rising, retailers are closely monitoring the situation in stores and distribution centres and supply chains continue to run smoothly.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs said: \"As we have seen in recent months, the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation and are working closely with the food industry on the workforce and absence related challenges presented by the pandemic.\"\n\nThey added that the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people across the country have the food they need.\n\nUK ports have seen disruption due to the effects of coronavirus on trade and new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Roberts of Sainsbury's said that, so far, the flow of goods from Europe is in decent shape, but there had been some problems in sending food to Northern Ireland.There is still some backlog in general merchandising, he added.\n\nHowever, Scottish seafood exporters warned on Thursday that they had been hit by the \"perfect storm of Brexit disruption\".\n\n\"Weakened by Covid-19, and the closure of the French border before Christmas, the end of the Brexit transition period has unleashed layer upon layer of administrative problems, resulting in queues, border refusals and utter confusion,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\nShe said IT problems in France meant consignments were diverted from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk, \"which was unprepared as it wasn't supposed to be at the export frontline.\"\n\nThere have also been IT issues on the UK side with HMRC, she added.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets,\" she said. \"They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition. If the window closes these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nThe National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations also warned of delays to fish exports due to \"a brick wall of bureaucracy\".", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a \"significant\" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nA final decision on whether the game will take place at all will be made on Friday.\n\nVilla manager Dean Smith, his coaching staff and the rest of the club's first-team squad will not be involved after the outbreak forced the closure of the club's Bodymoor Heath training headquarters on Thursday.\n\nThe club is in discussions with the Football Association and want to fulfil the fixture (kick-off 19:45 GMT) but final confirmation on whether the tie is played is still on hold pending the results of further testing on the young players who are now being considered for selection.\n\nMark Delaney, Villa's under-23 coach, is scheduled to take charge in the absence of Smith and his backroom staff. He will be accompanied by a doctor, physiotherapist and kit staff.\n\nThe game was thrown into doubt when Villa confirmed the shutdown of the training ground after \"a large number of first-team players and staff\" returned positive Covid-19 results after being tested on Monday.\n\nThose affected went into isolation and a second round of tests was carried out immediately, which produced more positive results on Thursday.\n\nVilla are keen to play the game against Jurgen Klopp's Premier League champions, who they thrashed 7-2 earlier this season. Manager Smith had planned to rest several stars for the game but the Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the club's plans into chaos.\n\nThey will now be hoping the additional Covid-19 testing returns a clean bill of health with Villa liaising closely with the FA in the hope of getting the game played on Friday night.\n\nThe meeting between in-form Villa and Liverpool is one of the most attractive ties of the third round, even if both managers were set to field unfamiliar line-ups.\n\nIt also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday goes ahead.\n• None What sport has been hit by Covid-19 this weekend?\n\nElswhere, Southampton's FA Cup third-round game against Shrewsbury on Sunday was called off on Thursday after a significant number of Shrews players and staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nWayne Rooney and Derby's first-team squad will miss their FA Cup tie at Chorley on Saturday following a Covid-19 outbreak which closed their training ground on Monday.\n\nThe Rams' team for the game at Victory Park will be made up of under-23 and under-18 players.\n\nVilla will be doing all they can to ensure Friday's tie goes ahead but the Covid-19 outbreak could also have Premier League ramifications.\n\nVilla are scheduled to face fourth-placed Spurs at Villa Park on Wednesday and they currently stand only three points behind Jose Mourinho's team.\n\nThere must now be question marks over whether that game will take place.\n\nIf the game is off it will only add to the fixture congestion both clubs are likely to face in an already crowded calendar this season.\n\nVilla, even though they planned to leave out several established first-team players against Liverpool, still had high FA Cup ambitions and would have wanted to maintain the momentum that has given them such an impressive start to the season after only surviving in the top flight on the final day of last season.\n\nThey will hope the latest testing brings no further complications in the FA Cup context - then attention will turn to what has the potential to be a hugely significant game on Wednesday.\n• Stream eight live FA Cup third-round games this weekend on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Find out more here.", "GPs in England are receiving doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn about overstretched hospitals.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine is part of the NHS's biggest-ever effort and aims to offer jabs to 13 million by mid-February - including all over-80s.\n\nBirmingham's NHS said there are enough supplies with more to come as politicians warned doses may run out.\n\nSome hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nAnd hospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine to GPs will help increase vaccinations among the top four priority groups who are first in line to receive doses.\n\nThe Department of Health said 1.3 million people in the UK, including almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England, have received at least one dose so far.\n\nWriting to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Birmingham political leaders criticised communication around the vaccination programme in the city.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the vaccination rollout is in its early days, but we have also learned today that Birmingham has not yet been supplied with any AstraZeneca stock, while current Pfizer stocks are scheduled to run out on Friday this week with currently no clarity on when further supplies will arrive.\"\n\nThey added \"it remains unclear who is responsible for overseeing the vaccination programme in Birmingham, and whom we should hold accountable for progress and delivery\".\n\nThe letter is signed by Labour leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward; Liam Byrne MP, Labour's candidate for the West Midlands mayor, and by Conservative MP and ex-minister Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut NHS Birmingham and Solihull told the BBC: \"Thousands of people in Birmingham and Solihull have already been vaccinated and this continues at pace.\n\n\"We have sufficient supplies and more will be coming.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said he has been assured supplies of the Oxford vaccine will be delivered to Birmingham on Friday.\n\nElsewhere, Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described \"teething\" issues with the vaccine rollout there.\n\nShe told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: \"We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'.\"\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history, with an aim to offer jabs to most care home residents by the end of January and the most vulnerable by mid-February.\n\nOfficials leading the vaccination programme are adamant rollout is going to plan - and are cautioning against judging performance too early.\n\nOf course, there will be teething problems, but the fact remains the UK has vaccinated more per head of population than any other country apart from Israel and Bahrain.\n\nWhile rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine started on Monday, it was actually only being used at the hospital hubs up to Thursday.\n\nDeliveries are now being made to hundreds of local vaccination centres. There are 17 in the Birmingham region so they should start to receive doses imminently.\n\nThat should mean there is a vaccine available if they do run out of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAlthough disruption to the rollout of the programme in the city may still happen as local centres are warning they cannot book patients in until they know they have stock available.\n\nBut the fact the city's leaders felt compelled to write to the health secretary to warn about this is an illustration of the pressure in the system at the moment.\n\nGiven the high level of infections and current lockdown, there is a desperation in all quarters to get the most at-risk vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd until the nation sees that translate into significant numbers of people getting vaccinated - 2 million a week is the goal - people will remain on edge.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use on 2 December but requires specialist storage unsuitable for most GP practices, with doses largely delivered in hospitals.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was approved on 30 December and does not require specialist storage. It was first rolled out on Monday to hospitals and to GPs in England from Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One medical centre in London is now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nMr Hancock visited a GP surgery in London to promote the roll out earlier - but staff there said delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed.\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"delighted\" care home residents would begin receiving their first Oxford jabs from GPs this week.\n\n\"This will ensure the most vulnerable are protected and will save tens of thousands of lives,\" he said.\n\nGP Ammara Hughes, a partner at Bloomsbury Surgery, told broadcasters its first delivery of the Oxford jab had been pushed back 24 hours to Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"It's just more frustrating than a concern because we've got the capacity to vaccinate. And if we had a regular supply - we do have the capacity to vaccinate three to four thousand patients a week.\"\n\nMr Hancock described supply of vaccine as a \"rate-limiting\" step.\n\nHe said: \"For the first three days with the Oxford vaccine we did it in hospitals to check that it was working well and it's working well so now we can make sure that it gets to all those GP surgeries that like this one can do all the vaccinations that are needed.\n\n\"The rate-limiting step is the supply of vaccine. We're working with the companies - both Pfizer and AstraZeneca - to increase the supply.\"\n\nMore than 700 local vaccination sites will administer jabs, with the government announcing a further seven mass vaccination sites across England.\n\nAnother 180 GP-led sites, 100 new hospital sites and a pilot scheme involving local pharmacies will open this week.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 19,981 second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab - which was the first to be approved for emergency use in the UK last month - were administered between 29 December and 3 January, NHS England said.\n\nIt came as Rupert Pearse, professor of intensive care medicine and a consultant at the Royal London, said his own intensive care staff are having to care for far more sick patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there would usually be a ratio of one fully-trained intensive care nurse for each patient in a unit but staff are becoming increasingly stretched.\n\n\"Right now we are diluting down to one [intensive care] nurse to three [patients] and filling those gaps with untrained staff and in some instances doctors helping nurses deliver their care... and we're even facing diluting that further to one in four,\" he said.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown, and vaccinations are progressing across the devolved nations.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has reported a bumper Christmas, with sales up 9.3% for the festive trading period.\n\nMore customers bought their food online than ever before, it said.\n\nIn the 10 days leading up to Christmas, it delivered 1.1 million online orders, twice last year's number.\n\n\"Many customers had to change their Christmas plans at the last minute and we sold smaller turkeys and more lamb and beef than normal,\" said chief executive Simon Roberts.\n\nSainsbury's Christmas trading period covered the nine weeks from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.\n\nFor the 15 weeks to 2 January, like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings, were up 8.6%.\n\n\"We now expect, after forgoing business rates relief of £410m, to report underlying profit before tax of at least £330m in the financial year to March 2021,\" the supermarket said.\n\nThat is down from the previous year's figure of £586m.\n\nSainsbury's has delivered bumper festive sales. It's invested heavily in boosting online capacity to keep up with the soaring demand.\n\nSupermarkets have struggled to make money from doing online deliveries, but Sainsbury's says its operation has become more efficient and profitability has improved. As volumes have increased, there are more orders in every van delivering to a smaller radius of customers.\n\nClick-and-collect is a lot cheaper to do than home deliveries. And this accounted for about a quarter of online sales in the final week.\n\nArgos generated more than half its sales from online well before the pandemic. More than 300 Argos counters are now inside Sainsbury's supermarkets, making it easy for people to pick up goods and gifts. Its fast-track delivery service can deliver to customers' homes and collection points within hours and this has seen growth of 62%.\n\nThis is a business that's been well placed to benefit from the huge shift to digital this Christmas.\n\nChristmas and New Year celebrations were constrained by coronavirus restrictions, which limited the number of people and households allowed to meet up.\n\nSainsbury's said that while people had smaller gatherings, they still treated themselves, with sales of the supermarket's premium Taste the Difference range up 11%.\n\nPremium champagne sales were up 52%, it added, echoing similar findings by rival Morrisons.\n\n\"People did more home baking than usual, with mincemeat sales up 24%. Customers still wanted New Year's Eve at home to feel special and we sold a record number of steaks,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\nSales of groceries, general merchandise and clothing were stronger than expected throughout the quarter, particularly since the start of England's second national lockdown, it added.\n\nClothing benefited from better-than-anticipated full-price sales, driven by customers shopping earlier for Christmas and changes to the supermarket's Black Friday trading strategy.\n\nSeparate figures issued by discount retailer B&M indicated that it too had a good Christmas, with like-for-like revenues at its UK stores up 21.1% year-on-year in the 13 weeks to 26 December.\n\n\"With our combination of exceptional value and convenient out-of-town locations, we are confident that our business model will prove highly relevant to the needs of customers in 2021,\" said chief executive Simon Arora.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Shijiazhuang authorities have started mass-testing residents following an outbreak in the city\n\nChina has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.\n\nResidents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.\n\nMore than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.\n\nThe new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.\n\nThis has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.\n\nHebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 before spiralling into a global pandemic.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year, a time when people in China travel en masse to spend the holiday with their families.\n\nBut residents in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak, are now not allowed to leave their local area. Other residents are banned from leaving the city.\n\nIn terms of transport, bus travel has been halted and many flights have been cancelled.\n\nResidents have been banned from leaving the city\n\nIn a sign of just how seriously the authorities see the situation, even the postal service in and out of Shijiazhuang has been suspended for three days. And the restrictions are being tightly enforced - police were photographed in protective hazmat suits guarding the entrance to an expressway.\n\nThree officials in Shijiazhuang's Gaocheng district have been punished for \"negligence\", according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.\n\n\"Villages should identify, report, isolate and treat cases as early as possible, so as to cut off the transmission,\" Wu Hao, a national health official, was quoted as saying.\n\nFive hospitals in Shijiazhuang have been cleared for Covid-19 patients, with three others standing by, the city's Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year - a time when families gather\n\nIt is not the first time China has locked down a city in response to a cluster of cases since the outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nIn October, all nine million residents of the Chinese city of Qingdao were tested in five days after a dozen cases were confirmed. The cases were linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.\n\nThe same month, authorities in Kashgar, in Xinjiang, tested around 4.7m people after an outbreak there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many businesses in Beijing say that customers are still staying away", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just when the hospitality sector thought things couldn't get any worse, it has been hit by another lockdown.\n\nLast year's rolling closures forced Martin Wolstencroft to borrow £4m just to ensure the survival of Arc Inspirations, a bar chain with 17 venues across the north of England that he has spent the last two decades building into a successful business.\n\nAnd the latest lockdown has forced Mr Wolstencroft to ask his bank to lend him another £1m.\n\nHe is far from alone. UK Hospitality says the closure of pubs, restaurants and hotels is costing business owners such as Mr Wolstencroft a total of £500m a month, even allowing for any government support. And that has led to a huge rise in debt.\n\n\"The money that we are borrowing is really just to stand still,\" Mr Wolstencroft said.\n\n\"We'll be coming out of this in a far worse position with far greater debt and it totally reduces our ability to grow our business for the future.\n\n\"And all of this has been brought about through no fault of our own.\"\n\nHe reckons the debt he has taken on so far will take the business six years to pay back, which leaves him facing some difficult decisions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a package of grants worth up to £3,000 a month per property to keep retail, hospitality and leisure businesses afloat until the spring.\n\nBut Mr Wolstencroft, who pays rents of more than £16,000 a month on some of his bars, described the grants as a \"mere drop in the ocean\".\n\nThe effect of taking on huge debts with no prospect of reopening soon is a major threat to millions working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMore than 1,600 restaurants closed last year, costing 30,000 jobs, says property adviser Altus.\n\nWhen bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses are included, almost 300,000 jobs were lost last year as a result of the pandemic, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAnd that figure is expected to more than double in the first three months of this year alone.\n\nKate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, predicts the total will hit 660,000 by the end of March.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls is calling for further support for the industry\n\n\"The longer that these restrictions are in place, the more rapidly businesses will simply run out of cash and be unable to to remain open,\" she said.\n\nA survey of the trade body's members revealed that 80% of businesses did not have enough cash to make it through to April. \"It's going to be unbelievably brutal in the first quarter,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe latest lockdown follows a bruising Christmas period for the hospitality sector, which typically depends on a busy December to tide it over during January, traditionally a quiet month for pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"It's obviously very worrying for our industry,\" says Tim Hughes, who runs the Plough pub at Sleapshyde in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"They have banned takeaway sales of alcohol from pubs, but off-licences and supermarkets can carry on selling it,\" he said.\n\nBetween them, Mr Hughes, his brother and his father run three pubs in the St Albans area. They have already borrowed £350,000 and Mr Hughes says the latest lockdown will force them to take on even more debt just to survive.\n\nMonthly fixed costs at each of the pubs run to £9,500 and only one of their venues qualifies for the full £3,000 grant, so Mr Hughes says the Treasury's support \"doesn't touch the sides\".\n\nIt's the fourth time Mr Hughes has been forced to close the doors to the Plough - and each time it has cost him about £5,000.\n\nThis time, he also had to give away £4,000 worth of jumbo pork, vegetarian and vegan Bavarian bratwursts, bought to give 2,000 customers a substantial meal in the pub's \"winter garden\" during the festive period.\n\nThat was before an unexpected decision to put St Albans into tier three forced him to close the pub. He cancelled those bookings and refunded customers their £16,000.\n\nThe Plough's \"winter garden\", which was booked up for the Christmas period, stands empty\n\nRalph Findlay, the boss of Marston's, which has 1,700 pubs across the country and employs 14,000 people, said some pubs that had been forced to close their doors because of the lockdown would never reopen.\n\nHalf of Marston's employees are under 25, he said. \"I really worry about the impact of this on their employment prospects in places where it's very difficult to find employment.\"\n\nHe has called for pubs to be given more time before they are required to pay business rates again, which will leave pubs facing an £800m bill as soon as the current rates holiday expires in March, according to the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nThat would force landlords, including Mr Hughes, to foot a bill that works out at £25,000 a pub.\n\n\"We are kidding ourselves if we think that more debt upon more debt is going to be sustainable,\" said Stephen Welton, executive chairman of the Business Growth Fund.\n\n\"Past recessions have shown very clearly that it's coming out of a recession - when companies are short of working capital - that they fall over.\"\n\nFor Mr Hughes at the Plough, he is looking for all the support he can get to avoid being put into a \"bigger black hole\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"\"We've taken swift action throughout the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nHe said the grant scheme would continue to support businesses and jobs through to the spring.", "Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here's what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.\n\nI had told my sister earlier: \"Something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what, but something bad will happen.\"\n\nOutside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.\n\nI went inside to the House of Representatives and up into the press gallery, where we were assigned seats, looking down at the rather sombre gathering. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding the gavel, and keeping people to their five-minute statements.\n\nAs we went into the second hour, all of a sudden we heard breaking glass. The air began getting fogged. An announcement from the Capitol Police said, \"An individual has breached the building\". So everyone looked around and then it was business as usual. But after that, the announcements kept coming. And they were getting more and more urgent.\n\nThey announced that the intruders had breached the rotunda, which is under the famed marble dome. The sacred house of democracy was under fire.\n\nMany of us are hardened journalists - I've seen my share of violence covering homicides in Baltimore - but this was very unpredictable. The police didn't seem to know what was happening. They weren't coordinated. They locked the chamber doors but at the same time, they told us we would have to evacuate. So there was a sense of panic.\n\nI was afraid. I'll tell you that. And I've spoken to other journalists who said they were a little ashamed of themselves for feeling afraid.\n\nThere was a sense of \"nobody's in charge here, the Capitol Police have lost control of the building, anything can happen\".\n\nIf you think back to the September 11 attacks in 2001, there was one plane that went down and didn't hit its target. That target was the Capitol. There were echoes of that. I made a call to my family, just to let them know that I was here and it was a dangerous situation.\n\nThere was a shot. We could see there was a standoff in our chamber. Five men were holding guns at the door. It was a frightening sight. Men were looking through a broken glass window and looked like they could shoot at any second.\n\nThankfully there was no gunfire inside the chamber. But for a while there, it felt like it would be a real possibility. Because things were going downhill very fast.\n\nWe had to crawl under railings to get out of the way. I was not dressed to do that. A lot of women were dressed up, wearing heels, because they had come for a formal ritual.\n\nI sheltered in the House cafeteria alongside others. I'm still shaking now.\n\nI have seen a lot as a journalist, but this was something more. This was the collective public sphere being undermined, assaulted, degraded. And I think this was why the Speaker wanted to return and hold the gavel again and go on.\n\nAfterwards I had to decide whether I was going to go back to the chamber too. I decided l probably would, because the message that is sending is: \"You can incite a mob, but we're going to go on\". I think that is a very important political message.", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "More than 26,000 are now in hospital with the virus, according to government data\n\nFrance's top medical adviser said on Sunday that a third national lockdown would probably soon be needed to combat coronavirus in the country.\n\nA strict curfew was implemented last weekend, but cases continue to climb.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises leaders on Covid-19, said \"there is an emergency\" and this week was critical.\n\nHe called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.\n\nProf Delfraissy said data showed a new more transmissible variant first detected in the UK now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions and will be hard to stop.\n\nHe said the country was in a better situation than others in Europe, but described the new variants as the \"equivalent of a second pandemic\".\n\n\"If we do not tighten regulations, we will find ourselves in an extremely difficult situation from mid-March,\" the advisor warned during an interview with BFM television.\n\nThe French government is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if further measures are needed.\n\nOfficials have so far resisted implementing a third national lockdown, preferring an overnight curfew system which allows schools to stay open.\n\nBut daily infection numbers are rising - with the seven-day moving average now above 20,000 despite the 18:00 curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex previously said restrictions could be imposed \"without delay\" if the situation deteriorated further.\n\nThe country's virus death toll topped 73,000 on Sunday, as the country tightened restrictions on arrivals into the country.\n\nUnder new rules anyone entering from inside the EU by air or ferry must now present a negative Covid-19 test result within 72 hours of travel. Those entering France from the EU by road, including cross-border workers, will not be required to take a test.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that all non-essential travel \"must be strongly advised against\" but EU nations have so far agreed to keep borders open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19", "Ella Lambert had never sewn before but borrowed a friend's machine to learn how to make sanitary pads made from cloth\n\nA student whose \"terrible period pains\" inspired her to start a reusable sanitary pad project has helped 600 refugees get out of \"period poverty\".\n\nElla Lambert, 20, from Chelmsford, Essex, started The Pachamama Project during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said she wanted to help women who were unable to buy period products.\n\nNearly 2,500 pads sewn by 150 volunteers have been sent to camps in Greece and Lebanon.\n\nWomen are given four pads each, which are washable and can be reused for about five years, she said.\n\nThe pads are distributed to women in refugee camps\n\nMs Lambert said: \"In March I had terrible period pain, I was being sick, it was awful, and it made me think, I know I'm not the only person going through this.\n\n\"The people I want to help, in these camps, they're experiencing period pain and having to use random tissue paper, cardboard, socks, scraps of material and even leaves - whatever they can get hold of.\"\n\nThe University of Bristol languages student set up her not-for-profit group in March and launched her sanitary product - Pacha Pads - in August, with the help of charities and groups in the two countries to distribute them.\n\nThousands of pads have been made by hundreds of volunteers since August\n\nIt started when she put appeals for material on community groups, she said.\n\nVolunteers from all over the UK came forward to make the products after she developed a pattern, created a guide and explained how to source material for free.\n\nThe products are then sent back to her to be posted abroad, after quality checks.\n\nSome of the sewers came from groups formed to make scrubs for NHS workers during the first lockdown, and who still wanted to be useful, she said.\n\nAlice Corrigan, from The Free Shop of Lebanon, said the project helped with the \"fight against period poverty in Lebanon\"\n\nAlice Corrigan, founder of The Free Shop Lebanon, which hands out the products for free in its shop, said: \"Sustainable menstrual products are very new to many Lebanese and in particular Syrian women.\"\n\nShe added it is not common for them to talk about menstrual activity, so it was important they could be helped to understand its importance and accept it as part of their routine.\n\nKaty Chadwick, technical adviser at the charity ActionAid UK, said: \"For too many women and girls and people who menstruate a lack of access to products impacts on their ability to move freely and to access education and other opportunities.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see new initiatives to support the most marginalised women and girls access sustainable products.\"\n\nAll the sanitary pads are washable so they can be reused for up to about five years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Janice Johnston says doctors who misdiagnosed her \"took so much away from me\"\n\nA care home worker who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer said she thought it was a \"cruel joke\" when she was told doctors had made a mistake and she did not have cancer at all.\n\nMum-of-four Janice Johnston said her \"world crumbled\" when she learned she had a rare form of blood cancer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 2017.\n\nShe had 18 months of oral chemotherapy treatment, during which she experienced weight loss, nausea and bone pain, and had to give up her job as an auxiliary nurse.\n\nWhen the treatment did not appear to be working, she says, medics upped the dosage.\n\nIn 2018, she sought alternative treatment at Guy's Hospital in London. It was there a specialist told her she did not have cancer at all but a different condition.\n\nMrs Johnston was awarded £75,950 in damages after East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability. Staff at the hospital had failed to do the necessary ultrasound scan and bone marrow biopsy before diagnosing her.\n\nMrs Johnston, 53, said: \"The cancer diagnosis was an absolute shock. They said my life span would be shortened.\n\n\"I was at high risk of a fatal stroke or heart attack and I could drop down at any minute. It was heartbreaking and devastating.\n\n\"It didn't sink in until I saw the haematologist. I was in a room with people having serious chemotherapy who looked incredibly ill. I thought: 'I'm like them'.\"\n\nMrs Johnston says doctors told her she would need chemotherapy for life.\n\nThe side-effects led to her feeling \"wiped out\", her hair thinning, her teeth becoming loose and her gums receding.\n\nShe says occupational health told her that her immune system was jeopardised and she could pick up infections easily. That meant she was forced to resign from her job.\n\n\"Giving up work was horrible,\" Mrs Johnston says.\n\nShe was also worried she would not get to see some of her daughters get married or her grandchildren grow up.\n\nThe trust admitted failing to carry out vital tests before diagnosing Mrs Johnston\n\nAfter searching on the internet to find out more about the blood cancer she was told she had - Polycythaemia vera (PV) - she learned that Guy's Hospital offered a different type of chemotherapy and asked her consultant for an appointment there.\n\nMrs Johnston recalls: \"The specialist at Guy's looked over my blood counts and said: 'I don't think you have blood cancer'.\"\n\nThe doctor told Mrs Johnston she had a different condition called secondary PV which is not cancer.\n\n\"She asked if I'd had a bone marrow test and scan of the spleen to confirm the diagnosis - I hadn't had either. My husband thought it was fantastic but I was angry.\n\n\"I thought it was a cruel joke on me. It didn't sink in. My husband couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy - but it had taken my life.\"\n\nOne of the hardest things to cope with for Mrs Johnston was thinking she had been a \"fraud\".\n\n\"I'd been doing some fundraising to try and have something positive to focus on. Cancer Research UK asked if I'd be guest of honour at a charity run in Margate. I stood on stage in front of 3,000 women saying I had cancer.\n\n\"I'm mortified that people will think I made it up. It has made me feel awful and like I have lied to everyone,\" she said.\n\nMrs Johnston now has severe anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"I still get flashbacks to it,\" she says. \"It was two years of my life. They took so much away from me.\"\n\nShe says she wants to \"raise awareness\" about her experience, and for \"anyone that does get diagnosed with it, to ask questions and learn as much as they can about it and if they feel any doubt, to get a second opinion\".\n\nA spokesperson for East Kent Hospitals said: \"A misdiagnosis of this kind is exceptionally rare and we wholeheartedly apologise to Ms Johnston.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Galle (day four of five)\n\nEngland completed a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.\n\nChasing a tricky 164, England were 89-4 on a turning pitch but opener Dom Sibley hit 56 not out to lead them to a six-wicket win.\n\nSibley, who had not reached double figures in the series, put on 75 with Jos Buttler, who made 46 not out.\n\nEarlier, England capitalised on reckless batting to dismiss Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings.\n\nDom Bess and Jack Leach took four wickets each and the hosts would have been dismissed even more cheaply but for 40 from number 10 Lasith Embuldeniya, who finished with match figures of 10-210.\n\nResuming on 339-9 in their first innings, England conceded a first-innings deficit of 37 when Jack Leach was dismissed with only five runs added.\n\nSri Lanka were favourites at that point but England completed a turnaround on a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell.\n\nThe series win is England's fourth in a row and they are also unbeaten in 10 successive Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, going into a difficult series in India which starts on 5 February.\n\nEngland are fourth in the World Test Championship table, 0.5% behind third-placed Australia.\n• None Root urges England not to 'stand still'\n• None TMS podcast: What does England's series win mean for India tour?\n\nThis was also England's fifth consecutive away Test win, the first time they have achieved that feat since World War One. They are developing an impressive winning habit.\n\nSri Lanka's batting, perhaps spooked by the turning pitch, was inept and their effort in the field lacklustre, but England were clinical.\n\nBess and Leach bowled well - far better than their wicketless showing in the first innings - while James Anderson took a brilliant high catch and Zak Crawley two excellent grabs at short leg.\n\nSri Lanka were leading only by 115 when their eighth wicket fell, before Embuldeniya, who had a remarkable game in defeat, dragged them to a score.\n\nThe target looked competitive - the hosts were possibly even favourites - but the manner England in which overhauled it was mightily impressive.\n\nThere was a wobble when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw for a useful 28-ball 29, Root - the dominant player in the series - was bowled for 11 and Dan Lawrence edged behind with a further 85 needed.\n\nHowever, Sibley played the anchor role while Buttler provided impetus in his typically attacking style.\n\nSibley, so at sea in his previous three innings, calmly nudged singles into the leg side. Buttler played thumped drives to the extra-cover boundary, smacked a reverse sweep through point and launched a slog sweep through mid-wicket.\n\nIn the end, England won with ease, Sibley sealing a fine win by tapping for one.\n\nSri Lanka threatened better in this match, having been convincingly beaten by seven wickets in the first.\n\nThey batted well in the first innings and in Embuldeniya they have a fine spinner, playing only his ninth Test.\n\nBut their fourth-day performance was abysmal. Their batting was akin to their performance on day one of the series when they were bowled out for 135.\n\nThe dismissals of captain Dinesh Chandimal - skying a slog sweep to Anderson at mid-on having hit a four a ball earlier - and Niroshan Dickwella, who drove Bess to extra cover two minutes before lunch, were the worst of a series of needlessly aggressive shots.\n\nSri Lanka also disappointed in the field. They were a little unfortunate that Sibley survived three tight lbw reviews, all of which were umpire's call, but their tactics were baffling.\n\nChandimal set the field back and allowed an accumulator in Sibley to tick along as he wished.\n\nThis tour, while important for points in the World Test Championship, always felt like the warm-up act in a huge year for England's Test team.\n\nNext they face a far bigger challenge in India before a summer against New Zealand, top of the Test rankings, India again, and an Ashes series in Australia the winter.\n\nThe biggest plus of this series has been the emphatic run-scoring of Root. He did not score a century in 2019 but made 228 and 186, albeit against a poor Sri Lanka. The skipper amassed 426 runs at an average of 106.50 in the series.\n\nBess and Leach were by no means perfect - they bowl too many bad balls - but finished the series with 12 and 10 wickets respectively.\n\nThe match-winning fifty for Sibley is also a significant boost going into the four Tests in India. Having been dismissed by Embuldeniya in every innings on tour previously, he showed he can grind out a score.\n\nEngland's veteran bowlers, Anderson and Stuart Broad, proved once again they can perform in unhelpful conditions.\n\nThere are question marks, however, about opener Crawley, whose top score in four innings was 13.\n\nThe issues at the top of the order are complicated by the fact Bairstow, who has done well at number three, has been rested for the first two Tests in India.\n\nEngland opener Dom Sibley on Test Match Special: \"I didn't think I'd left any stone unturned with regards playing spin, but then you go back to your room in the evening and think 'maybe I'm not up to this' and have those doubts.\n\n\"It is about accepting those and just believing. It just feels like pure relief at the moment.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed today. We have done all the hard work in the last three days but as a batting unit we made the same mistakes of the first Test. There are no excuses for the batsmen and we've got to learn how to bat like Joe Root.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"A really, really strong performance from England. If you look down from one to 11, most people have contributed.\n\n\"They will have to bowl better in India. But the confidence that this will do for the team, and for Joe Root at the start of a huge year, is huge.\"", "A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max.\n\nThe aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to gain approval in Europe this week.\n\nBut in a new report, Ed Pierson claims that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory is badly needed.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pierson claims that regulators and investigators have largely ignored factors, which he believes, may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nHe explicitly links them to conditions at the company's factory in Renton, near Seattle at the time. Boeing says this is unfounded.\n\nInvestigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor. It sent inaccurate data to a piece of flight control software, called MCAS.\n\nThis automated system then repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft downwards, when the pilots were trying to gain height. Ultimately each aircraft was pushed into an unrecoverable dive.\n\nEfforts to make the 737 Max safe have focused on redesigning the MCAS software, and ensuring it can no longer be triggered by a single sensor failure.\n\nFor Ed Pierson, this does not go nearly far enough. A US Navy veteran, who had a senior role on the 737 production line from 2015-2018, he was a star witness during congressional hearings into the disasters involving the Max.\n\nHe told lawmakers he had become so concerned about conditions at the factory, he had told his bosses that he was hesitant about taking his own family on a Boeing plane.\n\nEd Pierson (centre), seated next to his attorney Eric Havian (right), at a House Transportation Committee hearing on oversight of the Boeing 737 Max certification, on 11 December 2019\n\nHe testified that during 2018, the factory was in a \"chaotic\" and \"dysfunctional\" state as, he claimed, staff there struggled under pressure from managers to build new planes as quickly as possible.\n\nNow, he is worried that these issues have been overlooked in the rush to get the 737 Max back in the air.\n\nHis report draws on material from the official investigations. It claims that both of the crashed aircraft suffered from - what he believes were - production defects, almost from the moment they entered service.\n\nThese included intermittent flight control system problems and electrical anomalies that occurred in the days and weeks before the accidents.\n\nHe claims these may have been symptoms of flaws in the aircrafts' highly complex wiring systems, which could have contributed to the erroneous deployment of MCAS.\n\nHe also points out that sensor failures contributed to both accidents and asks why such failures were happening on brand new machines.\n\nIn the case of the Lion Air plane, a faulty sensor was replaced with another part that was not properly calibrated.\n\nAll signs, Mr Pierson says, \"point back to where these airplanes were produced, the 737 factory\".\n\nHowever, he insists that the possibility of production defects playing a role in the accidents has not been addressed by regulators.\n\nHe claims this could lead to further tragedies, involving the Max or even a previous version of the 737.\n\nMr Pierson's concerns are supported by the celebrated aviation safety campaigner Captain Chesley Sullenberger.\n\nBest known as \"Sully\", one of the pilots who safely ditched a crippled and engineless Airbus plane in the Hudson river off Manhattan in 2009, he too believes that modifications to the Max do not go far enough.\n\nHe believes changes are needed to warning systems aboard the plane, which were carried over from a previous version of the 737 and are \"not up to modern standards\".\n\nCaptain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger (centre) testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the status of the grounded Boeing 737 Max in June 2019\n\n\"Ed Pierson's report is very disturbing, about manufacturing issues in the Boeing factories that go well beyond just the Max, and also affect… the previous version of the 737,\" says Capt Sullenberger.\n\n\"There are many critically important unanswered questions that must be answered.\n\n\"Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must finally become more transparent, and begin to provide information and data, so that independent experts can determine the worthiness of the work that's been done.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a former senior inspector with the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB), who now works as a safety specialist. He warns that Mr Pierson's findings should be viewed in a wider context.\n\nThe report, he says, does make some \"valid observations\" about the pressures on Boeing's production line and quality control, and concerns about specific components.\n\nHowever, he adds that \"taking the limited information in any accident report… and making fresh interpretations of it, is not the same as conducting a new investigation\".\n\nThe issues highlighted, he adds, \"may have been investigated and dismissed already, for good reason\".\n\nThe FAA, meanwhile, insists it only approved the return to service of the Max, following a \"comprehensive and methodical safety review process\".\n\nA worker stands by a Boeing 737 Max plane on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington\n\nIt adds: \"None of the many investigations of the two accidents produced evidence that a production flaw played a role\", and emphasises that \"every aircraft leaving the factory is inspected by a team of FAA inspectors before it is cleared for delivery\".\n\nBoeing itself will not comment on whether the electrical and flight control problems highlighted by Mr Pierson may have played a factor in the two accidents, on the grounds that this is a matter for the investigating authorities.\n\nIt has, however, described suggestions of any link between conditions at Renton and the two accidents as \"completely unfounded\", emphasising that none of the authorities investigating the crashes has found any such link.\n\nPatrick Ky, the head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has previously told the BBC he is \"certain\" the plane is safe to fly.\n\nBut relatives of those who died aboard ET302 are continuing to urge the agency not to allow the 737 Max to operate in Europe, \"until continuing concerns about the aircraft's safety have been fully and openly addressed\".", "People in Lebanon are living under one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Under the round-the-clock curfew, citizens who are not \"essential workers\" have been barred from leaving their homes since 14 January.\n\nLaila, 12, is in Beirut trying to study while her family works from home.\n\n\"We all have our own work to do and when we have meetings we hear each other. It can be a real distraction and stop you from finishing your work on time,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I can't study well because I get stressed with all the work they're giving us. It is definitely not the same studying online as it is in the physical world.\"\n\nFor hairdresser Walid Kanaan this year has been \"extremely difficult psychologically and economically\".\n\n\"I own my shop but still I cannot afford it. I pay the workers' salary so I am really broke,\" says the 45-year-old.\n\n\"It is hitting hard. You can't go out at all or do anything. My wife works in a bank and she is also collapsing. She doesn't know if she will still have her job or not.\n\n\"We don't trust the government that if they bring a vaccine it will be safe to take it. We can only pray for God to protect us.\"\n\nRead more stories from people in lockdown in Lebanon here.", "Teachers were not at significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than the general population, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nRestaurant staff, people working in factories and care workers had among the highest death rates, followed by taxi drivers and security guards.\n\nNurses were more than twice as likely as their peers to die of coronavirus.\n\nSecondary school teachers may have been at slightly, but not measurably, higher risk than the average.\n\nThe ONS looked at death rates from coronavirus in England and Wales between 9 March and 28 December 2020.\n\nIt found 31 in every 100,000 working-age men and 17 in every 100,000 working-age women had died of Covid-19.\n\nThis equated to just under 8,000 deaths among 20-64-year-olds.\n\nBut care workers, security guards and people working in certain manufacturing roles died at more than three times the rate of their peers.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths were among men.\n\nAs well as being more likely to be male, working-age people who died of Covid last year had other things in common: they were much more likely to work in jobs where they were either regularly exposed to known Covid cases or working in close proximity with other people more generally.\n\nMany of the highest-risk jobs were also relatively low paid and may be more likely to be casual or insecure, without sick pay, including hospitality, care work and taxi driving.\n\nAmong teachers, there were 18 deaths per 100,000 among men and 10 per 100,000 among women.\n\nBreaking that down by role, secondary school teachers appear to have a very slightly elevated risk at 39 deaths per 100,000 people in men and 21 per 100,000 in women.\n\nPer 100,000 men aged 20-64, 31 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nPer 100,000 women aged 20-64, 17 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nThese are illustrative examples, not an exhaustive league table.\n\nThe ONS calculated the rate by dividing the number of deaths by the number of workers in each job role.\n\nBecause the numbers for secondary teachers were comparatively small - 52 deaths in total - it's difficult to be certain about their exact risk, but any increase there might be compared with the general population was not considered statistically significant.\n\nHowever, while teachers were not at higher risk than the average, they did appear to be at higher risk than some other professional job roles, which have seen very few or no deaths.\n\nThe ONS excluded from its analysis any occupation that had seen fewer than 10 deaths, and the average death rate for the whole population masks this variation.\n\nThe study also covers periods where there were limited numbers of children attending school.\n\nBut the figures do tell us teachers didn't have an elevated risk of the magnitude faced by health and care staff and by lower-paid manual and service workers.\n\nOther groups of staff studied with higher death rates, including hospitality and some factory and construction workers, also had their usual work paused for similar chunks of that period.\n\nWhile these figures tell us the death rates in each occupation group, they do not tell us the jobs are themselves causing more infections.\n\nThe ONS looked at age and sex but did not adjust for ethnicity, health or socioeconomic status which might influence an individual's risk.\n\nONS analyst Ben Humberstone said: \"As the pandemic has progressed, we have learnt more about the disease and the communities it impacts most. There are a complex combination of factors that influence the risk of death; from your age and your ethnicity, where you live and who you live with, to pre-existing health conditions.\n\n\"Our findings do not prove that the rates of death involving COVID-19 are caused by differences in occupational exposure,\" he added.\n\nThis also just refers to deaths, not infections which may result in serious illness.\n\nSome earlier ONS data suggested certain types of teacher may have an increased risk of catching coronavirus, although again the body did not consider this to be statistically significant.\n\nDirector of policy for the Association of School and College Leaders teachers' union, Julie McCulloch, said: \"When trying to understand rates of coronavirus-related deaths, there are likely to be many complex factors and we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about the relative risks of different workplaces.\n\n\"What we do know is that, when schools are fully open, education staff are asked to work in environments that are inherently busy and crowded. In order to give them reassurance, and to minimise the disruption to education, it is vital that they are prioritised for vaccination as soon as possible.\"\n\nWhether teachers should be prioritised for vaccines has been a matter of debate.\n\nAt the moment the programme is being rolled out based on what will save the most lives and prevent the most severe illness.\n\nAfter the oldest age groups, people with health conditions and frontline staff who are regularly exposed to the virus, the government will have to publish a new raft of priorities.\n\nVaccines minister Nadim Zahawi has indicated more people could be prioritised on the basis of their job role, including teachers, shop workers and police officers.", "Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\nThe scale of credit card, identity and cyber-fraud makes it the most prevalent crime, costing up to £190bn a year.\n\nUK intelligence agencies should play a greater role in responding, the RUSI argues in a report.\n\nPolicing should be better resourced, working more closely with the private sector, it adds.\n\nThe report argues that the scale of fraud against the private sector has an impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business.\n\nMeanwhile, the amount lost by the government in fraudulent claims represents a \"heist\" on the public purse, undermining faith and trust, it says.\n\nIt is the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to, but the failures in responding risk undermining public confidence in the rule of law.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales found 3.7 million reported incidents in 2019-20 of members of the public being targeted by credit card, identity and cyber-fraud.\n\nThe private sector takes the biggest financial losses. One estimate from 2017 put the cost of fraud to businesses at £140bn.\n\nFraud against the public sector, including benefit, tax credit and student loan fraud, is estimated to cost £31-48bn a year, the upper figure larger than the UK's annual defence budget.\n\nThe losses go beyond the financial, the authors say.\n\n\"Fraud has the potential to disrupt society in multiple ways, by psychologically impacting individuals, undermining the viability of businesses, putting pressure on public services, fuelling organised crime and funding terrorism,\" they add.\n\nThe report cites evidence that terrorist groups and lone actors turn to fraud in order to finance their activities.\n\nIn one case, eight supporters of the Islamic State group were convicted of defrauding UK pensioners out of more than £1m, which was alleged to be used in part to fund travel from the UK to Syria.\n\nThe men carried out a type of courier fraud in which they pretended to be police officers, telling victims that their bank accounts had been compromised and needed to be transferred.\n\nBut despite the growing scale of the problem, there is no national strategy for tackling the issue, while the police response is underfunded and lacking focus.\n\nThis makes fraud \"everyone's problem but no-one's priority\", according to the report, written by RUSI experts Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjev.\n\nThe digitisation of everyday life - accelerated by Covid - has only increased the risks, with organised crime groups showing increased sophistication in their tactics.\n\n\"The UK has become a target destination for global fraudsters,\" the RUSI argues.\n\nBut the extent to which international criminals focus on the UK is hard to gauge, because intelligence agencies have not traditionally focused on the issue.\n\nOne senior fraud professional interviewed by the researchers said that despite 30 years of investigating fraud, they still had no idea what proportion of the threat emanated from overseas.\n\nClassifying fraud as a national security issue would help ensure the right level of resourcing and prioritisation, the authors argue.\n\nThey also recommend more focused intelligence direction from the National Security Council, including greater tasking for GCHQ as well as the National Crime Agency to understand the issue.\n\nThey call for better information-sharing and use of data analytics, as well as more money and attention from police forces to address what they call a \"responsibility vacuum\".", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. Devon County Council urged people to avoid travel unless it was absolutely essential and not to travel to find snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Devon County Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMost pupils across the UK have not been in school since before the Christmas holidays - and now Tory MPs are calling for a \"route map\" for the reopening of schools in England. Pupils have been told they will be learning from home until at least the February half-term holidays. And Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says schools will be given at least two weeks' notice to reopen - which he \"hopes\" will happen before Easter. So, with no firm timetable, the chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, has called for a plan to be laid out to MPs. He has asked for an urgent question in the Commons - if granted, Mr Williamson must respond. No part of the UK has yet announced a firm date for schools' reopening - you can read about the different nations' plans here.\n\nThe UK must reform how it is governed or risk becoming a \"failed state\", former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he says Covid has exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions. Recent polls have suggested rising support for Scottish independence - and a potential border vote in Northern Ireland. \"The complaint is that Whitehall does not fully understand the country it is supposed to govern,\" says Mr Brown.\n\nFrance's top medical adviser says a third national lockdown will probably soon be needed to combat Covid-19. Prof Jean-Francois Delfraissy says \"there is an emergency\", adding that the \"UK variant\" now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions. A strict curfew was implemented last weekend but cases continue to climb. You can see police enforcing the 6pm shutdown below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have clashed with protesters who are angry at new coronavirus restrictions. Officers used water cannon and tear gas to clear demonstrators in Eindhoven. They had gathered in defiance of a new 9pm curfew. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller demonstrations in the capital, Amsterdam.\n\nAustralia has suspended a travel bubble with New Zealand - after NZ's first Covid case in months was confirmed to be the South African variant. The infected patient had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice before developing symptoms later. Travellers coming from New Zealand to Australia in the next 72 hours will now have to go through hotel quarantine. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the suspension was done out of an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This explainer looks at various questions - including whether the vaccine stops you spreading the disease.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has condemned as \"illegal and dangerous\" the mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nTens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies across Russia on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.\n\nEU foreign ministers discussed the protests on Monday, but did not agree on further sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn Moscow riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.\n\nThe foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding \"restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny. A week ago he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating parole conditions - a case he condemns as fabricated.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on arrival from Berlin on 17 January.\n\nDemonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests as a \"slide towards authoritarianism\" and called for further sanctions against Russia.\n\n\"Change is in the air in Russia,\" declared Lithuania's new Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as he arrived for his first meeting with EU counterparts.\n\nBut he soon discovered that change is not always in the air in Brussels.\n\nA couple of years ago, one seasoned Spanish politician lamented the meetings of the 27 EU foreign ministers as being \"more a valley of tears\" than a place for decision-making: \"We express our condolence and concern… but no capacity for action comes out of it.\"\n\nUnfortunately for that same politician - Josep Borrell - he's now the man who chairs these gatherings.\n\nThe EU has already imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials - including the head of the FSB security service - over the nerve agent attack on Mr Navalny last August.\n\nBut MEPs are urging the EU to go further and hit Mr Putin's administration \"where it really hurts - the money\".\n\nIn December, the EU unveiled a tougher sanctions regime, including asset freezes and travel bans for foreign individuals accused of human rights violations. It puts the bloc alongside the US and UK, which adopted so-called Magnitsky Acts.\n\nThey take the name of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after reporting massive fraud by Russian tax officials. The EU version does not bear his name, to avoid alienating Russia-leaning member states.\n\nAgreeing on EU sanctions is always tough, as it requires all 27 countries to agree and we're told no concrete proposal was discussed by foreign ministers today.\n\nObservers say the scale of the Russia-wide demonstrations was unprecedented for recent years, and the Moscow protest was the capital's largest in almost a decade.\n\nThey appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.\n\nProtesters, like these in St Petersburg, braved freezing cold to rally for Mr Navalny\n\nThe protests were also notable for the high proportion of young Russians who turned out. Opposition rallies have attracted more young people since Mr Navalny began releasing online investigations into alleged government corruption.\n\nMany protesters said they were angered by the findings of that report, and chants of \"Putin is a thief!\" were heard during Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nSocial media also played a key role in driving young people - many of whom have only ever known a Putin-led Russia - to take to the streets. Posts promoting the demonstrations were viewed hundreds of millions of times on TikTok.\n\nThe flood of videos prompted Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to demand the app take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\".\n\nMr Putin has said no underage children should take part in the protests: \"One must under no circumstances push forward underage people. After all, it is terrorists who act like that, when they drive in front of them women and children. The emphasis is slightly different, but essentially, this is the same thing.\"\n\nPolice should also act within the law, he said.\n\nNo-one should seek to advance \"their ambitious objectives and goals, particularly in politics\" through protests, he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Navalny's video report into this Black Sea resort has been viewed 85 million times\n\nOn Sunday Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an \"interference in our domestic affairs\".\n\nThe embassy said such warnings were a \"common and routine practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.\n\nThe new requirements are tailored to each customer, although some may see a significant rise in demands.\n\nBut the changes will also see charges for exceeding a credit limit scrapped.\n\nJanuary is a pinch point for many in debt and borrowers are being urged to seek help if they are in trouble.\n\nBarclaycard signalled the changes to their pricing structures in November, although some borrowers may have missed the notice, which was titled \"changes to your terms and conditions\".\n\nThe new repayment rates will affect those with Platinum, Initial, Freedom, Forward, Cashback, Littlewoods, Rewards and Hilton Honors cards, but not Premier or Woolwich cards.\n\nFor cardholders who started using their cards in the last decade, the minimum repayment each month has been calculated as the highest of 2.25% of the full balance, 1% of the balance plus interest, or £5. This differed slightly for longer-standing customers.\n\nThe new charges mean minimum repayments will be the highest of between 2% and 5% of the full balance, between 1% and 3% of the balance plus interest, or £5.\n\nThis means some people could see the minimum repayment rise, although some other charges - such as the late payment fee - will be limited.\n\nThe exact percentage depends on the customer and would have been outlined in the November message.\n\nA Barclaycard spokesman said: \"We are increasing minimum payments for some customers to help them pay off debt quicker and reduce the overall interest they pay.\n\n\"This is part of our ambition to ensure that no Barclaycard customer gets into persistent debt - where they pay more in interest and charges than reducing their debt and take a long time to pay this debt off - and is being put in place to support our customers.\"\n\nSara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said that the higher minimum payment may well come as a \"nasty shock\".\n\n\"January is always the tightest month for money for most people. December pay is often early, so the money has to stretch further, and if you put any Christmas presents or expenses on your Barclaycard, this month's bill will be high anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"For people who were hardly managing before, the increase to the minimum payments may tip the bill over into being unaffordable.\"\n\nDebt charities had already warned that the coronavirus pandemic meant the UK was \"sleepwalking into a debt crisis\".\n\nThe government-backed Money and Pensions Service - which offers free guidance - said it was expecting a call about debt at least every four minutes throughout January.\n\nBarclaycard said the timing of the changes - which coincide with lockdown and many people on a reduced furlough income - was unintentional and had been signalled some time ago.\n\nAny borrowers who feel the new repayment levels are unaffordable are being asked to contact the company.\n\nMore broadly, anyone struggling to make debt repayments of any kind is being urged to face their difficulties and seek help.\n\n\"Financial worries negatively affect our 'cognition', which are the thinking processes that support and maintain our mental health. When in a poor state, financial worries cause stress and our cognition fails,\" said Keiron Sparrowhawk, a cognition expert from the Being Well Group, which runs the MyCognition app.\n\nThis could lead to depression and hasty, ill-thought-out decisions, he said.\n\n\"Together, depression and anxiety are distressing and disabling, causing us to spiral out of control and enter a pit of hell,\" he said.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after two previous attempts to wed were delayed by the pandemic\n\nTwo newlywed pensioners are urging everyone to get vaccinated as they were among the first to receive a dose at a new centre.\n\nGeoff Holland, 90, and 86-year-old wife Jenny married in August after meeting at Town View independent living centre in Mansfield.\n\nThe pair tied the knot after being forced to postpone their nuptials twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThey both received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe couple made their vaccination plea as a centre at an old DIY store on Chesterfield Road South, in Mansfield, opened on Monday.\n\nIt has joined 31 other new sites opening across England this week, with anyone aged 75 and over who lives within a 45-minute drive encouraged to book their injections.\n\nMrs Holland praised staff at the vaccination site for the care she and her new husband received.\n\n\"We've been well looked after while we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"People have worked long and hard to get this vaccine so I think people ought to have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time-lapse footage shows how a DIY store was transformed into a vaccine centre in three weeks\n\nMr and Mrs Holland said they both tested positive for coronavirus a couple of months ago after Mr Holland reported feeling unwell.\n\nBoth managed to recover without developing major symptoms.\n\nDespite the delay to their wedding and the ongoing after-effects of the pandemic, Mrs Holland said married life was turning out to be \"brilliant\".\n\n\"Hopefully, one day soon, we'll be able to have a get together and celebrate with our family and friends who couldn't be there on the day,\" she said.\n\nKathryn Turner, Mr Holland's daughter, said the family was thrilled the pair received their jabs.\n\n\"It's fantastic that they are getting the vaccine so their love story can continue,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will help us all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe Hollands met in the summer of 2019 and were engaged the following New Year's Eve\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None COVID-19 Vaccination in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "Of 2,000 Welsh members of the Royal College of Nursing who took part in a survey, 75.9% reported increased stress over the past year\n\nA long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, union officials have said.\n\nLast year the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ran a survey looking at its impact on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses' lives.\n\nOf 2,000 Welsh members who took part, 75.9% reported increased stress and 52% were worried about their mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the pressures on NHS workers.\n\nCarol Doggett, senior matron at Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said nurses were often becoming patients' \"next of kin\" during the pandemic, due to the \"absence of family, particularly at end of life\".\n\n\"Which we would do anyway, naturally, but in the absence of family it's far more profound than supporting them in a holistic way if they were present with us,\" she said.\n\nSenior matron Carol Doggett says the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital\n\nMs Doggett said the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital.\n\n\"Patients are coming in through [the emergency department]. They are sicker. The number of sicker patients has definitely increased,\" she said.\n\n\"That results in them having an extended period in hospital. They can stay beyond Covid. They continue to suffer with those conditions that present themselves as a result of Covid.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Doggett's colleague, Morriston intensive care consultant John Gorst, said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of nursing at RCN Wales, said: \"The Welsh Government needs to set a long-term plan in place to deal with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues amongst nurses as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Nurses are exhausted, stressed and nearing burnout. Every day they tell us that they feel that they have nothing left to give and feel devalued.\"\n\nAlmost a year on from the start of the pandemic nurses have had to find \"ever more physical and emotional strength\" to cope with Covid-19, said Ms Hughes.\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru agreed with the RCN that a \"coherent long-term strategy\" was needed to help front-line workers deal with the pandemic's effect on their mental health.\n\n\"We urge Welsh Government to factor this in to their plans and take the necessary steps to give people the support they need,\" said Simon Jones, Mind Cymru's head of policy.\n\n\"Nursing staff and other healthcare professionals have played, and continue to play, a vital role in combatting the pandemic, often putting their own health and wellbeing at risk.\n\n\"Even before the outbreak, we heard from many healthcare professionals struggling with the mental health impact of things like long working hours without breaks, unsociable shift patterns, and dealing with traumatic events.\"\n\nA mental health support hotline for front-line NHS staff in Wales - Health for Health Professionals (HHP) Wales - has been set up by Cardiff University and has received Welsh Government funding.\n\nThe hotline's director Prof Jonathan Bisson said he was \"encouraged\" by the Welsh Government's investment in HHP Wales along with Traumatic Stress Wales, which helps people who have experienced traumatic events.\n\n\"These two initiatives are taking a long term strategic approach to support health workers exposed to traumatic events,\" Prof Bisson said.\n\n\"HHP Wales offers access to mental health support for any member of NHS staff in Wales and has linked with Traumatic Stress Wales to provide evidence-based treatment to health workers who are experiencing post traumatic stress disorder as a result of traumatic experiences related to the pandemic and other causes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and care workers \"mustn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must demonstrate that they're taking this seriously with a robust workforce strategy that takes into account the mental health needs of workers, including sufficient down time after the pandemic, and addresses the need to retain and recruit more staff,\" said Plaid's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe Welsh Government called the \"commitment and tireless hard work\" of nurses across Wales \"truly remarkable\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS workforce is experiencing and have worked closely with NHS employers and trade unions to create a comprehensive wellbeing package to help support them, which includes a dedicated and confidential Samaritans listening support helpline.\n\n\"We have also expanded our Health for Health Professionals Wales service which offers psychological and mental health support, as well as a number of free-to-access health and wellbeing support apps.\"\n\nRCN Wales said it was glad the Welsh Government was backing projects supporting health workers.\n\nIt said it encouraged the continued development of a \"long-term strategy to deal with the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our nursing workforce.\"", "A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation's biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.\n\nA large blaze has been contained in Adelaide, South Australia after it burned through 2,500 hectares.\n\nNeighbouring Victoria state is facing its worst fire risk in a year.\n\nTemperatures in those states have started to cool but New South Wales and Queensland will see their heatwave continue into Tuesday.\n\nSydney recorded temperatures of above 40C by Monday afternoon.\n\nHealth officials have urged people to stay inside and to avoid physical activity, and for those near bushfires to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\nThe blaze in the Adelaide Hills has been contained but is expected to continue to burn for the next few days, local media reports.\n\nIt is believed to have destroyed several houses but has not caused injuries.\n\nThe blaze has burned through more than 2,500 hectares\n\nPeople in the area have been warned to take care.\n\n\"Smoke will reduce visibility on the roads and there is a risk of trees and branches falling,\" a statement from SA police said.\n\nImages taken on Monday show smoke over Adelaide obscuring parts of the city skyline and prompting some residents to wear face masks.\n\nAdelaide was blanketed by smoke on Monday\n\nAfter the hot spell began on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) issued heatwave warnings for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland.\n\nOn Monday, Victoria's state capital Melbourne recorded temperatures of 41.5C at 12.40pm (01.40 GMT).\n\nPeople in Victoria have been urged to be careful when in water after the state recorded seven drownings over the past 10 days, ABC News reports.\n\nPeople in Sydney flocked to beaches at the weekend seeking relief from the heat\n\nThe heat is expected to linger until mid-week as the hot air mass tracks east across the country.\n\nAfter extreme bushfires and heatwaves a year ago, Australia's summer this year has so far been cooler and wetter. Meteorologists say the conditions are influenced by a La Nina phenomenon.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes in 2019-20\n\n\"In summer we now see a greater frequency of very hot days compared to earlier decades,\" said BoM and the national science agency, CSIRO, in their 2020 State of the Climate report.\n\nThe same report noted that 2019 - Australia's hottest year on record - had 33 days where the national maximum temperature exceeded 39C. That surpassed the total number of days over 39C in the previous six decades.\n\nHeatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural disaster and have killed thousands more people than bushfires or floods.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA woman has admitted suffocating her severely disabled son after suffering a breakdown.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThree psychiatric reports said Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness with psychotic symptoms at the time of the killing.\n\nFreeman attended Acton Police Station to report herself following the killing.\n\nOfficers later found Dylan in his mother's bed surrounded by toys.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nIn the week leading up to the killing, Freeman had spoken about saving the world and being a Messiah, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nFreeman appeared by video-link to enter her plea and will be sentenced on 11 February.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the CPS's Kristen Katsouris described the death as \"tragic\".\n\nShe added: \"Olga Freeman had loved and cared for Dylan for many years, but the strain and pressures of her son's severe and complex special needs had built up and that, combined with her impaired mental health, led to heart-breaking consequences.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Hospital recorded Dylan's cause of death as upper airway obstruction.\n\nThe Met Police said Freeman had spoken to friends about struggling with the responsibility of caring for Dylan.\n\nOn the night before his body was found, Freeman booked two seats on a flight to Tel Aviv and told her friend not to go into Dylan's room.\n\nThe body of Dylan was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nAt the time of his death, his father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain.\n\nHe described his son as \"a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child who loved to travel, visit art galleries and swim\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambrose O'Neill was sentenced in his absence in 2008\n\nA violent robber who went on the run for nearly 13 years has finally been caught and jailed.\n\nAmbrose O'Neill - dubbed \"The Running Man\" due to his ability to evade capture - skipped his 2008 trial over an attack on an antiques dealer.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight years in prison in his absence but spent years at large, until police got a tip-off he was in hiding in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested on Friday and is now beginning his sentence.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said in 2007, O'Neill, of Ludgate Close in Arnold, knocked on his victim's front door in Seagrave, Leicestershire, posing as a pizza delivery man.\n\nWhen his victim opened the door, O'Neill pushed him over, punched him in the face and demanded he open a safe, threatening to kill him.\n\nBut he ultimately left empty-handed and was later arrested.\n\nO'Neill attended the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court but then went on the run.\n\nPolice said they launched Operation Gladiolus in December 2020 in a bid to track him down.\n\nPC James Gill, from Nottinghamshire Police's \"wanted squad\", said: \"We knew he had changed his appearance and lived in an area where people do not know him and he had an assumed identity,\" he said.\n\n\"He was laughing at the police, so we were determined to do everything to find him.\"\n\nA major breakthrough came from an anonymous tip-off suggesting O'Neill may be living with a woman in the Wyberton area, in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice narrowed it down to a house in Causeway and arrested the \"surprised\" O'Neill in the early hours of Friday.\n\nPC James Gill worked in his free time to bring O'Neill to justice, Nottinghamshire Police said\n\nOfficers also arrested a 41-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. She remains in custody.\n\nO'Neill is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 29 January, where his sentence could be extended, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany and her two children have been on a waiting list for more than a year\n\nThere is a \"shocking\" lack of places for traveller families to live in England, according to a charity.\n\nOnly 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any spaces available, research from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) suggests.\n\nIt says the government must \"do more\" to identify land for the community to live on.\n\nThe government says councils are \"best placed\" to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites.\n\nIn October, FFT wrote to all local authorities and private registered site providers in England to ask how many pitches they had available.\n\nIt received responses relating to 251 out of 266 traveller sites - which represented 3,482 permanent pitches and 304 transit pitches.\n\nA transit pitch is a short-term place where people can stay for a set period of usually up to three months.\n\nBethany says she's near the bottom of the waiting list for a pitch in her local area\n\nBethany Rose, 26, and her two children have been on a waiting list for a pitch in West Sussex for more than a year.\n\nShe is currently staying with her parents in their caravan on a registered traveller site. But this is against the rules of their tenancy contract and she will have to move out once the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nBethany has a health condition which means she can often be paralysed from the waist down and she needs to be close to her mum who is her carer.\n\n\"It's frustrating, annoying, aggravating, I feel let down,\" she says. \"I'm disabled. I'm homeless and I have two kids.\n\n\"For anyone normally it would just be like, 'Boof, there you go, there's a property, go and live there'. But I can't do that. I can't even get a house, I can't buy a plot of land, I can't do anything.\"\n\nBethany and her children are currently living with her parents on a traveller site in West Sussex\n\nIt's estimated about 1.1 million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, but Bethany believes it would be easier for her to get a home if she wasn't a traveller.\n\nShe says being a traveller is a huge part of her identity and she wants to live on a site so she can continue to be connected to her heritage.\n\n\"A whole community is there if you need something or something happens,\" she said. \"If you fall or you go to hospital, you can guarantee your neighbour will watch the kids until you come back. If you need a cup of sugar, you can just go round.\"\n\nThe research from FFT comes as MPs were due to debate a petition on Monday against government proposals to criminalise trespassing. However, this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new measures could see travellers facing a fine or prison if they set up unauthorised encampments - currently it's a civil offence.\n\nIn a consultation paper published in 2019, the Home Office said there had been \"long-standing concerns\" about the distress they caused to local communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Tanner posted a video saying she was \"disgusted\" by mess left by travellers in Dorset\n\nIn June 2020, residents in Dorset complained about mess left by travellers on a local park - which included a car being abandoned in the middle of a cricket pitch, rubbish dumped in green spaces and human waste deposited in the pond and lake.\n\nFFT says councils are failing to provide enough sites for travellers to live on.\n\nIn January 2019, plans to spend £5m on new traveller pitches in Milton Keynes were put on hold after a \"heated\" meeting with local residents.\n\nBethany believes councils are not doing more to provide extra sites because of discrimination towards travellers.\n\n\"They're building 50,000 new houses in West Sussex, not one of those places is having a site,\" she said. \"So you've got the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) culture attached to that.\n\n\"For every 50 houses, they could put a site of five which is a whole little community that they can get used to and go, 'Yeah, OK, they're not as bad as people say.'\n\n\"That also means we're not pulling up the side of the roads. We're not being moved off. We're just trying to live like everyone else.\"\n\nMilton Keynes Council changed its plan to build a new traveller site after listening to residents\n\nWest Sussex County Council says when a vacancy comes up on a permanent site all those who have expressed an interest in that location are considered for the pitch.\n\nThe FFT wants the government to reintroduce pitch targets and a statutory duty on local authorities to meet the assessed need for Gypsy and traveller sites.\n\nIt also calls on the government to abandon its proposal to criminalise trespassing.\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy and communications manager at FFT, said: \"It is deeply unfair that while the government is dramatically failing to identify enough land for Gypsy and traveller families to live on, the home secretary is working to create laws to imprison, fine and remove the homes of families living on roadside camps for the 'crime' of having nowhere else to go.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association says it wants the government to publish \"better data\" on the scale of unauthorised encampments and the availability of authorised sites to help councils in England meet their planning obligations.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Unauthorised encampments cause distress and disruption for many people across the country so it's right we are giving the police the powers they need to address this issue.\n\n\"Councils are best placed to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites and decide where they should be, and can apply for funding through our Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme to help build them.\"", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "Jenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838\n\nThe owner of the Jenners building in Edinburgh has promised that it will remain a department store - despite the departure of its current tenant, the House of Fraser.\n\nFrasers Group said it would cease trading at the site on 3 May, with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.\n\nA company spokesman said it would continue as a store and that \"advanced\" talks were taking place with operators.\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nA Frasers spokesman claimed that the landlord had not been able to \"work mutually on a fair agreement\".\n\nHe said this had led to \"the loss of 200 jobs and a vacant site for the foreseeable future, with no immediate plans.\n\n\"Our commitment to our Frasers strategy remains but landlords and retailers need to work together in a fair manner, especially when all stores are closed.\"\n\nAnders Holch Povlsen is one of Scotland's biggest landowners\n\nHowever, Anders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - said it had given Frasers a substantial rent reduction and rent-free periods to cover the lockdowns.\n\n\"Frasers has made the decision that it does not wish to continue in occupation,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see the end of the 16-year association between House of Fraser and this building, but not of the 180 years of Jenners department store.\"\n\nMr Vogdrup told BBC Scotland that it had bought the Jenners building \"out of passion for its architecture and history\".\n\n\"We have been sad to read on social media that we are to close the department store, as that is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought to keep the current tenant and we are now in advanced talks with other partners.\"\n\nHe said their \"first priority\" was to keep it as a department store, while there were also plans to turn some unused parts of the building into a hotel.\n\n\"The Jenners department store and building is the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh,\" he added.\n\n\"We are not turning it into a hotel. It will remain a department store.\"\n\nHe also expects the Jenners name will remain on the side of the building.\n\nMr Povlsen, whose parents set up Scandinavian fashion company Bestseller, is believed to be worth £4.5bn. As well as owning Bestseller he is a major shareholder in online retailer Asos.\n\nHe has previously revealed plans to use parts of the Princes Street building for a hotel, with the rest reserved for retail.\n\nThe plans included the restoration of the building's Victorian facade and central atrium, which is a three-storey, top-lit grand saloon. A rooftop restaurant and bar would overlook nearby St Andrew Square.\n\nMr Vogdrup said the plans to refurbish the store were now on hold due to the current economic climate.\n\nJenners has dominated Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare since the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was opened in 1838 by local drapers Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington, who found themselves out of work after being sacked for taking a day off to go to the races in Musselburgh.\n\nInitially called Kennington & Jenner, the boutique store proved popular for keeping the people of Edinburgh in fine silks and linen, which could normally only be found in London.\n\nBy 1890 the shop had changed name to Charles Jenner & Co and had expanded to adjoining buildings, making it one of the biggest stores in Scotland.\n\nBut just two years later fire destroyed the shop and ambitious plans - backed by the local council - were launched for a new look Jenners.\n\nCelebrated architect William Hamilton Beattie, who also designed the Balmoral and Carlton Hotel, was brought in for the redesign.\n\nCharles Jenner died in 1893 before the work was completed in 1895.\n\nIn 1911 the popular store was given a Royal Warrant.\n\nAfter struggling in the the 21st Century, the Jenners brand was sold to rivals House of Fraser for £46m in 2005.\n\nIn 2018, House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company.\n\nEarly laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine can recognise and fight the new variants.\n\nMore studies are needed to confirm this is true for people who have been vaccinated.\n\nThe new variants have been spreading fast in a number of nations.\n\nThey have undergone changes or mutations that mean they can infect human cells more easily than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nExperts think the UK strain, which emerged in September, may be up to 70% more transmissible.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well. There are already some early results that suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new UK variant.\n\nFor the Moderna study, researchers looked at blood samples taken from eight people who had received the recommended two doses of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe findings are yet to be peer reviewed, but suggest immunity from the vaccine recognises the new variants.\n\nNeutralising antibodies, made by the body's immune system, stop the virus from entering cells.\n\nBlood samples exposed to the new variants appeared to have sufficient antibodies to achieve this neutralising effect, although it was not as strong for the South Africa variant as for the UK one.\n\nModerna says this could mean that protection against the South Africa variant might disappear more quickly.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School in the UK, said this would be concerning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health and science journalist Laura Foster compares the three different Covid-19 vaccines\n\nModerna is currently testing whether giving a third booster shot might be beneficial.\n\nLike other scientists, the company is also investigating whether redesigning the booster to be a better match for the new variants will be beneficial.\n\nStephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said the company believed it was \"imperative to be proactive as the virus evolves\".\n\nUK regulators have already approved Moderna's vaccine for rollout on the NHS, but the 17m pre-ordered doses are not expected to arrive until Spring.\n\nThe vaccine works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being used in the UK.\n\nMore than 6.3 million people in the UK have already received a first dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine.", "Media regulator Ofcom has decided not to take any action over Channel 4's use of a \"deepfaked\" video of the Queen.\n\nThe \"alternative Christmas message\" attracted 354 complaints about decency after it aired on Christmas Day.\n\nIt showed an AI-generated version of the Queen, who made jokes about the Royal Family and the prime minister, and danced on top of a table.\n\nBut after assessing things, Ofcom decided not to pursue the complaints about disrespecting the monarch.\n\n\"In our view, Channel 4 made clear that the images were deliberately manipulated as a device to question societal trust in what we see online,\" a spokeswoman for the regulator said.\n\n\"We also consider that the satirical tone of the film was in keeping with audience expectations of this broadcaster,\" it added.\n\nThat decision is similar to Channel 4's own defence of the satire, in which it argued that the parody left viewers \"in no doubt that it was not real\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Channel 4 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also argued the message of the video as a whole was a warning about the importance of trust, and how easily convincing fake images and video can be created - even uploading a behind-the-scenes video about its creation.\n\nAfter airing on national television in the UK, the video has spread widely online, racking up nearly two million views on YouTube alone.\n\nIt has not, however, been universally popular - on top of the formal complaints to Ofcom, it has a poor ratio of likes-to-dislikes on YouTube - with more than 19,000 likes, but nearly 5,000 dislikes.\n\nDeepfakes work by training a computer to draw a person's face by showing it thousands of photographs of that person, ideally from many different angles and in different lighting conditions.\n\nThe computer can then draw that person's face on top of another actor's performance.\n\nThe more varied and numerous the images used in training the model, the better the result - which is why it is almost universally used to fake the appearance of celebrities, who already have hours of available film or television footage available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there are other limitations on the technology, too.\n\nThe similarity in facial structure, size, and appearance of the actor whose face is being replaced affects the realism of the finished deepfake. It is also far easier to produce a convincing result if the person remains still, as movement can often reveal the artificial nature of the animation.\n\nThe voice must also be replaced by an impersonator and the entire process is incredibly demanding, even for high-end computers, often taking many days of computation.\n\nHowever, the technique is advancing rapidly, and the results are becoming more convincing with each passing year, with major film firms such as Disney actively exploring the technique and developing their own variants.", "Fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nHowever, it will not take on any of the firm's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nBoohoo said it was a \"transformational deal\" and a \"huge step\". But the deal means that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go.\n\nThe 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business.\n\nIn a separate development, Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nA closing-down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as the administrators continued to seek offers for all or parts of the business.\n\nThe company announced recently that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nThe administrators of Debenhams UK, FRP Advisory, said they had undertaken a \"thorough and robust process\" to achieve \"the best outcome for Debenhams' stakeholders\".\n\n\"This transaction will allow a new Debenhams-branded business to emerge under strong new ownership, including an online operation and the opportunity to secure an international franchise network that will operate under licence using the Debenhams name,\" they added.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nIts executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said: \"This is a transformational deal for the group, which allows us to capture the fantastic opportunity as ecommerce continues to grow. Our ambition is to create the UK's largest marketplace.\n\n\"Our acquisition of the Debenhams brand is strategically significant as it represents a huge step which accelerates our ambition to be a leader, not just in fashion ecommerce, but in new categories including beauty, sport and homeware.\"\n\nBoohoo said Debenhams was expected to relaunch on Boohoo's web platform later this year.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will continue to operate its website for an agreed period.\n\nBoohoo's fast-fashion model has come under scrutiny\n\nBoohoo has recently come under fire over workers' pay and conditions and its ultra-low pricing.\n\nAs well as facing questions about the environmental impact of its fast-fashion business model, there have been accusations of widespread abuse of employment law at some of Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nInvestigations last year suggested workers were being paid below the minimum wage.\n\nAfter an independent review of the claims found a series of failings, Mr Kamani said last month that the firm was working to fix the problems, adding: \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"\n\nWhile online retailers have been whittling away at their High Street rivals for years, few could have predicted how quickly bricks-and-mortar stalwarts have collapsed. The pandemic has fatally undermined their already parlous finances. Businesses that appeared to have a chance of survival just a year ago have been wiped out and their brands bought by online players.\n\nThe scale of the change is profound: when Debenhams listed on the stock exchange in 2011, investors valued it at £1.6bn. Boohoo, which was founded only in 2006, already has a stock market value of £4.4bn. Asos, a bit player two decades ago when Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was riding high and toying with a bid for Marks & Spencer, is now valued by the stock market at £5bn.\n\nNeither Boohoo or Asos see any value in the Debenhams or Topshop High Street estates. Instead, they will concentrate on development of the brands and the associated customer data. This is bad news for the 19,000-odd people who work in the branches of Debenhams and Topshop, and will leave councils around the country wondering how they will fill town centres that were based on retail.\n\nBut just as canny entrepreneurs and private equity companies are gearing up to buy struggling pub chains, in the hope of a recovery once lockdown restrictions are eased, so will some investors be wondering what next for the High Street. The British love affair with shopping will not end overnight and a well-placed punt now could have big rewards.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nMeanwhile, one of House of Fraser's flagship outlets, the Jenners department store in Edinburgh, is to leave its Princes Street home after 183 years. It will close on 3 May with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building's owner, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, announced in November 2019 that he intended to convert the site, replacing Jenners with a hotel, cafes, a rooftop restaurant and luxury shops.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Frasers Group said it had been \"unable to reach an agreement\" with Mr Povlsen and that the closure of Jenners would leave \"a vacant site for the foreseeable future with no immediate plans\".\n\nDo you work for Debenhams? Has your job been affected? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The public's trust in the way the UK is run is breaking down, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.\n\nHe said Covid-19 had exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions, who were often treated by the centre as if they were \"invisible\".\n\nMr Brown is urging Boris Johnson to set up a commission to review how the country is governed and powers shared.\n\nBut the PM said his focus was on the pandemic, stressing the benefits of the union could be \"seen everywhere\".\n\nMr Brown's intervention comes amid a looming clash between Mr Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has demanded the UK agree to another Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in May's Holyrood elections.\n\nThe Court of Session is hearing arguments about whether Holyrood can legislate to hold one even if the UK government continues to object.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Brown - who advocates a federal system with more power for nations and regions - says the pandemic has \"brought to the surface tensions and grievances that have been simmering for years\" between Downing Street and the various parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives election win was not 'a signal that the country is at ease' warns Brown\n\nHe points to \"bitter disputes\" over issues such as lockdown restrictions and furlough and said unless underlying tensions were resolved, the UK risked becoming a \"failed state\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, he said at a time \"when all should be pulling together and intensifying co-operation across the UK\" there was division and claims by the leaders of Scotland and Wales and the English regions that they were not being properly consulted.\n\nLast year there were rows between the government and local authorities over coronavirus tiers, with the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, objecting to plans to put the region into the strictest level of restrictions.\n\nMr Brown told Today that while he was \"confident\" that Scotland would still be part of the UK in ten years time, the way the UK was governed had to change.\n\n\"I think the public are fed up. I think in many ways, they feel they are being treated as second class citizens, particularly in the outlying areas, that they are invisible and forgotten.\"\n\n\"Something has broken down in trust and has to be repaired.\"\n\nMr Brown is advising the Labour Party on its devolution strategy - but has also held talks with government ministers including Michael Gove in recent weeks.\n\nGovernment sources say they are focused on taking tangible steps to demonstrate the value of the UK.\n\nThe idea of a fundamental review of the UK's power structures has been suggested as one possible way to counter support for Scottish independence ahead of May's Holyrood election.\n\nBut a series of polls now suggest support for independence is higher than support for the union - and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will demand another referendum if, as seems likely, her party - the SNP - wins in May.\n\nHe is calling on Boris Johnson to immediately set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed, something the Conservatives promised in their manifesto before the last general election.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he suggests it would find that the UK needs a Forum of the Nations and Regions, citizens' assemblies, and a greater focus on the benefits of cooperation in areas such as the NHS and the armed forces.\n\nThe current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer also supports devolving more powers from Westminster but opposes another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe SNP said last week that there would be a \"legal referendum\" after the pandemic if May's Holyrood election returned a pro-independence majority.\n\nAsked if he would stand in the way of this, Mr Johnson said what the British public wanted was for its political leaders to focus on beating coronavirus, adding that the advantages of the UK's four nations working together \"spoke for themselves\".\n\n\"I think people can see everywhere in the UK the visible benefits of our wonderful union,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine programme that is being rolled out by a National Health Service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in Oxford and is being administered by the British Army.\"\n\nBut the SNP said the Scottish people, not Westminster-based politicians, should decide the country's future.\n\n\"No amount of constitutional tinkering from Labour would protect Scotland from Brexit or the Tory power grab - only independence can do that,\" said Kirsten Oswald, the party's deputy Westminster leader.\n\n\"The Scottish people will see right through this attempt to deny their democratic right.\"\n\nA poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in Northern Ireland found 51% of people wanted a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nDUP leader and Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster said such a vote would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nNumbers supporting Wales breaking away from the UK also appear to be rising. The pro-independence campaign group Yes Cymru has said membership swelled from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nPlaid Cymru has also promised to hold an independence referendum if it wins the next Senedd election.\n\nResponding to Mr Brown's intervention, the party's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"It's been clear for many years that the UK doesn't work for Wales - I'm glad that the Labour Party are starting to see that.\"", "Prince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nIt followed concerns that emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThe review by experts from two royal colleges was in addition to the health board's own investigation. Maternity services in Cwm Taf are now in special measures and an independent panel was set up to drive improvements.\n\nHow many incidents are we talking about?\n• None 150cases from 2016-2018 reviewed so lessons can be learnt\n\nThe health board's own investigation looked at 43 cases, including 25 serious incidents. Of these initial cases, 20 were at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and 23 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. The serious incidents include eight stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth, all between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThey came to light after concerns were raised that staff had not been reporting serious incidents.\n\nThe health board said it faced \"extreme\" staff shortages and was urgently trying to make improvements.\n\nBut the review team cast doubt on the ability of the health board to make changes, without more support. It said it was \"dismayed\" that an internal report, written by a consultant midwife, highlighting many safety concerns last September was not acted upon, \"thereby continuing to expose women to unacceptable risks\".\n\nA consultant midwife also identified 67 stillbirths, going back to 2010, which had not been reported by the health board.\n\nThe independent panel decided to widen its scope to look at 350 cases of women who were transferred out of the health board area.\n\nIn October 2019, the panel said it was looking at a total of 150 cases between 2016 and 2018 - including the 43 cases initially investigated. There is still scope to look back at further years.\n\nWho has been investigating?\n\nThe health minister Vaughan Gething ordered an \"independent external review\" by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the Royal College of Midwives last October.\n\nIts findings, published in April 2019, were damning and found services \"under extreme pressure\" and \"dysfunctional\", while mothers had distressing experiences in how they were treated.\n\nCwm Taf's maternity services were placed in special measures and the independent panel overseeing changes has indicated as well as looking back in detail at past cases it wanted to ensure improvements were robust and to look at lessons that could be learned across Wales.\n\nHave any changes been made?\n\nThe royal colleges review team ordered urgent action after visiting hospitals in January 2019 - finding \"a number of immediate quality and safety concerns\".\n\nMeasures included more cover by doctors, strengthened processes for flagging up problems and more support for junior doctors. Cwm Taf now says these have all been completed.\n\nThe latest progress report from the independent panel in January 2020 found the most urgent improvements had been made.\n\nStaffing levels and training had improved, there was a better system for flagging up complaints and surveys found \"high levels of satisfaction\" from women using Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nThe panel was \"cautiously optimistic\" that long term improvements would be made.\n\nChioma Udeogu, who has moved back home to Nigeria\n\nThe review's parallel report on how families were dealt with was perhaps the most powerful testimony on the problems at Cwm Taf.\n\nMothers were said to have been ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised.\n\nOne mother said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nThere was the case of Sarah Handy, who was sent home from hospital in pain with laxatives, before giving birth prematurely at home. Her daughter died.\n\nChioma Udeogu's daughter was delivered stillborn after failings in her care at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in January 2017. An internal investigation has already found midwives failed for 12 hours to carry out antenatal checks on Mrs Udeogu, an engineering student at the University of South Wales at the time.\n\n\"I believe that if I was properly monitored in the hospital I wouldn't have lost her,\" she said.\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nJessica Western says she was not listened to at different points before and after the birth of her baby\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born.\n\n\"I'm only young and I do want to have more kids eventually, but I'm not prepared to put myself through a pregnancy if this could happen again,\" she said.\n\nAnother, Monique Aziz, from Coedely, Rhondda Cynon Taff, whose baby son died days after leaving hospital, said: \"I just want to know if he would have still been here if things had been done differently.\"\n\nWhat else has been happening?\n\nIn the background, there have been long planned changes in how maternity services are organised.\n\nFrom March 2019, doctor-led care for mothers in labour or for babies needing specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a 24-hour midwife unit for less complicated births and will continue to provide all antenatal services, clinic appointments, scans and tests during pregnancy.\n\nThe changes follow long-standing concerns that specialist maternity staff had been spread too thinly. The health board says those changes will help address challenges, including over staffing.\n\nAfter the critical report, the health board's chief executive went on sickness leave and then resigned in August 2019.\n\nStress and sickness absence was reported to be an issue among midwives, in the aftermath of the review.\n\nHow far back to those concerns go?\n\nThe fragility of maternity services in the area can be traced back for at least a decade. In a review in 2011 the Wales Audit Office raised concerns about staffing, skill mix and absences and the health board's ability to deliver maternity services on two sites.\n\nConcerns about the quality of maternity care were also at the heart of a controversial plan in 2014 to centralise some specialist services in fewer hospitals along the M4 corridor. It recommended moving doctor-led care for mothers and children (along with A&E) from the Royal Glamorgan hospital.\n\nCwm Taf health board initially rejected the plan and several months of wrangling followed.\n\nFour years later, the proposals on maternity services are only now being finally implemented.\n\nWhat is the independent panel doing?\n\nThe chairman Mick Giannasi - who has a track record going into troubled organisations, like Anglesey Council and the Welsh Ambulance Service - brings clinical expertise. He is also setting up a system so families can be involved and kept fully informed.\n\nIn the first progress report in October 2019, the panel said there had been progress - around a third of the action points in the improvement plan had been delivered - but a \"significant amount of work\" still needed to be done.\n\nThere had been \"significant\" progress by January 2020 although with more than two thirds of recommendations it was still \"work in progress\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Concerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents\n\nTwo-thirds of women at the heart of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (Imsop) focused on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nIts maternity services have been in special measures since \"serious failings\" were found two years ago.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThis sparked a major independent review, which gave a damning verdict on maternity services in the health board area that covers about 450,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nPublished on Monday, the Imsop report focuses on the care of 27 women, most of whom were admitted to an intensive care unit during 28 \"episodes of care\" between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt found that 19 reviews of maternal care (68%) revealed at least one factor where \"different management would reasonably have been expected to alter the outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nThe panel's chairman, Mick Giannasi, said: \"These findings will be concerning and potentially distressing for the women and families involved, and it will be difficult for staff.\n\n\"Of the 28 episodes of care, we concluded that in 27 of them, our independent teams who reviewed the care would have done something differently. Put simply, what went wrong, might not have gone wrong if things had been done differently.\"\n\nTwo further reviews of stillbirths and neonatal mortality and morbidity will follow later this year. In total, all three independent reviews will looks at 160 cases.\n\nImsop's findings reinforce those of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nThe royal colleges' 2019 investigation found mothers faced \"distressing experiences and poor care\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, with maternity services deemed \"dysfunctional\".\n\nFour key areas have been identified by Imsop as factors which contributed to poor care. These are:\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the latest report recognises things are moving in the right direction for the health board, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The report highlights that women weren't always at the centre of their care and that women weren't always listened to, and that led to harm that could have been avoided,\" Mr Gething told reporters at the latest Welsh Government press briefing.\n\n\"Nothing will be able to change what these women and their families experienced at these two hospitals or the outcome for those families whose babies died or came to harm.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says he is \"deeply sorry\" women and their families were not listened to\n\nHe said he hoped \"families can take some comfort\" from the reviews that have provided answers to questions they were asking.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this report today and those who are still awaiting the outcome of their reviews,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it has been \"working with the panel and families\" to put in place a \"comprehensive maternity and neonatal improvement programme\".\n\n\"It has been a period of reflection during which we have examined the regrettable failings in maternity services of the former Cwm Taf University Health Board and we acknowledge the fact that we still have some way to go,\" said Greg Dix, the health board's executive director of nursing and midwifery.\n\n\"We will never forget the tragedies suffered by women, their families and our staff, and the learning from these cases is a key corner stone on which we are building our improvement plans.\"", "Credit card giant Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.\n\nIt has sparked fears that consumer prices could rise if merchants choose to pass on those costs, especially on items not available from UK retailers.\n\nTransactions with airlines, hotels, car rentals and holiday firms based in the EU could all be affected.\n\nMastercard attributed the move to the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nIt said that only online sales would be affected and that \"in practice\" UK consumers would not notice the change.\n\nThe change affects the \"interchange\" fees Mastercard sets on behalf of big banks, so that its customers can use their payment networks.\n\nFrom October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.\n\nThe EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies.\n\nBritish customers makes tens of billions of pounds of purchases every year from European merchants on credit cards alone - and the hike in fees from Mastercard will affect the majority of those.\n\nThe increase may be relatively small but it's significant, coming at a time when retailers may face extra paperwork and checks - higher costs - for goods coming into the UK.\n\nWith Covid restrictions bringing their own challenges, businesses, especially smaller ones, may be compelled to pass on the costs to consumers.\n\nAnd it's not just items crossing borders. The payments for most items bought on Amazon in the UK are processed via its Luxembourg headquarters.\n\nWith the increase not coming in for several months, international companies may look at ways to reclassify UK sales, to avoid the charges.\n\nMastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU. The banks which receive the fees have said in the past that they are invested in areas such as card security and innovation. This time, however, the trade body which represents them has declined to comment on the rises.\n\nBut Mastercard said that since the end of the Brexit transition period, the cap no longer applied to many payments between the UK and European Economic Area (which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).\n\n\"As a result of the UK leaving the EEA, Mastercard will adapt interchange rates on UK cards to the commitments it gave the European Commission in 2019 for non-EEA card transactions,\" the company said.\n\n\"In practice, only EEA merchants making e-commerce sales to UK cardholders will see a change.\"\n\nKevin Hollinrake, chair of the parliamentary group on Fair Business Banking, told the Financial Times, which first reported the story, that the move \"smacks of opportunism\".\n\nAnd Callum Godwin, chief economist at CMSPI, the global payments consultancy, said airlines, hotels, car rentals and travel groups would be hit.\n\n\"[This will happen] anywhere the consumer is in the UK and the merchant is in the EU,\" he said.\n\nHe added that many firms in these industries were already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nVisa, Mastercard's larger rival, has not announced plans to change its fees but told the FT it was keeping the issue under review.\n\nCompanies in the UK and EU are already facing added costs and delays due to post-Brexit trade rules brought in on 1 January.\n\nSome EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nMeanwhile, UK consumers who have bought goods from firms based in the bloc have found themselves facing hefty charges to cover customs duties, taxes and administration.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The leader says he is \"optimistic\" and is recieving medical treatment\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was \"optimistic\" following the diagnosis.\n\nThe development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000.\n\nMr López Obrador says he will continue working from home, including speaking to President Vladimir Putin about acquiring a Russian-made vaccine.\n\nIt was announced earlier on Sunday that a call between the two leaders will take place on Monday to discuss their bilateral relationship and the possible supply of Sputnik V jabs.\n\nThe Mexican president said last year he would try and acquire 12 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine if it proved effective.\n\nMexico has not yet approved the jab for use, but officials want to expand the country's vaccination program for the population of 128 million people amid delivery delays from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nSputnik V has already received authorisation in a number of other countries, including Brazil and Argentina. Hungary became the first in the EU to give it the green light this week.\n\nJosé Luis Alomia Zegarra, a senior health official, described Mr López Obrador's condition as stable and told a news briefing that \"a team of medical specialists\" were attending to the president.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 1.75m virus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking.\n\nThe nation's confirmed death toll of 149,614 is one of the highest in the world - behind only the US, Brazil and India.", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is isolating after a contact tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating for the third time, after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said he would be working from home until next Monday after being notified of the contact earlier.\n\nSir Keir confirmed on Twitter that he had no symptoms.\n\nThe Labour leader last self-isolated in December after a member of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, but he never showed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe also self-isolated in September after a member of his family showed symptoms - but they later tested negative, allowing Sir Keir to get back to Westminster.\n\nIf you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, you have a legal obligation to self-isolate.\n\nYou then have to stay at home, not going out for any reason, for 10 days from the time you last saw the contact.\n\nIf you don't stick to the rules, the police can issue you with a fine, starting at £1,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor Sir Keir, he needs to stay indoors until next Monday and cancel all his upcoming plans for the week.\n\nHe will still be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday via video link.\n\nThe current list of MPs set to question Boris Johnson, shows that only one will now physically be in the Commons with the PM.\n\nA number of politicians have had to self-isolate during the pandemic, including the prime minister.\n\nThe latest was Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who got a notification from the NHS app to stay at home.\n\nHe had the virus last March, but said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nMr Hancock's isolation period was due to end on Sunday, so he is expected back in Whitehall this week.", "Health and social care staff have been vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow\n\nThe Scottish government is \"looking at all sorts of ways\" to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccine programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe government is considering a pilot of 24/7 vaccine arrangements, chiefly aimed at younger age groups.\n\nA total of 46% of over-80s in Scotland have now had a first dose, along with 95% of older care home residents.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the programme was \"picking up pace\" and \"on track\" to reach all over-70s by mid-February.\n\nShe said the government was \"looking at all options\" to get the vaccine out to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government aims to have the top priority groups - including care home residents and staff, frontline health workers and all those aged over 80 - given a first dose by the end of the first week in February.\n\nFrom Monday, letters are being sent out to people aged 70 to 79 inviting them to receive their first doses. Ms Sturgeon says the programme is \"on track\" to having this group complete by the middle of February.\n\nThere has been some criticism of the speed of the rollout in Scotland, with a greater proportion of over-80s having already received a jab in England.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the programme was \"making good progress\" and said any differences with the rest of the UK were because of an early focus on vaccinating older care home residents - 95% of whom have now had their first dose.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely confident\" that the government would hit its targets.\n\nAnd the first minister said consideration was being given to how to speed up the programme further, saying her government is \"looking at all sorts of ways to accelerate things\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at piloting 24/7 arrangements so that when we get into wider groups of the population, people will have choices about the time they turn up for vaccines.\n\n\"There's been debate about whether people will want to turn up in the middle of the night to get vaccinated - some will and some won't. If that sort of thing is going to add to what we are able to do, it is likely to have the greatest impact when you get down into the relatively younger age groups.\n\n\"If we think it is appropriate there may be some things we try just to see if they would work, and if they don't we won't continue with them.\n\n\"We are looking at all of these options to make sure that as the supply increases, we can get it to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"some early evidence\" that lockdown was reducing the number of new Covid-19 cases, although she said the government would take a \"cautious\" approach to restrictions - which are currently due to run into mid-February at the earliest.\n\nShe also voiced some \"cautious grounds for optimism\" that admissions to hospital are starting to \"tail off slightly\", although she warned that pressure on the NHS would remain \"acute\" for some time.\n\nOpposition leaders called for the vaccine programme to be accelerated and for support to be targeted at key workers.\n\nA mass vaccination centre is being set up at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"People are talking about a 24/7 approach here in Scotland - I think based on the figures so far we need to focus just on a seven day approach, because we are not vaccinating people quickly enough.\n\n\"We are not making the progress we need to, to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack said the vaccine programme \"needs to be accelerated as fast as possible\"\n\nShe said: \"We are all behind this vaccine being rolled out - but it has to be as soon as possible, because people are getting nervous.\n\n\"Whether it's police staff, construction staff, care staff who have been worried for weeks - the vaccine has got to be the top priority, along with the test and trace so we can monitor the impact on the ground and get targeted support to people.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was \"slipping further and further behind England\" and added: \"The first minister's excuses on the rollout of the vaccine are wearing very thin.\"", "The Francis family said they would be exchanging cards and having a special meal for their lockdown St Dwynwen's Day\n\nIt may not be as well-known as Valentine's Day but St Dwynwen's Day is a special time for some in Wales.\n\nSian and Trystan Francis from Rhiwbina in Cardiff do not celebrate Valentine's Day but on Monday will exchange St Dwynwen cards and have a special meal.\n\nMr Francis, 40, said: \"It's just a part of my culture - I didn't know about Valentine's Day until about Year 6.\n\n\"My parents didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all but they did send cards on Santes Dwynwen.\"\n\nSian and Trystan Francis perform as Do Re Mi Canu\n\nThe Welsh patron saint of lovers St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen in Welsh - was a 4th Century princess who lived in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe story goes she was unlucky in love, became a nun and went on to pray for true lovers to have better luck than she did.\n\nMrs Francis, who grew up in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said her family did not speak Welsh but she went to a Welsh medium school and her mother learnt the language as an adult.\n\nMrs Francis, 38, said: \"I think if you're going to celebrate anything that says that you love your partner, then this one is loads more relevant to us because it's part of our heritage and our culture - Valentine's Day is not really that much to do with us.\"\n\nThe family have been busy organising cards and treats for their children, Jac, two, and Mimi, seven.\n\n\"I bought a card for Mimi from a mystery person and that's being delivered tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nShe added Covid had meant the celebration was a bit more low-key this year.\n\n\"I bought some cupcakes but we would normally go out for food and stuff,\" she said.\n\nMenna Llinos and her family celebrated with heart-shaped pizza in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThere was a time when they also marked Valentine's Day before they had a change of heart, she said.\n\n\"Over time we just went, 'actually, it's a bit irrelevant to us',\" she said.\n\n\"And you can never get a restaurant [on Valentine's Day],\" Mr Francis added.\n\nCarys Ingram from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, has been making heart-shaped cookies with her children\n\nMr Francis, who grew up speaking Welsh at home, said their choice was not unusual among their friends.\n\n\"My friends, people within the Welsh-speaking community definitely, celebrate Santes Dwynwen,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a subculture within Wales that does exist within Welsh-speaking communities so I would say Santes Dwynwen is part of that.\"\n\nMrs Francis said it meant they were able to avoid the commercialisation of the better-known celebration.\n\n\"Santes Dwynwen isn't particularly commercialised because it is so niche,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "The first minister visited the site of the flooding, where 80 villagers were evacuated from their homes\n\nResidents have been urged to stay away from homes flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft following reports some had returned against advice.\n\nEighty people had to be evacuated from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday and the Coal Authority is investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nOn Sunday First Minister Mark Drakeford visited the village.\n\nSpecialists said mine shafts in the area were stable, but villagers were told it was not safe to return home.\n\nNeath Port Talbot Council tweeted on Sunday afternoon that some evacuated residents had ignored the warnings.\n\nIt said: \"We are getting reports that some residents who have been evacuated are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing at the site, including safety checks by utility companies. They have asked us to reiterate the request for residents to stay away and that it is not safe to return today or tomorrow.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known how many residents were thought to have returned to their flooded homes or how long they were there for.\n\nBigger equipment is being brought in to \"understand in detail what has caused the blow out\", according to Coal Authority chief executive Lisa Pinney.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past mining on communities, said it believed the \"blow out\" was likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which caused water to back up before breaking out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones warned residents it was unlikely that they could return home by Monday.\n\nMs Pinney said a hand-drilling crew \"determined the precise location and extension of the collapsed mine shaft\" on Saturday.\n\nThe village was flooded after a mine shaft \"blow out\"\n\n\"This now allows us to bring in larger equipment to investigate the wider mine workings and drainage channels in the area around it, so we can understand in detail what has caused the blow out,\" she said.\n\n\"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and found them all to be safe.\n\n\"We will be checking over a wider area in the days ahead.\"\n\nDuring his visit to the village Mr Drakeford was shown the sinkhole which had opened up on Thursday, leading to the flooding.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government confirmed financial support would be made available to people affected by the floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Sunday: \"Particularly for families who have no insurance, this is a devastating event.\n\n\"They will know that the Welsh Government is there to help and we will do that through the local authority which has been here very visibly, helping people in the last couple of days.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: 'We’re throwing absolutely everything at it'\n\nFewer than 2,000 young people have so far started new roles under the government's £2bn Kickstart jobs scheme, data shows.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September, has created 120,000 temporary jobs to date.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC coronavirus restrictions were making it harder for more young people to get started.\n\nHowever, he expected the number to rise once restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"Obviously because of the lockdowns and restrictions, that hampers businesses' ability to bring people into work,\" said Mr Sunak,\n\n\"What we can look forward to, as the restrictions ease, is more of these young people starting those placements.\n\n\"But taking a step back, we announced this scheme first week of July, it went live the first week of September and here we are, just a few months later, with 120,000 jobs having being vetted, funded and created.\"\n\nThe Chancellor insisted that the government had moved at an \"enormous pace\" to set up the programme, which targets youths at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\n\"I've always said my priority through this crisis is to protect, support and create as many jobs as possible, and young people in particular have been at the forefront of my mind,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"We know that they're most likely to work in affected sectors, they're twice as likely to be furloughed, and the ones leaving college are entering a really difficult labour market.\"\n\nYouth unemployment rose to 14.5% between August to October 2020, with 597,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed, up from 11% in the same period in 2019.\n\nLatest data from the Department of Work Pensions shows that as of 15 January, 1,868 young people had begun their placements.\n\nHayden Finlayson, recipient of a Kickstart work placement with Whistl in Bedford\n\nHayden Finlayson, 24, is one of them. He was made redundant from a retail job last summer.\n\nLooking for work during the pandemic proved difficult: \"You start thinking about things - whether you're going to find work again.\"\n\nHe has secured a Kickstart placement at a Whistl distribution centre in Bedford, an opportunity for which he is grateful.\n\n\"I gave it a go. It's a new experience and I want to do new things,\" he said. \"[I'm learning] different skills every day, things I've never done before.\"\n\nBusinesses apply to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nYoung people aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to take them on.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the National Minimum Wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover setup costs and assist in the development of employability skills. The current £2bn budget allows for around 250,000 roles.\n\nFSB's Craig Beaumont says the decision to allow small firms offer placements through a faster, more direct process is four months late\n\nFollowing criticism from small businesses, firms who wish to create just a handful of roles will have the option of applying direct to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nPreviously, small firms who wanted to create fewer than 30 Kickstart jobs had to group together, or use a \"gateway\" provider as an intermediary.\n\nMore than 600 gateways have now been approved, but small businesses complained that they found the process slow and difficult.\n\n\"The decision should have been made in September,\" said Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\n\"There is now a backlog of cases of people who've been appointed through intermediaries, who've not been able to access that work yet. So we need a real focus from the government to clear that.\"\n\nAsked if the scheme would need extending because continuing restrictions could prevent its aims being achieved this year, Mr Sunak left the possibility open.\n\nAnna Szymanowska runs Fighter Shots, which makes ginger-based remedy drinks. She is keen to create three digital marketing Kickstart roles as soon as possible.\n\nHowever, she says her application - which was done in a pool with other businesses - took a long time.\n\nSmall business owner Anna Szymanowska would like to hire three young people for digital marketing roles\n\n\"It was a little bit lengthy, because the first time I heard of the scheme was July or August,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We applied within a month [of hearing about it], and just yesterday we received a contract to sign. So it was lengthy but otherwise well managed.\"\n\nThe Chancellor told the BBC that the changes hadn't been made earlier because Kickstart had been set up \"at speed\". He pointed out other interventions aimed at supporting young people's jobs, including investment in employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships.\n\nTracy Fishwick is the managing director of Transform Lives Company, a social enterprise which helps people into work.\n\nShe believes that the young people chosen to have Kickstart placements will be very important.\n\n\"The young people who really probably would already get a job with a little bit of help - we don't want all the Kickstart jobs going to those young people,\" said Ms Fishwick, who previously worked with the Future Jobs Fund - a scheme for young people created by Labour in 2009.\n\n\"We need to be able to put things in place to support those young people who were already unemployed before Covid.\"", "Volunteers responded to an appeal on social media on Saturday night\n\nVolunteers helped to clear up to 7cm of snow at a community hospital so Covid-19 vaccines could be given to about 300 vulnerable patients.\n\nMore than a dozen people cleared the car park at Maesteg community hospital in Bridgend county on Sunday where the Pfizer-BioNtech jab is being given.\n\nPeople with brushes and shovels came to the rescue after a Facebook appeal and Bridgend council provided a plough.\n\nOne local councillor said their community spirit \"knows no bounds\".\n\nThe Maesteg area had been at or near the top of Wales' Covid case rate chart for a few weeks before Christmas - with an infection rate of more than 1300 cases per 100,000 at its height.\n\nVaccinations were delayed for about an hour on Sunday and Maesteg West councillor Ross Thomas, who helped organise the clear-up, said it would have been a \"disaster\" to have cancelled the appointments.\n\nCovid jabs at four other locations in south Wales had to be cancelled after snow cause widespread disruption across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Thomas praised the local community for preventing their centre from also falling victim to the weather.\n\n\"With a few Facebook call-outs we had a dozen or so volunteers within the hour together with surgery staff, a number of the GPs,\" Mr Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCouncillor Ross Thomas said there would be some aching backs on Monday morning\n\n\"The grounds of the hospital are not small by any stretch of the imagination. It was a valiant effort over two-and-a-half hours to ensure we could allow access to Maesteg community hospital.\n\n\"It's thanks to them that 300 more people in the 80 and over priority group in the Llynfi valley received their jab yesterday.\"\n\nAnother 40 vulnerable patients will receive their Covid jabs on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas said the spirit in his community \"knows no bounds\" and added: \"People rally round, it's a sense of belonging, its genuinely instilled in our DNA in Maesteg and it was on show.\n\n\"Not only did people want to help, I think it's clear there's anxiety in the community about the virus.\n\n\"Ahead of Christmas some local wards here in the Llynfi valley had the highest case rates in Europe.\n\n\"There was the realisation yesterday that it wasn't just shovelling snow out of the way, it was about getting on top of this virus and ensuring the most vulnerable people in this community have a fighting chance moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Early years educational providers in England have been told to remain open\n\nMany staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't feel safe at work\", says the Early Years Alliance.\n\nThe group, representing early years providers, wants staff in this sector to be a higher priority for Covid testing and vaccinations.\n\nNurseries and settings for young children in England have been told to remain open during lockdown.\n\nThe government said the under-fives were \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance received more than 3,500 responses in a survey of staff in nurseries or childcare settings and said these suggested widespread concerns - with half of those who replied saying they did not feel safe at work.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the group, said the safety worries were \"a cause for serious concern\".\n\nHe called on the government to implement rapid coronavirus testing among early years staff \"as a matter of urgency\", adding they should be \"given priority access to vaccinations in phase two of the rollout\".\n\nThere are currently no confirmed plans for lateral-flow testing in nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is looking at whether some high-risk professions should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nAnd Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC's Breakfast programme he would \"very much like to see it\" once the most vulnerable groups had received their jabs.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: \"Keeping nurseries and childminders open will support parents and deliver the crucial care and education for our youngest children.\n\n\"Current evidence suggests that pre-school children are less susceptible to infection and are unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission.\"\n\nThe Early Years Alliance survey also found concerns that staff shortages would make it difficult for some nurseries and pre-school settings to stay open.\n\nDr Amelia Massoura, who runs Stepping Stone pre-school, in Sittingbourne, Kent, said: \"Out of six members of staff, four have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"Fortunately, all have recovered well.\"\n\nVanessa Linehan, manager of Sandbrook Community Playgroup in Hackney in London, said: \"We are happy to stay open to support our families.\n\n\"But we want our staff to have testing and vaccinations as a priority.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities to prioritise appropriate testing for early-years staff through their community testing programmes,\" said the Department for Education spokesman.\n\nThe Department for Education says the under-fives are \"unlikely\" to drive up coronavirus transmission\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq accused the government of \"incompetence and neglect\", saying early-years staff \"deserve... proper access to testing\".\n\nShe questioned why \"the government has refused to publish the scientific basis for keeping early-years settings open in lockdown\" and called on it to \"urgently pull back from the brink of funding changes that could lead to viable early-years providers going bust\".\n\nThe government changed the funding formula for the early years sector in December, basing it on current attendance rather than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the DfE, early years attendance is at 54% of the usual daily level, as of 14 January, leading to a shortfall in revenues.\n\nIn primary and secondary schools, which are open to vulnerable children and children of key workers only, average attendance levels have fallen to just 14%.\n\nRoughly half of nurseries and pre-schools and a third of childminders expect to be operating at a loss by the end of the spring term, based on current levels of government support, according to the survey.\n\n\"Early years providers are the only part of the education sector that the government has asked to remain open to all families,\" said Mr Leitch\n\n\"It is surely not too much to ask for the protection - both practical and financial - needed to ensure that we can continue to do so.\"", "Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nTwo men who died when a fire tore through a luxury five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond have been named.\n\nSimon Midgley and Richard Dyson, believed to be from London, were staying at Cameron House Hotel when the blaze broke out on Monday morning.\n\nPolice have not confirmed the identity of those who died, but relatives have paid tribute on social media.\n\nThe hotel's director has praised the actions of the emergency services in preventing further tragedy.\n\nFirefighters who brought a couple and their baby to safety from an upper floor have been hailed as \"heroes\".\n\nA baby was rescued by firefighters from an upper floor of the hotel\n\nAndrew and Louise Logan, and their son Jimmy, from Worcestershire, were taken to hospital after being brought to safety, but were later discharged.\n\nMore than 200 guests were evacuated from the building when the blaze broke out. A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nSocial media posts suggested that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson were on a winter break in Scotland.\n\nA post on Mr Midgley's Instagram account on Saturday showed pictures of Cameron House Hotel and said: \"Home for the weekend.\"\n\nRelatives have been expressing their shock at news of the couple's deaths.\n\nMr Midgley's sister posted a picture of her brother and his partner on Facebook, while another relative wrote: \"I'm beyond heartbroken.\"\n\nKate Baxter wrote on Twitter: \"Such unbearably sad news.. RIP @SimonMidgleyPR, a shining star in our wonderfully close-knit industry.\"\n\nAccording to his Facebook page, Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company, while Mr Dyson is believed to be a TV producer.\n\nPolice and firefighters remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, with the scale of the damage becoming more apparent.\n\nBBC Scotland's Andrew Black was allowed on site and said: \"The damage to the building is pretty extensive, especially the upper floors. There's a smell of burning wood and we could hear a fire alarm from part of the building still going off.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a wedding due to take place at Cameron House hotel this weekend has been moved to another luxury hotel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage from above Loch Lomond shows the extent of the damage at Cameron House\n\nIn a new statement, Cameron House's director, Andy Roger, praised the \"very swift actions of the emergency services\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone associated with Cameron House Hotel is still coming to terms with the events of yesterday and we are all hugely conscious that two people tragically lost their lives in the fire.\n\n\"Their families and friends are foremost in our thoughts as we co-operate fully with the investigation teams to try to establish the circumstances surrounding this terrible incident.\n\n\"The emergency services were on the scene long into the night and I cannot praise their efforts highly enough. They are true heroes. The firemen bringing out a couple and their young child by ladder from a second-floor room was a heart-stopping moment for all those who witnessed it.\n\n\"We're also enormously grateful for the many, many offers of practical support and good wishes from the UK hospitality industry and also from the local community, which has rallied around to help. It's been a humbling experience, but we are a small, tight-knit community on Loch Lomond and a response like that is typical of our many friends and neighbours.\"\n\nMr Roger said the hotel had made arrangements for the vast majority of the guests to travel home or continue with their breaks and he thanked them for their patience and \"good spirits\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to the staff at Cameron House who he said had shown \"an enormous degree of care and teamwork throughout the last two days\".\n\nLocal people have been speaking of their shock and sadness at what happened at the hotel.\n\nOne woman told BBC Scotland: \"We are just very sad for all the families involved and so sorry for the people who work there.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's absolutely horrific. I think the local community really feels it.\"\n\nReverend Ian Miller, a retired minister who lives locally and was called in to offer guests support in the aftermath of the fire, said those affected \"fell into two groups\".\n\n\"There were those in the side bedrooms which weren't really touched and they just realised they had escaped something terrible,\" he said.\n\n\"But for those in the main building then there were degrees of trauma. Some had escaped with virtually nothing.\n\n\"One man came out in his underwear. Another woman told me she just grabbed her baby, change bag and moved out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue service remained at the scene on Tuesday morning\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, John Gow, from forensic investigations firm IFIC, said: \"There will be a number of strands to this investigation, running in tandem.\n\n\"Obviously, sadly, there is the death investigation due to the fatalities that occurred.\n\n\"There is the origin and cause investigation which is establishing how the fire started and spread throughout the property.\n\n\"It is also likely there will be an investigation to establish if the fire precaution measures were adequate and operated as they should.\"\n\nCameron House, an 18th Century mansion, was converted into a luxury hotel and resort in 1986.\n\nIt is a popular wedding venue and houses the Michelin-starred Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond restaurant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes\n\nPolice Scotland has confirmed it will support the dedicated Crown Office unit which has been set up to investigate Covid-19 deaths in care homes.\n\nThe force said its involvement does not indicate that crimes have been committed but is designed simply to inform prosecutors.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nThe first minister described the impact on the sector as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nEarlier this month Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC announced the new unit and said it would help determine if Fatal Accident Inquiries were to be held into the deaths.\n\nThe outbreaks across Scotland include one on Skye which is under police investigation.\n\nOfficers are looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at Home Farm in Portree.\n\nOn Friday police outlined the support officers will provide to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) review.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said: \"We understand the significant public anxiety caused by reports of deaths among those being cared for and staff in the health and care sectors as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is a matter of great concern for us all.\"\n\nMr Sloan said COPFS is working with a number of agencies and asked the force to gather \"additional information\".\n\nHe added: \"Our involvement does not necessarily indicate that crimes are being investigated and the information we gather on behalf of COPFS will help inform its decision on whether further action is required.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone but Police Scotland will continue to work with COPFS and other partner agencies to maximise public safety, to support and protect the vulnerable in our communities and to support the work of colleagues in the health and care professions.\"", "The comedian's wife shared a picture online of the 78-year-old after he received the vaccination\n\nSir Billy Connolly has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe comedian's wife Pamela Stephenson shared an image on social media of the 78-year-old wearing a mask with a plaster on his left arm.\n\nAlongside the picture, Ms Stephenson wrote: \"Thank God... Billy had his first Covid vaccine today!\"\n\nSir Billy, who lives in Florida, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 and announced he was \"finished with stand-up\" last year.\n\nHe said at the time: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nSir Billy now lives in Florida with his wife Pamela Stephenson\n\nSir Billy joins famous faces including actress Dame Judi Dench, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actor Sir Ian McKellen in receiving the vaccine.\n\nHollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also shared a video of him receiving the jab earlier this week.", "The Fire Brigades Union has held back firefighters from efforts to tackle the pandemic in England with \"unreasonable\" safety demands, a report claims.\n\nIn it, the fire service watchdog says the union has insisted on \"unworkable\" rules for testing and self-isolation.\n\nThousands of firefighters assisted health and emergency services last year but in December, as vaccinations began, the FBU asked members not to volunteer.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they do.\n\nThat is because councils and fire chiefs have pulled out of an agreement on health protection measures, it added.\n\nFor most of last year the agreement allowed firefighters to perform a range of additional duties, including delivering meals, driving ambulances and transporting bodies.\n\nFirefighters returning from roles in potential contact with Covid victims would spend several days self-isolating and being tested to show they were not infected.\n\nBy December, when there was the prospect of firefighters helping with vaccinations, a row over the deal resulted in the union giving new advice to members\n\nThe FBU said in message on 9 December: \"At this time, members are asked not to volunteer and to suspend any expression of interest that they have registered until such time as satisfactory arrangements can be secured that allow a national agreement to be reached.\"\n\nOn 13 January, local councils, which employ firefighters, decided the agreement with the union \"was no longer sustainable or appropriate\", partly because of the requirements for staff to have tests and self-isolate.\n\nThey said these made it impossible to run the fire service flexibly. Fire chiefs argued that police officers and paramedics did not have to isolate and await test results.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they volunteer\n\nThe FBU general secretary, Matt Wrack, told the BBC he still was not able to advise firefighters about additional Covid-related duties because the union did not know what the safety risks would be locally.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to ask people to volunteer if there aren't safety measures in place,\" he said. \"I don't want to see a deadly virus brought into workplaces when we have measures in place which have avoided it in the past several months.\"\n\nThe fire minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, said: \"Brave firefighters have been prevented from stepping up to support the pandemic response because of the actions of the Fire Brigades Union.\"\n\nZoe Billingham, an inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Fire and Rescue Services, said many firefighters had contributed to the effort during the Covid crisis, but much more could have been done.\n\nShe described the union's position as \"deeply regrettable\" and \"not what the public would expect of a fire service\".\n\nThe inspectorate has released several reports calling for the modernisation of fire service working practices and criticising the FBU.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week\n\nAccording to this one, the dispute between firefighters and their employers has held up vital work to protect lives.\n\nIn Greater Manchester requests to the fire service to help with NHS Track and Trace were delayed by 12 weeks.\n\nIn Cleveland, the fire and rescue service had to use non-operational support staff, rather than firefighters, to carry out temperature testing for the local authority.\n\nIn Suffolk and South Yorkshire, there were delays to plans for firefighters to help get into properties where residents were suffering from Covid.\n\nThe FBU says it was not given an opportunity to respond to these claims before the report was published. Mr Wrack dismissed it as poorly-sourced and politically-motivated.\n\nSome fire services have reached agreements with local branches of the union instead so that they can volunteer for the vaccination effort.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week and those giving vaccinations had also received them first.", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Three quarters of applications for a £500 discretionary grant, which aims to help those on low incomes self-isolate, have been rejected, figures suggest.\n\nEmployed or self-employed people in England who do not qualify for the Test and Trace Support Payment because they do not receive benefits can apply.\n\nData obtained by Labour and shared with BBC Newsnight suggests just 12,069 of 49,877 applications were successful.\n\nThe government said it was assessing how the scheme is supporting people.\n\nThe cumulative figures obtained by Labour suggest that between October and December last year, 35,252 applications to local authorities in England for the discretionary part of the test and trace support payment scheme were rejected, while 12,069 were granted.\n\nThe government introduced the Test and Trace Support payment in late September as a way of topping up any benefits or Statutory Sick Pay a person receives.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is a targeted scheme designed to help people on low incomes.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating, can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nLocal authorities in England oversee the entire support scheme, with the qualifying criteria set by the government. They blame overly strict criteria and inadequate government guidance for people being rejected who feel they should qualify for a grant.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England as well as the London boroughs, said some councils were having to turn down applications for the discretionary support because \"people are ineligible or have failed to provide the evidence needed\".\n\nLast month, the self-isolation period for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus was shortened from 14 to 10 days after the time of exposure.\n\nPeople who are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate, face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply. Those who don't self-isolate risk spreading the virus to others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, a GP trainee working at a practice in Luton, says he meets, on a daily basis, people who are faced with what he calls a \"Sophie's choice\".\n\nHe says: \"People come to me with essentially a Sophie's choice situation - I know I have to isolate but also I don't have enough money to put food on my table.\n\n\"If I say to somebody who comes to me with a health problem, you need to take a couple of weeks off work, I've had patients who have come to me and they're in tears.\"\n\nRachel, a shop worker from East London with a disabled son, tested positive in early January and was left in a desperate situation after having to self-isolate.\n\nShe says: \"I didn't have a hot meal for 10 days. I had two bowls of cornflakes and a hot dog. I was hungry. I was petrified\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's been probably the worst two weeks of my life. On a personal level I knew I had no choice but to isolate to keep my son safe.\n\n\"Had I not been in that position I can't guarantee that I would have done the whole self isolation thing because you get desperate.\"\n\nHer local councillor eventually dropped off a hot meal. Rachel was fortunate and received a £500 grant at the end of her isolation.\n\nJosie Tothill said missing two weeks of work \"could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not\"\n\nJosie Tothill from Manchester didn't qualify for the scheme, even though her job, as a personal assistant to a woman who needs mental health support, means she is on a low income.\n\nShe had to self-isolate in October after her sister tested positive. But she did not receive a call from Test and Trace despite being a contact. Only people with a Test and Trace number are eligible.\n\nJosie says: \"It was difficult, but I got by. But for a lot of people, especially if you work in care, you are already on poverty wages, so to miss two weeks of work - that could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not.\n\n\"So you can see, for some people, it's impossible to do that isolation, so it's much harder to control the virus.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, which obtained the figures from local authorities under the Freedom of Information Act, says the government must make sure everyone can afford to self isolate.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it was vital that people who self-isolated were not \"punished for doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The problem is the government established a fixed pot of money and, in some cases, councils have eked it out so much that many people applying for the funding haven't received it.\n\n\"In other cases councils have used up all the money because they have more people applying than were expected.\n\n\"So, we end up with a postcode lottery, if you live in one area you might get the funding, if you live in another area you might not.\"\n\nAnalysis of the figures by the BBC shows that of the applications to the discretionary scheme:\n\nWhile most of councils that responded rejected the majority of applications to the discretionary scheme, a smaller number bucked the trend.\n\nLambeth granted 77% of applications, Haringey and Wakefield 75%, and Solihull 64%.\n\nWhile it's impossible to rule out that applications may be coming from people who are taking a chance, it's also clear that some councils are apparently more flexible about the criteria used on the discretionary scheme.\n\nThe government is putting £70 million into funding the scheme. It said: \"Local authorities are responsible for decisions when it comes to making additional discretionary payments to people who fall outside the scope of the main scheme and are facing financial hardship as a result of having to self-isolate.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the 314 local authorities in England to assess how the scheme is supporting people experiencing financial difficulties.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the government \"needs to ensure its £500 self-isolation payment support scheme is available to those in need of financial support\".\n\nIt says it is \"good\" that councils will receive extra government funding \"to support people on low incomes who do not meet the strict criteria for this main scheme, but who may face financial hardship because of the requirement to self-isolate\".", "Because of its scale, work on Glastonbury's site must begin earlier than most festivals\n\nMusic festivals are \"still possible\" this summer, despite the cancellation of Glastonbury, says the head of the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nPaul Reed said Glastonbury \"is a different beast to most festivals and most likely ran out of time due to the size and complexity of the event\".\n\nSmaller events could still happen if the government ensures organisers can access cancellation insurance, he said.\n\n\"For most festivals, the cut-off point is more likely the end of March.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis called off their festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen,\" they said in a joint statement. \"We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nTickets for the festival, which normally attracts 200,000 people and was due to take place in June, will roll over to 2022.\n\nGlastonbury is the UK's biggest music festival, but it was not the only event to cancel its plans on Thursday. The Country To Country festival, which was due to take place in March, also said its 2021 edition would not happen.\n\nThe three-day event, which attracts some of country music's biggest names to indoor venues in London, Dublin and Glasgow, said it had pulled the plug due to the \"current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel\".\n\nThe announcements came as coronavirus deaths soared in England, with more than 8,500 deaths recorded in the past week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions would be lifted by the spring.\n\nStormzy has already been announced as a headliner for August's Reading and Leeds festivals\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation has raised fears for other music festivals this summer. However, the organisers of Glasgow's TRNSMT said there was \"reason to be optimistic\" that it could go ahead in July, with headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and the Courteeners.\n\n\"Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, it's unable to go ahead this year,\" boss Geoff Ellis told Scotland's Daily Record.\n\n\"By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the government and remain positive about events later in the summer.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Bestival co-founder Rob Da Bank, who tweeted that \"festival season will happen in the UK this summer\", adding: \"Sadly Glasto is such a mammoth beast to plan it ran outta time.\"\n\nSacha Lord, co-founder of Manchester's Parklife festival, added that Glastonbury's cancellation was \"yet another blow\" to freelancers who work in the live music sector.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, Mr Reed said the UK was at a \"serious point in the pandemic and festivals only want to return when it is safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that festivals were currently struggling to get insurance for coronavirus-related cancellations. Last week, MPs from the House of Commons culture select committee wrote to the chancellor, urging him to launch a Covid-19 insurance scheme to protect live music.\n\nThe appeal was backed by more than 100 industry figures, including organisers of the TRNSMT and Parklife festivals. \"We do need government to intervene in this issue,\" said Mr Reed.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expressed his regret at Glastonbury's cancellation and said the government was \"looking at problems around getting insurance\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said on Friday they are in \"regular dialogue\" with public health experts to \"agree a realistic return date for festivals and other large events\". They added they were still helping festivals with the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, \"with many already receiving this support\".\n\nLatitude Festival has been held at Henham Park, near Southwold, since 2006\n\nOther European countries, including Austria and Germany, have launched schemes to cover events that cannot be rescheduled, including music festivals. At present, England has a scheme protecting film and TV shoots, but not music.\n\nHowever, some festivals have been given support by the government's £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, including Womad, End of the Road and Nozstock.\n\nMelvin Benn, whose company Festival Republic organises the Latitude, Download and the Reading & Leeds festivals, said that without an insurance scheme, other events would be left \"staring into the same barrel that Glastonbury stared into\".\n\n\"People can't afford to take that financial risk,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government is holding \"early stage talks\" with insurers, confirmed Tim Thornhill of Tyser's Insurance, which counts Glastonbury amongst its clients.\n\n\"We have helped to put in place the film and TV restart scheme, which the chancellor explained saved 14,000 jobs,\" he said. \"So if we can do something for events, that would be welcome across the industry\".\n\nWhile there is \"no guarantee\" that insurance could be provided, he said there was \"significant urgency\" to finding a solution \"within the next few months\".\n\n\"It's really important that the government supports the industry,\" added Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. \"And they need to start thinking about that now, and not when we reach that point - say in October this year - when there are enough people vaccinated for [live music] to become safe.\n\n\"Nobody wants to go to anything, or take part in anything, that's going to turn into a super-spreader event,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously there has to be a way out of this, through vaccination. And I think we need to make sure that systems are in place so we can get back into doing what we love.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the culture select committee, said the government was working on insurance plans, because of the importance of festivals to British culture and the economy.\n\n\"I've been in to see the chancellor,\" he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"Finally I think there is some movement. I understand that they are dropping some of the objections that they may have had, and that we may end up with an insurance scheme.\n\n\"However, there's a danger that it's too little too late.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: We are enforcing lockdown with increasing toughness\n\nSky News's Sam Coates asks whether, if the new variant is more dangerous, it is right that more people are \"out and about\" during the current lockdown than the first one last year. The PM says that \"we are enforcing the law very strictly with increasing toughness\", meaning increased fines to dissuade risky behaviour. \"It depends on everybody doing the right thing and avoiding transmission,\" he says, adding that is what will be more effective than police action. On why the new variant may be transmitting more readily, Sir Patrick Vallance says it is not believed the new variant has a higher viral load, meaning people \"shed more virus\". He suggests it may be other factors that make it more transmissible. On the current infection rate, Chris Whitty says that while infections are slowly going down \"it is at a very, very high level\". He says that among some age groups - including those 20 to 30 - infections may still be increasing. And on hospitalisations, he says that they are \"broadly flat\" for the UK as a whole, but there are variations between regions. \"That peak is not yet definitely going down yet,\" he says. Deaths will be delayed further with the peak expected in the future, he adds. Video caption: Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty", "The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond is using legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThe documents include messages between SNP officials, civil servants and advisers relating to Mr Salmond's legal challenge to the complaints process.\n\nIt is the first time MSPs have issued such a formal request in the history of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the action was necessary to continue its work.\n\nThe committee was established in the wake of a judicial review court case where the Scottish government admitted its internal investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nThe government had to pay out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to the former first minister, who was later acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate criminal trial.\n\nThe notice, formally issued by Holyrood chief executive David McGill, states that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) \"may hold documents relevant and necessary for the committee to fulfil its remit\".\n\nThe committee is seeking the release of documents detailing text or WhatsApp communications between SNP chief operating officer Susan Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019, that may be relevant to the inquiry.\n\nIt also wants to see any documents linked to the leaking of complaints to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMs Fabiani said: \"Throughout this inquiry, the committee has been determined to get as much information as possible to inform its task.\n\n\"This is a step that hasn't been taken lightly, and is a first for this Parliament, but which the committee felt was needed as it continues its vital work.\"\n\nThe Crown Office has been given until 17:00 on 29 January to respond to the notice.\n\nNever before in Holyrood's history has it attempted to use this legal power of compulsion.\n\nSection 23 of the Scotland Act makes it possible to force a witness to give evidence in person or - as in this case - to hand over documents.\n\nIt sounds straightforward but lots of legal terms and conditions apply.\n\nThat's especially true in this case where MSPs are trying to compel the Crown Office - in charge of prosecutions and headed up by the Lord Advocate.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has potential get-outs if he considers releasing documents would \"prejudice criminal proceedings\" or otherwise be \"contrary to the public interest\".\n\nThat public interest test could be key.\n\nClearly, MSPs think social media messages and other material held by the Crown Office could be relevant to their inquiry and should be released.\n\nThe Crown Office has argued that disclosing evidence gathered in a criminal case for other purposes risks undermining confidence in the police and prosecutors.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has a big call to make - has the prosecution service (which he runs) or the parliament (to which he is answerable as a minister) got the better sense of where - on balance - the public interest lies?\n\nIn other developments, Mr Salmond has been given a deadline by which to appear before the committee.\n\nThe former SNP leader has been given the option of giving evidence to the committee either in person in the Parliament or by appearing remotely on a number of dates in the first week of February.\n\nMs Fabiani said if this was not possible then the \"committee regrets that it will not be able to take oral evidence from you\" although he would be free to submit further written evidence.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had said he was only available in the second week of February.\n\nIn a letter to the committee, the former first minister said this was because he had still to complete two further submissions but the process had been \"hampered\" by the Scottish government's \"failure\" to release its legal advice and the ongoing bid to recover documents from the Crown Office.\n\nMr Salmond's appearance is much anticipated following his written submission earlier this month in which he alleged that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who \"entirely rejects\" his claims, is expected to give evidence in the coming weeks and has said she is looking forward to putting her side across.\n\nMeanwhile, the committee has once again written to the Scottish government urging it to waive legal privilege and release the advice it received from lawyers regarding the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"COPFS has received the correspondence from the committee and will respond in early course.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We will consider the committee's letter - but the Scottish government has already taken unprecedented steps to provide the committee with access to relevant information to allow it to fulfil its remit.\n\n\"The government has, exceptionally, provided the committee with access to a summary of the legal advice on the judicial review on a confidential basis.\"", "Eric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge\n\nA bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.\n\nEric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.\n\nMs Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.\n\nShe was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China, where she had a five-year-old son with her husband, who is also a lecturer.\n\nProsecutor Carina Hughes said the crash left trapped passengers covered in debris and forced to crouch down in the flattened upper deck while they waited to be rescued.\n\nOlympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who was studying at the university, saw Ms Ren hit the front windscreen.\n\nEric Vice is \"consumed with guilt\" his defence barrister said\n\n\"Mr Young says that she was slowly trying to mouth some words to him, but it was inaudible.\n\n\"He described that he held her hand to try and comfort her until the police and paramedics arrived.\"\n\nMs Hughes said Ms Ren had been unconscious when cut out of the bus by firefighters 90 minutes later and was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, with spine injuries, leg fractures, lacerations and a severe brain injury.\n\nAerospace engineering student Richard Thompson, 20, was seriously injured in the crash and required facial reconstruction. Mr Young suffered a head wound and two broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard passenger statements saying the bus appeared to be running late and the driver had been waving passengers on to the bus without scanning their tickets.\n\nMs Hughes said when Vice encountered traffic between Swansea University's Singleton campus and its Swansea Bay campus, he decided to take a different route, one he had taken several times before when driving a single-decker bus.\n\nShe said 21 passengers has been on board, 13 of whom were on the top deck.\n\nMs Hughes said Vice had driven past two height restriction warnings on the route.\n\nThe bus went under the stone arch of the railway bridge, but hit the lower steel bridge.\n\nIan Ibrahim, defending, said it had been \"without doubt a catastrophic error of judgement.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is consumed with guilt - he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.\"\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nJudge Geraint Williams said: \"That fatal error of yours resulted in the death of a promising young academic.\n\n\"Following the crash you stayed at the scene where you witnessed first-hand the carnage you had created.\n\n\"I can't think of a word short of carnage to describe the scene on the upstairs of that bus - but it could have been many, many times worse.\n\n\"The stark reality in this case is that your impatience that day robbed you of the care which ordinarily you applied to your professional driving.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Ms Ren died, Swansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"", "Daniel Craig with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on the No Time To Die set in 2019\n\nThe release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film's website said.\n\nIt had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe film is the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, and marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent 007.\n\nIt also features Lea Seydoux and Rami Malek.\n\nThe delay will come as a further blow to cinemas that have been forced to shut for months at a time because of lockdowns.\n\nEarlier this week, leading film-makers including Danny Boyle and Sir Steve McQueen wrote to the UK Government, calling for financial support for cinema chains because \"UK cinema stands on the edge of an abyss\".\n\nCineworld said in October, when No Time To Die was pushed back for the second time, that delays to big budget releases meant the industry was \"unviable\".\n\nBond's latest move sparked a flurry of other delays to major releases. Sony has pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Peter Rabbit 2, Jared Leto's Morbius, Tom Holland's Uncharted and Cinderella, which will star singer Camila Cabello; while Universal has moved Tom Hanks' Bios from April to November.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said the decision to postpone No Time To Die again, \"while clearly disappointing, is at the same time not surprising given the current situation around Covid-19 in the UK as well as the US and other major film territories\".\n\nThe postponement of Daniel Craig's swansong and other films \"underlines the need for ongoing support for the UK cinema sector\", the trade body's chief executive Phil Clapp said.\n\nThe association is calling on the government to provide \"direct funding\" to chains, which represent 80% of ticket sales.\n\nOne of the major chains, Vue, said the delay was \"understandable\", and that the continuing attempts to release the film in cinemas \"is further testament to our shared belief in a bright future for the big screen\".\n\nHowever, the latest postponement could stoke speculation that the film may ultimately skip cinemas and be released on a streaming platform.\n\nMajor Disney titles like Pixar's Soul and its live-action remake of Mulan bypassed cinemas, premiering instead on the Disney+ streaming service.\n\nWonder Woman 1984, meanwhile, was made available in the US on the HBO Max streaming service on the same day it received a limited cinema release.\n\nLast year, Warner Bros announced its 2021 titles - including sci-fi epic Dune and The Matrix 4 - would all adopt a similar dual release pattern, escalating tensions between Hollywood and US movie theatres.\n\nRami Malek plays the villainous Safin in the thrice-delayed film\n\nThe Dig, a new historical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, was due to be released in selected UK cinemas this month. Now, the film will only be available on Netflix from 29 January.\n\nAsked whether No Time To Die might go down the same route, Fiennes - who will reprise his role as M in the film - recently told BBC News: \"That's a good question and I'm not really in a position to answer it.\n\n\"I would love the idea that people could go to the cinema and have the full effect of the big-screen energy behind the Bond, but I'm sure it's something the people who make these executive decisions are probably considering.\n\n\"I really hope we come through this so people can go to the cinema. Maybe they just have to hold their nerve. But of course we don't know, and there may be financial reasons or imperatives that [mean] they have to put it on a streaming system.\"\n\nIf No Time To Die is indeed released in cinemas in October, it will arrive a full six years on from the release of its 2015 predecessor Spectre.\n\nThat won't be far behind the six years and four months that separated the release of Licence to Kill in summer 1989 and GoldenEye in late 1995 - the biggest gap between two Bond films.\n\nThe last Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices.\n\nOther blockbusters to have been delayed by the pandemic include action sequel Top Gun: Maverick and Marvel's Black Widow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "The bunker is in a rural location near St Agnes, Cornwall\n\nAn \"eerie\" underground bunker built during the Cold War has been put up for sale with a guide price of £25,000.\n\nThe former monitoring post near St Agnes, Cornwall was built in 1961 and is accessed down a 14ft (4.2m) ladder.\n\nSellers have suggested \"a variety of uses\" for the \"out of the ordinary\" property, subject to planning permission from Cornwall Council.\n\nIt was used in the Cold War to monitor aircraft and any potential nuclear threats, said auctioneer Adam Cook.\n\nThe auction will be held online in February\n\nThe bunker was manned by volunteers and consists of an access shaft, a toilet and a monitoring room.\n\nIt is being auctioned online as part of a triangular piece of land on 18 February.\n\nThe site was first opened in 1961 and closed in 1991 and is accessed down a \"rustic vehicular track\", according to the online advert.\n\nMr Cook said it is a former Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post \"but people love calling it a nuclear bunker\".\n\nHe said the bunker would have been one of around 1,500 monitoring posts built in coastal regions in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s.\n\nOld bunk beds remain in the bunker\n\nAccessed by a hatch, Mr Cook described the reinforced concrete bunker as \"a little bit eerie when you're there on your own\".\n\n\"I'm glad I've been down there...[to have] half a chance of explaining it to customers.\"\n\nHe said there was still a sense of what it used to be with an \"old bunk bed\" and a toilet \"which I don't think you'd fancy using but it certainly gives you the atmosphere\".\n\nMr Cook explained it is \"difficult to pigeon hole it onto any one kind of purchaser\" and said the buyer could be anyone from a history enthusiast to a landowner.\n\n\"All kinds could be interested and we're already getting lots of calls about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your comments and story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cold War bunker up for sale for £25,000", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nThey say the new EU trade deal has put costly duties on returns at a time when firms are already struggling.\n\nThe BBC has been told UK High Street and luxury brands have a mounting volume of goods stuck with courier services on the continent.\n\nNone of the retailers would comment on the problem.\n\nAdam Mansell, boss of the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), said it's \"cheaper for retailers to write off the cost of the goods than dealing with it all, either abandoning or potentially burning them.\"\n\nSince 1 January, lots of European customers have been presented with an unexpected customs invoice when signing for goods they've ordered from the UK. These new customs charges are a result of the new EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"It's part of the ongoing small print of the deal,\" said Mr Mansell. \"If you're in Germany and buying goods from the UK, you as the German customer are the importer bringing goods into the EU.\n\n\"You then have a courier company knocking on the door giving you a customs clearance invoice that you need to pay to receive your goods.\"\n\nMany customers automatically reject the goods, refusing to pay the additional surcharges, leaving couriers to take them away.\n\nAbout 30% of items bought online are returned, according to figures from Statista. That has meant large volumes of goods are heading back to the UK.\n\nWhen goods arrive back at depots on the Continent, there is new customs paperwork to complete. \"Export clearance charge, import charge arrival, import VAT charge and depending on the goods a rules of origin document as well,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"Lots of large businesses don't have a handle on it, never mind smaller ones.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen a document that states four major UK High Street fashion retailers are stockpiling returns in Belgium, Ireland and Germany. One brand will incur charges of almost £20,000 to get the returns back.\n\nCouriers and freight businesses that ship from the UK to Europe are also experiencing delays getting goods to the Continent because of the new customs clearances.\n\n\"It's a bigger change than we thought possible,\" explained Shona Brown from Speedy Freight, a courier service. \"Before, we'd get the order to Germany and off the driver would go.\n\n\"Now we've got to do export entry detailing where was it made, the driver needs to go to the customs office at Dover, then customs in Germany on arrival and then sort out the VAT. There are so many hoops to jump through, it's so laborious.\"\n\n\"You've got to have manpower to figure out what to do. And with people working from home it's difficult. For small businesses, it is a huge thing for people to do,\" she added.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards runs her sustainable fashion brand VILDNIS from the UK. She has stopped exporting to her fastest growing market, the EU, because of the new customs processes.\n\n\"I've been involved in logistics before. I expected it to be bad and I am used to shipping to the USA which is difficult. But this is just mind-blowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Every day there is another layer. In the first two weeks we couldn't get answers. For two years we were told to get ready for Brexit. But for these we couldn't prepare.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think we can increase prices but we might just have to say that we can't make the business with the EU work. It is a real shame. There is a huge interest in sustainable fashion in Europe and we might have to walk away from it.\"\n\nUlla did speak with the Department for International Trade for help and advice. She was told that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub in Europe might be a good idea: \"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it.\"\n\nRetailers in the UK and Europe that trade across the new customs border are all still adapting to the rules. Hauliers and customs agents are facing a steep learning curve too.\n\nThe government said: \"Now the UK has left the EU customs union and Single Market, there are new rules and processes businesses will need to follow.\n\n\"We have encouraged companies new to dealing with customs declarations to appoint a specialist to deal with import and export declarations on their behalf - and we made more than £80m available to expand the capacity of the customs agents market.\"\n\nIt added: \"Most businesses use a specialist such as a customs broker, freight forwarder or fast parcel operator to deal with this.\n\n\"The government will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure they are able to trade effectively under the new rules.\"", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "It would be unrealistic to expect all lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland to be lifted on 5 March, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced that the current restrictions, which have been in place since 26 December, would be extended to 5 March.\n\nBut ministers were also told restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMr Swann said the decision to extend restrictions had not been easy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said: \"Can I say that'll we'll have to extend them at that point [5 March]? At this time, no I can't.\n\n\"But it would, I think, be unrealistic to think that we'd be able to lift every restriction come that date because we do see where this virus is going, the trajectory it's taking, the large number of positive cases that we are managing but also the large number of hospital admissions that we currently have.\n\nRobin Swann says the decision to extend the restrictions had not been easy\n\n\"There has to be a consideration and planning put into place - we know Covid's going to be with us for a very long time, we also know it will take time for our vaccination process to kick in and have that major effect.\"\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term break but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church have all confirmed that in-person worship will continue to be suspended until 5 March in accordance with the executive's decision on the restrictions.\n\nThe churches say there are exceptions for weddings and funerals and private prayer.\n\nTwelve more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland on Friday, taking the overall death toll recorded by the Department of Health to 1,704.\n\nIt is a story that changes not only by the day but by the hour and is dictated by numbers.\n\nNever before have we scrutinised hospital figures so closely, especially this week.\n\nAnd the numbers are important as we know how many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available across Northern Ireland and potentially how many will be required in the next 24 hours.\n\nOn Wednesday, 33 ICU beds were available - on Friday that dropped to 18.\n\nBut as we enter a difficult 72 hours, there is a feeling that the health system will cope.\n\nA regional approach to the crisis means no hospital is left to shoulder responsibility on its own.\n\nEvery afternoon a call is made about whether an additional \"pod\" - a bay of beds - is required to be opened at the Nightingale facility at Belfast City Hospital.\n\nIf not, it is felt that hospitals can hold their own for another 24 hours.\n\nCoping is good but comes at a terrible cost - keeping a lid on Covid-19 is only possible because so much else within hospitals has been cancelled.\n\nA heavy price has been paid and will continue to be paid for months, possibly years to come.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more than 100 medically-trained military personnel would be deployed in Northern Ireland to help hospital staff deal with Covid-19 pressures after a request by Mr Swann.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's Health Committee on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said: \"My only concern is that they [military personnel] don't get in the way of the real professionals who are doing the work to save lives.\n\n\"This is slamming the dead cat down on the table to deflect attention away from the inadequacies in the health department at the minute.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann responded by saying he was \"disappointed and disgusted\" by Mr Sheehan's comments.\n\nHe added: \"The majority of our health service workers are actually welcoming them because this is a tough period of time that we are entering into in the health service.\n\n\"To hear some of the comments where he's actually, I think, criticising the level of delivery that our health service has given over these past 10-12 months, I think is disappointing.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be the language that would be reflective of his party leadership in regards to the assistance that we're receiving from the Army.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, had previously said her party's priority had \"always been to save lives\" and she would \"never rule out anything that actually supports the health service\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said on critics of the move to deploy military medics were putting \"political intolerance before patients\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann also said the executive would \"not be found wanting\" in enforcing Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIt came after a district judge said on Wednesday that \"the powers-that-be made a significant error\" in making breaches of some rules punishable only with fines.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Ranaghan told Dungannon Magistrates' Court he would have remanded two defendants from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in custody if he had \"the power to do so\".\n\nShania Devenney, 21, of Kilmacormick Drive, and Nathan Maguire, 20, of Carnmore Lodge, were charged with contravening the regulations when arrested by police who were alerted to anti-social behaviour.\n\nA police officer told the court there had been repeated parties at Ms Devenney's address this month.\n\nThe judge, granting bail, said: \"I cannot consider remanding in custody as these matters are fine-only.\n\n\"The powers-that-be made a significant error when drafting legislation in making these fine-only offences.\n\n\"Had I the power to do so I would definitely be remanding these two in custody.\"\n\nThe PSNI has issued more than 2,000 Covid-19 fines during the pandemic\n\nThe health minister said the executive had asked people \"to work with us\" and had increased the level of fines.\n\nAsked about the judge's comments about enforcement, Mr Swann said he was \"content enough to raise it with executive colleagues and ask the justice minister to have a look at that\".\n\nMr Swann added that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland were abiding by the regulations as it is the \"right thing to do\".\n\nOn Tuesday, police revealed that 2,159 penalty notices had been issued during the pandemic, with fines starting at £200.\n\nThere have been 55 failure-to-isolate fines, which incur a £1,000 fine.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.\n\nNathan said the singalong craze for his The Wellerman rendition exploded in just a matter of weeks.\n\nAnd Friday sees an official release of the shanty, after he was picked up by Polydor records.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Airdrie said it goes to show that if you keep going anything can happen.", "Mr Trump was duped by the prankster, Morgan said\n\nDonald Trump was called on Air Force One last year by a prankster posing as Piers Morgan, the TV presenter says.\n\nThe president, as he was at the time, only realised he had been tricked when he phoned the real Morgan while on his way to vote in Florida last year.\n\nThe alleged security breach is said to have happened in October, but only emerged in an interview Morgan gave to the BBC's Americast podcast.\n\nThe two recently had a falling out over Mr Trump's handling of the pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Jon Sopel why Mr Trump had called Morgan out of the blue this past October, the presenter described \"an absolutely hilarious story, where somebody had called [Trump] pretending to be me the day before and got through to him on Air Force One\".\n\nThe 45th US president didn't realise he had been duped, Morgan said. \"They had a conversation with Trump thinking he was talking to me.\"\n\nIt is not clear who the alleged hoaxers were, but if the story is true President Trump would not be the first political leader to have been pranked.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was foreign secretary, have both been tricked on the phone in recent years.\n\nBut it would revive long-running questions about the security of President Trump's phone conversations.\n\nMorgan became increasingly critical of Mr Trump in the final months of his presidency\n\nThe BBC has asked the Secret Service for comment.\n\nMorgan was a high-profile tabloid editor in the UK who took over from Larry King with a primetime CNN chat show in 2011. He now presents a breakfast show in the UK.\n\nHe was initially supportive of President Trump after his surprise election win but became increasingly critical in the last 12 months.\n\n\"We had a very nice conversation... I always got on well with Trump,\" Morgan said of their October call, but added that Mr Trump's \"character flaws - the chronic narcissism, the desire to make everything about himself\" made him a \"useless leader\".\n\nOn their friendship, Morgan described Mr Trump's behaviour since the November presidential election as \"egregious\" and \"so obviously on a pathway\" to the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\n\"I just felt - no, I'm done with you now,\" Morgan said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recording of the conversation between Elton John and the man he believed was Vladimir Putin", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths \"armed with knives\".\n\nPolice said Keon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road, in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away, added police, who said they had since seized the vehicle.\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nThe investigation is progressing \"at pace\", according to the West Midlands force, which detained the suspect on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nWitnesses who reported the carrying of knives to officers also said shots were heard.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nThe motive remained unknown said police, who urged those who could identify the attackers to contact the force.\n\n\"We are not sure of all the details at the moment, but we do know that Keon was set upon by this group and suffered a series of serious injuries,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, adding that five or six youths were believed to have been involved.\n\nPolice have not disclosed the nature of Keon's injuries. They say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nOfficers are searching Linwood Road after the attack on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Orencas said: \"The death of Keon has shocked the whole community.\n\n\"This level of violence in broad daylight on a residential street is inconceivable, let alone the fact the target was a 15-year-old boy.\"\n\nHe said the family, who were being supported by specialist officers, \"had the worst shock imaginable\".\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the family said they were \"devastated\" by their loss, and remembered Keon as \"fun-loving\" and \"full of life and love\".\n\nThe tribute added: \"He had an infectious laugh that lit up the room whenever he was in it.\"\n\nPolice have seized a crashed car they believe to be a getaway vehicle\n\nDetectives are examining a white car they believe to be the getaway vehicle which crashed into a house on Wheeler Street.\n\nCCTV footage has been seized and the area is cordoned off while investigations continue.\n\nA resident of Linwood Road, who did not wish to be named, said she was shocked to hear someone had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"We've lived here 45 years and I've never heard of anything like this.\n\n\"It's just shocking and really, really sad.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for dash cam and CCTV footage as they piece together the events of Thursday afternoon\n\nLocal Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, described the death as \"extremely tragic\" and \"a needless thing to have happened\".\n\nHe said: \"We must work with police as much as we can to stop this happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home has led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nA total of 13 residents at an East Dunbartonshire care home have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe owners of Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs confirmed the deaths and said that a further seven residents had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nAnother 11 staff members were self-isolating following positive tests.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate rated the home in Lennox Crescent as \"weak\" in its Covid-19 response in an inspection last month.\n\nAt the unannounced check on 26 October, inspectors found the cleanliness of the home a \"significant concern\".\n\nIt went on to describe the cleanliness of the environment and the overall fabric of the building as \"poor\".\n\nInspectors said in their report that they were \"very concerned about the potential risk of infection for residents\".\n\nSenior managers responded immediately and maintenance staff were deployed to clean the home.\n\nHowever, the operators were ordered to carry out a deep clean of the facility by 11 November.\n\nMavisbank owners HC-One said they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nMavisbank was given a rating of \"weak\" in October\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"As we navigate this outbreak, we continue to work closely with all the relevant authorities to contain the virus and safeguard our residents.\n\n\"We are pleased that a number of residents have now recovered, and we continue to closely monitor the health and wellbeing of all those affected.\n\n\"This includes following all government guidance in relation to infection prevention and control.\"\n\nResponding to the Care Inspectorate report, the company said the health, safety and wellbeing of its residents and staff was a priority.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"We were disappointed that inspectors found some elements of our robust infection control plan were not being fully implemented and we acted urgently to respond to this feedback. These issues were immediately rectified so that when inspectors returned, they were able to see and approve of the work that had been completed.\n\n\"Senior staff are also supporting the home and our learning and development team are ensuring that all colleagues complete refresher training which includes our specific coronavirus training modules on the virus, enhanced infection control procedures, and the correct use of PPE.\n\n\"These training modules have been regularly updated to reflect all changes in the guidance over recent months.\"\n\nCaroline Sinclair, of East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said, \"We are aware of this very sad situation and have been working with Mavisbank care home to provide a high level of clinical support to residents at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families of those who have passed and others affected by their loss.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMinisters wrestling with how to ensure people with coronavirus obey laws to self-isolate are to consider paying £500 to anyone who tests positive. It's among options drawn up for England by the Department of Health to encourage people to stay at home, amid fears the current support leaves some unable to afford the time away from work. However, Treasury sources say funding a universal payment to the tune of £453m a week is unlikely.\n\nBritish retail sales saw their largest annual fall in history last year as the impact of coronavirus took its toll. Sales fell by 1.9% in 2020, when compared with 2019, official figures show. Clothes shops were hit hard, with a record annual fall of more than 25%. Meanwhile, UK government borrowing hit £34.1bn last month, the highest December figure on record, as the cost of pandemic support weighed on the economy, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nA Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-related deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland, ahead of prosecutors' decisions on whether they should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution. Care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\". But Linda Duncan, whose 91-year-old mother Anne died last April, argues: \"A lot of the focus has been on the government response but we need this investigation to look at the private operators.\"\n\nHalf of all staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't... feel safe at work\", with about one in every 10 having tested positive since 1 December, according to an Early Years Alliance survey of more than 3,000 staff. Providers in England have been told to remain open to all children during lockdown and the government says under-fives are \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nAs lockdown has forced families apart, grandparents have had to find new ways of keeping in touch with their grandchildren. Annette Landy tells us how reading over video calls to Alicia, eight, and Sadie, two, has made things a little easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Potter and The Secret Garden have proven to be favourites\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you're struggling to understand why vaccinating the most vulnerable won't immediately end lockdown, health correspondent Nick Triggle explains the reasoning.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Florence Nightingale Museum announced it would close for the foreseeable future\n\nMuseums and galleries are \"fighting for survival\" amid the current lockdown, a national charity has warned.\n\nThe Art Fund has predicted that small institutions are likely to suffer most and said more help is needed.\n\nSo far, the charity has only been able to help 15% of applicants to its emergency response fund.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced London's Florence Nightingale Museum is to close for the foreseeable future due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure, according to the Art Fund.\n\nThe charity's director Jenny Waldman said: \"The latest lockdown is a body blow and is leaving our museums and galleries fighting for survival.\n\n\"Smaller museums in particular, which are so vital to their communities, simply do not have the reserves to see them through this winter.\n\nResearch previously conducted by the charity found six in 10 museums, galleries and historic houses were worried about their own survival.\n\n\"Tragically, we are now seeing well-known and much-loved museums facing mothballing or permanent closure,\" Waldman said.\n\nIn November, the charity offered limited edition artworks to members of the public who donated to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nSir Anish, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Michael Landy were among the artists who provided their works to the appeal.\n\nArt Fund has renewed its appeal for people to donate to the crowdfunding campaign, which is called Together For Museums.\n\nNew works of art from Howard Hodgkin, Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker have been added to the items on offer.\n\nJeremy Deller worked on the 2016 Somme commemoration project featuring 'Ghost Tommies' appearing across UK locations\n\nSir Anish said: \"Museums are where we go to engage with art, witness our psychic history and understand ourselves. Today they face great difficulty.\n\n\"The Art Fund campaign gives us an opportunity to help museums to continue to provide access to all in spite of the difficulties of this time.\"\n\nArt Fund has also announced £750,000 of new grants to help 23 museums respond to the pandemic - taking its total spend so far to £2.25 million.\n\nBut that is only a small proportion of the applications the charity has received, which total over £16 million.\n\nRecipients include the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, for a health and wellbeing project, and Portland Museum, Dorset, for a plan to recreate Rufus Castle digitally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spanish player Paula Badosa has revealed that she has the virus\n\nA Spanish tennis player who was among many Australian Open competitors to complain about quarantine rules has revealed she has coronavirus.\n\nPaula Badosa said she had felt unwell with symptoms before testing positive for the virus in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nBadosa is believed to be the fourth competitor to test positive in hotel quarantine, but is the first to identify herself publicly.\n\nOn Friday, she said \"sorry guys\", adding quarantine rules were \"pivotal\".\n\n\"Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always comes first & I feel grateful for being in Australia,\" tweeted Badosa, who is ranked 67th globally in singles.\n\nThe 23-year-old said she had been taken to a separate hotel in Melbourne to \"self-isolate and be monitored\".\n\n\"I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors,\" she said.\n\nVictoria state health authorities said on Wednesday a total of 10 infections had been linked to the event, but a few were \"viral shedding\" cases where the person was not infectious.\n\nMelbourne endured one of the world's longest lockdowns last year and many locals have concerns about the potential Covid risk posed by the tournament.\n\nTennis Australia chartered 15 flights to bring players and their entourages into the country, but three flights had passengers who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBadosa is one of 72 players who have been confined full-time to their hotel rooms for 14 days - under a state health order - after the infections were discovered. She has already spent seven days in isolation.\n\nPlayers who arrived on flights with no infections are also in quarantine but are allowed five hours of court practice a day.\n\nSeveral players have complained about the impacts to their tennis preparation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Confined players have been training in their hotel rooms\n\nEarlier this week, in a tweet reported by Australian media that has since been deleted, Badosa wrote: \"At the beginning the rule was the positive section of the plane who was with that person had to quarantine. Not the whole plane.\n\n\"Not fair to change the rules at the last moment. And to have to stay in a room with no windows and no air.\"\n\nBut Tennis Australia and state officials have rejected assertions that any rules were changed or not clear ahead of time.\n\n\"We're thinking of you Paula, and hoping you feel better soon,\" the Australian Open's Twitter account replied in a message to Badosa on Friday.\n\nOrganisers have said that despite the infections, the Grand Slam will go ahead on 8 February.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nHot dog: Ann Baldwin thinks it looks warm enough for a swim in this shot looking towards Inchcolm Island and Arthur’s Seat from the sailing club in Dalgety Bay, Fife, 10 minutes before sunrise.\n\nLittle sucker: Tessa McAndrew helped this beautiful octopus back into the water after finding him clinging to driftwood on the beach at Lower Largo.\n\nWindswept: Bad hair day for these trees in the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Edinburgh. Claire Dunbar took this picture during one of the many recent snow dumps in the area.\n\nIntricate web: The sun was making an attempt to defrost this frozen spider web in Colin Sergeant's back garden in Motherwell.\n\nHindsight: David Fox thinks this roe deer fawn that he captured on his camera at Strathbraan in Perthshire will be \"a future Monarch of the Glen\".\n\nTrue snowman: Only Gordon Brandie knows what this Highland fling snowman is wearing under his kilt and peg sporran in Faskally, Perthshire.\n\nStill life: Artistic beauty found when looking through a drainage hole in the Arbroath sea wall.\n\nBlurred lines: Sunrise on top of Falkland Hill in the early hours of the morning, taken by Jordan Moreham.\n\nStick together: Judith McIntyre spotted these wooden friends huddling to keep warm this winter in Kingston, Moray.\n\nHowling wind: Three-year-old Poppy enjoying a very windy afternoon walk on Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh with her mum, Sophia Lyons.\n\nCollectivism vs Individualism: Victor Tregubov took this shot of birds in countryside near Glasgow.\n\nStrike a pose: Colin Little on the bank of the River Lossie in Elgin, said: \"This otter posed for a couple of shots before diving under again.\"\n\nBlack and white: Derek Brown took this snowy scene in Stow just outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEbb and flow: Michelle Moggach said it was \"Baltic but beautiful\" at Aberdeen Beach while she gazed at the sea.\n\nAlan Kemp said about 100 fieldfares descended on his pink berry Rowan trees in Murthly, Perthshire and devoured the lot in one sitting.\n\nMindfulness: Shirley Faichney captured a zen moment during a recent sunrise at West Wemyss beach in Fife.\n\nBridge to nowhere: Rachel Abbie was left puzzled as to where her walk was leading at Belhaven Beach in Dunbar.\n\nWinter wonderland: The path for Ross McKellar looks bright in High Blantyre in Glasgow.\n\nAutumn meets winter: Agnes Neal observed a sole woman walking through this peaceful scene in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: David Doogan loves it when this bushy-tailed friend joins him for a picnic in his garden in Glencoe, Argyll.\n\nTop of the world: ...well it was for Katie Gillingham and her friends on Goatfell on the Isle of Arran this week.\n\nEthereal moonlight: Arletta Babicz thought there was a \"magical vibe\" when he took this shot of the most photographed tree in Scotland at Loch Lomond.\n\nFollow the herd: Christopher Barrow thought it was funny when this flock of sheep kept following him while he was out skiing in Almondbank, Perthshire.\n\nPillars of the community: Poll nan Crann pier, known locally as Stinky Bay due to the large amount of seaweed blown onto the beach by storms which then rots in the sun. Seonaidh MacInnes took this picture at night on the Isle of Benbecula.\n\nRising above the herd: Jim Clark thought this beast could have been thinking outside the box when he captured this shot at Glanderston Dam, Barrhead.\n\nVirgin powder: Dan Price-Davies enjoyed Alpine conditions at Clashindarroch Forest while Nordic skiing with his son, Lestin, this week.\n\nCloud inversion: Steve Mitchell took in this stunning view overlooking a snowy drystone dyke at the top of the Cairn o' Mount (B974) road between Banchory and Fettercairn.\n\nWinter Washingland: Louise Harper took this picture of colourful plastic pegs with no job to do during heavy snow in Motherwell.\n\nThe Night Walker: Tamar Lewis thought there was an eerie glow in the sky as she took an evening stroll through Pollok Country Park.\n\nStripped bare: This dead-looking tree brings life to Dave Cullen's picture of the Cramond landscape in Edinburgh.\n\nDuck down: All but one mallard enjoying the food thrown to them at St Fillans in the snow, taken by Kenn Begley.\n\nWinter coat: Glen Tanar cleansed in white, near the summit of Baudy Meg in Aberdeenshire, taken by Neil Marchant.\n\nFyrish sunrise: It's as if Sir Hector Munro ordered his monument to be put in the best light possible for Laura Steel who took this picture in Evanton near Alness.\n\nSun and shadows: Michal Markowski took this eye-catching picture in West Linton using a drone.\n\nHair ice: Jane Tweedie noticed this rare phenomenon while out walking at Craigellachie, Moray. It is also known as ice wool or frost beard and is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.\n\nUdderly mootiful: Izabela Bodzioch took this picture of cows admiring the view of Ben Cruachan covered in snow.\n\nIce bath: Jan Overmeer said he changed his mind about going for a swim in Loch Carron when he was greeted by this frozen scene.\n\nJack Frost: Graeme Mackay was mesmerised by the patterns Mother Nature had made on the sunroof of his car in Aberdeen.\n\nSwan Lake: Bob Smart captured the sheer power and might of this magnificent bird at Townhill Loch in Fife.\n\nFine sunset: James MacArthur captured the fresh breath of brightness burning the last corner of Loch Fyne as the sun dropped below the skyline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for Covid £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.\n\nA universal £500 payment was among suggestions in a leaked Department of Health document.\n\nThere are fears the current financial support is not working because low paid workers cannot afford to self-isolate.\n\nBut a senior government source said the idea of extending the £500 payments to everyone who tests positive had been drawn up by officials and had not been considered by the prime minister.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall said ministers were aware self-isolation was crucial for stopping the spread of coronavirus and the \"options paper\" had been drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health.\n\nShe said it would be discussed soon by the Covid operations committee chaired by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, adding the move suggested there was an admission in government that too many people were not staying at home and a decision needed to be made quickly.\n\nThe story was first reported by the Guardian which said the options paper suggested the proposal could cost up to £453m per week - 12 times the cost of the current payouts.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC he had not seen the leaked document but said the issue of financial support for people self-isolating was \"always kept under review\".\n\n\"We've got to consider all sorts of policies in order to make sure that people abide by the rules, are able to abide by the rules and we get the infection rate down,\" he said.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman denied the government was planning to introduce the new payment, telling reporters: \"We've given local authorities £70m for the scheme and they are able to provide extra payments on top of those £500 if they think it necessary.\n\n\"That £500 is on top of any other benefits and statutory sick pay that people are eligible for.\"\n\nAsked about document, the spokesman said he would not comment on a leaked paper.\n\nIt's impossible to say exactly what proportion of people stay at home for the full 10 days after being in contact with someone who has tested positive, however some evidence suggests the minority of people do.\n\nA government-backed study from September 2020 suggests that just 10.9% of people remained indoors for the full time.\n\nLabour has often cited this report when arguing that people cannot afford to miss work, but a closer look at it suggests that, of those who break the rules, just 8.9% do \"to go to work\".\n\nMost people reported going out for things like shopping or exercise, but also because they didn't think they needed to quarantine as they didn't develop symptoms.\n\nThis research is quite old (done before self-isolation grants came in) and has a relatively small sample size of just 400 people.\n\nHowever, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has also highlighted research that shows that most people don't completely follow the rules.\n\nThis research also suggests that those on lower incomes felt they were three times less able to self-isolate than those better off.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was concern in government about the huge cost of the proposal for the Treasury.\n\nHowever, he said the issue of financial incentives and trying to get people to self-isolate was clearly a live discussion within government.\n\nIt became a legal requirement last September for anyone in England testing positive for coronavirus to self-isolate.\n\nThe £500 grant already available in England is funded by the government but administered by local authorities.\n\nThe same level of payment is available in Scotland and Wales with similar conditions attached. Northern Ireland offers a discretionary self-isolation grant that covers expenses, such as the cost of groceries.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nHowever, there have been high rejection rates for this discretionary grant in England, figures obtained by Labour and reported by the BBC this week suggest.\n\nBetween October and December last year, three-quarters of the 49,877 applications were rejected, the data showed.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish government would welcome the introduction of a £500 payment, as the additional funds it would generate for Scotland could allow for a similar scheme to be set up.\n\nSpeaking at her regular coronavirus briefing, she said: \"We will see whether that transpires or not, but any extra resources for self-isolation we would use to support self-isolation.\"\n\nProf Susan Michie, an adviser on the government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nShe said financial support currently offered to people having to self-isolate was a \"key weakness\" of the government's pandemic strategy.\n\nSharon, a cleaner from Kent, told the BBC if no money were to come in for two weeks she would not be able to afford to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a mortgage to pay,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't even afford to heat my property at the moment because my wages were cut and that £500 payment would make all the difference. I would be able to self-isolate.\n\n\"It wouldn't be enough money, but it would help.\"\n\nThe DoH said it would not comment on a leaked paper but stressed it was incumbent on everyone to help protect the NHS by staying at home and following the rules at \"one of the toughest moments of this pandemic\".\n\nA spokesman said £50m was invested at the time the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme launched and it was providing a further £20m to help support people on low incomes who need to self-isolate.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nOther legal obligations to self-isolate in the UK include:\n\nWould £500 be enough to help you to self-isolate? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last summer's A level results prompted an outcry from students - leading to an independent review\n\nThere was a \"significant failure\" in the way exam bodies in Wales handled awarding student grades in 2020, a report says.\n\nThe independent review found there was \"too much confidence\" in statistical models, and the appeals process in place was inadequate.\n\nQualifications Wales (QW) said it had learnt many lessons and WJEC exam board will look \"in detail\" at the findings.\n\nTeaching union UCAC described the report's findings as \"scathing\".\n\nIts release comes after it was announced this week that teachers will make 2021 grade assessments\n\nThe review was ordered by the Welsh Government following the outcry over initial examination results awarded in August for A-level students.\n\nThe assessment approach resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust, says the review\n\nIn the weeks after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, formal external exams in Wales were scrapped, with schools asked to provide grade assessments for sixth-form and GCSE pupils.\n\nHowever, it later emerged 42% of the A-level grades were lower than those submitted by teachers.\n\nIn her foreword the report panel's chairwoman Louise Casella, said substantial numbers of young people across Wales \"were left feeling bewildered and distressed as they received A level results that bore no relation to their expectation and their abilities\".\n\nThe result decision was reversed, and school's predicted grades reinstated, but not before \"some learners lost their university place and some were not able to progress as planned in 2020\", noted Ms Casella, who is also director of The Open University in Wales.\n\nThe review found that QW and the WJEC board would have known the \"scale of the outliers\" and had \"an insight\" into the likely number of appeals.\n\nBut the bodies failed to fully test \"alternative routes or approaches\" to the statistical models they used to standardise results.\n\nThe review added it was \"surprising\" QW did not explore additional safeguards, after having being previously warned about, and acknowledging that there were potential problems with the statistical process.\n\nThe report said it could not find evidence either WJEC or QW \"acknowledged, accepted or anticipated the scale of the issues\" nor the risk of unfairness to learners, and that it considered this a \"significant failure\".\n\nThe approach last summer had resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust between the teaching profession and the regulator and examining body, added the report authors.\n\nIt said fairness must now be central to planning for 2021, avoiding automated algorithms to predict individual grades, and developing an appeals process.\n\nDelivering the report, the review panel chair added: \"There is now a real opportunity for the education sector of Wales to come together to develop and deliver a qualifications system that puts learners at its heart, not only for the cohort facing qualifications in 2021, but for the longer term.\"\n\nQW said the review had \"some useful findings and recommendations that we are already addressing\".\n\nChair David Jones and Chief Executive Philip Baker said: \"We would have welcomed greater engagement with the review panel so there was full consideration of all the issues.\"\n\nChief Executive of WJEC Ian Morgan, said he was \"disappointed with some aspects of the report\" but the exam board would \"look in detail at the findings to identify areas where we need to take action to continuously improve as an organisation.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has already said teachers will assess grades in 2021\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has welcomed the report and how it would help drive how students are graded by teachers and schools this summer.\n\n\"It is my sincere hope and expectation that our education system can continue to work together to support the progression of our learners in exam years, both through the delivery of these assessment arrangements and through a wider package of support,\" she said.\n\nUCAC Deputy General Secretary Rebecca Williams, said the report supported its call for external moderation of grades, to improve fairness to students.\n\n\"There are longer-term recommendations, including the need to be more ambitious in terms of reform of qualifications and assessment in relation to the new curriculum, and we look forward to discussing these over the coming months,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet.\n\nThe public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve.\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group.\n\nContracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.\n\nThe data has been put on the dark web - a part of the internet associated with criminality and only accessible through specialised software.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"We've been clear that we won't use public finance to pay serious and organised criminals intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds.\n\n\"We have made our legal obligations and duty of care on the sensitive handling of data a high priority and, following Police Scotland advice, are confirming that data stolen has been illegally published online.\n\n\"We're working quickly with multi-agency partners to recover and analyse data then, as identifications are confirmed, contact and support affected organisations and individuals.\"\n\nThe attack locked Sepa's emails and contacts centre but Sepa said \"priority regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services were continuing to adapt and operate\".\n\nSepa said the theft was the equivalent to a fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said the organisation had faced a \"significant and sophisticated cyber-attack\"\n\nSome of the information stolen was already publicly available but other files included data about staff and suppliers was not.\n\nWhere information has been identified to date, staff have been contacted and are being supported.\n\nBrett Callow, of cyber security company Emsisoft, has been tracking the Sepa ransomware attack.\n\nHe said: \"Conti may well be the work of the same people behind another type of ransomware called Ryuk.\n\n\"There are similarities in the code, ransom note and attack mechanisms.\n\n\"When the complete haul of data is posted like this, it usually means the group has given up hope of being able to extract payment from the victim of monetise the data in other ways.\n\n\"It's a loss for them. At this point, they've lost all leverage and the action is intended to serve as a warning to future victims.\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, of Police Scotland's cybercrime investigations unit, said: \"This remains an ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Inquiries remain at an early stage and continue to progress including deployment of specialist cybercrime resources to support this response.\"\n\nThe authorities will be pleased.\n\nIt looks like Sepa decided not to play ball with the cyber criminals.\n\nRansomware is a scourge that is costing organisations billions of pounds and every time a victim pays, it fuels further attacks.\n\nSadly for Sepa this is far from over.\n\nBy the looks of the stash of files that the hackers stole and encrypted, Sepa will have months of work ahead to try to recover important documents and spreadsheets from backups and rebuild their records.\n\nIt's also telling that, according to the hackers website, almost 1,000 people have so far looked at the documents.\n\nWho knows what other criminals or hackers are poring over the files right now.\n\nMaking the documents open to all means that information can be extracted to potentially be used against Sepa in further attacks or extortion attempts.\n\nIt will be months, perhaps even years until the organisation can say it is safe once more and can put this cyber attack behind it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Some 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders have been arrested since the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nInvestigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.\n\nThe operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.\n\nThe Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.\n\nIt also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being exposed to indecent images, and enabling parents to ask officers if someone with access to their child is known to them for cases of abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said some who had suffered child sexual abuse had told her they felt \"let down by the state\", and insisted she was \"determined to put this right\".\n\nRob Jones, an NCA director, welcomed the initiative \"at a time when the threat to children is more severe than it has ever been\", highlighting that last year there were at least 300,000 people posing a sexual threat to children in the UK.\n\nHe said the NCA was focusing on the most dangerous offenders \"as part of the whole system approach\".\n\n\"Many feel they can operate with impunity online - using anonymisation techniques, secure accounts and the dark web - but as we have shown with this operation they are wrong and we have the capabilities to track them down,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones added: \"These are not just images or videos being viewed online.\n\n\"What we are uncovering here is evidence of the horrific, real-world sexual abuse of children.\"\n\nOut of the 320 arrested as part of the NCA's operation targeting the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders, 122 were targeted by NCA officers.\n\nSeventeen were in positions of trust, including a volunteer with the Scouts, church youth group leaders, a social worker, primary school and college teachers, a hospital care assistant, a police officer, and a civil servant.\n\nIn the year ending March 2020 the NCA and UK policing made 7,212 arrests and safeguarded and protected 8,329 children. This was a 50% increase in arrests and a 10% increase in safeguards compared with the year ending March 2019.\n\nMs Patel said that the national strategy would tackle and respond to \"all forms of child sexual abuse, relentlessly going after abusers, whilst better protecting victims and survivors\".\n\nShe added: \"Crucially, it contains a commitment to collect higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, so that the government can build a fuller picture of perpetrators, and tackle the abuse that has blighted many towns and cities across our country.\"\n\nThe government has pledged to support local authorities' responses to exploitation through funding for The Children's Society's Prevention Programme initiative, which has so far trained 13,363 professionals to spot signs of child abuse.\n\nThrough the Online Safety Bill, the Home Office has also said it will ensure technology companies are held to account for harmful content on their sites.\n\nThe Children's Society's chief executive, Mark Russell, has described the strategy as a \"golden opportunity to improve support for child victims of horrific crimes and send a clear signal that child sexual abuse and exploitation are crimes that will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe scheme was also welcomed by GCHQ and charity NSPCC, which said it has received more than 40 calls a day about child sexual abuse since the pandemic began.\n\nGCHQ's director of serious and organised crime said: \"Our work to tackle systemic internet problems, the insight we provide into offender behaviour and our efforts alongside law enforcement to identify and pursue the worst offenders will help to ensure there is no safe space online for these people to operate.\"\n\nNSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said it \"rightly puts the emphasis on early intervention and action across government but added it \"must be backed up with serious investment in support for victims\" - and that children were still being exposed to abuse from teachers and social workers.\n\nSir Peter said: \"It's crucial that no young person is left unprotected which is why it's disappointing the government has not committed to closing the legal loophole that enables some adults to abuse their position of power to have sexual contact with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care.\"", "CCTV footage has been released of the moment a fire took hold in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House admitted charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House pled guilty to charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nO'Malley's lawyer said the night porter - from Renton in West Dunbartonshire - deeply regretted his actions, and did not deliberately start the fire.\n\nDumbarton Sheriff Court also heard that Cameron House did not have proper procedures in place for the disposal of ash, or for training staff.\n\nThe owners also failed to keep cupboards that contained potential ignition sources free of combustibles.\n\nAt about 04:00 on 18 December 2017, O'Malley, 35, cleared ash and embers from a fireplace in the Cameron House reception into a metal bucket.\n\nHe then emptied the contents of the bucket into a plastic bag, which he put into the concierge cupboard.\n\nThe cupboard also contained flammable materials including kindling, newspapers and cardboard.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nAt about 06:40 an initial fire alarm sounded and staff noticed smoke coming from the concierge cupboard.\n\nO'Malley opened the door and flames took hold, spreading to the hall.\n\nHe and two others tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers, but were overcome by the flames.\n\nAdvocate depute Michael Meehan QC told the court the cupboard was well alight and the \"blaze immediately took hold and spread from there\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result of [Cameron House's] failure to keep the cupboard free of combustibles, ash and embers ignited and fire spread in the main building.\"\n\nThe night manager sounded the alarm and called 999. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find a \"well developed\" fire in the mansion, which is near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMore than 200 guests were staying in the hotel.\n\nThe court heard one family-of-three on the second floor had to be rescued by firefighters while a couple on the first floor had to crawl to safety because corridors and fire escape pathways were filling with smoke and gases.\n\nIt was after 08:00 when it was discovered that Mr Dyson, 38, and Mr Midgley, 32, were missing.\n\nFirefighters wearing breathing apparatus found Mr Dyson on a landing at the top of a staircase.\n\nMr Midgley was lying in a fire escape passageway. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.\n\nMr Dyson was taken to hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations said the men's causes of death had been inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nThe couple had travelled from London, and were staying at the five-star resort as the final stop on their winter break to Scotland.\n\nSheriff William Gallacher also heard of an incident three nights before the fatal fire, where O'Malley and another night porter were told not to put ash into plastic bags because it was a fire hazard.\n\nCameron House QC Peter Gray said it was therefore \"extremely difficult to understand\" why O'Malley did not follow this guidance on the night of the fire.\n\nThe court also heard that Cameron House staff were not properly trained in the safe disposal of ash and that no written procedures were in place.\n\nThere was also no procedure in place for emptying the metal ash bins outside the hotel on a regular basis.\n\nThat was contrary to recommendations made in two fire risk assessments carried out by an independent company in 2016 and 2017.\n\nAfter the first report was received by Cameron House management in January 2016, the resort manager agreed there was a lack of a formal procedure for disposing of ash and delegated the responsibility for this to his deputy.\n\nMr Meehan said this report \"should have been a game-changer\" for Cameron House.\n\nWhen the issue was raised again in a follow-up report a year later, managers believed it had already been dealt with.\n\nMr Gray said: \"The resort manager understood incorrectly that all the actions had been completed, including in relation to the written procedure for disposing of ash from open fires.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had also warned Cameron House managers about the risks of storing combustibles in the concierge cupboard in August 2017.\n\nThe audit highlighted the potential danger of fire spreading rapidly through the building because of its age and voids.\n\nA follow-up letter was sent to management in November 2017 - one month before the fire - but combustibles continued to be stored in the cupboard.\n\nCameron House's lawyer added that the failings were not deliberate breaches but occurred \"as a result of genuine errors\".\n\nHe also told the court the fire had gone undetected for a long period before being discovered, and that the hotel had a \"suite of measures in place\" to deal with fire safety.\n\nAn absence of formal procedures for dealing with ashes and embers gave staff the opportunity to improvise, he added.\n\nMr Gray continued: \"I am instructed to extend my deepest sympathies from the accused to the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe said the hotel takes its duties to ensure the safety of its guests extremely seriously.\n\nDetails of what happened at Cameron House were first revealed in court on 14 December last year, but reporting restrictions meant they could not be published until now.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 29 January.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "Shoppers bought far fewer clothes last year as lockdowns meant people had less opportunity to socialise and go out.\n\nClothes sales slumped 25%, the biggest drop in 23 years when records began, official figures suggest.\n\nWhile shops have reported demand for certain clothing such as pyjamas and loungewear has risen, demand for going-out items has fallen sharply.\n\nAnd despite a pick-up in December, clothing sales remain lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"With few opportunities to socialise during lockdown and many people working from home, the clothing sector has been one of the \"worst-affected by restrictions\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nEarlier this month, Marks & Spencer said sales of sleepwear had soared\n\nGrowing numbers of High Street shops have faced financial difficulties due to the temporary store closures imposed during lockdowns.\n\nTopshop-owner Arcadia and competitors Debenhams, Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, Oasis and Warehouse have all slid into insolvency since lockdown measures were first imposed last March.\n\nThe inability to try clothes on in bricks-and-mortar shops, as well as restrictions on eating out meaning consumers are going out less, have all affected sales, the ONS suggested.\n\nAnd the slump in demand for fashion meant that British retail sales saw their largest annual fall on record in 2020.\n\nSales fell by 1.9% last year, when compared with 2019, the largest year-on-year fall since records began in 1997.\n\nRetail sales, including fuel, did see a small increase last month, growing by 0.3% when compared with November.\n\nIt came following the end of England's national lockdown on 2 December. Sales had slumped by 4.1% in November during a month-long shutdown.\n\nBut \"this was very clearly not a Merry Christmas for most of the High Street\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"For most retailers it's the most crucial month of the year to get profit back on track but the large upswing in sales after the pain of the November lockdowns didn't materialise,\" she said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said that some sectors, however, had been \"able to buck the trend\" last year.\n\n\"The increased popularity of click-and-collect and people buying more items from home led to a strong year for overall internet sales, with record highs for food and household goods sales online.\"\n\nIn a sign of the way the pandemic has changed shopping habits, the value of online retail sales jumped by 46.1% in 2020 when compared with 2019 - the highest annual growth reported since 2008.\n\nOnline trade now accounts for more than one-third of all retail sales.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, explained that the rise of online had \"polarised industry performance\".\n\n\"The gap widened between those retailers with the most sophisticated online propositions from those with legacy store-dependent business models,\" he said.\n\nOnline-only retailers such as Boohoo and Asos, for example, have reported strong sales figures in 2020.\n\nSupermarkets in particular have embraced the shift to digital, with online food store sales up 79.3% last year.\n\nThere was also better news from the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, on Friday. It said that it would return a £300m emergency coronavirus loan to the government as trading went \"better than anticipated\" over Christmas.\n\nToday's figures show just how badly the clothing sector has been affected these last 12 months.\n\nFashion is the big retail loser from this pandemic. Who needs to splash out on the latest trends when we're working from home and not going out? And even when clothing shops are open, chances are you can't try things on.\n\nWith all of the Covid-19 measures in place, the fun has been sucked out of shopping. We haven't stopped spending, but most of it is going online. Boohoo and Asos have seen very strong sales growth, for instance.\n\nThe going's far harder for retailers with large numbers of physical stores. The pressures have already taken their toll on the likes of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group and Debenhams.\n\nAnd things may well get worse on the high street before they better. Many retailers are worried about the end of the business rates holiday and of the temporary ban on eviction for non payment of rent in April. These will result in a big increase in costs when sales have yet to fully recover.\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, called for more help for non-essential shops and High Street retailers who continue to be affected by lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"With no end in sight for retailers closed in lockdown, many will struggle to survive under a mounting rent burden, and a return to full business rates in April,\" she said.\n\nShe called on government to offer \"targeted\" business rates relief to businesses worst-affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Decisive action is needed to save jobs, shops and local communities, with town and city centres looking to be particularly hard hit unless the government acts now.\"\n\nEarlier in January, a report from the Centre for Retail Research said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, because of the acceleration towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs 6,000 people directly\n\nJapanese car maker Nissan has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term as a result of the trade deal reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt said it will move additional battery production close to the plant where it has 6,000 direct employees and supports nearly 70,000 jobs in the supply chain.\n\nCurrently, the batteries in its Leaf electric cars are imported from Japan.\n\nNissan would not confirm if this would mean additional jobs at Sunderland, which is the UK's largest car plant.\n\nManufacturing the more powerful batteries in the UK will ensure its cars comply with trade rules agreed with the EU requiring at least 55% of the car's value to be derived from either the UK or the EU to qualify for zero tariffs when exported to the EU.\n\nSome 70% of the cars made in Sunderland are exported and the vast majority of them are sold in the EU.\n\nNissan had issued stark warnings last year that if the UK left the EU without a trade deal, the resulting tariffs on cars and components would make the Sunderland plant \"unsustainable\".\n\nNissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told the BBC: \"The Brexit deal is positive for Nissan. Being the largest automaker in the UK we are taking this opportunity to redefine auto-making in the UK.\n\nNissan's Ashwani Gupta said the Brexit deal had created a 'competitive environment'\n\n\"It has created a competitive environment for Sunderland, not just inside the UK but outside as well.\n\n\"We've decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU]. We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.\"\n\nIt came as Nissan paused one of its two production lines in Sunderland on Friday as disruption at ports caused by the pandemic affected its supply chain.\n\nThe company said the move would affect the line which produces the Qashqai and Leaf, but work would resume next week.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the firm's endorsement of Sunderland as a manufacturing base.\n\n\"Nissan's decision represents a genuine belief in Britain and a huge vote of confidence in our economy thanks to the certainty our trade deal with the EU delivers,\" he said.\n\n\"For the dedicated and highly-skilled workforce in Sunderland, it means the city will be home to Nissan's latest models for years to come and positions the company to capitalise on the wealth of benefits that will flow from electric vehicle production.\"\n\nIt's particularly welcome after the more guarded comments from the boss of Vauxhall's parent company last week.\n\nSpeaking as the tie-up between Fiat Chrsyler and Peugeot Citroen was christened with new umbrella name Stellantis, boss Carlos Tavares said that the future of its Ellesmere Port plant depended on the support the UK government was prepared to offer after its decision to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030.\n\n\"If you change, brutally, the rules and if you restrict the rules for business then there is at one point in time a problem,\" he said.\n\nLooking forward, he said it would make more sense to locate an electric vehicle factory closer to the larger EU market.\n\nIndustry voices welcomed the news from Nissan but reinforced the message from Vauxhall's owners that the government needs to do more to secure the future of the car industry as it electrifies.\n\n\"This is obviously good news and will help the Nissan Leaf avoid any future tariffs, but we are going to need to see a lot more investment in battery production in the UK if we are to preserve the UK as a car manufacturer and exporter,\" said Professor David Bailey of Warwick University.\n\nThe head of trade body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed.\n\n\"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric by 2030,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former boss of Aston Martin and current chairman of electric bus maker Switch Mobility, has gone further. He says that 800,000 jobs are at risk if the UK government doesn't act now to foster battery investment.\n\n\"Without electric vehicle batteries made in the UK, the country's auto industry risks becoming an antiquated relic and overtaken by China, Japan, America and Europe.\"\n\nHe urged the UK government to use every lever at its disposal to make the UK attractive.\n\nUK car investment has fallen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nIn the five years to 2016 it averaged £3.5bn per year. In the four years since it has averaged around £1bn - a fall of 71% at a time when the technology and map of car production are going through their biggest revolution since the car was invented.\n\nThe Nissan decision is therefore a very welcome boost to the UK which is in an international scramble for the investment of the future which is happening right now.", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nSerious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft \"blow out\" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday.\n\nResidents have been told they will not be able to return home this weekend or \"possibly longer\".\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water had built up in the shaft and flooded the village.\n\nCarl Banton, from the Coal Authority, said there had been a \"tremendous amount\" of rain recently and potentially a blockage in the drainage system could have caused the mine shaft to \"blow out\".\n\nMr Banton reassured people that officers had visually checked other mine shafts in the area and were \"not concerned\" any would collapse.\n\n\"The mine shaft in question is the one that was on actually on the water level, it has found its point of weakness,\" he said.\n\nCarl Banton said that while investigations were ongoing heavy rain may have overwhelmed the mine shaft\n\nA major incident was declared as water rushed into the village on Thursday, leaving eight streets underwater as Storm Christoph caused widespread flooding across Wales.\n\nOn Friday, as firefighters continued to pump water out of the village, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) confirmed the Tennant Canal had been polluted \"from mine water\".\n\nLate on Friday evening, Neath Port Talbot council said, for safety reasons, people forced to leave their homes would \"not be able to return home this weekend, and the wait could possibly longer\".\n\nA support centre will open at Abbey Primary School from Saturday, with council officers on site to help people access emergency support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of historical coal mining, are investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nMr Banton said initial findings showed there may have been a build-up of water on the hillside which had \"found its way out\" through the mine shaft, flooding the village.\n\n\"The flow appears to be subsiding... but what we are unsure of is if there is a feed of additional water into the mine workings, from the extensive mine workings on the hillside,\" he added.\n\nAt least 80 people have had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nMr Banton said officers would drill down into the shaft and investigate on Saturday, in the hope that people could soon be allowed back into their homes.\n\n\"A lot of the mining in this area is very old... some of it dates back to the early 1800s... we have no details of how the shaft in question here was originally filled or capped,\" he said.\n\n\"We will ensure the mine shaft is properly capped and sorted out.\"\n\nMartyn Evans, of NRW, said officers were looking at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\n\"We have also carried out tests on other watercourses in the vicinity of the incident. Results indicate there has been no significant impact on those at present,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday night a further 20 homes were evacuated by emergency services as the water continued to rush through the village.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Friday financial support would be made available to people affected by the recent floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\n\"This is the same level of support available a year ago when storms Ciara and Dennis hit Wales, just before the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas said he returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\"\n\nMr Thomas said that with water up to his waist, he was unable to get in to rescue possessions.\n\nHe added: \"We're in a bit of a dip on the road, so you could see it gradually coming up, they were worried it might have been a sinkhole because of the coal mines.\n\n\"It's definitely mine workings, just by looking at the colour of the water, it's an orange colour.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nThe couple are now staying with their daughter, with everyone else who was evacuated from their homes finding accommodation and told to avoid the area.\n\nMore than 30 residents of Cwrt-Clwydi-Gwyn care home were among those moved as a precaution.\n\nIt was a sleepless night for Skewen resident Teresa Dalling\n\nTeresa Dalling, who lives in Dynevor Road, said she had spent the night fearing for her safety.\n\n\"I haven't slept. I was up the back door every two hours checking the water level,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know we lived near old mines and if there's been a collapse, my fear is more could follow and that's terrifying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Kinnock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nUp to 45 firefighters were involved at the scene at the height of the flooding.\n\nIn a joint statement, the police, fire service and Neath Port Talbot Council urged people not to return to their homes until it was safe.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick said: \"We appreciate people are eager to get back to their homes and we are working with partners to allow this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"In the meantime we ask people to please be patient as their safety is our top priority.\"\n\nIn one home, floodwater can be seen filling the living room\n\nFirefighters are continuing to pump water out of the village where people were forced to leave their homes\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Roger Thomas, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters remained in the village, pumping out water.\n\nHe said: \"We will continue to monitor the situation and support our partner agencies and those affected over the next few days.\"\n\nHomes were evacuated at Goshen Park, in Skewen\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said a local rest centre was available, and measures had been put in place to protect against Covid-19.\n\nChief executive Karen Jones said they would continue to support residents who had to leave their homes and they would ensure others had a safe place to go if further evacuations were necessary.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had checked for any potential damage to the railway line, but had found no \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe water has rushed through the streets of the town\n\nA severe flood warning remains in force for the Lower Dee Valley, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThree flood warnings are in place for the River Wye at Monmouth, River Ritec at Tenby, and Bangor-on-Dee, where people were forced to leave their homes on Thursday as flooding saw a major incident declared. Eleven flood alerts are also in place.\n\nSnow and ice could also exacerbate issues for emergency services and those forced to leave their homes, with temperatures forecast to plummet in coming days.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFive-time finalist Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after a solution to find a \"workable quarantine\" following his positive test for coronavirus could not be found.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton was set to fly out to Melbourne last week, but was not allowed to travel on a charter flight after being found to have Covid-19.\n\nThe former world number one had hoped to travel safely and compete as planned on the back of a negative test.\n\nMurray said he was \"gutted\" not to go.\n\nHe was asymptomatic and is now out of self-isolation, but finding a way for him to travel to Australia and then going into quarantine before the tournament starts on 8 February proved too difficult.\n\n\"We've been in constant dialogue with Tennis Australia to try and find a solution which would allow some form of workable quarantine, but we couldn't make it work,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone there for their efforts. I'm devastated not to be playing out in Australia. It's a country and tournament that I love.\"\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, he was ranked too low to gain direct entry into Australian Open so the three-time Grand Slam champion was given a wildcard.\n\nThe Australian Open at Melbourne Park is starting three weeks later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers had to test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which were put on last week by tournament organisers and operated at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOn arrival, the players and their support staff went straight into a 14-day quarantine under the conditions imposed by the Australian government.\n\nThat agreement allowed them out of their rooms for up to five hours a day for food and practice.\n\nHowever, 72 players have been confined to their rooms in a tougher quarantine - which led to some complaints and creative ways of staying fit - after they travelled on three flights where positive cases were found on arrival.\n\nHaving missed his flight to Melbourne, and therefore last weekend's window for the players to begin 14 days of quarantine, Murray was always up against it.\n\nThere are no health issues, and no injury concerns, and Murray had been hoping he could make it to Australia to complete quarantine in time to play a first-round match on either 8 or 9 February.\n\nBut the only \"workable quarantine\" would have included five hours out of his room every day. This was no longer available, and no player - irrespective of age or injury history - would want to play a Grand Slam first-round match just hours after two weeks in a hotel room.\n\nMurray is understandably devastated: he knows that at 33, and with two hip operations behind him, he cannot guarantee there will be another opportunity.\n\nBut it would have been a long way to travel potentially to lose in the first round, and receiving a special exemption may not have sat well with Murray over time.\n\nInstead, he will work with his team on his next move. Montpellier and Rotterdam are the next two ATP tournaments in Europe, although nothing is easy with Covid travel restrictions.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Jane Midgley says she needs answers about the death of her son, Simon\n\nThe mother of a man killed in a fire at a hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond more than two years ago has said it is \"torture\" not knowing why he died.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, died in the fire which fire broke out at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.\n\nJane Midgley said she needs answers about what led to Simon's death.\n\nThe Crown Office said it was committed to ensuring the circumstances around the deaths were aired in an \"appropriate legal forum\".\n\nMs Midgley said every day without answers was like the day she found out about his death.\n\n\"I just live it every single day and I can't cope with it much longer,\" she said. \"I need to know why they are not here and it's so difficult.\n\n\"I need answers. Why are these boys not here anymore? Why did this happen? Nearly three years on, no one is telling me.\"\n\nRichard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she wakes up during the night thinking about her son, asking herself \"has this really happened?\".\n\n\"Nearly three years on, should I still be feeling this hurt and pain?\"\n\nAfter the fire, the emergency services conducted investigations.\n\nWhile this can be a lengthy process, reports from the fire service and the police were passed to the Crown months ago.\n\nMs Midgley criticised prosecutors for not providing her with more information. She added she thinks they should be in contact with her more regularly than every four weeks.\n\nShe said: \"When the Crown say that they regularly update the family and are in regular contact that is always to say... 'it's still ongoing', 'we'll update you with anything significant', 'it's complicated'.\"\n\nShe added that there were many questions she still wanted answers to.\n\n\"The most important thing is finding out why Simon couldn't get out of that hotel that night - what went wrong. I have no idea, I've got to understand, I just need the answers.\n\n\"I need to know how it happened. I need to know why the boys didn't get out of that hotel when it was on fire, how it started, where it started, why they could not get out, could it have been prevented... it is pure torture.\"\n\nFire broke out at the Cameron House hotel in 2017\n\nMr Midgley was a freelance writer with the Evening Standard. Following his death the newspaper's editor, George Osbourne, paid tribute to Mr Midgley's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"Our staff have been in regular contact with the nearest relatives and provided them with information at every stage.\n\n\"The information that can be shared while a case is being investigated is limited so as not to prejudice any potential proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown‎ is committed to ensuring that the facts and circumstances surrounding the deaths of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson are thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies, fully considered by COPFS and, in due course, aired in an appropriate legal forum.\n\n\"The nearest relatives will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party on Saturday\n\nA minority still breaking Covid lockdown rules could make the pandemic \"stretch longer\" in Wales, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nThe \"gold commander\" for policing lockdown across the Gwent force area said he wanted to thank the vast majority for sticking to the law.\n\nBut Chief Superintendent Mark Hobrough said those \"blatantly flouting\" rules would face enforcement action.\n\nNearly 3,800 fines have been issued in Wales for Covid rule breaches.\n\nThe latest figures released by UK police forces revealed nearly three-quarters of those fines went to men, and the largest group falling foul of Covid rules were aged between 18 and 24.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough, who oversees Gwent Police's response to Covid-19, said he and his officers had seen a change in the way the public responded to the restrictions since the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.\n\n\"When it first started there was certainly a lack of understanding among the public,\" he said.\n\n\"We were called for advice and questions on what was allowed or not allowed, which we've certainly seen diminish.\"\n\nHe said initially his force was dealing with breaches of regulations by pubs and bars, or people holding house parties.\n\n\"That has changed over time. We still have experiences of house parties and people congregating in houses, which just isn't allowed obviously.\n\n\"But I think we are also seeing breaches in relation to people congregating in beauty spots and maybe not exercising in line with the requirements.\"\n\nAccording to the National Police Chiefs' Council, there were 3,770 fixed penalty notices issues by the four Welsh forces between the last Friday in March and 20 December last year.\n\nOf those fines, 2,188 were for breaching rules on movement restrictions, while 823 faced penalties for gathering in private properties outside their own households.\n\nA further 113 notices were issued to individuals for staying in Wales when it was not their main residence, and 89 were hit with fines for entering or leaving local health protection areas, when many counties in Wales had separate travel restrictions in place in the autumn.\n\nThe figures also reveal that just two fines were issued in the period for failing to wear a face covering in designated indoor areas.\n\nSgt Dan Wise says enforcement is sometimes the only option for his team\n\nOut on the streets of Newport, and around the rest of the Gwent force area, the officers on the ground said they wanted to educate the public whenever rules changed, but they will enforce clear breaches.\n\n\"Some of the things people have been stopped for are travelling into Wales to look at the snow,\" said Sgt Dan Wise, as he carried out checks on motorists in Newport.\n\n\"Others are travelling to local beauty spots to exercise. Obviously, these are things that are not acceptable.\"\n\nHe said as the pandemic continues, with high numbers of cases and given how easily the virus can spread, \"we will look to enforce where people are blatantly flouting the rules\".\n\nAt the Gwent Police headquarters, Ch Supt Hobrough said he had this message for the minority of \"those people who aren't abiding\" by the rules: \"It would very much be within everybody's interest for them to reflect on the way they are conducting themselves.\n\n\"Because that minority of people who aren't abiding are possibly making this pandemic stretch longer.\"\n• None Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law - GOV.WALES The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Victoria Beckham have paid themselves £21m from their sports and media business since 2019, according to the their latest accounts.\n\nThis is despite continued heavy losses at Ms Beckham's fashion business, where trade has worsened during the pandemic.\n\nProfit at David Beckham Ventures Limited (DBVL), the brand management firm owned by the former footballer and his wife, fell £3.5m to £11.3m in 2019.\n\nThis was in part due to money spent on expansion and charitable donations.\n\nHowever, the celebrity couple still paid themselves a £14.5m dividend at the end of 2019, accounts show, and took a further £7.1m in 2020.\n\nA spokesman attributed the payments to \"profitable performance\" at DBVL, which among other things manages Mr Beckham's strategic partnerships with Adidas and Haig Club whisky.\n\nHe also noted that the company's revenue climbed by £600,000 in 2019 to £16.2m.\n\nHowever, Victoria Beckham Holdings (VBHL), which manages the former Spice Girl's fashion label, fared much worse during that time.\n\nLosses at the business - which is also backed by the Beckhams' former business partner Simon Fuller and private equity firm NEO investment Partners - widened to £16.6m during the year, following a loss of £12.5m in 2018.\n\nIt marked the seventh year the brand has been in the red since it was founded in 2008.\n\nVBHL blamed costs associated with the launch of the Victoria Beckham Beauty business, a new cosmetics range in which the group has an 85% shareholding.\n\nIt also noted that total sales across the whole business were up by 7% in 2019.\n\nNevertheless, auditors BDO, who signed off on the accounts, warned that the business was now reliant on shareholder support to keep going which could \"cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nAs the pandemic hammered the business last April, VBHL had to borrow £9.2m from its shareholders to repay an outstanding bank loan to HSBC after breaking its debt covenants.\n\nVBHL said it was doing all it could to \"navigate\" the coronavirus crisis, including taking \"all actions possible to conserve cash\".\n\n\"All non-essential expenditure is being deferred and hiring freezes have been implemented for open positions.to enable the company to navigate through this pandemic,\" it said.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The White House has just put out a statement marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalised the right to abortion.\n\n\"In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack,\" the statement from Biden and Harris begins .\n\nThey go on to say they are committed to \"codifying\" the judgement, which means pass legislation through Congress that enshrines abortion access into law.\n\nThey will also appoint judges who will support abortion access, they say. Trump, during his time in office, was able to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority, making anti-abortion activists hopeful that Roe v Wade could eventually be overturned.\n\nBiden was the only candidate during the primary to say he endorsed the so-called Hyde Amendment, which says that no federal funds can go towards abortions. After nearly all 22 other candidates came out against the Hyde Amendment, he reversed his stance.\n\nAlthough abortion is technically legal across the US, multiple states have instituted laws that make it nearly impossible in practice. Abortion activists hope that a law would make it more difficult for local governments to restrict access.", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Mick Norcross, 57, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex star Mick Norcross has died at the age of 57.\n\nThe businessman and father of Kirk Norcross, who also appeared in the ITV show, was found dead at his home in Bulphan at 15:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn tributes on social media, fellow Towie stars past and present, including Gemma Collins and James \"Arg\" Argent, called him \"one of the good guys\" and a \"true gentleman\".\n\nNorcross first appeared in the reality show in 2011 in his position as owner of Sugar Hut, a Brentwood nightclub which was often attended by the cast.\n\nHe left the show two years later, stating that the venue's prominent place in Towie had damaged its brand.\n\nThe star posted a tweet to his 505,000 followers on Thursday morning saying: \"At the end remind yourself that you did the best you could. And that's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sugar Hut This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe club tweeted that \"Mr Sugarhut\" had been a \"very talented, friendly and fun guy\" and a \"true Essex legend, who will be sorely missed\".\n\nCollins, who briefly dated Norcross during their time on the show, shared a photo of them together on Instagram and said he had been \"one of the good guys\", while Argent tweeted that he had been \"a true gentleman and a very kind man\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gemmacollins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes were also shared by Towie stars Lauren Goodger and Mario Falcone, with the latter tweeting that he was \"thankful I got the privilege of having you in my life\".\n\nIn another tweet, Mark Wright, the Towie star turned TV presenter and professional footballer, said he was \"a great man, an inspiration to many, always so polite and welcoming\".\n\nPresenter Denise Van Outen tweeted that he was \"such a lovely man\" while TV chef James Martin, posted that he was \"a true gentleman, who I had the pleasure to meet and spend evenings with over the years\".\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex posted a tribute on Instagram, saying the team behind the show were \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThey said: \"He was hugely popular with cast, crew and the audience alike. Charming, generous and host to many of Essex's most glamorous events, Mick will be missed by us all.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesman said officers \"were called to an address in Brentwood Road, Bulphan shortly before 15:15 on Thursday\" and \"sadly, a man inside was pronounced dead\".\n\nThe police spokesman said the death was \"not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. The EU has ordered 600 million doses from Pfizer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been sent bullets in the mail while under house arrest in Vancouver, according to court testimony.\n\nIt was one of several alleged death threats revealed on Wednesday by the company providing her security.\n\nMs Meng was detained in 2018 on charges relating to allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's dealings in Iran.\n\nHer case has created a rift between China and Canada, with Beijing repeatedly calling for her release.\n\nThe chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, where she is facing charges of bank fraud and potentially causing HSBC to break US sanctions.\n\nDays after she was released on bail, she was placed under house arrest in Vancouver. She has been fighting against her extradition to the US, which wants her to stand trial.\n\nThe threats were revealed at the British Columbia Supreme Court by Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of security firm Lions Gate Risk Management.\n\nHe said Ms Meng received \"five or six\" threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020 and that the letters were \"easily identifiable by markings on the outside\". He added that \"sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes\".\n\nThe role of the Vancouver police and any investigations is unclear.\n\nMs Meng has been in court pushing for conditions of her bail to be loosened, including dropping the daytime security detail that constantly follows her.\n\nShe is permitted to leave home between 6am and 11pm and pays for a round-the-clock security detail. She also wears a GPS tracking anklet as stipulated by her bail conditions.\n\nThe government has also granted family members of Ms Meng permission to travel to Canada, sparking controversy.\n\nConservative MP Raquel Dancho said the exception was an \"insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit loved ones\" over the holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raquel Dancho This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe called the move disappointing, noting that Beijing detained two Canadians soon after Ms Meng's arrest in December 2018 and has held them in prison ever since, subjecting them to interrogations.\n\nMs Meng's defence lawyer has argued that Canada is effectively being asked \"to enforce US sanctions\".\n\nHuawei has been one of the main targets of the Trump administration's attack on Chinese companies that it deems are security threats and pass data to the government.\n\nThe US has placed harsh restrictions on Huawei and has banned its 5G equipment from its networks. It also added 38 names linked to Huawei to a trade blacklist.\n\nThis week Huawei came under fire for technology that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technology was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Galaxy S21 Ultra has hardware built into it to make use of the firm's S Pen stylus\n\nSamsung's new flagship Galaxy S smartphone works with its stylus for the first time.\n\nThe S Pen is an optional add-on for the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But the move will fuel speculation the firm will phase out its separate Note handset range.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it had yet to make a decision about this.\n\nThe company's handset sales have declined more quickly than the wider market. One expert said a streamlined line-up might help address this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\n\"There's increasing logic for Samsung to converge the Galaxy S and Note platforms, because there's so little differentiation between the two kinds of devices now,\" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"That would align them with Apple, which also has one big phone launch event a year.\n\n\"My concern is that every time Samsung has announced its Note products in the past, it has planted a seed in consumers' minds that the Galaxy S products have become kind of the old ones.\"\n\nThe benefit of having a stylus is that it is easier to write, draw or annotate notes than using a finger. But to work it requires special hardware under the glass of the phone's display to pass power to the stylus and to track its tip.\n\nThe Android-based Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8in (17.3cm) display, which is only slightly smaller than the top-end 6.9in Note.\n\nIn years past, the Note phones were known as \"phablets\", and their size was the other key distinguishing factor with the S range.\n\nUnlike the Note series, the S21 Ultra requires a special case to stow away the pen\n\nProduct manager Mark Notton said \"we haven't decided\", when asked whether Samsung planned to continue the Note family.\n\n\"It does not mean that Samsung is not committed to the Note category, but is expanding the Note experience across device categories,\" the firm said in a follow-up statement.\n\n\"We will actively listen to consumers' feedback and reflect it in our continued product innovation.\"\n\nThe S21 Ultra will start at £1,149 when it goes on sale on 29 January. The S Pen costs an extra £35 on its own, or £85 when bundled with a case that stores it.\n\nThat puts it in the ballpark of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's £1,179 starting price, which comes with a stylus that slots into its body.\n\nThere are also two other lower-cost models in the new range, neither of which works with the S-Pen stylus: the 6.2in S21 and 6.7in S21+.\n\nAll three models feature a redesigned camera module on their back.\n\nAll the Galaxy S21 phones feature a redesigned camera module on their back\n\nBut while the two lower-end models have three lenses - ultra-wide, wide and 3x-zoom telephoto - the S21 Ultra adds a further 10x-zoom telephoto lens, letting owners shoot action from even further away.\n\nThe handsets also benefit from a new Director's View facility. It lets users film video while getting thumbnail previews superimposed on-screen of what it would look like if they switched to another lens.\n\nAll three phones can film in 8K - double the maximum resolution of the competing iPhone 12 range's native video app.\n\nThe Director's View mode lets users preview how the recorded shot will change in a video if they switch to a different lens while filming\n\nHowever, the handsets may be more notable for following Apple in two regards.\n\nThey have abandoned a slot for a microSD memory card.\n\nAnd they will be sold without either a charger - a decision over which Samsung had mocked its rival. - or earphones.\n\nSamsung posted this ad in October on social media before deleting it\n\n\"We discovered that more and more Galaxy users are reusing accessories they already have,\" the firm said.\n\nSamsung typically unveils its Galaxy range in late February, but has brought forward this year's launch to coincide with the CES tech show.\n\n\"Samsung needs S21 to be a success given that S20 was launched in the middle of Covid first wave in Europe and didn't gain many fans,\" commented Marta Pinto, from research firm IDC.\n\nShe added the earlier launch date could help it compete in the \"premium market\" with Apple, whose iPhones were released later than normal last year.\n\nThe South Korean firm should also benefit from collapsing sales of Huawei's devices in the West, caused by US sanctions that prevent them offering the Google Play store and some of the search giant's other services.\n\nSamsung dedicated a segment of its Unpacked launch presentation to its partnership with Google\n\nBut Mr Wood said Samsung was facing growing competition from other Chinese brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.\n\n\"Samsung's differentiator is going to be its ability to market its strong brand, and the fact it has a very wide product portfolio,\" he commented.\n\nSamsung also aims to widen its appeal with two further accessories.\n\nIt has a new pair of £219 wireless earbuds that monitor what the user is doing.\n\nSamsung's earbuds should automatically adapt their audio output according to what the user is doing\n\nIf they detect the wearer is talking, they automatically turn down the volume of music and amplify the sounds of the nearby environment picked up by their microphones, allowing the owner to have a brief conversation without needing to take them out or manually adjust their settings.\n\nSamsung also is launching the £30 Galaxy SmartTag - a Bluetooth-enabled tracker that can be attached to belongings or pets.\n\nIt will allow an app to show their location, so long as the tag is in range of the owner or anyone else's compatible Samsung device.\n\nThe tracker will compete with similar products from the current market leader Tile.\n\nThe SmartTag will challenge Tile, which already sells a range of Bluetooth trackers\n\nApple is widely rumoured to be working on similar devices of its own.", "The coronavirus growth rate is slowing in the UK and the number of infections is starting to level off in some areas, a top scientist has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nBut he warned the overall death toll would exceed 100,000.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nIt has taken the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767. There were also 47,525 new cases.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the national lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nPeople in England are required to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"much too early\" to say when the number of cases would come down.\n\nBut he said: \"It looks like in London in particular and a couple of other regions in the South East and East of England, hospital admissions may even have plateaued.\n\n\"It has to be said this is not seen everywhere - both case numbers and hospital admissions are going up in many other areas, but overall at a national level we are seeing the rate of growth slow.\"\n\nProf Ferguson added: \"I would hope the hospital admissions might plateau… sometime in the next week, but hospital bed occupancy may continue to rise slowly for up to two weeks.\"\n\nHe warned the overall death toll would be \"well over 100,000\", adding \"there's nothing we can do about that now\".\n\nProf Ferguson added Covid restrictions could be in place for many months to come, adding the new variant's increased transmissibility would mean relaxation of the rules will be a \"gradual process to the autumn\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday that the government will not be introducing tougher social distancing rules \"today or tomorrow\" and insisted that ministers are focusing on increasing enforcement of the current restrictions.\n\nAsked about speculation further measures could include a three-metre social distancing rule or a requirement to wear masks outside, she told ITV's This Morning: \"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a major study led by Public Health England has shown most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months.\n\nPast infection was linked to an 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the finding \"doesn't eliminate\" the risk of people catching Covid-19 again, and infecting others.\n\nShe said: \"We found people with very high amounts of virus in their nose and throat swabs, that would easily be in the range which would cause levels of transmission to other individuals.\"\n\nProf Hopkins said she hoped that after Easter, \"we will start to see reduced infection rates, as we did at that time last year\" and the number of people who have been vaccinated at a \"very high level\".\n\nThe UK is continuing efforts to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, with the prime minister saying that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted on Thursday to say that \"three million vaccines have now been administered\" in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS England published a breakdown of vaccinations by age and region for the first time.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday that he was \"concerned\" about a new Covid variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil and said that the UK was taking steps to ensure it is not brought into the UK.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers met this morning to discuss \"urgent measures to reduce the potential spread to the UK of the Brazilian variant\".\n\nThey could include a ban on flights from Brazil. Arrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast \"the virus is not accelerating as fast as it was\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said \"there are some early signs of optimism\" but emphasised people should follow all guidance as the \"virus is still at a very strong level\".", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nTravel from South America and Portugal to the UK is being banned, other than for British or Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights. The new ruling is being brought in because of concerns about the new Brazilian coronavirus variant and comes into force from 04:00 GMT on Friday. The ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, these countries in the 10 days before their departure for the UK: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Find out more about the new variants here.\n\nDoctors have warned that the recent surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis. Accident and Emergency departments are facing rising delays in admitting extremely sick patients on to wards, NHS data shows. The total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic - and cancer specialists are warning of a \"terrifying\" disruption to their services that would cost lives.\n\nThe government has told schools not to provide free meals to eligible pupils' families over half term, with food to be provided by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme instead. The Department for Education said vulnerable families would continue to receive meals outside of term time through the welfare support they have made available. But councils say the government should be responsible for providing food vouchers during the February half-term, like it did over summer.\n\nA top scientist has said the coronavirus growth rate in the UK is slowing, with the number of infections starting to level off in some areas. Prof Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions. But he warned the overall death toll - currently standing at over 80,000 - would exceed 100,000. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the national lockdown measures in place across the UK are \"starting to show signs of some effect\" but warned that it was still early days.\n\nMany people feel they've put on weight during the pandemic, due to staying indoors more and turning to comfort food. Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, thought she was one of them - but what she believed was a few extra pounds of weight was actually a baby. She gave birth to her daughter Julia just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was even missed when she was taken to hospital in November with Covid-19. She said: \"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nThe UK travel rules have been updated again. Find out all the details you need here.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "Covid-19 patients in England's busiest intensive care units in 2020 were 20% more likely to die, University College London research has found.\n\nThe increased risk was equivalent to gaining a decade in age.\n\nBy the end of 2020, one in three hospital trusts in England was running at higher than 85% capacity.\n\nEleven trusts were completely full on 30 December, and the total number of people in intensive care with Covid has continued to rise since then.\n\nThe link between full ICUs and higher death rates was already known, but this study is the first to measure its effect during the pandemic.\n\nTighter lockdown restrictions are needed to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, says study author Dr Bilal Mateen.\n\nResearchers looked at more than 4,000 patients who were admitted to intensive care units in 114 hospital trusts in England between April and June last year.\n\nThey found the risk of dying was almost a fifth higher in ICUs where more than 85% of beds were occupied, than in those running at between 45% and 85% capacity.\n\nThat meant a 60-year-old being treated in one of these units had the same risk of dying as a 70-year-old on a quieter ward.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine sets 85% as the maximum safe level of bed occupancy.\n\nHowever, the team found there was no tipping point after which deaths rose - instead, survival rates fell consistently as bed-occupancy increased.\n\nThis suggests \"a lot of harm is occurring before you get to 85%\".\n\nPatients admitted to ICUs that were less than 45% full were 25% less likely to die than average.\n\nUsually if a very sick patient's heart stops, everyone on the ward will rush to help them, Dr Mateen explained.\n\nBut when there are too many patients, staff's time is inevitably split, so \"it makes sense that the quality of patient care would be sacrificed\", he said.\n\nWhile extra beds and equipment can, and have, been provided through the Nightingale hospitals and the private sector, finding enough qualified staff has been an issue.\n\n\"You can't just create an ICU nurse who knows how to operate a mechanical ventilator overnight,\" Dr Mateen told the BBC.\n\nThese are highly-skilled roles that take years of training and sometimes decades of experience, he added.\n\nInstead, a \"robust vaccination programme\" and tighter lockdown restrictions are needed to bring down cases and hospitalisations, he believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nCo-author Prof Christina Pagel at UCL added: \"This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher.\n\n\"Our work underlines the urgency of both vaccinating vulnerable groups as soon as possible and reducing Covid transmission in the community to relieve pressure on intensive care.\"\n\nIt's difficult to say for sure that fuller ICUs are actually causing more deaths - it's possible that as they get fuller, only the sickest patients are admitted.\n\nBut Dr Mateen says there was no evidence of rationing - of sick patients being turned away.\n\nEven pre-Covid, data suggests larger ICUs had lower death rates - with a 25% increase in bed numbers linked to a corresponding 25% fall in mortality.\n\nAnd the findings are supported by a wealth of evidence from before the pandemic and from around the world.", "Coach and tour operators have seen an unexpected growth in bookings in the last fortnight.\n\nWhilst there is no doubt that the pandemic continues to put huge pressure on lives and the NHS, this is a small amount of sunshine for the travel industry, which has had a tough year.\n\nTUI, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.\n\nThis was previously a smaller market for them.\n\nNational Express's coach holiday businesses say bookings made by those 65 and over have increased by 185% in the last fortnight compared to last year.\n\n\"Since the announcement of the vaccine, it's given our customer base, predominantly those over 65, increased confidence to book and have that summer getaway in 2021\" says Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at National Express.\n\n\"We launched the brochure for spring-summer 2021 just this weekend gone, and on Monday we took a week's worth of bookings in a day and that's continued so far,\" says Mr Desai. \"What the vaccine does is give certainty and confidence.\n\n\"That then allows the customer and ourselves the ability to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pandemic has been devastating for the travel sector. Tens of thousands of jobs have gone in the UK. Millions of Britons cancelled breaks because the health situation was in flux across the world.\n\nBut National Express now points to returning confidence to travel.\n\n\"Many we've spoken to have had the first jab. They know in 12 weeks they'll get a second jab. It gives them certainty that they can enjoy and look forward to their 2021 holiday. It is something to look forward to, to being with people, with friends, like minded and from the same generation.\"\n\nDawn and Ray - 75 and 78 years old - are from Hampshire and are due to have their first jab soon. They have just booked five UK holidays.\n\n\"We are raring to go once we've got that vaccine, we are really looking forward to it - both of us. We are going to Wales, Leicestershire, to York where there is a mystery tour - and to the Cotswolds'\", Dawn said.\n\nFor Dawn and Ray, it's the ease of coach travel that's appealing, as well as the safety. She adds \"they've looked after us so well in the past, the coaches are clean, we'll all wear masks, we all look after each other.\"\n\nAt the moment, 90% of the bookings with National Expresses coach businesses are UK based, so it looks like another good year for the staycation.\n\n\"European bookings are lower because of the uncertainty on the continent,\" says Mr Desai.\n\n\"The UK wins because of the lack of need to quarantine. And uncertainty about the moves other governments might make whilst away also creates fear.\"\n\nIt's not just UK breaks that are selling. The UK's largest tour operator TUI, famous for its sun-drenched European beach holidays, says there has also been a change in the last fortnight.\n\n\"We're seeing a customer base or age group that wasn't booking before, that is starting to book,\" says Andrew Flintham the MD of TUI UK. \"The over 50s, we assume, is on the back to the vaccine news.\"\n\nWhilst TUI UK boss acknowledges that \"the market is still depressed and it's not where we want it - we are seeing glimmers of hope.\"\n\nTrips to towns in England are among those being booked\n\nThere are also interesting changes emerging in the types of breaks holidaymakers plan to take and the months they're planning to travel.\n\n\"People are booking later into the summer, hedging their bets\" said Mr Flintham. \"More July and August and a lot of demand for September and October.\n\n\"People are booking longer holidays, we're seeing more people booking ten or eleven or 14 nights rather than seven. People are maybe catching up on what they've missed.\"\n\nAs TUI analysed its recent booking data, one trend they spotted is the emergence of large, multigenerational group bookings.\n\n\"It is family time we've all missed. We can't get away from our own families, but our broader families we can't see, and that's feeding into our choices\" Mr Flintham explains.\n\nAfter such a bad 10 months, and TUI cancelling all holidays until the middle of February at the earliest because of the new lockdown, how does the rest of the summer look?\n\n\"I think the summer holiday is on\" says Mr Flintham, \"I think we just need time for people to get that confidence, but yes, we think there will be a good summer this summer\".\n\nFor those who've watched the paralysis brought upon the travel industry since last winter, a morsel of good news about customers booking again is being celebrated.\n\n\"This is fantastic news and to be hugely welcomed by an industry that has been utterly devastated by the pandemic\", says Sophie Griffiths, editor of Travel Trade Gazette.\n\n\"Ten months into this crisis and the industry has still received zero dedicated support from the government despite being unique as a sector in terms of giving out thousands in refunds while getting next to nothing back in for 2020.\"", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "Some 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday\n\nHospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures.\n\nCwm Taf covers Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, which have the highest and second highest Covid death rates.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he \"would not be surprised\" if other health boards were forced to do the same soon, if case rates did not come down.\n\n\"There is real harm being done... because of the level of hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Our critical care units are at 150% of their capacity and that has very real consequences.\n\n\"It reinforces why all of us need to do the right thing in reducing our contacts with other people and follow the rules, otherwise greater harm will be caused.\"\n\nThe news comes as NHS bosses said the number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is double April's peak.\n\nOn Thursday, Public Health Wales (PHW) said a further 54 people had died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 4,117.\n\nMr Lyons said on Wednesday night their field hospital Ysbyty Seren in Bridgend had 74 patients, people they \"wouldn't have been able to accommodate within our usual hospitals\".\n\n\"We are coping, but that's coping because we've been cancelling urgent surgery.\n\n\"We even had to cancel some cancer surgery over the last few weeks,\" Mr Lyons told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"My heart goes out to families and to patients with all the stress and the worry that gives.\n\n\"It's tough times and we're all in it together, and we do see that optimism, that glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but it's hard.\"\n\nNearly half of hospital beds in the health board - which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf- are taken up with Covid-19 patients, including 31 in critical care or on ventilation.\n\nThey outnumber those in critical care with other conditions by three to one.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 2,806 hospital patients in Wales with Covid-19 - 35% of all patients. This is twice the proportion in May.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, the Covid death rate is 283.9 per 100,000 population - followed by Merthyr Tydfil where the death rate is 253.6.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy for the families and the loved ones and very sobering,\" said Mr Lyons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how case rates have changed in each part of Wales\n\n\"We're coping but only because of the dedication of our staff, and it's immensely humbling to see people giving up their spare time coming in doing extra shifts, but the toll on them is immense.\n\n\"In practice our hospitals are full and although we are coping that we're only coping because we've cancelled all but the most urgent surgery.\n\n\"We've redeployed staff who've been incredibly flexible from places they normally work such as outpatients.\"\n\nThe health board oversees three hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and the Royal Glamorgan in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, said earlier this week how she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued outside her hospital's A&E department.", "Six pharmacies will be vaccinating people invited by letter to make an appointment online\n\nSome High Street pharmacies in England will start vaccinating people from priority groups on Thursday, with 200 providing jabs in the next two weeks.\n\nSix chemists in Halifax, Macclesfield, Widnes, Guildford, Edgware and Telford are the first to offer appointments to those invited by letter.\n\nBut pharmacists say many more sites should be allowed to give the jab, not just the largest ones.\n\nMore than 2.6 million people in the UK have now received their first dose.\n\nAcross the UK, the target is to vaccinate 15 million people in the top four priority groups - care home residents and workers, NHS frontline staff, the over-70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nThe vaccines - made by either Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech - are being administered at hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and vaccination centres.\n\nIt comes as the UK saw its highest number of daily reported coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, with the government announcing a further 1,564 deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the Scottish government published its detailed 16-page plan for rolling out the vaccine, including details of how many vaccines it expects to receive every week until the end of May.\n\nThe first pharmacy sites in England to deliver a vaccine have been chosen because they are capable of delivering large numbers of vaccines quickly while allowing space for social distancing.\n\nPeople will be invited by letter to make an appointment at one of the pharmacies, or a vaccination centre, through the NHS Covid-19 vaccination booking service.\n\nAnyone who doesn't want to travel to these sites can still be vaccinated by their local GP or hospital service, but they may have to wait longer.\n\nUp to 70 more pharmacies will be taking bookings for appointments for next week, with 200 in total offering slots over the next fortnight, according to NHS England.\n\nVaccines are currently being offered at more than 1,000 sites, including :\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Birmingham will also host a vaccination centre, with pharmacy staff giving jabs in the store's former clothing section from 25 January.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the rules on which pharmacies qualify to deliver Covid vaccines should be relaxed to allow more to take part.\n\nHow people awaiting vaccines will queue and socially distance in the Halifax store of Boots\n\nAt present, pharmacies have to be able to deliver 1,000 vaccines a week, have enough fridge space to store all the doses, and be able to open seven days a week.\n\nAndrew Lane, of the National Pharmacy Association, said now that the Oxford vaccine had been approved, community pharmacies could store and administer it in the same way as they deliver the flu jab.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine only needs to be stored at fridge temperature, as opposed to the freezer temperatures of -70C required by Pfizer.\n\n\"We're here, we're trained, we will deliver,\" said Mr Lane, who represents Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nNHS England has said that as more supplies of vaccine become available, more community pharmacists will be able to play a role in the programme.\n\nThe government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said staff across the NHS had \"pulled out all the stops to help ramp up vaccinations\" and were working day and night to keep people safe.\n\nProf Claire Anderson, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, said pharmacy teams in hospital, primary care and the community were \"working flat out to support the nation's health\".\n\nShe said she looked forward to the vaccination programme being expanded through pharmacies to benefit patients.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Wednesday that vaccinations would also start being offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week \"as soon as possible\" - but supply of doses was currently the limiting factor.\n\nIt comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the rising numbers of patients being admitted with Covid.\n\nA study published today has shown the impact of packed intensive care units on death rates, finding that patients in England's busiest ICUs in 2020 were 20% more likely to die.\n\nMeanwhile, a government committee is meeting later to discuss whether to stop flights from Brazil coming to the UK because of concern about a new variant of the virus believed to have emerged there.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe strain is one of a small number of new variants which have been spreading, including ones first spotted in the UK and South Africa.\n\nScientists are racing to understand what it means for the vaccines - but most experts think vaccines will still be effective.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bangor student Michelle Francis said students had hardly used rooms and had not been able to use facilities on campus\n\nHundreds of students are preparing to take part in rent strikes after paying for \"hardly used\" rooms during the pandemic.\n\nSome Welsh universities have already offered refunds to students who have been living away due to Covid-19.\n\nBut students in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor claim they are being treated unfairly and are threatening to withhold rent.\n\nUniversities said they were trying to work out the implications of Covid-19.\n\nAnd a solicitor warned students they could face legal action for not paying rent, with long-term implications possible if they lose.\n\nFace-to-face teaching was suspended and many students moved back home before Christmas as coronavirus cases continued to rise.\n\nStaggered returns are being introduced in order to \"help stop the spread of the virus in student accommodation\", according to the Welsh Government.\n\nThey said they had not been living in the rooms or using facilities, despite paying for them, because they were abiding by Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Cardiff University have now offered eligible students rebates or discounts for time not spent living on campus.\n\nUniversity of South Wales said it will be offering a \"rent holiday\" on university-owned accommodation in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for the period 4 January to 12 February.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) said on Thursday it is now offering refunds to students who have not returned to university-owned accommodation while teaching is solely online.\n\nBut students say the offers are inadequate for students already paying £9,000-a-year tuition fees at a time when most of the teaching was online, and they had been unable to use facilities in halls.\n\nWhile the students cannot hold their protests in person due to coronavirus laws, hundreds are now planning to cancel their direct debits, withholding thousands of pounds of rent from universities.\n\nMichelle Francis, who formed the Bangor Rent Strike campaign, said the university's offer of a 10% discount to eligible students living in university-owned accommodation did not go far enough.\n\nShe said students who had chosen to go home for Christmas were not eligible, despite being unable to use facilities paid for during the first term.\n\n\"[We were] advised to have left university from the beginning of December and to come back at 8 February,\" she said.\n\n\"That's 25% of our halls that we've been paying and we're not there... we should be allowed to have that back.\"\n\nSo far over 300 students have joined the campaign to cancel their direct debits paid to Welsh universities and campaigners said the numbers were growing daily.\n\nOn Wednesday, Cardiff University joined other Welsh universities in offering a rent rebate to students living in university-owned accommodation during the pandemic.\n\nBut the full rebate, for the time students are unable to return to live in their accommodation, will not be applied until April.\n\nSwansea University has also confirmed a rent reduction to students in university halls who have been asked to remain at home.\n\nOisin Mulholland of Swansea Rent Strike said the group wanted the university to commit to fairly \"assessing the situation\", including for the coming term, and students who had already moved in should be given rebates as well.\n\n\"There was a window in January, where the Welsh Government said return, but the English government said don't return, and the university said nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"Many students came back and are now trapped in Swansea and can't go back because of lockdown\"\n\nIbrahim Khan said students were struggling and needed the rebate immediately\n\nIbrahim Khan, of the Cardiff Rent Strike campaign, said the rebate was \"too late\" for students struggling financially now.\n\n\"The university should be giving us the rebate this January as opposed to the third instalment in April,\" he said.\n\nLawyers have warned that students would in breach of contract if they cancel the direct debit for their rent.\n\nSiôn Fôn, a solicitor at Darwin Gray, encouraged students to discuss the issue with their families and student unions before taking action.\n\n\"I think a case could be brought forward pretty easily against somebody not paying rent,\" he said.\n\nBut he said students may have a case against the university due to not being able to access advertised facilities, but if the university took legal action it could have long-term consequences for individuals.\n\n\"If the students lose, and even after losing don't pay the rent, that would come up on credit scores, or with the bank, if they're trying to get a mortgage or a credit card it would come up on their record,\" he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How am I going to afford to do my food shop... if I can't go to work?\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff University said technical reasons meant they had to wait until the April instalment of accommodation fees to provide the rebate.\n\nSwansea University said some students had already returned when the stay at home guidance was issued, and it was working through the \"implications of this\".\n\n\"To help with this the university will not generate invoices for any students with university accommodation until May when we have been able to look at these cases,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBangor University said it did not wish to add anything further following its rebate announcement.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided an extra £40m to help universities, including £10m for towards student hardship and support.\n\n\"It would seem fair that students should be eligible for a rebate for the period when a course is online only and we welcome moves by universities to address this,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are actively considering how we can support our students and universities even further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents of an asylum seeker camp in Pembrokeshire says life is 'very bad'\n\nAsylum seekers housed in a military training camp have claimed the \"very bad\" conditions are making them feel increasingly desperate.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, from September.\n\nBut some housed at the camp claim the conditions are unsafe and putting them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for an urgent inspection, but the Home Office said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration David Bolt said he hoped an inspection can begin \"within a few weeks\" and was awaiting further details he requested from the Home Office.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place at the camp, with concerns conditions breach human rights.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the facility was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nNow, asylum seekers have spoken to the BBC about their experiences of living in the camp during the pandemic, with some claiming the site does not abide by Covid-19 rules.\n\nPhotos taken inside the camp show the living conditions in one of the rooms\n\nOne man, who wishes to remain anonymous, arrived at the camp on 1 October.\n\nHe said he had pain from \"old injuries\" obtained in Syria, but had to wait \"four days\" to see a doctor. He also has concerns about hygiene facilities at the camp.\n\n\"There is no observance of the Covid safety laws,\" he said, claiming \"six men\" share a small bedroom, dozens eat in the same room, and some staff preparing food do not wear face masks.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, beds in communal rooms less than 2m (6ft) apart and a bathroom where all the soap dispensers are empty.\n\nThe Home Office said medical need determined GP appointments, social distancing was required, and soap was replenished at the site.\n\nThe man said the camp's conditions had left him in a \"bad psychological state\" and others had attempted self-harm: \"Should I try to hurt myself to get out of here?\"\n\nHe said he and other residents were able to leave the camp as long as they are back by 22:00 GMT, but said he was reluctant to go out due to the \"humiliation, abuse and racism\" he has experienced.\n\nThe site has attracted protests in recent months\n\nWhile some have welcomed the refugees, posting welcome notes outside the gates, the camp has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nThe Home Office said that, where someone claims their mental health is suffering, it would consider if their needs can be met at the site.\n\nAnother resident, from Eritrea, north-east Africa, said life in the camp was stressful, and people were being \"treated like prisoners\".\n\n\"For the Eritrean community in this camp, the most difficult thing is we escaped from our country from indefinite military service and illegal imprisonment,\" he said.\n\n\"So we feel like we are imprisoned in a military camp. It is all coming back to us.\"\n\nOne resident said it was impossible to maintain social distancing in a room with six people\n\nThe man said he had been told to be careful and to abide to Covid rules, but there was \"no protection\" as he was sleeping in a room with five others.\n\n\"Most of the bathrooms - they are broken,\" he said.\n\n\"They are filled with tissues, masks, everything you can find, they are blocked, they don't work.\"\n\nHe said he had not been offered a coronavirus test since arriving about three months ago.\n\nThe Home Office said residents had often entered the UK some time ago, and had been mainly placed in the camp after being in the south-east of England and around London.\n\nIt added that coronavirus tests were only necessary in line with Welsh Government guidance.\n\nIt added that Clearsprings Ready Homes, which manage the camp, took immediate steps to repair damage.\n\nSome have welcomed the asylum seekers in the community\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, has called for an \"urgent\" and \"transparent\" inspection of the site.\n\nIn a letter to the UK's Independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, the MP said: \"We are now not only in the middle of winter, but cases of Covid-19 in Wales are rising at an alarming rate.\n\n\"I am extremely worried that the conditions at the old military barracks are wholly unsuitable to deal with the cold weather and to facilitate effective social distancing.\n\n\"This shows a clear disregard for the health and wellbeing of those being kept in the camp.\"\n\nAbout 40 men took part in the protest outside the camp in November over claims their human rights were being breached\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If we aspire to be a nation of sanctuary, surely we should be looking at how people, while they are with us, are integrated into our communities and given all the services that they need, rather than putting them in a convenient enclosed space in a tiny community which is ill equipped itself to deal with this... Let alone far right protests outside and all the pressure that's put on the local population.\n\n\"We need to make sure that this doesn't set a precedent into the future.\"\n\nMr Bolt told Ms Saville Roberts he had \"received assurances\" from the Home Office that the Penally camp had an independent Covid-19 audit on 4 November.\n\nIn a letter, he said he hoped an inspection could be held \"within a few weeks\".\n\nHe said he was keen to understand how the Home Office \"was assuring itself\" individuals who were particularly vulnerable, including torture victims, potential victims of modern slavery, and those with complex health and other needs, were being identified and action taken to safeguard them.\n\nHe said: \"While on site I would expect the only restrictions to be those relating to Covid-19 and that inspectors would be free to examine the premises and facilities, observe daily life and interview staff and service users, and I would look to the Home Office to ensure that whoever is responsible for managing the site understands that they must cooperate with the inspection team.\"\n\nIn December, the Welsh Labour Government deputy minister Jane Hutt called on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to close the camp, describing the conditions as \"unsafe\" and \"inhumane\".\n\nTom Nunn, a solicitor representing some of the residents at camp, said the Home Office had said the camp should only be used as short-term accommodation for single, asylum-seeking males with no known vulnerabilities.\n\nBut he said 20 clients had been transferred away from the camp due to being vulnerable, and feared a serious incident would happen if things did not change.\n\n\"The majority of them have been detained and/or tortured in their country of origin, many have been exploited on their journey to the UK and a large number have fairly severe mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not be the case that the only effective way of being transferred out is through making submissions through lawyers, and we are concerned about a large number of individuals who for a myriad of reasons may be unable to obtain this representation.\"\n\nThe UK's Minister for Immigration Compliance, Chris Philp, said: \"We provide asylum seekers in Penally with safe, Covid-compliant and weather-proof accommodation along with free, nutritious meals, all paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously and asylum seekers can contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant Help if they have any issues.\n\n\"We are fixing our asylum system to make it firm and fair. We will be bringing forward legislation which will stop abuse of the system while ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armie Hammer has starred in The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as \"vicious and spurious online attacks against me\".\n\nHammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding.\n\nHowever, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly sent were circulated online.\n\nIn a statement, Hammer dismissed the messages and said the subsequent abuse meant he could no longer spend months away from his children while filming.\n\n\"I'm not responding to these [false] claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,\" the 34-year-old said, according to Deadline and Variety.\n\nThe Social Network and Call Me By Your Name actor added that film studio Lionsgate \"is supporting me in this and I'm grateful to them for that\".\n\nHammer has two children aged six and three with TV host Elizabeth Chambers. The couple announced their divorce last summer.\n\nHis name began trending over the weekend after explicit messages detailing disturbing sexual fantasies, which were purportedly sent by him, appeared online.\n\nA spokesman for Shotgun Wedding told the PA news agency that the film's producers accepted his decision.\n\n\"Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision,\" they said.\n\nHammer played the Winklevoss twins in 2010's The Social Network and starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in 2017's acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name. He also appeared alongside Lily James in the Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, which came out last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, he expressed sadness at what he described as the \"extraordinary and untenable circumstances\" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension.\n\nHe also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster \"healthy conversation\" across its platforms.\n\nTwitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account.\n\nGerman leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move.\n\nIn a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe reiterated that removing the president from Twitter was made after \"a clear warning\" to Mr Trump.\n\n\"We made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nHe also accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet.\n\n\"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us….And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nHe also addressed criticism that just a handful of tech bosses can make decisions on who does and doesn't have a voice on the internet - and on accusations of censorship.\n\n\"A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same,\" said Mr Dorsey.\n\nThe decision to remove users, posts and tweets has been criticised by some for violating First Amendment - free speech - rights.\n\nHowever, big tech firms generally argue that as they are private companies, and not state actors, this law does not apply when they moderate their platforms.\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken steps to silence the president, while Amazon shut down Parler, an app widely used by his supporters.\n\nNow Snapchat has also announced that Mr Trump will be permanently banned from its platform too.\n\nIt had already announced an indefinite suspension, but has now decided that \"in the interest of public safety and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence\" to permanently terminate his account.\n\nOn Monday, the German chancellor's spokesperson said she found the social media ban \"problematic\". And the Mexican president said: \"I don't like anybody being censored.\"\n\nIncoming US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wants companies like Facebook and Twitter to do more to take down hate speech and fake news.\n\nHe has previously said he wants to repeal Section 230, a law protecting social media companies from being sued for the things people post.\n\nIt's not clear how Mr Biden intends to regulate Big Tech, though it's likely to be a legislative focus of his.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "A ban on travellers to the UK from South America has left one family fearing it could leave them stranded abroad for months.\n\nThe restriction comes into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday amid fears of a new Covid variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nHowever many flights have now been cancelled.\n\nJon Den travelled to Brazil with his wife Carla, 32, in October so that her family - who live in Goiania - could meet their one-year-old daughter Luiza for the first time.\n\nThe couple, who live in Wolverhampton, are due to fly back to the UK on 6 February but Jon now fears they may be stuck out there for months due to the travel ban.\n\n\"We had planned to visit in February 2020 but we had to postpone because of the lockdown and that was rough on my wife, she suffered a lot,\" the 31-year-old says.\n\n\"Now I think my mum is suffering as she's expecting Luiza to be back, but who knows now?\n\n\"My initial reaction was worry because it's so unknown. The thought of not being able to return home and being stranded is not a nice feeling.\n\n\"I'm hoping British residents will be able to get home but I don't know if the government will organise flights. I think it's a long shot. I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months.\n\n\"We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several Leeds bus drivers were faced with challenging conditions in the snow.\n\nHigh demand and heavy snow have had a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances, with bad weather also affecting coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe county ambulance trust declared a major incident, urging calls only in a \"serious or life-threatening emergency\" due to poor road conditions.\n\nA vaccination centre in Barnsley was closed, with patients told to await new appointments.\n\nCovid testing centres in Kirklees and Bradford also suspended operations.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in force until 21:00 GMT.\n\nMark Millins, strategic commander at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said \"very snowy conditions across West, South and North Yorkshire\" had caused gridlock and made driving difficult.\n\nStaff were \"working extremely hard to reach patients\", he said, but \"hazardous driving conditions and blocked roads mean that it is taking us longer than normal in the worst-hit areas.\"\n\nVaccinations taking at the Priory Campus in Lundwood, Barnsley, were suspended from 15:00 GMT\n\nIn Barnsley, the town's Clinical Commissioning Group issued a tweet advising that it had postponed all Covid vaccinations at one centre from 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt asked those due to receive jabs at the Priory Campus in Lundwood after this time not to travel, and said patients would be contacted with a rescheduled appointment.\n\nThe group said its two remaining centres at Goldthorpe and Apollo Court, in Dodworth, remained open, but those unable to attend would also get a new time and date.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had also seen a surge in calls and urged people not to call 101 for \"non-urgent matters\".\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said the force had received 300 calls to the 999 and 101 numbers in the space of an hour on Thursday morning.\n\nA large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds was criticised for an apparent lack of social distancing after footage was posted on social media.\n\nLiam Ford, who recorded the video, said he saw the \"awful scenes\" after he \"heard the commotion while on a walk round the block\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people have been filmed in a snowball fight in Leeds\n\nPolice urged drivers to stay at home until the roads cleared\n\nMotorists reported hazardous driving conditions on many routes and police warned people to stay at home or allow extra time for essential journeys.\n\nPhil Airey said his usual 30-minute commute from Boston Spa to Harrogate took 90 minutes due to the poor conditions.\n\n\"The gritters have been doing their job but any sort of hill then it's not very good and if you go off onto the little roads well they are not good at all,\" he said.\n\nWest Yorkshire's road policing unit said it was dealing with a number of crashes while the North Yorkshire force said the A59 was blocked near Skipton due to a number of vehicles getting stuck in the snow.\n\nThe Met Office has not issued a weather notice for Friday, but a yellow warning for snow and ice on Saturday is in place across most of northern England and Scotland.\n\nPolice say they have dealt with a number of collisions and accidents\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Charlie Mullins said workers getting vaccinated is \"a no-brainer\".\n\nA large London plumbing firm plans to rewrite all of its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\nPimlico Plumbers chairman Charlie Mullins said it was \"a no-brainer\" that workers should get the jab.\n\nIf they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.\n\nEmployment lawyers said the plan carried risks for the business.\n\nThe NHS is seeking to vaccinate 15 million people from priority groups by mid-February as part of efforts to try to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Mr Mullins said he was prepared to pay for private immunisations for people at the firm, should they become available, which would be done on the company's time.\n\nDoctors have warned that key hospital services in England are in crisis, with reports of hospitals cancelling urgent operations after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nPimlico Plumbers plans to change its contracts for new joiners to require immunisation. It will rewrite its contracts with existing workers and employees as soon as is practical, depending on vaccine availability.\n\nThe firm has about 350 plumbers working as contractors and about 120 employees.\n\nMr Mullins said the firm was \"not putting anyone under any pressure\" to have the jab.\n\nHowever, new starters who were not immunised would not be taken on, he said.\n\nMr Mullins said employees approved of the policy.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer,\" he said. \"I've talked to people who have said: 'I will queue up all night to get the vaccine.'\n\n\"I think it will be the norm in five or six months. To go into a bar or cinema, or go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMr Mullins said he had set aside £800,000 to pay for private vaccinations, but estimated costs more in the region of £100,000.\n\n\"Whatever it costs, I will pay,\" he said. \"I would pay £1m tomorrow to safeguard our staff.\n\n\"If people don't want the vaccine, let them sit at home and not have a normal life,\" he added.\n\nHowever, employment lawyers said this vaccination policy could be risky.\n\nLegally, companies cannot force employees to take a vaccine, said Thrive Law managing director Jodie Hill.\n\n\"They can't jab a vaccine in your arm,\" she said.\n\nPeople who refuse vaccination and are dismissed may have grounds to make a legal claim, she said.\n\n\"Even if they put that [requirement] in a new contract, I don't think they'd get away with it,\" she said.\n\nEmployees with more than two years' service could claim unfair dismissal. But this option is not open to workers and self-employed contractors.\n\nBroadly, people can refuse a vaccination for legitimate reasons such as being pregnant or breastfeeding, for religious reasons, because of disability or allergy, or for ethical vegan reasons if the jab contains animal products.\n\nThe two vaccines approved for use in the UK, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech, do not contain any components of animal origin, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed.\n\nDismissal for employees with one or more of these protected characteristics could give rise to a discrimination claim.\n\nPeople who are hesitant about taking the vaccine for personal reasons would not be able to claim discrimination, but could potentially claim unfair dismissal if they have been with the firm for two years or more.\n\nPeople with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added.\n\nThe company and Mr Mullins have previously faced a lengthy legal battle with one of its former contractors, Gary Smith.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Smith won a Supreme Court ruling over holiday and sick pay. However, an employment tribunal later ruled that he was not entitled to make a claim for the back pay, as he had not completed the necessary paperwork.\n\nMr Mullins insisted that the vaccination change to contracts \"will be done legally\", but said that he was willing to take this matter to the Supreme Court as well, if necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapid spread of coronavirus variants has put the world on alert and triggered a new lockdown in the UK. What are these variants and why are they causing concern?\n\nAll viruses naturally mutate over time, and Sars-CoV-2 is no exception.\n\nSince the virus was first identified a year ago, thousands of mutations have arisen.\n\nThe vast majority of mutations are \"passengers\" and will have little impact, says Dr Lucy van Dorp, an expert in the evolution of pathogens at University College London.\n\n\"They don't change the behaviour of the virus, they are just carried along.\"\n\nBut every once in a while, a virus strikes lucky by mutating in a way that helps it survive and reproduce.\n\n\"Viruses carrying these mutations can then increase in frequency due to natural selection, given the right epidemiological settings,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nThis is what seems to be happening with the variant that has spread across the UK, known as 202012/01, and a similar, but different variant, recently identified in South Africa (501.V2).\n\nHundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world\n\nThere is no evidence so far that either causes more severe disease, but the worry is that health systems will be overwhelmed by a rapid rise in cases.\n\nIn a rapid risk assessment of these \"variants of concern\", the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they place increased pressure on health systems.\n\n\"Although there is no information that infections with these strains are more severe, due to increased transmissibility, the impact of Covid-19 disease in terms of hospitalisations and deaths is assessed as high, particularly for those in older age groups or with co-morbidities,\" the EU agency said.\n\nThe variants have different origins but share a mutation in a gene that encodes the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells.\n\nScientists think this could be why they appear more infectious.\n\n\"The UK and South African virus variants have changes in the spike gene consistent with the possibility that they are more infectious,\" says Prof Lawrence Young at the University of Warwick.\n\nBut as Dr Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, points out, it's the combination of what the virus is doing and what we're doing that determines how fast it spreads.\n\n\"With the new variant, the situation changes more quickly as restrictions are relaxed and tightened, and there is less room for error in controlling the spread,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't have any evidence, however, that the new variant can fundamentally evade masks, social distancing, or the other interventions - we just need to apply them more strictly.\"\n\nThe spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells\n\nWith vaccine roll-out underway, scientists are racing to understand the repercussions for vaccines, which are based on the spike protein sequence.\n\nThere is particular concern about the South Africa variant, which has several changes in the spike (S) protein.\n\nMost experts think vaccines will still be effective, at least in the short term.\n\nDr Julian W Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, says vaccines can be modified to be \"more close-fitting and effective against this variant in a few months\".\n\n\"Meanwhile, most of us believe that the existing vaccines are likely to work to some extent to reduce infection/ transmission rates and severe disease against both the UK and South African variants - as the various mutations have not altered the S protein shape that the current vaccine-induced antibodies will not bind at all.\"\n\nMink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nScientists are carrying out laboratory studies to find out more about the variants. And they are tracking every move of the virus as it hopscotches around the world.\n\nBy taking a swab from an infected patient, the genetic code of the virus can be extracted and amplified before being \"read\" using a sequencer.\n\nThe string of letters, or nucleotides, allows genomes and mutations to be compared.\n\n\"It is thanks to these efforts, and UK testing laboratories, that the UK variant has been flagged so quickly as a potential cause of concern,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nProf Julian Hiscox, chair in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, says that, through the efforts of scientists to sequence the virus, \"we've got a really good handle on variants that emerge\".\n\nIn the short-term, only the harshest of lockdowns will reduce case numbers, he says.\n\n\"What lockdown does is reduce the number of people with the virus and reduce the amount of virus out there and that's a good thing.\"\n\nBut in the long term, Prof Hiscox suspects, we may face a scenario like flu, where new vaccines are developed and administered every year.\n\n\"The problem is, the more variants we get, the greater the chance the virus will be able to escape part of the vaccine - and this may reduce [its] efficacy,\" he says.\n• None New coronavirus variant: What do we know?", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer has released a new video explaining what went wrong with the game.\n\nCD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński admitted they \"underestimated the task\" of adapting the game for consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.\n\nMarcin says he's \"deeply sorry for this and this video is me publicly owning up\".\n\nThe game was arguably the most anticipated release of 2020 but the launch just before Christmas was a disaster.\n\nThe problems led to Sony and Microsoft removing the game from online stores and gamers were offered refunds.\n\nCyberpunk 2077 is a set in the fictional Night City - a dystopian future where pollution and crime are rampant and social inequality is the norm.\n\nIn the video, Marcin explains issues originated from Cyperpunk's \"huge\" scope, particularly the high number \"of custom objects, interacting systems, and mechanics\", making it a complex game.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cyberpunk 2077 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs this was \"condensed in one big city\" rather than spread over a bigger space - it needed greater hardware capability.\n\nSo despite working well for high-end PCs, it couldn't be adjusted to older generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One, making in-game streaming difficult.\n\n\"We hit the ground running on PC. While not perfect, it's a version of Cyberpunk we're very proud of.\"\n\nMarcin adds that testing did not \"show a big part of the issues\" that gamers experienced.\n\n\"As we got closer to the final release, we saw significant improvements each and every day.\"\n\nHe also blames the coronavirus pandemic for creating issues for CD Projekt as they tried to improve performance after launch.\n\n\"A lot of the dynamics we normally take for granted got lost over video calls or email. And we took that hit too.\"\n\nLooks good right? But this wasn't what the game looked like for a lot of console gamers\n\nMarcin added the \"incredibly hard working and talented\" development team should not be blamed for problems, saying the final decision came down to him and the board.\n\n\"Believe me, we never ever intended for anything like this to happen. I assure you that we will do our best to regain your trust\".\n\nAs part of that, he says they intend to fix the problems and improve the game across platforms.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is to fix the bugs and crashes,\" he says, with updates to the game expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"We treat this entire situation very seriously and are working hard to make it right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Julia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world\n\nA mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.\n\nSamantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia's kicking to sickness having been ill.\n\nHer pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November .\n\n\"It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative,\" she said.\n\nWhen Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.\n\nShe said she had noticed a small amount of weight gain but put it down to lockdown and that she thought she might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) as it runs in the family.\n\nMrs Hicks said: \"I felt a bit of movement but I thought it was because I had not been well.\n\n\"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nHer husband Joe said: \"On Christmas Day, I asked her if she was sure she wasn't pregnant, but she said no and she knows her own body.\n\n\"Then on January 1, I had my hands on Sammy and we felt a baby kick.\n\n\"We took another pregnancy test which came back positive.\"\n\nAt that stage, Mrs Hicks thought she was only five or six months into her term and returned to her job in a care home, walking 40 minutes to get there.\n\nTen days later, her contractions began and Mr Hicks rushed her to hospital\n\n\"It was unreal, the doctors only realised Julia was full term when she was born,\" he said.\n\nThe couple, who have two sons aged three and eight, said they had not planned on having more children.\n\nThey have since been \"inundated\" with gifts from friends, family and strangers in Portishead, who have offered blankets and essentials to help out.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone really,\" Mr Hicks said.\n\nHelen Blanchard, Director of Nursing and Quality at North Bristol NHS Trust said: \"We would like to pass our congratulations to Mrs Hicks and her family on their new arrival.\n\n\"As Mrs Hicks experienced when she was cared for at Southmead, it is routine practice to ask people if they are, or could be, pregnant upon admission.\n\n\"However, we would ask a patient to do a pregnancy test if they were undergoing specific operations or procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK - but a final decision has not been taken.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked by Labour MP Yvette Cooper why checks on people arriving from Brazil have not been strengthened, given that a new variant of coronavirus has been identified there.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant from Brazil.\"\n\nThe UK government’s 'Covid-O' committee is expected to discuss the new Brazil variant of coronavirus at a meeting on Thursday.", "People needing to travel by rail during lockdown are being urged to double-check train times, as services are being reduced.\n\nServices in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nIt said the number of trains would reflect the drop in passengers, and provide better value for money for taxpayers who are subsidising services.\n\nPeak services will be prioritised to help key workers, it added.\n\nWhile some timetables have already changed, others will be altered in the next few weeks.\n\nSince the early days of the pandemic, the government has spent billions of pounds covering the fall in ticket revenues for rail companies, owing to low passenger numbers.\n\nCutting some services will save public money, the government said.\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It is critical that our railways continue to deliver reliable services for key workers and people who cannot reasonably work from home, and that they respond quickly to changes in demand.\"\n\nRail usage has slumped, with passenger journeys falling more than 90% to 35 million journeys for the three-month period to June, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nThe figures recovered a little to 134 million for the three months to September - the latest published.\n\nWith fewer passengers, the government argues, it makes sense to run fewer services.\n\nNot least because right now, the government are footing much of the bill; since the start of the pandemic, the government has spent more than £4bn covering the fall in ticket revenues because of low passenger numbers.\n\nThe cuts aren't as deep as they were in March - then services were running around 55% of pre-pandemic levels - which is partly because the train companies want to make sure it doesn't take as long getting the services back up again when they are needed.\n\nLonger term, rail companies are nervous about how quickly passengers, particularly commuters, will return, but for now the message is still firmly \"stay at home\".\n\n\"Train timetables must still meet the needs of those who have to travel, said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.\n\n\"Many key workers rely on the first and last services of the day so it's important that these are maintained. Providing enough capacity for those who are travelling to properly social distance remains vital.\"\n\nAlthough timetables were restored when restrictions were eased over the summer, rail franchising has since been scrapped and replaced with a model which means the taxpayer is currently liable for the losses on the railways.\n\nIn September, the bill had run to more than £3.5bn - and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support is still needed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Jamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead\n\nA Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.\n\nLochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.\n\nHe also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.\n\nMr McMillan described it as a \"very, very serious situation\".\n\nHis comments came after transport company DFDS announced a further delay in exports of group consignments of seafood to the EU.\n\nIt halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.\n\nDFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.\n\nMr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.\n\n\"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.\n\n\"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival.\"\n\nTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday\n\nHe added: \"Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.\n\n\"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.\n\n\"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.\n\n\"If we go another week without that, we are finished.\"\n\nMr McMillan said there were \"sticking points\" in both the UK and France, with transportation hubs in Scotland struggling with increased paperwork and checks by vets.\n\n\"There are sticking points down in France as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There are delays at the borders in France for up to 30 hours, I'm hearing, to clear customs by the time they do all their checks.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scotland Office minister David Duguid said he did not underestimate the struggles the industry was facing with paperwork, IT and ports.\n\nHe said the UK and Scottish governments, fish exporters and the EU needed to come together to work through the issues, which he estimated would last \"weeks\" and not months.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"What I can commit to is that the UK government, whether that's through Defra or the Scotland Office, we are working day and night in resolving the issues that we know about and that we can fix directly.\n\n\"The other issues that are maybe the responsibility of the Scottish government, or indeed the EU on the other side of the channel, Defra are engaging heavily with those parties as well.\"\n\nHowever, when asked directly on the programme how long the problems would last, Mr Duguid responded: \"How long is a piece of string?\"\n\nFish ate up a lot of the time in negotiating the deal for departing the European customs union and single market.\n\nNow grown to become a much bigger political predator, it has started the post-Brexit era by threatening to devour UK ministers with the task of making the deal work.\n\nThe fisheries minister admitted she was preparing for Christmas rather than seeing how the deal had turned out on 24 December. Asked how long it will take to sort out delays, a Scotland Office minister asked: \"How long's a piece of string?\"\n\nThe prime minister says there will be compensation, but it seems that is due to come from the fund intended to expand the fishing fleet.\n\nAnd Michael Gove, who appears to have more of a grasp of the detail, was in the Commons on Wednesday, acknowledging there's a vast amount for the government yet to sort out - and that was only for Northern Ireland.\n\nAt least the province got a grace period before consignments of food require the paperwork now needed to send fish to France. That was sought by fish and meat exporters.\n\nIt's not clear if the request was made of EU negotiators, but it hasn't materialised. Yet coming the other way, the UK has given a six-month preparation period for EU exporters to Britain.\n\nBecause seafood is freshly delivered, it is the product that hit the obstacles first. Meat and dairy are sure to follow.\n\nBeef exporters to Europe are beginning to face delays, while Brexit chickens are coming home to roast.", "A teenage motorcyclist who led police on a 30-minute pursuit at speeds of up to 180mph (290km/h) through London and three counties has been sentenced.\n\nOfficers in Haringey, London, spotted a speeding rider at about 21:20 BST on 20 May and were joined by a police helicopter as they followed it along the M1, through Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe biker mounted pavements, drove through multiple red lights and the wrong way down the motorway hard shoulder before he was arrested at a service station.\n\nMarian Vasilica Dragoi, 19, of Teynton Terrace, Haringey, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence and being uninsured and was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 46 weeks' detention.", "The opening of Nintendo's first theme park has been delayed because of rising coronavirus cases in Japan.\n\nSuper Nintendo World, modelled on levels of the company's Mario games, had been due to open on 4 February.\n\nBut Japan has expanded its state of emergency, due to last until at least 7 February, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the park is located.\n\nThe opening, at Universal Studios Japan, had already been postponed from mid-2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nBut in December, Nintendo posted a video tour of the park in December, starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, among others.\n\nIt is not the first theme park to suffer problems during the pandemic - the shuttered Disneyland theme park in California is set to become a large-scale vaccination centre.\n\nThe state of emergency in Japan, which has so far avoided the types of lockdowns seen in the UK and other European nations, prohibits non-essential trips outside the home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's total number of cases reached 300,000, with more than 4,000 deaths.\n\nAnd many of those have been in the past three months.\n\nThe rising number of cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer, having already been postponed last year.\n\nOrganisers, however, insist the Games will go ahead.", "Nearly 46% of over-80s in England's North East and Yorkshire region have been given their first dose of a Covid vaccine - more than any other area, official figures show.\n\nThis compares with about 30% of over-80s in both London and the East of England who have received a first jab.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan claims the capital is not getting its fair share of vaccine doses.\n\nIn total, more than 2.2 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.\n\nAbout 400,000 second doses have also been administered, despite guidance from the UK's chief medical officers and vaccine advisers, the JCVI, that giving a first dose to as many people as possible was a public health priority.\n\nThe NHS England figures cover Covid-19 vaccinations given to people at hospital hubs and GP practices between 8 December 2020 and 10 January 2021.\n\nAmong the over-80s alone, most first doses - 204,140 - were administered in north-east England and Yorkshire, while the lowest number (92,398) were given to this age group in London.\n\nOverall, more than one-third of people aged 80 and over in England have received at least one dose.\n\nThe figures show that in the Midlands more vaccine doses had been administered to all people in the top priority groups - 387,647 - than in any other area of England. In London, a total of 199,986 first doses were given and in the East the figure was 186,291.\n\nThese include care home residents, frontline heath and care staff, the over-80s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the Covid-19.\n\nThe percentage of the whole population to have received a first dose so far ranged from 4.3% in the north-east and Yorkshire to 2.2% in London.\n\nMr Khan said he was \"hugely concerned\" that Londoners had received only one-tenth of the vaccines that had been given across the country.\n\n\"The situation in London is critical with rates of the virus extremely high, which is why it's so important that vulnerable Londoners are given access to the vaccine as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would hold talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to ensure more vaccines were delivered to reflect the level of need in the city.\n\nLondon has a younger average population than other parts of England and the smallest number of people aged over 80 compared with other regions.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said vaccinating over a third of all over-80s was \"a great achievement\".\n\nBut she said people must continue to follow the guidance that is in place to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"These data will help us to evaluate the protection from the vaccine and to effectively target the roll-out of the programme to help control the virus and save lives,\" she added.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Tesco says it has seen some disruption to food supplies in Northern Ireland since trading arrangements with the EU changed on 1 January.\n\n\"We see this as a challenge at the moment, but not a crisis,\" boss Ken Murphy said.\n\nBut he said the retailer was working closely with government on both sides of the Irish Sea to \"smooth the flow\".\n\nSince 31 December, Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has stayed in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nMr Murphy said certain foodstuffs had faced supply chain disruption going into both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Ready meals have been the most affected as they have an eight-day shelf life so any wait is more likely to have an impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Some processed meat and some citrus fruit has also been impacted, but it is important to stress that our availability in the Republic and Northern Ireland is strong and is very strong in the mainland UK.\n\nLast week, all the major grocers wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove asking him to take urgent action.\n\nBut Tesco said its \"comprehensive preparations and... strong relationships with suppliers\" had allowed it to maintain strong levels of availability during the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Murphy said he was confident Tesco would have the right measures in place to supply Northern Ireland after end of a three month grace period on certain rules and regulations with the EU on 31 March.\n\nHe also said there had also been \"teething problems\" with supply flows from continental Europe to Great Britain.\n\n\"Inevitably there are bedding-in issues, teething issues, that you would expect with any new process that's been set up at relatively short notice,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working our way through those and we would hope over the coming weeks and months that we will end up with a much smoother flow of product.\"\n\nUnder new trading arrangements, food products entering Northern Ireland from Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nMarks & Spencer has temporarily reduced its range of food products in Northern Ireland\n\nA three month \"grace period\" means that supermarkets currently don't need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements until 1 April - but there has still been disruption.\n\nM&S has temporarily reduced its range of food products and Sainsbury's has been sourcing Spar-branded products from an NI wholesaler.\n\nThis week the bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Iceland, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer warned that trade into Northern Ireland would become \"unworkable\" if further new certification requirements were introduced in April .\n\nThe government said a new dedicated team has already been set up and will be working with supermarkets, the food industry and the Northern Ireland Executive to develop ways to streamline the movement of goods.\n\nTesco's comments came as the supermarket giant reported record sales for the Christmas period after customers looked to \"treat themselves\" amid tough Covid restrictions across most of the UK.\n\nUK like-for-like sales were up 8.1% in the six weeks to 9 January, as the supermarket saw a surge in demand for goods in its Tesco Finest range.\n\nBig grocers have benefited at a time when most non-essential shops and restaurants are closed, prompting consumers to spend more on their weekly shop. But they have faced criticism too.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would repay £585m of business rates relief after it was criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the crisis. Most big grocers followed suit.\n\nTesco was later criticised for keeping its shops open on Boxing Day despite union calls to give staff the day off.\n\nIn its results the grocer said it had given all frontline staff a 10% bonus over Christmas. It also said it had shielded vulnerable staff and taken on nearly 35,000 additional temporary staff for the season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells says he wishes he had never thrown away the hard drive\n\nA man who threw away a laptop hard drive containing bitcoin he believes is now worth about £210m wants his council to let him search for it in landfill.\n\nJames Howells had 7,500 bitcoins, a virtual currency, on the hard drive, which he mistakenly threw away in 2013.\n\nHe said he was willing to donate 25% of the value of the bitcoins to his home city of Newport in south Wales - about £52.5m - if he found the hard drive.\n\nNewport council said excavation was not possible under its licensing permit.\n\nMr Howells said if he was to recover the hard drive, he would want the money to be put into a \"Covid relief fund\" for people in Newport to use \"no questions asked\".\n\n\"Imagine how great it would be to say 'I've given everyone in the city a few hundred pounds',\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop.\n\nHe kept the hard drive in his office drawer and \"totally forgot about bitcoin all together\" - so when he had a clear out, he believed everything had been taken off it.\n\nWhen he threw the hard drive away in 2013, the value of the bitcoins was about $7.5m (£4.6m).\n\nBut now they are worth almost 50 times more, with the cost of a single bitcoin currently just over £28,000 after a surge in value.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells: \"When I went up to the landfill site yesterday my first thought was 'I've got not chance'\"\n\nHe said he has asked Newport council if he could search the landfill several times, but had not been granted permission.\n\n\"I offered the local authority 10% of the recovered funds in order to give me permission to search on their property and unfortunately they said no at the time,\" Mr Howells told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What actually happened after that was the value of bitcoin skyrocketed even further. In 2017 the value of my hard drive was approximately £125m, at which point I made them another offer of 10% and unfortunately that offer was refused as well.\n\nJames Howells said he wants to donate a quarter of the money to the people of Newport\n\n\"I haven't actually made an offer to them today, but I'm willing to increase my offer to them to 25%. On today's valuation that would be £52.5m and I'd like to put that into a Covid relief fund for the citizens of Newport.\"\n\nMr Howells said searching for the discarded hard drive would \"not be as hard as you might think\" as he would employ a professional team - and knows when he threw it away so could use that to find a grid reference of where the hard drive is buried.\n\nHe added investors had offered to cover the cost of excavating the landfill, in exchange for a large proportion of the recovered bitcoin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Howells said he wants to meet with the council to discuss what he said would be a \"win-win-win\" situation for him, the council and the city.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the council said: \"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain bitcoins.\n\n\"The first time was several months after Mr Howells first realised the hardware was missing.\n\n\"The council has told Mr Howells on a number of occasions that excavation is not possible under our licencing permit and excavation itself would have a huge environmental impact on the surrounding area.\n\n\"The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "A provisional 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured by the African Union (AU) for distribution across the continent.\n\nAll of the doses will be used this year, promises current AU head South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThis is on top of 600 million doses already promised but is still not enough to vaccinate the whole region.\n\nThere are fears that poorer countries globally will wait far longer than richer nations to be inoculated.\n\nAlthough infection numbers and death rates are comparatively lower across most of Africa, cases are spiking again in some areas.\n\nA new variant of Covid-19 in South Africa is causing particular alarm and makes up most of the new cases.\n\n\"As a result of our own efforts we have so far secured a commitment of a provisional amount of 270 million vaccines from three major suppliers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson,\" President Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.\n\nAt least 50 million of the doses will be available \"for the crucial period of April to June 2021,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, the region is expecting around 600 million doses from the global Covax effort which aims to provide vaccines to lower-income countries.\n\nBut officials are still waiting for details and are now \"happy we have alternative solutions,\" Nicaise Ndembi, senior science adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccines in Africa: What you need to know\n\nMr Ramaphosa said officials are worried that the doses from the Covax effort released in the first half of 2021 will only be enough to inoculate health care workers. With a population of 1.3 billion people and each person requiring two vaccine jabs, Africa would need around 2.6 billion doses to eventually vaccinate everyone.\n\n\"These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible,\" he explained.\n\nAfrica has recorded more than three million cases of Covid-19 and nearly 75,000 deaths. By contrast, the US has reported close to 23 million infections and more than 383,000 fatalities.\n\nThere has been a global rush to buy vaccines, with richer countries accused of buying up most of the supply.\n\nAs many had feared, Africa appears to be at the back of the queue to get Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nThe announcement of 270 million doses by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is also the current chair of the African Union - is good news. This is in addition to those secured by the Covax facility, which is led by the World Health Organisation and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. The facility has secured 600 million doses - enough to vaccinate only a fifth of the continent.\n\nBut it may be a while before any of them get to the continent. The announcements are agreements to supply vaccines. There is still the actual procurement process that needs to happen. Negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWealthier nations had a head start. They already acquired the bulk of the early doses being produced through advance purchase deals with manufacturers. The race is on to meet that demand.\n\nAfrica, on the other hand, still faces funding deficits. There are questions also about the continent's readiness to receive the vaccines. Ultra-cold refrigeration is needed for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Countries are working on building their cold chains. But even this is marred by a shortage of funds.\n\nSo, the continent can only wait.", "The surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis, doctors are warning.\n\nNHS data showed A&Es were facing rising delays admitting extremely sick patients on to wards.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is now more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nCancer experts are also warning the disruption to their services was \"terrifying\" and would cost lives.\n\nReports have emerged of hospitals cancelling urgent operations - London's King's College Hospital has stopped priority two treatments, which are those that need to be done within 28 days.\n\nAnd Birmingham's major hospital trust has temporarily suspended most liver transplants.\n\nIt comes after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nOne in three patients in hospital have the virus - and at some sites it is more than half.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the NHS was facing an \"exceptionally tough challenge\", adding services would continue to be under pressure until the virus was under control.\n\nBut he stressed non-Covid treatment was still happening - with three times as many diagnostic tests and twice as many operations being carried out than in the spring when the pandemic first hit.\n\nThe data published by NHS England showed the scale of the impact from dealing with Covid on key hospital services.\n\nThe figures for cancer date back to November, before the surge in cases.\n\nAt that point, the number of urgent cancer check-ups and treatments being started was at normal levels.\n\nBut since then, concerns have been raised that services have been reduced.\n\nProf Pat Price, of the Catch Up With Cancer campaign, said services were facing the \"biggest crisis\" of her 30-year career.\n\n\"This is a truly terrifying scenario,\" she added.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Surgeons warned the pandemic was having a \"calamitous impact\" on waiting times for planned surgery.\n\nSarah Scobie, from the Nuffield Trust think tank, said services were under \"intolerable strain\", adding \"the worst is yet to come\".\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, agreed: \"The next few weeks are no doubt going to be the most testing in NHS history.\"", "The government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be \"out of step\", a watchdog warned.\n\nA National Audit Office report praised the 'Everyone In' scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis.\n\nBut the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy - with thousands more needing help than expected.\n\nThe government said it was \"regularly taking into account the lessons learned\" from the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson made the pledge to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament shortly before he won the general election in 2019.\n\nAt the time, a snapshot figure taken by the government one evening showed 4,266 people were sleeping on the streets in England.\n\nBut it did not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could have missed people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nResearch by the BBC carried out in February 2020 showed more than 28,000 people across the UK had been recorded as sleeping rough in the previous 12 months - and in England, councils were seeing figures five times higher than the snapshot.\n\nThe 'Everyone In' scheme, launched in March 2020, aimed to provide emergency shelter for all rough sleepers during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nFunding was ended two months later to the anger of many charities, but the government said it had made a number of more targeted funding pledges to tackle the issue since.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) carried out an investigation into the housing of rough sleepers in the pandemic and praised the \"considerable achievement\" of 'Everyone In'.\n\nThe head of the watchdog, Gareth Davies, said the government \"acted swiftly to house rough sleepers and keep transmission rates low during the first wave\".\n\nBut the NAO investigation found between the end of March and November 2020, 33,139 people were given accommodation through the scheme - a number almost eight times greater than the annual snapshot of rough sleepers.\n\nExamples included Bristol City Council which reported it accommodated 400 people in March, despite its most recent snapshot count being 98 rough sleepers.\n\nAnd the London Borough of Southwark had 25 known rough sleepers in March 2020, but within hours of 'Everyone In' launching, it had taken 200 people into hotels, with nearly 1,000 accommodated by November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe government pledged to carry out a review of its strategy to end rough sleeping early in 2020, but the plans took a back seat as the crisis unfolded.\n\nThe NAO said there was \"an ongoing need for a review of the strategy as it is out of step with the government's target\", adding there were now \"important lessons from Everyone In to consider\".\n\nMr Davies said the scale of the rough sleeping population in England has now been made clear, and it \"far exceeds\" previous government estimates.\n\n\"Understanding the size of this population, and who needs specialist support, is essential to achieve its ambition to end rough sleeping\", he added.\n\nThe report also highlighted the large number of people remaining in emergency accommodation unable to move on as they have no recourse to public funds - a condition put into the residence permit of some immigrants meaning they cannot access benefits.\n\nThe NAO also called on the government to \"keep under close review\" its more targeted response to the current coronavirus resurgence, whether it will \"protect vulnerable individuals as decisively\" as 'Everyone in'.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said they were pleased the NAO recognised its achievements with 'Everyone In'.\n\nHe added: \"By November, we had supported around 33,000 people, with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and more than 23,000 in longer-term accommodation.\n\n\"We recently announced an additional £10m to help accommodate rough sleepers and ensure they are registered with a GP to receive the vaccine, and we will invest £750m next year as part of our commitment to end rough sleeping.\"\n\nAsked whether the review into the ending rough sleeping strategy would take place, the spokesman said: \"Our ambition to end rough sleeping within this parliament still stands, and we are regularly taking into account the lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic response, including 'Everyone In'.\"", "The government has defended its scheme to offer free food to struggling families in England over half term - after criticism from teachers' unions and council leaders.\n\nFood will be provided for children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, rather than through schools.\n\nBut councils say the government should provide food vouchers over half term.\n\n\"Vulnerable families will continue to receive meals,\" said a Department for Education (DFE) spokeswoman.\n\n\"Our guidance is clear: schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time.\n\n\"Beyond that, there is wider government support in place to support families and children via the billions of pounds in welfare support we've made available,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, said \"the government should provide food vouchers to eligible families during February half-term as it did last summer\" - and that the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme should be used for other support.\n\n\"During the last full national lockdown, government recognised the significant extra pressures on low income families and extended free school meal provision into the school holidays,\" said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board.\n\n\"Government was explicit that the Covid Winter Grant Scheme was not intended to replicate or replace free school meals, but was to enable councils to support low income households, particularly those at risk of food poverty as we moved towards economic recovery.\"\n\nThe row follows the DFE's publication of guidelines on free meals, after an outcry over pictures of food packages to replace free school meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister and other ministers criticised the quality of what was being sent out by some school food firms.\n\nMarcus Rashford has spear-headed a campaign for holiday food\n\nThe DfE guidance says: \"Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half term.\n\n\"There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\"\n\nThe DFE insists that even though schools will not provide food parcels or vouchers during half term, children will still be supplied with food through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nThis aims to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials.\n\nCouncils are required to work out their own local approach to eligibility, using benefits data and their local knowledge to decide how to support vulnerable families.\n\nMoving to this scheme for a replacement for school meals during half term, with the added pressure of a lockdown, has drawn criticism from head teachers and teachers.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that switching schemes meant \"yet more disruption to free schools meals could lie ahead in half term\".\n\nHe said using this scheme could cause an \"unnecessary logistical nightmare\", suggesting continuing with providing meals through schools would be more simple.\n\nMr Courtney said: \"This week, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson made public statements about how appalled they were by the quality of food parcels shared on Twitter,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut he said ministers should now \"hang their heads in shame\" for threatening more \"chaos and confusion\" over providing food.\n\n\"These are battles which should not have to be repeatedly fought,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman accused the the government of \"badly thought out and last-minute schemes to help with holiday hunger\" which he said were \"leaving families and children anxious\".\n\n\"The government must urgently clarify for families how they will be helped during the upcoming half term holiday so they can be assured that they will not go hungry,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children and early years, said: \"Time and time again this government has had to be shamed into providing food for hungry children over school holidays.\"\n\nFood charities and anti-poverty campaigners, including footballer Marcus Rashford, have repeatedly clashed with the government over the issue of food for poor pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly over school holidays.\n\nThe footballer forced the government to back down in the summer over its plans not to offer free meals in the holidays to poor pupils, whose families were likely to be suffering with reduced incomes.\n\nBut over the October half-term when the provision was withdrawn many local authorities continued to offer them from their own budgets.", "President Donald Trump has just become the only US president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He was impeached on Wednesday for \"incitement of insurrection\" following last week's riot at the US Capitol. However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of Republicans still support President Trump and don't hold him responsible for the violence.\n\nWe've been hearing from lawmakers - but what do Americans think? We asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in.\n\nBelinda is an attorney and devoted Trump supporter of Native American and African American ancestry. She says this second impeachment vote is wrong and misconstrues the facts of what happened last week in favour of political expediency.\n\nThis is unprecedented. There is no justification, no legal or constitutional basis for this impeachment. He did not even receive due process. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. I hope the American people will stand up against this outrage. It's indicative of what would happen in a communist country where we have no free speech rights.\n\nThose who broke in should be charged appropriately for whatever laws they violated. But why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? His rallies have always been peaceful and most of the people on Wednesday were middle-aged and elderly, with children and grandchildren.\n\nIndividuals who violated the law should definitely be prosecuted but I don't see how you can blame someone for a speech and someone else's criminal activity. It can't be selective enforcement of the law.\n\nMelissa is a Filipino American small business owner with two children who had told us the country could not afford four more years of Donald Trump. She says the behaviour he displayed last Wednesday was undoubtedly an impeachable offense.\n\nEverything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution.\n\n[Republican Congresswoman] Liz Cheney said that, if not for the president, last week would not have happened and she's right. If not for him continually fighting the election results, if not for him repeatedly sending the false message the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about an 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened.\n\nEven three months ago, before all the lawsuits and everything else he was saying, I was not shocked by his behaviour. It's all completely predictable because it's just within his character. So the argument by politicians that impeachment could divide us more, I don't see that as the goal of impeachment.\n\nIt can't help but I don't think it will have any impact on deterring violence. There needs to be some kind of statement that the president is not allowed to attack another branch of government. It's a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself of Trump's stranglehold on them.\n\nGabriel is a regional coordinator for the New York Young Republicans and is an outspoken 'Latino for Trump'. He condemns the violence of last Wednesday but says the reaction has been unfair and worries about where the party will go from here.\n\nI do not think that Donald Trump should be impeached. I was in DC at the rally on 6 January - I did not go near the Capitol and went back to my hotel room - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm.\n\nThis is just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. I fear that people will become reactionary and elected officials will use impeachment in the future not as a last resort to uphold our republic but as a tool to remove whoever they don't agree with.\n\nAll violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history and it was not a coup. It's important to dictate that violence is not the answer. The day was supposed to be different. January 6 did something to the Republican Party. The actions of the few will discourage many of the new voters that Trump brought in and made his base.\n\nWilliams is a first-generation Mexican American college student in Atlanta who has been extremely concerned about what he has seen in his country over the past four years. He says the events of the past week justify today's vote in the House.\n\nI believe he should have been impeached. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condemn white supremacy and other threats. That affects us internally within the United States as well as abroad.\n\nIt's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Impeachment failed once, but now he has set the precedent that a president can be impeached more than once.\n\nIn processing the past week, all I could do at first was to ignore it and joke about the situation. It's deeply saddening to me.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Travel from Brazil to the UK could be banned in response to the discovery of a new coronavirus variant.\n\nMinisters have met to discuss possible measures and a block on flights could also be extended to other South American countries in a bid to stop its spread.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"concerned\" about the new variant and \"extra measures\" were being taken.\n\nArrivals from Brazil are currently required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove chaired a meeting earlier to discuss whether measures should be put in place.\n\nNew variants of Covid-19 have also been identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nDuring a two-hour appearance in front of the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday Mr Johnson stopped short of promising a ban on travel from Brazil.\n\n\"We already have tough measures ... to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who is Strategic Response Director for Covid-19 with Public Health England, told BBC Breakfast experts were looking at the Brazilian variant and needed to grow the virus in the UK in order to perform laboratory experiments.\n\n\"So we need to understand the biology of these [new strains], as well as understanding mutations,\" she said.\n\n\"We will be watching them all to make sure that they can't escape your immune response, which is the key thing that we're looking at the moment.\"\n\nA travel ban was put in place on arrivals from South Africa on 24 December, which was later extended to several other nearby countries, following the discovery of a new variant.\n\nLuiz Amorim, a graphic designer in London, said he had travelled to Brazil to spend Christmas with his family and was now worried he may not be able to get home.\n\n\"My wife was also supposed to come but didn't in the end,\" he said. \"Now I am worried I won't be able to get back to her in London.\"\n\nMr Amorim said his workplace had been supportive but he may have to take leave if he was unable to return, with his original flight back having been cancelled.\n\nHe has now booked another flight on 27 January and is \"watching the news closely to see what will happen\".\n\nThe discussion comes after it was announced a requirement for arrivals into England to test negative for coronavirus 72 hours before their journey will now come into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new rules had been delayed from Friday \"to give international arrivals time to prepare\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, described the delay in introducing the new rules as \"truly shocking\".\n\nScotland is taking the same approach to international travellers but will implement the policy on Friday, while Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for delaying pre-departure testing for arrivals to England, describing the situation as a \"complete mess\".\n\n\"Priti Patel has talked tough about the borders but other countries have been doing testing for months and months,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said people were \"really worried\" about strains in other parts of the world, including Brazil, and people would be \"bewildered and they will feel that we're exposed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.\n\nA group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.\n\nThe team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.\n\nThey will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.\n\nTeam leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it \"could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened\".\n\n\"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,\" he said.\n\nThe probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.\n\nChina resisted this investigation because it doesn't want to look back. It sees the potential for more blame, from a group of foreigners. It has its official version of what happened already.\n\nThe government paper published months ago declared \"victory\" in the war against the virus. But it didn't have a verdict - not one it made public anyway - on where the new coronavirus came from nor how it passed to humans. There's been global pressure to answer that, to prevent repeat pandemics.\n\nThe WHO team will be heavily reliant on their Chinese hosts for access: to key places in Wuhan and beyond, and crucially to research material, human and animal samples and data gathered by China's authorities over the past year. The man leading the WHO team said he is open minded. No theories - and there is a range of theories - are off the table. All sides have talked about the importance of the science. But the investigators arrived here as a propaganda effort, lead by China's state media, is in full swing, to question whether the pandemic originated here in the first place.\n\nDespite a lack of any credible evidence it's reported for months now that it was in Spain, Italy or maybe the US before it was seen in China. A campaign intended to undermine the very reason the WHO is, finally, here in Wuhan.\n\nEarlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nChina has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.\n\nProfessor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. \"It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question,\" he said.\n\nProf Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a \"natural event\".\n\nThe visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.\n\nNews of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag \"new virus death in Hebei\" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.\n\nThe country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.\n\nBut new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures being announced next week.\n\nPriti Patel told ITV her focus was on enforcing the current lockdown rules.\n\nIt is thought ministers are considering measures like requiring masks outside or allowing people to exercise only with people from the same household.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK recorded 1,564 new deaths, the highest daily total so far.\n\nMrs Patel emphasised the current stay-at-home rules, under which people are only allowed to go out for a limited number of reasons, including work, essential shopping and providing care to a vulnerable person.\n\nAsked whether further restrictions could include a three-metre social distancing rule, or the requirement to wear masks outside, the home secretary told ITV's This Morning: \"The plans are very much to enforce the rules.\n\n\"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel did not rule out new measures being announced next week, saying: \"We are not thinking about bringing in new measures today or tomorrow.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, she said police would move more quickly to fine people who break the rules.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, more than 30,000 such fines have been issued.\n\nA senior backbench Conservative MP has written to his colleagues to criticise the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nSteve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, which is sceptical of lockdown measures, said that if the government did not change its strategy, \"inevitably the prime minister's leadership will be on the table: we strongly do not want that after all we have been through as a country\".\n\nHe asked his colleagues to impress upon the party's chief whip the need for \"a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the current lockdown restrictions are \"weaker\" than those imposed in March last year, when deaths and hospitalisations were lower than they are now.\n\nHe questioned why nurseries were open when primary schools were closed, and whether estate agents should be allowed to continue with house viewings.\n\nRules have been further tightened in Scotland this week, with new restrictions on click and collect and takeaway services.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSpinner Dom Bess took 5-30 as a woeful Sri Lanka batting display left England in control after the opening day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 135 in only 46.1 overs despite winning the toss on a pitch that offered only a little spin.\n\nEngland closed on 127-2, with Joe Root unbeaten on 66, Jonny Bairstow 47 not out and their third-wicket stand worth 110.\n\nDom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya for four and nine respectively.\n\nSri Lanka's total was the lowest in a first innings in a Galle Test, and was a pitiful exhibition of indiscipline and poor strokes which demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of how to build a Test innings.\n\nEngland, who made five changes from their previous Test in August, were disciplined with the ball and tidy in the field, aside from a drop from debutant Dan Lawrence, with Stuart Broad superb in taking 3-20.\n\nTheir reward was a strong position on their first day of overseas Test cricket since the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and their opening action of a year that includes home and away series against India, a likely two-Test series against world number one side New Zealand and a bid to regain the Ashes in Australia.\n\nThe second day starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday.\n• None 'Right up there with the worst we've seen' - Sri Lanka collapse shocks pundits\n\nWith England's most recent Test being played five months ago, and Sri Lanka playing in South Africa over Christmas and the new year, there was concern that the tourists would not be as prepared as the hosts.\n\nBroad, who had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip and Kusal Mendis, who has now made a duck in four successive Test innings, caught behind in the seventh over, showcased his experience and guile by turning to off-cutters almost immediately.\n\nBess, playing his 11th Test, may have taken his second five-wicket haul in Tests but struggled to find a consistent line and length.\n\nKusal Perera reverse swept Bess' second ball to Root at slip, while Niroshan Dickwella slapped a long hop to Sibley at point to fall for 12.\n\nAfter getting Dasun Shanaka in fortunate circumstances as a sweep rebounded off Bairstow at short leg into wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's hands, Bess produced a beautifully flighted delivery to bowl Dilruwan Perera between bat and pad for a duck.\n\nHe rounded off the innings by bowling the reverse-sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga for 19 as the hosts lost their last five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nStand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews offered some fight with a stand of 56 for the fourth wicket, the former becoming the 12th Sri Lankan to reach 4,000 Tests runs and Mathews the fifth to 6,000.\n\nHowever, both fell tamely in the space of three balls as Broad - who had taken three wickets in 80 overs in Sri Lanka before this match - had Mathews slashing to slip, before Chandimal looped a simple catch to Sam Curran at cover to give Jack Leach his first Test wicket since November 2019.\n• None Why the Sri Lanka tour matters for the Ashes\n\nFor England this two-Test tour, which was cut short in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is a build-up to the four-Test series in India that follows.\n\nTo stand any chance of beating Virat Kohli's side England must play spin well, and they will be concerned by the early inroads that Sri Lanka made.\n\nOpener Sibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, edged to slip via his back pad as he attempted to work Embuldeniya to leg.\n\nCrawley, promoted to open given Rory Burns' absence to be at the birth of his first child, looked to take Embuldeniya over the top - a shot he played superbly last summer - but mistimed it to mid-off.\n\nHowever, Root, whose fifty was his 50th in Test cricket, will be buoyed by the way he and the recalled Bairstow nullified the spin threat as they shared England's highest partnership in Galle.\n\nIt was a chanceless stand, although Root overturned an lbw decision on 20 with replays showing the ball would have gone over the stumps.\n\nBoth he and Bairstow scored around the wicket, with Root playing the sweep to good effect, and Bairstow cutting and flicking through mid-wicket well.\n\nThey will hope to build a substantial first-innings lead and turn the match into a three-innings game.\n\n'England didn't have to work hard at all' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have put ourselves in a really good position. Rooty and Jonny batted really well because the wicket started to spin.\n\n\"I felt I was quite nervous. I hadn't bowled in a game since the Test matches last summer.\n\n\"I didn't feel I bowled as well as I know I can. That's cricket, isn't it? There might be days bowl exceptionally well and go 1-100.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It was a fantastic day for England.\n\n\"The partnership with Root and Bairstow was exactly what was required by Sri Lanka.\n\n\"Mathews and Chandimal are experienced pros. They were playing nicely and then played two rash shots. It was so poor from Sri Lanka.\"\n\nSri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower: \"I'm at a loss for words, I've never seen us bat that badly. They know these conditions well and it should have been a big advantage.\n\n\"England's batsmen showed us there's nothing wrong with the pitch. We batted terribly.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russell Arnold: \"It is not a minefield. It was very poor from Sri Lanka. England didn't have to work hard at all.\n\n\"It is very, very disappointing. It surprised me and I expected a lot more.\"\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Lucy Edwards, pictured with dog Olga, became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter when she guested in 2019\n\nA blind social media star said she could be waiting for years for a new guide dog because of delays connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLucy Edwards creates videos on living with sight loss, which have been watched millions of times.\n\nThe 25-year-old has used a guide dog since she was 17 and said she had lost her independence since her latest dog was retired four months ago.\n\nShe said it was like losing her \"eyesight all over again\".\n\n\"It has really knocked my confidence that in a pandemic I don't have my dog any more,\" Ms Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, said.\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable going outside on my own.\"\n\nLucy Edwards says she struggles to socially distance using her cane alone, as she does not know where people are around her\n\nShe now relies on her cane and her sighted partner, but added she found it difficult to socially distance with just a cane and felt \"scared\" without the support of her dog Olga.\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said the pandemic meant it had been forced to stop dog training for five months last year.\n\nIt said 52 dogs had been trained and become qualified in the Midlands in 2020, compared with 125 in 2019, and added the monthly figures showed a big impact in April.\n\nWhile general dog training is continuing during the third England lockdown, with social distancing measures in place, some orientation and other work has stopped, along with puppy training classes.\n\nWest Bromwich marathon runner Dave Heeley, who was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours, has been waiting for a dog for more than two years.\n\n\"The dog is your best friend, your dog is your mobility and I don't feel that from a stick,\" he said.\n\nDave Heeley has been waiting two years for a dog\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said over the past two years it had matched 80% of people with a guide dog within 16 months.\n\nThe charity currently has about 5,000 guide dogs working in the UK and within the next few years said it was targeting 1,000 new guide dog partnerships a year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Employers \"have a duty\" to support staff who suffer domestic abuse but few have adequate policies in place, the government says.\n\nIt said bosses were in a unique position to help but a \"lack of awareness and stigma\" held them back.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse services have surged in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said employers could be a \"bridge between a worker and the support they need\".\n\n\"It was once taboo to talk about mental health, but now most workplaces have well-established policies in place. We want to see the same happen for domestic abuse, but more quickly and more effectively,\" he said in an open letter to employers.\n\nManagers and colleagues are often the only other people outside the home that victims talk to each day and so \"uniquely placed\" to spot signs of abuse, he said.\n\nThese include becoming more withdrawn than usual, sudden drops in performance, mentions of controlling or coercive behaviour in partners, or physical signs such as bruising.\n\nEmployers did not have to become \"specialists\" in handling domestic abuse, Mr Scully said, but could do more to help, including:\n\nFirms already taking action include Vodafone, which offers specialist training to HR and line managers and support for victims including counselling and additional paid leave.\n\nIn August, law firm Linklaters strengthened its policies and now offers people who need to flee their home but can't stay with others three nights' accommodation in a hotel.\n\nIt also offers the option of paid leave, plus one-off payments of £5,000 to help victims trying to become financially independent.\n\nDomestic violence charity Refuge said it saw an 80% increase in calls to its helpline during the first national lockdown, a trend the government believes has continued.\n\nAnd in November, 43% of respondents to a survey by charity Surviving Economic Abuse showed an abuser had interfered with someone's ability to work or study from home during the crisis.\n\nExamples included hiding phones or computers, removing wi-fi connections, and phoning an employer claiming a breach of lockdown rules, in an apparent effort to get them sacked.\n\nDomestic abuse isn't a new problem, nor does today's call to businesses apply only during a pandemic.\n\nBut coronavirus has highlighted new and existing risks.\n\nFor many victims and survivors, work is a place of respite.\n\nBeing based at home, or on furlough, can reduce communication with team members, and prevent face-to-face chats with colleagues.\n\nI've heard of employers finding simple yet effective ways of supporting staff during the pandemic.\n\nFor example, finding a plausible reason for an employee whose remote communications were being overlooked, to go into the office as a one-off, so they could talk freely and hand over an ID document for safe keeping.\n\nOf course, not every business can afford to offer emergency accommodation or financial support to those in urgent need. But the focus of today's letter is on awareness, using free support and removing stigma.\n\nThe charity Surviving Economic Abuse wants the government to go further, and put paid leave for domestic abuse victims into law.\n\nElizabeth Filkin, who chairs the Employer's Initiative on Domestic Abuse, argues there are real benefits in supporting staff - including around productivity, loyalty and reputation.\n\nEmployment lawyer Sarah Chilton, a partner at CM Murray, told the BBC that all employers have a duty to protect their staff's health and safety while working from home. That includes if they are being subjected to domestic abuse.\n\n\"Where an employee is required to work at home during, for example, the pandemic, the employer should take account of any risk to that person's physical and mental health and safety in the environment in which they work.\"\n\nAngela Ogilvie, global director of HR at Linklaters, said training was vital to spot signs of abuse, especially now.\n\n\"Victims may avoid calls or videos for example. They may become quiet, anxious or tearful, secretive about their home life.\n\n\"And it's being conscious of how you start those conversations because they may be overheard, so you may have to switch your conversation to email or text.\"\n\nMr Scully said the government would consult on ways to help domestic abuse victims at work, for instance by making it easier to request flexible working.\n\nThe government's Domestic Abuse Bill also continues to make its way through parliament.\n\nIt will bring into law a statutory definition of domestic abuse that includes coercive or controlling behaviour as well as emotional and economic abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was set to fly out to Melbourne on a chartered flight arriving there over the next 36 hours.\n\nInstead he remains in quarantine and isolating at home in London.\n\nMurray, who is said to be in good health, remains hopeful he will be allowed to travel safely at a later date and compete as planned.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open runner-up pulled out of last week's ATP event in Delray Beach as he wanted to \"minimise the risks\" of catching a transatlantic flight to Florida.\n\n'He will be refused'\n\nThe Australian Open will start on 8 February at Melbourne Park, three weeks later than usual, because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers must test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which have been put on by tournament organisers and will operate at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOnce they have arrived, they will have to pass a series of Covid tests during a 14-day quarantine in Melbourne before the Grand Slam.\n\n\"Mr Murray, and the other 1,240 people as part of the program, need to demonstrate that if they're coming to Melbourne they have returned a negative test,\" said Victorian state health minister Martin Foley.\n\n\"So should Mr Murray arrive, and I have no indication that he will, he will be subject to those same rigorous arrangements as everyone else. Should he test positive prior to his attempts to come to Australia, he will be refused.\"\n\nMurray's planned appearance at Melbourne Park would come two years after he played there in what he feared would be his final match as a professional.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, Murray is ranked too low to gain direct entry into the tournament so the three-time Grand Slam champion has been given a wildcard.\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Scot is among a number of players to have their plans disrupted.\n\nAmerican Madison Keys, who reached the Australian Open women's singles semi-finals in 2015, said she would not be playing in Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWorld number two Rafael Nadal is travelling to Melbourne in search of a record 21st Grand Slam men's singles title without coach Carlos Moya, who has decided to stay at home in Spain with his family because of the health situation.\n\nWorld number three Dominic Thiem's coach Nicolas Massu has also not travelled after a positive Covid test, Thiem's father Wolfgang told Austrian newspaper Kurier.\n\n'Change of year, but not a change of luck' - analysis\n\nA change of year does not appear to have brought about a change of luck for Andy Murray.\n\nHe is now hoping he will be given permission to arrive in Melbourne late - and outside the window Tennis Australia painstakingly negotiated with the Victorian state government.\n\nIf he does get the green light to travel, having completed self-isolation in the UK and returned a negative test, he will still have to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival.\n\nThat means he won't be able to play in the warm-up events the week before the Australian Open.\n\nBut it would keep alive his hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the year, as players will be allowed out of their rooms to practise for five hours a day during quarantine.\n\nAmerican player Tennys Sandgren, meanwhile, boarded a charter plane to Melbourne despite testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe world number 50, a two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist, tweeted that after testing positive in November he had returned another positive on Monday and might not be able to fly on Wednesday.\n\nBut Australian Open organisers said his medical file had been reviewed by Victoria state authorities and he had then been cleared to fly.\n\nThey explained that players are only allowed to enter Australia with proof of a negative test done just before departure or \"with approval to travel as a recovered case at the complete discretion of an Australian government authority\".\n\nSandgren posted on social media that he had been ill in November but was \"totally healthy now\".\n\n\"My two tests were less than eight weeks apart,\" he wrote. \"There's not a single documented case where I would be contagious at this point.\"\n\nLisa Neville, minister for police and emergency services, tweeted: \"Tennys Sandgren's positive result was reviewed by health experts and determined to be viral shedding from a previous infection, so was given the all clear to fly.\n\n\"No-one who is Covid positive for the first time - or could still be infectious - will be allowed in for the Aus Open.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "Siegfried and Roy were one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher, one half of celebrated magic double act Siegfried and Roy, has died from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 81.\n\nThe pair were among the biggest names in the world of magic and were known for working with lions and tigers.\n\nPaying tribute, David Copperfield called him a \"legend in magic\", and Penn Jillette said Siegfried and Roy were \"pure showbiz and pure class\".\n\nRoy Horn died from Covid-19 complications last May.\n\nThe pair \"invented the full length magic show headlining Vegas\", according to Jillette, who is known as part of the duo Penn and Teller.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiegfried and Roy teamed up in their native Germany in the 1950s, and the highlight of their extravagant shows was their performances with white lions and white tigers.\n\nHorn was attacked by a 400lb white Bengal tiger named Montecore during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003, leaving him partially paralysed and using a wheelchair.\n\nHe underwent lengthy rehabilitation and was later able to walk again, but the attack ended the duo's long-running Las Vegas residency.\n\nRoy Horn (left) had to use a wheelchair after the tiger attack\n\nFischbacher and Horn, whose real name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, had met on a cruise ship and were later signed up by a liner company.\n\nAfter being spotted and signed to perform at a nightclub in Bremen, they went on to tour Europe and brought tigers into their act.\n\nBut they shot to worldwide fame after launching their Las Vegas shows in the 1960s.\n\nTheir unique brand of magic and artistry consistently attracted sell-out crowds. They performed an estimated 5,000 shows for 10 million fans in the city after 1990, when they began performing at the Mirage hotel-casino.\n\nThey were also estimated to have grossed more than $1bn by 2001, which included their thousands of shows at other venues in earlier years.\n\nIn 2004, their act became the basis for the animated comedy Father of the Pride, about the mischievous adventures of a family of white lions who perform with Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas.\n\nHorn's condition improved and by 2006 he was able to talk and walk with assistance from Fischbacher.\n\nIn 2009, the duo staged a final appearance with a tiger (said to be Montecore, but this was disputed by some) at a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher was devoted to his partner Roy\n\nThey retired from showbusiness in 2010. After Horn's death last year, Fischbacher said: \"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend.\n\n\"From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.\"\n\nFischbacher recently had a 12-hour operation to remove a malignant tumour. He had been receiving care at home from two hospice workers in recent days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nPrimark says it has no plans to sell its clothes online despite warning that lockdown store closures could cost it more than £1bn in lost sales.\n\nSome 305 of Primark's 389 global stores are shut - including all 190 UK outlets - but unlike rivals it has no online arm to fall back on.\n\nCustomers have said they would welcome the retailer setting up an online shop.\n\nBut Primark, which saw a 30% sales fall to £2bn in the 16 weeks to 2 January, says the cost would mean price rises.\n\nIt contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nOn Thursday, consumers called on Primark to embrace e-commerce with one tweeting: \"Online sales are thru the roof during the pandemic. You're missing out on a LOT of money.\"\n\nBut the retailer tweeted back: \"We prefer to sell our products in our physical stores but thanks for the suggestion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Primark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince March last year, non-essential shops in the UK and overseas have faced strict curbs and prolonged closures and all are currently shut in England.\n\nIn a statement, Primark said that if all of its stores stayed closed until 27 February 2021, it expected to miss out on £1.05bn of sales - up from a previous estimate of £650m.\n\nThe retailer said it would partially mitigate this by cutting its costs, but did not say if that would mean job losses. It added that it only expected to break even in the first half of the financial year, after seeing healthy operating profits of £441m last time around.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\n\"As a fast fashion retailer they are on a low margins anyway - they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC.\n\nHe said pure online players like Asos and Boohoo could make it work because they were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\nPrimark shops saw strong sales when they reopened after the first lockdown\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nDespite this Mr O'Brien said the retailer was still likely succeed, pointing to the surge in sales it saw when its shops reopened after the first lockdown.\n\nBut Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\n\"They have very loyal customers who love the brand, but they are crying out to be able to access it online.\n\n\"The longer they are not online, the more disruptive it is. The more their customers are discovering new brands and ways to shop.\"\n\nAssociated British Foods also owns food and agriculture businesses. Sales across the group were down 13% in the 16 weeks to 2 January at £4.8bn.\n\nThere are always winners and losers in retail but this Christmas the picture is more polarised than ever thanks to the effects of the pandemic. Just contrast the fortunes of Primark, which doesn't sell online, with Boohoo and Asos which have both reported soaring growth in sales.\n\nAll our big supermarkets have now reported bumper Christmas trading, too, which is no real surprise given we can't go out to eat and so many of us are working from home. This growth has also been driven by an extraordinary rise in internet orders.\n\nWhile Primark is bracing itself to lose £1bn in business as a result of store closures, Tesco says it added £1bn of extra sales online this festive quarter. It's been very tough for many traditional non-food retailers, big and small, who've been unable to make up for all the lost sales from their High Street shops. Looking ahead, the big question is where the online dial will settle when our lives eventually return to normal.", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men died at a property in east London.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, at 04:24 GMT to reports of a disturbance.\n\nTwo men were found seriously injured inside the property and both died at the scene.\n\nThe woman, who was Tasered during the arrest, also suffered non life-threatening injuries. She has been taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA man who lives a short way down the street said he was awoken by the sounds of a woman screaming.\n\nKuddus Miah, 44, said: \"She was screaming 'help, help, call the police'.\n\n\"The police and ambulances were there very quick.\"\n\nThe men who were found seriously injured on Sunday morning died at the scene\n\n\"I got changed out my PJs and went outside and asked one of the neighbours opposite what happened.\n\n\"She said a woman was coming in and out of the house crying out for help.\n\n\"Apparently they were new tenants. We've lived here around 15 years and it's a very quiet neighbourhood, it's shocking.\"\n\nSeveral forensics officers were seen outside the house and a large police cordon has been put in place.\n\nForensic officers have been seen working in the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah and her husband Gary lived in the caravan on the drive for nine months\n\nA nurse who lived in a caravan for nine months to protect her mother from coronavirus says moving back into her house was like \"winning the lottery\".\n\nSarah Link and her husband Gary, who usually share a home with her mother, bought the caravan in March to allow them to isolate.\n\n\"I have cried a river in the caravan, if it wasn't for Gary, I wouldn't have got through it,\" Mrs Link said.\n\nThey moved back home for Christmas after her mother received the vaccine.\n\nThe caravan, bought for £600 and parked on their own drive in Cradley, in the Black Country, allowed Mrs Link to continue working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and her husband at his fishmonger's business.\n\n\"I'd do it again tomorrow. I would do it every time, I would have done anything to protect mum,\" she said.\n\n\"We were thinking it would be four weeks, 12 weeks max, then the summer came and went and nine months later we were still there. It was incredible, I just can't believe we did it,\" Mrs Link, who has been a nurse for 17 years, said.\n\nThe couple both contracted coronavirus in December, but carried on living in the caravan so they could self-isolate and continue to protect Mrs Link's 84-year-old mother.\n\nMrs Link said her Christmas this year was \"magical\" after moving out of the caravan\n\n\"I went back to work properly last week. I still get tired easily and suffer with fatigue, but I'm OK,\" Mrs Link said.\n\n\"It's getting ridiculous the cases... some people still walk around and don't believe it's real. If people came on my ward and see what I've seen.\"\n\nMrs Link said she had not hugged her mother since before March as they were still taking precautions to keep her safe.\n\nShe said Christmas and new year had been \"magical\" adding it was the \"best\" she had ever experienced after being able to move back home.\n\n\"We all cried when it turned midnight, that year we'd all had.\n\n\"It was like winning the lottery, waking up in a proper bed.\n\n\"We're in the warm... I wouldn't be happier if I'd won a million pounds.\"\n\nThe couple decorated the caravan throughout the year\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said officers \"will not hesitate\" to enforce lockdown rules as she defended the way police have handled breaches.\n\nShe said rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths illustrated the need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nIt comes after the National Police Chiefs' Council published guidance saying officers should issue fines more quickly when rules are broken.\n\nMore than 30,000 fines have been handed out by forces in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC figures show 32,329 fixed penalty notices were issued between 27 March and 21 December last year.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test surpassed 80,000 on Saturday, and a further 59,937 people tested positive.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus and scientists have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter.\n\n\"The vast majority of the public have supported this huge national effort and followed the rules,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"But the tragic number of new cases and deaths this week shows there is still a need for strong enforcement where people are clearly breaking these rules to ensure we safeguard our country's recovery from this deadly virus.\n\n\"Enforcing these rules saves lives. It is as simple as that. Officers will continue to engage with the public across the country and will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the public to follow the lockdown restrictions, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that \"every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for not providing \"absolute clarity of messaging\", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr that there had been \"mixed messaging over the last nine months\".\n\nNPCC guidance, published on 6 January, says officers should still offer people \"encouragement\" to comply with the regulations and explain any changes.\n\n\"However, if the individual or group does not respond appropriately, then enforcement can follow without repeated attempts to encourage people to comply with the law,\" the NPCC said.\n\nOn Saturday 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nElsewhere, North Wales Police turned away more than 100 cars at Moel Famau in Flintshire by Saturday lunchtime, and Norfolk Police fined one couple who had travelled about 130 miles (209km) to see a seal colony.\n\nHowever, Derbyshire Police has launched an urgent review into how fines were issued after two women were charged £200 each.\n\nThe pair were stopped by officers for walking five miles from their home with hot drinks, which they were told were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nJohn Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers were under \"immense pressure to do the right thing\" and said with \"such a changing landscape politically and legally\" there were going to be things which did not go right.\n\nHe said the police had to balance the relationship with the public.\n\n\"It's not easy because all we are trying to do in policing is keep as many people safe as possible,\" he said.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Donald Trump's accounts raise a \"very big question\" about how social media is regulated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe companies acted after supporters of the US president stormed Washington DC's Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hancock said the bans showed they were now \"taking editorial decisions\".\n\nCampaigners want social media to be treated as \"publishers\", rather than \"platforms\", meaning more regulation.\n\nBut opponents of the idea argue that it could allow governments to limit debate.\n\nMr Trump faces an impeachment charge, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of encouraging the Washington riots, in which five people died.\n\nTwitter permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account on Saturday, citing the \"risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nBut Mr Trump called this an attack on free speech and suggested he would look at \"building out our own platform in the future\".\n\nThere has been a long-running debate over whether social media companies should be treated in law as \"publishers\", with greater responsibility for dealing with libellous, discriminatory, misleading or incendiary content posted by users.\n\nMr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The scenes, clearly encouraged by President Trump - the scenes at the Capitol - were terrible - and I was very sad to see that because American democracy is such a proud thing.\n\n\"But there's something else that has changed, which is that social media platforms are making editorial decisions now. That's clear because they're choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice on their platform.\"\n\nMr Hancock said that development was likely to have \"consequences\".\n\nAsked earlier about Twitter's decision to ban Mr Trump's account, he told Sky News: \"I think it raises a very important question, which is it means that the social media platforms are taking editorial decisions.\n\n\"And that is a very big question because then it raises questions about their editorial judgements and the way that they're regulated.\"\n\nTwitter's ban on Mr Trump's account followed the increasing use of warning labels on his posts referring to the coronavirus pandemic and the result of the US presidential election.\n\nIn a blog on Friday, the company said its public interest framework existed \"to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.\"\n\nFacebook and Instagram banned Mr Trump \"indefinitely\" on Thursday, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying this sanction would not be lifted until at least 20 January, when Joe Biden is sworn in as the new US president.", "\"Absurd\" council tax rises should be scrapped to ease the pressure on family budgets, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nLocal authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by 5% from April, with 3% used to top up adult social care budgets.\n\nSir Keir said this meant those living in a band D property could see bills rise by an average of £90.\n\nHe added that the prime minister should provide extra funding to councils.\n\nBut the government says the rise in council tax bills, plus extra money from central government, will ensure a real-terms increase in support for local services.\n\nSir Keir wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"It is absurd that during the deepest recession in 300 years, at the very time millions are worried about the future of their jobs and how they will make ends meet, Boris Johnson and [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak are forcing local government to hike up council tax.\n\n\"The prime minister said he would do 'whatever is necessary' to support local authorities in providing vital services - he needs to make good on that promise.\"\n\nSir Keir urged Mr Johnson to \"give families the security they need\" by dropping the tax increase.\n\nHe said families had been treated as an \"afterthought\" by the government during the pandemic, adding that Labour would become the \"party of the family\" under his leadership.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"Council tax plays an important role in helping fund the frontline services needed to respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Our approach strikes a balance between allowing local authorities to address service pressures and ensuring local residents have the final say on excessive increases.\"\n\nA £500m fund to support people struggling with finances meant councils could \"cut bills further for some of the most vulnerable households\", they added, while a £7.2bn support package would help meet \"the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area\".\n\nThe chancellor's Spending Review in November set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Sunak warned the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun, with lasting damage to growth and jobs.\n\nInterviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said there was no scope for a \"major renegotiation\" of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but added that there were \"bits already that need to be improved on\".\n\nAnd, asked about the possibility of another Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, he said that a \"further, divisive\" vote was not \"the way forward\".\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working\", Sir Keir added. \"I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has said such a vote - last held in 2014 - should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" event.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a referendum should take place.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary\n\nOne of the last surviving \"Spitfire Women\", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.\n\nEleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.\n\nThe ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.\n\nDuring the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.\n\nMrs Wadsworth said the \"thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive\" to join the ATA\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.\n\nIn 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been \"looking for a new challenge\" when she joined the service.\n\n\"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.\n\n\"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots \"will remain an inspiration to women worldwide\", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow \"Spitfire Women\" had been \"incredibly brave\".\n\nAuthor Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that \"like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort\".\n\n\"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own.\"\n\nEleanor Wadsworth (bottom row, far left) joined the ATA in 1943\n\nHer son Robert said she had been \"a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother\", who had been \"matter of fact\" about her wartime service.\n\nHe said she would say that \"we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it\".\n\nHer funeral will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wadsworth had been one of three surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" in Scotland, says the deputy first minister as he refused to rule out tougher restrictions.\n\nScotland is facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus, according to John Swinney, whose comments come as the country records its highest death toll so far in the pandemic in the last two days, where 93 Scots died from the virus.\n\nSwinney tells Politics Scotland: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet [on Monday] was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nMr Swinney says Scotland recorded around 130 cases per 100,000 people on Boxing Day, but the figure shot up to 300 just 10 days later.\n\nDespite the new measures put in place, Mr Swinney said: \"It doesn't show much sign of abating to any extent.\n\n\"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary.\"", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Electricity is gradually being restored in Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, which led to every city reporting outages.\n\nHomes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.\n\nPower is now back in most cities but officials warn that it could still be a few hours before electricity is fully restored.\n\nThe outage is believed to have been caused by a fault at a power plant in the south of the country.\n\nPower cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.\n\n\"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\" Pakistan's power minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHomes across the country were plunged into darkness at about midnight\n\nMr Khan later said that power had been restored in most major cities but that it would take a few more hours for the grid to go completely back to normal.\n\nHe added that the outage occurred after a fault developed at the Guddu power plant in Sindh province shortly before midnight on Saturday (19:00 GMT).\n\nInvestigators were at the site to ascertain the cause of the fault, Mr Khan said.\n\nBlackouts sometimes occur in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day. The issue has previously led to street protests.\n\nIn 2013, Pakistan's electricity network broke down completely after a power plant in south-western Balochistan province developed a technical fault.\n\nPakistanis seem to have largely taken this power cut in their stride. Outages lasting a number of hours are not uncommon, though they are rarely on this scale, and normally occur during the hotter summer months. The last time there was a near national blackout like this was in 2015.\n\nSo far, there have been no reports of problems at hospitals, which have their own back-up supplies. A senior member of staff at a major hospital in the city of Karachi told me they could maintain services for 48-72 hours without mainline power.\n\nMany businesses and richer families invariably own diesel or petrol fuelled generators too, allowing them to continue using electricity whenever power cuts occur. There were reports of queues at some petrol stations earlier in the day as people tried to keep refilling their generators.\n\nOthers will have been without internet and phone access, or hot water, but - already used to periods without electricity - appear to have accepted the outage with an air of resignation.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nScott McTominay's fourth-minute header was enough to give Manchester United an unconvincing victory in their FA Cup third-round tie against Watford on Saturday.\n\nWearing the captain's armband for the first time in a much-changed side from Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester City, McTominay found the net after rising to meet Alex Telles' corner.\n\nThe hosts did have chances to increase their lead, but Juan Mata failed to find a finish to an excellent three-man move just before half-time, then Daniel James and substitute Marcus Rashford had shots saved after the break.\n\nBut none of those opportunities were better than that for Hornets defender Adam Masina, who saw his effort blocked by United keeper Dean Henderson not long after McTominay had struck.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How all of Saturday's FA Cup action unfolded\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nNow under their fifth manager in two years, Xisco Munoz, Watford had other chances too - Joao Pedro's header went straight to Henderson and Ken Sema was off target with his.\n\nMason Greenwood and Donny van de Beek did little to press their claims for a regular starting slot in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, while Jesse Lingard - making only his third appearance of the season and the subject of interest from a number of clubs in the January transfer window - showed glimpses of form but eventually faded.\n\nUnited will go into the hat for Monday's fourth and fifth-round draws, while Watford are left to focus on winning promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nGiven the increasing awareness of the effects of concussion, the decision of United's medical staff to take no risks with defender Eric Bailly when he was caught in the head by Henderson's knee as the keeper punched clear was a welcome one.\n\nThe Football Association had hoped to introduce concussion substitutes by now but it has not yet been able to as detailed protocols are yet to be received from Ifab, the world game's rulemakers.\n\nAs Bailly was guided towards the tunnel in the last minute of the first half, Harry Maguire replaced him and helped United keep the clean sheet which ensured they reached the fourth round for the 34th time in their past 36 attempts.\n\nAfterwards, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I think it was his neck. I don't think it was concussion so that is a positive. But we have got to do scans.\"\n\n'I wanted to test McTominay and he delivered' - post-match quotes\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"Scott has got everything a leader has to have. I wanted to test him by making him captain and see how he would react.\n\n\"He delivered and he always does. He was brilliant today.\n\n\"We have always trusted our young men coming through and Scott is one who we believe has the Manchester United DNA in him and knows what it is to be a Manchester United player.\"\n\nMcTominay on captaining the side: \"When the manager told me it was a surreal moment. I've been here since I had just turned five, so that's 18 or 19 years associated with the club and it is a huge honour.\n\n\"I love this club and it has been my whole life.\"\n\nUnited turn their attentions to a big week in the Premier League. Solskjaer's side travel to Burnley on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) knowing victory will send them top of the table above Liverpool - who they then play at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nWatford's miserable run at Old Trafford continues - stats of the day\n• None The last time Manchester United failed to progress in the FA Cup third round was January 2014, when they lost 2-1 to Swansea.\n• None Watford have lost on 10 consecutive visits to Old Trafford, scoring just three goals.\n• None United have progressed from each of their past 17 FA Cup matches against opposition from a lower division, since a 1-0 home defeat by League One side Leeds United in January 2010.\n• None McTominay has scored four goals in 22 matches this season, one short of his best tally in a campaign (five goals in 37 appearances in 2019-20). Three of those goals have been scored in the first five minutes of games.\n• None Watford attempted 18 shots in the match - only in their 2-0 loss at Huddersfield (21) have they had more shots on the road this season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marc Navarro (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Hungbo (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Calculate the impact and how to change it\n• None Sir David Attenborough shows us the forces of nature that support the Earth", "A 107-year-old woman from Clonard, County Meath is attempting a virtual Mass tour across Ireland while in lockdown.\n\nNancy Stewart and granddaughter, Louise Coghlan, have been shielding together since March last year, and have set themselves the spiritual challenge.\n\nThey are attending Mass services across the 32 counties on the island from the comfort of their own kitchen.\n\nLouise said that because they have been shielding for so long together, she is constantly trying to find \"different ways of keeping granny entertained\".\n\nShe said that when she asks Nancy if she wants to watch Mass her \"eyes light up like I'd just given her a million euros\".\n\nNancy, whose favourite saint is St Anthony, said she can hardly believe she is able to watch Mass on a computer or a phone from her comfy armchair.\n\n\"I feel so happy and so refreshed sitting happily in my own kitchen, in my armchair looking at Mass,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I'm trying to believe it's true.\"", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "Amazon is removing \"free speech\" social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules.\n\nIf Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday evening, the entire network will go offline.\n\nParler styles itself as an \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nAmazon told Parler it had found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence. Apple and Google have removed the app from their stores.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nThe move comes after Apple suspended Parler from its app store. The suspension will remain in place for as long as the network continued to spread posts that incite violence, it said.\n\nGoogle removed the app from its store on Friday.\n\nResponding to Google's move earlier, Parler's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nHe also warned that Parler could be offline for up to a week while \"we rebuild from scratch\".\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIn a letter obtained by CNN, Amazon's AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the social network \"does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service\".\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site\", the letter said.\n\n\"However we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.\".\n\nParler will be removed from Amazon's web hosting service shortly before midnight on Sunday Pacific Standard Time (07:59 GMT on Monday).\n\nOn Saturday, Apple removed Parler from its app store after warning the network to remove content that violated its rules or face a ban.\n\n\"Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety\", it said in a statement announcing the app's suspension on Saturday evening.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "The Oxford vaccine rollout started in Wales earlier this week - those figures are not yet included\n\nMore than 14,000 people had their first dose of the Covid-19 jab in Wales in the past week, the latest figures show.\n\nIt takes the numbers on the priority list to have got the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to 49,403 since the rollout started on 8 December.\n\nBut Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK so far, with a lower proportion of people getting a first dose.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that by next week, 60 GP practices and 20 centres would be vaccinating.\n\nHealth officials said the new Oxford vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nThe numbers do not include the first people to receive the new vaccine, which began to be given this week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the real numbers were likely to be higher, with the figures a snapshot based on those vaccines recorded electronically so far.\n\nThey give a breakdown by health board and also show how many people have been given their first dose.\n\nThe figures also include people, such as NHS staff, who work in Wales but live over the border, but do not yet give details of people in different priority categories.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, said: \"We need real transparency on progress of the vaccination process.\n\n\"This must include clear targets and data on how many vaccines come to Wales, and how many are distributed and given out by each health board to each priority group - both the first and second doses - so we can measure this against the targets. This is how confidence can be built that Wales is on track.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"These are early days in our mass vaccination programme. Momentum will continue to build and the speed of our vaccination programme will increase each week.\n\n\"From Monday, the number of people vaccinated will be published daily and we will publish our vaccination rollout plan early next week.\"\n\nThe figure in Wales means approximately 1.6% of people have been vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than other UK nations - and the gap appears to be growing compared to last week.\n\nIn England, nearly 1.1 million people were given the first dose by 3 January. This is about 1.9% of the population. NHS England said 60% of doses have gone to people aged over 80.\n\nIf vaccinations were being given at the same rate in Wales as in England, a further 13,000 people would have been given a dose.\n\nIn both Scotland and Northern Ireland, 2.1% of people have been given a first dose.\n\nHow many people have had a Covid-19 vaccine? Residents in Wales vaccinated by health board, to 3 January Source: Public Health Wales, 7 January. Excludes 224 unknown and 1,024 doses for priority groups living in England\n\nSamantha is keen to have the vaccine as soon as possible and return to work\n\nDental nurse Samantha Davies, 47, who has shielded since March, was overjoyed at the prospect of having the coronavirus vaccine and returning to work.\n\nBut she is now in limbo after confusion over whether she could have the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because of her ongoing treatment for Crohn's Disease.\n\nAfter filling out a questionnaire sent by PHW, a consultant recommended she should have the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.\n\nThis is because of the inflectra infusion treatment she receives every eight weeks to treat her Crohn's Disease - a type of inflammatory bowel condition.\n\nHowever, the Pfizer vaccine is in shorter supply than the Oxford vaccine and the Swansea practice where Samantha works was only offered 10 vaccinations.\n\nAs Samantha, from Foelgastell, Carmarthenshire, is shielding and not in work, she was not considered a priority for one of these.\n\nSwansea Bay health board has since said the advice about vaccines was given in error and pledged to arrange an appointment for her as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's just being home all the time. Some people I know had it two or three weeks ago. The government put me shielding since March on sick pay and I just want to return to work,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was furloughed from April to August, Samantha has been on statutory sick pay since.\n\nDr Gillian Richardson, the senior officer responsible for the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Wales, said the efforts from NHS Wales and PHW had been \"exceptional\".\n\n\"The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low - around 1% - and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS is providing vaccines as quickly and as safely as possible to people in the priority groups.\"\n\nDerek Hinchliffe, 80, says he is \"frustrated\" at not knowing when he will get his first dose of vaccine\n\nHowever, 80-year-old Derek Hinchliffe, who is eligible for a first dose of a Covid vaccine during this period of the rollout, said he was \"frustrated\" because he has had no information about getting the first dose.\n\nMr Hinchliffe, who lives with his wife in Penpedairheol in Caerphilly county, said: \"We've had nothing - no communication.\n\n\"We've got friends the same as us who live in England who have had their first dose, and some of them are having their second vaccination.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies renewed his call for a vaccinations minister to be appointed to take control.\n\n\"Of course we welcome the increase in the number of vaccinations, but the rough calculation is that one in 65 people in Wales has had their jab compared to one in 50 in England,\" he said,\n\n\"Factor in the postcode lottery emerging in Wales, and the picture's not looking great.\n\n\"You're twice as likely in south Wales to have had the vaccination and three times more likely to have had it in mid Wales than in north Wales.\"\n\nDr Richardson called the second Covid vaccine - Oxford-AstraZeneca - which began its roll-out on Monday a \"real game-changer\".\n\nShe said it would help speed up vaccinations considerably.\n\nThere are challenges with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, while the Oxford vaccine can be be kept in a fridge.\n\nBoth vaccines will be available in Wales and the Welsh Government said 40,000 doses of the Oxford jab would be available within the first two weeks - with 22,000 jabs this week.\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said the \"status quo isn't working\" for Scotland but has again rejected calls for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backs devolving more powers from Westminster, claimed another vote would be \"divisive\".\n\nHowever, he said he did not agree with Boris Johnson's assessment that there should not be another referendum for at least 40 years.\n\nThe SNP said a vote would allow Scots to choose how to rebuild after Covid.\n\nLast year Sir Keir said he would set up a constitutional commission to offer a \"positive alternative to the Scottish people\".\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I don't think there should be another referendum, I don't think a further divisive referendum is the way forward.\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working. I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\n\n\"I think there are other things you can do, other arguments that can be made in support of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nAsked about Boris Johnson's 40-year position, Sir Keir replied: \"I heard the prime minister say that and I don't agree with him on that.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Scotland, Deputy First minister John Swinney rejected suggestions that the recovery from the Covid crisis should be a greater priority than another independence vote.\n\nHe said: \"An independence referendum is an essential priority of the people of Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we rebuild as a country from Covid.\n\n\"It would give us the opportunity to decide on our constitutional future and to determine the nature of our economy and how we deal with and support our citizens.\"\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC he thought the 41-year interval between the UK's referendums on joining the EU and leaving it was a \"good sort of gap\".\n\nMr Johnson said in his experience, such votes \"don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once in a generation\".", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.\n\nIt is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's chief medical officers warned of a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" in several areas over the next 21 days.\n\nScotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.\n\nMr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nBoth Wales and Northern Ireland are already under national restrictions.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell people to work from home unless they are a key worker, or it is not possible for them to do so, for example if they work on a construction site, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt is also understood that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has told the prime minister the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the spread of the new variant had led to \"rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\".\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise and to protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who called for a national lockdown in England within 24 hours on Sunday - said: \"I hope the prime minister has been listening to the clear calls for tough national restrictions.\"\n\nHospitals have said they are under \"extreme pressure\" and one of Britain's most senior doctors warned on the weekend that trusts across the UK should prepare themselves for a surge in cases.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals is currently above the level seen in spring 2020.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported on Monday, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nWhat worked before may not work again - even a repeat of the March lockdown may not be enough to contain the new variant.\n\nConsider the R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus onto on average.\n\nThe March lockdown brought R down to 0.6 and led to a sharp decline in cases.\n\nEvery 100 infected people passed the virus onto 60 others, who passed it onto 36, then 21, then 12 and so on.\n\nBut the new variant is thought to be around 50% more transmissible so its R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be around 0.9.\n\nThen 100 infected people would pass the virus onto 90 others, then 81, then 73, then 66 and so on.\n\nThis is a far slower decline.\n\nHowever, uncertainty around the new variant means there are scenarios where its levels plateau rather than fall during lockdown conditions.\n\nIt is going to be a tough start to the year. Even with immediate and tough restrictions there are a projected 20,000 additional deaths in the first months of 2021.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson's address comes as UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nIt means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" is needed.\n\nPreviously, the government described level five as requiring stricter social distancing measures. The first lockdown, which began in March 2020, was when the UK was under level four.\n\nThese Covid threat levels are separate to the regional tier system of restrictions in England.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nThe new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.\n\nIn Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures in light of Mr Johnson's televised address - which will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from 19:35 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will speak amid continued uncertainty over whether schools will remain open to all pupils in England, after several councils requested classrooms stay shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nEarlier on Monday, an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nBrian Pinker said he was \"really proud\" to receive a jab developed in the UK, which will form a large part of the country's mass vaccination plan.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" Mr Pinker said.", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "The Queen's 95th birthday will be commemorated on one of five new coins released this year, the Royal Mint has announced.\n\nThe 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.\n\nThe release of a £5 coin is typically reserved for significant royal events.\n\nIn April the Queen will become the first UK monarch to reach 95.\n\nThe new £5 coin depicts the royal cypher \"EIIR\", above the words \"my heart and my devotion\", a nod to part of her 1957 Christmas broadcast, which was the first to be televised.\n\nDuring that speech, the Queen told the nation: \"In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal.\n\n\"Today things are very different. I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nThe anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novels Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe and is considered one of Scotland's most famous figures, will be celebrated with a £2 coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells, who penned works such as The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, will also be marked on a £2 coin, with a depiction of images from his novels.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain's modern coins came into force, will be featured on a 50p coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television, will be commemorated on another new 50p coin.\n\nAs the Queen's head already appears on one side of all coins in circulation, these five coins will each offer a different depiction from the various stages of her reign.\n\nClare Maclennan, of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said this year's commemorative coins marked \"some of the biggest anniversaries in 2021\", with each coin \"a miniature work of art\" designed as \"a treasured keepsake or gift\".\n\nThe commemorative set will be available to purchase from the Royal Mint website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Hulme said intensive care units at Colchester and Ipswich hospitals were \"at capacity\"\n\nSecurity officers removed Covid-19 \"deniers\" who were taking pictures of empty corridors at a NHS hospital where the intensive care unit is at maximum capacity, its chief executive said.\n\nThe incident took place at Colchester Hospital at the weekend.\n\nChief executive Nick Hulme said it \"beggars belief\" some people were calling the pandemic a hoax.\n\nHe said it was \"the right thing to do\" to keep corridors in outpatients units as empty as possible.\n\nMr Hulme said hospital security had to \"remove people who were taking photographs of empty corridors and then posting them on social media, saying the hospital is not in crisis\".\n\n\"When you've got that sort of social media pressure and those people denying the reality of Covid it really concerns us. Words fail me,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would people do that when we all know somebody who has died from Covid?\n\n\"Of course there are empty corridors at the weekend in outpatients, because that's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We are facing the biggest health challenge we've ever seen and we are still seeing people flouting the [social distancing] rules.\"\n\nPeople had to be removed from Colchester Hospital's outpatients ward for taking pictures of empty corridors and claiming Covid-19 was a hoax\n\nUnder coronavirus pandemic restrictions on social distancing, many outpatient consultations had been moved online or were taking place over the telephone, he added.\n\nPhysical appointments, tests and procedures had been organised differently to avoid crowded waiting areas.\n\nMr Hulme is chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which also runs Ipswich Hospital and he said there were currently 320 patients being treated for Covid-19 across both sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nDialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe retired maintenance manager got the jab at 7:30 GMT from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.\n\nMore than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use on Monday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was a \"pivotal moment\" in the UK's fight against the virus, as vaccines will help curb infections and then allow restrictions to be lifted.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday there was \"no question we will have to take tougher measures\", which will be announced in \"due course\", as the UK struggles to control a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.\n\nOn Sunday more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases were recorded in the UK for the sixth day running, prompting Labour to call for a third national lockdown in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Wales currently have their own lockdowns in place and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a fresh lockdown will begin in Scotland from 00:01 on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout comes as rows continue over whether pupils should return to school with the current high levels of Covid infections.\n\nSix hospital trusts - in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire - have begun administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses ready for use.\n\nMost other available doses will be sent to hundreds of GP-led services and care homes across the UK later in the week, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nMr Pinker, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was \"really proud\" the vaccine was developed in Oxford.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" he said.\n\nMusic teacher and father-of-three Trevor Cowlett, 88, and Prof Andrew Pollard, a paediatrician working at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and lead investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, were also among the first to be vaccinated.\n\nChief nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a \"huge privilege\", saying: \"Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning.\"\n\nSpeaking during a visit to London's Chase Farm Hospital, to meet some of the first people to receive the Oxford vaccine, the prime minister said there were \"tough, tough\" weeks to come.\n\nThere will now be a \"massive ramp-up\" in vaccination numbers \"in the weeks ahead\", Mr Johnson said, and the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions by the end of March\".\n\nAsked when the government will be able to vaccinate two million people a week, Mr Johnson said the government will give more details \"in the next few days... as soon as we have better numbers to give\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Breakfast the Oxford vaccine rollout was a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against coronavirus, saying: \"It's going to be a tough few weeks ahead, but this is the way out.\"\n\nAsked about reports potential volunteers were being deterred by the additional training and forms, Mr Hancock said they were going to \"reduce the amount of bureaucracy\".\n\n\"For instance there's one of the training programmes about how to tackle terrorism, I don't think that's necessary, we're going to stop that,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said this was not delaying the delivery of the vaccine, adding that the next delivery of the vaccine will be \"early this week\" to be \"deployed next week\".\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the vaccines \"give us a route out in the medium term\" but warned the NHS was \"under considerable and rising pressure in the short term\".\n\nFormer health secretary and Conservative chairman of the Commons' health committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted that it was \"time to act\" and the government needed to close schools and borders, ban all household mixing and impose a 12-week national lockdown in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth agreed that a national lockdown was needed, as well as \"rapidly scaled-up vaccine distribution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'This way can save more lives'\n\nAs the recent rise in Covid cases puts increased pressure on the NHS, the UK has accelerated its vaccination rollout by planning to give both doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between jabs.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended the delay to second doses, saying getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nMake no mistake, the UK is in a race against time.\n\nThat much is clear from the decision to delay the second dose of the vaccine to focus on giving as many people as possible their first doses.\n\nSo how fast can the NHS go? Ultimately it wants to get to two million doses a week.\n\nThat will not be achieved this week.\n\nBut Monday marks the start of the NHS putting the accelerator to the floor.\n\nA rapid increase in the vaccination rate should follow.\n\nBut how quickly the UK can go is dependent on several complex processes.\n\nFirst, the vaccine has to be manufactured, then it has to be put into vials and packaged up (known as fill and finish). After that each batch has to be checked and certified before being sent to NHS vaccination sites where there needs to be enough vaccinators and support staff to ensure those doses are given as quickly as possible.\n\nProblems at any one stage can disrupt how quickly the vaccination programme can be rolled out.\n\nWhile there are millions of doses of each vaccine in the country and a total of 140 million of both vaccines pre-ordered, there are currently just over one million - around 500,000 of each - ready to be given this week.\n\nNHS medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"The NHS' biggest vaccination programme in history is off to a strong start, thanks to the tremendous efforts of NHS staff who have already delivered more than one million jabs.\"\n\nHe said the Oxford vaccine rollout was \"chalking up another world first that will protect thousands more over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and more than a million people have had their first one.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second dose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England's medical director for primary care, says it's crucial to get more patients the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine\n\nThe Oxford jab - which was approved for use in late December - can be stored at normal fridge temperatures, making it easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer jab. It is also cheaper per dose.\n\nThe UK has secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough for most of the population.\n\nCare home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and frontline NHS staff will be first to receive it.\n\nGPs and local vaccination services have been asked to ensure every care home resident in their local area is vaccinated by the end of January, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nSome 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week, the department added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first patients have been given the Oxford vaccine - five days after it was approved for use in the UK. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, aged 82, was the first to receive it. It's a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against the virus, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. More than 500,000 doses are ready to go, with care home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and NHS workers at the front of the queue. Some 730 vaccination sites have already been established, we're told, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week. The Oxford jab is easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer version, which was the first to be approved. It's also cheaper per dose. Find out more about how it was developed, and when you might receive one.\n\nThe vaccine news may be positive, but few deny the coronavirus situation in the UK right now is bleak. On Sunday, more than 50,000 new cases were recorded for the sixth day running and Labour is calling for a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson has admitted tougher restrictions are likely. Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce new restrictions for Scotland later, while Northern Ireland and Wales already have their own lockdowns in place. The obvious next step for England would probably be to move more areas into tier four - a reminder of what that means - but our science editor David Shukman says there are other steps under discussion too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanuary is normally a boom time for gyms, but coronavirus restrictions mean many are closed and others can't offer any group classes. At the same time, there's been an explosion in fitness tech, allowing more of us than ever to work out at home. So what does this mean for the future of the gym sector? Our reporter Eleanor Lawrie looks closely. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the UK, see 21 simple ways to get fitter in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports expert Ruth Lowry says exercising outdoors could help us cope with Covid this winter\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many of us to change direction, career-wise, whether out of choice or necessity. Our CEO Secrets series has been documenting some of those forging a new path here in the UK, but the same trends are going on elsewhere too. In India, Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal have gone from stay-at-home mums cooking for their families to chefs providing meals for paying customers. They're plugging the gap left by restaurant closures and finding new identities for themselves. Watch their stories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, are pandemics the new normal?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than 200 workers at Google-parent Alphabet have taken steps to form a labour union in a rare development for an American tech giant.\n\nThey said the organisation will give staff greater power to voice concerns about discriminatory work practices at the firm and how it handles issues like online hate speech.\n\nThe move follows walkouts and other actions by staff in recent years.\n\nGoogle said it would \"continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\n\"We've always worked hard to create a supportive and rewarding workplace for our workforce,\" Kara Silverstein, director of people operations, said in a statement.\n\n\"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support. But as we've always done, we'll continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\nThe announcement of the Alphabet Workers Union comes weeks after Google's firing of a high-profile black artificial intelligence and ethics researcher generated uproar.\n\nThe US National Labor Relations Board also recently ruled the firm had unlawfully fired employees for attempting to organise a union.\n\nGoogle staff stage a walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations\n\nStaff have also mobilised against the firm's \"Project Maven\" work with the Department of Defense and the company's handling of sexual harassment complaints.\n\n\"This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,\" Nicki Anselmo, program manager, said in the announcement.\n\n\"From fighting the 'real names' policy, to opposing Project Maven, to protesting the egregious, multi-million dollar payouts that have been given to executives who've committed sexual harassment, we've seen first-hand that Alphabet responds when we act collectively.\n\n\"Our new union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.\"\n\nThe group was organised by software engineers but is open to all ranks at the company's US and Canadian workforce, including temporary workers and contractors.\n\nIt is affiliated with the larger labour group, Communication Workers of America, but is not seeking formal recognition from the federal government, limiting its bargaining power.\n\nIt represents a small fraction of Alphabet's workforce, which includes more than 130,000 people as of September and roughly as many contractors, vendors and temporary staff.\n\nMembers who join will contribute about 1% of their compensation to the effort.\n\n\"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a meaningful say in decisions that affect us and the societies we live in,\" organisers wrote on Twitter.", "Nóra Quoirin was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development\n\nA girl whose body was found in a jungle during a holiday in Malaysia died by misadventure, a coroner has recorded.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, from Balham, south-west London, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort in August 2019.\n\nThe family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict, which ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThey believe \"layers of evidence\" that were heard at the inquest point towards Nora having been abducted.\n\nThe family were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nNóra, who was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development - was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe Quoirins, whose lawyers had asked the coroner to record an open verdict, said in a statement after the ruling that they have a number of reasons for the abduction theory. These include:\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nora\n\nIn the statement, issued through the Lucie Blackman Trust, the family said they witnessed 80 slides presented in court as the verdict was given, adding that none of them \"engaged with who Nóra really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities\".\n\nThey said: \"The coroner made mention several times of her inability to rule on certain points due to not knowing Nóra enough.\n\n\"It is indeed our view that to know Nóra would be to know that she was simply incapable of hiding in undergrowth, climbing out a window and making her way out of a fenced resort in the darkness unclothed.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We believe we have fought not just for Nóra but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.\n\n\"This is Nóra's unique legacy and we will never let it go.\"\n\nFom the outset Meabh Quoirin believed her daughter had been abducted but Malaysian police insisted Nóra's disappearance had always been a missing persons case and ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThe authorities closed the case in January 2020, and Nóra's parents pushed for the inquest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nóra's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nDuring the inquest, a British pathologist who carried out a second post-mortem examination said Nóra's body had no injuries to suggest she was attacked or restrained.\n\nOn the final day of evidence, an investigating officer who was on duty the morning Nóra was reported missing said he was confident there were no criminal elements involved in her disappearance.\n\nFollowing the coroner's verdict, the Quoirins' legal team have discussed the family's rights moving forward, which include the possibility of applying for a revision of the misadventure verdict at the High Court of Seremban.\n\nLouise Azmi, one lawyer for the family, said they had pressed for an open verdict to reflect the lack of positive evidence in the case regarding what happened to Nora.\n\nAn open verdict would leave open the possibility that a criminal element was involved in Nora's death, Mrs Azmi said.\n\nShe told the BBC based on everything the family know of Nora, \"they continue to believe it is impossible she would have willingly walked away into the jungle\".\n\nThe family's legal team say parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin are \"disappointed\" with today's verdict.\n\nBut, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said her verdict was made not on \"theories\" and \"speculation\" surrounding the case, but on the balance of probabilities of the evidence presented before her.\n\nWith no evidence to the contrary she ruled out foul play.\n\nMoving forward, the Quoirin family now have the possibility to apply for a revision of the verdict with the High Court of Seremban.\n\nThere is precedent of a verdict being overturned in Malaysia before.\n\nIn 2019, following an appeal, a Malaysian coroner's verdict of misadventure concerning the death of 18-year-old model Ivana Smit was overturned in Kuala Lumpur and reopened as a murder investigation.\n\nAccording to Quoirin family lawyer Sakthy Vell, the family say they now need time to consider their next course of action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'No question we're going to have to take tougher measures'\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"no question\" the government will announce stricter measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus \"in due course\".\n\nHe predicted \"tough, tough\" weeks to come, with more than three-quarters of England's population already under the highest - tier four - restrictions.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row.\n\nLabour is calling for new England-wide restrictions to come in immediately.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"inevitable\" more schools would have to close to lessen the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, further new restrictions are to come into force at midnight, including a \"legal requirement\" for people to stay at home. except for essential purposes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was effectively returning to conditions similar to Spring's nation-wide lockdown, with the curbs in place until at least the end of January.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported across the UK on Sunday, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"old tier system\" in England was \"no longer strong enough\" to contain increasing infections.\n\nHospitals are coming under increasing pressure, as cases mount up.\n\nThe old tier system is no longer enough…the figures are only heading in one direction.\n\nThese are the words of the health secretary and a health minister.\n\nBoris Johnson says stricter measures are coming, which immediately sparks the questions \"when?,\" and \"what are you waiting for?\"\n\nDowning Street wants to push a tougher message on adherence to the current rules in England while it assesses the latest Christmas data, but is coming under growing pressure to act sooner.\n\nWith Nicola Sturgeon about to go further in Scotland and the Labour leader calling for an immediate national lockdown, it's difficult to see how the prime minister can wait much longer.\n\nAsked what further restrictions would be put in place, Mr Johnson said: \"What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier four measures on the virus and it is a bit unclear, still, at the moment.\n\n\"But if you look at the numbers, there is no question that we are going to have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.\"\n\nHe said the faster-spreading coronavirus variant that has developed in south-eastern England required \"extra-special vigilance\".\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said new measures could include limits on outdoor exercise and a return to the two-metre (rather than one-metre-plus) social distancing rule, as applied during the first lockdown last year.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London, the prime minister argued that closing primary schools must remain a \"last resort\", adding that the \"risk to kids\" was \"very, very small\".\n\nSecondary schools in England are currently closed until 18 January, except for pupils in their final GCSE and A-level years, who are due to return on 11 January.\n\nAsked whether they could remain closed, Mr Johnson said: \"We are keeping things under review.\"\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged the government to close all schools and UK borders \"right away\", while banning \"all household mixing\".\n\nThe Conservative MP, who now chairs the Commons Health Committee, said these restrictions should be \"time-limited\" to \"12 weeks or so\", after which the roll-out of vaccines would provide \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nMore than 500,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are now available for use, with the Pfizer BioNTech jab having been issued since early last month.\n\nThe virus is winning at the moment, despite science fighting back with a vaccine. New daily cases of Covid have been rising to record levels, which means hospital numbers and deaths will increase too.\n\nMinisters say more measures are coming, but it is not clear yet what that will mean in practice.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already in lockdown, and most of England is under tier four rules.\n\nIn recent days the focus has shifted to schools and whether they can be kept open without making the epidemic worse.\n\nExperts agree that the risk the virus poses to children is still low, but they can spread the disease.\n\nWith a new, more transmissible variant of Covid circulating, the government may have to enact this unpalatable \"last resort\" of closing classrooms.\n\nSome 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government meets later to consider \"further action\", with all of mainland Scotland currently under its own level four restrictions - only some islands are under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, while Northern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely\", and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around four to six weeks.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told Today he was \"incredibly worried\" about the South African variant, saying: \"This is a very, very significant problem.\"\n\n\"We have shown that we are prepared to move incredibly quickly, within 24 hours if we think that is necessary, and we keep these things under review all the time,\" added the health secretary.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said there \"is a gateway of opportunity\" for the UK and Northern Ireland after Brexit.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the trade deal also tackled \"some of the great difficulties that there are with the (Northern Ireland) Protocol\".\n\nThe purpose of the Protocol is to prevent a hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It does that by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nAs a result, an 'Irish Sea border' now exists, with most commercial goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain requiring a customs declaration.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Mrs Foster leads, opposed the protocol and had criticised the establishment of such a border. She told The Andrew Marr show that her party \"didn't want the protocol but it is here\".\n\n\"I have to mitigate against that and my job from now on is to mitigate against those excesses and to hold the government to account,\" Mrs Foster added.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson must bring back \"the spirit of March\" to get control of coronavirus in England, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said the virus was \"out of control\" and a second \"national lockdown\" - including the closure of all schools - was needed.\n\nThe PM had to give a firm \"stay at home message\", Sir Keir told the BBC.\n\nMr Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to set out further restrictions amid surging cases.\n\nIt comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support any move towards tighter restrictions in England, but urged the prime minister to \"stop dithering\" and take action.\n\nThe Labour leader said it was \"inevitable\" that schools would need to close.\n\n\"There is complete chaos, with parents not knowing what is going on. We need to create space for the vaccine now, to be rolled out safely.\n\n\"The virus is out of control. We have got to get it back under control. The more we delay, the worse it will be. The more we delay, the longer schools will be closed.\"\n\nIn March last year, Boris Johnson told people in England they could only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nCurrently, shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together are prohibited in tier four areas.\n\nSir Keir said the government's message needed to be firmer and backed by law, if necessary, to encourage people to comply.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young, he urged the country to get back to \"the spirit of March, where there was a very strong stay at home message\".\n\n\"You only need to go out on the streets now and you see lots of people out and about, you see trains that are half full,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"We need to go back to where we were in March with very very strong messaging about staying at home.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that the closure of schools is now inevitable, and therefore that needs to be part of that plan, as part of the national plan for further restriction.\n\n\"And that means that we need to have measures in place to protect working parents, most in place to enable children to learn at home, and a plan to get schools safely reopened again and that goes back to vaccination. It must be mission critical now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "The Queen said she wished Woman's Hour \"continued success\" in the programme's \"important work\"\n\nThe Queen has sent her \"best wishes\" to Woman's Hour to mark the BBC Radio 4 show's 75th year.\n\nThe 94-year-old noted that the show had \"played a significant part in the evolving role of women\".\n\n\"As you celebrate your 75th year, it is with great pleasure that I send my best wishes to the listeners and all those associated with Woman's Hour,\" she said in a letter sent to the programme.\n\nEmma Barnett read out the message on her first day as the show's presenter.\n\n\"During this time, you have witnessed and played a significant part in the evolving role of women across society, both here and around the world,\" the Queen added in her message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Presenter Emma Barnett reads a message from Her Majesty to Woman's Hour listeners.\n\n\"In this notable anniversary year, I wish you continued success in your important work as a friend, guide and advocate to women everywhere.\"\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C also performed a rendition of The Beatles track Here Comes the Sun, after presenter Barnett had declared that 2021 \"has to be better\" than the previous year.\n\nLater, guest Imelda Staunton, who will play Her Majesty in the upcoming series five of Netflix's royal drama, The Crown, described her as being like \"the original Spice Girl\".\n\n\"The Queen, you think, might be an original Spice Girl because girl power is what she is,\" said the actress, who is due to take over the role from Olivia Colman. \"She became the head of state and all that sort of thing.\n\n\"It's the continuity of The Queen that has been so important... Whether you're a royalist or not, this person has got up and gone to work every day for 60 years, and I sort of admire that.\"\n\nLast month, the Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe message helped to mark a memorable opening day in the hot seat for Barnett, which also saw her discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian under house arrest in Tehran, with her husband Richard and the MP and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBarnett - known for hosting Newsnight and shows on 5 Live - has replaced Jane Garvey, who presented her final edition of Woman's Hour after 13 years last week, saying the programme \"needs to move on, and now it can\".\n\nGarvey's exit came three months after her co-host Dame Jenni Murray also left the long-running show after 33 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Barnett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnett's 5 Live show has been taken over by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who also broadcast her first show on Monday.\n\nMunchetty told listeners she was \"absolutely delighted to be here with you on the first Monday of 2021\".\n\n\"I am so excited to be on board with you on this, the morning show we are making together,\" she added. \"We are going to get to know each other, I promise. There is so much to talk about.\"\n\nEmma Barnett interviewed former prime minister Theresa May on her 5 Live show\n\nWoman's Hour is a topical, conversation-led programme; Barnett has a strong news pedigree. Her previous 5 Live show involved thorough interrogation of politicians, and she has made no secret of her love of politics, not least in her outings on Newsnight.\n\nIt doesn't get any bigger than the Queen, obviously. Interestingly, the other big 'get' for her first show is Sonia Khan, former special adviser to the Chancellor.\n\nSo Barnett's first show indicates very clearly that she will make Woman's Hour newsier and more political.\n\nIt's also a safe bet that short, visual clips of the kind that allowed Barnett's 5 Live show to dramatically increase its impact will also be a big feature of her time in the job.\n\nOne early challenge: getting an even bigger name for next Monday. Any thoughts?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The lockdown announcement contained the clearest indication yet of how quickly the government hopes to vaccinate the at risk groups.\n\nA target of mid February for vaccinating all the over 70s and those deemed extremely clinically vulnerable and frontline health and care staff opens up a pathway to a significant easing of restrictions by the start of March.\n\nBut it will require a rapid acceleration in vaccination rates.\n\nSo far nearly one million people have been vaccinated.\n\nBy the end of the week that number is expected to double.\n\nThe hope is that later in January two million doses a week will be given.\n\nThat will be the minimum needed – there are around 12 million in those priority groups.\n\nBy vaccinating them, there is the potential to prevent close to nine in 10 deaths.\n\nBut achieving that requires a lot to go right.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate that many people, but not all of it has been through the final “fill and finish” process which involves packaging it in glass vials (and there is a shortage of those) and then the batches have to be checked and signed off by the regulator – a process that is taking weeks at the moment.\n\nAnd all of that is before it is sent out to the NHS vaccination centres to inject it into people’s arms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Security has been stepped up in Niger's Tillabéri region, where the two villages are situated\n\nNiger's prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday's attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages.\n\nBrigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's border with Mali.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ethnic violence and Islamist militancy.\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attacks.\n\nAccording to local mayor Almou Hassane, those responsible travelled on \"about 100 motorcycles,\" AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey split into two groups and carried out the attacks simultaneously.\n\nFormer minister Issoufou Issaka told AFP that jihadists launched the assaults after villagers killed two of their group members, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.\n\nMayor Hassane said 75 other villagers were left wounded in the aftermath, and some have been evacuated for treatment in Ouallam and the capital, Niamey.\n\nPrime Minister Rafini visited both of the villages on Sunday.\n\n\"This situation is simply horrible... but investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished,\" he told reporters.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadist attacks for many years.\n\nNiger's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages on Sunday\n\nLast month, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nAs part of efforts to quell the violence, France has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nCoalition forces have become targets, and last week five French soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Mali.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri also come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Derby County said several staff members and first-team players tested positive for the virus\n\nChampionship side Derby County has said \"several first-team staff and players\" have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had closed its Moor Farm training ground and was speaking to the EFL and the Football Association about forthcoming fixtures.\n\nThe club said it would not reveal the names of those who had tested positive, due to medical confidentiality.\n\nIt added they would be isolating in line with government guidelines.\n\nThe outbreak at Derby comes after Sheffield Wednesday closed their Middlewood Road training ground following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nThe Rams were beaten 1-0 by Wednesday in their most recent match on New Year's Day at Hillsborough.\n\nDerby, who are third from bottom in the Championship, are due to travel to Chorley on Saturday for a third round FA Cup tie.\n\nFormer England striker Wayne Rooney took over as interim manager at Derby after the club sacked former head coach Phillip Cocu in November\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon the squad's arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who tested negative before departure, will now isolate for 10 days in accordance with the Sri Lanka government's quarantine protocol.\n\nFellow all-rounder Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and will observe a period of self-isolation and further testing.\n\nEngland's two-Test tour of Sri Lanka starts in Galle on 14 January.\n\nEngland had lateral flow tests and a PCR test at Hambantota airport upon arrival, with Moeen's PCR test returning the positive.\n\nThe rest of the touring parting will be retested on Tuesday morning, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nMoeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.\n\nEngland's last overseas tour, in South Africa, was cut short in December after positive cases in the Cape Town hotel where England were staying. England returned two positive tests - that were later verified as false positives.\n\nLast week England captain Joe Root said he did not expect the tour to be postponed if there were one or two isolated cases of the virus.\n\nSince England's tour of South Africa was called off, Pakistan's tour of New Zealand and Sri Lanka's of South Africa have both continued despite positive cases.\n\nEngland flew on a chartered flight from London to Hambantota on Saturday evening.\n\nAll of the players, and touring party, tested negative before their departure and were sprayed with disinfectant upon their arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe series was scheduled to take place last year but England flew home after the tour was called off on 13 March as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSri Lanka has seen 44,774 coronavirus infections and 213 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGiven the circumstances of their abandoned trip to South Africa, this is clearly alarming for England, however it's important to make the distinction between the two tours. In South Africa, they felt their bubble was breached, whereas this is an issue internal to the tourists.\n\nMoeen will be moved to Galle, the location of the two Tests, for his period of isolation, but given that is not due to end until the day before the first match, he must be considered a huge doubt.\n\nEngland have planned for this sort of issue, travelling with seven reserves in addition to the squad of 16. Three of those reserves - Mason Crane, Amar Virdi and Matt Parkinson - are spinners, but have only Crane's one Test cap between them.\n\nAt the moment, England have not discussed promoting a player to the main squad but should they feel the need to supplement frontline spinners Dom Bess and Jack Leach in their Test XI, then an inexperienced name is set for a big opportunity.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "US casino giant MGM Resorts has made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for British gaming company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by a casino operator to move into the online gambling business.\n\nIn addition to its chain of High Street betting shops, UK-based Entain also owns a number of online sports betting and gambling sites.\n\nEntain confirmed the offer, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but said the price was too low.\n\nIt had recently rebuffed an earlier $10bn (£7.3bn) all-cash approach from MGM, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement, Entain said the latest bid approach \"significantly undervalues the company and its prospects\".\n\nMGM Resorts, which runs the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, now has until the beginning of next month to decide whether to make a formal bid or to walk away.\n\nFTSE 100-listed Entain. which renamed itself from GVC Holdings last month, describes itself as \"one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector\".\n\nAlong with Ladbrokes, it also owns brands such as Bwin, Partypoker, Coral, Eurobet, Gala and Foxy Bingo.\n\nAfter news of the latest offer for the firm, investors started betting on Entain, pushing its share price up by more than 25% to £14.30 a share - above MGM's offer of roughly £13.83 a share - a sign that market watchers are expecting a higher bid.\n\nIf the two firms do reach an agreement, it would follow another deal in September when MGM rival Caesars Entertainment agreed to buy UK-based William Hill for $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\n\"Following Caesar's offer for William Hill last year, a bid by MGM for Ladbroke's owner Entain isn't exactly a surprise,\" said Nicholas Hyett an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The two are working together to take advantage of the recent legalisation of sports betting in the US, a market worth many billions of dollars a year.\"\n\nPredictions about the stockmarket have a habit of making the person trying to guess the future look foolish. No such problem for Laura Foll, a fund manager at the investment firm Janus Henderson. On the Today programme on Monday, she forecast more takeover offers for household names in Britain, noting that the UK markets remained unloved by investors and so - perhaps - undervalued.\n\nAn hour after the prediction a big offer duly landed, with Entain, the London-listed company that owns Ladbrokes and other gambling brands, saying it had received a takeover proposal from MGM Resorts, an American rival.\n\nThe US company is offering to pay shareholders in Entain not in cash, but in new MGM shares - an obvious move given the sky-high rating of US shares compared to those listed in London.\n\nIt looks a carbon copy of last year's deal where Caesars, best known for its Las Vegas properties, bought another venerable name in British bookmaking, William Hill. Get ready for more acquisitive foreign companies looking for deals in bargain basement London.\n\nThe new bid for Entain comes with financial backing from MGM's largest shareholder, InterActiveCorp (IAC), which took a 12% stake in MGM Resorts last August.\n\nAt the time, IAC's chief executive Barry Diller said it planned to work with MGM to expand its online gambling portfolio.\n\nThe attempted acquisition comes as the casino industry faces headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe economy of Asian casino hub Macau shrank 49% in the first quarter of this year, while unemployment in Las Vegas reached 30% earlier in the year and remains well above the US average.\n\nMGM Resorts, which is the operator of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, laid off 18,000 furloughed employees in the US in August.\n\nMany online gambling companies, by contrast, saw a boost during Covid-19 restrictions, prompting many casino owners to pivot their businesses towards online.", "Experts have raised concerns over India's emergency approval of a locally-produced coronavirus vaccine before the completion of trials.\n\nOn Sunday, Delhi approved the vaccine - known as Covaxin - as well as the global AstraZeneca Oxford jab, which is also being manufactured in India.\n\nThe head of Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, defended the approval process, but health experts warn it was rushed.\n\nHealth watchdog All India Drug Action Network said it was \"shocked\".\n\nIt said that there were \"intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data\" as well a lack of transparency that would \"raise more questions than answers and likely will not reinforce faith in our scientific decision making bodies\".\n\nThe statement came after India's Drugs Controller General, VG Somani, insisted Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nHe added the vaccines had been approved for restricted use in \"public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\n\"The vaccines are 100% safe,\" he said, adding that side effects such as \"mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine\".\n\nThe All India Drug Action Network, however, said it was \"baffled to understand the scientific logic\" to approve \"an incompletely studied vaccine\".\n\nOne of India's most eminent medical experts, Dr Gagandeep Kang, told the Times of India newspaper that she had \"not seen anything like this before\". She added that \"there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented or published\".\n\nEven social media users were quick to point out that approving the vaccine before trials were complete was a matter of concern irrespective of how safe or effective the vaccine eventually turned out to be.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech, met reporters on Monday and said the approval of Covaxin had not been rushed. He cited previous examples where emergency authorisation approvals had been given based only on immunogenicity data.\n\n\"Under Indian laws we can get emergency approval for the vaccine based on fulfilling five parameters after Phase 2 trails. That is what has happened with our vaccine. So it is not a premature approval,\" he said.\n\n\"We will complete the Phase 3 trials soon and provide the efficacy data for the vaccine by February.\"\n\nThe company currently has 20 million doses available and plans to produce about 700 million doses this year, Dr Ella said.\n\n\"We have four facilities coming up and we are planning [to make] around 200 million doses in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities.\"\n\nMany scientists and opposition politicians have raised questions over what they say is the hasty authorisation of Covaxin.\n\nBharat Biotech has developed the vaccine with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research - and the effort has been touted as an example of India's might in vaccine development and production.\n\nRegulators say the vaccine is safe and effective. The firm says phase 1 and phase 2 trials have shown good results.\n\nBut scientists say that the government's decision not to release data on the vaccine's efficacy for peer review has raised concerns.\n\nMr Modi has welcomed the approval, saying Covaxin is a shining example of his ambitious Atmnirbhar (self-reliance) India campaign.\n\nBut experts worry that questions over the approval process don't bode well for the campaign. And there could be deeper issues. Many believe that the government needs to be more transparent about the authorisation process because the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme depends on public trust.\n\nThe emergency authorisation also sparked a fierce debate on Indian Twitter on Sunday night between ministers and opposition leaders.\n\nIndia's health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called out opposition leaders for failing to \"applaud\" the country's \"prowess\" in locally producing a vaccine. India makes about 60% of vaccines globally.\n\nMembers of the main opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, Akhilesh Yadav, were among those who raised concerns about the manner in which Covaxin was approved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dr Harsh Vardhan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe approval comes as India gears up to vaccinate its population of more than 1.3 billon people. Amid fears that richer countries are buying up much of the vaccine supply, India too appears to be stockpiling vaccines.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press, Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, said the jab was given emergency authorisation on the condition that it would not be exported outside India.\n\nMr Poonawalla said his company, the world's largest vaccine maker, was also not allowed to sell the shot in the private market.\n\nThis has raised concerns in India's neighbouring countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh, which were primarily depending on the SII to start vaccinating their populations.\n\nBangladesh had already ordered 30 million doses of the vaccine in the first phase, Reuters reported, but now the fate of the order is unclear. The country's health secretary told local media in December that it expected the first batch of the jab by February.\n\nIndia plans to vaccinate some 300 million people on a priority list by August.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nBoth vaccines approved on Sunday can be transported and stored at normal refrigeration temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Co-op, Morrisons and their payments processing provider ACI say they are investigating an IT glitch that created problems for card payments in stores.\n\nLong queues were seen outside some of the Co-op's convenience stores from Sunday amid the snow, with some shoppers asked to use cash.\n\nCo-op and Morrisons said customers were no longer experiencing problems but they, and ACI, were studying the cause.\n\nOne MP said the problem exposed the risks of letting cash use \"wither\".\n\nACI, which provides real-time payments processing for the retailers, said: \"We are working closely with the IT teams at our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologise to shoppers for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe issue comes as contactless payments have taken off in the UK during the pandemic, with fewer consumers using cash to pay for groceries.\n\nCustomers complained about the issue on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jen Bartram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Co-op spokesman told the BBC: \"All card transactions are being processed as usual and our payment process partner is investigating after we experienced an intermittent issue.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused during that time.\"\n\nThe BBC witnessed the card processing issue affecting some of The Co-op's stores meant that self-service checkouts had to be closed, requiring customers to queue to be served at tills manned by staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham\n\nAt some stores, customers queuing outside were warned on Monday evening that transactions had to be \"cash-only\" due to the ongoing issue.\n\nSome customers said they had to use the convenience store's cash machine to withdraw money to pay for purchases.\n\nHowever in other stores, the problem was intermittent, impacting some payment card brands, but not others.\n\nShadow economic secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden said: \"This shows the dangers of letting the cash network just wither away as use declines.\n\n\"The government promised legislation to secure nationwide access to cash a year ago. It hasn't been brought forward.\"", "The case rate in Bridgend peaked just before Christmas, but now we are seeing deaths in hospitals\n\nThe total number of deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales has reached its highest weekly total of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 467 deaths in the week ending 15 January, which is 13 more than the week before.\n\nThis was nearly 40% of all registered deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBoth Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards saw their highest weekly numbers, more than experienced during the first wave.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr had 74 deaths while Cwm Taf Morgannwg had 116.\n\nUnlike during the peak in the first wave in 2020, Wales is also now seeing higher numbers of deaths in north Wales and west Wales.\n\nIn north-east Wales, where there have been the highest case rates of Covid-19 in recent weeks, there were 30 deaths of Flintshire residents, including 25 in hospital. In Wrexham, there were 27 deaths - with 21 in hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board saw 49 hospital deaths in Bridgend - the highest weekly number in Wales. There were also 33 patients who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and six in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nAll counties recorded at least three deaths involving Covid-19 and the total number of deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 15 January, was 5,884.\n\nWhen deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is now a total of 6,074.\n\nRCT, with 752 deaths, has the largest number in Wales, followed by Cardiff with 637, up to the latest week.\n\nWhen looking at crude mortality rates, the highest number of deaths - when taking into account the size of populations in England and Wales - are Welsh areas: RCT, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths from all causes fell from 1,198 in the previous week - the highest recorded during the pandemic - to 1,170. But this was still 314 (36.7%) higher than the five-year average for that week.\n\nThis means deaths have been more than the peak in the first wave of the pandemic - 1,169 deaths in the week ending 17 April 2020 - for two weeks in a row.\n\nThe highest proportion of excess deaths was 84.1% in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools and colleges in Wales moved to online learning before Christmas\n\nKeeping schools shut during the Covid pandemic is \"almost like systematic neglect\" to disadvantaged pupils, a head teacher has said.\n\nCardiff head Armando Di-Finizio said there was a \"fair degree of trauma\" among pupils because of the lockdowns.\n\nOne expert said children from disadvantaged backgrounds were falling furthest behind academically.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it ensured vulnerable children could continue to attend school.\n\nBefore the pandemic the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals who achieved five or more GCSEs was 32% lower than the figure for other pupils in Wales.\n\nAt Eastern High School, where 47% of children receive free school meals, Mr Di-Finizio said the challenges of lockdown were greater for pupils who may not have support or structure at home for learning.\n\nArmando Di-Finizio, head teacher of Eastern High School, says the the attainment gap among pupils is \"widening\"\n\nMr Di-Finizio told Wales Live he did not think the balance was right \"between those who are genuinely vulnerable\" with the virus and young people who are vulnerable in terms of their welfare and wellbeing and their academic progress.\n\n\"I think there would have been other ways to handle this because we are seeing students struggling because of it and the attainment gap is widening for this generation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like systematic neglect of young people that is going on day after day, week after week, month after month.\n\n\"We have to somehow pull this back because I do wonder one day, how the children will look back and judge us in terms of our responses.\"\n\nAnother concern since the pandemic began, he said, was the fact the number of child protection cases at his school has doubled.\n\n\"I don't want to sound alarmist, but I do believe it will take a number of years for us to unpick the traumas that young people go through because we don't know yet just what this lasting impact will be,\" he added.\n\nProfessor Chris Taylor says home learning reduces the ability to provide a \"level playing field\" for education\n\nWelsh Chief Inspector of Schools Meilyr Rowlands, has previously said there was evidence of widening inequality in performance as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSocial Sciences Prof Chris Taylor, from Cardiff University, said this gap was continuing to widen.\n\n\"Closing schools exposes and accentuates the deep disadvantage that many families have across Wales in the different circumstances that they're in,\" Prof Taylor said.\n\nHome learning reduces the ability of schools \"to provide that level playing field\" for educational opportunities.\n\n\"Instead, we're relying on what families and households can produce and provide to support that learning,\" he said.\n\nProf Taylor added some children would \"feel like they've left school at the age of 14 or 15, instead of 18\" in terms of their learning, and the focus for them should be preparing for the next step in their education rather than exams that are not going to happen this summer.\n\nHe said some pupils who may have been planning to leave school at 16 should remain in education until they are 18 to \"remedy some of the missed opportunities\", and that summer school and activities should be put on to help address isolation.\n\nAlmost half of all pupils receive free school meals at Eastern High School in Cardiff\n\nSiân Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, has called on the Welsh Government to publish a plan on how pupils will be helped to catch up with \"lost education\".\n\n\"Those children in more deprived areas have been doubly disadvantaged - coronavirus has been more prevalent in these areas, meaning they will have lost more school prior to the lockdown, and these children are less likely to have the means to access online learning,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had provided \"more than 130,000 [electronic] devices\" since the start of the pandemic for pupils' home learning.\n\n\"We've also recruited more than 1,000 teaching and support staff to provide additional support for learners who may have missed out on teaching time due to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ensured vulnerable children, as well as children of critical workers, could continue to attend school throughout the pandemic, he added.", "A US bankruptcy judge has agreed a $17m (£12.4m) payout to women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.\n\nWeinstein, 68, was convicted last year and jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe payout for his victims will come from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.\n\nThe judge overruled an objection from some accusers looking to pursue appeals outside of bankruptcy court.\n\nJudge Mary Walrath said without the settlement, the plaintiffs would get \"minimal, if any, recovery.\"\n\nThe Weinstein Co was set up as an independent film studio with the disgraced Hollywood mogul one of its co-founders.\n\nThe company collapsed in late 2017, following widespread claims of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress.\n\nThe US judge said that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy \"have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense... although it's clear that money will never give them that\".\n\nThe $17m fund will be divided among more than 50 claimants, with the most serious allegations resulting in payouts of $500,000 or more.\n\nThe settlement was put to a vote of Weinstein's accusers, with 39 voting in favour and eight opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims.\n\nInsurers contributed $35m under the liquidation plan, which also provides $9.7m to the former officers and directors of the Weinstein Co, allowing them to pay a portion of their legal bills over the last several years.\n\nThe directors and officers, who include Weinstein's brother, Bob, also received releases that absolve them of any potential liability for enabling Weinstein's conduct.\n\nThe Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289m.", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award.\n\nTrinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four other contenders with her sixth novel to scoop the £30,000 prize.\n\nJudges said the book was \"utterly original... and feels like a classic in the making\".\n\nA \"delighted\" Roffey said her win was a vote for Caribbean literature.\n\n\"A huge thank you to the judges for exposing my book to a wide readership. I'll be pinching myself for weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nBased on a Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid, the story is set in the Caribbean village of St Constance.\n\nDavid, a fisherman, unexpectedly attracts the attention of Aycayia, a mermaid who is drawn to his singing. When she is captured from the sea during an annual fishing competition, he does all he can to save her, with dramatic consequences.\n\nProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges, said: \"The Mermaid of Black Conch is an extraordinary, beautifully written, captivating, visceral book - full of mythic energy and unforgettable characters, including some tremendously transgressive women.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards have a reputation for picking popular reads: books you would recommend to a friend. And I would definitely recommend The Mermaid of Black Conch.\n\nAt first, the novel might sound a bit odd. Set on a Caribbean island in the 1970s, it is a bittersweet love story between a beautiful young woman cursed to live as a mermaid and a fisherman.\n\nBased on a legend passed down by the indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino, there are touches of magic and snippets of poetry. The book was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel.\n\nBut while it is unusual it is also a joy to read, brimming with memorable characters and vivid descriptions.\n\nWe see the mermaid's \"hair flying like a nest of cables\" while we are told \"sea moss trailed from her shoulders like slithers of beard\" and \"barnacles speckled the swell of her hips.\"\n\nFor me, this was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking novel and a worthy winner.\n\nRoffey, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, secured her publishing deal through Peepal Tree Press, an independent publisher supporting Caribbean writers.\n\nShe then crowd-funded her publicity campaign with the support of fellow authors.\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is set in the Caribbean\n\nRoffey's entry was also named Costa's Novel of the Year earlier this month, alongside winners from four other categories:\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.\n\nTuesday's virtual ceremony also saw London-based writer Tessa Sheridan receive the 2020 Costa Short Story Award.\n\nSheridan won the public vote and £3,500 for her story, The Person Who Serves, Serves Again.\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.\n\nIt is open to UK and Irish authors.\n\nSeamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sebastian Barry are among the authors to have won the book of the year award more than once.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 100,000.\n\nThere have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began, data from the UK's national statisticians shows.\n\nThe figures, which go up to 15 January, are based on death certificates. The government's daily figures, which rely on positive tests, are slightly lower.\n\nIt follows a surge of cases last month, leaving the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland registered 7,776 deaths with coronavirus on the death certificate in the most recent week.\n\nThat total is the third highest of the epidemic.\n\nLast April, there were two weeks with more than 9,000 coronavirus deaths registered across the UK - but there have been no other weeks with more than 7,000 deaths registered.\n\nAbout nine in 10 death certificates citing coronavirus registered Covid as the cause of death.\n\nMost of the deaths have been in older age groups - nearly three-quarters of those who have died with the virus were over 75. One in three deaths were care home residents.\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents health service managers, described the milestone as a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Behind each death will be a story of sorrow and grief,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay tribute, once again, to NHS and care staff who have done everything they can throughout the long months of this pandemic to avoid each one of these deaths and reduce patient harm.\n\n\"We won't know the true impact of Covid-19 for a long time to come because of its long-term effects.\n\n\"But, as well as the high death rate, it's particularly concerning that this virus has widened health inequalities and affected black, Asian and minority-ethnic communities disproportionately.\"\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it was a \"harrowing figure\".\n\nShe added: \"While the vaccine rollout for the most vulnerable is continuing at impressive speed, it will be a while until the benefits feed through to the figures.\"\n\nWe were one of the worst hit countries, if not the worst, in the spring - certainly in Europe and the G7.\n\nTwo big drivers of that were the timing of the first lockdown and the terrible numbers of deaths in care homes.\n\nAs a result, the UK could always rank among the hardest hit nations overall.\n\nBut comparing experiences in second waves is harder.\n\nSome countries have very clearly done better than the UK.\n\nAustralia, for example, has seen very few coronavirus deaths overall, and deaths quite close to usual levels throughout 2020.\n\nBut the US, which had a milder first wave than the UK, has seen steady numbers of coronavirus deaths throughout summer and autumn.\n\nIts death toll has been catching up with that of the UK in the most recent data, covering up until Christmas.\n\nAnd some countries that missed the first wave entirely - such as Poland (shown above) or Germany - have seen significant spikes in deaths in recent months.\n\nWith deaths rising since then in many countries and vaccination programmes only getting up and running, there is still a long way to go before we will know who has had the toughest second wave.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK.\n\nThe UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last year.\n\nSeveral major news publishers, including Channel 4, Sky News, and The Guardian have signed deals with Facebook to provide content.\n\nIt comes as the tech industry's relationship with the media comes under increased scrutiny.\n\nAnd French publishers recently agreed a deal with Google on how a new EU copyright law about news excerpts should be applied.\n\nFacebook News is the social network's own attempt to address the long-running friction between it and news publishers, as advertising spend has increasingly moved to the large tech firms instead of individual news outlets.\n\nThe new feature is set to go live on Tuesday afternoon, Facebook said.\n\nThe new feature is a dedicated tab within the Facebook mobile app, accessible by tapping the three-line icon for more options.\n\nThe tab features a mix of major daily news stories and \"personalised\" news selected for each reader based on their interests, as decided by Facebook's algorithm.\n\nFacebook says it pays publishers \"for content that is not already on the platform\", and says the feature will also provide publishers with new advertising and subscription \"opportunities\".\n\nThe dedicated news feed will have personalisation controls, Facebook says\n\nThat may be partly based on data from the United States, which Facebook says shows more than 95% of traffic on Facebook News is from people who have not read those publications before.\n\nThe social network says the new product is a \"a multi-year investment that puts original journalism in front of new audiences\".\n\nAnd news organisations, for which new readers are often in short supply, are signing up.\n\nIn November, when it first announced the product was heading to the UK, major names such as The Economist, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan were already on board.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's launch, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and Telegraph were also announced, among others.\n\nBBC News has not signed a commercial deal with Facebook News, but may still appear on the tab through public posts it makes on the Facebook platform.\n\nFacebook also says that this new product is a direct result of discussions with the news industry, with which it has often been at loggerheads.\n\nThe tech giant is responsible for driving a lot of traffic around the internet, and a story which performs well on Facebook will often attract more readers than one which does not.\n\nBut Facebook has also repeatedly made changes to its algorithms over the years which have affected news organisations, sometimes with little notice. It has also encouraged organisations to use its features such as instant articles, or to make video content for Facebook.\n\nHowever, it envisions Facebook News as a better solution than earlier attempts, and one it plans to roll out to other countries - including France and Germany - in the near future.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to work out the best ways we can support the industry in building sustainable business models,\" Facebook said in its blog post about the UK launch.\n\n\"As we invest more in news, and pay publishers for more content in more countries, we will work with them to support the long-term viability of newsrooms.\"", "The fake email looks like it has come from NHS Test and Trace\n\nThe NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.\n\nThe scam email includes a link to \"register\" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required.\n\nThe fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment.\n\nThe NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe urged people to remain vigilant: \"These things spring up, we take them down and then they spring up again.\"\n\nBoth the National Cyber Security Centre and Action Fraud have asked anyone who receives a scam email or text to report it.\n\n\"Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic,\" said health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"It is vital that we do not let a small number of unscrupulous fraudsters undermine the huge team effort under way across the country to protect millions of people from this terrible disease.\"\n\nAt the start of January, Derbyshire police issued a warning about a text message scam which offered Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"If you receive a text or email that asks you to click on a link or for you to provide information, such as your name, credit card or bank details, it's a scam,\" the force said.\n\nLast year, tech firms warned that coronavirus was a popular hook for scammers. In April 2020 Google said it was blocking 18 million scam emails a day on the subject.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "Trees must be able to cope with projected climate change\n\nScientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade.\n\nTree planting is a brilliant solution to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity, but the wrong tree in the wrong place can do more harm than good, say experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nThe rules include protecting existing forests first and involving locals.\n\nForests are essential to life on Earth.\n\nThey provide a home to three-quarters of the world's plants and animals, soak up carbon dioxide, and provide food, fuels and medicines.\n\nBut they're fast disappearing; an area about the size of Denmark of pristine tropical forest is lost every year.\n\n\"Planting the right trees in the right place must be a top priority for all nations as we face a crucial decade for ensuring the future of our planet,\" said Dr Paul Smith, a researcher on the study and secretary general of conservation charity, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, in Kew.\n\nIt takes at least a century to restore damaged forests\n\nA raft of ambitious tree-planting projects are underway around the world to replace the forests being lost.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is aiming to plant 30,000 hectares (300 sq km) of new forest a year across the UK by the end of this parliament.\n\nAn African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile (8,048km) forest wall to fight the climate crisis is set to become the largest living structure on Earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A solution that's slowing desertification on the front lines of climate change\n\nHowever, planting trees is highly complex, with no universal easy solution.\n\n\"If you plant the wrong trees in the wrong place you could be doing more harm than good,\" said lead researcher Dr Kate Hardwick of RBG Kew.\n\nAll too often natural forests teeming with plants, animals and fungi are replaced by commercial plantations with row upon row of timber trees, which will be harvested after a few decades, she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is to encourage people, wherever possible, to try and recreate forests which are similar to the natural forests and which provide multiple benefits to people, the environment and to nature as well as capturing carbon.\"\n\nThe review of research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, found that in some cases, planned tree planting does not increase carbon capture and can have negative effects.\n\nKeeping forests in their original state is always preferable; undamaged old forests soak up carbon better and are more resilient to fire, storm and droughts. \"Whenever there's a choice, we stress that halting deforestation and protecting remaining forests must be a priority,\" said Prof Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at RGB Kew.\n\nPut local people at the heart of tree-planting projects\n\nStudies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects. It is often local people who have most to gain from looking after the forest in the future.\n\nReforestation should be about several goals, including guarding against climate change, improving conservation and providing economic and cultural benefits.\n\nSelect the right area for reforestation\n\nPlant trees in areas that were historically forested but have become degraded, rather than using other natural habitats such as grasslands or wetlands.\n\nUse natural forest regrowth wherever possible\n\nLetting trees grow back naturally can be cheaper and more efficient than planting trees.\n\nSelect the right tree species that can maximise biodiversity\n\nWhere tree planting is needed, picking the right trees is crucial. Scientists advise a mixture of tree species naturally found in the local area, including some rare species and trees of economic importance, but avoiding trees that might become invasive.\n\nMake sure the trees are resilient to adapt to a changing climate\n\nUse tree seeds that are suitable for the local climate and how that might change in the future.\n\nPlan how to source seeds or trees, working with local people.\n\nCombine scientific knowledge with local knowledge. Ideally, small-scale trials should take place before planting large numbers of trees.\n\nThe sustainability of tree re-planting rests on a source of income for all stakeholders, including the poorest.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "Clare Ferguson-Walker says she has struggled with home-schooling her two children\n\nAs kitchen tables are turned back into classrooms across Wales, parents admit they are struggling with the return to home-schooling.\n\nFor Clare Ferguson-Walker from Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, the experience has been a \"nightmare\".\n\nShe said trying to educate her two children alongside work has resulted in her relying on universal credit.\n\nGetting to grips with home-schooling in the first lockdown was \"a shock to the system\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to teachers, I can't imagine what it was like for them putting together all these packages,\" she said.\n\n\"My son is 12 and loves gaming so he's quite tech-savvy. When I have managed to pin him down he's been 'go away, dinosaur mother, I know how to do it!'\n\n\"I'm not au fait with these subjects I haven't done for years. It's different to how I learned at school.\"\n\nAs a single parent, Clare said she had found it difficult to juggle home-schooling with her work.\n\n\"At first, in the summer, we were doing Joe Wicks exercises every day then some work. Then it fell into chaos. I tried really hard at the beginning to be organised.\n\n\"I'm an artist and sculptor - that work ended and my income has dried up so I'm on universal credit.\n\n\"It's incredibly tough financially. Life has revolved around looking after the kids,\" she said.\n\nBy the end of the year, she said the pressure had all become too much.\n\n\"The thought of going through that again in the winter months - without sunny days in the garden - the stress really got to me.\n\n\"I was finding myself going repeatedly from the kettle to the fridge and back again in this weird loop, thinking what do I do now?\n\n\"It was like being a caged animal, like one of those bears that starts to pace in a cage. The kids had gone feral by then.\n\n\"I think it's been horrendous for young people and families - we can't even rely on grandparents. Mental health struggles are at an all-time high,\" she said.\n\n\"The one positive is I've got to know my kids a hell of a lot more and there have been times that have been lovely.\n\n\"I think they've learned more sat around the kitchen table when we've been talking about what's going on, they've learned about rational thinking, the importance of science and not jumping to conclusions.\n\nJayne Palmer advises not sitting down at a desk\n\nJayne Palmer from Cardiff, who home-educated both her sons, said there was too much pressure on parents to replicate traditional classroom learning.\n\n\"This is not an ideal circumstance for home-education families either because they are not used to being locked indoors.\n\n\"I think there's far too much emphasis in continuing the set curriculum. Right now it's a complete waste of time. There's pressure to compete in a system parents weren't even involved in.\n\nIt is far more important to \"create and interest in learning,\" she said.\n\n\"There's been a tendency of families to rush to buy desks and chairs and pens. What we find is the best way forward is not to sit down and teach your children - watch documentaries with them, play online games with historical content, practise reading to them, do some cooking, Lego or gardening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss proposals with ministers later, but a decision may not be announced until Wednesday.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry, so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.\n\nQuarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.\n\nThe requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days will apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, because many flights from Brazil come via Lisbon, according to BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.\n\nHe said there had been \"no definitive decision yet\" on arrivals from other parts of the world and this was \"still a live issue\".\n\nWhitehall sources said those quarantining in hotels would have to pay for the costs of their own accommodation.\n\nThe prime minister will later chair a meeting of the Covid operations committee, attended by senior ministers, to discuss the options.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAt the moment, almost all arrivals to the UK need to have tested negative for Covid-19 within the 72 hours before they set off to be allowed entry. Then they still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, although this can be done at home.\n\nIn England, this self-isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days.\n\nQuarantine rules are set separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but have only tended to differ slightly, and there has been a \"four nations\" approach to discussions around hotel quarantine, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut deputy first minister John Swinney said his government would \"go at least as far\" as any Westminster policy, adding: \"If these UK restrictions are at a minimal level, we will look at other controls we can announce - including additional supervised quarantine measures - that can further protect us from importation of the virus.\"\n\nHotel quarantine is already in use in countries including New Zealand and Australia.\n\nJessica Gold (centre), her son William Copsey (left), and her mother, Rossana Gold, are trying to get home to the UK from South Africa\n\nJessica Gold, from London, has been trying to get home from South Africa with her mother, 77, and son, 13, since 1 January - but their flights have been cancelled three times.\n\nShe says the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel when she eventually manages to get home is \"absolutely absurd\".\n\n\"Now we are booked to return on 16 Feb, and there is no way we can or will stay in a hotel to quarantine when I have my own place and we can quarantine there, as we have done in the past,\" says Jessica, who flew out to her safari lodge in Greater Kruger National Park, on business, at the end of November.\n\nJessica, 42, wants the government to get tougher on enforcing travellers' home quarantines, rather than bringing in the hotel rule which she says is \"ridiculous and an extra unnecessary expense during these very tough times\".\n\nJessica adds that she's looking into other ways of getting home earlier, before any potential new rules kick in.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs on Tuesday that bringing in hotel quarantine plans for arrivals from a small number of countries would leave \"gaping holes\" in the UK's defences against any new, unknown variants of coronavirus coming from across the globe.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said all current travel measures were being kept under review and the government \"will not hesitate to take further action\" to combat variants, especially as they could effect the efficacy of Covid vaccines.\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast it was \"going to be tricky\" to identify people arriving from the high-risk countries, as travellers could go to a third country before coming to the UK.\n\nHe said British citizens in Portugal, for example, could travel to Madrid in order to fly back to the UK.\n\nPassengers in Australian quarantine hotels have all meals delivered to their room\n\nIn Australia, travellers are allocated a hotel room on arrival and taken there by bus. Often, entire flights are accommodated in the same hotel.\n\nThe New South Wales government promises to make \"every attempt\" to find suitable accommodation for travellers and families. But availability of rooms means there are severe limits on the number of people who can arrive in the country on any given day.\n\nThe hotel quarantine lasts a minimum of 14 days up to 24 days, providing a person tests negative twice.\n\nThe passenger must cover the cost of quarantine - at about £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children.\n\nFees are waived for those who can prove they are unable to pay, and there are certain exemptions.\n\nBut not following the rules is a criminal offence, and in New South Wales carries fines of around £6,000 for individuals, six months in prison, or both - with an extra fine for each day the offence continues.\n\nHotel quarantine is among the measures credited with limiting cases of coronavirus in Australia - which has a population of around 25 million - to just 28,777 positive cases during the entire pandemic, a smaller number of cases than is currently being recorded in the UK every day.\n\nBut international arrivals to Australia have fallen dramatically since its hotel quarantine policy was introduced in March 2020.\n\nBetween July and October 2020, just 72,111 people arrived in Australia to live, work or visit - compared with 7.5 million people in the same period in 2019, according to Australian government figures.\n\nRob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his hotels would be well-prepared for the expected new policy.\n\nSome already have Covid infection controls in place, he said, as they have been used to host \"step-down\" patients who complete their recovery in hotels to free up hospital beds.\n\nMr Paterson told BBC Breakfast quarantining customers would like to see reduced prices, a contact arrival process, CCTV and security to stop people leaving and meals delivered three times a day outside the door - along with clean linen and towels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “That idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on.”\n\nJoss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, which represents the tourism sector, said he hoped hotel quarantine rules would cover as few countries as possible and told the BBC's Newsnight the industry had been \"decimated\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the Airport Operators Association and Airlines UK said the country already had \"some of the highest levels of restrictions in the world\" and tougher rules would be \"catastrophic\".", "President Joe Biden has said that the US might be able to boost its daily vaccination roll-out targets after criticising the Trump administration’s record.\n\nBiden, who has described the previous vaccine programme as a \"dismal failure\", has committed to getting 100 million vaccine doses done in his first 100 days and has since said: \"I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than one million a day.\"\n\nIs he right about the vaccine roll-out under the Trump administration?\n\nAs of 20 January, when Biden became US president, about 16.5 million vaccines had been administered.\n\nThat is some way off the Trump administration's target of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, fewer than three million people had received a jab by 31 December.\n\nVaccinations have sped up since the start of the year.\n\nThe daily average for the week before Trump left office was less than 900,000, according to Our World in Data .\n\nThat figure has since risen above one million doses a day, and Biden has come under some scrutiny for not setting a more ambitious target.\n\nWhen you look at the countries doing the most vaccinations by population, the US is fourth after Israel, the UAE and the UK in terms of doses per 100 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "A group of MPs is calling for hedgehog nesting sites to get the same protections as those for bats and badgers, in an effort to boost numbers.\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill, which he said would help \"Britain's favourite animal\".\n\nThe spiky mammals should be on developers' \"radar\" when they are planning a project, he added.\n\nA report in 2018 suggested UK hedgehog numbers had halved since 2000.\n\nRough estimates put the population at one million, compared with 30 million during the 1950s.\n\nMr Grayling's amendment would add hedgehogs the list of protected animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis would place a legal obligation on developers to search for the animals and take action to reduce the risk to them from building.\n\nChris Grayling said hedgehogs should feature on property developers' surveys\n\nIt is illegal to kill or capture hedgehogs using certain methods but Mr Grayling said: \"It seems wrong to me, for example, that whenever a developer has to carry out a wildlife survey before starting work on a project that the hedgehog is not on anyone's radar.\n\n\"It is Britain's favourite animal, its numbers are declining and it should be as well protected as any other popular but threatened British animal.\"\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Liam Fox, Andrew Mitchell and Dame Cheryl Gillan are among 13 fellow Conservative MPs supporting Mr Grayling's amendment.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn and Debbie Abrahams have also signed it.\n\nThe Environment Bill - which seeks to write environmental principles into UK law for the first time - will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt includes setting legally binding targets to improve air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction by 2037.\n\nBut some Conservative backbenchers say this is much too slow. They want the targets brought forward to 2030 at the latest.\n\nAn amendment from the Conservative MP, Chris Loder, calls for unmissable targets to reduce plastics waste.\n\nIt comes as a report from Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency claims that the UK's 10 largest supermarket chains put plastic equivalent to the weight of 90 Eiffel Towers on to the market in 2019.\n\nThe study found that while the number of single-use carrier bags fell by more than a third, more than one and a half billion plastic \"bags for life\" were issued by the top brands, and that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the bill would help \"improve the environment for future generations\".\n\nIt added that ministers were \"ambitious\" to \"drive a world-leading programme of environmental reform\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said the bill should be prioritised to complete its passage in this session of Parliament.\n\nHe added that the UK needed legislation that \"recognises the urgency of the crisis and doesn't go backwards\".", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nRules for people entering the UK could get tighter later - with the government expected to enforce hotel quarantine in England for some arrivals. Currently, people arriving in the UK must test negative before setting off, and then self-isolate for 10 days on arrival. This can be reduced to five days in England after a second negative test. But it's feared that not everyone follows the rules - so people could now be told to stay in hotels, where the isolation will be enforced. It's thought the rules will definitely apply to UK citizens and residents arriving from southern African, South America, and Portugal (foreign nationals are already banned from arriving from those \"high risk\" areas). The rules could also apply to other countries. And it's expected that people will have to pay their own way. Although each part of the UK sets its own travel rules, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a \"four nations\" approach is being discussed. Here's a glimpse from last year of hotel quarantine in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, up from 4.9%, as the pandemic continued to hit the jobs market. In November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said unemployment could peak at 2.6 million by the middle of this year - that's 7.5% of the working population.\n\nThe EU has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout - which is partly down to delays from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca (although the latter's jab hasn't actually been approved in the EU yet). Now the EU says vaccine makers must provide \"early notification\" when they want to export vaccines outside the bloc. This could mean more doses stay inside the EU. The UK minister responsible for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident Pfizer - which manufactures its vaccine in Belgium - will deliver for both the UK and the EU. This tweet is from the EU's health commissioner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stella Kyriakides This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have again clashed with people defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 were arrested. In Rotterdam, police fired warning shots and tear gas, after an emergency order failed to move demonstrators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police described the rioting as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nDespite Covid and the strains on the system, there is still kindness - and new life - in NHS hospitals. The BBC's Hugh Pym went to Kings Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, to meet the patients and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This page analyses UK data - including the recent fall in daily cases.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The school's head teacher said it was unacceptable staff were being put at risk\n\nA school has threatened to withdraw places for pupils who have told teachers they are visiting people outside their households.\n\nYew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nHead teacher Martine Buckley said she would take the action when \"parents were putting staff in danger\".\n\nThe Department for Education said \"all vulnerable\" pupils should go to school.\n\nDuring the current lockdown schools are open only to pupils listed as vulnerable and the children of key workers.\n\nFamilies can form \"childcare bubbles\" with one other household, and children who live with two parents who live separately can move between households - but any further mixing is forbidden.\n\nIn a letter posted on the Chadderton school's Facebook page, Mrs Buckley said she was \"upset\" to be writing it \"but I feel I must\".\n\n\"Our lovely children are open and honest and they tell us about their lives and activities,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of them are telling us that they are visiting friends, neighbours and family which is against the law.\n\n\"Our teachers and support staff are putting their own safety at risk to look after your children and they should be confident you are doing your bit to follow the lockdown rules.\n\n\"I am afraid I will have to withdraw the offer of a place in school to children whose parents are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWhile a number of parents applauded the message, others have been angered.\n\nOne man told the BBC his two grandchildren were at the school and children as young as four have been asked about their activities at home, which was \"out of order\".\n\n\"My granddaughters are pretty intimidated by the tone,\" he said.\n\n\"Asking them questions like that and then the answers off the back of that. They come to a decision of whether they are going to displace them or not.\"\n\nThe school has about 660 pupils aged between four and 11.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said during the current lockdown, schools were \"open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers\".\n\n\"We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required,\" she added.\n\n\"We encourage all vulnerable children to attend.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nThe operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it \"deliberately sacrificed safety\" in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack.\n\nVenue operator SMG has disputed claims it \"was akin to the worst kind of Dickensian factory owner, deliberately and cynically sacrificing safety\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as fans left the arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, representing SMG, told the inquiry the firm had always accepted responsibility for security in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nBut he denied the firm had sought to \"blame others,\" adding it had \"simply sought to explain how SMG discharged its responsibilities\".\n\n\"It is for that purpose and not for prevarication, finger-pointing or buck passing that we have sought to explain to you SMG's relationship with all the other organisations involved,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Connor said the company accepted there were \"shortcomings\" with its written risk assessments but maintained it \"did have a system for assessing terrorism-related risk\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing will look at whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, representing BTP, told the inquiry the force made five key mistakes on the night of the bombing.\n\nThis included having no officers on patrol at Victoria station when Abedi made his final journey to the arena and not having an officer in the City Room at the end of the concert.\n\nOther mistakes included failing to complete a written risk-assessment for the concert, officers not following instructions from their duty sergeant and that PC Stephen Corke, the most experienced officer on duty, was not at the arena complex for the end of the event.\n\nBTP has since made significant changes to its procedures since the attack, the inquiry was told.\n\nThese include monthly meetings with the arena operators to discuss events.\n\nThe inquiry, which began in September, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a \"humanitarian crisis at sea\".\n\nMore than 300 firms and organisations are urging for them to be treated as \"key workers\", so they can return home without risking public health.\n\nMore than 90% of global trade - from household goods to medical supplies - is moved by sea.\n\nBut governments have banned crew from coming ashore amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nLarge firms including shipping titan AP Moller-Maersk, oil firms BP and Shell, consumer giant Unilever and mining groups Rio Tinto and Vale, as well as maritime transporters, unions, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other supply chain partners have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.\n\nThey are calling for all countries to designate seafarers as key workers and implement crew change protocols.\n\nThe signees of the Neptune Declaration are warning global leaders that ignoring the risk to crews' mental and physical wellbeing threatens global supply chains, which are crucial to vaccinating the world from coronavirus.\n\nThe firms and organisations hope that world leaders, gathering at this year's virtual Davos Forum, will heed their call.\n\n\"Unified, prompt action from governments and other key stakeholders is needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of the 1.6 million seafaring men and women who serve us all across the seas, and who continue to face extreme risk to their safety and earnings,\" said WEF's head of supply chain and transport Margi Van Gogh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: The stranded sailor yet to meet his daughter\n\n\"By granting stranded seafarers key worker status, and by prioritising vaccine allocation for transport crew, we can prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.\"\n\nAccording to latest data from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and international ship owners body Bimco, there are 1.6 million seafarers serving on internationally trading merchant ships worldwide.\n\nTypically, ICS estimates around 100,000 seafarers are rotated every month, with 50,000 staff disembarking and 50,000 crew embarking ships to comply with international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare.\n\nSeafarers usually work 10-12 hours shifts, seven days a week to man ships, on four or six-month-long contracts, followed by a period of leave.\n\nBut due to the coronavirus crisis and travel bans brought in by many governments to combat new variants of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of crew are spending extended periods at sea, far beyond the expiry of their contracts.\n\nFor those who have been at sea for months longer than their contract stipulates, there is a growing risk to their mental and physical wellbeing.\n\n\"Seafarers are the unacceptable collateral damage on the war on Covid-19 and this must stop,\" said ICS secretary general Guy Platten.\n\n\"If we want to maintain global trade seafarers must not be put to the back of the vaccine queue. You can't inject a global population without the shipping industry and most importantly our seafarers. We are calling on the supply chain to take action to support seafarers now.\"", "Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a \"shocking\" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition is challenging what it said was an \"unlawful\" move by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2016-18.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"substantial change\" in how cases were treated.\n\nAnd it denied the coalition's claim it had been taking on only \"strong cases\" to keep conviction rates up.\n\nAccording to the EVAW, the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence.\n\nIn documents before the court, Phillippa Kaufmann QC said that from September 2016 prosecutors were \"trained away\" from the former CPS policy, including through a series of roadshows.\n\nIn 2017 legally binding guidance on the old approach was removed, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nMs Kauffmann said both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell.\n\nShe cited figures showing an average of 3,446 rape cases were charged per year between 2009 and 2016, compared with 2,822 in 2017, a fall of 23%.\n\nAt the same time the charging rate \"declined precipitously\" from 56% in 2016, to 47% in 2017 and 34% in 2018.\n\nThe court documents note the conviction target was removed at some point between 2017 and 2019, and guidance relating to the \"merits-based approach\" to prosecutions was reintroduced.\n\nThe campaigners are aiming to show there was a policy change and the way the CPS went about it was unlawful.\n\nIf a ruling goes in its favour, the EVAW hopes some cases could be looked at again by the CPS.\n\nLawyers for the CPS argue the case was not suitable for a legal challenge.\n\nIn written submissions, Tom Little QC, says the move away from a \"merits-based approach\" was out of a concern that \"some people were being prosecuted when the case ought not to have been charged\".\n\nHe added the decision to initiate the roadshows and remove the guidance \"did not result in any substantial change in the application of the evidential test in the code for Crown prosecutors\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said: \"Independent inspectors have found no evidence of a risk-averse approach and have reported a clear improvement in the quality of our legal decision-making in rape cases.\"\n\nThe judges are expected to give their ruling in the case at a later date.", "Celebrities including comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali have made a video urging people to get the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe video was co-ordinated by Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray, who said he wanted to dispel vaccination myths for those from ethnic minority communities.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi are among the others taking part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adil Ray OBE 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We all just feel we needed to do something,\" Ray told the BBC.\n\nFake news about the vaccine, particularly in the South Asian community, has led to concerns about uptake.\n\nRay appears in the five-minute video alongside stars like former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, who tells viewers: \"We will find our way through this. And we will be united once again with our friends and our families. All we have to do is take the vaccination.\"\n\nSomali-born British journalist Rageh Omaar and his ITV colleague Ranvir Singh join comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry and Ranganathan to debunk common vaccine misinformation and misconceptions.\n\nRanganathan says: \"There's no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watching where you go. Your mobile phone actually does a much better job of that.\"\n\nAfter posting the video, Ray told BBC Radio Leicester: \"For the British Asian and black communities, at the very beginning of the pandemic we were told they were perhaps the most vulnerable, that there was a disproportionate number of cases and even deaths.\n\n\"Even now there are a disproportionate number of deaths. But nothing was really done about it and that was really quite confusing for a lot of the community. So we felt that we've got to try and take the lead a little bit here and dispel some of these myths.\"\n\nHe added: \"This was recorded entirely independently from the government - the only thing we did do was we went to the NHS website for the correct medical guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith the UK aiming to offer Covid vaccinations to every adult by autumn, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high in the UK, with 85% saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said that those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe UK is recording the ethnicity and occupations of people who receive the vaccine and figures would be published soon, Mr Zahawi added.\n\nLast month, a poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health suggested 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine, compared with 79% of white people.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, recently said fake news was likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the vaccine.\n\nSuch warnings have led the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board to urge places of worship and community hubs to be used as vaccination centres in an attempt to inspire confidence.\n\nThe board's chairman, Imam Qari Asim, said: \"As an imam, my message is simple - do not trust 'fake news', verify before you amplify.\"\n\nThe Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham is being used as a Covid vaccination centre\n\nMany mosques are using their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab, while some imams are sharing photos of themselves getting the jab on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £23m funding for a network of \"community champions\" to spread accurate information and provide support for people in at-risk groups including older people, disabled people and ethnic minorities.\n\nOn Monday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick visited the UK's first vaccination centre to be opened in a mosque, at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.\n\n\"It is absolutely brilliant to see faith communities like this stepping up and playing their part in the vaccine programme,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"We have to build trust, ensure that we counter misinformation and ensure that everyone, regardless of their faith, regardless of what community they're from, gets access to the programme.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "Transfer tests normally used by grammar schools have been cancelled this year\n\nOne of NI's most prominent grammar schools has said it will use primary school test scores to decide which pupils to admit in 2021.\n\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution said it would \"adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school\".\n\nThat is despite the vast majority of grammar schools not planning to use academic criteria this year.\n\nThe tests run by the AQE and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) were cancelled in early 2021.\n\nAs a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are drawing up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.\n\nBanbridge Academy, Bangor Grammar, Belfast Royal Academy and Regent House are among those to have published their admissions criteria for 2021.\n\nNone of those schools are using academic criteria, but pupils applying will have to have entered the AQE transfer test.\n\nSome other grammars like Thornhill College and St Columb's College in Londonderry, which decided in 2020 not to use the PPTC transfer test in 2021, have also published admissions criteria.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) said it was \"committed to the principle that a child should be placed in a school which offers a curriculum best suited to the aptitudes of that child\".\n\n\"For this reason RBAI believes that the use of academic criteria for admission to grammar schools is the outworking of that principle,\" the school said.\n\n\"Accordingly, in the absence of AQE and PPTC tests for admissions, RBAI will adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school.\"\n\nRBAI said scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests will be taken into account\n\nThe school is planning to use standardised scores in the Progress Test in English (PTE) and Progress Test in Maths (PTM) which pupils sat in Primary Five to decide which pupils to admit.\n\nRBAI said that school year was \"the most recent one which has not been interrupted\".\n\nPupils scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests taken under supervision by a teacher will also be taken into account.\n\n\"RBAI is satisfied that this is a reasonable and robust way of selecting pupils based on academic aptitude in the absence of a bespoke test,\" the school said.\n\nRBAI normally admits 150 pupils each year, but received 227 applications for places in 2020.\n\nThe admissions criteria for all post-primary schools will be published on the Education Authority (EA) website on 2 February.\n\nThe UUP assembly member Robbie Butler had proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nBut Education Minister Peter Weir had said there would be \"major problems\" with that approach.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "The UK government should cancel the debt owed by developing countries struggling with the impact of Covid-19, MPs have said.\n\nThe International Development Committee warned that the pandemic was fuelling extreme poverty and food insecurity.\n\nIt was also disrupting routine healthcare, such as tuberculosis immunisations, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was spending £1.3bn to protect livelihoods, improve health systems and distribute vaccines.\n\nMore than two million people around the world have died after contracting coronavirus, with almost 100 million cases reported.\n\nAppearing before the Commons International Development Committee, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted the UK to be a \"force for good in the world\" as it fought the pandemic.\n\nHe defended the government's decision to cut overseas aid spending next year, saying there were \"no easy choices\" given the hit to the public finances from the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts mean the UK will fail to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid in 2021-2, a target that was enshrined into UK law in 2015.\n\nMr Raab said he hoped the UK would be able to reach 0.7% again as \"soon as possible\" but this would only happen once the long-term damage to the UK's balance sheet had been \"corrected\".\n\nLabour said the government was \"betraying the world's poorest.\"\n\nShadow international development secretary Preet Kaur Gill said: \"This move signals a retreat from the world stage, damages the UK's reputation and will only show our allies and detractors that Britain under Boris Johnson is no longer interested in fulfilling our moral or legal responsibilities.\n\n\"Labour are committed to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on aid to tackle global poverty and injustice and will oppose any attempt from this government to damage this country's reputation.\"\n\nMr Raab said he took seriously warnings from Conservative MPs and ex-ministers that to press ahead with the cuts without passing new legislation would be unlawful.\n\nFormer Solicitor General Lord Garnier said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Raab's \"reputation\" and the government's domestic and international standing would be damaged if it was seen to \"flout a clear legal obligation\".\n\nIn tough financial times, Mr Raab said the UK needed to \"make the most\" of its £10bn spending, avoiding \"salami-slicing\" budgets and focusing on a handful of priorities such as climate, biodiversity, conflict prevention and helping the \"bottom billions\" out of extreme poverty.\n\n\"I think we should unabashedly be proud and confident about the moral responsibility we have to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, I see a range of grittier strategic interests in dealing with climate change and humanitarian suffering and indeed trade.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office took over responsibility for overseas aid in September after absorbing the Department for International Development.\n\nOn debt cancellation, the committee said that, due to disruption caused by the pandemic, millions of people in developing countries were more at risk from diseases such as tuberculosis because of missed immunisations.\n\nMillions were more likely to lose their livelihoods because of the global recession and millions of women were more exposed to sexual violence.\n\nThe MPs want the government to provide more aid to address the problems and cancel long-term national debt that was diverting cash away from those in need.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"We'll only be safe from coronavirus when we're all safe - which is why the UK is leading global efforts to fight this pandemic, committing up to £1.3bn of new UK aid to find and equitably distribute a vaccine, strengthen health systems, protect livelihoods and support the global economy.\"\n\nThey added that the UK would use its 2021 presidency of the G7 group of leading economies \"to help the world build back stronger and fairer after the pandemic\".\n\nThis would include \"promoting open societies, championing gender equality and girls' education, and setting out new international approaches to global health security and climate action\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK has announced it will step up its efforts to help other countries, including some of the poorest in the world, to find new variants of Covid-19.\n\nIn a speech in London, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK would share its world-leading genomics expertise worldwide to help countries identify new mutations of the virus and protect global health security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "A senior judge prevented the BBC from properly reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, a court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard how Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), faced an employment tribunal claim in 2019.\n\nLady Smith passed orders which stopped detail of the action being reported.\n\nThe top judge denied any wrongdoing in regard to the claim that was later abandoned.\n\nThe employment tribunal case alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation was from a former senior member of the inquiry legal team.\n\nBBC Scotland has raised a judicial review of the SCAI restriction orders, arguing they were beyond the powers of Lady Smith and her involvement in the case meant any restriction decision should have been made by the employment tribunal.\n\nBut Roddy Dunlop QC, advocate for the SCAI, told the Court of Session the corporation's case was academic as the original restriction order had been overtaken by another order.\n\nMr Dunlop also argued the BBC had not spelled out to the SCAI what detail it wanted to publish in relation to the tribunal.\n\nKenneth McBrearty QC, acting for the broadcaster, told the court the purpose of the original restriction order was, \"not merely to prohibit disclosure or publication of the documents. It was to prohibit disclosure or publication of the very existence of the proceedings\".\n\nHe said: \"It is in effect what is equivalent to what in England has been described as a super injunction. That is what in effect it amounts to because it prohibits even the disclosure of the proceedings.\n\n\"The importance of this case lies with the way the Restriction Order impinged on the open justice principle. If there was a need for an order restricting the disclosure of any material, that is an order to be sought from the employment judge.\"\n\nThe case before Lord Boyd is being heard at the Court of Session\n\nThe Court of Session heard the employment tribunal claim for £2.6m damages was brought in July, 2019, by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.\n\nA news release, issued by SCAI in October 2019, confirmed existence of the claim and a denial that Lady Smith had discriminated against Mr Halley. An initial hearing took place that month and Mr Halley abandoned the tribunal two months later.\n\nBut Mr McBrearty QC said the SCAI press release did not include the full outline of the claim\n\nHe said: \"All that the media was to be entitled to publish was that which the respondent had considered able to include in a press release in circumstances to which the respondent was herself party in the proceedings.\"\n\nThe BBC is seeking declarators from the Court of Session stating that Lady Smith's restriction orders were unlawful.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC said the BBC had the option to present to Lady Smith what it wanted to report on in the case, as per the detail of the media restriction order, and then get her permission to publish but failed to do so.\n\nHe said: \"That simple request is all that needed to be done and it wasn't resorted to. That's why the alternative remedy aspect of this is a problem to the BBC.\n\n\"There needs to be a practical effect, the entitlement to publish could have been obtained at any point by asking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop pointed out that the original restriction orders objected to by the BBC have now been replaced by a new order issued in March last year.\n\nHe said: \"What is the point of challenging orders which cease to have any potency.\n\n\"Why is it we continue to expend grey matter, and more importantly public funds on both sides, in fighting on something which is in any view within the terms of the reference [of the SCAI inquiry] and within article ten [of Human Rights legislation].\"\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Dunlop will continue his submissions before Lord Boyd.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFunding agency Sport England - which has already invested £220m since the start of the crisis - announced the additional money as part of a new 10-year strategy.\n\nThousands of clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms have been forced to shut in recent months.\n\nWith many children having done no sport outside of PE lessons since the start of November, and schools now shut across the county, emphasis will be placed on supporting young people to get active.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed the majority of young people failed to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily exercise in the last academic year. Almost a third of children were classed as 'inactive' as a result of the first lockdown, not even doing 30 minutes.\n\nAnother focus in the new 'Uniting the Movement' strategy will be tackling the long-standing inequalities that have existed within the sport sector and reinforced by the recent disruption.\n\nNew data shows the pandemic has disproportionately affected people from lower socio-economic groups and BAME backgrounds, for whom there was already a clear pattern of low activity.\n\n\"This strategy comes at a critical time\" said Tim Hollingsworth, the chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"We have made significant funding available, but many organisations are struggling, and activity levels have taken a significant hit.\n\n\"At the heart of all this is a ruthless focus on providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind.\"\n\nAndy Reed, Chair of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The impact of the pandemic, growing social challenges and subsequent widening inequalities mean we urgently need a new social contract with sport and physical activity, focused on the wider social outcomes that sport can deliver.\"\n\n\"We must expand understanding, recognition and investment in the contribution that sport can make beyond health and wellbeing, to addressing loneliness and social isolation, improving educational attainment and employability, to community cohesion, and reducing anti-social behaviour and entry into the justice system.\"\n\nA group of more than 50 sports bodies have called for a new government action plan and emergency funding to help them survive the pandemic. The Save Our Sports campaign has warned that the activity sector - which employs nearly 600,000 people in the UK and contributes £16bn to the economy each year - faces an unprecedented crisis.\n\nHuw Edwards, the chief executive of Ukactive, which represents the physical activity industry, said: \"Crucially, before the sector begins its recovery from the impact of Covid-19, it must first survive it.\n\n\"The publication of this strategy needs to be accompanied by a new level of urgency and commitment from the government that it will not leave parts of this sector behind, and provide the necessary financial and regulatory support so desperately needed.\"\n\nBut Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was \"placing sport and physical activity at the heart of its coronavirus recovery plan, and Sport England's new strategy provides a strong base to invest in sports organisations, facilities and people\".\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nIt could take 18 months to draw up plans to rebuild a bridge which was swept away during last week's Storm Christoph, a council has warned.\n\nLlanerch bridge, between Trefnant and Tremeirchion in Denbighshire, is a backroad link to the A55.\n\nThe grade II-listed bridge crosses the River Clwyd and villagers now face a seven-mile detour.\n\nMeanwhile, some people in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, can return home later after flooding caused by the storm.\n\nDenbighshire council said diversions would go through St Asaph while Llanerch bridge was repaired.\n\n\"It means it takes much longer now to go from Tremeirchion to Trefnant or St Asaph,\" he said.\n\n\"I know of one couple that have a horse in stables on the other side of the river - so it's a seven-mile journey each way, twice a day, for them now.\n\n\"It's quite a challenge and we're starting to think about how long we'll need to live with it. Are we talking a year, two, three, or maybe much longer than that?\"\n\nVale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies said the bridge should be rebuilt: \"There are many who would wish to see the bridge replaced like-for-like, although I appreciate that the new structure will need to take into account the challenges posed by modern-day and projected river flows.\"\n\nDenbighshire council's Meirick Lloyd Davies suggested the structure could be widened, similar to the one in Llangollen.\n\nBut the Trefnant ward councillor added: \"We will need money from the Welsh Government and I hope the UK government are also ready to throw something into the bucket because it is very expensive.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We will seek to resolve this as soon as we are able.\n\n\"Final plans for the bridge will involve a number of third parties and it could take up to 18 months or more to resolve.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the condition of the structure was the responsibility of the owner, with local authorities having powers to ensure listed structures were preserved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nSouth Wales was also hit by Storm Christoph on Thursday and in Skewen about 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft, causing a \"blow out\" which flooded properties.\n\nThose living in Jubilee Crescent and Dunevor Road have been told they can return home, but others will have to wait until the Coal Authority has made further investigations.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones told Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We haven't got the exact figures of the number of people who will be able to return home today, there's going to be further assessments this morning.\n\n\"As early as we can, we will release the names of the streets of those people who will be able to go back, but it will be conditional. They need to go back in a controlled manner. We've still got Covid around.\"\n\nHe added houses would need to have their electrics checked and information would be provided on how to do this.\n\nOther people have been warned it could take months before they can go home.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.\n\nIt has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading.\n\nThe initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be \"resistant to manipulation attempts\".\n\nCompanies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms.\n\nTwitter said on Monday: \"We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying.\"\n\nTwitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform.\n\nThe pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be \"misleading or false\", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site.\n\nAdditional notes and flags would then be placed on to content.\n\nTwitter says this new approach could help it respond more quickly when misleading information spreads.\n\n\"Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors,\" Twitter said.\n\nTwitter already adds labels to some misleading news. For example, many of Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud were labelled by the company.\n\nTwitter also reserves the right to remove tweets - and in extreme circumstances ban users - which it did with the US president after the riots in Washington earlier this month.\n\nTwitter, though, wants to go further: \"We don't want to limit efforts to circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention,\" said Twitter's Vice-President Keith Coleman.\n\nParticipants will have to provide a verified phone number and email to take part, in a bid to keep bots and bad actors away, as well as having no recent rule violations against their Twitter account.\n\nPresident Biden said in his inauguration speech that: \"We must reject a culture where facts are manipulated, or even manufactured.\"\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Parents and teachers say they are \"frustrated\" schools will be shut until the February half term and fear the impact it will have on children.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Wales' phone-in, one caller said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".\n\nSo how have parents, pupils and professionals reacted to the announcement that schools may not reopen until 22 February?\n\nDr Dai Samuel welcomed the news as a consultant treating Covid patients - but as a dad he feels some \"trepidation\"\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is also a father and lives in one of the worst-hit areas in Wales.\n\nHe said he had mixed feelings about the decision as he had \"two hats on\" - one as an NHS doctor treating Covid patients and the other as a dad.\n\n\"The hospitals are full and the ITU units only have beds now because they've expanded that capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very precarious position and I just hope that this measure now for the next three to six weeks will hopefully allow us to get through this winter, allow the vaccines to take effect and get us out of this mess come the spring and summer.\n\n\"I'm a doctor so, from a medical point of view, yes [the decision is] a massive sigh of relief, but as a father and someone who lives in Merthyr - a town that's been hit already significantly by the virus and the economical impacts of that - I've got some sort of trepidation because I fear that those businesses now that still remain closed will suffer and will go under.\n\n\"What will happen to that generation of children now who might not get the education they deserve and would have had otherwise… who won't achieve what they could have?\"\n\nTrying to home-school four young children and work is a \"challenge\", said Kaarina Rutta Reuter from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind, 'I should also be working and doing other things',\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen. It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment. I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nThe pressures of juggling home-schooling with her career mean she is working at night when the children have gone to bed.\n\n\"I don't even try to work during the day with the children around because I've just realised it's just not possible.\n\n\"My husband is working full-time but I'm only working part-time, I'm teaching at university so I still have quite flexible hours - apart from obviously teaching hours - it just means that I have to work in the evening or over the weekend, just organise yourself differently.\"\n\nShe said it was \"best not to have too high expectations\" when it came to guessing when lockdown would end and schools would reopen.\n\n\"Like we saw in the first lockdown in spring, in the end it was quite a bit longer than we had all thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hope they could go back in March, that's my hope for now but I think we'll just have to wait and see what will happen with the numbers over the next few weeks, months and just take it from there really.\"\n\nA father called Ron, from Bridgend, told the phone-in with Dot Davies he was predominantly worried about the effects on children, particularly in the south Wales valleys.\n\n\"I just see children deteriorating on a regular basis. I can only speak about my own - I have a teenage daughter and her mental health, her lack of access to her school, her teachers, to her peers, will cause more harm than the virus will cause children.\n\n\"It feels like we are asking our children to donate their kidneys to the vulnerable. We are throwing them under the bus as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nAnna, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Swansea, said the decision to keep schools and colleges closed was \"a big disappointment\".\n\n\"The idea of staying in the house until February fills me with dread because we've been in the house for months,\" she told Newyddion.\n\nAfter a case of Covid-19 in her school, she said she had to self-isolate, adding: \"It's been an age since I last saw my friends, went to school, and really learned.\n\n\"It's really hard. We've been back in school since Wednesday and doing everything online but it's nigh-on impossible. It's not the same.\n\n\"It's really hard to learn. There's this feeling of 'why am I even bothering?' - I really want to go back but I appreciate that might not be possible because people are dying. It's not an easy situation.\"\n\nHer mock assessments before her final assessments - which were brought in to replace exams - have been cancelled until the return to school, which she said has taken away some of the pressure.\n\n\"Without practising, there's a lot of uncertainty. What's going to be in the assessment? So, it is nice to hear they've cancelled them. It's a difficult situation so cancelling them takes a bit of the pressure off children and young people my age.\"\n\nMother-of-three Amanda Williams from Bridgend told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she was glad schools would remain closed and hoped it would minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"I don't believe schools are safe to open at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Until they can classify exactly what the main symptoms are in children I think it's a risk to send children back to school and it's a risk with these new variants.\"\n\nMrs Williams lives in Bridgend county borough, where infection rates are the highest among all Welsh local authority areas. One of her relatives is currently on a ventilator at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital with Covid-19.\n\n\"In the last week I've heard of a lot of people passing away such as friends of friends. It's starting to get closer to home.\"\n\nSarah Curley, a maths teacher and mother of twins, also from Bridgend, said she would \"rather be in school\" but agreed schools remaining shut was the \"safest option\".\n\nShe said: \"In school each day I come into contact with 100-odd pupils and we don't wear PPE.\"\n\nMs Curley said she was glad her school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen in Bridgend, would not be welcoming students back on Monday, as originally planned, because of the area's high infection rates.\n\n\"My anxiety was through the roof around Christmas. I could see the numbers going up and I was thinking, 'I've got to go back into school next week'.\"", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War\n\nThe Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face of a new $20 bill.\n\nA note featuring Ms Tubman, who was born a slave in about 1822, was originally due to be unveiled in 2020.\n\nThe US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner.\n\nBut the effort was delayed under former President Donald Trump, who branded it \"pure political correctness\".\n\nNow President Joe Biden has revived the project, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters the Treasury was \"exploring ways to speed up\" the process.\n\nThe move would make Ms Tubman the first African American to appear on a US banknote, and the first woman for more than 100 years.\n\n\"It's important that our notes, our money - if people don't know what a note is - reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman's image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,\" Ms Psaki said on Monday.\n\nA mock-up of the new $20 note\n\nThe women last depicted on US notes were former First Lady Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Native American Pocahontas, in a group image on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869.\n\nHowever, given the complexities of redesigning and producing US banknotes, the bill is not expected to be released any time soon.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the redesign would be delayed until at least 2026. At the time, he said he was focused on redesigning bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making changes to their imagery.\n\nMr Trump, an admirer of his populist predecessor Andrew Jackson - whose portrait hung in his office - expressed opposition to the redesign.\n\nWhile campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump suggested that Ms Tubman be put on the $2 bill instead.\n\nBorn into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in the cotton fields in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the fourth of nine children born to two enslaved parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Rit.\n\nAs a teenager, she was hit in the head by an iron weight thrown by an overseer, leaving her severely injured.\n\nShe escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.\n\nIn the years that followed, Ms Tubman returned multiple times to Maryland to rescue others, conducting them along the so-called \"underground railroad\", a network of safe houses used to spirit slaves from the south to the free states in the north.\n\nShe is estimated to have made some 13 missions to rescue more than 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network.\n\nLater, she became a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a prominent supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and a famous veteran of the struggle for the abolition of slavery.\n\nAfter the war, Ms Tubman toured eastern cities giving speeches in support of women's suffrage, drawing on her experiences in the fight against slavery.\n\nShe died in 1913, aged 91, surrounded by her family.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent investigation into mother-and-baby homes in the Republic of Ireland\n\nA report into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published later.\n\nThe Stormont-commissioned research was carried out by Queen's University and Ulster University.\n\nIt examined whether a public inquiry should be held into the homes.\n\nAmnesty has estimated about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the institutions operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and other religious organisations.\n\nSome survivors, both unmarried pregnant mothers who were brought to the facilities and children who were later adopted, have long called for a public inquiry.\n\nThe NI Executive is currently meeting to discuss the report and its recommendations.\n\nFirst Minster Arlene Foster tweeted to say she had spoken to survivors of the homes about the report and the next steps.\n\nShe described it as \"a shameful chapter\", adding: \"Now the silence is broken and their stories have rightfully begun to be told\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said earlier that Tuesday's research \"breaks the silence\" around what happened.\n\nShe added that \"what happened was so, so wrong\", and that her thoughts were with the survivors \"who deserve answers to their many questions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe report was commissioned by the Department of Health in 2018 and assessed the period from 1922 to 1999.\n\nIt was completed in February 2020 but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, representing the group Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice NI, said many women were branded as \"fallen\" after becoming pregnant outside marriage and were forced to carry out unpaid labour.\n\nThis \"abuse\", she said, happened on both sides of the Irish border.\n\n\"The state in Northern Ireland not only permitted what happened, but also policed it,\" she added.\n\nAmnesty said there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby home and Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in NI, with the last one closing its doors as recently as 1990.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, NI programme director of Amnesty International, said the report would \"shed new light on the appalling extent and vast scale of the suffering experienced by generations of women and girls in these institutions\".\n\nThe human rights organisation has written to the first and deputy first ministers urging them to meet survivors of mother-and-baby homes.\n\n\"It's time for ministers to listen to the survivors - both the women and girls forced into the homes and the children born there,\" said Mr Corrigan.\n\nThe publication of the report in Northern Ireland comes after a similar investigation into mother-and-baby homes and laundries in the Republic of Ireland, which prompted an apology from Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin.\n\nThis report found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\".\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions which were investigated.\n\nMr Martin said there had been \"profound and generational wrong\", adding it was a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, NI's first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill met the Irish Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman.\n\nBoth Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill said there was a need for the executive and the Irish government to work together in sharing information and to support survivors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time out of school has affected some children who have not established their language skills\n\nParents in English-speaking homes whose children go to Welsh-language schools need more support during lockdown, the Welsh language commissioner has said.\n\nSome parents said time away from face-to-face schooling was affecting younger children who have not fully established their language skills.\n\nOne mother said \"not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given guidance to Welsh-medium schools.\n\nThere are 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual primary schools across Wales.\n\nCardiff council estimated more than 70% of children in Welsh-medium education in the city did not speak Welsh at home.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said any parents concerned about remote learning in should let the school and teachers know in the first instance.\n\nHowever, he said it should be ensured there were \"as many resources as possible to support them\" at a national level and these policies should \"recognise the huge investment that these people are making [into] Welsh-medium education\".\n\nAngela Crabtree said her nine-year-old daughter Ffion had to help her younger sisters\n\nAngela Crabtree, from Caerphilly, said her daughters were partly reliant on her eldest child Ffion to translate Welsh schoolwork.\n\nMs Crabtree, who is on furlough, said keeping up Welsh-language skills had been a challenge for her three daughters, Ffion, Natalie and Chloe, who go to Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili.\n\n\"It's hard if they ask you a question, not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with,\" she said.\n\nNatalie and Chloe are partly reliant on their older sister Ffion to translate Welsh work during lockdown\n\n\"The school has been really good in sending things back bilingually, but I've still got the challenge of trying to make sure that the girls look at the Welsh first.\n\n\"Off the back of the first lockdown I think what suffered most was their Welsh language, especially the middle child, going from the infants to the juniors - her Welsh comprehension fell behind a bit.\"\n\nLisa Jane Thomas, from Cardiff, said she was concerned her youngest child, who attends a Welsh-medium school, was going to be disadvantaged.\n\n\"These are really critical stages and to have so much timeout, it does worry me that may be putting her back [and] is going to make it more difficult for her longer term,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas said she felt there \"ought to be more recognition\" and more could be offered to help parents and children.\n\nYsgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili headteacher Lynn Griffiths said parents make a \"conscious decision\" to send children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nHead teacher of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili, Lynn Griffiths, said of almost 440 pupils at the school, three families spoke to him about issues with Welsh-language learning.\n\nMr Griffiths said it was \"a rarity\" after one family that chose not to send their child back to the school this year, while the two other \"listened to what support we can provide them to enable them to do the best for their children\".\n\n\"But also let's not forget our parents have made a conscious decision to send their children to a Welsh medium school because they want their children to be fully bilingual and the advantages that will give them,\" he said.\n\nCampaign group Parents for Welsh medium education said it was launching new website end of this month to help parents by collating Welsh language resources in one place, due to the extra pressure of lockdown home-schooling.\n\nElin Maher, who is a part of the group, said: \"Obviously, we do acknowledge that acquiring language is done best in the classroom, with the teacher at the front and to be surrounded by the language - we want to reassure parents that the language will be there.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, which has a target of one million people speaking Welsh by 2050, said it appreciated the challenges all parents faced with learning at home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have provided guidance to schools to help them during the pandemic, which includes dedicated support for Welsh-medium learners whose families don't speak Welsh.\n\n\"This includes advice for parents and carers on how they can support their children to use the Welsh language while at home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maaike Neuféglise said she found blood on the floor of her shop alongside upturned stands and damaged equipment\n\nThe Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands.\n\nShops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: \"It's scum doing this\". More than 180 arrests have been made.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nShop-owners in Rotterdam, Den Bosch and other cities spent Tuesday morning cleaning up the debris from Monday night's violence.\n\nRotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb sent a passionate message to \"shameless thieves\" who had caused the damage: \"Does it make you feel good that you've helped ruin your city? To wake up with a bag full of stolen stuff beside you?\"\n\nA night-time curfew from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 was imposed last Saturday to halt the spread of the virus. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine. Mr Hoekstra said they would not \"capitulate to a few idiots\" and anyone who caused damage should be tracked down and be made to pay for it.\n\nSome of the worst damage was caused in the southern city of Den Bosch\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly a million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nRiot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Most of the rioters were youths or young men, and Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks.\n\nIn Den Bosch in the south, rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars. A local woman told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" she said.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nRoads into Den Bosch were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe region's chief prosecutor, Heleen Rutgers, urged parents to ensure teenagers stayed at home. \"Start talking about how to respond to calls on social media to go and turn up somewhere,\" she told public broadcaster NOS.\n\nIn some southern cities, such as Maastricht and Breda, football fans marched through the centres promising to protect them from rioters. Ex-football international Robin van Persie appealed to people in Rotterdam to keep \"our beautiful city\" intact.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon against the rioters, the mayor signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest.\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. The justice minister said he challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nIn Den Bosch, Maaike Neuféglise said the damage to her shop was heartbreaking and ran into thousands of euros. \"Everything's ruined. I saw the videos, it was a complete invasion. There must have been 40 people in our store,\" she told broadcaster Omroep Brabant.\n\nThe city's mayor said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were vaccinated at Cwmbran Stadium on Tuesday\n\nA pledge that 70% of the over-80s would get the Covid-19 vaccine by last weekend was missed, the Welsh Government has admitted.\n\nWeather has been blamed for the problem with figures showing 96,830, or 52.8%, had their first dose.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said many over-80s felt unsafe attending appointments amid the snow and ice.\n\nThe pledge had been made by Health Minister Vaughan Gething in the Senedd, last week.\n\nBut earlier, Mr Gething said that as well as missed appointments, five mass vaccination centres were affected by the conditions and \"a range of additional GP clinics didn't go ahead\".\n\nLatest data shows almost 97,000 of the most vulnerable have had a dose - but there is a lag and it can take up to five days for doses injected to be included in the figures. At least 289,566 people have had a first dose - 9.2% of the population.\n\nThat compares to 10.6% in England, 8.6% in Northern Ireland and 8% in Scotland.\n\nMr Drakeford told First Minister's Questions earlier: \"We will not reach the 70% for over-80s because of the interruption to the programme of vaccination that happened on Sunday and on Monday morning.\n\nA pledge 70% of over-80s would be inoculated by last weekend was missed\n\n\"I won't have people over-80 feeling pressurised to come out to be vaccinated when they themselves decide that it is not safe for them to do so.\"\n\nHe said all of those people would have been offered a further opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of Wednesday.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said Wales was on track to meet plans to offer everybody in the top four priority groups (those aged 70 or over) a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nAround 23,700 first doses a day would need to be given for the first four priority groups to be have a vaccine offered by 14 February.\n\nOn the latest seven day rolling average, it would take 25 days.\n\nBut Mr Davies said: \"Welsh Conservatives would have been the first to congratulate the Welsh Government and its health minister had the target been reached on Friday, but that target has been missed.\n\n\"It's the same old Labour story of taking credit when things go well but look to blame anyone and everything else when it goes wrong.\"\n\nIn the Senedd, he accused the government of running a \"postcode lottery\" for vaccinations, which Mr Drakeford denied.\n\nThe first minister said figures had gone from 162,000 people being vaccinated last week to 230,000 this Tuesday.\n\nHe said that was \"the fastest rate of increase in any part of the United Kingdom\", and accused Mr Davies of wanting to \"run it down\".\n\n\"He leads a Conservative party in Wales, which has reverted to its 19th Century type - for Wales, see England.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he did not think \"blaming snow over the weekend holds water\".\n\n\"Snow did cause problems in certain areas but the problem was that you were still on 24% of over-80s in the middle of last week. There was too high a mountain to climb,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the weather was an \"obvious factor\" on both Sunday and Monday.\n\nIn a statement, he said more than 11,000 care home residents - 67% of the priority group - had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nOver 65% of Welsh Ambulance Service staff had also taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"We have seen a significant escalation in the pace of vaccine deployment here in Wales over the last couple of weeks,\" he told Members of the Senedd (MSs).", "Leaders in the US House of Representatives have officially delivered their article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate, the first step in beginning his trial.\n\nRead more: Trump impeachment trial delayed until next month", "Anyone entering Australia has to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine\n\nAustralia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.\n\nThe comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.\n\nDepartment of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus' escalation in other nations.\n\nDr Murphy spearheaded Australia's early action to close its borders last March.\n\n\"I think that we'll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.\n\n\"Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don't know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,\" he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue \"for some time\".\n\nCitizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.\n\nDr Brendan Murphy (left) was Australia's chief medical officer and now leads the Department of Health\n\nQantas - Australia's national carrier - reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to \"begin to restart from July 2021.\"\n\nHowever, it added this depended on the Australian government's deciding to reopen borders.\n\nThe country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.\n\nAustralia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.\n\nA passenger from New Zealand arriving at Sydney Airport last October\n\nA vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.\n\nExperts have attributed much of Australia's success to its swift border lockdown - which affected travellers from China as early as February - and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.\n\nLocal outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city's residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.\n\nOther outbreaks - including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people - prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.\n\nThe state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated \"hotspots\", following a decline in cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel abroad UK: How to fly during a global pandemic\n\nWhile the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.\n\nDr Murphy said overall Australia's virus response had been \"pretty good\" but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.\n\nIn recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent - which has recorded at least nine infections - is under quarantine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was spat at working as an ambulance paramedic'\n\nAfter experiencing its most difficult period of the entire Covid-19 pandemic in December, the boss of Welsh Ambulance Service said it was still under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nAt one stage, 400 staff - 12% of all workers - were sick or self-isolating.\n\nJason Killens said this was exacerbated by high call numbers and \"significant delays\" handing patients to hospitals.\n\nOne paramedic described questioning whether he was in the right job after being spat at during the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive said it meant \"patients with less serious conditions waited much longer than we would like\".\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter was assaulted by someone who spat at him\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter, describing the pressure he and colleagues were under, said at one point an incident caused him to question whether he wanted to continue working.\n\n\"During the peak of the pandemic last year, I was assaulted by a member of the public where I was spat at in the face,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's really the only time that I've stopped and gone: 'Is this for me?'\"\n\nHowever the \"vast majority of the public\" had been \"absolutely fantastic\", he stressed, adding: \"We've had people waving at us, buying us coffee.\"\n\nLuke Robinson and Stan Baxter must wear more protective equipment when they help patients\n\nFor his work partner, Luke Robinson, their job made it clear how coronavirus had made a resurgence across the country.\n\n\"I worked New Year's Eve and I responded to a number of incidents which involved just regular health complaints,\" he said.\n\n\"But next door or in the adjacent building there's people having parties and you can tell that there's large gatherings going on. And it's really frustrating because it really hammers home that some people aren't listening to the rules.\n\n\"And it's not surprising that we're seeing a second wave now.\"\n\nMr Killens said the pressure was now \"palpably less\" compared to last month, but admitted difficult weeks lie ahead.\n\n\"December was probably the most pressurised period during the whole pandemic for a number of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff that were symptomatic or isolating, that's been at its peak in December.\n\n\"We've seen more work both in the 111 and 999 service, that is patients contacting us with Covid-related symptoms, and of course because of the pressure on the rest of the NHS, we've seen extended handover at some of our emergency departments and what that's meant regrettably is some less serious patients have waited a lot longer in the community than I would have expected.\"\n\nSoldiers have been helping to relieve pressure on ambulance staff\n\nThe ambulance service has been at its highest level of alert - described as \"extreme pressure\" - since early December.\n\nIt was so bad at the beginning of the month, the service had to declare a \"critical incident\", because of severe problems in south east Wales in particular - and one man had to wait 19 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital.\n\nThis strain has been partly blamed for deteriorating ambulance response times, with the situation exacerbated by the fact hospitals are struggling.\n\nAmbulances spent more than 11,661 hours outside emergency departments waiting to transfer patients in December - an equivalent to a total of more than 485 days. The average delay was one hour and eight minutes.\n\nThe Ambulance Service has been hit by high numbers of staff sick or self-isolating\n\n\"We would usually see handover delays through winter - but what's unique this time is the overlay of the pandemic,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"There has to be additional distancing, this means less capacity in emergency departments.\n\n\"Testing also needs to be done before patients are admitted - the additional complexities mean the process is slower and there's less space for patients to go into.\"\n\nHe said the impact of implementing Covid precautions is also affecting how quickly crews can respond.\n\n\"As a result of the virus, we're having to clean vehicles and equipment more frequently and thoroughly than before,\" Mr Killens said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Also there are levels for personal protective equipment that staff have to wear to protect themselves and others. Level three - the highest in some cases.\n\n\"And it takes a number of minutes for crews to put that on before staff treat the patients.\"\n\nTo bolster staffing levels and speed up response times, about 80 soldiers are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service for the second time since the start of the pandemic - along with smaller number of staff from other services like the fire service.\n\n\"They are driving emergency ambulances for us... which means an emergency ambulance clinician can look after the patient,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"They'll drive the ambulance from the scene to hospital... it enables us to put more ambulances on the streets to respond to patients more quickly given the levels of absence that we've seen.\"\n\nParamedics now have to carry out a more rigorous and time-consuming cleaning regime\n\nAfter facing relentless pressure for close to a year, Mr Killens is worried about the impact on mental health and well-being of ambulance and control centre staff.\n\nThe service is focused on \"what we can do to keep them fit and well\", he said.\n\nBut he praised staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" - and insists some of the lessons learnt during the last year will benefit the service during the longer term.\n\n\"I've been in the ambulance sector for 25 years and this is like dealing with a very long incident,\" said Mr Killens.\n\n\"So, a major incident an emergency service routinely responds to generally will be over in a couple of hours. But the level of pressure has been sustained now for 12 months.\n\n\"All of our people have stepped up and done what was necessary and got on with providing the best care in really difficult circumstances.... we will come through it and at the end of the pandemic and will be a stronger organisation for it.\"\n\nHe believes the service is now \"on the home straight\" in dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"We've had two waves of this virus and learnt much along the way, and with a vaccine rollout we have a real opportunity now to see an end to the disruption, the personal impact and the level of death and harm,\" Mr Killens said.\n\n\"By the time we get to the other side of the spring, probably we will be able to return to some kind of normality whatever that will be 18 months into a pandemic.\n\n\"There's a couple of difficult weeks to come, but if we can emerge through February and March, provided we all stick to the rules, because it's easy for the virus to grab hold again if we get complacent .... we'll be in a far better position as we come to the spring.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "Now 20, he was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court after admitting inciting terrorism overseas\n\nThe youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Blackburn, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian to launch attacks in 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life that year after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.\n\nBut the Parole Board now says it is \"satisfied\" he is suitable for release.\n\n\"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in detention, and the evidence presented at the hearings, the panel was satisfied that RXG was suitable for release,\" the board said in a document detailing the decision.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how at the age of 14, the boy adopted an older persona in messages to alleged Australian jihadist Sevdet Besim, 18, instructing him to kill police officers at the remembrance parade.\n\nHe sent thousands of messages suggesting Mr Besim get his \"first taste of beheading\" by attacking \"a proper lonely person\".\n\nAustralian police were alerted to the plot after British officers discovered material on the teenager's phone.\n\nA written summary of the Parole Board decision reveals that two hearings took place to consider the decision - hearings that included evidence from RXG himself.\n\nThe summary records that \"no-one at the hearing considered there to be a need for further time\" in custody and that \"all necessary work had been completed\".\n\nRXG, who became eligible for parole in October, is said to have \"undertaken extensive specialist work in detention to address his offending behaviour, his understanding of Islam and to develop his level of maturity\".\n\nThe Parole Board panel noted that \"considerable progress that had been made\", the summary records.\n\nLicense conditions for the 20-year-old a requirement to live at designated address, wearing an electronic tag, and limits on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nAnzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand\n\nA ban on identifying RXG, made when he was sentenced, would normally have expired on his 18th birthday, but a number of media organisations made representations to the High Court, arguing that he should be named.\n\nBut in 2019, the court ruled identifying him was likely to cause him \"serious harm\", and so granted him lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe decision taken by the judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, has only been made in a small number of cases.\n\nIn 2016, two brothers who had tortured other children in South Yorkshire were granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nLifelong anonymity under new identities was also been granted after release to Mary Bell, the Newcastle child killer; Maxine Carr, who obstructed police investigating the 2002 Soham murders by her partner Ian Huntley; and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger.", "Soaring shipping costs are likely to cause a bounce in the cost of trampolines in the UK this summer, according to one games retailer.\n\nJames Owen, owner of Outdoor Toys, says high transport costs and port congestion may mean larger toys such as swings, trampolines and climbing frames will be more expensive.\n\nTrampoline prices could soar by 40-50%, he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"The port congestion just keeps snowballing,\" he said.\n\n\"More and more issues keep arising,\" Mr Owen added. \"We can't get space out of China, there's a container shortage.\n\n\"Hauliers are really stretched, rates keep climbing.\"\n\nHis firm makes some products in the UK already and rising shipping costs will mean it will become economical to make more.\n\n\"For the first time ever, the ocean freight outweighs the cost of the item,\" in some cases, he said.\n\nDemand for Chinese goods has soared around the world in recent months, placing a strain on existing shipping capacity.\n\nThe price of shipping a 40-foot container on major world trade routes has almost tripled since a year ago, according to research firm Drewry.\n\nHauliers in the UK are also charging more. It used to cost about £650 to haul a container from the port of Felixstowe to the company's site in mid-Wales, Mr Owen says.\n\nThe cost is now up to £1,800 per container \"if you can get the haulier to take it,\" he says.\n\nWhether people will pay the premium for a new outdoor toy is \"a good question,\" he said.\n\nIt emerged over the weekend that Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by seven wickets; take 1-0 series lead\n\nEngland wrapped up a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test of a two-match series in Galle.\n\nResuming on 38-3, needing another 36 for victory, Jonny Bairstow and debutant Dan Lawrence carried England to their target inside 35 minutes on the final morning of an enthralling encounter.\n\nBairstow ended unbeaten on 35 and Lawrence 21, although the latter survived an lbw review against Dilruwan Perera and Sri Lanka did not refer another shout that replays suggested would have been overturned.\n\nAfter England slipped to 14-3 during a frantic end to day four, Bairstow and Lawrence's unbroken 62-run stand guided them to an ultimately comfortable win.\n\nThe second Test starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'It wasn't perfect but England's win ticked a lot of boxes'\n• None 'We are on an upward curve' - Root savours fourth straight away win\n\nEngland are now unbeaten in nine Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, they have won four consecutive overseas Tests for the first time since 1957, and boast five successive wins in Sri Lanka.\n\nVictory improved England's chances of reaching the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in June. They remain fourth in the standings, with the two top sides playing in the final.\n\nEngland out of the blocks quickly\n\nRoot's side have been slow starters in series in recent years - they lost the opening Test against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 2019, and against West Indies last summer.\n\nHowever, Sunday's top-order wobble aside, they were rarely troubled in the first of six successive Tests on the subcontinent - an achievement made all the more impressive given they had one day of match practice before this game.\n\nRoot scored a magnificent 226 in the first innings, and off-spinner Dom Bess and slow left-armer Jack Leach, who returned match figures of 8-130 and 6-177 respectively, found more rhythm as the game progressed, which bodes well for the sterner four-Test series in India that follows this tour.\n\nLawrence can take considerable credit for his first-innings 73 and the manner in which he helped negate England's second-innings nerves alongside the efficient Bairstow, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler was tidy behind the stumps throughout on a dry, turning pitch.\n\nSri Lanka, meanwhile, were left wondering what if. Their collapse to 135 all out on the first day was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", and even an extra 50 runs could have changed the course of this game.\n\n'Very impressive' - what they said\n\nEngland captain and player of the match Joe Root: \"To come here with the little preparation we have had and play in the manner we have is very impressive.\n\n\"We worked extremely hard and for the spinners to come out of the game with two five-fors is a great effort. Without the preparation, it is testament to their characters.\n\n\"It is a good start to the tour. We know we have to keep getting better but I am really pleased with the start we have had.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad on BBC Test Match Special: \"It looked like we could lose a wicket every ball last night. We were pretty happy when play finished last night.\n\n\"It felt calm here this morning. We had a job to do and felt we had enough in tank to chase 30-odd. To do it without losing a wicket is awesome.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"When I think about the preparation England have had, in Loughborough in a tent, one day in the middle in Sri Lanka and then rain, to put in this kind of performance is a great effort.\n\n\"I can't think Sri Lanka will gift England two poor days in the next Test - that match will be really tough.\n\n\"I am happy England have played in difficult conditions and won the game.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed in first innings with bat and ball. As a batting unit, especially playing at home, you have to get a big total in the first innings. It cost us the game.\n\n\"Everyone did their bit in the second innings. We played outstanding knocks in the second innings. We have to take the positives out of this.\"\n\nSri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur: \"The first innings was very poor - it was an unacceptable batting performance.\n\n\"Even if we get 220 in the first innings we keep ourselves massively in the game, so that's where it was lost. We did put it right in the second innings. But it was too late.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches including Manchester United's visit to Anfield: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "BT is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it failed to compensate elderly customers who were overcharged for landlines for years.\n\nIn 2017, Ofcom said people who only had a landline telephone were \"getting poor value for money in a market that is not serving them well enough\".\n\nAs a result, BT reduced the price of its landlines by £7 a month.\n\nBut campaigners are unhappy that \"loyal customers\" have still not been compensated for previous overcharging.\n\n\"Ofcom made it very clear that BT had spent years overcharging landline customers, but did not order it to repay the money it made from this,\" said Justin Le Patourel, founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (CALL) and a telecoms consultant who worked for Ofcom for 13 years.\n\n\"We think millions of BT's most loyal landline customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each, and the filing of this claim starts that process.\"\n\nBT said it \"strongly disagrees\" with the claim that it had engaged in anti-competitive behaviour and intends to defend itself \"vigorously\" in court.\n\nA spokesman for BT said: \"We take our responsibilities to older and more vulnerable customers very seriously and will defend ourselves against any claim that suggests otherwise.\n\n\"For many years we've offered discounted landline and broadband packages in what is a competitive market with competing options available, and we take pride in our work with elderly and vulnerable groups, as well as our work on the Customer Fairness agenda.\"\n\nLaw firm Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) worth £600m. The claim could result in payments of up to £500 each for 2.3 million BT customers, should it be successful.\n\nThe case represents customers who purchased a BT landline contract, but did not also take BT broadband or pay TV packages.\n\nSince 2009, the wholesale costs of providing landlines to consumers have been falling by at least 25%.\n\nBut in October 2017, Ofcom found that all major landline providers in the UK had increased the line rental charges by 28-41%.\n\nOfcom strongly criticised market leader BT for raising prices, saying that customers were being given \"poor value\" for money.\n\nIt added that many of the affected customers had \"been with BT for decades\" and were more likely to be old, on low incomes and vulnerable.\n\nBT announced that it would slash its landline prices by £84 a year.\n\nBT's argument is that Ofcom's final statement did not explicitly accuse it of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nBut independent telecoms analyst Ian Grant says that the telecoms giant \"has a history of abusing its position\".\n\n\"Earlier in 2017, Ofcom fined BT £42m because it was late providing high-speed Ethernet lines, and forced BT to make good the losses of firms like Vodafone and TalkTalk,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Ofcom, which has a statutory duty to stop consumer abuses, could have done the same for these customers. Instead, it allowed BT to get away with a 37% price cut, at a time when the difference between its costs and what it charged customers had risen between 50-74%.\"\n\nMr Grant added: \"It is especially poor that BT was overcharging customers who were mostly over 65, more than three-quarters of whom had never used a different provider, and for whom the telephone was their only communications link.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nóra Quoirin's parents: \"The inquest is a battle we must continue in Nóra's name\"\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle says she believes her daughter's body was placed by somebody in the spot she was found.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019.\n\nHer body was found near the resort nine days after she went missing. A coroner recorded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who thinks Nora was abducted, said the family would \"never give up their fight for justice\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, and her parents have always believed that wandering off from the resort - which is about 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur - was not something their daughter would have done.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Nóra had died three days before her body was found, due to gastrointestinal bleeding from hunger and stress endured over a prolonged period.\n\nBut Mrs Quoirin points out that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in the seven days leading up to her death, with police suggesting the teenager been \"alive and moving\" during the first stages of the search.\n\n\"The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point,\" Mrs Quoirin told the BBC.\n\nNóra's parents Maebh and Sebastien Quoirin want there to be a revision of the inquest verdict\n\nThe teenager's mother pointed out that the inquest had not explained how her daughter ended up in the jungle, where her unclothed body was eventually found by a group of volunteers.\n\n\"I suppose the easiest one to dwell on was the fact there was an open window [in the family's chalet],\" said Mrs Quoirin, who is originally from Belfast.\n\n\"Someone opened that window, it wasn't any of us. That is totally unexplained.\"\n\nMalaysian police have always treated Nóra's disappearance as a missing person case. They maintain there was no suggestion of abduction, kidnap or foul play.\n\nDuring the search for her daughter, Mrs Quoirin told emergency services that their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\n\"Nóra always looked to someone else for reassurance on what she should do next so the idea that she would have climbed out a window - even found a window or seen a window in the pitch black - is in our view crazy,\" Mrs Quorin said.\n\n\"If she had somehow mistaken which door was for the bathroom and had gone out the front door for instance... she was barefoot, she would have instantly felt pain and she would have been absolutely petrified.\"\n\nNóra's parents have asked for a revision of the inquest verdict as \"so many questions have been left unanswered\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\n\"I think it will be impossible to ever have all the answers to questions that inevitably we will agonise over for the rest of our lives,\" Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"We can do more justice by at least recognising who this child was and that she wouldn't have - couldn't have - done the things that have been ruled through this verdict of misadventure.\n\n\"It's our duty to Nora to stand up for that, to really recognise who she was and stand up in the name of all children with special needs, to recognise who these children are, what they represent in our society.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "A doctor has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a \"highly-respected\" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed in his own home.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest in Halam, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday.\n\nJonathan Peter Brooks, also charged with three counts of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Perks is currently in a serious but stable condition, police said.\n\nMr Brooks, 56, of Landseer Road, Southwell, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 15 February.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nThe two men were colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"This incident has affected many of our staff who worked closely with, and are friends with Graeme.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Graeme and his family at this time.\"\n\nMr Perks had served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), which described him as \"one of the most highly-regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nPolice previously said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT on Thursday, after an intruder was believed to have smashed their way into the house.\n\nPolice said Mr Perks was stabbed at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, while his family were upstairs\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia, but returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham.\n\nHe and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors, and were featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keelan Wilson was 15 when he was stabbed more than 40 times\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a \"well-planned execution\".\n\nKeelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018.\n\nThe four murderers acted \"like a pack of animals\" amid rising gang violence in the city, police said.\n\nKeelan's mother Kelly Ellitts said the convictions meant justice for her son, but added \"nothing would bring Keelan back\".\n\nIt emerged a few days after the murder that when an ambulance was called for the wounded boy, his final words included \"tell my mum I love her\".\n\nThe trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the night time attack - carried out by Brian Sasa and Nehemie Tampwo, each aged 20, along with Tyrique King and Zenay Pennant-Phillips, both 19 - was \"not in any way spontaneous\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Barnes from the West Midlands force said Keelan had the \"single worst set of injuries\" he had seen on a victim in more than six years investigating homicide.\n\nThere had been increasing acts of violence between opposing gangs leading up to the murder, including disorder earlier that day, police said.\n\nThat included weapons being brandished in Wolverhampton city centre, and in another incident, Keelan and two others being shot at by a group of youngsters on bikes. No one was hurt.\n\nBut later on, the court heard, the group of four killers ran towards Keelan as he sat in a taxi close to his home, then pulled open the rear door and \"set about him with weapons\", inflicting more than 40 knife wounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keelan Wilson's mother Kelly Ellitts 'hit the floor' when she saw he had been stabbed\n\nMichael Duck QC, prosecuting, said the killing \"was not in any way a spontaneous act of violence\".\n\nHe said: \"This was a well-planned, targeted group attack by a number of youths armed with knives, and that was with the plan to execute another young man.\"\n\nDuring the 13-week trial, jurors heard there was evidence to suggest the victim had \"become embroiled in gang culture\", with his killers believing he had switched factions.\n\nDet Sgt Barnes said it was \"difficult\" to pinpoint a motive \"because Keelan wasn't on the police radar particularly for any such activity\".\n\nKeelan was wounded just metres from his home, receiving 43 stab wounds in total, according to police.\n\nHe had been driving with a friend - with whom he met up after the shooting incident - when their car broke down, which led to a taxi being called.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said while Keelan was attacked on boarding the vehicle, his friend was \"left unscathed\" and fled, making it \"evident\" to authorities that \"Keelan was the only target\".\n\nMs Ellitts said she lived with the shock of her son's death daily.\n\n\"This isn't something that you think of every now and again, this is a daily thing that you have to live with.\n\n\"It's terrible my daughters won't know who he is.\"\n\nOn the day of Keelan's death, CCTV captured a scene from the Wolverhampton city centre disorder that police said was linked to gang activity\n\nSasa, of Long Ley, Heath Town, Wolverhampton; King, of Chelwood Gardens, Wolverhampton; Tampwo of Fern Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes; and Pennant-Phillips, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, had all denied murder.\n\n\"Keelan was a child who had his whole life ahead of him,\" Det Sgt Barnes said.\n\nThe convictions, he added, came after a \"very difficult and long investigation,\" with more than 2,000 lines of inquiry having to be examined.\n\nSome lines of investigation had been met with a \"wall of silence,\" he said.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers said: \"It is an utter tragedy that a 15-year-old child lost his life at the hands of others who are barely older than he.\"\n\nSentencing is set to take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Tell mum I love her' said stabbed boy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, was given a Chinese-developed vaccine\n\nA nurse has received Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine dose after regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.\n\nRegulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distributed among all 27 states.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest death toll from Covid-19 and cases are rising again across the country.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe president, who caught Covid-19 last year and recovered, has said he will not take a vaccine.\n\nAuthorities reported 551 new fatalities on Sunday, the first time in six days that it had fallen short of 1,000 although this could reflect a delay in the reporting of numbers over the weekend.\n\nIn all, more than 209,000 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in Brazil, a raw total figure only exceeded by the US.\n\nOver 8.4 million infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic - the third-highest tally in the world.\n\nHealth Minister Eduardo Pazuello told reporters that the national vaccination programme in the country of 211 million people would begin in earnest in the coming days. Two Brazilian biomedical centres which have been given approval to produce the jabs will be heavily involved.\n\nAbout six million doses of the Sinovac-developed CoronaVac have already been produced in Brazil, while the government is waiting for shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a laboratory in India.\n\nShortly after Anvisa's board gave emergency approval, Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, became the first person to be inoculated with CoronaVac.\n\nHer vaccination was organised by the São Paulo state government, which is led by Mr Bolsonaro's main political rival, João Doria.\n\nThis has been a rare piece of good news today for Brazilians who are grappling with a devastating second wave.\n\nFrom where I am, the city of Manaus, the vaccine does not feel real. People here are trying to recover a collapsed health system and doing what they can to keep their sick relatives alive.\n\nThe pandemic has become deeply political in Brazil. President Bolsonaro continues to present himself as a vaccine sceptic and he was notably absent as the vaccines were approved. Instead, Monday's newspapers will no doubt have São Paulo Governor Doria slapped on their front pages.\n\nHe is expected to run in next year's presidential elections and has backed the Sinovac vaccine from the very start. He was once a Bolsonaro ally and is now his nemesis - but there is no doubt who is leading the way in trying to get the population vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this week researchers said the Chinese vaccine had been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials. This, results showed, was significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nCoronaVac is also being used in China, Indonesia and Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news comes after revelations that a new coronavirus variant has emerged in Brazil. Several cases were traced back to the Amazonas state, where a state of emergency is in place.\n\nManaus, the state capital, has been hit especially hard, with beds and life-saving oxygen running low. Refrigerated containers have also been brought to hospitals to help store bodies.\n\nNeighbouring Venezuela said it had sent a convoy of trucks with oxygen supplies to help Amazonas.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism for his handling of Brazil's outbreak, and several anti-government protests were held last week.\n\nAn opponent of lockdowns, he has previously blamed state governors and mayors for the Covid crisis, saying the federal government has provided all the resources needed to tackle the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack\n\nA warning has been issued by royal parks police after a dog carried out a \"relentless\" attack on a deer that had to be put down.\n\nFootage shows the dog savaging the red deer in London's Richmond Park.\n\nCases of pets worrying deer in London's eight royal parks have shot up during lockdown, police say. They are urging owners to keep dogs on leads.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, a 10-year-old child was injured by a herd of deer being chased by a dog in Bushy Park.\n\nPolice said the incident in the park in Richmond-upon-Thames, which left the child needing hospital treatment, underlined the need for people to keep their dogs on a lead if they are unsure how they will react to deer.\n\nOn Friday, Franck Hiribarne, 44, from Kingston in south-west London, admitted causing or permitting an animal he was in charge of to injure another animal, in relation to the Richmond Park attack.\n\nWimbledon magistrates heard the doe suffered deep wounds, then received a broken leg when it was hit by a car as it tried to flee from the dog. Witnesses described the attack as \"relentless\".\n\nThe deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack in October.\n\nMr Hiribarne, who reported the matter himself to the Royal Parks Office, said he usually walked his red setter Alfie on a lead until he was well away from any grazing deer, and that the dog had been responding well to \"off-lead\" commands.\n\nThe dog owner, who was fined £600, said in a statement: \"I was genuinely shocked and sorry for what had happened and since then I have refrained completely from letting Alfie off the leash in any park.\n\n\"I have also taken a special dog trainer specialised in gundogs to control more accurately any of his hunting instincts. He has made great progress.\"\n\nFour deer have died from dog attacks in the royal parks since March 2020, while there have been 58 incidents of dogs chasing the herds - a big increase on previous years - according to the manager of Richmond Park.\n\nPart of the increase is thought to be down to new dog owners who are unfamiliar with the best conduct around wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville has left his role as manager of England's women and been appointed in charge of David Beckham's Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.\n\nThe 43-year-old was appointed as England boss in January 2018 and his contract was set to end in July.\n\nThe Football Association says it will \"shortly confirm\" an interim head coach until Sarina Wiegman's arrival.\n\nNetherlands manager Wiegman will take on the role after the delayed Tokyo Olympics in August.\n\nFormer Manchester United and Everton defender Neville was the leading contender to manage Great Britain at the Games, but his move to the United States has left the FA needing another option.\n\n\"This is a very young club with a lot of promise and upside, and I am committed to challenging myself, my players and everyone around me to grow and build a competitive soccer culture we can all be proud of,\" Neville said of his American move.\n\nBeckham said of his former Manchester United team-mate: \"I have known Phil since we were both teenagers at the academy.\n\n\"We share a footballing DNA having been trained by some of the best leaders in the game, and it's those values that I have always wanted running through our club.\"\n\nThe MLS side had been managed by former Uruguay striker Diego Alonso before the 45-year-old left by mutual consent earlier this month.\n\nBeckham added: \"Anyone who has played or worked with Phil knows he is a natural leader, and I believe now is the right time for him to join.\"\n\nNeville led the Lionesses to their first SheBelieves Cup title in 2019 and fourth place at the Women's World Cup later the same year, but results since that tournament have been poor.\n\nEngland's struggles under Neville continued at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, where a late defeat by Spain in the final match was their seventh loss in 11 games.\n\nThe Lionesses have not played since that game last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It has been an honour to manage England and I have enjoyed three of the best years of my career,\" said Neville, who won 19 of his 35 games in charge.\n\n\"The players who wear the England shirt are some of the most talented and dedicated athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with.\n\n\"They have challenged me and improved me as a coach, and I am very grateful to them for the fantastic memories we have shared.\"\n\nNeville, who had no previous experience in the women's game before taking over, has made a \"significant contribution\" during his three-year spell, said Baroness Campbell, the FA's director of women's football.\n\n\"The commitment, dedication and respect he has shown the position has been clear to see,\" she added.\n\n\"I will personally miss our many conversations about ways we can improve and progress.\"\n\nEngland are ranked sixth in the world, having been third when Neville succeeded Mark Sampson.\n\nNeville's record against the best sides came under particular scrutiny, with England winning one of their nine games against teams ranked in the top five in the world during his reign.\n\nNeville's record against teams ranked in the world's top five\n\n\"After steadying the ship at a challenging period, he helped us to win the SheBelieves Cup for the first time, reach the World Cup semi-finals and qualify for the Olympics,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"Given his status as a former Manchester United and England player, he did much to raise the profile of our team.\n\n\"He has used his platform to champion the women's game, worked tirelessly to support our effort to promote more female coaches and used his expertise to develop many of our younger players.\"\n\nWhat happens next with England?\n\nThe FA is expected to name England's interim head coach in the next few days.\n\nAmong the favourites is former Norway midfielder Hege Riise, one of the greatest players of her generation - a European Championship winner in 1993, a World Cup winner in 1995 and an Olympic gold medallist in 2000.\n\nAfter retiring as a player, Riise moved into club management in Norway and also coached the country's Under-23 side before spending three years as assistant to then-USA head coach Pia Sundhage from 2009.\n\nShe then joined the set-up at Norwegian club LSK Kvinner in 2012 - becoming head coach in 2017 - as they won six successive titles between 2014 and 2019, while also reaching the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRiise was one of seven nominees for the Fifa best women's coach award in 2020, won by Wiegman in December.\n\nThe new interim manager has no England fixtures booked in the diary, though there has reportedly been discussions over a mini-tournament during the next international window in February.\n\nEngland will not be taking part in the SheBelieves Cup but could host a tournament which would see three other nations take part in a round-robin event.\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches, including Manchester United's visit to Liverpool: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Morgan Le-Riche and other students have questioned if they should be paying full tuition fees\n\n\"I am paying £9,000 for a university degree that is causing me nothing but anxiety and stress.\"\n\nFor Morgan Le-Riche, the university experience since the coronavirus pandemic hit has not been worth the fee.\n\nSome students are calling for reduced tuition fees and more support.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided the most generous student support package in the UK and has appointed a dedicated minister for mental health.\n\nIn announcing a lockdown earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said students in England would not return to the classroom until mid February, with calls for clarity over what will happen in Wales.\n\nMorgan, who is studying criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Wales, said \"something needs to be done to help us students\".\n\nHer Facebook post calling for more help was shared 3,000 times in three days - something that surprised her but also highlighted the depth of feeling.\n\nStudents face an uncertain time with with restrictions currently in place\n\nThe second year student said: \"I don't think the government is understanding students, instead they are only recognising primary and secondary schools - there's no recognition for university students.\"\n\nMorgan was given assignments to complete over Christmas, but said her lecturers had turned off their emails so she could not seek guidance when she was finding work difficult.\n\n\"I feel like the amount of stress I've had has meant I'm not doing a high enough standard of work, that I would normally do, due to the lack of assistance,\" she said.\n\nShe said more time with tutors and spaces for students to come together to discuss mental health would be beneficial.\n\nThe University of South Wales said their course teams are committed to providing \"comprehensive support\" and are \"readily available to offer help and guidance for students\".\n\nStudents in England have been told to work online and remain where they are\n\nA petition calling for the UK government to reduce university student tuition fees from £9,250 to £3,000 has gained more than 400,000 signatures online.\n\nMorgan thinks she has been \"massively let down\" and there needs to be a \"heavy reduction\" on the amount students are paying for their courses.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are the only country in the whole of Europe that provides equivalent up front living costs grants and loans for full and part-time undergraduates, and for post-graduates.\n\n\"This already covers campus-based and distance learners and will continue throughout the academic year.\"\n\nDanielle Herbert believes university students need more focus from government\n\nJournalism student Danielle Herbert, who also studies at the University of South Wales, said online learning has helped her mental health because otherwise a lot of her face-to-face interactions would be limited.\n\nDespite \"lecturers trying their best\", students' experiences since March last year have not been \"adequate for a £9,000 fee\".\n\nThe third-year student from Swindon said the prime minister's announcement of an England-wide lockdown was stressful \"because there was no mention of universities\".\n\nShe said: \"I was left very unclear and confused as to where I stood on travelling back to Wales. As someone who suffers from anxiety, I rely on concrete facts and that wasn't provided. We have been ignored by the prime minister.\n\n\"I had just paid my rent for this term - which was £2,300 - and I looked at my mum and dad and said: 'Am I even going to be able to go back to my student flat'?\"\n\nDanielle has called for more help for students in dealing with mental health issues during the pandemic\n\nShe does not believe students have had the same level of support as secondary school pupils, adding: \"We're still expected to produce the same standard of work without protection whilst there's a pandemic going on - it's really unrealistic.\"\n\nDanielle said having a \"no detriment\" policy in place would help to relieve students' stress.\n\n\"I think there's a real issue amongst students and students' mental health and it's only grown because of coronavirus. I think we will see the consequences of that if nothing is done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"To support mental health services, we have made an additional £9.9m available, as part of efforts to ensure people can access the right support when they need it.\n\n\"In October we announced an additional £10m to support mental health services for higher education students in Wales to increase capacity in students' unions and universities to provide support services.\n\n\"This is in addition to the £27m Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund announced in the summer.\"\n\nThe University of South Wales said the safety and wellbeing of students is its priority and students have access to a \"wide range of comprehensive support for their health, mental health and wellbeing\".\n\n\"Recognising that a number of staff would be on leave over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the course team let students know they were available for help and support right up until the end of term and students were encouraged to ask for support if they needed it,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are providing a full and interactive blended learning offer this term, in line with Welsh Government guidance, so that students can receive good experiences and a high-quality education, enabling them to progress and complete their studies on time.\"", "Software giant Github has apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to be careful about Nazis.\n\nThe employee was fired two days after using the word to describe participants in the US Capitol riots.\n\nBut Github now says that decision was a mistake, and its head of HR has resigned over the scandal.\n\nThe company says it has offered the fired employee his job back, and clarified that \"employees are free to express concerns about Nazis\".\n\nMicrosoft-owned Github is one of the most popular software development tools in the world, with more than 50 million users. News of the internal row was first reported by Business Insider.\n\nPeople associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories stormed Congress.\n\nAs it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: \"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.\"\n\nBut the comment sparked criticism from a co-worker about the use of the word \"Nazi\" to describe the rioters, calling it \"untasteful conduct\" for the workplace.\n\nThe Jewish employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Techcrunch he had been \"genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members\".\n\nTwo days later, he was fired for his \"patterns of behaviour\".\n\nBut the firing led to an outcry from many more co-workers, with hundreds signing an internal letter calling on Github to explain the decision - and to publicly denounce Nazis.\n\nAmid the outcry, the company opened an investigation with an external investigator.\n\n\"The investigation revealed significant errors of judgment and procedure,\" chief executive Erica Brescia wrote in a blogpost. \"Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.\"\n\nShe said the firm had \"reversed the decision to separate with the employee\", and had contacted him - but it is not clear if the employee wishes to return after the treatment he received.\n\nThe company has also issued statements condemning white supremacists, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and those who took part in the Capitol riots.", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A small group of armed protesters held a rally in front of the capitol building in Texas\n\nSmall groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.\n\nProtests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere.\n\nBut many other statehouses were quiet, amid a ramping up of security across US legislatures. No clashes were reported.\n\nThe FBI has warned of armed protests ahead of Wednesday's inauguration.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden will take office two weeks after pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January, leaving five dead, including a police officer.\n\nMore than 25,000 National Guard troops are being deployed to secure Washington. In a sign of just how worried officials are about potential unrest, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Sunday that all Guard members were being vetted because of fears of an insider threat.\n\nAlso on Sunday, a county official from New Mexico was arrested in Washington in connection with the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nCouy Griffin, the founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, had vowed to return on inauguration day with firearms to \"embrace my Second Amendment\".\n\nMany cities had prepared for potentially violent protests over the weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard troops.\n\nPosts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks had called for armed demonstrations on Sunday in particular, but some militias told their followers not to attend, citing heavy security or claiming the planned events were police traps.\n\nSmall crowds of protesters numbering in the dozens gathered in only some cities, leaving the streets surrounding many statehouses largely empty.\n\nMembers of the the Boogaloo Bois were seen outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing\n\nThe New York Times reported about 25 members of the Boogaloo Bois movement were among heavily-armed protesters who gathered at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. But the men - who are part of a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the US government - said they were there for a long-planned gun rights rally.\n\nMeanwhile in Michigan, about two dozen people - some carrying rifles - protested outside the statehouse in Lansing, as police watched on.\n\n\"I am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nA similarly small group of about a dozen protesters, a few armed with rifles, stood outside the Texas Capitol in Austin.\n\nOutside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg, one Trump supporter noted the poor turn-out, telling Reuters: \"There's nothing going on.\"\n\nMore protests are expected on Wednesday, when Mr Biden will officially be sworn into office, replacing Mr Trump as president.\n\nMr Biden will issue executive orders to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.\n\nThe president-elect is also expected to focus on reuniting families separated at the US-Mexico border, and to issue mandates on Covid-19 and mask-wearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Capitol is on high alert ahead of Biden's inauguration\n\nMuch of Washington DC has been locked down ahead of the inauguration. The National Mall, which is usually thronged with thousands of people for inaugurations, has been shut at the request of the Secret Service.\n\nThe Biden team had already asked Americans to avoid travelling to the nation's capital for the inauguration because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local officials said people should watch the event remotely.", "China's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than four decades last year, official figures show, but remains on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.\n\nThe economy grew 2.3% last year, despite Covid-19 shutdowns causing output to slump in early 2020.\n\nStrict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses helped the economy recover.\n\nGrowth in the final three months of the year picked up to 6.5%.\n\n\"The GDP data shows the economy has almost normalised. This momentum will continue, although the current Covid-19 outbreak in a couple of provinces in northern China might temporarily cause fluctuation,\" said Yue Su, principal economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nChina's mainland share markets as well as Hong Kong's Hang Seng posted modest gains on the latest figures, which exceeded economists' expectations, according to a Reuters poll.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 was still a major drain on growth in 2020, with nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants forcing economic growth down to its slowest rate for four decades.\n\nChina's manufacturing sector appears to have recovered, with Monday's data showing a 7.3% increase in industrial output.\n\nExports have also led the way. Data last week showed Chinese exports grew by more than expected in December, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThat is despite a stronger yuan, which makes Chinese exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nChina's economy has seen a strong rebound, while the rest of the world struggles with anaemic demand, millions of job losses, and businesses shutting down.\n\nChina's economic engine roared back to life after a brutal lockdown that saw the Chinese economy contract by a historic 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nWe should always be circumspect about Chinese data - with the usual caveat that the trajectory of the data rather than the figures themselves are a useful guide to how China's economy is growing.\n\nWhat these numbers show is that China's strategy of locking down cities hard and quickly has worked.\n\nA combination of government-led investment and global demand for Chinese goods also helped to power a rapid recovery, and boost exports.\n\nStill - this is the lowest rate of annual growth in more than 40 years for the economic giant. Worries over a resurgence of the virus are also clouding China's growth outlook, with consumer demand still weak.\n\nAnd Beijing is trying to navigate a prickly trade relationship with the US, with the incoming administration unlikely to be softer on China than President Donald Trump.\n\nAll of these challenges will no doubt weigh on Chinese growth in 2021 - but they seem to be in a better place than the rest of the world's major economies.\n\nIt was not all good news from the latest figures.\n\nLi Wei, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said pandemic-related exports and credit-fuelled car and housing sales accounted for much of the growth, while domestic demand lagged behind.\n\n\"Domestic household consumption of food, clothing, furniture and utilities remains below pre-pandemic levels, while the hospitality and transportation sectors continue to face capacity and travel restrictions,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nAlthough retail sales grew by 4.6% in the fourth quarter of 2020, they fell by 3.9% for the year.\n\nMany analysts are tipping growth to accelerate in 2021, but the China Bureau of Statistics has warned of a \"grave and complex environment both at home and abroad\", with the pandemic having a \"huge impact\".\n\nChina still faces many challenges, including continuing trade tensions with the US and how they might play out under the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Although it has been common to hear and see the impact on care homes internationally throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one country where such insight has been rare is China.\n\nPrivate care homes have been growing in popularity in China in recent years, but there are some stigmas associated with the industry.\n\nIn China, many view nursing homes as going against the cultural concept of “filial piety”. This is the belief that the young should respect for and care for their elders, and so many believe the elderly should live with their children, and not live in care homes.\n\nHowever, as cases of the virus grow in the northeast of the country, the official broadcaster CCTV has offered viewers a rare insight into how China’s elderly in these facilities are being protected.\n\nA journalist today has visited the Shijiazhuang Nursing Home. Shijiazhuang is the Chinese city that has been hardest hit by the virus in recent weeks.\n\nIn a 30-minute livestream in which he is clad in hazmat suit and visor, journalist Gu Junling introduces viewers to how the facilities are kept safe, and shows viewers inside the care home’s stockrooms, packed with ample provisions for its residents.\n\nMany of the residents seem happy to speak to the journalist and talk about how they are healthy, and happy. Masks are mandatory for both residents and staff, even in the areas outside on-site. However, far from being kept under house arrest, residents are shown to have sufficient space to go outside, use computers and games rooms.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor Andy Gray who has died at the age of 61.\n\nThe Perth-born star was a well known face on TV and the stage for more than 40 years.\n\nAmong his best known on-screen roles were \"Chancer\" in the 1980s comedy City Lights and more recently \"Pete Galloway\" in BBC soap River City.\n\nHis River City co-star Gayle Telfer Stevens said Gray was a \"national treasure\".\n\nShe added: \"Not only was he an exceptional actor and entertainer who brought so much joy to so many people, he was an extraordinary man.\n\n\"When you were in his presence you could feel it was of greatness. The most kind, clever, funny beyond measure, beautiful man.\"\n\nAndy Gray, second from the left in the back row, starred as \"Chancer\" in the hit 1980s comedy show \"City Lights\"\n\nAndy Gray performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013\n\nSteve Carson, director of BBC Scotland, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that one of Scotland's much loved comedy actors and close friend to many at BBC Scotland, Andy Gray has passed away.\n\n\"On screen and in person he could always make you laugh and was one of the kindest people to have around on any production. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nAndy Gray, pictured with Grant Stott, had been one of the stars at Edinburgh's King's Theatre pantomime for years\n\nMartin McCardie, executive producer at BBC Scotland Studios, added: \"When Andy joined River City in 2016 he had an extremely successful stage, TV and film career behind him, but the character of Pete Galloway turned out to be one of the most popular ever to pass through Shieldinch.\n\n\"Andy took ill in 2018 and he had to leave the show and he had a difficult time. His ongoing recovery was borne with humour and gratitude for what he had. He had unfinished business on River City and we were looking forward to welcoming him back to film with us before the end of the current series.\"\n\nAndy Gray was genuinely one of the nicest people in the world of showbusiness.\n\nWhether you were an actor, or a journalist, or just someone who'd seen him in panto, he was always ready to have a chat.\n\nWhen he dropped out of his Fringe show in 2018, after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, he was inundated with good wishes, but said he wanted privacy to deal with his illness.\n\nHe retreated to his home in Perthshire and took the time to recover.\n\nWhen he returned to the stage of the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh for their 2019 panto, it was an emotional milestone.\n\nWrapped in his Batman dressing gown backstage (he was a huge fan with a shed full of film paraphernalia) he admitted it could be overwhelming. Sometimes the whoops and cheers of the audience at his arrival in the midst of a glitzy song and dance routine would go on for several minutes.\n\nHis co-stars Grant Stott and Allan Stewart watched from the wings and said it had restored the balance of their long established trio. The Kings is one of the only theatres to have a tradition of a pantette - where the cast sit in the auditorium and watch the front of house staff performing the show. Andy wasn't spared the merciless send up, nor would he have wanted to.\n\nDaughter Claire was also in the show - as one of the three bears - and her baby daughter was in Andy's arms for the curtain call. But whether his actual family, or his panto family, or the generations of people who've seen him onstage or screen, it was a moment of hope, as well as joy, that someone who'd brought so much laughter and entertainment to Scotland was back.\n\nThat's why his sudden death at 61 is such a cruel blow.\n\nHe had been campaigning to keep the Kings afloat, and was involved in online performances. He and Allan Stewart had hoped to appear in one of the few surviving pantomimes in Milton Keynes but that too was cancelled.\n\nFriends and colleagues knew he'd been admitted to hospital in the last few days, and feared the worst. Those who simply knew him as someone who made them laugh, on stage or screen, are no less bereft.\n\nTonight the world of Scottish entertainment is in mourning for a gifted comic actor, writer and genuinely nice man.", "Aberystwyth University's vice chancellor told students not to attend lectures unless \"absolutely necessary\"\n\nAberystwyth University has told its students not to return to campus following new advice from the Welsh Government.\n\nA phased return had been planned from 11 January, but this has now been postponed.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure said students should not attend the university, in Ceredigion, unless \"absolutely necessary.\"\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government told learners \"study from home if you can\".\n\nMs Treasure said: \"We are reviewing our plans for in-person teaching and will inform you as soon as we can. Whilst we are reviewing those plans, we don't want students travelling to the university unnecessarily.\"\n\nShe said there were certain exceptions, including students without internet access and those for whom laboratory access was essential.\n\nWales' Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said universities were reviewing their plans based on their individual circumstances.\n\n\"On return, students are also expected to take two asymptomatic tests and comply with rules as they re-join their term time household,\" she said.\n\nDespite the announcement, Bangor University said on Facebook on Friday that it \"falls under the rules of the Welsh Government which allow for a staggered return to blended learning\".\n\nCardiff University said earlier this week that most students would not return to face-to-face teaching until 22 February.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our message to students, staff and universities in general is the same as the rest of the population: Stay home, work or study from home if you can.\n\n\"Only attend your place of work or study if you can't work from home.\"\n\nThe new announcement came after calls for clarity were made because of differences with the rules in England.\n\nAt that point, the Welsh Government and Universities Wales said the plans agreed before Christmas would remain in place.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term unless there is a \"significant\" fall in Covid cases.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "Audi factories, like others, will make thousands fewer cars at the start of this year\n\nAudi is having to slow production because of a computer-chip shortage it is calling a \"crisis upon a crisis\".\n\nBoss Markus Duesmann said it was now aiming to make 10,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year and putting more than 10,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIts parent company, Volkswagen, announced its own go-slow due to a lack of chips last week, alongside rivals such as Honda.\n\nMr Duesmann told the Financial Times carmakers had been caught by surprise.\n\nAfter a poor start to 2020 for new car sales, manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nBut then, at the end of the year, \"everybody was quite surprised by the strength of the market\", Mr Duesmann said.\n\nHowever, ordering new chips is not simple.\n\nCCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber said: \"Semiconductors have a broad range of applications but a very limited pool of companies capable of manufacturing the silicon.\n\n\"Demand is high, and supply is tight\" and any sudden needs \"can prove very difficult to accommodate\".\n\n\"Modern cars are becoming computers on wheels, with an abundance of silicon required to control everything from the infotainment system to camera, radar and lidar,\" he said.\n\nThe demand from carmakers \"competes for manufacturing capacity with smartphones, servers and a host of other segments\".\n\nAnd a boom in the market for devices such as PCs and new game consoles was making it doubly difficult to book manufacturing time.\n\nThe shortages have seen Mercedes-maker Daimler, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all reportedly suspend production for days or weeks at a time.\n\nAnd German car-parts company Continental described \"largescale supply shortages\", with lead times of six to nine months, adding bottlenecks were expected to continue \"well into 2021, causing major disruptions\".", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff are in \"the eye of the storm\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says\n\nTen hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds in the most recent figures.\n\nIt comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care are rising.\n\nEngland's 140 acute trusts had 5,503 adult critical care beds on 10 January, with 4,632 in use.\n\nNHS bosses have warned hospitals could \"hit the limit\" of their capacity this week.\n\n\"I think, this next week, we will be at the limit of what we probably have the physical space and the people to safely do,\" Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said.\n\n\"And, of course, this is the week when we expect also the highest rate of admissions, the highest demand for the care that we're providing.\"\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England show the number of trusts that were, on average, at full capacity in adult critical care across an entire week rose from four to 10 in the week to 10 January.\n\nThis was the highest number in the last 10 weeks for which data was available.\n\nThe increase comes despite trusts adding an additional 50% \"surge\" capacity across the summer and autumn to cope with winter pressures, according to NHS England.\n\nOverall, 30 acute hospital trusts in England had no spare adult critical care beds on 10 January alone. But daily admissions figures can vary from day-to-day as patients move in and out of intensive care.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said nine critical care patients had recently been transferred to other parts of the country because of no beds being available in their local area.\n\nSpeaking about all admissions, Sir Simon said hospitals in England had seen an increase of 15,000 inpatients since Christmas Day.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients and staggeringly every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nHelen Buckingham, from Health think-tank The Nuffield Trust, said the NHS was facing a winter \"like no other\" and, on top of rising coronavirus hospital admissions, critical care beds were also required for non-Covid patients.\n\n\"The NHS has pulled out all the stops to create more beds this year, and hospitals are working together so that patients who need critical care can be moved to other hospitals as necessary - but without more fully trained critical care staff there isn't much further the service can go,\" she said.\n\nThe figures only tell part of the story. The creation of extra beds to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients has come at a price.\n\nCritical care beds have been set up in overspill areas including departments usually reserved for operations. What is more, there is no extra staff to look after these extra patients - so specialist intensive care nurses have been stretched across more patients than normal. Instead of providing one-to-one care for the most sick, some areas are seeing nurses looking after three or four patients.\n\nStaff from other areas have had to be redeployed into critical care departments too.\n\nThat of course comes at a cost to non-Covid services and is part of the reason we have seen planned surgery and even cancer care being cut back on.\n\nA leaked email recently revealed about 200 doctors would be redeployed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham amid fears its intensive care unit could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it had \"significantly\" more patients in hospital with Covid-19 than in April last year.\n\nThe trust had 147 critical care beds available across its hospitals as of 10 January, all of which were full as of the latest figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nA spokesman said the trust would continue to extend its intensive care teams \"so they are able to treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients and those who require time-critical surgery, including cancer operations\".\n\nAiredale NHS Foundation Trust, despite having nine critical care beds overall, said it did not normally experience full occupancy at this time in the year and the ward had both Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"We are experiencing normal winter pressures across the trust, combined with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients, particularly over the last week,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Every bed in ICU that is occupied by a Covid-19 patient is one less available for people who need that level of care for other reasons.\"\n\nSir Simon said the current number of patients in critical care was a \"clear indication of the huge pressure on the NHS\", including ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals.\n\n\"The likelihood is, even with a stabilising of infections in some parts of the country, we're still seeing increases in infections among the over-60s in many parts of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"The forecasts are the pressure on hospitals will only get more intense over the next several weeks.\"\n\nNHS England said critical care services were under \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nA spokeswoman added that hospitals had \"tried and tested plans in place\" to manage pressure from increased Covid-19 and non-Covid patients, including mutual aid practices where hospitals work together to manage admissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "A Republican lawmaker who had been in office for less than a week when she invoked German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Washington speech has apologised for saying that she agreed with the mass murderer.\n\nIllinois Congresswoman Mary Miller had said in a speech on Tuesday outside the Capitol, one day before her fellow Trump supporters ransacked the building, that Hitler had been \"right\".\n\nMiller told the crowd: \"You know, if we win a few elections we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts of our children.\n\n\"It’s the battle. Hitler was right on one thing - that whoever has the youth has the future.\"\n\nHitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933 Image caption: Hitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933\n\nThe comments drew large-scale condemnation, with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum saying in a statement that it \"unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was ‘right.’\"\n\nUnder Hitler, millions of Jews and other minority groups were murdered across Europe by Germany and its allies during World War Two.\n\nOn Friday, Miller insisted that she is not anti-semitic and accused other of \"trying to intentionally twist my words\".\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth,\" she said.\n\nCorrection 23rd June 2022: This post originally described Mary Miller as having praised Hitler and has been amended to make clear that she invoked Hitler in her speech.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "While GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled, the IGCSE exams will go ahead this summer\n\nThe IGCSE exams, usually only taken in private schools, are still going ahead this summer - even though GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled.\n\nExam boards that run IGCSEs plan to offer them, while many other exams have been stopped by the pandemic.\n\nIGCSE qualifications, alternative exams to GCSEs, are not usually available in state schools.\n\nPupils in England whose A-levels and GCSEs are cancelled will depend on replacement grades from teachers.\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's scrapping of exams this summer does not apply to students taking IGCSEs.\n\nA Department for Education report in 2019 found 94% of IGCSEs were taken in private schools, accounting for 164,000 exam entries.\n\nThe decision not to cancel them was welcomed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), representing some of the most prestigious independent schools.\n\nThe HMC's general secretary, Simon Hyde, said their schools \"would be the first to cheer if pupils educated by the state had the same opportunity\".\n\n\"The decision to cancel GCSEs was premature. Exams are the fairest way of assessing what learners know and understand and we would like to see as many pupils as possible take a form of exam in the summer,\" said Dr Hyde.\n\nIndependent schools often offer a mix of IGCSEs and GCSEs for different subjects, although IGCSEs do not count towards school league tables.\n\nThe qualifications - International GCSEs - are offered by Cambridge Assessment and Pearson and are taken in other countries as well as the UK. Both boards say they are planning to go ahead with exam papers for UK schools this summer.\n\nIGCSEs were not included in the cancellation of exams announced by England's Department for Education and it will be up to individual schools to decide whether to continue with them.\n\nJulie McCullloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said: \"It creates another inconsistency, but none of this is easy.\"\n\nShe said it created an \"odd situation\" when GCSEs were cancelled but IGCSEs were going ahead, but she recognised that an international qualification could need a common approach across different countries.\n\nWith the latest lockdown and most pupils studying at home, GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, the exams watchdog Ofqual will launch a consultation next week on a replacement way of deciding grades - but Ofqual does not regulate IGCSEs and they will not be part of the watchdog's proposals.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident\n\nA fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160.\n\nPolice said it was \"crucial\" he was caught as soon as possible as he \"may endanger people's lives\".\n\nDet Insp Kevin Ives described it as a \"disgusting and totally unacceptable assault\".\n\nIt comes after the NHS warned people that no-one should be turning up at doorsteps offering a vaccine for payment, following a spate of fake text messages.\n\nUnder the current coronavirus vaccine rollout plans, people will be invited to receive the vaccine by their GP or healthcare provider.\n\nPolice said the victim allowed the man into her home on the afternoon of 30 December after he said he was from the NHS and there to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nShe said she was jabbed in the arm with a \"dart-like implement\" before being charged £160, which the man said would be refunded by the NHS.\n\nPolice said it was not known what substance, if any, was administered, but the woman had been checked at her local hospital and showed no ill effects.\n\nDet Insp Ives appealed for information to help identify the suspect.\n\nHe added: \"It is crucial we catch him as soon as possible as not only is he defrauding individuals of money, he may endanger people's lives.\"\n\nThe man made a second visit to the woman's home on 4 January, when he asked for another £100, police said.\n\nThe man was spotted in the Tolworth area of Kingston-upon-Thames on 4 January\n\nOfficers released CCTV footage on Friday of a man dressed in a navy blue tracksuit with white stripes down the side, who they want to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nHe is described as a white man in his early 30s, who is about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, of medium build, with light brown hair that is combed back. He speaks with a London accent.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said: \"NHS England will never ask for bank details, Pin numbers or passwords, when contacting you about a vaccination.\n\n\"Any communication which claims to be from the NHS but asks for payment, or bank details, is fraudulent and can be ignored. It can be reported to police via Action Fraud.\n\n\"You will never be charged for the vaccine.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it is \"excellent news\" that a third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.\n\nIt is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being offered on the NHS.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine - 10 million more than planned - but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nIt is the last Covid vaccine with final trial data published.\n\nThere are hundreds still in development, with some expected to report findings in the near future.\n\nAround 1.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far, with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nThat figure includes almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England - people at highest risk of severe illness or death from the virus.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first, as set out in a list of nine high-priority groups, covering around 30 million people in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi welcomed the approval of the Moderna jab\n\nThe prime minister has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care homes residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"This is further great news and another weapon in our arsenal to tame this awful disease.\"\n\nThe UK had originally ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna jab, but has increased this to get even more people immunised as quickly as possible.\n\nIn total, the UK has now ordered 367 million doses of vaccines to protect against Covid-19.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, vaccine deployment minister, said: \"The NHS is pulling out all the stops to vaccinate those most at risk as quickly as possible, with over 1,000 vaccination sites live across the UK by the end of the week to provide easy access to everyone, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"The Moderna vaccine will be a vital boost to these efforts and will help us return to normal faster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Moderna vaccine, an RNA vaccine like Pfizer's, injects part of the virus's genetic code in order to provoke an immune response.\n\nIt requires temperatures of around -20C for shipping - similar to a normal freezer.\n\nIn comparison, the Pfizer/BioNTech one requires temperatures closer to -75C, making transport logistics much more difficult.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab is easier to store and distribute, as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature.\n\nAll of these vaccines require a second booster shot, but a first dose is likely to be given to as many people as possible.\n\nIn trials with more than 30,000, the Moderna vaccine offered nearly 95% protection from severe Covid.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and it takes time for protection to build. For all of the Covid vaccines, we still do not know how long immunity will last.\n\nPeople who have received a coronavirus vaccine should continue to follow social distancing rules to protect themselves and others.\n\nEU and US regulators have already approved the Moderna vaccine.", "The band recently became a trio (left-right): Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards\n\nLittle Mix have risen to top the top of UK singles chart after Christmas songs released their grip on the top 40.\n\nSweet Melody has become the band's fifth number one, three months after it was released - and will be their last with Jesy Nelson, who quit last year.\n\nThe 29-year-old said in December that nine years in the girl group had taken \"a toll on her mental health\".\n\nLittle Mix's victory is part of a huge chart upheaval, after 56 Christmas songs dropped out of the top 100.\n\nAmong them was last week's number one, Wham's Last Christmas, which set a new record for the biggest-ever fall from the top. The festive ballad has now left the chart altogether.\n\nThe previous record-holder - Three Lions, by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - fell from number one to 96 after England crashed out of the World Cup in 2018.\n\nSweet Melody has risen from number nine to number one this week, giving Little Mix their first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.\n\nJade Thirlwall told BBC Radio 1 the milestone was particularly important because it was \"the last single we did as a four with Jesy\".\n\n\"And it's even more special that now, going into 2021 as a three, we've got the first number one,\" she added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Charts This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nAcknowledging a fan campaign to boost the song's chart position, bandmate Perrie Edwards said: \"I just want to squish every single fan who managed to get it to number one.\n\n\"The power they have, I'm sorry. The song's been out for months!\"\n\nWith fans abandoning their festive playlists, the stage was also set for singles that had previously been forced out of the top 40 to stage a dramatic return.\n\nDua Lipa's Levitating jumped 63 places to number five, reclaiming a position it last held on 3 December; and Tate McRae's You Broke Me First rocketed from number 74 to nine. In total, there were 39 new entries or re-entries in the top 75.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's Evermore returned to number one, four weeks after its surprise pre-Christmas release, while companion album Folklore climbed to number 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Harry Styles' Fine Line reached a new chart peak at number two following the release of a video for his latest single Treat People With Kindness, which sees him dance with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\n\nLewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the UK's biggest-selling album of both 2019 and 2020 - also climbed to number six, notching up its 86th week in the top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Graham Norton has been the BBC's Mr Eurovision since 2009\n\nGraham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC Eurovision coverage, has said the song contest will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"There's definitely going to be a Eurovision... The competition element is going to happen,\" he said.\n\nContest organisers told the BBC: \"We can confirm the Eurovision Song Contest will definitely take place this year.\"\n\nBut pre-recorded performances may be used if acts cannot travel to Rotterdam or have to isolate when they get there.\n\nLast year's contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It was replaced in the UK with a programme looking back at the event's history, including a vote to find the greatest Eurovision song of all time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorton told US radio station Sirius XM that if some artists are unable to travel to the Netherlands in 2021, \"they can Zoom in a performance\". He added: \"I doubt we'll be in a stadium full of 20,000 people.\"\n\nOrganisers stressed that while \"the general gist of Graham's comments is correct\", pre-recorded performances will be used if an act can't travel, rather than asking them to perform live from their home country.\n\nThe filmed routines will be shown \"if a participant cannot travel to Rotterdam due to the current pandemic, or in the unfortunate instance of an artist having to quarantine on site\", a spokesman said.\n\nBroadcasters will have to follow a \"strict set of guidelines\" to help them record their \"live on tape\" performances \"to keep the competition fair should it not go ahead in the traditional way\", he added.\n\nThe new rules state: \"The recording will take place in real time (as it would be at the contest) without making any edits to the vocals or any part of the performance itself after the recording.\"\n\nThis year's contest will take place on 22 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872\n\nScotland's hospitals have more Covid patients than ever before - with the number of deaths also \"distressingly high\", the first minister has said.\n\nThe latest figures showed that the deaths of 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nBut the figure includes some people who died over Christmas and New Year.\n\nThere were also 1,530 people in hospital with the virus, higher than the peak of 1,520 last April.\n\nOf these, 102 patients were in intensive care - with Ms Sturgeon saying the statistics showed the \"severity of the pressure\" that hospitals are facing.\n\nThe 93 deaths recorded on Friday is the highest daily figure since the outbreak began - with the previous high being 84 on 15 April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the figure will \"undoubtedly include some people who died over the Christmas and New Year period and the delay in registration because of the bank holidays means that their deaths are only being reported today.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be clear, that is not more than 90 people who died yesterday. It will be people who have died over a period of time.\n\n\"That does not change the fact they are all individuals who have died and have died of Covid.\"\n\nA further 2,309 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which was 8.1% of the tests carried out on Thursday and takes the total number of cases in Scotland to 146,024.\n\nThe figures mean that the total number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nIt believes that more people are using the country's road and public transport networks than during the lockdown last spring.\n\nAnd it has warned that tougher restrictions could be needed to increase compliance with the travel restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the areas being looked at included non-essential click and collect shopping, further restrictions on takeaway food, non-essential construction and whether more people should be working from home.\n\nThe first minister also confirmed that universities and colleges will not resume in-person teaching until at least the end of February.\n\nThis means that students should stay at home rather than travelling back to their campus or accommodation.\n\nThere will be exceptions for cases where remote study is not possible - for example for a student nurse or a doctor on a practical placement.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said any students who have remained on campus will be \"fully supported\" by their institution.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland was placed into level four restrictions from 26 December before additional measures, including closing schools to most pupils until at least the end of the month, was introduced on Tuesday.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Dr Dave Caesar, insisted on Friday morning that coronavirus case numbers in January \"could have been worse\".\n\nHe said the restrictions that were introduced on Boxing Day had helped to \"blunt the spike\" but warned that the country was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDr Caesar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our case numbers are high, but they're not as high as they could have been if we hadn't taken the measures that we undertook from Boxing Day.\n\n\"Our health system is under serious pressure but is coping.\n\n\"I hate to say it, but it could have been worse by this time in January. We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose we're holding our own in very significantly challenging circumstances.\"\n\nNew Covid testing measures for international travellers are to be introduced\n\nNew plans to make international passengers test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to Scotland and England have also been unveiled, with Ms Sturgeon saying she hoped the scheme could start by the end of next week.\n\nIt will mean people arriving by plane, train or boat - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are travelling from.\n\nProf Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said the move was long overdue as the UK had \"really struggled from the beginning\" with limiting the impact of international travel on the pandemic.\n\nBut she said the country should also consider introducing supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside. The BBC looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "Former Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving\n\nThree members of a \"toxic\" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their \"offensive\" conversations were secretly bugged.\n\nThe devices picked up \"homophobic, racist and sexist\" conversations in the offices of Hampshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nA number of force staff referred to it as a \"lads' pad\".\n\nTwo other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".\n\nDet Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired Det Insp Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman were the two who had previously left the force.\n\nTrainee Det Con Andrew Ferguson, who sent colleagues a fake pornographic image of members of the royal family, has been given a final written warning.\n\nThe six men were based at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke\n\nImposing the sanctions, panel chairman John Bassett said the conduct had been \"shameful\".\n\nHe said police officers could not \"pick and choose the standards they will abide by\" in order to create more \"cohesive\" teams.\n\nMr Bassett said PC Ferguson was \"essentially a good officer\" who joined the team three months before the recordings, by which time the \"culture was well-established\".\n\nHe said the officer was \"conflicted by what he witnessed\" and \"felt unable to raise the matter with a supervisor\".\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the force's internal investigation had revealed a \"catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all\".\n\nShe added: \"These officers have failed to deliver on the promise they made to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people.\n\n\"[They] have undermined the trust and confidence of our communities and damaged the reputations of their colleagues.\"\n\nThe six officers have apologised but some told the disciplinary panel swearing was in the \"fabric\" of the police force.\n\nOne also said they felt they were being \"made an example of\" by the force which should have learned from other previous incidents.\n\nIn all, 20 police officers and staff from the unit have faced some sort of disciplinary action.\n\nDuring the misconduct hearing at Hampshire Constabulary's headquarters in Eastleigh, it was heard a \"toxic, abhorrent culture\" developed with officers using offensive terms for women, black people, immigrants, disabled, gay and transgender people and foreign nationals.\n\nJason Beer QC, prosecuting, said the only black member of the team was referred to using racist tropes and references to slavery.\n\nWomen were described using derogatory terms and stared at in the canteen, he added.\n\nThe men admitted some of the charges of breaching standards of professional behaviour against them but claimed it only amounted to misconduct not gross misconduct.\n\nZoe Wakefield, chair of Hampshire Police Federation, said: \"The outdated and offensive views we heard during the hearing have no place in society and they certainly have no place in policing.\n\n\"We should not let the awful language and terminology used by a very small number of police officers tarnish the hard work and dedication of thousands of police officers and staff in Hampshire...\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Growing numbers of students in England have pledged to withhold rent on university accommodation they cannot use during the Covid lockdown.\n\nOrganisers say this is building up to be a major protest, estimating that about 15,000 students at dozens of universities have signed up so far.\n\nThey want a rebate on rent when many students are being kept off campus at the start of term.\n\nBut universities say they only provide 20% of student accommodation.\n\nUniversities UK says this means \"many decisions on refunds will be made by private landlords and other providers\".\n\nIn November, University of Manchester offered a 30% rent rebate for the first half of the academic year, worth about £1,000 to each student in halls.\n\nThe move followed protests over lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic which saw students tear down temporary fencing in one demonstration.\n\nUniversity of Manchester students have been calling for a rent strike\n\nThe reduction will be applied to direct debit payments this month, with students who have already paid for the whole year getting a refund.\n\nBut organiser of the Rent Strike Now campaign, Ben McGowan, said the new lockdown means students are still paying for halls they are unable to return to which has prompted a wave of student anger.\n\nOn Twitter, campaigners listed more than 40 universities where they said students were pledging to withhold rent.\n\nThe campaign group Rent Strike Now tweeted a list of universities where there are campaigns\n\n\"Most of us are being told not to go back so we're paying for accommodation we can't use and there's been no extra support from universities and government,\" added Saranya Thambiranjah, a first year at Bristol University who also helps run the campaign.\n\n\"Rent striking is a great way to make our voices heard and get universities to listen our concerns.\"\n\nStudents at universities not yet part of this campaign have said they will organise similar challenges on their own campuses, including Coventry and Keele.\n\nRebecca Hyde is having to do her journalism course in her bedroom\n\nAt Nottingham Trent University, student campaigner Rebecca Hyde, who is doing a masters in broadcast journalism, said 244 students had so far pledged to withhold rent on university halls since their campaign was launched a few days ago.\n\nShe believes universities should do more to help students who are having to pay for rooms they are unable to use through no fault of their own.\n\nShe says her course leaders have been brilliant but missing out on using studios and running \"news days\" with her fellow students \"is just so disappointing\".\n\nNottingham Trent University says it understands student concerns over rents and urged the government \"to show leadership to find a solution that is fair to all students\".\n\n\"At NTU, only a minority of our students are in accommodation operated by or on behalf of the university.\n\n\"We do not want a repeat of the situation in the summer term of 2020 where most of our students were reliant on the goodwill of private accommodation providers who did not always do the right thing,\" said the university in a statement.\n\nAt King's College London, campaign secretary \"Juno\" likewise reported hundreds of new pledges to withhold rent in the past few days, saying students felt they had been \"lured\" into their accommodation at the start of the academic year.\n\nA King's spokesperson promised that students would not be charged for accommodation they are unable to use during lockdown.\n\nAbout a quarter of students are in privately-run purpose built accommodation, and one of the biggest of these providers, Unite Students, is also facing demands.\n\nLiverpool John Moores student Suhail Accad, in Unite accommodation, says his rent strike post on Instagram has gained 3,000 followers and has had 8,000 shares in just a few days.\n\n\"It's expensive to stay here,\" says Suhail.\n\nUnite was unable to comment directly on the threat of rent strikes but maintains that it is doing all it can to help keep students and staff safe \"during this challenging period\".\n\nUniversities UK said universities were looking at the issue \"actively\" and considering what support they can offer students.\n\n\"Universities recognise the financial pressures the pandemic has placed on students and are providing increased financial and other support as a result.\n\n\"With government restrictions reducing the numbers of students returning in person to universities, now is the time for the government to seriously consider the financial implications for students and institutions and what support they will provide.\"", "Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts\n\nThe government is urging people in England to stay at home and \"act like you've got it\" as part of a new advertising campaign.\n\nThe \"stay at home, save lives\" campaign will run across TV, radio, out-of-home advertising and social media.\n\nThe campaign will include a new advert fronted by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, which will air for the first time on ITV at 19:15 GMT tonight.\n\nThe UK reported a record number of deaths and cases today, as hospitals come under growing pressure, with some in the South East at extreme capacity.\n\nAround one in three people with Covid-19 don’t have any symptoms and can pass it on without realising, the government said, \"which is why it’s essential everyone stays at home and remembers Hands, Face, Space\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\n\n“The vaccine has given us renewed hope in our fight against the virus but we must not be complacent.\n\n\"The NHS is under severe strain and we must take action to protect it, both so our doctors and nurses can continue to save lives and so they can vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as we can.\n\n“I know the last year has taken its toll – but your compliance is now more vital than ever. So once again, I must urge everyone to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's plan to replace web browser cookies with a system that shares less data with advertisers is being investigated in the UK.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google's plan could have a \"significant impact\" on news websites and the digital advertising market.\n\nIt had already raised concerns that publishers' profits could sink if they were unable to run personalised ads.\n\nBut Google said digital advertising practices had to \"evolve\".\n\nCookies are small files a web browser stores on a user's device when they visit a webpage.\n\nThey can be used to remember what items a person has added to their online basket and deliver personalised content.\n\nThey can also be used to track somebody's activity online and deliver targeted advertising.\n\nSome cookies known as cross-site or third-party cookies can let publishers track a person's web activity as they move from one website to another.\n\nBy default, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox browsers already block cross-site cookies.\n\nBut Google intends to go further by ending support for all cookies except first-party ones - those used by sites to track activity within their own pages.\n\nIt wants to replace them with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.\n\nAccording to one industry group opposing the move, Google's Chrome browser is installed on more than 70% of computers in the UK.\n\nSo even if other web browsers do not adopt the same approach the move would still be significant.\n\n\"Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market. But there are also privacy concerns to consider,\" said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA.\n\nA coalition of about a dozen small tech companies and publishers - Marketers for an Open Web (Mow) - claims some of its members' revenues could drop by as much as two-thirds.\n\nMoreover, it suggests the move would put too much power into Google's hands.\n\n\"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,\" it warned last month.\n\n\"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not.\n\n\"This will reduce the ability of independent players to compete with Google, strengthening its monopoly control of online commerce.\"\n\nThe group has also raised concerns about other related matters, including the tech firm's plan to end support for user-agent strings.\n\nThese are bits of text that browsers send to websites at the start of a user's visit to reveal details about the device and browser being used.\n\nPublishers use this information to optimise the way their sites appear.\n\nBut Google is phasing out support on the grounds that they are also used as an alternative to cookies to track users, and sometimes cause compatibility issues.\n\nThe CMA previously issued a report into the matter in July.\n\nAt that point it acknowledged that while there were benefits to consumers from the kinds of privacy measures Google was proposing, they might be outweighed by other concerns.\n\nIt added that \"many news publishers\" had expressed concern that their news sites would become \"unsustainable\".\n\nUntil recently, the European Commission was responsible for most large and complex competition cases involving the UK.\n\nOn 1 January, the CMA took over these responsibilities on a local level due to Brexit.\n\nLast November, the government announced it would create a new Digital Markets Unit within the CMA.\n\nThe organisation subsequently detailed how it would to govern the behaviour of Google, Facebook and other tech platforms \"that currently dominate\" online markets, and give consumers \"more control over how their data is used\".\n\nThe new unit becomes operational in April, but is dependent on legislation going through Parliament before it gets new powers, and that may not happen until 2022.\n\nSince that would be too late to block Google's Privacy Sandbox plans, the probe is being carried out under the existing regime.\n\nEven so, all those involved will be watching closely for signs of how willing the authority is to confront the US's largest tech companies.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC stunned viewers around the world.\n\nBut how did Americans feel seeing the seat of their government being ransacked?\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel for their views.\n\nSimon grew up in Uganda during its civil war and became a US citizen last year. A master's student and stay-at-home father, he warns that, while things may settle down, \"democracy is not guaranteed\".\n\nI'm disgusted but not surprised. I anticipated this would happen and it was a matter of when, not if.\n\nI didn't anticipate that it would happen in the capital. This is the president whose people - since the racial justice movement in the summer - said they were for \"law and order\". So the \"law and order\" people broke into the Capitol and changed the American flag with the Trump flag. History shows that has not happened in over 200 years, so it tells you how dangerous this man is.\n\nIn Uganda, in November, when the opposition was arrested, people took to the streets and got shot. Here, in the summer, the Capitol building was protected and they were breaking up peaceful protests.\n\nIt's clear that [Trump supporters] have been organising, we've seen this was going to happen, yet we subconsciously did not think that white people are a threat. That is the construct of this country and how law enforcement viewed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nTaylor is a staunch Trump supporter and recently travelled to Washington DC for a post-election pro-Trump rally. A photographer by trade, she was upset by the rioting but believes unsubstantiated claims that left-wing radicals were behind the violence.\n\nIt was just heart-breaking to watch what was going on and the behaviour of protesters is just not like the Trump people I've been around. If it did come from any conservatives, then I condemn it. There's no excuse for violence.\n\nIt doesn't change my support for Trump. The people that love Trump, that's not going to change no matter if he gets a second term or not. It just means we're going to hold out for 2024 and hope either he runs again or his kids do.\n\nOur country is going to go downhill over the next four years if Biden does take office. I'm actually moving today out of the city into the suburbs of a Republican county because I am afraid of how Democratic counties will end up under a Biden presidency.\n\nWe're going to catapult towards socialism and communism. I'm worried for the country's future, but regardless of who takes office, we have a lot of healing to do. I hope we can all find our common humanity and embrace each other when this is all over, which is hopefully soon.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who worked on Capitol Hill for the party for nearly two decades, but cast his first ever vote for a Democrat in the 2020 election. He was stunned by 6 January's events and expects it to become a bad footnote in the country's history.\n\nI find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this.\n\nI had actually thought about going down to the protests with a sign that said \"Republicans Against Trump\". My brother said, if I had done that, there would have been five deaths, not four, and he may have been right. I'm astounded by the stupidity of these people who show up without masks and who are being filmed. Quite a few of them are going to prison. It's a serious situation when you break past a police barricade and go into a building that's supposed to be secure.\n\nI have a lot of friends who say things couldn't get worse, but I have to remind them, as a student of history, that it has been worse. The Civil War was much worse. There was a lot of violence in the South during the Reconstruction period. This is something the country will get over. I was heartened by President-elect Biden's speech yesterday. Finally we've got someone who's sounding presidential. We haven't had it for the last four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA'Kayla is a college student who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. She says law enforcement \"coddled\" the rioters at the Capitol and thus made an argument for police reform because they were far more aggressive at protests she attended.\n\nIt's so irritating I can't put into words how frustrating it is. They stormed the Capitol and the police were gentle and lackadaisical with them. I expected the police to use force, but they were so kind and gentle. During the summer, when the Black Lives Matter protests were going on, so many people were injured, locked up and lost their lives.\n\nFrom my own experience, marching peacefully on the front lines in Charleston, we had tear gas thrown at us and had to pour milk in our eyes. It was excruciating. And for what? We're marching for a cause, because we had the murder of somebody by the police. What are they upset about? They're upset because we are living in a democracy and they didn't get their way.\n\nDuring one of the debates, when Trump said \"stand back and stand by\", is this what he was talking about? This is the calm before the storm. I think it's going to get way more ugly, but Kamala [Harris] and Joe [Biden] are a symbol of change and hope.\n\nWhether [Trump supporters] like it or not, America is moving towards a more progressive country and there's going to be a lot of changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A young woman has died after a rare suspected shark attack in New Zealand.\n\nPolice named the victim as 19-year-old Kaelah Marlow, from Hamilton.\n\nMarlow was taken out of the water still alive but died at the scene despite efforts to save her life. Police said it appeared she had been injured by a shark.\n\nThe attack happened at Waihi Beach on North Island not far from the country's biggest city Auckland.\n\n\"Police extend our deepest sympathies to Kaelah's family and loved ones at this very difficult time,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate her death was extremely traumatic for those who were at Waihi Beach yesterday and we are offering victim support services to anyone who requires it,\" the statement said.\n\nShark attacks are unusual in the country and this is thought to be the first fatality since 2013. Local media cited witnesses as saying the woman had been swimming right in front of the lifeguard flags on Thursday.\n\nWhen they heard screams, lifeguards went out by boat immediately and pulled her to shore.\n\nIt is not clear what kind of shark attacked Kaelah Marlow, but an eyewitness reportedly claimed it was a great white, a species which is protected in the waters around New Zealand.\n\n\"Sharks are reasonably common near all northern beaches of New Zealand, most are harmless and even species considered dangerous very rarely interact with swimmers,\" shark researcher Kina Scollay told the BBC.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with the victim's family and we need to remember that this is a real tragedy to real people. I worry that this gets lost sight of in the media scramble after such events.\"\n\nOne witness quoted by local media said he believed a great white shark attacked the woman\n\nMr Scolley said that while attacks were rare, there were ways to be careful about interactions that could go wrong. Among the risk factors are, for instance, fish feeding events or dead animals in the water.\n\n\"If a large shark approaches or is seen nearby people should stay calm, warn those nearby and calmly exit the water,\" he said.\n\nA seven-day rahui, a traditional Maori prohibition restricting access to an area, has been placed on the beach.\n\nThe last recorded shark attack was in 2018 when a man was injured - but survived - at Baylys Beach. Over the past 170 years, there have only been 13 fatal shark attacks documented in New Zealand, according to the country's department of conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "UK house prices rose by 6% last year, according to the Halifax, but the lender is predicting \"downward pressure\" on values in 2021.\n\nThe mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that prices \"soared\" in the second half of 2020.\n\nPent-up demand, a clamour for more space, and stamp duty holidays led to higher prices.\n\nBut the Halifax said the economic realities of 2021 meant activity would slow as the year progressed.\n\n\"With the pace of the UK's economic recovery expected to be constrained by the renewed national lockdown, and unemployment widely predicted to rise in the coming months, downward pressure on house prices remains likely as we move through 2021,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at the Halifax.\n\nHe said that last year was a market of two halves - starting with slow growth, and stalling when the market was closed during the first national lockdown, but then booming when it reopened.\n\nThis meant that overall, demand and price growth were relatively high.\n\nThe conclusion mirrors the findings of rival lender, the Nationwide, which said that UK house prices climbed 7.5% in 2020, the highest growth rate for six years.\n\nBoth mortgage lenders base their findings on their customer data.\n\nLucy Pendleton, from estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"The simple truth is that extra space has become non-negotiable for legions of homeowners with families, and the usual winter slowdown has met the immovable force that is hundreds of thousands of people all trying to jump to larger properties at the same time.\"\n\nThe Halifax said there were already signs of the market slowing, with prices rising by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month.\n\nThat was the slowest monthly rise of the last six months.\n\nThe lender said the average home was valued at £253,374.\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The switch has been welcomed by climate campaigners\n\nAlok Sharma is to leave his position as business secretary to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November.\n\nThe Glasgow event is expected to be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted.\n\nMr Sharma, who will remain in the cabinet, said he was \"delighted to have been asked by the PM to dedicate all my energies\" to the position.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng replaces him as business secretary while Anne-Marie Trevelyan becomes the new energy minister.\n\nThe government says a successful summit will be critical if the UK wants to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions.\n\nThe event had originally been scheduled for November 2020 but was delayed by a year due to Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said the decision to move Alok Sharma wasn't a surprise and would be seen as a recognition of the need to free him up to do more of the crucial diplomatic leg-work required.\n\nSome MPs had previously warned that Mr Sharma lacked the \"bandwidth\" to head the conference alongside his cabinet job, especially given the strains on business due to the pandemic.\n\nIn his new role, which is based in the Cabinet Office, Mr Sharma's will remain a member of Boris Johnson's top team but be focused solely on coordinating global action to tackle climate change\n\nBoris Johnson chose Mr Sharma to head the event after ex-minister Claire O'Neill was ousted from the position in the summer of 2019.\n\nShe later condemned what she called broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.\n\nFormer Conservative PM David Cameron turned down the chance to head the conference and ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions.\n\nMr Sharma's move will be welcomed by climate campaigners, who worried he was over-stretched running a frantically busy department while also orchestrating the most important climate meeting on Earth.\n\nMany of these summits - known as COPs - yielded little because the leadership was poor.\n\nThe French produced a triumphant agreement in the 2015 Paris COP after mustering the mighty force of French diplomacy.\n\nMr Sharma is reported to accept that he now needs to concentrate full time on the challenge.\n\nHe will need subtle diplomatic skills, a mastery of detail and the stamina of an ox as he attempts to corral world leaders into agreement on curbing emissions faster. He'll also need 100% support from the PM.\n\nThe greatest obstacle to action - Donald Trump - will soon disappear from the scene, and with China making bold promises, the COP has potential.\n\nBut politicians have been so slow to act that some key tipping points in the climate might already have been breached.\n\nReflecting on his new role, Mr Sharma said: \"The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.\n\n\"Through the UK's Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.\"\n\nRichard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"Allowing Alok Sharma to focus full-time on his COP26 role is a sensible decision, not least as it signals the government's commitment to ensuring that the summit is a success.\n\n\"With the election of Joe Biden as the next US President and China's recent carbon neutrality pledge, the diplomatic opportunities have opened up for more ambitious action on climate change. Mr Sharma's job will be to seize them.\"\n\nAnd ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd, who led the UK delegation at the Paris climate change conference, said the move showed the government \"recognises the importance and opportunity for a global agreement this year\".\n\nResponding to his new appointment, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"thrilled\" and pledged to help businesses through this period of \"extremely challenging circumstances\".\n\nThe Spelthorne MP, who entered Parliament in 2010, has been energy minister since July 2019.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Mr Kwarteng had \"a massive task\" in providing business with \"a plan to help them through this year, not the inadequate sticking plaster measures we have seen\".\n\nHe welcomed the decision to make Mr Sharma's COP role full time.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that the full political, diplomatic and strategic resources of government are now directed to the most ambitious outcome at Glasgow, which is a 1.5 degree deal.\"", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marks & Spencer says sales of sleepwear have soared as people spend more time at home because of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December, with many of them being bought as Christmas presents.\n\n\"The great British public are back in their pyjamas,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nDespite this, clothing sales as a whole fell nearly a quarter, although food sales showed modest growth.\n\nM&S said its trading was \"robust\" over the Christmas period, but UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nM&S also said that potential post-Brexit tariffs on part of its range exported to the EU, together with \"very complex\" administrative processes, would \"significantly impact\" its businesses in Ireland and the Czech Republic, as well as its franchise business in France.\n\nMr Rowe said the chain's popular Percy Pig sweets, made in Germany, were one product that could face tax rises.\n\nIt said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" those effects.\n\nMr Rowe thanked staff for \"a first-class execution of Christmas for our customers in near impossible conditions\".\n\nThe High Street stalwart said customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nLike-for-like food sales had risen 2.6% during the period, it said.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales fell by 24.1%, and UK sales overall were down 7.6% on a like-for-like basis.\n\nTrading was hit particularly badly in November by the national lockdown in England, with clothing and home sales slumping 40.5% in the month and food sales down 4.5%.\n\n\"Near-term trading remains very challenging, but we are continuing to accelerate change under our Never the Same Again programme to ensure the business emerges from the pandemic in very different shape,\" Mr Rowe said.\n\nOn the positive side, M&S said its tie-up with online firm Ocado had produced \"very strong\" results, while customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nRoss Hindle, retail sector analyst at Third Bridge, said: \"Despite the pressure faced by their clothing division, the M&S food division is expected to deliver solid results, propelled by both stockpiling and its Ocado partnership.\n\nHe pointed to reports that M&S was poised to acquire the Jaeger clothing brand as a possible way forward, saying it \"hints at the potential for a more aggressive shift into the multi-brand space\".\n\n\"M&S have numerous large stores which could be filled with non-M&S merchandise in order to drive their top-line. The risk here is whether such brands might cannibalise M&S branded products,\" he added.\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at GlobalData, said M&S was \"paying the cost for its inability to adapt fast enough to changing shopping habits\".\n\n\"M&S's recovery is slow versus other apparel players, as it continues to be hurt by an online platform unable to make up for lost store sales,\" she added.\n\nShe saw little point in a potential purchase of Jaeger, as it would be \"costly to turn around and do little to boost the retailer's fortunes\".\n\nHowever, she said M&S's focus on value in food had \"started to pay off, with decent sales growth, especially considering dampened footfall on High Streets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "The Liberia-flagged oil tanker Nave Andromeda docked at Southampton after the incident\n\nSeven men, including two who had already been charged, will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpecial forces stormed the Nave Andromeda on 25 October after the crew raised concerns about stowaways.\n\nMatthew Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, had been charged with conduct endangering ships.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped their case after evidence analysis \"cast doubt\" on whether the tanker was put in danger.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said initial reports had indicated there was a \"real and imminent threat\" to the vessel, but added mobile phone footage and witness accounts \"could not show that the ship or crew were threatened\" and there was no evidence the men had any intention to seize control of the vessel.\n\nThe CPS said the new evidence meant the \"legal test\" for the offence was \"no longer met\".\n\n\"Our case was that the actions of the men were responsible for the endangerment of the vessel, but further material was then supplied by a maritime expert which significantly undermined whether there was a threat of danger,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the CPS's decision and added it was working with prosecutors to \"urgently resolve the issues raised by this case\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is frustrating that there will be no prosecution in relation to this very serious incident and the British people will struggle to understand how this can be the case.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the five other men, who were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, also face no police action.\n\nThey will remain detained under immigration regulations.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight 20 days later, an emergency call came from the ship concerned about stowaways on board while the 22 crew members had locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area.\n\nThe men had been found on the ship earlier in the voyage and the vessel had made unsuccessful attempts to dock in other ports.\n\nIt was reported the men became hostile as the tanker approached the UK - but the CPS said it was thought this may have occurred while the ship was outside of UK waters.\n\nAt the time the Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised a special forces operation in response to a police request following a 10-hour stand-off.\n\nIn a nine-minute operation carried out under the cover of darkness, Special Boat Service commandos boarded the vessel and arrested the seven men, believed to be Nigerian nationals seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nThe Liberian-registered tanker later docked in Southampton.\n\nSpecial forces boarded the Nave Andromeda on the evening of 25 October\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump calls for an 'orderly transition of power' to the Biden administration on January 20th\n\nA US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for \"inciting\" the riot.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution to declare the president unfit for office.\n\nAlternatively, she vowed to initiate the process to impeach the president.\n\nWednesday's violence came hours after Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to fight against the election results as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November vote.\n\nFive people have died in relation to the riot, including Brian Sicknick, an officer at the US Capitol Police (USCP) who was \"injured while physically engaging with protesters\", the police said.\n\nMeanwhile, the top congressional Democrats - Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer - have urged Vice-President Pence and Mr Trump's cabinet to remove the president for \"his incitement of insurrection\".\n\n\"The President's dangerous and seditious acts necessitate his immediate removal from office,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nThe duo called for Mr Trump to be ousted using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice-president to step up if the president is unable to perform his duties owing to a mental or physical illness.\n\nBut it would require Mr Pence and at least eight cabinet members to break with Mr Trump and invoke the amendment, something they have so far seemed unlikely to do. Mr Trump is due to leave office on 20 January, when Mr Biden will be sworn in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Pelosi indicated that if the vice-president failed to act, she would convene the House to launch their second impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump.\n\nHowever, to succeed in convicting and removing the president, Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and there is no indication they would get those numbers. And it was not clear whether enough time remained to carry out the process.\n\nMrs Pelosi's deputy, Katherine Clark, told CNN the House could move on impeachment next week.\n\nMedia reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Mr Trump had suggested to aides he was considering granting a pardon to himself in the final days of his presidency. The legality of such a move is untested.\n\nIt wasn't until Thursday night, more than 24 hours after the US Capitol had been ransacked by his supporters, that Donald Trump released a recorded statement calling for \"healing and reconciliation\" in a wounded nation.\n\nThat was the very least that could be expected from a US president in a time of crises, and it probably will not be enough to silence calls for his removal, impeachment or resignation. Those demands have been coming from the political left, of course, but also from parts of the right - longtime critics, from former allies and, remarkably, even the conservative editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.\n\nEver since November's election, when Trump chose to attack the results rather than admit defeat, a reckoning was coming. The pressure, like a malfunctioning steam engine, was building toward a catastrophic ending.\n\nOn Thursday night, the president began trying to pick up the pieces.\n\nTeleprompter Trump had spoken. In past crises, unscripted Trump has quickly returned, with words and actions that reveal his earlier comments were insincere.\n\nWith 12 days left in his presidency, the question is whether, or more likely when, that Trump will return - and what happens when he does.\n\nPresident Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday following a 12-hour freeze of his account. His message was the closest he has come to a formal acceptance of his defeat after weeks of falsely insisting he actually won the election in a \"landslide\".\n\n\"Now Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,\" the Republican said in a video, without mentioning Mr Biden by name.\n\n\"My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nMr Trump said he had \"immediately deployed\" the National Guard to expel the intruders, though some US media reported he had hesitated to send in the troops, leaving his vice-president to give the order.\n\nHe also praised his \"wonderful supporters\" and promised \"our incredible journey is only just beginning\".\n\nLaw enforcement have been heavily criticised after they were overrun by the protesters. Mr Biden said: \"Nobody could tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the thugs that stormed the Capitol.\"\n\nImages captured inside the Capitol building showed protesters roaming through some of the corridors unimpeded.\n\nThe FBI is seeking to identify those involved in the rampage, and the Washington DC police have released pictures of \"persons of interest\" for their involvement in the riot. The Department of Justice says people could face charges of seditious conspiracy, as well as rioting and insurrection.\n\nWashington police say 68 people have so far been arrested. One of those detained at the Capitol had a \"military-style automatic weapon and 11 Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs)\", according to the federal attorney for Washington DC.\n\nThe official responsible for security in the House of Representatives, the sergeant at arms, has resigned. Mr Schumer has called for his counterpart in the Senate to be sacked. USCP chief Steven Sund is also resigning, effective 16 January, following calls from Mrs Pelosi.\n\nOn Thursday, crews began installing a non-scalable 7ft (2m) fence around the Capitol which will remain in place for at least 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"\n\nAshli Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, was named as the woman fatally shot by a police officer who has now been placed on leave. Law enforcement told US media the victim was unarmed.\n\nThree others died after suffering unspecified medical emergencies on Capitol grounds: Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia. Mr Greeson's family said he died of a heart attack.\n\nPolice said that 14 officers had been injured in the riot.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - one of the longest serving members of the president's administration - became the second cabinet member to quit following the Capitol riot.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms DeVos accused the president of fomenting Wednesday's disorder. \"There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stepped down, saying she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the rampage.\n\nOther aides to quit include special envoy Mick Mulvaney, a senior national security official, and the chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump. A state department adviser was also sacked after calling Mr Trump \"unfit for office\" in a tweet.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nPeople are being warned about breaking lockdown restrictions after the police got stuck in snow due to rule-breakers.\n\nA car driving on Moel Famau hill, Flintshire, despite roadblocks, skidded off the road on Thursday night, with officers deployed to help the passengers.\n\nHowever, they then became stuck and had to call mountain rescuers.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued by the Met Office for all of Wales, until midnight on Friday.\n\nPolice said: \"This is why we say to you do not come out.\"\n\nOn a video posted on Twitter, an officer for the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team warned people about the consequences of breaking the rules.\n\n\"It is now involving two agencies, two police vehicles, two mountain rescue vehicles and three police officers and the casualty.\"\n\nRob Taylor from North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said the person who was driving the car, which travelled 200m when it lost control was \"very, very lucky to be alive and escape uninjured\".\n\n\"We've been having problems with people lately flouting the law and going where they shouldn't be going,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been going through them for various reasons whether that's a walk or sledge and gathering in large groups. So we have been paying attention.\n\n\"This issue that was highlighted perfectly yesterday where someone's gone there thinking it's okay to flout the law. They get themselves in trouble and cause an emergency response from police and actually put those police officers' lives at risk.\n\n\"Their actions can really affect many people.\"\n\nSnow and ice warnings are in place for all of Wales\n\nThe snow warning for Friday said 5cm of snow could also fall on hills and mountains, with a widespread frost forecast for the morning.\n\nRoad agencies said driving conditions on the A55 in Flintshire were difficult, with snow on Rhuallt Hill.\n\nOne lane on the expressway has been closed eastbound between Pentre Halkyn and Northop following a crash.\n\nRoads have also been closed in Denbighshire following the heavy snow.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a risk of slips and falls with sleet and snow predicted to fall on to already-frozen ground, creating icy patches.\n\nForecasters said that while snow was likely to fall on hills and mountains, flurries could be seen elsewhere, but this was likely to \"be slight and temporary\".\n\nFurther ice warnings have also been issued until 11:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nResidents in parts of Wales have been waking to snow, including in Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has sparked confusion over a possible electric car tie-up with Apple.\n\nThe South Korean car company initially said it was in the \"early stage\" of talks with the iPhone maker about a possible electric car partnership.\n\nBut hours later it backtracked and said it was talking with a number of potential partners without naming Apple.\n\nHyundai's share price rose more than 20% when the tie-up was announced.\n\n\"Apple and Hyundai are in discussions but they are at an early stage and nothing has been decided,\" it said in a statement which was later revised. Hyundai's value shot up $9bn (£6.5bn) after the Apple announcement.\n\nWhile an updated statement said it was talking to a number of companies about a possible electric car tie-up including Apple, a later version omitted the US tech firm.\n\nApple is known for its secretiveness when it comes to new products and partnerships.\n\n\"I'm not surprised to see a big jump in the valuation of Hyundai. The stock market loves car companies who are tech firms as seen with Tesla rise,\" said Sarwant Singh, managing partner at consultants Frost & Sullivan. \"This partnership helps Hyundai be seen as a tech innovator.\"\n\nLast month, news emerged that Apple was moving forward with self-driving car technology with a 2024 launch date.\n\nThe electric vehicle (EV) market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies such as Tesla grabbing the headlines with its rapidly-increasing valuation. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, displacing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nExperts say an electric vehicle from Apple is still at least five years away.\n\nThey say pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.\n\nHyundai has already been pushing into new technologies such as electric, driverless and flying cars.\n\nLast month, it took a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that valued the mobile robot firm at $1.1bn.\n\nThe company is also setting up a $4bn autonomous-driving joint venture with auto parts supplier Aptiv.\n\nBoth partners will invest $2bn, while Ireland-based Aptiv will contribute about 700 engineers and transfer patents and intellectual property to the venture.\n\n\"Apple could certainly jumpstart that project and Hyundai brings the vehicle development and manufacturing expertise,\" said Jeff Schuster at automobile data firm LMC Automotive\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple's efforts to produce an electric car, known as Project Titan, have been on and off ever since plans were revealed in 2014.\n\nThere have been rumours over who would assemble an Apple-branded car as it may be difficult for the tech giant to manufacture them on its own.\n\nIts rival Alphabet's Waymo chose a factory in Detroit to mass produce its own self-driving cars.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "Gordy Philip took an icy bike ride on the Great Glen Way between Blackfold and Abriachan in the hills above Loch Ness. He said of his image: \"Could be the light at the end of the road on the first day of another lockdown.\"", "New data from EU satellites shows that 2020 is in a statistical dead heat with 2016 as the world's warmest year.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was around 1.25C above the long-term average.\n\nThe scientists say that unprecedented levels of heat in the Arctic and Siberia were key factors in driving up the overall temperature.\n\nThe past 12 months also saw a new record for Europe, around 0.4C warmer than 2019.\n\nLast December, the World Meteorological Organization predicted that 2020 would be one of the three warmest years on record.\n\nThis new, more complete report from Copernicus says that last year is right at the top of the list.\n\nHigh temperatures saw fires rage in spring and summer in many locations inside the Arctic circle\n\nThe Copernicus data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit, as well as measurements taken at ground level.\n\nTemperature data from the system shows that 2020 was 1.25C warmer than the average from 1850-1900, a time often described as the \"pre-industrial\" period.\n\nOne key factor driving up the temperatures was the heating experienced in the Arctic and Siberia.\n\nIn some locations there, temperatures for the year as a whole were 6C above the long-term average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis exceptional warming led to a very active wildfire season. Fires in the Arctic Circle released a record amount of CO2, according to the study, up over a third from 2019.\n\nThe Copernicus service concludes that while 2020 was very marginally cooler than 2016, the two years are statistically on a par as the differences between the figures for the two years are smaller than the typical differences found in other temperature databases for the same period.\n\nMore data on 2020's temperature will be released in the next week or so from other agencies, including Nasa and the UK Met Office.\n\nThe scientists say that the closeness between the years is all the more remarkable considering the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña weather cycle.\n\nPeople saw their homes burnt down in some parts of Siberia\n\nEurope also saw a new record level of warming for the year, 0.4C warmer than 2019. A major heat wave in July and August was an important factor driving up the mercury across the continent.\n\nGlobally, the 10-year period from 2011-2020 is the warmest decade, with the last six years being the six hottest on record.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty stands out for its exceptional warmth in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic,\" said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"It is no surprise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambitious emissions reductions to prevent adverse climate impacts in the future.\"\n\nWhile a strong La Niña may cool temperatures a little in 2021, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to remain high, contributing to ongoing warming.\n\nNew data from the UK's Met Office suggests that average concentrations of CO2 will reach levels that are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution.\n\nResearchers predict that annual average CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa recording station in Hawaii will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher in 2021 than in 2020.\n\nDespite the global slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists say this rise is being driven by emissions from the use of fossil fuels and from deforestation.\n\nEurope saw a prolonged heat wave in July and August that pushed the year to a new record\n\nWhile weather patterns linked to the La Niña event may boost growth in tropical forests and increase the amount of the gas that's absorbed, it won't be enough to slow the overall rise.\n\nThe Met Office says that CO2 will exceed 417ppm in the atmosphere for several weeks from April to June.\n\nThis is 50% higher than the level of 278ppm that pertained in the late 18th Century as widespread industrial activity was just beginning.\n\n\"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office.\n\n\"It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase.\"\n\n\"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.\"", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents and teachers are \"frustrated\" about plans to keep schools closed until the February half term and concerned about the impact on children.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio Wales phone-in, callers said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nKaarina Rutta from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, told the programme she was having to work at night when her four children had gone to bed after home schooling.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind I should also be working and doing other things,\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment.\n\n\"I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "David Bowie left his mark with songs like Space Oddity, Let's Dance and Under Pressure\n\nA series of streamed music events, shows and new releases are marking David Bowie's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death.\n\nThe musician would have turned 74 on Friday, while Sunday is five years since he died of cancer.\n\nA star-studded tribute concert and his 2015 stage musical Lazarus will both be streamed over the weekend.\n\nTwo previously unreleased Bowie tracks have also been released, while his music has now arrived on TikTok.\n\nThe tribute gig, titled A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, will feature Bowie's former bandmates alongside stars including Boy George, Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Adam Lambert, Gary Barlow and actor Gary Oldman.\n\nStarting at 18:00 PT on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), the show will be led by Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson and will be available for 24 hours.\n\nDuran Duran released a timely cover of Bowie's track Five Years ahead of the show. \"My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie,\" singer Simon Le Bon said.\n\n\"He is the reason why I started writing songs. Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be.\"\n\nOn Friday, Bowie's previously unreleased covers of Bob Dylan's Tryin' to Get to Heaven and John Lennon's Mother were also put out into the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by David Bowie - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Four is hosting a Bowie Night on Friday, while there will be special programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. They include Bowie: Dancing Out in Space, which will air simultaneously on the two stations on Sunday.\n\nIn it, producer Tony Visconti describes how Bowie and Lennon first met awkwardly in a New York hotel room ahead of their collaborations on the former's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe and his own 1975 song Fame.\n\n\"He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,\" says Visconti. \"About one in the morning I knocked on the door and for about the next two hours, John Lennon and David weren't speaking to each other.\n\n\"Instead, David was sitting on the floor with an art pad and a charcoal and he was sketching things and he was completely ignoring Lennon.\n\n\"So, after about two hours of that, he [John] finally said to David, 'Rip that pad in half and give me a few sheets. I want to draw you.' So David said, 'Oh, that's a good idea', and he finally opened up. So John started making caricatures of David, and David started doing the same of John and they kept swapping them and then they started laughing and that broke the ice.\"\n\nMeanwhile, next weekend will see the release of Stardust, a film biopic about Bowie's journey to becoming Ziggy Stardust, starring singer and actor Johnny Flynn.\n\nHowever, Bowie's family have not given it their blessing, meaning the film-makers were not allowed to use any of his music. Instead Flynn, as Bowie, is seen performing songs by Jacques Brel, The Yardbirds and one of Flynn's own compositions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heads are calling for limits to the number of pupils in school during lockdown in England, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nThe two head teachers' unions, NAHT and ASCL, say the high numbers attending could hamper the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils who can attend.\n\nIt is insisting that schools ensure all children who qualify can attend.\n\nThe widened categories not only include vulnerable pupils and children of workers in critical occupations but also those who cannot access remote learning either because they do not have devices or space to study.\n\nChildren of parents working on the Brexit arrangements are also included.\n\nTeachers have described streets around schools being packed with parents dropping off their children and almost all staff having to come in and work despite the lockdown.\n\nHeads say they fear schools could be overwhelmed by children who do not have access to lap tops to learn remotely.\n\nJessica Jane, a learning assistant at a school in Hampshire, told the BBC: \"I work in a primary school where we are having to bring in every single member of staff as the list of key-workers is vast in our area and over 50% of our children are attending.\n\n\"Our community school is not closed and streets are packed with parents morning and afternoon collecting their children from open schools.\"\n\nShe added: \"My colleagues and I are still being put at risk every single day as are our families.\"\n\nA teacher from the Midlands who did not wish to be named said the number had risen from 10 pupils a day in the first lockdown to about 90 a day this week.\n\n\"We're talking just under to just over a third of the usual amount of pupils for our school here.\n\n\"The vast majority are key worker children, not vulnerable.\n\n\"I also know that other primary schools in our area have similar amounts of children in school - one neighbouring school in particular, which is only slightly larger than us, is estimating/averaging 100 to 160 children in school every day.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the lack of limits \"bizarre... in a week when the prime minister has told the nation that it is necessary to move schools to remote education in order to suppress coronavirus transmission\".\n\n\"We are hearing reports that attendance in some primary schools is in excess of 50% because of demand from critical workers and families with children classed as vulnerable under criteria which has been significantly widened,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urgently seeking clarification about the maximum number who should be in school while protecting public health.\n\n\"This seems completely illogical given the fact that the government has taken the drastic action of a full national lockdown precisely in order to limit contacts.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, said schools could not \"meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the prime minister announced\".\n\n\"The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim.\n\n\"This could result in prolonging the amount of time pupils are away from the classroom, which we are all anxious to avoid.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Schools are open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required.\n\n\"If critical workers can work from home and look after their children at the same time then they should do so, but otherwise this provision is in place to enable them to provide vital services.\n\n\"The protective measures that schools have been following throughout the autumn term remain in place to help protect staff and students, while the national lockdown helps reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nBut Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association, reflected head teachers' concerns, saying between 40 and 60% of pupils were attending schools across England.\n\n\"The real problem is we have got two different national narratives going on,\" she said - with the prime minister saying \"stay at home\" but the DfE telling schools to take all eligible children who turn up.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government seemed unable to decide whether schools were safe or unsafe.\n\nCommenting on the latest Coronavirus Infection Survey from the Office for National Statistics, Dr Bousted, said: \"Let this data end their confusion. Schools are clearly driving infection amongst children, and then onto the wider community.\n\n\"This peaked on Christmas Day with one in every 27 secondary-age children and one in 40 primary-age children infected.\n\n\"In London this rises to one in 18 secondary pupils and one in 23 primary pupils. These figures are truly shocking and entirely the result of government negligence.\"\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Marion Ramsey will be remembered by fans for her notable role in the US comedy series Police Academy\n\nMarion Ramsey, best known for her acting in the American film series Police Academy, has died at the age of 73, her agent has announced.\n\nHer management at Roger Paul Inc told the BBC she died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.\n\nThe agency said Ramsey had recently fallen ill, but did not give a cause of death.\n\nRamsey was adored by fans for her portrayal of the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in Police Academy.\n\nShe also had an illustrious career on Broadway, starring in the 1978 production Eubie!, a biographical musical about celebrated jazz pianist Eubie Blake.\n\n\"Her passion for performing and sharing her heart with the world was immense,\" Roger Paul Inc said in a statement.\n\n\"Marion carried with her a kindness and permeating light that instantly filled a room upon her arrival.\n\n\"The dimming of her light is already felt by those who knew her well. We will miss her, and always love her.\"\n\nRamsey featured in six Police Academy films as Officer Laverne Hooks\n\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, Ramsey started her career in the theatre, appearing in both the original Broadway and subsequent touring productions of Hello, Dolly!.\n\nShe was prolific on Broadway, co-starring in many shows, including Harold Prince's Grind with Ben Vereen, and Eubie! with Gregory and Maurice Hines.\n\nHer agent said Ramsey was \"particularly proud\" about Broadway's Dreamgirls finally becoming a major motion picture in 2006, because she was one of the singers that the original Broadway show's producer, Tom Eyen, based the three main characters on.\n\nRamsey's career in TV and film career took off after she appeared as a guest on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons in 1976.\n\nFollowing that, she was a regular on Cos, Bill Cosby's sketch show.\n\nShe starred in six Police Academy films in total, making her a familiar face to fans of the franchise.\n\nRamsey's agent said she had an immense passion for performing\n\nAmerican actor Michael Winslow wrote in a tweet that he had \"no words to say or explain the pain\" of losing Ramsey.\n\n\"In the 80s the Police Academy films cast a long shadow over the comedy genre - they were everywhere & everyone watched them,\" British producer Jonathan Sothcott wrote. \"#MarionRamsey was hilarious as Hooks - a fine comedic actress.\"\n\nA message on the Twitter account for the movie When I Sing read: \"It is with great sadness that I share our loss of my friend, and one of the shining stars of When I Sing (her final role), the beautiful, kind, hilarious, #MarionRamsey. I will miss you, my silly sister.\"", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "Queensland in Australia has seen heavy rainfall as an ex-tropical cyclone crosses the state, bringing warnings of “life-threatening\" flash flooding.\n\nMeteorologists say cyclones are more likely in Australia this year because of La Nina weather conditions.", "Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country\n\nSingapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.\n\nOfficials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.\n\nBut parliament was told on Monday it could also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\".\n\nClose to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether programme, which is used to check in to locations.\n\nThe voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of work.\n\nThe TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.\n\nIf someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.\n\nTo encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the data would never be used for any other purpose, saying \"the data will never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team\".\n\nBut Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on Monday that it can in fact also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\", adding that \"otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the Covid situation\".\n\nHowever, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then updated on the same day to state that \"the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction\".\n\n\"Also, we want to be transparent with you,\" the statement reads. \"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected.\n\n\"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for criminal investigations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.\n\nHe said under the CPC, \"other forms of sensitive data like phone or banking records\" would also have their privacy regulations overruled in such cases.\n\nMr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder investigation.\n\nThe minister stressed though that \"once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme.\"\n\nMonday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media, with people calling out the government and some users posting that they had now deleted the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised,\" local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. \"This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.\n\n\"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right.\"\n\n\"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched,\" one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. \"We already have that through other means like CCTV.\n\n\"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat.\"\n\nAnother person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it.\n\n\"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy.\"\n\nAustralian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were \"extremely concerned\" about the news from Singapore.\n\n\"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic,\" Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. \"Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy.\"\n\nLike most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns.\n\nSingapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year.\n\nThe introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far.\n\nSingapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June", "Whitty: Priority to vaccinate those who would die from virus\n\nAndy Woodcock from the Independent asks about testing for people arriving into the UK from abroad and why it wasn't done sooner. The prime minister says the government will be bringing in measures to \"ensure that we test people coming into this country and preventing the virus from being readmitted\". Responding to a second question on schools and whether teachers and pupils should be vaccinated, Prof Chris Whitty says there is no evidence of hospitals filling up with children and it appears, that even with the new variant, \"children are relatively much less affected than other groups\". He says from a clinical point of view the real priority is to vaccinate the people that we know \"are by far the most likely to die and by far most likely to end up in hospital\". He adds there will have to be decisions made once the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated but we are not yet at that stage. The chief medical officer adds that neither vaccine currently in use in the UK has been licensed for children yet.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Enrique Tarrio says his far-right group will turn out in numbers on Wednesday\n\nThe leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been released after his arrest on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.\n\nEnrique Tarrio faces destruction of property charges. On Tuesday, a judge ordered him to stay out of Washington.\n\nHe has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.\n\nOn Tuesday, a judge released him on his own recognisance pending his trial.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory before he takes office on 20 January.\n\nMr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will \"turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th\", referring to his members as \"the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen\".\n\nThe National Guard has been deployed by Washington DC's mayor to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district.\n\nThe 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, a source told CBS News.\n\nThe destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the outgoing Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of systemic election fraud.\n\nThe mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised.\n\nMr Tarrio - who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump - told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Let's make this simple,\" he said. \"I did it.\"\n\nBut he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.\n\nMr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents.\n\nEarlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December's protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.\n\nCounter-demonstrators were mostly kept at a distance from Trump supporter last month by Washington DC police\n\nThe Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign.\n\nKristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: \"Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.\n\n\"Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.\"\n\nThe city's police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Shepherd is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise\n\nA Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say.\n\nSea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise.\n\nIt said its vessel was trying to leave when one of the boats smashed into it.\n\nThe man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed.\n\nHealth official Alonso Perez told AFP news agency on Monday that one fisherman died after sustaining serious injuries, while a second remained in a stable condition.\n\nSea Shepherd said its Farley Mowat vessel was removing an illegal net from a protected area on 31 December when a group of people on small fishing boats launched a \"violent attack\", including throwing Molotov cocktails.\n\n\"Following routine anti-piracy procedures, the Farley Mowat undertook defensive manoeuvring to avoid the attacks. As the vessel attempted to leave the scene, one of the [boats] aggressively swerved in front of the Farley Mowat, crashing directly into the hull\" and splitting in two, it said.\n\nThe group said it provided emergency first aid to the two men who had been on board the fishing boat.\n\nConservationists working for Sea Shepherd have been attacked several times while patrolling the vaquita refuge.\n\nThe group works with Mexican authorities to remove illegal gillnets used to catch totoaba fish, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine. The nets are designed to trap the heads of fish but not their bodies, but are blamed for trapping and killing the endangered porpoises as well.", "Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC he was \"committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses\".\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse.\n\nThe help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.\n\nFirms do not have to pay the grant money back.\n\nMr Sunak said he would consider whether or how to extend support packages in its Budget on 3 March.\n\n\"The Budget early in March is an excellent opportunity to take stock of the range of support we have put in place and set out the next stage of our economic response,\" he said.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business group, Tony Danker, earlier warned leaving additional support until the Budget could be too late for many firms, saying. \"the comprehensive restrictions required a new comprehensive response\".\n\nIt was a fear echoed by other business groups, the BCC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nBCC director general, Adam Marshall, warned many smaller firms would not qualify for help and \"will be left struggling to see how this new top-up grant will help them out of their cashflow problems.\"\n\nHe also called for the support to be extended to firms in other sectors \"who are also feeling the devastating impacts of these restrictions.\"\n\nFSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but \"do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing.\"\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a \"lifeline\", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, says he needs dates to plan around\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, told the BBC that fixed dates to aim for are crucial for his business.\n\n\"We need a date to work towards and we don't have that so, again, we're in limbo,\" he said. \"It takes three or four weeks\" to prepare, including retraining staff, he added.\n\nHis business has been closed since October because of restrictions in the Manchester area. It borrowed money under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\n\n\"We start repayment in June and there's good chance we won't be open, so they are going to have to extend that,\" he said.\n\nHe said much of the £9,000 grant will be taken up by the £6,000 a month his business owes in pension contributions and national insurance alone.\n\nMr Sunak said the new support would \"help businesses to get through the months ahead - and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen\".\n\nBusinesses such as cafes, restaurants, leisure centres and shops that do not sell essentials have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus lockdown measures as people are told to stay at home.\n\nAll non-essential shops, leisure and entertainment venues are now closed, with pubs and restaurants allowed to offer takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks only.\n\nThe new measures contained no additional support for self-employed people.\n\nMel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the finance department's work, warned the chancellor \"must not forget those who have fallen through the gaps around previous support packages.\"\n\nWhile this is welcome and essential support, it is now clear that the most optimistic timetable for economic lift-off from the pandemic is going to be put back.\n\nThis raises questions about the length of the furlough scheme, and government-guaranteed loans.\n\nBefore this, the best-case scenario was that mass vaccination, enabling a confident reopening of the economy, would allow furloughed workers to go straight back to their jobs in late spring.\n\nThis was never the government's central forecast, but looked possible amid optimism about the vaccine last month.\n\nEven if all vulnerable people can be vaccinated by March, the first three months of the year will see school lockdowns which will harm growth, and therefore a possible double dip recession.\n\nBusiness groups which welcomed this support say they now need a clear long-term plan. They want to know that current levels of support will stay in place until most of the population is vaccinated.\n\nHundreds of thousands of self-employed workers who fell through the gaps of support remain under huge pressure, particularly ahead of the self assessment tax deadline.\n\nA decision on extending the £20 a week increase to universal credit will also be required.\n\nEngland's lockdown rules are due to be reviewed on 15 February while Scotland's will be reviewed at the end of January.\n\nIn the UK, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.\n\nThe Office for Budgetary Responsibility, the government's independent forecaster, predicts the UK economy will have shrunk by 11.3% in 2020 - the biggest decline in 300 years. It expects unemployment to peak at 9.7%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM acted \"decisively\" in announcing a new lockdown in England \"in the face of new information\", Rishi Sunak says.\n\nPeople must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons and schools have closed to most pupils.\n\nThe chancellor said the action was \"regrettable\" but it was \"right we take these measures\", which will be reviewed on 15 February, to suppress the virus.\n\nIt came after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nBoris Johnson said vaccinating the top four priority groups by mid-February could allow restrictions to be eased, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove telling Sky News the measures may remain until March.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is due to hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 GMT with chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have also come into force across the Scottish mainland. Wales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nThe UK reported a record 58,784 cases on Monday, as well as a further 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast: \"The four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom met and discussed the situation yesterday and their recommendation was that the country had to move to level five, the highest level available of alert that meant there was an imminent danger to the NHS of being overwhelmed unless action was taken.\n\n\"And so in the circumstances we felt that the only thing we could do was to close those primary schools that were open.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove:\" With a heavy heart but with clear evidence we had to act.\"\n\nHe said the action was taken \"with the heaviest of hearts\" and \"we had to act\" following that advice.\n\n\"It is a very, very difficult time for the whole country, that's why it's so important we do everything we can in government to vaccinate people,\" he said.\n\nHe said a million people had been vaccinated so far \"up until the weekend\" and it was hoped that number would reach more than 13 million in February.\n\nWhen asked about the target of two million vaccines a week and concerns over logistics and the safety systems, Mr Gove said the vaccination process was a \"complicated exercise\" but the NHS \"has more than risen to the challenge\".\n\nThe government was \"looking at further options\" to restrict international travel, he said.\n\nMr Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, adding: \"I think it is right to say that as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all.\"\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove saying the lockdown may have to last to March may not come as much of a surprise to many.\n\nWhile the government has set a target of offering the most at-risk a jab by mid February, it will take several weeks longer for the full effect to be felt given it takes time for an immune response to kick in.\n\nThe bigger question is whether or not the government could have acted earlier.\n\nIt was clear before Christmas the new variant was pushing up infection rates - and that in turn would mean more hospital admissions.\n\nThe delay looks costly. Since Christmas Day, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has risen by 50% alone - enough to fill 18 hospitals.\n\nWhile the government did introduce tier four the weekend before Christmas in parts of the south east of England, which banned mixing over the festive period and led to the closure of non-essential shops and gyms, most of the country were allowed to meet up on Christmas Day.\n\nInfections from Christmas Day are now being felt - the numbers have been rising sharply ever since. Some of these are next week's hospital admissions - and is why the chief medical officers warned of the risk of hospitals becoming overwhelmed, which Mr Gove said persuaded them to act on Monday.\n\nIf lockdown had come earlier, it may well have been shorter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the lockdown measures \"will save tens of thousands of lives\".\n\nBut he said \"the virus is different\" and \"it may be that the lockdown measures that we have are not enough\"\n\n\"This lockdown period we need to do more than just stay at home, wait for the vaccine, we need to be actively bearing down on it,\" he said.\n\nAt Scotland's daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for people to hold on to the fact there was now \"a clear route out of this pandemic\".\n\nShe said there had been urgent discussions between the four home nations about whether border controls should be tightened - and she hoped there would be an announcement soon.\n\nAnnouncing England's lockdown on Monday, Mr Johnson said hospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\".\n\nHe ordered people to stay indoors other than for limited exceptions - such as essential medical needs, food shopping, exercise and work that cannot be done at home - and said schools and colleges should move to remote teaching for the majority of students until at least half term.\n\nPeople who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhile the rules become law in the early hours of Wednesday, people should follow them now, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMr Johnson said the new variant of coronavirus, which is up to 70% more transmissible, was spreading in a \"frustrating and alarming\" manner and warned that the number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals is 40% higher than the first peak.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on England's new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.\n\nIt follows a decision to close UK schools to most pupils to enforce new coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England told the BBC that \"broadband companies really need to step up\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added he thought the cost of data was \"a big problem\".\n\n\"We're asking people to endure very tough restrictions. And there has to be the other side of that contract,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Everybody needs to try and make this work. And that includes the companies that can take away the charging for data. It's a serious situation.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the topic at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are looking at... the potential costs to parents of online teaching, and we're going to do our best to support them in any way that we can and to work with the internet companies.\"\n\nThere is concern that some disadvantaged pupils are currently dependent on pay-as-you-go or monthly mobile phone subscriptions that only include a small data allowance because their families cannot afford or otherwise obtain a separate fixed broadband connection.\n\n\"There are 25 million pay-as-you go customers in the UK, and about seven million of those struggle with the cost of topping up their data,\" commented Chris Thorpe from the Centre For The Acceleration Of Social Technology charity.\n\nMany schools are using video-chat software including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet to live-stream classes, assemblies and other activities, which all benefit from a fast, stable connection and can consume a lot of data.\n\nIn addition, other tools including Google Classroom, Tapestry and Class Dojo are used by pupils to submit schoolwork and receive marks and other feedback.\n\nThe situation became more pressing after the prime minister announced last night that England's lockdown would mean schools and colleges would remain closed to most pupils until at least the February half-term.\n\nTech for UK - a coalition of technologists and other concerned business leaders - has suggested one way forward would be for internet providers to \"zero rate\" edtech apps and websites, so that their data use would be deducted from a mobile subscriber's monthly allowance.\n\nHowever, it acknowledges the challenge in doing so is to pick which platforms to support without giving some providers an unfair advantage over others.\n\nThe Department for Education already runs a scheme for disadvantaged children who do not have access to a home broadband connection to temporarily increase their mobile data allowance.\n\nIn some cases, this involves an extra 20 gigabytes a month. In others - such as Three - it provides an \"unlimited\" data upgrade.\n\nSchools, trusts and local authorities need to request the support on a pupil's behalf.\n\nThe networks involved in the initiative include:\n\nIn cases when this is not available, the government offers 4G wireless routers - which use mobile networks to offer a wi-fi connection - as an alternative.\n\nIn addition, Vodafone provided 350,000 \"free data\" Sim cards to thousands of primary and secondary schools and colleges in November.\n\n\"We are actively considering what to do now about this new situation,\" it said.\n\nO2 pledged in October to donate 10,000 devices and 12 months of free data to \"vulnerable individuals\".\n\nAnd Virgin Media noted it had launched a discounted home broadband service for families facing financial difficulties and receiving universal credit.\n\nBT says it has already removed all caps on its home broadband plans to help ensure children can stay connected to their schools.\n\nAnne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, said she was also concerned about the provision of devices.\n\n\"A lot of children still don't have laptops. They're surviving on broken phones,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nThe Department for Education said it had delivered more than 560,000 devices to schools and councils in England between the start of the pandemic and the end of last year.\n\nIn addition, it aims to have delivered a further 100,000 laptops and tablets to schools by the end of this week to help get closer to its overall target of one million devices.\n\nHowever, teaching groups have raised concerns about the rollout.\n\nSome children are being provided with tablets to keep them connected to their schools\n\n\"We must hear no more of rationing of equipment, as we did late last year,\" Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) told the BBC.\n\n\"If the stockpiles exist, as the Department for Education claim they do, then they must be distributed urgently. We have heard too many stories of requests from schools not being met, or not being fully met.\"\n\nSteven George of head teachers' union, NAHT added that a website used to order laptops had been inaccessible over the Christmas break, so some members had been unable to make requests.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders suggested the government had \"never really got to grips\" with the issue.\n\n\"It is certainly sending out lots of laptops for disadvantaged children to schools. But there's clearly still a gap, not just in terms of the number of devices that are required but also in terms of whether families have sufficient connectivity,\" said general secretary Geoff Barton.\n\n\"This has happened because it is a crisis situation, and there hasn't been a great deal of time in which to properly assess the level of need that exists, but it does expose the fact that pre-crisis, there hadn't been a properly joined-up national strategy on digital learning.\"\n\nOthers have noted that the device allocation scheme does not extend to printers - which are needed for worksheets and other materials sent by teachers - putting low-income families at a further disadvantage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Food banks have seen increased demand during the pandemic\n\nThe UK \"cannot duck\" tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and jobs post-Covid, a major review has warned.\n\nThe report's chairman, Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, says a lot of work to repair and rebuild the damage will be needed after the pandemic.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities warned the fabric of society was under threat.\n\nThe review says there is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed\".\n\n\"We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck.\"\n\nSir Angus said: \"As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think about policies that will be needed to repair the damage and that focus on those who have suffered the most.\n\n\"We need to build a country in which everyone feels that they belong.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had highlighted the disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups and deprived communities, it also showed that the UK's best-paid and most highly educated have been \"much better able to ride out the crisis\", the report said.\n\nYoung people have been among the worst hit economically\n\nChildren from poorer households found it harder to do schoolwork during lockdown and have been more likely to miss school since September, it noted.\n\nAnd while the biggest risk factor for coronavirus is age, younger people have been hit harder by the economic consequences of the crisis.\n\nThe cost of the pandemic is \"just colossal\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We've seen the biggest reduction in national income, essentially in history, over the last year, we've seen the biggest public deficit in history outside of the two world wars, so there's no getting around the fact that the pandemic and the response to it has had a bigger effect on the economy than anything essentially in the whole of history.\"\n\nThe report highlighted the effects of the pandemic on different groups, including on education, which is \"probably more worrying\" than the overall economic effect, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The first lockdown lockdown saw a dreadful impact on the education particularly of poorer children... they were getting less in the way of online lessons from their schools.\n\n\"There's a huge private school/state school divide in this, but also a big divide within state schools between those children who had support at home, had the facilities at home - laptops and internet and so on - but who also had the support from school - so there's a big impact on education but also a very unequal one,\" he added.\n\nThe review is calling for extra support for children who have fallen behind and help for school and university leavers to find jobs.\n\nIt says the welfare safety net must be adapted so it supports non-traditional forms of employment, including insecure and self-employed workers, and minority ethnic groups must be given greater economic opportunities.\n\nProgress in reducing poor mental and physical health could be \"one of the clearest indications of success of economic and social policy\", it adds.\n\nMark Franks, director of welfare at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the review, said: \"Individuals are subject to a wide range of potential vulnerabilities around dimensions including age, ethnicity, place of birth, education, income and the nature of their employment.\n\n\"Where these vulnerabilities intersect, they can amplify and reinforce one another and play a huge role in driving unequal outcomes.\"\n\nHowever, the government said it was already spending vast sums to support people and the economy through the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're doing everything we can to ensure our coronavirus support reaches those who need it the most, which is why we've invested more than £280bn to protect the incomes, livelihoods and health of millions of people across the UK.\"\n\nThis included an additional £9bn for the welfare system and £2bn for the Kickstart Scheme, tripling traineeships, incentives for firms hiring apprentices and doubling the number of work coaches \"so that nobody is left without hope or opportunity\", the spokesman said.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "South Wales Police piloted the use of facial recognition in Cardiff - it was later ruled unlawful\n\nPolice should be allowed more access to facial recognition technology, a firm developing it for use in the private sector has said.\n\nLast year, appeal court judges ruled a trial project to scan thousands of faces by South Wales Police was unlawful. The force did not appeal.\n\nWelsh company Credas said laws were not keeping up with the latest technology.\n\nThe Home Office said it wants police to use new crime-reducing technology while \"maintaining public trust\".\n\nCredas believes such facial recognition technology could be a vital tool in fighting crime.\n\n\"Ten years ago it would have felt space age, but now it's everywhere - just logging into my phone or laptop, we're all used to it now,\" said chief executive Rhys David.\n\n\"But the legislation will never keep up with the technological advancements.\"\n\nThe firm, based in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, works with firms to prevent crime in commercial settings, helping them confirm a client's identity.\n\nIt can include estate agents, the legal sector, accountancy or gambling operations - any businesses regulated to reduce fraud and money laundering.\n\n\"There's common stories of people buying houses with someone else's identity and manipulating the paperwork so that the funds get transferred into the wrong account and it's too late then - we can't recover that,\" said Mr David.\n\n\"It's a very difficult position to be in, but technologies like ours are closing the gap.\"\n\nApps can compare people's picture to that on their passport\n\nCredas's app uses facial recognition - people take a selfie and the app compares it to a photograph of their passport to verify they are who they claim to be.\n\nClaire Williams works for FBM estate agent in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which has been using the software for the past two years.\n\n\"Before we would take people's passports or driver's licence, they would either come into the office and we would photocopy it, or we would even accept a scanned, emailed copy.\n\n\"There would be no way of knowing whether these were legitimate passports and driver's licences.\n\n\"They might have been using fake IDs, trying to launder money through the property industry - putting money into the properties, then reselling them to launder the money.\"\n\nBut scanning faces to confirm details for a mortgage is a very different beast to automated facial recognition, which is what was being trialled by South Wales Police - scanning faces in a crowd, often without people's knowledge.\n\nThat was ruled unlawful after a challenge by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges from Cardiff.\n\n\"Real-time surveillance is considerably more complex than in the commercial space where it's a fairly static, controlled environment. But we should be adopting it and encouraging it to reduce a criminal footprint,\" added Mr David.\n\n\"I find it really sad that the police aren't encouraged to use technology like this to keep our country safe.\n\n\"Let's be honest, the police don't want to sell us trainers. They're not looking to capture our images or biometric footprints to sell us goods. It's to keep us safe, so the police can run very sophisticated facial matching programmes in real time to identify criminals.\"\n\nThe frustration was echoed by the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, who is the independent regulator appointed to oversee the use of camera systems in England and Wales.\n\nFollowing the appeal court ruling on South Wales Police in August, he said he had been \"fruitlessly and repeatedly\" calling for an updated code the police could follow.\n\nWhile campaigners Liberty felt the court's ruling left little room for the technology to be safely used, Mr Porter disagreed, adding: \"I believe adoption of new and advancing technologies is an important element of keeping citizens safe.\"\n\nHe has issued new guidance on the use of facial recognition in light of the case, but it remains just that - guidance, not law.\n\nIt has left police forces still trying to iron out the problems raised by the Court of Appeal - the potential for gender and ethnic biases and a robust code to cover when, how and where the technology can be used, and in search of whom.\n\nProf Martin Innes, from the Universities' Police Sciences Institute, evaluated the rollout of automatic facial recognition for South Wales Police in 2018, flagging ethical and regulatory challenges facing forces.\n\n\"If you look back at the history of new and innovative technologies in policing this is what always happens. You have to let the law catch up a little bit and find out what matters and where the key points of regulation are,\" he said.\n\nAt present, different standards between the private and public sectors \"could be very, very confusing,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a risk that these technologies get introduced almost by stealth and they start popping up everywhere.\"\n\nPembrokeshire estate agent Claire Williams now uses a facial recognition app to match faces to identity\n\nIn a way, some of that has already happened, from mobile phones that can detect your face to hi-tech doorbells\n\nStopping criminal harm \"seems to be an equally justifiable reason\" to use the technology, argued Prof Innes.\n\n\"But we need to think quite carefully about how far do we want this to go, and where is it appropriate for us to introduce these technologies in our lives.\n\n\"There are issues - but there are potentially opportunities and benefits to be gained if it can be done in the right way, as well.\"\n\nThe Home Office and the police say they will consider any ideas that could improve the way live facial recognition technology is used.\n\n\"We want police to use new technologies, like live facial recognition, in a way that reduces crime while maintaining public trust,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police to ensure national College of Policing guidance complies with the Court of Appeal's request to clarify how live facial recognition will be used.\n\n\"The government committed in the Home Office Biometrics Strategy to review the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice and it will be updated in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Holidays has become the latest travel firm to cancel holidays after new coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed.\n\nIt said schedules will be cancelled until mid-February, joining similar moves by Tui, Jet2 and Thomas Cook.\n\nThe companies said customers would be contacted about their future travel options during what Virgin described as \"these extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nThomas Cook said it will call customers to offer refunds or rebooking.\n\nTui said it was \"cancelling all holidays in line with international travel restrictions\". It added that said customers due to depart from England, Scotland and Wales would be contacted to discuss options.\n\nThe company said that customers due to travel from an English airport before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to 31 January, would not be able to do so.\n\nThose customers will be contacted \"in departure date order to discuss their options\", Tui said, which include rebooking \"with an incentive\", getting a credit note, or a full refund.\n\n\"Customers currently overseas can continue to enjoy their holidays as planned and we will update them directly if there are any changes to their holidays,\" Tui added.\n\nIn a statement, Virgin said: \"In line with the new national lockdown restrictions we have reviewed the upcoming holiday schedule and will be cancelling all holidays up to and including 14 February 2021.\n\n\"To simplify the options and to provide immediate peace of mind for customers whose holidays will no longer be going ahead, we're automatically providing a digital voucher for the value of their trip, redeemable up until 30 September 2021, which they can use to rebook a holiday, departing any time before 31 December 2022.\"\n\nVirgin added that customers \"may also request a refund\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jet2 said it was extending \"the suspension of flights and holidays up to and including 11 February 2021\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"For customers due to travel from 12th February onwards, we will provide another update closer to the time.\"\n\nThomas Cook, which became an online-only travel brand in September after its earlier collapse, said: \"Following the announcement of the latest lockdown, we are calling our customers to offer refunds or move their holidays to a later date.\".\n\nChief executive Alan French said: \"We've seen over the festive period that customers are looking ahead to the summer and beginning to book in earnest for those important summer weeks in the sun.\n\n\"I am sure that after many more weeks spent at home - and with the progress of the vaccine rollout - we will see an even bigger demand for people to escape to the beach this summer.\"\n\nLast month, a number of countries suspended routes to the UK due to the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus.\n\nThe blanket travel ban to the EU was then lifted, but with rules varying from country to country. The suspension of flights between the UK and China remains in place.\n\nLast year Tui was investigated by competition authorities after complaints that it had not given prompt refunds.\n\nBritish Airways Holidays, part of Britain's biggest airline, said it would be offering refunds if customers are no longer allowed travel.\n\nThe firm said in a statement: \"We are contacting all affected British Airways Holidays customers following the announcement of new national lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"Customers due to depart by 12 February 2021 will be offered a refund for their holiday. Our teams continue to monitor the situation and update our policy accordingly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust has cancelled all \"Priority 2\" operations - those doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days.\n\nCancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nAnd surgery has not been stopped on the same scale as during the first wave.\n\nRebecca Thomas, who has had her bowel cancer surgery at King's College Hospital \"cancelled indefinitely\", told the BBC she felt like she had been left \"in limbo\".\n\nUntil she has surgery her tumour cannot be studied to see how aggressive it is, and so she won't know until then how significant this wait will turn out to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trust, which mainly serves patients in south London, said: \"Due to the large increase in patients being admitted with Covid-19, including those requiring intensive care, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone all elective procedures, with the exception of cases where a delay would cause immediate harm.\n\n\"A small number of cancer patients due to be operated on this week have had their surgery postponed, with patients being kept under close review by senior doctors.\"\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said he had heard from members that \"hospitals across London are having to cancel cancer surgeries as a result of the huge number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalised.\"\n\nBut it hasn't yet emerged as an issue affecting hospitals outside London.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit last March, NHS England developed guidance on prioritising patients who needed operations, with emergency procedures that needed to be carried out within 24 hours coming first.\n\nThese life-saving operations have continued throughout the pandemic and there is no prospect of that stopping.\n\nHowever, patients in the \"priority 2\" category - who should have surgery within 28 days, to save their life or stop their disease progressing \"beyond operability\" - have found their operations being cancelled at King's.\n\nThe 28-day guideline is based on the patient's individual symptoms and the expected growth rate of their particular cancer.\n\n\"Delays further than that could have a negative impact on that person's chance of survival,\" according to Kruti Shrotri at Cancer Research UK.\n\nAnd delays in diagnosis and treatment in general can lead to worsening chances of recovery, she said.\n\nThis will vary dramatically by person and cancer type, but in some cases, a matter of a few weeks can make the difference between a cancer that can be survived or not.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, said research showed \"even a month's delay to cancer treatment can increase a person's risk of dying by up to 13% - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment is delayed\".\n\nWhile this was \"really concerning to hear,\" she said, \"it's not by and large something we've heard is happening widespread across the country\".\n\nThis is an improvement from the first wave of Covid-19 when the NHS had to put a near-blanket ban on non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut for those patients who are affected, this news will be \"incredibly hard,\" and Ms Shrotri stressed that patients with any symptoms that could be cancer should not put off going to see their GP.\n\n\"The NHS is open,\" she said.\n\nSurgery is most at risk because of the shortage of intensive care beds - but other forms of cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, should continue.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses in England, said trusts were doing all they could to \"prioritise on the basis of clinical need\".", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Supermarkets' online shopping operations have come under strain with customers rushing to book deliveries as the new coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nSainsbury's said on Tuesday that earlier it had restricted access to its online services to manage high demand.\n\nThe surge in demand echoes consumers' reaction at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"We temporarily limited access to our groceries online service last night so that we could manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders.\n\n\"We're continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said customers should now be able to use the Sainsbury's app and website \"as usual\".\n\nAfter the first lockdown in March, supermarkets reported panic buying and a rush to book online delivery slots despite grocers insisting there would be no shortages if consumers shopped sensibly.\n\nShoppers used social media to vent their frustration on Monday, with Twitter user Auld Bryan saying: \"Ocado have already introduced their virtual queue process on their app. It's March 2020 all over again.\"\n\nAnother tweet, by Karl Dyson, said of Ocado: \"You'd think ~10 months in to this, they'd have worked on scalable infrastructure for the website?\"\n\nThere were also reports of people having problems with the Tesco app and website, including when trying to check out and complete payment.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Britain's biggest supermarket said on Monday evening that there had been no reports from Tesco's technical department of any website problems.\n\nThe supermarket had increased the number of slots available for online delivery before the latest lockdown measures.\n\nAn email from Tesco UK boss Jason Tarry already sent to customers said: \"Since March, we have more than doubled home delivery and Click+Collect slots to 1.5 million a week, with over 760,000 vulnerable customers registered with us who are eligible for priority slots.\"\n\nUsers complained that the Sainsbury's app was down following the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nTwitter user Francesca Balgobind wrote: \"What's happening with the Sainsbury's shopping app tonight? Website is down too?\"\n\nAnother social media user, Matt, said some 40 minutes after Mr Johnson had finished speaking: \"Sainsbury's app and website down\".\n\nAsda saw more demand for online shopping after the lockdown announcement, but said it had increased the number of slots available since the first two national lockdowns.\n\nMorrisons also reported a jump in the number of shoppers using its website after the announcement.\n\nHowever, despite the longer waiting queues, the grocer said it continued to have \"good slot availability\" for home deliveries.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, supermarkets have urged people to shop normally.\n\nBefore Christmas, in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition period, some grocers reported temporary shortages of fresh goods due to congestion at UK shipping ports.", "By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable.\n\nBut it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful.\n\nWith tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away.\n\nThere is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy.\n\nThis time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business.\n\nBut there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits.\n\nBy now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions.\n\nBut there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation.\n\nVaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already.\n\nThe scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me: \"We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel.\"\n\nIt's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Celtic have questions to answer about their trip to Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon says possible breaches of social distancing rules while in the Middle East \"should be looked into\".\n\nHowever, Celtic insist the training camp was approved by the Scottish government, while the Scottish FA have no plans to investigate the trip.\n\n\"For me, the question for Celtic is what is the purpose of them being there,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"I've seen comments from the club that it's more for R&R than training.\n\n\"I have also seen some photographs - and I don't know the full circumstances - that would raise a question in my mind about whether all the rules elite players have to follow in their bubble around social distancing are being complied with.\"\n\nPictures have emerged of members of the Celtic party in the UAE not wearing face masks and potentially breaching the social distancing rules that those in Scottish football must adhere to.\n\nIt remains unclear if the Scottish FA will investigate that matter.\n\nCeltic travelled to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday just hours after their 1-0 defeat by Rangers.\n\nTravellers returning from the UAE are exempt from self-isolation protocols in Scotland, with elite athletes in Scotland permitted to travel abroad to compete.\n\n\"Elite sport has been in a privileged position and as long as that is the case it's really important they don't abuse it,\" said Ms Sturgeon at her daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I saw their [Celtic's] statement and have not spent a lot of time looking into it, but as I understand it the government gave advice to the Scottish FA about the rules around training camps in November.\n\n\"The world has changed quite a bit since then but it's not our role to sign off what a club does around these training camps.\n\n\"The rules may have to change, but they were that elite sportspeople and teams can go overseas if it is important in the context of training and competitions.\"\n\nMainland Scotland has been in Tier 4 - the highest level of restrictions - since 26 December, and Ms Sturgeon addressed the nation on Monday ordering people to stay at home where possible.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney has accused Celtic of not setting \"a particularly great example\".\n\n\"I don't think it's a good idea,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland on Monday.\n\n\"When we are asking members of the public to take on very, very significant restrictions on the way in which they live their lives, I think we have all got to demonstrate leadership on this particular question.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment on Monday, a Celtic spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The training camp was arranged a number of months ago and approved by all relevant footballing authorities and the Scottish government through the Joint Response Group on 12 November.\n\n\"The team travelled prior to any new lockdown being in place, to a location exempt from travel restrictions. The camp, the same one as we have undertaken for a number of years, has been fully risk assessed.\n\n\"If the club had not received Scottish government approval, then we would not have travelled.\"\n\nIn November, Celtic requested their fixture with Hibernian, originally scheduled for this weekend, be moved to Monday, 11 January to accommodate the trip.\n\nThe SPFL granted the change, despite objections from the Easter Road side.", "Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration after most of its stores were forced to close over the Christmas period.\n\nThe firm has filed a notice to appoint administrators, a move that will give it breathing space from its creditors while it works out a rescue plan.\n\nThe company has 127 stores and about 1,500 employees.\n\nThe second lockdown in November came at a crucial period for the firm, which makes a high proportion of sales then.\n\nJust under half its sales, 40%, come from trade in November and December.\n\nPaperchase said: \"The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two - at the start of the Christmas shopping period - and now the current restrictions have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.\"\n\nThe company went through an insolvency process, known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement or CVA, almost two years ago to cut costs.\n\nThe chain now has 10 working days to find a solution.\n\nPaperchase said its strong online trading had not made it \"immune\" from the impact of shop closures across the country.\n\n\"Out of lockdown we've traded well, but as the country faces further restrictions for some months to come, we have to find a sustainable future for Paperchase,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working hard to find that solution and this [notice of administration] is a necessary part of this work. This is not the situation we wanted to be in.\n\nThe chain is the latest of a string of high-profile retailers to hit trouble in the past year.\n\nThe sector was already battling with the shift to online sales, coupled with rising costs, including rents and higher minimum wages.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions which shut non-essential shops piled on the pressure.\n\nOthers that have run into trouble recently include Debenhams, which last month said it would cease trading putting 12,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has also gone into administration, putting a further 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Woollen Mills' brands Peacocks and Jaeger also fell into administration in November, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAnd earlier last year, Oasis and Warehouse fell into administration in mid-April after failing to find buyers, and online fashion group Boohoo said in June it was buying the brands but closing all stores.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "Adamo Canto had worked as a catering assistant at the palace's Royal Mews since 2015\n\nA Buckingham Palace catering assistant who stole medals and photographs from the Queen's residence has been jailed.\n\nAdamo Canto, 37, stole items including signed photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of US President Donald Trump's UK visit.\n\nPolice said some of the goods, worth between £10,000 and £100,000, had been listed for sale on eBay.\n\nCanto, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight months after he admitted stealing the items.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard police recovered a \"significant quantity\" of stolen items when they searched his quarters at the palace's Royal Mews, where he had worked as a catering assistant since 2015.\n\nCanto stole an album of photos from US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK\n\nA total of 37 items were offered for sale \"well under\" their true value, with Canto making £7,741.\n\nOne item was a photo album of US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK, worth £1,500.\n\nCanto also took official signed photographs of the Duke of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nSome 77 items were taken from the palace shop, while others were stolen from staff lockers, the Queen's Gallery shop and the Duke of York's storeroom.\n\nCanto also admitted stealing a Companion of Bath medal belonging to the Master of the Household, which was sold online for £350, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order medal from the locker of former British Army officer Maj Gen Richard Sykes.\n\nCanto pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by an employee at a hearing in November and was jailed on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park believed he was carrying out \"an act of religious jihad\", a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed to death James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAs part of his sentencing, a hearing will decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThe prosecution claim the stabbing spree was a terror attack.\n\nSaadallah has admitted three counts of murder and attempted murder, but denies he was motivated by an ideology.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court he \"executed\" his victims and intended to \"kill as many people as he could\" in the name of violent jihad.\n\nShe said: \"In less than a minute, shouting Allahu Akhbar the defendant carried out a lethal attack with a knife, killing all three men before they had a chance to respond and try to defend themselves.\n\n\"Within the same minute, the defendant went on to attack others nearby, stabbing three more people, Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, causing them significant injuries.\"\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah was captured on CCTV leaving his flat on the day of the attack\n\nStating the prosecution's case she said the attack was \"carefully planned and executed\" by the defendant with \"determination and precision\".\n\nShe added: \"The defendant believed that in carrying out this attack he was acting in pursuit of his extreme ideology, an ideology he appears to have held for some time.\n\n\"He believed that in killing as many people as possible that day he was performing an act of religious jihad.\"\n\nAfter the attack Sadallah fled but was chased down by police, and later admitted the attacks in his cell, the court heard.\n\nIn interviews with police he \"howled like a dog\" and claimed to have magic powers, which the prosecution said was a \"disingenuous\" attempt to suggest he had a mental disorder.\n\n\"After a careful period of assessment and treatment at Belmarsh prison, it is clear that he does not have a major mental illness\", a report by a psychiatrist read out in court said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the victims, Michael Main, said: \"They were always happy\"\n\nSaadallah arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2012, having fled the civil war in his home country of Libya in North Africa.\n\nThe court heard the defendant, who had been refused asylum, had been involved with militias as part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2020 he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences in the UK.\n\nWhile in HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah was observed to be keen to interact with radical preacher Omar Brooks - associated with banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun - who was also at the jail at the time, the court heard. He was released from the prison in June, days before the attack.\n\nSaadallah had been due to be deported, but was told by the government circumstances in Libya at the time were a \"legal barrier\".\n\nThe court was told he had also searched on the internet \"how to disappear with magic\" and accessed a website with the flag associated with Islamic State.\n\nA probation officer who had contact with Saadallah flagged his concerns about his mental health, but a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Sweeney is expected to conclude on January 11.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "The 90,000 sq ft store is a familiar sight for commuters coming out of Oxford Circus Tube station\n\nThe building that houses Topshop's Oxford Street store is up for sale.\n\nThe High Street chain's owner Arcadia went into administration in November, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nNews of the sale of the three-storey building has prompted an outpouring of emotion on social media, with shoppers recounting how important the flagship store is to them.\n\nThe store, which boasted a DJ booth, nail bar and food stalls, was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994.\n\nHuge crowds gathered at the store for the launch of Kate Moss's Topshop collection in 2014\n\nArcadia - which owns Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - entered administration on 30 November\n\nThe sale of 214 Oxford Street, managed by agents Savills and Eastdil, follows the failure of Sir Philip Green's retail empire to secure funding to pay its debts after sales slumped during the pandemic.\n\nThe Oxford Street building also houses Nike and Vans stores.\n\nArcadia said that although it was in administration, and so all its assets are to be sold, that did not mean the shops in the building would have to close.\n\nPeople have been sharing their feelings about the London landmark, which was often used as a meeting point for friends and was a must-visit for fashion-loving tourists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArcadia, which also owns Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Burton, had already closed other Topshop stores across the UK, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts brands were struggling before the pandemic, partly due to competition from online-only fashion retailers such as Asos, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nBeyonce launched her Ivy Park collection at Topshop in 2016\n\nThe flagship store is currently closed, in line with the rules about non-essential retailers\n\nThe Oxford Street store pictured during Pride in 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon: Vaccination programme needs to win the race\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have come into force across the Scottish mainland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the clampdown was necessary to contain the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.\n\nPeople are now required by law to stay in their homes and to work from home.\n\nOutdoor gatherings have been restricted to one-on-one meet-ups, and schools will close to most pupils until February at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Monday that Scotland faced an \"extremely serious\" situation, with the new, faster-spreading variant of coronavirus \"a massive blow\".\n\nSchools will remain closed to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nThe first minister has said she cannot guarantee when children will be allowed back in classrooms or when the latest lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nShe also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday that she hoped 2.7 million people in Scotland would have received one dose of the Covid vaccine by the middle of May.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be definitive right now about when we will lift these restrictions.\n\n\"I have described this as a race - we've got the vaccine in one lane and we are trying to accelerate that.\n\n\"We've got the virus which has learned to run faster in the other lane and we've got to slow it down.\n\n\"Lockdown is about pushing rates of the virus back, and if we manage to do that then hopefully we will be able to start lifting restrictions while the vaccination programme is ongoing.\"\n\nA government document revealed there were now more than 90 patients in intensive care units, with new modelling suggesting that figure could more than double by early February.\n\nThe modelling sets out different scenarios with the most pessimistic predicting hospitals admissions could soar to more than 8,000 with over 700 patients requiring intensive care.\n\nThe document also revealed that Inverclyde - which a few weeks ago had relatively low levels of Covid - now has the highest case rate, almost 550 per 100,000 - while Dumfries and Galloway has seen its rate increase to 475 per 100,000.\n\nDundee City, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and the Scottish Borders all now have case rates exceeding 300 per 100,000.\n\nOnly limited data was released by the government in recent days but a full update on deaths, hospital admissions and local infection rates has now been issued.\n\nCases of Covid have risen sharply in recent days\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight and are, in effect, an enhancement to the level four curbs already in place across the mainland and Skye.\n\nThey will run until at least the end of January and could yet be extended both in scope and duration.\n\nScotland's island communities, with the exception of Skye, are to remain in level three for now, although Ms Sturgeon warned this would also remain under review.\n\nNew regulations mean Scots are prohibited from leaving their homes for anything other than \"essential\" purposes - although the law provides a lengthy list of examples of \"reasonable excuses\".\n\nThese include shopping for food or medical supplies, providing or accessing childcare, exercise, and participation in extended households.\n\nAnyone who can do their job from home must do so, and people in the \"shielding\" category have been advised not to go out to work at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nNew restrictions have been placed on outdoor gatherings in level four areas, with only two people from separate households now permitted to meet up.\n\nThese restrictions do not include children under the age of 12, who are still allowed to gather to play, but everyone else must abide by them or face a fixed penalty notice.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place between local authority areas and in and out of Scotland, and people have been urged to stay as close to home as possible when going out for exercise.\n\nSchools will now operate on a remote-learning basis for the majority of pupils when the new term starts on 11 January, with only the children of key workers and vulnerable children to receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nThis is to run until at least 1 February, with a review on 18 January - with Ms Sturgeon saying her \"fundamental priority\" was still to get children back in school full time as quickly as possible.\n\nThe new measures are a bid to control the spread of the new variant of Covid, which is now thought to be responsible for nearly half of all new cases of the virus in Scotland.\n\nOfficials believe Scotland is roughly four weeks behind London - where health services are coming under increasing pressure - and warn that hospitals could hit capacity within the month without major new curbs.\n\nBetween 23 and 30 December, the average number of cases per 100,000 people in Scotland increased by 65%, from 136 to 225.", "\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation\"\n\nA fresh move is under way to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence in England and Wales, after the House of Lords debated the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans to change the law, arguing that non-fatal strangulation is already covered by existing legislation.\n\nHowever, campaigners say abusers who use non-fatal strangulation are telling their victims: \"I am controlling you and I can kill you\" - but too often are charged only with common assault.\n\nThis is what happened in Jenny's case. Her abusive partner used non-fatal strangulation as a means of control throughout the five years they were together.\n\n\"It was like his favourite thing to do,\" says Jenny, who asked the BBC not to use her real name.\n\n\"That sounds really awful and trivial but that is how it becomes as an abuse victim. You learn to accept that is part of your life. It was like something I had to manage.\"\n\n\"We would wake up in the morning and he would be in one of those moods, and I would see it in his eyes and I would think today's the day I'm going to get it.\n\n\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nEventually one night she did call the police during an attack.\n\n\"He chased me round the house and every time he caught me he would pin me to the floor and strangle me until I had marks.\n\n\"I had burst blood vessels. I was streaming with tears. I just kept thinking: 'This is how I am going to die.'\n\n\"The doors were locked. He'd smashed my phone. I managed to get to the window and shout and one of the neighbours called the police.\"\n\nHowever, she was dismayed by the police response. \"I thought it was quite lax. They didn't take the strangulation as seriously as they should have.\"\n\nHer partner was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\n\"Strangulation needs to be a specific offence. I think the weak police response contributed to keeping me in the relationship,\" she says.\n\nJenny believed her partner would eventually kill her.\n\n\"I just kept looking in the mirror and thinking: you need to leave and you're the only person who can do it.\n\n\"So one day while he was asleep, I picked up whatever I could carry and I ran and got on a train.\"\n\nBaroness Newlove is bringing forward an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords\n\nPoliticians and campaigners tried and failed to have a new offence of non-fatal strangulation introduced in the Domestic Abuse Bill when it was going through the House of Commons.\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate on the bill in the Lords, the Conservative peer and former victims' commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill when it reached the committee stage.\n\nShe said non-fatal strangulation was currently not being picked up adequately by the police, as it often left no physical marks on the victim.\n\nShe described it as a terrifying crime, with many victims testifying they felt as though their heads were going to explode and they were about to die.\n\nPeers from other parties also spoke in support of a new offence.\n\nNogah Offer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence, says: \"We believe this is a real opportunity to make a difference.\"\n\nCommon assault is a summary offence that can be charged by the police.\n\nBut when it involves domestic abuse, it should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, its guidance says.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"Non-fatal strangulation is a serious crime which is already covered by existing laws such as common assault and attempted murder.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the government would keep this area of the law under review, but said a specific offence of attempting to choke, strangle or suffocate a person is included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and, according to the 2015 Serious Crime Act, attempted strangulation can fall under the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine White: \"Ultimately it can lead to death\"\n\nDr Catherine White, clinical director of St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, says: \"Strangulation often ends up being treated the same as a slap or a punch.\n\n\"It's a very different crime. Often there is no external injury to the neck, which is why it's a very powerful tool for the perpetrator.\n\n\"It can cause confusion but ultimately it can lead to death.\"\n\nA research project led by Dr White describes non-fatal strangulation as a \"gendered crime, with nearly all the patients female and the alleged perpetrators male\".\n\nAnd figures from the Femicide Census, which looked at the cases of women killed by men in the UK, found that in 2018, 29% died through strangulation.\n\nCampaigners point to New Zealand and some parts of the United States and Australia, where non-fatal strangulation has become a specific offence.\n\nMeanwhile, after help from a women's centre and counselling, Jenny now feels stronger and happier.\n\nDespite the pandemic, she says, having finally escaped her abuser: \"2020 was one of the best years of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Body Coach says he will be running PE lessons online for children\n\nJoe Wicks is restarting his online PE lessons from next week, to help families keep fit during lockdown.\n\nThe personal trainer told the BBC he wanted to \"give children structure\" and help them feel \"more optimistic\".\n\nHe said live sessions would run on his YouTube channel at 09:00 GMT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\n\nSchools across the UK are reopening later than normal, amid tighter measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nConfirming the return of his \"PE with Joe\" sessions in an Instagram post, Wicks, known as the Body Coach, said: \"We all need this for our mental health more than ever and exercising can help.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had \"a really emotional moment last night\", after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown for England on Monday evening.\n\n\"I was thinking about all the children in the UK and all around the world that are at home in tiny little flats… and they feel like they miss their friends and they miss school,\" he said.\n\n\"And so PE with Joe three days a week is going to really help them get through those days and give them some structure and hopefully help them feel a little bit happier and a bit more optimistic.\"\n\nWicks first began his free online workouts during the national lockdown in March, with the sessions attracting millions of viewers.", "Boeing's 737 Max plane is safe to return to service in the UK and the European Union, regulators have said.\n\nIt ends a 22-month flight ban for the jet, which followed two crashes which caused 346 deaths.\n\nThe plane had already been cleared to resume flying in North America and Brazil.\n\nBut this week a senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle warned that recertification had happened too quickly.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), which regulates aviation in 31 mainly EU countries, said it now had \"every confidence\" in the plane following an independent review.\n\n\"But we will continue to monitor 737 Max operations closely as the aircraft resumes service,\" said executive director Patrick Ky.\n\n\"In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.\"\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which oversees UK aviation now Britain has left the EU, said the work to return the 737 Max to the skies had been \"the most extensive project of this kind\".\n\nIt said it was in close contact with Tui, currently the only UK operator of the aircraft, as it returned the plane to service.\n\n\"As part of this we will have full oversight of the airline's plans including its pilot training programmes and implementation of the required aircraft modifications.\"\n\nThe 737 Max's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.\n\nThe second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.\n\nBoth have been attributed to flawed flight control software, which became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.\n\nEasa said it had done a full investigation independent of Boeing or the US Federal Aviation Administration and \"without any economic or political pressure\".\n\nAs a result, it demanded software upgrades, electrical working rework, maintenance checks, operations manual updates and crew training.\n\n\"We asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements,\" Mr Ky said.\n\nThe CAA said it had based its decision on information from Easa, the US Federal Aviation Agency and Boeing, as well as \"extensive engagement\" with airline operators and pilots.\n\nIt comes days after a report by Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager, claimed that regulators and investigators had largely ignored factors that may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nMr Pierson said that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory in Seattle was badly needed.\n\nOn Wednesday Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband Mick died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said that the families of victims \"still do not have a full accounting of what happened and why\".\n\n\"Ultimately we are more determined than ever to find out exactly what Boeing knew about this dangerous aircraft, and hold them accountable for the deaths of our loved ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\nBoeing has already agreed to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) to settle US criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of the planes.\n\nThe US Justice Department said the firm chose \"profit over candour\", impeding oversight of the planes.\n\nAbout $500m of that will go to families of the people killed in the tragedies.\n\nHowever, attorneys for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have said the deal would not end their pending civil lawsuit against Boeing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boeing posted a record $12bn annual loss after it delayed its all-new 777X jet for the third time, incurring huge charges.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has caused demand for the industry's largest jetliners to fall, with airline customers shunning deliveries of planes due international travel restrictions.\n\nThe 737 Max has already been cleared to fly in North America and Brazil - now it has the go-ahead from European regulators as well.\n\nIt's a major step for Boeing - although with the current travel restrictions in place, it's likely to be a while before the decision has much practical effect.\n\nBut the controversy won't end there. Relatives of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident have made it clear they haven't heard enough to be sure the aircraft - modified in accordance with regulators' wishes - is truly safe.\n\nAnd this week, a former senior manager at the 737 factory told the BBC why he thought existing planes might still be carrying potentially dangerous manufacturing defects.\n\nThat may explain why Easa has also chosen to publish a report setting out the detailed reasoning behind its decision.\n\nUltimately, the 737 Max may we'll have decades of successful service ahead of it. But for the moment, winning back passenger confidence will be a formidable challenge.", "The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies.\n\nIt said insurance was \"not an alternative\" to doing everything possible to first minimise the risk.\n\nHowever, it added that firms could face financial ruin without the cover.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the UK needed to rethink its policies on ransomware.\n\nRansomware is a form of malware in which infected computers are remotely locked by cyber-criminals, who then demand a ransom, often in the form of Bitcoin, to unlock them and return the data they hold.\n\nThere are many examples of businesses and public bodies which have chosen to pay because they do not have the data backed up, or cannot afford - or do not have time - to rebuild their systems from scratch.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Prof Martin, now at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, said he believed insurers were \"funding organised crime\" by accepting ransomware claims, but he told the BBC the issue of how to tackle ransomware was far broader than just the insurance sector.\n\nWhile official advice is not to pay the demand, it is not illegal to do so in the UK, he said.\n\n\"I have some sympathy with insurers, because as long as it's legal, there are incentives to pay.\"\n\nWhile the ransom demand may be high, the alternative impact can also be devastating.\n\nWhen the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was attacked in 2019, it cost the firm around £45m, and its profits in the immediate aftermath plummeted by 82%, reported Reuters.\n\nNorsk Hydro refused to pay the demand, which would arguably have been cheaper - but it did have insurance.\n\nA spokesman for the ABI said insurers do require that \"reasonable precautions\" are taken to prevent cyber-attacks from succeeding in the first place, just as cars and houses require security measures in place to deter thieves.\n\n\"Some might argue that any insurance that covers against a criminal act could lull the policyholder into a false sense of security,\" he said.\n\nProf Martin said he did not think that banning ransomware insurance claims would necessarily solve the problem.\n\n\"But it's worth a serious piece of consultation because if we continue as we are, things will get worse,\" he said.", "Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus, a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe ONS findings are based on positive tests from a random sample of 6,000 people in England.\n\nLoss of taste and smell may be slightly less likely to affect those with the new form of the virus.\n\nHowever, it is still one of the three main symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe NHS website lists the symptoms as a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to sense of smell or taste.\n\nMost people infected with the virus develop at least one of these symptoms.\n\nThe new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown.\n\nThere is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels.\n\nThe ONS analysis looked at the symptoms reported by people up to a week before testing positive for the new variant of coronavirus, compared with those testing positive for the old variant.\n\nThey were tested over two months between mid-November and mid-January.\n\nTest results compatible with the new variant show up as being positive for two genes, rather than three for the other variant.\n\nIn a group of about 3,500 people with the new variant:\n\nIn a group of 2,500 people with the old variant:\n\nThe study found 16% of those with the new variant experienced losing their sense of taste while 15% lost their sense of smell.\n\nThis was slightly lower than reported by people with the old variant (18% for both).\n\nThere was no difference found in levels of headaches, shortness of breath or diarrhoea and vomiting in both groups.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus.\n\n\"Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection,\" he said.\n\nInfected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body \"perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness\", Prof Young added.\n\nThe analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the UK population, carried out jointly with Public Health England, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has suggested that Boris Johnson should not visit Scotland as it is not an \"essential\" journey.\n\nThe prime minister is widely expected to travel to Scotland on Thursday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not ecstatic\" about the plan, saying leaders should abide by the same rules as they ask of the general public.\n\nAsked about the trip, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said Mr Johnson would go \"wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic\".\n\nAnd Downing Street has insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman did not confirm details of the visit, but said: \"It remains the fact that it is a fundamental role of the PM to be the physical representative of the UK government\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is right that he is visible and accessible to businesses, communities and the public across all parts of the UK, especially during the pandemic.\"\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is due to visit Scotland on Thursday to thank staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, despite the \"stay at home\" lockdown in place across the country.\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon stressed that she was not saying Mr Johnson was unwelcome in Scotland, but added that she was \"not ecstatic\" about the idea of him travelling up from London.\n\nDowning Street says it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the UK during the pandemic\n\nShe said: \"We are living in a global pandemic and every day I stand and look down the camera and say 'don't travel unless it is essential, work from home if you possibly can' - that has to apply to all of us.\n\n\"People like me and Boris Johnson have to be in work for reasons people understand, but we don't have to travel across the UK. We have a duty to lead by example.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her team had suggested she visit a mass vaccination centre in Aberdeen in the coming weeks, but that she had questioned whether the journey was \"genuinely essential\".\n\nShe said: \"If I'm standing here every day saying to all of you watching, don't leave your house unless it is essential, I have a duty to subject myself to that same discipline and decision making.\n\n\"I would say me travelling from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to visit a vaccine centre is not essential - Boris Johnson travelling from London to wherever in Scotland to do the same is not essential.\n\n\"If we're asking other people to abide by that then I'm sorry, I think it's incumbent on us to do likewise.\"\n\nThere are currently cross-border travel restrictions in place for anything other than essential travel, as well as a stay at home order\n\nThe Scottish secretary was asked about the move at Westminster by SNP MP Neale Hanvey, who described the trip as a \"futile\" attempt to bolster the union following a trend of polls suggesting majority support for independence.\n\nMr Jack replied: \"That's ridiculous - the prime minister is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic, he will go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found.\n\nPhilippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment in August 2019.\n\nShe died after two months in a coma.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the way her claim was dealt with was the \"predominant factor\" in her overdose.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, coroner Gordon Clow said he could not determine whether she intended to die rather than put her life at risk.\n\nMiss Day, who had been diagnosed with unstable personality disorder, had been receiving disabled living allowance (DLA) payments as she had type 1 diabetes.\n\nThose payments stopped in January 2019 after she made an application for a personal independence payment (PIP), reducing her income from £228 a week to £60.\n\nThis, the inquest heard, was because a form she had sent went missing and her payments were not reinstated for months, despite her eligibility.\n\nThis led to her taking out short-term loans and ending up in debt.\n\nThe court heard in June, she called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to say she was \"starving\" and \"couldn't survive like this for much longer\".\n\nPhilippa Day (left) took a fatal overdose and died in October 2019\n\nShe was then asked to attend a face-to-face assessment despite it being \"distressing\" for her, Mr Clow said.\n\nThe coroner added Miss Day's mental health problems were \"exacerbated\" by the benefits process.\n\nHe accepted it had been \"the last straw\" for Miss Day who was already experiencing a range of stressors.\n\nHe said: \"Were it not for this problem, it is not likely that she would have [overdosed] on the 7th or 8th of August.\"\n\nCall handlers repeatedly failed to flag that the case required \"additional support\" due to her mental health problems, the coroner said.\n\nThe DWP did not tell her community psychiatric nurse that she had not returned the form before refusing her application, which could have resolved the issue.\n\nThe coroner said call handlers received little to no training on personality disorders like Miss Day's - all that was available was a factsheet.\n\nCapita was made aware of the risks to Miss Day's health from a face-to-face interview by her community psychiatric nurse, but did not act on it, he added.\n\nMr Clow said: \"Given the sheer number of problems in the handling of her claim, I am unable to conclude that each of these was attributable to individual human error.\"\n\nHe concluded the failure to administer her benefit claim in a way that avoided exacerbating her mental health problems was the \"predominant factor\" that caused Miss Day to overdose.\n\nMr Clow recommended changes at both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the authorities involved.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Clow said the DWP should consider timely mental health training for call handlers and address \"poor record keeping\".\n\nThe DWP and Capita were also directed to review the change of assessment process so that it does not \"create unnecessary distress\".\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"This is a deeply tragic case. Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day's family and we will carefully consider the coroner's findings.\"\n\nA Capita spokesman said the company also apologised for the mistakes made.\n\n\"We have strengthened our processes over the last 18 months and are committed to continuously working to deliver a high-quality, empathetic service for every claimant,\" he said.\n\n\"In partnership with the DWP, we will act upon the coroner's findings and make further improvements to our processes.\"\n\nThis conclusion amounts to a near dismantling of the process for applying for the main disability benefit for people with psychiatric problems.\n\nWhile around 40% of claimants for personal independence payments have mental health conditions, the inquest found that call handlers for the DWP didn't receive adequate mental health training.\n\nThe coroner found there was an \"institutional assumption\" in the DWP that problems with a claim were the claimants' fault.\n\nLast year a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the department had investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants since 2014-15.\n\nThere were more cases they could have looked into, said the NAO, but in any case the department couldn't demonstrate any improvements from their investigations had actually been implemented.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades\n\nUS actress Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.\n\n\"Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition,\" said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the ceremony's organiser.\n\n\"While her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained.\"\n\nFonda, 83, has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.\n\nThe HFPA said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThe actress - who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism - has been arrested several times during protests, and hopes her actions have raised awareness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Hobbs, from Cardiff, had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid\n\nThe family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.\n\nKaren Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.\n\nShe was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.\n\nKaren's sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.\n\n\"She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew she was really bad but I'd never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.\"\n\nOn 2 January, Karen was put into an induced coma.\n\n\"She was really terrified, she said 'I need to come out of this and see my children again'. She never came out of it,\" her sister added.\n\nKaren Hobbs' children are now 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\nThe family were told Karen's organs were beginning to fail and she was \"going downhill\" about a week before she died, and they were allowed to visit.\n\n\"She did look a little bit better, she had more colour, she was quite puffy - swelling and a bit of a rash on her. Her lungs were struggling, so we came home a little bit shocked.\n\n\"They started feeding her in a tube and were able to move her, I thought perhaps she's recovering a little bit and then I had the phone call to say that she'd gone.\n\n\"Her body just couldn't take it any more. I don't think it's sunk in. I think the children are still in a bit of shock as well, I thought she would come out of it but she just had it so severe. \"\n\nKaren's children made her a get well soon card while she was in hospital\n\nRachel said her sister, from Cardiff, was healthy with no underlying conditions.\n\n\"She didn't go anywhere - she did online shopping, she was in the house - so we don't even know where it could have come from, she was one of the ones who stayed safest.\n\n\"It's just shocking to think a young mum of five is no longer here. They've lost their mum and they lost their grandfather and nan a couple of years ago so they must feel 'who will be next'?\n\nRachel Hobbs says it still has not sunk in that she has lost her sister\n\nRachel said her sister was a fantastic mother to her five children, aged 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\n\"I don't think the youngest understands, I think she thinks mummy's still just in the hospital.\n\n\"She was a very hands-on mum, she spent a lot of time with the children. She'd sit and play with them for hours, sit and colour, she was always there for them.\"\n\nRachel says her youngest niece does not yet understand what has happened to her mother\n\nRachel added that Karen had no patience with people who broke lockdown rules: \"She used to get quite annoyed about people who broke the rules and she wasn't slow on coming forward, she'd say it as well.\n\n\"It just goes to show how bad this virus is. She would say 'make sure you follow the rules because nobody is safe, it is real this virus, stay at home and only go out when you need to'.\"\n\nIn the days since Karen's death a fundraising page has been set up by friends to support her children and their dad, and has raised more than £20,000.\n\nKaren spoke of how frightened she was in her final post on Facebook\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at how generous people have been and how kind people have been, the community has come together and I think she'd be proud too that it's raising awareness about the pandemic.\n\n\"That'll help the children going forward now. Out of a bad thing, it's been nice people getting in touch, kind words, messages, little things about what she was like.\"\n\nKaren loved colouring and playing with her children, her sister said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joined the production line at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow for the unpacking of Covid tests\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted that Scotland's independence debate is \"irrelevant\" to most people as he urged the country to unite against Covid.\n\nThe PM was speaking during a trip to Scotland to emphasise the strength of the UK working together during the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP said he was panicking as opinion polls show declining support for the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also questioned if his trip is essential.\n\nThe PM started his day-long visit by going to the Lighthouse Laboratory - which processes Covid tests - at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nHe later visited troops who are setting up a vaccination centre in the Castlemilk area of the city, and toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston.\n\nThe factory is expected to deliver 60 million doses to the UK by the end of the year if its vaccine is approved.\n\nMr Johnson used the visit to argue that the priority should be \"fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together\" rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nAnd he praised the \"amazing performance\" of Scottish people in the \"national effort\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people\".\n\nMr Johnson also criticised the SNP's record in government, and added: \"We don't actually know what the referendum would set out to achieve.\n\n\"We don't know what the point of it would be - what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office. Nobody will tell us what it's all meant to be about.\"\n\nHe told reporters that \"the very same people\" who wanted independence \"also said only a few years ago, in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\n\"I'm inclined to stick with what they said last time,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson met troops who are setting up a vaccination centre\n\nUnder the current Covid regulations, people are only able to travel between Scotland and England for essential reasons, with similar regulations also in place to stop travel across council boundaries within Scotland.\n\nAsked at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday how she felt about the prime minister's visit while the strict travel restrictions were in place, Ms Sturgeon replied she was \"not ecstatic\" about it.\n\nShe argued that leaders should abide by the same rules they impose on the general public, adding that she had herself rejected a suggested visit to a vaccine centre in Aberdeen for this reason.\n\nDowning Street has insisted it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the whole of the UK during the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's criticism, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"These are Covid-related visits. You've seen the prime minister do a number of them over the past few weeks.\n\n\"It is obviously important that he is continuing to meet and see those who are on the front line in terms of those who are providing tests, in terms of those who are working so hard to deliver the vaccination plan.\"\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Scotland is widely seen as being part of a \"charm offensive\" in response to polls indicating a rise in support for independence.\n\nHowever, polls have also suggested that the independence question is currently a lower priority for many people than other issues such as the pandemic, health and education.\n\nA series of opinion polls have suggested that support for independence is now ahead of support for remaining in the UK\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it was \"only right\" the prime minister visited people on the front line of the vaccine roll-out to make sure it is operating effectively.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast Mr Johnson has visited other crucial locations in the UK's pandemic response, such as the Wrexham plant making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adding: \"No one thinks that's illegitimate.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said he backed the visit. \"I'm with the prime minister on this one,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"He is the prime minister of the UK. It's important that he travels to see what is going on, on the ground.\"\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government sets out its budget, described as the \"most important in the history of devolution\" in the wake of huge spending increases to support people and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson had a clear purpose on his visit to Scotland - to talk up what he calls the power of cooperation across the UK.\n\nDressed in white lab coat and protective gear, he was happy to tell me how the UK government is supporting the fight against coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThat includes spending lots of money supporting jobs and businesses, building test centres, and procuring vaccine supplies from companies like the one he was visiting in Livingston.\n\nNo matter what the prime minister does, or that the UK and Scottish governments are following broadly similar Covid strategies - the public in Scotland perceives that Nicola Sturgeon and her team are handling the pandemic response better.\n\nThis visit was controversial because it happened during lockdown but it went ahead because the UK government recognises how much work it has to do to make the case for the union in Scotland, with Scottish elections due in May when the question of indyref2 will be to the fore.\n\nOn Sunday, the SNP revealed an 11-point \"roadmap to a referendum\" on Scottish independence, which sets out how the party intends to take forward its plan for another vote on the issue.\n\nIt says a \"legal referendum\" will be held after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nAnd it says it will \"vigorously oppose\" any legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's SNP has published a \"roadmap\" aimed at holding a legal referendum once the pandemic ends\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to a referendum, and has suggested that another one should not be held for 40 years.\n\nOpposition parties in Scotland have also accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of putting the push for independence ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the prime minister's trip was evidence that he is in a \"panic\" about the prospect of another referendum.", "Jonathan Mok posted a selfie and another photo of his injuries on Facebook\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told \"we don't want your coronavirus in our country\".\n\nJonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nThe teenager was convicted of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm following a trial at Highbury Corner Youth Court.\n\nThe chair of the bench gave the boy an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.\n\nHe was also ordered to wear an electronic tag, follow a curfew order between 20:00 and 07:00 for 10 weeks and must pay £600 compensation to Mr Mok.\n\nChair of the bench Mervyn Mandell warned that had he been an adult he \"would have gone to jail for a very long time\".\n\n\"This was an unprovoked attack for no reason other than his [Mr Mok's] appearance,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Mok had been walking home after having dinner in central London\n\nMr Mok, 23, suffered a complicated fracture to his nose and cheekbone which required surgery, screws and stitches.\n\nImages of his swollen eye were shared widely on social media following the attack.\n\nThe court heard previously how the UCL law student turned around after a friend of the attacker made a remark about coronavirus towards him.\n\nWitnesses described a \"commotion on the street\" where Mr Mok and his friend were \"confronted by a group of white males\".\n\nThey heard someone shout \"you are diseased don't come near me\".\n\nMr Mok was then punched in the face. The teenager joined the attack and continued to punch and kick Mr Mok.\n\nProsecutor Simon Maughan said the teenager was \"quick to get involved\" in the group attack.\n\nA victim impact statement read out on behalf of Mr Mok said the crime had \"taken a heavy toll\" on him and his family.\n\nHe added: \"My legal education had to be halted for a month due to surgery and follow up medical appointments.\n\n\"I have anxiety and have problems sleeping. I believe the defendant is a threat to Singaporeans and South East Asians. He has shown no remorse.\"\n\nThe teenager's defence barrister Gerard Pitt said the boy handed himself in following a police CCTV appeal last March.\n\nNo-one else has been charged in connection with the attack.\n\nMr Pitt said: \"He has always maintained he did not say anything about coronavirus and that was vindicated at the trial.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Mok could not be 100% sure the defendant was the boy who said anything about coronavirus.\n\nThe boy had no previous convictions, but had two youth cautions for common assaults, the court was told.\n\nBefore being sentenced the teenager said: \"When I saw the picture I felt disgusted.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic\n\nHealth workers in Northern Ireland are to get a \"special recognition\" payment for their work during the pandemic.\n\nIt is intended that all staff will receive a payment of £500, said Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nHowever, it will be subject to approval from the Department of Finance.\n\nThere had been calls from some political parties and health unions for staff to be recognised for their efforts.\n\nScotland has already announced a similar one-off payment and Mr Swann said it would reflect the \"principle of parity\".\n\n\"There are no words to properly convey what health workers have done for us, we will never be able to repay that debt,\" added the minister.\n\nThe development comes as Northern Ireland's Department of Health has recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its toll so far to 1,779.\n\nA further 527 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere are 775 people in Northern Ireland's hospitals who are being treated for the virus - 68 of them are in intensive care and the number of people requiring ventilators has risen to 56.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 54 more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Wednesday. It brings the Republic of Ireland's death toll to 3,120.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health also confirmed 1,335 more Covid-19 cases.\n\nSpeaking at the weekly health news conference on Wednesday, Mr Swann said the pandemic had caused \"destruction\" and left \"heartbreak in its wake\".\n\n\"Staying at home is making a difference. The R-number has been moving in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to sustain and build on that progress.\"\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 after Christmas relaxations.\n\nIt has been falling since lockdown restrictions were introduced on 26 December, and Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said NI's R-number for hospital admissions has now fallen back below one.\n\nBut he warned that the pressure on the system was still significant and would continue for several more weeks.\n\nHe added that there would need to be a \"sustained\" drop in the figures before relaxations of the lockdown could be considered by the executive.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the number of people in Northern Ireland who have received their first Covid-19 now stands at 168,140.\n\nMore than 50,000 people aged over 80 have been vaccinated.\n\nOn the payment to health workers, Mr Swann said it would \"not be without its challenges\" but that he valued all staff in the health service.\n\n\"For some people, especially some of our lower paid workers, it may in fact have an adverse impact on their social security payments or supports that recipients may be claiming,\" he added.\n\n\"I have written to the ministers of finance and communities asking them to urgently consider the issue and to engage with the tax and benefit authorities in Great Britain to request that these payments are excluded from consideration in this regard.\"\n\nThere will also be a one-off payment of £2,000 for all non-salaried students on clinical placements in the health service.\n\nMr Swann added that he intends to provide a one-off payment for carers as well, describing them as \"among the greatest unsung heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said: \"There is still more work to be done in this regard and it will be significantly more complex to administer than the staff payment.\"\n\nKevin McAdam, who is from Unite the union, said the \"recognition payments\" will be allocated with assurances that this will not affect pay negotiations with healthcare workers.\n\nMr McAdam welcomed that health care workers and non-salaried students on placements will be \"receiving something more tangible than applause\".\n\n\"The student payment is a recognition payment, it does not solve the problems around whether student placements should be paid, I think that is an argument for another day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Department of Finance official has warned there is \"a higher than usual risk\" of some £430m unspent by the NI Executive being returned to the Treasury.\n\nMinisters must submit further funding bids, or risk it being handed back at the end of the financial year.\n\nA department official, Jeff McGuinness, said the Treasury was being pressed to show flexibility in carrying unspent money over but added that it was \"imperative\" Stormont pressed ahead, rather then rely on agreement from Treasury.\n\nHe said the other devolved administrations were also asking the Treasury for similar levels of carry-forward of unspent fiscal allocations.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments on debit cards, credit cards, and cards connected to smartphones.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it will consult \"shortly\" on a change in the rules.\n\n\"It is important that payments regulation keeps pace with consumer and merchant expectations,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Recognising changing behaviour in how people pay, as part of a wider consultation, we will shortly be seeking views on amending our rules to allow for a possible increase in the contactless limit to £100.\"\n\nThe FCA can set the boundaries for payments, under its rules, but the card issuers would have the power to set the actual limits.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurant, and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, the latest data from UK Finance - which represents banks - shows.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\n\"The industry believes that a more flexible approach could be merited in future, which takes into account consumer demand, fraud prevention, security and convenience,\" said a spokesman for UK Finance.\n\n\"Contactless is one of a range of payment methods and the industry will also continue to work closely with the regulator to ensure that customers can pay in a way that suits them.\"\n\nHowever, there may be less enthusiasm from some shopkeepers concerned about higher-value theft as a result of the proposed changes.\n\nAndrew Cregan, payments policy advisor at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"We have concerns about raising the contactless limit, with losses from incomplete contactless payments at self-checkouts currently costing retailers millions in lost revenue.\n\n\"Card companies should take measures to reduce incomplete payments and we urge customers to make sure their own transactions always go through. However, the overwhelming priority at the moment must be for the government to address the rocketing card fees.\"", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute.\n\nPC Steve Lovering was deliberately hit by Callum Fellows in Oldbury, West Midlands, after recognising him as a car crime suspect, police said.\n\nFellows, 18, admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nFootage from 27 August shows Fellows reversing and knocking Mr Lovering off his bike \"sending him sprawling into the road\" before he sped off on the wrong side of the road and through red traffic lights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said he knew pupils and teachers wanted \"nothing more than to get back to the classroom\"\n\nSchools in England will not be able to reopen to all pupils after the February half-term, but could do so from 8 March, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said this was the earliest schools could reopen and \"depends on lots of things going right\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the aim is for all schools and year groups in England to return at the same time.\n\nTheir return would mark the first stage in lifting the lockdown, the PM said.\n\nHe told a Downing Street news conference: \"The date of 8 March is the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back and obviously we hope that all schools will go back.\"\n\n\"I'm hopeful, but that's the earliest that we can do it and it depends on lots of things going right, and... it also depends on us all now continuing to work together to drive down the incidence of the disease through the basic methods we've used throughout this pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThere was not enough data yet to decide when to end the lockdown, he said, but intended to set out a plan for how it could be eased - and the criteria involved - in the final week of February\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the 8 March date as \"very much a hope and certainly not a guarantee\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 1,725 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures. The UK's official coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the country remained in a \"perilous situation\" as he said UK nationals and residents arriving from 30 high-risk countries would soon be ordered to quarantine in hotels.\n\nHe revealed a plan for the \"gradual and phased\" lifting of the lockdown in England could come in the week beginning 22 February.\n\nOther restrictions on daily life could be eased after schools reopen, but he explained this would depend on hitting vaccination targets, the capacity of the NHS, and deaths falling.\n\nAn earlier plan for mass testing for pupils and staff remains in place, the BBC has been told.\n\nEngland's schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since the Christmas break.\n\nIn Scotland, it is hoped schools may begin a phased return in the middle of February.\n\nIn Wales, measures including school and college closures will be reviewed on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a review will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood frustration among pupils and teachers \"and for parents and for carers who spent so many months juggling their day jobs, not only with home schooling but meeting the myriad other demands of their children from breakfast until bedtime\".\n\nThe government initially planned to review England's lockdown measures - including school closures - on 15 February, which had raised hopes that pupils could return to classes after half term.\n\nAcknowledging the impact of continued school closures, Mr Johnson pledged to \"work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure that pupils have the chance to make up their learning\" before 2024.\n\nHe said £300m \"of new money to schools\" would fund a catch-up programme over the coming year, with financial incentives for providers to educate pupils who have missed lessons due to the pandemic.\n\nAfter complaints about confusion and drift about when schools in England are going back, Boris Johnson has sought to bring some certainty.\n\nThey won't be going back straight after half term - but the target date will be 8 March.\n\nSources say the aim is for all schools and year groups in England, in primary and secondary, to return back on that date - rather than it being the starting date of a phased or regional return.\n\nAlthough that could be subject to any changes in local Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen schools do go back it is expected there will be mass testing for pupils and staff, in the scheme initially planned for the start of term.\n\nIt still leaves parents home schooling for another five weeks - and means most of this term will have been without face-to-face lessons.\n\nThis will be a particular worry for pupils heading for whatever replaces GCSEs and A-levels this summer, after almost a full year of stop-start lessons.\n\nHead teachers say the delay is \"no surprise\" - and reopening must be done safely.\n\nAnd Labour says half term should be used to vaccinate teachers to help schools stay open.\n\nBut the prime minister will hope that parents would rather have some clarity about what's happening with schools, even if that means a longer delay.\n\nTeachers' and head teachers' unions said they supported reopening schools but added that it must be safe and not rushed.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that although the most vulnerable would be protected by March, most parents would not be.\n\n\"It fails completely to recognise the role schools have played in community transmission. The prime minister has already forgotten what he told the nation at the beginning of this lockdown, that schools are a 'vector for transmission',\" she said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government needs to work with head teachers to review safety measures and create a \"workable plan\" for schools to reopen fully.\n\n\"The government will also have to put effort into reassuring families that it is safe to send their children back to school - there is a confidence test the government must pass to make the return a success,\" he said.\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine Image caption: Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine\n\nTom Newton Dunn from Times Radio asks what we know so far about the rate at which people who have had the vaccine can transmit coronavirus.\n\nJonathan Van Tam says there is no clear data on how the vaccine impacts transmission of coronavirus but there are studies working on finding out and we will have that information in time.\n\nHe said the question is less \"will they\" and more \"to what extent\" do they stop transmission.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance says \"you don't have vaccines of this efficacy without there being some effect on transmission\".\n\nHe says it's an important question as \"it will also determine to what extent these vaccines can be used across wider society to reduce transmission overall\".\n\nNewton Dunn asks how the prime minister came to the date of 8 March to reopen schools and whether it would have been \"wiser to wait until you were sure\".\n\nThe prime minister says the date depends on the vaccines working in reducing mortality and serious disease.... and we need to make sure the infection rate is in the right place.\n\n\"We will keep it all under constant review,\" he says.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm's latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period.\n\nSales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) - up 21% from the prior year.\n\nThe gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for new technology.\n\nApple now counts more than 1.65 billion active devices globally, including more than 1 billion iPhones.\n\nApple's gains follow the release of its new iPhone 12 suite of phones, which executives said had convinced a record number of people to switch to the company or upgrade from older models.\n\nThe firm said growth in China - where the pandemic has already loosened its grip on the economy - was particularly strong, helped in part by demand for phones compatible with new 5G networks.\n\nSales in the firm's greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, jumped 57%. In Europe, sales roles 17%, and they rose 11% in the Americas.\n\n\"The products are doing very well all around the world,\" said Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer. \"As we look ahead into the March quarter, we're very optimistic.\"\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said he thought the firm was just at the beginning of a \"super-cycle\" as Apple devotees finally trade in old phones, coinciding with upgrades to telecommunications networks.\n\n\"With 5G now in the cards and roughly 40% of its 'golden jewel' iPhone installed base not upgrading their phones in the last 3.5 years, [Apple chief Tim] Cook & Co have the stage set for a renaissance of growth,\" he wrote.\n\nBig Tech is having an exceptionally lucrative pandemic.\n\nIt's hard not to be wowed by some of these figures.\n\nThat Apple recorded more than $100bn in sales in just three months is simply astonishing.\n\nFacebook figures are also well up on where they were last year.\n\nAs other companies have struggled to survive, Big Tech has flourished.\n\nThere are other reasons for some of these incredible figures. Certainly it seems iPhone enthusiasts were holding out for the new 5G enabled iPhone12.\n\nBut it's not just Apple and Facebook, all of the massive tech companies are having a bumper year.\n\nCovid-19 means people are spending more time indoors - buying things online, watching things online and chatting online.\n\nPerhaps then it's no surprise that these companies are posting record breaking figures.\n\nBut others point to these figures as yet more evidence that Big Tech has become too big to fail.\n\nThese figures are impressive. But they also attract the attention of politicians who are increasingly asking difficult questions - like are these tech mega companies operating in a market that is fair and with enough competition?\n\nApple said profits in the quarter reached nearly $28.8bn, up 29% compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nThe gains seen by technology firms like Apple contrast with losses hitting many other economic sectors, as the virus restricts activity and keeps shoppers at home.\n\nOther tech firms, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have also enjoyed strong growth.\n\nFacebook on Wednesday said increased online shopping during the pandemic helped lift ad revenue in the quarter by 30%.\n\nThe number of people active on its apps - which also include WhatsApp and Instagram - also rose to 2.6 billion daily, up 15% compared to 2019.\n\nIt said ad spending could slow as the Covid crisis relaxes and shopper appetite returns for services like travel rather than products.\n\nIt also warned that plans by Apple to change how it shares user data could weigh on growth.", "The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle\n\nHand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £600,000 was raised to buy them.\n\nThe 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588, were sold to an overseas buyer in July but an export ban was imposed.\n\nThe National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in Portsmouth raised the money in eight weeks.\n\nIt is now seeking further funds to put the maps on display for the first time.\n\nIt is believed the drawings, completed by an unknown draughtsman, possibly from the Netherlands, were based on a set of engravings from the same year by Elizabethan cartographer Robert Adams.\n\nIn the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades of hostility between Spain's Catholic King Philip II and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nIt is regarded as one of the most significant naval battles in history, when the English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada, twice its size, by sailing fire ships into its formation off Calais.\n\nThe English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel in 1588\n\nThe ink and watercolour maps were sold for £600,000, but culture minister Caroline Dinenage imposed an export ban until January and called for a museum or institution to raise funds to purchase them.\n\nNMRN director general Prof Dominic Tweddle said members of the public had \"dug deep in extremely difficult times\".\n\nThe target was reached with the help of £212,800 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £200,000 from the Art Fund.\n\nMs Dinenage said: \"The export bar system exists so we can keep nationally important works in the country and I am delighted that, thanks to the tireless work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Armada maps will now go on display to educate and inspire future generations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "The Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt's unit\n\nProduction of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has resumed at a plant after it was suspended when a suspicious package was received.\n\nThe Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.\n\nPolice said the package had been made safe and its contents would be \"taken away for analysis\".\n\nWockhardt said staff had been allowed to return and its production schedule had not been affected.\n\nBoth Downing Street and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford had been receiving updates on the incident since police were called at about 10:40 GMT.\n\nA police cordon was put in place near the plant and the public were asked to keep away. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\n\"There are no wider concerns for public safety, however, some roads on the industrial estate will remain closed whilst we continue our investigations,\" North Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nPolice have asked the public to keep away from the site in Wrexham\n\nForensic police officers were seen examining items on the road outside the plant, which remained closed after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nWockhardt UK said: \"We can confirm that the investigation on the suspicious package received today has been concluded.\n\n\"Given that staff safety is our main priority, manufacturing was temporarily paused whilst this took place safely.\n\n\"We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility.\n\n\"This temporary suspension of manufacturing has in no way affected our production schedule and we are grateful to the authorities and experts for their swift response and resolution of the incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier statement, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company confirmed it had \"partially evacuated\" its site to protect staff.\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Roberts, who runs CMS Wrexham Ltd, next door to the plant, said he heard a \"big bang\" at about 11:35 GMT - although he could not say where the noise came from.\n\n\"We're next door to Wockhardt. Three of us were talking then we heard a hell of an explosion or a bang,\" he said.\n\n\"I went outside, couldn't see anything. I looked the other side and two blokes were on the roof.\n\n\"The next thing the police had blocked off the road and were looking in the bushes.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene on Wrexham Industrial Estate for most of the day\n\nA police cordon had been put in place near the Wockhardt plant\n\nHis son Mark Roberts said: \"The police just closed the road off and we've heard there's a bomb disposal unit.\n\n\"They've been here about an hour or so - we're on tenterhooks.\n\n\"Boris Johnson toured the factory around December time, so I wonder if that's raised the profile, as it's where they make the Oxford vaccine.\"\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year\n\nDave Picken, 53, who lives near Wrexham Industrial Estate, said: \"We've seen lots of police cars and a fire engine.\n\n\"Bomb disposal are here with a robot. We were closer to the factory but police told us to move and cordoned off a bigger area.\n\n\"I did ask an officer how big the bomb is but he said he couldn't say it's a bomb.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson saw the production line for vaccines when he visited the factory\n\nVisiting the plant in November, Prime Minister Boris Johnson it could provide \"salvation for humanity\".\n\nWockhardt UK entered an agreement in August to help prepare the vaccine for distribution.\n\nWhen the company's contract was announced, Ravi Limaye, managing director, said: \"We are immensely proud to have been selected to partner with the UK government on this project.\n\n\"We have a sophisticated sterile manufacturing facility and a highly skilled workforce.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams had worked to ensure the vaccine was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there had been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Elliot Page and choreographer Emma Portner have decided to divorce after three years of marriage.\n\n\"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,\" the Canadian couple said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.\" They provided no further details.\n\nPage, the 33-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, came out as transgender in 2020.\n\nThat decision was widely praised by his many fans and fellow actors.\n\nPage said at the time that he could not \"begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self\".\n\nHe also used the occasion to address discrimination towards trans people.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno. Other major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPortner, 26, has said she has always supported Page's decision to come out.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nThe Chelsea Flower Show will take place in September for the first time in its history as a result of the pandemic.\n\nOrganisers had planned to hold a six-day show in May but announced it would be postponed as there was no guarantee what tier London would be in then.\n\nA virtual show will take place in May like in 2020, with the physical event taking place later at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it would be a \"moment in history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors had to display their gardens online last year\n\nThe world-famous show has been taking place for 108 years but has never happened in September.\n\nThis year's event will go ahead between 21-26 September, with the virtual event showing online from 18-23 May.\n\nIt is usually filled with spring and summer colours but the RHS said it hoped the delay will allow a celebration of autumn horticulture.\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nThe society, which runs the event, said it had a responsibility to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers and staff to delay the flower show, as more people would be vaccinated and levels of infection may have reduced substantially.\n\nDirector general Sue Biggs said: \"Whilst we are sad to have had to delay RHS Chelsea and are sorry for the disruption this will cause, we are excited that we are still planning to bring the world's best-loved gardening event to the nation at a time when more people are gardening more than ever.\n\n\"We know that the autumn dates may not be suitable for everyone, but with our fantastic industry partners we will do everything we can to support them and create a show that will be a moment in history,\" she added.\n\nThose who bought tickets for the event when it was due to happen in May will be contacted by the RHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "\"A legacy of poor decisions\" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.\n\nLabour also criticised \"monumental mistakes\" by the prime minister in delaying acting on scientific advice over lockdowns three times.\n\nAfter UK deaths passed 100,000, Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the actions taken.\n\nBut he said it was too soon to learn the lessons from the pandemic response.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, public health expert from the University of Edinburgh, said the UK's current position was \"a legacy of poor decisions that were taken when we eased restrictions\".\n\nShe told the BBC the lack of focus on test and trace and the \"absolute inability to recognise\" the need to address international travel had also led to a more deadly winter surge.\n\nProf Sir Michael Marmot, who carried out a review of inequalities in Covid-19 deaths, said the UK had entered the pandemic \"in a bad state\" with rising health inequality, a slowdown in life expectancy improvements and a lack of investment in the public sector.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth rejected Mr Johnson's claim that he had done \"everything we could\" to minimise the death toll, adding: \"I do not accept that.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had been given scientific advice to impose lockdowns and \"pushed that back\" - not only in March but again in September and December.\n\nThe government also failed to create a working contact-tracing system, did not introduce effective health controls at the borders and still did not offer \"proper sick pay\", he said.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we have taken to fight this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said there would be time to reflect on the decisions taken, but he did not think the right time was in the middle of the pandemic when \"37,000 people are struggling with Covid in our hospitals\".\n\nThe government needed to focus on keeping the virus under control and continuing the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said his message to grieving families was that he \"deeply, personally\" regretted the loss of life and that the best way to honour the memory of those who had died and honour those who were currently grieving was \"to work together to bring this virus down, to keep it under control in the way that we are\".\n\nAsked about the government's \"legacy of poor decisions\", Mr Johnson said ministers followed scientific advice and did everything they could to minimise suffering. He said there were \"no easy solutions\" but the UK could be proud of its efforts to distribute the vaccine.\n\nAfter leading a minute's silence in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes, as Scotland recorded a total of 5,888 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nShe said the government did everything it could, but added: \"I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nNext month, the prime minister hopes to publish a document giving details of the criteria he will use to start lifting the lockdown, a senior government source told the BBC.\n\nIt will include factors such as the number of hospitalisations and deaths, the progress of the vaccination programme, any changes to the virus and the impact easing restrictions might have on the epidemic - but will be dependent on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops the virus spreading.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA scientist advising the government has warned the UK could face as many as 50,000 more coronavirus deaths.\n\nProf Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"It would really not surprise me if we're looking at another 40-50,000 deaths before this burns out.\n\n\"The deaths on the way up are likely to be mirrored by the number of deaths on the way down in this wave. Each one again is a tragedy and each one represents probably four or five people who survive but are damaged by Covid.\"\n\nHe said the UK had experienced some \"bad luck\" with the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant but had also suffered from \"decades of underinvestment\" in the NHS and \"a public health authority that's been eroded\" .\n\nMeanwhile, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell asked people, regardless of whether they had faith, to reflect on the \"enormity\" of the pandemic and join in a \"prayer for the nation\" at 18:00 GMT every day from 1 February.\n\nThey said the death statistics were were not \"just an abstract figure\", saying: \"Each number is a person: someone we loved and someone who loved us.\"\n\nMuslim leaders backed the call for a daily prayer. Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said Muslims and wider black, Asian and minority ethnic communities had been disproportionately affected by the \"tsunami of pain, grief and devastation\" - with many unable to properly mourn due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 1,631 coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total number of people who had died within 28 days of a positive test to 100,162.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics, which are based on death certificates, show there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of people dying would come down \"relatively slowly\" over the next two weeks - and would probably \"remain flat for a while now\".\n\nElsewhere, bereavement support charities have written to the health secretary calling for more funding in the light of what they call \"the terrible toll of 100,000 deaths\".\n\nThe National Bereavement Alliance, representing a range of charities, said many families had been unable to be with loved ones as they died or to support one another.\n\nThey called for £500m allocated to mental health in England to be used to support the bereaved.\n\nMinister for bereavement Nadine Dorries said the government had given more than £10.2m to charities since March to ensure services were available to those who needed them.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.\n\nThe number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to over-fishing, according to a new study.\n\nThree-quarters of the species studied are now threated with extinction.\n\nAnd the researchers say immediate action is needed to secure a brighter future for these \"extraordinary, irreplaceable animals\".\n\nThey are calling on governments to implement science-based fishing limits.\n\nStudy researcher, Dr Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter, said the declines appear to be driven very much by fishing pressures.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"That's the driver for the 70% reduction in the last 50 years. For every 10 sharks you had in the open ocean in the 1970s, you would have three today, across these species, on average.\"\n\nSharks and rays are caught for their meat, fins and liver oil. They are also captured for recreational fishing and turn up by accident in the catch of fishing boats that are targeting other stocks.\n\nSharks are long-lived species that tend to produce few young\n\nOf the 31 species studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nProf Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, said oceanic sharks and rays are at exceptionally high risk of extinction, much more so than the average bird, mammal or frog, despite ranging far from land.\n\n\"Overfishing of oceanic sharks and rays jeopardises the health of entire ocean ecosystems as well as food security for some of the world's poorest countries,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers compiled global data on sharks and rays found in the open oceans (as opposed to reef sharks or those found close to shore).\n\nOf the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world, 31 are oceanic, travelling large distances across water.\n\n\"These are some of the big, important, open ocean predators that people will be familiar with,\" said Dr Sherley. \"The kind of sharks that people might describe as awe-inspiring or charismatic.\"\n\nHe said political will is needed to reverse the trends.\n\n\"The science is there, there needs to be the desire to do those stock assessments, to implement the measures that are needed to reduce the take of sharks and that political will has to come from pressure from citizens,\" Dr Sherley explained.\n\nDespite this \"gloomy\" picture, the scientists said a few shark conservation stories give cause for hope.\n\nSonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, a non-profit project of The Ocean Foundation, said a couple of species, including the great white, have started to recover through science-based fishing limits.\n\n\"Relatively simple safeguards can help to save sharks and rays, but time is running out,\" she said.\n\n\"We urgently need conservation action across the globe to prevent myriad negative consequences and secure a brighter future for these extraordinary, irreplaceable animals.\"\n\nPopulations can recover with appropriate conservation\n\nSharks are at the top of the food chain, and crucial to the health of the oceans. Their loss impacts other marine animals as well as human livelihoods.\n\n\"Oceanic sharks and rays are vital to the health of vast marine ecosystems, but because they are hidden beneath the ocean surface, it has been difficult to assess and monitor their status,\" said Nathan Pacoureau of Simon Fraser University.\n\n\"Our study represents the first global synthesis of the state of these essential species at a time when countries should be addressing insufficient progress towards global sustainability goals.\n\n\"While we initially intended it as a useful report card, we now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "Enforcement agents have removed protesters from the makeshift camp near Euston station\n\nBailiffs from HS2 have started to evict activists who dug a tunnel near Euston station in protest against the £106bn rail project.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed campaigners spent months digging the tunnel they claim is 100ft (30m) long.\n\nSince August, HS2 Rebellion members have been living in tree houses and tents at a camp nearby.\n\nA HS2 spokeswoman said the protesters were \"trespassing\" on land owned by the company.\n\nThe land being occupied is needed for continued building work around Euston, she added.\n\nEnforcement agents from the National Eviction Team have removed some protesters from the makeshift camp in the park.\n\nPolice have arrested five men and a woman at the site, although one male was later de-arrested.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - was dug as their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters have filmed themselves inside the tunnels\n\nProtesters said they were continuing to dig tunnels and have vowed to stay for as long as possible.\n\nAn 18-year-old, who gave his name as Al, said the tunnels can only be accessed through a section of the makeshift camp and were about 15ft (4.5m) deep.\n\n\"I will stay as long as I can,\" he said, but he added the activists \"have not got much food and water\".\n\nHS2 Rebellion told the BBC four people had \"locked themselves\" to fixing points inside the tunnels.\n\nOne activist, Blue Sandford, admitted the stunt was \"dangerous\" but felt it was \"worth it\".\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nEnforcement agents dismantle the make shift camp where HS2 Rebellion members have been living\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is currently on school strike for climate, said HS2 \"is a waste of money\".\n\n\"I'm in this tunnel because they [the government] are irresponsibly putting my life at risk from the climate and ecological emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"They are behaving in a way that is so reckless and unsafe that I don't feel they are giving us any option but to protest in this way to help save our own lives and the lives of all the people round the world.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to do this - I should be in school - the trouble is they are stealing that future and I have to stop them.\"\n\nEnforcement officers have used aerial platforms to try and coax protesters down from the trees\n\nA protester was brought down from the trees by officers\n\nMartin Andryjankczyk, who was carried out of the camp by enforcement agents earlier, predicted it would take \"at least a week or two\" to evict all the protesters.\n\nThe 20-year-old was taken to Holloway Police Station when he was led away but said he had been \"de-arrested\" and returned to the park.\n\n\"I have been living here for the last four months. They (the remaining demonstrators) aren't going to give up that easily,\" he said.\n\nOne activist used to a rope to tie himself between trees at the camp\n\nThe Met Police confirmed a number of officers were sent to the eviction site at Euston Square Gardens to assist High Court enforcement officers should there be any breach of the peace and to uphold Covid legislation.\n\nThe force said five people who were arrested at the site remain in custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"HS2 has taken legal temporary possession of Euston Square Gardens in order to progress with works necessary for the construction of the new Euston station.\n\n\"These protests are a danger to the safety of the protesters, our staff and the general public, and put unnecessary strain on the emergency services during a pandemic.\"\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThere is a ring of security surrounding the square outside Euston Station and a crowd of journalists reporting on today's event.\n\nEvery now and then there is a burst of singing through a loud hailer and motivational speeches echo from the trees.\n\nMost of the protesters we can see are among the branches, some have cut their safety lines, others are swinging in harnesses.\n\nEarlier, enforcement officers were lifted up in a cherry picker into one of the tree camps . They have spoken with the demonstrators and are now fixing ropes to the high level platforms.\n\nWe've been told at least four people are inside the tunnels HS2 Rebellion have dug under the site.\n\nPeople inside the fence have said they predict the eviction to \"take weeks\".\n\nThe atmosphere is calm but the police have begun to push back people watching, reminding them of Covid-19 regulations and asking to see press passes.\n\nA fence is being erected by officers around the site\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland is to initially follow UK travel rules, but could introduce stricter measures next week\n\nScotland could introduce tougher quarantine rules for international travellers than other parts of the UK, the first minister has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that UK arrivals from regions with new virus variants will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"concerned the proposal does not go far enough\".\n\nScotland will \"initially emulate\" the UK government measures, she said.\n\nBut further Scottish rules will be set out next week if the four nations do not reach an agreement on a UK-wide approach - which Ms Sturgeon said would be preferable.\n\nThe prime minister has said there are 22 countries with the risk of known new variants, including the South American nations, Portugal and South Africa.\n\nMr Johnson said anyone travelling from these countries who cannot be refused entry to the UK - such as British citizens - will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate \"without exception\".\n\nThey will be met at the airport and transferred to specific places, such as hotels.\n\nFurther details of the plan are expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Priti Patel later.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon - who was briefed on the UK government proposals in advance - told her daily coronavirus briefing that a \"comprehensive system of supervised quarantine\" was required in the next stage of the pandemic.\n\nAnd she said she was \"seeking urgently\" to persuade the UK government \"to go much further\" while providing additional support to the aviation industry.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Our best route back to greater domestic normality right now, as we continue with the vaccine programme, is firstly to suppress the virus here to as low as level as possible - as we did over the summer - then give ourselves a better chance of controlling it through test and protect, and next by doing much more than we did last year to protect our borders.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has also said the PM's proposals do not go far enough.\n\nWhen questioned by journalists, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"not give arbitrary dates\" on when the travel restrictions might come to an end.\n\nBut she said people \"might not be able to go on holiday overseas\" in order to \"get domestic normality\" back - including the reopening of schools and allowing people more interactions with loved ones.\n\n\"I'm not saying that's easy but maybe that might be a price we all need to be prepared to pay,\" she added.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told the BBC that he believed that countries with higher infection rates and strains with quicker transmission should be prioritised.\n\n\"We've got to look at dealing with this in stages,\" he said. \"This doesn't need to be dragged into a Scotland versus England issue or the rest of the UK issue.\n\n\"This is as big an issue within Scotland. We shouldn't be moving around local authority areas so whether it's north or south of the border or within our own communities we've got to reduce travel as much as possible.\"\n\nIt comes as the deaths of a further 92 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were recorded in Scotland - bringing the total to 5,888.\n\nThe total number of deaths across the UK by that measure passed the grim milestone of 100,00 on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes that had been made in the handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"She said the death toll should make all political leaders \"think very hard about what more we could have done and what lessons we must continue to learn\".\n\nShe added: \"I know that I, and everyone in my government, have tried every day to do everything we possibly can.\n\n\"But I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nA total of 1,330 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, representing 6.2% of people tested.\n\nMeanwhile 462,092 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Scotland - including 56% of the over 80s and 95% of people in care homes.", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "Leon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station in November 2013\n\nA man shouted \"help me\" and \"get off me\" as he was restrained face-down by police officers hours before he died, an inquest heard.\n\nLeon Briggs, 39, died in 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.\n\nA jury was told one witness described the father-of-two as \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers.\n\nAnother said he looked her in the eyes and said \"please help me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe jury has been shown CCTV of Mr Briggs skipping between shops and across roads, before two Bedfordshire Police officers handcuffed him and placed him in leg restraints on Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November 2013.\n\nMr Briggs was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT, but he became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest heard his primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\" with a secondary cause of coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nThe inquest heard Wendy Hamilton was shopping when she saw one officer restraining Mr Briggs on his lower legs, with another on his shoulders, and a third appeared to be looking through his wallet.\n\nMs Hamilton said she \"thought the amount of pressure being used was not needed\", adding she heard Mr Briggs shout \"get off me\" and \"why are you doing this to me?\".\n\n\"He lifted his head from the pavement, he looked me in the eyes and said 'please help me',\" she said.\n\nShe added when two paramedics arrived \"around 45 minutes\" after she first saw Mr Briggs, she was \"surprised\" they \"did not check Leon at all\".\n\nShe said he was later lifted into a police van \"front first\" and \"face down\", \"like he was a bag of potatoes\" or \"like they were picking up a dog\".\n\n\"They lifted him not in a rough way... but it was not very dignified,\" she said.\n\nFootage showed Mr Briggs walking out of a shop with officers before he was restrained\n\nAnother witness, Raja Khan, said: \"Mr Briggs was crying out... but not in an aggressive manner... in a similar way to a child crying out for a toy.\n\n\"I'm not going to forget what I saw in regard to the restraint... I do not agree with how Mr Briggs was treated... it would have been fair enough if he was being violent but from what I saw, he was not.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the College of Paramedics, Andrew Newton, said paramedics on Marsh Road were likely to have had \"inadequate knowledge\" of dealing with acute behavioural disorder patients like Mr Briggs in 2013, due to a lack of national guidance.\n\nBut Mr Newton added Mr Briggs \"received no meaningful medical care\" because they failed to properly check his vital signs, and this \"fell below the standards of care\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs should have been taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe inquest heard part of a statement from Sgt Loren Short, who said he told paramedics Mr Briggs had been detained under the Mental Health Act when they arrived.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer (PCSO) James Collings described Mr Briggs as \"aggressive\" and \"nonsensical\", and \"shouting 'no, no' and snarling\" while in the police van.\n\nPCSO Collings said when he questioned whether Mr Briggs was on drugs, one officer said: \"[He is] mental\", and Mr Briggs replied: \"Don't take the [expletive]\", to which the officer said: \"I'm not taking the [expletive], I just want to get you back and get you some help.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "Eva Gicain has been celebrating a belated Christmas with her daughter Elleana and husband Limuel Lina after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge\n\nA nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with Covid-19 has held her daughter for the first time.\n\nEva Gicain, 30, had the long-awaited reunion with her baby after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier this month.\n\nBaby Elleana had to be delivered about a month early by C-section, but Mrs Gicain has no memory of her birth.\n\n\"When I held Elleana for the first time I didn't want to let go,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: New mum thanks hospitals after recovery\n\nMrs Gicain was taken to her local hospital with a severe case of Covid-19 at the end of October when she was 34 weeks pregnant, and gave birth a week later.\n\nBut the NHS nurse, who was on maternity leave from her job in London, has no recollection of it or the traumatic weeks that followed.\n\nDays later she was transferred 50 miles (80km) away to Royal Papworth Hospital's critical care unit and became one of the youngest patients ever to be put on to its \"artificial lung\" for acute respiratory failure.\n\nThe extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine acted as Mrs Gicain's lungs so they could recover while she was treated for Covid-19.\n\n\"The first thing I remember is just a few days before Christmas and being told where I was, what I had been through and that Elleana was doing well,\" Mrs Gicain said.\n\nMrs Gicain was given a round of applause by hospital staff after spending the first few weeks of her baby's life in a hospital 50 miles away\n\nHer husband Limuel Lina, 30, who also had Covid-19, was unable to visit her and had to wait three weeks to see Elleana, who was in a special care baby unit.\n\n\"It was so horrible the three of us being in separate places at a time when we should all have been together,\" Mr Lina said.\n\nAlthough the couple knew they were having a girl and had discussed her name, Mr Lina, a healthcare assistant, said he did not know his wife's preferred spelling.\n\n\"[It] meant I couldn't yet get her registered,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily, I found some personalised pyjamas that Eva had bought as a Christmas present and so I managed to get the spelling from there!\"\n\nThe couple and their daughter celebrated a belated Christmas last week at their home in Basildon, Essex.\n\n\"Life is unpredictable and we are now just looking forward to being a little family and spending time together,\" added Mrs Gicain.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister has responded to calls that were getting louder for clarity about what might happen next and when.\n\nHe pencilled in a date for the country's diary. But 8 March is the hoped-for beginning of the end of lockdown - far from a guarantee.\n\nPolitical demands for more information from his backbench MPs and the opposition were part of the reason for his announcement. But there was also the relentless march of the clock.\n\nThe government had promised it would give schools in England two weeks' notice of whether they would be able to open after half-term.\n\nWith Boris Johnson not expected in Westminster on Thursday, Wednesday was the last viable moment to keep that vow.\n\nWith cases still so high, and hospitals still so full, in theory the announcement wasn't that much of a surprise.\n\nNorthern Ireland is already in lockdown until 5 March, but will confirm its position on schools on Thursday.\n\nWales and Scotland are reviewing whether to extend closures beyond the middle of February in the next couple of days. Without dramatic falls in case numbers, they seem likely to be in step soon too.\n\nIn practice, though, Mr Johnson's announcement still felt like a big admission: that we're heading for 12 months of limits - starting last March - on our lives in one way or another.\n\nFirms and families around the UK will have had to cope with moving in and out of lockdown for a whole year.\n\nLike Tuesday's terrible 100,000-deaths mark, it's a milestone that at the beginning of all of this simply wouldn't have been imagined.\n\nBut as time as worn on, the pattern has become familiar: push the dates back, confront the worst rather than hope for the best.\n\nThe prime minister altered, maybe, too. You could hear it in his tone when asked what the chances of sticking to his date were. \"That's the earliest,\" he warned, suggesting that a long list of things have to go right.\n\nOne cabinet minister described the government's position: \"The decision making has been more and more cautious as they've been caught out so many times.\"\n\nNo one perhaps would be more delighted than Mr Johnson if the pace of the disease slows dramatically and the promise of the vaccine comes good very soon.\n\nBut at this time, with a buffer of several weeks to keep looking at the information, that's not a commitment that ministers are willing to make.", "Victims lost an average of £45,242 last year after investing with fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms.\n\nMore than £78m was lost in total, according to fraud reporting centre Action Fraud.\n\nReports of clone firm investment scams rose by 29% in April - at the time of the first national lockdown - compared with the previous month.\n\nA UK financial watchdog warned people to be alert, particularly when their finances were stretched.\n\nScammers set up clone firms using the name, address and firm reference number (FRN) of real companies authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThey then send out sales materials linking to the websites of legitimate firms, to trick potential investors into thinking they are dealing with the real firm.\n\nThey use their own, similar contact details, so victims still think they are dealing with the genuine firm as they invest money.\n\nLosses can be high as fraudsters tend to encourage large or regular investments before disappearing with the money.\n\nThe ongoing financial impact of Covid-19 may make people more susceptible to clone scams, the FCA said.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"Fraudsters use literature and websites that mirror those of legitimate firms, as well as encouraging investors to check the firm reference number (FRN) on the FCA Register to sound as convincing as possible.\"\n\nHe said alerts were raised about 1,100 firms, including clones, last year - twice as many as the previous year.\n\nHe said the authorities were taking down clone sites when discovered.\n\n\"When it comes to clones, I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to double check every detail,\" Mr Steward said.\n\nOne victim, called Janet, said: \"After searching the internet for high-return bonds, I received a call the next day about investing in student accommodation.\n\n\"I found legitimate details of the company online - everything seemed genuine, so I invested.\n\n\"A few months later, after a couple more investments, I started to get a bit worried - I still hadn't received confirmation of the latest investment.\n\n\"I tried to call the contacts I had been speaking to, but the numbers were invalid. It was clear I had been scammed.\n\nThe ScamSmart campaign, run by the FCA, has tips to protect yourself from clone investment firms:", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror law\n\nA Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has told the BBC he was tortured to sign a blank confession.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror laws, accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.\n\nCourt documents allege he helped fund the crimes and claim he was a member of a \"terrorist gang\".\n\nMr Johal told the BBC via his lawyer he had been \"falsely implicated\".\n\nIn answers to BBC questions obtained by his lawyer during a virtual prison meeting, the 33-year-old says he was physically tortured into signing a blank confession and forced to record a video which was broadcast on Indian TV.\n\n\"They made me sign blank pieces of paper and asked me to say certain lines in front of a camera under fear of extreme torture,\" he said via his lawyer.\n\nMr Johal's legal team also shared a copy of what they say is a handwritten letter from shortly after his arrest in November 2017 in which he details allegations of how the torture took place.\n\n\"Multiple shocks were administered by placing (the) crocodile clips on my earlobes, nipples and private parts,\" the letter says. \"Multiple shocks were given each day.\n\n\"Two people would stretch my legs, another person would slap and strike me from behind, and the shocks were given by the seated officers.\"\n\n\"At some stages I was left unable to walk and had to be carried out of the interrogation room.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify these allegations of torture.\n\nThe Indian authorities strongly deny them, and have said \"there is no evidence of mistreatment or torture as alleged\".\n\nJagtar got married in India in 2017\n\nMr Johal travelled to India in October 2017 for his wedding.\n\nVideos of the occasion show the new groom jumping enthusiastically to Bhangra music as he celebrated.\n\nIn another he is seen holding his wife's hand, as they perform their first dance in front of friends and family.\n\n\"It was a cheerful day for us, it went exactly as planned,\" recalls his brother Gurpreet Singh Johal.\n\nBut a fortnight later, while on a shopping trip with his new bride in the North Indian state of Punjab, Mr Johal was taken away by police and has been in detention ever since.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet, who lives in Scotland, says Mr Johal was a peaceful activist and is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.\n\n\"I believe my brother is being targeted because he was outspoken,\" Gurpreet says. \"I believe he is innocent and will be proved innocent once the trial starts.\n\n\"Otherwise Indian officials should release him and return him back to his country.\"\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nCharge-sheets from the Indian authorities outline the case against Mr Johal and a group of men whom they believe were involved in a \"series of killings\" of right wing Hindu leaders.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Johal was a member of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), described in the documents as an international \"terrorist gang\".\n\nHe is accused of paying £3,000 to the former head of the KLF to help fund the crimes. The documents claim he \"actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy\".\n\n\"There are very serious charges against him including murder and abetment of terrorism,\" an Indian government official told the BBC.\n\n\"The seriousness of charges against him have been shared with the British authorities,\" they added.\n\nFootage which claims to show Mr Johal in custody was broadcast on Indian TV\n\nMr Johal's lawyer, Jaspal Singh Manjphur, who has represented him since he was first arrested, told the BBC he was concerned by the length of time it was taking for the case to go through the Indian legal system.\n\n\"He has been in custody for over three years,\" Mr Manjphur said. \"Normally, if the prosecution wants, they can complete the case in that much time.\"\n\nMr Manjphur said the authorities had yet to provide any him with any evidence linking his client to the crimes and feared he was being framed, a charge denied by officials.\n\nA few weeks ago, Mr Johal was accused of being involved in another crime. While in prison he has been arrested for helping to plot the murder of a man in October 2020.\n\n\"He is in a high security jail, he is under CCTV surveillance for 24 hours. How can he be in contact with anyone?\", Mr Manjphur said.\n\nMr Johal was last seen in public at court in Delhi earlier this month\n\nMr Johal is being held at Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail.\n\nHe claims he is often forced to stay in solitary confinement and is denied the same facilities as other prisoners, such as hot water.\n\n\"By making me stay in these conditions, they are ensuring that my mental condition remains disturbed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very tough to live here,\" he said.\n\nThe vast majority of inmates at the prison are, like Mr Johal, held before a conviction in what is known as an \"under-trial\" in India.\n\nAt the end of 2019, 82% of prisoners held in Tihar jail had yet to complete the trial process.\n\nIn India it can take many years before under-trial prisoners ever get to court, especially in terror cases where bail is hard to secure, a concern for Mr Johal's lawyer.\n\n\"He will languish in jail until the trial is completed, in such cases it could take anywhere between five to 10 years,\" Mr Manjphur said.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has raised the case with his Indian counterpart\n\nThe human rights charity Reprieve has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that he calls for Mr Johal's immediate release.\n\nReprieve is also worried that some of the charges Mr Johal is awaiting trial for carry the death penalty as the maximum punishment. But experts stress that executions in India are extremely rare.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development office told the BBC that Mr Raab did raise the case with his Indian counterpart during his trip to India in December.\n\n\"We have consistently raised concerns about his case with the Government of India, including allegations of torture and mistreatment and his right to a fair trial,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our staff continue to support Jagtar Singh Johal following his detention in India, and are in regular contact with his family and prison officials about his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHundreds of people protested outside the Foreign Office\n\nBut Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet said the family was still waiting for a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for either Jagtar to be charged and a fair trial to take place or to be returned back to his country so he can spend his life with his wife in the UK.\"\n\nIn August last year Gurpreet Singh Johal was joined by dozens who protested outside Downing Street.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal's case has sparked protests around the world, from Westminster to Washington, Geneva to Toronto.\n\nIn his statement to the BBC, Mr Johal had this message for officials back home: \"I plead to the UK government to support me, I'm a British citizen and the government should understand that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for teachers and support staff to be vaccinated during the February half term\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to \"use the window\" of the February half-term to vaccinate all teachers and support staff.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Ministers Questions, the Labour leader said reopening schools must be a national priority.\n\nLabour wants to bring forward the vaccination of key workers alongside others in high risk groups.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the proposal would \"delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe PM said teachers in the top nine priority groups would be vaccinated as a \"matter of priority\", adding: \"I know how deeply frustrating it is, the extra burden that we have placed on families by closing the schools.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he remained confident that the top four priority groups - taking in all over-70s, health and care staff and elderly care home residents - would receive a first jab by mid-February \"if we can get the supply\" of vaccines.\n\nBy the end of April those in the next five priority groups, including all over-50s and younger adults with underlying health conditions, should have been offered a jab, under the government's plans.\n\nLabour wants to see workers in critical professions - such as police officers, firefighters and transport workers, as well as teachers - vaccinated alongside these groups.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"The NHS rightly deserve congratulations for their impressive and speedy roll out of vaccinations.\n\n\"But now we need to go further and faster.\n\n\"Not only will vaccination acceleration save lives it will help us to carefully and responsibly reopen our economy and crucially ensure children are back in school as transmission reduces.\"\n\nBut asked about the proposal in the Commons, Mr Johnson said it would \"take vaccines away from the more vulnerable groups and... delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe government has said it will prioritise the reopening of schools as it begins the process of lifting lockdown restrictions, but in a Commons statement after PMQs, Mr Johnson indicated that schools would remain closed until early March.\n\n\"We hope it will... be safe to begin the reopening of schools from Monday, 8 March, with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as and when the data permits,\" he told MPs.", "The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of many much-loved events and traditions but the good people of New Orleans were not going to let it ruin their annual Mardi Gras.\n\nWhen the mayor of the Louisiana city announced that the raucous, crowd-filled street carnival parades would not be going ahead, residents decided to turn their houses into floats instead.\n\nThousands have been transformed for the two-week long carnival that runs until Ash Wednesday on 17 February. In the picture below, you can see The Queen's Jubilee House.\n\nA special project was set up encouraging home-owners to hire the many artists who would normally have months of work preparing for the event.\n\nRené Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats.\n\n\"My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like instant success. It was incredible,\" he told CNN.\n\nThere were a variety of themes such as this reference to the Bernie Sanders meme from last month's presidential inauguration.\n\nAnd this homage to influential women including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last year.\n\nThe idea for the house floats came from a carnival regular, Megan Joy Boudreaux, who had suggested it in a post on Twitter after the mayor's announcement in November.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if your budget is zero and you're recycling cardboard boxes, or whether your budget is tens of thousands of dollars and you've got a mansion on St Charles. We want everyone who wants to do this to participate,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nShe said she had expected a few friends and neighbours to join in, but by the beginning of January more than 9,000 people had signed up - some as far afield as the UK and Australia, the AP reports.\n\nSome homes were decorated in honour of musicians, like this house below that paid tribute to former New Orleans resident and jazz clarinet payer Pete Fountain.\n\nAnd this house which referenced country music star Dolly Parton.\n\nThere were also tributes to musician Dr John.\n\nAnd others evoked Zydeco music pioneers Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier and the 'Cajun Hank Williams', DL Menard.\n\nAn online map of the decorated houses is being made available for people to visit in their own time and, it is hoped, in a socially-distanced way.", "Starmer: Get a grip on getting laptops to children\n\nSir Keir says he is \"no wiser\" over where the PM stands on vaccinating teachers. But he moves on to the supplies of technology for children at home. \"The government has got a duty to make sure every single child can learn at home,\" says the Labour leader. But he says a third of families say they don't have enough laptops or home computers, and over 400,000 children are still not able to get online at home. He asks if the PM understands the anger of families that the government \"still haven't got to grips with this\". Johnson says he \"fully understands the frustration and impatience across the country.\" He says the government has provided 1.3 million laptops to children and a £1bn catch up fund, but he promises more details in his statement this afternoon on \"what more we propose to do on reopening of schools\".", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook is taking steps to rectify the error that saw posts referring to Plymouth Hoe taken down\n\nFacebook has apologised for removing posts that named part of a city it deemed to contain an offensive word.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is a historic part of the Devon city's seafront but the social media platform wrongly identified it as an offensive term.\n\nFacebook users have recently had posts taken down for breaching bullying rules after innocently using the place name.\n\nThe company said it \"will take steps to rectify the error\".\n\nDawn Lapthorn, who created the 'Don't Dump it, Plymouth and Surrounding areas' page said she was surprised to receive notifications from Facebook telling her \"community standards on harassment and bullying\" had been breached.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is famous as the place where Sir Francis Drake finished off a game of bowls before setting off to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588\n\nShe said: \"One woman on the group had been making hats, and she forgot to say where the collection point was so people asked her and she wrote Plymouth Hoe.\n\n\"Suddenly I started getting notifications asking me to remove the comments.\n\n\"And then her daughter contacted me asking why her mum had been banned from commenting on the group.\"\n\nOther people commenting on the group's posts have also received notifications and had posts taken down.\n\nMs Lapthorn said: \"I've heard that some Facebook groups have been closed down because of this, and with the work we do in the community and 26,000 members, I've worked too hard to have that put at risk.\"\n\nA Facebook company spokesperson said: \"These posts were removed in error and we apologise to those who were affected. We're looking into what happened and will take steps to rectify the error.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "The Royal Welsh Show - the biggest agricultural show in Europe - has been cancelled for the second year running because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe board met on Wednesday to discuss holding the show as scheduled in July, but after discussions with Welsh Government decided it wouldn't be feasible.\n\nSteve Hughson, chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said: “We continue to work alongside the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to create a road map for the safe re-opening of events.\n\n\"Our events are central to the rural economy and way of life and mean so much to members, exhibitors, traders and visitors.\n\n\"We fully understand the responsibility on all of us to ensure we deliver our events as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Hughson said the society had provided free facilities for a Covid testing centre and a mass vaccination centre at its showground in Llanelwedd, Powys.", "Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal.\n\n1MDB was an investment fund set up by the Malaysian government that lost billions due to fraudulent activity.\n\nThe global web of fraud and corruption led to a 12-year jail term for Malaysia's ex-prime minister Najib Razak which he is appealing.\n\nGoldman Sachs called its involvement in the scandal an \"institutional failure\".\n\nGoldman Sachs helped raise $6.5bn for 1MDB by selling bonds to investors, the proceeds of which were largely stolen.\n\nProsecutors alleged that senior Goldman executives ignored warning signs of fraud in their dealings with 1MDB and Jho Low, an adviser to the fund. Two Goldman bankers have been criminally charged in the scandal.\n\nMr Solomon's pay would have been $10m higher but for the actions its board of directors took in response to the 1MDB saga, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday.\n\nWhile disclosing his salary had dropped to $17.5m for 2020, the bank stressed that Mr Solomon was unaware of the corruption.\n\nHe was not \"involved in or aware of the firm's participation in any illicit activity at the time... the board views the 1MDB matter as an institutional failure, inconsistent with the high expectations it has for the firm\".\n\nMr Solomon's package consists of $2m in cash base pay, a $4.65m cash bonus, and $10.85m in stock-based compensation.\n\nIn October, Goldman agreed to pay nearly $3bn to government officials in four countries to end an investigation into work it performed for 1MDB. The bank collected $600m for arranging the bond sales in 2012 and 2013.\n\nIt has spent years being investigated by regulators across the globe including those in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.In total, Goldman's dealings with 1MDB cost the bank more than $5bn.\n\nDespite the costs and fines from the fallout from the 1MDB scandal, 2020 was a bumper year for Goldman's businesses with annual revenue of $44.6bn, its highest since 2009.\n\nThe US-based bank got a huge boost from the recovery in global stock markets from the depths of the coronavirus recession.\n\nIn 2018 Malaysian police raided the home of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as part of their investigation in his involvement with 1MDB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Handbags and money seized in raids on former Malaysian PM's home (video published in 2018)", "Josh Quigley crashed while cycling at 40mph downhill in Dubai\n\nA record-breaking Scottish cyclist is recovering from his second serious crash in little over a year.\n\nJosh Quigley fractured his spine, pelvis, shoulder, collarbone and elbow after falling off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai on Tuesday.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Livingston is in hospital awaiting surgery.\n\nLast September he broke the North Coast 500 cycling world record just months after suffering life-threatening injuries while riding across the USA.\n\nMr Quigley told BBC Scotland he was in a lot of pain and unable to walk after his latest crash.\n\nHe said: \"I think a gust of wind took my front wheel out.\"\n\n\"Not sure what the recovery process is looking like yet,\" he added on social media.\n\n\"Very grateful to Ben and Tobias who I was riding with for getting me an ambulance and making sure I got to hospital OK.\n\n\"There's a great cycling community here who have been great to me since I've been here and they're all doing a lot to make sure I am looked after and have what I need in here.\n\n\"Huge thanks also to a few people who stopped at the scene and all of the first responders and medical staff who have helped at the hospital so far.\"\n\nMr Quigley shaved six minutes off the existing North Coast 500 world record when he completed the 516-mile Highland route in 31hrs and 17 minutes last September.\n\nThe route is ranked as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges as it has 34,423ft (10,492m) of ascent - more than Mount Everest, which stands at 29,031ft (8,848m).\n\nHis feat came after he was hit by a vehicle in Texas during a round-the-world-trip in December 2019.\n\nHe had life-threatening injuries and operations on a broken heel and ankle as well as a stent fitted in an artery in his neck, which feeds blood to his brain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM has said he hopes a \"gradual and phased\" relaxation of Covid restrictions can begin in early March.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he intended to set out a plan for how the lockdown in England could be eased and the criteria involved in the final week of February.\n\nFactors will include death and hospitalisation numbers, progress of vaccinations and changes in the virus.\n\nHe has ruled out schools in England re-opening after the February half term, instead setting an 8 March target.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Mr Johnson said the scientific data was not sufficiently clear to make any decisions now but he hoped to publish a detailed roadmap in just under a month's time as the \"picture became clearer\".\n\nHe also announced plans for tighter border restrictions to combat new variants of Covid, confirming all those arriving from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in hotels and other accommodation for 10 days.\n\nThe PM, who is under pressure from Tory MPs to spell out how the current lockdown will end, said relaxing restrictions would depend on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops virus transmission.\n\nHe signalled any easing of restrictions would start with schools, setting a potential re-opening date of 8 March - when he said he hoped the 15 million or so people in the top four vulnerable groups earmarked for vaccinations by mid-February will have had their jabs and have full protection.\n\n\"Our aim will be to set out a gradual and phased approach to easing the restrictions in a sustainable way,\" he said, adding that the \"first sign of normality\" should be pupils returning to school.\n\nHe added: \"We hope it will be safe to begin the re-opening of schools from 8 March with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as the data permits.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said reopening schools should be a national priority and urged the government to vaccinate teachers and support staff during the February half term.\n\nLabour is also calling for the government to prioritise key workers in critical professions, seeing them added to the first phase of the vaccination programme, alongside those might likely to become seriously ill.\n\nCases are falling and the vaccination programme is going well. So why is the government waiting?\n\nFirstly, there are doubts about how fast infections are falling.\n\nWhile the daily figures show they have almost halved in just over a fortnight, the government's surveillance programmes which involve random testing suggest the drop may be slower.\n\nIt is unclear why there is this discrepancy, but understanding the true trajectory is crucial to knowing what will happen to pressures on hospitals.\n\nWhat impact the vaccination programme has will also be vital.\n\nEarly results from Israel, which is leading the world on vaccination, suggest cases in older age groups start falling three weeks after significant numbers are vaccinated. But ministers want to see that pattern repeated here.\n\nThey also want to know what effect vaccination has on transmission - it is possible vaccinated people can still transmit the infection even if they are protected from illness.\n\nThis will not be completely clear by March, but scientists should at least have a better idea.\n\nWhen a plan for exiting lockdown is set out, the government wants to be certain it can be kept to. But given the cost of lockdown the pressure to lift restrictions will grow if progress keeps being made.\n\nLast week, chair of the Covid Recovery Group Conservative MP Mark Harper said if the government meets its 15 February vaccination deadline, then ministers should begin easing lockdown by 8 March.\n\nHe welcomed the announcement from the prime minster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the current lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons such as food shopping and exercise.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's lockdown laws are due to end on 31 March. Mr Johnson has previously said this date is to allow for a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nUnder the tier system, different rules are applied to different parts of the country, depending on factors such as pressure on the NHS, number of cases and rates at which case numbers fall.\n\nPupils in England are not expected to return to school before the February half term. Mr Johnson has said schools will be reopened \"as soon as we can\" but did not guarantee that would happen before Easter.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said restrictions in Scotland will continue until mid-February at the earliest.\n\nIn Wales, the lockdown will be reviewed at the end of January, but the government has previously said it does not see \"much headroom for change\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "As a family of chemicals, neonicotinoids cause harm to pollinating insects such as bees\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU.\n\nIn 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees.\n\nBut following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.\n\nThe charity has told Environment Secretary George Eustice of their intention to challenge the decision.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Eustice, the Trusts says it will push for a judicial review unless the government can \"prove it has acted lawfully\".\n\nMultiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.\n\nThe government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the \"potential danger\" to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.\n\nThe virus can have a severe impact on sugar beet.\n\nIt stressed that use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was \"acceptable\" because sugar beet doesn't flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.\n\nNeonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU's ban was supported by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who said the weight of evidence was \"greater than previously understood\". Unless the evidence changed, he said, the restrictions would be maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe government says the change in policy is based on \"new evidence\". But, so far, they haven't made this science public.\n\nHowever, Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said there was no new evidence to justify the change in policy.\n\nHe said: \"The government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what's changed. Where's the new evidence that it's okay to use this extremely harmful pesticide?\n\n\"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkiller to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.\"\n\nIt was the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and British Sugar that applied for the authorisation. Victoria Prentis, a minister with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News that it \"wasn't ideal\". But she was \"convinced it was appropriate\" and that the government was \"committed to reducing pesticide use and integrated pest management\".\n\nSugar beet affected by the yellowing disease spread by aphids\n\nThe pesticide will be authorised for use if there is a large enough outbreak of the disease. And it can only be used for a period of up to 120 days. Around a dozen other EU countries, including France and Germany, have also agreed emergency permits.\n\nMs Prentis said the authorisation was very specific, and \"targeted at a non-flowering crop, which bees are not attracted to\".\n\nHowever research, shows that the highly toxic chemicals can persist in the wider ecosystem for some time, potentially to be absorbed by wildflowers that pollinators then visit.\n\nProf Glen Jeffery, from University College London (UCL), said he felt \"horror\" when he learned of the government's decision.\n\n\"We've slowly moved away from it and yet it's creeping back in,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very prevalent in other parts of the world, but then you find in other parts of the world vast numbers of pollinating insects have just vanished and they've just gone through heavy pesticide use. We reach the ridiculous situation where in parts of California thousands of beehives are trucked from Texas and from Florida into California to pollinate crops.\"\n\nThere has been one full sugar beet harvest since outdoor neonicotinoid use was banned. According to the NFU, the 2019-20 harvest was largely unaffected by beet yellows disease. This year's sugar beet harvest is currently underway, and yields are expected to be down by around 25% compared with the five-year average, with some farmers losing as much as 80% of their crop.\n\nAccording to the NFU, there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East.\n\nThe NFU has called the situation \"unprecedented\" and its sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: \"I am relieved that our application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for the 2021 sugar beet crop has been granted.\"\n\nNeurobiologist and environmental pharmacologist Dr Chris Connolly said that, since 2018, when neonicotinoids were banned in the EU, around 400 papers had been published looking into thiamethoxam, and none said they were less harmful.\n\nThe peach potato aphid is responsible for spreading the beet yellows virus\n\nHe said he could be in favour of using it: \"But rarely, and when it's really needed - when it's an emergency. It's not an emergency if you apply for it before an emergency.\n\nHe added: \"Is adding pesticides to pesticides the way to go towards better sustainability?\"\n\nWhen they were introduced in 2005, neonicotinoids were seen as a good alternative to traditional pesticides. They are systemic, which means they are absorbed by the plant, so are applied to seeds as a coating - instead of being sprayed. However, it has become clear they are highly toxic to invertebrates such as insects.\n\nThe government recently committed to spending £3bn of international climate finance to \"supporting nature and biodiversity\".\n\nSeveral hundred thousand people have now signed various online petitions against the move. Earlier this month, more than 30 wildlife and environmental organisations, including Pesticide Action Network and the RSPB, wrote a joint letter to Mr Eustice calling on the government to publish the new evidence that led to the derogation being approved.", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City defender Sol Bamba is being treated for cancer, the Championship club has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old Ivory Coast international has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.\n\n\"Sol has begun his battle in typically positive spirits and will continue to be an integral part of the Bluebirds family,\" said the Bluebirds.\n\nBamba joined Cardiff in October 2016 under former manager Neil Warnock.\n\nThe National Health Service Wales describes the illness as \"a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, a network of vessels and glands spread throughout your body.\n\n\"The lymphatic system is part of your immune system\".\n\nThe Bluebirds said Bamba is \"universally admired by team-mates, staff and supporters in the Welsh capital\".\n\nThe club's statement added: \"During treatment Sol will support his team mates at matches and younger players within the Academy, with whom he will continue his coaching development.\n\n\"While we request privacy for him and his family at this time, messages of support to be passed on to Sol may be sent to club@cardiffcityfc.co.uk.\"\n\n\"We are all with you Sol.\"\n\nBamba helped Cardiff win promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and has made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nThe former Paris St Germain player has been a hugely popular member of the squad, though this season he has been restricted to five Championship substitute appearances and one League Cup start.\n\nHe is a much travelled player who has had spells at Dunfermline, Hibernian, Leicester City, Trazbonspor and Italian club Palermo as well as Leeds United.\n\nFrance-born Bamba has played 46 times for the Ivory Coast, including World Cup appearances and was part of their African Cup of Nations squad when they were runners-up in 2012.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "In his letter to staff, circulated on social media, Chad Wolf said he had hoped to remain as acting secretary to homeland security until the end of the Trump administration.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by the recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary,\" he said, \"which serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power\".\n\nWolf's resignation comes after he last week called on Trump and all elected officials to \"strongly condemn\" the Capitol riot.\n\nHis exit throws the department into turmoil just as it is gearing up for inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January, which has been designated a national security special event.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, has elected a woman as leader for the first time.\n\nChristina McAnea won 47.7% of the vote and takes over as general secretary from Dave Prentis, who has been in the job since 2001.\n\nThe former assistant general secretary beat fellow officials Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre in the contest, which began in October.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"I become general secretary at the most challenging time in recent history - both for our country and our public services.\n\n\"Health, care, council, police, energy, school, college and university staff have worked throughout the pandemic, and it's their skill and dedication that will see us out the other side.\n\n\"Their union will continue to speak up for them and do all it can to protect them in the difficult months ahead.\"\n\nUnison is promising action against the government's pay freeze for 1.3 million public sector workers, which it has described as an \"attack\" on members' livelihoods.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"Despite the risks, the immense pressures and their sheer exhaustion, the dedication and commitment of our key workers knows no end. I will not let this government, nor any future one, forget that.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also demanded a U-turn on public sector pay, as he urges ministers to \"protect family incomes\" from the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions in his first speech of the year.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he cannot \"justify a significant, across-the-board\" salary increase while the economy and public finances are suffering in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs McAnea, an experienced negotiator and former NHS worker, is expected to be broadly supportive of Sir Keir, as Mr Prentis has been.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed her victory, saying: \"I know you will be a brilliant representative for Unison members.\n\n\"And it's a significant moment for the union to elect its first woman general secretary. I look forward to working with you.\"\n\nHer election comes at a strained time between Sir Keir and several other unions whose general secretaries have spoken out in support of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nMr Holmes came second in the Unison contest, with 33.8%, followed by Mr McKenzie, on 10.8%, and Mr Pierre, on 7.8%.\n\nMs McAnea grew up in Glasgow and worked as a housing officer before becoming a union employee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, is taking leave to have surgery on a lung tumour.\n\nThe Old Bexley and Sidcup MP resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in 2018 for surgery to remove a lesion on his right lung.\n\nOn Monday he confirmed that \"frustratingly\" there had been a recurrence of a tumour there.\n\nHe said he was in \"good hands\" with the \"fantastic NHS team\" looking after him.\n\n\"[I'm] keeping positive and blessed to have the love of Cathy and the kids to support me through this,\" the 53-year-old wrote on Twitter.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Brokenshire and his family.\n\n\"Wishing you all the best for your treatment and looking forward to welcoming you back on the team soon,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"saddened\" by the news, adding: \"All my thoughts and prayers are with James and his family during this time\".\n\n\"All colleagues across government send James our love and best wishes, and we look forward to having him back soon,\" she added.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was among government colleagues wishing him well, adding he was \"sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"Wishing you all the best for your treatment, James. Get well soon.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was first elected to Parliament in 2005 as MP for the former constituency of Hornchurch, has also previously served as housing secretary under former PM Theresa May.\n\nHe has called for efforts to \"break some of the stigma around lung cancer\" and raise awareness of the disease.\n• None Brokenshire: There were some pretty dark moments", "Medical director Steve Stanaway says numbers of Covid patients are rising at the hospital\n\nHospital staff in Wrexham are under immense pressure after a \"rapid increase\" in seriously ill coronavirus patients, a medical director has warned.\n\nWrexham now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Wales, with 851.7 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThis is more than double the Welsh average.\n\nSteve Stanaway, medical director at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, pleaded with people to abide by rules.\n\n\"The worry from a staff's point of view is how much more stretching can we take, how many more staff can we deploy?\" he said.\n\nThe hospital - which is part of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - was the latest to suspend routine surgery as it tries to deal with rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\n\"That's created more feelings of stress and anxiety, not least to the people who were hoping to get their surgery this week,\" Mr Stanaway said.\n\nThe health board has postponed the majority of surgeries planned for the next two weeks at Wrexham, although some patients will be offered appointments in Bangor instead.\n\nEmergency surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, endoscopy procedures and caesarean sections will continue at the Wrexham hospital.\n\nProf Arpan Guha, acting executive medical director, said: \"There are many patients expecting to undergo an operation in Wrexham over the coming weeks and we recognise how anxious and worried they will already be about having surgery during the current surge of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are sorry for any further distress or inconvenience this decision may cause and would like to reassure those affected that we are doing all we can to prioritise patients in the most urgent need of care.\"\n\nThe spike in cases in communities in north-east Wales has been blamed on the newer \"faster-spreading\" variant.\n\nWhile case rates in many communities have fallen slightly in recent weeks, in Wrexham numbers are continuing to rise.\n\nThe area now has the highest rate in Wales, followed by Flintshire with 754.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nBus services in the area have been affected after 28 drivers of Arriva Buses Wales tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd, has the lowest case rate in the whole of Wales, with 110.\n\nThe average case rate for Wales stands at 435.9, according to the most recent Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThere have been calls for mass testing - as seen in parts of the south Wales Valleys - in the area as case rates continue to rise, but Wrexham council has said it has no plans to offer this to the wider community.\n\nMr Stanaway said the critical care unit and respiratory unit at the Wrexham hospital was now under huge pressure with the number of new patients needing this level of care \"rapidly increasing\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"The numbers are really quite alarming\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday. \"It's a huge amount of disease burden within a community.\"\n\nMr Stanaway said there were 125 inpatients being treated with Covid on Sunday night, which he estimated was an increase of 117% since Christmas.\n\nHe said 14 of them where in critical care, with some on ventilators, while 16 where being treated in the hospital's high care respiratory unit - a 45% increase in just four days.\n\n\"There are now so many in that unit they've had to expand it to a completely different part of the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the graphs of the cases they are going up exponentially, they are terrifying to look at, and I think people are very aware that this is what is happening out in the community around them,\" he said.\n\nMr Stanaway said staff were working tirelessly and under huge amounts of pressure to keep caring for the sickest patients, but it was unclear how much more demand the hospital could take.\n\n\"Our current predictions for admissions coming through the door in January are currently sitting at about 350, if you compare that to April, the height of the pandemic, we had 286 people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more, we've already had 112 people in the first nine days of January. And the numbers are going up and up.\"\n\nHe pleaded with people to abide by the rules.\n\n\"This virus is hurting, and has hurt, a lot of people within Wrexham and Flintshire,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say it strongly enough... we will get through this, but you just have to play by the rules.\"\n\nLatest figures show 149 staff were isolating and, with high nursing vacancy rates, staff were under huge pressure and were working tirelessly.\n\n\"Of all the years I've worked in the NHS... the resilience, dedication and professionalism our staff are showing is absolutely unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"But you have to bear in mind that people are tired, people are stressed, and it does put a strain,\" he said.\n\n\"We absolutely want to see you if you are unwell, but if you can wait or seek care somewhere else... please do that to give us that little bit of headspace.\"", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "Marks & Spencer has announced that it has bought the Jaeger fashion brand, which fell into administration last November.\n\nM&S is taking on the brand, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.\n\nIt is now in the process of finalising a deal to buy its products and \"supporting marketing assets\".\n\nM&S announced in May 2020 that it planned to stock other complementary brands to boost sales.\n\nSince then, it has started to sell products online from the Early Learning Centre, as well as from two designers, Nobody's Child and Ghost London.\n\nRichard Price, managing director of M&S Clothing & Home, said: \"We have set out our plans to sell complementary third party brands as part of our Never the Same Again programme to accelerate our transformation and turbocharge online growth.\n\n\"In line with this, we have bought the Jaeger brand and are in the final stages of agreeing the purchase of product and supporting marketing assets from the administrators of Jaeger Retail Limited. We expect to fully complete later this month.\"\n\nIn a call with journalists last week, chief executive Steve Rowe said M&S wanted to partner with other brands, largely for its online business, but stressed: \"We have no intention of turning into a department store.\"\n\nJaeger had 244 staff and some 63 stores and concessions. In addition, 13 stores closed after administrators were appointed, with the loss of more than 120 posts across stores, head office and distribution.\n\nIt is unclear if any jobs will be saved. There has been no update from the administrators, FRP.\n\nJaeger was founded in 1884, the same year as Marks & Spencer, which started out as a stall in an open market in Leeds known as Marks' Penny Bazaar.\n\nLast week, M&S unveiled quarterly figures showing that its clothing division had seen sales fall nearly a quarter, although sales of sales of sleepwear had soared.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December. However, UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.\n\nEnergydots says they \"counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment\" to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.\n\nBut University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.\n\nThe Devon-based company told BBC News the stickers were programmed with \"scalar energy\", which the scientists' equipment would be unable to detect.\n\nEnergydots markets a range of stickers, including the SmartDot, the SleepDot and even the PetDot.\n\nBBC News bought five SmartDots - a special offer for £55 - and sent them to the university's 6th Generation Innovation Centre.\n\nResearchers tested 4G mobile phones and wi-fi access points with and without the stickers applied to them.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the lab said: \"We could not find any evidence that these products had any effect on frequency or power when used as instructed.\"\n\nAn Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News: \"We state clearly that our products harmonise the fields.\n\n\"And the way to test this is to assess via biological testing.\"\n\nLast November, the company published a press release saying it was extremely proud to announce a partnership with the NHS that would see \"brand-new patient engagement units\" installed in Torbay and Royal College of London hospitals.\n\nAt the time, an Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News adverts for its products would appear in the two hospitals, though she clarified the London hospital was in fact University College Hospital.\n\nBut a Torbay Hospital spokesman then told BBC News it knew nothing of this partnership.\n\nAnd within hours, the press release had disappeared from the company's website.\n\nEnergydots later said there had been a misunderstanding with the agency that had promised to organise the adverts.\n\nIts stickers are among a wide range of products on Amazon from companies offering electric-and-magnetic-field (EMF) protection.\n\nEnergydots also suggests placing its SmartDot stickers on wi-fi routers\n\nThese include protective clothing, canopies to be placed over beds and even devices that block radiation from wi-fi routers - making them effectively useless.\n\nCampaigners claiming radiation from mobile phones and other devices poses a health risk have stepped up protests as 5G networks are rolled out.\n\nBut most scientists say even the higher part of the electromagnetic spectrum that may be used by 5G should not harm humans.\n\nAnd within those limits, there are no known consequences for health, the World Health Organization says.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hospital's oxygen supply has \"reached a critical situation\" due to rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.\n\nA document shared with the BBC showed Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount it uses to treat patients.\n\nIt said the target range for oxygen levels that should be in patients' blood had been cut from 92% to a baseline of 88-92%.\n\nHospital managing director, Yvonne Blucher, said it was \"working to manage\" the situation.\n\n\"We are experiencing high demand for oxygen because of rising numbers of inpatients with Covid-19 and we are working to manage this,\" she said.\n\n\"The public can play their part by staying home and, where they cannot, following the 'hands, face, space' advice to cut the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIn the document, from the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has been shared with frontline NHS staff, the oxygen supply was said to have \"reached a critical situation\".\n\nIt said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\" and states patients who are being fed oxygen and have an oxygen saturation of above 92% \"should have their oxygen weaned within the target range\", which is now 88-92%. This means very gradually reducing the saturation level.\n\nIt added that \"maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result\".\n\nGPs in Essex have told the BBC that the threshold for sending a patient to hospital for supplemental oxygen is if their oxygen saturation is at 92%. A level of 96-100% is deemed normal.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure\" on hospital oxygen stocks because giving patients extra oxygen was a \"key part\" of coronavirus treatment.\n\nHe said there were a number of hospitals where this happened in the first phase of coronavirus and over the past few weeks \"similar things have happened\" elsewhere.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure on oxygen systems\"\n\n\"This is the kind of problem that chief executives and trust leadership teams are having to solve day in, day out,\" he said.\n\n\"If you [a hospital] push your oxygen to an absolutely critical level, then the thing that you can't do is have the oxygen system break down... so effectively you will have to dial it down, in which case you will probably have to transfer patients to the nearest neighbouring hospital for a short period of time.\n\n\"I cannot tell you how much work has been done over the summer and autumn to ensure that people [hospital trusts] have been prepared for this... they knew they would come under pressure if there were to be further waves, as has now proved to be the case.\"\n\nEssex has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the country, with seven of the 14 council areas in the county in the top 20 most infected areas of England.\n\nThe Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\"\n\nNews of oxygen issues is understandably worrying, but not unexpected. Tanks may be full, but flow is a problem.\n\nMany people who are sick with Covid will need extra oxygen to help them breathe. As Covid admissions increase, it can put huge demand on a hospital's piped oxygen supply system to provide this high flow.\n\nHospital bosses have been planning for such scenarios for months, learning from experiences during the first wave of Covid when some trusts ran into difficulties.\n\nMany wards have made improvements to their pipework in preparation for a very busy winter, but there is still a limit to what hospitals can provide.\n\nWhen stretched to the maximum, other steps are needed, such transferring patients elsewhere or limiting how much oxygen is pumped to each patient.\n\nSouthend Hospital has taken this latter measure.\n\nAlthough not ideal, it is not unsafe. Patients will be closely monitored and the trust hopes the situation will improve if new Covid admissions start to go down as people follow the stay at home lockdown rules.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'One in 18 have Covid-19' in parts of Essex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says exemption from quarantine travel requirements for elite sport are to be reviewed\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged football clubs not to \"abuse\" the privileges they are afforded while the rest of Scotland is in lockdown.\n\nPlayers and staff from Celtic FC are having to self-isolate after one tested positive for Covid-19 on return from a mid-season training camp in Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had doubts about whether the trip was really necessary.\n\nAnd she said \"everyone, including football, should be erring on the side of caution\" amid a rise in infections.\n\nScottish football below Championship level is to be suspended for three weeks in light of the current lockdown, with Scottish Cup and lower league ties to be rescheduled.\n\nTop flight football in Scotland is continuing while most Scots are subject to a \"stay at home\" order due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCeltic's home fixture against Hibernian went ahead on Monday evening, despite the club having lost 13 players and three staff to Covid-19 issues.\n\nDefender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the virus on return from the club's training camp in Dubai, with others including the club's manager Neil Lennon being forced to isolate as close contacts.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"disappointed and frustrated\" that her daily coronavirus briefing was again being \"dominated by football\".\n\nCeltic trained in Scotland on Saturday after returning from Dubai\n\nShe said she had doubts about whether Celtic's trip \"was really essential\" and whether rules were strictly adhered to, saying it was for the footballing authorities to decide if further action was necessary.\n\nThe first minister issued a warning to clubs that they must stick to the rules set out for them while the rest of the populace is subject to tight restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"Football and elite sport more generally enjoys a number of privileges right now that the rest of us don't have. These privileges include the right to go to overseas training camps and be exempt from quarantine on return.\n\n\"It is really vital, obviously for public health reasons but also I think out of respect for the rest of the population living under really heavy restrictions, that these privileges are not abused.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is an assistant referee in the game.\n\nHe said that at a time when people are staying at home football games were something many looked forward to.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club.\" He also called for financial support to be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues and Scottish Cup who had had their games suspended for three weeks.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon is among those who are self-isolating\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was currently in \"the most perilous and serious position since the start of the pandemic\", with a record number of people in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nShe said everyone should be doing their utmost not to add to pressure on the health services by following the rules.\n\nShe said: \"This whole episode should underline how serious the situation we are in now is. Everyone including football should be erring on the side of caution.\n\n\"I know fans of other clubs feel very strongly that the whole of football should not pay the price for the actions of any one club, and I agree with that.\n\n\"But of course a situation like this does make it essential for us to review the rules - including those around travel exemptions - and that's what we will be doing. As we do, I do hope that Celtic themselves will reflect seriously on all of this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon cited photographs which emerged of players socialising in Dubai, but Celtic's assistant manager John Kennedy said these created a \"false picture\" and that there had been \"minor slip-ups\" at worst.\n\nThe club had previously claimed the government had given permission for the trip to go ahead, but Ms Sturgeon said it had only provided guidance to the footballing authorities on the rules.\n\nShe said: \"It's not our role to give approval or not to what a football club is doing.\"\n\nA statement posted on the Celtic website said that \"the reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.\"", "As hospital mortuaries fill up in Surrey, England, some of the dead from the coronavirus pandemic are being brought to an emergency body storage facility.\n\nSurrey currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and some are concerned the facility may reach capacity.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton paid a visit to the site which has been set up in a Surrey woodland.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSeven centres begin operating this morning across England, a key part of efforts to vaccinate 15 million in the top four priority groups by mid-February. To begin with, more than 600,000 aged 80 or over are being sent letters inviting them to book an appointment at one of the hubs - but if the journey is too long, they're being told closer options will be available soon. The centres will be open 12 hours a day and more large-scale sites will follow. The health secretary will give more details later, while the Welsh government will publish its own vaccination plan. In Scotland, more clinics should start to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Here's how vaccines are approved for use, and some of the challenges a rollout on this scale faces.\n\nScientists have warned stricter measures might be needed to curb infections in England but, right now, the government is focusing on an \"all-out public information\" campaign to improve compliance with the existing rules. Chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty is appearing on TV and radio this morning urging the public to \"stay at home\" given what he called the \"appalling situation\" we are in. He told BBC One's Breakfast that getting case numbers down was \"everybody's problem\", and \"every unnecessary contact\" with someone from another household gave the virus an opportunity to be transmitted. \"We need to really double down\", he added, because \"this is the most dangerous time we've had in terms of numbers into the NHS.\" If you've seen videos online claiming some hospital wards and corridors are empty, BBC Reality Check explains what's really going on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says a record quarter of a million firms could close over the coming year. The organisation's chairman, Mike Cherry, said financial support provided to businesses during the pandemic had \"not kept pace with intensifying restrictions\". It also wants more help for many self-employed workers who are currently excluded from aid. There's another call for more government support this morning from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He wants teachers, the armed forces and care workers to be left out of a public sector pay freeze, and is urging ministers not to end the temporary £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe body representing prison staff says courts should cease hearing trials to help stop the spread of coronavirus in jails. Mark Fairhurst, from the Prison Officers' Union, said there had been a \"massive outbreak\" at Cardiff Prison, and the site was struggling to find space for newly-sentenced arrivals. However, others within the criminal justice sector argue courts must be kept open to prevent the case backlog growing further. The rate of spread in prisons is still well below the wider population, and a prison service spokesman said shielding, mass testing and limited regimes were in place at all facilities.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils, and the switch to virtual learning presents challenges for many families. The BBC is trying to help, and from today lessons and programmes will be broadcast on TV, on BBC Two and CBBC. They'll also be available on iPlayer, with additional content online. Find out all you need to know here. If you're looking for some inspiration for PE, Joe Wicks is also back today. For many families, he was one of the fixtures of the first lockdown, and live classes start at 09:00 GMT on his YouTube channel.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils across Scotland have been experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams as the majority move to home learning.\n\nA number of schools, pupils and parents have reported the technology running slowly or not at all.\n\nIt is one of the main platforms being used for remote learning with schools shut to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nMicrosoft Teams tweeted that the issue was being investigated.\n\nA Microsoft spokesperson said: \"Our engineers are working to resolve difficulties accessing Microsoft Teams that some customers are experiencing.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether demand as a result of home schooling was causing the issue, Microsoft declined to comment.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the problem during her daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"This is not an issue that is unique to Scotland or indeed unique to schools, but I understand Microsoft is currently working to address it,\" she said.\n\n\"More generally I don't underestimate how difficult this is both for young people learning away from friends… and for parents to juggle home schooling with working.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was also asked about problems which were being experienced by users of digital learning platform Glow.\n\nShe replied: \"It is not an issue with Glow. It is affecting Glow, but the core issue is not with Glow… the issue is with Microsoft Teams.\"\n\nTwo schools in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, said the problem was a \"national issue\" although Renfrew High School urged pupils experiencing difficulties not to panic.\n\nClyde Valley High School tweeted: \"Our online learning provision begins today for all of our pupils. Due to the very high demand for Microsoft Teams across Scotland, there may be issues initially getting logged on or accessing some files.\n\n\"This is a national issue on the site and may take a little time to rectify.\"\n\nColtness High School said: \"Unfortunately it appears Microsoft Teams is struggling to cope with the traffic this morning.\n\n\"This is across Scotland and not isolated to Coltness. Pupils and staff are having difficulty loading files. We have reported the issue and hopefully this will be resolved soon.\"\n\nEdinburgh City Council have texted all parents saying: \"There is a city-wide problem with Microsoft Teams this morning. Please be patient as the council is working to resolve it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RHS Digital Learning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by D&G Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Microsoft has confirmed that this issue is affecting users in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe. Education Scotland is working closely with the company to resolve the issues.\"\n\nAfter one teacher complained to Microsoft Teams on Twitter, a staff member said: \"We're currently investigating an issue where some users in the UK region are unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will provide further information as soon as this is available.\"\n\nAccording to an Ofcom report in December, about 34,000 (1.2%) premises in Scotland were without a decent broadband connection, while superfast broadband coverage had increased to 94% of homes.\n\nIt also said that fixed and mobile networks in Scotland had \"generally coped well\" with increased demands during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as plans for remote learning during the latest lockdown reveal big disparities between Scotland's 32 councils.\n\nNot all pupils will be offered live lessons - instead the decision on the best approach has been left to individual schools and teachers.\n\nGuidance on remote learning published by the Scottish government on Friday recommended a \"a balance of live learning and independent activity\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested £25m to address digital exclusion in schools with funding allocations for digital devices and connectivity solutions made to all 32 local authorities.\n\nMore than 50,000 devices such as laptops have been distributed to children and young people to help with remote learning and the programme in total is expected to deliver about 70,000 devices for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Luke Evans plays police officer Steve Wilkins who reopened and solved the two double murders\n\nHollywood actor Luke Evans says telling the true story of the murder of four people was a \"huge responsibility\".\n\nEvans, who was brought up in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, returned to Wales to star in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.\n\nHe plays Dyfed-Powys Police officer Steve Wilkins who in 2006 reopened two unsolved double murders from the 1980s.\n\n\"I just wanted to tell it right and show justice for the victims, which is the most important part,\" Evans said.\n\n\"This is a very serious, sad story where four people lost their lives and their families have struggled and suffered greatly because of it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So you do feel a huge sense of responsibility.\"\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders has been adapted from a book about the case written by Mr Wilkins and ITV journalist Jonathan Hill.\n\nIn 1985 brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas were shot at their remote mansion near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, before the property was set alight.\n\nThen in 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead at close range on the Pembrokeshire coastal path near Little Haven.\n\nThe drama also stars Newport actress Alexandria Riley as Det Insp Ella Richards\n\nBut it was only years later that microscopic DNA and fibres linked the murders to John Cooper, who was already in prison for a string of burglaries.\n\nIn 2011 he was jailed for life.\n\nThe Dracula Untold star said he had not been aware of the notorious case: \"I knew almost nothing about these murders, to the point where when I read what was a treatment two or three years ago… I couldn't believe what I was reading.\n\n\"So I did my own research into it and realised that the story was completely true - it hadn't been embellished, none of this was fiction and it sort of blew my mind.\"\n\nHe said being able to speak to Mr Wilkins while filming was invaluable: \"Me and Steve had a dialogue almost every week for a few hours.\n\n\"We had a lot of conversations before we started shooting where I would speak to him and ask him, not just about the case - obviously that that was very important - but about things like how was it standing in front of John Cooper, having to interview John Cooper, having to deal with his family.\n\n\"You see both sides of the effect of these terrible crimes, you see what the aftermath of what it does to people and how they suffer and you meet Cooper's family as well.\n\n\"Steve has his own family and that also is played into the storyline very powerfully.\"\n\nEvans said the only other time he has worked in Wales was when filming Visit Wales commercials: \"Being Welsh and not getting to work in Wales very often - that certainly was an attraction for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I've done them [the commercials] for a few years - one of them was about the coastal walks of Wales and our beautiful coastline... and then right in this beautiful place I was there back there, portraying a character and trying to find the killer of somebody who murdered people on this coastal path.\"\n\nBut he said he enjoyed playing a Welsh character: \"To go right back to my roots with my accent and that was a really, really exciting to do.\n\nThe series, made by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, finished filming just before Wales' first coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"When we started The Pembrokeshire Murders it was January so we didn't hear anything really, and then just before we finished there was rumblings of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We were very lucky in a way, we wrapped basically on the Friday then on the Monday everything closed.\n\n\"So it was a big sigh of relief when we got to the final wrap of that day and it was very special.\"\n\nThe three-part series also stars Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn.\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders in on ITV at 21:00 GMT on 11, 12 and 13 January", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nPremier League rivals Manchester United and Liverpool will meet at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup later this month.\n\nNon-league Chorley will host Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers after beating a depleted Derby County in the third round.\n\nLeague Two Cheltenham Town are set to welcome Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Whaddon Road.\n\nThe fourth-round ties will be played the weekend of 23-24 January.\n\nCrawley Town, who celebrated a famous 3-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday, will travel to Championship side Bournemouth in the next round.\n\nJose Mourinho's Tottenham will face Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park, while Fulham take on Burnley in an all-Premier League tie.\n\nChorley would face 14-time winners Arsenal in the fifth round - if the National League North side overcome Wolves and the Gunners beat Southampton.\n\nDavid Moyes could return to former club Manchester United in the last 16 if West Ham beat League One Doncaster Rovers and United seal victory over Liverpool in the fourth round.\n\nThe fifth-round ties will be played 9-11 February.\n• None Watch all the goals and highlights from the FA Cup third round\n• None Goals, highlights and knockouts. All the action from Sunday's third-round ties are", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "Caroline Rice couldn't afford the ink to print off her child's maths homework\n\nThere are few benefits from lockdown, but one often touted is that people are managing to save a little money: lower transport costs, fewer shop-bought office lunches, cheaper childcare costs and no foreign holidays.\n\nSingle mum Caroline Rice gives a wry smile when asked if she's managed to squirrel away extra cash over the past few months during pandemic restrictions.\n\n\"My spending is up,\" she says. \"The heating costs are higher because it's very cold. I'm having to shop locally because of lockdown, where the prices are slightly higher. The nearest Asda is 12 miles away.\"\n\nThe small savings on little luxuries that many people are making - fewer coffees or restaurant meals - were never an option for her in the first place.\n\nHer meagre finances meant the registered child minder, who lives in rural County Fermanagh, was already living week-to-week. Now it seems like day-to-day, she says.\n\n\"There's a mental stress, fatigue, in having to check the bank balance every day to see how much I'm down,\" she says. \"My child and I haven't bought any clothes in almost a year.\"\n\nShe's having to home-school her child. Many people wouldn't think twice about printing off their child's maths homework project. Caroline had to write it out by hand because they could not afford the ink.\n\nAnd she is not alone. A new report on the finances of low-income families during the pandemic says they are twice as likely to have increased their spending.\n\nIt says extra costs for food, energy and remote learning equipment have piled financial pressure on the poor.\n\nThe study - Pandemic Pressures - was a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation-funded Covid Realities research project at the University of York.\n\nDr Ruth Patrick, a social policy lecturer at the University of York, says talk of saving money during the pandemic is \"worlds away\" from the experiences of many low-income parents and carers.\n\n\"Parents have found their spending increases, as some of the usual strategies they use to get by on a low income - shopping around for the best deal, going to families and friends for a meal when the cupboards are empty - have become suddenly impossible,\" she said.\n\nFor Shirley Widdop, an increase in food costs has been one of the biggest issues. The disabled single parent, who lives in Keighley, now has to shield for health reasons. That means using online deliveries a lot.\n\nShe says: \"There's a minimum basket size [with online orders]. You often have to bulk buy in case there's a problem getting delivery slots.\"\n\nShirley Widdop has not saved on life's little luxuries - because she could not afford them in the first place\n\nWhen not shielding, Shirley would seek out food in her supermarket's reduced-price section. \"There used to be just a couple of people. Now there are crowds,\" she says. \"Not everyone has easy access to the internet. And not everyone has a functioning bus service.\"\n\nThe report notes that the pandemic has been marked by a huge reduction in overall spending, with entertainment and social activities restricted by lockdown.\n\nHigher-income households have been the main beneficiaries of this \"enforced saving\", as they spend 40% more of their income on recreation and leisure activities than the poorest fifth of households.\n\nThe report says that in contrast to this overall picture, the pandemic has in many cases made it more expensive to live on a low income with children.\n\nMore than one in three (36%) low-income households with children have increased their spending during the pandemic so far, compared with about one in six (18%) who have reduced their spending.\n\nAmong high-income households without children, 13% have increased their spending, compared with 40% who have reduced it.\n\nUse of food banks has increased significantly during the pandemic\n\nThe report highlights three main reasons for these extra pressures:\n\nIt should also be noted, the report says, that these extra spending pressures are squeezing living standards that had stagnated even before the pandemic.\n\nTo ease the burden, the report says the government should be seeking to maintain the £20-a-week rise in Universal Credit (UC) into next year. Otherwise, six million households face having their incomes cut by more than £1,000.\n\nMike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The pandemic has forced society as a whole to spend less and save more. But these broad spending patterns don't hold true for everyone.\n\n\"The extra cost of feeding, schooling and entertaining children 24/7 means that, for many families, lockdowns have made life more expensive to live on a low income.\"\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said measures had been put in place to \"ensure that nobody is left behind\", including extra welfare payments, job protection safeguards, the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme, and equipment for home-schooling.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSometimes the overall economic figures can not capture the actual on-the-ground financial reality.\n\nThe pandemic lockdowns have led to a \"K-shaped\" recovery. Across the entire economy, staying at home has meant less capacity to spend on going out and a surge in savings. But the economic picture is both up and down at the same time, depending on which household.\n\nThe average picture is composed of wealthier people saving a huge amount and poorer families more squeezed than ever. This report shows how children staying at home have increased food and energy bills. The cost of buying food has increased with fewer store promotions and a requirement to use more expensive local shops. The furlough scheme has kept people paid, but not necessarily on full pay.\n\nSo the chancellor hopes that the vaccine rollout could unleash pent up demand in the form of huge levels of savings from the already well-off. And yet at the same time, will continue to face pressure over extending support - for example, the £20-a-week increase to universal credit.", "A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.\n\nThe original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nBut only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.\n\nKim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.\n\nThe US network did not say why Cattrall wasn't cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That - a nod to one of the show's original catchphrases.\n\nHowever, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.\n\nThe new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.\n\nThe trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristin Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humour and the beloved city that has always defined them,\" Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement.\n\nThe original Sex and the City series, created by Darren Star, was based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. It premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004.\n\nThe show inspired two films, Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010. A prequel series titled The Carrie Diaries, starring Anna Sophia Robb, aired on The CW in 2013/14.\n\nStar also created Netflix show Emily in Paris, and many have drawn inevitable comparisons between that show and SATC.\n\nWhen it first burst on to our TV screens, Sex and the City was seen as revolutionary - four women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention the sex scenes themselves.\n\nThe first series of SATC began filming in 1998\n\nCosmopolitans and rabbit vibrators were trending before trending was a thing.\n\nWhile it was praised by many for its liberating female-led content, it also attracted criticism from some quarters who felt Carrie's ongoing pursuit of Mr Big (Christopher Noth) was not exactly an advert for female independence.\n\nIt was also accused of trivialising issues such as sexual harassment and for its lack of diversity, a criticism levelled at many older shows including Friends.\n\nFashion was a hugely influential part of the series - the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits, teamed with a fur coat and heels, was described as \"an ensemble rich in cultural resonance\".\n\nAnd Manolo Blahnik could never have dreamed of attracting so much publicity for his designer footwear.\n\nIt was a ratings smash, with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004 drawing an audience of 10.6 million viewers in the US.\n\nIn the UK, the final episode was watched by 4.1m on Channel 4.\n\nThe series was predictably most popular in the 18-34 age group.\n\nMany SATC fans will be disappointed that larger-than-life favourite Samantha Jones - played by Kim Cattrall - will not be returning for the sequel series.\n\nSamantha was Sex and the City's most outlandish character and arguably, the star of the show.\n\nWhile Miranda was juggling a career and motherhood, Charlotte was focused on marriage and motherhood and Carrie poured her neuroses into her New York Star column, Samantha was the character perhaps harder to relate to but someone we all wanted to be (at least a little).\n\nShe was fiercely independent and while caring for her friends, she always put her own needs before men.\n\nBut news Cattrall won't reprise the role in And Just Like That comes as no surprise after years of feud rumours which were later confirmed by the British-born Canadian actress.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nShe said there was a \"toxic relationship\" and ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, denying that her decision was down to pay or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nA different actress could play Samantha in the future, she suggested.\n\n\"I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,\" she said. \"Maybe they could make it an African-American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones, or bring in another character.\"\n\nShe later criticised Parker for being \"cruel\" after she sent condolences following the death of Cattrall's brother.\n\nIn an interview with People magazine shortly afterwards, SJP acknowledged Cattrall \"said things that were really hurtful about me\".\n\nParker said: \"So there was no fight; it was completely fabricated, because I actually never responded.\"\n\nOn Monday, Parker replied on Instagram to someone posting that SJP \"didn't tag Samantha Jones\" into her post announcing the new series.\n\n\"I don't dislike her. I've never said that. Never would. Samantha isn't part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. x.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Small business owner Jon Wilding is facing a dilemma: his livelihood is on hold because of Covid restrictions and he has a big tax bill to settle.\n\nIf his company supplying marquees to outdoor events goes bust, the taxman will get paid, but his reputation as a businessman will be ruined forever.\n\n\"If I shut the business down, I then become director of a business that's gone bankrupt, at which stage getting loans in the future becomes nigh-on impossible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I feel like I'm one of those people who's been left out. We don't need a lot to keep going,\" said Mr Wilding, of Cannock in the West Midlands.\n\n\"The government say their support system is the best in the world, we've done furlough, this that and whatever, but it's not getting to all the people that need it.\"\n\nApart from the Bounce Back Loan scheme, his two-person business has received no government assistance.\n\nHis colleague was furloughed in March last year, but because Mr Wilding is the director, he is not allowed to furlough himself.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is particularly concerned about people like Mr Wilding.\n\nIt says directors of small companies, who pay themselves in dividends rather than drawing a salary, are not receiving any help from the government.\n\nThe FSB says somewhere between 700,000 and 1.1 million people fall into this category.\n\nIt has put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hopes ministers will adopt.\n\nThe FSB's proposed Directors Income Support Scheme would pay them grants of up to £7,500 to cover three months of lost trading profits. It would be limited to those who earn less than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"Company directors, the newly self-employed, those in supply chains and those without commercial premises are still being left out in the cold,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nWithout further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, a record 250,000 small businesses could be lost in the next 12 months, the FSB said.\n\n\"The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions,\" Mr Cherry added.\n\n\"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year.\n\nIf those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.\n\nMr Cherry said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\" and called for help that went beyond the retail, leisure and hospitality businesses.\n\nThe FSB said it had submitted its support scheme proposals to the Treasury and was expecting a decision this month.\n\nThe Treasury said nothing was planned at present, but added: \"Our support schemes are designed to get help to those who need it most whilst protecting the taxpayer from fraud, but of course we keep everything under review and are always open to further ideas.\"", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Douglas Ross: 'All of Scottish football should not be affected by the actions of one club'\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross tells viewers he thinks politics should be put aside and the UK and Scottish governments should work together to get the vaccinations out as quickly as possible. He is reluctant, as an assistant referee, to comment on the Celtic Dubai situation, but he does say that people have to look at the message it sends out. He points out that for many people at home alone at the moment, football is something they look forward to and \"we don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club\". He adds that financial support should be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues & Scottish Cup who have had their games suspended for three weeks.", "Terry Irving, 83, from Dumfries, was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday\n\nEveryone aged 80 or over in Scotland will be given the Covid vaccine by February, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman also said care home staff and residents, as well as front-line health and social care staff would be vaccinated in the next few weeks.\n\nAs of Sunday, 163,377 Scots had been given a first dose of vaccine.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Scotland that just under 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of the month.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine will be available at more than 1,100 locations from Monday.\n\nScotland has been given an initial allocation of more than 500,000 doses to use in January.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We intend that by the end of this month, the very beginning of February, we will have vaccinated all residents in care homes and staff, all front-line health and social care workers and all those aged 80 or over.\n\n\"So that's just under 560,000. We've already vaccinated about 70% of people in care homes and about half of the health and social care workforce.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government was on course to match the UK government's commitment to offer a vaccine jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nThe health service will be able to vaccinate people as supplies of the jabs arrive, she said, with over-80s being contacted by their GPs.\n\nThe government has now started publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, with 163,377 Scots having been given a first dose as of Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health authorities in Scotland now had enough supplies to give jabs to all over-80s over the coming four weeks.\n\nShe said the aim was to get through the priority list as quickly as possible.\n\nThis had been expected to be complete by mid-May, but Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very hopeful we will be able to accelerate that to an earlier point\".\n\nA total of 1,664 people are in hospital being treated for Covid-19, the highest number since the pandemic began - with Ms Sturgeon saying the country was in a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health board areas but this week will see it being used at vaccination centres across the whole country.\n\nRecent figures suggest a slight fall in the average positivity rates for Covid in many parts of Scotland, but pressures on the NHS have intensified.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital in with Covid rose to new highs at the weekend, and Sunday saw a sharp increase in the number of patients requiring treatment in intensive care.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were few signs that the threat was \"abating\" and that a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's schools are closed until at least February with pupils now learning from home as the new term begins this week..\n\nOnly vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nLocal authorities said schools were better prepared to roll out digital learning than they were during the first lockdown.\n\nBut one parents' group has raised concerns about \"equal and fair access to home learning\".", "The Prince of Wales is urging firms to back a more sustainable future and do more to protect the planet, as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.\n\nPrince Charles wants companies to join what he is calling \"Terra Carta\" - or Earth charter.\n\nThe charter is being launched alongside a fund run by the Natural Capital Investment Alliance.\n\nIt aims to mobilise $10 billion towards natural capital by 2022.\n\nTerra Carta will harness the \"irreplaceable power of nature\", the prince said in his virtual address to the One Planet Summit on Monday.\n\nHe hopes the new charter will help \"reunite people and planet\".\n\nHe said: \"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilise the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy.\"\n\nIn his foreword to Terra Carta, the prince writes: \"If we consider the legacy of our generation, more than 800 years ago, Magna Carta inspired a belief in the fundamental rights and liberties of people.\n\n\"As we strive to imagine the next 800 years of human progress, the fundamental rights and value of nature must represent a step-change in our 'future of industry' and 'future of economy' approach.\"\n\nCharles has previously said that people thought he was \"completely dotty\" when he started talking about environmental issues in the 1970s.", "A number of positive cases have been identified among passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year\n\nDubai has been added to Scotland's travel quarantine list with anyone coming from the country told to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe rule, which came into effect at 04:00, will also apply retrospectively for passengers who have made the journey since 3 January.\n\nCeltic confirmed one of their players tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip to Dubai on Friday.\n\nIt is not known if he was on the trip.\n\nThe Scottish government said clinicians and the local NHS health protection team were in contact with Celtic providing advice. It also confirmed that quarantine rules did not apply to sports people who had attended \"elite training\" abroad.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week questioned the purpose of Celtic's trip and whether they were following social-distancing rules after seeing photos from their Dubai base.\n\nShe warned that professional sport's privileges could be lost if protocols were not followed by all participants.\n\nThe government said the change was due to a number of positive cases being identified in passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year.\n\nIt said the \"preventative action\" would help stem the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"It is evident, both in Scotland and in countries across the world, that the virus continues to pose real risks to health and to life and we need to interrupt the rise in cases.\"\n\nHe added: \"Imposing quarantine requirements on those arriving in the UK is our first defence in managing the risk of imported cases from communities with high risks of transmission. That is why we have made the decision to remove Dubai from the country exemptions list.\n\n\"Whether or not an overseas destination has been designated for quarantine restrictions, our message remains clear that people should not currently be undertaking non-essential foreign travel.\n\n\"People need to stay at home to help suppress the virus, protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJoanne Dooey, president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), said: \"Removing Dubai from the safe list is understandable. We believe that there has been a cluster of infections around Scots who travelled to Dubai over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"Whilst we're keen to see a return to increased international travel, protecting the health of the whole country remains our key concern and we are supportive of this move.\"", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.\n\nThirteen Celtic players missed the game as they self-isolate after being deemed close contacts of Jullien.\n\nThe hosts led through David Turnbull's free-kick, but are now 21 points behind Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers after Kevin Nisbet's late Hibs strike.\n\n\"There's regret that one person has caught the virus,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"But there's not a regret in terms of the permission we got to go and the protocols that we followed, which we have done the whole season.\"\n• None 'Celtic's lack of remorse over Dubai farce is risible'\n• None Trouble in paradise? Timeline of Dubai bid to Covid crisis\n\nStrachan, who managed the team against Hibs as Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy are also in enforced quarantine, defended the decision to take Jullien - who is out injured for up to four months - on last week's controversial training trip.\n\n\"It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can,\" Strachan added.\n\n\"Yeah, I can understand the frustration from everybody, because we end up playing with a weaker team, but that could have happened if we were training at home as well.\"\n\nCeltic, who still have three games in hand, fielded an unfamiliar line-up showing six changes, though one of those was enforced by Nir Bitton's suspension, and teenage American forward Cameron Harper was handed a debut.\n\nHibs' request for Celtic players to be retested pre-match was turned down and Jack Ross gave a first appearance to on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.\n\nAnd it was the visitors who tried to stamp their authority on the game early on with Nisbet heading over and later testing Conor Hazard with a shot after Joe Newell's strike had been pushed out by the Celtic keeper.\n\nHarper shot instead of passing from a promising position in Celtic's first incisive move and long-range efforts from Ismaila Soro and Diego Laxalt drew fine saves from Macey.\n\nTurnbull's superb chip found Callum McGregor in behind the Hibs defence but he could not make the right connection.\n\nLewis Stevenson made his 500th Hibernian appearance as a half-time replacement for Josh Doig and Harper limped off to be replaced by another Celtic debutant Armstrong Oko-Flex on the hour.\n\nChances were at a premium and Hazard was quick off his line to snuff out a chance for Melker Hallberg and Drey Wright's replacement Christian Doidge could not get a header on Jamie Murphy's teasing corner.\n\nMikey Johnston claimed unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down in the Hibs box following Ryan Porteous' challenge and soon made way for Karamoko Dembele.\n\nHibs also made a change with Stephen McGinn replacing Hallberg and the midfielder fouled Turnbull to give the Celtic midfielder the chance to put Celtic ahead, and he did. It was a fantastic strike by Turnbull and his fifth goal for Celtic.\n\nHibs went back on the attack and won a free-kick of their own after Laxalt's foul on Paul McGinn and the latter's header from Stevie Mallan's delivery was cleared on the line only for Nisbet to fire high into the net for parity. A point took Hibs to within two of Aberdeen in third.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Celtic took a while to settle into the match and lacked a focal point in the absence of Leigh Griffiths and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nFor long spells in the second half, the hosts did not look likely to win but took their chance when it came. Defensively, though, they were caught out badly at a set play.\n\nHibs may rue not throwing more caution to the wind at 0-0 but, after three league defeats, a point in Glasgow is a positive result.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nCeltic coach Gavin Strachan: \"The players put a lot into the game and we thought we did enough to nick it. The sucker punch at the end was frustrating. We were hoping we would have enough bodies back to see that out.\n\n\"There's a lot of football still to be played and you never know what's going to happen. Obviously it's a frustrating time just now but we need to get the win on Saturday, keep racking up the points and see what happens.\"\n\nHibernian head coach Jack Ross: \"We wanted to come and win the game. I certainly think we merited taking something from it. It's good for us to stop the bleeding. It hopefully just propels our side in the right direction again.\n\n\"Kevin Nisbet's goalscoring return has been excellent. The accuracy of the finish and the trust in his finishing ability with the goal has to be like that otherwise I don't think he scores it.\"\n\nCeltic will still be without their isolating players when they host Livingston on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Hibs are at home to Kilmarnock at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Nisbet.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 1. Kevin Nisbet (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul McGinn (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Mallan with a cross.\n• None Paul McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Murphy (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 0. David Turnbull (Celtic) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wales' health minister has acknowledged it was \"entirely understandable people are concerned\" about when they will receive their vaccine.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething also stressed that supplies will increase over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think a number of people are are anxious because this is a worrying time. And it's entirely understandable on a human level why people are concerned\", he said.\n\nMr Gething admitted that other UK nations had made a better start in rolling out the vaccine.\n\nBut he said that he believed Wales had still made a \"good start\" and \"that's evidenced by the figures\".\n\nWhen asked about the concerns made by some GP practices, Mr Gething said he understands why some of them \"will be frustrated\".\n\nHe added: \"But we're delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine in supplies that we have to keep it going.\n\n\"And as I said, the availability of that vaccine is the current rate limiting step and significantly increasing our delivery because we know there are a range of general practices and others who could deliver more if we had more supply.\n\n\"The supply they're being given is supplied for the week - it's not to stretch through for the whole population that they're covering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he hopes to make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence after a call by domestic abuse campaigners.\n\nToo many violent offenders' sentences are not tough enough, he said.\n\nAnd he added that strangulation can be a precursor to even more serious crimes against women.\n\nCampaigners argue that perpetrators are often only charged with common assault, which carries a maximum of six months in prison.\n\nBecause non-fatal strangulation may not leave any marks on the victim, prosecutors do not bring more serious charges, they say.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"There are too many violent offenders not getting sentences proportionate to the seriousness of their crimes because in many cases, prosecutors don't have adequate charging options where the victim has been strangled.\n\n\"The vast majority of these crimes are committed against women and they are often a precursor to even more serious violence.\"\n\nThe justice secretary hopes the new offence can be included in the Police and Sentencing Bill, although discussions are at an early stage.\n\nCampaigners had called for a new offence to be part of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Conservative peer Baroness Newlove was planning to table an amendment to this bill as it goes through the House of Lords. She won cross-party support during a debate in the Lords last week.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice believes that as non-fatal strangulation can be used in situations other than domestic abuse, the legislation should have a broader context.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said strangulation was often a precursor to even more serious attacks on women\n\nWelcoming the move, Nogah Ofer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence said: \"It is time that as a society we stopped normalising and ignoring strangulation.\n\n\"We look forward to police, prosecutors and medical professionals working together to address this with the seriousness it deserves, and hope that survivors of domestic abuse will have greater confidence to seek justice.\"\n\nCampaigner Rachel Williams, who suffered strangulation during an abusive relationship, tweeted that it was \"a great victory\". She was shot and severely injured by her violent partner in 2011, who then killed himself.\n\nLast week, the government said that non-fatal strangulation was already covered by existing legislation from common assault to attempted murder.\n\nIt is now looking at how a new offence was introduced in New Zealand. Parts of Australia and the US have also brought in similar measures.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, crossbench peer Lord Anderson of Ipswich, a QC and former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that \"hurried law can be bad law\".\n\nHe asked whether a more generic offence of aggravated assault or recklessly endangering life might cover these circumstances and questioned how strangulation and suffocation would be defined in the law.", "Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim's community said otherwise.\n\nThis story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January.\n\nFor Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.\n\nShe credits this moment for her \"fairly normal\" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.\n\nAt the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery.\n\nMontgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Stinnett bled to death.\n\nMattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine.\n\nThe girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery was left behind with her mother.\n\nLisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children\n\nIt would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death.\n\n\"One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal,\" says Mattingly. \"The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, she was broken.\"\n\nIn late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy.\n\nHowever, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted.\n\nLisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called \"Ratter Chatter\". Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett.\n\nBut it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies.\n\nWhen Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb.\n\nInvestigators quickly realised that \"Darlene Fischer\" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing.\n\nSince 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell.\n\nMontgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber.\n\nMontgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.\n\nHowever, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore.\n\n\"Bobbie deserves to be here today. Bobbie's family deserves her,\" says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. \"And Lisa deserves to pay.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nLisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness.\n\n\"The whole story is tragic,\" says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. \"But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.\"\n\nFor Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis.\n\nWhen Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly.\n\n\"Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. She enjoyed torturing the people around her,\" says Mattingly. \"She got joy out of it.\"\n\nAfter Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture.\n\nAccording to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house.\n\nAs a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.\n\nBut the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers.\n\nLawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing.\n\nWhen Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself.\n\n\"There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this,\" says Henry.\n\nMontgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with \"regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa\".\n\nWhen she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her.\n\n\"It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie,\" he said in a statement. \"I felt sick watching the video. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.\"\n\nFriends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into \"a world of her own\". Her children were disturbed by it. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.\n\nMontgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born.\n\nOne theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children.\n\n\"There was so much pressure on her at that point,\" says Henry. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. \"She was completely detached from reality.\"\n\nHer lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant.\n\nHenry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness.\n\nHer lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done.\n\nAfter five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. They recommended a sentence of death.\n\nDiane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference.\n\n\"I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'\" she says. \"I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. And to not fail her.\"\n\nThe tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could \"get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner\" - but those days are long gone. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved.\n\nThe population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She was quiet and kind, they say.\n\nAt the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child.\n\nAlthough the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett.\n\nThey hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. \"Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill,\" says Jena Baumli.\n\nThe murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents.\n\nFor one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here.\n\n\"I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten,\" says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000.\n\n\"She always wanted to be a mom,\" says Baumli. \"She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.\"\n\nBecause of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie,\" Morrow says.\n\nBut what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation.\n\nNodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way.\n\n\"The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room,\" he says. \"And then go, 'Look at this body'. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. This is the stuff of nightmares.\"\n\nMany of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer.\n\nShe had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner.\n\nDr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to.\n\n\"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way,\" she says. \"We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Lisa Montgomery is no different. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.\"\n\nThe baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery.\n\nBobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be.\n\n\"I cried,\" says Strong. \"The whole community over there's traumatised by this.\"\n\nSchool friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. She missed the funeral because of it.\n\n\"Let's say I didn't stay clean very long,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. And it's never about what my friend went through,\" she adds. \"I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.\"\n\nThree federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when.\n\nUntil July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years.\n\nProtest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020\n\nTwo other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff.\n\n\"They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to,\" says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.\"\n\nMontgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days.\n\nMattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house.\n\n\"If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?\" she says. \"There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.\"", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "There are concerns about the cost of education for families reliant on mobile connections\n\nCustomers using BT Mobile, EE, and Plusnet Mobile can use BBC Bitesize content from the end of January without eating into their data allowance.\n\nBitesize provides structured lessons in maths and English for all year groups, as well as offering other curriculum material.\n\nContent from other providers is likely to be made free in the coming days.\n\nMore mobile companies are expected to follow suit in making such content free to use.\n\nThe current UK lockdowns mean most children are now learning from home.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has mandated that schools must provide between three and five hours of online content per day.\n\nThis has led to concerns that children in families without access to broadband could fall behind.\n\nSchools remain open for children classed as vulnerable and those whose parents are key workers.\n\nAll contract and pay-as-you-go customers of BT Mobile, EE and Plusnet Mobile will be eligible and the free package will continue while schools remain closed. No registration is required - the free access will happen automatically.\n\nBT has also asked the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to each suggest one online resource for schoolchildren in its regions, which it will also zero-rate, as the curriculums differ from English schools.\n\nAccording to UK media watchdog Ofcom, some 880,000 families are reliant solely on mobile connections, and many of those will have data limitations.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"With the pandemic forcing schools to close again, we should not allow a lack of digital access to further impact children's education.\n\n\"The BBC will continue to do all we can to ensure every child, whatever their circumstances, can continue to access vital educational materials during this time.\"\n\nThe corporation is also running three hours of curriculum-based TV programmes alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources. Primary school programming will be on CBBC, with two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular TV channels, although viewers in Scotland did have some programming.\n\nBT said the move was part of its wider Lockdown Learning programme.\n\nBT consumer brands chief executive Marc Allera said: \"We want to ensure that no child is left behind in their education as a result of this pandemic and recognise that we all have a role we can play to help families and carers continue their children's education while schools are closed.\"", "Kay and Kenneth Hayward said they felt the journey was too unsafe\n\nPeople waiting to receive the Covid-19 vaccine say they are confused by NHS letters inviting them to travel to centres miles away from their homes.\n\nThe first 130,000 letters have been sent to people aged 80 or older who live about 30 to 45 minutes' drive away from one of seven new regional centres.\n\nBut patients, many of whom are shielding, questioned why they had to travel so far in a pandemic.\n\nLocal jabs are available to people if they wait, the NHS said.\n\nThe seven centres include Ashton Gate in Bristol, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, London's Nightingale hospital, Newcastle's Centre for Life, the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre, Robertson House in Stevenage and Birmingham's Millennium Point.\n\nPeople will not miss out on their vaccination if they do not use the letters to make an appointment at one of the centres, the NHS said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs tweeted about their concerns about the letters being delayed in getting out to people due to coronavirus affecting Royal Mail staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hancock: We are willing to tighten the rules\n\nThe health secretary stresses the importance of the public following the restrictions of the current lockdown. Asked by Emily Morgan of ITV whether it was time to make the rules stricter amid reports of people not sticking to them at the weekend, Matt Hancock says: \"We keep these things under review and we have demonstrated that we're willing to tighten the rules if they need to be tightened. \"But the thing that really matters right here, right now is that everybody follows the rules as they are today. \"And everybody can play their part in doing that.\" He adds he applauds the action supermarket Morrisons has taken in enforcing the wearing of masks by its customers unless they have a medical reason. \"I want to see all parts of society playing their part in this,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Whitty: \"We need to really double down – this is everybody’s problem\"\n\nThe UK will go through the \"most dangerous time\" of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others.\n\nThe next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS, he said.\n\nThousands more people are due to receive a vaccine this week after seven mass centres opened across England.\n\nNHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the government's vaccine delivery plan at a news conference later.\n\nHe said the proposals would be the \"keystone of our exit out of the pandemic\".\n\nOutlining the vaccine rollout in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that ministers aim to give all over-80s the first dose of the vaccine over the next four weeks.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans to offer a vaccine to all over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk by spring.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday about two million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nOver the weekend, the UK passed the milestone of 80,000 deaths with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.\n\nCurrently, around one in 50 people across the UK is infected and Prof Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There's a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily they will have Covid.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC One's Breakfast, he said: \"This is everybody's problem. Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person.\"\n\nHe said there were over 30,000 people [in English hospitals alone] with Covid-19 - compared to about 18,000 [in England] at the peak last April.\n\nHe added that \"anybody who is not shocked\" by the number of people in hospital \"has not understood this at all\".\n\n\"This is an appalling situation,\" he said.\n\nIn Essex, Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount of oxygen used to treat patients after supply \"reached a critical situation\", according to a document shared with the BBC.\n\nIn Surrey, a temporary mortuary has been opened as hospital mortuaries have reached capacity.\n\nAlmost 200 bodies are being stored at the emergency site, which is a former military hospital, and other local authorities have told the BBC they expect to open similar facilities soon.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England national medical director, said \"this is much bigger than the first wave back in April\".\n\n\"I don't think anyone in the NHS has known anything like this, this is a once-in-a-century pandemic,\" he said.\n\nProf Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor, told BBC Breakfast that in a \"normal\" winter it would be \"unlikely\" that more than three of four flu patients would need intensive care at any one time, but his unit is now running 130 intensive care beds because of the effects of Covid.\n\n\"To compare this to a normal winter flu epidemic is out of all proportion, it's orders of magnitude larger,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters held two meetings on Sunday to discuss how to enforce the current lockdown measures more strictly and whether even tighter restrictions may be needed.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said no decisions on further restrictions were taken as there was a desire within government to wait until reliable data on existing measures becomes available in 10 days.\n\nHowever, he added there had been a discussion on better enforcement of existing regulations, including at shops and workplaces.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said \"we need to see the evidence behind nurseries\" remaining open.\n\nAsked whether tighter restrictions were needed, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThere is a lot of debate about whether the lockdown restrictions need to be tightened.\n\nThere are certainly some anomalies. For example, we are told to only leave the home for essential purposes, but coffee shops remain open for takeaways and retail shops for click-and-collect in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, even if those elements are tightened up, there is a limit to what the government can do. It is why, in his round of media interviews on Monday, Prof Whitty repeatedly talked about individual decision-making.\n\nThe mixing of different households continues. Some of it is allowed under the support bubble exemptions, but undoubtedly some of it is taking place outside of this. It is, after all, virtually impossible to police what goes on in people's homes.\n\nIt is why messaging is so important - and so ministers and officials are stressing the pressure the NHS is under. A further tightening of the restrictions could also help make the point.\n\nBut there is also a recognition this is hard. People are fatigued. A further crackdown could also erode goodwill.\n\nThe vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history.\n\nThe seven mass testing sites, which NHS England said were chosen to give a geographical spread, are:\n\nThe new centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of vaccinations each week and will be followed by \"dozens more\" large-scale sites, NHS England said.\n\nThere will be about 1,200 vaccination sites when more GP-led and hospital services open later this week, along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites, it added.\n\nSome vulnerable people have questioned why they have been asked to travel to centres miles away from their homes during a pandemic, but the NHS has said people would not miss out on their vaccination if they wait for an appointment at a centre closer to home in the coming weeks.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said nobody should be asked to travel more than 10 miles to get a vaccine once more centres open.\n\nAsked on Today why the centres were not open 24 hours a day, he said it was \"more convenient\" for older people to attend during the day.\n\n\"If we need to go to 24-hour work we will absolutely go to 24 hours a day to make sure we vaccinate as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are limited by the amount of vaccine that is coming through the system.\"\n\nPharmaceutical firm Boots said its first vaccination site was due to open later this week to offer the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to the people most vulnerable.\n\nIt said sites in Huddersfield and Gloucester were planned to open in the coming weeks.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nAre you due to have a vaccination today? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.\n\nThe Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.\n\nThe new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.\n\nIn its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.\n\nHis team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.\n\nDonald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.\n\nMr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant \"the administration will have to start from zero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.\n\nIn that post it said: \"These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,\" without a reason why.\n\nBut it said that people who previously followed the official @POTUS and @VP (Vice-President) accounts, or the personal accounts of Mr Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris - would receive notifications giving them the option to follow the new official ones.\n\nMr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.\n\nAt the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.\n\nAll of Mr Obama's official tweets were archived for posterity on a separate account, @POTUS44 (where they can still be read today).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by President Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.\n\nTwitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.\n\nThat is despite a declaration by the White House in 2017 that tweets from that account are considered official statements by the President.\n\nHowever, the US National Archives has already announced - through a tweet - that it will archive all social media content from that account, despite Twitter's lack of a commitment to doing so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by US National Archives\n\nIt said that the White House has been using a special archiving tool to capture all content, including deleted tweets, because of the Presidential Records Act.\n\nThat is likely to result in a record system similar to The Obama White House Social Media Archive, built after the last transition.\n\nA key goal of the Obama transition was to preserve social media posts \"on the platforms where they were created\".\n\nBut Twitter has permanently suspended Mr Trump from its platform and it remains unclear if it will ever archive his account for posterity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThe hills are alive: This impressive shot of 11-year-old Hamish at sunrise up the Pentland Hills, with the snow starting to be blown off the peak, was captured by dad Andy Dryden.\n\nMinus coo degrees: \"Hardy Highlander at Abriachan\" is how Gordon Bain described his photo.\n\nRed sky thinking: \"I always walk the dog to catch the sunrise and to gather my thoughts before attempting to juggle home schooling of my two primary school kids with working from home and looking after a toddler\", says Mairi Brittan at Cammo Estate, Edinburgh.\n\nRobin red brrr-east: Graham Laird spotted a little feathered friend not looking entirely delighted while taking a breather in the cold in his garden in Wishaw.\n\nUp at the crack of dawn: \"The Beveridge Park pond in Kirkcaldy looking rather icy\", says John Pow.\n\nAn uphill struggle: It's all downhill from here - but in a fun way - for three-year-old Zachary in King's Park, Glasgow.\n\nFire and ice: \"Taken at Dunbar harbour, East Lothian, in the snowfall on the way to work\", says Rowan Davies.\n\nAbbey thoughts: \"Jedburgh Abbey on a crisp January morning\", says Alan Morrison. \"The sun was captured just as it shone through\".\n\nSon rise: Jeanette Taylor says her two boys loved the adventure of getting up early to see the sun come up at Aberdeen beach. \"A chilly visit but oh so worth it\", she says.\n\nLight on her feet: \"As keen figure skaters my daughter Ada (pictured) and I have had an amazing week skating outdoors on our local frozen pond near Glasgow\", says Helen Campbell. \"I was very careful to check it is safe to skate on first; the ice was absolutely solid\".\n\nFlagging up a beautiful sunrise: An Aberdeen morning, from Finlay Gray.\n\nWell-trained eye: \"My husband Kris took this picture of our 12-year-old son Finlay at our local running track in a Falkirk park with the Ochils in the background\", says Emma Horne. \"Finlay can’t play his beloved rugby at the moment due to Covid but is keeping as fit as he can in other ways\".\n\nA strange light in the sky: Joe Gillies captured this Glasgow scene, complete with reflected light shade, on his phone.\n\nSmiles more fun: First sledging experience for the happy pair of 16-month-old Annabel and 21-month-old Hugh in granny's garden, Isle of Skye, courtesy of Hermione Lamond.\n\nThe gloves are off: \"A walk up Culter Fell (near Biggar), in near-Arctic conditions\", says Chris Green.\n\nPark life: Mark McGuire captured Queen's Park in Glasgow looking like a winter wonderland.\n\nSpecial branch: \"I have seen the Kingfisher darting by on the River Carron over the last two years\", says Paul Ross. \"This is the first time I have managed to get a sharpish image\".\n\nTrees frame: Carole Brunton captured this calming, if cold, scene at home in East Neuk, Fife.\n\nCold feet: \"A coot on one of Dundee's frozen Stobsmuir ponds\", from Sandy Forbes.\n\nHaving the foggiest idea: \"An image of atmospheric fog as it envelops Paisley\", says Gary Chittick. \"Hardly a single recognisable part of Glasgow could be seen\".\n\nSniffer dog: \"Ollie, our 12-week-old cockapoo pup, experiences snow for the first time\" says Iain Clow. \"Lockdown garden fun in East Kilbride\".\n\n... and it seems they never learn! \"Zizou enjoying his sunny snowy morning walk at the river Spey in Knockando\", says Colin Coutts.\n\nI love Arran: \"My wife and I stopped at the top of Fairlie Moor Road, looked back, and this is what we saw\", explains Phil Cowling.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Look who we spotted on our walk\", says Ruth Moss. \"He was very bold - wish we’d had something to feed him\".\n\nWatercolour art: \"This is a photo of the Ythan in the centre of Ellon\", says Andy Leonard. \"The colour of the sky is reflected in the water - I used a slow shutter speed to emphasise the water movement.\"\n\nHatman and robin: \"After an overnight fall of snow, Frosty and his friendly robin return to a Glasgow garden\", says John McQueeney.\n\nSmall wonder: \"These mini snowmen on the Prince of Wales Bridge in Kelvingrove Park brightened up a dull and foggy day\", says Geoff Der.\n\nOne man and his dog: \"Snowy walk with my husband and rescue dog Nico\", says Laura Johnstone in Airdrie.\n\nSpot the ball: \"Haggs Castle golf course is closed - maybe!\", says Alan Crozier.\n\nSolar energy: Robert Young's sunset shot from Chapelton looking towards Whitelee wind farm features all sorts of power.\n\nTwo for the price of one: \"Duck!\" could have been the cry from this heron in flight over a fellow bird at the River Avon, Hamilton, as seen by Wilma Phillips.\n\nRoom with a view: A nicely-framed sunset from Audrey Philpott of Skene, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBonnie picture: Sharon Donald was walking Bonnie the collie when she took this shot near Spean Bridge.\n\nKeep it in the family: Derek Warrander making sure lockdown learning is music to the ears of Jessica, 11, and three-year-old Matthew in Aberdeenshire, courtesy of Caseydee Warrander.\n\nFeeling on top of the world: The Cobbler sunset, from Tomasz Zajac.\n\nIce to see you: \"A photo of my husband, Stephen, and Sophie, through a sheet of ice which they then had great fun smashing\", says Leigh Titterington in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire.\n\nSpace station: All quiet outside Glasgow Central, courtesy of Eva Brodie.\n\nSnow angel: \"Exploring a winter wonderland with my daughter Cora at Tyrebagger woods just outside Aberdeen\", says Katherine Blum.\n\nTaps aff: \"Hope this brings a smile to your face\", says Stewart Paul in Cruden Bay. It certainly did!\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Doctors fear the impact of the lockdown and school closures could worsen child obesity\n\nThe health board with the worst child obesity rates in Wales is setting up a unit to tackle the issue.\n\nData from the Child Measurement Programme showed 30.3% of four and five-year-olds in north Wales measured as overweight or obese.\n\nThe Welsh average is 26.4%, but doctors fear this could worsen in the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is recruiting a dietetic lead for a new children's healthy weight management service.\n\nThe service is not being launched directly because of the pandemic, but there are fears lockdowns and school closures could compound the problem.\n\nDr Naomi Simmons, consultant paediatrician at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"I do fear that the pandemic will contribute to an exacerbation of what's already a really, really significant problem.\n\n\"Whilst we're pleased that children are not suffering the acute effects of Covid in the same way as older patients are, on the whole, it's the long-term effects of the country being in this pandemic that we're worried about in terms of the long-term health of these children.\n\n\"It's that lack of routine, it's being out of school, and not being able to access their usual forms of physical activity.\"\n\nDaniel, from Denbighshire - not his real name - is the father of a six-year-old girl who was referred to Dr Simmons's clinic when a GP became concerned about her weight two years ago. She is still under the care of the clinic.\n\nHe said: \"We presumed we were feeding her correctly. She was getting fruit, veg, home-cooked meals. But I think our issue was, we kind of let her have treats, like chocolates and sweets.\n\n\"To be told the news [that she was obese], it was horrible. We were very upset. We were kind of angry about it - we didn't see a problem in her, we didn't believe she was overweight or obese. We were both asking what we had done wrong as parents - we gave her fruit, vegetables, home-cooked meals... we were asking ourselves, 'how have we failed as parents?'\"\n\nWith support from Dr Simmons, his daughter made \"great progress\" and lost weight, he said. Previous signs of health issues such as liver problems had improved. Then the pandemic struck and the country went into its first lockdown, followed by the firebreak, then the current lockdown.\n\nExperts said they feared the impact of children not being able to take part in their usual physical activity\n\nDespite making efforts to keep active and eat healthily, Daniel has seen the gradual effects on his daughter, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"It had a bad effect on her, and not just the weight - mental health-wise it's also affected her. She's six years old and is worried about being around other people in the street,\" he said.\n\n\"In years to come, Covid will be gone, we'll have control of it. But obesity, that's the issue that's going to be prolonged.\n\n\"The long-term mental health impact really scares me - not just for my daughter, but for so many other children.\"\n\nDr Simmons said increasing rates of childhood obesity in recent years meant experts were treating more children with conditions normally associated with adults.\n\n\"Even children as young as primary school age, I'm seeing those children with fatty liver changes for example, as a result of their obesity. We're seeing them with high blood pressure and we're seeing children and young people developing type 2 diabetes and many more with pre-diabetic states because of their obesity.\"\n\nDoctors said they were seeing primary school children with high blood pressure\n\nShe revealed her youngest patient was only a year old and encouraged families to get their children \"used to being fit and healthy and consuming a healthy diet\".\n\n\"It's lack of exercise, it's the sedentary lifestyle that we as a nation are sadly embracing these days,\" she added.\n\nIf children remain overweight and remain obese into adolescence, they have an 80% chance of being obese into adulthood, said Dr Simmons.\n\nShe said she hoped the new service would give \"the very best chance of turning things around\".\n\nSteven Grayston, Betsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant area director of therapy services, said the health board had been working for the past five years to develop its obesity services.\n\n\"This is a specialist weight management service for children who are already obese,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to stop them becoming obese, therefore we want to develop preventative services as well as treatment services.\n\n\"We're very concerned about the impact of Covid and the pandemic on children's activity levels, certainly in terms of team-based sports and access to leisure facilities - particularly things like swimming, which we know children enjoy.\n\n\"We're concerned that children just aren't getting out of the house and doing things, and the impact that'll have and the knock-on effect on obesity levels in the future, as children are just less active and less interested in doing those activities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will shortly be publishing a revised delivery plan for Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales for 2021-22, which will focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children and families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK meat exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs systems are \"not fit for purpose\", with goods delayed for hours, sometimes days, at the border.\n\nThe British Meat Processor Association said even experienced exporters were struggling with the system.\n\nIt said meat exports to the EU were 25% of normal levels for this time of year.\n\nOne large French meat importer told the BBC that he and his competitors were starting to look at alternative suppliers in Spain and Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"Fundamentally, this is not a system that was designed for a 24/7, just-in-time supply chain.\n\n\"The export health certification process was designed for moving containers of frozen meat around the world where you have a bit of leeway on time.\n\n\"No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age.\"\n\nHe added \"It's going to be a problem for quite a time until we move forward and hopefully get a better digital system in place and can make it work a bit better, but until then, we've got to put up with all this paperwork and lorries arriving in Ireland with box files full of paper.\"\n\nRizvan Khalid, a lamb exporter based in Shropshire, cannot afford to get the paperwork wrong.\n\nHis company, Euro Quality Lambs, exports 70% of its meat to the EU, including France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. He says what was once a once well-oiled machine now has a spanner in it.\n\n\"What used to take us 15 minutes is now taking us three or four hours on average before we can get the paperwork completed for one particular load,\" he says.\n\n\"It's taking them [on the French side] up to six hours to go through the health certificates, to open up the lorry and check the goods.\n\n\"All of that is adding time and costs. It's now an extra day before our product gets into the markets of Paris.\"\n\nMeanwhile, some buyers in the EU are losing patience and are beginning to consider other options.\n\nFrancis Ochoa's meat company, Fory Viandes, is based in one of the world's biggest fresh produce markets - the Rungis market, south of Paris.\n\n\"The delays and extra costs mean me and my competitors in the market are obliged to start looking for other solutions,\" he says.\n\n\"One of the solutions unfortunately is to try produce from other countries, Spain for instance. Some of our competitors are ordering lambs from Ireland instead of the UK, so the consequences for UK meat and UK lambs could be disastrous.\"\n\nDown at the international freight checkpoint in Ashford, near the entrance to the Eurotunnel, customs consultant Steve Cocks gave a downbeat assessment.\n\n\"The temporary border post lorry park is full, roads are being closed off and lorries are being sent back to the Covid testing site to hold them there,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week wasn't much to write home about as it was very quiet, but volumes are building and it's just going to get worse. Exports are grinding to a halt and that will affect imports, but if you are a haulier. you don't want to get a lorry stuck on this side of the Channel.\"\n\nAfter decades of friction-free trade, there are bound to be teething problems. Indeed, the government predicted that there would be \"significant additional disruption\" as traders, officials and customers became accustomed to new procedures.\n\nHowever, some things cannot \"bed in\" and will become permanent features. HMRC estimates the additional cost to UK business of bog-standard customs declarations alone at £7bn.\n\nWhen buyers and sellers want to trade, they will find a way, but significant additional cost and complexity is here to stay.", "Patients have been arriving in a steady flow at a community pharmacy in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, the first in Wales to offer coronavirus vaccines by appointment.\n\nRosie Bennett, who lives in the village Pwllheli, said: “I’m 82 and don’t have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n“Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They’ve been doing a great job during the pandemic and it’s reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\n\n“And it’s a huge relief to be vaccinated. The last few months haven’t been easy for any of us and hopefully today is another small step towards a better future.”\n\nSteffan John, pharmacist on duty, gave Rosie the vaccine and said: “as pharmacists, we give out flu vaccines regularly, so we’re used to organising clinics like this.\n\n“We’re really pleased to do our bit for our community.\n\n“We have had extra training for today, and we also have to make sure there are enough appointments on the list.\n\n\"The vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, so it’s important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any.”", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that his department is planning to dilute UK workers' rights.\n\nIt comes after the Financial Times said some protections brought in under EU law - such as the 48-hour limit on the working week - could be scrapped.\n\nNew rules on rest breaks and changes to how holiday pay is calculated from overtime could be proposed, it added.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng insisted he wanted to \"protect and enhance workers' rights going forward, not row back on them\".\n\nIn a social media post, he said that the UK \"has one of the best workers' rights records in the world - going further than the EU in many areas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour said the newspaper report suggested the government was out of step with public feeling on workplace rules.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"These proposals are not about cutting red tape for businesses but ripping up vital rights for workers. They should not even be up for discussion.\"\n\nThe FT said the proposals were being drawn up with the approval of Downing Street, but that they hadn't yet been approved by ministers or cabinet.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights.\n\n\"The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world, and it is well known that the UK goes further than the EU in many areas.\n\n\"Leaving the EU allows us to continue to be a standard setter and protect and enhance UK workers' rights.\"\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it retained many of its laws, but it is now able to change them.\n\nOne aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive.\n\nIt governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime.\n\nBut employees can choose to opt out of the 48-hour week, if they often work overtime in roles in the emergency services, for example.\n\nIn the 2019 Queen's Speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, changes in employment law were promised.\n\nA new Employment Bill is expected to be published in 2021. One issue it is thought it will address is over the distribution of tips.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady urged the prime minister to \"make good on his promises to his voters\" on Friday.\n\n\"The best way to do that is to bring forward the long-awaited Employment Bill, to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America entering the UK has come into force, amid fears over a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Brazil. The ban also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - off West Africa - because of their links to Brazil, along with Panama in southern Central America. British and Irish citizens, and foreign nationals with residence rights, are exempt but must isolate for 10 days on entering the UK. Find out which other countries are subject to a UK travel ban.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as lockdown restrictions reduced economic activity, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The closure of businesses such as pubs, hairdressers and many shops meant the services sector shrank by 3.4%. The setback came after sixth consecutive months of growth, with the ONS saying UK gross domestic product at the end of November was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nConcerns over child poverty have been raised throughout the pandemic, with a focus on school food vouchers, holiday meal provision and food parcels. Now campaigning Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been joined by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and actress Dame Emma Thompson, in backing charities' calls for a review to \"fix\" the free school meals policy. Downing Street insists \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the pandemic.\n\nFalse claims are likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject Covid vaccines, warns a doctor leading an NHS campaign. Dr Harpreet Sood says much of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccines. \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities,\" he says.\n\nA surprise delivery of pizza from sixth-formers who clubbed together left staff at a hospital critical care unit \"lost for words\". Nurse Tina Waltho says the gift came as a welcome boost to deflated staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. \"The nurse who had been in charge on the day shift was in tears,\" Mrs Waltho says. \"She had barely eaten all day and was a little emotional.\" While the act drew praise on social media, the identity and school of the pupils remains a mystery.\n\nIf you're wondering how concerned we should be about the new virus variants, our health editor Michelle Roberts examines what we know so far.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The guitarist also contributed songwriting and piano to the band's explosive debut album\n\nSylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69.\n\nOne of the group's founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped kick-start the punk and new wave movements.\n\n\"As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,\" his wife, Wanda O'Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.\"\n\nSylvain's death leaves only one surviving member of the New York Dolls' original line-up from their 1973 debut album, frontman David Johansen. The singer posted his own tribute on Instagram.\n\n\"My best friend for so many years, I can still remember the first time I saw him bop into the rehearsal space/bicycle shop with his carpetbag and guitar straight from the plane after having been deported from Amsterdam, I instantly loved him,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss you old pal. I'll keep the home fires burning.\"\n\nThe New York Dolls bridged the gap between glam rock and punk\n\nBorn Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine's Day 1951, the musician lived in France as a child before moving to New York with his family.\n\nAfter playing in several bands as a teenager, he co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971, taking the name from a doll repair shop called the New York Doll Hospital (Sylvain had worked across the street before becoming a musician).\n\nLike the punk movement they helped inspire, the band wanted to shake up the self-indulgent state of 70s rock.\n\n\"The reason why the Dolls got together was because of the boredom with the norm of the day, which was like the stadium-rock era,\" Sylvain told Brooklyn Vegan in 2006. \"The 20-minute drum solos, songs that were a big operetta. They were sort of boring, they'd lost their sex appeal.\"\n\nThe Dolls cut through with urgent, punchy songs about sex, drugs, alienation and dysfunction.\n\nThe band's provocative and vulgar live shows gained them a huge following in New York, but many record labels were reluctant to sign them. That situation not helped by their androgynous look - shocking at the time - with their wardrobe sourced from cheap women's clothing stores on New York's Lower East Side.\n\nLate in 1972, tragedy struck when, during a tour of England, Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died in a drug-related accident. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan, after which the Dolls finally secured a contract with Mercury Records.\n\nTheir debut album, simply called New York Dolls, stalled at number 113 in the US chart but is now regarded as a classic, full of sleazy, raucous anthems like Personality Crisis and Trash.\n\nRolling Stone magazine recently named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing: \"Glammed-out punkers the New York Dolls snatched riffs from Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and fattened them with loads of attitude and reverb.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.\"\n\nSylvain worked in fashion before becoming a musician\n\nHowever, the band's lack of commercial success saw them dropped after two albums and, despite hiring Sex Pistols guru Malcolm McLaren as a manager, eventually fell apart.\n\nOutside the Dolls, Sylvain toured and recorded with several bands and led various solo projects as his former band's reputation grew.\n\nArtists from the Sex Pistols to Guns N' Roses cited them as an influence, and Morrissey was famously president of their UK fan club before forming The Smiths. In 2004, the singer reunited his idols for a show at London's Meltdown Festival, adding an unexpected second act to their career.\n\nOver the subsequent decade, Sylvain and Johansen, the only remaining members, released three well-received albums.\n\nIn 2019, Sylvain announced his cancer diagnosis, and a GoFundMe was set up to pay his medical bills, raising $79,500 (£58,000).\n\nThe band are cited as an influence by hundreds of musicians\n\nGuitarist Lenny Kaye, best known for playing with Patti Smith, paid tribute to Sylvain's \"heart, belief, and the way you whacked that E chord\".\n\n\"His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.\n\n\"His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision.\n\n\"Though he tried valiantly to keep the band going, in the end the Dolls' moral fable overwhelmed them, not before seeding an influence that would engender many rock generations yet to come.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nLike variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.\n\nVirologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK.\n\nHowever, she said this was not \"the variant of concern\", which is thought to be more infectious.\n\nProf Barclay, head of G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, which is studying the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Brazilian variant of concern was not \"as far as we are aware\" already in the UK, adding that he did not believe there had been any flights from Brazil in the last week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nLatest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have received the first dose of a vaccine is now approaching three million.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nIt also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nBrazil has seen more than 200,000 deaths and there is concern about the impact the new mutation could have on its health system.\n\nHowever, the UK's travel ban was prompted by fears of how quickly the new variant could spread through the region - since Brazil borders 10 countries.\n\nMr Shapps has said the ban is \"precautionary\", adding he \"can't provide an end date\" to the new rules.\n\n\"We're so close now, we've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in the UK,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We want to make sure we don't fall at this last hurdle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause holidays are not currently allowed, Mr Shapps said he did not \"expect a large number of Brits to have jaunted off to South America\", and the government was \"not expecting to see a big repatriation issue as a result\".\n\nOne family, who live in Wolverhampton, told the BBC they feared being stuck out in Brazil.\n\n\"I don't know if the government will organise flights,\" said Jon Dent, 31. He and his wife Carla travelled to the Brazilian city of Goiania in October to introduce their baby daughter to Carla's family.\n\n\"I think it's a long shot,\" he said. \"I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months. We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"\n\nJon, pictured here with wife Carla and daughter Luiza, said his initial reaction to the news was worry\n\nMany countries imposed travel restrictions after new variants of Covid-19 were identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nSeveral Central and South American nations - including Brazil - had already restricted travel from the UK before the latest ban on arrivals.\n\nThere is currently no evidence to suggest that any of the variants cause more serious illness, and scientists are confident that vaccines should work against them.\n\nAccording to Felipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the Brazilian state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the new variant's origin was \"undoubtedly\" from the Amazon region.\n\nHe told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson the new variant showed some of the same mutations as the UK and South Africa variants - and \"some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern\".\n\nMr Shapps also announced Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were being removed from the UK's travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from those places will need to self-isolate for 10 days from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, France has cracked down on the type of tests that travellers can take to show they are negative.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers will need to show a negative PCR test. Antigen tests - which are the rapid lateral flow tests - will no longer be accepted.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said arrangements allowing hauliers to use rapid lateral flow tests before crossing the border from the UK into France remained in place at the moment.\n\nFrom Monday, everyone travelling to England and Scotland will also have to show proof of a negative test. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the travel ban? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un has been overseeing a huge military showcase broadcast by state media in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nSeveral of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.\n\nThe weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.\n\nThe show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.\n\nIt also follows a rare political meeting where Mr Kim decried the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\".\n\nImages released by North Korean state media showed at least four large black-and-white missiles being driven past flag-waving crowds.\n\nAnalysts noted it was a previously unseen weapon. \"New year, new Pukguksong,\" tweeted North Korea expert Ankit Panda, using the North Korean name for their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).\n\nClad in a leather coat and fur hat, Mr Kim is pictured smiling and waving as he watched the display in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, which also included infantry troops, artillery and tanks.\n\nThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting\n\n\"The world's most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,\" the official Korean Central News Agency said.\n\nThe event on Thursday did not showcase North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October. That colossal weapon is believed to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the US, and its size had surprised even seasoned analysts when it was put on show last year.\n\nThe country's latest display of its arsenal comes at the end of a five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party.\n\nIn his address to members last week, Mr Kim had pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons and military potential, outlining a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nHe also said that the US was Pyongyang's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change\".\n\nUnder Mr Kim's leadership North Korea has made rapid progress in its weapons programme, which it says is necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.\n\nThe unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North's growing military prowess, say experts.\n\n\"They'd like us to notice that they're getting more proficient with larger solid rocket boosters,\" Mr Panda tweeted, noting what appeared to be new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles on display too. These missiles can be launched more quickly than liquid-fuelled varieties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nOver the last four years, Pyongyang has had an erratic relationship with the US under President Donald Trump's administration. Mr Kim and Mr Trump engaged in mutual insults and threats of war before an unprecedented summit in Singapore in 2018 and declarations of love by the outgoing US leader.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme and a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 broke down after the US refused Pyongyang's demands for sanctions relief.\n\nKim Jong-un has had a busy week. In this rare party congress at the start of a new year he's earned a new title, pledged to build new nuclear weapons and now he's shown the world some new missiles.\n\nThe general secretary, the title posthumously awarded to his father by which he is now known, had been pretty quiet in 2020 and appeared very few times in state media.\n\nBut 2021 is looking rather different. The party congress has offered him a grand daily domestic platform - even if it is not getting the international attention it may have done due to events in the United States and a global pandemic.\n\nThe parading vehicles include a new submarine-launched ballistic missile and new short-range ballistic missiles. This is a show of strength - flexing the military muscle once more to show the people of North Korea that despite the current bleak economic outlook, this impoverished country is capable of designing and building new strategic weapons.\n\nIt also offers a direct challenge to the incoming US administration.\n\nNorth Korea appears willing to continue with its self-imposed isolation and being subject to strict economic sanctions, and the state has vowed to continue to build nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.\n\nDuring the transfer of power, President Obama told Donald Trump that North Korea should be his top national security concern.\n\nIn the last four years a combination of US and UN sanctions, so-called \"maximum pressure\" policies and three summits between Mr Trump and Mr Kim have done nothing to alleviate those concerns.\n\nKim Jong-un has shown the new US president this week that he faces the daunting prospect of coming up with new solutions for this decades-old problem.", "Craig Ross had been quoted making comments about food bank users on a podcast\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have dropped a Holyrood candidate over what they called \"unacceptable comments\".\n\nCraig Ross recorded a podcast last year in which he described food bank users as being more at risk of diabetes than starvation.\n\nHe also questioned the influence footballer Marcus Rashford has on UK government welfare policy.\n\nThe Conservatives suspended Mr Ross, then later announced he was \"no longer a candidate or a member of the party\".\n\nThe party had launched an investigation after the comments came to light, saying: \"These unacceptable comments do not reflect the views of the party.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf had called for Mr Ross to be thrown out the party and dropped as the Conservative candidate in Glasgow Pollok.\n\nThe Holyrood elections are due to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Ross, a former lecturer at Langside College, runs a podcast in which he delivers reaction to pieces in The Guardian newspaper \"from the centre-right\".\n\nIn one episode recorded in June 2020, Mr Ross talked about the percentage of body fat of \"ordinary people\".\n\nOriginally reported in the Daily Record, his comments were in response to a Channel 4 News piece featuring foodbanks.\n\nHe said: \"We have no real grasp of just how ridiculously overweight the population is.\n\n\"I'm not saying that every single person who claims to be really hungry and is reliant on charity is also very overweight.\n\n\"But what I am saying is if Channel 4 News is having a reasonable go at showing the reality of food bank usage, then we know the people that they filmed are far from starving. If anything their biggest risk is not starvation, it's diabetes.\"\n\nOn Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has called on Boris Johnson to review the UK government's free school meals policy, Mr Ross said: \"Has Marcus Rashford stood for election to anything? Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The government is assessing the impact of a \"technical issue\" that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.\n\nThe error, first reported in the Times, saw data including fingerprint, DNA and arrest histories wiped after being accidentally flagged for deletion.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut Labour said it presented \"huge dangers\" for public safety.\n\nThe data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.\n\nIt is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nA coding error resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nThe data loss could hinder future police investigations because the fingerprint or DNA evidence would not be able to be cross-checked against evidence from other crime scenes.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\" - with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\n\"While the loss relates to individuals who were arrested and then released with no further action, I have asked officials and the police to confirm their initial assessment that there is no threat to public safety,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated.\n\nThe loss of the data means that officers on the ground may get an incomplete search result when interrogating the system.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\n\"She must urgently make a statement about what has gone wrong, the extent of the issue, and what action is being taken to reassure the public. Answers must be given.\"\n\n\"This is an extraordinarily serious security breach that presents huge dangers for public safety.\"\n\nFormer Cumbria Police chief constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nHe said: \"In order to understand the scale, if you think that about between 6-700,000 people are arrested every year in the UK, that's a very large proportion of those people.\"\n\nIt comes after around 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the same database, the PNC, following Britain's post-Brexit deal with the EU.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's likely there are variants all over the world - Vallance\n\nITV's Libby Wiener asks if the move to put restrictions in at the borders is too late. The PM says the government is taking steps to protect against the new variants. \"We have a situation now where we have a very high rate of domestic infection in the UK combined with a vaccination programme,\" he says. \"There will come a point in the next weeks and months where the vaccination programme will take effect... and you will see a decline in the death rate. \"What you can't have is a situation where you have new variants with unknown qualities coming in from abroad and that's why we have set up the system to stop arrivals where new variants are a concern.\" Sir Patrick Vallance says the virus is changing all the time and he suspects there are variants \"all over the world of different types\". \"The countries which have detected them first have got good sequencing,\" he says.", "The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as England was placed in lockdown for a second time, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it meant gross domestic product was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nNovember's decline came after six consecutive months of growth.\n\nPubs and hairdressers were badly hit as the service sector suffered, the ONS said, but some manufacturing and construction activity improved.\n\nThe hit to the service sector - which accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy - meant it contracted by 3.4% in November, and is now 9.9% below the level of February 2020.\n\nSome economists said the November figure was better than expected, and it appeared many companies were better prepared for the second lockdown, with some sectors staying open for business and many firms having already put in place plans to expand online operations.\n\n\"Steps taken by businesses earlier in the year to Covid-proof their operations - combined with the time-limited nature of the restrictions, and schools remaining open - meant more companies were able to continue trading safely,\" said Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI employers' group.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed \"it's clear things will get harder before they get better and today's figures highlight the scale of the challenge we face\".\n\nBut he said the vaccine roll-out and economic support measures meant there were reasons to be hopeful. \"With this support, and the resilience and enterprise of the British people, we will get through this,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the figures showed the UK has an economic \"mountain to climb\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said it would be a \"serious mistake\" if Mr Sunak waited until the Budget in March before providing more support and confidence for business.\n\nONS director for economic statistics Darren Morgan said: \"The economy took a hit from restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic during November, with pubs and hairdressers seeing the biggest impact.\"\n\nHowever, he said many firms adjusted to the new pandemic working conditions, such as by expanding click and collect and other online operations.\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturing and construction generally continued to operate, while schools also stayed open, meaning the impact on the economy was significantly smaller in November than during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Car manufacturing, bolstered by demand from abroad, housebuilding and infrastructure grew and are now all above their pre-pandemic levels.\" Construction activity grew by 1.9% during the month.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) is the sum (measured in pounds) of the value of goods and services produced in the economy.\n\nBut the measurement most people focus on is the percentage change - the growth of the country's economy over a period of time, typically a quarter (three months) or a year.\n\nIf the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. That generally means more wealth and more new jobs.\n\nIf it is negative, the economy is shrinking.\n\nDespite the GDP figure being better than some analysts had forecast, there are still concerns that the UK could be heading back into recession.\n\nEconomists have warned the UK could see a double-dip recession if restrictions remain in place in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, \"despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first\".\n\nJames Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.\n\nBut, he said, the real \"story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure\".\n\n\"The chancellor must do everything he can to support that recovery once public health restrictions ease,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics also said there was cause for optimism, saying that the current third lockdown could have less impact than feared.\n\n\"The economy has built up a fair bit of immunity to lockdowns, as November's lockdown was much less painful for the economy than the first lockdown.\n\n\"As a result, the Covid-19 economic hole is smaller than we thought, the economy may get back to its pre-crisis crisis level a bit sooner and it makes us more confident that the Bank of England probably won't resort to negative interest rates.\"\n\nThe fall in the economy in November was still considerable, but the figures show businesses adapting to difficult conditions. The hit was a fraction of what occurred in the first lockdown last April, and was mainly confined to the service sector, with pubs and hairdressing for example in sharp decline.\n\nManufacturing and construction largely remained open, as did previously shut public services such as schools. By November car manufacturing and house building were back above the level of output before the pandemic.\n\nThe trade figures also showed a £7bn increase in EU imports in the three months to November as traders stockpiled car parts, medicines and other goods ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe renewed regional tiered restrictions in December, and more severe national lockdowns this month, still indicate a possible return to overall recession in this tough winter.\n\nBusiness groups continue to argue that extra support is required to support jobs and cash flow well before the Budget in March. But a more sustained lifting of restrictions as vaccines are rolled out should see growth return after the spring.", "Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures.\n\nWhen Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour.\n\nNow a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental health problems.\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nFake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was \"a big concern\" and officials were working \"to correct so much fake news\".\n\nHe said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information.\n\nA GP in the West Midlands told the BBC some of her South Asian patients had refused the vaccine when offered it.\n\nDr Sood, from NHS England, said officials were working with South Asian role models, influencers, community leaders and religious leaders to help debunk myths about the vaccine.\n\nMuch of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.\"\n\n\"We're trying to find role models and influencers and also thinking about ordinary citizens who need to be quick with this information so that they can all support one another because ultimately everyone is a role model to everyone\", he added.\n\n\"There's a big piece of work happening where we're translating information, we're making sure the look and feel of it reaches the populations that matter.\"\n\nSome of the disinformation seen by the BBC on social media and on WhatsApp is religiously targeted. Messages falsely claim the vaccines contain animal produce - eating pork goes against the religious beliefs of Muslims, as does eating beef for Hindus.\n\nDr Samara Afzal has been vaccinating people in Dudley, West Midlands. She said: \"We've been calling all patients and booking them in for vaccines but the admin staff say when they call a lot of the South Asian patients they decline and refuse to have the vaccination.\n\n\"Also talking to friends and family have found the same. I've had friends calling me telling me to convince their parents or their grandparents to have the vaccination because other family members have convinced them not to have it\".\n\nWe need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders\n\nReena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she's been bombarded with false information.\n\n\"Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,\" she said.\n\n\"For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow - and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us - it is disturbing.\"\n\nAbout 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They've said they'll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.\n\n\"There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,\" said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. \"It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.\"\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Asian Network that faith and community leaders had a big role to play in ensuring a high take-up of the vaccine. He said he had met with more than 150 leaders from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities who were taking the message out \"that it's the right thing to do\".\n\nHe added that the government was taking steps to tackle online disinformation around the vaccine, as well as making sure vaccine guidance was available in many different languages.\n\nA recent poll, commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health, suggested just over half of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt found 57% said they would take the vaccine - compared with 79% of white people.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government.\n\nBut the version discovered is not the \"variant of concern\", Prof Wendy Barclay clarified.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" from Brazil, detected in travellers to Japan, is thought to be more infectious.\n\nIt led to travellers from South America and Portugal being banned from entering the UK on Friday.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nProf Barclay, who also sits on Nervtag, a committee which advises government on new and emerging respiratory virus threats, said the variant was \"probably introduced some time ago\" and it \"will be being traced very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nThe body which collects and analyses the genomes of virus samples - Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) - said this variant seen in the UK contained one of the mutations found in the Brazilian \"variant of concern\".\n\nThe mutation, also found in the South African variant, has been linked to a reduced antibody response meaning our bodies might be less able to fight it off.\n\nCog-UK said this alone was not enough to qualify it as a \"variant of concern\", thought it acknowledged \"no internationally agreed definition of a variant of concern has yet been agreed\".\n\nIn other variants of concern, the mutation sits alongside a \"constellation\" of others which together amount to a high chance of making the virus more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nThe latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate for the reproduction (R) number in the UK - which represents the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - is between 1.2 and 1.3.\n\nLast week it was estimated at between 1 and 1.4 by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nWhen the figure is above 1, the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nDespite other variants entering the country since, the Kent variant remains dominant in the UK and is believed to be 30-50% more infectious than the previous form of the virus.\n\nViruses acquire random changes to their genes constantly as they replicate.\n\nMany are neutral or even hurt the virus's ability to spread, but those that give it an advantage will become more common.\n\nMutations are being detected now because enough time has passed for those random changes to take hold.\n\nEven though there is no evidence any of these mutations make the virus more deadly, a virus that infects more people is likely to have a higher death toll.\n\nWhen the virus gets better at sticking onto and breaking into human cells, in theory someone exposed to the same dose is more likely to become ill.\n\nThe use of masks and personal protective equipment, social distancing and hand washing remain the best defences against the virus's spread.\n\nDowning Street said current evidence did not suggest the concerning Brazilian variant affected vaccines or treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps described the travel ban, which came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday, as a \"precautionary\" measure.\n\nIt covers people who have travelled from or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nThe ban also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist who is part of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said the travel ban should minimise the risk from a \"more transmissible\" variant.\n\n\"We always have this issue with travel bans, of course, that we're always a little bit behind the curve,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My understanding is that there haven't really been any flights coming from Brazil for about the past week, so hopefully the immediate travel ban should really minimise the risk.\"\n\nDowning Street said it acted \"as quickly as possible\" to impose the travel ban because the concerning Brazilian variant \"could pose a significant risk to the UK\".\n\nHowever, Portugal's government has described the ban as \"absurd\" and illogical\".\n\nThe country's minister of foreign affairs Augusto Santos Silva said he had requested a conversation with his British counterpart after the \"sudden and unexpected\" suspension of flights.\n\nHe added Portugal was already restricting flights from Brazil and there was \"no evidence\" the new variant existed in his country.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pharmacy in Gwynedd is offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab\n\nA pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.\n\nFifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations \"in more than one way\".\n\nIt follows a letter from Community Pharmacy Wales to Wales' health minister which said there was an \"urgent need\" to use pharmacies in Wales to help roll out coronavirus vaccines.\n\nUK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.\n\nThat compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.\n\nHundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.\n\nRosie Bennett, one of the patients to receive a vaccination at Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy in Llanbedrog, said getting her vaccine was a \"small step to a better future\".\n\nThe 82-year-old said: \"I don't have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn't have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They've been doing a great job during the pandemic and it's reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\"\n\nSteffan John, the pharmacist who administered the vaccine to Rosie, said the staff are \"really pleased to do their bit for the community\".\n\nPharmacist Llyr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy, said \"vaccinating at scale\" was the \"only way out of the pandemic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes said he expected the rollout to happen \"very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales\".\n\n\"I don't forsee any big problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.\n\n\"We will tailor our work model to accommodate for this, as we did for the flu vaccine.\"\n\nMr Hughes said his pharmacy will have vaccinated in the region of more than 100 people by Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe added: \"If we can deliver locally we can provide easier access to older patients.\"\n\nHe explained local patients would be contacted about an appointment for the vaccine at the pharmacy.\n\nMr John said that the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses which means it's \"important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any\".\n\nLlyr Hughes who runs Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy said 50 patients will be vaccinated today\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government press briefing that not all pharmacy premises would be suitable to deliver the Covid vaccines.\n\nHe said some community pharmacists could be asked to administer vaccinations at mass vaccination centres instead, in cases where spaces for vaccinations are small at pharmacies with high volumes of people.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the rollout was still in the \"early stages\" of the \"largest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen\".\n\n\"People can be expected to be asked to attend either a mass or community centre, hospital, GP practice, pharmacy or mobile unit,\" he added.\n\nMr Gething said a mix of vaccination sites and centres were chosen so \"everyone across the country has equal access to a vaccination\".\n\nHe added that people will be notified for an appointment, and before that they should not call GPs or health services to request a vaccine and \"add undue pressure\" to their workloads.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales' vaccination programme was \"improving far, far too slowly\".\n\n\"As important as it is that we have one pharmacy doing it, what's happening in all the others?\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said it was clear Wales was \"lagging behind\" the rest of the UK on delivering the vaccinations.\n\n\"It's certainly not happening quickly enough, we need to see the Welsh Government stepping up to the plate,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said more pharmacists and other primary care services, such as dentists and opticians - are being invited to help with the rollout, subject to vaccine supply.", "The UK's epidemic is still officially estimated to be growing, according to the latest R number, but data suggests new cases are beginning to fall.\n\nThe R number - which takes into account cases, hospitalisations and deaths - is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3, compared with 1 and 1.4 last week.\n\nThis suggests the total number of people with the virus is still rising across the UK.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower.\n\nIn the capital, the estimate - based on data up until 11 January - is between 0.9 and 1.2, compared with 1.1 and 1.4 the previous week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - latest figures show the number at 3,234,946.\n\nAlthough the number of people sick with coronavirus is growing in the UK, data from various sources suggests new infections are declining.\n\nThis provides early signs that lockdown restrictions may be taking effect.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group Sage, which calculates the R number, said areas that have been under tougher restrictions for a longer period of time - including east of England, London, and the south east - are showing \"a slight decline in the number of people infected\".\n\nHowever, they warned that regions such as north-west and south-west England continue to see infections rise, where the spread of the new UK variant may be playing a role.\n\nThe R number is a way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread. In theory, it describes the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average.\n\nIn reality, though, the government's estimate of R gives a wider view of the epidemic's general trend since it also looks at what is happening in hospitals.\n\nCases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have been alarmingly high since the beginning of the year and the latest estimate of the R number indicates that the pandemic is continuing to grow.\n\nBut because of the way the data to estimate R is collected - it reflects the situation a week ago. More up to date indicators suggest that there's a slight decline in infections in the east of England, London, and the South East.\n\nThese areas have had the highest prevalence and therefore the toughest restrictions the longest but infections are continuing to rise in the North West and South West probably because of the spread of the new variant of the virus.\n\nDespite this there's some relief at these figures among the government's scientific advisors. They were not sure whether the current restrictions would be enough to prevent the more contagious variant getting out of control. Now they expect Covid-related deaths to level off in a week or so and then decline as the benefits of the vaccine programme begin to take effect.\n\nCases should also begin to decrease in the coming weeks. But all this depends on people continuing to observe the government's social distancing guidelines - and come into contact with others only if it is essential.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said coronavirus deaths were likely to peak in the next week to 10 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the lockdown measures were having an impact, with the peak in infections having passed \"a good few days ago\" which would lead to a reduction in the numbers dying from the disease.\n\n\"They are likely to level off in a week - 10 days maybe - at a peak which is probably going to be bigger than the first wave peak of 1,000-a-day, but then should decline due the reductions in cases that we are seeing and, of course, the vaccine programme.\"\n\nData from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app gives its own estimate of 0.9 for the virus's R or reproduction number. This is based on cases alone, rather than a wider number of data sources included in the official estimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nWhile this leaves out the fact that hospitals are still filling up, looking at cases on their own allows assessment of whether lockdown restrictions are working.\n\nBut the large number of infections recorded at the end of December and the beginning of January means, despite receding cases, hospitalisations and deaths will inevitably continue to rise for some time.\n\nMeanwhile, a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday as a result of a new, potentially more infectious strain linked to Brazil.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, a scientist at Imperial College London advising the government, said this \"variant of concern\" had not been detected in the UK but another variant from Brazil was already in circulation.\n\nIt is not clear whether this second strain is more contagious or not.", "Ambulances were lined up outside the Royal London Hospital on Thursday\n\nCovid patients have been transferred to hospitals in Newcastle from over-stretched London intensive care units.\n\nA small number, fewer than five, have been moved hundreds of miles from the south east, the BBC has been told.\n\nHospitals with the largest critical care capacity have been asked to take patients from other areas to ease pressures.\n\nHowever, NHS England has denied that patients have been transferred to Newcastle from London.\n\nThe patient transfers were first reported by The Guardian.\n\nIt is not uncommon for patients to be transferred from one busy hospital to another within the region, but moving the sick from out of their areas is unusual.\n\nThe North of England Critical Care Network, which co-ordinates provision in the North East, north Cumbria and North Yorkshire, confirmed patients had been moved from other parts of England.\n\nIn statement, director Lesley Durham said: \"During this pandemic and at these times of unprecedented pressures, we have ensured equity of patient access to critical care though mutual aid between units in the form of critical care patient transfers.\n\n\"We are also working with our colleagues and networks further afield.\n\n\"Whilst not ideal, it is correct to ensure that every person, regardless of location, has access to a critical care bed if they require one.\"\n\nOne medical expert described transferring people across the country as \"a challenge\"\n\nElsewhere, Northampton General Hospital - which is about 70 miles from London - has been receiving critical care patients from outside its area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some patients have been transferred to our critical care unit in recent weeks from other parts of the country, including London.\n\n\"We currently have one 'out-of-area' patient, but they are not from London.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement: \"The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure either from high Covid-19 infection rates and non-Covid winter demands and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to manage admissions.\"\n\nIt added that no patients had been transferred from London to Newcastle, Birmingham, Northampton or Sheffield.\n\nAcross England in the week to 12 January, there were 32,202 patients in hospital with Covid-19, a rise of 5,735 on the previous week.\n\nIn the week up to 10 January there were 330,616 new cases.\n\nHospitals across the North East are already seeing many more patients than the first wave of the pandemic, and the next few weeks are likely to be the toughest yet.\n\nBut right now some - like Newcastle - have room in intensive care and are being asked to take patients from critical care units in the south which have become overwhelmed and run out of room.\n\nNewcastle and Northumbria NHS trusts have already been taking in patients from across their own patch - most notably from Cumbria where there are not nearly enough intensive care beds for the soaring numbers of Covid patients.\n\nBut patient numbers are growing in the North East's hospitals too, and many are already struggling.\n\nThey expect next week will be the worst week they have experienced yet.\n\nTo prepare, elective work is being postponed, wards are being cleared to take in new patients, and intensive care units are being expanded.\n\nConcerns have been raised about seriously-ill patients travelling such long distances.\n\nDr Uwe Franke, intensive care lead at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, said: \"The critical care networks work regionally and nationally and are trying to spread the workload about the country without pushing other units to their limits or out of the durability of their capacity.\n\n\"But there is a difficulty in this; we know that Covid patients are incredibly ill, they are dependent on breathing machines, they are dependent on other machines that need organ support.\n\n\"To transfer these people across the country is quite a challenge.\"\n\nDr Franke added that while hospitals in the North were keen to support colleagues across the country, some - like his own - were already reaching their limit.\n\nHis hospital currently has in excess of 200 Covid patients, with 32 of those in intensive care.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by The Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who played Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US school-based sitcom, fell ill last week and was taken to hospital.\n\nHis representative, Roger Paul, said the actor is now waiting for further details.\n\n\"We will know the severity of it when the tests are done,\" Paul said, adding they expect an update next week.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and followed a group of high school friends and their principal.\n\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers pull a woman from the rubble after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 42 people, with more feared dead as rescuers search for survivors.\n\nThe 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, just hours after an earlier, smaller tremor.\n\nHundreds of people were injured and thousands displaced by the quake.\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake.\n\nEight people died when the five-storey Mitra Manakarra Hospital in Mamuju partially collapsed on Friday, officials said. About 60 people were safely evacuated from the hospital.\n\n\"It happened so quickly, around 10 seconds,\" Syamsu Ridwan, a local police spokesman, told the BBC. He said the power in the hospital cut out during the earthquake.\n\nOfficials fear the death toll will increase as rescue efforts continue. Rescuers were still searching for survivors late on Friday, but they have been hampered by power cuts and poor mobile phone service.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo offered condolences to the victims, urging people to stay calm and for the authorities to step up search efforts.\n\nThe epicentre of Friday's quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10km.\n\nVideo footage on social media showed collapsed houses and a girl pinned under rubble calling for help.\n\nThe situation was \"pretty bad\", Dr Gayatri Marliyani, of the geology department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, told the BBC. She said the governor's office was among the collapsed buildings and confirmed that several hospitals and one hotel had also been damaged.\n\nShe also warned that getting response teams to the area could be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTremors were felt at around 01:00 local time on Friday (17:00 Thursday GMT) for about seven seconds.\n\nNo tsunami warning was issued but thousands are reported to have left their homes, fleeing to safety.\n\nAuthorities have warned that strong aftershocks could follow the two main quakes and that they could still trigger a tsunami.\n\nIndonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the so-called Ring of Fire - a line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions on the Pacific rim.\n\nIn 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nChampionship side Derby County have appointed England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who had been in interim charge since Phillip Cocu was sacked on 14 November, has now also officially retired as a player.\n\nRooney has overseen nine games so far, winning three and drawing four.\n\n\"The opportunity to follow Brian Clough, Jim Smith, Frank Lampard and Phillip Cocu is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew instinctively Derby County was the place for me.\"\n\nLiam Rosenior takes up the role of assistant manager, with former England boss Steve McClaren continuing as technical director and advisor to the board of directors.\n\nShay Given will become first-team coach and Justin Walker will remain as first-team development coach.\n\nThe Rams are third from bottom in the Championship, level on points with fourth-from-bottom Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nA takeover for the club is expected to go through this week, with a deal between current owner Mel Morris and the Derventio Holdings Group having been agreed in November.\n\nRams chief executive Stephen Pearce said in an interview with BBC Radio Derby on Thursday that there were no problems with the takeover, despite the delays meaning players have not been paid their December wages.\n\n\"Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City,\" said Pearce.\n\n\"During that nine-game run we also dramatically improved their defensive record and registered five clean sheets in the process, while in the attacking third we became more effective and ruthless too.\n\n\"Those foundations have provided a platform for the club to build on in the second half of the season.\"\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was less successful in terms of team honours, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nAfter a second stint at Everton and a spell with American side DC United, Rooney joined Derby in January 2020 as a player-coach on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe retires as the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nWayne Rooney's presence at Derby County was felt on that hot August evening in 2019 when Phillip Cocu won his first match as manager at Huddersfield, a result overshadowed by the announcement of his signing.\n\nRooney's ambition to become a manager was there for all to see when chairman Mel Morris afforded him the opportunity to be a player-coach on arrival in January. He in fact arrived a few months before that but was unable to play, and stayed low key, observing from the sidelines.\n\nA year ago this month he made an instant impact to Derby's fortunes on the field. Players who were underachieving and perhaps found the grind of the Championship a little hard to handle, were taken up a notch by his presence.\n\nSome would say Rooney saved the Rams' season, but this term he struggled on the field and so did Derby.\n\nI am told it was written into his contract that he would have a chance to take control one day and he has already shown in his nine games in interim charge that he can get the squad playing in his image. Gone is the side-to-side, slow build-up possession game, it is a better product to watch.\n\nThe people around him have good pedigree in the game. Shay Given, Liam Rosenior, Justin Walker and Jason Pearcey have experience at all levels - but his relationship with Steve McClaren will be the most important of all.\n\nDerby fans have been calling out for a positive piece of news. Rooney's appointment is the first duck in a row with the takeover expected to be completed any time now and then Championship survival is the hope.\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A rejuvenated Northumberland Line will help connect local communities to Newcastle city centre, say supporters\n\nTwo railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government.\n\nEast West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge, will get £760m to open new parts of the line.\n\nThe Northumberland Line, which still carries freight, will get £34m for initial work aimed at reintroducing passenger services.\n\nReopening closed lines like these would help connect \"left-behind\" communities, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\n\"Restoring railways helps put communities back on the map and this investment forms part of our nationwide effort to build back vital connections and unlock access to jobs, education and housing,\" he said.\n\nThese investments would return these routes \"to their former glory\" and was part of the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, Mr Shapps added.\n\nDiesel engines will initially run on the lines, but Mr Shapps said he hoped more environmentally friendly trains, for example powered by hydrogen or new battery technology, would replace them in the future.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why the lines wouldn't be electrified, he said these lines might potentially bypass the overhead wire technology altogether.\n\n\"We're building it in such a way that we can use, probably, the very latest technology, potentially, in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing is the infrastructure,\" he said. \"It's about building the stations, things you need to do no matter what kind of train you're going to run on there, if it's going to take passengers.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Daniel Zeichner, who represents Cambridge, said: \"Every rail expert will tell you it will cost more later to electrify a line.\"\n\n\"In a time of climate emergency, we really shouldn't be building railway lines for diesel, it's got to be electric.\"\n\nThe line connecting Oxford and Cambridge would serve new housing developments, he said, and rail was \"the right way to get people in and out of a city like Cambridge\".\n\n\"It's very important for the UK economy, but it's got to be done in an environmentally sustainable way,\" he said. \"It seems crazy to be building new railways which aren't electrified in the first place, and I really hope the government will reconsider.\"\n\nThe East West Rail investment will rebuild a train line between Bicester and Bletchley which was closed in 1968.\n\nThe project is being delivered by a publicly-owned body called the East West Company.\n\nThe first phase of East West Rail, which was completed in 2016, connected Oxford and Bicester.\n\nBut at the moment, rail passengers wishing to go from Oxford to Bletchley have to take a detour via Coventry.\n\nThe aim is to get trains running between Oxford and Bletchley by 2025, with new stations at Winslow and Bletchley.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the works will create 1,500 jobs, and have a wider economic benefit for the area.\n\nThe eventual aim of the project, which the government expects to be completed by the end of the decade, is to connect Oxford and Cambridge by rail via Bedford, taking in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury on branches.\n\nThe Northumberland Line was closed to passengers in 1964 as part of a rationalisation of the railway network known as the Beeching cuts.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was \"a really critical piece of local infrastructure\" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.\n\nPassengers would be able to take the train between Ashington and Newcastle\n\n\"Having better connectivity will help attract businesses to that area, and it will help to deliver genuine levelling-up,\" he said.\n\nThe new £34m investment, which aims to reopen the line between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ashington, will include funds for preparatory works and land acquisition.\n\nThere are plans for new stations at at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Bebside, Newsham, Seaton Delaval, and Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside, as well as upgrades to the track and changes to level crossings where new bridges or underpasses were needed, the Department for Transport said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nSenior doctors have asked England's chief medical officer to halve the current 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine. The wait was originally three weeks but was then extended, a decision which Prof Chris Whitty said would double the number of people receiving jabs. But, in a letter seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association said the delay was \"difficult to justify\". It comes after the prime minister revealed the UK variant of Covid-19 may be more deadly.\n\nEfforts to distribute the jab in the European Union have faced another setback after UK drug-maker AstraZeneca warned of supply issues. Vaccinations have already been halted in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. Cases in many European countries are surging. Germany has reached 50,000 Covid deaths and Spain has seen record infections in recent weeks.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were engaged to be married when they were taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19. As his condition worsened, staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital rallied to arrange a wedding for them - and they were able to marry moments before he was sedated and put on a ventilator. Mrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes. Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. Its streets are bustling again. A year on, John Sudworth explores how it is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - else.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nMillions of us are less physically active than we were before Covid-19. For those working from home, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house. A survey of people working remotely, by Opinium for the charity Versus Arthritis, found 81% of respondents were experiencing some back, neck or shoulder pain. Here are some tips that could help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWondering when you might be able to get a vaccine? Health reporter Philippa Roxby takes you through what you need to know.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Questions should be asked if politicians who drank on Welsh Parliament premises during a pub alcohol ban can stand for re-election, an ex-standards official has said.\n\nSenedd Tory leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Labour's Alun Davies have apologised - they are not thought to have broken the rules, but the two Tories admitted it would not be seen as in their spirit.\n\nA fourth Senedd Member Nick Ramsay has denied being part of the gathering.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida. Image caption: In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida.\n\nRémy Julienne, one of the world's best-known stuntmen, has died in France with coronavirus, aged 90.\n\nOver a 50-year career, Julienne devised the crashes, crunches and collisions witnessed in more than 1,400 films.\n\nHe also starred in many of them, albeit anonymously.\n\nThe legendary cascadeur (stunt performer) appeared as a body double for a host of stars, including Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson and Jean-Paul Belmondo.\n\nIn wig and appropriate clothing, he also took on the form of Sophia Loren, Carole Bouquet and Gina Lollobrigida.\n\nAmong his most famous works are the chase scenes in 1969's The Italian Job, in which a fleet of Mini-Coopers in Turin cross a river, dive into the metro and jump from the roof of the Fiat factory.\n\nHe also worked on six Bond films, notably going behind the wheel of a battered yellow Citroën 2CV in For Your Eyes Only.\n\nA life-long lover of motorbikes and anything driven at speed, Julienne specialised in spectacular destruction. But he was committed to the maximum elimination of risk and calculated his stunts with extreme precision.\n\n\"What is beautiful about the job is that you can never be 100% certain,\" he said. \"If you could, then frankly it wouldn't be interesting.", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA second boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at a Birmingham address on Friday and is in custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nAnother 14-year-old, arrested earlier on Friday, also remains in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nThe latest arrest was \"another step forward and Keon's family have been fully updated with this latest development,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a challenging investigation given the number of offenders we believe were involved, but I have a dedicated team of officers working 24/7 to identify those involved and we are making swift progress.\"\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Police have seized the vehicle.\n\nCordons placed at the scene in Linwood Road and Wheeler Street, where the car was abandoned, have now been lifted, said the West Midlands force.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nDetectives say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nAnyone who could identify the attackers has been urged to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police released body-worn camera footage of people streaming from the premises\n\nTwo officers were injured as they broke up an \"incredibly selfish\" party, involving about 200 people, in one of London's most expensive neighbourhoods.\n\nOfficers investigated an address on Beauchamp Place, Kensington, at about 03.30 GMT on 17 January, following reports of a mass gathering.\n\nAttendees became hostile and pushed through to avoid being fined, injuring two officers, police said.\n\nThe owner has previously been issued with a £1,000 fine, police said.\n\nPolice discovered about 200 guests at a party on Beauchamp Place, Kensington\n\nSupt Michael Walsh said: \"Attending or organising such parties during this critical period is an incredibly selfish decision to make.\n\n\"While the majority of breaches have been resolved without incident, it deeply saddens me that some individuals have chosen to assault police who are simply doing their part in the collective battle against this deadly virus.\"\n\nPolice said the event was one of a string of late-night parties uncovered in Kensington over the last month.\n\nOn 20 December, police shut down an illegal gathering at a commercial property on Montpelier Street. The property has since been closed.\n\nAn owner of a venue on Harrow Road is facing a £10,000 fine after police found more than 30 socialising during a raid on 16 January.\n\nOn Thursday, police also broke up a wedding party in north London.\n\nThe Met Police originally claimed about 400 guests were at the gathering, but then on Friday said 150 people were present at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "Even while posted at the US Capitol, many troops have been seen sleeping on the floor\n\nUS President Joe Biden has apologised after some members of the National Guard stationed at the Capitol were pictured sleeping in a car park.\n\nMore than 25,000 troops were deployed to Washington DC for his inauguration after violence earlier this month.\n\nImages spread on Thursday showing them forced to rest in a nearby parking garage after lawmakers returned.\n\nThe conditions sparked anger among politicians, and some state governors recalled troops over the controversy.\n\nMr Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday to apologise and ask what could be done, according to US media reports.\n\nFirst Lady Jill Biden also visited some of the troops to thank them personally, bringing biscuits from the White House as a gift.\n\n\"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe,\" she said.\n\nThe photographs showing hundreds of troops in a parking garage went viral on Thursday and sparked outrage, including from members of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany voiced concerns about the conditions, with guardsmen exposed to car fumes and without proper access to facilities like toilets after having been on alert for days.\n\nImages of the cramped conditions also sparked fears about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA US official, speaking anonymously to Reuters news agency, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 of those deployed had tested positive for Covid-19. The figure - which would represent a small proportion of the more than 25,000 deployed, has not been publicly confirmed.\n\nChuck Schumer, a Democrat and the new Senate majority leader, said that the move was \"an outrage\" and pledged it \"will never happen again\".\n\nRon DeSantis, Florida's governor, was among those who said he had ordered guards from his state to return home following the controversy.\n\n\"This is a half-cocked mission at this point and the appropriate thing is to bring them home,\" he told Fox News on Friday.\n\nThe Senate Rules Committee is also investigating the issue, Senator Roy Blunt told Politico.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about why the troops were moved from the Capitol.\n\nA National Guard spokesman told US media they were moved on Thursday afternoon at the request of the Capitol Police because of \"increased foot traffic\" as Congress came back into session.\n\nThe acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, later said her agency \"did not instruct the National Guard to vacate the Capitol Building facilities\", while two officers contradicted her statement in comments to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe decision was reversed later on Thursday, when the troops were allowed to return to the Capitol.\n\nA joint statement from the US National Guard and US Capitol Police on Friday said they had worked together to make sure those in the Capitol Complex had \"appropriate spaces\" to take on-duty breaks.\n\nThey also said off-duty troops were being housed in hotel rooms or other accommodation and thanked members of Congress for their concern.\n\nSome 19,000 guardsmen will return to their home states in the coming days with about 7,000 expected to stay on in Washington, according to the New York Times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nRural GPs are to run new community vaccination centres after concerns over the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nFrom Saturday, three new vaccination hubs will open to give over-80s and those with mobility issues the jab.\n\nIt comes after some living in rural areas said they had been told to travel miles to get the jab or wait weeks to have their first dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would help immunise hundreds of over-80s this weekend.\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales, with some telling the BBC elderly and housebound relatives had been told there would be a wait if they could not get to their GP surgery.\n\nA total of 212,317 people have been given their first dose of vaccine in Wales, up to 21 January - just over 6.7% of the population.\n\nThe Welsh Government hopes to have 70% of over-80s immunised by the end of this weekend.\n\nBy 21 January, 30% of the over-80s and 60% of care home residents had been given the first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced doctors surgeries in rural areas would join forces to help administer the jab to the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first of the new community centres, run by clusters of GP practices, are to open on the Llyn Peninsula, in Buckley in Flintshire, and Bridgend.\n\nThey will be able to administer both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nUntil now, the Pfizer vaccine could only be administered at special mass-vaccination centres, due to the low temperatures it needs to be stored at.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped 3,000 people would get the vaccine administered at the centres this weekend.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Vaccination is our top priority so I want to thank all the GP practices right across Wales that are working in unison to set up these new community vaccination centres.\n\n\"This enables GPs to use both of the vaccines available to us and will help more people to be vaccinated somewhere that is much closer to home than the large vaccination centres.\n\n\"Every week, our vaccination programme speeds up as more centres are opened and more vaccines are available for the small army of healthcare professionals administering vaccines.\"\n\nIn north Wales, a group of GPs have formed a group to deliver about 1,000 vaccines to elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP at Ty Doctor Surgery, Gwynedd, said rural GPs had faced a \"real challenge\" to get the most vulnerable patients vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\nThe surgery is about 50 miles away from the nearest vaccination centre in north-west Wales.\n\nHe said bringing three GP practices together to vaccinate hundreds of patients in two days was a \"Herculean effort\".", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "Paul Davies had been preparing to lead his party's Senedd election campaign in the coming months\n\nPaul Davies has been something of an understated figure leading the Welsh Conservative group in Cardiff Bay since he won the race to succeed Andrew RT Davies in September 2018.\n\nThe Senedd member for Preseli Pembrokeshire tried to move the party group in the direction of being more sceptical of devolution.\n\nBut a row over drinking on Senedd premises ended his ambitions to be the first Conservative first minister of Wales.\n\nBorn in 1969, Paul Davies grew up in the village of Pontsian in Ceredigion.\n\nHe attended Llandysul Grammar School and Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School before working for a bank for 20 years.\n\nMr Davies entered Cardiff Bay politics in 2007 when he was elected to the then National Assembly for Wales. He was appointed deputy leader of the Welsh Conservative group in 2011 before becoming interim leader and then leader in 2018.\n\nPaul Davies backed Boris Johnson in the UK Conservative leadership campaign in 2019\n\nPresented as a safe pair of hands during his leadership campaign he has, at times, almost appeared to have been overshadowed by his predecessor Andrew RT Davies, who sometimes seems to enjoy media appearances more than his leader.\n\nFaced with the potential rise of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, Paul Davies attempted to steer the Welsh Tories towards a more devo-sceptic, if not anti-devolution, approach.\n\nHe pledged a future Conservative Welsh Government would not \"tread on Westminster's turf\", and \"respect what is not devolved\" by \"unpicking\" the Welsh Government's international relations department.\n\nThere were also promises to halve the current number of Welsh ministers to seven, freeze civil servant recruitment and not increase the budget of the body which runs the Senedd if he became first minister.\n\nWelsh political structures need a \"dose\" of Dominic Cummings, Paul Davies has said\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has, arguably, made it even harder for opposition party leaders in the Senedd to cut through to the wider electorate.\n\nThe crisis has given Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford a much bigger profile, on a Wales and UK stage, making it more difficult for other Welsh party leaders to get onto the news agenda.\n\nLast July, there were raised eyebrows when Paul Davies suggested \"a dose of Dom\" was needed in Wales to \"shake up\" its governance.\n\nThe reference to the prime minister's now departed chief advisor and brutal political operator Dominic Cummings was interesting, given the criticism heaped on Mr Cummings a couple of months earlier for driving his family 260 miles from his London home to Durham during lockdown, and a subsequent 25-mile trip to check his eyesight before a return trip.\n\nBacking Remain at the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Paul Davies aimed to steer a steady course during a fractious period for a Conservative Party dealing with the polarising issue of Brexit.\n\nHe has been loyal to the UK party leader of the day, and often stuck to the Westminster line rather than try to carve an independent stance.\n\nDespite this, Mr Davies had wanted the Tory Senedd group leader to be given the title Welsh Conservative leader.\n\nIt is something the party has never formally agreed to do despite a review of its Welsh structures.", "Up to 500 new prison cells are to be built in women's jails, the Ministry of Justice has announced.\n\nThese will be built in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions.\n\nThey will include in-cell showers, and some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children to prepare for life at home after release.\n\nIn future, older cells could also be shut if the prison population reduces.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has also pledged almost £2m in funding to 38 charities so their \"vital work in steering women away from crime can continue\".\n\nThis may include addressing mental health problems and drug use, both of which affect around half of women in prison.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"This funding boost will allow frontline services to continue the incredible work they do with some of the most vulnerable women in our society to prevent them being drawn into crime.\"\n\nAnnouncing the funding, the government reiterated its promise to cut the number of women in custody and provide effective support to deal with problems which could lead to crime in the first place or reoffending.\n\nBut it admitted there could be a temporary rise of inmates in the near future as the number of investigations and prosecutions is expected to increase amid the hiring of 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIt added that the number of women in custody has fallen by 10% since 2010 and stressed that government investment in community services should see this trend continue in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of women in prison falls longer term, the MoJ says the new modern facilities will allow the Prison Service to close old accommodation.\n\nCampaigners largely welcomed the announcement, but warned the efforts do not go far enough to tackle longstanding problems.\n\nKate Paradine, chief executive of charity Women in Prison, said: \"This pledge and funding are just the start, and a far cry from what is needed in order to provide stability for women who face the sharp end of our society.\"\n\nShe called on the government in its upcoming Budget to safeguard the future of women's centres, which she described as an \"anchor that stop women being swept up into crime\" but warned were \"facing a funding cliff edge in April\".\n\nEmily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by \"action on the ground to prove effective\", adding: \"Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"If the goal is to reduce the number of women entering the criminal justice system, then today's announcement shows that ministers are looking at the issue down the wrong end of a telescope\", claiming the funding promised was \"dwarfed\" by the cost of the extra prison places.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "A restaurant worker in Lisbon, where benefits to those with symptoms, and those without, are generous\n\nThe idea of a flat £500 payment to anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 has been dismissed by the UK government. Health officials had come up with the suggestion in the hope of encouraging people with the illness to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns the virus is continuing to spread because some people are ignoring the instruction to stay home when they show symptoms or test positive. Downing Street has said there is already a £500 sum for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate. But this must be applied for and there have been high rejection rates in England at least, A behaviour expert who advises the government, told the BBC just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nSo how do other countries handle the question of paying people to stay at home, or just trusting they will do the right thing? Here, BBC correspondents from Prague to New York, offer an insight.\n\nIn Portugal, even those who are just at-risk of contracting Covid - having been in direct contact with a confirmed case - are entitled to 100% of their basic salary, for 14 days, writes Alison Roberts, in Lisbon.\n\nFor those who show symptoms, or have tested positive, the same is available for up to 28 days. And the normal waiting times people are used to when claiming while ill have also been done away with - these Covid payments kick in on day one of isolation.\n\nThose not on permanent work contracts tend to be treated as self-employed and are eligible for benefits based on income declared. But there are a lot of people, including many immigrants, who lack the necessary paperwork, and are therefore not eligible to claim.\n\nNevertheless, it's perhaps not surprising that, because people are able to claim full basic pay, there hasn't been much, if any, debate about people obeying self-isolation. If there are reports of people not seeking tests, or not isolating, it seems to be more out of ignorance, which is certainly rather worrying.\n\nSlovenia has been offering compensation to people forced to self-isolate after exposure to coronavirus since it first introduced emergency measures in March, writes Guy De Launey in Ljubljana.\n\nDepending on the circumstances, this covers anything from 80% to the full amount of usual earnings. The payments may be made directly to people in quarantine, or as compensation to employers. A government official told the BBC that with its socialist past, it was normal for Slovenia to take care of people in quarantine by providing payments - and that without compensation, it would be impossible to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWhen the measures were first introduced, they enjoyed broad public support. But the second wave of the epidemic has seen case numbers skyrocket - Slovenia's per capita death-rate is now the third highest in the world - and public confidence overall has dipped.\n\nBy the end of 2020, market research company Valicon said that only 12% of Slovenians viewed the government's measures as \"appropriate\", adding that people were \"worried and dissatisfied with the social situation\", suggesting compensation is not a panacea.\n\nIn March last year, the US agreed to pay for some workers to stay at home - a big change for a country that had never paid sick leave requirement before, writes Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nThe measure guaranteed up to 14 days of pay for workers forced to isolate because they had symptoms, had received medical advice to self-quarantine, or were under government lockdown orders. It also said it would guarantee two-thirds of pay for people caring for someone with the virus for up to two weeks. One study suggested it helped prevent hundreds of news cases a day.\n\nBut the assistance - paid by employers which were then reimbursed by the government via tax credits - expired on 31 December. And even before that, analysts estimated that loopholes meant roughly half of the country's workforce, including many grocery workers and medical staff were potentially excluded.\n\nAs part of his $1.9tn stimulus plan, President Joe Biden is pushing to renew the law, and end the exemptions. But the proposal - which his team estimates would expand the benefit to as many as 106 million more Americans - faces stiff resistance from Republicans and key business lobbies.\n\nIn Germany financial support is generous for people ordered to self-isolate by the authorities because of infection risk, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nAs a result there hasn't been a debate in Germany about breaking self-isolation rules because of financial need. Fines can be huge - tens of thousands of euros - and are strictly enforced. Overall there's no great issue with compliance and Germany's financial package has widespread cross-party backing, and is supported by voters.\n\nEmployees who are unable to work at home receive full pay for up to six weeks. This is paid by the employer, who is then reimbursed by the state. After that, workers may be eligible for sick-pay.\n\nFreelancers and self-employed people are generally also entitled to full pay for six weeks. But they would apply directly to their regional government. The exact rules and level of efficiency for payments vary from region to region. For those in the gig economy - Germany has it, though less so than Britain - this should be covered by state aid, based on tax returns.\n\nThe level of state support was agreed by Germany's national parliament in Berlin. But payments are administered and funded by regional governments.\n\nThere's been some discussion here about paying people to stay home if they test positive for Covid, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe idea is advocated by at least one independent expert group. But it would be expensive, and the Czech state coffers are already stretched from keeping employees on furlough and paying compensation.\n\nInstead, salaried employees who receive a positive diagnosis are left with two choices: work from home - if they're up to it, if their job allows it and if their employer agrees, or go on sick leave for 10 days and receive 60% salary.\n\nFor the self-employed it's worse. Only those who have chosen to pay state sickness insurance will receive anything. Most opt out - the benefits are marginal. So most continue working from home - if their health and profession allows it.\n\nFor many workers, in other words, a positive Covid test can be a real blow to the wallet. It's an open secret that many people - especially freelancers in creative professions - beg friends and colleagues who test positive not to declare them as contacts, to avoid having to go into quarantine. For some the fear of losing work and money outweighs social responsibility.\n\nMoves to compensate people for taking time off work have largely been well received, writes Maddy Savage in Stockholm.\n\nTo encourage people to stay at home from the moment they develop coronavirus symptoms, the government changed the rules to allow Swedish employees and the self-employed to claim sick pay from the first day they are off, rather than the second. Employees receive about 80% of their salary while they isolate (capped at SEK 700 or £61.88 per day), and the self-employed are entitled to payments capped at 804 SEK or £71.05. The government has also introduced an allowance for people isolating because they live with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nWhile Sweden has largely kept primary schools open throughout the pandemic, parents have been able to make use of a pre-existing benefit which allows them to take state-funded time off work if their children are ill (with the virus or any other illness), and an additional benefit has been introduced for parents who are forced to take time off work to look after children affected by school closures as a result of a local outbreak.\n\nBut these measures have also stirred debates about welfare inequality. There are concerns that workers who are paid by the hour or on temporary contracts aren't entitled to the same level of sickness benefits as permanent staff - there are reports that this has encouraged some to keep working despite developing Covid-19 symptoms.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The Black Country Living Museum normally gives visitors a taste of ordinary life in the Victorian era\n\nA venue that has doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders is to operate as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.\n\nUsing Black Country Living Museum, a largely open-air site, to deliver jabs is said to be a \"game-changer\" for the local community.\n\nThe Dudley attraction, which is closed to tourists during lockdown, is expected to help administer thousands of injections a week.\n\nPeople are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.\n\nThe formal appointments will initially prioritise doses for people most at risk of complications from the virus.\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England showed 97,310 Covid jabs had been administered in Dudley and the surrounding area by Thursday - the second highest amount in the Midlands.\n\nBut rollout at the museum - which begins on Monday - will see it become Dudley's first vaccination centre.\n\nIt will complement existing GP-led vaccination services which are already up and running locally.\n\nCillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham-set drama filmed in part at the museum\n\nThe museum normally gives visitors a taste of life in the Black Country during bygone days and has been used as a location for Peaky Blinders, the BBC TV series set in nearby Birmingham in the early 20th Century.\n\nSaying the step was a game-changer, Nicholas Barlow, Dudley Council member for health, said: \"Having the Black Country Living Museum on board as a vaccination centre will greatly increase the amount of jabs we can deliver, and the speed at which we can administer them.\n\n\"It will make people safer from this deadly virus more quickly.\"\n\nSally Roberts, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group chief nurse, said: \"Our progress [in the area] to date has been incredible and I am delighted that our first vaccination centre, which will be capable of delivering thousands more vaccines each week, is going live.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Skewen in Neath Port Talbot has been badly hit by flooding over the past two days\n\nThere have been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out caused by recent flooding, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday as heavy rain caused issues across the country.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said none of its mass vaccination centres or GP surgeries had been affected by floods.\n\nIt added anyone struggling to get to a vaccination appointment because of the flooding would be able to rearrange.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board also said it was not aware of flooding in north Wales causing any issues for the vaccine roll-out.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said on Thursday that teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe latest figures released on Friday showed 212,317 people in Wales had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with a further 415 receiving a second dose.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nAbout 80 people in Skewen had to be evacuated from their homes after streets were left under water.\n\nFire crews returned to the scene on Friday to continue to pump floodwater away from houses.\n\nMeanwhile, a family in Rossett, Wrexham county, had to be rescued by helicopter after their home became surrounded by floodwater on Thursday night.\n\nNorth Wales has also been hit by floods\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that efforts to rehouse those affected by the floods were being done in \"as Covid-secure a way as possible\".\n\nDorothy Edwards, Covid-19 vaccination programme director for Swansea Bay health board, said: \"None of our mass vaccination centres have been impacted by flooding and we're not aware of any particular issues in primary care.\n\n\"Of course we will be sympathetic if there are people struggling to get to their appointment and if they are booked in at an mass vaccination centres they need to ring the booking line and the appointment will be rearranged.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"There have been no adverse effects on the vaccine roll-out due to flooding.\"", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "An exhibition now celebrates Wuhan's success in controlling the outbreak\n\nWuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.\n\nFrom the moment a new, pandemic coronavirus emerged in the same city as a laboratory dedicated to the study of new coronaviruses with pandemic potential, Prof Shi Zhengli has found herself the focus of one of the biggest scientific controversies of our time.\n\nFor much of the past year she has met the suggestion that Sars-Cov-2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial.\n\nNow though, she has offered her own thoughts on how the initial outbreak may have begun in the city.\n\nIn an article in this month's edition of Science Magazine she referred to a number of studies that, she said, suggest the virus existed outside of China before Wuhan's first known case in December 2019.\n\n\"Given the finding of Sars-Cov-2 on the surface of imported food packages, contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of Sars-Cov-2 transmission,\" she wrote.\n\nFrom one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses, even the discussion of such a possibility seems unusual.\n\nCould a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?\n\n\"The virus came from America,\" this fishmonger told the BBC\n\nBut with the virus vanquished, the idea that it is a foreign import is repeated with almost unanimity across this city of 11 million people.\n\n\"It came here from other countries,\" one woman running a hotpot stall in a busy street tells me. \"China is a victim.\"\n\n\"Where did it come from?\" the next-door fishmonger repeats my question aloud, and then answers: \"It came from America.\"\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes.\n\nThe tough lockdown coincided with the annual spring festival celebrations and came too late to prevent the global spread of the disease - five million people had already left the city ahead of the holiday.\n\nDoctors' warnings had gone unheeded and, in an outpouring of anger on the Chinese internet, the authorities stood accused of covering up the initial outbreak in the interests of political stability.\n\nOne year on, there's little sign of that anger in Wuhan today. In fact it's the humdrum normality that is striking - the traffic jams, the bustling markets and busy restaurants.\n\nIts success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe accompanying texts mention his \"all-out war\" against the pandemic, his \"resolute decision making\" and how he has been willing to share \"China's solutions\" with the world.\n\nThere can be no doubting the success of China's mass testing programmes, its tracing apps and the widespread mask wearing.\n\nBut its strict enforcement of lockdowns, with little hand-wringing over the impact on individual rights, may be far less easy for democratic countries to emulate.\n\n\"The strategic success achieved in this battle fully manifested the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant advantages of the socialist system of our country,\" the exhibition proclaims.\n\nDespite China's promise of international co-operation, the world is still no closer to an answer to the biggest question of them all - where did the virus come from?\n\nMany prominent scientists believe that - based on past outbreaks - the most likely source of the coronavirus is a natural one, a \"zoonotic\" leap from bats - known to harbour such viruses - to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.\n\nBut China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading.\n\nThose scientists who argue that the possibility of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology should also be included as part of any investigation are curious about this apparent silence.\n\n\"I find it very unlikely that such investigations would not have already occurred,\" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told me.\n\n\"It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from.\"\n\nWuhan's exhibition also has a display of hospital beds\n\nInstead of publishing its own evidence though, China appears to be taking an anywhere-but-Wuhan approach, with state media cheerleading the idea that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food imports or talking cryptically of \"multiple origins\".\n\nAt a recent daily press briefing, I asked China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, why such narratives were being promoted in the absence of real scientific evidence.\n\n\"Your question reveals your prejudice against China,\" she replied. \"Reports have emerged from Australia, Italy and many other countries that the coronavirus was found in multiple places in the autumn of 2019.\"\n\n\"Aren't these all facts?\" she asked.\n\nNot according to Alina Chan, who told me that such studies \"lack validation\" and some have been conducted without \"the most basic controls\".\n\n\"They do not present persuasive scientific evidence that the virus was circulating outside of China before the late 2019 outbreak in Wuhan,\" she said.\n\n\"The earliest detected cases and outbreak were in Wuhan. Early cases outside of China were found to have travelled from Wuhan. The most similar viruses have been found inside China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nInterestingly, scientists who have found themselves disagreeing strongly about the likelihood of the lab-leak theory, suddenly find themselves very much aligned on whether the virus came from abroad.\n\n\"I do not find the data linking Sars-Cov-2 to frozen foods to be credible,\" Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in the US, told me.\n\nAs someone who is a firm supporter of China's insistence that the virus could not have escaped from a lab, he gives its latest position much shorter shrift.\n\n\"All the available evidence points to an emergence of the virus somewhere in China in late 2019,\" he said.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli, seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nProf Shi Zhengli recently told the BBC in an exchange of emails that she'd welcome \"any form of visit\" by an inquiry team to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to rule out the possibility of a lab leak.\n\nBut to a follow-up email asking about the alignment of her discussion of possible foreign origins with the Chinese government's own narrative, she sent another reply.\n\n\"Your question is not friendly,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter months of delay and wrangling with China about access, a World Health Organization team has arrived in Wuhan to begin its inquiry into the origins of the virus.\n\nTheir terms of reference hint at the politics behind the scenes, with the document mentioning many of China's talking points, including foreign origins and food-chain transmission.\n\nLast year Wuhan endured one of the strictest lockdowns the world has seen\n\nDr Daniel Lucey, a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington, suggests the stage is being set for a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"In my view, if you line up side-by-side the WHO's terms of reference with the Shi Zhengli Science article,\" he told me, \"then it is clear that the overarching strategic narrative is that the origin of the virus is outside of China.\"\n\nThe crisis that began in Wuhan is now the world's crisis and, with so many lives and livelihoods lost, answers are desperately needed.\n\nIf the virus came naturally from bats, an understanding of that pathway is important to protect humanity from the risk of repeated \"spillover\" events from the same source.\n\nIf it leaked from a lab, an urgent review of safety protocols is needed - not just in China but globally.\n\nBoards in Wuhan say the virus broke out \"in multiple places around the world\"\n\nScientists are beginning to wonder if those answers will ever be forthcoming.\n\n\"It's undeniable now that politics have gotten in the way of science,\" Alina Chan said.\n\n\"I just hope that the WHO team will relay the details of their experience so that the public can understand what the limitations of their investigation are.\"\n\nIn Wuhan's giant exhibition hall, the city's place in history is again called into question by one of the concluding sign boards which says Covid-19 broke out \"in multiple places around the world\".\n\nFor China, this city's past is now propaganda and the truth, like the virus, is being brought under tight control.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said extending the maximum wait from three to 12 weeks was a \"public health decision\" to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said that was \"difficult to justify\" and should be changed to six weeks.\n\nIt comes as early evidence suggests the UK virus variant may be more deadly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing on Friday: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThe government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says unpublished data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is still effective with doses 12 weeks apart - but Pfizer has said it has tested its vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe World Health Organization has recommended a gap of four weeks between doses - to be extended only in exceptional circumstances to six weeks.\n\nGovernment minister Robert Jenrick said the current strategy ensured \"millions more people can get the first jab\" and the \"high level of protection\" which it offered.\n\nHe said the BMA's concerns would be taken into account but that the government was following the \"very clear advice\" of the medicines regulator and the UK's four chief medical officers who, he said, \"could not have been clearer that this is the right thing to do for this country\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: \"Our number one priority is to give protection against coronavirus to as many vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn the letter to Prof Whitty, seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it agreed that the vaccine should be rolled out \"as quickly as possible\" - but called for an urgent review and for the gap to be reduced.\n\nThe doctors' union said the UK's strategy \"has become increasingly isolated internationally\" and \"is proving evermore difficult to justify\".\n\n\"The absence of any international support for the UK's approach is a cause of deep concern and risks undermining public and the profession's trust in the vaccination programme,\" the letter said.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA, said there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"Obviously the protection will not vanish after six weeks, but what we do not know is what level of protection will be offered [after that point],\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We should not be extrapolating data when we don't have it.\"\n\nHe said while he understands the rationale behind the decision, \"no other nation has adopted the UK's approach\".\n\n\"We think the flexibility that the WHO offers of extending to 42 days is being stretched far too much to go from six weeks right through to 12 weeks,\" he added.\n\nThere has been understandable enthusiasm over a promising start to the hugely ambitious UK vaccination rollout.\n\nBut there has been some tension over the decision to lengthen the time between doses for the Pfizer vaccine to 12 weeks.\n\nProf Whitty and other health leaders and experts say this will allow many more people to get vaccinated quickly and the first dose gives most of the protection.\n\nBut critics argue this goes against Pfizer's recommendation of a three-week gap and there is no data to back up the long delay.\n\nThe intervention of the BMA is significant as it shows senior doctors now have widespread concerns, including worries about reliability of supplies if people have to wait longer for a second jab.\n\nThis is a private letter to Chris Whitty seen by the BBC and not a grandstanding press release. The BMA wants to have talks with the chief medical adviser about moving to six weeks.\n\nProf Whitty will no doubt restate his case, but it will be interesting to see whether the BMA argument gains traction in the wider medical world.\n\nThe BMA also suggested second doses might not be guaranteed after a 12-week delay \"given the unpredictability of supplies\".\n\nHowever, Public Health England's medical director said people would get their second dose.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she backed the current strategy, saying it was \"about bearing down on transmission\" to reduce deaths and reduce the chance of more dangerous variants of the virus emerging.\n\n\"The more people that are protected against this virus, the less opportunity it has to get the upper hand,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the letter include:\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have said the \"great majority\" of initial protection comes from the first jab, while the second dose is likely to help that protection last longer.\n\nIn total, the UK has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 40 million of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines are expected to work against the variant of Covid-19 that emerged in the UK.\n\nWhat has been your experience of receiving the vaccine? Are you waiting for your second dose? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurses are calling for all UK staff to be given a higher grade of face mask to protect them against new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing warns that inadequate PPE may be putting the lives of nursing staff at risk.\n\nIt has written to the workplace safety watchdog detailing its concerns, soon after a similar appeal from doctors.\n\nEngland's Department of Health says there is no reason to change current guidance.\n\nIt follows a comprehensive review of all the evidence around the new variants and the impact on PPE.\n\nAt present, most nurses working outside of intensive care wear standard surgical masks.\n\nBut the RCN says they may not protect them against the new variant of the virus, and very small airborne viral particles spread in hospitals.\n\nInstead, it wants all NHS staff to be given the kinds of high-grade face masks used in intensive care units, called FFP2 or FFP3 masks.\n\nThe UK guidance on infection prevention and control has recently been updated, but nurses say it allows individual trusts to decide what PPE to use.\n\nAs a result, some hospitals are offering staff high-grade PPE while many are not - and that is leading to unequal levels of protection depending on where nurses work.\n\nMany nurses wear standard surgical masks outside of intensive care\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: \"The government's silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff.\n\n\"It must stop dragging its feet on this issue. Nursing staff need to have full confidence that they are protected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff picking up this virus at work are angered at any suggestion they have stopped following the rules - this is down to the new variant and the dangerous shortage of adequate protection.\"\n\nNHS England data shows a 22% rise in the average number of healthcare staff off sick because of Covid-19 in the first week of January, compared with the last week in December.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care in England said the safety of NHS and social care staff was \"top priority\" but the current guidance did not need changing.\n\n\"In response to the new Covid-19 variants, the UK Infection Prevention Control Cell conducted a comprehensive review of all available evidence and concluded that current guidance and PPE recommendations remain the right ones.\n\n\"New and emerging evidence is continually scrutinised and evaluated by the government, in conjunction with our world-leading scientists,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is asking the governments of the UK to:\n\nIt is also calling for the Health and Safety Executive to review the guidance on appropriate use of PPE in all health and care settings.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "Morriston is seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people die in intensive care\n\nAn intensive care consultant said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nDr John Gorst said the number was \"unprecedented\" at his unit in Swansea's Morriston Hospital that would normally only see one person die.\n\nHe said the second wave of the pandemic was more challenging with patients more severely unwell.\n\nIn Wales, there has been an average of about 34 deaths a day during the pandemic up to 19 January.\n\nNew Year's Day saw the most Covid-related deaths in a single day in Wales - 55 - since the pandemic began.\n\n\"In some 12-hour periods we have lost up to five coronavirus patients,\" said Dr Gorst.\n\n\"Usually we expect to see, on average, one patient a day dying in the intensive care unit. To have five die on one day is unprecedented.\n\n\"That's been a real struggle for their families and for the staff dealing with it.\"\n\nFour additional medical wards have opened to cope with the impact of coronavirus at Morriston, with about 300 patients being treated.\n\nDr John Gorst and senior matron Carol Doggett say Covid patients are sicker and younger in the second wave\n\nDr Gorst said: \"If it wasn't for the treatment given on the wards, intensive care would have been completely overwhelmed.\n\n\"However, when patients have failed on these treatments, sadly the safety net of the intensive care unit [and] getting them on an invasive ventilator, largely doesn't work.\n\n\"Most patients who come to intensive care to go on an intensive ventilator, sadly, will not survive.\n\n\"These patients are mostly of working age. They don't have any significant medical conditions.\"\n\n\"This is alien to us as an intensive care unit. We expect far more patients to survive. Now they are not.\"\n\nMorriston's senior matron Carol Doggett agreed that the \"number of sicker patients has definitely increased\", and she said they were younger than had been experienced in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"That should be a stark warning to anyone not to take chances with this,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there was cause for concern over new variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the new highly contagious strain - sometimes called the Kent variant - is now widespread across Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government was closely monitoring three new variant variants: one from South Africa and two from Brazil.\n\nSix cases of the South African variant have been identified in Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record.\n\nAnd another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to everyone to \"take personal responsibility this New Year's Eve and stay at home\".\n\nHe said he knew how much had been sacrificed this year but, with the NHS under pressure, \"we cannot let up\".\n\nOn Thursday, just after midnight, 20 million more people in England were placed under the toughest restrictions and told to stay at home.\n\nThe new restrictions mean 44 million people, or 78% of the population of England, are now in tier four, where non-essential shops, gyms, cinemas and hairdressers have to stay shut.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said Christmas week had seen a worrying rise in cases - particularly among adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"We have all had to make huge sacrifices this year, but please ensure that you keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask,\" she said.\n\n\"A night in at new year will mean you are significantly reducing your social contacts and can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThe 981 deaths recorded on Wednesday was the highest daily figure since April.\n\nMuch of the rise in cases has been blamed on the spread of a new variant, which scientists believe is able to transmit more easily.\n\nIt was initially concentrated in the London, the South East and eastern England, but Mr Hancock has said it is now responsible for the \"majority\" of new cases across the UK.\n\nWith the number of Covid patients in hospitals increasing, some are being moved long distances for intensive care.\n\nDr Michael Marsh, NHS England medical director for the south-west region, said patients had come from Kent to Plymouth and Bristol, where services were \"less stretched\".\n\nThe latest NHS Test and Trace figures show 232,169 people tested positive for Covid in England at least once in the week to 23 December, up 33% on the previous week and the highest weekly rise on record.\n\nCovid case rates are continuing to rise in all regions of England - with London's rate at 735.5 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up from 711.9 the previous week, the latest Public Health England report showed.\n\nEastern England saw the second highest rate, 551.3 up from 510.8, followed by south-east England at 450.6, up from 427.4.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland recorded 2,622 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours - a record high for the third day in a row.\n\nPublic Health Wales reported a further 1,831 cases in Wales, with the highest case rates in Bridgend (825.6 for every 100,000 people) and Merthyr Tydfil (754.2).\n\nAnd Northern Ireland has seen another 1,929 cases in the last 24 hours, as hospitals come close to capacity with latest figures showing only six empty beds.\n\nSome hospital trusts in the south of England have also been reporting that they are under extreme pressure because of increasing numbers of Covid patients.\n\nOn Wednesday, Essex and Buckinghamshire declared major incidents, while an intensive care doctor at London's Whittington Hospital said they were facing a \"tsunami\" of Covid cases.\n\nProf Hugh Montgomery said people who did not follow social distancing rules or wear masks \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nThe NHS said London's Nightingale Hospital had been \"reactivated\" and was ready to admit patients, in anticipation of rising pressures from the spread of the new variant.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Father (left) and son have had divergent views on Brexit in the past\n\nThe father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.\n\nStanley Johnson told France's RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France.\n\nThe 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nHis son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.\n\nStanley Johnson explained his reasons for seeking French citizenship in an interview broadcast on Thursday, hours before the UK was due to leave EU trading rules.\n\n\"It's not about becoming French,\" he told RTL. \"It's about reclaiming what I already have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. \"I will always be European,\" he added.\n\nStanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.\n\nBrexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister's sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.\n\nTheir brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.", "Tampon tax activist Laura Coryton says scrapping the tampon tax is an important move ‘ending a symptom of sexism’\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.\n\nEU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the end to what they called a \"sexist tax\" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was \"about ending a symptom of sexism\".\n\nThe UK was able to get rid of the tax now because it is no longer subject to European Union rules on sanitary products.\n\nThe EU is itself in the process of abolishing the tampon tax. In 2018 the European Commission published proposals to change the VAT rules, which would give countries the right to stop taxing tampons and other period products, but the move has not yet been agreed by all members. The Republic of Ireland has zero VAT on sanitary products as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing the 5% minimum VAT rate on EU members.\n\nMs Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move \"challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women\".\n\nThe move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.\n\nFelicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: \"It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books.\"\n\nThe Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nIt's been a long road to getting the tampon tax abolished in the UK. Campaigning and debates in parliament by then-MP for Dewsbury Ann Taylor led to the Labour government moving sanitary products to a reduced rate of 5% from January 2001- the lowest rate possible under the EU's VAT rules.\n\nAnd following more campaigning in 2014 by Ms Coryton and lobbying in parliament by former Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff in 2016, the Conservative government announced that all VAT collected on sanitary products would henceforth be given to charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nAt the same time, the government enshrined in legislation that it would abolish the tampon tax.\n\n\"I'm just so happy and relieved and excited at the same time for this tax to finally be axed,\" said Ms Coryton.\n\n\"It will mean a reduction in prices for period products, and that reduction in cost will be important for the increasing number of people who are battling with poverty, especially due to the pandemic.\"\n\nGemma Abbott is a lawyer and campaigner with the Free Periods group, which successfully campaigned for the government to provide free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England in 2019. The scheme launched in January.\n\nGemma Abbott wants clarity from the government on why the free sanitary products for schools scheme is not mandatory\n\n\"I think it's great news and a real testament to the determined campaigning of many people, like Paula Sheriff and Laura Coryton,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we can agree that any tax that characterises period products as non-essential is absurd and it has no place in a society that is seeking genuine gender equality.\"\n\nFree Periods is now campaigning to ensure that schools and colleges know that the free sanitary products scheme exists and that they sign up for them.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"The latest statistics we have are from last term - at that point only 40% of schools had signed up for the scheme.\"\n\nMs Coryton has set up a social enterprise called Sex Ed Matters with her sister Julia, providing talks in schools and toolkits for teachers to help them deliver the mandatory new sex education curriculum for primary and secondary schools issued in early 2020.\n\nThey did an online survey of 150 teachers and students across the UK, and 100% of respondents said that there is still a stigma attached to periods.\n\n\"If there is a stigma attached to periods, then you're unlikely to speak up when you need period products, or to talk about the free sanitary products scheme that exists,\" stressed Ms Coryton.\n\nBut Free Periods' Ms Abbott is also concerned about the charities supporting women and girls, who will no longer benefit from the proceeds of the previous 5% tax on sanitary products.\n\n\"The tampon tax fund has provided much needed support and funding to a chronically underfunded area,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that the removal of the tampon tax will spell the end of the ring-fenced funding for charities to address really vital issues like domestic violence and rape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.\n\nThe band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.\n\nBut eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.\n\nFly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.\n\nIt comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.\n\nThe duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: \"The KLF have left the music business.\"\n\nDriving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, \"I died for ewe\".\n\nCauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.\n\nIn recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a \"people's pyramid\", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.\n\nBut fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several \"sound-alike\" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.\n\nThe band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.\n\nThe Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sistersofperpetualresistance This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.\n\nIt read: \"KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.\n\n\"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral.\"\n\nThe text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.\n\n\"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.\n\n\"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK celebrated the start of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRevellers were not able to gather to celebrate the London mayor's display in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nThe new year celebrations also featured a message of hope from David Attenborough.\n\nWatch the full display on the BBC iPlayer", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is one of five men who have been rebailed by police\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he will not fight for re-election in May due to an ongoing bribery and witness intimidation investigation.\n\nMr Anderson, 62, made the announcement after Merseyside Police said he had been rebailed until February following his arrest earlier this month.\n\nHe tweeted he was \"disappointed\" with the police decision as he had \"provided all of the information they asked for\".\n\nHe said it was in the Labour Party's best interests to pick a new candidate.\n\nMr Anderson was arrested on 4 December, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nThe year-long investigation, Operation Aloft, has focused on a number of building and development contracts in Liverpool.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Anderson said he was \"stepping away from decision-making\" and would take unpaid leave while the police investigation continued.\n\nThe Labour Party also suspended Mr Anderson pending its outcome.\n\nMr Anderson said he would \"continue to fight to demonstrate that I am innocent of any wrongdoing [and] also to protect my legacy as mayor of this city of which I am proud\".\n\nHe said the timing of the police investigation meant \"it would be in the best interests of the Labour Party to select a new candidate for the mayoral election\".\n\nMr Anderson also wrote: \"I have dedicated my life to this city with loyalty and passion and I am not prepared to throw that away.\"\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on Liverpool City Council, called on Mr Anderson to immediately resign from the local authority.\n\nMr Kemp said his Labour opponent was a \"lame duck mayor\" who was \"preventing the city from moving on\".\n\nMr Anderson said he hoped the police investigation would be completed \"long before\" the expiry of his term of office.\n\nHe said it would confirm he had \"done nothing wrong\" and his name and reputation \"will be exonerated\".\n\n\"I have never done anything that would harm this city,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Merseyside Police said five men had been rebailed until 19 February.\n\nThe Labour Party has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.\n\nAs a player, Glasgow-born Docherty made more than 300 appearances for Preston and won 25 caps for Scotland.\n\nHe went on to manage 12 clubs, leading Chelsea to League Cup success in 1965 and United to a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup final.\n\n\"Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy be respected at this time.\"\n• None Docherty - manager of many clubs, quicks and one-liners\n\nDocherty - affectionately known by his nickname 'The Doc' - died at home in the north west of England on 31 December.\n\nAfter spells managing Chelsea, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa and Porto, he took over as Scotland boss in September 1971 on a temporary basis before getting the job full-time two months later.\n\nBut he was best known for his five-year spell at Manchester United, who approached him to succeed Frank O'Farrell in December 1972 while Scotland were on course to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals.\n\nUnited were relegated in 1974 under Docherty but they kept the Scot and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking. Two years later, they won the FA Cup with victory over Bob Paisley's Liverpool, who had won the league and would go on to also win the European Cup that year.\n\nDocherty's time at Old Trafford also saw George Best fail to revive his United career, the retirement of Bobby Charlton, and the departure of Denis Law.\n\nIn 2014, he told the BBC he still regretted his decision to leave the Scotland job for United.\n\n\"I was stupid,\" he said. \"I should have stayed with Scotland. [It was] partly the money, I have to be honest about that.\"\n\nDocherty was sacked shortly after the Wembley triumph for having an affair with Mary Brown, the wife of United physiotherapist Laurie Brown.\n\nThe pair later married and they remained together until his death.\n\nDocherty returned to management with First Division side Derby in September 1977, then rejoined QPR two years later. A turbulent time at Loftus Road saw him sacked in May 1980, reinstated after just nine days, then sacked again the following October.\n\nSpells at Sydney Olympic, Preston, South Melbourne and Wolves followed, with Docherty's final managerial job coming at non-league Altrincham in 1987-88.\n\nPost-retirement, he worked as an after-dinner speaker and media pundit.\n\nDocherty was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2013.\n\n\"He was tenacious on the park and a great leader off it,\" Petrie added.\n\n\"Tommy was a regular in the Scotland side in the 1950s that qualified for two World Cups, and his record as Scotland manager was impressive, albeit cut short.\n\n\"Looking at the results and performances he inspired, it is hard not to wonder what might have been had he remained.\n\n\"His charisma and love for the game shone even after he stopped managing and it was entirely fitting Tommy should be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame for his lifelong service.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA £2,500 reward has been offered after a nativity scene was petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene in Raglan, Monmouthshire, had been installed in a bus shelter for families to enjoy over Christmas.\n\nThe fire destroyed statues of a shepherd, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus - with only the three wise men surviving as they stood outside the shelter.\n\nMiguel Santiago, of the Beaufort Hotel which funded the £10,000 scene, said the attack was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"I was in the hotel when I saw the fire and I went into panic mode,\" he said.\n\n\"It was about 21:45 on Christmas Eve when it all happened and I ended up using nine extinguishers to put it out.\"\n\nThe wooden nativity was funded by the hotel and put together by retired theatre design lecturer Liz Friendship.\n\nMs Friendship said the festive scene had also been targeted by thieves in the past.\n\n\"In 2018 Mary was taken, in 2019 two shepherds were stolen and never came back, and in 2020 it's burnt down.\n\n\"It's now just three kings staring at the bus stop. It's very sad.\"\n\nThe scene was in ruins following the petrol bomb attack\n\nVillagers are now appealing for help to catch the suspects responsible for the Christmas crime.\n\nMr Santiago added: \"It's a shame because so much effort went into putting it together this year.\n\n\"We added three kings which really made it a great sight, we made sure the figures couldn't be taken by fixing them down.\n\n\"It's really disappointing that this has happened but the locals have been great and we will be back next year with a bigger and better nativity.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: \"Officers are investigating a report of criminal damage to a nativity scene on the High Street, in Raglan on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It has been reported that fire damage was caused to the set at approximately 9.45pm on the evening of Thursday 24th December 2020.\n\n\"The scene that belonged to the Beaufort Hotel was totally damaged as a result.\"\n\nAnyone with information should contact police on 101, she said.", "The crowd at Edinburgh Castle dispersed after police arrived\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year despite police and government warnings to stay away.\n\nPeople sang and danced before dispersing when several police vans and cars drove on to the castle esplanade.\n\nMost Scots heeded warnings to hold Hogmanay celebrations at home with household members.\n\nThere were no midnight fireworks at the castle, but a display was held at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We were aware of gatherings at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill around midnight on Hogmanay.\n\n\"Officers safely engaged with those in attendance and explained the current government regulations resulting in the groups dispersing without incident.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that there should be \"no gatherings, no house parties and no first footing\" at Hogmanay.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and Skye are under level four restrictions, while the other islands are in level three.\n\nDetails have meanwhile emerged of another police enforcement action against a group who gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle during the festive period.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 32 people were charged with culpable and reckless conduct after officers were called out on 27 December.\n\nAccording to the Scottish Sun, the group had travelled from Glasgow but police were tipped off by locals who spotted vehicles parked outside the property.\n\nPeople in Scotland were urged to stay at home and celebrate the new year with their families\n\nAt Edinburgh Castle, one Hogmanay tradition endured as a lone piper played in the new year at midnight.\n\nWith the capital's traditional new year party cancelled, the organisers of its annual Hogmanay celebration instead released a series of \"drone swarm\" videos titled Fare Well.\n\nThe display featured a swarm of 150 illuminated drones forming symbols and animals in a \"beautiful ode to Scotland\".\n\nEach video was narrated by actor David Tennant and included verses written by Scotland's official poet, makar Jackie Kay.\n\nWhile they appear to be flying above landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, the drones were flown elsewhere before being edited into other footage.\n\nDrones write a message in the sky above the Forth Bridge\n\nThe streets of central Edinburgh were quiet, in contrast to last year's Hogmanay celebrations when about 100,000 visitors attended the street party with live performances from Idlewild and Mark Ronson in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nElsewhere in the UK this year a fireworks and light display, including tributes to NHS staff, was held over the River Thames in London, but people were also told to stay at home rather than go out and celebrate.\n• None UK sees in 2021 with fireworks and light show", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads Image caption: Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads\n\nEarlier we reported that a study by Imperial College had concluded the new coronavirus variant is \"hugely\" more transmissible. Now some experts are saying that means even tougher restrictions will soon be needed.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said: \"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread - more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person passes the virus onto. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nEarly data suggested that the virus was spreading more quickly among the under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children, but the latest results indicate that it is more infectious in all age groups.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, part of the research team, suggested that it may have appeared to spread more easily among school children simply because the early data was collected during the November lockdown, when adults' movements were restricted but schools remained open.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and teachers have criticised the closure decisions\n\nNine London boroughs have written to the education secretary asking him to reverse plans to reopen primary schools in some areas.\n\nAbout a million primary school pupils will not return to lessons next week in a bid to cut Covid transmission rates.\n\nHowever, schools in 10 London boroughs are due to remain open.\n\nIn the letter, the leaders said they were \"struggling to understand the rationale\" behind the idea as pupils and teachers moved between boroughs.\n\nThe government has said the measure would be reviewed fortnightly.\n\nAll primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January but under government plans those in 23 London boroughs will remain closed.\n\nHowever, schools in the City of London, Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Islington, Kingston, Lambeth and Lewisham will open.\n\nThe letter to Gavin Williamson has been signed by leaders of all of those boroughs apart from Kingston. It has also been signed by the City of London's policy chair.\n\nIt calls for primary school pupils across the capital to \"move to online learning until 18 January\", apart from vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\n\"The omission of 10 boroughs ignores the deep interconnectedness of our city, and the many thousands of teachers and students that study or teach in one borough and live in another,\" the letter states.\n\nThe councils also said they had received legal advice that omitting some councils from the list of areas told to take teaching online \"is unlawful on a number of grounds and can be challenged in court\".\n\nRichard Watts, leader of Islington Council, told the BBC there \"seems to be no reason at all to look at this on a borough by borough basis\".\n\n\"The entirety of the rest of the government's handling of the pandemic has rightly treated London as a single entity and this is the first time anyone... has tried to implement different public health measures in different boroughs,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement Dan Thorpe, leader of the Royal borough of Greenwich, accused the government of providing \"a lack of clarity and answers\", adding that the situation was \"causing uncertainty and concern among our schools, families, carers, and undoubtedly children and young people\".\n\nAlthough Kingston Council did not sign the letter, leader Caroline Kerr said reopening primary schools in the borough \"doesn't make any sense\" and that they were \"urgently seeking clarity on the reasoning for the decision\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called the plans \"nonsensical\" and has also written to the government calling for a \"delay to all London schools opening until mid-January\".\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the education secretary \"must listen to the leaders of the community, he must listen to school staff and he must listen to the general public who are all telling him that it is not safe to reopen schools on Monday\".\n\nThe Department for Education has previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician was known for his performances in which he always wore a mask\n\nHip-hop star MF Doom has died at the age of 49, his family confirmed on social media.\n\nThe London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.\n\nIn a post on the rapper's Instagram account on Thursday, his wife Jasmine confirmed that he died on 31 October.\n\nA number of artists have paid tribute to MF Doom including Run The Jewels and Tyler, The Creator.\n\nIn a note addressed to the rapper, his wife paid tribute to \"the greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for\".\n\nHis representatives confirmed his death to Rolling Stone magazine. No cause of death was disclosed.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mfdoom This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMF Doom was born in London but moved to New York as a child.\n\nAs a teenager he performed in hip-hop group KMD. Following the loss of his younger brother and bandmate DJ Subroc, he disappeared from music becoming, in his own words, \"damn near homeless\".\n\nBut in 1997, he remerged at open mic events in Manhattan, wearing tights over his face. He protected his anonymity for the rest of his career, adopting a mask based on the Marvel villain Doctor Doom for all his public appearances.\n\nHis debut as MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, was released in 1999, and he followed it up with an almost non-stop outpouring of music.\n\nAs well as six solo albums, he produced a wealth of bootlegs, compilations, collaborations, mixtapes and instrumental albums - including the influential, 10-part Special Herbs series.\n\nHe may be best known for 2004's Madvillainy, which was recorded with crate-digging producer Madlib under the moniker Madvillain, and gave the rapper his first entry on the US album chart.\n\nAnother of his high-profile collaborations was Danger Doom alongside DJ Danger Mouse, and he appeared with Damon Albarn's Gorillaz on their UK number one album Demon Days. Other collaborators included Ghostface Killah, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches and Radiohead.\n\nOne of hip-hop's most respected MCs, he made appearances on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1 in which he discussed his own music and projects with other artists.\n\nMany of them lined up to pay tribute after news of his death broke on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"RIP to another Giant, your favourite MC's MC... MF DOOM,\" wrote A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on Twitter. \"Crushing news.\"\n\n\"He was a writer's writer,\" added El-P of Run The Jewels. \"Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.\"\n\n\"All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,\" Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy. \"My soul is crushed.\"\n\nApple Music presenter Zane Lowe said: \"Rest In Peace to the great MF Doom. A true artist who gifted us with eternal innovation and creativity.\"\n\nWhile the Sleaford Mods said: \"RIP MF DOOM. Sleep well mate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe UK has seen off 2020 and celebrated the dawn of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff.\n\nRevellers were not able to ring in the New Year in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nPolice had to break up various parties and events across England overnight.\n\nForces have handed out hundreds of fines, with several issuing the maximum £10,000 to event organisers.\n\nMuch of the UK saw in the new year while under lockdown rules, with about 44 million people in England - or 78% of the population - in tier four, the top level of Covid restrictions.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are also under lockdown.\n\nAlthough people were warned not to attend any parties outside their own homes, there were many around the country who ignored the rules.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police attended 58 parties and unlicensed music events in breach of tier four rules across London overnight, the vast majority of which ended when police intervened, they added.\n\nFixed penalty fines were given to 217 people while five others could be fined £10,000 for organising large gatherings. The police force said four other people were arrested for breaching Covid regulations by gathering in central London.\n\nElsewhere, other forces also broke up parties and handed out hundreds of fines. They included Greater Manchester Police, which issued 105 fixed penalty notices at house parties and larger gatherings. And Leicestershire Police had to issue six on-the-spot £10,000 fines to party organisers.\n\nIn Essex, hundreds of people were dispersed from an illegal New Year's Eve party at a church, while Lancashire Police broke up a party in Hyndburn, near Blackburn, attended by 80.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland, Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled, with videos of a drone display released instead.\n\nThe series of videos showed a swarm of 150 lit-up drones over the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh were released, which organisers said it was the largest drone show ever produced in the UK.\n\nDespite the cancellation of Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay celebration - which normally attracts 100,000 people on the city's streets - there were some people who ignored the pleas to stay at home.\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year. They sang Auld Lang Syne and danced before eventually dispersing when several police vans and cars pulled on to the castle esplanade.\n\nAn anti-lockdown protest and New Year's Eve celebration was also held in London\n\nPeople cross Hungerford Bridge in London on New Year's Eve\n\nOn New Year's Eve, Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on people to take \"personal responsibility\" and stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nLondon's 10-minute display over the Thames aired on the BBC at midnight, and began with a poem which addressed the pandemic, that said: \"In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way; We knew what must be done and so to help we hid away.\"\n\nLight projections lit up the sky over the O2 Arena, including the NHS logo in a heart accompanied by a child's voice saying: \"Thank you NHS heroes\".\n\nThe show also recognised Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £33m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden and the Black Lives Matter movement. One 2020 phenomena - working from home - was represented with a mute logo backed by a voiceover saying \"You're on mute\".\n\nThe display ended with a call from Sir David Attenborough about the need for action on climate change.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the display had reflected the resolve of Londoners to endure\n\n300 drones were used in the display to create images in the sky\n\nIn a speech being broadcast on BBC One between Doctor Who and EastEnders this evening, Sir David will say that this \"could be a year for positive change - for ourselves, for our planet and for the wonderful creatures with which we share it\".\n\nDespite the \"challenging\" times we live in, \"the reactions to these extraordinary times has proved that when we work together there is no limit to what we can accomplish\", he will say, as he looks ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year.\n\nThe sounds of a video conference call starting up were played\n\nMuch of London was far quieter than usual\n\nEdinburgh's streets were largely empty, with Police Scotland warning against Hogmanay gatherings\n\nOfficial figures showed 10.75 million viewers watched the 2021 New Year celebrations on BBC One. It's down from the 11.18m who saw in the start of 2020 on the channel.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was proud of the show, which he said \"paid tribute to our NHS heroes and the way that Londoners continue to stand together\".\n\n\"We showed how our capital and the UK have made huge sacrifices to support one another through these difficult times, and how they will continue to do so as the vaccine is rolled out.\"\n\nUsually, around 100,000 people pack into the streets around Victoria Embankment to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his New Year's message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he saw \"reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead\" despite the \"tremendous pain and sadness\" brought by 2020.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas' hospital during the pandemic, saying: \"Sometimes the most important thing we do is just sit with people, letting them know they are not alone.\"\n\nIn his message, filmed at the London hospital and broadcast on BBC One on Friday afternoon, he said: \"This crisis has shown us how fragile we are. It has also shown us how to face this fragility.\n\n\"Here at the hospital, hope is there in every hand that's held, and every comforting word that's spoken.\n\n\"Up and down the country, it's there in every phone call. Every food parcel or thoughtful card. Every time we wear our masks.\"\n\nDid you make a special effort to celebrate this New Year? How did you mark it? Share your experiences and pictures of what you got up to by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "For months, the government has been urging businesses to get ready for a new era in trading with the EU. But it was only on Boxing Day that details of all the new rules were actually published.\n\nBusiness groups are relieved that the threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would have meant tariffs (or taxes) on goods crossing the border with the EU, has been removed. But companies that trade with the EU are still facing a lot of new bureaucracy.\n\nAnd the disruption in mid-December, caused by border closures related to the new variant of Covid-19, was a reminder of how dependent the UK economy is on trade across the English Channel.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, goods entering the EU from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) face large amounts of new paperwork and checks, including:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHauliers will also need to make sure they have the right transportation paperwork before they drive to the border.\n\nThere is particular focus on the \"short straits\" route between Dover and Calais, and the nearby Channel Tunnel, which taken together handle about four million lorries a year.\n\n\"This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,\" says William Bain from the British Retail Consortium.\n\nFull controls on British exports to the EU began on 1 January. The first day of the new regime appears to have gone relatively smoothly.\n\nBut it's feared that later in the year, the new controls could cause disruption, even though new border infrastructure has been built at ports such as Calais, to help process vehicles more efficiently.\n\nThere are some mitigating measures though.\n\nIn response to the Covid crisis, the government is delaying full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU for a further six months.\n\nThere will be checks from 1 January on controlled substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and traders deemed to be a risk will also be asked to fill in customs declarations.\n\nBut most checks on goods coming in from the EU will be delayed until 1 July, a deadline that could in theory be extended.\n\n\"I think we will want to monitor it,\" the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, told MPs in November. \"Hopefully we will not still be in a situation where Covid-19 is consuming as much of people's attention.\"\n\nOther measures to tackle potential disruption include diverting trade to other ports around the country and opening lorry parks in Kent, to avoid gridlock on the roads.\n\nSome of these contingencies were put into action early, to deal with the Covid border closures in December.\n\nOperation Brock, for example, involved changing the layout of a section of the M20, using a concrete barrier to allow lorries heading for mainland Europe to queue safely on the motorway.\n\nThousands of lorries were also diverted to temporary parking at a disused airport at Manston.\n\nFrom 1 January drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to acquire a Kent Access Permit before they enter the county. They will have to show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nBut that doesn't deal with the challenge of the thousands of vans that cross the Channel every week.\n\n\"What has been serially misunderstood by various parts of government is the scale of the complexity for people on the ground dealing with the paperwork,\" says Duncan Buchanan, the Policy Director of the Road Haulage Association.\n\nThat could mean that instead of queues on motorways, many traders won't be able to leave their depots.\n\n\"Either they won't be able to get vets to sign off on their meat exports, or they won't be able to get their permit because they don't have the right bits of paper,\" says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Storage Federation.\n\n\"We might see a quite significant holding off of trading - people just not moving stuff in the first few weeks.\"\n\nEighty-five per cent of the volume of trade between the EU and Great Britain is carried by EU hauliers, who are often paid not by the hour, but by the kilometre. If they think there will be too many delays, many may simply not come.\n\nThe government says the readiness of traders to deal with the new system remains its biggest concern.\n\nLorries parked on the M20 in Kent\n\n\"The sheer scale of the overall operation means there are literally many millions of moving parts,\" permanent secretary of the cabinet office Alex Chisholm told MPs. \"Inevitably there are going to be some difficulties for some individual people as they adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nThe government has also announced a new Border Operations Centre as part of plans \"for the UK to have the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about how changes at the border might affect food supply. The short answer is no-one can say for sure, but nearly 30% of all the food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU.\n\nThe good news is that there is a deal, which makes a big difference. But the challenge is particularly acute because the UK grows relatively small amounts of fruit and vegetables in January and February and is most dependent on supplies from southern Europe at this time of year.\n\nSo, if there are delays, they could cause some shortages on the shelves.\n\n\"Some gaps are possible but we're not going to run out of food - that's not going to happen\" says Ian Wright.\n\nWhen it comes to non-perishable items, there had been some stockpiling in preparation for either outcome, but extra supplies won't last forever.\n\n\"The crunch point is probably not going to be in the first few days or weeks of January,\" William Bain argues. \"Towards the end of the month, when new orders start being placed and delivered, we will start to see the processes in Kent and the other ports really tested.\"\n\nAnd it's not only about food.\n\nOther retailers, which are used to moving their stock freely around the EU customs union, have had to create separate supply chains for the UK. That is costing them more money, and their new systems have yet to be tested properly.\n\nIt's not just about trade across the English Channel.\n\nTrade across the Irish Sea between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be subject to the same pressures, while Northern Ireland will be a special case under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland will remain in the EU single market for goods, and unlike the rest of the UK it will continue to enjoy frictionless trade with the EU with no checks of any kind at the land border with the Republic.\n\nBut there is a price to pay for that - new bureaucracy within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU, for example, has strict rules on products of animal origin: meat, milk, fish and eggs.\n\nThese products must enter the single market (and, from 1 January, Northern Ireland) through a border control post where paperwork is checked, and a proportion of goods physically inspected.\n\nThere will be a grace period of three months for supermarkets and their suppliers, but some smaller traders may have to get used to the new rules straight away.\n\nAll shipments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will also need a safety and security declaration, and a customs declaration from a new IT system which none of the traders have used before.\n\nThe government has set up a Trader Support Service to help.\n\nThe details of the new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were announced separately in early December, and provided some clarity. They include an agreement which means the vast majority of goods being shipped from GB to NI will not be at risk of having tariffs imposed.\n\nBut there are plenty of unresolved issues.\n\nTraders are seeking answers about how to send parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and some online retailers have already suspended deliveries.\n\nThe trade from British to Northern Irish ports often involves multiple small shipments on a single lorry - all of which will need the right paperwork.\n\n\"We need clear rules for everyone in the supply chain,\" says Duncan Buchanan, \"and when you scratch the surface it is just not ready.\"\n\nIt is expected that many checks will be carried out on a 'light touch' basis to begin with.\n\nBut anyone trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is going to have to get used to a new way of working very quickly.", "Nearly half a century of the UK's membership of the European Union and its predecessor organisations ended in January of course.\n\nWhat has now ended is the UK's economic membership of the bloc. Forty-eight years in the European customs union, basically the Common Market, and 28 years in the single market.\n\nThe Single Market was a creation for which the UK has paternity rights. It was Margaret Thatcher's rallying call for European reform, her calling card to unleash a wave of Japanese investment in post-industrial Britain and shepherded into existence by her appointee as commissioner Arthur Cockfield.\n\nIts creation served the UK's economic interests, as it grew the home domestic market available for British exporters without tariff or non-tariff barriers, eventually to nearly half a billion Europeans. It was not without irony that the tortuous negotiations of the past four years were made tougher by the EU's insistence on defending what it calls the \"internal market\", itself created by the British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndeed the institutional underpinning of this huge marketplace became too much for Mrs Thatcher. Famously she became suspicious of Commission President Delors turning up to tell the TUC that through the European Union workers could reassert rights rolled back by the Conservative Government.\n\nAt her 1988 Bruges speech PM Thatcher replied: \"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.\"\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market\n\nPerhaps this was the beginning of the path to Brexit, carried along by the push to monetary union and resentment at the overreach of the European Court of Justice and the considerable impact of the \"direct effect\" of community and then union law.\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market. Mrs Thatcher's campaigning for EEC membership was quickly followed by a charm offensive that began as opposition leader to get Japanese investors to build high tech factories to sell cars tariff-free across Europe.\n\nFor the UK it would provide employment, technology, capital and competition for the languishing nationalised UK-owned auto sector.\n\nOngoing membership of the EEC, restrictions on union activity and investment tax breaks were part of the deal communicated in writing to the then chairman of Nissan.\n\nThe Datsun Bluebird was being developed in Sunderland and around the same time the Italians and the French threatened to slap tariffs on what they saw as a Japanese ruse to avoid tariffs and undercut their industry.\n\nThe UK government quickly communicated that it was willing to take this matter to the European Court of Justice. The attempt to kill the Nissan factory at birth was fended off.\n\nFrom this, the UK car industry and other advanced manufacturing prospered from being plugged into rapid continent-wide supply chains, delivering each part just in time and just in sequence.\n\nAll of that was enabled by conformity of regulations, standards, zero tariffs and the eradication of non-tariff barriers, for sale, but also within the manufacturing process.\n\nThe UK became the financial centre for the euro\n\nSimilar stories could be told about the pharmaceutical industry, chemicals, the food industry, aerospace, and financial services.\n\nWithin the EU, the UK even became the financial centre for a new currency, the euro, which it did not participate in.\n\nThe single market itself, with regulations set and enforced in Brussels, became a player on the world stage. And yet there was a balancing act. The UK could influence the direction of one of the biggest tankers in the sea but was restricted in acting more nimbly in new industries. In some sectors, the UK's trade dealings with the US or Asia were more important than with Europe.\n\nAnd so this tension led to breaking point. And for the Conservative Party in particular the single market's institutions it created and championed, became something akin to Frankenstein's monster.\n\nThe EU has agreed an investment deal with China\n\nSome Brexiteers had hoped that the edifice would collapse once the UK left. But it has proven more robust than that. Indeed, Brexit has proven a catalyst of the EU to sign trade and investment deals far more quickly, including even with China.\n\nSo now the UK finds itself outside of the machine it created as its strategic competitor. The trade negotiation wasn't primarily about trade. Great Britain has declared regulatory independence, or to be more specific, has declared as much regulatory independence as is compatible with a zero-tariff trade deal.\n\nThe EU retains levers and switches to turn off some of these tariff advantages should the UK use the deal to turn into an offshore tariff free assembly hub for US and Asian manufacturing to be traded into the single market. Unlike with Nissan four decades ago, the European Court of Justice will no longer be there.\n\nThe global pharmaceutical industry offers an opportunity for the UK\n\nThe PM wants regulatory competition but his own deal contains disincentives, if not actual restrictions, on competing \"unfairly\" or too much.\n\nSo the strategy matters. Britain is free, but to do what exactly? To level up? Well the regions that need levelling up are the ones that are actually most dependent on exports to Europe. Exports to Europe will be spared tariffs, thanks to the deal, but there will be literally millions of non-tariff barriers, that the economists calculate matter more, from health checks, customs formalities, origin paperwork, assessments of standards etc.\n\nEven to qualify for tariff-free treatment means, according to new government guidance on \"rules of origin\", analysis of how complicated is the process of grating cheese, of the shelling of nuts, and formalities on where the eyes of a doll come from. Most apply legally from tonight, having been absent for decades.\n\nThe sweet spot for UK will now be to deploy regulatory freedom in sectors that are truly global, where we are not already overly dependent on EU markets.\n\nCertain sub-sectors within technology, finance and pharmaceuticals, for example. In each of these sectors the UK is likely to have to offer more friendly regulation to the multinational private sector, than the EU.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean lower standards: It could be that UK medicines regulators, for example, build on the record of rapid approval for Covid vaccines in other medical areas.\n\nThe deployment of massive scientific networks within the National Health service, used for rapid clinical testing, could become the envy of the world.\n\nBrexit Britain is likely to become a laboratory for the global economy. Car companies will need to be attracted with more permissive rules on data and, say autonomous driving testing. Some tech companies are already porting their UK customers to be served under US data privacy laws rather than more restrictive EU ones.\n\nBut the government will also have to be very active and judicious. We are already \"picking winners\" again, at least in the satellite business. What about electric power, where the EU will fight aggressively, versus hydrogen power?\n\nThere are a number of structural economic problems, from poor training, declining productivity and low investment that were not caused by EU membership which, in terms of non-tariff barriers, are made immediately worse by this type of Brexit, for which the UK has no option but to deal with.\n\nNorthern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market\n\nThat process of looking outwards may not come quickly. Holyrood and Stormont rejected the Brexit trade deal. The UK has replaced a single market of 500 million Europeans free of non-tariff barriers with a single market smaller than the size of the UK.\n\nThere is a trade border in the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market. There are non-tariff barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a result of this deal.\n\nLastly there are some big unknowns and unknowables.\n\nThe inadvertent diplomatic consequences of changes in trade patterns can be profound. If, for example, the eminent historian RW Johnson is to be believed, the UK's accession to the EEC in the first place created the conditions for the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime which was \"hurt in several ways\".\n\nBritish trade was remodelled away from the Commonwealth to Europe, the EEC offered favourable trade with all of Africa except Pretoria. And then when Portugal followed its ally the UK into the EEC, its African colonies and white rule quickly lost to revolutions by black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique.\n\n\"Thus the seeds of the 1976 Soweto uprising were sown\" in part by the UK joining the EEC. Which is obviously not to suggest the reverse would be true. It is merely to say that events such as these can have very unpredictable knock on effects.\n\nThe Prime Minister has succeeded in taking the UK out of the Single Market created by his heroes. The UK now stands outside a system that it helped invent. For now its new single market is not the size of the country.\n\nThe test of all of this, is to make the UK's new single market the size of the globe.", "Some lorries have been turned away for not having the correct paperwork\n\nPlans are in place to minimise disruption at Welsh ports - especially Holyhead - as the UK enters a post-Brexit new year.\n\nThe EU Brexit transition period is over, and lorry drivers heading to and from the Republic of Ireland require additional paperwork to travel.\n\nOfficials at Holyhead said some lorries have already been turned away because they had the wrong documentation.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was doing what it could to \"protect\" the port.\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said it was \"imperative\" contingency plans were in place for the island, as it wakes up to the new customs regime.\n\nFerry operators in Wales will now require freight customers to link customs information to their booking as they head for the Irish Republic.\n\nWithout that paperwork, port access will be refused.\n\n\"We've had the first few rejects, which is not unexpected,\" said Stena Line's Head of UK Ports, Ian Davies.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales from Holyhead on New Year's Day, he said it showed the new system was working.\n\n\"We've had people that have been passed and allowed to be shipped, and we've had a few failures as well, so it will be a learning curve for these customers.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said a \"worst case scenario\" published by the UK suggested 40% to 70% of heavy goods vehicles arriving at ports after transition ended on New Year's Eve may not have the right documentation to travel.\n\nThe peak period for turning vehicles away is expected to be mid-January.\n\n\"We simply don't know whether things are going to work,\" said Rod McKenzie, who is managing director of policy for the body representing lorry drivers and operators, the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"There is no question there will be problems, even if all the IT works, things could go wrong, and given traders' unfamiliarity with it there is the potential for a lot of mistakes to be made.\"\n\nA contraflow will allow lorries to be \"stacked\" on parts of the A55 if traffic builds\n\nThe association said it was more worried about \"invisible delays\" in the supply chain, rather than queues at ferry ports.\n\n\"Lorries might not leave their factory gate or depot because the paperwork isn't done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's really, really important that people try to get their paperwork right. The consequences of any mistakes will be a disruption of the supply chain.\"\n\nHe said the sector would know in about a week \"how it's going\".\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had been working to ensure any vehicles turned away from Pembroke Dock and Fishguard were dealt with away from the ports.\n\nIt has arranged overflow locations at Goodwick and Pembroke Dock for its own version of Dover's \"Operation Stack\", where lorries queue along the M20.\n\n\"The importance of Pembrokeshire's ports to the county, Wales and UK as a whole cannot be overestimated,\" said council leader David Simpson.\n\nHolyhead is the UK's second busiest roll-on roll-off ferry port\n\nOn Anglesey, a temporary contraflow is in force on the A55 expressway, eastbound between junctions two and four, allowing any traffic turned away from the port to be redirected back.\n\nIt will be moved to parking locations at Parc Cybi on the outskirts of the town, and if necessary, lorries will be parked on the cordoned-off A55 sections.\n\n\"We will monitor the situation carefully and as soon as it's safe to do so we will remove the temporary contraflow,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"While the next few days are expected to be quiet, we know it will become busier as we approach mid-January.\n\n\"Our aim is to do what we can to protect the port, town of Holyhead and wider community from any possible disruption.\"\n\nOn Friday, port authorities on Anglesey said freight traffic has been quiet, as expected over the bank holiday period.\n\nIt follows an steep rise in lorry crossings in the run up to Christmas and the end of the transition period.\n\nFerry operator Stena Line is also responsible for running Holyhead Port.\n\n\"We can't get complacent over the next few days,\" said a Stena spokesman.\n\n\"It's when freight levels come back up that we'll know whether the systems are really working and whether the hauliers are ready. That will be the real test.\"", "More than 35,000 people have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales\n\nThe Covid vaccine programme is at the \"very beginning\" and vaccination rates are increasing, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething has insisted.\n\nIt follows concerns raised by some politicians over the speed of Welsh vaccine rollout.\n\nInitial figures on how many people have received the first Pfizer-BioNTech jab show Wales is slightly behind those vaccinated elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Gething said there were likely to be \"small differences between nations\".\n\n\"Comparisons are naturally being made on the number of vaccinations administered by the four nations of the UK,\" he said in a ministerial statement to Senedd members.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise the data indicates there are other nations ahead of us, the national data presented at this very early stage of the vaccination roll out should be considered provisional and a snapshot of ongoing activity.\"\n\nHe said there would be \"lags\" in data being entered, and local factors affecting vaccinations.\n\n\"For example the vaccination centre in Cardiff and the Vale was unable to operate for two days because of a virus outbreak linked to the site,\" he added.\n\nMore than 35,000 people have now received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales, including healthcare workers who work in Wales but live over the border in England.\n\nAlmost 13,000 of these vaccines were given in the past week.\n\nThe number of vaccinations in Wales up until 27 December account for 1.12% of the Welsh population.\n\nIn England, 1.4% have received a jab, while in Scotland it is 1.7%, and 1.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Welsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies flagged his concerns about the vaccine delivery programme on Thursday.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, the first Covid-19 vaccine was given in Wales, and since that time we have sadly seen confusion and hope drop away,\" he said.\n\n\"Many people over 80 in Wales were desperately waiting for their appointment to do their bit and have the vaccine but as we quickly learnt they would have to wait longer,\" he said.\n\nBut the health minister said daily vaccination rates were \"increasing across Wales\".\n\nThe focus is on delivering vaccines effectively and safely, says Vaughan Gething\n\n\"Looking ahead, all health boards are preparing for significant expansion in capacity from the beginning of January,\" added Mr Gething.\n\nHe said the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved earlier this week would be available from some GPs in Wales from Monday.\n\n\"This is only the very beginning of what will be a programme spanning many months,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the urgency and priority required is clear to all, we must also have some patience and allow the NHS to do what it does so well.\n\n\"My focus, and that of the NHS, is on delivering the vaccine programme quickly but also effectively, safely and equitably.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also confirmed it will be following the latest advice from medical advisers on introducing a 12-week gap between the two doses of vaccines needed, for both types of approved jabs.\n\nAll four chief medical officers in the UK have supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\n\"It will ensure that more at-risk people are able to get protection from a vaccine in the coming weeks and months, reducing deaths and starting to ease pressure on our NHS,\" said Mr Gething.\n\nVaccinations started earlier in December after regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine\n\nPlaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to ask the UK government to publish evidence to justify increasing the period for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Gething, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the \"sudden switch\" represented \"a very significant departure\" from previous guidelines.\n\nHe added there were \"very real concerns\" that a longer delay between doses \"could significantly decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province remained under lockdown.\n\nMr Ford on Thursday said Mr Phillips' departure showed his government \"takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard\".\n\nCanada's most populous province has discouraged all non-essential travel amid record-high new case counts.\n\nMr Phillips, who is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, had taken a personal trip to St Barts on 13 December and returned on Thursday morning.\n\nAhead of the holiday season, Ontario health officials had urged residents to stay at home when possible amid an ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPeople line up on Christmas Day at a Covid test site in Ontario\n\nMr Phillips told reporters when he arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport he hoped to keep his job, but would respect the premier's decision.\n\n\"Obviously, I made a significant error in judgment, and I will be accountable for that,\" Mr Phillips said. \"I do not make any excuses for the fact that I travelled when we shouldn't have travelled.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Ford said in a statement he had accepted Mr Phillips' resignation following a conversation with him. Mr Ford has asked Peter Bethlenfalvy, currently president of the treasury board, to step into the finance minister role.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ford had said he learned of Mr Phillips travel two weeks ago, but said the minister \"never told anyone\" he was going to St Barts, according to CBC.\n\nOntario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Wednesday had pushed for Mr Phillip's firing, saying it was unacceptable for him to \"ignore public health advice\" while the government \"demands sacrifice from everyday Ontarians\".\n\n\"It's not believable that a senior member of cabinet didn't tell the premier's office he was leaving the country for weeks during the height of a global emergency,\" she said in a statement. \"If he didn't, that in itself would be enough reason to demote him.\"", "The UK's chief medical officers have defended the Covid vaccination plan, after criticism from a doctors' union.\n\nThe UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThe British Medical Association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nBut the chief medical officers said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second jab.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two vaccines were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nBut the chief medical officers said the \"great majority\" of initial protection came from the first jab.\n\n\"The second vaccine dose is likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy,\" they said.\n\n\"In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest; the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the second dose has, understandably, caused concern.\n\nThere is some evidence regulators say - at least for the Oxford vaccine - that it will actually boost immunity.\n\nBut for those who are due to get a second dose soon it will undoubtedly be upsetting that they now have to wait.\n\nBut the move is about practicalities. The UK is in the middle of a public health crisis and despite the fact that millions of doses are pre-ordered, there is concern the supply of the vaccine will not be as smooth as everyone would ideally want.\n\nThere is a global demand for these vaccines and there are bound to be times when supply does not meet demand.\n\nSo the logic of the move is that by spreading this thin resource the most widely, it will have the greatest benefit - not only to the vulnerable but to everyone.\n\nLives have been put on hold and livelihoods lost.\n\nThis is the quickest way back to some degree of normality.\n\nEven if it does leave some of the vaccinated susceptible to infection, it should in theory at least protect them from serious illness.\n\nGiven where we are now, the argument is that that is a price worth paying.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday - the second approved for use in the UK - regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses.\n\nThis means more people will get the first jab sooner, even if they have to wait longer for their second jab.\n\nExperts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\nDefending the move, the UK's four chief medical officers - including England's Prof Chris Whitty - said in a statement released on New Year's Eve: \"In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable.\"\n\nThey said they recognised that rescheduling second appointments was \"operationally very difficult\" and would \"distress patients who were looking forward to being fully immunised\".\n\nHowever, they said that for every 1,000 patients booked in for a second dose, which will \"gain marginally on protection from severe disease\", that would mean 1,000 more people missing out on \"substantial initial protection\".\n\nThe chief medics said that, while one million people had already been vaccinated, approximately 30 million UK patients and health and social care workers eligible in the first phase \"remain totally unprotected and many are distressed or anxious about the wait for their turn\".\n\nThey added that the JCVI was \"confident\" 12 weeks was a reasonable interval between doses \"to achieve good longer-term protection\".\n\n\"We have to follow public health principles and act at speed if we are to beat this pandemic which is running rampant in our communities, and we believe the public will understand and thank us for this decisive action.\"\n\nEarlier, the BMA's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses.\n\nHe said the BMA would support practices who honour the existing appointments for the follow-up vaccination, calling for the government to do the same.", "The first lorries to transport freight under the new arrangements arrived in Belfast on Friday afternoon\n\nThe first goods have crossed the new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and means that most commercial goods entering NI from GB require a customs declaration.\n\nAbout a dozen lorries arrived on a ferry from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast at 14:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThey were met by officials, with some vehicles directed to new border control posts.\n\nMany food products from GB now have to enter NI through these border posts where they can be inspected by the Department of Agriculture.\n\nThese products also need health certificates, though some of the new certification processes will be phased in over the next three months.\n\nThe UK government also announced a three-month \"grace period\" for parcels, meaning those sent by online retailers will be exempt from customs declarations until at least April.\n\nIt said the grace period was necessary to avoid disruption to deliveries at a time when many shops are closed due to pandemic restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has continued to insist the new range of checks, controls and paperwork is not actually a sea border.\n\nBrandon Lewis tweeted: \"There is no 'Irish Sea Border'. As we have seen today, the important preparations the government and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTransport companies are not expecting significant volumes of freight over the next few days.\n\nThere has been significant stockpiling ahead of the changes and it may take one or two weeks before freight volumes are at normal seasonal levels.\n\nSome businesses, particularly haulage companies, are anxious about the new IT systems which are necessary for the border to function.\n\nThey have had less than two weeks to familiarise themselves with the new systems.\n\nPolice officers carried out random vehicle checks near Larne Port on New Year's Eve\n\nSeamus Leheny from Logistics UK said: \"With any reconfiguration of supply chains and new systems there will be teething problems and we expect that.\"\n\nThere will be no new processes or checks for the vast majority of goods leaving NI for GB.\n\nThe new arrangements flow from the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIts purpose is to prevent a hard land border in Ireland.\n\nThat is achieved by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nThis will allow goods to flow from NI to the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU as they do now, without customs checks or new paperwork.\n\nThe Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties who fear it will weaken Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nThe arrangement does not change Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nHowever, it does mean a significant new economic barrier within the UK.\n\nUnionist parties fear the sea border will weaken NI's position in the UK\n\nThe UK government has allocated more than £300m for a Trader Support Service to help businesses deal with the new customs arrangements.\n\nThe government is also covering the costs of the new certification requirements for food products.\n\nA Movement Assistance Scheme will pay vets up to £150 to complete the Export Health Certificates which will need to accompany all live animals and products of animal origin entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nTrucks pass through a customs post at Dublin Port on Friday morning\n\nThere are also new checks and controls on freight arriving at Dublin Port from GB.\n\nOn Friday morning, the first ferry to arrive in Dublin from Holyhead had about 12 lorries on board.\n\nWhile they all cleared customs checks for the first time without delays, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the change in trading arrangements with the UK would inevitably cause disruption.\n\n\"We have avoided the kind of dramatic disruption of a no trade deal Brexit, but that doesn't mean that things aren't changing very fundamentally, because they are,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now going to see the €80b (£71.2bn) worth of trade across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delay.\"\n\nOn Saturday new freight sailings will begin between Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland and Dunkirk in France, allowing cargo to bypass GB and go straight to mainland Europe.\n\nThe six-times weekly service will take 24 hours, which is longer than the \"landbridge\" route via GB.", "A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union.\n\nThe UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK had \"freedom in our hands\" and the ability to do things \"differently and better\" now the long Brexit process was over.\n\nBut opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, \"but there is regret still at Brexit itself\".\n\nThe first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.\n\nOn Friday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that border traffic had been \"low due to [the] bank holiday\" but there had been no disruption in Kent as \"hundreds\" of lorries crossed the Channel with a \"small\" number turned back.\n\nSix freight loads travelling from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland had to be turned away due to not having the correct paperwork, the Stena Line ferry and port group said on Friday morning.\n\nBut later on Friday, the group said freight traffic was flowing well through its ports and government customs systems were working well.\n\nIt added that the fall in freight traffic after the Christmas and Brexit stockpiling period meant \"it is too early to draw any conclusions\", but the company remained \"cautiously optimistic that, as freight volumes begin to rise again, we will be able to ensure the continued free movement of goods\".\n\nUK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.\n\nBut officials have insisted new border systems are \"ready to go\".\n\nAs the first customs checks were completed after midnight, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said: \"It all went fine, everything's running just as it was before 11pm.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has different arrangements from other parts of the UK, meaning there will be some customs checks on goods moving between Great Britain and the province.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the first ferry from Great Britain operating under the terms of Northern Ireland trading protocol docked in Belfast, on schedule at 13:45 GMT.\n\nSeamus Leheny, policy manager at Logistics UK, said six out of the 15 lorries that were on the first ship to arrive into Belfast were brought in for inspection, with one being kept at the port for more than three hours.\n\n\"Inevitably there are going to be teething problems because with such a new, complex system as this there are going to be issues in the first few days,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe first lorry loads on to the Eurotunnel shuttle after the UK left the single market and customs union\n\nMandy Ridyard, whose aerospace components company makes daily shipments to Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme she was \"filling in the same declaration to send goods to the Philippines that I am sending them within the UK\".\n\n\"And obviously that all adds a lot of cost to my business.\"\n\nThe UK officially left the 27-member political and economic bloc on 31 January, three and half years after the UK public voted to leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nBut it stuck to the EU's trading rules for 11 months while the two sides negotiated their future economic partnership.\n\nA treaty was finally agreed on Christmas Eve, and became law in the UK on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, UK manufacturers will have tariff-free access to the EU's internal market, meaning there will be no import taxes on goods crossing between Britain and the continent.\n\nBut it does mean more paperwork for businesses and people travelling to EU countries, while there is still uncertainty about what will happen to banking and services.\n\nThe UK and Spain have also reached an agreement meaning the border between Gibraltar and Spain will remain open.\n\nFabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said the deal still needed to be formalised, but by abolishing controls between Gibraltar and the EU's passport-free Schengen area, he said it would prevent queues at the border \"which make people's lives a misery and make business difficult\".\n\nIt is a moment that some will regard with huge optimism, others with deep regret.\n\nAnd while this historic move happens at a moment in time, the impact, in some areas, may be less instant or obvious than others - for example, it's expected there'll be relatively little traffic at Dover on the first day of 2021 as new border checks kick in.\n\nNevertheless, significant changes are here - whether on trade, travel, security or immigration - and those changes could well become more apparent in the months ahead.\n\nMr Johnson - who took the UK out of the EU in January six months after becoming prime minister - said it was an \"amazing moment\" for the UK in his New Year message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he added that the combination of the Brexit deal and rollout of the Oxford vaccine means \"we are creating the potential trampoline for the national bounceback\".\n\nLord Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, tweeted that Britain had become a \"fully independent country again\".\n\nAnd the deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs, David Jones, told the BBC: \"We can now say clearly Britain is a sovereign and independent state.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of Brexit say the country will be worse off than it was while it was a member of the EU.\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said it was \"not something to celebrate\" and the UK's relationship with Ireland will be different from now on, but \"we wish them well\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK remained a \"friend and ally\", but he added that the choice to leave the EU was \"the child of European malaise and many lies and false promises\".\n\nIn Brussels, there is a sense of relief the Brexit process is over, but there is regret still at Brexit itself.\n\nBasically, the European Union thinks that Brexit makes it - the EU - and the UK weaker.\n\nBut the EU view is this is less bye-bye Britain and more au revoir, because there are so many loose ends between the two sides.\n\nFor example, there are the ongoing practicalities surrounding Gibraltar, the UK is still waiting to find out what access Brussels is going to give its financial services to the single market, there is cooperation on climate change, and there is a reviewal mechanism written into the treaty for every five years.\n\nFor all of those reasons and more, this is not the end of the EU-UK conversation for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe culmination of the Brexit process means major changes in different areas. These include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nMillions around the world have been seeing out 2020 and marking the start of 2021, although the coronavirus pandemic has forced many celebrations to take place in muted form behind closed doors.\n\nWith lockdowns or other restrictions in place in many countries, would-be New Year partygoers were told to have a quiet night in.\n\nOthers have attended ceremonies or festivals wearing masks or taking other precautions.\n\nIn Tokyo, below, people visited the Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer prayers. The popular Shinto shrine reduced the number of visitors allowed, as Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, crowds gathered in the city with balloons and festive outfits to count down to midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nFireworks lit up the night sky in Taiwan to mark the beginning of 2021, witnessed by thousands of spectators who gathered in the centre of Taipei.\n\nLike this family in Seoul, South Korea, many globally have marked the celebration in a small way and often at home.\n\nIt was a chilly celebration in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as people gathered at the city hall, waving sparklers in the 1905 Square.\n\nWhile in the United Arab Emirates, one of the largest New Year fireworks displays saw spectacular colours light up the sky over the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah.\n\nPyrotechnics also illuminated the sky around the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, as the clock struck midnight in Dubai.\n\nThe New Year's Eve party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is usually one of Europe's biggest street parties. But this year revellers were told to stay at home and watch the fireworks and music performances on TV or online instead.\n\nThese worshippers in Abuja, Nigeria, marked the end of 2020 with a gospel service.\n\nMeanwhile, people in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast were able to watch the fireworks display outside with friends and family.\n\nBut in New York City, just a handful of people were allowed into Times Square to watch confetti rain down and the traditional crystal ball drop.\n\nBrazilian authorities closed Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, but that did not stop some people enjoying celebrations.\n\nA fireworks and light show was held across various locations in London. A number of drones filled the sky close to the O2 Arena in East London forming messages referencing the pandemic, including the NHS logo.", "The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 in May with \"a new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nBBC Radio 4 will mark 70 years of The Archers with a series of features across its output on Friday.\n\nAs well as broadcasting episode number 19,343 of the world's longest-running serial drama, stars from it will appear on the station's other programmes.\n\nThis will include inserts into Woman's Hour, Farming Today, and a quiz.\n\nThe Archers, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nThe show's editor, Jeremy Howe, said its achievements over the years, coming up to the modern day, are incomparable.\n\n\"Almost daily and in real time The Archers has tracked life in the village of Ambridge across years and more than 19,000 episodes,\" he said.\n\n\"No work of fiction or drama can truly compare to that. As I look back on this incredible legacy, I am looking forward to the next 70 years of The Archers.\"\n\nBack in May, The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, with a \"new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLarge cast recordings with interaction between multiple characters were scrapped in favour of monologues recorded at the actors' homes.\n\nThe storyline of Friday's anniversary episode remains a secret, but celebratory programming on Radio 4 on the day will also include a special edition of With Great Pleasure at Christmas, where cast members from the series share their favourite prose and poetry.\n\nHowe, meanwhile, will appear alongside actor Timothy Bentinck (David Archer) and agricultural story advisor Sarah Swadling in an Archers-flavoured edition of Farming Today.\n\nWoman's Hour will focus on the female characters and storylines that have shaped the show.\n\nFinally, on the day, listeners will be invited to head over to The Bull pub - not literally of course - for the The Archers Anniversary Quiz, hosted by landlords Jolene (Buffy Davis) and Kenton Archer (Richard Attlee).\n\nOn Saturday 2 January, historian David Kynaston will then delve into the history of the programme further documentary feature entitled A Social History of The Archers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain has reached a deal with the UK to maintain free movement to and from Gibraltar once the UK formally leaves the EU on Friday.\n\nTo avoid a hard border, Gibraltar will join the EU's Schengen zone and follow other EU rules, while remaining a British Overseas Territory.\n\nThe deal was announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, just hours before the UK exits the EU.\n\nThe Rock voted Remain in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish workers go there daily.\n\n\"With this [agreement], the fence is removed, Schengen is applied to Gibraltar... it allows for the lifting of controls between Gibraltar and Spain,\" said Ms González Laya.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal will mean the EU sending Frontex border guards to facilitate free movement to and from Gibraltar. Their role is planned to last four years.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. They elect their own representatives to the territory's parliament, while the British monarch appoints a governor.\n\nThe territory - home to a British military garrison and naval base - is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy.\n\nMs González Laya did not say whether Spanish border guards would eventually be posted at Gibraltar's airport and/or seaport which, under the deal, will be de facto part of the EU's external border.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal would also mean the territory complying with EU fair competition rules in areas such as financial policy, the environment and the labour market, Ms González Laya said.\n\nTwenty-two EU states are in the passport-free Schengen zone, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but the UK has never been in it.\n\nOnce Gibraltar joins it, EU citizens arriving from Spain or another Schengen country will avoid passport checks, while arrivals from the UK will have to go through passport control, as is already the case.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Thursday's deal a \"political framework\" to form the basis of a separate treaty with the EU regarding Gibraltar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Gibraltar is British - in 60 secs\n\nThe deal does not address the thorny issue of sovereignty. Spain has long disputed British sovereignty over the Rock which was ceded to Britain in 1713 and which is now home to about 34,000 people. The Remain vote there was an overwhelming 96% in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe plan is to have a six-month transition period and then formalise the new arrangements with a treaty.\n\nUnder the current tight Covid rules, there are restrictions on UK citizens arriving via Gibraltar's airport, the UK Foreign Office says.\n\nDominic Raab said \"all sides are committed to mitigating the effects of the end of the [Brexit] Transition Period on Gibraltar, and in particular ensure border fluidity, which is clearly in the best interests of the people living on both sides.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our support for Gibraltar, and its sovereignty is safeguarded.\"", "Omar Elabdellaoui is receiving treatment in hospital after an accident with a firework\n\nNorway and Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui has been injured by a firework during a New Year's Eve celebration.\n\nThe Norwegian vice-captain's club said he was taken to hospital after \"an unfortunate accident at his home\".\n\nHe suffered burns to his face and damage to his eyes, the club said, adding that further tests would assess the extent of his injuries.\n\nThe New Year's Eve incident was one of many involving fireworks in Europe.\n\nIn Elabdellaoui's case, Turkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of the 29-year-old defender.\n\nTurkish newspaper Hurriyet said the former Manchester City player may have lost vision, without giving further details.\n\nBut in a statement cited by the newspaper, Galatasaray said Elabdellaoui was conscious, in a stable condition and had not undergone surgery.\n\nGalatasaray's manager Fatih Terim and the team captain Arda Turan went to the hospital to visit Elabdellaoui, who joined the club in 2020 from the Greek side Olympiacos FC.\n\nTurkish clubs - including Galatasaray's Turkish Super Lig rivals Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Trabzonspor - took to social media to wish Elabdellaoui a speedy recovery.\n\nTurkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of 29-year-old Omar Elabdellaoui\n\nElsewhere in Europe, at least four people were killed by fireworks during events to mark the new year.\n\nPolice in Alsace in eastern France said a 25-year-old man died after being hit by a rocket in the village of Boofzheim.\n\nA statement said the device beheaded him and severely injured the face of another young man standing next to him.\n\nA similar incident cost the life of a 28-year-old man in Pulle, a village east of Antwerp in Belgium.\n\nFireworks exploded over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year\n\nMeanwhile in Italy's north-western province of Asti, a 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight of injuries to his abdomen caused by a firecracker.\n\nThere were fireworks casualties in Germany as well. In the state of Brandenburg, police said a 24-year-old man died after setting alight \"self-made pyrotechnics\" while a 63-year-old man lost his hand when handling a firecracker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nInjuries and deaths from fireworks are not unknown over the New Year period. But fewer public fireworks displays than usual were held on New Year's Eve 2020, as coronavirus restrictions placed limits on gatherings worldwide.\n\nSome European countries had moved to limit the use of fireworks ahead of 31 December, with Germany imposing a ban on the sale of pyrotechnics.", "Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown Image caption: Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown\n\nNew parents missing baby classes and playdates due to lockdown say their children's development has been hit by the impact of coronavirus.\n\nWhen Rachael Powell's one-year-old daughter Emmeline met her grandparents for the first time she \"absolutely screamed the place down\" as she \"didn't know who they were\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to coffee shops, meeting other mums and going to baby classes and then everything stopped,\" says the 39-year-old from Greater Manchester.\n\n\"I felt guilty that she didn't get any of that and have that interaction.\"\n\nEducation consultant and child psychologist Paul Kelly says Covid is having a \"massive impact\" on babies.\n\n\"We are social creatures, social beings - it is pre-programmed in our brains,\" he says. \"When children's brains are stimulated, they grow.\"\n\nDr Kelly says there is also an impact on parents, who are missing out on \"mutual support\".\n\nHe says people should \"grab what they can, when they can\" during these uncertain times and focus on \"how you can enhance [your baby's] development... rather than spending time thinking about how your child might be behind\".", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said US policy towards his country would \"never change\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the US is his country's \"biggest enemy\" and that he does not expect Washington to change its policy toward Pyongyang - whoever is president.\n\nAddressing a rare congress of his ruling Workers' Party, Mr Kim also pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal and military potential.\n\nHe said that plans for a nuclear submarine were almost complete.\n\nHis comments come as US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Kim's remarks are an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government, with Mr Biden set to be sworn in on 20 January.\n\nMr Kim enjoyed a warm rapport with outgoing US President Donald Trump, even if little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his latest address to the Workers' Party - only the eighth congress in its history - Mr Kim said Pyongyang did not intend to use its nuclear weapons unless \"hostile forces\" were planning to use them against North Korea first.\n\nHe said the US was his country's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,\" state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nHis speech outlined a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nNorth Korea has managed to significantly advance its arsenal despite being subject to strict economic sanctions.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Kim admitted that his five-year economic plan for the isolated country failed to meet its targets in \"almost every sector\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders last January to prevent Covid from entering the country.\n\nIts authorities say the country has not had a single Covid case since the pandemic began but experts say this is highly unlikely due to North Korea's cross-border trade with China.\n\nTrade with China has plummeted by about 80%. Typhoons and floods have devastated homes and crops in North Korea, which remains under strict international sanctions, including over its nuclear programme.\n\nThe speech is likely to be Mr Kim's way of setting the stage for talks with President-elect Joe Biden who will take office in less than two weeks' time.\n\nThe aim is perhaps to put pressure on Washington to show that Pyongyang has no intention of being cowed by sanctions and will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal.\n\nMr Kim had three summits with Donald Trump - but they failed to reach a deal. However, North Korea is in a difficult and bleak economic position caused by strict sanctions, border blockades to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and devastating floods.\n\nThis message may seem threatening, but some analysts believe that there is still room for diplomacy.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Stonely is not eligible for the UK government Covid support scheme\n\nA father who has lived on Universal Credit since the Covid-19 pandemic started has called on the UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its support.\n\nDriving instructor and dad-of-three Andy Stonely is not eligible for the government's Covid support scheme.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses Wales has also asked for changes ahead of the next round of grants.\n\nThe Treasury said its Self-Employment Income Support Scheme was \"one of the most generous in the world\".\n\nThis scheme requires claimants to show accounts for the 2018-19 year as well as 2019-20.\n\nHowever, Mr Stonely from Newport hasn't been self-employed for long enough to qualify - so the 35-year-old has had to rely on financial support from his parents.\n\n\"I count myself somewhat lucky because I have been able to claim for Universal Credit,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously it's minimal and luckily through the help of parents I've been able to keep afloat.\n\n\"It's been tough. It would have been ideal if the government was just slightly more flexible.\"\n\nMr Stonely, who hasn't been able to work for much of the past year due to lockdown restrictions, said Universal Credit was worth \"less than half\" of his normal earnings.\n\nDriving school firm owner Gareth Denny said almost a quarter of his drivers can't claim Covid help\n\nThe coronavirus crisis forced his wife to give up her job to look after their three children, aged three, six and 17, when Mr Stonely was able to work for a short period at the end of the initial lockdown period.\n\nAsked how much longer his family could sustain itself if the current restrictions continue, Mr Stonely told the BBC's Politics Wales show: \"Not too much longer… we're going to be in a very tough situation.\"\n\nMr Stonely is part of a local driving school franchise managed by Gareth Denny, who said 11 of his 43 instructors were in this position.\n\n\"If you imagine that somebody lives their life to their income and suddenly there's absolutely no income to pay their mortgage and their bills, Universal Credit simply doesn't pay most people's mortgage,\" Mr Denny said.\n\nRecent research commissioned by the Community and Prospect trade unions and the Federation of Small Businesses found 53% of self-employed people across the UK had lost more than 60% of their income since the pandemic began.\n\nIn addition, 64% of people said they were now either \"unsure\" or \"less likely\" to want to be self-employed or freelance in the future.\n\n\"These are normal people who have mortgages, families to support, who've just had to fund a Christmas for the families,\" said Ben Francis of Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\n\"All those bills are now mounting up the other side of Christmas, and after having an already extremely difficult 12 months, they've now got to see how they manage through the months ahead.\n\n\"We would ask UK government to be flexible in their approach to verifying the statuses of these newly self-employed businesses.\"\n\nThe Community union warns with small businesses \"struggling to get back on their feet\", more people will leave self-employment.\n\nAll non-essential businesses shut in Wales just before Christmas\n\n\"That will be a disaster for our economy, for local economies, for their livelihoods and their families,\" said Kate Dearden of Community.\n\n\"This section of the UK workforce plays a fundamental role and should be properly supported to continue to do so.\"\n\nThe Treasury has already committed to extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme until April 2021, although the eligibility criteria for the next round of grants is yet to be published.\n\nA spokesman said the scheme had \"helped more than 2.7 million people so far, claiming over £13.7bn\".\n\nHe added: \"Funding is designed to target those who need it most and protect the taxpayer against fraud and abuse.\n\n\"Those not eligible may still be able to access our loans schemes, tax deferrals, mortgage holidays and business support grants.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "People in England are being told to act like they have got Covid as part of a government advertising campaign aimed at tackling the rise in infections.\n\nBoris Johnson said the public should \"stay at home\" and not get complacent.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nGovernment sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\n\"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government is releasing its advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, says in the advert: \"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nSuch an incident is an emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nWhile the government seeks to reinforce its \"stay at home\" message, some police forces have faced criticism for their approaches to tackling potential breaches of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDerbyshire Police has said it will review fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown after two women were ordered to pay £200 each after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, said \"more support and enablement\" was needed for people to adhere to the regulations, for example support to help people self-isolate, rather than punishment.\n\nProf Michie, who sits on a subcommittee of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, also said the current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, she said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring the restrictions were less strict, with more people allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries open, meaning public transport is busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\n\"So even if we went back to that kind of last spring level of reduction in contacts we couldn't be confident that we would see the same effect that we saw last year because of this increased transmission,\" he said.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThere is considerable concern in government about the continued spread of the virus.\n\nNo 10 believes more needs to be done to emphasise how severe the current situation is - which is why we are getting some very stark warnings from the medical experts.\n\nMinisters continue to praise the public - but there is also more emphasis on people taking the rules seriously, as was the case last spring when the first lockdown was imposed.\n\nThe prime minister warns people against complacency, saying: \"Your compliance is now more vital than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital are struggling to cope with an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients\n\nLatest figures from Public Health England reveal the coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nLondon councils have urged places of worship to close and the bishop of London Sarah Mullally said churches should \"consider the seriousness of the situation\" before holding in person services this weekend.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast all London hospitals had \"effectively been working in major incident mode for the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"Most hospitals have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. Obviously we don't have three times the number of staff so our staff are being spread more thinly,\" he said.\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nIn Wales, senior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy said she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at Royal Glamorgan Hospital last Saturday, with no capacity at the unit.\n\nAnd Dr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they don't have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas \"so it is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Three people were found inside the gym in Stean Street in Hackney on Friday\n\nThe owners of a London gym have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules by remaining open during lockdown.\n\nPolice were called to the fitness centre in Stean Street, Hackney, on Friday to reports of a regulation breach.\n\nThree people were found inside the gym at 09:30 GMT. The owners were given a £1,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" its hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in London had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there are 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nNHS England figures published on Friday showed the number of Covid patients in London hospitals stands at 7,277, up 32% on the previous week.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"Whilst there are certain rules around people being allowed to exercise in public under this lockdown, nowhere in the legislation does it allow people to go to gyms to work out.\n\n\"Those found to be flouting the rules, as with this instance, should expect necessary enforcement action to be taken against them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police\n\nTwo women who criticised a police force for its \"intimidating\" approach to lockdown fines have welcomed a review.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at a reservoir five miles from their home when they were stopped by officers and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown but later said new guidance meant it would look again at the issue.\n\nBoth women said they were pleased the force had decided to think again.\n\nDerbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa said an \"urgent review\" was under way about how fines had been issued.\n\nLongstanding guidance from the College of Policing says officers should follow the \"Four Es\" and only give fixed penalty notices as a last resort.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived\n\nMs Allen said: \"We are happy to hear that Derbyshire Police have been told to not be so heavy handed with fines and return to the Four Es they were originally doing.\n\n\"We are yet to hear anything regarding our fine but if we have managed to save somebody the worry of going for a walk and fearing they would be fined then we have done what we set out to do.\"\n\nMs Allen and Ms Moore drove separately from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire the five miles to Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police, questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nInitially Derbyshire Police defended its actions, saying legislation said trips should be \"local\" and driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nDerbyshire police also fined visitors to other beauty spots like Calke Abbey\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit beauty spots at Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nBut later, the force said new guidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nMr Dhindsa said: \"It would appear that the force has been a little over-zealous in its interpretation of the guidance.\n\n\"While the police can enforce the regulations, guidance is just that which can make this a very challenging and complex situation to police.\"\n\nThe chief constable of neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Craig Guildford, said: \"We are not out and about telling people they have gone too far from home. We trust the public to take these regulations seriously.\n\n\"Derbyshire to be fair to them have some unique places that people may want to go to from a load of counties.\n\n\"But our approach is around reasonableness. If someone has gone 50 miles, we will take action, if someone has gone a couple of miles we are very sensible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nFootballers \"can get things wrong\" but must not be \"picked on\" despite several breaches of coronavirus guidelines, says West Ham manager David Moyes.\n\nHammers midfielder Manuel Lanzini was one of numerous Premier League players to attend a party over Christmas.\n\nMore than 60 games in England have been called off because of coronavirus outbreaks at clubs.\n\n\"We have to be careful that everybody isn't picking on football players,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We will all know people who have broken the rules in their own way.\n\n\"The players have followed the protocols. Every day at the training ground they have to go through rituals just to get into the building. They know what their job is. Like most human beings at times, they can get things wrong.\"\n\nArgentina international Lanzini was reminded of his responsibilities by the club and later apologised for his actions on Twitter.\n\nOn Friday, he announced he would be donating to a local foodbank as he wanted \"something good\" to come of his actions.\n\nMoyes praised Lanzini for his \"really good gesture\" but does not want to see players treated unfairly.\n\n\"If you are going to take tough measures on players, then you might as well take on the government people as well who have broken the rules because it's certainly not just football players who have done it,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got to be careful. A lot of people are throwing stones in glass houses at the moment regarding this. We all know what the protocols are, we all know we have to be ever-vigilant and make sure we're doing the right things.\"\n\nThe Premier League has implemented stronger coronavirus protocols in light of a recent surge in cases, including reminding players and managers to avoid handshakes and high fives.\n\nCompliance officers will also apply more robust policies to reporting breaches of protocols and will be tasked with checking hotel stays, travel plans and behaviour in dressing rooms.\n\nThe number of staff attending training grounds will also be reduced, social distancing will be enforced more strictly and the use of canteens will be further limited.\n\nStricter matchday protocols include avoiding unnecessary contact at all times, and substitutes wearing face masks.\n\nIn a note sent to clubs, the Premier League has warned it may take disciplinary action if they fail to to ensure people who breach the rules are \"appropriately investigated and sanctioned\".", "Kevin Hughes was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital before he died with coronavirus\n\nA man has died with Covid-19 less than a month after the funeral of his mother, who also died with the virus.\n\nFlintshire councillor Kevin Hughes, 63, was being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital but died on Friday morning, the authority said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of his sadness at missing his mother's funeral last month after he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCouncil colleague Chris Dolphin said he was a \"big man with a big heart\".\n\nThe independent councillor, also a former policeman and journalist, sat with the Liberal Democrat group.\n\nHe said missing the funeral of his mother, June Margaret Hughes, was one of the \"darkest days\" of his life.\n\nGroup leader, Mr Dolphin, called him a \"friend, fellow councillor, above all, a good man. Not one to stand on the side-lines - a doer. A man of enthusiasm, who was in life to be really involved.\"\n\nCouncil chief executive, Colin Everett, said: \"Kevin was a wonderful person with a big heart. Kevin was one of the most thoughtful and generous people I have worked with in my long career.\n\n\"I will miss him so much as both a councillor and as a friend.\"\n\nThe politician (left) will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January\n\nAuthority leader, Ian Roberts, called Mr Hughes a \"special person and friend who will be very sadly missed by all\".\n\nHe added: \"His contribution as a councillor has been considerable and he was highly respected by his community, members of the council and officers.\n\n\"He was an active local member and represented his community with integrity and in a positive and engaging way.\"\n\nMr Hughes will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January.\n\nThe authority's chairwoman, Marion Bateman, said: \"Our sincere condolences go to his wife Sally, along with his family and friends, at this very sad time.\"", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Google has suspended \"free speech\" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove \"egregious content\".\n\nParler styles itself as \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nBut Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.\n\nApple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.\n\nOn Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nHowever, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.\n\nIn a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying: \"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.\n\n\"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.\"\n\nApple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.\n\nIt said it had seen \"accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate\" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMr Matze said Parler had \"no way to organise anything\" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.\n\nBut Apple said: \"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service.\"\n\n\"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.\n\nThe ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.\n\nSteve Bannon served as President Trump's chief strategist for eight months in 2017\n\n\"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,\" Google said in a statement.\n\n\"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.\"\n\nThe action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.\n\nOne anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after \"months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence\".\n\n\"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform,\" said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "Fishing \"clears the mind of other worries\" says John Ellis from the Canal and Rivers Trust\n\nAnglers have hailed the mental health benefits of the sport after it was given the all-clear to continue, despite lockdown.\n\nThe government said it would be treated as a form of exercise, but subject to restrictions such as social distancing.\n\nRegulations mean people in England must stay at home except for specific purposes, including exercise, shopping for essentials and childcare.\n\nFigures show thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic.\n\nJohn Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager for the Canal and Rivers Trust, said rod licence sales increased by 17% over the last year, the equivalent of about 100,000 people - some new to the sport and others returning.\n\nHe said, despite the colder weather which usually causes a drop in fishing, there are more people out than in a typical January.\n\n\"It is certainly one of few things people can do legally, can do locally,\" he said.\n\nSpencer Moore said it was easy to maintain social distance while fishing\n\nUnder current restrictions in England, anglers must fish alone, or with members of their household, and must not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe government regulations permit people to meet for exercise, but not \"for recreational or leisure purposes\".\n\nThe Department for Culture Media and Sport told the BBC while angling could continue, overarching government guidance meant people should minimise time spent outside their homes.\n\nMr Ellis said he had received emails from parents pleased their children could go fishing at the weekend, adding that for some people it was linked to their mental wellbeing.\n\n\"When you are focussing on fishing, it is very hard to think about anything else, it clears the mind of other worries, at least temporarily,\" he said.\n\nHeadway said fishing was one of its most popular sporting activities for clients\n\nHeadway Birmingham & Solihull, a charity which helps people living with brain injuries, runs regular fishing sessions, which were very popular with its clients.\n\n\"It encourages them to be more active and get some fresh air out in the countryside,\" she said.\n\n\"It also helps their motivation and mental wellbeing, giving them something to look forward to each week, something to talk about and a chance to form friendships with others who enjoy fishing too.\"\n\nSpencer Moore, a bailiff for Blackfords Progressive Angling Society, based in South Staffordshire, said the sport was perfect for social distancing.\n\n\"There are people furloughed, sitting in their house or working from home, but at least they can fish and can get out and wind down,\" he said.\n\n\"Being a fisherman, you are on your own on your peg. Someone might be on another peg, but they can be 20 to 30ft away, so you are nowhere near anyone else.\"\n\nChris Wood advised people to speak to their local angling club before going fishing for the first time\n\nChris Wood, from Shrewsbury Anglers Club, said the group had seen a definite \"upsurge\" in interest during the pandemic.\n\nBut, he said, it had also seen an increase in illegal fishing by people who were not aware of the proper permits needed.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nA 10-year-old girl who needed to travel to the United States for treatment on an inoperable brain tumour has died.\n\nFamily of Eva Williams raised £250,000 needed for a new life-extending trial.\n\nBut the schoolgirl, from Marford, Wrexham, was unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nAt the start of 2020, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and died on Friday. Her father said in a tribute: \"We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known.\"\n\nPaul Slapa, said on social media that his daughter was surrounded by all of her family when she died.\n\nHe posted: \"Over the past week, Eva had lost the ability to speak, eat and swallow fluids, and she has suffered more than any child should ever have to suffer.\n\n\"Watching her still fight each day has been heart-breaking.\n\n\"Eva is an inspiration to many, certainly to me, and I cannot begin to imagine how we will go forward from here.\n\n\"How do we wake up each day and go on? How do we face the world without our baby girl with us? Why did this happen to the most caring and loving of little girls?\n\n\"Every single part of us is in pain and I can't see how that can change. We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known - and we will keep you with us every day for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nAfter Eva was diagnosed with a high-grade DIPG she had been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer father and mother Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions in July and Boris Johnson said he would look at what help can be offered to get her to the United States.\n\nEva also had radiotherapy as part of her treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nProf Robert West said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nProf Susan Michie also said the spread of the new more infectious variant meant the restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\nThe government said it had adapted its approach and taken \"swift action\" to try and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe warnings come after ministers launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter,\" he said\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore people are in schools, after the Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Michie, who is also a member of Sage, agreed the current lockdown was \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\nHe said that even if people reduced their contacts to levels seen last spring, it would not have the same effect on virus transmission.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast the \"unprecedented\" numbers of patients requiring intensive care treatment meant staff were spread \"more and more thinly\".\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they do not have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned that the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas and added: \"It is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority from the outset has been to protect the NHS to save lives and we have taken advice from scientific and medical experts throughout. As new evidence has emerged, we have adapted our approach and taken swift action to try and stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by coronavirus by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has narrowly seen off a rebellion by 33 Tory MPs, who want to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to be committing genocide.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 308 to remove an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have forced ministers to withdraw from deals with nations the UK High Court ruled guilty of mass killings.\n\nIt comes amid condemnation of China's treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe rebels believe they have enough support to secure another vote soon.\n\nAmong those to defy the government were ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers David Davis and Damian Green and Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.\n\nThe rebellion is one of the largest on an issue not related to the Covid-19 pandemic during Boris Johnson's time as prime minister.\n\nThe government has a Commons majority of 80 but this was whittled down to just 11 as prominent ex-ministers such as Tobias Ellwood, Caroline Nokes and Nusrat Ghani, as well as a number of MPs first elected last year, sided with the opposition.\n\nMPs have been debating proposals, tabled by cross-bench peer Lord Alton, to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide, a decision currently left to the jurisdiction of international courts.\n\nThe proposals, also backed by Labour, would mean that ministers would have to revoke post-Brexit trade deals with countries that were ruled to be carrying out systematic mass killings.\n\nThe issue is expected to resurface when the Trade Bill returns to the House of Lords.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Conservative rebels, led by former leader Iain Duncan Smith, were unable to force a vote on a separate amendment they had proposed.\n\nEvery speaker in today's debate - from the front and back benches - said genocide was abhorrent. The worst of crimes. There was united criticism of China's brutal treatment of the Uighurs too.\n\nBut the question Parliament has been wrestling with is whether the High Court should have the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. And if they did judge a country has been carrying out mass killings, should the High Court be able to compel the government to revoke any trade treaty it has with that country?\n\nMinisters insist it should be the job of elected governments, not judges, to determine trade policy. But opposition parties and a large cohort of Tory backbenchers argue it's essential the High Court can rule on genocide and ensure the UK's new trade-making freedom has an obligation to uphold human rights too.\n\nThis also is an argument about where power lies after Brexit and what role Parliament should have in shaping trade policy after decades in the EU.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said that by securing large, but not overwhelming, support for Lord Alton's amendment in the Commons, the rebels hope the government will accept Mr Duncan Smith's own amendment - which would give the Commons the right to debate whether trade deals can be halted if genocide is proven.\n\nThe debate came as the US government formally declared that China was committing genocide in its repression of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nThe UK government has been critical of China's treatment of the Uighurs and last week announced measures to cut UK business links with forced labour camps in the region.\n\nBut some MPs suspect the government is pulling its punches to avoid antagonising Beijing.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said the debate was \"all about simply shining a light of hope to all those out there who have failed to get their day in court and failed to be treated properly\".\n\n\"If this country doesn't stand up for that then I want to know what would it ever stand up for again?,\" he added.\n\nBut Trade Minister Greg Hands said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to give the courts powers to revoke trade deals agreed by elected governments.\n\nAnd he argued that no one would benefit from the proposal because the UK currently had no free trade deal with China.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "US tariffs have hit the Scotch whisky industry hard\n\nThe UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for \"mini-deal\" over trade in the last days of the Trump administration.\n\nThere were hopes the US would lift tariffs on imports of Scotch whisky and cashmere imposed last year as part of the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.\n\nBut those duties will now stay in place while President-elect Biden awaits confirmation of his trade team.\n\nThe talks were revealed in a BBC interview with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in December.\n\nAt the time he said he was hopeful that he and his UK counterpart, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, could \"get some kind of an agreement out\".\n\nBut the BBC understands that a broad offer from the US was rejected last week by the UK after concerns were expressed by the Business Department about the impact on Airbus' business in the UK.\n\nSince 2019, the EU and US have both imposed tariffs on each others' goods amid a long-running trade dispute between the planemakers Boeing and Airbus.\n\nThe tariffs centre on a long-running dispute between Boeing and Airbus\n\nEarlier last month the UK's Trade Department announced it would unilaterally break from the EU's position of levying tariffs on imports of Boeing aeroplanes, after the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nIt was, said Ms Truss, an attempt to create goodwill to solve the 16-year old dispute.\n\nBut the UK aerospace industry was furious with what it saw as the government reneging on promises made in early 2020 to support Airbus in the dispute, even after Brexit.\n\nThese concerns were the main block to a deal, but the chaos in Washington DC over the past week also played a part.\n\nThe US was also looking for tariffs on its exports of bourbon to the UK - part of a separate trade dispute over steel - to be settled.\n\nA government source said: \"Ultimately we came close to resolving an intractable 16-year dispute, but didn't quite get there. Any deal must be balanced and work for the whole UK and all of UK industry.\"\n\nThey added: \"No one has fought harder on this than Liz, and she's going to continue pushing it with the Biden administration. She absolutely understands the pain of affected businesses and is determined to get these tariffs lifted and support jobs.\"\n\nThe source said the government had pursued a \"clear de-escalation strategy\" with the Trump administration over the dispute which meant it had avoided being hit with further US tariffs, unlike the EU.\n\nMs Truss still hopes to settle the dispute quickly and has committed to meet Katherine Tai, the new US Trade Representative, in Washington DC as soon as she assumes office, the source added.\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, said her industry was \"very frustrated\" a deal was not reached.\n\n\"There is deep disappointment across the Scotch whisky industry that distillers are still paying the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do with us.\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky, now in place for 15 months, has caused us to lose over £450m in exports to the US, and our losses continue to mount.\"", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the 130-car pile-up on the Tohoku Expressway\n\nA huge snowstorm has struck a highway in Japan, causing a 130-vehicle pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.\n\nThe storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.\n\nJapan has been hit by severe snow storms in recent weeks with some parts of the country seeing double the average expected snowfall.\n\nImages from the expressway in the north of the country show the sheer scale of the pile-up.\n\nOne person died and at least 10 were injured after the vehicles collided\n\nAuthorities had already enforced a 50km/h (31mph) speed limit on the road due to visibility.\n\nThere was a maximum wind speed of about 100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.\n\nThose who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have been provided with blankets to keep warm, NHK News reports (in Japanese).\n\nThose stuck behind the vehicles have been given food, water and blankets\n\nThe snow has affected some of Japan's high-speed railway network, with a number of train services in the Tohoku region cancelled.\n\nAccording to local media, the region is expected to record up to 40cm (15 inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe country has been experiencing a large amount of snowfall this winter.\n\nLast month, heavy snow left more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on the Kanetsu expressway for two days.\n\nThe weather was so bad that an emergency meeting was called and the country's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on members of the public to be cautious.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nSchools in England may reopen region by region after half term, the government's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons education committee, Dr Harries suggested there would be different rates of infection across the country when lockdown ends.\n\nThis would mean a \"differential application\" of restrictive measures would be required, she said.\n\nSchools were closed at the start of January to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAlthough schools remain open to vulnerable children and those of keyworkers, all others are due to learn remotely from home until after the February half term holiday.\n\nBut the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested they may not return fully then.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the department was continuing to keep plans for the return to school under review and that it would inform schools, parents and pupils of the plans ahead of February half term.\n\nCommittee chairman Robert Halfon said he suspected schools would be closed for quite \"a few weeks yet\", but there has been no formal confirmation of this.\n\nMedical and science advisers were warning the government before Christmas that the NHS would not be able to manage the number of Covid-19 cases if schools remained open.\n\nThe new, more transmissible variant of the virus had been increasing exponentially in London and the south-east before Christmas.\n\nBut in some parts of the north and north-east saw rates of increase were reducing.\n\nDr Harries said: \"It is highly likely that when we come out of this national lockdown we will not have consistent patterns of infection in our communities across the country.\n\n\"And therefore, as we had prior to the national lockdown, it may well be possible that we need to have some differential application.\"\n\nBut Dr Harries said schools would be at the top of the priority to ensure that the balance of education and wellbeing were \"right at the forefront\" of consideration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries says schools in England might reopen ''region by region''\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Although the government intends that schools will fully reopen after the February half-term holiday, it is clearly in the balance when this happens and whether there will be any sort of regional approach.\n\n\"We expect that it will depend on coronavirus infection rates and the pressure on the NHS, and that the government will make a call on this issue nearer the time.\n\n\"What is important is that when schools fully reopen, everything possible is done to keep them open and to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for education staff to be prioritised for vaccinations as soon as possible, and for schools to be given more support in the use of rapid turnaround mass testing.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said if the government was planning to stagger opening of schools by region, it needed to \"provide clarity sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"This will give vital time to prepare for a smoother reopening of schools and business,\" he said.\n\nOn calls for vaccination of teachers, Dr Harries suggested the safe re-opening of schools did not depend on this.\n\nBut members of the committee suggested education would be less disrupted by teachers needing to go home and isolate when infected.\n\nThe vaccination programme had been worked out in order of vulnerability to the disease, she stressed.\n\nAnd Dr Harries added that although pupils could and did transmit the virus, she did not have evidence of them being \"a significant driver\" of \"large-scale community infections\".", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 155 out of more than 23,000 university professors in the UK are black, according to official figures.\n\nIt remains below 1%, the same as for the past five years, and is an increase of only 50 posts despite the number of professorships rising by more than 3,000 in that time.\n\nAt this senior academic level, women hold 28% of professorships, up from 23% five years ago.\n\n\"The pace of change is glacial,\" said lecturers' union leader Jo Grady.\n\n\"Universities must do more to ensure a more representative mix of staff at a senior level and stop this terrible waste of talent,\" said Dr Grady, general secretary of the UCU university union.\n\nThe figures on black professors were \"disappointing\" and \"inexplicable\", said Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank, \"given the symbolic importance of education as the foundation of our values.\"\n\n\"Around a quarter of British postgraduates are from ethnic minorities, there is clearly no shortage of qualified black and minority academics seeking elevation to senior teaching and research roles in our universities,\" said Dr Begum.\n\nShe called on vice chancellors to take action over a problem they can \"literally discern with their own eyes every single day they are on campus\".\n\nThe annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.\n\nAt the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from 105 to 155 between 2014-15 to 2019-20.\n\nBut new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3,200 staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0.5% to 0.7% over five years.\n\nThis compared to 7% of professors who are Asian and 89% white in the figures for 2019-20.\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being \"progressive dreamlands\", the \"make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities\".\n\n\"I have seen very few genuine attempts to address the issues of racism at any level across the sector,\" said Prof Andrews.\n\nAmong all academic staff, 2% are black, 10% are Asian, 75% are white, with the remainder under categories of \"mixed\", \"other or not known\".\n\nThere is still a significant gender gap in professorships, among a group that is also heavily skewed to older age groups, with most in their fifties, sixties and above.\n\nFive years ago, more than 4,500 professors were women, which has risen to 6,300 - from 23% to 28% of these senior posts.\n\nThis is despite women representing 46% of all academic staff.\n\nBaroness Amos, who was the UK's first black female university head, has previously warned of \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\" in the recruitment of senior staff in higher education.\n\nUniversities UK said \"the evidence is clear that black and minority ethnic staff continue to be under-represented\" at these senior academic levels.\n\n\"More needs to be done to address this inequality which exists within higher education, which mirrors inequalities evident in wider UK society and which will require an unequivocal commitment to change,\" said the universities' organisation.", "Many think the courts system needs to invest more in technology\n\nWhen Louise Westra and her partner decided to adopt a child in November 2018, they were aware of the long process that was ahead of them, but they were not to know that the coronavirus pandemic would hold them back from completing the adoption of their son.\n\nOn 27 March, their petition was due in court. As lockdown had taken effect, telephone conferencing would be used instead of going to court.\n\nHowever, after the phone call, Ms Westra received an email from her solicitor explaining that the papers had not been served to the biological parents of the child. This continued every month after lockdown, as it wasn't possible for the papers to be physically served.\n\n\"It's farcical because one of them is the biological father who lives with the biological mother who has had her petition but the biological father hasn't and they live in the same premises,\" Ms Westra says.\n\nServing papers has to be completed by post via Royal Mail or in some cases lawyers would instruct a process server to physically take the papers and hand them to the person.\n\n\"It sounds very archaic but if [the person] won't take them by hand, the processor can drop the papers near them and tell them what the document contains and that's technically counted as full service,\" says Rebecca Ranson, a solicitor for Maguire Family Law.\n\nUnless a judge approves it, emailing or any other forms of digital communication are not considered valid - even though the majority of people in the UK have access to email and the internet. It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.\n\nMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed. The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000. The Commons Justice Committee has announced an inquiry into how these delays could be addressed.\n\nThe reality, however, is that there was already a huge backlog back in December, and Covid-19 has just exacerbated an existing problem. Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.\n\n\"We've got people being held for longer than they otherwise would be, and for every person in custody waiting for trial or waiting on bail for trial, there are witnesses, and complainants and their families awaiting a resolution. Whether it's the lack of technology links in prison, using Skype and improvising or not having enough Nightingale courts - it all boils down to a lack of investment,\" says Joanna Hardy, a London-based barrister.\n\nIn 2016 HM Courts & Tribunals Service began a £1bn court reform programme. This included a video-conferencing tool called the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which allows for a dedicated private conference area, so criminal lawyers can speak to their clients without visiting prison.\n\nA programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to get CVP up and running in 10 weeks. This has since been extended to civil courts. But this implementation has been challenging, as there are only a restricted number of physical video links allowed.\n\n\"As we weren't ready for this huge technological revolution no-one had manned the tech rooms or built enough rooms on the other end in the prison. We can have as many laptops as we like, as much software as we like but if we can't put a prisoner into a room with a screen, the other end is pointless,\" Ms Hardy says.\n\nAccording to Ms Hardy, the waiting times to get these slots have been \"completely unacceptable\", and it has meant that sometimes hearings had to go ahead without the defendant present.\n\n\"It's like human beings failing where technology could have bridged the gap,\" she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that it had offered more than 400 CVP meeting rooms since the outbreak of coronavirus, but added that it is taking steps to increase the available capacity of video conferencing at some locations by extending operating hours. The spokesperson said that the MoJ is also undertaking urgent action to increase the physical number of video link outlets at critical sites.\n\nAt the moment, criminal trials are going ahead using social distancing - meaning sometimes a second courtroom is linked by technology, but this is creating further backlogs, as it means one case is occupying the same space as two.\n\nJustice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation, has trialled a virtual jury trial with a mock case, and suggested it should be considered as a possible option, but this hasn't been taken on by the courts.\n\nThe issue with virtual jury trials is whether or not they could affect the outcome of a trial. Some lawyers feel like juries should see a witness, feel an exhibit and dispense justice to a fellow human being in the confines of a court room.\n\nJodie Hill says it is more difficult to cross-examine people in video hearings\n\n\"You can lose the impact of cross examination. When you're challenging their evidence in person it's easier to get them to trip up if they're not being honest, whereas if they're on video it might be easier for them to cover it up,\" says Jodie Hill, solicitor and managing director of Thrive Law, an employment law specialist.\n\nFor smaller hearings, online alternatives could be here for the long term, as it means lawyers don't have to travel all over the UK unnecessarily. This doesn't mean that every hearing that can be done remotely, should be done remotely.\n\n\"We don't want overkill. We think some cases still need to be in the room, particularly if you're dealing with vulnerable people or sensitive cases. It has to be a balancing act of harnessing the benefits of technology and thinking about the specific case,\" says Ms Hardy.", "The UK is forging its post-Brexit path as a \"confident, independent nation - and an energetic force for good\", according to the government.\n\nIt's free to set trade on its own terms, pursue opportunities and higher living standards. But can it square profit with principle?\n\nIs turning a blind eye to human rights violations worth it to have a trade deal that knocks a couple of quid off the price of an imported shirt?\n\nThat New Year's resolution is already being tested, as China falls increasingly out of favour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has referred to conditions, under which over a million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and forced into work, as \"at the worst... torture and inhumane and degrading treatments\".\n\nHe warned that British companies will face fines, if they can't show that their supply chains are free from forced labour.\n\nIn December, a BBC investigation revealed thousands of Uighurs and other minorities have been compelled to toil in the cotton fields of Xinjiang. The region accounts for a fifth of the world's crop - it's not always easy to tell where your t-shirt hails from.\n\nThe UK and Canada have led the charge here, but one wonders how much further can it go.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that the UK should not be engaging in free trade negotiations with countries whose record was \"well below the level of genocide\".\n\nThere are several issues with this: first, working out who gets to decree human rights abuses.\n\nAmendments to the Trade Bill currently going through Parliament would oblige the government to assess the human rights records of potential partners.\n\nIn July, Dominic Raab accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population\n\nOne amendment proposes allowing the High Court to declare a genocide in other countries, and forcing the immediate cancellation of trade deals with said nations.\n\nMr Raab, however, says the decision to declare a genocide can't, and shouldn't be, delegated to the courts. Rather, it's for MPs to hold the government to account over trade deals.\n\nBut Labour MPs, who have written to their Conservative counterparts urging them to support the amendments, say they've already been denied powers of scrutiny.\n\nThey highlight trade deals rolled over with Egypt, Cameroon and Turkey, with whom the UK previously enjoyed similar deals the EU had struck.\n\nThese three countries, they argue, have questionable records on human rights.\n\nAnd then there's China. The UK is not planning a deal with Beijing and has indicated it won't do a deal with countries that don't share its democratic values.\n\nBut both nations have their eye on joining the wider Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.\n\nWith imports and exports worth almost £80bn in 2019, China already scores as one of the UK's largest trading partners, and it's not just about frocks and financial services crossing borders.\n\nSince Xi Jinping and David Cameron famously sipped a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub in 2015, Chinese investment in the UK has exploded, backing everything from football clubs to restaurant chains.\n\nNow China's appeal has soured, but it may not be easy to back away from encouraging investment, or a trade deal which touts lower import prices and greater opportunities for exporters, when the UK economy is already reeling.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Wanderers are owned by Chinese investors Fosun International\n\nTake textiles - a free trade deal would do away with a 12% tariff on clothes hailing from China. Ultimately, trade deals build on an existing - in this case very lucrative - relationship.\n\nCritics argue it's not enough to refrain from boosting ties with nations with chequered records - they should be lessened.\n\nBut it's even harder to snub countries that are already providing jobs for thousands, or items from the frivolous, such as smartphones, to the vital, like billions of PPE items.\n\nSome say the UK has its own issues elsewhere. It resumed the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia last year, after the government said the method for licensing had been reformulated to ensure they wouldn't be used in Yemen. Human rights groups are less sure.\n\nBalancing its quest to be a responsible citizen, together with exploring fresh fortunes, is just one dilemma the UK faces, as it shapes its new identity on the global stage.", "Boris Johnson will be glad Donald Trump has not been re-elected for a second term as US president, ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill has suggested.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken.\"\n\nHe said he \"would not have been to the benefit\" of British or European security, trade or environment issues.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson looked forward to working with Joe Biden.\n\nThis month he said Mr Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.\n\nAnd in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut after Mr Trump's victory in the US election in 2016, then Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and while running for the Conservative leadership in 2019, he said the President had \"many good qualities\".\n\nMr Trump later praised Mr Johnson, saying: \"they call him Britain Trump\".\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Mr Biden in a phone call after his US election win, saying he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Lord Sedwill's remarks would not be unhelpful to Downing Street as any perception in Washington that Mr Johnson was like Mr Trump becomes a liability with the arrival of President Biden.\n\nIn his Daily Mail article, Lord Sedwill, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he stood down in September, said there was \"relief in Western capitals\" that normal diplomatic relationships will be restored once Mr Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday.\n\nThe former Cabinet Secretary said: \"Those of us who regard ourselves as close American allies have badly missed US leadership over the past four years.\n\n\"Based on my time working for Boris Johnson in Downing Street, I believe those who have said he would have preferred a second Trump term are mistaken. That would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed.\"\n\nLord Sedwill added: \"With Brexit accomplished and the Biden administration ready to re-engage, this is the moment for Global Britain to step up.\"", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hancock said he would be working from home until Sunday, adding \"we all have a part to play in getting this virus under control\".\n\nHe contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and suffered \"mild symptoms\".\n\nMr Hancock said he learned from the app he had been \"in close contact with somebody who's tested positive\" and so self-isolating was \"how we break the chains of transmission\".\n\n\"So you must follow these rules like I'm going to,\" he said. \"I've got to work from home for the next six days, and together, by doing this, by following this, and all the other panoply of rules that we've had to put in place, we can get through this and beat this virus.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was alerted by the app on Monday night, having earlier led a Downing Street press conference alongside NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis and Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins.\n\nThe NHS app tells a person if they have been in close contact with someone who has later tested positive for coronavirus and tells them to isolate for 10 full days from their last contact.\n\nWhile it is not clear from Mr Hancock's statement if his isolation ends on Sunday or Monday, his period of quarantine suggests he was last in contact with the person who was infected on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street confirmed that Mr Hancock would not receive the vaccine early because he is leading the pandemic response.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The PM and the rest of the cabinet will take the vaccine when it's their turn to do so based on the priority lists that have been published.\n\n\"We don't think it's right that the PM or other members of cabinet take the vaccine in place of somebody who is at higher clinical risk.\"\n\nIn March, the health secretary revealed he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed he too had the virus.\n\nWhile the health secretary recovered fairly swiftly, and was able to work from home during his illness, Mr Johnson required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSelf-isolation, which means staying at home and not leaving, is a legal requirement for anybody who has Covid symptoms, has tested positive for the virus, lives with someone who has symptoms, has arrived from abroad or has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn December, the self-isolation period required was cut from 14 days to 10 days.\n\nUsing Bluetooth technology the NHS app makes contact between mobile phones when they are near each other, if an owner of a phone later tests positive for the virus and shares that with the app, alerts are sent to anyone who is deemed to have been a close contact.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's climate change leadership is being undercut by a government decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, MPs have warned.\n\nThe UK is hosting a UN climate summit in November, where it will urge other nations to phase out fossil fuels.\n\nThe MPs say the government's decision to allow a new colliery at home will make it harder to secure a deal.\n\nThe Woodhouse mine was approved by Cumbria County Council because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment.\n\nThe planning minister Robert Jenrick could have overruled it, but said the issue was best decided at a local level.\n\nThat verdict was derided by environmentalists, who pointed out that climate change from fossil fuel burning is a global problem.\n\nAlok Sharma, who is leading the COP26 climate summit and who co-ordinates UK policies on climate change, was asked by the Commons business select committee whether the mine approval was \"an embarrassment\". He replied: \"I take your point\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the committee there was a \"slight tension\" between approving the mine, near Whitehaven, and broader attempts to clean up the economy.\n\nBut he said ministers decided to allow the pit because it will produce coking coal for steel-making, which otherwise would have to be imported.\n\nHe said: \"There's a slight tension between the decision to open this mine and our avowed intention to take coal off the grid… there was a debate in the government about what we could do about this, but this was a local planning decision.\n\n\"If we don't have sources of coking coal in the UK we would be importing those anyway\".\n\nThis appears to run counter to advice from the Climate Change Committee which has said all coal - including coking coal - should be phased out by 2035. Doubts have been raised about investors in the mine being left with a \"stranded asset\" if the pit is forced to close on climate grounds.\n\nThe mine approval is even more poignant because the UK founded the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance\" - a global club to persuade nations to leave coal in the ground.\n\nA source close to the Alliance secretariat told BBC News that staff were enraged by the decision. They believed the decision had been made to help secure so-called \"Red Wall\" votes in areas which previously voted Labour .\n\nMohamed Adow, from a pressure group, Powershift Africa, told BBC News: \"It is quite bizarre that the UK government, in the year it hosts the biggest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has approved a new coal mine.\"\n\nThe young campaigner Greta Thunberg said the decision showed pledges to achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050 \"basically mean nothing\".\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the business committee, told BBC News it would be hard for the UK to persuade countries like Poland to abandon coal whilst building a mine.\n\nHe argued that the government should have found another way to bring jobs to Cumbria. He said: \"Carbon-intensive industries are looking to the government for leadership on the transition to a green future.\n\n\"Backing coal at home doesn't look in line with the recent Energy White Paper and certainly makes our efforts to secure international agreement on ambitious decarbonisation harder to achieve.\"\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne, told BBC News: \"If the UK is to achieve its ambition to be an environmental world leader, the government must offer clear guidance on how we can take every industry to net-zero, and offer a pipeline of investable projects.\n\n\"The steel sector needs to develop alternatives to importing coking coal. This could also support the next generation of green jobs - which are urgently needed.\"\n\nThe cross-bench peer Baroness Worthington told BBC News: \"This decision is real laziness of thinking from the government. Just think of signal it sends to all those countries who want to cling on to coal.\n\n\"The government doesn't yet have a cohesive strategy that makes sense. It's crazy. Absolute madness.\"", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home at least until then. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions, which have been in place since Boxing Day. It comes as England's deputy chief medical officer said schools may reopen region by region after February half term.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app. He urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app and said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\". Mr Hancock, who is MP for West Suffolk, suffered \"mild symptoms\" when he contracted coronavirus in March 2020.\n\nA group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises, days after a coronavirus rule banning pubs from serving drinks took effect. BBC Wales has been told Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were drinking together in early December, with Labour Senedd member Alun Davies also involved. Senedd authorities said they are investigating an \"incident\". Elsewhere, an internal investigation has began after railway workers allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nHeadlines about footballers and Covid have been hard to miss lately - with questions about dressing room distancing, off-pitch partying and all those post-goal hugs. But what's football in lockdown actually like for players and their families? BBC Newsbeat has found out by speaking to Wycombe Wanderers footballer Joe Jacobson and his wife Louise.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "The death happened in the alpine resort of Verbier, in Switzerland\n\nA British man has been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police have said.\n\nThe man was among 10 people swept away at the alpine resort of Verbier, to the east of Geneva, on Monday morning.\n\nPolice said the skier, who has not been named, lived in Verbier and died at the scene.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital with serious injuries, while eight others were uninjured, local police said.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"The avalanche occurred outside the piste between the Verbier ski area and 'Les Attelas'.\n\n\"At around 10:20, a skier was driving down a corridor below the 'Attelas' area.\n\n\"A snow drift came loose and carried the skier as well as another person who had been further down at the time.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was offering support to the British man's family and was in contact with the authorities in Switzerland.\n\nThe death comes after several days of heavy snowfall across Switzerland, which led to the death of another skier who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Gstaad.\n\nIt takes the total deaths due to avalanches in the country to seven since last weekend.\n\nMore than 200 British skiers left the popular Verbier resort in December after Switzerland imposed a coronavirus quarantine following the discovery of a new variant of the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Not all parents have found it easy to home school their children during coronavirus lockdowns\n\nLevels of stress, depression and anxiety among parents and carers have increased with the pressures of the lockdowns, suggests research from the University of Oxford.\n\nMany parents, especially those of secondary-age pupils, say they are worried about their children's futures.\n\nThe government has said it is aware how challenging it is for parents to support children with home learning.\n\nThe research, based on responses from 6,246 parents and carers between mid-March and the end of December 2020, found problems including:\n\nOn an established scale of depression, anxiety and stress, parents' depression scores increased from April through to June from an average of 9.03 to 9.71, says the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.\n\nWhile these average scores decreased over the summer, when Covid-19 restrictions were eased, to a low of 8.23 in September, they rose again over the course of the autumn term to a high of 10.1 points in December.\n\nParents' stress scores were at their lowest in August and September at 11.4 points, but increased to a high of 13.2 in December, following the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nThe researchers said higher levels of stress were detected particularly in low-income families, as well as single-parent households and those with children with special educational needs.\n\nWhile average anxiety scores were relatively stable throughout the whole period - ranging from a 4.71 points in April to 4.24 in July - they hit a high of 5 points in December.\n\nThe study also found just over a third (36%) of parents with young children (10 years or younger) said they were \"substantially worried\" about their children's behaviour, in contrast to just over a quarter (28%) of parents who had older children only (11 years or older).\n\nHowever, nearly half (45%) of those with secondary-age children were worried about their children's education and future, compared to 32% of those with young children.\n\nLeticea, a parent who took part in the study, said: \"I think that UK leaders should have access to this data to see what is going on with the mental health of families and how they are being affected by Covid-19 with increased levels of stress, depression and anxiety - we need something to look forward to.\n\n\"I am also worried that the next three months will show a sharper increase in anxiety and stress where parents are having to do more teaching at home.\n\n\"Children are more worried as their teachers are becoming ill - the 'new variant' sounds more scary, my daughter keeps commenting on an increasing worry of catching Covid-19 which she didn't do so much before.\"\n\nAnother parent, Madiha, said: ''Current times are hard enough as they are.\n\n\"As a working parent, the most important thing for me is to ensure my family's wellbeing, their safety, and their continued development.\n\n\"Prolonged screen time, disruption to daily routine, frequent arguments, lack of exercise, and stress of exams have all been contributing factors to our mental health and wellbeing.\n\nMadiha said she hoped the study would play a part in informing policy and developing interventions to help families.\n\nCathy Creswell, professor of clinical developmental psychology at Oxford University and co-leader of the study, said the findings showed parents were particularly vulnerable to distress during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our data highlight the particular strains felt by parents during lockdown when many feel that they have been spread too thin by the demands of meeting their children's needs during the pandemic, along with home-schooling and work commitments.\"\n\nSchools were first closed to most pupils in March\n\nJohn Jolly, head of the charity Parentkind, said the research highlighted \"the additional stress and pressure that partial school closures place on parents\".\n\n\"Given the disruption to family life, it is vital that policymakers consult and listen to the concerns of parents on issues that directly impact them and their children's futures.\n\n\"This includes the safety and reopening of schools, the fair allocation of grades in the absence of exams, and remote learning provision.\"\n\nThe Oxford researchers are tracking children's and parents' mental health throughout the current crisis, to help them identify what protects young people from deteriorating mental health and how this may vary according to child and family characteristics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert’s report finds eight-year-old Saffie \"could have been saved\" if treated properly for her injuries\n\nA man has described how he tried to help the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack as she lay badly injured after the explosion.\n\nPaul Reid, 46, was the first person to reach eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos after the bomb was detonated.\n\nHe said she asked for her mum and said he tried to keep her awake by talking about the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nIt comes after a new report found Saffie could have survived if she had received better medical help.\n\nTwenty-two people were murdered and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the arena foyer as fans left the concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Reid, who was selling posters at the concert, told the BBC he ran into the foyer seconds after the bomb went off.\n\n\"There was a big bang and I could see up on to the foyer, and there was smoke and you could hear things pinging off the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"I still had the posters in my hand. It was mad because it was like I wasn't there, like I was watching myself.\n\n\"People were just screaming and running in every direction you could think of.\"\n\nSaffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nMr Reid said he tried to help two other people before he noticed Saffie lying on the floor.\n\n\"She was still conscious. I asked her her name and I thought she said Sophie,\" he said.\n\n\"She just got a little bit upset. She asked me for her mum and I said not to worry, we're going to find her in a minute.\n\n\"And I sat there trying to keep her calm. I had to talk to her about the concert, and did she enjoy it.\n\n\"All the time I was sat there, I just thought hundreds of people are just going to come running in here and help us. And, well, hardly anybody came in.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack, which started in September, began to examine the emergency response to the atrocity on Monday.\n\nMr Reid said he began watching the inquiry but said some details given in the opening days did not marry up with his recollection of what happened, and he switched it off.\n\nHe told the BBC after a while another person came to help, but after cutting away some of Saffie's clothing they left and went to the aid of someone else.\n\n\"I gave her [Saffie] a sip of water, because in all this madness there's somebody handing water out,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine in the foyer now, all this is going on and there's a man walking about with water.\"\n\nPaul Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night\n\nMr Reid said a police officer suggested moving Saffie out of the foyer, but with no stretchers to lift her they had to use a piece of plastic hoarding.\n\n\"The policeman came and said 'she's got to go, I'll take her in my car',\" he added.\n\n\"There was a plastic sheet under somebody's leg who was injured, I started pulling the sheet from under his leg. We put her on it and I started to carry her out, but the board was slippy.\"\n\nHe said they could not get the makeshift stretcher into the officer's car, so they flagged down an ambulance.\n\nMr Reid said he then returned to the foyer, where he went back to the man who he had taken the hoarding from.\n\n\"He had a gash in his stomach, and a paramedic was sitting there holding something against his stomach,\" he said.\n\n\"I held his hand. He had a Liverpool accent so I talked to him about football to take his mind off things, and my mind off things.\"\n\nMr Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night.\n\n\"It's like yesterday. I can still smell the smoke in that foyer. Still hear the alarms when I go to sleep, when I close my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm first aid trained, but the most I'd done is put a plaster on.\n\n\"To step in that foyer, it was carnage. It was a war zone.\"\n\nSaffie's parents have said they would not have expected member of the public to have known how to treat her injuries.\n\nHer father Andrew Roussos told the BBC: \"There was a member of the public with her, I can't expect him to tourniquet her, splint her legs and so on.\n\n\"But the medically trained people that were with her, and were with her throughout and didn't apply basic first aid to give Saffie a chance.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard it is important to acknowledge the enormous pressure which those who responded that night came under.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the extended lockdown has not been welcomed by business leaders.\n\nLast month, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimated that each week of lockdown meant non-essential stores missing out on £135m of lost sales.\n\nSince then, garden centres and homeware shops have been compelled to close too, and the government has placed curbs on retailers’ click and collect services.\n\nThe SRC says today's extension is a further blow to non-food stores who have already borne a lot during the pandemic.\n\nIt said Scottish stores were set to miss out on almost £950m of lost revenues during the current lockdown period.\n\nQuote Message: The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable. from David Lonsdale Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable.", "On his final full day in office, outgoing president Donald Trump delivered a farewell speech from the White House.\n\nCurrently locked out of his personal social media accounts, Trump struck a concilatory yet defiant tone in the video released via the government's official social media accounts.\n\n\"We did what we came here to do - and so much more,\" he said. \"I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices – because that’s what you elected me to do.\"\n\nHe warned that \"the greatest danger\" now facing the country was \"a loss of confidence in our national greatness\".\n\nThe 45th president ran through actions taken by his administration - from \"stand[ing] up to China like never before\" to \"a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East\".\n\nHe added: \"I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.\"\n\nReferring to the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, he said: \"All Americans were horrified by the assault on the Capitol... It can never be tolerated.\"\n\nTrump acknowledged that a new administration would take office, but said: \"I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.\"", "It is not known when the artwork was taken as no one reported it missing\n\nA 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen.\n\nThe copy of Salvator Mundi, which is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a bedroom cupboard in Naples on Saturday.\n\nThis copy is thought to have been painted by one of da Vinci's students.\n\nThe 36-year-old owner of the flat was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, police said.\n\n\"The painting was found on Saturday thanks to a brilliant and diligent police operation,\" Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe artwork is usually part of the Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in the city.\n\nBut Mr Melillo said officials were not aware it had been stolen because \"the room where the painting is kept has not been open for three months\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not known when the artwork was taken as no one had reported it missing, but the museum said it was in its possession as recently as last January.\n\nSome experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have painted the artwork\n\nPolice are now investigating the circumstances of the theft, but there was no sign of a break-in at the museum.\n\n\"It is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organisation working in the international art trade,\" Mr Melillo said.\n\nIt is not known who painted the artwork, but some experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have done so in the early 1500s.\n\nIt shows Christ with one hand raised, with the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nAnd to add to the mystery - whether or not the original painting is an authentic Leonardo da Vinci is disputed. Leonardo died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The original painting was cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nThe original Salvator Mundi has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half. Efforts to restore it have also resulted in abrasions.\n\nThis did not detract buyers, however, and the painting became the most expensive ever sold when it was auctioned for a record $450m (£341m) in 2017.\n\nThe unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.", "A refusal to accept cash is \"creeping into the wider UK economy\", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society.\n\nConsumer group Which? said that 34% of people asked said they had been unable to pay with cash at least once since March when trying to buy something.\n\nGrocery stores, pubs and restaurants were most likely to refuse.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who wrote a report on the issue, called for ministers to act.\n\n\"The figures show that it's not simply the odd coffee shop going cashless, but this is creeping into the wider economy,\" said Ms Ceeney, who wrote the Access to Cash Review.\n\n\"We can't just blame individual businesses - many are going cashless because they can't easily bank cash takings because their local branch is closed or some distance away. The government needs to urgently legislate to protect the viability of cash - as it promised to do so last year. Time is running out.\"\n\nWhich? said the lack of cash access was a problem for those who relied on notes and coins - such as people with certain health conditions or without computer access.\n\nSome shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nJenny Ross, Which? Money editor, said: \"We have repeatedly warned about the consequences that coronavirus will have on what was an already fragile cash system, but nowhere near enough action has been taken by the government or the regulator to understand the scale of this issue.\"\n\nThe Treasury has proposed giving the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, control of overseeing future access to cash and has thrown its weight behind the idea of cashback in shops, without the requirement to buy anything.\n\nDavid Fagleman, director at financial consultancy Enryo, said: \"Our own research shows that despite a decline in use for day-to-day purchases, nearly three-quarters of people think the move to a cashless society is happening too fast and risks leaving some people, particularly the vulnerable, behind.\"", "Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a drama which follows Tommy Shelby and his family\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the hit BBC crime drama will conclude with a film following the show's final TV series.\n\nOn Monday, Knight said the upcoming sixth series would be the last but teased that \"the story will continue in another form\".\n\nHe has now confirmed to Deadline: \"My plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie.\n\n\"This is what is going to happen,\" he added.\n\nHe explained that \"Covid had changed our plans\" but did not elaborate.\n\nHelen McCrory, who plays Polly, is the Shelby family matriarch\n\nThe final BBC TV series has resumed filming after being hit by Covid-related production delays.\n\nOn Monday, Knight described the show as being \"back with a bang\" and warned fans that the mobsters would face \"extreme jeopardy\" in the sixth season.\n\nKnight had previously planned for a seven-season run of the drama, which is set in post-World War One Birmingham.\n\n\"My ambition is to make it a story of a family between two wars,\" he said in 2018 ahead of season five. \"I've wanted to end it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham in 1939. It'll take three more series to reach that point.\"\n\nIt now looks like the film might be replacing his plan for series seven.\n\nKnight, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, previously revealed he had been \"approached\" to take the Shelby crime family universe to the big-screen.\n\nSam Claflin as Tommy's political rival Oswald Mosley was a central figure in series five\n\nThe sixth series of the show, which follows Tommy Shelby and his family, will see Anthony Byrne return as director and Nick Goding produce.\n\nTommy Bulfin, executive producer for the BBC, said he was \"very excited\" filming had begun and promised a \"truly remarkable... fitting send-off that will delight fans\".\n\nHe added he was \"so grateful to everyone for all their hard work to make it happen\".\n\nThe production team have developed comprehensive safety protocols to ensure that the series will be produced responsibly and in accordance with government guidelines during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nExecutive producer Caryn Mandabach said the \"safety of our cast and crew is always our priority\" and that they had been \"working diligently\" to get safely back into production since filming was halted last March.\n\n\"Thank you to all the Peaky fans who have been so unwaveringly supportive and patient,\" she added.\n\nPeaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy, first aired on BBC Two eight years ago to widespread critical acclaim.\n\nRatings quickly grew from over two million for the first series to over four million by series four and it found further popularity on Netflix.\n\nIt made the transition to BBC One for the fifth series in 2019, achieving audiences of over five million.\n\nThroughout its run, a host of awards have followed, including NTAs, which are voted for by the public, and a Bafta for best drama series in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh experts have found a problem with MND patients' nerve cells which could be repaired by repurposing drugs approved for other diseases.\n\nThe study has been welcomed by charities including the foundation set up by Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir.\n\nMy Name'5 Doddie foundation described it as \"a very exciting breakthrough\".\n\nMore than 1,500 people are diagnosed with the degenerative condition in the UK every year.\n\nThere is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis.\n\nThe research found that the damage to nerve cells caused by MND could be repaired by improving the energy levels in mitochondria - the power supply to the motor neurons.\n\nThey discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells.\n\nAnd the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons, was impaired\n\nThe scientists showed that this was caused by a defective energy supply from the mitochondria and that by boosting the mitochondria, the axon reverted back to normal.\n\nDr Arpan Mehta, who led the study at Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research said: \"The importance of the axon in motor nerve cells cannot be overstated.\n\n\"Our data provides hope that by restoring the cell's energy source we can protect the axons and their connection to muscle from degeneration.\n\n\"Work is already under way to identify existing licensed drugs that can boost the mitochondria and repair the motor neurons. This will then pave the way to test them in clinical trials.\"\n\nThe research centre was established by Euan MacDonald, who was 29 years old when he was diagnosed with MND in 2003\n\nCraig Stockton, the chief executive of MND Scotland, said the \"exciting\" results of the research were another piece of the puzzle to finding an effective treatment for the degenerative condition.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing if these positive results can be replicated for patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Once researchers have identified a drug they believe could have the desired effect, this treatment could then be fast-tracked for human trials using the pioneering MND-SMART clinical trial platform - into which MND Scotland has invested £1.5m.\n\n\"Researchers, clinicians, charities and supporters are all working hard to take us closer to finding a cure and by joining together we'll get to that day even sooner.\"\n\nThe researchers used stem cells taken from people with the C9orf72 gene mutation that causes both MND and frontotemporal dementia.\n\nThey used the stem cells to generate motor neuron cells in the lab.\n\nThe study also used human post-mortem spinal cord tissue from people with MND.\n\nAlthough the research focused on the people with the commonest genetic cause of MND, the researchers said they were hopeful the results would also apply to other forms of the disease.\n\nThe results of the study are now being used to look for existing drugs that boost mitochondrial function.\n\nThe study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, UK Dementia Research Institute and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government is facing a rebellion over the Trade Bill, and opposition proposals to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nRebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries responsible for genocide.\n\nThe government says trade policy should not be set by the courts.\n\nBut some MPs think the proposal would be a good way of targeting China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nOn Tuesday, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, in his last day in the role, said the US had determined that China's persecution of the Muslim group and other minorities in Xinjiang province represented genocide and crimes against humanity under international law.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly condemned the actions of the Chinese authorities but stopped short of describing them as genocide - saying only international courts should determine this.\n\nAnd ministers also argue that trade deals are matters for governments, not the courts, to decide upon.\n\nThe MPs' amendment to the Trade Bill is a watered-down version of an earlier proposal from the House of Lords, which would force the government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country found guilty of genocide by the High Court of England and Wales.\n\nThe new proposal is signed by 10 Conservative MPs, one of whom described their amendment as \"tidier\" than the Lords version and designed to attract more support.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Sir Edward Leigh asked \"is there any way we can acknowledge that genocide is taking place in a discussion on a trade deal\".\n\nIn response, International Trade minister Greg Hands said ministers were prepared to have further discussions but not within the scope of the current legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the government was \"answerable to Parliament, not the courts\" and the Lords version would have led to an \"unacceptable erosion\" of its authority.\n\nThe UK, he added, had \"no plans\" to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with China due to concerns about its human rights record, particularly its persecution of the Muslim Uighur community.\n\nNusrat Ghani urged ministers to consider the \"compromise\" proposal, which she said recognised the \"separation of powers\" between the executive, Parliament and the courts.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister said the UK should \"never let economic concerns trump ethical ones by dealing with genocidal states\".\n\n\"Why would we want to use our newfound freedom to trade with states that commit and profit from genocide? Britain is better than that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Politics Live, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it is currently \"impossible\" for international courts to rule on whether there has been genocide, as other countries can block hearings in the UN.\n\nHe argued it is therefore important to allow British courts to make the judgement.\n\nThe MP insisted he is not \"anti-China\" but said the Chinese government need to be \"reasonable and behave in a way that is acceptable\" if it wanted to be part of global trading organisations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour would be supporting the new amendment arguing that the government \"does not consider human rights abuses enough before signing up to trade deals\".\n\nThis is an interesting story in its own right because of the issues involved but it's also a neat metaphor for Brexit.\n\nThe government has taken back control of trade policy from the EU but is already having to share it with the House of Lords, Tory MPs and potentially with the High Court.\n\nDuring the passage of the Trade Bill, the government also had to beef up the powers of the Trade and Agriculture Commission - an independent body of experts - in response to lobbying from farmers who were worried about the dilution of food standards.\n\nSoon trade disputes with other countries will partly be overseen by the new Trade Remedies Authority, another organisation that reports to ministers but is independent of them.\n\nAnd of course, everything has to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules, anyway.\n\nThe government has control of trade. It's just not total.", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "A team of Nepalese climbers has become the first ever to summit the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in winter.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, is notoriously challenging - with high winds and sub-zero temperatures.\n\nOne of the leading members of the team is a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier, Nirmal Purja. He spoke to BBC Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani.", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "How has the justice system responded to the pandemic? Stories from inside prisons and courts, where lawyers fear delays are creating miscarriages of justice. Helen Grady reports.\n\nAre court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? When the UK locked down, so did its court system, adding to a backlog that’s left defendants, witnesses and victims facing long waits for trials. Helen Grady speaks to people inside the justice system to find out how it’s coped with the pandemic - from delays in making courts covid-secure to a lack of PPE and overcrowding in prisons. We hear stories from prisons under lockdown and talk to lawyers who fear delays are leading to abuses of the criminal justice system.\n\nProducer: Rob Cave", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia pulled off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988, win the fourth Test by three wickets and take one of the all-time great series. Needing 328, a Brisbane record run-chase, the injury-hit tourists got home with three overs to spare. Shubman Gill made 91 and Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 89. They win the series 2-1, keeping the Border-Gavaskar they won in Australia two years ago. It is perhaps one of the finest Test series wins by any away side, especially given the list of players unavailable to India by the time the final match was played. That included captain and talisman Virat Kohli, who only played in the first Test before departing to be at the birth of his first child, a host of fast bowlers and first-choice spin pair Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In addition to the absent players, India somehow recovered from being bowled out for 36 - their lowest total in Test cricket - in losing the series opener by eight wickets. What followed were three Tests of the highest quality and drama, with India producing a stunning comeback to win the second Test by eight wickets, then defiantly batting through the final day to earn a draw in the third. But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters. The tourists were 4-0 overnight and, for them to even get to the point where victory might be possible, Cheteshwar Pujara had to come through a barrage of hostile bowling from the Australia quicks - he was hit 10 times in his 56. He added 114 for the second wicket with the free-scoring Gill, while stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has presided over India's fightback, signalled their intent with 24 off only 22 balls. Tireless Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was a threat throughout, removing Pujara, Rahane and Rohit Sharma. Fast bowler Pat Cummins took four wickets for Australia Still, even though India knew a draw would see them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they never lost sight of the chance of victory and promoted wicketkeeper Pant to number five. At the beginning of the final hour, India were 259-4, meaning they needed 69 runs and Australia six wickets from the final 15 overs. Though Cummins had Mayank Agarwal caught at cover for his fourth wicket, Pant attacked in the company of debutant Washington Sundar. Runs came with increasing freedom and, although Sundar was bowled trying to reverse-sweep Nathan Lyon and Shardul Thakur miscued Josh Hazlewood, Pant could not be stopped. The left-hander's drive down the ground off Hazlewood secured a famous win and sparked joyous India celebrations. 'One of the top three series of all time' - reaction India captain Rahane: \"I don't know how to describe this victory. I'm really proud of all the boys. We didn't talk about anything after Adelaide, we just wanted to show good character and express ourselves. It was all about a team effort.\" Australia captain Tim Paine: \"In the key moments we were found wanting and completely outplayed by India, who fully deserved their series win.\" Man of the match Pant: \"This is one of the biggest things in my life. It has been a dream series.\" Player of the series Cummins: \"The whole India side played fantastically and deserved to win. The game was there for to win, but we didn't take the wickets.\" Former Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark on ABC: \"What a victory that is by India. They have been absolutely outstanding. The man of the moment is Rishabh Pant. He played some of the most insane shots you will ever see. Australia bowled their hearts out, but it wasn't enough.\" Former Australia captain Ian Chappell: \"It had everything. It was an absolutely amazing day. This has been one of top three Test series of all time.\"\n• None Can this British team make an impact on the global scene?\n• None The show must go on in lockdown:", "Nicola Sturgeon is to announce later whether Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown is to continue past the end of January.\n\nThe first minister said Tuesday's statement at Holyrood would concern the \"duration\" of restrictions rather than whether any new ones would be imposed.\n\nMinsters will also decide at a cabinet meeting whether schools will be allowed to re-open in full from 1 February.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has suggested it would be a \"tall order\" for pupils to return to classrooms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Monday that she did not want to \"raise parents' expectations\", saying transmission of the virus \"is still higher than we would want it to be\".\n\nThe whole Scottish mainland and several islands have been in a strict lockdown since early January, with a \"stay at home\" message in force.\n\nThis was initially due to run until February, but this will be reviewed by ministers on Tuesday morning with a view to having the restrictions last longer.\n\nWhile Ms Sturgeon has warned that the government would consider further measures if necessary, she said \"it is the duration rather than the content of restrictions that we will be looking at\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe outcome of this review will then be announced to MSPs in a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will announce the result of the latest review in a Holyrood statement\n\nThe review will also cover the situation in schools, with the majority learning remotely from home and only some children of key workers and vulnerable pupils being allowed into school buildings.\n\nOn Monday, the first minister said she did not want to \"raise expectations\" about classes returning to normal, but added that she was \"not going to make any assumptions\" ahead of the cabinet meeting.\n\nShe said: \"I am not going to raise parents' expectations, you can see from the numbers we are seeing some positive signs in the numbers that lockdown is starting to stabilise things and tip them into decline, but transmission is still higher than we would want it to be.\n\n\"We want to get schools back as quickly as we possibly can, it is not in the interests of kids to be out of school for any longer than is absolutely necessary, but community transmission has always been a key factor in these decisions.\"\n\nThis echoed comments from Mr Swinney, who had previously said it would be \"a tall order\" for schools to fully re-open with \"the virus still at a very high level in general within society\".\n\nI am expecting continuity rather than change from today's announcement on coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe continuation of the current lockdown and presumably the extension of remote learning for most school pupils into the February break at least.\n\nBoth decisions are likely to be reviewed again next month. But it's not clear if the first minister will feel able to suggest a target date for restrictions to ease.\n\nCabinet will also be giving special attention to the serious Covid outbreak on Barra and considering if the level three restrictions that apply in the Western Isles remain appropriate.\n\nWhile there are signs the pace at which the current wave of coronavirus is spreading is starting to slow, evidence of much greater suppression will be required before the stay at home lockdown in place across mainland Scotland is lifted.\n\nThe review comes less than a week after restrictions in Scotland were tightened, with some click and collect services ordered to close and outdoor alcohol consumption banned.\n\nThe entire Scottish mainland has been in the top level of restrictions - level four - since Boxing Day, with level three measures in place in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and some islands in Argyll and Bute and the Highlands.\n\nScots are subject to a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes, such as shopping for essentials, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nThe number of new cases reported each day on average has begun to fall, but the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to rise and is now \"significantly\" above that seen in the first wave in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"position overall is very precarious, very concerning in terms of the level of transmission\", but said there were \"some early signs to be optimistic that measures are having an effect\".\n\nThe first minister will take questions from opposition leaders following her statement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have voiced concerns that Covid-19 vaccines are not being rolled out quickly enough, saying the Scottish government are \"trailing their own targets\".\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland has vaccinated 264,991 people so far - 6% of its adult population.\n\nThis is lower than the figure for England, where 8% of the adult population - 3,520,056 people - have been vaccinated, and Northern Ireland, which has the highest vaccination rate in the UK at 8.7%.\n\nWales has a similar figure to Scotland at 6%.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has insisted that all parts of the UK are \"working to the same targets\" to vaccinate priority groups, and said her government is \"on track\" to hit them subject to supplies arriving.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.\n\nBy that time the government aims to be vaccinating up to 400,000 people a week on average, with all priority groups getting a first jab by early May and the rest of the adult population in line thereafter.", "About one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December, roughly double the October figure, data has shown.\n\nEstimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest between 8% of people in Northern Ireland and 12% of people in England showed signs of past Covid infection.\n\nIn October, antibody positivity ranged from 2% to 7% around the UK.\n\nAnd 6,586 Covid deaths were registered in the UK in the week to 8 January.\n\nThat brings the total registered so far close to 96,000.\n\nNearly a quarter of deaths were people living in care homes - a disproportionate impact on a group of people which accounts for less than 1% of the population.\n\nBack in July, though, care home residents accounted for 40% of deaths.\n\nThe ONS regularly tests a representative sample of the population, both for current infection and for antibodies indicating a past infection.\n\nPeople taking part in the survey are tested whether or not they have had symptoms.\n\nThis is used to estimate how common both the virus and antibodies are in the population as a whole.\n\nAntibodies are proteins in the blood which fight off specific infections.\n\nThey are developed if somebody catches an infection and their body fights it off, or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nYorkshire and the Humber topped the chart with 17% of people having positive antibodies, followed by London.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said: \"This study shows that infection with the Sars-Cov-2 virus is much more widespread in the UK than previously realised, with around 1 in 10 people estimated to have been infected by December 2020.\n\n\"The implications are that infection rates increased significantly between November and December.\"\n\nBut Scotland had a considerably smaller growth in antibodies than the rest of the UK, rising from 7% to 9% of the population.\n\nThe fact that more people show signs of having at least some protection against Covid-19 is consistent with the dramatic rise in infections during that period.\n\nBut we know that antibodies from natural infection can fade.\n\nIn England, the ONS said, positive antibody tests equated to 5.4 million people aged over 16 having signs of past infection.\n\nThat does not tell you the total number of people infected, however, but acts as a snapshot in time.\n\nIn London, about 16% of people had antibodies in December, up from 11% in October. But at the last peak in May, an estimated 15% of the population had antibodies. This proportion fell, as detectable antibodies recede with time.\n\nExactly what this means for someone's likelihood to become infected again, however, is not fully known.\n\nIt also remains to be seen how long vaccines will protect people for, before they need a booster jab.\n\nBut Public Health England data suggests natural immunity provides at least five months' protection on average, and vaccines often give better protection than natural immunity.\n\nMore than 4 million people in the UK have been given their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nProf Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, urged caution among those who have already been vaccinated.\n\nAsked whether people who have received the jab can hug their children, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would certainly advise not to do that at the moment because, as you probably know, with the vaccines they take several weeks before they are maximally effective.\n\n\"It's really important that people stay on their guard even if they've had that first vaccination.\"", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's rising number of UK deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday’s numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays registering deaths over the weekend tend to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half that.\n\nBut there are two chinks of light in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 - for a third day in a row. At the turn of the year it was touching 60,000 new diagnoses.\n\nThat means, in the coming weeks, we should start to see fewer hospitalisations and, eventually, deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.\n\nThey say the way the self-employed income support scheme or SEISS is calculated- by averaging out profits between 2016 to 19 - is unfair to to around 75,000 women who’ve taken time off in that period for maternity leave. The government insists using a three-year average is the best way of reflecting a self-employed worker’s income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "An Instagram post said the alleged baby shower was a \"lovely surprise\"\n\nA rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nChiltern Railways workers told BBC News up to 20 colleagues, including some who were on shift, attended the gathering.\n\nThey claim some party-goers then had positive Covid tests, forcing most of the team to self-isolate.\n\nChiltern said \"appropriate action\" would be taken after its investigation.\n\nMembers of Chiltern Railways customer services staff based at the station told BBC News that about 30 people had been invited to the baby shower on the afternoon of 23 November - both via WhatsApp before the alleged gathering, and face to face on the day of the event.\n\nA national coronavirus lockdown was in place in England in November, so people were banned from meeting anyone indoors who was not part of their household.\n\nOne worker, David [not his real name], said he declined an invitation to the event but walked past the bakery later in his shift to see about 20 colleagues gathered inside.\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and alarmed\" to see people hugging each other, with most of them not wearing masks.\n\nPhotos of the alleged gathering, seen by the BBC, show a table inside a Patisserie Valerie outlet covered with dozens of cupcakes, mince pies, crisps and sandwiches, bunting saying \"it's a boy!\" and handmade flags reading \"happy baby shower\".\n\nOne photo appears to show a group of eight colleagues posing in front of the table of party food, without socially distancing from one another.\n\nSome images were shared on Instagram on 23 November with the caption: \"What a lovely surprise being thrown a baby shower at work today!\"\n\nA Patisserie Valerie spokesman said the company had not been informed of any such event and that none of its team members had access to the Marylebone station cafe, which has remained closed since March due to Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added it was normal for a member of station staff to have keys to the premises for \"security reasons\".\n\nDavid and another colleague claimed three people who allegedly attended the event tested positive over the following four days.\n\nThe positive tests meant 16 members of staff out of the team of about 26 people had to self-isolate for 14 days, David said.\n\nHe said colleagues who lived with, or cared for, vulnerable people were \"petrified\" to hear there had been a staff outbreak, with some \"scared to go home\" for fear of endangering loved ones.\n\nDavid added that he had been caring for his elderly grandmother so self-isolation was \"a real nightmare\" as he had to arrange alternative care for her.\n\nChiltern Railways confirmed a \"small number\" of workers tested positive for Covid or had to self-isolate in the 14-day period after 23 November, but a spokeswoman said \"none of the staff who were alleged to have attended [the baby shower] tested positive\".\n\nShe said Chiltern Railways was investigating and was \"making every effort\" to maintain a Covid-secure environment for staff and customers.\n\nChiltern Railways staff members congratulated their colleague using information boards at the station\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, which was sent to Chiltern Railways employees on 24 November, a manager said one team member had tested positive and added: \"It is disappointing that social distancing measures do not appear to have been followed and I will be investigating this further.\"\n\nDavid's colleague Peter (not his real name) said he was one of about 10 team members who had to work while the rest of the team was self-isolating.\n\nPeter said the outbreak left those at work feeling \"stretched\" and \"raised the anxiety levels of everyone\" as they worried they might have caught Covid as a result of having worked alongside the alleged party's attendees.\n\n\"A lot of us don't want to be at work during this time, for obvious reasons. We're doing a job where we do come into contact with a lot of people - it's stressful enough with your own family, who are a bit worried about you going in to work at a train station and asking if you're getting the proper protection,\" Peter said.\n\nHe added he felt \"demoralised\" to hear about the alleged party when he spends his shifts encouraging customers to wear masks and socially distance.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been made aware of the incident and had contacted Chiltern Railways for a \"full explanation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Office of Rail and Road - which protects the interests of rail and road users - said it had investigated \"an issue relating to Covid-19 concerns\" and had taken action, jointly with Westminster City Council, to \"ensure Chiltern Railways tightens its risk assessment for workers and to revise working arrangements\".", "When Amelia Strike, 21, was logged out of her Depop social shopping app account in October, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.\n\n\"I thought I had just forgotten my password when I couldn't get back in, but a couple of days passed and I realised something wasn't right,\" says the Birmingham-based law student.\n\nShe then received a message from a stranger on Instagram, alerting her to the fact that her account had been taken over by a scammer advertising Apple AirPod headphones for £50.\n\nShe immediately used her brother's Depop account to comment on the offending post and contact the app. It was removed by the firm in a few hours and her password was reset.\n\nBut when Ms Strike logged back in, she was shocked by what she found.\n\n\"I felt sick - I scrolled and scrolled through hundreds of messages people had sent the scammer,\" she says.\n\nThe fraudster had been instructing shoppers to pay them directly through PayPal's \"Friends and Family\" option, which sidesteps Depop's fees and doesn't offer any protection for buyers.\n\nThe scammer sent messages like this one to other Depop users from Amelia's account\n\nMs Strike counted at least three Depop users who made unauthorised payments of £50 to the scammer.\n\nIn Ms Strike's situation, to get users to trust scam listing, the hacker had also uploaded a photo of her name on a post-it note next to the headphones that were supposedly for sale.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by people selling second-hand items online, to prove that the photos were not stolen from another listing.\n\n\"I just felt so violated,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone - 14 other users have told BBC News that their Depop accounts have been hacked in recent months. In all cases, the fraudsters demanded to be paid directly, rather than through the app.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, a journalism student in Tewkesbury, was scared when her account was hacked and a fraudster posted a listing for a £350 jacket.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, told the BBC a fraudster hacked her Depop account and advertised a £350 Moncler jacket\n\nDepop took the listing down within 12 hours and reset her password, but Ms Goold says such incidents are becoming commonplace.\n\n\"You always know somebody who's had a Depop horror story. It's such a widespread problem now.\"\n\nScammers have continued to plague many online services through the pandemic.\n\nOne \"have a go\" method called \"credential stuffing\" involves using automated tools to repeatedly log into accounts, entering usernames and password information previously exposed from data breaches of other popular online services.\n\nIf a user doesn't use the same password on multiple services or has changed their passwords after being exposed in a data breach, this won't work.\n\nAccording to Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at cyber-security firm Blueliv, cyber criminals are now targeting Depop accounts on an \"industrial scale\" using this method, capitalising on the fact that people often use similar passwords.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under\n\nDepop told the BBC that the safety and security of its community is its \"number one priority\", and that the service has never had a data breach or had its infrastructure compromised.\n\nThe firm confirmed that credential stuffing is a big part of the problem.\n\n\"Weak passwords and the use of the same password across multiple accounts is the greatest source of account takeover, which is why we have initiated a campaign in the second half of 2020 to force some users to strengthen their passwords and to remind others of the importance of strong and unique passwords,\" says Depop's chief operating officer Dominic Rose.\n\nDepop has started resetting passwords for some 12 million users that have not changed them in over a year and told the BBC it had sent reminders to a similar number to make sure their log-in details are unique.\n\n\"We will continue to remind our community about the importance of account security and updating their passwords.\"\n\nThe firm, founded in 2011, told the BBC that although the number of its users increased nearly two-fold to 26 million last year, it had seen a 50% decrease in account \"takeovers\" since its campaign began.\n\nBut Blueliv found that login details for several thousand hacked Depop accounts are being advertised for as little as $1.05 (77p) each on the dark web - a part of the internet that is only accessible using specialised tools.\n\nWhile a Vice investigation first highlighted the problem in May, there is now evidence that account logins are being sold across multiple dark web \"marketplaces\".\n\nThe information for sale includes usernames and passwords, with extra charged for details such as follower count, the number of sales completed by a user and their ratings by other shoppers.\n\nOn the dark net marketplace White House Market, \"premium\" Depop accounts are being sold for $5\n\n\"The accounts are being compromised and that definitely is concerning,\" Ms Rowley says. \"While it's not a Depop-specific problem, I think [credential stuffing] is one we're going to see expand in the next five years.\"\n\nOne Depop user told the BBC they would feel \"much more comfortable\" if the app introduced two-factor authentication, where users enter a one-time code sent to them via email or text, for example, after attempting to sign in.\n\nDepop confirmed that it intends to implement multi-factor authentication in 2021.\n\nBut Aman Johal, director at law firm Your Lawyers, which specialises in consumer action claims, says the platform needs to act urgently, \"particularly given its relatively young user base, where the duty of care is greater\".\n\n\"The fact that this has been going on for months...is unacceptable. Given the volume of compromised accounts for sale, the horse has already bolted,\" he added.\n\nFor some users, trust in the company has been dented.\n\n\"I feel like their security measures need to be amped up because it's just not good enough,\" says Ms Strike, who has been a Depop user since 2015.\n\n\"I've used [Depop] for a long time but I'm reluctant to continue because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.\"", "HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking.\n\nThe company will have 511 branches across the country following the closure programme.\n\nManagers said they did not expect to make any redundancies, with staff moved to nearby branches instead.\n\nCoronavirus and changing customer habits have altered the way we bank, but there are concerns over closures.\n\nCampaigners say that local branches provide a lifeline for those who need access to cash and face-to-face services, and allow small businesses to bank without too much disruption to their own trade.\n\nHSBC said all but one of the branches earmarked for closure were within one mile of a Post Office, where these day-to-day transactions could be carried out.\n\nIt said - even stripping out the effects of the pandemic - the number of customers using branches had fallen by a third in the past five years, and 90% of all customer contact was over the phone, internet or smartphone, in addition to contacts on social media.\n\nJackie Uhi, HSBC UK's head of network, said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for the changes that we are making.\n\n\"It hasn't pushed us in a different direction but reinforces the things that we were focusing on before and has crystallised our thinking. This is a strategic direction that we need to take to have a branch network fit for the future.\"\n\nThis would include changing some branches to concentrate on cash access, as well as the use of \"pop-up\" branches in some areas by the end of the year. It means some remaining branches will offer fewer services.\n\nThe branches to close are:\n\nMay: Brighton, Ditchling Road; Hull, Merit House; Wednesbury; Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks; Hull, Holderness Road; Pontyclun, Talbot Green; London, Fleet Street; London, Fenchurch Street; London, Old Broad Street; London, Charing Cross; Sheffield, Darnall; Oxford, Summertown; Leeds, Chapel Allerton; Cardiff, Rumney; Torquay, Strand; Staines", "The Met Office warned heavy rain combined with melting snow on higher ground was likely to cause flooding\n\nAn amber rain warning has been issued for parts of northern and central England as Storm Christoph approaches.\n\nThe Met Office told people in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England to expect heavy rain and potential floods.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 70mm (2.75in) of rain is forecast to fall within 48 hours in the worst-hit areas from Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said the downpours, set to last throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, were likely to cause flooding when combined with melting snow on higher ground.\n\nIt said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and warned some communities there was a good chance they would be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nCouncils and emergency services have warned people to prepare for potential flooding.\n\nMayor of Doncaster Ros Jones declared a major incident in South Yorkshire ahead of possible flooding.\n\nIn a tweet, she said emergency protocols were instigated on Sunday, with sandbags handed out in flood-risk areas, and told people not to panic but to be prepared.\n\nCalderdale councillor Scott Patient urged residents and businesses to \"take all the steps they can to protect themselves and their property\".\n\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, Mr Patient said, the authority was preparing \"virtual community support hubs\" to help people if there was flooding.\n\n\"The virtual hubs work similarly to the physical ones, but everything will be done remotely to reduce the need for face-to-face contact and to protect staff, volunteers, those affected by flooding and vulnerable people in our communities,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has 14 flood warnings - meaning \"immediate action\" is required - in place across England, stretching from the south east to the north east.\n\nThe Met Office amber rain area initially covered parts of the north, but has since been expanded to include some central areas\n\nMet Office forecaster Jon Griffiths said about 40-70mm (1.57-2.75 in) of rain was expected in the north-west over three days, potentially rising to 100-120mm (3.93-4.72 in) in hilly areas.\n\nMr Griffiths said river systems in some areas were already close to capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.\n\nOn Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.\n\nSeven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.\n\nThe ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\".\n\nAt the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\"\n\nAt one point on Monday night, 15 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients outside New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\nA source told the BBC it was \"a very challenging day\" and in total, handovers had accounted for 759 hours of crews' time, equivalent to taking 63 ambulances off the road.\n\nWhile another said at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, ambulances were still responding to emergency calls from the night before.\n\nTraditionally, the first Monday after New Year is always busy. GP surgeries have been closed and people wait until after the festivities to get medical treatment.\n\nThis year, the number of calls was exacerbated by the service taking about 700 calls for the London ambulance service after its system struggled.\n\nThere was also the perfect storm of snow and ice coupled with coronavirus - made worse because many of our trusts, particularly University Hospitals Birmingham have been struggling with capacity for many months. Usually hospitals would put patients on corridors, they can't because of Covid risks.\n\nThey also have fewer beds due to wider spacing to prevent infection and fewer staff on duty. Hence patients left for hours on ambulances outside.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is the best performing in the country, but even with near to 500 ambulances a day on the road, it cannot keep up with demand.\n\nProf David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, warned its capacity would \"soon be compromised\".\n\n\"The numbers are ramping up enormously and I don't think we've seen the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day yet, that will take time to come through,\" Prof Loughton said.\n\nHe added a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worst before they get better.\n\n\"As I always say today's Covid rate is my order book for intensive care in two weeks' time.\"\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.\n\n\"We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.\"\n\nIn a statement London Ambulance Service NHS Trust said : \"As is standard practice during periods of high demand and high levels of staff sickness, ambulance services provide support for each other, which includes answering 999 calls.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s\n\nAuthor Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.\n\nThe US writer wrote 30 novels about breathless relationships and thrilling adventures involving young African American characters.\n\nThey included Friends & Lovers, Milk In My Coffee, Cheaters and Finding Gideon.\n\nHe also wrote a series of Marvel comics about a love story between Storm from the X-Men and the Black Panther.\n\n\"His work has become a cultural touchstone over the course of his multi-decade writing career, earning him millions of dedicated readers around the world,\" his publicist Becky Odell told USA Today in a statement.\n\nWriter Roxane Gay was among those paying tribute, describing him as \"a great storyteller\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by roxane gay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther authors to add their voices included Luvvie Ajayi, who described him as \"a literary legend\", and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, who said he was \"an amazing author and an even better friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wesley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey started out as a software developer in the aerospace industry. Being laid off from that job gave him a chance to take writing classes and see whether he could make it as an author.\n\nHe emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s, and his 1996 debut Sister, Sister - about the lives and loves of three siblings - was recently named one of the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years by Essence magazine.\n\nHe was particularly praised for his ability to write \"believable\" female characters, and many of his readers were women.\n\nWhen the New York Times profiled him in 2004, it billed him as the \"chick lit king\". Patrik Henry Bass, Essence's books editor, told the paper: \"He is singular in the way he is tapping into the African-American female psyche.\"\n\nAnd Calvin Reid, an editor at trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said: \"He captures black language and black middle-class characters with more depth than you often see in commercial fiction.\"\n\nBy that time, he was selling 500,000 books a year. He was nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction, winning in 2015 for A Wanted Woman.\n\nBy then, he had branched out into stories of crime, suspense, thrills and spills as well as the steamy and tangled relationships with which he made his name.\n\nHe had four daughters, but said he never based his plots on his own life. \"I avoid my life,\" he once said. \"It bores me. Trust me. A book about me would be a snoozefest.\"\n\nHis final novel, The Son of Mr Suleman, will be published in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp is set to be named the BBC's next chairman, the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan says.\n\nMr Sharp spent 23 years working for the banking giant and was reportedly Chancellor Rishi Sunak's boss there.\n\nHe has recently been acting as an unpaid economic adviser to Mr Sunak during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis new role will see him lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.\n\nThe licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost, currently £157.50, should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence.\n\nMr Sharp's career at Goldman Sachs culminated as chairman of its principal investment business in Europe before his departure in 2007. He was then on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee for six years until 2019.\n\nAs an advisor to the Treasury about its pandemic response, the 63-year-old reportedly played a key role in the £1.57bn arts rescue package, and the film and television production restart scheme.\n\nMr Sharp is a former donor to the Conservative party.\n\nHe was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012, and founded the charity London Music Masters.\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS Committee, said in a statement: \"It is disappointing to see this news about the next BBC chairman has leaked out ahead of a formal announcement from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Committee previously expressed some concerns over the appointments process, calling for it to be fair and transparent.\n\n\"The DCMS Committee looks forward to questioning the preferred candidate for the post in a pre-appointment hearing next week on their views at a critical time for the BBC about its role and the future of public service broadcasting more generally.\"\n\nHis views on the BBC itself are unknown. But like new director general Tim Davie, who he met a few weeks before Christmas, he has a commercial background. Just as the relationship between Lord Hall, Davie's predecessor, and Sir David was strong, so the bond between the new DG and chair will be critical.\n\nWhether Sharp supports the licence fee as the pillar of a future BBC settlement is unclear.\n\nThe last time the BBC's future was negotiated with a sceptical Conservative government, the relationship between the director general and the chancellor - then George Osborne - was critical, as Lord Hall explained to me in his exit interview.\n\nThis time, Davie will go into that negotiation with a very close ally of the current chancellor - though Sharp's first duty is to support Davie, and the BBC, and not his old mentee.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nIt was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 - a decline of 29%.\n\nIt was the lowest total since 1992.\n\nThe bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.\n\n\"We lost half a million units from March, April, May - and we never recovered them,\" said the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\nThe restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using 'click and collect' services.\n\nThat remains the case during the new lockdown, announced on Monday.\n\n\"We can still do click and collect, which is important, because that's the very minimum we need,\" said Mr Hawes. \"Not just to keep retail going, but also to keep manufacturing going.\"\n\nOverall, the SMMT said the Covid crisis has cost the car industry some £20bn - and cost the exchequer nearly £2bn in lost VAT.\n\nThere are also serious questions about the extent to which the car market can recover this year. Previous forecasts, which had suggested new registrations could rise to about 2 million in 2021, have been thrown into doubt by the latest restrictions.\n\nBut while the market as a whole has suffered over the past year, sales of electric cars have risen dramatically, increasing their share of the market from 1.5% to 6.5%. Sales of plug-in hybrids also rose sharply.\n\nCar showrooms re-opened from the first lockdown in June\n\n\"If we see this continued level of uptake in electric vehicles, then we anticipate that sales of new EVs and plug-in hybrids will overtake diesel cars in 2021,\" said Ian Plummer, commercial director of motoring website Auto Trader. \"Then, pure EVs will overtake those of their internal combustion engine counterparts in 2026.\"\n\nWith the pandemic continuing to inflict serious damage on the industry, Mr Hawes says the trade deal between the UK and the EU came as a \"massive relief\".\n\nIt confirmed that cars and car parts could continue to move between the two regions, without tariffs - or taxes - being imposed, provided certain conditions are met.\n\nThe SMMT had previously warned that failing to reach a deal could have cost the industry £55bn over five years - and add £2,000 to the cost of each vehicle\n\nBut manufacturers still face potentially significant additional costs due to so-called non-tariff barriers - including border formalities, and the need to obtain extra regulatory approvals for new designs.\n\n\"This is not a free deal\", said Mr Hawes.\n\nAnother consequence of the trade deal is that the UK will need to focus on battery production, if it is to maintain its car industry while phasing out petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThat's because in order to qualify for tariff-free access to the European market, the value of car components made outside the UK and the EU will have to be strictly limited.\n\nSpecific rules relating to batteries effectively mean that from 2027, they themselves will have to be made in the EU or the UK.\n\nThe SMMT believes that, based on current investment plans, UK battery factories will have a capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2024.\n\nThat is more than seven times the current level, and would be enough to produce 250,000 electric cars per year.\n\nBut the SMMT insists much more is needed: 60GWh in order to produce 1 million cars per year by 2030, and 120GWh to produce 2mby 2040.\n\nThat, says Mr Hawes, will require \"massive investment\".", "Greggs expects up to a £15m loss for the year, which would be its first annual loss since it listed its shares on the stock exchange in 1984.\n\nThe bakery chain said it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\n\nIt has been battling a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, but sales declines have been lessening.\n\nGreggs made 820 job cuts at the end of last year, after its sales were hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the impact of the Covid-19 crisis had been \"enormous\" and that a fresh lockdown meant \"significant uncertainties remain in the near term\".\n\nCoronavirus restrictions towards the end of last year led to \"variable trading conditions across the UK\", he said.\n\nSales in the final three months of the year fell by nearly a fifth, but this decline was less than its sales slump in the third quarter.\n\nIn September, Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, said it was in talks with staff to cut hours in an effort to minimise job losses.\n\nBut it still decided to cut 820 jobs because of \"lockdown levels of business\" as High Streets were hit by the crisis.\n\n\"Looking ahead, the significant uncertainty over the duration of social restrictions, along with the impact of higher unemployment levels, makes it difficult to predict performance,\" the firm said.\n\n\"However, we do not expect that profits will return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nGreggs said on Wednesday that total sales for the year were down nearly a third to £811m, but government support had helped to limit pre-tax losses.\n\nIt said it had developed its takeaway business and a delivery tie-up with Just Eat, and had also seen \"strong sales\" through its partnership with retailer Iceland.\n\n\"We have taken action to position Greggs to withstand further short-term shocks and are optimistic about our prospects for growth once social restrictions are lifted,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nGreggs wants to open about 100 new stores, on a net basis, over the year ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at insolvency consultants Begbies Traynor, said: \"The latest national lockdown will be unwelcome news for Greggs, which has operated shrewdly during the past year in spite of a lack of footfall, with non-essential stores forced to close and millions working from home.\n\n\"The bakery chain has had to adapt its business model and invest digitally to accommodate for the rapid change in shopping habits, offering click-and-collect purchases, as well as a nationwide delivery service through its partnership with Just Eat.\n\n\"This should provide a solid base for the business to expand when government restrictions are eased and the world returns to some normality.\"", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "The US is facing another huge election - one that could define how much new president Joe Biden can get done in his first term.\n\nMore than 100 people are gathered in the grey and damp cold in Stone Mountain.\n\nIt's a miserable start to the New Year but this city near Georgia's capital, Atlanta, feels anything but sleepy or hung over.\n\n\"The energy we get here in Georgia is something I've never seen before,\" says Mr Gardner, who was born and raised in local DeKalb County.\n\n\"We've had other Senate races and I'm just excited.\"\n\nHe is joined by fellow Democratic supporters who are singing and dancing outside a house-turned-campaign centre.\n\nIt's to rally support for the two men who are probably President-elect Joe Biden's most important friends right now: Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.\n\nThis traditionally Republican state was won by Mr Biden in November's election - but there were no clear winners for the state's two Senate seats. Now there is a run-off between the top candidates in each race.\n\nIf the two Democrats, Mr Ossoff and Rev Warnock, beat incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Mr Biden's party effectively controls the Senate.\n\nShirley Shepphard is handing out stickers, with a smile and confidence.\n\n\"The Democrats can win! Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!\" she says.\n\nThere's a huge cheer as Mr Ossoff's large blue bus makes its way down the road and pulls up opposite the house.\n\nHe is only 33 years old and, in case his youth wasn't clear enough, he makes a point of jogging on to the small stage.\n\nDuring a polished speech he exclaims: \"The place we demand better is at the ballot box.\"\n\nIf Mr Ossoff wins, he'd be the youngest member of the Senate - a title once held by Joe Biden himself.\n\nNo pressure, but I put to him that the fate of Mr Biden's presidency is in his hands.\n\nIf he loses, is Mr Biden a weakened president before he's even begun?\n\nWithout missing a beat, Mr Ossoff says: \"We will win.\"\n\nFellow Democrat and Senate candidate Mr Warnock could make history alongside him.\n\nHe could become Georgia's first black senator, in a state that has a higher proportion of black people than any other in the US.\n\nRallies have been held for all four candidates, including this one featuring the US vice-president\n\nGeorgia has also found itself becoming the final battleground for an aggrieved President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Republican Senate candidates here - Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler - are his last foot soldiers.\n\nBoth appeared at his rally the previous night, where he focused on repeating his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\n\"There's no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election,\" were the first words out of his mouth.\n\n\"We run all over the world telling people how to run their elections and we don't even know how to run ours.\"\n\nMr Trump has also gone after Georgia's Republican governor and begged another official here, in an astonishing phone call, to find votes to overturn Mr Biden's victory.\n\nThe president has also called the Georgia Senate races \"invalid and illegal\" without any evidence.\n\nThere are concerns from some Republicans he's putting people off voting on Tuesday.\n\nI asked supporters at Trump's rally why they would take part in an election process if they didn't believe it was fair. Some hesitated and suggested it was their civic duty.\n\nFor those who won't vote, it's an advantage that may work for the Democrats.\n\nWhen I ask two Ossoff and Warnock supporters about the claims of election fraud, both women throw their heads back, burst into a long laugh in perfect unison and shake their heads bemused: \"Yeah, that's a good one.\"\n\nThere's another factor in this runoff - teenagers.\n\nSince the 3 November presidential election, more than 23,000 people will have turned 18 in the state and can now vote in this Senate race.\n\nMany young voters have been holding live-streaming events in counties across Georgia.\n\nValerie Ponomarev just turned 18 and is very excited at getting to vote. She was upset she couldn't cast a ballot in the recent presidential election.\n\n\"I did the math in my head and was short by a month as I was born in December,\" she says.\n\n\"I was mad at my mum that I hadn't been born sooner!\"\n\nShe said at first, she didn't even realise the Senate runoff was so crucial in Georgia.\n\nShe's voting for the Democrats, Ms Ponomarev says, adding that a lot of younger people have shown support for Mr Ossoff.\n\n\"I think the youth finally want representation in government because we're so often underrepresented and now that we have Jon Ossoff who is closer to our age,\" she says.\n\nMichael Guisto found himself in the same situation as Ms Ponomarev - too young to cast a ballot in November - and says missing out on that vote was painful.\n\n\"It feels like a redemption,\" he says of this Senate race.\n\nThe polls are suggesting it's a very tight race. But this state knows that whatever it decides, it will have an impact on the country as a whole.\n\nMr Guisto says even though he missed out on the November election, this vote matters.\n\n\"I get to in some ways influence the country but this time it's a bit closer to home.\"", "The deaths of a further 68 people who tested positive for Covid have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt comes as official figures show 33,381 people received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the week to 27 December.\n\nThat takes the total number of people to get a vaccine in Scotland since 8 December to 92,188.\n\nPatients in hospital with coronavirus rose from 1,347 on Tuesday to 1,384.\n\nHospital admissions have been rising sharply but are still 136 short of the peak figure of 1,520 recorded on 20 April last year.\n\nThe latest statistics show 2,039 new cases of the virus, which is 10.5% of those recently tested, a slightly lower figure than in recent days.\n\nA total of 95 people are in intensive care - a slight increase but significantly lower than the April peak of 208.\n\nHealth officials have expressed concern about the situation in Inverclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders, in particular, which have seen sharp rises in positive tests.\n\nWeekly figures show Inverclyde recorded 538.5 cases per 100,000, Dumfries & Galloway 538.1 and the Scottish Borders 435.5.\n\nThere were a further 603 confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the past 24 hours, with an additional 296 in NHS Lanarkshire, 206 in NHS Grampian and 164 in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, there have been 141,066 cases in Scotland, with a total of 4,701 people dying within 28 days of first testing positive.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures were released after doctors in Scotland raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move, saying the first dose will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks.", "Doctors are calling for a significant ramping up of the vaccination programme following approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe first patients are expected to receive the jab - the second approved for use in the UK - on Monday.\n\nBut with just over 500,000 doses available to use next week, experts are worried there may be a bottleneck in the system.\n\nThere are more than 25m people in the nine priority groups identified so far.\n\nThis includes all those over 50 and younger adults with health conditions, as well as frontline health and care staff.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have questioned the wisdom of cancelling patients already booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first jab that was approved and has been used since early December.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford vaccine on Wednesday, regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses needed, to ensure faster rollout of vaccination.\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses. The original advice said they should be given three weeks apart.\n\nHe said it was \"grossly unfair\" and would waste staff time.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Stella Joseph, who is 82 and has a chronic lung condition.\n\n\"The thing I feel most is utterly helpless, that there's nobody to appeal to, that you can't get any assistance with this at all.\n\n\"I think it is so hard that those of us who were in this first wave were obviously people who are at high risk and we're the ones who have been left high and dry.\"\n\nThe move has also prompted some debate about how strong the evidence is for delaying the second dose.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, of Imperial College London, said there was \"pretty convincing\" data showing it would enhance the effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut he said because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had not been tested in the same way, there was no comparable evidence.\n\nSo far nearly 950,000 people have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe hope was that when the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, it would lead to a significant increase in the rate of vaccination.\n\nThe jab is easier to store and distribute as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech one that has to be kept in ultra-cold storage.\n\nThere are thought to be more than five million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the UK, but only just over 500,000 are ready for use.\n\nThat is because vaccines have to be put into vials and batched and certified.\n\nSources at the NHS expressed frustration at the situation. \"The NHS is ready to go, but we can only go as quickly as supply allows,\" one said.\n\nQueen Mary University epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani said there appeared to be a \"bottleneck\", and the government looked like it was still going to be under its target of two million doses a week.\n\n\"We really need to speed up rollout,\" she said.\n\nThere are currently more than 700 vaccination sites up and running, with several hundred more thought to be ready to go once vaccines are available.\n\nBut the limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be shipped in from Belgium, has meant some centres have not been able to vaccinate people every week.\n\nDame Clare Gerada, a former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We really now need a massive operational system. We need a 24/7 system with GPs, mass vaccination centres and hospitals - this needs to be scaled up.\n\n\"It's got to be football stadia, all these large venues that we've got currently lying dormant.\n\n\"If we can really get a mass operational system up and running, then I can't see why we can't be getting the whole population immunised by the spring.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, promised there would be a significant expansion of the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.\n\nShe predicted the majority of care home residents would be protected by the end of January, and frontline staff would start to get a vaccination in large numbers.\n\nShe also praised the progress made so far, thanking the \"tireless efforts of staff\".\n\nEngland Health Secretary Matt Hancock also praised staff, adding the numbers being vaccinated would \"rapidly increase in the months ahead\".", "The 19-year-old victim was attacked on Canonbury Road in Islington shortly before 19:00 GMT on 29 December\n\nA man was left partially blind after he was repeatedly hit in the face during a street robbery in north London.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been walking along Canonbury Road in Islington on 29 December when he was approached by two men, one of whom stole his bag and hit him with a \"baton-style weapon\".\n\nThe Met said he had suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in the \"vicious and unprovoked attack\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and the detectives have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe attacker has been described by police as black, aged in his late teens with spikey hair and of a skinny build.\n\nDet Con Faisal Issaouni said the 19-year-old victim had been \"left with injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"We're reviewing CCTV from the area and have spoken to a number of witnesses as we try to track down the man responsible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clap for Carers is to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said.\n\nThe weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first coronavirus lockdown last spring.\n\nFounder Annemarie Plas tweeted that it would return at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMs Plas said she hoped the initiative would \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annemarie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event later faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nLast May, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said the weekly applause should end after its 10th week and instead become an annual event.\n\nAt the time, she said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\n\"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised,\" she told the PA news agency ahead of the final clap in May.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"", "YouTuber JoJo Siwa has said she had \"no idea\" that \"gross\" and \"inappropriate\" questions were featured in a board game bearing her image.\n\nIt follows a parental backlash about the Nickelodeon-branded game, marketed to children aged six and over.\n\nThe \"Truth or Dare\" category contained questions like: \"Have you ever gone outside without underwear?\" and \"Have you ever been arrested?\".\n\nParents have expressed disapproval on social media in recent days.\n\nIn response to the online outcry, the 17-year-old internet star said she was \"really upset\" to discover the content of the game, which is called JoJo's Juice.\n\nShe added she was working with Nikelodeon to have removed it from the shops.\n\n\"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content,\" said Siwa, in an Instagram video message.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by itsjojosiwa This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me and so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards.\"\n\nShe added: \"Now when I first saw this, I was really really really upset at how gross these questions were. And so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately and since then, they have been working to get this game stopped being made, and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she would have \"never approved or agreed to be associated with this game,\" if she had seen the cards beforehand.\n\nOther questions featured in the board game included: \"Have you ever stolen from a store?\" and \"Have you ever walked in on someone naked?\"\n\nThe US teenager posts videos of her day-to-day life on her YouTube channel, Its JoJo Siwa.\n\nShe is also a singer and dancer, having appeared on the reality TV series Dance Moms, alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa.\n\nHer musical offerings so far include the singles Boomerang and Kid in a Candy Store.\n\nLast year, she was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Dr Dre, seen here in 2018, is one of hip-hop's most successful stars\n\nRapper and producer Dr Dre, one of hip-hop's most successful and influential stars, is being treated in hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.\n\nThe 55-year-old was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, TMZ reported.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he said: \"I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.\"\n\nHe is \"resting comfortably\" after the aneurysm, his lawyer told Billboard.\n\nIn his post, Dr Dre also wrote: \"I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by drdre This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends and fellow stars have sent their well wishes after the reports of his ill health emerged.\n\nIce Cube, his former bandmate in trailblazing 1980s hip-hop group NWA, tweeted: \"Send your love and prayers to the homie Dr. Dre.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, who was discovered by Dr Dre in the early 1990s, wrote on Instagram: \"GET WELL DR DRE WE NEED U CUZ.\"\n\nMissy Elliott wrote: \"Prayers up for Dr. Dre and his family for healing & Strength over his mind & body.\" And singer Ciara tweeted: \"Praying for you Dr. Dre. Praying for a full recovery.\"\n\nWith NWA and then as a solo artist, leading producer and record label mogul, Dr Dre shaped west coast rap and was instrumental in the careers of other stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nAn aneurysm is a bulge in a weakened blood vessel where the blood pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards.\n\nMost brain aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst, leading to bleeding on the brain, which can cause a very serious condition and can be fatal.", "(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park was suffering from psychosis \"right up to the day\" of the killings, a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, attacked James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nA hearing to decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause has been told he was \"no radical Islamist\".\n\nThe hearing at the Old Bailey is part of his sentencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, has pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders.\n\nAn examination of his mobile phone revealed extremist material, including an image of the Islamic State flag and the 9/11 Twin Towers attack, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution is seeking a whole-life prison order, meaning he would never be considered for release.\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, said the sentence should be one of life imprisonment with a starting point of 30 years, due to a lack of serious premeditation, the \"fleeting\" strength of his commitment to Islamist jihad, and his mental health issues.\n\nKhairi Saadallah previously admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nHe said while the attack in Reading was \"terrifying\" and \"senseless\", it did not justify the failed Libyan asylum seeker being jailed for more than 30 years.\n\nHe added that \"as brutal as these killings were\", the suggestion they were \"ruthlessly efficient\" had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nSaadallah took \"certain steps to facilitate the killings\", he said, but \"significant planning or premeditation simply does not exist\".\n\nHe told the hearing Saadallah had \"come to the attention of the authorities on hundreds of occasions\", and had a history of frequent interactions with the police, criminal justice system and mental health services.\n\nHe said Saadallah had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder and \"right up until the day of killing he was plainly suffering from episodes of psychosis\".\n\nMr Scamardella said there is no suggestion this caused his offending but insisted his \"culpability [for the attack] is reduced\".\n\nThe court heard earlier that a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah was visited and filmed by police during a welfare check the day before the attack\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah had described himself in interview as \"part Muslim and part Catholic\", said Mr Scamardella, adding: \"No radical Islamist would countenance adoption of another faith, it's inconceivable.\"\n\nHe said portraying Saadallah as a committed jihadist was a \"superficially attractive proposition\" based on \"pieces of evidence that exist that demonstrate or at least might demonstrate a fleeting interest\".\n\nThree others - Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Paul Trauberman from Rainbow Smiles said it was hard to give reassurance without knowing the facts about the new variant\n\nNursery staff say they are being \"treated like the bottom of the rung\" after schools in England were told to shut to reduce the virus transmission.\n\nPaul Trauberman, of Rainbow Smiles in Weston-super-Mare, said despite his staff being \"scared\" about the new Covid-19 variant they had come to work.\n\nThe government announced a strict lockdown across the country on Monday.\n\nIt was after the UK moved to Covid-19 threat level five, meaning there is a risk the NHS could be overwhelmed.\n\nMr Trauberman, who took over Rainbow Smiles nursery in 2016, said he felt conflicted.\n\n\"I've come in this morning and I've got staff crying and saying they are scared of this new variant.\"\n\n\"We don't have PPE, we can't social distance, on the other hand we still have a business that is operational and we are not going bankrupt.\"\n\nHe said prolonged closure also carried the risk of going out of business but it was difficult to reassure staff when \"you don't have any of the facts\".\n\n\"One minute it is fine and the schools are going back, and two days later they are sending everyone home.\n\n\"It makes the staff feel insecure and... they just feel like they are being treated like the bottom of the rung.\n\nSchools are expected to remain closed until after the February half-term\n\n\"With this new variant ... they are having to deal with very close contact with children, with a virus around, which they are saying is very, very bad, but with no more information than that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Early years settings remain low risk environments for children and staff and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children.\"\n\nIt said keeping nurseries open supported parents and delivered crucial education for children as Bristol mother-of-three Eleni Franklin has found.\n\nShe said she \"really valued\" Acorns Nursery in Henbury Hill, being open as she and her husband are both key workers - so their children, Allegra, five, Aria, two and Rafe nine-months-old, will attend school and nursery throughout the lockdown.\n\n\"I can see that nurseries are different to schools. There has been one case at Aria's nursery during this whole period, whereas in school there has been quite a few,\" she said.\n\nEleni Franklin said she could see why nurseries were being treated differently to schools\n\n\"The nursery have been pretty good and although I understand there is a risk to staff, they have put a lot of measures in place to keep people safe.\"\n\nOne of the biggest challenges for nurseries - with some staff now unable to work because of their own childcare responsibilities - is maintaining child-to-staff ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman said they worked on a basis of one-to-three for babies, one-to-four for under-three's and one-to-eight with under five-year-olds.\n\n\"We are trying to maintain these bubbles, but normally we would move staff around to accommodate highs and lows of staff and children, to balance it out, but we are unable to do that to enable these bubbles,\" he said.\n\nHis nursery is now identifying families that could potentially keep their children at home if they were unable to meet those ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman, who is a member of an online group for nursery owners, said some people were calling for nurseries to shut, but said if that happened they risked \"not having a business to come back to\".\n\n\"Small businesses are the backbone of the country and if a lot of those go under, the financial implications for the whole country are going to be catastrophic.\"\n\nMother-of-two Kara Willetts, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, said she felt it was important her daughter Isobel continued going to nursery as she noticed her behaviour had changed when she had to stop going during the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Isobel is a really sociable, outgoing child and she really suffered with not going in and seeing her friends during the first lockdown. Her mental health suffered and she displayed behaviour I had never seen from her before,\" she said.\n\nKara Willetts said her daughter Isobel's mental health suffered when nurseries closed during the first lockdown\n\nMrs Willetts said she had full confidence in the measures introduced at the nursery three-and-a-half-year-old Isobel attends in Cheltenham.\n\nShe said that with her husband working from home and a seven-month-old son also at home, the option of Isobel going to nursery was \"beneficial to the whole family\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult for my husband to concentrate on work with two kids at home. Transmission rates in young children are very low and if I had any safety concerns I wouldn't send Isobel there,\" she added.\n\nTom Shea, a former advisor to the Early Year's minister, said: \"The biggest issue is that as a society we regard childcare as something like babysitting, rather than the start of the early year's development of learning.\n\n\"Sadly it seems the main reason for keeping us open is for protecting employment rather than protecting children.\"\n\nMr Shea owns Child First Nursery in Worksop and said he thought there was a \"hierarchy\" among key workers in terms of vaccination priorities. He said \"sensibly\" the first priority was NHS staff, followed by social carers for the elderly. He said teachers ranked a \"reasonable\" third, but that Early Years workers did not feature at all.\n\n\"They are expected just to work, and I am not sure if the government thinks that we are invisible,\" he said.\n\nHe called for early vaccination of Early Years workers to allow them to stay open and be protected.\n\n\"The irony now is that we are being told to keep open even though we are private businesses, we are dictated to about the funding we can receive and how we receive it… and if parents are frightened of their children going into the childcare setting then suddenly we don't get paid for that, so you find nurseries half empty being forced to open and it is not economical to do that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are funding nurseries as usual and all children are able to attend their early years setting in all parts of England.\n\n\"Working parents on coronavirus support schemes will still remain eligible for childcare support even if their income levels fall below the minimum requirement.\"", "An investment firm has bought 50% of the rights to all Neil Young's songs.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Fund spent an estimated $150m (£110m) on 1,180 songs written by the Canadian folk rocker.\n\nThe fund, which lets people invest in hit songs, has previously splashed out about £1bn snapping up rights to songs from the likes of Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie.\n\nFounded by music industry veteran Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis turns music royalties into an income stream.\n\n\"This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"I bought my first Neil Young album aged seven. Harvest was my companion and I know every note, every word, every pause and silence intimately.\n\n\"Neil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend and constant ever since.\"\n\nHipgnosis has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since July 2018. When songs owned by the fund get played on the radio or placed in a film or TV show, it makes money.\n\nBefore setting up Hipgnosis, Mr Mercuriadis managed artists such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Guns 'N' Roses.\n\nIn his view, songs are \"as investible as gold or oil\".\n\nHe says hit songs are a stable investment because their revenue is unaffected by fluctuations in the economy.\n\nThe sale of song catalogues has become a booming business during the Covid-19 pandemic, with investors seeing music as a relatively stable asset in an otherwise turbulent market.\n\nEarlier this week, Hipgnosis bought 100% of the rights to Lindsey Buckingham's 161 songs for an undisclosed amount.\n\nThe songs include hits that Buckingham wrote or co-wrote for Fleetwood Mac, including Go Your Own Way and The Chain.\n\nThe group's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her publishing rights last year to Hipgnosis rival Primary Wave for about $80m.\n\nLast month, Universal Music Group announced it had bought 100% of Bob Dylan's 600 songs for between an estimated $200m and $450m (£150m-£340m).\n\nThe singer-songwriter was the latest of a number of artists to join up with the Los Angeles-based Universal, following other big names such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.\n\nNeil Young rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s and is one of the most influential songwriters of all time.\n\nHe is known not only for his work as a solo artist, but also with the bands Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.\n\nYoung has released almost 50 studio albums and more than 20 live albums, of which 18 have been certified gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum.\n\nSeven of his albums were included on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time chart: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Harvest, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Rust Never Sleeps.\n\n\"I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs.\n\n\"There will never be a 'Burger of Gold', but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil's terms.\"", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.\n\nThe apps include popular payments platform Alipay, as well as QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.\n\nThe order, which takes effect in 45 days, says that the apps are being banned because they are a threat to US national security.\n\nIt flags the possibility that the apps could be used to track and build dossiers on US federal employees.\n\nTencent QQ, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate and WPS Office are also included within the order, which only kicks in after Mr Trump has left office.\n\n\"The United States must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national security,\" the order said.\n\nPresident Trump's order says \"by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Chinese companies in its final months in office, including those it considers a national security risk.\n\nPresident Trump has signed executive orders against a range of Chinese firms arguing they could share data with the Chinese government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama: How safe is TikTok for young users?\n\nChinese social media app TikTok and telecoms giant Huawei have been among the casualties of Washington's crackdown.\n\nLast month, the Commerce Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and drone manufacturer DJI Technology, to a trade blacklist.\n\nThe administration also restricted a number of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties from buying sensitive US goods and technology.\n\nChina has consistently denied claims that these firms share their data with the Chinese government and has responded by imposing its own export laws restricting the export of military technology.\n\nIn August, the US ordered ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, to either shut down or sell off its US assets.\n\nDespite missing a deadline to complete the sale, the US is yet to shut down the app and negotiations continue over its future.\n\nThe latest ban comes as the White House quietly pushed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to consider a second U-turn on its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms giants.\n\nLast week the NYSE announced it would delist the China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in line with another executive order.\n\nOn Monday, however, the NYSE reversed that decision, announcing it had decided not to delist the three companies after further consultation with US regulators.\n\nThe NYSE made the decision based on ambiguity about whether the securities were actually covered by the order.\n\nHowever, the exchange has come under pressure over its decision.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham to tell her he disagrees with the decision, according to Reuters.\n\nRepublican Senator and China hardliner Marco Rubio has also spoken out, saying that the NYSE's refusal to delist the companies was an \"outrageous effort\" to undermine the President's executive order.\n\nThe NYSE is owned by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is run by billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher.\n\nHis wife Kelly Loeffler is one of two Republican senators facing run-off elections on Tuesday in Georgia.", "The new \"highly infectious\" variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Wales, the health minister has said.\n\nGiving the first coronavirus briefing of the year, Vaughan Gething said cases of the virus remained very high.\n\nHowever, the case rate across Wales has fallen from a high of 636 per 100,000 people on 17 December to 446 on Monday.\n\nBut cases are rising quickly in north Wales, which Mr Gething believed was due to the new variant.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe measures announced on Monday have now become law, but MPs will actually vote retrospectively to approve them later today. They're expected to pass with ease - Labour has pledged its support, but said ministers must deliver a round-the-clock vaccination programme. The regulations allow restrictions to potentially be in place until mid-March. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed lockdowns too, but will they be enough? An estimated one in 50 people in private households in England had coronavirus last week - one in 30 in London, while the number of daily confirmed cases topped 60,000 for the first time. Our health correspondent has more - as we've come to understand, the R number is everything. This graph shows how the R number could drop this time (in red), compared with how it fell during the first lockdown - the slower decline is down to the new, more transmissible variant.\n\nStudents have been anxiously waiting for news after the cancellation of A-Level and GCSE exams in England - not least because of the chaos that surrounded last year's results. Exams had already been cancelled elsewhere in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will reveal more in a statement to MPs later. He'll also give more details of support for pupils following the switch by schools and colleges to remote learning. There are fears a digital divide will mean some children are excluded. We've got some advice for parents on virtual learning, and BBC Bitesize will be broadcasting lessons on BBC Two, CBBC and online from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents spoke to the BBC after Monday's announcement about school closures in England\n\nPeople arriving in the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they've had a negative coronavirus test before setting off. The Department for Transport says it's one of several measures being considered to prevent new cases arriving from abroad. Full details are still to be agreed, but it's thought hauliers coming through ports would be exempt. Currently, arrivals from countries not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days. See more on the existing rules. Travel firms have been cancelling trips since the latest lockdowns were imposed.\n\n2020 was a dreadful year for the UK car industry and preliminary figures from the industry's trade body show just how bad it was. New car registrations dropped to levels not seen since 1992, and saw the biggest one-year fall since World War Two when factories were turned over to military production. Showrooms and even factories were forced to close in the spring, and the switch to working from home means fewer of us need a vehicle on a daily basis. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said firms were desperately trying to minimise redundancies.\n\nUnable to leave Taiwan due to the pandemic, Peter Lowe decided to get a boat to pass the time. A leisurely hobby soon turned into a quest to clear the country's waterways, river banks and mangrove forests of plastic. His efforts have inspired local volunteers to join in the clean-up, and even prompted the government to take notice. Peter has some advice for all of us feeling trapped right now: \"Do something positive, do something meaningful, particularly towards saving and protecting the earth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, when lockdown was imposed last Spring, some of life's most basic household tasks suddenly got a lot harder. What are they like now?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.\n\nTwo members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.\n\nHowever, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.\n\nThe long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.\n\nThe virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was \"very disappointed\" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals \"given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute\".\n\n\"I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment,\" he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, explaining that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to stress \"that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team\".\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the BBC \"there might be some misunderstanding\" and \"there's no need to read too much into it\".\n\n\"Chinese authorities are in close co-operation with WHO but there has been some minor outbreaks in multiple places around the world and many countries and regions are busy in their work preventing the virus and we are also working on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Still we are supporting international co-operation and advancing internal preparations. We are in communication with the WHO and as far as I know with dates and arrangements we are still in discussions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nThe WHO has been working to send a 10-person team of international experts to China for months with the aim of probing the animal origin of the pandemic and exactly how the virus first crossed over to humans.\n\nLast month it was announced that the investigation would begin in January 2021.\n\nThe two members of the international team that had already departed for China had set off early on Tuesday, said the WHO. According to Reuters news agency, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said one had turned back and one was in a third country.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central Hubei province in late 2019.\n\nIt was initially believed the virus originated in a market selling exotic animals for meat. It was suggested that this was where the virus made the leap from animals to humans.\n\nBut the origins of the virus remain deeply contested. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin, and that it was instead only amplified there.\n\nSome research has suggested that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. It is not known, however, what intermediate animal host transmitted the virus between bats and humans.", "US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.\n\nWith the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we've debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.\n\nSince the November election, the president has repeatedly made baseless allegations that Dominion voting machines have been manipulated to engineer electoral fraud.\n\nReferring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for \"over an hour\".\n\nThe official in charge of Georgia's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, said there has been an issue in one county due to \"a programming error on security keys\" but that it was resolved hours before the president made his comments.\n\nMr Sterling tweeted: \"The, votes of everyone will be protected and counted. Sorry you received old intel Mr President.\"\n\nGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also clarified in a statement that there had been some issues but they did not stop people from voting, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"At no point did voting stop as voters continued casting ballots on emergency ballots, in accordance with the procedures set out by Georgia law,\" said Mr Raffensperger.\n\nAn image that has been shared thousands of times on Twitter purported to show a pile of destroyed ballots in Georgia on election day.\n\n\"Our team is in Georgia. They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes,\" the tweet said.\n\nAlthough the post provided no detail as to where exactly the picture had been taken, we were able to geolocate it to the absentee ballot processing centre at the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.\n\nFulton County elections director Richard Barron told the BBC that the papers in the picture were \"definitely not ballots\", but waste from a letter-opening machine used to cut ballot envelopes.\n\nWe've reported on similar claims about alleged ballot shredding in Georgia before.\n\nIn November, an investigation into the shredding of papers in Cobb County concluded that it was part of a \"routine clean-up operation\" and the documents disposed of were not actual votes \"relevant to the election or the re-tally\".\n\nIn a tweet generating some 300,000 likes and retweets, President Trump claimed there was a \"voter dump\" planned against Republican candidates.\n\nBut there's no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nIt's not clear exactly what he means by a \"voter dump\", but he may be referring to the fact that large batches of votes are released at once.\n\nThis is standard practice and a valid part of the vote-counting process.\n\nIn Georgia, as in the presidential elections, larger districts, often including cities that may lean Democrat, take longer to report their results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has falsely claimed on multiple occasions that millions of genuine votes in November's presidential election that were counted after polls closed were \"fake\".\n\nIn Georgia, election official Gabriel Sterling noted after the polls closed that some 171,000 early, in-person ballots from DeKalb County, which is Democrat-leaning, were yet to be counted.\n\nAuthorities knew how many of these \"advanced\" votes were coming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Republican officials and activists, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA, claimed workers at the Chatham county count had suddenly stopped counting for the rest of the night and gone home, raising the prospect of foul play.\n\n\"They're doing this again. You can't make this up,\" Charlie Kirk tweeted.\n\nSimilar claims of fraud or suspicious activity were made during the presidential election count in the county, after it took a few days for all the absentee and mail-in ballots to be tabulated.\n\nBut Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems implementation manager, took to Twitter to say the count \"didn't just stop\".\n\nWorkers had finished counting all the ballots they had except absentee ballots received on election day, Mr Sterling, a Republican, added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe county's board of elections chairman, Tom Mahoney, confirmed later that about 3,000 to 4,000 election day absentee ballots were left to count.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Fraudsters are sending out bogus text messages about the coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to steal bank details.\n\nThe scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website, trading standards officers have warned.\n\nThat, in turn, asks for personal information and - crucially - bank details \"for verification\".\n\nThe warning comes the same day as MPs heard that Covid is leading some people into the net of pension fraudsters.\n\nThe fake NHS message is one of a range of scams which have sought to take advantage of the pandemic and the isolation and legitimate worries of potential victims, according to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.\n\nOthers have included people travelling door-to-door selling counterfeit or useless protection equipment, or fraudsters claiming to be from the official test and trace service and demanding payments.\n\nThe latest scam is preying on those elderly or vulnerable people who are fully expecting to receive legitimate information about their vaccine.\n\nHealth authorities have stressed they would never ask for an individual's banking details.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead office at the CTSI, said: \"I have been tracking and warning the public about Covid-related scams since the beginning of the pandemic, and at every stage of response, unscrupulous individuals have modified their campaigns to defraud the public.\n\n\"The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others. The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or PIN numbers and these should serve as instant red flags.\"\n\nShe urged people to report the scams to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\n\nPensions have been stolen or put into high-risk schemes\n\nThe warning came as MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee heard how fraudsters were seizing on victims' financial uncertainty during the pandemic to draw them into pension scams.\n\nRules allowing people to withdraw cash from their pension pot from the age of 55 have led some people to move money into investment schemes which look generous, but are simply vehicles to steal money.\n\n\"Household finances are stretched and so the temptations to use savings or to be tempted by offers of 'free pension reviews', for example, which we've warned about, are very real,\" Mark Steward, from the Financial Conduct Authority told the committee.\n\n\"Of course, a 'free pension review' is hardly free. It is the first step on a process that will lead someone to investing in something that is too good to be true.\"\n\nHe said that fraudsters had used social media advertising to \"industrialise\" this kind of fraud.\n\nWhereas previously, fraudsters had to produce sophisticated glossy brochures and office fronts, they could now operate in anonymity on social media, sending fake information to millions of people.\n\nMillions of pounds have been lost to pension scams in recent years, but it is a crime considered to be widely under-reported by victims and pension companies.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Economic Crime Centre, told the committee that fraudsters were continuing to use new avenues to reach potential victims.\n\n\"What we're looking to do next is to move on to fake comparison websites, which is this new gateway into investment frauds, to spot those and take them down at source,\" he said.", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "Albert Roux pictured in the kitchen of Le Gavroche in 1989\n\nChef and restaurateur Albert Roux, who brought great French cooking to the UK with his brother Michel, has died at the age of 85.\n\nThe pair made gastronomic history in 1982 when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars.\n\nAlbert's death comes almost a year after Michel died at the age of 78.\n\nGordon Ramsay, one of many leading chefs who earned their stripes in Le Gavroche's kitchen, led the tributes.\n\n\"So so sad the hear about the passing of this legend, the man who installed Gastronomy in Britain,\" Ramsay wrote on Instagram.\n\nMarco Pierre White, Marcus Wareing, Pierre Koffman and Monica Galetti are among the other chefs who rose through the ranks at Le Gavroche.\n\nIn his tribute, TV chef James Martin described Albert Roux as \"a true titan of the food scene in this country [who] inspired and trained some of the best and biggest names in the business\".\n\nA family statement said: \"The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021.\n\n\"Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London's culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.\"\n\nHis son Michel Roux Jr, who now runs Le Gavroche and is a former judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, said: \"He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.\"\n\nFood critic Jay Rayner described Albert Roux as \"an extraordinary man who left a massive mark on the food story of his adopted country\".\n\nHe added: \"The roll call of chefs who went through the kitchens of Le Gavroche alone, is a significant slab of a part of modern UK restaurant culture.\"\n\nChef Tom Kitchin wrote that \"one of the true culinary greats has left us\", and baker and food writer Dan Lepard said it was the \"end of an era\".\n\nAlbert and Michel Roux came from a family of butchers in eastern France, and trained to be patissiers before moving to the UK.\n\nAlbert arrived in the mid-1950s, and in 1967 put his £3,000 savings with money borrowed from friends to open the first Gavroche off Sloane Square in Chelsea.\n\nWith uncompromising standards, elaborate presentation and first-rate service, it raised the standards of haute cuisine in a then-limited English restaurant scene.\n\nIt moved to Mayfair in 1981, and soon became the first British-based establishment to carry the maximum three Michelin stars.\n\n\"An Olympic gold medal,\" Albert said at the time. \"I have had no other ambition.\"\n\nThe Roux dynasty (left-right): Alain Roux, Michel Roux Jnr, Michel Roux and Albert Roux in 2009\n\nIts kitchen would also become the training ground for a new, enlightened generation of British chefs.\n\n\"If cooking is an art form, Le Gavroche was the Royal College of Music, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Rada and the Courtauld and Warburg institutes all rolled up into one, poached, wrapped in a puff pastry shell with foie gras and served with truffle sauce,\" The Guardian wrote in 2010.\n\nThe brothers also launched the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition, in 1983, with many scholars having gone on to win Michelin stars themselves.\n\nAlbert and Michel opened a string of other restaurants, fronted a 13-part TV series on BBC Two in 1990, and published a series of best-selling books about French cookery.", "Shows like Tiger King kept people entertained during the first UK lockdown\n\nNetflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told.\n\nThe streaming service said the price rises reflected money spent on content.\n\nIts standard monthly package will go up from £8.99 to £9.99 and its premium one will rise from £11.99 to £13.99, but its basic plan remains at £5.99.\n\nHowever, comparison site Uswitch said the timing of the price rises was unfortunate with UK citizens living under new national lockdowns.\n\nThe streaming service's subscriber numbers have jumped during the pandemic, with almost 16 million new customers added worldwide in the first three months of 2020 alone.\n\nIn the UK, during the first national lockdown which started in March 2020, the amount of streaming content watched by consumers rose by a third compared with the previous year.\n\nBut Netflix faces tough competition from rivals, such as Disney+, which has also announced price rises of £2 per month up to £7.99 or £79.90 for a full year.\n\nNetflix said: \"This year we're spending over $1bn [£736m] in the UK on new, locally-made films, series and documentaries, helping to create thousands of jobs and showcasing British storytelling at its best - with everything from The Crown, to Sex Education and Top Boy, plus many, many more.\n\n\"Our price change reflects the significant investments we've made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product.\"\n\nA standard Netflix subscription gives users HD streaming on two devices at the same time with the ability to download to two phones or tablets. The premium service allows streaming on up to four screens at once, as well as offering 4K streaming and downloading to four phones or tablets.\n\nSubscribers who do not want to pay the extra can cancel their plan at any time without penalty or simply shift to the basic package, which allows users to watch movies and TV shows in standard definition on one device only and download to one mobile or tablet.\n\nNick Baker, streaming and TV expert at Uswitch.com, said: \"Netflix has been a lifeline for many people during lockdown, so this price rise is an unwanted extra expense for households feeling the financial pressure.\n\n\"It's unfortunate timing that this price hike coincides with another national lockdown, when all of us will be streaming more television and films than ever.\"", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"", "Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nAsda asked its customers to \"continue to shop considerately and not buy more than they normally would.\"\n\nThere was a surge in online grocery shopping after new lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday, but demand has since dropped back.\n\nStores said they have good availability and have increased delivery slots.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have doubled the number of delivery slots since March.\n\nWhen fresh lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday there was a rush online by supermarket shoppers to book delivery slots.\n\nThat surge has since calmed down, but big supermarkets were keen on Wednesday to reassure customers that there is no need to bulk-buy, as stores would like to avoid a repeat of the panic-buying that was triggered by the first lockdown.\n\nAsda said it \"currently has strong product availability across its stores and depots and its colleagues are working around the clock to keep the shelves stocked.\"\n\nSainsbury's said it had \"good availability and encourage customers to shop as normal. We aren't currently restricting products.\"\n\nTesco has had buying limits on various products since the first lockdown, and most recently limited items including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll after freight delays in December as ports got snarled up.\n\nTesco said on Wednesday that it had \"good availability in stores and online, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown supermarkets saw a huge spike in demand for online shopping as people tried to avoid mixing in shops.\n\nThe big chains have all increased their capacity to deliver food.\n\nTesco, the biggest UK supermarket chain, has more than doubled the number of online delivery slots available since the start of the crisis, and now has 1.5 million slots per week.\n\nNot all of these get used across the UK at present, so Tesco has no plans at the moment for further slots.\n\nSainsbury's, the second biggest, has also more than doubled the number of its online delivery slots since March, and can meet more than 800,000 orders per week.\n\nAsda, the third biggest chain, has upped the number of available weekly slots by 90% since March to 850,000, and by the start of April it's planning to offer 900,000 slots per week.\n\nMorrison's, the fourth largest UK supermarket chain, said it had increased its online operation fivefold since March.\n\nAsda said on Wednesday that it was also doubling the size of its partnership with Uber Eats. From February Asda will offer a 30-minute delivery service from 200 stores.\n\nAsda is also stepping-up Covid safety measures, including doubling safety marshal hours, more sanitation stations, increasing cleaning, and \"adding a protective antimicrobial coating to customer 'touch points' in stores such as fridge and freezer handles, checkout areas, plus all trolley and basket handles\".\n\nThe chain also has a virtual queueing app called \"Quidini\" whereby customers can sit in their car to wait for a slot in a store if it is busy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC team came across roadblocks as they tried to report on research into viruses that bats carry\n\nA Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to \"any kind of visit\" to rule it out.\n\nThe surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe remote district of Tongguan, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers and other officials in unmarked cars followed us for miles along the narrow, bumpy roads, stopping when we did, backtracking with us when we were forced to turn around.\n\nWe found obstacles in our way, including a \"broken-down\" lorry, which locals confirmed had been placed across the road a few minutes before we arrived.\n\nAnd we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out.\n\nAt first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.\n\nBut their tragedy, which would otherwise almost certainly have been largely forgotten, has been given new meaning by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThose three deaths are now at the centre of a major scientific controversy about the origins of the virus and the question of whether it came from nature, or from a laboratory.\n\nAnd the attempts of Chinese authorities to stop us reaching the site are a sign of how hard they're working to control the narrative.\n\nFor more than a decade, the rolling, jungle-covered hills in Yunnan - and the cave systems within - have been the focus of a giant scientific field study.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nIt has been led by Prof Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).\n\nProf Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the illness known as Sars, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came from a species of bat in a Yunnan cave.\n\nEver since, Prof Shi - often referred to as \"China's Batwoman\" - has been in the vanguard of a project to try to predict and prevent further such outbreaks.\n\nBy trapping bats, taking faecal samples from them, and then carrying those samples back to the lab in Wuhan, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, the team behind the project has identified hundreds of new bat coronaviruses.\n\nBut the fact that Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as the first city to be ravaged by a pandemic outbreak of a deadly new one, has fuelled suspicion that the two things are connected.\n\nI would personally welcome any form of visit, based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\n\nThe Chinese government, the WIV, and Prof Shi have all angrily dismissed the allegation of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab.\n\nBut with scientists appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to visit Wuhan in January for an inquiry into the origin of the pandemic, Prof Shi - who has given few interviews since the pandemic began - answered a number of BBC questions by email.\n\n\"I have communicated with the WHO experts twice,\" she wrote, when asked if an investigation might help rule out a lab leak and end the speculation. \"I have personally and clearly expressed that I would welcome them to visit the WIV,\" she said.\n\nTo a follow-up question about whether that would include a formal investigation with access to the WIV's experimental data and laboratory records, Prof Shi said: \"I would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\"\n\nThe BBC subsequently received a call from the WIV's press office, saying that Prof Shi was speaking in a personal capacity and her answers had not been approved by the WIV.\n\nThe BBC denied a request to send the press office a copy of this article in advance.\n\nDr Peter Daszak: \"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak\"\n\nMany scientists believe that by far the most likely scenario is that Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, jumped naturally from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. And despite Prof Shi's offer, for now there appears to be little chance of the WHO inquiry looking into the lab-leak theory.\n\nThe terms of reference for the WHO inquiry make no mention of the theory, and some members of the 10-person team have all but ruled it out.\n\nPeter Daszak, a British zoologist, has been chosen as part of the team because of his leading role in a multimillion dollar, international project to sample wild viruses.\n\nIt has involved close collaboration with Prof Shi Zhengli in her mass sampling of bats in China, and Dr Daszak previously called the lab-leak theory a \"conspiracy theory\" and \"pure baloney\".\n\n\"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak,\" he said. \"I have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south-east Asia.\"\n\nAsked about seeking access to the Wuhan lab to rule the lab-leak theory out, he said: \"That's not my job to do that.\n\n\"The WHO negotiated the terms of reference, and they say we're going to follow the evidence, and that's what we've got to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was linked to early cases of the new coronavirus\n\nOne focus of the inquiry will be a market in Wuhan which was known to be trading in wildlife and was linked to a number of early cases, though the Chinese authorities appear to have already discounted it as a source of the virus.\n\nDr Daszak said the WHO team would \"look at those clusters of cases, look at the contacts, look at where the animals in the market have come from and see where that takes us\".\n\nThe deaths of the three Tongguan workers following exposure to a mineshaft full of bats raised suspicions that they'd succumbed to a bat coronavirus.\n\nIt was exactly the kind of animal-to-human \"spillover\" that was driving the WIV to sample and test bats in Yunnan.\n\nIt is no surprise then that, following those deaths, the WIV scientists began sampling bats in the Tongguan mineshaft in earnest, making multiple visits over the next three years and detecting 293 coronaviruses.\n\nBut apart from one brief paper, very little was published about the viruses they collected on those trips.\n\nIn January this year, Prof Shi Zhengli became one of the first people in the world to sequence Sars-Cov-2, which was already spreading rapidly through the streets and homes of her city.\n\nShe then compared the long string of letters representing the virus's unique genetic code with the extensive library of other viruses collected and stored over the years.\n\nAnd she discovered that her database contained the closest known relative of Sars-Cov-2.\n\nRaTG13 is a virus whose name has been derived from the bat it was extracted from (Rhinolophus affinis, Ra), the place it was found (Tongguan, TG), and the year it was identified, 2013.\n\nSeven years after it was found in that mineshaft, RaTG13 was about to become one of the most hotly contested scientific subjects of our time.\n\nChina imposed tough restrictions on Wuhan to stop the spread of the virus\n\nThere have been many well-documented cases of viruses leaking from labs. The first Sars virus, for example, leaked twice from the National Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, long after the outbreak had been brought under control.\n\nThe practice of genetically manipulating viruses is also not new, allowing scientists to make them more infectious or more deadly, so they can assess the threat and, perhaps, develop treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd from the moment it was isolated and sequenced, scientists have been struck by the remarkable ability of Sars-Cov-2 to infect humans.\n\nThe possibility that it acquired that ability as a result of manipulation in a laboratory was taken seriously enough for an influential group of international scientists to address it head on.\n\nIn what has become the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak, RaTG13 has a starring role.\n\nPublished in March in the magazine Nature Medicine, it suggests that if there had been a leak, Prof Shi Zhengli would have found a much closer match in her database than RaTG13.\n\nWhile RaTG13 is the closest known relative - at 96.2% similarity - it is still too distant to have been manipulated and changed into Sars-Cov-2.\n\nSars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.\n\nMedics and scientists in Wuhan battled to control the early stages of the pandemic\n\nWhere though, some scientists are beginning to wonder, are those reservoirs of earlier natural infection?\n\nDr Daniel Lucey is a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington DC and a veteran of many pandemics - Sars in China, Ebola in Africa, Zika in Brazil.\n\nHe is certain that China has already conducted thorough searches for evidence of precursor viruses in stored human samples in hospitals and in animal populations.\n\n\"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans,\" he said.\n\nFinding the origin of an outbreak was vital, he said, not just for wider scientific understanding, but also to stop it emerging again.\n\n\"We should search until we find it. I think it's findable and I think it's quite possible it's already been found,\" he said. \"But then the question arises, why hasn't it been disclosed?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nDr Lucey still believes that Sars-Cov-2 is most likely to have a natural origin, but he does not want the alternatives to be so readily ruled out.\n\n\"So here we are, 12, 13 months out since the first recognised case of Covid-19 and we haven't found the animal source,\" he said. \"So, to me, it's all the more reason to investigate alternative explanations.\"\n\nMight a Chinese laboratory have had a virus they were working on that was genetically closer to Sars-Cov-2, and would they tell us now if they did? \"Not everything that's done is published,\" Dr Lucey said.\n\nIt's a point I put to Peter Daszak, the member of the WHO origins study team.\n\n\"You know, I've worked with the WIV for a good decade or more,\" he said. \"I know some of the people there pretty well and I have visited the labs frequently, I've met and had dinner with them over 15 years.\n\n\"I'm working in China with eyes wide open, and I'm racking my brain back in time for the slightest hint of something untoward. And I've never seen that.\"\n\nAsked if those friendships and funding relationships with the WIV presented a conflict of interest with his role on the inquiry, he said: \"We file our papers; it's all there for everyone to see.\"\n\nAnd his collaboration with the WIV, he said, \"makes me one of the people on the planet who knows the most about the origins of these bat coronaviruses in China\".\n\nThe conclusion [of the Kunming Hospital University thesis] is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it’s used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me\n\nChina may have provided only limited data about its hunt for the origin of Sars-Cov-2, but it has begun to promote a theory of its own.\n\nBased on a few inconclusive studies conducted by scientists in Europe that suggest Covid-19 may have been circulating earlier than previously thought, state propaganda is full of stories suggesting the virus didn't start in China at all.\n\nIn the absence of proper data, speculation is only likely to grow, much of it focused on RaTG13 and its origins in a Tongguan mineshaft. Old academic papers have been dug up online that appear to differ from the WIV's statements about the sick mine workers - among them a thesis by a student at the Kunming Hospital University.\n\n\"I've just downloaded the Kunming Hospital University student's masters thesis and read it,\" Prof Shi told the BBC.\n\n\"The narrative doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"The conclusion is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it's used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me. If you were me, what you would do?\"\n\nProf Shi has also faced questions about why the WIV's online public database of viruses was suddenly taken offline.\n\nShe told the BBC that the WIV's website and the staff's work emails and personal emails had been attacked, and the database taken offline for security reasons.\n\n\"All our research results are published in English journals in the form of papers,\" she said. \"Virus sequences are saved in the [US-run] GenBank database too. It's completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThere are important questions to be asked in the Yunnan countryside, not just by scientists, but by journalists too.\n\nAfter a decade of sampling and experimenting on viruses collected from bats, we now know that back in 2013 the closest known ancestor was discovered of a future threat that would claim well over a million lives and devastate the global economy.\n\nYet the WIV, according to the published information, did nothing with it, except sequence it and enter it into a database.\n\nOught that to call into question the very premise on which the expensive, and some would say risky, mass sampling of wild viruses is based?\n\n\"To say that we didn't do enough is absolutely correct,\" Peter Daszak told the BBC. \"To say that we failed is not fair at all. What we should have been doing is 10 times the amount of work on these viruses.\"\n\nBoth Dr Daszak and Prof Shi are adamant that pandemic prevention research is vital, urgent work.\n\n\"Our research is forward-looking, and it's difficult for non-professionals to understand,\" Prof Shi wrote by email. \"In the face of countless micro-organisms that exist in nature, we humans are very small.\"\n\nThe WHO is promising an \"open-minded\" inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but the Chinese government is not keen on questions, at least not from journalists.\n\nAfter leaving Tongguan, the BBC team tried to drive a few hours north to the cave where Prof Shi carried out her ground-breaking research on Sars almost a decade ago.\n\nStill being followed by several unmarked cars, we hit another roadblock, and were told there was no way through.\n\nA few hours later, we discovered that local traffic had been diverted onto a dirt track that skirted the obstruction, but as we attempted to use the same route, we met yet another \"broken down\" car in our path.\n\nWe were trapped in a field for over an hour, before finally being forced to head for the airport.", "The low temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch\n\nThe UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982.\n\nThe same temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coldest night of the winter so far has come amid days of freezing temperatures in Scotland, and more widely across the UK.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow \"be aware warnings\" for snow and ice for Scotland for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nForecasters said a band of sleet and snow was expected arrive across north west Scotland on Wednesday afternoon and move south east across most parts of Scotland overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 2cm, almost an inch, of snow was likely to settle at low levels \"quite widely\" with up to 6cm (2in) above 200m (656ft) and as much as 10cm (4in) above 300m (984ft).", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "A polar bear cub playing in a snow drift in the area of the proposed oil lease sales\n\nThe Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n\nThe giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.\n\nNow, after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.\n\nOpponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump's term ends.\n\nCovering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is often described as America's last great wilderness.\n\nIt is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.\n\nIn the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.\n\nAs temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.\n\nMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration\n\nThe coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.\n\nThe refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.\n\nIn the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.\n\nThe same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.\n\nThe push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.\n\nMany of Alaska's political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.\n\nPrudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.\n\nOil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state's permanent fund.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration's tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.\n\nThe US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernadette Demientieff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.\n\n\"The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich'in people who have relied on this land for millennia,\" said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.\n\n\"That's why we've taken them to court. We can't let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.\"\n\nReports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.\n\nThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land\n\nWhile estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.\n\nSeveral large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.\n\nThere is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.\n\nWith climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it's likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.\n\nThis could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet", "Stephen Stennett had a head on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy in Fife\n\nA driver who caused a crash in Fife that led to his passenger losing her baby has admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nStephen Stennett, 23, had a head-on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy on 3 October 2018.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard he had attempted a \"dangerous\" overtaking manoeuvre.\n\nJudge Lady Stacey deferred sentence until next month for background reports.\n\nPassenger, Shannon Myers, 18, who was 30 weeks pregnant, had to have an emergency caesarean section due to her injuries in the crash.\n\nHowever, her son Luke Myers died 32 minutes later.\n\nProsecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: \"The accused pulled out and drove into the path of an oncoming van.\n\n\"The accused's vehicle ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.\"\n\nMs Myers, who was in the front passenger seat, complained about pain in her abdomen and was taken to hospital.\n\nA scan showed the baby had a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute.\n\nMr McTaggart said this was regarded as low and gave cause for concern, prompting doctors to perform an emergency C-section.\n\nLuke's cause of death was recorded as \"complications of traumatic abruption due to road traffic collision\".\n\nPathologists said the baby had red marks on his face as well as fractures to his collarbone and four ribs.\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who was also a passenger in the car, sustained a fractured spine, collarbone and sternum.\n\nA fourth passenger, a boy also aged 15, suffered a fractured spine and eye bone as well as a minor head injury.\n\nVan driver Ian Baker, his wife Clara and their 10-year-old daughter had minor injuries.\n\nThe baby's mother paid tribute to Luke on Facebook shortly after his death.\n\nShe said: \"I love you so much my handsome little boy.\"\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said: \"You will understand you pleaded guilty to a serious crime which had tragic results.\n\n\"When a life is lost, the court will almost always impose a period of imprisonment.\"\n\nStennett said: \"I'm sorry\" before being bailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.\n\nDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would abscond.\n\nOn Monday, she ruled the Wikileaks founder cannot be extradited to the US because he might kill himself.\n\nThe US is now appealing that decision - and had opposed releasing the 49-year-old from a maximum security prison before the case is heard.\n\nMr Assange, who was wearing a dark suit and face mask, was not seen to react to the decision at Westminster Magistrates Court.\n\nHe's been held in prison since 2019, after hiding for seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition.\n\nUS prosecutors want to put him on trial for hacking and disclosing classified information - including the identities of informants who were helping intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\n\nIn her ruling, DJ Baraitser said Mr Assange still had the incentive to abscond.\n\n\"He is willing to flout the order of this court,\" she said. \"As a matter of fairness, the US must be allowed to challenge my decision and if Mr Assange absconds during this process they will lose the opportunity to do so.\"\n\nDuring the bail application, Mr Assange's barrister Ed Fitzgerald QC said his client had been offered a London home by a supporter, where he could be with his partner and their two young children - but also compelled to remain under the strictest bail conditions.\n\n\"Your decision [on Monday] changes everything and it certainly changes any motive to abscond,\" said Mr Fitzgerald.\n\n\"On any view... [Mr Assange] would be safer isolating with his family in the community, subject to severe restrictions, than if he were in Belmarsh which has, very recently, had a severe outbreak...(of coronavirus). He wishes to live a sheltered life with his family.\"\n\nBut Clair Dobbin, for the USA, told the court Mr Assange had the \"resources, abilities and the sheer wherewithal\" to secretly arrange a flight to another country.\n\n\"[Mr Assange] regards himself as above the law and no cost is too great, whether that cost be to himself or others,\" said the barrister.\n\nJulian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, was among a large group of his supporters who had gathered at court.\n\n\"This a huge disappointment,\" she said. \"Julian should not be in Belmarsh prison in the first place. I urge the [US] Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Baraitser blocked Julian Assange's extradition on Monday, ruling that that while he had a case to answer, he was so mentally unwell that the US authorities could not guarantee he would not kill himself once inside a maximum security prison in the country.\n\nThe USA's appeal against that ruling - which will go to more senior judges later this year - will challenge that finding.", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "There are warnings that replacement grades must avoid the problems that saw protests and U-turns last summer\n\nHead teachers have warned a replacement system for cancelled exams in England must avoid the \"shambles\" of last year's results.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is to make a statement on \"alternative arrangements\" for GCSE and A-level exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis could include using teachers' estimated grades.\n\nA replacement system must not \"inflict further disadvantage on students\", says the exams watchdog Ofqual.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said there were \"no easy answers\" in picking an approach - but it had to avoid repeating the \"disaster\" of last summer's cancelled exam season.\n\nHe said there was a \"real need for urgency\" to allow schools time to plan - and that any system for grading had to show \"fairness and consistency\".\n\nWritten papers for GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson will instruct the exams watchdog to come up with proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, which could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' grades, with some process of moderation, is likely to be a key option once again.\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them.\n\nBut if students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will be able to take them at a later date or otherwise still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they could consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nAlthough the process is only formally beginning, with a consultation likely on proposals, it is understood that contingency planning had already started to find a back-up if exams were cancelled.\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\n\"We are discussing alternative arrangements with the Department for Education. We know that many are seeking clarity as soon as possible,\" said Simon Lebus, Ofqual's interim chief regulator.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Helen Mort was told no action could be taken over the deepfake porn images\n\nA woman who has been the victim of deepfake pornography is calling for a change in the law.\n\nLast year, Helen Mort discovered that non-sexual images of her had been uploaded to a porn website.\n\nUsers of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Mobeen Azhar, Helen said she wanted to see the creation and distribution of these images made an offence.\n\n\"This is a crime which in many cases is going on invisibly,\" Helen said. \"Those images of me had been out there for years and I didn't know about them, and I'm still having nightmares about some of them now. It's an incredibly serious form of abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes are realistic computer-generated images or video, based on a real person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nHelen, a poet and writer from Sheffield, was alerted to the deepfake images by an acquaintance.\n\nThe original images were taken from her social media and included holiday pictures and photos from her pregnancy.\n\nShe said although some of the images were clearly manipulated, there were a few more \"chilling\" examples that were a \"lot more plausible'.\n\n\"You go through different phases with things like this,\" she said. \"There was one point where I was just trying to laugh about the almost ridiculous nature of some of it.\n\n\"But obviously, the underlying feeling was shock and actually I initially felt quite ashamed, as if I'd done something wrong. That was quite a difficult thing to overcome. And then for a while I got incredibly anxious about even leaving the house.\"\n\nShe alerted the police to the images but was told that no action could be taken.\n\nDr Aislinn O'Connell, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway University of London, explained that Helen's case fell outside the current law.\n\n\"In England and Wales, under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, it is an offence to non-consensually distribute a private sexual photograph or film with the intent to cause distress to the person depicted,\" she said.\n\n\"But this only applies where the original photo or video was private and sexual.\n\n\"In Helen's situation, where non-sexual photos were merged with sexual photos, this isn't covered by the criminal offence.\n\n\"Furthermore, as the photos were not shared with Helen directly, nor did the intention seem to be to cause distress to Helen, the second element is not fulfilled - even though it did, evidently, cause distress. The other potential criminal offence would be harassment, but given the perpetrator here did not direct it at Helen herself, this didn't apply either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deepfake videos: Can you really believe what you see?\n\nThe independent Law Commission is currently reviewing the law as it applies to taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent. The outcome of the consultation is due to be published later this year.\n\nHowever, Dr O'Connell said the process of changing the law would take years which she says is \"too long\".\n\nHelen hopes to use her experience to raise awareness around deepfake pornography and has launched a petition calling for a change in the law.\n\nIt has received more than 3,400 signatures.\n\nShe has also written a poem in response to the images.\n\n\"I'm a writer by trade,\" she said. \"And I thought the only thing that is going to allow me to reclaim any sense of agency here is to say something about it using my art form. That's the only power that I have.\n\n\"The intention of this person, as they said in their post, was to humiliate. They said they wanted to see this person humiliated, and I thought well actually I'm not humiliated, and I'm going to speak out about it because I shouldn't be the one who feels ashamed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking steps to tackle new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls, including intimate image abuse, \"whether this be cyber flashing, revenge porn or deep fake videos.\"\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the development of our new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and we encourage people to give their views,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This new strategy will ensure victims and survivors are supported, and that perpetrators are identified and brought to justice.\"", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Travellers to the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they have had a negative coronavirus test.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the measure is one of several being considered to \"prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the UK border\".\n\n\"Additional measures, including testing before departure, will help keep the importation of new cases to an absolute minimum,\" the department added.\n\nIt is thought that haulage drivers coming through ports would be exempt.\n\nHowever, the DfT said full details are still to be agreed and will be set out in \"due course\".\n\nAny such measure would be a devolved issue, so the the DfT would need to agree a path forward with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make it UK-wide.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"With a new strain of the virus on the loose in South Africa and a more infectious variant already widespread in the UK we need to do more.\"\n\nThe measures were being discussed as Boris Johnson imposed the third national lockdown in England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThe prime minister has faced some calls to strengthen border protections to prevent the arrival of new cases, particularly of new and concerning strains.\n\nHowever, there was no mention of tougher border controls during his address to the nation on Monday, or press conference on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove said announcements will come in the days ahead on \"how we will make sure that our ports and airports are safe\".\n\n\"It is already the case that there are significant restrictions on people coming into this country and of course we're stressing that nobody should be travelling abroad,\" he told ITV.\n\nCurrently, international arrivals from countries that are not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days.\n\nBut under the test and release scheme introduced in December, this can be shortened if they have a private test five days after their departure and it comes back negative.\n\nIt is possible lorry drivers could be exempt, but no final decision has been made\n\nDuring the first lockdown, the government argued against introducing border restrictions while the prevalence was so high in the UK, with experts arguing it would do little to bring down infection rates.\n\nA quarantine period, however, was introduced in June after the first peak, when cases were more under control.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused of leaving the \"nation's doors unlocked\" to new coronavirus variants coming to Britain from overseas.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Ms Patel calling for an \"urgent review and improvement plan\" as he raised concerns over checks on the arrival of people who are meant to go into quarantine.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is especially worrying given the concerns regarding mutation of the virus that emerged in South Africa, which the health secretary rightly said is 'incredibly worrying'.\n\n\"However, the lack of a robust quarantine system as a result of shortcomings from the government mean that it is virtually impossible to keep a grip on this spread or other variants that may come from overseas, leaving the UK defenceless, and completely exposed, with the nation's doors unlocked to further Covid mutations.\"\n\nThe Home Office defended its \"stringent measures\", and pointed to its move to stop direct flights from South Africa to the UK amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant in high prevalence there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "I'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators. This is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this.\n\nNormally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.", "Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.\n\nBy 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.\n\nBosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.\n\nThat meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.\n\nThe High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.\n\n\"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s,\" he said.\n\n\"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades.\"\n\nHe said the figures should raise concern about the governance of Britain's biggest companies. \"They should also prompt debate about the effects that high levels of inequality can have on social cohesion, crime, and public health and wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nMedian FTSE 100 chief executive pay was £3.61m in 2019, the last year for which a full set of data is available, the High Pay Centre said.\n\nThe centre said its analysis was based on chief executives' average working day being 12 hours.\n\nHowever, critics said such analysis just fuels the politics of envy without looking at why chief executives matter and the contribution they make.\n\nDaniel Pryor, head of programmes at the Adam Smith Institute, said: \"Good management is more important than ever in a globalised world and small differences in top talent make a big impact on a business' bottom line.\n\n\"That bottom line makes a big difference to workers across the UK, anyone with a private pension, and shareholders.\"\n\nHe pointed out that there is strong, if morbid, evidence about chief executive deaths that shows why the corporate and investment world believe leadership makes a huge difference to the fortunes of their companies.\n\n\"In the past 60 years, unexpected CEO deaths have consistently affected stock price, profitability, investment and sales growth - for better or worse,\" he said, adding: \"Which is why it makes sense for firms to open their wallets to attract the best talent.\"", "Doctors in Scotland have raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move.\n\nThey said that the first dose of either the Pfizer or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines - the only two so far approved for use in the UK - will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks of being administered.\n\nAnd they said that the second dose was \"likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy\".\n\nThe Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments and recommended the new strategy, said data showed that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine would be \"90% effective\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it would not recommend following the UK's decision to delay giving the second Pfizer dose, saying there was no evidence to support the decision.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was the first to be approved for use in the UK, with more than a million people having already been given the first dose.\n\nThe change to the vaccination strategy has meant health boards have had to change plans and cancel people booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThis includes medics who are among the priority groups for Covid vaccinations.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Council, raised concerns about the logistical impact of changing the vaccination strategy\n\nDr Morrison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some doctors had told him they would have waited for the AstraZeneca jab, which has been proven to work in the longer timetable, if they had known the second Pfizer dose was going to be delayed.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned because there's clearly disagreement about the effectiveness of the second dose of Pfizer after that period of time.\n\n\"Furthermore I think if you give more people the first dose when you don't know what vaccine supplies are going to be within that 12-week window, that's a worry that has been expressed to me by a lot of doctors.\n\n\"If we give more people the first dose, do we definitely know that the second one is coming?\n\n\"The announcement about this before a four-day NHS holiday weekend left many places with great difficulty in reorganising vaccinations, with a real risk that vaccination numbers might perversely drop because of the organisational issues.\"\n\nOpposition parties want the Scottish government to publish daily figures for how many people have been vaccinated\n\nIt comes as NHS staff were left queueing for hours outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary on Tuesday after an \"scheduling error\" meant vaccination staff did not turn up.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised to those affected and said it was rearranging the appointments.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it aims to have given at least one vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 50 and younger people with underlying health conditions by the start of May.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the timetable could be accelerated if there were sufficient supplies of the jab.\n\nThe Scottish government is being pressured to provide daily figures on the number of people being vaccinated, as the UK government has already pledged to do.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"There are now no excuses left for the SNP government to dodge publishing daily vaccination rates alongside the daily infection numbers as soon as possible.\n\n\"The SNP's evasion to try and avoid scrutiny is nothing new but on something so important, the Scottish public must have the same information as will be provided across the UK.\"\n\nHis call was echoed by Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who added: \"It is simply unacceptable that scores of NHS staff were left queueing outside in the cold for hours, and well into the evening.\n\n\"It's time for Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to get to grips with the vaccination programme, publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations available and administered, and ensure that our NHS staff do not pay the price of a bungled rollout.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says schools will be the first places to reopen\n\nThe end of England's lockdown will not happen with a \"big bang\" but will instead be a \"gradual unwrapping\", Boris Johnson has told MPs.\n\nThe prime minister made the comments in the Commons ahead of a retrospective vote later on the lockdown measures.\n\nHe said the legislation runs until 31 March to allow a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government's decisions \"have led us to the position we're now in\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there were now 30,074 patients with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.\n\nIt came as the UK reported a further 1,041 people have died with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll since April.\n\nIn a statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new variant had \"led to more cases than we've seen ever before\" and that this had left the government with \"no choice but to return to national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the legislation ran until the end of March \"not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence-led move down through the tiers on a regional basis\".\n\nHe said this would happen \"brick-by-brick... without risking the hard-won gains that protections have given us\".\n\nBut in response to MPs' questions, he said there was a \"cautious presumption\" that restrictions could start being eased from mid-February.\n\n\"And as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will be not a big bang but a gradual unwrapping,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need a plan\", Keir Starmer told MPs while declaring Labour would support new lockdown\n\nUnder the measures, which came into force legally on Wednesday, people in England will only be able to go out for essential reasons, for exercise outdoors only once a day, and outdoor sports venues must close.\n\nPolice have the powers to enforce the new restrictions with a £200 fine for each breach, doubling on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400 - and a £10,000 penalty for mass gatherings.\n\nOfficers in London arrested at least a dozen people in Parliament Square after a protest against the new measures on Wednesday.\n\nThe need to debate and vote on the restrictions means the Commons has been recalled from its Christmas break for the second time - the first being for the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nWith Sir Keir saying Labour will support the motion, the measures are expected to pass with ease.\n\nThe restrictions will be kept under \"continuous review\", Mr Johnson added, with a statutory requirement to reconsider them every two weeks.\n\nAddressing the closure of schools, the PM said \"we did everything in our power to keep them open as long as possible\" and that was why schools were the \"very last thing to close\".\n\nThey would be the \"very first thing to reopen\" after lockdown - that could be after the February half term - but \"we must be very cautious\" about the timetable, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that GCSEs, A-level and AS-level exams would be cancelled this year in England, replaced by a form of teacher-assessed grades.\n\n\"This year, we're going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,\" he said, referencing controversy over the way exam grades were awarded to some students last year.\n\nAll national curriculum tests for primary school children, often known as Sats, are now cancelled, Mr Williamson confirmed.\n\nHe said every school will be expected to provide between three and five hours of virtual teaching each day and that 750,000 laptop and tablet devices will have been distributed by the end of next week.\n\nThe prime minister wasted no time in emphasising the \"fundamental difference\" between this and previous lockdowns.\n\nTo keep opposition from his own MPs at bay he needs to demonstrate that the government's aim to vaccinate the most at-risk groups by mid-February is viable.\n\nHe is also under pressure to give a sense of how quickly restrictions might be lifted after that.\n\nThe course of the pandemic has changed swiftly at times, though, and may do so again, so it's unlikely we'll get any firm new timelines from Boris Johnson today.\n\nMost Conservative backbenchers seem resigned to the need for this new national lockdown and agree the prime minister had \"no choice\" but to act.\n\nBut MPs on all sides are impatient to hear how soon things may start returning to something like life as normal at last.\n\nMr Johnson said unlike in March last year, during the first lockdown, vaccines offered \"the means of our escape\".\n\nBut he said there was now a race to vaccinate vulnerable people quickly, with the government setting a target of immunising the four most vulnerable groups - some 13 million people - by mid-February.\n\n\"After the marathon of last year, we are indeed now in a sprint, a race to vaccinate the vulnerable faster than the virus can reach them,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Every needle in every arm makes a difference.\"\n\nEarlier, Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was \"confident\" the government would meet its \"ambitious\" target, adding that community pharmacies would be brought in to assist the vaccination programme.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new daily vaccination figures for the UK - which will be released for the first time on Monday - will show there has been a \"significant increase\" in the number of people who have received the jab.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson said 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nMr Zahawi also said nursery schools presented \"very little risk\", are Covid-safe and he defended the decision to keep them open during England's lockdown.\n\nResponding to the prime minister's statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party will support the new restrictions and urged people to comply with them.\n\n\"The virus is out of control, over a million people in England now have Covid, the number of hospital admissions is rising, tragically so are the numbers of people dying,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only the early days of January and the NHS is under huge strain. In those circumstances, tougher restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nBut he added \"this is not just bad luck, it's not inevitable, it follows a pattern\" of the government being slow to respond.\n\n\"These are the decisions that have led us to the position we're now in - and the vaccine is now the only way out and we must all support the national effort to get it rolled out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by Covid? What will lockdown mean for you? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police raided an illegal rave in a railway arch attended by 300 people.\n\nPolice have issued more than £15,000 in fines after 300 people attended an illegal rave in a railway arch.\n\nOfficers raided an unlicensed music event in Nursery Road, Hackney, at 01.30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMany people fled the scene, while organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop officers getting in, police said.\n\nNo arrests were reported, but 78 fines of up to £200 for breaching lockdown restrictions were issued.\n\nA dog unit and helicopter were deployed to the scene, with police saying they made numerous attempts to contact the organisers.\n\nOrganisers padlocked the door from the inside to prevent officers getting in, police said\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"This was a serious and blatant breach of the public health regulations and the law.\n\n\"Officers were forced, yet again, to put their own health at risk to deal with a large group of incredibly selfish people who were tightly packed together in a confined space - providing an ideal opportunity for this deadly virus to spread.\n\n\"Not just organisers, but all those present at such illegal parties can expect to be issued a fine.\"\n\nOfficers surrounded the property as dozens of guests scaled fences at the rear of the arch to escape\n\nThere is an England-wide lockdown in place which prevents any social mixing between households.\n\nUnder these restrictions people are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nThe Met Police has broken up several large gatherings in London over the last month including a 150-person wedding at a north London school.\n\nTwo officers were injured as police broke up a party involving about 200 people in Kensington on 17 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'It's right that I am properly scrutinised'\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"false conspiracy theories were being spun\" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.\n\nShe said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr asked Ms Sturgeon how she responded to Mr Salmond saying that parliament had been repeatedly misled, and that evidence she gave to the inquiry was \"simply\" and \"manifestly untrue\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she would \"refute that vigorously\".\n\nHer interview came after the inquiry announced it would use legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's interview, a spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\".\n\nA committee of MSPs is investigating the government's handling of two harassment claims against the former first minister, after he successfully challenged the complaints process in court.\n\nShe said it was right that she was scrutinised and that she had hoped to appear before the committee on Tuesday but that this had been delayed by \"a couple of weeks\".\n\nAsked if Alex Salmond was \"spinning false conspiracy theories\", Nicola Sturgeon said: \"There are false conspiracy theories being spun about this... by Alex Salmond, by people around him - you can draw your own conclusions around that.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I certainly reflect on is that at times I appear to be simultaneously accused of colluding with Mr Salmond to somehow cover up accusations of sexual harassment on the one hand.\n\n\"And then on the other hand, being part of some dastardly conspiracy to bring him down.\n\n\"Neither of those are true.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I didn't collude with Alex Salmond and I didn't conspire against him.\"\n\nThe first minister reiterated that Mr Salmond had told her about the allegations during a meeting at her home on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, Mr Salmond has insisted that she already knew about the allegations as she had been told about them four days earlier by one of his aides.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously acknowledge that she initially \"forgot\" about this meeting.\n\nIn evidence to the Holyrood inquiry which was published in October, she said: \"From what I recall, the discussion [with Mr Salmond's aide] covered the fact that Alex Salmond wanted to see me urgently about a serious matter, and I think it did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Andrew Marr Show, she added: \"I, at the time I became aware of all of this, just tried hard not to interfere with what was going on and not to do anything that would see these swept aside rather than properly investigated.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon conceded that the Scottish government had made mistakes in how it handled the allegations.\n\n\"What I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, and not simply swept under the carpet because of the seniority and powerful position of the person who was subject to them,\" she added.\n\nLast March, Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The two inquiries under way are into why Nicola Sturgeon's government acted unlawfully.\n\n\"Alex has submitted his evidence as requested and the parliamentary committee is now challenging the Crown Office to produce some of the text messages which they believe are being suppressed.\n\n\"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\"", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "27 of the 29 miners that died in tragedy\n\nThe Pike River mining disaster was a tragedy that shocked the world. Twenty-nine men who were in the New Zealand coal mine died when it collapsed in a series of explosions. The BBC's Phil Mercer covered the accident 10 years ago and has been talking to families of victims still coming to terms with their loss.\n\nThe day after his 17th birthday, Joseph Ray Dunbar began his first shift underground at the Pike River coal mine in New Zealand.\n\nHe was a \"strong-minded boy\" who wanted to carve his own path in life, but on that day in November 2010 he became the youngest victim of a mining disaster that killed 29 men.\n\nTheir bodies have never been recovered, and a decade later the teenager's father Dean is still looking for answers.\n\n\"In a modern society you don't wipe out 29 men and just walk away,\" he told the BBC. \"Joseph's legacy is righting the wrongs of the past whether it be by government agencies, police or politicians.\"\n\nJoseph Dunbar was the youngest among the victims\n\nIn 2012, a Royal Commission found the miners and contractors were exposed to \"unacceptable risk\" and that \"there were numerous warnings of a potential catastrophe at Pike River,\" but there have been no prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry concluded the men \"died immediately, or shortly afterwards\" from a methane gas blast or the \"toxic atmosphere\". Two workers did manage to escape the blast and survived.\n\nNews of an accident at the mine in the Paparoa Ranges began to emerge in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, 19 November, 2010.\n\nFamily members soon gathered, and in the hours and days that followed, there was hope that the men might still be alive, although the authorities said a rescue mission was too dangerous. A nation prayed for another mining miracle.\n\nOn the right, the tags of the 29 miners who never made it out\n\nA few months earlier, 33 miners in Chile's Atacama Desert had been pulled out alive after being trapped underground for 69 days.\n\n\"That was totally on my mind the whole time,\" explained Anna Osborne, whose husband, Milton, died at Pike River.\n\n\"I saw how successfully those Chilean miners were rescued and I thought if they can all come out alive, it can happen to us. But little did I know that that mine (in Chile) wasn't a gassy one.\"\n\nFor five long days the families waited. As a reporter sent to cover the story at the time, it was excruciating for me to watch their anguish and frustration grow.\n\nThere would be no rescue, and on 24 November another explosion ripped through the mine, and all hope was gone.\n\nFire at the entrance to the mine\n\nMs Osborne told the BBC that she is \"still fighting to get the truth and still wondering why our guys were allowed underground when the mine was so volatile (and) was a ticking time bomb.\"\n\nNot all of the families want the men's remains to be recovered, but she said it would be a great comfort to bring her husband home.\n\n\"He was working in the south (part of the mine), which was flooded. My husband couldn't swim, so he hated the water and I close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water that he hated so much and I just thought I can't have him down there. If we can, I would like as many men to be retrieved,\" she added.\n\nI close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water\n\nThe Pike River Recovery Agency is a government department that has re-entered the so-called drift, a 2.3km (1.4 miles) tunnel that connects the entrance of the mine to the working areas and coal seams.\n\nIt is looking for clues that might help explain the explosions and to \"help prevent future mining tragedies.\" Re-entering the mine was delayed by safety concerns.\n\nThe end of the drift is blocked by a huge mass of fallen rock. This roof collapse was caused by the ignition of methane, and there are no plans for the agency to move further into the mine where most, if not all, of the bodies remain.\n\nRecovery teams only made it into an initial tunnel but not the mine proper\n\n\"The Agency's mandate from the government did not include recovering beyond the drift access tunnel,\" said a PRRA spokesperson. \"It remains less likely that we will recover human remains.\"\n\n\"That rockfall is impenetrable,\" said Tony Kokshoorn, the former mayor of the local Grey District. \"The 29 miners are in the coal mine proper. At least they are all together and that is their final resting place.\"\n\n\"Many of the families want them to be together in there because it would have been pretty tough on a lot of families if some had come out and the others couldn't come out.\"\n\nThe police inquiry into the disaster is continuing, with a spokesperson saying they \"remain committed to a full and thorough investigation into events\" and will everything they can to \"provide answers\".\n\nThe grief was felt far beyond New Zealand's rugged West Coast by bereaved families in Australia, Scotland and South Africa.\n\nThe mine will almost certainly never reopen, but Bernie Monk, whose 23-year old son Michael died in the disaster, wants one, final push to bring the men out.\n\n\"The times that I went up to the mine portal with anniversaries, I swore and declared and I looked down that tunnel, and I said to them, 'we're coming to get you guys out'. It was an emotional day for me when I first went down into the mine,\" he said.\n\n\"We're are only 50 to 100 metres away from them. I think we've got a right to go and get those men,\" Mr Monk told the BBC.\n\nOut of tragedy comes pain, anger and calls for accountability and change. It is 10 years since Anna Osborne's husband, affectionately known as Milt, never came home, and she continues to agitate for stronger health and safety laws, and for employers to be prosecuted when things go wrong.\n\n\"We have had 700 people lose their lives in workplace accidents since Pike River. That is like a Pike River every five months in New Zealand,\" she said.\n\nBut above all else there is a sadness that may never fade.\n\n\"I love him so much. It still hurts. It is still very, very raw.\"", "National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy Philip Gannaway (left) on the SS Demosthenes in 1916, when it was being used as a troop ship\n\nAn appeal has been made to trace the family of a sailor from New Zealand buried more than a century ago on an island off Anglesey.\n\nLt Philip Gannaway had recently married his wife Muriel when he enlisted during World War One.\n\nHe joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving on motor launches on the Menai Strait.\n\nBut he died aged 32 during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and is buried on Church Island in the strait.\n\nLocal historian Bridget Geoghegan says she has already had responses following a story about Lt Gannaway on the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nHowever, she is still waiting to hear from his direct relatives.\n\n\"I have met family members of some people I have researched, and that is always a delight - a bonus,\" she said.\n\nThe grave notes Lt Gannaway's military service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\n\nLt Gannaway's funeral took place on 9 November 1918 with full naval honours, just two days before the armistice that brought fighting to an end.\n\nNewspaper reports found by Ms Geoghegan said more than 200 men and officers joined the procession, with shipyard work pausing as a mark of respect.\n\n\"I found he had married his sweetheart not long before volunteering and coming over to UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed like a bitter end to a love story.\"\n\nHe is buried at St Tysilio's on Church Island, which is linked to the rest of Anglesey by a short causeway.\n\nThe Australian and New Zealander are both remembered on the war memorial\n\nBut Lt Gannaway is not the only man on the island buried so far from home.\n\nRemembered alongside him on the war memorial is William Connington, a 23-year-old corporal in the Australian Flying Corps who died with flu in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Connington had family in the area - his father must have emigrated to Australia,\" Ms Geoghegan said.\n\n\"His aunt and cousin lived in Menai Bridge. I think it likely that he had been up to stay with the family and when he died his aunt brought him back to Menai Bridge from Aylesbury so that he would be buried amongst friends.\"\n\nSt Tysilio's sits on Church Island in the Menai Strait\n\nFor several years Ms Geoghegan has joined others in researching and commemorating the people named on local war memorials and graves.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown restrictions, she created a walk for Church Island with the stories behind the names.\n\n\"I devised a walk round St Tysilio to include the graves of those lost and the family commemorations for their loved-ones buried elsewhere or lost at sea - the pain is almost palpable,\" she said.\n\nThe inscription from Lt Gannaway's parents to their \"beloved son\" reads simply: \"In peace he lived, in peace he died\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.\n\nMore than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.\n\nWithout the government's furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.\n\nThe figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.\n\nEmployers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.\n\nLarge parts of the British economy were brought to a standstill for weeks on end during 2020 by the measures imposed to contain Covid-19, and many employers were forced to cut staff as a result.\n\nThe number of job cuts proposed through the year was well above the 530,000 seen the last time the UK was in recession, in 2010, and higher than any year in the records which go back to 2006.\n\nHowever, in recent months the pace of layoffs has slowed, even though the new Covid variant has seen surging case numbers and new lockdowns imposed across the UK.\n\nLast month employers notified government of plans to cut 23,100 job cuts, which is the lowest monthly figure for 2020, though still a third higher than December 2019.\n\nThe decision to extend the furlough scheme, where government pays most of a worker's wages if their employer can't, will have enabled more firms to keep their staff, believes Tony Wilson, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"The question now though is where redundancy figures go next,\" he says.\n\n\"If they start to stabilise around these levels, then [job cuts] would be at least one third higher than what we've seen over most of the last decade, and it's possible that a combination of this lockdown and then furlough unwinding from May could see numbers creeping up.\"\n\nDespite that, Mr Wilson sees the situation as \"pretty positive\".\n\nEmployers planning to cut 20 or more staff have to notify the Insolvency Service of their plans at the start of the process.\n\nThese notifications give an earlier indication of the state of the labour market than data published by the Office for National Statistics, which appear with a time lag of a few months.\n\nInsolvency Service figures showed record levels in redundancies in June and July, which was confirmed when the ONS published its own figures three months later.\n\nThe latest figures, for the period from August to October, saw a new record of 370,000 redundancies across the UK.\n\nAs redundancy processes covering fewer than 20 workers aren't included, the total number of job cuts planned will be higher than the Insolvency Service totals.\n\nBut individual firms often make fewer cuts than the number they first propose to government.\n\nEmployers in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "Simon Spurrell (C) from the Cheshire Cheese Company says he was advised to set up an EU hub\n\nUK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.\n\nFirms have been hit by extra charges, taxes and paperwork, leading some to stop exporting to the EU altogether.\n\nBut several say they have been told that setting up hubs in Europe would minimise the disruption, even if it means moving investment out of the UK.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was \"not government policy\".\n\n\"The Cabinet Office have issued clear guidance, available at www.gov.uk/transition, and we encourage all businesses to follow that guidance.\"\n\nThe Cheshire Cheese Company said it had been advised by an official to set up in the EU after it was forced to stop its exports to the bloc due to trade rules that came in on 1 January.\n\nThe firm, which sold £180,000 of cheese to the EU last year, found that every £25-30 gift box of cheese it sends to consumers on the Continent now needs a veterinary-approved health certificate costing £180.\n\n\"I spoke to someone at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for advice. They told me setting up a fulfilment centre in the EU where we could pack the boxes was my only solution,\" co-founder Simon Spurrell told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which had been optimistic about Brexit, is now looking at setting up a hub in France where it would \"test the water\".\n\nBut it has also scrapped plans to build a new £1m warehouse in Macclesfield employing 20-30 people.\n\n\"Instead we might end up employing French workers and paying tax to the EU,\" Mr Spurrell said.\n\n\"I left the EU as a UK citizen but now they are suggesting I rejoin my company to the EU, so what was Brexit for?\"\n\nThe issue, he said, was that the under the post-Brexit trade deal, a vet must approve every consignment of fresh food that his company ships to the EU.\n\nIt is a complex and costly process that has hit exporters of fresh meat and fish as well, and was partly why the government set up a £23m support fund for UK fishing companies.\n\nUK retailers who export to the EU have also complained about being hit with unsustainable costs when customers in the bloc return goods bought online. This is due to new customs clearance charges incurred by shipping firms.\n\nSome retailers have even warned they could burn clothes stuck at borders as it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards, who runs her sustainable fashion brand Vildnis from the UK, told the BBC last week she had stopped exporting to the EU, which was her fastest growing market, because of the new processes.\n\nShe also said that she had been advised - this time by a Department for International Trade (DIT) representative - that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub might help.\n\n\"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it,\" she said.\n\nAs early as last October, trade consultants Blick Rothenberg warned that thousands of UK businesses might need to set up an EU presence in order to keep exporting to European markets.\n\nHowever, experts say EU firms exporting to the UK - which currently enjoy a grace period over the imposition of some rules - will soon face the same issues.\n\nIndeed, some EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nThe DIT said it was not government policy to advise UK firms to set up EU hubs and that it was \"ensuring all officials are properly conveying\" the right information.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "The Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\"\n\nA police and crime commissioner (PCC) has written to the government to say smart motorways are \"inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire PCC Dr Alan Billings wrote his open letter to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport.\n\nHis comments come after a coroner found two men had been unlawfully killed on a \"smart\" section of the M1.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\".\n\nOn 19 January coroner David Urpeth called for a review of the road schemes.\n\nMr Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHe was speaking following the inquests for Jason Mercer, 44, from Rotherham and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, of Mansfield, who died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nNow Labour's Dr Billings has told Grant Shapps: \"I believe smart motorways of this kind - where what would be a hard shoulder is a live lane with occasional refuges - are inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned.\n\n\"The relevant test for us is whether someone who breaks down on this stretch of the motorway, where there is no hard shoulder, would have had a better chance of escaping death or injury had there still been a hard shoulder - and the coroner's verdict makes it clear that the answer to that question is - Yes.\"\n\nAlexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nJason Mercer's widow, Claire, had previously told Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5Live she considered a government review of the smart motorway system \"was just a paperwork exercise and a PR exercise.\"\n\nTalking to BBC Look North Yorkshire after publishing the letter on Sunday, Dr Billings said: \"The Department for Transport and Highways England have argued all along that these sorts of motorways are actually safe, they even go as far as to say they are safer than ordinary motorways, now I think that whatever formula they are using to come to that conclusion is wrong.\n\n\"The coroner in his verdict has made it pretty clear that these two particular lives in South Yorkshire would not have come to such a sad end if there had been a hard shoulder there, so I think this is new evidence they have to take into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"If they thought this type of motorway was even smarter, or safer, than a conventional motorway, then why not convert the entire system to smart motorways, making it safer? As soon as you say it, I think you realise it's absurd.\n\n\"I think they (smart motorways) were done originally not because it was a safer way of doing a motorway, I think it was done in order to expand the capacity, get the traffic flowing by having an extra lane, but to do it cheaply, and I think we're trading cost - cheapness - for other people's lives.\"\n\nIn response to Dr Billings' open letter, the Department for Transport said: \"The stocktake [of smart motorways] showed that in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary has tasked Highways England with delivering an 18-point action plan to ensure they are safer still, and he has called an urgent meeting with the company to discuss their progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.\n\nDespite a recent Public Health England report warning they are six times more likely to die from coronavirus, as a group, they have not been prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nLegal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff are scared to work at the UK vehicle licensing agency's contact centre in Swansea where 500 workers have contracted coronavirus since the pandemic began, a union says.\n\nThe PCS union has urged ministers to intervene and described the numbers as a \"scandal\".\n\nA DVLA spokesperson insisted safety was a priority and it followed guidance to \"help keep our offices Covid secure\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had been \"worried about the DVLA for a while\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he has repeatedly raised concerns over case numbers at the offices.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said the decision to introduce tougher Covid regulations for workplaces in Wales was made, in part, due to the situation at the DVLA.\n\nIn December, a coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre at Swansea Vale in Llansamlet after 352 cases of Covid-19 in the space of four months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DVLA has about 6,000 staff based in Swansea but said it was currently operating on a \"far reduced capacity\".\n\nA DVLA worker, who did not want to be identified, told BBC Wales News that close contacts of people testing positive are not always sent home to self-isolate, social-distancing is not being followed and homeworking is not always possible because of \"archaic\" systems.\n\n\"There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations,\" they said.\n\n\"It has been mentioned that you don't need your track and trace [contact tracing app] on. If someone's off with Covid, the people who haven't had their app on haven't been sent home.\n\n\"They'll say 'your app hasn't pinged, you're not going home'.\"\n\nThe worker said it was difficult for staff to adhere to the two-metre distancing rule because of the way the office was laid out and some staff had resigned.\n\n\"The atmosphere sucks, people are scared. I have heard of some people walking out,\" they said.\n\nOne worker said two-metres distancing was not always being observed\n\n\"I think they have been raising concerns. They probably didn't get the answer they wanted. It's not necessarily the manager's fault, the managers are struggling too.\"\n\nPCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA are not doing more to reduce numbers in the workplace when Covid infections are on the rise.\n\n\"Our members are telling us they are scared to enter the workplace for fear of catching Covid 19.\n\n\"Minsters must intervene and ensure DVLA are doing their utmost to enable staff to work from home and temporarily cease non-critical services.\"\n\nEluned Morgan told Radio Cymru the Welsh Government has been keeping an eye on the situation at the Swansea offices.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government has been concerned at the situation at the DVLA for \"some time\".\n\nThe wellbeing minister said: \"We've been worried about the DVLA for a while, now. We've been putting pressure on them.\n\n\"It comes up time and again from the people who represent Swansea, and we're worried the pressure on people working there hasn't helped.\n\n\"The situation is one of the reasons why we've introduced new rules, new legislation, to tighten the restrictions on people at work.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"We're concerned about anecdotal reports we've heard from the trade union side, individuals, that all of the requirements weren't being followed.\"\n\nHe said there would be questions for management to answer if there had been a breach of the rules.\n\nThe DVLA said some staff have been able to work from home \"in line with government advice\", though others were required to be in the office due to their roles\n\n\"In view of the essential nature of the public services we provide, some operational staff are required to be in the office where their role means they cannot work from home,\" said a spokesman.\n\nThe DVLA said it has worked closely with Public Health Wales, Swansea council's environmental health staff and union officials to try to make its buildings Covid safe, including opening an additional site in Swansea.\n\nHowever, there were currently four Covid cases across its estate, with none at its contact centre.\n\n\"Before Christmas, when transmission infection rates were extremely high in the local community where most of our staff live, we saw a rise in staff testing positive for Covid,\" he said.\n\nSwansea MP Carolyn Harris said, during the first lockdown, she was in \"constant contact\" with the DVLA due to concerns raised by workers.\n\n\"Since Christmas, I've not been able to get hold of anyone from the DVLA,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"Last night I spent a long time trying to hold of the chief executive.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that I am now reading, and some of the stuff I've had in over the last 24 hours, really worries me.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its inspector had been tackling \"a series of concerns\" since August and had spoken to the PCS, which it said was \"broadly supportive of DVLA's approach\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Most recently HSE joined Swansea Environmental Health Officers and Public Health Wales for some joint visits to premises, in our role to assist public health to assess the potential of work place transmission as part of their wider work to contain outbreaks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than five million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - thanks to an army of more than 80,000 volunteers and NHS workers who have been trained to give the jabs.\n\nMany of the vaccine volunteers have had no previous medical training and come from all walks of life. So why did they sign up? And how does it feel to stick a needle into a stranger's arm?\n\nYou could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house\n\nCallum Finnegan, 23, has been juggling his 40-hour week as a Tesco delivery driver with giving Covid jabs at Manchester's Etihad tennis centre. A St John Ambulance volunteer, he completed extensive online and face-to-face training, which included practising administering jabs on silicon arms before giving them to patients. He says he'd never given an injection before.\n\nThe biomedical science graduate wanted to get involved in the vaccination effort as soon as the call was put out and says he feels \"grateful and privileged\" to be helping the rollout - an effort he hopes will save as many lives as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCallum, who volunteered for four weeks at London's Nightingale hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, says his first shift giving jabs was \"one of the best days\" he's had since Covid hit.\n\n\"They were incredibly emotional,\" he says of the people he has given the jab to. \"You could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house, or seeing only one or two people. One of those could have been a Tesco delivery driver - there's a lot of people I deliver to who tell me that I'm the only person they're seeing face-to-face at the minute.\"\n\nIt just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people\n\nKate Donaghy, who runs an IT team for a travel company, was inspired to train as a vaccinator after seeing the impact of the disease first hand. A St John Ambulance volunteer for four years, Kate, 28, spent time at a London hospital last year helping to care for recovering Covid patients - before volunteering at an A&E department.\n\nAfter seeing just how desperate the situation was, she switched her focus to becoming a vaccinator. \"I just thought how can we stop this happening to people in the first place? If we can vaccinate people, that feels like a better way forward to solve the problem, and a great use of my time.\"\n\nShe says she overcame her initial nerves in giving the jabs thanks to some supportive colleagues and has already signed up for shifts at London's ExCel centre most weekends going forward.\n\nHer elderly patients were \"so happy it was the beginning of the end to their isolation\". \"It just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people.\"\n\nIt did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\n\nDr Andy Bates, a 57-year-old dentist from North Yorkshire, recently gave his first vaccinations at Long Lee surgery, in Keighley. He is used to giving injections - albeit in the mouth - but he says helping to protect people against this virus \"did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\".\n\nDr Bates is working as a paid vaccinator alongside a four-day week at his dental practice. He says both roles have served as a reminder that he could be the first person a patient has seen for months. And he says his day job - particularly calming people who are nervous about lying back in his dentist's chair - has helped him.\n\nHe says he managed to relax a \"very nervous\" lady in her 90s, who hadn't left the house since last March, by talking about their shared love of alpine cycling.\n\nAnd it's not just Dr Bates and his fellow vaccinators that have stepped up. He says after a \"huge dump\" of snow in the area, the community sprang into action to ensure elderly patients could safely come for their jabs - with a local farmer towing the van delivering the vaccines up the hill to the surgery, and volunteers clearing snow and ice from the car park.\n\nI just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus\n\nWhen theatres closed last year, Amanda Baldwin's career as a full-time chorus member at London's Royal Opera House came to a \"heartbreaking\" standstill.\n\nStuck at home in south-east London with nothing to do, Amanda and her husband Julian Johnson, 55 - a freelance theatre stage manager - decided to volunteer for the NHS through the GoodSam app, which later connected them with the vaccinator training run by St John Ambulance.\n\nAmanda applied shortly after her 84-year-old mother tested positive for the virus - just before she was due to have the vaccine. \"Luckily she came through it, and she wasn't hospitalised. But I just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus.\"\n\nAmanda recently passed her full SJA training in London and is now waiting for her first shift as a vaccinator. She thinks her performance background will help keep her nerves in check for when she administers her first jabs - joking that she hopes her patients \"don't wriggle about as much\" as her pet cat did when she had to give it injections for its diabetes.\n\nAfter feeling \"like a part of [her] soul was missing\" when theatres closed, she says training as vaccinator has given her a \"purpose\" again. \"I feel like I've now got [another] skill that can really help people.\"", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said people in NI need to \"come together to fight against Covid\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said a potential vote on a united Ireland would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nShe was speaking after a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in NI found 51% of people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister said \"we all know how divisive a border poll would be\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said there was an \"unstoppable conversation under way\" on the issue.\n\nThe deputy first minister called on the Irish government \"to step up preparations\" for a border poll.\n\nProvisions for a possible border poll on Irish reunification are included in the the Good Friday Agreement - the deal which led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence.\n\nIt states that the Northern Ireland Secretary must call a border poll if it at any time it appears \"likely\" to that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Foster said she thought it was \"very disappointing\" that some nationalist parties in the UK were focusing on \"constitutional politics\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We all know how divisive a border poll would be, and for us in Northern Ireland what we have to do is come together to fight against Covid, and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time,\" she said.\n\nShe added if there was a vote on Irish unity, the arguments for the union are \"rational, logical, and they will win through\".\n\nThe polling was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, with similar polling in England, Scotland and Wales to gauge attitudes towards the union.\n\nIt found that in Northern Ireland, 47% still want to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland and 11% undecided.\n\nHowever for those aged under 45, supporters of Irish reunification outnumber those who want to stay in the UK by 47% to 46%.\n\nRespondents also said they believed there would be a united Ireland within 10 years, by a margin of 48% to 44%.\n\nPolls like this come with the usual health warning - they are a snapshot in a moment in time.\n\nNonetheless there is some interesting reading here - not least the fact that it paints a picture of a disunited kingdom.\n\nWe shouldn't really be surprised about that because we have had very different approaches to the global Covid-19 pandemic with different outcomes.\n\nWe know that Brexit is starting to bite and there is a lot of frustration out there and uncertainty and that, I'm sure, has fed into these figures.\n\nThe big question for NI, unsurprisingly, is around constitutional change.\n\nIt shows that 51% of those polled would want to see a border poll within the next five years, compared to 44% who would not.\n\nHowever, if they flip that question around it's interesting to see that 42% would want to see a united Ireland, but 47% would want to remain, with 11% of don't knows.\n\nSo according to these figures there may be an appetite for a border poll - but if that question was posed the majority are saying they would stay in the UK.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the poll placed a \"solemn obligation\" on those seeking a united Ireland \"to engage with every community, sector and generation\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom may be coming to an end but we are all called to build a new future together. That's the work the SDLP is engaged in,\" said the Foyle MP.\n\nThe polling found 47% of people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland, and 11% undecided\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said \"all political energy should be focused on making Northern Ireland a better place to live and work rather than a divisive border poll\".\n\n\"We need to concentrate on the here and now, fostering better relationships and plotting a way through and out of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"As Northern Ireland enters its second century, we should be talking about recovery, renewal and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe polls also found across the UK, respondents believed Scotland would become independent within the next 10 years.\n\nIn Scotland, it found a large poll lead for the Scottish National Party, with them potentially being on course to win 70 of 129 seats in Holyrood.\n\nThe SNP is set to reveal its 'roadmap to a referendum' to its national assembly on Sunday.\n\nIt outlines plans to pursue a vote after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nThe research was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, Panelbase in Scotland, and YouGov in England and Wales.\n\nThe polling was carried out between 15 and 22 of January, with 2,392 people polled in Northern Ireland, 1,206 in Scotland, 1,416 in England, and 1,059 in Wales.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Keon Lincoln died from a gunshot and stab wounds police said\n\nThree more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA post mortem examination has revealed Keon died from a gunshot and stab wounds.\n\nDetectives have been granted extra time to question a 14-year-old boy arrested on Friday morning.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy arrested later on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nA boy, also aged 14, was arrested from his home in Birmingham on Saturday night, the force said.\n\nTwo other boys aged 15 and 16 were arrested from an address in Walsall in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading the murder inquiry, described the arrests as \"significant\".\n\n\"We are gathering a substantial amount of evidence which will take time to analyse, but we must be thorough to get justice for Keon's family.\n\n\"They have been fully updated with the latest developments.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew RT Davies has taken over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time\n\nAndrew RT Davies has been named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for a second time.\n\nMr Davies succeeds Paul Davies who resigned from his post on Saturday after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.\n\nIn a statement, Andrew RT Davies said it was \"a great honour and privilege\".\n\nHe has already announced his shadow cabinet, which includes four women.\n\nThere are no responsibilities for Paul Davies or Darren Millar, who also previously apologised for being part of the group who were drinking at the Senedd.\n\nMr Davies said his party \"will put forward a positive plan to get Wales moving again\" and \"unleash our country's potential\" at the Senedd election, scheduled for May.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have moved quickly this afternoon and announce my Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet which is built on the strong foundations of experience, talent and vision,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in a moment like no other, and the Covid-19 pandemic has sadly only served to shine a spotlight on the challenges in people's everyday lives.\n\n\"We shouldn't doubt our country's potential. Wales is full of ambitious people and communities that crave the opportunity to succeed.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' shadow cabinet reshuffle sees Angela Burns MS replace the new leader as shadow health minister and Mark Isherwood MS replace Darren Millar MS as chief whip.\n\nDavid Melding MS has been appointed shadow minister for mental health, wellbeing, culture and sport.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS remains as shadow minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, and Suzy Davies MS in education, skills and Welsh language.\n\nLaura Anne Jones MS stays as shadow minister for equalities, children and young people, but with extra responsibilities for housing and local government.\n\nRussell George MS remains in the shadow cabinet, responsible for the economy, transport and mid Wales.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Davies, the Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central, quit as leader of the Conservative group after seven years in charge.\n\nHe was given the unanimous backing of fellow Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd.\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart, MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted his congratulations to \"a formidable campaigner\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew RT Davies faced criticism earlier this month from former Tory politicians and Labour after comparing rioting in the US Congress to people who backed a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe deputy leader of the UK Labour Party said it was was a \"disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives\" had appointed \"this Donald Trump tribute act\" as leader.\n\nAngela Rayner MP said: \"Just weeks ago, Labour called on the Conservatives to suspend Andrew RT Davies and remove him as a candidate over his disgraceful and dangerous comments equating peaceful democratic debate in the UK with deadly violence at the US Capitol.\n\n\"The Conservative Party failed to act and he has refused to apologise.\n\n\"It is a disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives have just appointed him leader and their candidate for first minister of Wales.\n\n\"The people of Wales deserve so much better than this Donald Trump tribute act.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price MS said: \"After a car crash the backseat driver returns to put Wales in reverse.\n\n\"Once rejected by his own Senedd team, he will now embark on his pet project of stripping our Senedd of powers and setting Welsh democracy back decades.\"\n\nHis appointment comes just a day after Paul Davies stood down along with Tory MS Darren Millar, who was chief whip, in connection with the same incident.\n\nBoth have apologised for drinking alcohol with their meals on 8 and 9 December but both deny having broken the Covid-19 rules in place at the time.\n\nWelsh Conservatives chairman Glyn Davies said: \"They've both been friends of mine a long time but I could see the way the story was developing and I must say I think it was inevitable in the end.\n\n\"Obviously, I've been pretty disappointed with the position that we find ourselves in but this is politics and it's a challenge.\"\n\nAn investigation by the Senedd's authorities found five people, including four members of the Welsh Parliament, drank alcohol on its premises during the Wales-wide alcohol ban.\n\nA third member of the Senedd, Labour's Alun Davies, apologised earlier in the week and has been suspended by his party.\n\nBBC Wales has asked for clarification as to the identity of the fourth Senedd member investigators have referred to.\n\nPaul Smith, the Tory group chief of staff, was the fifth person involved.\n\nThe Senedd has referred the \"possible breach\" of Covid rules to Cardiff council and its own standards watchdog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nDustin Poirier (left) has had nine mixed martial arts fights since November 2016, while Conor McGregor has had just three Former two-weight world champion Conor McGregor was left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier claimed victory in their rematch at UFC 257. McGregor came out of retirement for a third time to face fellow 32-year-old Poirier at Abu Dhabi's Fight Island. And although the Irishman edged the first round, Poirier unleashed a flurry of punches to seal a technical knockout two minutes 32 seconds into round two. \"I'm gutted, it's a tough one to swallow,\" said McGregor. \"I felt stronger than him, but his leg kicks were good. I didn't adjust. My leg was badly compromised, I've never experienced those low calf kicks, and I wasn't as comfortable as I needed to be. \"I have no excuses. It was a phenomenal performance by Dustin. I have to dust it off and come back. I need activity, you don't get away with being inactive in this business.\"\n• None Trilogies, Pacquiao or YouTuber - what next for beaten McGregor?\n• None UFC 257 - All the action as it happened When the pair first met in a featherweight bout in September 2014, McGregor stopped the American inside 106 seconds, setting \"the Notorious\" on course for global stardom. He became the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight champion before facing Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest bouts in boxing history in 2017. Poirier, meanwhile, had to gradually work his way back into title contention and is now the number-two ranked lightweight contender, losing just two of his 13 fights since 2014. McGregor now has a 22-5 mixed martial arts record having lost three of his past six UFC fights McGregor has been relatively inactive though. Since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, he has had just 40 seconds in the octagon - beating Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in style last January. But McGregor seemed to start well in front of about 2,000 fans at the new 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena. He survived an early takedown and pinned Poirier against the fence for most of the first round, landing a few shoulder strikes like those that did so much damage against Cerrone. McGregor said before the fight that what motivates him now is building a \"highlights reel like a movie\", and he tagged Poirier with a couple of right-hand shots. But, unlike their first fight, Poirier was unmoved. Poirier admitted McGregor won the mind games before they met in 2014. This time round, instead of swapping verbal barbs before the fight, McGregor pledged to donate $500,000 (£367,000) to Poirier's charity and at the weigh-in Poirier presented McGregor with a bottle of his own brand of Louisiana hot sauce. And it was the American southpaw that brought the heat midway through the second round. Having replied to that early pressure with a series of leg kicks, he pounced to inflict the first TKO/KO defeat of McGregor's MMA career and take his own record to 27-6. \"It was a lot of things, but it wasn't payback. That wasn't the driving force,\" said Poirier. \"The first time I was a deer in the headlights. This time I was just fighting another man who bleeds like me. \"The goal was to be technical, pick my shots and not brawl at all. Then I had him hurt so I went a little crazy.\" What now for Poirier? Poirier's first world title shot - against Nurmagomedov - came 31 fights into his MMA career Since beating McGregor in 2018, lightweight champion Nurmagomedov won unification bouts against Poirier and Justin Gaethje to stay undefeated, announcing his retirement immediately after beating Gaethje in October. Nurmagomedov's title is yet to be vacated and UFC president Dana White said this week that the Russian may consider returning for a rematch with McGregor or Poirier if he \"saw something spectacular\". But speaking after UFC 257, White said: \"He said to me, 'be honest with yourself, I'm so many levels above these guys. I've beaten these guys'. \"I don't know, it doesn't sound very positive, but he won't hold the division up.\" In the co-main event, former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler marked his UFC debut with an impressive first-round knockout of sixth-ranked lightweight Dan Hooker, who Poirier beat last time out. Poirier said: \"It was a great win, but to come in and beat a guy I just beat and get a title shot? I've had more than 20 UFC fights, fighting the toughest of the toughest guys to get my hands on gold [a belt]. \"Let Chandler and Charles Oliveira go at it. That [Chandler] doesn't interest me at this point - or I'll go and sell hot sauce. A rematch with Conor interests me, and I've always wanted to beat Nate Diaz.\" \"Conor McGregor's not an old dog, he's definitely ready to keep going. \"Going around doing other things is not what Conor needs. He's young, fit and still ready to go. He'll 100% be back.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Watch: Vaccine plea to prioritise those with learning disabilities\n\nAs high risk groups continue to be immunised, there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out. \"Just because we've got a learning disability, doesn't mean we should sit in the corner and rot,\" says Amanda. \"We need help now.\" \"There are so many people that are going to die, and it's not fair.\" \"Even before Covid, more than four in 10 people with a learning disability died of a lung condition like pneumonia,\" says Professor Tuffney-Wijne, of Kingston University. \"As a group of people, they really are at risk.\" Legal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said it had made \"a clinical decision to prioritise those with profound and severe learning disabilities within our first six categories\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "A protester holds a poster that reads \"One for all and all for one\" in support of opposition leader Navalany\n\nTens of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Saturday in some of the largest demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nCrowds defied police to show support for opposition leader Alexei Navalny - who was arrested last weekend after returning to the country following a near-fatal nerve agent attack last year.\n\nMonitors say more than 3,000 were arrested for taking part in rallies in dozens of cities across the country.\n\nReuters estimated that some 40,000 gathered in Moscow alone, but authorities played down the figure and said only a tenth of that number showed up.\n\nRiot police were pictured dragging away and beating some protesters. The US and UK have condemned the heavy-handed response and called for the release of peaceful protesters.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, also expressed concern and said foreign ministers would discuss \"next steps\" on Monday.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said more than 1,200 had been detained in Moscow alone.\n\nDemonstrations, held from Russia's Far East to St Petersburg, were some of the biggest seen in years.\n\nIn Omsk protesters braced freezing temperatures of almost -30C (-22F) to protest against Mr Navalny's detention.\n\nAnd conditions were even colder, -52C (-62F), at another protest held in Yakutsk in Siberia.\n\nMr Navalny, a lawyer and blogger, has long been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin. He forged reputation as an anti-corruption campaigner and has become the most prominent face of the country's opposition.\n\nHe was arrested immediately on arrival into the country last Sunday after flying home from Germany, where he had been recovering from an attempted assassination attempt which he and investigative journalists have blamed on Russian authorities - a claim officials deny.\n\nPolice said Mr Navalny had violated parole conditions and have kept him in custody pending further hearings.\n\nMuch of the international community have condemned his arrest and called for his immediate release.\n\nMr Navalny called for street protests and his team further galvanised support this week after releasing an investigative documentary about an opulent Black Sea property allegedly owned by President Putin.\n\nThe investigation, now watched more than 70m times, alleges the property cost £1bn ($1.37bn) and was paid for \"with the largest bribe in history\" but the Kremlin denies it belongs to the president.\n\nRussian authorities had warned in advance of Saturday that any unauthorised demonstrations would be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nSome demonstrators were pictured with injuries, including wounds to the head, following the promised crackdown.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "Some of the party-goers have travelled from Newcastle and London, police said\n\nA student party that attracted people from up to 200 miles away has been broken up by police.\n\nSome of the guests were found hiding in cupboards when officers raided the gathering in Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, on Friday night.\n\nOne officer was assaulted as one guest made off but was not hurt, West Midlands Police said.\n\nParty-goers had travelled to the event from places such as Newcastle, Nottingham and London.\n\nThe flats are private accommodation but predominantly used by students from Aston University and University College Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.\n\nInsp Steve Barnes added: \"We understand that young people are frustrated at not being able to enjoy themselves and I do feel their pain, but we have to stick to the rules so that we can get back to some sort of normality sooner rather than later.\n\n\"People are dying and we have to prevent the spread of this virus.\"\n\nOfficers were also called to a party on Soho Road where shop owners had set up a sound system, and a 30th birthday party attended by about 20 people in Kingstanding.\n\nAcross 32 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules on Friday night, the force issued 58 fines of £200 and five of £1,000.\n\nThe West Midlands is under an England-wide lockdown with people not allowed to leave home to meet others socially.\n\nOn Thursday, the government said fines of £800 would be introduced in England this week for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nMatt Hancock said 75% of over-80s in the UK have now had a first virus jab.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr that around three quarters of care homes had also been vaccinated.\n\nProf Van-Tam said \"no vaccine has ever been\" 100% effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.\n\nIt is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said - and it is \"better\" to allow \"at least three weeks\" for an immune response to fully develop in older people.\n\n\"Even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give Covid-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\n\"If you change your behaviour you could still be spreading the virus, keeping the number of cases high and putting others at risk who also need their vaccine but are further down the queue.\"\n\nLast week, the person coordinating Israel's Covid response reportedly suggested a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine might not be as effective as reported.\n\nIsrael has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world against coronavirus, with scientists keenly watching data shared by the country for signs of how effective the vaccine is when given to the whole population.\n\nThe country's health minister Yuli Edelstein told the Andrew Marr Show that some people \"still get sick\" with coronavirus after getting the first dose of the vaccine, but said there were \"some encouraging signs of less severe diseases, less people hospitalised after the first dose\".\n\nSenior doctors have called on health officials in England to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe maximum wait was extended from three to 12 weeks in order to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said the policy was \"difficult to justify\" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.\n\nIts chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, told the BBC there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Prof Van-Tam said: \"What none of these (who ask reasonable questions) will tell me is: who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who's already had one dose (and therefore most of the protection) can get a second?\"\n\nA further 32 vaccine sites are set to open across England this week.\n\nMore than 5.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nNHS England said new vaccine sites were preparing to open across England from Monday.\n\nThey include Dudley's Black Country Living Museum, which doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders, Plymouth Argyle FC's stadium Home Park and an old Ikea store in Stratford, London.\n\nThe 32 sites will prioritise health and social care staff on Monday, and other priority patients from Tuesday.\n\nThey will bring the number of mass vaccination sites across England to 49 - as well as 70 pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP surgeries and 250 hospitals offering the jab.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that more than a third of over-80s had received their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nMore than half of over-80s in Northern Ireland have had the jab, though Health Minister Robin Swann said \"it will take time\" for the programme to have a \"major effect.\"\n\nIn Wales, four vaccination centres have been shut as officials brace for more snowy weather.\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed that the UK needs to \"bring the number of cases down as soon as we can whilst we vaccinate our most vulnerable\".\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections.\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators in the UK as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have been your experiences of vaccination, lockdown, work or travel? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers in China have freed the first of a group of miners who have been trapped 600m underground for two weeks, state media report.\n\nAn explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January.\n\nTV footage from China has shown the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home. He died this month.\n\nLast February, I took my last trip abroad before lockdown closed in on us. I bought a last-minute ticket and jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. Jim Haynes had entered his late 80s and his health was declining, yet I knew he would welcome a visit. Jim always welcomed visitors.\n\nThe essence of that trip now feels like the antithesis of Covid times. I was far from the only guest wandering into the warm glow of his atelier in the 14th arrondissement on a wet winter's night. Inside, people were squeezing, shoulder to shoulder, through the narrow kitchen. Strangers struck up conversations, bunched together in groups, balancing their dinners on paper plates and reaching over each other to press the plastic spout on a communal box of wine.\n\nJim had operated open-house policy at his home every Sunday evening for more than 40 years. Absolutely anyone was welcome to come for an informal dinner, all you had to do was phone or email and he would add your name to the list. No questions asked. Just put a donation in an envelope when you arrive.\n\nThere would be a buzz in the air, as people of various nationalities - locals, immigrants, travellers - milled around the small, open-plan space. A pot of hearty food bubbled on the hob and servings would be dished out on to a trestle table, so you could help yourself and continue to mingle. It was for good reason that Jim was nicknamed the \"godfather of social networking\". He led the way in connecting strangers, long before we outsourced it all to Silicon Valley.\n\nA ballet dancer staying with Jim in the late 1970s suggested cooking for him and friends to repay the hospitality; the dinners became weekly for 40-plus years\n\nI only knew Jim in his later years, but his entire life was extraordinary. Born in Louisiana in 1933, he had lived in Venezuela as a teenager; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and all before becoming a university lecturer in sexual politics in Paris, his home since 1969.\n\nAnd yet he was often seen as a son of Scotland, following an influential stint there in the late '50s and late '60s, when he established Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop, co-founded the Traverse Theatre and helped kickstart the Fringe festival.\n\nWhen Jim died, at 87, earlier this month, a Herald obituary called him \"the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland\".\n\nWhile a lot of highly regarded people tend to retreat into their own circles after finding success, Jim never stopped reaching out to new people. The first time I heard from him was an email out of the blue in 2008.\n\nI had written a newspaper article from Barcelona - not the one in Spain but the one on the coast of Venezuela - and it had brought back memories for him. His father worked in the oil business and had moved the family there when Jim was in his early teens.\n\nMy article was about meeting people through the Couchsurfing website, where locals opened their homes to strangers for free around the world. This was before AirBnB worked out how to monetise the idea, and the concept of non-commercial cultural exchange was right up Jim's street. \"When you are back in Europe, come to dinner,\" he wrote, promising to tell me about an old travel project of his own that he thought I might like.\n\nIntrigued, I headed to Paris soon after my return. I had imagined some sort of intimate dinner party with cultural elites, but what I found was more like a student house party - albeit with more mature attendees and only moderate alcohol consumption. (Jim was teetotal and proceedings ended strictly by 23:00.)\n\nJim never cooked himself, instead he invited guest cooks\n\nJim instantly greeted me like an old friend and, as we chatted, he reached up on to his living room shelves to offer me a book. People to People read the cover line. It was the project he had wanted to tell me about.\n\nHe explained that, in the late 1980s, he had founded a guidebook series for countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of the standard descriptions of sights and hotel listings, the format was like an address book, including the contact details for hundreds of in-country hosts. The idea was that if people could not easily see the Western world themselves, he would bring it to them via travellers. It was \"couchsurfing\", but offline.\n\nThe hand-sized copy he pressed into my palm centred on Poland. I loved it and decided to travel there to see if the participants were still up for receiving random visitors, even though so much had changed.\n\nJim created the People to People guidebooks for multiple Eastern European countries\n\nEach person was filed under the town where they lived, followed by two or three lines, including their address, date of birth, phone number and hobbies. Through a combination of Google and snail-mail, I managed to get hold of several of them. Most had all known Jim either personally or through friends of friends. All had fond memories of the project and all were still willing to act as local guides to show me around.\n\nIn Gdansk, I asked civil servant Krystyna Wróblewska why she had signed up originally. She told me she had been working as a media fixer, helping reporters cover the anti-communist shipyard strikes. \"They [the media] went looking for women with handkerchiefs on their heads and horses with carts, perpetuating the same old picture. I suppose I wanted to meet people to subvert stereotypes and show that not all the pictures you have in your head are real.\"\n\nKrystyna Wroblewska signed up in the late 1980s to show travellers around Gdansk\n\n\"It surprised me how easy it was,\" Jim insisted to me. He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Some of his contacts came from his personal, multi-volume address books, and he got new sign-ups after placing interviews in local papers and jazz magazines.\n\n\"Some of the older people in Russia were scared about being put on a Western list, because they thought it would be easier to be rounded up and carted away,\" he said. \"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on.\"\n\nOver the years, the authorities often wondered what was going on at Jim's place. Not least during the period when he started issuing fake passports. It was back in the 1970s, after he had caught wind of an American traveller, who, 20 years before, had renounced his American citizenship and created his own \"world passport\".\n\nFor Jim, non-national passports seemed to encapsulate his ideals of peace and global freedom. So he turned his home into an \"embassy\" and started producing world passports for anyone who wanted one. The documents were so convincing that some people used them to cross borders.\n\n\"Look, you can't do this any more. You have to stop making passports,\" exasperated French police would say when they came to his door. But Jim continued until he ended up in court. Though he was eventually acquitted of fraud and counterfeiting, he was found guilty of \"confusing the public\".\n\nJim always dismissed the idea that it was a naïve undertaking, but he was trusting to a fault, according to some of his friends, and this led to financial mistakes and legal troubles over the years. He wouldn't deal with problems, waiting until they blew up instead.\n\n\"I often had to stop him signing things. Sometimes he didn't even read them,\" says Jesper, his son, who was born during Jim's marriage to Viveka Reuterskiold in the 1960s.\n\nJesper grew up in Stockholm after they separated, but visited Paris every summer from the age of 10.\n\n\"There were mattresses on every spare bit of floor, people sleeping everywhere,\" he says, as he recalls his earlier visits. \"It was exciting and fun, but sometimes I felt jealous. Lots of people did. People were very possessive of him. People wanted to claim him, but he was unclaimable.\"\n\nJesper credits his father with opening the world to him. He used Jim's contacts books extensively as he travelled and he is currently living with his own family in Bangkok, where he briefly replicated the Sunday dinners. \"Just for six months... It was a lot of work.\"\n\nDuring the 1990s, the crowds started to dwindle at the Paris dinners, as the original hippy crowd aged. But then a new wave of younger visitors started to get in touch. The bloggers had discovered him.\n\n\"The internet both ruined and saved the dinners,\" says Seamas McSwiney, a close friend who helped on Sunday evenings for decades. \"It became less spontaneous as people tried to book six months ahead - which was anathema to how Jim travelled and also annoying as those people were more likely to do a no-show - but at the same time, these online articles re-energised the idea. There was a younger crowd and new momentum.\"\n\nAt the dinners' peak, Jim would welcome up to 120 guests, filling his atelier and spilling out into the cobbled back garden. An estimated 150,000 people have come over the years.\n\n\"The door was always open,\" says Amanda Morrow, an Australian journalist who stayed with Jim for a year-and-a-half. \"It was a revolving door of guests - some who wanted to stay over, and others who just wanted to say hello. Jim never said no to anyone.\"\n\nThe only thing that really got Jim down was people leaving,\" says Jesper. \"He struggled with that. He didn't like being on his own... Though fortunately there was usually a new person to distract him.\"\n\nIn the final years, Jim would sit quietly, as others gravitated into his orbit. On my last visit, he looked frail and pained by his various ailments, but he also had an air of contentment, clearly never tiring of being the conduit for human interactions.\n\n\"I was wondering when you'd come back,\" he said to me, in the rasping American accent he somehow had never lost.\n\nHere was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. And yet he made everyone feel special. Every connection mattered.\n\n\"It felt like politician's trick, but it was natural,\" says Seamas.\n\nIn very recent times, Covid restrictions reduced the dinners' clockwork schedule, but his friends say he was not depressed by the pandemic. He had figured the get-togethers would resume and, until then, had enjoyed a smaller stream of visiting carers and, whenever possible, friends.\n\nAmid the outpouring of online tributes since his death in his sleep on 6 January, these words from Jesper stand out: \"His goal from early on was to introduce the whole world to each other. He almost succeeded.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Rani has co-hosted BBC One's Countryfile since 2015\n\nCountryfile host Anita Rani is to join Emma Barnett as a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nShe will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the long-running programme, beginning on 15 January.\n\nRani, 43, said she had \"long been a fan\" of the programme and that she was \"really looking forward to getting to know the listeners and discussing issues that matter to them the most\".\n\nLong-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray left the show last year.\n\nBarnett, 35, who made her name on Radio 5 Live and Newsnight, made her Woman's Hour debut on 4 January. She hosts the show from Monday to Thursday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rani said it was \"an honour\" to be joining Radio 4's \"mothership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anita rani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRani joined the BBC's Asian Network in 2005 and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She is also known for her appearances on The One Show and Watchdog, and for competing on the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"Woman's Hour has always given a voice to people who may not be heard elsewhere and I want to continue that important tradition,\" she said.\n\nRadio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya said he wanted the station to \"better reflect and be relevant to the audience across the UK\". Rani will bring \"a wealth of broadcasting experience\" as well as a \"valuable\" perspective and insight, he added.\n\nComedian Shappi Khorsandi was among those to welcome her new role, saying she would be \"listening even more\".\n\nRani's appointment means the new Woman's Hour presenters are considerably younger than their predecessors. Dame Jenni was 70 when she left on 1 October, while Garvey was 56 when she signed off last month.\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour earlier this month\n\nBefore leaving, Garvey expressed a hope that whoever joined Barnett would be closer to her own age.\n\n\"Emma is in her 30s and that's great,\" she told the Daily Telegraph. \"It will give the programme a real energy, which I think is brilliant.\n\n\"So I think the person working alongside her should be somebody nearer my age to make sure we give the audience as broad a range of life experience and interests as possible. I would prefer it if the other presenter were in her 50s.\"\n\nBarnett had an eventful first week on the Radio 4 institution, opening her stint by reading out a message from The Queen.\n\nTwo days later, one of her guests dropped out of a discussion after objecting to remarks the presenter made about her off air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A twenty-year-old from Cambridgeshire who spent a week in intensive care with Covid-19 says he can't believe so many young people are in denial about the virus.\n\nJay Clack fell ill on December 27th and within five days, 80% of his lungs has stopped functioning.\n\nWhile in intensive care he had a goodbye phone call with his family.\n\nBut now, he's showing signs of recovery and spoke to the BBC's Jon Ironmonger.", "The police are stepping up enforcement because they believe many people breaking the Covid regulations are doing so because they are stubborn, not because they don’t understand what is allowed.\n\nThe public, police, and legal experts do struggle to keep up with the ever-changing rules.\n\nBut the organisers of a party on a boat in Hertfordshire, the passengers on a minibus heading for Wales, and the couple who travelled 120 miles to \"watch seals\" would have struggled to explain to the officers issuing them with fines that they were confused.\n\nThose were clear breaches. More complicated is the fine line between the law - which police officers can enforce - and the government guidance, which they can’t.\n\nNo law says exercise can only be conducted once a day, or for a specific duration. These are pieces of firm guidance, along with the request to \"stay local\", which resulted in criticism of the prime minister after his bike ride in east London.\n\nIt would be difficult to set a distance limit which would work for both people living in rural areas and inner cities. Impossible to prove that a 65-minute run was in breach of the law.\n\nWhich is why the success of the measures will rely on personal responsibility in the end.\n\nAnd why some experts are saying that different messages such as \"act like you’ve got it\" or \"thanks for doing the right thing\" might cut through better than a list of regulations to be obeyed.", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "John Lewis is suspending its click and collect services and tightening safety measures after a \"change in tone\" from the government over the virus.\n\nThe department store will also pause in-home services, unless they are \"essential to customers' wellbeing\".\n\nThe retailer said it felt the changes were right with the country at a \"critical point in the pandemic\".\n\nHowever customers will be able to collect John Lewis orders from Waitrose stores.\n\nWaitrose, which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, is also tightening rules over face coverings, following moves from the other supermarkets to make face masks mandatory for shoppers unless they have a medical exemption.\n\n\"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days,\" said Andrew Murphy, Executive Director, Operations.\n\n\"While we recognise that the detail of formal guidance has not changed, we feel it is right for us - and in the best interests of our Partners and customers - to take proactive steps to further enhance our Covid-security and related operational policies.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said click and collect from its department stores would be switched off for new orders from the end of Tuesday.\n\nExisting orders and bookings for services, such as installing washing machines, will still be carried out, if customers wish to proceed, but there will be no further bookings for non-essential services.\n\nMany other shops from coffee chains to craft suppliers are offering click and collect services. However, with the continued rise in coronavirus cases the government is examining ways to reduce social contact further.\n\nThe book chain Waterstones stopped offering click and collect services from its shops at the start of the current lockdown.\n\nMarks and Spencer said it was continuing to offer customers the opportunity to collect other items at its food halls, which are still open for grocery shopping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\"\n\nThe father of one of three men murdered in a park terror attack has called on the home secretary to \"tell us why\" the killer was deemed safe to be free.\n\nGary Furlong, whose son James, 36, was killed in Reading's Forbury Gardens attack in June, said it was \"beyond\" him why Khairi Saadallah was considered \"not a danger to the public\".\n\nSaadallah was jailed for the rest of his life over the murders.\n\nThe Home Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nAt the time of the attack Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We must learn the lessons from what has happened... to prevent anything like this from happening again.\"\n\nDuring his trial, London's Old Bailey heard Saadallah \"executed\" James Furlong, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, as an \"act of religious jihad\" on the afternoon of 20 June.\n\nHe was jailed on Monday having previously admitted the three murders and the attempted murders of three other men.\n\nKhairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three of attempted murder\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a Serious Further Offence (SFO) review had been completed into how Saadallah was managed by the National Probation Service.\n\nThe victims' families would be offered a meeting to discuss the findings of the review, it added.\n\nIt comes after the killer had been subject to licence conditions at the time of the attack.\n\nThe court previously heard on the 18 June, two days before the attack, Saadallah's probation officer had emailed his mental health team as he had been talking about \"magic\".\n\nSaadallah also contacted the mental health crisis team himself, but he did not not open the door when they visited on 19 June.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAnalysis of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material and the court heard while at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Gary Furlong, from Liverpool, said Ms Patel needed to \"tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him\".\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets,\" he added.\n\nSaadallah, 26, had been told just before his release from prison that the Home Office wanted to deport him, but it was not legally possible due to the situation in Libya.\n\nIn law, what are known as the Hardial Singh principles place certain limits on the government's power to detain people ahead of deportation.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman said the government \"always tries to remove foreign national offenders where possible\".\n\nHe was released from custody on 5 June, and proceeded to research the location for his attack online and carry out reconnaissance in the park.\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer on 19 June, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near to a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nSaadallah's brother, Aiman, said he had asked for police to detain him under the Mental Health Act, and added \"lives would have been saved\" if more had been done.\n\nThames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.\n\nReading Refugee Support Group's (RRSG) also said it had raised concerns about his potential for radicalisation over three years and the possibility of a \"London Bridge\" scenario.\n\nIn a statement, it said Saadallah had a \"known, significant mental health problem\".\n\n\"This in no way excuses what he did. He murdered three innocent people. But there must be accountability on the part of services that should have supported him,\" it said.\n\nBut passing sentence Mr Justice Sweeney said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nGary Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\n\n\"How was he ever allowed to stay in this country? How was he allowed in, in the first place?\"\n\nHistory teacher James Furlong and pharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett each died from a single stab wound to the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nGary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\" who was loved by family, friends and students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has published a list of areas where there have been delivery delays due to its workforce being affected by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe postal service said some areas will see a reduced service due to workers being off sick or self-isolating.\n\nRoyal Mail listed 28 areas where post might be late, with 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nProblems with deliveries over Christmas had prompted shoppers to complain about parcels not arriving on time.\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"Despite our best efforts and significant investment in extra resource, some customers may experience slightly longer delivery timescales than our usual service standards.\n\n\"This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe.\"\n\nMany of the affected areas are in or near London, while others include Chelmsford in Essex, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Margate in Kent, and Widnes in Cheshire.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, whose Ilford constituency is one of the areas affected, tweeted on Sunday that he was concerned about vaccination invitations getting caught up in Royal Mail delays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi replied that the government would work with Royal Mail to ensure that vaccine invitations were prioritised.\n\nCustomers have taken to Twitter to complain about delays to their postal service.\n\n\"Unfortunately I live in one of these areas.,\" wrote Matt S. \"N8 has been receiving an absolutely dreadful service since April 2020 - @RoyalMail what are you going to do to improve the situation?\"\n\nMark Harrison wrote: \"We could manage and expect a bit of disruption - but we've had only 2 deliveries in a month. Nothing for a fortnight. SE11 not even on the list of disrupted areas. Royal Mail need to get a grip.\"\n\nIn a service update on Tuesday, Royal Mail said: \"Due to resourcing issues, deliveries in the following areas are likely to be limited.\"", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vogue editor Anna Wintour said images of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were meant to celebrate her achievements\n\nUS Vogue editor Anna Wintour has defended the magazine following criticism of its front-cover portrait of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe image shows Ms Harris wearing an informal outfit including jeans and a pair of Converse trainers.\n\nSocial media users have criticised Vogue for the photo's \"washed out\" lighting and styling, saying it does not reflect Ms Harris's achievements.\n\nBut Ms Wintour said the photos were intended to highlight her success.\n\n\"We want nothing but to celebrate Vice-President-elect Harris's amazing victory and the important moment this is for America's history and particularly women of colour all over the world,\" Ms Wintour said in a statement to the New York Times' Kara Swisher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vogue Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also defended Vogue's decision to use the picture for the print cover of its February issue, rather than an alternative portrait of her in a more formal suit.\n\nA member of Ms Harris's team told AP news agency that Vogue staff, including Ms Wintour, agreed to feature the blue-suited image on cover. But Ms Wintour denied that any formal agreement had been made.\n\n\"All of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice-president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in,\" said Ms Wintour.\n\n\"We felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture... really reflected the hallmark of the Biden/Harris campaign and everything they were trying to - and I'm sure they will - achieve,\" the editor - herself an influential supporter of the Democratic Party - added.\n\nSources at Vogue told the New York Times that the second, more formal image may be used as a cover for a separate print edition.\n\nBoth pictures were taken by Tyler Mitchell who, in 2018, became the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover.\n\nThe magazine has been criticised in the past over issues relating to race.\n\nSeveral former employees previously shared experiences of alleged racism in the workplace with the New York Times.\n\nEarlier this year, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful spoke out after he was allegedly \"racially profiled\" by a security guard at the magazine's UK offices.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HBO's Insecure is making sure lighting people of colour is not an afterthought", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "As major social media platforms crack down on accounts promoting US election conspiracy theories, many conspiracy and far-right groups in the US are looking for a new home online.\n\nTwitter hasn’t just kicked the president off the platform. It’s also closed down some 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy, while Facebook said it is continuing efforts to shut down “Stop the Steal” groups which allege, with no evidence, that Donald Trump was cheated of the presidency.\n\nOne of the most popular alternatives had been the self-styled “free speech” social media outlet Parler, but then over the weekend that was banned too for posts inciting violence.\n\nThen there’s Gab, a Twitter-like platform popular with right-wing groups, which is awash with extreme content and welcomes QAnon followers with open arms. It claims to have added 600,000 new users since the riots.\n\nIt’s thought Gab’s user base is far smaller than that of the now-closed Parler, which had around 16m users.\n\nOthers seem to be moving to MeWe, which is similar to Facebook.\n\nThere are some parallels with online jihadists, who also found their voices silenced after the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.\n\nThe Islamic State group and al-Qaeda frequently have to re-establish their online presence after social media companies identify and close their accounts, leading to a nomadic online existence.\n\nThey have already adapted to life outside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and have exploited less well known platforms and apps to get their messages out.\n• 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "Sir David Attenborough has previously spoken of his support for the Covid-19 vaccines\n\nSir David Attenborough has become the latest well-known name to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe news about the 94-year-old natural historian comes a few days after it was revealed the Queen had been vaccinated.\n\nIt's not known which vaccine Sir David has been given or exactly when he had it.\n\nThe Perfect Planet host is one of several stars to receive the first of two doses of the vaccine.\n\nThey include The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith, actor Sir Ian McKellen, choreographer Lionel Blair, actor Brian Blessed and actress Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are currently three vaccines approved for administration in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, although supplies of the latter are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nSir David, who has been isolating at his London home, has previously talked about his support for the work in developing a means of protection from Covid-19.\n\nIn an interview with The Telegraph last month he said he would definitely accept an invitation to be vaccinated when his time came.\n\n\"At 94, I think I'm entitled!\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I'm sufficient of a scientist still, I hope, to realise this is the thing to do.\"\n\nHe added that the work that had gone into developing the vaccines showed the positive effects of international cooperation in combating global problems, such as the climate crisis.\n\n\"It (the virus) has drawn attention to the fact we aren't as omnipotent and all-controlling as we think we are,\" he told the paper.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: Are supermarkets following the rules?\n\nSupermarket workers are facing abuse for challenging shoppers not wearing masks during the pandemic, staff say.\n\nOne Mold supermarket worker said she was challenging people every day and seeing \"loads of people walking around\" the store without masks and in groups.\n\nThe Welsh Government has hinted rules will be tightened amid concerns Covid-19 rules are not being followed.\n\n\"This is not a social event, come in on your own, not as a family of five,\" the supermarket worker said.\n\nSupermarket workers spoke to BBC Radio Wales as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the \"onus\" was on supermarkets to make sure shoppers abided by the rules.\n\nThere has been an \"escalation of abuse\" towards supermarket staff in the last nine months, and the role of policing such rules must not fall on those on the shop floor, Nick Ireland Divisional Officer of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) said.\n\nHe said measures in stores had \"rolled back\", with many no longer enforcing systems, and people walking the wrong way down one-way systems, and \"whole families\" shopping with just one basket.\n\nMeanwhile Bally Auluk, an area organiser in Cardiff and Barry for Usdaw, said abuse towards shopworkers was happening on \"a daily and weekly basis\".\n\nHe said retailers and the Welsh Government should \"start protecting shop workers\" after dealing with members himself who were \"threatened with physical violence and spat on\".\n\n\"Customers now are treating it almost like it was last year, that it's not a problem, that is where the big issues arises,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's had pledged to challenge shoppers not wearing face coverings in store, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to follow the move and challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules, people must wear face coverings in order to enter shops across the UK, while supermarkets should have social distancing and strict hygiene measures in place.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been in talks with retailers on how to improve safety and return to the strict observance of social distancing from the first lockdown, although no new guidance has been issued.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets, such as limited numbers allowed in store, hand sanitiser and security on doors.\n\nThe Mold supermarket worker said staff had been told not to challenge people not wearing masks, and had seen people being yelled at.\n\nJane, who did not give her last name, told BBC Wales customers were offered a mask on the way in, but many did not want them.\n\n\"You do see a lot of customers walking around without a mask on,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course there are people with hidden disabilities who can't wear a mask but there can't be that many of them.\"\n\nJane said enforcement needed to be greater, but it should not be led by the shopfloor staff.\"We're told not to challenge people as we don't know someone's personal situation and we don't want to face any abuse if they don't want to wear it or don't agree with it,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment people will ask politely, but I have witnessed quite a few occasions where customers have been verbally abusive to the person greeting them on their way in.\n\n\"There needs to be someone enforcing this, it can't be left to retail staff: whether its a police officer or a security guard.\"\n\nSupermarket aisles carrying non-essential items are closed off again, as they were during the firebreak lockdown\n\nOne security guard at a supermarket in Aberdare said he had had more \"hassle\" working in the past 10 months at the store, than from drinkers while working as a nightclub doorman for more than 20 years.\n\n\"The attitude towards yourself... they don't appreciate that you're standing there for 12 hours a day, they don't understand how hard it is to try and keep people distancing,\" he told Dot Davies on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"When they go inside the shop it all goes out the window... we keep the two metres outside, but we've got people coming outside to tell us we should be in there sorting it out.\"\n\nOne supermarket manager said the lengths people were going to in order to shop together were \"ridiculous\", with families coming in with a number of trolleys or baskets in order not to be challenged.\n\n\"We've seen families turning up to go shopping for a basket shop, it's just not on,\" said Mr Ireland, who called on supermarket staff to be prioritised for vaccines.\n\nHe suggested those who do not observe the rules should be banned and fined.\n\nBut one mother said that she had no choice but to shop with her children, and she had been unable to get a click and collect or delivery slot.\n\n\"It's easy to get caught up in the fear of it, but some people are at the shops as they have no choice,\" she said.\n\nOthers have spoken of shop staff themselves not wearing masks.\n\nJames Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, said it was \"everyone's responsibility\" to abide by the rules, rather than for shop workers to enforce.\n\n\"Doing that [enforcement of rules] in a small store, where you don't have lots of colleagues around, has been a trigger for more abuse and even violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Lowman said making businesses Covid secure was down to the local authority, while individuals' behaviour was a matter for police, but \"in practicality\" it is everyone's responsibility.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the \"onus\" for getting shoppers to follow Covid-19 rules, such as wearing masks, social-distancing and cordoning off non-essential items, was on the supermarket managers.\n\n\"[It needs to be made] clear that you do need to wear a mask unless you can demonstrate that you have a particular exemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think there's any lack of understanding. We've been through this before and I do think a number of supermarkets are going to go and make clear there are a range of items that are off-limits for shoppers coming in.\n\n\"Supermarkets understand what they need to do.\"", "London's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital has been reopened and is admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread in the capital.\n\nMedical director Dr Vin Diwakar said the facility at London's ExCeL Centre also had a vaccination centre on site.\n\nIt was placed on standby in May after fewer than 20 patients were treated following a grand opening on 3 April.\n\nDr Diwakar said the Nightingale was being used to treat non-coronavirus patients.\n\nIn the Downing Street press conference, he explained it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"This means that hospitals have more beds to care for Covid-19 patients and for our very sickest patients. We cannot do this indefinitely.\n\n\"There comes a point where if the infection gets further out of control, more and more patients from London will need to be transferred elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nAt the start of November, he said, London had 1,000 Covid-19 patients.\n\nThis increased four-fold to 4,000 on Christmas Day and has doubled to just under 8,000 today, with more than 1,000 of those on critical care, he told the press conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Dr Diwakar said there was \"hope\", with one hall of the ExCel Centre having opened as London's first mass vaccination centre.\n\n\"I can tell you Covid-19 is a horrible, horrible disease that leaves so many, including young people, breathless and gasping for life,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the Mayor of London declared a \"major incident\" as he described the coronavirus spread in the capital as \"out of control\".\n\nMore than 120 firefighters and 75 Met Police officers have been drafted in to help the London Ambulance Service cope with demand.", "The data showed men were more likely to be admitted to intensive care units\n\nAround half of patients admitted to Welsh intensive care units during the second wave of the pandemic have died, a study has found.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) found men aged in their 60s were more likely to need intensive care.\n\nIt also found those from Asian backgrounds and deprived areas were disproportionately affected.\n\nBut a leading doctor said, overall, people were more likely to survive now.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said new treatments meant only the sickest patients were reaching intensive care, where outcomes were poorer.\n\nICNARC collected information on 431 Welsh patients who were critically ill with coronavirus from 1 September to 31 December 2020 as part of a UK-wide audit of intensive care patients.\n\nOf the patients who were admitted, 68% were men and 32% women. The average age of a patient was 59.5 years.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said, overall, patients were more likely to survive Covid now\n\nWhile the vast majority of patients were white (91.6%), the number of patients of Asian ethnicity was more than double the proportion of the Asian population, with 6.3% of patients recorded as being Asian, compared to an average of 2.4% in their local population.\n\nThe audit of patients found that, excluding those still being treated at the unit, half had died while half had been discharged.\n\nAlthough the numbers of patients surveyed is relatively low for statistical purposes, Dr Morgan said the survival rate reflected the situation in hospitals.\n\n\"We are putting fewer people, who are in the first stage of their illness, on to life support machines. And that is because we have treatments now that we know can help,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you are more likely now to survive Covid than ever before, and that is in every age group - sometimes by as much as 10% more.\n\n\"What we do know is that overall, out of every ten people who come to intensive care with Covid about six of them will survive and will leave the intensive care unit. Which means sadly four of them won't, four of them will die.\n\n\"That's similar overall to the first wave but that data is based on some patients who are still in the intensive care unit. So that may change and it's more likely to get worse rather than better.\"\n\n\"We also know patients who are on life support machines in the intensive care unit will do worse than those who come to the intensive care unit and are not on life support machines.\n\n\"For those people, it's probably five out of 10 people who will survive and five who will sadly die and that may be worse when we have the data on those who are still there.\n\n\"And there's a big effect of age. So for those over the age of 70 it may be as little as four people out of 10 who survive, maybe less. And for those over the age of 80 it may be as low as one or two people out of ten who survive.\n\nThe figures from ICNARC also highlight how people from poorer backgrounds were more likely to need treatment in intensive care.\n\nUsing a deprivation score from 1 to 5, more than half of patients scored 4 or 5, representing the most deprived postcodes in Wales.\n\nDr Morgan said: \"Sadly, disease is an illness of deprivation.\n\n\"And so that's why we feel it, particularly in Wales where the industrial scars of our past are still very much there - and our health is there.\"", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Retailers suffered their worst annual sales performance on record in 2020, driven by slump in demand for fashion and homeware products, figures show.\n\nWhile food sales growth rose 5.4% on 2019, non-food fell about 5%, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt meant an overall fall of 0.3% in a year dominated by the Covid-19 impact, the worst annual change since the BRC began collating the figures in 1995.\n\nChristmas offered little cheer, with much of the High Street still closed.\n\n\"Physical non-food stores, including all of non-essential retail, saw sales drop by a quarter compared with 2019,\" said Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive.\n\n\"Christmas offered little respite for these retailers, as many shops were forced to shut during the peak trading period,\" she said.\n\nThe 5.4% rise in food sales was fuelled by shoppers flocking to supermarkets and online grocers to ensure they were stocked up during the pandemic.\n\nIn December, total retail sales increased by 1.8% as shoppers spent more in the run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales for the month were up 4.8% as overall shop takings were still affected by restrictions and temporary closures.\n\nOnline non-food sales jumped by 44.8% in December, according to the new figures, as a higher proportion of shopping took place online.\n\nThe BRC's sales monitor is collated with the consultancy KPMG, whose UK head of retail, Paul Martin, said: \"In the most important month for the retail industry, there was some positive growth due to the ongoing shift of expenditure from other categories such as travel and leisure.\n\n\"Once again we saw big swings in the types of products being purchased and the channels used for shopping, with much of the growth taking place online, where nearly half of all non-food purchases were made.\"\n\nBut he warned that the new lockdown would worsen conditions for many non-essential shops and the High Street generally.\n\nLast week, a report from the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, the CRR said.", "The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.\n\nThere were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.\n\nThis represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.\n\nWhen the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.\n\nThis measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.\n\nThe data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008.\n\nThe data on deaths can be confusing.\n\nOn one hand, excess deaths are at their highest since World War Two, while on the other, death rates, once age and size of population are taken into account, are at their worst level for a little over a decade 'only'.\n\nHow should that be interpreted?\n\nExcess deaths are basically a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.\n\nClearly, 2020 saw a huge and unexpected rise in deaths because of the pandemic, just as World War Two led to a sudden jump.\n\nBut in determining how much those jumps affected the chances of dying, a measure known as age-standardised mortality, which takes into account the age and size of the population, is important.\n\nIt shows the pandemic has undone the progress made in the last decade or so. That is significant - especially given this has happened despite lockdowns and social-distancing measures to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBut it also helps put the death toll over the past 12 months in a wider context.\n\nKing's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.\n\n\"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US,\" he said.\n\n'It will take a public inquiry to determine exactly what went wrong, but mistakes have been made.\n\n\"In a pandemic, mistakes cost lives. Decisions to enter lockdown have consistently come late, with the government failing to learn from past mistakes or the experiences of other countries.\n\n\"The promised 'protective ring' around social care in the first wave was slow to materialise and often inadequate, a contributing factor to the excess deaths among care home residents last year.\n\n'Like many countries, the UK was poorly prepared for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nMatthew Reed, of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie said the focus on Covid should not hide the fact there has been a \"silent crisis\" of deaths at home.\n\nHe said people have died prematurely in 2020 from other causes - with a big jump in deaths at home.\n\n\"We are concerned many have not had the care they needed,\" he added.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. Kibue 🇰🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeter said the backlash revealed an unhealthy attitude in Kenya: \"At the end of the day, it's all about who will get the job done. This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice patrols were stepped up around the Scotland-England border around Christmas\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nSo many of us are spending more time staring at a screen right now and an eye health charity is recommending we learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect our sight. Fight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you're working at a screen, in order to reduce eye strain. The charity also commissioned a survey of 2,000 people which found more than a third believed their eyesight had worsened in the past year. It says the number of us getting regular eye tests is also down and is urging people not to miss their appointments.\n\nIt sadly comes as no surprise to learn that 2020 was the worst year on record for UK retailers, especially those focused on clothing and homeware. Food bucked the trend, particularly over Christmas, with the highest ever festive spending on groceries. But overall, retail sales declined by 0.3% across the year, and non-food by nearly a quarter, the biggest annual dip since the British Retail Consortium began collating the figures in 1995. The BRC says many retailers are struggling to survive and the government should extend the business rates holiday to save jobs.\n\nA father who'd campaigned for a change in the coronavirus rules to make life easier for non-resident parents to see their children has welcomed a government rethink. Previously, parents could visit children they don't live with during lockdown, but restrictions prevented them from staying overnight in a hotel. Ex-BBC journalist Tom De Castella said the ban \"had a massive bearing on seeing my daughter\", who lives a three-and-a-half hour drive away from his home. Now the rules have been rewritten, he's relieved. \"This is about building a bond with your child, it's crucial to their development,\" he added.\n\nTom De Castella said the rethink was \"great news\" for parents like him\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, three vaccines are now approved for use in the UK, but there are many differences between them. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lockdown rule-breakers are more likely to be fined as Covid laws will be enforced \"more quickly\", the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers have had to break up parties, despite hospitals struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nA minister confirmed her pledge that fines were \"increasingly likely\".\n\nKit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [are illustrating] to them that if they don't they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" Mr Malthouse, the policing minister, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"These current measures should in theory, if we all stick by them, be enough to drive the numbers down so that we can start to move through the gears of tiers from mid-February,\" he added.\n\nAsked if tighter restrictions for England were on the way - something the health secretary has refused to rule out - Mr Malthouse said ministers were \"on tenterhooks\" watching the daily figures for Covid deaths, new cases and hospital admissions, as rules continue to be kept under review.\n\nHe said the government's ramped-up efforts to give vulnerable people the coronavirus vaccine should help the UK to \"get back to some sort of normality later this year\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was currently no expectation that Westminster will impose more extensive restrictions.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she discussed possible tighter restrictions with members of her cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, will hold a coronavirus press conference at Downing Street later.\n\nThe latest figures on Monday showed a further 529 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, while another 46,169 cases were reported.\n\nThere are also more than 32,200 people in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some 75 police officers are joining 185 firefighters in being trained to drive ambulances in the capital, to help London Ambulance Service as the number of cases of the virus continues to rise.\n\nAnd writing in the Times, she said her officers had found people hosting raves, house parties and basement gambling events, despite clear laws that ban social gatherings.\n\n\"It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,\" she said, adding that people breaking Covid laws were \"increasingly likely to face fines\".\n\nPolice chiefs in other parts of England have also warned \"patience is running out\" with rule-breakers, with the public increasingly willing to report alleged rule breaches.\n\nSince March, some 32,000 penalties for breaching Covid laws have been issued in England and Wales - with a sharp rise in penalties during England's November lockdown.\n\nAlmost 6,500 penalty tickets were handed out in the weeks up to Christmas as police began moving more quickly from \"engage\", \"explain\" and \"encourage\" to the fourth \"e\" - \"enforcement\".\n\nExpect the rate of fines to continue upwards during January, given the scale of the emergency and the pressure from government on constabularies to enforce the law.\n\nBut there is also a tension here. Police chiefs have told their officers they will often have to use their own judgement because the list of \"reasonable excuses\" in the law for why someone can be outside is not fixed in stone.\n\nThere is a lot of wriggle room in the law to allow daily lives to continue.\n\nWhile ministers, scientists and health experts are all hammering home the message that people should stay at home as much as possible, the law is more liberal - for instance, there is no restriction on exercise in England.\n\nAnd that's why some police officers believe they are stuck between a rock and a hard place as people who don't want to be locked down find more and more creative ways to stretch the rules to breaking point.\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nDame Cressida told the Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nShe also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycle in east London at the weekend was \"not against the law\", but added the \"stay local\" guidance on exercise for England could be made more clear.\n\nUnder Scotland's lockdown restrictions, people must start and finish their exercise in the same place - and to do so, they may travel up to five miles from the boundary of their local authority area. People in Wales should start and finish exercising from their home, while those in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.\n\nAsked if she would like to see similar detail in England's guidance, Dame Cressida said: \"That is certainly something the government could consider.\n\n\"Anything that brings greater clarity, for officers and the public, in general, will be a good thing.\"\n\nDame Cressida also said she was delighted that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers for vaccines was being discussed\n\nPolice chiefs have been under increasing pressure to enforce the lockdown laws - with a number of news reports about breaches of Covid rules in recent days.\n\nIn one case, Derbyshire Police withdrew penalties for two women who had been fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk together - following widespread media attention.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has defended the way police have handled breaches, saying there is a need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nFour people were arrested in Edinburgh on Monday after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - which are in charge of making their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn her article, Dame Cressida said she was \"delighted to hear\" that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers to get vaccinated was being \"actively discussed\", as the rate of officers self-isolating has risen.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, as part of the government's plan to vaccinate tens of millions of people by the spring.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said members of the armed forces were working \"hand in hand with the NHS\" to help with the response to the UK's epidemic.\n\nSome 5,300 members of the armed forces are currently involved in the Covid response including personnel to help with vaccinations and community testing across the UK, he said.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS Louisa Jordan was built in two weeks in April response to concerns over hospital capacity\n\nA shortage of NHS staff could prevent the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan to Covid patients if capacity is exceeded elsewhere, a leading doctor has said.\n\nPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Prof Mike Griffin, said the increasing numbers off work was a \"major problem\".\n\nThe Scottish government says the NHS is not being \"overwhelmed\" and staffing plans are in place to deal with demand.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan is currently being used for outpatient services.\n\nThe temporary hospital at the SEC in Glasgow was set up in April in response to concerns over hospital capacity.\n\nIt was not used for Covid care during the first surge of the pandemic and has since been made available for outpatient services, such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery and dermatology.\n\nIt is also being used for Covid vaccinations.\n\nProf Mike Griffin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the pressure on the NHS workforce was particularly acute in the west of Scotland, where the number of cases was high.\n\n\"Particularly in Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there's been significant increases recently because of the new variant. Without any doubt, that new variant is increasing transmissibility, and therefore increasing infection rates and increasing hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just the admissions that's the problem. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses and everyone are really working extremely hard - but there is an increase in absenteeism because of illness and because of self-isolation amongst nursing staff.\"\n\nTwo of Scotland's health boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire - are currently over their capacity for Covid patients.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has reached 85% capacity and NHS Tayside is at 81% capacity, according to the latest Scottish government figures.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan has capacity for 1,000 Covid patients if it is needed, but Prof Griffin said that using it as a Covid facility could be dependent on retired or former staff returning to work for NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Opening the Louisa Jordan as a Covid institution without staff is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"It is equipped to be able to do it. And if the staffing is there, if we get returners and so on, then perhaps that might happen.\"\n\nThe number of Covid patients in hospital across Scotland is now higher than it was in April, although the numbers in intensive care are lower.\n\nNumbers initially appeared to be declining in November, but never reached low levels and began to climb sharply again at the end of the year.\n\nProf Griffin added that it was likely that better treatments for Covid patients were also reducing mortality and so keeping those patients in hospital for longer.\n\nNHS Scotland has an overall capacity for 13,000 beds, with 2,400 assigned to Covid patients.\n\nThis is down from a capacity of about 3,600 in the autumn because of additional seasonal pressures on the NHS, including weather-related issues and increased staff absence.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, accepted that having around 1,500 patients in hospital with Covid had forced the cancellation of procedures such as cataract operations and hip replacements.\n\nBut he said that ability to \"flex\" within the system meant that the NHS remained within capacity.\n\nProf Leitch also pointed to the situation in England where there have been reports of limits being put on the amount of oxygen that patients can receive and some intensive care patients having to be treated in non-ICU beds.\n\nSpeaking at the first minister's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"People shouldn't be scared that the health service is full or overwhelmed - it isn't.\n\n\"It is fragile, and you just have to look a few hundred miles south to see what happens when it is even more fragile.\n\n\"So we need to avoid that as much as we can in Scotland.\"", "The Northern Lights from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands\n\nDisplays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from north and north east Scotland overnight.\n\nAlso known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers photographed the \"lights\" from Shetland, the Highlands and Moray.\n\nBrae, Shetland, was among the vantage points for observing the aurora overnight on Monday into Tuesday\n\nA view of the aurora from Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast\n\nA colourful scene at Nairn on the Highlands' Moray Firth coast\n\nThe aurora from Glenelg in the west Highlands\n\nThis stunning image was captured at Durness by Andy Walker\n\nClear skies over Moray offered opportunities to see the lights, including from Elgin\n\nFreck Fraser's image of the aurora from a snowy Belladrum near Beauly\n\nThe green glow of the aurora from Portmahomack in the Highlands\n\nAnother image of the aurora from Brae in Shetland\n\nBright lights of the aurora from Uig in the Highlands", "Meddyg Care Dementia Home was due to receive vaccinations last week\n\nA care home manager is \"frightened\" for the residents after its delivery of Covid vaccinations failed to arrive.\n\nLorna Jones said Meddyg Care Dementia Home in Criccieth, Gwynedd, was due to have a delivery of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca jab a week ago.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived amid claims other people in the area have already had the jab.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted there had been \"logistical problems\" in north west Wales.\n\nThe health board insisted it is \"committed\" to vaccinating those most vulnerable.\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that all over-50s in Wales are to be offered jab by spring, after criticism the rollout of the vaccine in Wales has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nWith family visits suspended, the care home has not recorded a single Covid-19 case and a phone call on New Year's Eve to say it was to receive the vaccine was met with \"glee and happiness\".\n\nUnder the Welsh Government's vaccination rollout plan, care home residents and staff are first in line to get the immunisation - or priority one - ahead of elderly people within communities across Wales.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived while, the home claimed, local GP surgeries have been administering the vaccine to over 80s in the community.\n\nLorna Jones is demanding answers as to why the vaccine has not arrived\n\nMs Jones said: \"I can't understand why Betsi Cadwaladr have veered away from the priority list.\n\n\"It's very clear. If there are vaccines coming into the local community, which there are, why have our residents not been vaccinated?\n\n\"I know some care homes have had it in Caernarfon, so why haven't we. What's the difference?\"\n\nMs Jones said the delay is causing concern among staff, residents and families.\n\n\"I'm frightened for our residents. I'm getting a lot of contact from families and I just can't give them anything,\" she said.\n\nThe home's owner said he had now taken matters into his own hands.\n\nKevin Edwards, managing director of Meddyg Care, said he had spent hours ringing around GP surgeries \"begging\" for spare vaccines.\n\nHe said the residents would now be vaccinated on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're a specialist dementia home, you can't just turn up one day and give the vaccine to the residents, there needs to be an element of preparation,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said it was working to ensure those with the highest priority are vaccinated.\n\nTeresa Owen, the health board's executive director of public health, said: \"Last week we vaccinated nearly 10,000 people in north Wales.\n\n\"This week, staff from primary care practices will be going into the local nursing and residential homes to administer the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccination to residents.\n\n\"The initial supply of vaccinations to the west of BCUHB has caused some logistical problems with commencing this programme, but vaccines have now been allocated for all the nursing and residential homes in the locality.\"", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - is a keen cyclist\n\nDowning Street has defended Boris Johnson for riding his bicycle seven miles from home, saying he complied with Covid rules during his trip.\n\nLabour accused the prime minister of having double standards, after it was reported he had been spotted in the saddle at east London's Olympic Park.\n\nGovernment guidance says daily outdoor exercise is allowed but people should not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said any suggestion he had broken the rules was \"wrong\".\n\nBut he did not confirm whether Mr Johnson had been driven to the Olympic Park from Downing Street or cycled there.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been \"against the law - that's for sure\".\n\nPeople should go for exercise \"from your front door and come back to your front door\", she said, adding: \"That's my view of local.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said the Commissioner's words were \"wise\".\n\n\"The instruction is to stay local and for her a reasonable interpretation was to exercise from their front door but for some people it's more complicated. Everyone needs to exercise their own judgement\", she added.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that the prime minister had been seen in the Olympic Park, with his security detail, on Sunday.\n\nThere's nothing in English lockdown law that says Boris Johnson shouldn't have pedalled around London's Olympic park on Sunday, seven miles from Downing Street.\n\nBut this comes at a time when the government is desperately pleading with people to take Covid-19 seriously and follow the rules.\n\nIn England that means leaving home only for essential work, shopping and exercise. The guidance also says \"stay local\" without defining how far people can roam.\n\nTravel for exercise is allowed \"a short distance within your area\" to access an open space.\n\nNumber 10 will insist that's precisely what Mr Johnson did.\n\nBut his ride highlights the problem everyone faces trying to interpret rules, and relying on people using common sense.\n\nThe outing certainly doesn't help ministers straining to tell the public - in clear, consistent, easy-to-understand terms - to stay at home.\n\nAndy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, west London, criticised the prime minister for having a \"do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do\" attitude.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local.\n\n\"Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.\n\n\"If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added: \"We have always trusted the public to exercise good judgement. We did throughout the first lockdown and continue to do so.\"\n\nDame Cressida Dick said Boris Johnson had not broken the law\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after police in Derbyshire fined two women £200 after they drove five miles from home to take a walk - a penalty that was later dropped.\n\nGovernment advice for England says people can leave home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nThe government also states: \"The law is what you must do; the guidance might be a mixture of what you must do and what you should do.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is that exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nIn Wales, exercise also has to start from and finish at home. There no limits on distance travelled, although the advice is that \"the nearer you stay to your home, the better\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "England is currently under a third national lockdown, in an attempt to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.\n\nBut there has been speculation that ministers could be considering tightening restrictions, amid concerns the \"stay-at-home\" message isn't being followed by enough people.\n\nAt Monday evening's Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to follow the existing rules but added, \"we won't rule out taking further action if it's needed\". Other ministers have struck a similar tone.\n\nBut what is the case for more changes?\n\nIn March, nurseries closed to all but vulnerable children and those whose parents were key workers.\n\nBut so far this lockdown, early-years provision has remained open in England.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have chosen to keep nurseries closed to most children for now.\n\nBut England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said keeping them open \"would allow people who need to go to work, or need to do particular activities, to do so\".\n\nYounger children carry a lower risk of transmission than adolescents, scientists say.\n\nBut according to Public Health England, 10% of coronavirus outbreaks or clusters in educational settings since September have been in early-years provision.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations have called on the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early-years staff now there is a more transmissible variant of Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he too would like to hear more from scientists about the risks - and nurseries should \"probably\" close.\n\nGoing out to exercise once a day is one of the \"reasonable excuses\" for leaving home during lockdown.\n\nPeople can walk, run, cycle or swim with those they live - or are in a support bubble - with.\n\nIn addition, they can exercise, on their own, with one person, each time, from another household - as long as they stay 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, Mr Hancock said, \"we've been seeing large groups and that is not acceptable\" and warned that, \"if too many people keep breaking this rule, then we are going to have to look at it\".\n\nThe rules say exercise should be \"local\" - in the village, town, or part of the city where you live - but do not currently specify how far people can travel.\n\nDerbyshire Police recently fined two women £200 each for driving five miles to meet for a walk, saying driving for exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown. They were told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed, either, as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nThe penalties have now been withdrawn.\n\nProf Whitty, meanwhile, has urged people to \"double down\", avoid unnecessary contact and stick to the rules.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about coffee shops remaining open for takeaways, he advised against meeting up there.\n\n\"Really, please don't,\" he said.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in almost all public indoor settings - including shops - unless people are exempt.\n\nPremises \"should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law\", government guidance says.\n\nLast summer, when customer face coverings became law, many supermarkets said they would not make their staff responsible for enforcing the rules.\n\nHowever, Morrisons has now updated its policy to bar shoppers who refuse to cover their faces, unless they are medically exempt. Sainsbury's says security guards at its stores will challenge customers who do not comply.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose have followed suit and say they too will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they have an exemption.\n\nThere have been suggestions face coverings should be required in outdoor public places.\n\nHowever, Sage has previously suggested it would have a \"very low impact\" on community transmission\n\nProf Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the risk posed by joggers, for example, was \"very low\" - but there \"might be some logic\" to people wearing masks in a busy outdoor queue or crowded around a market stall.\n\nOne change the government has ruled out is to support bubbles - which allow people living alone and single, or new parents to mix with another household of any size, without having to socially distance.\n\nAt the government briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I can rule out removing the bubbles.\"\n\nThe official guidance says it's best if a support bubble is formed with a household who live locally.\n\nBut there is currently no limit to how far people can travel to visit their bubble, meaning they could go from areas with high infection rates to those with lower ones, potentially spreading the virus.\n\nWhen \"bubbling\" was first suggested, in May, Sage rejected it as too dangerous, because the reproduction (R) number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - was close to one.\n\nCurrently, the R number in England is between 1.1 and 1.4. Sage says stopping all indoor contact between different households could lower this by as much as 0.2.\n\n\"Active contract tracing should be a precondition of introducing bubbling\", Sage added.\n\nUnlike in March, places of worship are allowed to open in England, although they are closed in Scotland.\n\nThey provide spiritual leadership for many and bring communities together - but their \"communal nature\" also makes them \"vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus\", the government guidance for England says.\n\nWhen the latest lockdown was announced, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: \"The government hasn't suspended public worship - but some may feel it better not to attend in person and some parishes are expected to offer online services only for now.\"\n\nSage has previously suggested places of worship pose a high risk to vulnerable groups but closing them would have a low to moderate impact on overall coronavirus transmission.", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate from coronavirus in Wales - with another 34 hospital deaths in the latest week\n\nThere have now been more than 5,100 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 since the pandemic began.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 310 deaths in the week ending 1 January, which is 32 more than the week before.\n\nThis is nearly 42.6% of all deaths.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths in Wales, the most since the end of April at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 76 deaths in the area - including 66 in hospitals and six in care homes.\n\nLooking at council areas, Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales, with 34. The London borough of Newham had 35.\n\nThe ONS again urged caution when interpreting this week's figures, due to the Christmas and new year holidays, which will affect the number of registrations.\n\nThe total number of Covid deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 1 January, was 4,963.\n\nBut when deaths registered over the following few days are included, there was a total of 5,169.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan health board, with 68 deaths registered involving Covid, also had its highest number in a single week since the end of April.\n\nHywel Dda health board reported 37 deaths - its highest weekly figure since the pandemic began. Of these, 18 were patients in hospital from Carmarthenshire and 10 were hospital patients from Pembrokeshire.\n\nSwansea Bay health board had 61 deaths in this week. The Swansea council area itself had the seventh highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales.\n\nThere were 36 deaths in Cardiff and Vale, 25 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - 10 of which were hospital deaths in Wrexham - and seven in Powys.\n\nAll counties recorded at least one death involving Covid-19.\n\nThis map shows three valleys areas in south Wales among the highest for crude mortality rates involving Covid in the pandemic so far\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, with 685 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales up to the latest week, followed by Cardiff with 578.\n\nWhen looking at crude death rates - based on the number of deaths compared to local populations - Wales has three of the five worst across England and Wales.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has 283 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is second with 253.6 and Blaenau Gwent is ranked fourth.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell from 825 to 727 in the latest week, but this was still 209 deaths (40.3%) higher than the five-year average for that week. This is the second highest proportion after London.\n\nThe ONS figures report where doctors mention Covid-19 on death certificates, including confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nThey include deaths occurring in all places, not only hospitals and care homes but also people's own homes.\n\nIt has been estimated that Covid is the underlying cause in around 90% of these deaths and not just a contributory factor.", "An eye health charity is recommending people learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect their sight, as lockdown has increased people's time using screens.\n\nFight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you look at a screen.\n\nOut of 2,000 people, half used screens more since Covid struck and a third (38%) of those believed their eyesight had worsened, a survey suggested.\n\nOpticians remain open for those who need them, the charity said.\n\nThe representative survey of 2,000 adults suggested one in five were less likely to get an eye test now than before the pandemic, for fear of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nRespondents reported difficulty reading, as well as headaches and migraines and poorer night vision.\n\nThe research charity, which commissioned a survey from polling company YouGov, said it wanted to emphasise the importance of having regular eye tests and to remind people \"the majority of opticians are open for appointments throughout lockdown restrictions\".\n\nFight for Sight chief executive Sherine Krause said: \"More than half of all cases of sight loss are avoidable through early detection and prevention methods. Regular eye tests can often detect symptomless sight-threatening conditions.\"\n\nBut even simple screen breaks can help to prevent eye strain, the charity suggested.\n\nGovernment guidance states that under lockdown people can leave home for medical appointments and to \"avoid injury, illness or risk of harm\".\n\nThe College of Optometrists said its members should continue to provide eye care under lockdown for people who experience any eyesight changes or problems.\n\nOptometrists are the professionals who will carry out your eye test when you visit an optician's practice.\n\nRoutine appointments can also be provided \"if capacity permits, and if it is in the patients' best interests\", the guidance states.\n\nClinical adviser Paramdeep Bilkhu said the college's own research suggested just under a quarter of people noticed their vision deteriorate during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our research showed us that many people believe that spending more time in front of screens worsened their vision,\" he said.\n\n\"The good news is that this is unlikely to cause any permanent harm to your vision. However, it is very important that if you feel your vision has deteriorated or if you are experiencing any problems with your eyes, such as them becoming red or painful, you contact your local optometrist by telephone or online.\"\n\nUK health and safety legislation states employers must pay for eye tests for their employees if they have to use a screen for work for more than one hour a day.\n\nIn the summer, the UK Ophthalmology Alliance and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calculated that at least 10,000 people had missed out on essential eye care in Britain.\n\nIn the most extreme cases, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it feared some people were at risk of losing their sight because of a fear of attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA Royal College of Ophthalmologists spokesperson said: \"It is important that people who have found significant changes in their vision seek the advice of an optometrist who will examine, and determine if the changes require further investigation by an ophthalmologist - a medically-trained eye doctor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "New England Patriots's Bill Belichick is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history\n\nTop NFL coach Bill Belichick says he will not accept President Donald Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the US Capitol riot.\n\nBelichick, of the New England Patriots, said he was flattered when he was first offered the medal - the top award given to civilians in the US.\n\nBut he said he changed his mind after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress last week. Five people died.\n\nThe celebrated coach had previously spoken of his friendship with Mr Trump.\n\n\"Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honour represents and admiration for prior recipients,\" Belichick said in a statement.\n\n\"Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.\"\n\nBelichick, who has won a record six Super Bowl titles, is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history.\n\nThe Presidential Medal of Freedom recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to \"the security or national interests of America\".\n\nIn 2019 Mr Trump gave the award to golfer Tiger Woods, as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh and posthumously Elvis Presley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Super Bowl: How Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots dynasty\n\nDonald Trump may only have recently made a career of politics, but he's always loved sport.\n\nHe owns 17 golf courses and once bought and ran the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.\n\nJust last week, he awarded three presidential medals of freedom to professional golfers. This week he was planning to honour the most successful professional football coach in modern times, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.\n\nThe president seems to particularly enjoy the company of sport figures and revel in their achievements and prowess.\n\nSo for Belichick, a personal friend of the president's, to decline the award is a stinging rebuke.\n\nThe coach's decision reflects the depth of the political crisis president has created in the past week. It also highlights the troubled relationship Trump has had with the National Football League and its players, who he has disparaged for Black Lives Matter protests during the US national anthem.\n\nBelichick, a sometimes bristling, controversial figure with more than a few detractors, is used to public animosity. A coach can't win without the commitment of his players, however, and Belichick clearly believed his relationship with his team would be jeopardised by associating himself with Trump at this point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "The US has placed Cuba back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing the communist country's backing of Venezuela.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration made the announcement just days before he leaves the White House.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has previously said he wants to improve US-Cuban relations.\n\nMr Biden has said he is seeking closer ties between the long-term adversaries but Mr Trump's decision is likely to hinder a quick repair of relations.\n\nCuba's place on the list will require a formal review that could take months, analysts say.\n\nThe Caribbean island was removed from the list by President Barack Obama in 2015, but Mr Trump has taken a harder line towards the country.\n\nIn 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Cuba since 1928\n\nWhen explaining the decision, officials cited Cuba's support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro who the US refuses to recognise.\n\n\"With this action, we will once again hold Cuba's government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of US justice,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.\n\nIn response, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted: \"We condemn the cynical and hypocritical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States.\"\n\nIn advance of the announcement, House Democrat Gregory Meeks called it \"another stunt by President Trump and Pompeo, trying to tie the hands of the incoming Biden administration on their way out the door.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Obama began to normalise relations with Cuba in 2015. He called the decades-long US efforts to isolate the country \"a failure\".\n\nSince the Cold War era, the US had pursued various policies to undermine Cuba which it saw as a great threat.\n\nCuba now rejoins countries including Iran and North Korea on the list of sponsors of terrorism. The impact on the island country include severe limits on foreign investment.", "Mr Williamson says his department is doing all it can to support remote learning\n\nAn extra 300,000 laptops and tablets have been bought to help disadvantaged children in England learn at home, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson said the devices would be delivered to schools.\n\nHe also pledged to publish a remote education framework to support schools and colleges with delivering lessons during the latest national lockdown.\n\nIt comes as research says children from poorer families are likely to struggle more with remote learning.\n\nThe Department for Education said its data showed that over 700,000 devices had been delivered to schools in England so far during the pandemic - 100,000 of which were delivered last week.\n\nThe department says the additional 300,000 laptops and tablets lifts government investment by another £100m, meaning over £400m will have been invested in supporting disadvantaged children who need help with access to technology during the pandemic.\n\nBut the department has faced mounting criticism over huge percentages of pupils not having access to digital devices, nine months into the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson said the DfE was \"doing everything in our power to support schools with high-quality remote education\".\n\nHe said: \"These additional devices, on top of the 100,000 delivered last week, add to the significant support we are making available to help schools deliver high-quality online learning, as we know they have been doing.\"\n\nOn top of this, the remote education framework would support schools and colleges with delivering education for pupils who are learning from home, he said.\n\nThe frameworks, which are voluntary and should be adapted for schools' individual circumstances, will \"help them to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in the lessons and teaching they provide remotely\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"While we welcome the extra laptops and tablets announced, it is pretty poor that nearly a year after this crisis began we are only now inching up to the number of devices that are needed.\n\n\"The reality is that this extra provision is coming when we are already well into the new lockdown and after a heavily disrupted autumn term in which many children had to self-isolate in line with coronavirus protocols,\" he said.\n\n\"The government was slow off the mark to address the digital divide early in the crisis and is now trying to make up for lost time.\"\n\nMr Williamson's laptop announcement comes as research by the University of Sussex found that nearly one in five less advantaged parents said they struggled with home-learning during the first lockdown.\n\nThe research surveyed 3,409 parents in the UK between 5 May until 31 July last year and found families of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to report their home environment made it harder for pupils to complete schoolwork from home.\n\nThe study says secondary school pupils eligible for free school meals (39%) were more likely to report that a lack of technology - such as laptops and computers - made learning from home more difficult, compared to 19% of pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere are concerns poorer children will fall further behind\n\nPrimary school pupils from struggling households were found to be more likely to find home learning learning harder than their more comfortable off peers due to the environment - such as noise levels (59% to 50%), lack of space (45% to 22%), lack of technology (45% to 26%) and lack of internet (35% to 16%).\n\nThe researchers warned that educational inequalities were likely to increase due to further school closures this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Matthew Easterbrook said: \"These results show that school closures disproportionately disrupt the education of those who are most economically disadvantaged, suggesting that educational inequalities are likely to rise because of the pandemic.\n\n\"The results show that parents of pupils from disadvantaged families - those who are eligible for free school meals, who have lower levels of education, or who are financially struggling - are much more likely to report that learning from home is challenging.\"\n\nReport co-author Lewis Doyle, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, added: \"School closures, while clearly necessary during this public health crisis, risk entrenching inequality.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the government also published figures on how many pupils were physically in schools across England before the Christmas holidays.\n\nThe data shows 79% of pupils in state schools were in class on Wednesday16 December - down from 85% on Thursday 10 December.\n\nIn secondary schools, attendance fell from 80% to 72% on 16 December, while pupil attendance in primary schools fell from 89% to 86%, the figures show.\n\nBetween 9% and 11% of pupils - up to 872,000 children - did not attend school for Covid-19 related reasons on 16 December.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "The disease is still spreading. There are more people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK than at any other point in the pandemic.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, hit the airwaves on Monday morning to tell us it's \"everyone's problem\".\n\nAnd a possible further increase in the numbers from those get-togethers that did take place over Christmas is yet to filter through.\n\nIt is cheering, and crucial, to see the elderly and vulnerable attending vaccine super-centres in huge numbers for their injections.\n\nBut there is no getting away from it: at this moment, the coronavirus situation seems pretty dire. And there is real concern in government that the public, this time round, is just not paying attention to the rules as closely as they did back in the spring.\n\nWhat is the government's answer? It is not, at least not yet, despite calls from the opposition, another big clampdown.\n\nIt might not feel like it, but it is only seven days since Boris Johnson took what used to be the rare step of making a national address, live on primetime TV, telling us, across the UK, once more to \"stay at home\".\n\nThere is hardly any political appetite to go even further.\n\nAs one senior minister said today: \"We have gone as far as we possibly can in terms of shutting things down\".\n\nThe prime minister was reluctant to go this far, only moving back to a lockdown in England when the evidence put forward by the government's top medics got worse, and worse and worse.\n\nThere are in fact even more limits that ministers, not just in Westminster but in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast too, could introduce.\n\nSchools could be forcibly closed to all pupils. Nurseries could shut.\n\nGovernment sources say the nurseries policy isn't going to change. Number 10 firmly denies they would ever take such a drastic step on schools which have always been open to key workers' children and it is hard to imagine that ever happening.\n\nIn extremis though there are measures that could be taken - in theory the government does not want to do any of this, but in practice there are other potential steps.\n\nBuilding sites could be made to lock their gates. Factories where machines are still whirring because they are operating under Covid guidelines could be made to pause.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland could follow Wales and ban people from seeing anyone they don't live with even outdoors.\n\nPlaygrounds, launderettes and chiropractors, could, along with many others on the list of premises allowed to stay open, have to shut up shop after all.\n\nBut while ministers have talked about squeezing the advice for takeaways to try to prevent big queues gathering at popular places, encouraged the supermarkets to make sure they are doing as much as they can to be safe, and even discussed the prospect of asking for masks to be worn outdoors, there is no expectation, at least at the start of this week, that a more extensive clampdown is coming from Westminster.\n\nAlthough, it's worth noting that the Scottish cabinet will discuss restrictions again on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Matt Hancock ruled out getting rid of support bubbles.\n\nOne reason for the reluctance to go much further is that every step that affects a business affects jobs and livelihoods too.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs on Monday that 800,000 people have lost their jobs since February, admitting the economy will get worse before it gets better.\n\nSo trying to preserve activity that can be done safely matters to the government too.\n\nThere's also a question in government circles about whether cranking up different rules bit by bit is really what would help.\n\nChris Whitty this morning bluntly suggested there was limited value in \"tinkering\" with the rules, and what is required instead is for all of us to realise how grave the situation really is.\n\nInstead of worrying about whether we are allowed to sit on a park bench at all, (and yes, this has been a lively conversation in Westminster today) , perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we really need to be out at all.\n\nThe NHS has been under huge pressure dealing with a surge in Covid cases this winter.\n\nBut when what happens next will be in large part shaped by our behaviour as individuals, working out the dos and don'ts can get sticky fast.\n\nTwo women who hit the headlines for driving five miles to go for a snowy walk with a takeaway cuppa had their fines withdrawn today, just as the prime minister caused a stir when a newspaper revealed he'd gone seven miles to the other side of London for a cycle in the Olympic Park.\n\nYou might be a reader who feels, 'so what?'. In both cases they were exercising outside, within the law, so who cares?\n\nBut you might feel when the firm instruction is to stay at home, and stay local, that is pushing the rules.\n\nFor now though, with grimmer and grimmer medics' warnings ringing in our ears, and reminders about enforcement from the police coming too, ministers seem resolved to encourage the public to comply rather than crack down further.\n\nBut it is however, only a week since the lockdown the prime minister had so hoped to avoid returned. By now, it's not surprising, Boris Johnson would never quite rule anything out.\n\nP.S. In all the gloom, the cheerier news is that the vaccination programme across the UK is certainly getting going, with 2.3 million people having had their first jab.\n\nThe number of people getting vaccinated has been added to the list of statistics that the government publishes every day. The targets the government has set are tough, but the numbers so far, are growing fast.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across the East of England after RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched to intercept a plane that had lost communications.\n\nThe Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby and \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex, an RAF spokesman said.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported by people across social media.\n\n\"The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons,\" the RAF said.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London heard the boom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\n\"We have received numerous calls from the public with reports of a sonic boom... between Huntingdon and Cambridge,\" Cambridgeshire police said, in a Facebook post.\n\n\"Nobody has been injured. Some callers reported the incident had shaken properties but no major damage is thought to have occurred.\"\n\nAn image from a police officer's body-worn camera captured the RAF Typhoon aircraft flying over Cambridgeshire\n\nCommunications with the aircraft were re-established after the Typhoons were launched and it was intercepted before being escorted to Stansted.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said the \"private jet\" was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham.\n\nHe confirmed the plane had been brought into land at about 13:40.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.\n\nThe Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel received 285 serious incident notifications from April to September.\n\nThis is an increase of 27% from 225 in the same period the previous year.\n\nThe data also includes children who were in care and died, regardless of whether abuse or neglect was suspected.\n\nThe Children's Society described the figures as \"shocking\".\n\nThe serious incident notification system requires councils in England to report all incidents of death or serious harm involving children in their area to the Department for Education, which publishes the data.\n\nThey are also required to inform the education secretary and Ofsted if a looked-after child dies, regardless of whether they suspect abuse or neglect.\n\nChild deaths increased from 89 to 119 and those seriously harmed rose from 132 with 153 compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data.\n\nThe number of serious incidents involving children under one increased by 30% as did the harm suffered by those aged 16 and over.\n\nThe majority (54%) of incidents related to boys, and almost two thirds related to white children.\n\nIn two-thirds of the 285 cases reported, the harm occurred while children were living at home.\n\nThe number of serious incident notifications had fallen in 2019-20 compared with 2018-19 when there were 274 such notifications.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the increase in incidents last year happened at a time when Covid-19 was having a \"huge impact on the well-being of children and families and disrupted help available to those who needed it most\".\n\nEngland's first lockdown began at the end of March last year and ended on 4 July.\n\nMs Pona said: \"During the first lockdown many vulnerable children were stuck at home in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations, often isolated from friends and support networks.\n\n\"Sadly, children also continued to be targeted and groomed by people outside their families for sexual and criminal exploitation like county lines drug dealing operations, which can lead to serious violence or death.\n\n\"At the same time, they were often hidden from view of professionals like social workers and teachers who are best placed to spot the signs if they may be in danger.\"\n\nShe added that in the current lockdown it was \"vital\" that social care and schools work together closely to ensure all vulnerable children, including those in care, have regular contact with a trusted professional.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every single incident of this nature is a tragedy and we are working to understand the impact the pandemic may be having.\n\n\"Throughout the past months, we have prioritised the most vulnerable children and their families and put in place support to protect babies.\n\n\"We've maintained vital frontline services because we know it has been a challenge for many, especially for new parents, and we've invested thousands of pounds in charities working with vulnerable children and their families.\n\n\"Today we have launched a wholescale review of children's social care to reform the system and think afresh about how we support the most vulnerable. This data will provide important information to the care review to help address major challenges.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Irish hauliers have been bypassing ports in Wales because of Brexit, say industry leaders\n\nIrish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.\n\nGwynedd Shipping said it was operating at 65% normal volumes and the pressure of extra paperwork was challenging.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, the firm's managing director, said: \"It's an enormous strain on our staff in terms of processing bookings.\n\n\"We process around 400 or 500 bookings a week, the reality is we're operating at 65-70% of previous volumes.\n\n\"Whilst we see recovery in the number of clients and we're starting to get to a better pattern in terms of shipments I still think it's going to take several weeks for things to return to normal. Whether things return to pre-Christmas, pre-Brexit volumes remains to be seen.\"\n\nMr Kinsella thinks there will be long-term consequences for the ports.\n\nStena Line is among firms that have made changes to the routes its uses\n\n\"You can already see the shift in terms of the number of sailings,\" he said.\n\n\"I think you're seeing a shift away from Holyhead particularly in terms of weekend, off-peak traffic. I think longer term, the viability of all of these services will be something those ferry services will continue to scrutinise.\"\n\nThis week Stena Line moved its new ship to the route from Rosslare, in the Republic of Ireland, to Cherbourg, France.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, a new weekend sailing from Dublin to Cherbourg will also begin on 23 January, resulting in a temporary reduction in weekend capacity on the Dublin to Holyhead route.\n\nIt also intends to sail the Belfast-to-Liverpool route.\n\n\"Due to the current Brexit-related shift for direct routes and increasing customer demand, Stena Line has decided to temporarily deploy the Stena Embla on Rosslare-Cherbourg,\" Stena Line said.\n\nAt Rosslare Europort, business is booming, says general manager Glenn Carr.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand in the first two weeks of trading compared to last year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"On our European routes there's a 500% increase in freight volume going through the port compared to last year.\"\n\nHe added that 18 months ago they would have had three sailings a week directly to mainland Europe from Rosslare Europort: \"Today we have 15.\"\n\nMr Carr says his customers want to bypass the UK because of Brexit.\n\n\"I think that's testament to demand, particularly from our exporters and importers, on the island of Ireland and the need to unfortunately bypass the UK because of Brexit to trade directly with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe believes this change in operations will not be temporary.\n\nHe said decisions by ferry companies and businesses who trade with the EU to re-direct freight, have been made based on market analysis.\n\n\"The business case for the extra services out of Rosslare were not based on the first two weeks of this year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"They were based on analysis of the market and conversations with our exporters and importers who were switching.\n\n\"So there is a genuine switch and we foresee services being maintained out of Rosslare.\"\n\nUK government ministers have played down concerns about the long term viability of Welsh ports.\n\nGiving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee this week, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies MP, said former haulage industry colleagues referred to the issues as \"teething problems\".\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart MP, said: \"There is some evidence that things aren't looking necessarily, permanently bleak.\n\n\"It's one of those areas where we have to keep a very wary eye on it, but I think and hope that it is a temporary dip in the graph.\"\n\nBut transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, of the University of South Wales, thinks Brexit delays will be the incentive Irish companies needed to switch permanently to trading directly with the European mainland.\n\nProf Cole said the EU wanted to reduce congestion and pollution in parts of Europe.\n\nOne solution was to move freight by sea rather than road.\n\nThere have been problems with paperwork for drivers travelling to the European mainland\n\nUntil now there was no reason for Irish hauliers to move from using Welsh ports and Dover, Prof Cole said.\n\n\"The route worked perfectly, there was a predictable journey time and that's important for food and component parts going to factories,\" he said.\n\n\"That kind of change required a significant shift, and that's what's there now.\"\n\nBangor University economics lecturer, Dr Edward Thomas Jones, believes it is too soon to predict longer term changes.\n\n\"Because businesses stockpiled before Christmas in anticipation of Brexit, there is of course less use of the port [at Holyhead] since Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"On top of that, coronavirus means there are fewer tourists going on holiday to Ireland.\n\n\"We'll have a better idea of the future of the port in six months when these businesses who have stockpiled start buying again.\n\n\"Hopefully, by the second half of the year coronavirus will have been resolved and tourists will once again be able to travel back and forth.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru warned if traffic continued to be diverted away from the UK then Wales would suffer.\n\n\"I urge the UK government to work with the Welsh Government to provide substantial investment into Welsh ports to secure their viability into the future,\" said MP Hywel Williams, Plaid's Cabinet Office spokesman.\n\n\"If the trend of rerouting traffic through direct routes continues, I fear that our local economies both in the north west and south west of Wales will suffer enormously.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Douglas Jones was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he became a pilot\n\nThe aviation industry has been among those hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPilot Douglas Jones was working for Aegean Airlines, flying out of Athens, when it began.\n\nIt cost him his job and also prompted him to return to the small Scottish town where he grew up.\n\nNow he is now turning his hand to a very different line of work producing PPE, in a sector which is enjoying something of a boom.\n\nMr Jones saw much of Europe in his work with Easyjet and Aegean Airlines\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was born in Haywards Heath in Sussex but raised in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, was enjoying his dream job at the start of 2020.\n\nHaving gained a commercial pilot's licence, he was based in Berlin with Easyjet before landing a position in Greece.\n\n\"It is definitely what I have always wanted to do,\" he said.\n\n\"With Aegean I have flown a good way across all the major airports of Europe.\"\n\nHowever, life changed \"very quickly\" as coronavirus spread across the continent.\n\n\"I flew to Copenhagen and I flew back from Copenhagen and I was on unpaid leave when I landed back in Athens,\" he explained.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks he received confirmation that his job was gone.\n\nMr Jones returned to Moffat amid fears of being stranded in Greece\n\nMr Jones said it took some time for him to fully appreciate that he would not be returning to the skies any time soon.\n\n\"Half of my stuff is still in Greece because we came back to our home countries thinking this will only be three to six months and that will be that,\" he said.\n\n\"We had just no concept of how bad this was ever going to be.\"\n\nIt meant he was back home in a region where he admits there are \"not a huge amount of options career-wise in normal times\".\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just desperate to do something, to have work.\"\n\nAlpha Solway is producing millions of masks for NHS Scotland\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAfter interview, he was offered a job in June which proved to be something of a change of pace from day one.\n\n\"I came in and I sat and cut elastic for visors for most of the day - I think I cut like something like 3km worth of elastic because one of the machines had a fault,\" he said.\n\nSince then he has helped make filter units for masks, developed standard work procedures and become a \"jack of all trades\" for the business.\n\nMr Jones said of his abilities as a pilot were useful at the PPE factory\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are talking health and safety around large automated machinery you have to be aware of what things are doing and when and who is doing what.\n\n\"As a pilot - as you might like to think - we have quite a logical way of looking at things. The way we are trained to look at problems is very applicable to manufacturing.\"\n\nAn \"incredible\" summer helped ease the transition from Greece to Moffat\n\nSo how has the transition back to rural Scotland gone?\n\n\"We are so lucky that the summer we had here was quite incredible,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"To be out in Moffat, even during lockdown, you can access the hills, you don't have to drive outside a five-mile radius.\n\n\"You can just go out and walk and you will never see a soul.\"\n\nSome things, however, take more getting used to, like his more conventional nine to five day.\n\n\"I think that has probably been the biggest shock to my system, getting into that working routine,\" he said.\n\nAlpha Solway is taking in large numbers of new staff to cope with demand\n\nAlpha Solway secured a major contract to supply the NHS in Scotland earlier this year which has helped to keep Mr Jones \"extremely busy\".\n\nHowever, flying gets \"into your blood\" and he hopes to get back into a plane at some time in the future.\n\n\"My goal is when the jobs start to come - which they will - I will return to the sky in some capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will be a double-edged sword in that I have learned a huge amount here and I have met a lot of very good people.\n\n\"I'm working with a really good team of people here - there are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest charitable enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.\n\nThe company produces toiletries and beauty products under the Clarity, Beco and Soap Co brands.\n\nActress Joanna Lumley and Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP have spoken out strongly over the claims.\n\nNicholas Marks, who bought the company last year, says all currently employed staff have been paid.\n\nCommunity, the union which represents Clarity's workers, claims that a number of disabled employees at the firm have not been paid wages and furlough payments.\n\nStephen Steppens says he has received no money since September\n\nStephen Steppens, 60, has been blind since birth, and has worked at Clarity since 1985. He is officially on furlough until his redundancy is completed at the end of January.\n\nHe says he has received no money since September and has been relying on his savings to get by.\n\n\"I loved it,\" he says of working there. Losing the job, and the fight over the organisation's future, have taken a toll on his mental health, he says.\n\n\"I want to see justice done, not just for me, but also for my friends who are visiting food banks.\"\n\nA number of employees have brought successful employment tribunal claims for unauthorised deduction of wages against Clarity, including Mr Steppens. Clarity was ordered to pay him £706. A number of other employment tribunal claims are ongoing, according to Community.\n\nJoanna Lumley, who had been a supporter of Clarity, called it \"the best of the best\" and said she was \"shocked\" to learn of the allegations over treatment of workers. \"Justice must be done as soon as possible,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClarity was founded in 1854 by a wealthy blind woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, as the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, to provide opportunities for workers whom other employers overlooked because of their disabilities. Before the takeover, three-quarters of its staff were disabled people.\n\nA factory in London run by General Welfare of the Blind, about 1901\n\nIts supporters and patrons in the past have included Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria.\n\nClarity went into administration last year, as it was losing money and unable to fund the hole in its pension scheme, according to a spokesman for the administrators, FRP. In January, it was bought by Nicholas Marks.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, whose London constituency is home to Clarity's headquarters, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 12 January.\n\n\"Staff have failed to receive national insurance contributions, with many failing to receive their wages or support while undertaking childcare,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The total amount that these decent but very vulnerable people have failed to receive is now around £200,000. They cannot claim benefits because they are essentially employed.\"\n\nCommunity estimates that about 60 former employees of Clarity are still awaiting payment of their wages and furlough payments, most of them disabled workers.\n\nA spokesman for Nicholas Marks said that Sir Iain's remarks were \"highly inaccurate\" and the company \"does not recognise\" the £200,000 figure.\n\n\"The grievances echoed by Sir Iain Duncan Smith simply reflect disgruntled ex-employees. All employees currently working have been paid in full up-to-date and the company is dealing with redundancies and gross misconduct of former employees,\" he said.\n\nCommunity says it is not aware of any staff who have been dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Marks said that Mr Marks had \"saved this historic company from permanent failure\".\n\nHowever, other bids for Clarity were made, including one from the well-known social entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel, who runs the Change Please coffee business, which creates opportunities for homeless people.\n\nHe is still interested in buying the brands, he told BBC News.\n\nThough Mr Ezel's final bid was slightly higher, the administrators' report says they chose to sell to Mr Marks because he was in a better position to complete the deal by 31 January.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman said that he had to make \"some sensible commercial decisions to place it on to a proper business footing and regrettably some staff had to be let go\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Clarity's website was still running the Certified Social Enterprise mark, denoting an organisation devoted to \"creating positive social change\".\n\nThe spokesman said Clarity Products was not a social enterprise and was not \"purporting to clients\" that it was, though it retained the \"social enterprise ethos through the continued employment of fully paid disabled staff\".\n\nWrongly using the logo for nearly a year was \"simply an oversight\", and it is being removed. On Thursday morning, the website was unavailable - the company spokesman said he was not aware why.\n\nIn a response to Sir Iain's query, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman wrote that he had \"specifically asked HMRC to note the circumstances you describe, and to consider whether and how there may be a case for early intervention\".\n\nAnother company owned by Mr Marks, a Preston-based caravan maker called Lunar Automotive, was reported to HMRC by the local MP, Sir Mark Hendrick, for allegedly refusing to pay wages and pension contributions for its workers.\n\nThis company was also bought out of an administration run by FRP.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman was not able to comment in detail on the Lunar Automotive case, but said the company had not heard back from HMRC.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international community has missed previous deadlines on ensuring access to school\n\nBoris Johnson says it is his \"fervent belief\" that improving girls' education in developing countries is the best way to \"lift communities out of poverty\".\n\nThe prime minister has announced MP Helen Grant as a special envoy for efforts to support girls' education.\n\nIt is expected to be a key theme of the UK's presidency this year of the G7 group of major industrial countries.\n\n\"It can change the fortunes of not just individual women and girls, but communities and nations,\" says the PM.\n\nEven before the pandemic, millions of children in developing countries did not have any access to school - and girls from disadvantaged families are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education. whether through poverty or prejudice.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has created even more barriers to education, with a peak of 1.6 billion children around the world having faced school closures.\n\nBoris Johnson wants girls' education to be a focus of the UK's G7 presidency\n\nMr Johnson, as foreign secretary and prime minister, has previously highlighted girls' education as a key to improving the health, wealth and security of the poorest countries.\n\nHe once described it as the \"Swiss army knife\" of development, as getting girls to stay in education could avoid early marriage, improve their chances of getting a job and provide more income for children to be better fed.\n\nThe prime minister said the international target of ensuring all girls can have 12 years of good quality education would be the \"simplest and most transformative thing we can do\" to tackle poverty and to \"end the scourge of gender-based violence\".\n\n\"The benefits of educating girls are enormous - a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five and twice as likely to attend school themselves. With just one additional school year, a woman's earnings can increase by up to a fifth,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nHelen Grant, now the special envoy for girls' education, said: \"High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.\n\n\"I will be making it my mission to encourage a more ambitious approach to girls' education from the international community.\"\n\nThere has been a series of pledges from the international community over the past three decades to provide at least a primary school education for all children - all of which have been missed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said hosting the G7 should be a chance for the UK to act as a \"moral force for good in the world\", but accused the Conservatives of engaging in \"a decade of global retreat\".\n\n\"We need to seize this chance to lead again, just as Blair and Brown did over global poverty and the financial crisis.\"", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nThe first person I see early each morning when I arrive at the hospital is our cleaner, Karen Smith. During 10 months of uncertainty, Karen has been the one constant, apart from a few weeks in spring, when she was ill with Covid-19.\n\nUsually Karen cleans the offices of the hospital's Institute for Health Research, but in the first wave of the pandemic she was called to the Covid wards. It was a frightening time for everyone, but Karen volunteered for an extra shift on Good Friday as there was a staff shortage - and on that day she thinks she was infected.\n\nWe know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious \"red zone\" clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.\n\nThis heightened risk for hospital staff also applies to their household contacts.\n\nAs she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal's parents' garden, while his mother was ill with cancer - and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal's 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.\n\nStopping work, however, was not a luxury Karen could afford. And unlike some hospital staff who were housed in hotels to protect their families, she went back home every night.\n\nShe became ill towards the end of April, followed by Mal at the beginning of May. The weather was hot, she remembers, as they coughed and wheezed in the caravan.\n\n\"It was like being in a tin box,\" she says. \"I got Covid and couldn't get over it properly. And then Mal got it and his was on another level compared to mine - and then his dad got ill, and that was a different ball game altogether.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThe couple had to go inside the house to cook and to use the bathroom but did their best to keep away from the elderly Malcolm, who would go into a different room whenever they entered.\n\n\"We tried so, so hard not to give it to him - but then he got ill and he just went to his bed. Honestly, he was just like a little child, under the quilt looking all bewildered. He started with the shivers and we rang 111. They said to bring him to Accident and Emergency to get him tested, and we couldn't believe it when it came back positive,\" Karen says.\n\nLater, he was brought into hospital. I have fond memories of meeting Malcolm on the ward after he was admitted, acutely struggling with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath from his Covid infection. He was a kind and gentle man, stoical and patient.\n\nHe was adamant that he had been careful to keep his distance from Karen and Mal in the house, but admitted wandering over to show them articles in the Telegraph and Argus - Bradford's daily newspaper - whenever I was mentioned in it. I felt strangely culpable that I might have been the cause of the transmission.\n\nMalcolm made a good recovery and was eager to be discharged. But Covid is an unpredictable illness, and it can happen that improvements in a patient's condition are followed by a sharp deterioration. And this is what happened with Malcolm soon after he arrived home.\n\n\"He didn't want to go back into hospital - he said to get him some Tunes because they would help him breathe,\" says Karen. \"But nothing could help him, he was so, so ill. We had to say to him, 'No, you've got Covid and you need proper medical care.' He was such a lovely man, bless him.\"\n\nMalcolm was readmitted after two nights at home and died on 28 May.\n\nMalcolm as he turned 80, visiting his brother in Canada\n\nKaren returned to work. But like many people who have had this illness, she has been suffering the after-effects, both physically and mentally. She's now on an inhaler for breathlessness, can barely taste anything seven months later, and is constantly tired. She is also receiving medication for anxiety because of the fear that she will have to return to the Covid wards, where potentially she could get ill again.\n\nAnd in her case there is the added pain of having lost a loved one, mixed with feelings of guilt.\n\n\"When I start to think about him the tears come and sometimes I'll be crying almost all day - cleaning and crying. If I'm having a bad day, I won't be able to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"The guilt is always there, as I'll never know for sure where he picked it up. Mal's dad didn't set foot out of the door, and so in my head I feel such guilt, because we had to go into the house, we didn't have any choice. I go over it all but it's hard to escape from, because I got it, Mal got it and then his Dad got it. Deep down I think that's what's happened, and it will take time to come to terms with.\"\n\nKaren has been referred for counselling, but there is a long waiting list.\n\nBoth Karen and Mal also had to wait for the vaccine, though both had it on Wednesday. This was a huge relief for Karen, as anything that reduces her chance of reinfection also helps her cope with her anxiety. If NHS trusts are serious about following the science then arguably they should be vaccinating cleaners and porters first.\n\nThe fear of transmitting the virus to our loved ones at home is the ghost that haunts all front-line staff. Many went into isolation during the first wave, but this was never a sustainable approach, and with a virus that is so contagious and an environment in which it is so prevalent, transmission to family members is unfortunately common.\n\nKaren and Mal personify this occupational risk, and its potential deadly impact.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK were blanketed in snow on Saturday as forecasters warned of the potential for disruption.\n\nEast Anglia woke up to a thick layer that had settled overnight and there were warnings that rural communities could be \"cut off\", with up to 8cm (3in) of snow forecast.\n\nPeople in eastern England were warned to expect power cuts and travel delays.\n\nHowever, by midday snow had stopped falling across most parts of the UK, replaced by rain and sleet in places.\n\nSome further light snow is still expected in the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\nParts of Wales and Northern Ireland were mostly cloudy, with some bands of rain in the northern regions.\n\nThe Met Office had predicted between 4-8cm (1.5-3in) of snow could fall in the worst-affected regions, and warned drivers to accelerate their cars \"gently\" and leave a large gap between surrounding vehicles.\n\nBut the worst of the wintry weather has passed and earlier amber and yellow weather warnings have been cancelled.\n\nA man trekking through the snow at a golf course in Gleneagles\n\nGreg Dewhurst, a Met Office forecaster, said earlier that Saturday was expected to be the colder of the two days over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"Temperatures are unlikely to rise above 10C, with a lot of areas closer to freezing.\"\n\nThere were also 25 flood warnings across England on Saturday\n\nLuke Miall, meteorologist at the Met Office, said earlier patches of snow could reach parts of Greater London.\n\nHe said the snow had the potential to cause some \"fairly significant disruption\".\n\nThere were also 22 flood warnings across England on Saturday, stretching from the South East to the North East, meaning \"immediate action is required\", according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThis is expected to clear up in the evening, going into Sunday, when southern and eastern parts of the UK will see dry, sunny spells.\n\nNorth-western regions are expected to see showers, with a \"spell of more persistent rain\" later on in the day.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOn Friday, over-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could rebook rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Holiday firms say they are expecting more people to take holidays in the UK this year\n\nStaycations are expected to boom in 2021 after lockdown ends, UK holiday firms have said.\n\nBosses at the Caravan and Motorhome Club said the lifting of restrictions would be like \"a cork popping from a bottle\".\n\nDirector general Nick Lomas said although coronavirus had hit the industry hard, they were optimistic about the coming season.\n\nOther firms said they also expected more people to holiday in the UK.\n\nMr Lomas said: \"2020 was a very difficult year for the tourism and hospitality sector.\"\n\nThe West Sussex-based Caravan and Motorhome Club had suffered \"significant financial losses\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"When our campsites were allowed to be open last year we actually saw record levels of bookings, with new memberships up by 14%.\n\n\"Sadly, this surge does not make up for the losses we suffered during nearly six months of lockdown.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown popular resorts like Skegness were largely deserted\n\nBut, despite the current restrictions, Mr Lomas said he had every reason to believe this year could finish as one of \"the best and busiest yet\", due to the appetite for outdoor UK holidays.\n\n\"In fact, we think that 2021 is going to be like a cork popping from a bottle,\" he said.\n\nOperators say people are keen to experience the \"great outdoors\" once restrictions are lifted\n\nExperience Freedom, which operates glamping holidays in the UK, said bookings for 2021 were already up as people looked to spend more time in the \"great outdoors\".\n\nLincoln-based Anne's Vans said they were expecting a \"bumper year\"\n\nSmaller operators such as Anne's Vans, based in Lincoln, are also expecting to benefit.\n\nOwner Anne Davies said so far they had no bookings, saying \"uncertainty over when lockdown will end\" was putting people off at the moment.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Based on last year's experience we are expecting a bumper year in 2021... once this latest lockdown is over.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said it was inundated with visitors after restrictions were lifted last year\n\nThe chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, David Butterworth, said visitor numbers after the first lockdown ended were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend, and capture the hearts and minds of the people who have experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure they keep coming back,\" he added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nThe UK will face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company makes modifications to its plant in Belgium. But the government says it still plans on achieving its target of vaccinating all top four priority groups by 15 February. Six EU nations have called the situation \"unacceptable\" and warned it \"decreases the credibility of the vaccination process\". Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia urged the EU to apply pressure on Pfizer-BioNTech. Pfizer says the reduced deliveries are a temporary issue, and the changes being made to its plant will speed up production in the longer term. So will a vaccine give us our old lives back?\n\nNew tighter Covid restrictions have come into force in Scotland with changes for takeaway outlets and click and collect shopping. Among the six new rules announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, customers buying takeaway food and coffee are no longer allowed inside premises, and staff must serve from a hatch or doorway. Plus, only retailers selling essential items - clothing, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books - can now provide click and collect services. Customer collections can only be made outdoors, with staggered pick-up times to avoid queues.\n\nEveryone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19, but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill while doing her job, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nIt is almost a month since Christmas was \"downsized\" across the country. But in most parts of the UK, people did meet in Christmas \"bubbles\" if only for just one day. So what impact did this have? The overall picture shows a sharp increase in cases around this time. However, a closer look at the numbers suggests this trend was already happening and was probably caused by the new, more infectious variant of the virus rather than increased contact between people. Take a closer look at what happened over Christmas.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're wondering whether you can catch the virus outside, our science editor David Shukman considers the risks.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\" Image caption: Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\"\n\nAn RAF veteran has been among hundreds of people over 80 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, today.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin described receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as \"absolutely marvellous\".\n\nThe landmark cathedral is hosting a vaccination hub for five GP surgeries in the area, with the aim of vaccinating more than 1,000 elderly residents and staff.\n\nMr Godwin recalled having jabs in Egypt after the war \"which knocked me over for a week\".\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' - and I thought he hadn't started!\"\n\nThe veteran pilot, who has 12 great-grandchildren, said the pandemic could not be compared to the war.\n\n\"It was entirely different because this has divided people.\n\n\"The vaccine is nothing, you don't feel a thing... so anybody that needs one and can get one, I would say go ahead and do it quickly.\n\n\"It's the only way we're going to beat the virus.\"\n\nPatients queued for a short time around the cloisters on Saturday, before going into the cathedral where they were treated to a programme of music on the famous Father Willis organ.\n\n\"It is a bonus to be in such a iconic, wonderful place,\" said Dr Dan Henderson, co-clinical director for the Sarum South Primary Care Network.\n\n\"It's great to be getting the vaccine out there and getting them in people's arms and knowing that this is hopefully the start of some sort of normality again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nBowled out for 135 in the first innings, Sri Lanka showed great spirit to reach 156-2 - trailing by 130 - after England had posted 421.\n\nJoe Root progressed to a magnificent fourth Test double century before he was last man out for 228 as England lost their last six wickets for 49 runs.\n\nSam Curran and Jack Leach took a wicket apiece in Sri Lanka's second innings, but off-spinner Dom Bess rarely threatened on a pitch that has offered assistance to spin since day one.\n\nKusal Perera contributed 62 to an opening stand of 101 with the patient Thirimanne, who was dropped on 51 by Dom Sibley at gully as he compiled his highest Test score since 2013.\n\nThe left-hander will resume alongside nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya at 04:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Sri Lanka, spent time at the ground in the afternoon after finishing his quarantine period.\n\nFor the first time in two years, England failed to take a wicket in the first 30 overs - with seamers Curran, Stuart Broad and Mark Wood finding the going tough given the minimal swing or seam movement on offer.\n\nHowever, credit must be paid to the Sri Lanka openers. Thirimanne and Perera were criticised for their first-innings failures, but their century stand was the first time in six Tests that a Sri Lanka opening pair had survived longer than 10 overs.\n\nPerera showed restraint - he scored at a strike-rate of 57, compared to 74 over his Test career - but hit Leach over mid-wicket for six and swept and also drove well before slapping a Curran long hop to wide third man.\n\nThirimanne, who averaged 22 in 70 Test innings before this match, was happy to play second fiddle to Perera, although he did find the leg-side boundary with flicks and sweeps.\n\nHaving taken 5-30 in the first innings, Bess failed to maintain a consistent length and allowed Thirimanne and Perera to play off the back foot too often.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Leach, who bowled more accurately, failed with a review for lbw against Thirimanne on 61 before having Kusal Mendis caught behind off a beautiful delivery that turned and bounced in what proved to be the penultimate over of the day.\n\nResuming on 168, Root reached his fourth Test double century with the minimum of fuss.\n\nHe showed more intent than on day two - when he was happy for debutant Dan Lawrence to take more risks - hitting the third ball of the day to the cover boundary before driving down the ground for six.\n\nIt was almost fitting that Root reached 200 with a sweep for four - it was a productive shot throughout his innings, with 88 runs coming via sweeps and reverse sweeps.\n\nIn his 321-ball innings Root became the eighth Englishman to pass 8,000 Test runs - in 178 innings, two more than Kevin Pietersen, who holds the record.\n\nEngland passed 400 in the first innings for the sixth time in their past 12 Tests, having failed to do so in their previous 23.\n\nBut they lost their last six wickets in 13 overs as they chased quick runs, possibly with an eye on the rain forecast later in the game.\n\nSri Lanka were much more disciplined than on the previous two days, with pace bowler Asitha Fernando impressing, while off-spinner Dilruwan Perera mopped up the tail to finish with 4-109.\n• 372-6: Sam Curran is bowled first ball as Fernando gets one to nip back and crash into off stump.\n• 382-7: Dom Bess disagrees and is well short of his ground, a third wicket to fall in 12 balls.\n• 398-8: Jack Leach is trapped lbw for four by Dilruwan Perera.\n• 406-9: Mark Wood toe-ends a sweep straight up in the air to be caught by Niroshan Dickwella off Dilruwan Perera.\n• 421 all out: Joe Root holes out on the mid-wicket boundary.\n\n'Chasing anything will be tricky' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It feels good to be in the position we are.\n\n\"It would have been nice to get a couple more wickets tonight but that one late on is a real bonus for us.\n\n\"It gives us a great opportunity in morning to apply a lot of pressure and hammer home what is a strong advantage in this game.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Sam Curran: \"It is a strange looking wicket. It played a bit better than we thought this evening.\n\n\"It didn't offer much for the seamers and there was real slow turn for the spinners. The two openers played really well.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Sri Lanka came back really well - they have shown fight and discipline.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka bat the whole day tomorrow things will get interesting. Chasing anything on last day becomes tricky.\n\n\"I expect England will take eight wickets tomorrow and win the game.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"Sri Lanka really have fought back well. It is good to see.\n\n\"If weather plays a factor and there is some resistance from the lower order this could bubble into an exciting finish.\"\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "Mr Laschet is now in a good position to stand for German chancellor\n\nCentrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party's virtual conference.\n\nHe is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.\n\nBut he faces a changed political landscape following the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Laschet, 59, defeated conservative businessman Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote by 521 votes to 466. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the previous round.\n\nHe replaces as chair of the party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who failed to live up to her billing as Mrs Merkel's appointed successor after taking office more than two years ago.\n\nGermany goes to the polls in September, but the CDU leader is not guaranteed to become its candidate for chancellor.\n\nHealth Minister Jens Spahn, who has been elected as one of Mr Laschet's deputies, and Markus Söder, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, could also step into the ring, though neither has yet said that they want the job.\n\nA final decision will be made in the spring.\n\nMr Laschet is a loyal supporter of Mrs Merkel, and said during the campaign that a change of direction for the party would \"send exactly the wrong signal\".\n\nIn his victory speech, he said: \"I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.\"\n\nArmin Laschet is a short, cheerful chap. The popular premier of Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, he throws himself with gusto into traditional carnival celebrations.\n\nHe touts himself as a continuity candidate and, for a time at least, was thought to have been Angela Merkel's preferred candidate. He defended her stance during the 2015 refugee crisis and is known for his liberal politics, passion for the EU and ability to connect with immigrant communities.\n\nBut his call for an early relaxation of Covid restrictions last spring surprised many and reportedly infuriated Mrs Merkel. He has since retreated from that position but he's had to work to repair the damage to his political credibility.\n\nThe big question now is whether the CDU will put him up as their chancellor candidate in September's general election.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn - who supported Mr Laschet in his leadership bid - is thought to harbour ambitions to the chancellory. And recent opinion polls suggest that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder would be a popular choice too.", "The US is in a race to vaccinate its population amid a winter surge\n\nA highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US by March, health officials have said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of \"rapid growth\" of the variant in coming weeks.\n\nIt said such a spike could further threaten health systems already strained by a winter Covid surge.\n\nThe warning came on Friday as President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to ramp up vaccinations.\n\nTo meet his target of inoculating 100 million Americans within his first 100 days in office, Mr Biden said his administration would take a more active role in accelerating the distribution of vaccines.\n\nHe outlined a plan to set up new mass vaccination centres, hire extra health workers, and ensure the shot is available to everyone, including minority communities that have been hit hardest by the epidemic.\n\nOfficial data shows that, so far, 12.2 million vaccine doses of have been administered in the US - a figure Mr Biden has criticised as insufficient. More than 30 million doses have been distributed to states.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Biden told Americans that \"we remain in a very dark winter\", admitting that \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"This is going to be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country,\" Mr Biden, who takes office on 20 January, said of the vaccination drive.\n\nHis address came a day after he announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus package for the battered US economy that included a further $20bn for the vaccine roll-out. The plan will need to pass Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"I promise we will not forget you\"\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections - 23.5 million - of any country in the world. At about 391,000, the country's coronavirus deaths account for a fifth of the global total, which passed the two-million mark on Friday.\n\nThe crisis is particularly acute in the state of California, where deaths have surged by more than 1,000% since November.\n\nIn its report, the CDC said that the UK variant would spread quickly in the coming weeks.\n\nThe latest research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests the variant - now dominant in much of Britain - is between 30% and 50% more transmissible than previous strains. There is currently no evidence to suggest it causes any more serious illness.\n\nExperts have also played down the possibility that the current vaccines will not be as effective against it.\n\nSo far, 76 people from 10 US states have been confirmed to have been infected with the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.\n\nBut the CDC said: \"The modelled trajectory of this variant in the US exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.\"\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and one from Brazil - are also thought to be more contagious than the original one that started the pandemic. Studies are under way to assess the threat they pose.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a teenager who went missing during a holiday in Malaysia has left several questions unanswered, her family has said.\n\nNóra Quoirin, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nEarlier this month a coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, but her family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict.\n\nIn an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Nóra's mother Meabh said there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted.\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nNóra, who was born to Irish-French parents, lived with her family in London and was understood to be in Malaysia on an Irish passport.\n\nShe was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nSince her disappearance, her parents have believed that she was abducted. They have always maintained that wandering off was not something they could imagine their daughter doing.\n\nMeabh Quoirin told RTÉ: \"One of the most compelling things that we found out was that in a relatively small area, the plantation where Nóra was eventually found, there was vast numbers of specialist personnel deployed to find Nóra.\n\n\"Not only that, on four different occasions, trained personnel went to the plantation area and searched it and, in fact, some officers were even in the precise location Nóra's body was recovered.\n\n\"They had all reported that there were no signs of human life at any point. That for us is compelling evidence to say that she was not there by herself.\"\n\nNóra went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia in August 2019\n\nMrs Quoirin added that \"there was a lack of evidence around DNA and prints\".\n\nShe said that when the family went to the inquest, \"we had a lot of unanswered questions and while many of those questions cannot be answered, we actually found out a great deal about what went on during those 10 days when Nóra was missing\".\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra\n\n\"In fact we felt it really strengthened our case, our belief, that Nóra was abducted and we found some compelling evidence to support our view on that.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter \"was not physically or mentally capable\" of leaving the chalet via the window.\n\n\"Not only that - we also learned that none of her fingerprints could be found on the window and yet other unidentifiable prints were found on that window.\"", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year Image caption: Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year\n\nA nationwide lockdown in Israel is to be extended until the end of the month amid a spike in cases - despite an intense vaccination campaign, with more than two of the nine million population already having received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIt takes time for immunity to build up, so its expected to take several weeks for vaccines to have an impact on cases\n\nThe man coordinating Israel’s pandemic response, Nachman Ash, has warned that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the country has been “less effective than we thought”.\n\nAccording to Israeli Army Radio, Prof Ash told cabinet members on Tuesday the data on the protective effect of a first dose against the virus was “lower than Pfizer presented”. Pfizer said its vaccine was roughly 52% effective two weeks after the first dose and reaches maximum efficacy of 95% after the second.\n\nIt’s not clear what data he is referring to, but a not-yet published study from Israel’s largest healthcare provider suggested a 33% fall in infections by day 14, at which point, full immunity would not have been reached.\n\nInfections continued to fall in the following days but the numbers were too small to put a percentage on it.\n\nIsrael saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections Image caption: Israel saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections\n\nThe health ministry said on Tuesday more than 12,400 Israelis had tested positive for Covid-19 ten days after being vaccinated – 69 of these had already received a second dose.\n\nThis was 6.6% of the 189,000 people who took Covid tests after being vaccinated, roughly tallying with the reported efficacy.\n\nHealth experts say they are analysing the new Israeli data closely but warn it may be too early to draw any conclusions on the single dose efficacy of the vaccine based on the initial data gathered in Israel, which began vaccinating its population on 19 December.", "Drug treatment services in England are to receive an extra £80m as part of government's efforts to cut crime.\n\nThis will mean more places for people released from prison and criminals handed community sentences.\n\nIt comes after warnings last year over government cuts to help for addicts.\n\nA further £40m is being earmarked for law enforcement to target drug gangs including so-called county lines operations in which young and vulnerable people act as couriers.\n\nThe investment will also see another £28m put into a three-year pilot project called ADDER - Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery - which will combine policing with treatment and recovery services.\n\nThe funding will see police target dealers, and local councils and health services help people with addictions, in five areas with high rates of drug use - Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea Bay.\n\nAnnouncing the £148m package, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The government's work to tackle county lines drugs gangs has already resulted in thousands more people being arrested and hundreds more vulnerable people being safeguarded, but we must do more to tackle the underlying drivers behind serious violence.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock added: \"Addiction and crime are inextricably linked and to truly break the cycle we must make sure people can access the help they need to get their lives back on track for good.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to focus on rehabilitation and treatment for drug addicts as well as law enforcement, saying this was \"something we've not been doing enough of\".\n\n\"We have to do much more to support individuals whose lives have been blighted by years and years of drug abuse,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office-commissioned review into the drugs trade by Prof Dame Carol Black released last February put the total cost to society of illegal drugs at about £20bn a year in England and said treatment services have been curtailed by local government funding cuts.\n\nDame Carol welcomed the funding, saying: \"Drug treatment has a vital role to play in helping people to come off drugs and thereby reduce crime, from minor acquisitive crime right through to homicide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "That's where we'll end our coverage of this week's PMQs.\n\nAs events get underway in Washington DC ahead of the Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th President of the USA, our colleagues will bring you all the details of the inauguration here.\n\nOur coverage of this week's PMQs was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Justin Parkinson, and Sinead Wilson. The editor was Johanna Howitt.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoris Hobday and her twin sister Lilian Cox, known as the Tipton Twins, were admitted to hospital after testing positive earlier this month.\n\nHer family said Mrs Hobday had died on 5 January, adding they were \"totally heartbroken to lose Doris in this way\".\n\nMrs Cox has since been discharged from hospital and is continuing to recover, the family said. The siblings were among the UK's oldest living twins.\n\nDoris Hobday died in hospital on 5 January, her family has announced\n\n\"We are so grateful for all the special memories we have created and got to share with you all,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThe twins, from Tipton, West Midlands, became popular figures online with their positive outlook on life and sense of humour.\n\nTipton Twins Doris and Lilian both tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month\n\nThey appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Good Morning Britain and This Morning, charming presenters with jokes about wearing their drawers inside out and their love for actor Jason Statham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter���s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLilian and Doris said they did everything together. They lived in the same street after getting married, worked together at an ale-making factory in Birmingham and more recently lived next to one another at sheltered accommodation in Tipton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on their 95th birthday, Lilian revealed her sister's secret to a long life was \"no sex and plenty of Guinness\" - her own being simply \"lemonade\".\n\nDoris Hobday's family said she had passed away peacefully and they were grateful for all their memories with her\n\n\"Doris will be laid to rest with her husband who she lost 11 years ago after 65 years of happy marriage,\" her family said.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up in Mrs Hobday's memory, with funds raised being donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind, which supported her late husband Raymond for 20 years.\n\nDoris will be buried next to her husband Ray, who, along with half a Guinness, was \"her favourite thing\"\n\nThe family said Mrs Cox had only been told of her sister's death on Monday, \"once she was strong enough to take the news\".\n\n\"She is now being comforted by family and staying with her daughter Vivien while she fully regains her strength.\"\n\n\"Both were determined to live until 100, they had so much to look forward to,\" their family said. \"It's just so cruel that Covid has stopped Doris like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bannon was once considered among the most influential men in Mr Trump's administration\n\nPresident Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the \"glorification of violence\" amid the election aftermath.\n\nMr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them.\n\nIt comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation.\n\nFacebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results.\n\nMr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, he posted a video podcast to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said both Dr Anthony Fauci - the face of the country's fight against coronavirus - and FBI Director Christopher Wray, should be fired after Mr Trump's re-election, but also said they should be subjected to violence.\n\nPresident Trump has expressed frustration with both men, clashing with Dr Fauci over the pandemic, and with Mr Wray over what he sees as a failure to investigate his opponent, Joe Biden.\n\nFacebook and YouTube both removed the video, but Twitter issued an outright suspension of Mr Bannon's \"war room pandemic\" account, for violating its policy on the glorification of violence.\n\nThe account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited amount of time, Twitter said in a statement.\n\nPresident Trump, meanwhile, had another of his tweets hidden and labelled by Twitter after falsely claiming victory and alleging the existence of \"illegal votes\".\n\nThe President responded by tweeting: \"Twitter is out of control\".\n\nThe Stop the Steal Facebook group had about 350,000 members when the social media giant removed it, something the social network admitted was an \"exceptional\" measure. It did so because it was \"creating real-world events\" and \"we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group\", Facebook said.\n\nThe social network is now taking further measures to restrict the flow of \"inaccurate claims\" in order \"to keep this content from reaching more people\".\n\n\"These include demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict may be misinformation, including debunked claims about voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may relate to the election on Facebook,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Facebook Newsroom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs President Trump continues to allege, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud took place, Facebook also said it would alter its election banner notifications and spread news of the projected winner, once a majority of independent outlets projected the result.\n\nThe same notice will be put on posts from both candidates.\n\nSeparately, Bloomberg reports that Twitter will remove the \"special treatment\" it affords President Trump as a world leader, in the event of Joe Biden winning the presidency.\n\nTwitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means it will not ordinarily ban them for the same offences for which it would ban ordinary users. Twitter argues that such posts - even when violating its rules - are sufficiently newsworthy to stay up, with a handful of exceptions.\n\nInstead, Twitter can label the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting engagement - but leaving it viewable to anyone who clicks through a warning message about the content.\n\nIt has repeatedly done this to Mr Trump's tweets, leading to high-profile arguments with the president and his supporters.\n\nBut Mr Trump would return to the status of a regular user if he loses the election, Bloomberg reported - meaning that his tweets could be deleted outright or his account suspended, for policy violations.", "Liam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti have put their names to the letter\n\nSome of the UK's biggest music stars have written to the government demanding action to ensure visa-free touring in the European Union.\n\nSir Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Nicola Benedetti are among 110 artists who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt said they had been \"shamefully failed\" by the government over post-Brexit travel rules for UK musicians.\n\nThe government said the signatories should be asking the EU why they \"rejected the sensible UK proposal\".\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives on Wednesday to address their concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said the EU's \"very broad\" offer \"would not have been compatible with the government's manifesto commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nHowever, she said \"the door is open\" if the EU was willing to consider the UK's proposals to reach an agreement for musicians.\n\nIn the meantime, she confirmed, musicians and artists touring the continent \"will be required to check domestic immigration and visitor rules for each member state in which they intend to tour\".\n\nThat may require them to have multiple visas or work permits, which some industry experts say will be expensive and potentially prohibitive - especially for musicians at the start of their careers.\n\nOther names on the open letter include Ed Sheeran, Sir Simon Rattle, Sting, Radiohead, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Kim Wilde, Roger Daltrey, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, and Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music.\n\nThe letter was organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Liberal Democrats, and published in The Times.\n\n\"The reality is that British musicians, dancers, actors and their support staff have been shamefully failed by their government,\" it said.\n\n\"The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.\"\n\nThe extra costs will \"tip many performers over the edge\", it claimed.\n\n\"We call on the government to urgently do what it said it would do and negotiate paperwork-free travel in Europe for British artists and their equipment,\" it added.\n\n\"For the sake of British fans wanting to see European performers in the UK and British venues wishing to host them, the deal should be reciprocal.\"\n\nThe Who frontman Daltrey signed despite telling the BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme in 2018: \"It's nothing that can't be solved. I mean, we used to work in Europe before the EU was even thought about. We had the golden period of the 60s and the 70s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey gave his take on Brexit in 2018\n\nOn Wednesday, the veteran rocker said the two positions were compatible. \"I have not changed my opinion on the EU,\" he said in a statement to the PA news agency. \"I'm glad to be free of Brussels, not Europe.\n\n\"I would have preferred reform, which was asked for by us before the referendum and was turned down by the then president of the EU. I do think our government should have made the easing of restrictions for musicians and actors a higher priority.\n\n\"Every tour, individual actors and musicians should be treated as any other 'goods' at the point of entry to the EU with one set of paperwork. Switzerland has borders with five EU countries, and trade is electronically frictionless. Why not us?\"\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: \"World-renowned performers, emerging artists from every genre and the most respected figures from leading organisations within our sector are now sending a clear message.\n\n\"It is essential for the government to negotiate a new reciprocal agreement that allows performers to tour in Europe for up to 90 days, without the need for a work permit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, a UK government spokesperson said that musicians' concerns were being taken seriously.\n\n\"We absolutely agree that musicians should be able to work across Europe,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"The UK Government put forward a proposal, based on feedback from the music sector, that would have allowed musicians to tour - but the EU repeatedly rejected this.\n\n\"The EU's offer in the negotiations would not have worked for touring musicians: it did not deal with work permits at all, and would not have allowed support staff to tour with artists. The signatories of this letter should be asking the EU why they rejected the sensible UK proposal.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from the music industry, addressing their concerns, on Wednesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden has spent 50 years in politics working towards this moment, but he could never have expected such huge challenges would be facing him on his first day at the helm. What are his priorities?\n\nHe'll get started with a 10-day flurry of executive orders.\n\nThese are presidential directives that don't require congressional approval.\n\nTop of the list are rescinding a controversial travel ban, imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump against countries he viewed as a security threat, and rejoining the Paris climate deal.\n\nHere's what else we know about what will demand the new president's immediate attention.\n\nThe coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people in the US - and the pandemic and its wide-ranging impact will be the new administration's top priority.\n\nMr Biden has called it \"one of the most important battles our administration will face\" and has vowed to implement his Covid strategy straight away.\n\nOne of his first moves will be executive action requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on federal property nationwide and by federal employees and contractors.\n\nStill, there's no guarantee the state governors who've so far opposed mask mandates will suddenly change their minds - there appears to be no legal authority that grants a president the power to bring in a nationwide mask rule.\n\nMr Biden seems to have conceded that point, and says he'll personally try to persuade governors to come around.\n\nIf they're not receptive, he's vowed to make calls to mayors and municipal officials to recruit them to the cause. There's also no word yet on how a mandate will be enforced.\n\nMr Biden wants to speed up the vaccine rollout with the ultimate goal of vaccinating 100 million people with at least a first dose against Covid in his first 100 days in office.\n\nOne part of the acceleration plan is to release all available vaccine doses instead of holding some in reserve for the necessary second jab.\n\nHe is also expected to take executive action on efforts to develop and deploy rapid testing and to put in place a national supply chain for equipment, medications and personal protective equipment, or PPE.\n\nOn his agenda is a pledge to reverse the decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nMr Trump announced plans over the summer to pull the country out of the WHO, accusing it of mismanaging Covid after the virus emerged in China and saying it failed to make \"greatly needed reforms\".\n\nMr Biden's team has said he has immediate plans to extend a moratorium on evictions and on foreclosures on home mortgages - both of which were paused early in the pandemic - as well as the current pause on federal student loan payments and interest.\n\nMr Biden's transition team said he plans to direct Cabinet agencies this week to \"take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families\", though they did not offer more detail.\n\n$1.9tn for the US coronavirus economy\n\nLast week, Mr Biden announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy, saying that \"a crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste\".\n\nIf passed by Congress, it would include direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. He has also included funding to help schools safely reopen, which he wants to happen in the first 100 days.\n\nIt'll be in addition to a long-awaited $900bn stimulus package Congress passed in December, which Mr Biden had called a \"down payment\" on the larger proposed package.\n\nRepublicans lawmakers are likely to object to parts of the bill, which will add more debt to what the US has already spent dealing with the pandemic - and Mr Biden will need bipartisan support for the plan.\n\nDemocrats currently control both chambers of Congress, but only by narrow margins.\n\nCovid aid isn't the only priority on the incoming president's economic agenda. He has pledged to get rid of Mr Trump's signature tax cuts as soon as he takes office.\n\nMr Trump passed the cuts in 2017, early in his presidency, and the Biden team says they unfairly reward the wealthiest Americans and favour corporations over small businesses.\n\nMr Biden has also said he would swiftly double the taxes that US firms pay on foreign profits - part of his Made in America push - which would come in addition to a rise in corporate taxes.\n\nHis tax policy legislation will need to pass Congress.\n\nAnother move Mr Biden says he will make on his first day in office is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, a global accord that includes the goal to keep temperatures below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C.\n\nHis predecessor pulled the US out of the 2015 accord - it became official on 4 November - making it the first nation in the world to do so.\n\nThe US will officially be part of the agreement again within 30 days.\n\nMr Biden has also pledged to \"up the ante\" and aim for higher standards on climate mitigation measures, and to convene a climate world summit within the first 100 days in office.\n\nMr Biden has said he wants to work with Congress to enact legislation this year that will allow the US to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIn a move that has already sparked alarm with his northern neighbours, Mr Biden is reportedly planning to immediately rescind the cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a planned project from the oil sands of Canada's Alberta province, through Montana and South Dakota, to rejoin an existing pipeline to Texas.\n\nA further agenda item is a U-turn on much of Mr Trump's legacy of climate and energy deregulation, like the easing of vehicle emissions targets.\n\nMr Biden has said he will negotiate \"rigorous\" new emissions limits on cars and heavy-duty vehicles, to conserve 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, to ban new drilling on public lands, and to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.\n\nThe new administration says it plans also to bring in \"aggressive\" methane pollution limits for oil and gas operations and to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.\n\nThe travel ban, signed by Mr Trump just seven days after taking office in January 2017, will be among the first policies to be discarded.\n\nThe ban initially excluded people from seven majority-Muslim countries, but the list was modified following a series of court challenges.\n\nIt now restricts citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nIn another major immigration pledge, Mr Biden has said he'll swiftly send a bill to Congress laying out a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"And all of those so-called dreamers, those Daca [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme] kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship,\" he said in late October.\n\nLate in the election, the campaign announced Mr Biden would create a task force to reunite some 545 migrant children separated from their parents at the US southern border.\n\nIn December, the Biden team conceded it would need more time to roll back one of Mr Trump's policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols that force thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings.\n\nOnce a \"Day One\" pledge, officials now say it could take about six months to address.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to halt construction of a project synonymous with Mr Trump's presidency - the border wall between the US and Mexico. His campaign had called it \"a waste of money\" that \"diverts critical resources away from the real threats\".\n\nThe administration says it will instead divert the federal funds towards efforts like new border screening measures.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tours and signs a section of the US-Mexico border wall\n\nThe national reckoning with race is the fourth crisis - alongside Covid, the economy and climate - Mr Biden says he must tackle quickly.\n\nSome of those policies - like addressing racial disparities in housing and healthcare - overlap with his other plans.\n\nMr Biden will sign an executive order on racial equality and call on all US agencies to create a plan to tackle any unequal barriers to opportunity. It will also rescind Mr Trump's executive order limiting the ability of federal government agencies to implement diversity and inclusion training.\n\nMr Biden has promised to set up a national police oversight body to assist in reforming police departments in his first 100 days in office, though details of that plan are scarce.\n\nHe has said he wants swift passage by Congress of the \"Safe Justice Act\", which includes measures on reforming mandatory minimum sentences and increasing funding for community based policing.\n\nHe has made commitments to the LGBT community as well, like directing resources towards helping prevent violence against transgender people, ending the ban on transgender people serving in the military, and restoring guidance for transgender students in schools.\n\nOne other priority is passing the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws, though how fast he can pass that legislation remains unclear.\n\nThe incoming president says he plans to quickly reach out to US allies to smooth ruffled feathers and promise that \"America has your back\", saying the US must \"prove to the world that [it] is prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example\".\n\nHe has said on his first day in the Oval Office he would reach out to Nato allies with the message \"we're back and you can count on us again\".\n\nThough Mr Trump was not the first president to pressure other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to spend more on defence, he threatened at times to withdraw from the alliance that Mr Biden has called the \"bulwark of the liberal democratic ideal\".", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "The last vestiges of the Trump presidency will be swept away on Wednesday, as the Bidens move into the White House. Desks will have been cleared out, rooms scrubbed clean and the president's aides will be replaced by a new team of political appointees. It's part of the massive transformation that a new presidency brings to the heart of government.\n\nOne evening last week, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser and central figure in the Trump White House, was lounging in the West Wing.\n\nMiller, who has crafted speeches and policies for the president since his early days in office, is also one of the few members of the president's initial team still with him at the end.\n\nLeaning against a wall and chatting with colleagues about a meeting scheduled for later that day, he seemed in no hurry to leave.\n\nThe West Wing usually hums with activity but it seemed deserted. The phones were quiet. Desks in empty offices were cluttered with papers and unopened letters, as if people had left in a hurry and would not be coming back. Dozens of senior officials and aides quit in the wake of the Capitol riots on 6 January. A handful of loyalists, like Miller, remain.\n\nAs the conversation began to wind down, he broke away from his colleagues. When I asked him where he was headed next, he smiled. \"Back to my office,\" he said and sauntered down the hall.\n\nOn inauguration day, Miller's office will have been cleaned out, swept of signs that he and his colleagues had ever been there, ready for the Biden team to move in.\n\nThe cleaning out of West Wing offices, and the transition between presidents, is part of a tradition that dates back centuries. It's a process that has not always been imbued with warmth.\n\nAnother impeached president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, snubbed Republican Ulysses S Grant in 1869 and skipped the inauguration. Grant, who had backed Johnson's removal from office, was hardly surprised.\n\nStaff have started moving paperwork and pictures out of the White House\n\nThis year, however, the transition stands out for its acrimony. The process usually starts straight after the election, but it started weeks late after Trump refused to accept the result. And the president has said he will not attend the inauguration. Most likely, he will instead travel to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.\n\nStill, the handover is taking place, just as it has in the past. \"The system is holding,\" says Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University. \"It's very rocky, it's very bumpy, but nevertheless the transition is going to occur.\"\n\nEven in the best of times, the logistics of a transition are daunting, involving the transfer of knowledge and employees on a massive scale.\n\nStephen Miller is just one of 4,000 political appointees hired by the Trump administration who will lose their job and be replaced by individuals hired by Mr Biden.\n\nDuring an average transition, between 150,000-300,000 people apply for these jobs, according to the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan organisation based in Washington. About 1,100 of the positions also require Senate confirmation. Filling all of these positions takes months, even years.\n\nFour years of policy papers, briefing books and artefacts relating to the president's work will be carted off to the National Archives where they will be kept secret for 12 years, unless the president himself decides that portions may be released early.\n\nOn a weekday evening during Trump's last week in office, the door to the office of Kayleigh McEnany, the president's press secretary, was partly open.\n\nMcEnany has been one of the president's most high-profile defenders. Impeccably groomed, she is a precise speaker who maintains her composure amidst chaos.\n\nKayleigh McEnany has packed up her office in the White House\n\nHer office, too, was organised in a meticulous manner, even as she prepared to leave. A mirror stood on her desk, and several fireplace logs were wrapped in clear plastic and packed up.\n\nGenerally, the last few days are \"controlled chaos,\" says Kate Andersen Brower, who has written a book about the White House, The Residence.\n\nFurniture in the White House, such as the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, most of the artwork, china and other objects, belong to the government and will remain on the premises.\n\nBut other items, like photos of the president that hang in the hallway, will be taken down as the White House is transformed for its new occupants.\n\nStaffers are already moving some items out of the building. One White House staffer, a woman in sturdy heels, was lugging several images of First Lady Melania Trump out of the East Wing. The pictures are known as \"jumbos\" because of their extra-large size, she says, and they will be taken to the National Archives.\n\nThe Trumps' personal belongings, such as clothes, jewellery, and other items will be moved to their new residence, most likely at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.\n\nAnd this year, the place will be deep cleaned.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to make decorative changes to the Oval Office\n\nThe president, as well as Mr Miller and dozens of others at the White House, were infected with the coronavirus over the past several months, and the six-floor building, with its 132 rooms, will be thoroughly scrubbed down. Everything from handrails to elevator buttons to restroom fixtures will be wiped and sanitised, according to a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees the housekeeping effort.\n\nIncoming first families usually do some redecoration. Within days of arriving at the White House, Mr Trump had chosen a portrait of populist president Andrew Jackson for the Oval Office. He also replaced the drapes, couches and a rug in the office with ones that were gold-coloured.\n\nOn inauguration day, Vice-President Pence and his wife will also make way for Kamala Harris, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. They will be settling into their official residence, a 19th Century residence on the Naval Observatory grounds, a couple of miles from the White House.\n\nPolicy adviser Stephen Miller may have lingered in the West Wing, but others were ready to go. At the White House, people were lugging thick manila envelopes, framed photos and bags from a gift shop. \"It's my last day,\" says one man, smiling as he took a photo of his sons on the north lawn. A bulging backpack was slung over his shoulder.\n\nA group of National Security officials posed in front of the West Wing, asking me to take their picture. \"Make sure you get the marine guard,\" says one of the officials, referring to a marine who stands in front of the doorway when the president is in the Oval Office. The officials were in high spirits, joking and vamping for the camera.\n\nThe political appointees at the White House were in a good mood for a reason. For weeks, they had been caught in an in-between world. Their boss was denying the validity of the election, but they knew that their days were numbered. Now they could plan openly for their future, and they seemed almost giddy.\n\nOne political appointee, a man dressed in a dark suit, was already making plans. He ran into a colleague outside the Palm room, a reception area on the ground floor. \"See you on the flip side,\" he said, brightly. He was referring to the time after the inauguration, when they will both be out of their White House jobs. He mused about where they might meet again. \"Hopefully in the Greek isles or somewhere.\"\n\n\"Oh, yes. That is for sure,\" said his colleague, laughing. They smacked a high-five and then parted ways.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "The government does not know how many cases might be affected by hundreds of thousands of police records being accidentally wiped, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told the House of Commons the police were working \"round the clock\" to rectify the error.\n\nAround 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records were deleted from the police database.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was not yet known whether any of the data had been permanently lost.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"The Home Office is actively working to assess the damage and... they believe that they will be able to rectify the results of this complex incident and they hope very much that they'll be able to restore the data in question.\"\n\nAsked by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer how many convicted criminals had had their records wrongly deleted, Mr Johnson said: \"We don't know how many cases might be frustrated as a result of what has happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course it is outrageous that any data should have been lost.\"\n\nLast week it was revealed that the information was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nAn estimated 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 records on people were potentially incorrectly deleted as a result of a defective code.\n\nMs Patel, who has launched an internal investigation, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that criminals would not get away with serious crimes as a result of the error.\n\n\"It is not about serious criminals getting away with anything. Multiple records are held on the same individuals on the same crimes on other profiling systems as well.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that officials could be instructed to re-submit the entries manually.\n\n\"I'm also clear with Home Office engineers and technicians that if we have to do manual uploads from other systems, that is effectively what we will do and that will potentially take time, but that is another option for us right now.\n\n\"We will absolutely provide updates once we know what has happened in terms of retrieving data. This will take time because it is a coding error.\"\n\nThe Home Office previously said that the faulty script was introduced in November 2020, but it did not run until earlier this month when the error within it immediately became apparent.", "After vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States, Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th US president.\n\nThe new president's oath of office was administered by Chief Justice John G Roberts.\n\nRead more:Joe Biden becomes the 46th US president", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Sophie Davies, from Shropshire, recovering from cervical cancer, says delays to screening could be a matter of life and death\n\nSmear-test delays during lockdown have prompted calls for home-screening kits.\n\nCervical cancer screening has restarted across the UK - but some women say they will not attend their appointments for fear of catching Covid.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is urging \"faster action\" on home tests for HPV, which causes 99% of cervical cancers.\n\nAn NHS official said GP practices should continue screening throughout lockdown, and \"anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend\".\n\nCancer Research UK said it was not yet known how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nScreenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but, as the prime minister heard last week, some patients were experiencing cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests had failed to go ahead in the UK in April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nIn March, Sophie Davies was told she needed a hysterectomy \"within the month\" but had to wait until December for surgery\n\nA survey by gynaecological cancer charity the Eve Appeal indicates nearly one in three missed smear tests are the result of people being \"put off\" by coronavirus.\n\nAnd a Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust survey during the pandemic suggests the same proportion would prefer to take their own human-papillomavirus (HPV) test rather than go to a GP.\n\nActing chief executive Rebecca Shoosmith said coronavirus had added \"more barriers\" to going for a smear test.\n\n\"Sadly those who found it difficult before are likely to be no closer to getting tested,\" she said.\n\nBoth charities emphasise smear tests are for \"women and anyone with a cervix\" and transgender and non-binary people may have additional barriers to going.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust said DIY tests could also help people who had been sexually assaulted and those with disabilities or from backgrounds where smear tests were taboo.\n\nSamantha Renke felt anxious about catching coronavirus when she went for her smear test\n\nSamantha Renke had received an abnormal test result and needed to go for a follow-up test during the pandemic.\n\nThe broadcaster and campaigner, who has brittle bones and uses a wheelchair, said a home-testing kit would have made things easier.\n\n\"I am at very high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19,\" the 35-year-old, from Lancashire, said.\n\n\"So I was incredibly anxious sitting in the waiting room for my test.\n\n\"Women with a physical disability are so much more likely to find cervical screening difficult, to the point where it can sometimes be impossible just to get through the door.\n\n\"We shouldn't have to fight to get this life-saving test.\n\n\"Self-sampling would be so much easier for people like me.\n\n\"It would allow me to take my health into my own hands.\"\n\nIshita Ranjan said talk of smear tests was taboo in traditional South Asian families\n\nIshita Ranjan finally went for her smear test in August, having put it off for a \"really long time\".\n\n\"In most traditional South Asian families, women's sexual health is not something you talk about openly,\" the 31-year-old, from London, said.\n\n\"Young women are left to figure this stuff out.\n\n\"Until you get married, older female relatives find it problematic to share that kind of information.\"\n\nA fear of catching coronavirus could be also stopping people belonging to ethnic minorities attending appointments.\n\n\"We have seen high Covid infection and death rates and people are genuinely scared,\" Ms Ranjan said.\n\n\"And it's really important that you do still go and do it.\n\n\"I was in and out in five minutes, no sitting around waiting rooms.\"\n\nHelen Austin founded At your Cervix, a support network for people who find smear tests difficult\n\nAfter experiencing sexual violence, it took Helen Austin 10 years to work up the courage to go for her smear test.\n\n\"When my first invite arrived through the post, years ago, my body froze, and I then ripped it up,\" she said.\n\nSelf-sampling would have given her time and privacy, the 35-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said.\n\n\"If my appointment had been during the pandemic and I could not have brought someone I trust with me to help me, I would never have gone,\" she said.\n\n\"Other trauma survivors I speak to find wearing a mask triggering and are putting off attending their test partly for this reason too.\"\n\nSophie Davies, 32, saw in the new year alone in hospital, after having a hysterectomy\n\nAfter developing a rare form of cervical cancer, Sophie Davies had a trachelectomy to remove her cervix, in April 2018, allowing doctors to save her ovaries and two-thirds of her womb.\n\nBut in March 2020, she was told the risk of cancer coming back meant she needed a hysterectomy and the removal of both ovaries.\n\n\"I was advised the operation needed to be done 'the sooner the better' and 'within the month',\" the 32-year-old, from Shropshire, said.\n\nAnd she had an \"agonising\" wait, until 30 December, for her surgery.\n\n\"I'm still awaiting my results, more than three weeks on, and praying I have not been left for the best part of a year with cancer growing inside me,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"These months of delay could be the difference in saving fertility or losing fertility.\n\n\"It could be the difference in needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy or not needing it, or could be the difference of life or death.\"\n\nCancer Research UK early diagnosis head Dr Jodie Moffat said research was under way to understand how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nBut getting more people screened \"is not the only hurdle to overcome\".\n\n\"The NHS is under immense pressure and would need more staff and equipment to ensure patients receive their results and any follow-up treatment as quickly as possible,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS guidance that cervical screening should continue has not changed, which has been communicated to GP practices, which have adjusted the way they work to remain open and safe, while local NHS services across the country have put extra measures in place to protect people from coronavirus and so anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend.\"", "The government has unveiled details of a £23m fund to support fishing firms as it tries to quell industry anger over Brexit border delays.\n\nThe money will help firms whose exports to the EU have fallen sharply since rules changed on 1 January.\n\nFishing firms say extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to the EU before it goes off, hammering their businesses.\n\nOne trade group called the fund \"welcome\" but a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nOn Monday, fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson admitted many had experienced \"bureaucratic delays [and] difficulties getting their goods through\" to buyers on the other side of the channel.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nCovid has worsened the issue, with the industry also facing lower market prices and demand from restaurants due to the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the scheme would be targeted at small and medium-sized fishing businesses who will be able to claim a maximum of £100,000 to cover losses.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: \"This further £23m package of support will help our hardworking fishing sector navigate the challenges of the next few months.\n\n\"It is vital that no community nor region within our United Kingdom is left behind as we continue to support British jobs and build back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIn addition to funding, the government will provide further training to help fishing businesses adapt to the new export processes.\n\nSeparately, the prime minister committed to providing a further £100m to help modernise UK fishing fleets and the fish processing industry.\n\nDonna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, said: \"After almost three weeks of voicing their concerns and frustrations, we welcome the fact that the Scottish seafood sector has been heard and action is being taken.\n\n\"This [fund] will offer a ray of light to some small and medium-sized companies that have experienced crippling losses over the past few weeks.\"\n\nHowever, while the money was \"a much-needed sticking plaster\", she said it would not \"completely staunch the wound\".\n\n\"The sector still needs a period of grace during which the [new trade] systems must be overhauled so they are fit for purpose.\"", "Under current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nNine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty.\n\nPictures emerged online showing the officers, from the South East Basic Command Unit, eating at The Chef House Kitchen Cafe, Greenwich, on 9 January.\n\nAll nine officers have been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nCh Supt Rob Atkin, said: \"It is right that they will pay a financial penalty and that they will be asked to reflect on their choices.\n\n\"Police officers are tasked with enforcing the legislation that has been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and the public rightly expect that they will set an example through their own actions.\n\n\"It is disappointing that on this occasion, these officers have fallen short of that expectation.\"\n\nThe group were spotted by a member of the public in the Greenwich cafe while their patrol vehicles were parked outside.\n\nUnder current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "Father Lee Taylor said people have \"really missed communal singing\"\n\nOnline \"Pimm's and Hymns\" singalong sessions at a north Wales church have attracted people from as far away as South Africa, Brazil and Canada.\n\nFather Lee Taylor, from St Collen's Church, Llangollen, set up the Facebook Live shows when his pews fell silent due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former bartender said: \"People started to share it and the online audience just exploded.\"\n\nIt adds \"a real light in the darkness\" of lockdown and a \"few drinks\".\n\nThe sessions, which have been running since last March, are a homage to the summer garden party known as 'Pimm's and Hymns' Mr Taylor, 43, hosts each year.\n\n\"I get phone calls, emails and letters from people all over the world, saying, 'You've lifted my spirits', and asking me to pray for their loved ones who are sick with the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"I started the sessions as I was trying to think of ways to bring comfort reassurance and cheer to people at home.\n\n\"While I can't hear people joining in, I feel them there with me in the room.\"\n\nFather Lee Taylor hosted annual 'Pimm's and Hymns' garden parties before Covid restrictions came in last March\n\nBelting out everything from Abide With Me to Pack Up Your Troubles, the vicar, who lives with his partner of 14 years, Fabiano Duarte, is known for pouring a glass of wine or a cocktail before performing for his Facebook congregation.\n\n\"I like to keep a libation on the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"When we started, people tuning in could see a glass of wine one week and a gin and tonic the next, so began to join in and have a drink with me.\n\n\"Soon, this became a discussion in the Facebook comments and people would send in photos of themselves with a tipple, singing along.\n\n\"I've got a bit carried away on the piano after a few drinks and played all the wrong notes a couple of times - which is always quite funny. It's joyful, really.\"\n\nHe said \"losing the churches and restricting the number at funerals\" was painful and people were \"missing communal singing\".\n\n\"[So] I got some elderly people set up on the internet and sent out instructions via email, so they could watch the live stream singalongs,\" he said.\n\n\"People were soon chatting through the comments and it felt like we were all connected.\n\n\"I wanted to raise spirits through music and it's been a real light in the darkness.\"", "Louise worries about her prospects for the next 12 months\n\nFreelance TV and film sound editor Louise Burton is one of those who are unable to benefit from government pandemic support schemes, despite being out of work.\n\nLouise, 28, of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has not had a single penny of assistance since her last job ended eight months ago.\n\n\"With the last production that I was on, I was hired as a PAYE freelancer, which means that I essentially do exactly the same job as what I do as a freelancer, but I was paying tax at source,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What often happens with film is that production companies are made for the sole purpose of the film. So they create these companies and everything goes through the company - and then once the film is completed, they then shut the company.\"\n\nThat means Louise fell foul of tax rules relating to self-employed people. And she could not go on furlough, because the company that had employed her no longer existed.\n\n\"I always feel guilty saying that I am one of the people who is suffering, because actually, I still have a roof over my head and I can just about put food on my table, but it's not easy,\" she says, adding that she fears for her prospects in the next 12 months.\n\nAccording to MPs, whole groups of people like Louise are falling through the cracks of Covid-19 support schemes because of out-of-date tax systems.\n\nSome freelancers and self-employed people have been particularly excluded, despite lockdowns and restrictions meaning they cannot work, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nOthers, meanwhile, are able to abuse the system, it said.\n\nThe government said its \"top priority\" was helping those who are struggling.\n\nSince March, HM Revenue and Customs has provided more than £80bn in support to companies and individuals through government coronavirus support schemes, the committee said.\n\nThey are also supporting the incomes of many of the self-employed.\n\nBut despite this, a report from the MPs says \"quirks in the tax system\" have meant that groups of workers - including freelancers and self-employed people who recently moved onto company payrolls or work on a series of short-term employment contracts with gaps in between - have been ineligible for furlough payments.\n\n\"As public spending balloons to unprecedented levels in response to the pandemic, out-of-date tax systems are one of the barriers to getting help to a significant number of struggling taxpayers who should be entitled to support,\" said MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nBy contrast, she said some large companies that had used government support schemes had continued to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to executives.\n\nShe added that HMRC was in many cases failing \"to capture or deal with those wrongly claiming\" support.\n\nThe tax agency should explain to freelancers and other groups why they have been excluded from receiving support and set out steps to fix the problem within six weeks, the MPs said.\n\nThe PAC also said that a lack of certainty about government coronavirus support schemes had made it difficult for businesses to plan effectively.\n\nFor example, HMRC could not provide clarity on whether the Job Retention Bonus scheme had been delayed or scrapped, the committee said.\n\nThe scheme was meant to pay employers an incentive for every worker they brought back from furlough and kept in employment until January.\n\n\"Such lack of clarity may lead to unnecessary hardships for some businesses, who in good faith were relying on the payments from the scheme to meet some of their needs,\" the MPs said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had done \"all it can to help as many people as possible\".\n\n\"HMRC delivered Covid-19 support schemes at unprecedented speed, protecting the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the challenges faced by individuals and businesses during the pandemic, and our top priority is getting financial support to those struggling... while protecting the taxpayer against fraud.\n\n\"Those not eligible for support through these schemes can still benefit from the strengthened welfare safety net, accessing help like universal credit.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Louise Casey: \"The country has been torn to shreds by the pandemic\"\n\nThe government has been urged by its former homelessness adviser to extend benefit increases worth £20 a week beyond the end of March.\n\nDame Louise Casey said ending the universal credit top-up, introduced during the Covid pandemic, would be \"too punitive a policy right now\".\n\nShe said people would view the Tories as the \"nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nThe government said it was committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"No decisions have yet been made on a range of Covid support measures that run through until the end of March and April, and it is right to wait until we know more about where we are in the vaccination process before making any decisions.\"\n\nLabour and anti-poverty campaigners are pressing for the increase, worth £1,000 a year, to remain in place beyond its scheduled end date of 31 March.\n\nOn Monday they were joined by six Conservative MPs, who defied party orders to abstain and backed a symbolic motion calling for an extension.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Louise said the £20-a-week increase had proved a \"lifeline\" to poorer families.\n\n\"The Treasury need to step back and not feel this constant responsibility to close the books all the time, and fight and fight and fight,\" she said.\n\nOn the idea the top-up could end in March, she added: \"It's not the right thing to do.\"\n\nReferencing a phrase coined by Theresa May in 2002 about how the Conservatives were sometimes perceived, she added they would \"go back to being the nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nDame Louise added that the country had been \"torn to shreds\" by the pandemic, with an impact \"far deeper and greater than anything I've ever seen in my lifetime\".\n\n\"I think we will have to have a big plan to deal with the wounds inflicted by this pandemic once everybody's vaccinated,\" she added.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to turn its attention to that now, and not leave it until the summer.\"\n\nDame Louise, who was made a crossbench peer by the prime minister in July, also urged ministers to think about long-term reforms to the welfare system.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the NHS and vaccinations, that I think everything else we see is incredibly reactive,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the government to take inspiration from the World War Two-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state, and draw up a long-term strategy for recovery after the pandemic.\n\n\"We're all in this storm, everybody's experienced it, just some people are in decent boats and some people are in rafts that are sinking.\n\n\"And that gives the prime minister the moment to say 'I am going to step into the shoes of a Beveridge moment'.\n\n\"If there's any reason for government to decide to actually rebuild Britain, so the divide between the rich and the poor isn't as big as it is... it's this pandemic\".\n\nUniversal credit can be claimed by both people who are in and out of work\n\nUniversal credit is a working-age benefit claimed by around 6m people, replacing six benefits and merging them into a single payment.\n\nPoverty campaign charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty if the temporary £20 top-up is rolled back.\n\nHowever the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe top-up, estimated to cost around £6bn a year, was brought in at the start of the pandemic as a temporary response due to lockdown.\n\nA government spokesperson said that support was being targeted by raising the living wage, spending on the furlough scheme, boosting welfare spending and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe NHS's child gender-identity service has been rated \"inadequate\" after inspectors identified \"significant concerns\".\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in October.\n\nMore than 4,600 young people were on the waiting list and some had waited over two years for a first appointment.\n\nThe trust said it took the CQC report \"very seriously\".\n\nEngland and Wales' only children's gender-identity service was inspected after healthcare professionals and the children's commissioner for England raised concerns around \"clinical practice, safeguarding procedures, and assessments of capacity and consent to treatment\".\n\nThe children's commissioner had been provided evidence of staff concerns by BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe CQC's previous inspection, in 2016, had resulted in an overall \"good\" rating.\n\nBut in the latest inspection at clinics run by the trust in north London and Leeds, Gids was rated:\n\nOverall, the service is now rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nAnd the CQC has begun enforcement action, demanding monthly updates of the numbers on the waiting list and actions to reduce them.\n\nThe inspectors found Gids \"difficult to access\" and raised concerns over managing the risk to those on the waiting list, saying many of those waiting for or receiving a service were \"vulnerable and at risk of self-harm\".\n\n\"The size of the waiting list meant that staff were unable to proactively manage the risks to patients waiting for a first appointment,\" they added.\n\nRecord-keeping at Gids was also criticised, with the CQC noting that \"staff had not consistently recorded the competency, capacity and consent of patients referred for medical treatment before January 2020\".\n\nThis had changed since, but the CQC noted that in an audit of 10 records of young people referred for hormone blockers in March 2020, \"only three contained a completed consent form and checklist for referral\".\n\nA rating of inadequate is the lowest a healthcare provider can receive from the Care Quality Commission. It means that a service is \"performing badly\".\n\nGids had been rated good at its last inspection in 2016, but since then a number of concerns have been raised about the service.\n\nThe number of young people referred to Gids has increased significantly in recent years - leading to some of the delays in care highlighted by the inspection.\n\nBBC Newsnight has explored the standard of healthcare received by young people questioning their gender identity for the last 18 months.\n\nIn that time, NHS England has changed its guidance on the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, saying little is known about the long-term side effects, and an independent review of this area of health is under way.\n\nLast June we revealed how some Gids staff had raised serious concerns about safeguarding at the service, the speed of assessments, and whether patients' traumatic backgrounds and other difficulties were always adequately explored.\n\nThe comments were made as part of an official internal review into Gids, which also described how staff felt they had been \"shut down\". We also discovered that some of these concerns dated back to 2005.\n\nFurthermore, it was not possible to clearly understand why clinical decisions had been made.\n\nAfter reviewing 35 care records, the CQC found there was \"no clearly defined assessment process\" and \"many records did not demonstrate good practice\".\n\nThe records also appeared to be \"insufficient\" in considering the needs of young people with autism spectrum disorders.\n\nIn a sample of 22 records, the CQC found more than half mentioned autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but \"records did not demonstrate consideration of the relationship between autistic spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria\".\n\nSignificant variation in the clinical approach of different staff members was also noted. Assessments of young people ranged from \"two or three sessions\" in some cases to over 25, or even more than 50.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals Kevin Cleary said his team continued to monitor the trust \"extremely closely\" and inspected the service again because \"we were extremely clear that there were improvements needed in providing person-centred care, capacity and consent, safe care and treatment, and governance\".\n\n\"In addition, vulnerable young people were not having their needs met as they were waiting too long for treatment.\"\n\nThe leadership at the trust knew \"exactly what improvements are needed\", he added.\n\nThe trust said: \"We take the CQC's report very seriously and would like to say sorry to patients for the length of time they are waiting to be seen, which was a critical factor in arriving at this rating.\"\n\nAccepting there was a \"need for improvements in our assessments, systems and processes\", the trust said it agreed with the CQC that the \"growth in referrals has exceeded the capacity of the service\".\n\nIt added improvements were being made, saying: \"We are already finalising plans to bring in senior clinical and operational expertise from outside the service to help us implement the necessary changes and consider how we can improve on current processes and practice - including how we standardise our assessment process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "(From left to right) Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Deb Haaland\n\nPresident Joe Biden's first cabinet is being described as the most diverse ever. The latest historic first is an openly gay cabinet secretary.\n\nWhen George Washington convened the first cabinet meeting two centuries ago - though he didn't call it by that name - he enshrined the idea of promoting diverse perspectives at the heart of US government. Of course, back in 1791, all the voices in the room were white and male.\n\nYou won't find the cabinet mentioned in the lines of the Constitution, but the first president saw the value of advisers who could guide him on major issues while bringing different viewpoints to the table.\n\nIn 2021, America has seen its first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg - the latest Biden confirmation - as well as its first female treasury secretary, first black Pentagon chief and more.\n\nMr Biden has been under pressure from all sides to deliver on his promises of a cabinet that truly reflects the country rather than a line-up of familiar political faces.\n\nThe graphic above shows all of Mr Biden's nominees - those with black and white photos are white men, while those with colour photographs are in one or more of these categories: women; people belonging to ethnic minorities; member of the LGBT community.\n\n\"This cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other cabinet in history,\" Mr Biden told reporters in December.\n\nIf approved by the Senate, it will include Congresswoman Deb Haaland as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history and Miguel Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, as his education chief.\n\nMr Biden's first cabinet is even more diverse than that put together by Barack Obama, who came close to truly reflecting the country but fell short with seven women to 16 men, and just one black secretary.\n\nBut not everyone has been pleased with his choices. When Mr Biden chose General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon - the first black man to do so - other activists were upset that the position was yet again denied to a woman. And Mr Biden picked two white men to head the state and agriculture agencies - Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack - when progressive groups would rather have seen him nominate black women to the roles.\n\nProgressive liberals have also criticised Mr Biden's selections as too safe, too moderate, too establishment and too old. For many of the supporters who delivered Mr Biden the presidency, he's not there just yet.\n\nSince 1933, only 11 presidents have named women to cabinet-level positions. No cabinets have ever matched the gender or racial balance of the country.\n\nThe cabinet size can vary depending on administration, but they're roughly composed of around 15 executives. In the last 30 years, the trend has been towards greater representation - or at least it was, until the Trump administration.\n\nOn the day of President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote that the new Democratic leader had assembled \"the most diverse Cabinet in history: five women, four blacks and two Latinos\".\n\nMr Clinton's small business administrator Aida Alvarez was the first-ever Latina appointed to a cabinet-level position.\n\nPresident George W Bush's first cabinet was lauded by the New York Times as \"a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's\".\n\nMr Bush chose Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, to become the country's first black secretary of state. He also tapped Norman Mineta - a Democrat who became the first Asian American to hold a cabinet-level spot under Mr Clinton - to head his transportation department.\n\nLater on, the Bush administration made history again with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice: the first black woman to serve as secretary of state and then as national security adviser. Mr Bush also placed the first Pacific Islander and Asian American woman, Elaine Chao, in a cabinet role as labour secretary.\n\nPresident Barack Obama's history-making first cabinet was dubbed a \"majority-minority\". Mr Obama's inner circle had seven women, nine minorities and just eight white men.\n\nUnder Mr Obama, Susan Rice became the first black woman to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder became the first black US attorney general.\n\nIn a throwback to the Reagan era, President Donald Trump's inner circle was notably white, affluent and male - though he had more women in his White House than previous Republicans.\n\nAnd Mr Trump did appoint women to other roles in the administration. He named the first Indian-American, Nikki Haley, as UN ambassador.\n\nBut why has it taken this long for women and minorities to make it into the room where decisions happen?\n\n\"When we think about how you get to these roles, one way is to come through elected office,\" says Professor Kelly Dittmar of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.\n\n\"So if you have a dearth of women and women of colour in elective office, and that's where presidents are looking, in part, to identify cabinet officials, then you already start with an uneven pool.\"\n\nWe saw the first woman in US Congress in 1916, she explains, but it took nearly two more decades before President Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet role (that was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins).\n\nThe story for black and other ethnic minority Americans has taken even longer. The first black man took a seat in Congress in 1870, but we didn't see a black man in the cabinet until President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver in 1966. It took until 1968 for the first black woman to be elected to Congress. The first black woman in the cabinet followed in 1977 (Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing Secretary).\n\nThe US has no formal rules requiring equal representation for these groups in government, either.\n\nCountries with quotas in government or at the political party level have made strides towards equality at leadership levels. For example, Rwanda in 2018 saw 61% women in its lower chamber.\n\nIn three key posts, the Defence, Treasury, and Veteran's Affairs departments, there has never been a woman in the job - until now.\n\nOn 25 January, Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary, breaking that particular glass ceiling.\n\nOld time stereotypes have given way in this sector. Surveys show people nowadays are more likely to rate the genders equal when it comes to handling the economy.\n\nProf Dittmar says there are more persistent stereotypes about men versus women's expertise when it comes to defence and national security matters, and public opinion polls have shown this divide. Women weren't allowed in the military until 1948.\n\n\"Even though we have certainly seen greater diversification, these fields are among the most male dominant, especially at the highest levels,\" says Prof Dittmar. \"There's all sorts of biases going on within those structures to prevent women's advancement, I'm sure. That helps explain why those gaps have been there at least historically.\"\n\nOhio State University political science and gender studies Professor Wendy Smooth says these appointments are a way of signalling broader initiatives and values - inextricably tied to policy, but also indicators of identity.\n\n\"One of the early ways that a presidential administration expresses that willingness to be accountable is through cabinet picks,\" Prof Smooth says.\n\n\"These are the first acts that demonstrate the will of the administration, the spirit of the administration, the values of the administration. It's an identity moment. It's going to be the who we are as the Biden administration and who we are interested in connecting with in the American public.\"\n\nIt may be difficult to directly measure the importance of symbolism, but turning preconceived notions of leadership upside down can have very tangible implications.\n\n\"If you see a woman as secretary of defence for the first time, does that start to disrupt expectations that men are better and more expert in areas of defence? Yes, inevitably it does,\" Prof Dittmar says.\n\nShe says the same is true for Vice-President Kamala Harris and her history-making appointment.\n\n\"I hope that after her tenure as vice-president, the next time we have women running for president that these questions about electability or qualifications or capability will be at least fewer than they were.\"\n\nAnd research from an increasingly diverse Congress has shown that women bring priorities and issues to the table that may otherwise have been ignored. \"And that, ultimately, is better for making policy that better speaks to the experiences of the population that they serve,\" Prof Dittmar explains.\n\n\"Unless you can tell me that living your life as a woman or as a black woman or as a South Asian woman in the United States is the same as living your life as a white man, then I don't at all understand why we wouldn't expect that to make a difference in the lens through which they see policy.\"", "Joy Morgan was a second year midwifery student at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nA student murdered by a fellow church member may have been given drugs without her knowing, an inquest heard.\n\nThe body of Joy Morgan, 20, was found in Hertfordshire woodland in October 2019, two months after Shohfah-El Israel was convicted of her murder.\n\nTraces of MDMA were found in her body and the inquest was told there was no evidence that Ms Morgan would have taken the drug herself voluntarily.\n\nIsrael, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years for Ms Morgan's murder in August 2019, despite the fact her body had not been found.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Michael Soole said Israel's \"cruel and cowardly\" refusal to reveal her whereabouts caused \"continuing distress and suffering\" to her family.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court\n\nTwo months later, the remains of Ms Morgan were found in woodland off Chadwell Road, Norton Green, near Stevenage.\n\nPart of the police evidence showed the killer had been in the area of the woods shortly after Ms Morgan's disappearance in December 2018.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February 2019 after failing to return to her studies.\n\nBoth Israel and Ms Morgan, who was in her second year at the University of Hertfordshire studying midwifery, were worshippers at the Israel United in Christ Church in Ilford.\n\nAn inquest at Hatfield Coroner's Court heard her body was found badly decomposed, and wrapped in black plastic bin liners and gaffer tape.\n\nThe court heard toxicology tests showed MDMA in her body, and Det Insp Justine Jenkins said there was no evidence to indicate she would have voluntarily or knowingly taken illegal drugs.\n\n\"She was a church-goer, there is nothing to suggest [she took drugs] at all.\n\n\"We did, however, find MDMA in Israel's car, and it is likely that he was responsible for giving her these drugs.\"\n\nJoy Morgan's remains were found in woodland at Norton Green\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there were three possible minor bruises on Ms Morgan's limbs. She added there was no evidence that Ms Morgan had been stabbed or shot, or restrained or suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault.\n\nShe found evidence of a possible fracture to her hyoid bone, but there was nothing to suggest she had suffered compression of the neck.\n\nDr Randall said there was no evidence the student had suffered a head injury, but said she could have been rendered unconscious by a blow to the head that was \"non-fatal\".\n\nShe could not rule out suffocation as a cause of death, potentially following milder blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said: \"[The MDMA] is not something that she would have taken and one can't exclude that she was given that, and it in some way rendered her incapable or unconscious.\"\n\nHe said the cause of Ms Morgan's death could not be ascertained.\n\nAfter the inquest, her mother Carol Morgan described her daughter as \"an amazing person\".\n\n\"She's been cremated, I haven't decided where to put her ashes so at the moment she's still at home with me,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "In the end, the master provocateur ended up provoking the wrong person in the wrong way at the wrong time.\n\nUntil August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, he was among \"the best talent in politics\" - in Trump's words.\n\nThen he became \"Sloppy Steve\", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.\n\nOne example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a \"treasonous\" act in talking to Russians.\n\nBannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.\n\nAnd then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nProsecutors said he received more than $1m - and used some of it to pay off personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nEven in a White House where political careers have the life expectancy of a house fly, Bannon's sudden rise and fall over four years is remarkable. Here's how it came about.\n\nAs executive chairman of Breitbart - a combative conservative site with an anti-establishment agenda - Bannon was an early cheerleader for Trump and Trumpism.\n\nBut it was not until 15 months into the property tycoon's presidential race that Bannon joined his team.\n\nBy that point he was already, according to a profile on the Bloomberg website, \"the most dangerous political operative in America\", a man with Democrats and establishment Republicans in his crosshairs, and a knack for well-timed confrontation. A disruptive Trump presented Bannon with a golden opportunity.\n\nWithout Seinfeld, there is no Steve Bannon - it will become clear, don't worry\n\nBannon was born into a family of Irish Catholics - all Kennedy Democrats - in Virginia in November 1953.\n\nHe was not political, he said, until an eight-year stint with the Navy starting in 1977, when he became a Reagan Republican in response to President Carter's handling of the Iran conflict.\n\nA master of reinvention, he went on to work as an executive with the Goldman Sachs bank, before helping finance and produce Hollywood films and later emerging as a political Svengali.\n\nHis record in Hollywood can be described as patchy at best (\"The business runs on talent relationships,\" one former colleague told the New Yorker. \"He had this real will-to-power vibe that was so off-putting.\")\n\nBut Bannon did strike gold in one big way - by negotiating a share of the profits in a new television show, Seinfeld, in 1993. The show ran for nine seasons and was widely syndicated - in November 2016, Forbes estimated that Bannon, if he owned only a 1% share in the show's profits, would have earned $32.6m (£24m) by that point.\n\nAfter returning to the US from the Chinese city of Shanghai in 2008 feeling the Bush administration was a \"disaster\", Bannon was struck by what he described to the New Yorker as \"this phenomenon called Sarah Palin\". Bannon warmed to the brand of populism employed by the Alaskan governor picked as John McCain's Republican running mate in the 2008 presidential race.\n\nThat populist wave would come crashing to shore with Trump's participation in the 2016 election, a wave Bannon proudly rode the whole way. In Trump, he recognised a willing outlet for his idea that, according to Wolff, \"the new politics was not the art of compromise, but the art of conflict\".\n\nBannon had long talked up Trump's chances on Breitbart News Network, which he took over in 2012 after the death of its founder, Andrew Breitbart. Bannon considered Trump, according to Wolff's book, \"a big warm-hearted monkey\".\n\nLike many of the businessman's cheerleaders, Bannon was eventually invited into his inner circle, becoming the CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.\n\nDishevelled, regularly unshaven, and prone to wearing two shirts at the same time, he was an unlikely candidate to work closely with Trump, who places a high value on appearance. But somehow it worked.\n\nBannon's economic nationalist outlook and his eagerness for a \"deconstruction of the administrative state\" - a tearing apart of the system of taxes and regulations that he believed had hindered the US over years - chimed with Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" plea.\n\nTwo days after his arrival, Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as campaign chairman.\n\nBannon's counterpart in the Democratic camp, Robby Mook, responded furiously: \"Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, sometimes racist... sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe provocateur in Bannon will almost certainly have enjoyed the reaction to his appointment. Less than three months later, he'd have even more to celebrate.\n\nTrump and Bannon thought as one in the last weeks of the campaign, to the extent that the Republican candidate would often demand: \"Where's my Steve? Where's my Steve?\", according to one former Trump aide.\n\nIn interviews after the event, Bannon said he always believed Trump would win. But not everyone else did, according to Michael Wolff's book. Indeed, in the weeks after the billionaire won, \"he had come to credit Bannon with something like mystical powers\" for having predicted the victory.\n\nWhite House appointments aren't often met with wide protests - but then Steve Bannon's was no ordinary appointment\n\nDays after the election, Trump named his trusted lieutenant as \"chief strategist\" - a newly created role - in his cabinet.\n\nThere were wide protests against the decision, and 169 members of the House - all Democrats - sent a letter to the president-elect asking him to withdraw Bannon's nomination, saying \"bigotry, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should have no place in our society, and they certainly have no place in the White House\".\n\nBannon's vision was made clear in Trump's bleak inaugural address, which he wrote. Wolff says in his book it was \"a Bannon-driven message to the other side that the country was about to undergo profound change... his take-back-the-country, America-first, carnage-everywhere vision of the country\".\n\nThe \"American carnage\" speech painted a vision of a US with \"mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation\".\n\nThe full ramifications of Bannon's America First policy were made clear a week later, with Trump signing an executive order dreamt up by his chief strategist that banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US. It caught many White House staff unaware.\n\nBannon, Wolff writes, was \"satisfied\" at the move and the subsequent outrage. \"He could not have hoped to draw a more vivid line between the two Americas - Trump's and liberals',\" Wolff writes, adding that the timing of its release before a busy weekend was deliberate - so it could cause as much chaos as possible.\n\nOne word that regularly features in interviews with Bannon is \"war\". Trump HQ on election night was \"the war room\", the same name he gave to the Oval Office when Trump took over. When Bannon would go on to leave the White House, he said he was going to \"war\" on Trump's behalf.\n\nFor Bannon, disorder was the new order in the White House. He and Trump were creating conflict and confusion, and that suited Bannon just fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bannon's three goals for the Trump presidency\n\nA day after Trump's executive order on immigration was signed, there was another controversial announcement - the US president downgraded military chiefs of staff from his National Security Council and gave a regular seat to Bannon instead.\n\nOnly career diplomats and generals usually join the council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. By being invited to be a member, Bannon - in his first government job, aged 63 - was allowed to join high-level discussions about national security.\n\nThe reaction was, predictably, one of shock.\n\nDemocrat former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the move \"dangerous and unprecedented\", and Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice tweeted: \"This is stone-cold crazy. After a week of crazy.\"\n\nThe White House, of course, defended their man as being more than capable enough to be on the council, pointing out his Navy service.\n\nBut in retrospect, this promotion is about as good as it got for Bannon in the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the people who have resigned or been fired under President Trump\n\nIn the end, Bannon lasted a little over two months on the National Security Council, leaving in April.\n\nIt was not a demotion, White House officials said, but the reasons for the change were not clear. Perhaps, just by shaking up the old order, the appointment had done its job.\n\nBut this change in his responsibilities became an indication of what was to come.\n\nAfter a summer of reports that Bannon was less and less visible in a White House suffering infighting and leaks, he left his position last August.\n\nIt was sold as a strategic move - Bannon would head back to Breitbart, where he would fight for Trump's agenda. \"I've got my hands back on my weapons,\" he said. \"It's Bannon the Barbarian.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBreitbart welcomed back what it called its \"populist hero\", with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow saying Bannon had \"his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda\".\n\nBut his departure from the White House came at the end of a week in which Bannon had come under fire from a number of quarters, and amid reports of tension with key aides including National Security Adviser HR McMaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlottesville was the culmination of months of protests by white supremacists\n\nClashes had taken place the previous weekend between far-right and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after which Trump blamed \"both sides\" for the violence - Bannon had once said his Breitbart site was \"a platform for the alt-right\" who were responsible for the violence.\n\nTwo days before he left his job, an interview with Bannon in the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, reportedly infuriated the president. Bannon was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Trump.\n\nThen, a day later, a BuzzFeed report that said that Trump was unhappy with the credit his adviser was taking for the election victory.\n\n\"He undermined Trump's ego,\" Joshua Green, the author of a book on Bannon's relationship with Trump, Devil's Bargain, told the BBC.\n\n\"Trump can't abide the thesis of my book and Michael Wolff's book, which is that Bannon is the brains of the operation and Trump is an erratic charlatan. That's what Trump won't abide.\"\n\nBannon backed Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race - it didn't end well for them\n\nNow on the outside looking in, Bannon was more than happy to tell Trump where he thought he was going wrong. He attacked him through Breitbart for reversing course and sending more troops to Afghanistan, and called Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey the biggest mistake in \"modern political history\".\n\nBut Bannon was back in his natural habitat as he gunned for the Republican establishment, putting his weight behind ultra-conservative populist candidate Roy Moore in a senate race in Alabama.\n\nMoore comfortably won the primary against Luther Strange, the incumbent backed by Trump and the Republican machine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Moore went on to face allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, which he denied, and in December he lost the race to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years.\n\nBannon's man, one eventually backed by Trump and the Republican party, had suffered a humiliating loss in what was supposed to be Bannon's first big victory. A win would have given him momentum in his campaign to field populist candidates against Republican senators in the 2018 mid-terms. A loss made that much harder.\n\nBannon - humbled, surprised - credited Democrats for having worked hardest, but the defeat risked grounding his populist movement to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump harsher on Bannon than he is on his 'worst enemies'\n\nTrump may once have been Bannon's \"big warm-hearted monkey\". But even cuddly monkeys can bite.\n\nAs details of Michael Wolff's book emerged, one key line stood out - Bannon described a meeting Donald Trump Jr held in New York with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign as \"treasonous\".\n\n\"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,\" he told Wolff.\n\nThe reaction from the White House - reeling from a special-counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia - was swift. Bannon had \"lost his mind\" after losing his White House position, the president said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy benefactor of Bannon's, said she had ended her support for his political efforts.\n\nBannon, left with fewer and fewer allies, insisted his comments were not directed at Mr Trump's son but at another former aide, Paul Manafort, who was also present at the meeting in Trump Tower.\n\nBut there was only one way left to go. The goodbye from Breitbart was polite, and Bannon was out.\n\nSomewhere, somehow, Bannon the master string-puller will re-emerge - possibly in a different guise.\n\nCould he and Trump ever reconcile?\n\n\"Trump has fired people before and then let them back in,\" Joshua Green, the author of Devil's Bargain, said.\n\n\"But I've never seen Trump bury somebody as forcefully as he did Bannon, both in his statement and the parade of White House officials who have come out to heap scorn and derision on Bannon.\n\n\"It's awfully hard to imagine how Bannon could recover from that.\"\n\nAn unexpected twist unfolded ahead of the November 2020 election when Bannon and three other people were arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nYou'll remember that building this wall was a key pledge of Trump's 2016 campaign, which Bannon played a leading role in.\n\nBannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the \"We Build the Wall\" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.\n\nBannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said.\n\nEach of the two charges - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. He leaves office with two impeachments and the nation on edge. But his supporters say he kept his promises.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "The National Audit Office has had full access to the BBC's accounts since 2010\n\nThe BBC faces \"significant\" uncertainty over its financial future due to changes in viewing habits, a National Audit Office report has found.\n\n\"While the BBC remains the most used media brand in the UK, its share of younger audiences has been under pressure,\" the spending watchdog said.\n\n\"Falling audience share poses a financial risk as people are less likely to pay the licence fee.\"\n\nThe BBC said it had already set out plans for \"urgent\" reforms.\n\nAccording to the NAO report, the BBC has seen \"a notable drop\" in audience viewing while its income from the licence fee has also declined.\n\nThe BBC \"faces considerable uncertainty\" about its licence fee income and should produce \"a long-term financial plan... as soon as possible\", it states.\n\nSuch a plan, the report recommends, should \"set out the detail for the next stage of its savings, and how it will fund its new strategic priorities\".\n\nIn 2019-20, the BBC generated total income of £4.94bn, of which £3.52bn was public funding from the licence fee. That was £310m less than the corporation received from the licence fee between 2017-18.\n\nThe current cost of an annual television licence is £157.50\n\nThe report also highlighted a 30% decline in BBC TV viewing over the past decade. On average, the amount of time an adult spent watching broadcast BBC television fell from 80 minutes a day in 2010 to 56 minutes in 2019.\n\nAnd the NAO said the BBC's financial health had been \"unexpectedly weakened\" by the impact of the coronavirus response.\n\nLast November, the BBC began negotiations with the government about the future funding it will receive from the licence fee. The fee, which is currently £157.50 annually, is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nIn response, the BBC said it had made \"significant savings and increased efficiencies, while maintaining our spending on content, and continuing to be the UK's most-used media organisation\".\n\nIt added: \"We have set out plans for urgent reforms focused on providing great value for all audiences and we will set out further detail on this in the coming months.\n\n\"The report also stresses the importance of stable funding for the future, which we welcome as we begin negotiations with government over the licence fee.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists said the report's findings \"come as no surprise\" and that the BBC needs \"a financially secure long-term deal that will guarantee its future.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the finances of government departments and other public sector bodies. Last week Richard Sharp, the BBC's incoming chairman, said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the corporation, but it \"may be worth reassessing\" in future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?\n\nThere's a lot to consider, so we asked the experts to break it down for us.\n\nResponses have been edited for length and clarity.\n\nMatthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.\n\nDonald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government.\n\nWhen historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.\n\nThey will focus on Trump's tortured relationship with the alt-right, his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nIf Donald Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader.\n\nA president who, before the pandemic, presided over an economic boom, re-oriented America's opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist (conservative) majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorised Operation Warp Speed to produce a Covid-19 vaccine in record time.\n\nLaura Belmonte is a history professor and dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She is a foreign relations specialist and author of books on cultural diplomacy.\n\nHis attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.\n\nThe moment I found jaw-dropping was the press conference he had with Vladimir Putin in 2018 in Helsinki, where he took Putin's side over US intelligence in regard to Russian interference in the election.\n\nI can't think of another episode of a president siding full force with a non-democratic society adversary.\n\nIt's also very emblematic of a larger assault on any number of multilateral institutions and treaties and frameworks that Trump has unleashed, like the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear framework.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump's applauding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, really turning himself inside out to align the US with regimes that are the antithesis of values that the US says it wants to promote. That is something that I think was really quite distinctive.\n\nAnother aspect is extricating the US from any really assertive role in promoting human rights throughout the world, and changing the content of the annual human rights reports from the State Department and not including many topics, like LGBT equality, for instance.\n\nKathryn Brownell is a history professor at Purdue University, focusing on the relationships between media, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the American presidency.\n\nBroadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way. As a historian who studies the intersection of media and the presidency, it is truly striking the ways in which he has convinced millions of people that his fabricated version of events is true.\n\nWhat happened on 6 January at the US Capitol is a culmination of over four years during which President Trump actively advanced misinformation.\n\nJust as Watergate and the impeachment inquiry dominated historical interpretations of Richard Nixon's legacy for decades, I do think that this particular post-election moment will be at the forefront of historical assessments of his presidency.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nKellyanne Conway's first introduction of the notion of \"alternative facts\" just days into the Trump administration when disputing the size of the inaugural crowds between Trump and Barack Obama.\n\nPresidents across the 20th Century have increasingly used sophisticated measures to spin interpretation of policies and events in favourable ways and to control the media narrative of their administrations. But the assertion that the administration had a right to its own alternative facts went far beyond spin, ultimately foreshadowing the ways in which the Trump administration would govern by misinformation.\n\nTrump harnessed the power of social media and blurred the lines between entertainment and politics in ways that allowed him to bypass critics and connect directly to his supporters in an unfiltered way.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan also used new media and a celebrity style to connect directly to the people in this unfiltered way, ultimately transforming expectations and operations of the presidency that paved the path for Trump.\n\nMary Frances Berry is a professor of American history and social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on legal history and social policy. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights.\n\nIn what he did with judges, Trump has made a long lasting change over the next 20 years, 30 years in how policies will stand up to legal tests and how they're able to be implemented - no matter what any particular president or administration proposes.\n\nThe courts are controlled by the Republican appointees. Sometimes judges surprise us, but for the most part, the historical evidence is that they pretty much do what their politics and their backgrounds say they will do.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nWhen he supported that package of measures that helped particular people in the black community, like First Step, pardoning people at the same time that he supported an amendment in the appropriations bill that gave a whole bunch of money to historically black colleges and universities for the first time.\n\nHe put all of these things together, as well as having the first stimulus programme making sure that black businessman and entrepreneurs get some of those loans they've had trouble getting before.\n\nThe effect of all of that, which we will see over time, was in the midterms, a lot more young black men voted for Trump than before. And if that's a trend, it may help the Republican party.\n\nTrump also made egregious comments about black people and other people of colour, tried to have protests against police abuse disrupted and in other ways appealed to his white supremacist base.\n\nHis lasting impact on race relations depends on what the Biden administration does on policy, and on healing and how long the pandemic and economic downturn lasts.\n\nMargaret O'Mara is history professor at the University of Washington, focusing on the political, economic, and metropolitan history of the modern US.\n\nContesting a very constitutionally and numerically clear election victory by Joe Biden.\n\nWe've had plenty of really unpleasant transitions. Herbert Hoover was incredibly unpleasant about his loss, but he still rode in that car down Pennsylvania Avenue at inauguration. He didn't talk to Franklin Roosevelt the whole time, but there still was a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTrump is a manifestation of political forces that have been in motion for a half century or more. A culmination of what was not only going on in the Republican party, but also the Democratic party and more broadly in American politics - a kind of disillusionment with government and institutions and expertise.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump is exceptional in many ways, but one of the things that really makes him stand out is that he is one of the rare presidents who was elected without having held any elected office before.\n\nTrump may go away, but there is this great frustration with the establishment, broadly defined. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.\n\nA presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.\n\nOver time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.\n\nSaikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers.\n\nThe last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again.\n\nHe forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations. Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really.\n\nIt's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.\n\nIt's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nThe president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or \"make them fairer\".\n\nThe president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view. No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're \"soft\" on Canada, right?\n\nI think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China.\n\nDomestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas.", "Testing of close contacts of identified cases was due to start in secondary schools and colleges in England\n\nThe government has paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing of close contacts, in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges.\n\nTesting close contacts of a positive case as an alternative to isolation showed some benefits in trials.\n\nBut the emergence of a new variant means the risk of missing infections has risen, health officials say.\n\nRegular testing of staff will now increase to twice a week.\n\nMore research is needed on how daily contact testing would work given the new, more transmissible, coronavirus variant, Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace say.\n\nIn the meantime, routine testing to pick up asymptomatic cases in staff and pupils remains a key part of the government's plans.\n\nMass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January.\n\nHowever, under new lockdown restrictions, schools have had to switch to providing online teaching until February - although children of key workers are still allowed to attend - and plans were postponed.\n\nHow testing of pupils will be organised once schools reopen is still not clear.\n\nThe original plan for rapid Covid testing in all secondary schools and colleges included:\n\nThe aim was to keep as many children in schools as possible by avoiding a whole bubble, class or year having to be sent home, and to reduce disruption from staff having to isolate.\n\nBut some scientists have consistently expressed concerns about the accuracy of the rapid tests, which do not need to be sent to a lab for the results.\n\nThey say the high number of false negatives means close contacts may wrongly think they are not infectious and go on to mix with more vulnerable people.\n\nAnd now PHE and NHS Test and Trace say the new variant, which \"increases the risk of transmission everywhere, including in school settings\", has made this a risk no longer worth taking.\n\n\"The balance between the risks (transmission of virus in schools and onward to households and the wider community) and benefits (education in a face-to-face and safe setting) for daily contact testing is unclear,\" their statement adds.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England have reviewed their advice and concluded that, in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of the new variant, further evaluation work is required to make sure it is achieving its aim of breaking chains of transmission and reducing cases of the virus in the community.\n\n\"There is no change to the main rollout of regular testing using rapid lateral flow tests in schools and colleges, which is already proving beneficial in finding teachers and students with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You wouldn’t want to give this to anybody'\n\nI was last here at University Hospital Monklands on 1 May when those dealing with the first wave of an unknown disease were already tired.\n\nAt that time, the deaths of 29,059 people had been registered in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nI returned 259 days later with the number of deaths at 89,230 to find that the staff are exhausted.\n\n\"We're all physically, mentally and emotionally drained now,\" says Fiona Bauld, an intensive care unit (ICU) staff nurse.\n\nIn the first wave, the Lanarkshire hospital was almost empty except for patients being treated for Covid or other critical and emergency needs.\n\nThis time there are just a handful of spare beds in the entire building. Staff who had helped out with critical care last year are back in their own departments, and the ICU specialists are alone once more.\n\n\"There's not really enough extra nurses to account for the extra patients so the amount of work everyone is doing is much more,\" says intensive care consultant Daniel Silcock.\n\nThe patients are changing too.\n\nIn the first wave, most patients were old and often ill before they contracted the virus, says ICU ward manager Margaret Harkins.\n\n\"This time the patients are a much younger age group and some have no underlying health conditions,\" she adds.\n\n\"We are getting people in in their 20s, 30s and 40s,\" Ms Bauld says. \"Younger people are catching this virus and becoming really critically ill with it.\"\n\nMae Mamaril (right) and her parents Jaramias and Sonia tested positive\n\nMae Mamaril is one of them. She is 26 and has no underlying health conditions.\n\nMae and her parents Jaramias and Sonia, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, tested positive for Covid within days of being vaccinated for their jobs.\n\nAll three ended up in Monklands but Mae was the sickest and the only member of her family admitted to intensive care.\n\nShe had to wear an oxygen mask and lie face down on a bed for three days, a treatment called proning which medics say can improve lung function in many patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mae Mamaril, 26, was moved to intensive care at the start of the year\n\n\"I couldn't breathe,\" she says. \"It was really bad because they moved so quickly to give me oxygen and told me to lie on my stomach.\n\n\"All I could think about was wanting to come home, but then at the same time, I knew that if I didn't have enough oxygen, even if I went home, I would never survive.\"\n\nNot only is the hospital busy with younger people in this wave but senior doctors say a third of all patients here now have the virus.\n\nThere is another big difference outside the building.\n\nIn May, when I drove from Glasgow to the hospital in Airdrie the roads were empty, the streets silent.\n\nThat is no longer the case. Heading east to Monklands again, the M8 is the busiest I have seen it since the pandemic began.\n\nDoctors and nurses have noticed the increase in traffic too - and they are worried.\n\n\"Without a lockdown, I think it would just be a disaster,\" Dr Silcock says.\n\n\"We've had twice as many admissions this time as we did in the first wave.\"\n\nDr Sanjiv Chohan, who runs the intensive care department, says he too is worried.\n\nBut what about the many harmful side effects of lockdown - on other medical conditions, especially mental health, as well as the impact on education and the economy?\n\n\"I sympathise completely,\" says Dr Chohan, pointing out that the ICU staff are also affected by these issues.\n\n\"It's a really difficult balancing act. It's choosing the least harmful options,\" he says, adding: \"We have to preserve some ability to have functioning hospitals.\"\n\nAt times, Monklands has not been able to function normally.\n\nSince the autumn, around a third of all intensive care patients here have had to be transferred out of the hospital to other facilities — primarily to Wishaw and Hairmyres but sometimes out of Lanarkshire entirely.\n\nChief nurse Karen Goudie says she is worried about the coming weeks\n\nThe chief nurse at Monklands, Karen Goudie, says that was necessary to reduce pressure and create capacity for incoming patients.\n\nThere has not yet been a point when all Scotland's hospitals have been overwhelmed at the same time.\n\n\"No, not yet but we're worried about the coming weeks,\" says Ms Goudie. \"The projections look - scary, I guess, is the right word to use. \"\n\nStaff here believe a current increase in cases is attributable to families mixing at Christmas and to people not sticking to the current lockdown rules.\n\nStill, they have coped. Patients are now less likely than in the first wave to need the dangerous intervention of a ventilator as knowledge of how to treat the disease develops.\n\nFor many though, a Covid diagnosis can remain frightening and perilous.\n\nJim McShane, 56, works for a gas company in Motherwell. I leave intensive care to meet him on the Covid ward where he is being treated.\n\n\"You just don't know what's ahead,\" he tells me. \"It just destroys you sometimes. Brings you right down.\"\n\n\"I would tell people to stay out the road of one another,\" he says.\n\nAfter I leave, Jim is transferred to intensive care. He is now on a ventilator.\n\nThere may be some signs that Scotland's latest surge in hospital admissions may be easing.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The driver sat on his overturned van until rescuers arrived\n\nA supermarket delivery driver had to be rescued from his overturned van after he careered off the road and ended up in a fast-flowing ford, police said.\n\nFirefighters and police were called to the River Wear, Westgate, in Weardale, after reports that a Morrisons van was stuck at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the van had \"careered\" off the road and the man sat on top of the vehicle before being rescued.\n\nCounty Durham Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was \"challenging.\"\n\nWater specialists from the fire service braved the river in a raft attached to a nearby footbridge and gave the man a life jacket.\n\nPolice said the driver was not injured but was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe fire service tweeted a video of the scene, and said they were \"so proud\" of the water rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScott Bisset, who lives nearby, went to see if he could help after he was called by people who heard the driver shouting for help.\n\nMr Bisset, a member of the local mountain rescue team, said he thought the driver may have ended up there after being directed by his sat-nav.\n\nHe said: \"There's not a vehicle in the world that could have got through.\n\n\"The river was in flood - the snow here has melted and there was rain, so there was a lot of water in the river.\n\n\"The van was washed off and turned over on its side, luckily the front was pointing upstream, so it acted like a boat.\n\n\"If the water had been hitting the side of the van or the back, the driver would unfortunately have drowned.\n\n\"When I got there the driver was extremely distressed.\"\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water\n\nHe also said that rescuers had put their lives at risk.\n\n\"I know they practice for this but in those conditions, with that freezing water travelling at great speed, in the dark and the pouring rain, it was very dangerous and they were very brave,\" he said.\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "When Joe Biden becomes US president on 20 January plenty of change is expected under his new administration.\n\nFor those who want to put Donald Trump in the rear view mirror, there's a lot to look forward to.\n\nOthers are not sure if he can bring unity to a divided country and enact lasting change.\n\nHere's what members of our BBC voter panel told us.\n\nPeyton Forte is a recent college graduate who now works as a reporter. She was not the big supporter of Biden and Kamala Harris, but says getting rid of Donald Trump is an urgent and necessary first step towards change.\n\nWhat are you hopeful the Biden administration can accomplish?\n\nFor starters, easing the pandemic and ensuring more collaboration between federal and state governments on vaccine distribution. I'm looking forward to his stimulus packages to kickstart the economy and make sure people are actually alive to reap the benefits of it. We can also look forward to a president whose main mode of communication is not Twitter. The biggest thing is undoing the damage of the prior administration, from immigration laws to our relationships with foreign allies.\n\nWhat are your fears for the Biden presidency?\n\nTo be honest, I haven't really gotten to that point because I'm so ready for the Trump administration to be gone. So ask me that question again in a few weeks. I'm really encouraged by Biden's financial and economic cabinet picks because I think he is trying to stunt the racial wealth gap. There will be a time and place to nitpick his choices, but not yet. As somebody who is black, I know he rejected calls to defund the police. The phrase is inflammatory, but that money is redirected into our communities, so I'd like for him to take another look at it and maybe he'll reconsider.\n\nWith so much talk of the need for unity and healing, where does the country go from here?\n\n'Unity and healing' is the new 'thoughts and prayers'. I know it has been kind of a calling card for Biden to contrast himself with Trump, but I'm going to have to see it to believe it. Are you just faking it or are you doing the work to actually unify people? Time will tell if people actually want unity or if some are just mad that their candidate lost.\n\nJim is a property manager and conservative Republican who no longer supports President Trump since his refusal to accept the results of the election. He wants the incoming administration to find common ground rather than be too left wing.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm hopeful for some stability and less drama. America's standing in the world, particularly in the last couple of weeks, has really diminished and I would hope they would be able to return us to our traditional position in the world. I would like to see the bill he puts forward on Covid relief. If we're going to put money into people's hands, we need to make sure it actually makes a difference. Six hundred dollars is a slap in the face when you look at how we're giving away billions of dollars to other countries.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI am worried they're going to overreach and placate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and create deeper polarisation. I worry they will try to pack the Supreme Court. I am concerned about immigration policy. I would hope they have the courage to be more moderate in tone, action and policy, at least for the first few years. That way, things can level off and then we can have reasonable debate about issues on a case-by-case basis. One side is really having a hard time accepting the reality of [Trump's] loss; that's too many people to just ignore and it seems like there's a real mood for retaliation.\n\nCompromises will need to happen and both sides on the extreme right and left will not be happy with it. In the immediate moment, we need to have a good tone from the top that is conciliatory and respectful. I'm looking for Biden to reassure Americans their vote was secure and legitimate, restore a sense of public confidence and competence to the US government and spend serious time on rebuilding unity.\n\nLesley is a small business owner and an immigrant from Canada. Joe Biden was not her first choice for president by a long shot, but she now says he is \"the best person\" for this moment in the country's history and she hopes he can follow through.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm looking forward to real leadership and an administration that actually cares about getting things done. We need to get the virus under control. They have an actual plan; I hate that it's going to cost another $2tn, but it wouldn't have cost that if we had taken the time to do the hard work early. From climate change and fire management to infrastructure and renewable energy, they'll get us back on track. From a civil rights perspective, we have the greatest opportunity. The administration is diverse and he's trying to give everyone a seat at the table.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nNothing comes to mind. I feel like this administration is going to reset, refocus and prioritise things that should be prioritised. There's so much that needs to be addressed at once, but like the rest of the world, they have to learn to multitask and do their jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?\n\nWe need our elected officials, when doing their jobs, to not just represent one segment of the population. They can see what has happened by turning a blind eye and not listening. For the Democrats, they need to find a way to communicate so the concerns they've raised are taken seriously but without turning off the other side. For the Republicans, they need to pay attention not just to the loudest people - just being loud doesn't mean they're right. Moving forward, everybody has to do their part to prioritise what is best for the country. We're never going to get rid of the element that attacked the Capitol, but it's like herd immunity. The only people who were surprised by what happened last week were the ones who were not paying attention.\n\nJazmin is a writer and youth voting rights activist who says the past four years have damaged the psyche of young people. She wants the new administration to rebuild trust and show people like her that government can be a force for good in their lives.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI hope that the Biden administration is bold on climate, an equitable Covid economic recovery and racial justice. Personally though, I think we fundamentally need to look at our broken system. Restoring voting rights, stronger ethics and anti-corruption measures, as well as campaign finance reform can restore balance and transparency within our government, so we can trust in our elections and elected officials.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI've been thinking a lot about the pace of change. There's so much that needs to be done but we're also looking at departments that have been gutted. The damage of the past three years has been so deep and the rolling back of it will take a lot of time, so we have to practise patience and we have to be realistic.\n\nOur government only works when people decide not to disengage and be cynical, but instead step up and figure out how to get involved. The events of the Capitol work were horrific and traumatising for so many people, but the day before it was a Georgia election with incredibly high youth voter turnout. There is a lot of vitriol and hate, but the majority of folks believe in working to ensure our country is serving the best interests of everyone.\n\nGabriel is a writer and the activism chair for the New York Young Republicans. He wishes the Biden administration good luck, but is concerned it will sow more division in a vulnerable moment for the country.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nAs an American, I am hopeful that things go well under this administration. I don't wish for Joe Biden to fail because the president is like the pilot of a plane: if he goes down, so do we. I hope he can answer the renewable energy debate, create more nuclear power plants and allow the United States to remain the number one exporter of energy. Hopefully, we'll see some sort of voter ID laws enforced, for greater election integrity. I hope he doesn't fuel more divisions.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nMy fear is that he will listen to people like AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders, who are trying to push him to accept more far left policies that will do more harm than good to the US in an economic sense. He may continue the harsh lockdowns and ignore censorship of conservatives. Under the Trump administration, we decreased our presence in the Middle East and were stopping the forever wars, so I really hope we don't return there.\n\nAfter what happened at the Capitol, Biden came out and started very well, then devolved into race-baiting rhetoric - that's not something our country needs right now. There are millions of people who feel as though they were cheated and did not get a fair election, and some of them might not even recognise Biden as president, so it's very important that he treads lightly and focuses on unity. Don't lump them together as insurgents or other labels because you're going to further alienate people. Speak to every American and say that it is time to come together.", "As Donald Trump comes towards the end of his presidency, we've put together a selection of striking moments from his four years in office.\n\nCrowds are seen gathered at Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony on 20 January 2017.\n\nJust days later, the new president accused the media of lying about the attendance. He was said to be angry that images appeared to show the crowds were lower than for Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media it had been \"the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period\".\n\nFar-right supporters and white nationalists took part in a torch-lit rally through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.\n\nThe following day a woman was killed and 19 were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of counter-protesters in the city.\n\nIn response, President Trump condemned violence by \"many sides\", prompting a wave of criticism. Some 48 hours later, he denounced far-right extremists calling \"KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists repugnant to everything we hold dear\".\n\nJoe Biden has said it was the president's response to the tragedy that prompted his own decision to run against him.\n\nMr Trump's attendance at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 did not get off to a good start, when prior to the event, the president announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada.\n\nOther images from the meeting showed more friendly relations between the leaders - but this photo was considered by many to reflect the underlying tensions of the gathering.\n\nMr Trump left the summit before other leaders and claimed that America was \"like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing\".\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump is pictured wearing a jacket in June 2018 which reads \"I really don't care, do you?\" on the back, during a trip to a migrant child detention centre.\n\nThere was speculation over what message Mrs Trump intended to send by wearing the jacket on that trip, which came as the president was under fire for his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.\n\nThe First Lady later admitted it had been a message \"for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them I don't care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what I feel is right\".\n\nMr Trump called for compromise in politics during his State of the Union address in February 2019 but Nancy Pelosi was pictured giving what many saw as a sarcastic clap.\n\nHe broke protocol by not waiting for the customary introduction from the House Speaker before beginning his speech.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\" quickly went viral and appeared to show the political rivalry between the two.\n\nMr Trump walks into the northern side of the military demarcation line that divides North and South Korea in June 2019. In doing so, he became the first US sitting president to cross the line.\n\nHis decision to meet Kim Jong-un without pre-conditions stunned the world.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nKim Kardashian West speaks at a White House event about prison reform in June 2019.\n\nIn 2018, the celebrity activist lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of a grandmother jailed for life. Alice Johnson was later granted clemency in a high-profile decision by Mr Trump.\n\nPresident Trump has already given pardons to 94 people and there is speculation he may pardon 100 others before he leaves office.\n\nMr Trump holds a bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House in June 2020.\n\nPeaceful anti-racism demonstrators had been cleared from nearby Lafayette Square with pepper spray and flash-bang grenades so that the president and his entourage could walk to the church.\n\nHis actions prompted shock and anger from many religious leaders, who accused him of using religion for political purposes.\n\nThe Trump family watch as Donald Trump debates with Joe Biden at their first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September 2020.\n\nThey broke debate rules that all spectators wear masks - sparking the same criticism often aimed at their father for taking a cavalier attitude to the virus.\n\nA few days after the debate, the president tested positive himself.\n\nHe spent three nights in a hospital receiving treatment before returning to the White House and declaring he felt \"really good\" and urging others not to be afraid of the virus.\n\nCrowds of Trump supporters climb on the US Capitol in DC earlier this month following a \"Stop the Steal\" rally.\n\nIt followed a 70-minute address by the president in which he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians were meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The mob ransacked the Capitol building and attempted to enter the chambers where lawmakers were hiding.\n\nMr Trump has since been impeached, becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice. But he denies charges that he incited the mob to attack the Capitol.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state before departing for Washington on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "More than 60 flood warnings remain in place in northern, central and eastern England\n\nResidents have been evacuated, roads closed and rail services were suspended as Storm Christoph batters England.\n\nHouseboat residents were moved from Northwich, Cheshire, for their safety as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold an emergency meeting later.\n\nNorthern, central and eastern England are braced for flooding which will be discussed at the Cobra meeting.\n\nMore than 60 flood warnings remain in place and three police forces have declared major incidents.\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nPeople living in houseboats in Cheshire have been moved to hotels for their safety, say police\n\nCheshire Police has declared a major incident - along with forces in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire - and moved 33 people from Hayhurst Marina for their safety as water levels rise.\n\nIn Greater Manchester up to 3,000 properties could be affected by flooding near the River Mersey where a peak is expected at 23:00 GMT.\n\nDowning Street said Covid-secure evacuation centres would be made available to those forced to leave their homes as a result of flooding.\n\n\"Preparations to create Covid-secure rest centres have been made by relevant agencies as a precautionary measure,\" the Prime Minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"The important message for the public now is to continue to monitor the information the Environment Agency are providing and sign-up for flood alerts if they haven't already.\"\n\nThe River Eden has flooded Rickerby Park in Carlisle\n\nMore than 120mm (nearly 5in) of rain has already fallen in some parts of England, with 123.4mm at Honister Pass in Cumbria in the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNearby Seathwaite saw the second highest total, with 107.2mm (4.2in), and some isolated spots could see up to 200mm (7.8in), the Met Office said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 60 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 180 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA road in Lancashire was shut by police after six vehicles got stuck in surface water\n\nIn North Yorkshire, York is currently predicting the River Ouse could rise above 4m (13.1ft) but that is a level the defences can cope with.\n\nHowever, if people are forced out of their homes due to flooding they can stay with friends or family without the risk of a Covid fine during Storm Christoff, North Yorkshire Police has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force declared it a major incident on Tuesday to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\nHe believes up to 3,000 properties in the region could be affected by flooding in Didsbury, Northenden and Sale near the River Mersey.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden, Todmorden on Tuesday\n\n\"This is a significant incident in terms of disruption to people and those people have been advised with regard to action to take,\" he said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman added: \"The Environment Agency is on the ground now working with local partners and stand ready to respond to any flooding.\n\n\"They have already ensured there are 40km (25 miles) of temporary barriers, which they are ready to deliver anywhere in the country and that is alongside high-powered pumps and trained staff who are ready to assist and provide information to local communities.\"\n\nWhen asked if local authorities would be given further financial support to deal with flooding, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: \"We have a number of flood recovery schemes that can be made available to those who are affected by flooding.\"\n\nFlood warden Keith Crabtree from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, said he was hoping improved flood defences had \"done the trick\" after checking river levels in Mytholmroyd.\n\n\"There appears to be plenty of rain about but it does not seem to be having and serious impact on the river levels,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see over the years to come how it performs in reducing the flood risk for the village. Things can change very quickly in the Calder Valley and we are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the floods? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fluttering flight patterns of butterflies have long inspired poets but baffled scientists.\n\nResearchers have struggled to understand how these delicate creatures can fly with their large but inefficient wings.\n\nNow, a new study shows that butterflies evolved an effective way of cupping and clapping their wings to generate thrust.\n\nThe scientists say that this ability helps them avoid dangerous predators.\n\nFlying species have evolved various methods of evading death. Some have developed powerful and efficient wings to speed them to safety.\n\nOthers survive by tasting awful when eaten.\n\nBut what about the slow-moving, meandering butterfly?\n\nThe problem for these creatures is that they have unusually large wings relative to their body size, which are aerodynamically inefficient for flight.\n\nBack in the 1970s, researchers developed a theory that their big wings allowed the butterfly to clap them together on the upstroke to power their take off.\n\nBut no one has shown how this works in natural flying conditions.\n\nNow, Swedish scientists, using a wind tunnel and high-speed cameras, have captured the butterfly's unique flying skill.\n\n\"The wings are behaving in quite an interesting way,\" co-author Dr Per Henningsson, from Lund University, in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"The leading and the trailing edge are meeting before the central part, forming this pocket shape.\n\n\"We think that sort of behaviour is going to improve the clap because it forms an air pocket between the wings which, when the wings collapse, that makes the jet even stronger and more efficient.\"\n\nA butterfly in the wind tunnel for the experiment\n\nAs well as recording slow-motion video of the butterflies in flight, the researchers constructed two simple pairs of mechanical clappers to test their ideas. One was rigid, the other flexible and more akin to the butterfly wings observed in the wind tunnel tests.\n\nThe team found that the flexible wings dramatically increased the force created by the clap.\n\nIt also improved the efficiency by 28%, which the authors describe as a huge amount for a flying animal.\n\nThis leads them to conclude that the large wings and cupped, clapping action were an evolutionary advantage for butterflies when faced with predators.\n\n\"If you are a butterfly that is able to take off quicker than the others, that gives you an obvious advantage,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's a strong selective pressure then, because it's a matter of life and death.\"\n\nA silver washed fritillary , one of the creatures used to show the mechanics of butterfly flight\n\n\"I don't really know if they use it in free flight, but I think they typically don't flap their wings together.\n\n\"But in the take-off phase, they definitely do it a lot.\"\n\nThe authors believe that their research might prove useful in other spheres.\n\nSome drone devices and underwater vehicles already use propulsion systems based on wing clapping motion, but with limitations.\n\nThe incorporation of the approach used by butterflies might bring major improvements, the scientists say.\n\n\"We're suggesting that the people that are working on these designs, they should look into this cup-shape behaviour, since there are lots of efficiency and effectiveness to be gained from it,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's certainly something that would be worthwhile looking into.\"\n\nThe report has been published in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRelegation-threatened Fulham lost some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but showed battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.\n\nOf the three sides currently adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, the Cottagers seem the most capable of clawing their way to safety, as illustrated by their impressive win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nBut they failed to repeat that bright and incisive display at Turf Moor against a typically hard-working and competitive Clarets side, who married their industry with the game's main moments of attacking ingenuity.\n\nIt was the visitors, though, who took the lead, as much through fortune as design, with Ola Aina's chested effort from a corner finding the net despite an attempted clearance from Robbie Brady on the line.\n\nCrucially, the visitors were denied the time to draw confidence from the opener, with Burnley hitting back three minutes later through a well-taken Ashley Barnes finish, following a superb low ball from Jay Rodriguez.\n\nThe same two strikers had both narrowly failed to get a goal-bound touch on a superb low cross from James Tarkowski in the first half, while Rodriguez saw a low drive kicked away by Alphonse Areola shortly after his side had levelled the score.\n\nThe draw represents an opportunity missed for Burnley to put further ground between themselves and the London side, with the gap between the two a sizeable but not yet entirely comfortable eight points.\n\nScott Parker's side remain six points shy of safety, with Newcastle the 17th-placed side most in danger of being reeled in.\n• None Follow live text commentary of Burnley v Fulham in the Premier League\n\nA point gained, or two lost for Fulham?\n\nEarning a result at Burnley against a side built to expose the mental and physical weaknesses in an opponent, especially a newly promoted one, is not an easy task.\n\nIn doing so, Fulham have further demonstrated their growth into a top-flight side, after claiming a number of creditable draws earlier in the campaign and then dispatching an aspiring big-hitter in Everton last weekend.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cottagers' development could have come too late.\n\nOnly wins will really eat into the gap between themselves and safety and they cannot afford to let one slip from their grasp when it is there to be had.\n\nIt is why Parker and his side will be so disappointed at the speed and manner with which they conceded the equaliser at Turf Moor, throwing away the lead and momentum they had seized by allowing Barnes a free run in on goal to finish.\n\nThey had been on the back foot for large periods before that and were indebted to a bit of fortune for their goal, but aesthetics come a distant second to actual points right now.\n\nThe biggest positive for Burnley will be that their advantage over the Cottagers remains the same as it was before kick-off.\n\nWith the likes of Newcastle and Palace in far worse form than they are, and Brighton a point worse off, they will feel relatively calm about their situation.\n\nWhat will worry manager Dyche is further injuries to his already depleted squad, with Johan Berg Gudmundsson having to depart, and his replacement Robbie Brady also needing to be replaced.\n\nThere is no respite for either side, with both facing further important fixtures at the weekend.\n\nBurnley host West Brom, the side a place below Fulham in the table, while Parker's men welcome bottom club Sheffield United to Craven Cottage.\n\n'When we get ahead we need to weather something'\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche talking to Sky Sports: \"Another point on the board, we are stripped to the bare bones. A committed performance.\n\n\"The reaction to their goal was excellent and I thought we defended well. It's remarkably unfortunate how many injuries we have had.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker talking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough place to come, the ball is in play not a lot, it is scrappy. We got our noses in front and disappointed with the goal we have conceded.\n\n\"We take the point though. That is four points so far this week. When we get ahead we need to weather something. There were a couple of mistakes for their goal.\n\n\"I thought we were solid, dealt with the threat of balls coming in but were not able to get our identity on it.\n\n\"We regroup, it has been a busy week. Every game is big for us. Six points. This team has honest belief and confidence.\"\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in their past 31 home meetings with Fulham in all competitions (W25 D6), extending their longest ever unbeaten run against an opponent at Turf Moor in their history. Their last such defeat was back in April 1951 (2-0).\n• None Fulham's 31-game winless streak away from home against Burnley in all competitions is their longest run without a victory on the road against an opponent in their history.\n• None There have been just 24 Premier League goals scored at Turf Moor this season (Burnley scoring 10 and conceding 14) - the joint-lowest total at a top-flight ground in 2020-21 (level with Craven Cottage).\n• None Fulham have gone six consecutive away games without defeat in the Premier League (W1 D5), their joint longest such run in the competition (also in August 2004 under Chris Coleman).\n• None Burnley have conceded the first goal of the game in eight of their 12 Premier League matches at Turf Moor this season, including each of the past five - only Sheffield United (10) have done so more often on home soil in the competition this campaign.\n• None There were just 224 seconds between Ola Aina's opener for Fulham and Ashley Barnes' equaliser for Burnley.\n• None Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career, with this his 196th appearance in the competition.\n• None Burnley's Robbie Brady is the only player to have been substituted on and off in two separate Premier League games this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from very close range misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Maja.\n• None James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Maja (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Tottenham and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed head coach of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe Argentine, 48, who succeeded Thomas Tuchel, has signed a deal until 30 June 2022, with the option of an extra year.\n\nPochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, has been out of work since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.\n\nPSG are third in Ligue 1 and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League in February and March.\n\nGerman Tuchel was sacked on 29 December after two and a half years in charge.\n• None Pochettino is back - but why has he chosen PSG? Read Guillem Ballague's column\n\nPochettino will take his first training session on Sunday following the French league's winter break.\n\nHe said he was \"happy and honoured\" to take on the role and that the club \"has always held a special place in my heart\".\n\n\"I return to the club today with a lot of ambition and humility, and am eager to work with some of the world's most talented players,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"This team has fantastic potential and my staff and I will do everything we can to get the best for Paris St-Germain in all competitions. We will also do our utmost to give our team the combative and attacking playing identity that Parisian fans have always loved.\"\n\nPSG chairman and chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Pochettino's return \"fits perfectly with our ambitions\", adding: \"It will be another exciting chapter for the club and one I am positive the fans will enjoy.\"\n\nPochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol and spent 18 months at Southampton before joining Tottenham in May 2014.\n\nHe guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season, while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2016-17.\n\nA former Argentina defender, Pochettino led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nHe was sacked five months later, with the club 14th in the Premier League, and replaced by Jose Mourinho.\n\nTuchel's final game in charge of PSG was a 4-0 win over Strasbourg on 23 December, which moved the reigning champions to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon and second-placed Lille before a two-week winter break.\n\nPSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham's Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.\n\nWe all wanted to see him back and we all thought he was waiting for the Manchester United job. PSG is a massive job. There's a massive expectation there.\n\nWith the squad he can pick from and the players he can attract, it's a match made in heaven.\n\nPochettino has got the best out of Dele Alli in the past and it would probably be a clever move all round to get him out there with with the Euros looming.\n\nYou have to have success [at PSG]. They have moved Thomas Tuchel on because PSG are actually in a title race rather than winning at a canter. It's a great opportunity for Pochettino.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Arwel Morris said national park staff and police had been engaging with visitors\n\nBeauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy over the last few days\" despite restrictions meaning all but essential travel should be avoided.\n\nSnowdonia park warden Arwel Morris reiterated the message that people should not be driving to visit places.\n\nOn Saturday, police stopped people from Milton Keynes attempting to walk up Snowdon in breach of Covid rules.\n\nMr Morris blamed a \"perfect storm\" of good weather and people being off work for the number of visitors in the area.\n\n\"We try and enforce the fact that exercise should begin and end at home, meaning people should not try and drive to a location where they plan to exercise,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"And this has been really difficult over the last few days.\n\n\"We have dealt with people from London, Birmingham… numerous people from north Wales travelling to beauty spots.\"\n\nMr Morris, a warden for Snowdonia National Park, said police had been doing their \"absolute best\" dealing with visitors despite other pressures, as wardens could not enforce breaches in lockdown rules.\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nOn New Year's Day, the force tweeted to say people had been reported for breaching travel restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a nationwide level four lockdown since 20 December.\n\nWales is in a tier four lockdown\n\nTravelling is only allowed for essential purposes, such as for work and for caring responsibilities. International travel is also not allowed.\n\nPeople are still allowed out of their homes to exercise for unlimited periods each day, but must maintain social distancing and not exercise with anyone outside their household.\n\nMore than three quarters of England is also under the strictest tier four coronavirus measures, putting restrictions on people's daily lives.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "Owen Thomas says metal detecting has been his escape from the stresses of the pandemic.\n\nThe writer from Tongwynlais, Cardiff started metal detecting after bumping into his long-time friend Bob Wiseman - an avid detectorist - during lockdown.\n\nAside from his first outing, when he followed his metal toe cap boots thinking he had found treasure, he has discovered artefacts dating back to the 13th Century.\n\nOwen says he has fallen in love with his new-found hobby and it is \"the link with a life that's gone” that appeals to him so much.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for execution in January 2021\n\nA US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.\n\nLisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.\n\nIf the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.\n\nMontgomery's execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.\n\nIt was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery's lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.\n\nA court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.\n\nBut on Friday, a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law, allowing the execution to take place.\n\nMontgomery's legal team said they will file a petition for the judges to reconsider their ruling.\n\nThe last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nFederal executions had been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume earlier last year.\n\nIf the remaining executions go ahead, Mr Trump will have overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century.\n\nMontgomery's execution date is just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.\n\nMr Biden, who for decades was a fierce supporter of the death penalty as a Delaware senator, has now said he will seek to end federal executions once he takes office.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.\n\n\"Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett - who was eight months pregnant - until the victim lost consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMontgomery cut into Stinnett's body to remove the baby, which she took with her in an attempt to pass it off as her own.\n\nIn 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.\n\nBut Montgomery's lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.\n\nUnder the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.\n\nCertain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.\n\nThe death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.\n\nA 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.\n\nAccording to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's in store for US President-elect Biden in 2021? Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks ahead\n\nThe latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.\n\nA Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.\n\nLawyers for Mr Pence had asked for the case to be thrown out on Thursday.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on 20 January. Mr Trump is yet to concede.\n\nMr Gohmert, a Republican congressman, told Newsmax TV that he planned to appeal against the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's friends and colleagues in the Republican party have presented dozens of legal challenges to the November outcome which delivered a decisive win to Mr Biden.\n\nHis victory was announced after days of vote-counting that took longer than in recent years because of the huge number of postal ballots cast due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Trump has made numerous unsubstantiated claims that Mr Biden's win, which saw the president-elect gain 306 electoral college votes to his rival's 232, was fraudulent.\n\nThe electoral college is a system whereby each US state has an allocated number of points that is granted to the overall winner in each state. The candidate who gains the majority wins the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nCongressman Gohmert's case sought to allow Vice-President Mike Pence to reject some electoral college votes when they are ratified by Congress on 6 January.\n\nThe vice-president presides over the vote certification in Congress in a ceremonial role that involves opening and tallying the envelopes containing electoral college votes before announcing the result.\n\nMr Gohmert's case aimed to expand that role to allow Mr Pence to cast judgement on the validity of the votes and potentially replace votes for Mr Biden with ones for Mr Trump.\n\nBut Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed to the Texas court in 2018 by Mr Trump, rejected the case, saying it was based on speculative events.\n\nOn Thursday a lawyer from the US Justice Department representing Mr Pence urged Mr Gohmert to drop the case, suggesting that it was not the vice-president's office that should be scrutinising the outcome.\n\nAlthough most Republicans in Congress are expected to vote in favour of certifying the results, a small number including Senator Josh Hawley, say they plan to object. But their vote is not expected to change the outcome.\n\nMr Biden is due to be sworn in as president on 20 January at a scaled-back ceremony with just 1,000 tickets available due to Covid-19 precautions.", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,500 people take part in an illegal rave in northern France, despite the nationwide curfew\n\nAn illegal warehouse rave that began on New Year's Eve in France in defiance of coronavirus precautions has been shut down by police after arrests and clashes.\n\nSome of the 2,500 ravers in Lieuron near Rennes in Brittany had planned to party until Tuesday.\n\nPolice issued fines to revellers found leaving and the organisers were being identified as the party ended.\n\nA number of party-goers were from the UK and Spain, police said.\n\nAttendees clashed with police, setting fire to a car and throwing objects at officers attempting to shut the event down. At least three officers were injured.\n\nPolice broke up the three-day party that defied a nationwide curfew\n\nA driver was apprehended with turntables, speakers and a generator in the boot of the vehicle, according to French TV station BFM TV.\n\nPolice trying to stop the event faced \"fierce hostility from many partygoers\", a statement from local authorities said.\n\nBut at 05:30 local time on Saturday the ravers began to accept the party was over and started to leave the two disused warehouse hangars, the local prefecture said.\n\nSome revellers said they were hoping to stay until Tuesday\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that trucks, sound equipment and generators were seized at the scene and an investigation has been opened.\n\nMore than 1,200 fines were issued for non-compliance with the curfew, not wearing a mask and attending an illegal gathering, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gérald DARMANIN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday authorities said they had opened a sanitary cordon around the party and anyone leaving the event was urged to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nOne of the party-goers, who gave his name as Jo, told the AFP news agency that \"very few had respected social distancing\" at the event.\n\nA number of people slept in their cars before returning to dance, Le Monde newspaper reports.\n\nOne reveller told Le Monde that the rave was \"very well organised\" with food stalls inside.\n\nAnother, who came with four friends from Finisterre in north-west France, told the newspaper that she had wanted to \"escape\" for a few hours.\n\nOn Friday an interior ministry crisis meeting was held and all vehicle exits from the rave were blocked as police sought to shut down the party.\n\nFrance introduced strict rules ahead of the New Year including a curfew from 20:00 until 06:00.\n\nMore than 100,000 police officers were deployed across the country to break up parties and enforce the curfew.\n\nOfficers were instructed to break up underground parties as soon as they were reported, fine participants and identify the organisers.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases and 64,892 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nOfficers elsewhere in Europe have also had to break up events in recent days.\n\nPolice dispersed a mass gathering near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Saturday where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.\n\nThree footballers from London-based football team Tottenham Hotspur were photographed at a Christmas party last week in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd in Essex, an illegal New Year's Eve party damaged All Saints Church near Brentwood. Church authorities have since received hundreds of pounds to pay for repairs.\n\nOfficers in Spain broke up the rave near Barcelona, which had been going on for more than 40 hours", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to pay for repairs to a 500-year-old church that was \"trashed\" during an illegal New Year's Eve party.\n\nHundreds of revellers attended the party at All Saints Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, after the building was broken into.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nVolunteer group Friends of All Saints said it was \"completely overwhelmed\" by peoples' \"support and generosity\".\n\nChurch volunteer Astrid Gillespie said the damage was \"devastating\"\n\nThe fundraising page was set up on Friday and aimed to raise £2,000, but in less than 24 hours it had raised more than £8,700.\n\nIt said a \"massive clean-up\" was needed at the \"much-loved\" church after \"hundreds of revellers trashed the place\".\n\nEquipment was seized by police at the illegal party\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up. They had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church. To find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nReferring to the money that was raised, she said: \"Faith in humanity restored\".\n\nThe church, which is owned and maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust, has not been used for religious services since 1970, but regularly houses community events.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Amanda Quinn, who has early onset dementia, is cared for by her 23-year-old daughter Bethany\n\n\"It feels like you're being punished for something you didn't do.\"\n\nAmanda Quinn describes living through lockdown with early onset dementia as \"scary\" and \"feeling lost\".\n\nTwo years ago, she was diagnosed with the condition aged 49, and said the disease was a \"ticking time bomb\" for her husband and four children.\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support worker Lorraine Davies said lockdown had brought a \"great sense of loss\" to many families.\n\nSince her diagnosis, Amanda says she has lost her sense of what day it is, her concentration, and she struggles with speech occasionally and suffers more with incontinence.\n\nWhen Wales went into a UK national lockdown on 23 March, Amanda said she did not leave her home in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for weeks.\n\nShe said her children have noticed a \"big change\" in her.\n\n\"I used to have a wicked sense of humour - I still have one, but it's not how I used to be,\" she said.\n\nBut for Amanda one of the worst parts of her condition is \"losing so many friends\" whom she said \"would rather cross the road\" than talk to her.\n\n\"They don't know how to interact with me anymore,\" she said.\n\nAmanda says her children have noticed a \"big change\" since she was diagnosed aged 49\n\nHer 23-year-old daughter Bethany Kingsley, who cares for her, said the pandemic has caused caring work to increase ten-fold.\n\n\"I have to keep an eye on mum a lot more now, because she doesn't know what to do with herself.\n\n\"But I have also got to look after my mental health side of it as well. There are days where I'm struggling,\" she said.\n\nNow Amanda does activities at home such as adult colouring books, baking with Bethany, and watches movies.\n\n\"It is like being a child,\" Amanda explained.\n\n\"My daughter says it's like we've switched roles and she has become the adult as she holds my hand when we cross the road.\n\n\"Although I can see a car, it doesn't register to me that it is not safe to walk out, all I can think is that I need to be on the other side of the road.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, she attended dementia support groups in person, such as Memoria, a theatrical group of people with dementia and carers, whereas now she does this virtually.\n\nBethany says Covid has had a big impact on caring for her mother\n\nLast year, before the pandemic, Bethany put off moving away to study midwifery at university in Bristol.\n\nAlthough she said it was a \"difficult\" decision as she had wanted to do it for years, she said she was glad she was home to care for her mother during the pandemic.\n\nInstead she chose to study for an Open University course in health and social care from home.\n\n\"I thought my mother is the only person I've got at the end of the day and I would rather make sure she is safe and happy, rather than go off and leave her,\" she said.\n\nBut Amanda said she was concerned about how her condition will progress and affect her family more.\n\nThe 51-year-old said it was \"not fair\" that her daughter had to stay home because of her condition.\n\n\"It worries me how it will affect my children. I'm fortunate, I suppose, that I'm not going to know.\n\n\"I say I don't want to go into a care home but that wouldn't be fair on them - they have still got their whole lives to lead\".\n\nAmanda was still in her 40s when she was diagnosed\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support adviser for younger people Lorraine Davies said there was a stigma attached to younger people with the disease and a \"lack of public awareness\".\n\n\"Some have mortgages, some have young families, and often they also care for older adults - so it has a different impact on them, and their social network of people.\n\n\"A lot of people living with dementia don't always feel they will have next year, so 2020 has been a great sense of loss to them because of the lockdown and restrictions,\" she said.\n\nThe charity estimates that there are between 2,000 to 3,000 people with young onset dementia in Wales, according to 2018 figures from the first Welsh Government national dementia action plan.\n\nHowever Lorraine said the figure was likely to be higher as getting a dementia diagnosis can be harder for younger people, and can take more than a year to have it confirmed.\n\n\"It is also more common for younger people to have rarer forms of dementia, so rather than being a typical Alzheimer's disease, associated with memory loss, a patient might have behavioural changes, but you might just think they are upset, stressed, or put it down to mood swings.\n\n\"Some people have been accused of being drunk, because they have slurred speech, but actually that is a symptom.\"\n\nShe said the Alzheimer's Society has organised virtual support groups for people with the condition and their carers during lockdown.\n\n\"Often younger people want to meet people like them, because it helps them not to feel so alone in this. Knowing that brings people comfort.\"\n\nSimon Hatch, the director of Carers Trust Wales, said the pandemic had highlighted the \"crucial role unpaid carers play both in providing exceptional, expert care to family and friends\".\n\nMr Hatch said the trust found that 44% of young adult carers it spoke to felt overwhelmed by the pressures they were facing.\n\nHe said although there was support available to carers they would need \"sustainable\" forms of this in the future.\n\nThere are about 45,000 people with dementia in Wales, according to the Alzheimer's Society.\n\nThe disease is considered \"early onset\" when it affects people under 65, according to Young Dementia UK.\n\nLorraine said the age distinction was made to mark the difference in financial support, as 65 was state pension age at the time.\n\nDementia itself refers to a set of symptoms caused by many diseases of the brain. The most common symptom is memory loss and difficulty concentrating.\n\nOther symptoms can include struggling to remember recent events, changes to behaviour, mood, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nSpecific symptoms will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.\n\nA picture on social media showed Argentina forward Erik Lamela, Spain defender Sergio Reguilon and Argentina midfielder Giovani lo Celso at a party.\n\n\"We are not happy - it was a negative surprise for us,\" said Mourinho.\n\nIn a statement, Tottenham said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and \"the matter would be dealt with internally\".\n\nWest Ham reminded Argentina forward Manuel Lanzini, who also attended the party, of his responsibilities.\n\nLanzini apologised in a tweet on Saturday, saying he made a \"bad mistake\".\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions,\" he said. \"I know people have made difficult sacrifices to stay safe and I should be setting a better example.\"\n\nLamela and Lo Celso were not involved in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at home to Leeds, while Reguilon, who joined from Real Madrid in September, was on the bench.\n\n\"I gave an amazing gift to Reguilon - Portuguese piglet,\" Mourinho said. \"Amazing for Portuguese and Spanish. I was told he would spend Christmas on his own. He was not alone as you could see.\n\n\"We, the club, feel disappointed because we gave the players all the education and conditions. We know what we are internally. We don't need to open the door to you and let you know what is going on internally.\n\n\"What are going to be the consequences and how deeply we approach that negative surprise? I feel disappointed.\"\n\nThe Spurs statement added: \"We strongly condemned the image showing some of our players with family and friends together at Christmas, particularly as we know the sacrifices everybody around the country made to stay safe over the festive period.\n\n\"The rules are clear, there are no exceptions, and we regularly remind all our players and staff about the latest protocols and their responsibilities to adhere and set an example.\"\n\nLamela has made two league starts and Lo Celso four this season.\n\nLanzini has featured in nine of West Ham's 17 league games, coming on as a substitute in Friday's 1-0 win at Everton.\n\nA West Ham spokesperson said: \"The club has set the highest possible standards with its protocols and measures relating to Covid-19 so we are disappointed to learn of Manuel Lanzini's actions.\n\n\"The matter has been dealt with internally and Manuel has been strongly reminded of his responsibilities.\"\n\nTottenham's home league game with Fulham, scheduled to take place on 30 December, was called off three hours before kick-off after a number of Fulham players tested positive for coronavirus or showed symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, Fulham told BBC Sport they are looking into claims Aleksandar Mitrovic broke coronavirus rules by attending a New Year's party with Crystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic.\n\nImages on social media, reported in the Sun , allegedly show the Serbia team-mates celebrating in London with at least seven other adults.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned in London under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\n'Mourinho must be so angry'\n\nMourinho has been so critical and vocal of how the Premier League handled their situation [the Fulham postponement], which I totally disagree with him.\n\nYou have to accept we're in strange and difficult times - if it has to be called off at whatever time then it has to be called off.\n\nTo then see some of his players breaking the rules and laws, particularly when millions of people are sacrificing so much not only in this country but around the world, Mourinho must be so angry.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bitcoin's value has soared over the past year\n\nBitcoin's value surged above $34,000 (£24,850) for the first time on Sunday as the leading cryptocurrency continued to soar.\n\nIt put the gain this year at almost $5,000, although by 17:00 GMT the price had drifted lower to about $33,000, according to the Coindesk website.\n\nThe rise was put down to interest from big investors seeking quick profits.\n\nIt comes after Bitcoin soared 300% last year, with the price of many other digital currencies also rising sharply.\n\nEthereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, gained 465% in 2020\n\nSome analysts think Bitcoin's value could rise even further as the US dollar drops further.\n\nWhile the value of the US currency rose in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as investors sought safety amid the uncertainty, it has since dropped due to major stimulus from the US Federal Reserve. The currency ended last year with its biggest annual loss since 2017.\n\nBitcoin is traded in much the same way as real currencies like the US dollar and pound sterling.\n\nRecently it has won growing support as a form of payment online, with PayPal among the most recent adopters of digital currencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has also proved to be a volatile investment.\n\nThe soaring price has raised concerns that Bitcoin is due for a dramatic correction, as happened three years ago when the value collapsed after a bull run.\n\nDuring the rally in 2017 Bitcoin came close to breaking through the $20,000 level, only to hit extreme lows and fall below $3,300.\n\nIt passed $19,000 in November last year before dropping sharply again.\n\nIn October, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments pointing out that investors should realise its price is extremely volatile.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced 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which are the battlegrounds that could make the difference?", "Royal Mail challenged the decision in August 2018 that it had abused its dominant market position.", "The Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, overseeing the inquiry, gives opening statement.", "The 16-year-old climate activist will sail from the US to Madrid for the COP25 summit.", "The presenter is recovering from his marathon singing challenge in aid of Children In Need.", "Nicola Sturgeon says it is \"fundamentally unfair\" that the debate will only feature Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.", "The Normandy veteran commanded the land forces in the 1970s, before becoming chief of general staff.", "The postal union says a decision by the High Court to block industrial action is an \"utter outrage\".", "The Financial Conduct Authority is \"appalled\" at the insanitary conduct of its own workers.", "A charity album featuring Jodie Whittaker and Olivia Colman is removed from the main UK album chart.", "Manchester City held out for a draw with Atalanta in the Champions League after defender Kyle Walker had to go in goal for the closing stages of the match.", "Peter Chesney speaks about dealing with the murder of his daughter Jodie.", "Tom Watson says he wants to see a Labour government elected, but he \"wants to do something new\".", "The victim in a trial that led to the Welsh secretary to quit says he should not contest the election.", "It leaves the Welsh Tories' general election campaign in disarray, BBC Wales' political editor says.", "Court hears Declan O'Neill was raised in an atmosphere of \"intimidation and bullying\".", "Dutch police rushed to deal with the \"suspicious situation\" on the Madrid-bound flight at Schiphol.", "Crispin Aylett QC tells jurors Jodie Chesney was \"a victim of a brutal act of unprovoked violence\".", "The investigation has until now been held behind closed doors, but will be televised.", "Former Labour minister Ian Austin said Jeremy Corbyn is \"completely unfit\" to lead the country.", "Student voters are ready to target support over Brexit, research suggests.", "The Tories hope their \"get Brexit done\" pitch will win over Leave voters - but will it be enough?", "Police say they have informed the families of the 31 men and eight women found dead in Essex.", "About 180,000 passengers face travel disruption after the airline failed to halt the two-day action.", "Dr Peter Hutchinson resigns in the \"best interests of the college\" after calls for him to be banned.", "The Duchess of Cornwall has a worsening chest infection, Clarence House says.", "The 44-year-old man is feared to have been killed in a shark attack after he went snorkelling on holiday.", "Breaking news, sport, travel and weather updates from across North, South, East and West Yorkshire.", "Elizabeth Warren has offered to meet the Microsoft co-founder to explain plans she mooted last week.", "Drug dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie and a boy, 17, are convicted of murdering Jodie Chesney in east London.", "Nearly 3,000 voters were wrongly contacted by a council and told they would not be able to vote.", "Mr Watson - who has often found himself at odds with the party leadership - will not run again as an MP.", "An unusual weather phenomenon created thousands of egg-shaped balls of ice along the coastline.", "The pro-Remain parties have said the agreement will cover 60 seats across England and Wales.", "The trial continues of four people for the murder of 17-year-old Jodie Chesney in east London.", "Tottenham forward Son Heung-min says he is \"really sorry\" for his tackle which led to Everton midfielder Andre Gomes' horrific ankle injury.", "Voters overwhelmingly backed the removal, months after the council changed the name to honour King.", "Airbnb says it will start to verify every property after an investigation found a series of scams.", "The education secretary writes to councils about the use of unregistered accommodation for teens in care.", "The unnamed officer is accused of killing former Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson who was tasered.", "Jingye is reportedly planning to make an offer to buy the steelmaker out of insolvency.", "Crews were called to the former Berry Hill Quarry after reports part of a cliff was giving way.", "Chesterfield Road in Woodseats has flooded with drivers being warned to take care.", "The two men were attacked outside a bar ahead of Celtic's Europa League match against Lazio.", "About three million mobile customers will switch to Vodafone in a blow for BT.", "The UK's competition regulator says franchise winner FirstGroup is the sole operator on several routes.", "Boris Johnson tells supporters he needed to get Parliament working again, as he launches the campaign.", "Manuel Petrovic was accused of \"trying to rewrite the truth\" after being arrested for Jodie Chesney's murder.", "The 200m is one of number of events which will no longer feature at all Diamond League meetings in the 2020 season.", "Homes belonging to pair wanted for questioning about Essex lorry deaths are raided in the Irish Republic.", "Tom Watson resigns and steals Boris Johnson's campaign launch thunder.", "Election officers hit back angrily at call to stop using schools for polling stations.", "Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell outlines plans for a social transformation fund for public services.", "Latest from the campaign trail as parties set out economic plans and ex-Labour MPs back the Tories.", "Woke, upcycling, femtech and prorogue were all hotly tipped - but what was chosen to sum up 2019?", "Ministers confirm an extra \"short bill\" would need to passed to allow an independence referendum.", "European report ranks 190 cities in 30 countries on their \"cultural vibrancy\" and \"creative economy.\"", "Police investigate claims that staff at two care homes were victims of modern day slavery.", "Two people are found guilty of the murder of 17-year-old Jodie Chesney in east London.", "Justin Jackson doused eight officers in the flammable liquid during disorder on 5 May.", "Screaming was heard as the ceiling collapsed about 20 minutes into a performance.", "Mayor Arce was also marched through the streets barefoot in the latest post-election violence.", "Both major political parties have dropped a key target that would see the national debt falling over time.", "MSPs back the general principles of the Referendums (Scotland) Bill which lays the groundwork for a new Scottish independence referendum.", "The 18-year-old who was stabbed in the chest died in hospital shortly after being found in Uxbridge.", "Footage played in court shows backpacker Grace Millane and the man accused of her murder in two bars.", "Hundreds were left waiting for designer discounts at the singer's LA house.", "The pair were subjected to homophobic abuse during a live-stream watched by thousands of people.", "Police shut a road close to the M4 after the suspected migrants were found.", "The Trump Foundation used cash raised for veterans to fund his campaign, a New York judge rules.", "Leaked documents show new evidence of China's systematic brainwashing of Uighur and other detainees.", "The BBC says editing footage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson for a news bulletin was \"a mistake\".", "Alliance leader Naomi Long was speaking at the launch of her party's general election manifesto.", "Sir Tim Berners-Lee tells the BBC the renaming of a Conservative Twitter account was \"unbelievable\".", "Seven officers were hurt while trying to disperse the fighting at the Star City complex in Birmingham.", "Disney say its a global record for an animation but Lion King fans might dispute that...", "The Tory manifesto contains new policies - but there are reasons why it is not an historic document.", "The film Blue Story is still banned from the 91 UK and Ireland Vue cinema locations.", "Aslan King went missing after suffering a suspected seizure during a camping trip.", "The secondary ticketing firm says the deal will create more choice for customers.", "Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard says a Labour UK government would not block indyref2 if there is a yes majority.", "The former mayor of New York announces his candidacy, saying that \"the stakes could not be higher\".", "The Scottish First Minister says Scotland could rejoin the EU \"relatively quickly\" if independent.", "A King's College London study finds children's lung development can be reduced by up to 14%.", "Three people in the car were seriously injured when it crashed before catching fire in Lewis.", "The World Meteorological Organization says the levels of warming gases continue to reach new highs.", "Activists say military-grade cans are being fatally shot at people in anti-government protests in Iraq.", "The SNP leader says in an interview she believes an independent Scotland could re-enter the EU relatively quickly.", "The prime minister courts the farming vote at a winter fair before he sets out pledges for Wales.", "Two people were held after the vessel, said to be from Colombia, was found off Galicia's coast.", "A woman talks about contracting an infection following a breast reduction operation in Turkey.", "Four young candidates who unseated establishment figures in Hong Kong's dramatic local elections.", "The quagga was sent to Bangor for safe-keeping during WW2 but on its return it was missing a leg.", "Students across the UK face disruption as university staff start eight days of industrial action.", "LVMH, the world's biggest luxury goods company, buys Tiffany for more than $16bn.", "Maurice Robinson pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to conspiring to assist illegal immigration.", "Vue and Showcase have dropped the movie, while Odeon is pledging \"security\" around screenings.", "A three-decades-long search may finally have located the hot object left behind by a famous supernova.", "Panorama's Richard Bilton confronted China’s ambassador to the UK about Uighur Muslim prison camps.", "England fast bowler Jofra Archer says he was subjected to \"racial insults\" from a fan during the final day of the first-Test defeat by New Zealand.", "England are crushed in the first Test by New Zealand to lose by an innings and 65 runs at the Bay Oval.", "The supermarket chain has 'temporarily withdrawn' pots of its own-brand honey.", "Hong Kong is celebrating historic district council election results including pro-democracy wins.", "They object to casual contracts, increases to pension contributions and a squeeze on wages.", "The Orkney entry received almost 5,000 entries in the public poll, narrowly beating Lerwick and Milngavie.", "An assessment shows rapid loss of trees, shrubs and herbs in countries such as Ethiopia and Tanzania.", "Ephraim Mirvis urges voters to consider Labour's \"inadequate\" response to anti-Semitism allegations.", "The Spanish-owned bank will close 15% of its branches as it aims to make £100m of cost savings.", "A 36-year-old from Essex is being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter, say police.", "Lewis Capaldi got two prizes, while Stranger Things and Little Mix were also recognised.", "Sally Stokes tells an inquest her husband stabbed her and locked her in their house.", "The Rother Valley Labour Party volunteer suffered a suspected broken jaw in the assault.", "It would be one of the SNP's key demands to gain its support in the event of a minority Labour government.", "The party also wants to tackle the black and ethnic minority pay gap in its \"faith and race manifesto\".", "The party's general election manifesto says it is \"ambitious\" for the Welsh economy.", "More than 10% of patients in an extensive study died from cardiovascular disease - not their cancer.", "The coastguard says the search will resume on Tuesday morning.", "Tesla's chief executive was left embarrassed after a mishap during the vehicle's launch.", "Checking a claim from an audience member on Question Time who said £80,000 put him outside the top 5%.", "Footage shows Grace Millane's final moments and her murderer's actions after her death.", "The US attorney general says he has reviewed CCTV from the jailhouse on the night Epstein died.", "England reduce New Zealand to 144-4 after posting 353 on the second day of the first Test in Mount Maunganui.", "Jeremy Corbyn has told a Question Time audience that if he becomes prime minister he will remain neutral on Brexit.", "Is Labour's plan for 100,000 council houses and 50,000 housing association homes a year feasible?", "The trial of Grace Millane's killer is perhaps the most highly publicised murder case in New Zealand's history.", "Johnson asked why report into alleged Russian interference in UK democracy has not been published.", "They are the first UK citizens to be repatriated from an area formerly under the control of IS.", "Barbara Taylor Bradford writes a new novel revisiting her blockbuster from a different point of view.", "A man has been found guilty of strangling British backpacker Grace Millane.", "Dan Evans digs deep to fire Great Britain into the semi-finals of the inaugural Davis Cup finals in Madrid with a thrilling win over Germany.", "The health secretary said the board would be escalated to stage four of the NHS Board Performance Escalation Framework.", "The four party leaders are quizzed on Brexit in a Question Time special in Sheffield.", "The SNP leader was asked whether she would back a confirmatory vote on a Scottish independence deal.", "The Conservatives raised £5.7m in registered donations during the first week of the official campaign.", "The bank says the problem was due to a \"processing error\" and those affected will not be left out of pocket.", "The party says the money raised would go towards tackling rough sleeping.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Jurors in the trial of the man accused of killing Grace Millane hear closing arguments from lawyers.", "Television audiences for the show have slumped and the brand said its marketing needs to \"evolve\".", "A criminal investigation is opened over a video where children ask a gay man about his life and sexuality.", "The Parole Board says Ian Simms, who murdered Helen McCourt in 1988, has met the test for release.", "Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon, Jo Swinson and Boris Johnson faced tough questions from the audience.", "Leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson has told an audience at Question Time that her party are being clear in their Brexit stance.", "A UN resolution in May gave the UK six months to hand back control to Mauritius.", "The move is aimed at helping directors to better handle scenes involving nudity and simulated sex.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Wetherspoon says it apologised after a banana was sent to Mark D'arcy-Smith's table in Bromley.", "The owners of Tomatin Distillery are opposed to the community's name being used for a hotel development.", "Labour is promising to transform the UK with \"real change\" to rail, mail, water and energy.", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in the Manchester bombing in 2017.", "Prosecutors say the man accused of murdering Grace Millane disposed of her body using the case.", "The Labour leader is finally able to say what he really wants to do - but will it convince enough voters?", "Jerahl Hall is on a mission to persuade more young people to get out and vote in the election.", "Voulez-Vous an episode where we look at Labour's manifesto launch?", "A lorry driver is also arrested on suspicion of immigration offences after the men were discovered.", "What's the most popular candidate name? Where are the parties standing? All the candidates analysed.", "Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo shot Sana Muhammad in the abdomen when she was nine months pregnant.", "Victoria Freeman has been seeking answers since the death of her three-year-old son Mason in 2017.", "About half of the new roles will be for apprentices in each of Hays Travel's 737 shops.", "Coca-Cola is \"taking steps\" after Momentum used its imagery for an election ad without approval.", "The man, from Northern Ireland, was detained after the bodies of 39 people were found in October.", "They will be the first UK citizens to be repatriated from an area formerly under the control of IS.", "Mental health and drugs are high up the list of local people's election priorities in Norwich.", "Almost 200 people got in touch to say it was \"offensive to feature two men dancing as a pair\".", "The bank is the latest big business to cut ties with Prince Andrew's mentoring scheme, Pitch@Palace.", "Flooding caused travel disruption after snow also caused problems on the roads.", "The ceasefire ended two days of fighting that killed 34 Palestinians and paralysed parts of Israel.", "The health secretary knew a child died as a result of an infection potentially linked to water two months ago.", "Boris Johnson says the Tories will double funding for research and development if they win the election.", "Labour vows to close the gap between the average hourly pay for men and women but Tories are critical.", "An unscripted show featuring all six Friends is reportedly in the pipeline, but it won't be a reboot.", "The army general overseeing the reconstruction disagrees with the architect over the spire.", "Plan to \"decarbonise capitalism\" would be funded by extra borrowing and tax changes, party says.", "The chancellor has announced plans to boost UK broadband - but it is not clear what he is promising.", "Garlic and ginger pills can delay the healing of skin wounds when breast cancer spreads, expert says.", "The hip-hop star, who had a number one album in the US last December, admitted weapon charges.", "Record numbers in England are on hospital waiting lists, while A&E delays highest since target introduced.", "The party says it will not set \"arbitrary\" targets but will aim to reduce immigration if it wins the election.", "Nicola Sturgeon has joked Jeremy Corbyn will end up demanding another indyref after further timing confusion.", "Mitchell Rose deliberately mowed down Chance Bright as an accomplice stole the Amazon driver's van.", "Rising numbers of children are being officially labelled as vulnerable before they are even born.", "The shadow chancellor tells BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that the roll-out would cost £20bn.", "The major parties in England have pledged billions more for the NHS over the next five years.", "The man accused of strangling backpacker Grace Millane says he was \"in shock\" when he found her body.", "The early headlines have been dominated by Labour and Tory figures turning on their former leaders.", "The US president has again dismissed the impeachment inquiry as a \"witch-hunt\" and a \"joke\".", "The Conservative Party has denied offering Brexit Party candidates jobs or peerages to stand down.", "Political parties made promises over immigration, the gender pay gap and human rights.", "Device-maker heralds \"impossible\" engineering as it launches a flip phone with a foldable screen.", "Few victims' families were able to attend the covering over of the Ethiopian Airlines crash site.", "The outgoing European Council chief says leaving the EU would leave the UK a \"second-rate player\".", "The newly-crowned Scotland tree of the year is being used to draw attention to Dutch elm disease risks.", "Geoffrey Bran, 71, denies murdering his wife Mavis, 69, with hot oil in 2018.", "The Labour leader will not say whether he wants the number of people coming into the UK to rise or fall.", "The oxygen in Martian air is changing in a way that can't currently be explained by known chemical processes.", "Labour conference votes to extend migrant rights if the party wins power at the next election.", "The St Andrews University professor is wanted in Spain over her role in the Catalan independence movement.", "Boris Johnson says the availability of workers from overseas has helped some big firms hold down wages. Is he right?", "Parents have cut back on impulse buys and face the threat of shortages of festive favourites, analysts say.", "Michael Weir is convicted of the killings after being retried under the so-called double jeopardy law.", "Weather warnings for rain are in place for a number of areas already badly affected by flooding.", "The drugs are said to have been sold to bodybuilders, gym goers and possibly professional athletes.", "A target introduced in 2016 may have led to prosecutors dropping rape cases, Newsnight learns.", "\"Manipulative\" Stephen Waterson will serve more than seven years after he crushed the three-year-old.", "A state of disaster is declared as the Italian city is hit with a high tide of more than 1.87m.", "Kate Griffiths is rejecting the support of estranged husband Andrew, whom she is divorcing.", "The fossilised tooth of a mysterious extinct ape is shedding new light on the evolution of great apes.", "England qualify for Euro 2020 as group winners after putting seven goals past Montenegro in their 1,000th match on a celebratory day at Wembley.", "The damage from the 1.87m (6ft) high waters is a \"blow to the heart of our country\", PM Conte says.", "Chicken eggs were found to contain 70 times the level allowed under European safety standards.", "A post worth just £104 in 2014 is now banking £1,276 a report suggests.", "Three BBC reporters break down the key points as the impeachment inquiry goes public.", "John McDonnell said the party will bring free fibre broadband to every UK home by 2030 if it wins the election.", "Nearly 30 women were rescued in the operation which took place across east London.", "The postal union says a decision by the High Court to block industrial action is an \"utter outrage\".", "Police and security at Dulwich Picture Gallery secured two paintings but the intruder got away.", "Transparency law would help address unequal pay between men and women, says the Fawcett Society charity.", "Paramedics are treating 20 people, some seriously injured, following the crash in Cambridgeshire.", "The Foreign Office has written to the family warning it will \"seek costs\" for any judicial review.", "NHS Lothian has confirmed two related cases of the disease and say infection protocols are in place.", "Jingye is reportedly planning to make an offer to buy the steelmaker out of insolvency.", "The Queen and politicians joined commemorations for those who lost their lives in conflict.", "Antony Calvert resigned after his comments from 10 years ago emerged.", "Lord Mawhinney was the former chairman of both the Conservative Party and the Football League.", "It is their first public event together since Harry said he and William were on \"different paths\".", "Tens of thousands gather in Tokyo to celebrate the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito.", "A watchdog found the MP \"disregarded\" the law by offering to obtain cocaine for male prostitutes.", "A man who set off fireworks during a tribute had to be rushed away from angry veterans by police.", "England beat New Zealand in another super over to win a remarkable final Twenty20 and take the series 3-2.", "The director signed a four-film deal, but Amazon Studios withdrew after his comments about #MeToo.", "More than a dozen emergency-level fires are burning across New South Wales and Queensland.", "England concede a late goal to lose their friendly against Germany at Wembley - in front of a record home crowd for a Lionesses game of 77,768.", "It came just seven months after the last general election in the politically gridlocked country.", "Goldman Sachs, which operates Apple Card, discriminates between men and women, it is claimed.", "The pair, both 28, knew each other and no-one else is being sought in connection with their deaths.", "The storm, expected to unleash surges as high as 7ft, has prompted the evacuation of 2m people.", "Hannah Cockroft sets a new world record to win her fifth consecutive T34 100m title at the World Para-Athletics Championships.", "Liverpool move eight points clear at the top of the Premier League with a fine win over champions Manchester City - who are now nine points off the pace.", "Annie Hall was swept away by the River Derwent near Matlock, Derbyshire, early on Friday.", "No 10 is delaying publishing a report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy, critics say.", "This home in Fishlake has been left submerged after persistent rain which caused floods across Yorkshire and the Midlands.", "In 1597, whistleblower Marion Walker took on powerful men to expose a shocking miscarriage of justice.", "The health secretary says others take a \"more balanced approach\" on Islamophobia than Baroness Warsi.", "More than 90 blazes were raging across New South Wales on Friday.", "The shadow cabinet member is accused of singing an altered version of The Beatles' song Hey Jude.", "Ratings agency Moody's says Brexit is causing \"paralysis in policy-making\" in the UK.", "Mr Vaz, who was suspended from the Commons after a drug and sex inquiry, says he is retiring.", "British YouTuber KSI beats Logan Paul on a split decision at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.", "Workers at the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe are living under a cloud as the plant's future remains uncertain.", "The parties are making ever more extravagant promises - the question for voters is who do you trust?", "Saudi Arabia oil giant says 0.5% of shares will be offered to retail savers - but there are risks.", "People are being evacuated from their homes amid more than 100 flood warnings.", "Even one attack is too many, a teaching union says, calling for schools to display warning posters.", "The greetings card chain, which employs 2,500 staff, wants shop closures and rent reductions.", "Persistent rain has caused days of flooding across Yorkshire and the Midlands.", "Shona Stevens was killed in a \"vicious and frenzied\" attack as she returned from the shops 25 years ago.", "They include former MPs Chris Williamson, Roger Godsiff and Stephen Hepburn.", "A British Airways insider has revealed airlines deliberately fill planes with extra fuel to cut costs.", "The party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, says removing the benefit for over-75s was \"utterly callous\".", "The party says a huge programme to fund household energy-saving would reduce bills and create jobs.", "Johannes Radebe says he's \"never felt so liberated\" as he dances with fellow pro Graziano Di Prima.", "Sir Lindsay Hoyle wins the Speaker election - but what kind of Speaker will he be?", "A foreign affairs committee report says UK policy could be pushing migrants into danger.", "Brescia striker Mario Balotelli criticises the \"small-minded\" fans who shouted racist abuse at him on Sunday.", "GMB union says it is advising its members on whether to go to tribunal over their dismissals", "Data from spacecraft launched in the 1970s help determine the shape of the magnetic bubble around the Sun.", "He was a household name in Ireland having presented the Late Late Show for more than 30 years.", "The Scottish government says the cash will ease pressure on the health service in the coming months.", "Politicians are urged not to make \"empty promises\" and tell \"outright lies\" about health funding.", "Government spending will climb to 1970s levels, whichever party wins the election, research claims.", "The 80-year-old man, who was taking part in the annual London-to-Brighton event, died at the scene.", "The presenter and newsreader says he hopes \"to put his 35 years of experience to good use\".", "As Mothercare calls in administrators, parents share their memories of the baby brand.", "Figures obtained by BBC News suggest young people are increasingly going missing from unregulated care homes.", "The arrests come as a team of Vietnamese officials arrive in Britain to help formally identify the bodies.", "Schools in Delhi have been ordered to close until Tuesday, and construction has been halted.", "Zarah Sultana said she was \"exasperated by global suffering and needless killing\" after 2015 posts emerge.", "A 27-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons denies the murder of Grace Millane.", "The Lib Dems launch their election campaign while Labour and the Tories trade blows over Brexit.", "Demonstrators are demanding more jobs, an end to corruption, and better services.", "Two services have been held to remember the 39 Vietnamese victims found dead in a lorry container.", "The couple, who married in 2015, already have two daughters, Sophia, three, and Edie, two.", "The first rise in four years is the latest spending pledge made by ministers ahead of the general election.", "An undercover BBC investigation finds college staff would sit exams for prospective drivers for cash.", "The national threat level has been downgraded to \"substantial\" but the government warns it is still high.", "The election starting gun has been fired, with Labour claiming the NHS will be sold to US companies.", "The British Retail Consortium calls for political action as it estimates the scale of job cuts.", "The parent and baby goods retailer says its 79 UK stores are unable to trade profitably.", "The former Soviet leader warns that the tension between Russia and the West is a risk to the entire planet.", "Lewis Hamilton becomes the second most successful Formula 1 driver of all time after claiming sixth world title at United States GP.", "Welcome to your first daily Electioncast!", "The state's Democratic governor hit back at the president in a public Twitter spat.", "Six MPs set out why they should be the next House of Commons Speaker when John Bercow steps down.", "Officers tried to stop a vehicle in Burnage on Sunday night but it smashed into a building.", "Francesca O'Brien apologises for saying people on the programme Benefits Street \"need putting down\".", "The energy company says it hopes to \"address concerns\" about fracking after a government moratorium.", "Fiancee Dr Lucy Thomas says she was compelled to respond after the sheriff found Captain David Traill \"took a chance\".", "The rapper says he nearly died after being stabbed backstage at a BBC Radio 1Xtra gig in Birmingham.", "Evha Jannath, 11, died after falling from a ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park on a school trip in 2017.", "Fire, ambulance and police were called to the Paisley Centre after a structural collapse on Monday afternoon.", "Conservative Aberdeen South MP Ross Thomson said it was the \"hardest decision of my life\".", "Steve Easterbrook had a consensual relationship with another member of staff, violating company rules.", "Mark Scott is alleged to have illegally routed approximately $400m (£310m) out of the US.", "Ten British nationals are injured when a coach overturns on its way from Paris to London.", "There are claims No 10 is delaying publishing the report on alleged meddling in the Brexit referendum.", "The endangered mammal is found up a tree in a garden after going missing from a wildlife park.", "Builder Steve Thomson says he was on the \"verge of a heart attack\" after he won with his wife Lenka.", "Aslan King, 25, had been missing since Saturday after hitting his head and leaving four friends.", "The PM rules out allowing a second independence referendum as he launches the Scottish Conservative manifesto.", "The Muslim Council of Britain accuses the Conservatives of a \"blind spot for this type of racism\".", "The consumer group says it found just one in 20 offers were cheaper than at other times of the year.", "The Liberal Democrat leader asked the Court of Session to stop the Royal Mail from distributing the leaflet.", "Jeremy Corbyn urges Jewish community to \"engage\" with him following the chief rabbi's outspoken criticism.", "Over 200 new families have contacted an inquiry into mother and baby deaths at an NHS hospital trust.", "The actress says TV shows which appeal to the whole family are \"to be lauded\".", "De La Rue says there is a risk the company will collapse if its turnaround plan fails to work.", "\"Staff, volunteer and donor opinion\" has led Yorkshire Air Ambulance to end its connection to the duke.", "Tottenham come from behind to beat Olympiakos and book their place in the Champions League knockout stages in Jose Mourinho's first home game.", "The film Blue Story is still banned from the 91 UK and Ireland Vue cinema locations.", "The men were teenagers in 1984 when they were jailed for life for killing a boy in Maryland.", "Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard says a Labour UK government would not block indyref2 if there is a yes majority.", "Updates and reaction as the parties continued trying to win over voters around the country.", "The Scottish First Minister says Scotland could rejoin the EU \"relatively quickly\" if independent.", "Dominic Raab is called a \"coward\" by friends and family of Harry Dunn who were kept outside a church.", "Tokyo's world-renowned Sukiyabashi Jiro loses its stars as it no longer accepts public reservations.", "Three people in the car were seriously injured when it crashed before catching fire in Lewis.", "New analysis of election manifestos shows no major UK party's plans would reduce child poverty.", "The World Meteorological Organization says the levels of warming gases continue to reach new highs.", "The Chinese e-commerce giant begins trading in Asia after completing this year's biggest share sale.", "Supt Novlett Robyn Williams made a \"grave error of judgement\" by not reporting the video, a court hears.", "A woman talks about contracting an infection following a breast reduction operation in Turkey.", "The UN says nations must \"dramatically strengthen\" carbon cuts to avoid dangerous climate change.", "Google says the four were sacked over data security, but they say it is because they spoke out.", "A kidney usually weighs between 120-150g, so this was one of the heaviest on record, doctors say.", "The global hit series portrays Prince Charles learning Welsh, and the opposition to his investiture.", "A professor's comment triggers an avalanche of criticism on Twitter from food lovers and immigrants.", "Panorama's Richard Bilton confronted China’s ambassador to the UK about Uighur Muslim prison camps.", "The supermarket chain has 'temporarily withdrawn' pots of its own-brand honey.", "Video clips masquerading as being about beauty tips actually criticise China's treatment of Muslims.", "Ephraim Mirvis urges voters to consider Labour's \"inadequate\" response to anti-Semitism allegations.", "Shortages in the turkey market and poor Brussels sprout harvests will mean higher prices, say analysts.", "Mahdi Mohamud admits a terror offence and trying to murder three people at Manchester Victoria station.", "A 36-year-old from Essex is being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter, say police.", "Sally Stokes tells an inquest her husband stabbed her and locked her in their house.", "Accounts inactive for more than six months will be deleted - including those of people who have died.", "The Rother Valley Labour Party volunteer suffered a suspected broken jaw in the assault.", "The Electoral Reform Society says there has been a \"surge\" in applications to register to vote.", "The party also wants to tackle the black and ethnic minority pay gap in its \"faith and race manifesto\".", "The Labour leader says racism is a \"poison\" and he wants to work with all communities to eliminate it.", "Protests had an adverse effect on pupils and 21 teachers were treated for stress, a judge says.", "Tesla's chief executive was left embarrassed after a mishap during the vehicle's launch.", "The singer gave £10,000 after Market Deeping Model Railway Club was destroyed by vandals.", "A review said Robbie McIntosh did not display \"violent behaviours\" before he attempted to murder a woman in Dundee.", "Police have named the victim as Nicola Stevenson, 39, although she has yet to be formally identified.", "He took some of the first photographs of The Beatles, and his death is described as the \"end of an era\".", "Police remain locked in a stand-off at a major university with hundreds of protesters inside.", "The teenager has been hailed a \"hero\" by her family after the attack in County Fermanagh.", "Health Secretary Jeane Freeman refuses to rule out government intervention at Glagow health board.", "The star will top the bill on the festival's Pyramid Stage, one week after his 78th birthday.", "Their father confirms the death of Haydon Croucher in an emotional post on Facebook.", "A museum buys a tiny book by 14-year-old Charlotte Bronte, eight years after narrowly missing out.", "The Lib Dems and SNP say it is unfair to be excluded from Tuesday's ITV general election leaders debate.", "British Special Forces have been accused of covering up the killings of four young Afghans in 2012.", "The 19-year-old died after he was in collision with a car driven by a US diplomat's wife.", "Israel Folau used a sermon to link Australia's bushfire crisis to same-sex marriage and abortion laws.", "Clashes have raged around Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which is occupied by protesters.", "The 17-year-old was stabbed in the back as she sat with friends in a case of mistaken identity.", "The Duke of York is under scrutiny for his connection to the late US financier. Here's what we know.", "A lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein's accusers says Prince Andrew should apologise for the pair's friendship.", "The increasing unrest in Hong Kong is affecting businesses in one of the world's biggest commercial hubs.", "Large parts of the centre of the Italian city have been hit by exceptionally high tides for the third time in a week.", "A coroner has made recommendations for chiropractors after a man's neck broke during treatment.", "After preaching against household clutter, the best-selling author is launching a store selling homeware.", "US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri has accused the prime minister of \"ignoring and blocking\" her.", "Labour says it will not investigate a candidate after she was referred over anti-Semitism claims.", "Evidence of a cover up revealed by the BBC could lead to the ICC's first inquiry into the UK military.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The origin tale, starring Joaquin Phoenix, reached the landmark despite not being released in China.", "High parental expectations and being happy at school are also important factors, a study suggests.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tells business leaders \"things cannot go on as they are\".", "H&T has stopped issuing cash loans as the City watchdog reviews some of its historic lending.", "Boris Johnson says the Conservative party will postpone further cuts to corporation tax if elected.", "People close to him say he addressed his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein \"head-on\".", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson says the plan would \"breathe new life\" into high streets.", "Party leaders are making big promises at a time when trust and loyalty among voters is in short supply.", "The new vehicle has a 370-mile range, no door handles and storage under the front bonnet.", "Barry and Hellynne Lee, both 72, were caught on camera turning a hosepipe on Harold Burrows.", "The massive fire in the Flow Country in May doubled Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions while it burnt.", "A woman is suing the NHS for not revealing her father's Huntington's disease before she had a child.", "The main UK-wide parties set out their proposals to boost business at the CBI annual conference.", "Boris Johnson says public services will benefit as planned corporation tax cuts are put on hold.", "Police in West Lothian have criticised the driver and said the crash was \"likely avoidable\".", "Neil Brooks was racing a friend at 80mph when 20-year-old Sophie Brimble was killed.", "The reality TV star said she is building the brand into an \"international beauty powerhouse\".", "Students evacuated from flats hit by a major blaze in Bolton will be re-housed as £10,000 is raised.", "Sai Aletaha, 26, suffered a brain injury during a Fast and Furious Series event in Southampton.", "The BBC's Robin Brant describes the volatile scene at Hong Kong's Polytechnic University.", "Protesters leaving the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong were met with tear gas and rubber bullets.", "A former Russian official says a paper on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy should be released.", "The controversy over the duke's ties to Jeffrey Epstein is understood to have been a factor in the move.", "Gareth Southgate says his England side are \"further ahead\" than they were at the corresponding stage of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.", "Woman at centre of misconduct controversy says her requests to him for media advice had been \"blocked\".", "The parties took the channel to court after their leaders were left out its head-to-head debate.", "Ebenezer Azamati says he felt \"unwelcome\" in Britain after being \"violently removed\" from the Oxford Union", "The exams should be kept, says a watchdog, as the school curriculum in Wales heads for major reforms.", "The 43-year-old was discovered in a Glasgow city centre car park on Sunday evening and later died.", "Lewis Bailey, 15, put together Proud To Be Different at a working men's club.", "A charity album featuring Jodie Whittaker and Olivia Colman is removed from the main UK album chart.", "Ashley Smith admitted targeting footballers Mesut Özil and Sead Kolasinac in north-west London.", "Heavy rain continues to fall with more than 100 flood warnings in place, mostly in the north of England.", "Several other supporters were attacked when a bus taking them from the stadium in Rome broke down and was ambushed.", "Oxford scientists have developed a cheap technique for fake rhino horn to \"flood the market\".", "Clyde Taylor ignored \"polite requests\" to stop blasting out the 1995 dance anthem, a council says.", "The Royal College of Nursing says the proposed \"NHS visa\" will not do enough to fix staff shortages.", "Almost 200,000 text messages originally sent in February arrived on Wednesday evening.", "The BBC has been speaking to friends and family of Vietnamese nationals who died in the Essex lorry tragedy.", "A look back at the campaign trail on Friday 8 November as parties set out their election priorities.", "The ex-Welsh Secretary declines to answer questions about a row that led him to quit on Wednesday.", "Hundreds of millions of pounds paid in care home fees are not being used for frontline costs, a study suggests.", "Hakim Sillah, 18, died in hospital after being knifed at the Hillingdon Civic Centre in Uxbridge.", "The latest news, sport, travel and weather for the East Midlands.", "The election starting gun has been fired, with Labour claiming the NHS will be sold to US companies.", "Dawid Malan hits the fastest T20 century by an England player as the tourists crush New Zealand by 76 runs in Napier.", "The route, which could cost £650m more than the current total of £17.6bn, was due to open in 2018.", "The Alabama Republican fell out with President Trump, who fired him as attorney general a year ago.", "Diane Abbott is criticised for her reaction to an ex-Labour MP's call for voters to back the Tories.", "Thomas Griffiths is jailed for 12 and a half years for stabbing Ellie Gould, 17, in her kitchen.", "The party says it is sorry for the distress caused to the victim whose rape trial collapsed.", "Breaking news, sport, travel and weather updates from across North, South, East and West Yorkshire.", "The SNP leader is asked if she would be willing to form an alliance with Labour in Westminster.", "In Scotland it's hard to talk about Brexit, without talking about another independence referendum.", "Drug dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie and a boy, 17, are convicted of murdering Jodie Chesney in east London.", "The Brexit Party leader says he will try \"for a few more days\" to agree a leave alliance.", "Reports of firms restricting women from wearing glasses at work have reignited dress code debates.", "Ten teenagers, including two 15-year-old boys, were among the 39 people found dead in a lorry.", "An unusual weather phenomenon created thousands of egg-shaped balls of ice along the coastline.", "People are being evacuated from their homes amid more than 100 flood warnings.", "Nicola Sturgeon launched the Scottish National Party's election campaign with claims about the NHS and Brexit.", "Flooding has closed roads and forced people to evacuate homes across the north of the East Midlands.", "Natalie Elphicke is chosen to fight the Dover and Deal seat after her husband Charlie stood down.", "Chesterfield Road in Woodseats has flooded with drivers being warned to take care.", "Crews were called to the former Berry Hill Quarry after reports part of a cliff was giving way.", "A woman who was stuck in a flood-hit shopping centre in Sheffield says she saw people buying pyjamas from Primark as they planned to spend the night there.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 November - 8 November.", "Tributes are paid to Tazeen Ahmad, \"one of the most gifted journalists of her generation\".", "Homes belonging to pair wanted for questioning about Essex lorry deaths are raided in the Irish Republic.", "The venue's owners say performances will return to the Piccadilly Theatre from Monday.", "More than 90 blazes were raging across New South Wales on Friday.", "The UK gets the streaming service at the same time as other key European territories, Disney says.", "Convicted smuggler Cyril McGuinness, 54, became ill while police searched his Derbyshire home.", "Elin Rowlands, 13, is still travelling from Anglesey to Liverpool and Manchester for tests.", "Scotland Women cruise past Albania to maintain their emphatic start to Euro 2021 qualifying Group E and move within three points of leaders Finland.", "Stranded residents are rescued from their homes after parts of England are deluged with heavy rain.", "Justin Jackson doused eight officers in the flammable liquid during disorder on 5 May.", "Mayor Arce was also marched through the streets barefoot in the latest post-election violence.", "The ballot is \"unlawful\" and must not be allowed to hit general election and Christmas post, Royal Mail says.", "The 18-year-old who was stabbed in the chest died in hospital shortly after being found in Uxbridge.", "The party promises a \"step-change\" in working rights, but the CBI warns against \"bureaucratic\" plans.", "Hundreds were left waiting for designer discounts at the singer's LA house.", "The Trump Foundation used cash raised for veterans to fund his campaign, a New York judge rules.", "There are now calls for the sign, which was installed to mark the National Eisteddfod, to stay.", "Council bosses defend the reduction saying developments have to be viable.", "Sir Lindsay Hoyle wins the Speaker election - but what kind of Speaker will he be?", "Six detectives are examining the death of Kevin Mcleod, believed by his family to have been murdered.", "Reviewers praise the acting and beautiful staging but feel the storytelling needs a polish.", "Brescia striker Mario Balotelli criticises the \"small-minded\" fans who shouted racist abuse at him on Sunday.", "Ross England was accused of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial by a crown court judge.", "The stoppage will affect South Western Railway services in December and on New Year's Day.", "Women could collect a sample of urine at home to check their risk of cervical cancer, research suggests.", "Ross England was selected eight months after he was accused of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial.", "Owners must pass a quiz but will get access to a scheme that seeks to match lost drones with owners.", "The energy company says it hopes to \"address concerns\" about fracking after a government moratorium.", "Evha Jannath, 11, died after falling from a ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park on a school trip in 2017.", "Mark Scott is alleged to have illegally routed approximately $400m (£310m) out of the US.", "Most participants in the scheme could have got on the housing ladder without help, a report finds.", "Sim the Amazon parrot has been living at Jersey's Rouge Bouillon School since 1988.", "Sources had told BBC Wales the party \"knew\" of the claims before candidate Ross England was selected.", "Sir Lindsay Hoyle also has Maggie the tortoise, Betty the terrier, a cat called Dennis and Gordon, a Rottweiler.", "The broadcaster is accused of being insensitive for broadcasting it after the Essex lorry deaths.", "Zarah Sultana said she was \"exasperated by global suffering and needless killing\" after 2015 posts emerge.", "Premiership champions Saracens will appeal against a 35-point deduction and £5.36m fine for breaching salary cap regulations.", "Councils largely blame a 53% rise in cases in 10 years on domestic violence and substance abuse.", "The Catalan economist, who teaches at St Andrews University, says she will resist extradition to Spain.", "But the Tories say his proposal for a new deal and referendum within six months is a \"fairy tale\".", "There are claims No 10 is delaying publishing the report on alleged meddling in the Brexit referendum.", "The endangered mammal is found up a tree in a garden after going missing from a wildlife park.", "William Taylor's wife and her partner shared a \"venomous hatred\" for the farmer, prosecutors said.", "It is believed those responsible drove off in a dark coloured vehicle, police say.", "More than 100 families are contacted by police investigating claims of assault at a nursery in Torquay.", "This is a boom time for digital marketing industry", "GMB union says it is advising its members on whether to go to tribunal over their dismissals", "Data from spacecraft launched in the 1970s help determine the shape of the magnetic bubble around the Sun.", "The victim says Alun Cairns should quit after he denied knowing his former aide collapsed her trial.", "Sebastián Piñera says he is committed to remaining as president despite the mass anti-government protests.", "Parliament is out and Jo Swinson hits the campaign trail...", "Jacob Rees-Mogg's gaffe over Grenfell shows parties cannot control events over the next six weeks.", "The Lib Dems launch their election campaign while Labour and the Tories trade blows over Brexit.", "Welcome to your first daily Electioncast!", "The Lib Dem leader says a government led by her would \"stop Brexit and build a brighter future\".", "Mark Sedwill blocks a Conservative plan to use civil servants to cost out Labour fiscal plans.", "Categories are cut and fan votes are cancelled as producers tackle falling ratings.", "But campaign groups claim the policy is unlawful and could be hiding serious abuses.", "The former Tory will not stand in Runnymede and Weybridge after losing the whip over Brexit.", "The alleged abductors are said to have been caught trying to change ransom money into local currency.", "Downing Street is accused of delaying a report on Brexit referendum allegations until after the election.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg said it would be \"common sense\" to ignore fire brigade advice to stay in a burning building.", "Millions are in unaffordable or unsuitable homes, research for the National Housing Federation says.", "European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says Brexit is a \"too-long story\" that should end.", "Government plans to build 200,000 affordable homes in England have come to nothing, the National Audit Office says.", "The parent and baby goods retailer says its 79 UK stores are unable to trade profitably.", "A driver witnessed the killing, prompting an RSPCA investigation.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Chelsea come back from 4-1 down to draw a Champions League thriller against an Ajax side who have two men sent off.", "Kerry Bloch is inundated with kind messages after her 21-year-old son asks \"Would someone like me?\"", "Facebook has removed an ad that criticised Labour, saying it broke its political advertising rules.", "The Lib Dem leader says there must be \"a voice of Remain\" represented in ITV's election debate.", "An inquest hears a nine-year-old boy tried to save a friend who had slipped and fallen into the sea.", "Builder Steve Thomson says he was on the \"verge of a heart attack\" after he won with his wife Lenka.", "The critic, author, poet and TV host was known for his witty commentary on international television.", "A man, 31, is being questioned about the death of a baby named locally as Hunter Patrick McGleenon.", "Vue is looking at \"beefing up security\" to bring Blue Story back to its screens, the chain's boss says.", "The Muslim Council of Britain accuses the Conservatives of a \"blind spot for this type of racism\".", "The Liberal Democrat leader asked the Court of Session to stop the Royal Mail from distributing the leaflet.", "Harry Dunn's parents want a judicial review into the diplomatic immunity of the suspect in crash that caused his death.", "The bodies of 16 of the 39 migrants found dead in a lorry are being returned to their families.", "Over 200 new families have contacted an inquiry into mother and baby deaths at an NHS hospital trust.", "A couple and a police officer were injured in a knife attack by Mahdi Mohamud in Manchester.", "\"Staff, volunteer and donor opinion\" has led Yorkshire Air Ambulance to end its connection to the duke.", "Tottenham come from behind to beat Olympiakos and book their place in the Champions League knockout stages in Jose Mourinho's first home game.", "The writer, film-maker and broadcaster brought his acute gaze to the whole range of human activity.", "Operator Greater Anglia has since found a similar fault on 60 other doorways, a report says.", "Leader Nicola Sturgeon sets out her party's policies ahead of the 12 December general election.", "Trading Standards issues a warning as one man says he was beaten, threatened and forced into work.", "Extinction reconstruction with ancient DNA reveals humans were responsible for the demise of the giant, flightless great auk.", "The papers set out discussions held between UK and US trade officials.", "Twitter apologises and admits a \"miss on our part\" when announcing it would start deleting inactive accounts.", "Jaden Moodie \"did not stand a chance\" as he was targeted by a group of five men, a court hears.", "The man, who was captured on CCTV, fled when the young boy told him he would phone police.", "The UK has a critical shortage of artillery and ammunition, according to a defence think-tank.", "Tokyo's world-renowned Sukiyabashi Jiro loses its stars as it no longer accepts public reservations.", "Trains between Preston and Scotland will not run until Friday after lines were \"majorly damaged\".", "The Benin bronze, known as an \"okukor\", was bequeathed to Jesus College in Cambridge in 1930.", "The Labour leader says racism is a \"poison\" and he wants to work with all communities to eliminate it.", "Terminally ill author Clive James says he has \"started saying goodbye\" through his poetry.", "The celebrity chef and TV personality was known for his spiky hair and passion for British cuisine.", "Supt Novlett Robyn Williams made a \"grave error of judgement\" by not reporting the video, a court hears.", "A US couple are trying to make money out of sitting in Black Friday queues for shoppers.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "David Last was flying the light aircraft which disappeared between Caernarfon and Llandudno.", "The Australian writer and broadcaster tells BBC Radio 4 he has become \"a recluse\" after several years of serious illness.", "What does the US president's visit mean for Jeremy Corbyn and the Tory leadership hopefuls?", "Why official statistics on NHS performance are being held until after the day of voting.", "In the campaign's final fortnight, there are questions over how Labour deals with tricky issues.", "Among the items found in the deer's stomach were instant coffee sachets, rubber gloves and a towel.", "A bad dream during the night may help you to control fear when awake, say researchers.", "A bottle of water costs four times more on the motorway than in a supermarket, mystery shoppers say.", "Paul Smith's mother heard him pleading for help as he was being attacked by a stranger with scissors.", "Accounts inactive for more than six months will be deleted - including those of people who have died.", "The theatre and opera director famously starred in the Beyond the Fringe comedy revue in the 1960s.", "Goar Vartanyan was credited with uncovering a Nazi plot to kill the \"Big Three\" allied leaders.", "All of the political news and reaction, including the launch of the SNP election manifesto.", "Tolly T, Audrey and Milena Sanchez give BBC's Electioncast some political 'relationship advice' on Brexit.", "A look at the well-known MPs who are in danger of losing their seats on 12 December.", "Geoffrey Bran denies murdering Mavis Bran, who suffered \"terrible burns\" at the couple's chip shop.", "The Foreign Office has written to the family warning it will \"seek costs\" for any judicial review.", "Jingye is reportedly planning to make an offer to buy the steelmaker out of insolvency.", "The Oscar-winning filmmaker and artist and his team photographed more than 75,000 Year 3 children.", "The Queen and politicians joined commemorations for those who lost their lives in conflict.", "Money for training courses will be made available to adults of all ages, under the Lib Dem plan.", "The Scottish National Portrait Gallery says it wants \"to address the climate emergency\".", "The director signed a four-film deal, but Amazon Studios withdrew after his comments about #MeToo.", "Police are being asked to investigate but AM Neil McEvoy says he acted in the public interest.", "Evha Jannath fell into the water on a rapids ride at Drayton Manor theme park in 2017.", "The Tory leader also hits back at Donald Trump's criticism of his Brexit deal, in a BBC interview.", "Employers signed up to the voluntary scheme will increase the UK hourly rate to £9.30.", "BBC says a production mistake led to BBC Breakfast showing footage of Boris Johnson laying a wreath in 2016.", "As well as a rise in deliberately-set blazes, discarded barbecues was another issue blamed.", "But the party's Welsh leader stops short of calling for Cardiff Airport to be scrapped.", "Astronomers are observing a rare event, a transit of the planet Mercury.", "Liverpool move eight points clear at the top of the Premier League with a fine win over champions Manchester City - who are now nine points off the pace.", "Goldman Sachs, which operates Apple Card, discriminates between men and women, it is claimed.", "Pyrotechnics went off above a war memorial as hundreds of people observed the two-minute silence.", "John Lawler, 80, became like a \"ragdoll\" and died the following day in hospital.", "Threats and violent attacks towards shop workers are rising in the UK, according to a new survey.", "Armistice Day pledges include a Tory vow to protect combat veterans from \"vexatious\" legal action.", "In 1597, whistleblower Marion Walker took on powerful men to expose a shocking miscarriage of justice.", "Nigel Farage says the party will not contest seats won by the Tories in 2017, but will stand against Labour.", "His family said they felt betrayed over the decision not to bring criminal charges against police officers.", "Mr Vaz, who was suspended from the Commons after a drug and sex inquiry, says he is retiring.", "England forward Raheem Sterling will not play in the Euro 2020 qualifier against Montenegro on Thursday following a clash with team-mate Joe Gomez.", "Cutting the speed of ships by 20% can benefit health, protect whales and limit warming, say campaigners.", "Workers at the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe are living under a cloud as the plant's future remains uncertain.", "The pro-Remain parties have said the agreement will cover 60 seats across England and Wales.", "The automatic air freshener exploded after being heated up by a wood- burner it was placed on.", "The Royal British Legion calls for a pause in our busy lives, 100 years after the first two-minute silence.", "The children's commissioner for England labels the report \"worrying\" and calls for action.", "All the news and analysis as campaigning enters its second week as Nigel Farage gives Boris Johnson a boost.", "The greetings card chain, which employs 2,500 staff, wants shop closures and rent reductions.", "Widespread disruption follows the severe fire and building collapse in Glasgow's Pollokshields.", "Nick Boles says the PM is a \"compulsive liar\" and calls the Labour leader a \"totalitarian\".", "Persistent rain has caused days of flooding across Yorkshire and the Midlands.", "Shona Stevens was killed in a \"vicious and frenzied\" attack as she returned from the shops 25 years ago.", "The dog's owners managed to prevent the bird flying off with their pet in Aberdeen.", "A British Airways insider has revealed airlines deliberately fill planes with extra fuel to cut costs.", "The health secretary knew a child died as a result of an infection potentially linked to water two months ago.", "The US president will arrive in London for a Nato summit 10 days before polling day.", "The $13bn listing would be the world's largest this year and comes amid growing unrest in Hong Kong.", "A reduction in business rates for small firms is among a raft of measures pledged by the Conservatives.", "Plan to \"decarbonise capitalism\" would be funded by extra borrowing and tax changes, party says.", "Under the plan every adult would get at least £89 per week with extra payments for disabled people.", "The chancellor has announced plans to boost UK broadband - but it is not clear what he is promising.", "Further details emerge of the Duchess of Sussex's claims against the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.", "In a BBC interview, the Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time.", "The \"stressed\" animal was found entangled in plastic waste on Jura and had to be put down.", "The couple is charged after their four-week-old suffered a fractured skull and broken ribs.", "Celebrities from the worlds of TV, music, film and sport unite for this year's BBC charity appeal.", "Boris Johnson is asked about the Russia report, HS2 and the NHS in a special programme on the BBC.", "Record numbers in England are on hospital waiting lists, while A&E delays highest since target introduced.", "The Duke of York is under scrutiny for his connection to the late US financier. Here's what we know.", "The shadow chancellor tells BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that the roll-out would cost £20bn.", "Almost 10,000 new homes could be built on some of the most flood-prone areas of England.", "The BBC's Helen Catt looks at the main events of Thursday's election campaign.", "One person is rescued and a witness says the blaze was \"climbing up\" the building in Bolton.", "The Conservative Party has denied offering Brexit Party candidates jobs or peerages to stand down.", "The Duke of York says at the time he felt it was \"honourable\" to stay at the convicted sex offender's home.", "Few victims' families were able to attend the covering over of the Ethiopian Airlines crash site.", "The shouts of Sam Luntley were heard by a family walking on the cliffs at Porthcothan, Cornwall.", "Boris Johnson says there may have been election \"conversations\" but rivals were not offered seats in Lords.", "Female candidates are likely to comprise about a third of those contesting the 12 December poll.", "The child, now seven, needs 24-hour care, has learning difficulties and uses a wheelchair.", "Jeffrey Epstein died in prison waiting for his sex trafficking trial - but who was he?", "More managerial jobs generate more meetings, but they are not about making decisions, says a study.", "No 10 is delaying publishing a report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy, critics say.", "The Labour leader will not say whether he wants the number of people coming into the UK to rise or fall.", "Marie Yovanovitch said she was forced out amid a pressure campaign from the White House.", "The oxygen in Martian air is changing in a way that can't currently be explained by known chemical processes.", "Alden Barlow wrote to Ms Soubry in her constituency in Nottingham, saying she was \"treacherous\".", "Police and security at Dulwich Picture Gallery secured two paintings but the intruder got away.", "The ban will hit 181 apps but anyone already using a vaping program will be able to continue using it.", "Boris Johnson tells a radio phone-in he \"guarantees\" businesses will face no extra costs or checks.", "Seven charts from the latest Scottish Health Survey looking at drinking, smoking and exercise.", "England qualify for Euro 2020 as group winners after putting seven goals past Montenegro in their 1,000th match on a celebratory day at Wembley.", "The family of Baptista Adjei, who was stabbed after getting off a bus, say he was a \"very loving boy\".", "From 'ultra-marginals' to the highest Leave and Remain seats - which are the battlegrounds that could make the difference?", "A minister attacks Plaid Cymru leader for comparing Wales' experience with colonialism.", "The judge told Donna Francis during her sentencing in New York that she got away with murder.", "Three BBC reporters break down the key points as the impeachment inquiry goes public.", "Social media sellers also sell so-called \"laughing gas\", with an expert saying it is hard to police.", "The parents of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who died in 2016, call the increase \"deeply alarming\".", "The Italian canal city's main square, waterbuses and schools are closed as the water rises again.", "It emerged that Rev Richard Cameron had made Islamophobic and homophobic comments on Twitter.", "Paramedics are treating 20 people, some seriously injured, following the crash in Cambridgeshire.", "At least 115 women are believed to have been killed this year by their partners in France.", "The US attorney general says he has reviewed CCTV from the jailhouse on the night Epstein died.", "Jeremy Corbyn has told a Question Time audience that if he becomes prime minister he will remain neutral on Brexit.", "Dan Evans digs deep to fire Great Britain into the semi-finals of the inaugural Davis Cup finals in Madrid with a thrilling win over Germany.", "The species is now extinct in Malaysia, with fewer than 100 animals believed to exist elsewhere.", "The planned investment would double current annual funding for dementia research.", "Police arrest a man in Birmingham after video of two Jewish boys being harassed is widely shared.", "Investigators hoping to solve the cold case of Claudia Ruf, 11, start DNA tests on hundreds of men.", "Johnson asked why report into alleged Russian interference in UK democracy has not been published.", "They are the first UK citizens to be repatriated from an area formerly under the control of IS.", "The Met Office issues two separate weather warnings for heavy downpours in south Wales.", "The family of Jodie Chesney - who was killed in a park - describe the figures as \"seriously alarming\".", "The BBC has heard testimony that the teachings of spiritual influencer Teal Swan may have contributed to the suicides of at least two of her followers.", "The celebrated British conductor and organist directed the renowned choir for 37 years.", "The motion means the NHS will be lobbied to scrap home visits from doctors' contractual obligations.", "England's bowlers toil on day three of the first Test as BJ Watling's century puts New Zealand in control in Mount Maunganui.", "The Labour Party says it will put a 20 per cent levy on foreign firms and trusts buying UK properties.", "The four party leaders are quizzed on Brexit in a Question Time special in Sheffield.", "Fighting erupts among a large group - some armed with machetes - at Birmingham's Star City complex.", "Police are looking for a man filmed reading anti-Jewish Bible passages to two boys in skullcaps.", "The identity of the winner will not be revealed unless they decide to go public, Camelot has said.", "The crew of four were more than 50 miles of the coast when their boat went down.", "Coca-Cola is \"taking steps\" after Momentum used its imagery for an election ad without approval.", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in the Manchester bombing in 2017.", "The image of Scott Hutchison has gone on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.", "Robbie WIlliams has co-written the music for the musical adaptation of David Walliams' book The Boy in a Dress.", "General election campaigning continues following Friday's Question Time leader's special.", "A man is stabbed to death and three others are injured in an attack in east London.", "Protestors against corruption and the ruling elite were joined by Lebanese from around the world.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "The environmental activist is one of five people to take control of the Radio 4 show over Christmas.", "A man is arrested after three people in the car are seriously injured when it crashed in Lewis.", "Crews remain at the scene of the devastating fire on the seafront in Eastbourne.", "The partner of a suspected hit-and-run victim says his life \"will never be the same\".", "At least 29 people die after heavy rain sparks deadly landslides in western Kenya.", "The mummies, including cats, crocodiles, cobras, were found at the Saqqara necropolis near Cairo.", "The bank is the latest big business to cut ties with Prince Andrew's mentoring scheme, Pitch@Palace.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous and drug driving.", "The Conservative Party leader also dismissed suggestions that he should work with the Brexit Party.", "The Tory leader also hits back at Donald Trump's criticism of his Brexit deal, in a BBC interview.", "Suzi Taylor arranged to meet the man before assaulting him and stealing money, police say.", "The ads highlighted spending of £25m in certain towns - and all those places have marginal constituencies.", "If the government is re-elected, Dame Minouche Shafik is set to be the first woman governor in 325 years.", "The election starting gun has been fired, with Labour claiming the NHS will be sold to US companies.", "Fans back Eddie Jones's side to beat South Africa and join the class of 2003 as tournament winners.", "Labour is doubling down on its 2017 election strategy - and hoping voters will look beyond Brexit.", "Uber driver Tariq Houshieh receives the sentence after confessing to the 2017 murder of Rebecca Dykes.", "Wing Ben Smith leads the way with two tries as New Zealand dominate Wales to win 40-17 in Friday's World Cup bronze match in Tokyo.", "Essex Police says officers are in \"direct contact\" with a number of families in Vietnam and the UK.", "He said he had been \"treated very badly\" by local politicians - prompting one to reply: \"Good riddance\".", "A former candidate questions whether officials knew of Ross England's role in a trial's collapse.", "Sources had told BBC Wales the party \"knew\" of the claims before candidate Ross England was selected.", "The area is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, and a popular tourist destination.", "No conflict of interest over £100,000 to firm owned by friend of Boris Johnson, government inquiry rules.", "The ads promoting spending on deprived towns were sent on the day the PM got backing for an election.", "The boy, thought to be aged about 18 months, died from his injuries in hospital, police say.", "Equal financial support should be given to all those affected in the UK, the judge says.", "The fitness device maker says Google is an ideal partner as it looks to diversify.", "The mixed martial arts star pleads guilty to punching a man at a Dublin pub in April.", "The mammal washed up on a Wales beach had also ingest a \"large mass of ropes\" and fishing line.", "The 46-year-old Indonesian was caned 28 times; the woman involved was caned 23 times.", "Tyson Fury makes his WWE debut as he beats Braun Strowman in Saudi Arabia - here's what happened.", "With an election just weeks away, we look at how many of the parties' prospective MPs are women.", "Former investor Fosun Tourism is acquiring the 178-year old name as well as two hotel brands.", "Luke Barrett said they wanted to \"actually make an impact on Halloween\".", "Rachel Emanuel says she has clients who say they would not want their children to be a hairdresser.", "The zones in Edinburgh will run between 14:00 and midnight until Tuesday 5 November.", "Police want to establish if a smart-speaker recorded how Silvia Galva ended up impaled on a bed post.", "Workers fear the sack if they do not sign new contracts but Asda has softened its Saturday deadline.", "Shots were fired at a car which then struck the 12-year-old girl in a street on Merseyside.", "Authorities summon the owners of several social media accounts used to sell domestic workers.", "Police found \"numerous\" crocodile skulls after raids at two properties on Wednesday.", "An electrical fault caused the flames that emerged on a street in Birmingham in big flashes.", "The Remain-voting MP says she will stand as a Liberal Democrat candidate in the general election.", "The body of Amelia Bambridge was found off the island where she was last seen at a beach party.", "The policeman was hit during a vehicle stop in north London.", "The Brexit Party leader says the PM must ditch his EU deal - or he will stand candidates against Tories.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have more in common than they, or their supporters, would like to admit.", null, "Domestic workers have been illegally sold via Instagram and other apps on Google and Apple's stores.", "The Brexit Party leader hints at a pact but does not reveal how many candidates his party will field.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn will face each other in the ITV special.", "The former Speaker complains to the press watchdog over reports he demanded £1m to go to the jungle.", "Updates as the Brexit Party launches its election campaign.", "The killer wrote a \"chilling\" confession about how he killed Sammy-Lee Lodwig, a court hears.", "Jeremy says he could only touch 15-year-old Bethany by reaching through a tiny hatch.", "Edward Cairney and Avril Jones are urged to reveal what they did with the body of the woman missing since 1999.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "The way public spaces are assessed as possible targets for attacks should be re-assessed, a report says.", "The US president also attacks Jeremy Corbyn - but the Labour leader accuses him of interfering in UK election.", "NHS Lothian has confirmed two related cases of the disease and say infection protocols are in place.", "They want Wales' parliament to have a \"unique\" name, like the German Bundestag or Dáil in Ireland.", "Natalie Elphicke is chosen to fight the Dover and Deal seat after her husband Charlie stood down.", "It is their first public event together since Harry said he and William were on \"different paths\".", "Clyde Taylor ignored \"polite requests\" to stop blasting out the 1995 dance anthem, a council says.", "From pacts to promises, resignations and launches, here's this week's lowdown.", "Officers could not explain what happened to Robert Taylor in Dechmont Woods one day in 1979.", "He was greeted by supporters outside the prison where he was held on corruption charges.", "The BBC has been speaking to friends and family of Vietnamese nationals who died in the Essex lorry tragedy.", "Over a thousand people are thought to have invested £80m in companies owned by Gavin Woodhouse.", "Stranded residents are rescued from their homes after parts of England are deluged with heavy rain.", "A 17-year-old is accused of murdering Hakim Sillah at a youth offending service event in Uxbridge.", "England concede a late goal to lose their friendly against Germany at Wembley - in front of a record home crowd for a Lionesses game of 77,768.", "The 98-year-old from Aberdeen enlisted at 16 and hoped to find others with similar experiences.", "Most snow has cleared with rain forecast for much of Wales.", "Teresa Townsley says she rarely leaves the house after a man threw acid in her face at her front door.", "Tributes are paid to Tazeen Ahmad, \"one of the most gifted journalists of her generation\".", "Hakim Sillah, 18, died in hospital after being knifed at the Hillingdon Civic Centre in Uxbridge.", "He argued he should be free because his heart briefly stopped, but Iowa judges are not convinced.", "The party says it will deliver 6,000 more GPs in England by 2025, despite missing a previous target.", "Annie Hall was swept away by the River Derwent near Matlock, Derbyshire, early on Friday.", "There are seven severe warnings on the River Don in Yorkshire and travel problems around England.", "This home in Fishlake has been left submerged after persistent rain which caused floods across Yorkshire and the Midlands.", "The shadow cabinet member is accused of singing an altered version of The Beatles' song Hey Jude.", "The health secretary says others take a \"more balanced approach\" on Islamophobia than Baroness Warsi.", "The venue's owners say performances will return to the Piccadilly Theatre from Monday.", "Miranda Richardson and Toby Jones will take part in a marathon performance for Remembrance Sunday.", "More than 90 blazes were raging across New South Wales on Friday.", "Ratings agency Moody's says Brexit is causing \"paralysis in policy-making\" in the UK.", "People are being evacuated from their homes amid more than 100 flood warnings.", "Thomas Griffiths is jailed for 12 and a half years for stabbing Ellie Gould, 17, in her kitchen.", "A painting that can usually be seen for free, is the focus of an \"immersive\" show, entrance £16 - £20.", "The 71-year-old was found not guilty of killing his wife after she was scalded with boiling oil.", "It came after Mr Johnson said he would only debate her if she was a \"serious candidate\" to be PM.", "Jeremy Corbyn accuses Boris Johnson of using the NHS as a trade negotiation tool with the US.", "People in Sydney woke up to a city shrouded in smoke on Tuesday, as bushfires rage across the region", "Hallie Rubenhold wins non-fiction prize for book on five \"ordinary women\" who fell on \"hard times\".", "Standard Chartered says it is not renewing sponsorship of Pitch@Palace for \"commercial reasons\".", "The party wants to tackle \"sickening injustice\" but the final decision will remain with judges.", "Staff got dead babies' names wrong and, in one case, referred to a child as \"it\", a leaked report says.", "Three interpreters are suspended amid a police investigation into reports of fraud in the asylum system.", "The decision follows a lengthy legal battle with the previous owner and widespread debate in Austria.", "A profile of Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks.", "The founder of Leave.EU's Twitter account has been breached and messages spanning years leaked.", "The 17-year-old was stabbed in the back as she sat with friends in a case of mistaken identity.", "Wales secure qualification for Euro 2020 as Aaron Ramsey marks his return with two goals to inspire a joyous 2-0 win over Hungary.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn go head-to-head before leaders of smaller parties are interviewed live on ITV.", "Bushfires are spreading across Australia's east coast, ravaging the marsupial's main habitat.", "The Aberdeen North hopeful is suspended over comments about anti-Semitism, LGBT rights and terrorism.", "The ex-Royal Marine was accused of the murder of a wounded Taliban fighter in 2011.", "Nearly 7 million people watched leaders lock horns over the NHS in the first TV debate of the election.", "Evidence seen by the BBC casts doubt on American Airlines' reason for two crew members falling unconscious.", "After preaching against household clutter, the best-selling author is launching a store selling homeware.", "\"Everyday is a living nightmare\" for the families of two men who were hit by a train.", "An unexpected cold snap has seen winter supplies run low before seasonal appeals have even begun.", "Meet the Hongkongers, mainlanders and families being torn apart by the fight for Hong Kong's identity.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The man accused of murdering Grace Millane says she died accidentally during consensual sex.", "\"I think we're all shifting our behaviour,\" the BBC broadcaster says as he wins a prestigious award.", "Lt Col Vindman listened to the phone call that sparked the impeachment inquiry against the US president.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tells business leaders \"things cannot go on as they are\".", "New cases are understood to include still births and baby deaths in the final stages of labour.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson says the plan would \"breathe new life\" into high streets.", "Some customers were left without online banking access for several weeks after the problems last year.", "Some see the man behind Wikileaks as a reckless 'hacktivist' – others think he's a campaigner for truth.", "Anita Nicholson and her two children were among the victims on Easter Sunday.", "John McDonnell also says there would be a cap on chief executives' pay in the public sector.", "Twenty-five people are found in a cooling container on a UK-bound ferry coming from the Netherlands.", "From a rape allegation in Sweden to jail in the UK, the key dates in the Julian Assange case.", "The reality TV star said she is building the brand into an \"international beauty powerhouse\".", "Twitter said the stunt was misleading to the public and would not be tolerated in future - but did not take any direct action.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn did not slip up in ITV's clash - but there were no breakthrough moments either.", "The BBC's Robin Brant describes the volatile scene at Hong Kong's Polytechnic University.", "Sai Aletaha, 26, suffered a brain injury during a Fast and Furious Series event in Southampton.", "Tottenham sack manager Mauricio Pochettino after five years in charge of the club.", "The controversy over the duke's ties to Jeffrey Epstein is understood to have been a factor in the move.", "A former Russian official says a paper on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy should be released.", "The Tory leader also announced plans to speed up the charging and prosecution of knife offenders.", "Protesters leaving the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong were met with tear gas and rubber bullets.", "The parties took the channel to court after their leaders were left out its head-to-head debate.", "Boris Johnson says public services will benefit as planned corporation tax cuts are put on hold.", "Manchester City held out for a draw with Atalanta in the Champions League after defender Kyle Walker had to go in goal for the closing stages of the match.", "Alun Cairns served under three prime ministers but has resigned following a row about a former aide.", "The family of a death row prisoner hope celebrity support will help to stop his execution.", "Tom Watson says he wants to see a Labour government elected, but he \"wants to do something new\".", "It leaves the Welsh Tories' general election campaign in disarray, BBC Wales' political editor says.", "Exeter chief executive Tony Rowe says Premiership champions Saracens should be relegated for breaching salary cap rules.", "Dutch police rushed to deal with the \"suspicious situation\" on the Madrid-bound flight at Schiphol.", "Mavis Eccleston, 80, was cleared of murder over the death of her terminally ill husband Dennis.", "The investigation has until now been held behind closed doors, but will be televised.", "Demand for clothes was weak in the first half but a turnaround plan is producing results.", "Tom Watson has told the Creative Industries Federation that the Labour Party should \"unambiguously and unequivocally back Remain\" in a future Brexit referendum.", "Ross England was accused of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial by a crown court judge.", "The Tories hope their \"get Brexit done\" pitch will win over Leave voters - but will it be enough?", "Andrew Bridgen admits causing \"distress and offence\" with his explanation of Jacob Rees-Mogg's remarks.", "The Matildas will earn equal pay and entitlements on key measures except tournament prize money.", "Ross England was selected eight months after he was accused of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial.", "Police post a picture of the \"absolutely baffling\" discovery after stopping the car on a country road.", "Dr Peter Hutchinson resigns in the \"best interests of the college\" after calls for him to be banned.", "The Church has struggled to cope with the \"evil\" of some of its members, an archbishop tells an inquiry.", "US safety investigators found Uber's self-driving test car wasn't programmed to react to jaywalkers.", "The actress and activist on why she's being arrested each week but not wanting to go to prison.", "Former quality manager says Boeing was driven by cost and schedules above safety, which it denies.", "Six police officers are injured and 15 people are arrested after Bonfire Night fireworks chaos in Leeds.", "Sources had told BBC Wales the party \"knew\" of the claims before candidate Ross England was selected.", "Sir Lindsay Hoyle also has Maggie the tortoise, Betty the terrier, a cat called Dennis and Gordon, a Rottweiler.", "Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala was found dead after the plane he was travelling in crashed.", "Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones are on a list of top page-turners selected by a BBC-led panel.", "The Green Party has pledged to invest £100bn a year in climate action over the next decade if it wins the election.", "The fictional comedy rockers claimed they were denied payments from entertainment group Vivendi.", "Mr Watson - who has often found himself at odds with the party leadership - will not run again as an MP.", "The Catalan economist, who teaches at St Andrews University, says she will resist extradition to Spain.", "Britain's two-time Olympic champion Nicola Adams retires from boxing over fears she could lose her sight.", "One man is under arrest after the attack in which eight people, including four tourists, were injured.", "Airbnb says it will start to verify every property after an investigation found a series of scams.", "The Welsh secretary writes to the PM saying he is confident he will be \"cleared of any breach\".", "The education secretary writes to councils about the use of unregistered accommodation for teens in care.", "The former Speaker tells journalists he no longer has to \"remain impartial\" after stepping down.", "Welsh Tory Senedd leader Paul Davies says Ross England fell short of the standards expected of him.", "About three million mobile customers will switch to Vodafone in a blow for BT.", "Data from spacecraft launched in the 1970s help determine the shape of the magnetic bubble around the Sun.", "The victim says Alun Cairns should quit after he denied knowing his former aide collapsed her trial.", "Boris Johnson tells supporters he needed to get Parliament working again, as he launches the campaign.", "The event at a wind farm near Glasgow offers a safe space for anxious dogs affected by Bonfire Night celebrations.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg's gaffe over Grenfell shows parties cannot control events over the next six weeks.", "Tom Watson resigns and steals Boris Johnson's campaign launch thunder.", "The bodies of the women, one of whom had a baby, were found on a farm in Pakistan's southern desert.", "South Africa fans gathered at OR Tambo International Airport to greet the victorious squad.", "The Lib Dem leader says a government led by her would \"stop Brexit and build a brighter future\".", "Mark Sedwill blocks a Conservative plan to use civil servants to cost out Labour fiscal plans.", "Craig Morley had a picture of an abbey in Scotland instead of one in Reading on his website.", "Kevin Eves smothered Harper Denton and left her with 34 rib fractures and a fractured skull.", "A rape victim says Alun Cairns should quit after he denied knowing his ex-aide collapsed her trial.", "The Democrats win control in some key state polls, just a year before the presidential election.", "The former Tory will not stand in Runnymede and Weybridge after losing the whip over Brexit.", "The Advertising Standards Agency bans adverts claiming people found work faster on universal credit.", "Screaming was heard as the ceiling collapsed about 20 minutes into a performance.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg said it would be \"common sense\" to ignore fire brigade advice to stay in a burning building.", "An inquest hears a nine-year-old boy tried to save a friend who had slipped and fallen into the sea.", "European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says Brexit is a \"too-long story\" that should end.", "The first day of official campaigning sees two high-profile resignations, and pledges from all parties.", "CCTV footage shows Sead Kolasinac fighting off two masked attackers as they target Mesut Özil's car.", "Ex-Cambridge Analytica worker turned whistleblower Brittany Kaiser makes new claims about its work.", "Chelsea come back from 4-1 down to draw a Champions League thriller against an Ajax side who have two men sent off.", "The pair were subjected to homophobic abuse during a live-stream watched by thousands of people.", "Schools should not be used as places to vote in case it disrupts Christmas plays, says minister.", "Kerry Bloch is inundated with kind messages after her 21-year-old son asks \"Would someone like me?\"", "They include former MPs Chris Williamson, Roger Godsiff and Stephen Hepburn.", "Leaked documents show new evidence of China's systematic brainwashing of Uighur and other detainees.", "From sleeping in a phone box to founding a six-figure business, it's been an eventful two years for Gavin Eastham.", "A device records how the road surface is changing so potholes can be identified and fixed quickly.", "Elon Musk boasts of high demand despite the truck's windows shattering during its launch.", "At least 115 women are believed to have been killed this year by their partners in France.", "Seven officers were hurt while trying to disperse the fighting at the Star City complex in Birmingham.", "The Tory manifesto contains new policies - but there are reasons why it is not an historic document.", "Aslan King went missing after suffering a suspected seizure during a camping trip.", "Great Britain miss out on a place in the Davis Cup final as Spain's Rafael Nadal and Feliciano Lopez give the hosts a 2-1 victory.", "England face a tough battle to save the first Test against New Zealand after BJ Watling scores a superb double century on day four in Mount Maunganui.", "The species is now extinct in Malaysia, with fewer than 100 animals believed to exist elsewhere.", "Moment by moment reaction to the latest events on the election campaign trail.", "Hundreds stormed the football field, urging the two universities to stop investing in fossil fuels.", "The former mayor of New York announces his candidacy, saying that \"the stakes could not be higher\".", "Police arrest a man in Birmingham after video of two Jewish boys being harassed is widely shared.", "Investigators hoping to solve the cold case of Claudia Ruf, 11, start DNA tests on hundreds of men.", "The celebrated British conductor and organist directed the renowned choir for 37 years.", "Two people were held after the vessel, said to be from Colombia, was found off Galicia's coast.", "People are \"increasingly environmentally aware\", experts say, and businesses are catching on.", "Fighting erupts among a large group - some armed with machetes - at Birmingham's Star City complex.", "Rachel Swann says her spiked hair sparked \"sexist and homophobic\" insults and reflects wider online issues.", "The cause of death of the former member of girl band Kara is still under investigation, police say.", "The story of Gwyneth Jones' emotional trip to the grave of a soldier was read by his relatives.", "National Grid and SSE have opened offshore holding companies citing fears about nationalisation.", "Protestors against corruption and the ruling elite were joined by Lebanese from around the world.", "A man is arrested after three people in the car are seriously injured when it crashed in Lewis.", "Lewis Capaldi got two prizes, while Stranger Things and Little Mix were also recognised.", "Christopher Kennedy, from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, is charged with human trafficking offences.", "Detectives believe the 26-year-old victim was injured in a fight before being involved in a car crash.", "The 86-year-old justice is \"doing well\" after suffering chills and fever, the US Supreme Court says.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "It would be one of the SNP's key demands to gain its support in the event of a minority Labour government.", "A draft copy of a review into the project says it might cost even more than its current price of £88bn.", "Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the inquiry would examine whether race played a part in the case.", "A chiropractor says her patient John Lawler becoming unresponsive left her in a \"state of panic\".", "Boris Johnson announces funds to help affected homes after facing criticism over the response to flooding.", "The pink-coloured financial paper names Roula Khalaf to replace long-serving editor Lionel Barber.", "The party says the first DDoS attack against it failed and it has \"ongoing security processes in place\".", "Joseph McCann is accused of 37 offences against 11 women and children over a two-week period.", "Labour rejects Tory calculations about what their economic policies would cost as \"more fake news\".", "Hundreds of passengers had a narrow escape after two trains collided in the Indian city of Hyderabad.", "Chris Davies quits the general election after other Welsh Tories criticise his selection in Ynys Mon.", "Ex-British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton furiously denies claims he is a \"doper\" before storming out of Dr Richard Freeman's medical tribunal.", "Police are being asked to investigate but AM Neil McEvoy says he acted in the public interest.", "Dozens of rockets hit Israel after Palestinian Islamic Jihad vows to avenge Baha Abu al-Ata's death.", "Labour bids to defuse a row that has seen British Hindus urged not to vote for them at the election.", "Downing Street is accused of delaying a report on Brexit referendum allegations until after the election.", "The Tory leader also hits back at Donald Trump's criticism of his Brexit deal, in a BBC interview.", "Zia Uddin attacked four 15-year-old girls at the Kingston Primark store in 2017.", "The former Conservative justice secretary will stand as an independent to oppose a \"hard Brexit\".", "Activist Steve Bray, a familiar figure in Westminster, is contesting the Welsh seat of Cynon Valley.", "A report on alleged Russian interference in the UK should come out, says the former US presidential candidate.", "Sir Richard Branson apologises after his tweet is criticised for showing \"so many white people\".", "Cynthia Tuck says fraudsters took her life savings and that no-one has faced justice for what happened.", "Pyrotechnics went off above a war memorial as hundreds of people observed the two-minute silence.", "No 10 is delaying publishing a report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy, critics say.", "John Lawler, 80, became like a \"ragdoll\" and died the following day in hospital.", "The Duchess of Sussex \"deserves a lot better\", the former US presidential candidate says.", "The singer says she had expected a women's charity to feature more prominently in a supermarket ad.", "The US ex-president, 95, underwent a successful surgery in Atlanta to relieve pressure on his brain.", "Their plans includes stopping Brexit, investing in public services and tackling the climate crisis.", "Nigel Farage says the party will not contest seats won by the Tories in 2017, but will stand against Labour.", "Thousands of people visit the beach during birthing season, but few see an actual birth.", "Manager Gareth Southgate compares his squad to \"a family\", saying arguments were inevitable after Raheem Sterling's confrontation with Joe Gomez.", "Tim Walker says he feared letting the Tories win Canterbury, but the Lib Dems will be picking a new candidate.", "England forward Raheem Sterling will not play in the Euro 2020 qualifier against Montenegro on Thursday following a clash with team-mate Joe Gomez.", "Neil McEvoy's recordings of the standards watchdog prompts sweep of the Welsh Assembly estate.", "Plastic is building up in the areas of the ocean where fish feed and grow, according to research.", "Sarah Barrass and Brandon Machin murdered the two boys and conspired to kill their four other children.", "The pro-Remain parties have said the agreement will cover 60 seats across England and Wales.", "The automatic air freshener exploded after being heated up by a wood- burner it was placed on.", "Boris Johnson is heckled on a visit to South Yorkshire as 200 Army personnel join the relief effort.", "The Royal British Legion calls for a pause in our busy lives, 100 years after the first two-minute silence.", "Labour pledges a £3bn increase in adult education investment to update skills for work.", "Emily Maitlis on Hillary Clinton's intervention.", "Nick Boles says the PM is a \"compulsive liar\" and calls the Labour leader a \"totalitarian\".", "The Normandy veteran commanded the land forces in the 1970s, before becoming chief of general staff.", "Highways England is urging traffic not to break the law and endanger other road users.", "Bugs could still be used during the show but anything contestants have to eat will be already dead.", "Further details emerge of the Duchess of Sussex's claims against the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.", "In a BBC interview, the Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time.", "Chinese soldiers in Hong Kong have left their barracks to help dismantle barricades built by protesters.", "Celebrities from the worlds of TV, music, film and sport unite for this year's BBC charity appeal.", "The Duke of York says he was looking after his children on one of the nights it is alleged he had sex with Virginia Giuffre.", "The Duke of York is under scrutiny for his connection to the late US financier. Here's what we know.", "The Duke of York does not regret Epstein friendship, writes BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond.", "One person is rescued and a witness says the blaze was \"climbing up\" the building in Bolton.", "The Duke of York says at the time he felt it was \"honourable\" to stay at the convicted sex offender's home.", "Boris Johnson announces £640m for more forests while Jo Swinson aims for 60 million new trees.", "Celebrities from the worlds of TV, music, film and sport took part in this year's BBC charity show.", "Female candidates are likely to comprise about a third of those contesting the 12 December poll.", "Jeffrey Epstein died in prison waiting for his sex trafficking trial - but who was he?", "All eight fixtures in the women's top division in Spain are postponed because of a strike by players in a dispute over pay.", "Wales ease to a comfortable win in Azerbaijan to set up a winner-takes-all match with Hungary for automatic qualification for Euro 2020.", "Alden Barlow wrote to Ms Soubry in her constituency in Nottingham, saying she was \"treacherous\".", "A month-long study on smokers suggests vaping could reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke.", "Prince Andrew says he has wracked his brains but cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.", "Calls grow for an inquiry into claims Brexit Party candidates were offered Lords seats to step aside.", "The Tories and Lib Dems set out policies on tree-planting while senior Labour figures meet to finalise their manifesto.", "The councils making the most money from parking are mainly in London, the RAC Foundation says.", "Greater Manchester's mayor is to talk to the prime minister in the wake of the major blaze in Bolton.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The Italian canal city's main square, waterbuses and schools are closed as the water rises again.", "Jeremy Corbyn hails \"transformative\" document that he says gives the \"promise of a better Britain\".", "Staff branded thieves \"scummy\" after the break-in at the life-saving river organisation at Glasgow Green.", "Almost all internet connectivity in the country has been switched off since Saturday.", "Joseph McCann tied up a mother and sexually abused her children in a separate room, a court hears.", "Hallie Rubenhold wins non-fiction prize for book on five \"ordinary women\" who fell on \"hard times\".", "The US Ambassador to the EU places Trump at heart of campaign for Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.", "An Impossible Foods spokeswoman says vegans should ask for the burger to be cooked in a microwave.", "Standard Chartered says it is not renewing sponsorship of Pitch@Palace for \"commercial reasons\".", "The Duke of York's friendship with a sex offender was years longer than he told the BBC, the letter says.", "Amy Dally Mura is also banned from campaigning in Broxtowe as a condition of bail.", "Staff got dead babies' names wrong and, in one case, referred to a child as \"it\", a leaked report says.", "The decision follows a lengthy legal battle with the previous owner and widespread debate in Austria.", "In a BBC interview, the Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time.", "The party plans to cut debt rather than simply balancing the books", "The party thinks it can achieve its aim of stopping Brexit if there is no outright winner on 12 December.", "The Duke of York is under scrutiny for his connection to the late US financier. Here's what we know.", "Jo Swinson is leading the only UK-wide party that advocates basic-rate income tax rises.", "Jose Mourinho is appointed as Tottenham manager after the Premier League club sacked Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday.", "Wales secure qualification for Euro 2020 as Aaron Ramsey marks his return with two goals to inspire a joyous 2-0 win over Hungary.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn go head-to-head before leaders of smaller parties are interviewed live on ITV.", "Bushfires are spreading across Australia's east coast, ravaging the marsupial's main habitat.", "\"Glaikit\", \"scunnered\" and \"shoogle\" lose out to a word commonly used to describe the Scottish weather.", "Nearly 7 million people watched leaders lock horns over the NHS in the first TV debate of the election.", "Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Ariana Grande get multiple nominations; alongside Lil Nas X's Old Town Road.", "The actress, who played Daenerys in the HBO show, says we live in \"shifting times for nudity\".", "Republicans questioned the integrity of White House official Lt Col Vindman during the hearing.", "Music fans deserve more options and choices from streaming services, says a new report.", "The man suffered a medical episode and fell in front of a Victoria Line train during rush hour.", "The duke says his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has “become a major disruption to my family's work”.", "Increasingly desperate protesters who remain at a besieged university have tried a dangerous escape route.", "Stacey Andrew says it was \"like someone let a firework off on my chest\" after being hit by a flare.", "The party says it is entitled to rebut \"nonsense\" amid calls for action over rebranded Twitter account.", "Johnson and Corbyn go head-to-head...", "Twenty-five people are found in a cooling container on a UK-bound ferry coming from the Netherlands.", "The 16-year-old boy listed a series of possible targets in his \"guerrilla warfare\" manual.", "Former Manchester United and Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is in talks to replace Mauricio Pochettino as Tottenham manager.", "Jeane Freeman expressed her \"deepest sympathies\" to the families of two children who died in a Glasgow hospital.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn did not slip up in ITV's clash - but there were no breakthrough moments either.", "Twitter said the stunt was misleading to the public and would not be tolerated in future - but did not take any direct action.", "The 19-year-old was killed in a \"particularly vicious attack\", police say.", "As Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson faced off on ITV, their supporters clashed online.", "Tottenham sack manager Mauricio Pochettino after five years in charge of the club.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Labour wants to build 100,000 new council houses a year, while the Tories vow more help for first-time buyers.", "Catherine Griffiths eventually discovered her children had Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.", "Jo Swinson releases details of her election pledges and Boris Johnson reveals a National Insurance cut.", "Roads were closed and rail services affected after heavy rain and strong wind in Wales on Saturday.", "The 10-month-old girl was found \"unresponsive\" at a house near Bolton by emergency crews.", "South Africa overpower England in the Rugby World Cup final in Yokohama to become champions for a third time.", "The father of a woman who died in mysterious circumstances abroad says he felt abandoned by UK authorities.", "The body of Amelia Bambridge was found off the island where she was last seen at a beach party.", "At least 20 people have died during the nationwide protests demanding economic and political change.", "London and Scotland are the best places to find charging points, while Yorkshire is the worst.", "The Rugby Football Union is trying to find out how a song rooted in slavery became an anthem for English rugby fans.", "The move comes after British police say 39 people found dead in a truck last week are believed to be Vietnamese.", "Luke Barrett said they wanted to \"actually make an impact on Halloween\".", "But victory at the Rugby World Cup comes as the country faces economic hardship and corruption.", "The government forecast up to 20 wells would be fracked by mid-2020, but only three have been so far.", "No more fracking will take place at Preston New Road under its current licence, Cuadrilla confirms.", "The party says that ITV's exclusion of leader Jo Swinson risks 'misrepresenting' politics.", "Decontamination work after a bug outbreak at a hospital dislodged more bacteria, new papers show.", "Previous research suggested 50 years of shale gas under the UK, but a new study says it could be less than 10.", "The Conservative Party leader also dismissed suggestions that he should work with the Brexit Party.", "The first minister tells a Glasgow rally it is time to break away from the \"chaos of Westminster\".", "The 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produced best-selling and long-running musicals including Cats and Jesus Christ Supsterstar.\n\nTwickets launched in 2015 as a more ethical ticketing company, helping fans get into concerts by the likes of Adele and Arctic Monkeys, but this is their first official tie-in with a UK theatre group.\n\n\"The UK is in the midst of a market shift away from rip-off secondary ticketing platforms and towards capped consumer-friendly resale services,\" said Twickets' founder Richard Davies.\n\n\"I am proud Twickets is at the forefront of this change, and delighted we can extend our service to theatre lovers via this groundbreaking partnership with LW Theatres.\"\n\nThe partnership will not stop touts from putting tickets on other ticket resale sites, but intends to give theatregoers a trusted option for trading unwanted tickets at a fair price.\n\nTickets for shows such as Hamilton have been highly sought\n\nThe move comes after the West End production of Hamilton scrapped a paperless ticketing scheme intended to combat unauthorised resale.\n\nProducers argued that increased customer awareness and action against sites like Viagogo meant they could reintroduce a \"more open\" system, including printed paper tickets.\n\nHamilton and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, two of the biggest West End hits in recent years, say tickets that are re-sold will be cancelled.\n\nMusic stars including Adele, Little Mix and The Spice Girls also teamed up with Twickets as the official ticket reseller for their last tours.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jeremy Corbyn always promised something different.\n\nHe was chosen by his party in 2015 largely because he was such a contrast to the other candidates who seemed, fairly or unfairly, somehow to merge into one.\n\nIf his 2017 general election manifesto was exciting for those on the left of the Labour Party, today's publication might feel like their dreams have come true.\n\nIndeed, as the Labour leader went through his programme for the country at the party's manifesto launch today there was a sense that finally, after more than four years of being in charge, when he has often been tangled up in the party's own internal wars, he's been able to say what he really wants to do, and how he would really seek to achieve it.\n\nThis isn't a souped-up version of Ed Miliband in 2015, it's not really a more full throttle version of 2017.\n\nThis is Labour's 2017 election manifesto with rocket boosters - several huge nationalisations, higher taxes for the wealthy and business, a rewiring of the rules on the economy, a huge expansion in the role of the state almost everywhere you look.\n\nThis has, of course, always been how Jeremy Corbyn and the hugely influential Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell think the country should be run.\n\nThat's why for so long they were the rebels in their own party.\n\nThere is nothing new for them in the broad principles they have laid out today.\n\nWhat they are gambling on, and many in their own party are really sceptical of, is whether a 21st century version of the beliefs they have stood by for so long can find favour with the country at large.\n\nClearly, many public services are stretched after years of a squeeze on public spending.\n\nThere is no question that Jeremy Corbyn's transformation of the Labour Party has shifted the whole political compass round to the left.\n\nBut that doesn't mean Labour can be confident at all that it means the country is hungry for a total reboot of the kind the party is promising.\n\nPolls at this stage suggest that most people are not that enthusiastic about change in such a dramatic way.\n\nVoters might like the idea of what one senior Labour figure simply described as 'lots of free stuff'.\n\nPerhaps the manifesto today could be the start of a breakthrough in this campaign.\n\nBut there are doubts tonight about whether the plans are realistic, and whether the public would be willing in anything like enough numbers to put their trust in Mr Corbyn to make it happen.", "That's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 21 November 2019.\n\nQuestions about the NHS dominated first minister's questions today.\n\nScottish Tory interim leader Jackson Carlaw raised questions about the health secretary's response following the death of two patients at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised to the families of the parents and said the government was determined to ensure their questions were answered.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard asks about the role of private firms within the NHS, leading Ms Sturgeon to highlight 0.6% of the overall budget went to the private sector, less than in England.", "Joseph McCann is accused of tying up a mother with electrical cable and assaulting her children\n\nA mother was tied up while her children were abused by a knife-wielding sex attacker who threatened to slit her throat, a court has heard.\n\nJoseph McCann is accused of tricking his way into the woman's Lancashire home after a night out.\n\nHe used electrical cable to tie her up before assaulting her daughter, 17, and 11-year-old son, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nJurors have heard the mother tried to comfort her son after the three of them managed to escape, telling him: \"It's OK, son. We are alive.\"\n\nShe described her ordeal on 5 May in a police interview played during the trial.\n\n\"I have come back in a taxi where this fella has said 'I will come with you to make sure you get home OK',\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr McCann was allegedly captured on CCTV at a petrol station\n\nMr McCann later produced a knife as he ordered the woman to lie down in her son's bedroom, forcing the children into another bedroom, the jury was told.\n\n\"He tied my legs together and then he turned me back over again but he kept coming in saying 'you watch, or say anything, I will slit your throat,\" the woman continued.\n\n\"I said 'are you going to kill us all' and he said 'shut up'.\"\n\nShe described hearing Mr McCann tell her son to lie down on the floor and not to look at him.\n\n\"It was like I was in and out of consciousness,\" she said, adding: \"I don't know if it was fright.\n\n\"I was trying to get out but I thought if he sees me he would kill me. He had my children in the bedroom.\"\n\nCCTV images allegedly show Joseph McCann at the Phoenix Lodge Hotel in Watford on 25 April\n\nThe court was told Mr McCann checked on her three or four times during the ordeal.\n\nThe woman said her son later ran downstairs, grabbed their attacker's discarded knife and used it to cut her free, saying: \"Mummy, let's go out the back door.\"\n\nShe continued: \"I said 'hold onto me'. I said 'run like you never ran before and you get out'.\"\n\nDuring cross-examining, Jo Sidhu QC suggested the woman had been tied up because she tried to attack Mr McCann with a kitchen knife when he was in a bedroom with her daughter.\n\n\"It was obvious he was tying you up in order to stop you from being violent towards him because you were out of control,\" he said.\n\nThe witness replied: \"I disagree with all of that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour's manifesto includes a pledge to be building 100,000 council houses and at least 50,000 affordable homes through housing associations a year by the end of the Parliament.\n\nHousing is devolved, so the party is talking about England only.\n\nThis is a properly large number of homes to be building. To put it into context, a combination of council housing, housing associations and the private sector has managed to produce more than 150,000 dwellings in total for only two of the past 10 years.\n\nThe last year in which more than 100,000 council houses were built in England was 1977.\n\nAnd since the early 1990s, only a very few years have seen more than one or two thousand council houses built.\n\nBut while local authorities tend not to be as involved in building houses as they once were, there are also homes not built by councils but still for social rent, of which 6,287 were built in 2018-19.\n\nLabour, however, has been clear in its manifesto it is talking about homes \"built by councils for social rent\".\n\nAnd it defines social rent as being about half the cost of market rates.\n\nPerhaps the biggest challenge would be finding people to build these houses.\n\nThe construction sector has been complaining about skills shortages for several years, so even diverting all the workers currently building homes for the private sector would not necessarily be enough.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner told BBC News the key would be better training.\n\n\"We can get people into these courses and get people on the ground being able to do the work,\" she said.\n\nAsked about who these people might be given unemployment is at relatively low levels (1.3 million in the most recent figures), she said many of those on zero-hours contracts or having to work several jobs would prefer to be retrained.\n\nIn 2017-18, there were 69,897 enrolments in further education courses in construction, planning and the built environment, while 44,570 people took part in apprenticeships in that area.\n\nLabour is separately committed to creating one million \"green\" jobs, of which just under half would be used to transform existing homes, so a lot of workers would need to be retrained into these sorts of roles.\n\nAnd on top of that, Labour is also committed to a big programme of infrastructure investment, covering things such as schools, hospitals and care homes, which would also require workers with construction skills.\n\nIt's not just bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, electricians and plumbers who would be needed - councils not currently geared up to large-scale housebuilding would also need to employ extra staff, as well as expanding their planning departments.\n\nSome of the people with these skills could be attracted from overseas but any sort of Brexit that did not keep the UK as part of the single market would probably make it harder for employers to hire workers from the rest of Europe.\n\nLabour has, however, given itself five years to be building 100,000 council houses and 50,000 housing association homes a year, which means there would be time to create the courses and get people trained to do the work, as well as preparing local authorities for the task.\n\nThere are also questions about whether enough land could be found to build all these new properties on but if the government was sufficiently committed to the programme (and had a big enough majority) it could change the planning rules.\n\nThere is not a specific costing for the housebuilding programme - it is part of Labour's £150bn Social Transformation Fund.\n\nSo, there are significant challenges but if a Labour government spent the billions of pounds necessary to train workers, offered high enough wages to attract people to retrain and took the time and effort to push through the structural changes needed in local authorities and the planning system, this housebuilding target would not be impossible.", "A letter written to the Times newspaper by Buckingham Palace has cast doubt on when the Duke of York first met convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe 2011 letter says they met in the early 1990s, not in 1999 as Prince Andrew said in his BBC interview.\n\nIt comes as the duke faces a growing backlash after he said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the prince's words speak for themselves and he stands by his recollection of events.\n\nWriting to the Times in March 2011, the duke's then private secretary Alastair Watson aimed to address \"widespread comment\" about the relationship with the New York financier, who died in prison this year awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nHe said Prince Andrew had known Epstein \"since being introduced to him in the early 1990s\", but dismissed the \"insinuations and innuendos\" as \"without foundation\".\n\nBut in his interview with the BBC's Newsnight on Saturday, the duke said they \"met through his girlfriend back in 1999\" - a reference to Ghislaine Maxwell, who had been a friend of Prince Andrew since she was at university.\n\nThe 2011 letter was published after the Times reported on the existence of a photo of the prince with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre, then known as Roberts, who would later testify that she had been forced to have sex with him. The duke has always denied any form of sexual contact or relationship with her.\n\nThe duke was pictured with Ms Giuffre in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home in 2001\n\nBT has become the latest in a series of organisations to distance themselves from Prince Andrew since the interview was broadcast.\n\nIn a statement, BT said it had been working with iDEA - which helps people develop digital, business and employment skills - since 2017 but \"our dealings have been with its executive directors not its patron, the Duke of York\".\n\n\"In light of recent developments we are reviewing our relationship with the organisation and hope that we might be able to work further with them, in the event of a change in their patronage,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nAmong some close to the prince there was a belief that \"once the dust died down\" the Newsnight interview would have been worth it - because his core denials and admissions would be what was left in the public's mind.\n\nIt is hard to see the logic of that position now.\n\nThe letter to the Times from the prince's former private secretary undermines Prince Andrew's recollection of when his friendship with Epstein started.\n\nThe Daily Mail has highlighted at least one example, illustrated with photos, of when he and the Duchess of York broke what he called their \"simple rule\" that when one of them was away, the other was always with their children in the evening.\n\nThat \"simple rule\" was offered as a reason why the prince could not have been with Virginia Roberts in London on the night she claims he danced and had sex with her.\n\nThe loss of corporate support is particularly troubling for the palace: it is a \"real-world\" response to the interview, not just commentary and headlines.\n\nBT goes out of its way to say they'd reconsider if the organisation that they currently sponsor changed its patron - the prince.\n\nThis is not getting better for the prince, or for the palace. It is getting worse.\n\nStandard Chartered Bank and KPMG earlier announced they were withdrawing support for the duke's business mentoring initiative Pitch@Palace, but sources told the BBC the decisions were made before the interview.\n\nFour Australian universities have also said they would not be continuing their involvement in Pitch@Palace Australia.\n\nPrince Andrew cancelled a planned visit to flood-hit areas of Yorkshire on Tuesday, three days after the interview aired, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nIt is understood the visit was deemed inappropriate in the midst of an election campaign.\n\nIn his Newsnight interview, the duke answered questions for the first time about his friendship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in the US.\n\nHe \"categorically\" denied having any sexual contact with Virginia Giuffre, but the interview provoked a backlash.\n\nDespite the criticism, BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond reported that those close to the duke say a withdrawal from public life is not under consideration.\n\nThe prince said he regretted this 2010 meeting with Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew said in the interview that he could not recall ever meeting Virginia Giuffre and recalled that he went to Pizza Express in Woking and then returned home the night she claims they first met.\n\nHe sought to cast doubt on her testimony that he was \"profusely sweating\" in a nightclub, saying that a medical condition at the time meant he could not perspire.\n\nAnd the duke said meeting Epstein for a final time in 2010 was \"the wrong decision\", but said the \"opportunities I was given to learn\" about business meant he did not regret the friendship.", "An election candidate standing in the same seat as Anna Soubry has been found guilty of harassing her and banned from campaigning in the constituency.\n\nEnglish Democrat candidate Amy Dalla Mura is standing in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, which Ms Soubry has represented since 2010.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard the defendant repeatedly targeted the Independent Group for Change candidate and called her a traitor on television.\n\nShe will be sentenced on 16 December.\n\nThe court heard Dalla Mura, from Hove, attended an event in Parliament on 23 January where Ms Soubry was speaking, repeatedly interrupting her and live streaming the event on her phone. The meeting was eventually abandoned when she refused to stop.\n\nThe court was also told Dalla Mura approached Ms Soubry in Parliament's Central Lobby while she was appearing on BBC Newsnight on 14 March, calling her a \"traitor\" while again filming her.\n\nPassing the verdict, chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot described Dalla Mura's behaviour as \"oppressive and unacceptable\", with conduct \"driven by anger at Ms Soubry's political views on Brexit\". She said it had also \"caused harassment in the sense of alarm and distress\".\n\nThe 56-year-old will be sentenced four days after the election but will still be allowed to stand.\n\nHowever, as a condition of bail, she cannot enter Broxtowe and has been banned from contacting or mentioning Ms Soubry on social media.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in a BBC interview.\n\nHe spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in an interview recorded at Buckingham Palace.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "One in three young people has not registered to vote, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nYouth worker Jerahl Hall, from Stoke-on-Trent, is trying to persuade young people in his home city to vote in the general election.\n\nThe 27-year-old works at the city's YMCA. He has spent the past few years trying to educate people about why they should take part in the democratic process.\n\nThe deadline to register to vote is 26 November.\n\n·Stories from We Are Stoke-on-Trent", "There's a very rich profile of Hill in the New York Times.\n\nMs Hill, 54, had an unusual path to academia. The daughter of a coal miner and a midwife, she had a hardscrabble childhood in northeast England - a childhood that bred toughness, her friends say. Once, when she was 11, a boy in her class set one of her pigtails on fire while she was taking a test. She put the fire out with her hands, and finished the test.\n\nShe learned to speak Russian and eventually made her way across the Atlantic to Harvard for a fellowship, where she studied under the scholar Richard Pipes, known for his hard-line views about what was then the Soviet Union.\n\nMs. Hill’s own views are more nuanced, friends and colleagues say; she is not so much a Russia hawk as a cleareyed realist. She was also very clear about the threat Russia posed to Ukraine.\n\n“She comes from this realist tradition where you start with the proposition that this other actor is capable of killing me,” said Graham Allison, a Harvard political scientist who worked with Ms. Hill on an initiative to teach foreign governments about democracy. “I can’t figure out how to kill them without committing suicide, so now I have to find a way to live with them.\"\n\nAnd Hill has since referenced the profile, noting that the hair-on-fire incident had the unfortunate consequence of a bowl cut.\n\n\"I looked like Richard III,\" she said, though some on Twitter have debated the accuracy of the comparison.", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "The man was taken to a major trauma centre with serious leg injuries\n\nA commuter is fighting for his life after being struck by a London Tube train at rush-hour.\n\nThe man suffered a medical episode and fell in front of an incoming train at Oxford Circus at 17:30 GMT, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nHe was taken to hospital with serious leg injuries and is in a critical condition.\n\nVictoria Line trains were cancelled while the man was rescued and severe delays followed the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommuter Sophie King told BBC London she was travelling south on the Victoria Line when the train began pulling into Oxford Circus.\n\n\"It was very crowded and then everyone started screaming and shouting and calling for a doctor,\" she said.\n\n\"It looked like the man was crushed at the side of the train.\"\n\nVictoria Line trains were cancelled while the victim was treated\n\nBBC cricket commentator Ebony Rainford-Brent was also among the witnesses to the incident.\n\nShe said she saw a man fall in front of a train as people filled the \"overcrowded\" platform.\n\n\"I just watched a man fall under the tube two metres in front of me,\" she said.\n\n\"As the train was coming in he was at the very front... it looked like he swivelled and lost his balance, it looked like a fall.\n\n\"He sort of fell on his back. The way it looked to me he could have almost froze.\n\n\"[It] was honestly the most horrific thing to witness.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ebony Rainford-Brent This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe parents of Harry Dunn have said they are \"disgusted\" with Dominic Raab after he defended the government's decision to seek legal costs from them.\n\nThe 19-year-old died after a collision in Northamptonshire in August that led to the suspect leaving the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nHis parents have begun legal action against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).\n\nMr Raab said the government needed to \"protect taxpayers' money\".\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles told Victoria Derbyshire the foreign secretary's comments were \"just completely disgusting\" and she also said they had been \"misled\" by him.\n\n\"A month ago he said in parliament there were no obstacles to justice, but yesterday he said he was still working to clear obstacles.\"\n\n\"I'm just really angry with that,\" she said.\n\nThe FCO said last month it would \"seek costs\" for any judicial review brought and argues the family has not found \"any reasonably arguable ground of legal challenge\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Dunn’s mother Charlotte Charles says the family has been misled by Dominic Raab\n\nMr Raab told Sky News: \"We just cannot responsibly allow ourselves to be sued without taking the normal action in defending ourselves when the position that the representative and the family are pursuing in law is wrong.\"\n\nHe continued: \"It pains me because I want to give them the solace of justice in this case.\n\n\"But we also need to protect the taxpayers' money and the legal position that we set out, which is the correct one.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said seeking legal costs from Harry Dunn's family was about protecting taxpayer's money\n\nMr Dunn was fatally injured on 27 August, when his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Anne Sacoolas, 42, outside RAF Croughton, where her husband Jonathan was an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity but the family are seeking a judicial review of that decision.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police interviewed Mrs Sacoolas in the US in October and a file was handed to the Crown Prosecution Service earlier this month.\n\nMrs Charles said: \"We do not understand why it is taking so long to come to a charging decision, when the evidence shows that it really is straight forward.\"\n\nRadd Seiger, the family's spokesman, said: \"If [Mr Raab] is so concerned about taxpayers' money in the litigation then he would come and talk to us to find a resolution, rather than risking having taxpayers themselves paying a very expensive legal bill if the FCO lose.\"\n\nA spokesman for FCO said: \"We have deep sympathy for Harry's family. We have done and will continue to do everything we properly can to ensure that justice is done.\n\n\"As the foreign secretary set out in Parliament, the individual involved had diplomatic immunity whilst in the country under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.\"\n\nHe added it was \"usual government practice to seek costs in legal challenges of this kind\".\n\nRadd Seiger (centre) said Harry Dunn's parents Charlotte Charles (left) and Tim Dunn (right) were \"entitled to answers and the truth\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lib Dems want to stop Boris Johnson winning a majority, says Davey\n\nThe Lib Dems' deputy leader says the party can stop Boris Johnson from winning the general election \"and through that we can stop Brexit\".\n\nSir Ed Davey told the BBC the most likely outcome on 12 December was a \"minority Tory government\".\n\nHe suggested the Lib Dems would support them, along with other parties, if they agreed to another EU referendum.\n\nThe party launched its election manifesto earlier with a pledge to stop Brexit which they say would save £50bn.\n\nIf the party wins the general election outright, it says it would revoke Article 50, halting Brexit and keeping the UK in the European Union.\n\nIf it does not win, it will continue campaigning for another EU referendum, or \"People's Vote\".\n\nSir Ed told the BBC's Andrew Neil Show the party wants to stop the Conservatives getting a majority at the election and then use whatever leverage they have to push for another referendum.\n\n\"The most likely result I think, looking at the figures, is probably a minority Tory government,\" said Sir Ed.\n\n\"If it's a minority Tory government, Boris Johnson says he wants to deliver Brexit… The only way he could do that is with a People's Vote and so we will challenge him and we will work with others to say 'if you want to do what you said, Mr Johnson… if you want to do what you said, work for a People's Vote.\"\n\nHe added: \"We can stop Boris Johnson getting a majority and through that we can stop Brexit.\"\n\nSources inside the party concede now that after the withdrawal of the Brexit Party in Conservative seats, what might have been a wildly unpredictable four-way race, has moved to a scrappy national two-way - with the SNP separately dominant in Scotland, and the third smaller UK-wide party eagerly trying to nibble at the margins to get in.\n\nWith Labour yet to make any big breakthrough in the campaign, the Lib Dems claim they are the ones who can nab seats from the Conservatives.\n\nSo Lib Dem votes in marginal seats are the ones that could prevent Johnson from a clear run at five years in office.\n\nThe party's private hopes a few weeks ago of a massive increase in the number of seats has slipped a lot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson is pressed on whether she'd block a Tory or Labour government\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson has repeatedly insisted that she is aiming to be the prime minister of a Liberal Democrat government after 12 December's election - but she admitted in a BBC interview that it would be a \"big step\", given the current opinion polls.\n\nShe told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg her MPs would not actively support a Labour or Tory programme of government as she believes neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Boris Johnson are fit to be prime minister.\n\nBut she did not rule out allowing either of them to take office - by abstaining in a vote on their first Queen's Speech - if they agreed to hold another EU referendum.\n\nShe also suggested there could be a \"government of national unity\" - made up of senior figures from different parties - if there was no overall winner at the polls.\n\n\"It's certainly something which I put forward and suggested a few months ago, it wasn't something which there was a majority for, ultimately, in the previous Parliament, but we don't know what the arithmetic of the next Parliament will look like.\n\n\"And I just don't think that we should be sort of trapped by convention into thinking our politics has to go down the tramlines that we've assumed it would in the past because this is a time of change in politics.\"\n\nShe said people needed to be \"more imaginative about what happens\" after an election, suggesting that there were MPs in other parties that the Lib Dems could work with.\n\nAt her party's manifesto launch, Ms Swinson said the economic boost the UK would get from staying in the EU was at the heart of her plan to build a \"brighter future for people\".\n\nThe so-called £50bn \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra cash for schools and support for the low-paid.\n\nShe said the UK \"deserved better\" than Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10.\n\nThe largest single spending commitment in the Lib Dems' 96-page manifesto, launched at an event in north London, is a major expansion of free childcare, to be paid for by an increase in corporation tax and changes to capital gains allowances on the sale of assets.\n\nThere are also eye-catching pledges to freeze the cost of many rail fares for five years, to legalise and tax cannabis sales to over-18s and to charge those taking frequent international flights more.\n\nThe Lib Dems are hoping to significantly boost their presence in Parliament on the back of their opposition to Brexit, as they target pro-Remain seats in the south of England and London held by the Conservatives and Labour.\n\nSpeaking at her manifesto launch, she accused Boris Johnson of \"lying\" when he said a Tory victory on 12 December would \"get Brexit done\".\n\nWhat lay ahead instead, she said, were \"years and years of endless trade negotiations\" with the EU and \"more time and energy wasted in getting something we know will not be as good as what we have now\".", "Entrepreneurs have come out in support of Prince Andrew's business scheme for start-up firms as fears grow it may not continue amid the current controversy.\n\nWill King, founder of King of Shaves, said it was \"really sad\" the Pitch@Palace initiative had \"been affected by the personal issues around the Duke of York.\"\n\nThe scheme provides start-up firms with advice and contacts, but no funding.\n\nA source close to Prince Andrew said he would continue to be involved.\n\nThis is despite his stepping back from public duties for the foreseeable future.\n\nThere has been ongoing controversy over the prince's ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nMr King, a founding member of Pitch@Palace suggested Prince Andrew could be \"rotated out of his captaincy of the ship\" for the business initiative.\n\nHe said there were plenty of royals who could take his place, including William and Kate, as well as Harry and Meghan.\n\n\"If you're going to continue the Pitch@Palace in the royal environment, where you have an infrastructure that is paid for - I think, in part - by the taxpayer it would be an extraordinary shame that the palace don't see the opportunity in continuing this initiative.\"\n\nHe said the scheme had created £1bn of economic activity and noted that 97% of the companies who used it were still going.\n\nBut asked if it can continue with Prince Andrew at the helm, he said: \"I don't know, I don't know.\"\n\nMr King said he had been invited in 2013 to a breakfast chaired by the prince's personal secretary Amanda Thirsk \"with the idea of trying to develop a UK entrepreneurial eco-system\".\n\nIt was this idea which became Pitch@Palace, he said.\n\nNick Mason, co-founder of digital identity tool Zaka, said Pitch@Palace was \"a fantastic programme for young entrepreneurs that offers valuable opportunities to learn from and connect with leaders of industry.\"\n\n\"The Duke of York and his team were a constant source of encouragement throughout the impeccably-run programme and are clearly passionate about empowering the wonderful ventures that participate,\" Mr Mason said.\n\nAlex Redston, co-founder of of Prison Voicemail, was one of the first people involved in the event.\n\nHe said the event had put him in contact with \"one gentleman worth billions... who had incredible connections in telecoms and was interested in social impact\".\n\n\"An amazing contact to make,\" Mr Redston said. \"And other people who have helped us. Because we were so early stage we didn't quite understand the absolute rocket fuel that was there at the time.\"\n\nJames Talbot, chief executive of audio products firm Damson, said Prince Andrew retiring from public duties \"would represent an absolute disaster for the start-up community\".\n\n\"The Duke of York has provided an excellent platform for businesses, like Damson, to benefit from the network of connections and associates [to which] his status gives him access,\" Mr Talbot said.\n\nRajeeb Dey, the chief executive of training software firm Learnerbly, said: \"Pitch@Palace has provided hundreds of entrepreneurs with unparalleled access to leading investors and influencers in the world of business.\"\n\nBusiness giants KPMG and Standard Chartered revealed they had severed ties with the Duke of York's mentoring initiative this week.\n\nThese revelations came after a BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew which critics described as a \"car crash\".\n\nSources have told the BBC the KPMG and Standard Chartered decisions were taken before the BBC interview. Several businesses and universities are reviewing their association with Prince Andrew following the interview.\n\nDespite the prince's stepping back from royal duties, he will still continue to be involved in the entrepreneur event, a source close to Prince Andrew told the BBC.\n\nThe source said Prince Andrew was integral to Pitch@Palace.\n\n\"If you talk to any of the entrepreneurs you'll hear this,\" the source said, adding: \"I see it [Pitch@Palace] continuing, absolutely.\"\n\nThe source said none of Pitch@Palace's partners had mentioned the prince standing down, seemingly contradicting a report in the Financial Times.\n\nPitch@Palace was aware six months ago that Standard Chartered and KPMG would not be extending their sponsorship, but other sponsors were \"steady as they go\", the source said.\n\n\"People believe in the programme. It's huge and important to the economy so as long as we are finding and developing great entrepreneurs - that's why the partners are involved. They know that's important to their business,\" the source added.", "Helen McCourt was murdered by Ian Simms in Billinge, Merseyside, in 1988\n\nThe mother of a murder victim is \"horrified\" her daughter's killer will be freed despite never revealing where her body is.\n\nIan Simms, 63, was jailed in 1989 for murdering Helen McCourt who disappeared in February 1988 aged 22.\n\nHe was originally sentenced to a minimum of 16 years.\n\nThe killer was considered for parole for the seventh time on 8 November and officials said he \"met the test for release\".\n\nSimms killed Ms McCourt as she walked home from work in Liverpool.\n\nHer mother Marie said she was left shaking with anger after receiving a call earlier from her victim liaison officer at the parole board confirming Simms' release.\n\nIan Simms, seen here in 1988, was jailed for murder\n\n\"I'm just in a state of shock to be honest,\" Mrs McCourt said, from the family home in Billinge near St Helens, Merseyside.\n\n\"I've just had some forms come through, I think that's on what grounds the parole board has granted him release on licence, but I don't know all the conditions.\n\n\"I was just in shock. I'm still trying to deal with it. I'm horrified by it, I'm horrified by it. This man is a danger.\"\n\nShe has urged the next government to introduce Helen's Law, legislation that would deny parole to killers who do not disclose their victims' remains.\n\nThe bill recently ran out of time, when the general election was called.\n\nIt feels wrong, unjust and unfair that a convicted murderer can be freed from jail without giving any clue as to where their victim's body is, but parole decisions are not based on fairness.\n\nThey're about assessing objectively whether an offender can be safely managed outside prison after they've served the minimum term, the punishment part, of their sentence.\n\nIn Simms' case it appears the Parole Board did consider his refusal to divulge where Helen McCourt's remains are, but weighed that alongside numerous other factors.\n\nIt is hard to see, therefore, how Helen's Law would have made a difference in this case. It does no more than \"require\" the Board to take the non-disclosure of information by an offender into account when determining if they should be let out.\n\nHowever, the Bill, backed by the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, will be reintroduced when parliament sits again after the election, and when it becomes law may well affect cases in the future - a lasting legacy of Marie McCourt's tireless campaigning.\n\nSimms was denied release at a hearing in 2016, but was subsequently transferred to an open prison \"due to progress made\", where he has \"followed the rules\" when granted temporary release.\n\nThe Parole Board said it had \"carefully considered\" Simms' failure to reveal where he concealed Ms McCourt's body and concluded there is \"no prospect of Simms ever disclosing the whereabouts of his victim even if he were kept in prison until he died\".\n\nThe board added the refusal continues to cause understandable distress and misery to the victim's family and the panel concluded this demonstrated a lack of empathy.\n\nBut it said denial was not a \"necessarily-determining factor\" and also considered evidence from two psychologists who recommended release.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why should he be let out to torture us some more?'\n\nThe Parole Board said: \"The progress that Mr Simms has made, the considerable change in his behaviour, the fact that he has not been involved in any violence or substance misuse for many years, his protective factors, the recommendations from all the professionals and all the evidence presented at the hearing, the panel was satisfied that Mr Simms met the test for release.\"\n\nMrs McCourt has described not knowing the whereabouts of her daughter's body as \"torture\".\n\n\"If Helen's Law had been on the statute books right now those judges would have to really make sure in their decision to release him that he would be safe.\n\n\"They would have to go into that, they would have to obey that law and it hasn't happened.\"\n\nShe added she did not know when or where Simms would be released and had \"very little to go on\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ryanair described the ruling as an isolated case\n\nA Spanish court has called budget airline Ryanair's policy of charging a fee for hand luggage \"excessive\" after a passenger was fined for taking a carry-on bag without a special ticket.\n\nThe passenger was forced to pay a €20 (£17) fine to bring her 10kg luggage on board.\n\nRyanair allows only small bags as hand luggage if they can be stowed beneath the seat in front.\n\nThe airline said it would not change its policy.\n\nThe passenger was travelling from Madrid to Brussels when she was charged to bring her extra luggage.\n\nThe airline has a policy of charging customers an additional fee for carrying anything more than one personal item on board. Larger bags can also require a luggage fee.\n\nIn its ruling, the Commercial Court ruled that the woman should be refunded with interest.\n\nThe baggage could easily have fitted in the cabin, the judge said. He ruled the policy to be null and void and told Ryanair \"to remove it\" from its terms and conditions.\n\nHowever, compensation was ruled out as the judge did not deem the case to have caused enough stress to the disgruntled passenger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert advice from travel blogger Julie Falconer to help you on your travels\n\nThe airline said it would not change its policy.\n\n\"This ruling will not affect Ryanair's baggage policy, either in the past or in the future, as it is an isolated case that misinterpreted our commercial freedom to determine the size of our cabin baggage,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThe ruling cannot be appealed against.\n\nAnother Ryanair customer took a unique step to avoid paying an extra baggage fee.\n\nMartin Gibson says he was flying from Billund, Denmark to London in February when he was informed he would have to pay to check in his motorcycle helmet.\n\nThe Londoner argued that the helmet was a hat, at which point he says Ryanair employees told him if it was a hat he would have to wear it.\n\nMartin argued his helmet was a hat to avoid having to check it\n\nMartin told the BBC he had to wear the helmet for about 45 minutes at the departure gate and on the walk to the plane, otherwise he wouldn't have been allowed to board.\n\nWhile wearing his helmet at the gate, Martin says he \"stood next next to the ladies enforcing this absurd rule to make sure everyone else got a good chuckle out of it\".\n\nOnce on the plane, he was allowed to take off his helmet and stow it in the overhead bin.\n\nHe says he's carried the helmet on previous flights, both on Ryanair and other airlines, and not had issues.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Ryanair for comment.", "Emilia Clarke's role as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones initially required her to take her clothes off\n\nDirectors UK has published its first guidelines for scenes involving nudity and simulated sex.\n\nThe body that represents UK TV and film directors is aiming to show best practice for working with actors, intimacy coordinators, and others.\n\nThe news comes a day after Emilia Clarke said she found Game of Thrones' nude scenes \"hard\" and that she was pressured to go naked in other roles.\n\n\"Everyone deserves the right to feel safe at work,\" Directors UK said.\n\n\"This is just as true when working on a Hollywood blockbuster as it is on a prime-time drama or a debut short film.\"\n\nThe new guidelines, which are supported by industry bodies including Bafta, Equity, the BFI and the Casting Directors' Guild, come in the wake of the #MeToo movement and allegations that some bosses demanded sexual favours for acting work.\n\nThe guidelines advise a ban on full nudity in any audition or call back and no semi-nudity in first auditions.\n\nThe document states that \"by their nature, auditions are based on a power imbalance\", and that \"some performers can feel obligated to agree to uncomfortable requests to get a job\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInstead they suggest performers wear a bikini or trunks and also bring a chaperone, as well as demanding 48 hours' notice and full-scripts be given for any recalls that require semi-nudity.\n\nProductions must also obtain explicit written consent from the performer prior to them being filmed or photographed nude or semi-nude.\n\n\"The director, as the creative lead on a production, should set the tone for a professional and respectful on-set environment,\" said UK Directors film committee chair Susanna White.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We are all here because we want to tell compelling and impactful stories, and no member of a cast or crew should ever be put in a position where they feel unsafe, exploited or mismanaged — especially when making sensitive material.\"\n\nThe Bafta-winning director, whose work includes Generation Kill, Parade's End and Bleak House, added: \"Throughout my career, I have seen how vitally important it is to know how to approach sensitive content with professionalism.\n\n\"The guidelines created by Directors UK set the standard for directing intimate scenes, and will help to foster a safe working environment for everyone on a film or television set.\"\n\nA statement from Bafta described Directors UK as being \"hugely instrumental\" in addressing \"bullying and harassment\" in the industry.\n\n\"They've really embraced the agenda and have created a suite of additional resources which build on the guidance and help their members not only to tackle poor behaviour when they witness it, but also to recognise their role in creating an environment where bullying, harassment and all kinds of coercive behaviour are not tolerated.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "ScotRail has admitted it will not hit a target of stopping the dumping of human waste onto railway tracks by 2020.\n\nThe train operator had signed up to a UK-wide pledge to stop the practice of emptying raw sewage on to the railways.\n\nBut severe delays to a fleet of refurbished trains means ScotRail will still be using rolling stock without toilet waste tanks next year.\n\nThe firm said it is working to introduce the refurbished trains as soon as possible.\n\nScotRail was meant to have received 26 refurbished high-speed trains, with waste tanks fitted, for routes linking Scotland's seven cities from rail firm Wabtec by December last year.\n\nOnly eight of these models - which date back to the 1970s but have been renovated - have been delivered so far.\n\nScotRail has been forced to hire 'classic' trains, without waste retention tanks fitted, to make up some of the shortfall and nine of these will still be in operation next year.\n\nMick Hogg, the RMT union's regional organiser in Scotland, said: \"We are livid that this promise has been broken.\n\n\"Why should our members be subjected to these disgusting conditions, being sprayed by this foul waste, as they go about their work at the trackside.\n\n\"This deal has been a disgrace for taxpayer and the travelling public, who is asking the serious questions of why these refurbished trains are going to be years late.\"\n\nA deal to stop dumping human waste was originally agreed and implemented in December 2017\n\nThe practice of dumping sewage on the railways was ended by ScotRail in 2017.\n\nHowever, it was reintroduced last year as an interim measure after delays to the fleet of refurbished intercity trains.\n\nA number of other rail operators across the UK will also miss the 2020 waste target.\n\nResearch by industry regulator, the Office of Road and Rail, found that the risk of infection to railway workers from the waste was low.\n\nThe HST was the mainstay of British Rail's inter-city service and the delayed refurbishment programme has an estimated total cost of £54m\n\nA ScotRail spokesman said there was no specific legislative requirement to have retentions tanks fitted to the trains but they are being fitted as the rolling stock goes through its refurbishment programme.\n\nHe added: \"We're working with suppliers to ensure the refurbishment of our fleet of high-speed InterCity trains is completed as soon as possible.\"\n\nA spokesman for track operator Network Rail said: \"We are committed to putting an end to trains emptying waste onto the tracks and we are working with all operators to make this happen.\n\n\"There are a few train companies that have been given a bit more time for a small number of their trains and we are tracking their action plans closely to make sure they comply.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Martin: \"Everyone will catch up if you prove that it's easy to do it the right way\"\n\nColdplay have put plans to tour their new album on hold, due to concerns over the environmental impact of concerts.\n\n\"We're not touring this album,\" frontman Chris Martin told BBC News.\n\n\"We're taking time over the next year or two, to work out how our tour can not only be sustainable [but] how can it be actively beneficial.\"\n\n\"All of us have to work out the best way of doing our job,\" he continued, saying the band wanted their future tours to \"have a positive impact\".\n\nColdplay's new album Everyday Life is released on Friday and, instead of spending months on the road, they are playing two gigs in Jordan, which will be broadcast, free, to a global audience on YouTube.\n\nThe concerts, will take place in Amman on Friday at sunrise and sunset respectively, mirroring the two \"sides\" of their new album.\n\nThe UK band last travelled the world with their A Head Full of Dreams Tour, which saw them stage 122 shows across five continents in 2016 and 2017.\n\n\"Our next tour will be the best possible version of a tour like that environmentally,\" Martin said. \"We would be disappointed if it's not carbon neutral.\n\n\"The hardest thing is the flying side of things. But, for example, our dream is to have a show with no single use plastic, to have it largely solar powered.\n\n\"We've done a lot of big tours at this point. How do we turn it around so it's no so much taking as giving?\"\n\nThe WWF welcomed Coldplay's initiative, saying: \"It is fantastic to see world-famous artists stepping up to protect the planet.\n\n\"We all have a responsibility to lead by example in the face of this climate and nature crisis - inaction is not an option if we are to preserve our planet for future generations,\" said Gareth Redmond-King, the organisation's head of climate change.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Coldplay This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSpeaking to BBC entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson, Martin said Jordan had been chosen because \"we wanted to pick somewhere in the middle of the world where we normally don't get to play\".\n\nHe said the new record - which will be released on Friday - reflected the band's global perspective.\n\n\"If you've had the privilege of travelling around the world, you know we're all from the same place,\" he went on.\n\n\"In a very gentle British way, this record is us saying we don't feel different from any human on earth.\"\n\nMartin said songs from Everyday Life had been inspired in part by BBC News reports about an Afghan gardener and a Nigerian hymn composer.\n\n\"Journalism at its best finds these individual stories that reinforce our shared humanity,\" he explained.\n\nColdplay will perform a one-off concert for fans at the Natural History Museum in London on 25 November.\n\nAll proceeds from the show will be donated to an environmental charity.\n\nStaging a world tour isn't as simple as bunging Chris Martin and his bandmates in the back of a mini-van with a map and a year's supply of digestives.\n\nIn fact, the band's last tour employed 109 crew, 32 trucks and nine bus drivers, who travelled to five continents, playing to 5.4 million people at 122 concerts.\n\nThere's no easy way to calculate the band's carbon footprint; but the music industry's most recent figures suggest that live music generates 405,000 tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions in the UK every year.\n\nIt's not just flights that cause the problem. Fans travelling to and from shows are the biggest source of pollution; but there's an environmental cost to producing merchandise, powering the spotlights and moving stages from venue to venue.\n\nU2's infamous \"claw\" allowed the band to play in the middle of their audience - but at what cost to the environment?\n\nAt the most extreme end of the scale, the ambitious \"claw\" structure that U2 took on the road in 2009 required 120 trucks to shift it around. According to one environmental group, the band generated the equivalent carbon footprint of a return flight to Mars.\n\nSince then, the industry has stepped up its efforts to become more sustainable.\n\nRadiohead swapped spotlights for LEDs, which use a fraction of the power needed for a traditional lighting rig. The 1975 have stopped making new merchandise, and are donating £1 from every ticket sold to One Tree Planted, a non-profit organisation that plants trees all over the world. And U2 have enacted a number of changes, from recycling guitar strings to using hydrogen fuel cells.\n\nColdplay are going one step further. They don't just want to be carbon neutral, but to have tours that are \"actively beneficial\" to the planet. And by putting their concerts on hold, they're giving up a huge pay day: The Head Full of Dream tour made $523m.\n\nThe industry will be watching to see what solutions they come up with.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA female councillor who had her bottom slapped by a male colleague said she felt \"treated like a farm animal\".\n\nEmily Durrant, 34, was at a Brecon Beacons National Park Authority meeting in December 2017 when fellow councillor Edwin Roderick hit her bottom.\n\nThe father-of-three went on to make threats to try and stop her pursuing a complaint. She said it was part of a wider problem with sexism in local government.\n\nPowys council said all councillors must attend equality and diversity training.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Roderick was suspended as a Powys councillor for four months after a panel found he had been in breach of the code of conduct.\n\nAfter the incident, Mr Roderick threatened that mother-of-two Ms Durrant would be \"hung out to dry\" if she pursued the complaint against him.\n\n\"I felt utterly humiliated and really degraded. As a woman I am very accustomed, sadly, to experiencing everyday sexism, but I just really didn't expect it in a position of public office,\" she said.\n\nMr Roderick has since offered his sincere \"heartfelt apologies\" and said \"nothing like it will happen again\".\n\nMs Durrant accepted his apology, but said it highlighted a wider problem.\n\n\"I think there is a problem in local government with sexism. I don't think this is unique to Powys - I think it's a representation problem,\" she said.\n\nFewer than a third of Powys councillors (31.5%) are female, which is slightly higher than the percentage for the whole of Wales (28.2%).\n\nFemale councillors make up fewer than 15% of the total in five local authorities in Wales - Blaenau Gwent, Ceredigion, Merthyr Tydfil, Pembrokeshire and Anglesey.\n\nMs Durrant said attitudes needed to change towards diversity in local government.\n\n\"For example, I think there was quite a strong feeling that the equalities and diversity training that we had in Powys county council was a bit of a waste of time,\" she added.\n\n\"I think a lot of people didn't really engage in it. And there were a number of comments about the real pressure being on the man because you know we should be looking after the man because essentially he's the one that needs to be earning the money.\n\n\"Which I thought just demonstrated a real lack of understanding.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Welsh Local Government Association said: \"Women should not face harassment or intimidation in modern society and certainly shouldn't experience it within councils or public bodies.\n\n\"The WLGA leadership has taken a zero tolerance of such behaviour and conduct, there are strict procedures in place to deal with such instances but it is important that support is provided to councillors too.\n\n\"Unfortunately, not only are women significantly underrepresented in our council chambers they are also disproportionally subjected to abuse, bullying and intimidation too, particularly through social media.\"\n\nTo see the full interview, watch Wales Live on BBC One Wales at 22:35 GMT on Wednesday, or watch it afterwards on iPlayer.", "Mark D'Arcy-Smith said he and his friend are now boycotting the Wetherspoon's pub in Bromley\n\nA Wetherspoon's customer who had a banana sent to his table in an act of racial abuse is boycotting the pub.\n\nMark D'arcy-Smith was drinking with a friend at The Richmal Crompton in Bromley, south-east London, on 8 November, when the fruit arrived on a plate with a receipt.\n\nThe 24-year-old said he \"froze\" when staff gave it to him and was left feeling \"upset, shocked and scared\".\n\nWetherspoon said it had apologised to Mr D'arcy-Smith.\n\nThe pub chain has an app that allows customers to order food and drink and have it delivered to a table.\n\nThe Met Police said it was investigating the \"racially aggravated public order offence\". No arrests have been made.\n\nThe piece of fruit was sent to a table in the Richmal Crompton pub\n\nMr D'arcy Smith said: \"I looked at my friend and he knew straight away. We both thought this is wrong.\n\n\"I had this rush of emotions - I was upset, a little bit angry, shocked and scared. I just froze in place.\n\n\"I don't think a lot of people understand what racial abuse is like.\n\n\"You are essentially saying a black person is not human and they are an animal.\"\n\nIn a statement, Wetherspoon said it had apologised to Mr D'arcy Smith for any distress caused.\n\n\"This is now a police matter,\" a spokesman added.\n\n\"We have responded to the customer and pointed out that the pub cannot be held responsible for app orders.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Dozens of British Airways flights into the UK have been delayed or cancelled after what the airline has described as a \"technical issue\".\n\nFlights from the US, India and Japan were showing up as delayed.\n\n\"Our teams are working hard to resolve a technical issue which is affecting some of our flights,\" BA said on Twitter, in response to a passenger who had been delayed.\n\nSome people have been put up in hotels and booked on other flights, it said.\n\nA spokesperson for Gatwick Airport, where a number of BA flights have arrived late, blamed the delays on an issue with the airline's system for handling flight plans.\n\nThey said the problem caused delays of around three hours for some long-haul flights arriving into the airport, which had a knock-on effect on departures.\n\nThe worst affected was Flight BA170 from Pittsburgh, in the US, which was more than 12 hours behind schedule.\n\nIt is the latest technical issue to affect the airline, which faced massive disruption in August when more than 100 flights were cancelled because of an IT glitch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBritish Airways was hit by its first ever pilot strike in September when flight crews walked out in a row over pay and conditions.\n\nLater that month, the airline revealed the industrial action had cost it at least €137m (£121m).", "The Conservatives have raised £5.7m in the first week of the official election campaign, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nThe Tories received 87% of registered donations in that period, figures show, while Labour raised a total of £218,500.\n\nBut the figures do not represent all donations, as only those above £7,500 have to be reported.\n\nThe biggest gift to the Tories was £1.5m from theatre producer and regular donor John Gore.\n\nMeanwhile, the largest single registered donation to Labour was £62,000 from the Unite union, led by Jeremy Corbyn ally Len McCluskey.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the figures showed an \"astonishing gap in fundraising\".\n\nThe discrepancy between the two main parties is even wider than in the first week of the 2017 campaign, when the Tories raised £4.1m in comparison to the £2.7m received by Labour.\n\nIn addition, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said he understood the Conservatives had raised more than £4m in unregistered smaller donations since the beginning of the election campaign.\n\nThis is four times the £1m in small donations - averaging £26 each - that Labour says it has received over the same period.\n\nIn the first week of the current campaign, the Green Party raised £30,000 in registered donations - half the £60,000 raised by the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.\n\nThis is the first UK-wide election when pre-poll donations and loan reports have been published for parties in Northern Ireland.\n\nMoney received during the other weeks of the five-week official election campaign will be detailed in later releases.\n\nFor Labour, 70% of registered donations came from unions.\n\nFor the Conservatives, 47% of the party's donations came from individuals, with the remainder coming from companies.\n\nThe party received £500,000 from investment firm WA Capital and the same from property company Countywide Developments.\n\nAnother Tory donor, Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of a former minister for Russian President Vladimir Putin, gave £200,000 in the same period.\n\nThe biggest donor to the Lib Dems was wealth management firm Attestor Services, which gave £75,000.\n\nFinancier Jeremy Hosking, a former donor to the Vote Leave campaign, was the biggest donor to the Brexit Party with £250,000.", "Hays Travel, which bought Thomas Cook after it collapsed, has announced plans to hire an extra 1,500 staff.\n\nThe travel agent has already taken on 2,330 former Thomas Cook employees.\n\nBut now Hays plans to hire another 200 people at its head office in Sunderland, an extra 500 to handle foreign exchange, and an apprentice at each of its 737 branches.\n\nThe move has been seen as a vote of confidence in the package holiday market.\n\nHays took on all of Thomas Cook's 555 shops in October after the travel agent spectacularly collapsed earlier this year.\n\nSince then it has reopened 450 of those stores and hired a lot of its old staff.\n\nBut now it is expanding further.\n\nJohn Hays, who runs the travel agent with his wife Irene, said: \"We're further increasing staffing to ensure we have the highest customer service levels across all of our stores and our head office functions.\"\n\nHe said applicants didn't need experience in the sector \"just an enthusiasm for travel\".\n\nThe hiring spree will take Hays' workforce to 5,700 people.\n\n\"The former Thomas Cook managers have said the biggest difference for them is being empowered and valued - as an independent travel agent they are not tied to certain products or scripts and they feel trusted,\" Mr Hays said.\n\n\"This is a key principle of our business.\"\n\nIt is the latest sign of renewed confidence in the package holiday business.\n\nEarlier this week, EasyJet announced plans to relaunch its own package holiday operation in a bid to fill the gap in the market left by Thomas Cook.\n\nAbout 20 million people fly with EasyJet to Europe annually but only 500,000 book accommodation through it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of York says he is stepping back from royal duties because the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has become a \"major disruption\" to the Royal Family.\n\nPrince Andrew, 59, said he had asked the Queen for permission to withdraw for the \"foreseeable future\".\n\nHe said he deeply sympathised with sex offender Epstein's victims and everyone who \"wants some form of closure\".\n\nThe duke has faced a growing backlash following a BBC interview about his friendship with the US financier.\n\nCompanies he has links with, such as BT and Barclays, have joined universities and charities in distancing themselves from him.\n\nFor several months the duke had been facing questions over his ties to Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, claimed she was forced to have sex with the prince three times. The duke has always denied any form of sexual contact or relationship with her.\n\nHis latest move, described by Buckingham Palace as \"a personal decision\", was taken following discussions with the Queen and Prince Charles.\n\nIn a statement, the duke said: \"I continue to unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein.\n\n\"His suicide has left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims, and I deeply sympathise with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure.\n\n\"I can only hope that, in time, they will be able to rebuild their lives.\"\n\nHe added that he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required\".\n\nBBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph said his latest statement was \"completely different in tone\" to his recent TV interview and had \"addressed all the issues that he'd been criticised for\", including offering sympathy to Epstein's victims.\n\nShe described his decision to step back as a \"drastic\" move but said \"the rumours that had been circulating had been really difficult for the Royal Family to manage\".\n\nThe duke was pictured with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home in 2001\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight on Saturday, the duke said the \"opportunities I was given to learn\" about business meant he did not regret the friendship with Epstein, although he said meeting him for a final time in 2010 was \"the wrong decision\".\n\nThe duke said he could not recall ever meeting Virginia Giuffre, then known as Roberts, and said that on the night she claims they first met that he went to Pizza Express in Woking and then returned home.\n\nHe sought to cast doubt on her testimony claiming that he was \"profusely sweating\" in a nightclub, saying that a medical condition at the time meant he could not perspire.\n\nHe said he had met Epstein \"through his girlfriend back in 1999\" - a reference to Ghislaine Maxwell, who had been a friend of Prince Andrew since she was at university.\n\nSince the interview, a letter written in 2011 to the Times newspaper by Buckingham Palace has emerged, saying they met in the early 1990s.\n\nThis is without precedent in modern times. Prince Andrew's public life is over for now. The statement says the withdrawal is \"for the foreseeable future\". But it's hard to see what will bring him back.\n\nThe interview is almost universally seen as a mistake. It was a disaster. But it may have seemed a good idea at the time.\n\nBBC Panorama has been digging into Virginia Roberts Giuffre's allegations and is going to air soon. That will have added to the pressure, alongside legal efforts in New York to have more Epstein-related papers released.\n\nThere's talk of a lack of grip at the Palace, but Buckingham Palace is not like a company or a government department, with reporting lines and a chain of command. For centuries princes have gone their own way.\n\nThere are lots of questions - about money, titles, military commands, patronages, about how this might speed reform, and of course about whether Prince Andrew still has a part to play in helping with investigations into Epstein, and helping Epstein's victims find answers.\n\nBut right now the humiliation is complete. Born into the public eye, Prince Andrew has had to retreat into a private life.\n\nAnd the monarchy is shaken.\n\nFormer Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter told the BBC News Channel that the prince's position had become \"untenable\" and the only surprise was that it took so long, adding \"there was no other direction he could go\".\n\nHowever, he said the prince was \"not out of the woods yet\" as the FBI and lawyers for some of Epstein's alleged victims wanted to talk to him under oath.\n\nLawyer Gloria Allred, who is representing several of Epstein's victims, told BBC Newsnight that she was \"very glad\" the prince had indicated he was willing to speak to law enforcement, but said she didn't know why he had added \"if required\" to his statement.\n\nShe said he should volunteer to cooperate \"without any condition and without any more delay\".\n\nThe prince said he regretted this 2010 meeting with Epstein\n\nThe duke's website says he carries out official duties for the Queen, focusing on promoting economic growth and skilled job creation.\n\nOver the past two months he has carried out overseas engagements in Australia, United Arab Emirates and Thailand.\n\nThe prince's announcement means he won't be carrying out public engagements, but he will still attend Royal Family events such as Trooping the Colour and Remembrance Sunday.\n\nBT became the latest in a series of organisations to distance themselves from Prince Andrew \"in light of recent developments\".\n\nIn a statement, the firm said it had been working with iDEA - which helps people develop digital, business and employment skills - since 2017 but \"our dealings have been with its executive directors not its patron, the Duke of York\".\n\n\"We are reviewing our relationship with the organisation and hope that we might be able to work further with them, in the event of a change in their patronage,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nStandard Chartered Bank and KPMG also announced they were withdrawing support for the duke's business mentoring initiative Pitch@Palace. Sources told the BBC the decisions were made before the interview.\n\nFour Australian universities also said they would not be continuing their involvement in Pitch@Palace Australia.\n\nPrince Andrew cancelled a planned visit to flood-hit areas of Yorkshire on Tuesday, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK. The full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "Julie Davis, the original claimant in the case, said women had been treated \"like guinea pigs\".\n\nMore than 1,350 Australian women have won a long-running class action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) over vaginal mesh implants.\n\nAustralia's Federal Court found that J&J subsidiary Ethicon failed to warn patients and surgeons about the \"risks\" posed by the products.\n\nThe implants were commonly used to treat pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence after childbirth.\n\nThe case is one of a series of lawsuits J&J faces over the products.\n\nSome patients said they had suffered chronic pain, bleeding and severe discomfort during sexual intercourse after having the mesh surgically implanted.\n\nJudge Anna Katzmann ruled that much of the information the company provided about the products was \"inaccurate\" and at times made \"false representations\".\n\n\"The risks were known, not insignificant and on Ethicon's own admission, serious harm could ensue if they eventuated,\" Ms Katzmann said in her ruling.\n\nThe court will set damages next year.\n\nIn a statement, Ethicon defended its record and said it would consider an appeal.\n\n\"Ethicon believes that the company acted ethically and responsibly in the research, development and supply of these products,\" the company said.\n\nJulie Davis, the original claimant in the case, welcomed the decision.\n\n\"They have treated women essentially like guinea pigs, lied about it and done nothing to help,\" she told reporters outside the court in Sydney.\n\nLast year, the Australian government issued a national apology to women affected by vaginal mesh, acknowledging decades of \"agony and pain\".\n\nThe ruling is the latest bad news for J&J, which is facing billions of dollars in legal claims over other products, including opioids.\n\nIn October, the company agreed to pay nearly $117m (£90.5m) to resolve claims over pelvic mesh in 41 US states and the District of Columbia.\n\nIt is also facing lawsuits over the product in Canada and Europe.\n\nSeparately, J&J is facing thousands of lawsuits from people who claim its talc products caused cancer.\n\nThe multinational was also ordered to pay $8bn in damages to a man over claims he was not warned that an anti-psychotic drug could lead to breast growth.\n\nDespite the lawsuits, the company booked $20.7bn in quarterly sales in its most recent results, an increase of 1.9% over the same quarter in 2018.", "Samuel L Jackson (left) and Anthony Mackie star in The Banker\n\nApple has cancelled the world premiere of one of its streaming service's first original movies while it investigates \"concerns\" about the film.\n\nThe Banker is based on the true story of two black businessmen who overcame racial prejudice by enlisting a white man to front their bank in 1960s Texas.\n\nApple did not give details about the nature of the concerns.\n\nBut Hollywood media reported they related to complaints from the children of one of the men, Bernard Garrett.\n\nThe red carpet premiere was due to take place on the closing night of the American Film Institute [AFI] Festival in Los Angeles on Thursday. The film is due to have a cinema release on 6 December before being available on Apple TV+ in January.\n\nMackie and Jackson also co-starred in the Avengers movies\n\nIn a statement, Apple said: \"We purchased The Banker earlier this year as we were moved by the film's entertaining and educational story about social change and financial literacy.\n\n\"Last week some concerns surrounding the film were brought to our attention. We, along with the film-makers, need some time to look into these matters and determine the best next steps.\n\n\"In light of this, we are no longer premiering The Banker at AFI Fest.\"\n\nThe Banker stars Anthony Mackie as Garrett and his Avengers co-star Samuel L Jackson as Garrett's partner Joe Morris. In the film, they recruit Matt Steiner, played by Nicholas Hoult, to help them get around racial barriers.\n\nThe pair pose as a cleaner and chauffeur, but in reality use the banks they buy to give loans to other African Americans.\n\nWhen announcing the premiere in October, AFI Festivals director Michael Lumpkin said: \"The Banker joins a remarkable group of films being released this year that openly confront centuries of racism and injustice in our country, while celebrating the brave individuals whose activism has created real change.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "If you've been following the election campaign so far - you probably know the main messages from the main politics parties.\n\nThe Tories - Get Brexit Done\n\nBut it's the off the cuff comments - the things that let us know a bit more about the parties who want to run the country - that are often the most interesting.\n\nBoris Johnson let one slip on Wednesday when - we think accidentally - he told a voter he was going to cut the amount of national insurance we pay by raising the threshold to £12,000. Cue a mad dash to confirm the details (£9,500 in first budget - £12,500 at some point in future).\n\nMr Johnson also sat down with political journalists for a chat - which gives us some more clues about what he'd do if he retains power.\n\nIt's clear the PM is planning some sort of announcement on social care in the Tory manifesto - expected in the next few days.\n\nAt the heart of his pledge will be ensuring that nobody has to sell their home to pay for their care. We await details on what the promised new policy will look like.\n\nMr Johnson also made it clear his instinct is to keep going with the HS2 high speed rail network - despite concerns over its price and the fact a review into the project has not yet been published (although we have seen a leaked draft suggesting it should continue).\n\nMr Johnson said: \"You have to look at the size of the bill. It's huge. You have to consider the thick end of £100bn is being properly spent and whether we are profiling that spend correctly.\"\n\n\"You know where my instincts are. I've overseen a great number of very big infrastructure projects.\n\n\"I'm going to hesitate before simply scrapping something that has been long-planned and is of great national importance.\n\n\"But we will want to be checking the money is being properly spent and there aren't ways in which it could be reprioritised or reprofiled.\"\n\nBeyond National Insurance, Mr Johnson wasn't giving much away on personal taxation. He wouldn't be drawn on whether he'll cut stamp duty - or how he might help middle or higher-earners, as he pledged during the Tory leadership campaign.\n\nBut might something come down the line?\n\n\"The answer is yes in principle - but we have to start where we want to help the most.\"\n\nAfter one policy emerged out of nowhere - you can maybe understand why he didn't get into detail.", "A protester uses a torch light while crawling within a sewer tunnel to see how wide it is\n\nSome of the last protesters remaining at a besieged university in Hong Kong have tried to escape and evade police by crawling through sewers.\n\nHundreds of protesters have already left PolyU but dozens remain inside.\n\nThe campus - the scene of some of the most intense clashes witnessed during months of anti-government protests - is surrounded by police who are arresting for rioting any adults trying to leave.\n\nSix people were arrested on Wednesday for an attempted escape via the sewers.\n\nThe group included two men climbing out of an underground drain and four people - three men and a woman - who had removed a manhole cover and lowered a rope into the drain to assist them, police said.\n\n\"It was complicated and dark down there, I wanted to get home as soon as possible,\" one young man who unsuccessfully attempted a sewer escape told BBC Chinese. \"But how else could we leave the PolyU campus?\"\n\nThe four-day campus siege at PolyU - Hong Kong Polytechnic University - has been one of the most dramatic confrontations in the wider protest movement that has paralysed the city for more than five months\n\nThe protests started after the government planned to pass a bill that would allow suspects to be extradited to mainland China. The bill was eventually withdrawn, but the demonstrations continued, having evolved into a broader protest against alleged police brutality, and the way the former British colony is administered by Beijing.\n\nPolyU is the last of five Hong Kong universities that protesters had occupied in the last 10 days. Fewer than 100 hardcore demonstrators remain on the campus after days of violent clashes with security forces.\n\nMany have surrendered to police or emerged as part of medical evacuations. More than 1,000 people have been arrested. Those under 18 were allowed to go home but had their details registered.\n\nFire service divers searched the tunnels for any trapped protesters\n\nSeveral small groups of protesters seeking to avoid possibly years in prison if arrested on rioting charges have reportedly attempted a dangerous escape route through the sewers. They have descended into the tunnels armed with torches and gas masks.\n\nThe fire brigade have now blocked the main entrance into the sewers within the PolyU campus to thwart such escapes. On Tuesday and Wednesday divers searched the tunnels for any protesters who might have been trapped but found none.\n\nWhether any protesters have successfully escaped via the sewers remains unclear, despite rumours on campus to the contrary. The two arrested on Wednesday made it about half a kilometre from the university when they emerged and were arrested.\n\nBowie, a 21-year-old student who made an attempt, told Reuters news agency: \"The sewer was very smelly, with many cockroaches, many snakes. Every step was very, very painful. I'd never thought that one day I would need to hide in a sewer or escape through sewers to survive.\"\n\nHer group spent an hour swimming in the fetid water, but when they emerged, were crushed to realise they were still within the university grounds, she said.\n\nTunnelling out of campus is just the latest escape plan hatched by increasingly desperate protesters. On Monday, dozens slid down ropes from a bridge, fleeing on waiting motorcycles. Police said nearly 40 of them were later arrested.\n\nSome have tried to flee under cover of darkness while many others have tried to get through police lines, some being beaten before being arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes went behind the barricades at PolyU", "Writing about the Labour manifesto, released today, our correspondent writes:\n\nThis is a radical attempt to change Britain's business model, involving not just huge amounts of public spending and investment, but also an attempt to rewire the way the economy works.\n\nLabour's answer to \"can we afford this?\" is \"we can't afford not to\" - arguing that only a very active government can reshape the economy to change the fate of the country, in particular to meet the green challenge.\n\nLabour is part of a now-shared consensus across every single party, the IMF and finance ministries across the world, that currently low interest rates charged on government borrowing should be used to fund substantial investments.\n\nLabour has used this opportunity to push the radicalism of its 2017 manifesto much further with about £140bn extra in spending a year, versus for example £80bn a year from the LibDems, and tens of billions from the Conservatives.\n\nIt leaves all the major parties promising voters hundreds of billions over the Parliament. At around £600bn more in spending promises over the five years Labour has put clear blue water between themselves and the extra spending of the other major parties.\n\nIs this affordable? It is more risky than more-modest spending plans.\n\nRead more from Faisal here.", "Labour has launched its general election manifesto, promising to transform the UK and to re-nationalise rail, mail, water and energy.\n\nMr Corbyn said his offer to voters was radical and would mean \"real change\".\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent, Iain Watson, explores what that all means.", "Women can expect to take on caring responsibilities for an older, sick or disabled relative more than a decade earlier than men, a report concludes.\n\nResearch by Sheffield and Birmingham universities shows half of women will care by the age of 46, compared with half of men, for whom the age is 57.\n\nThe research suggests two-thirds of UK adults can expect to become an unpaid carer during their lifetimes.\n\nThe charity Carers UK says carers need five-to-10 days of paid care leave.\n\nFor the charity's report - Will I Care? - the academics analysed data from individuals who had participated in both the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society social and economic study for more than 15 years between 1991 and 2018.\n\nTheir findings showed 65% of adults had provided unpaid care for a loved one.\n\nWomen had a 70% chance of becoming a carer and men 60%.\n\nBy the time they were 46, half of women had been a carer, the researchers found, while with men, it was not until they reached the age of 57 that they had the same 50-50 chance of being a carer.\n\nMost carers were middle-aged - almost half (46%) aged 46 to 65 - and the average person has a 50-50 chance of becoming a carer by the age of 50, according to the researchers' data.\n\nRavi has cared for her elderly father on and off for 26 years since her mother died.\n\nBut the responsibility intensified 12 years ago when her father, who's in his 80s, underwent open-heart surgery - and the past year and a half has been particularly taxing, after he suffered a stroke in 2018.\n\nRavi says extra help would be welcome\n\nRavi, from Hounslow in west London, is now in her 50s. She told the BBC she spent about six hours a day caring for her father - she cooks for him, checks his blood sugars, administers medicine, acts as his advocate, as the stroke has led to impaired speech, and deals with correspondence.\n\nShe also works full-time as a residential social worker and says her caring responsibilities have had a major impact on her health.\n\n\"You get to a point where you think, 'I can't take it any more', and you have to step back and get yourself into a good place before you can go on.\n\n\"Sometimes I say things I shouldn't say, but as my manager said to me, 'You're only human'.\n\n\"I've got a lot of patience and understanding but when I'm not feeling 100%, or if I'm tired, then it's hard to keep my composure.\"\n\nThe emotional fallout from her father also takes its toll.\n\n\"I'm having to deal with his frustrations and emotion - I get the brunt of that frustration. He gets a lot more agitated than he used to.\"\n\nRavi says more support for people like herself - including paid carer's leave - would be welcome.\n\n\"As a wider society, I think people see you and think you're fine and you look OK on the surface, but it's really stressful and draining.\"\n\nLead report author and head of the Sustainable Care programme at Sheffield, Prof Sue Yeandle, said: \"Caring is vital for us all and a precious support for those we love at critical times.\n\n\"Provided by millions of women, care also features strongly in the lives of men. Yet too often carers pay a heavy price for the support they give - financial strain, poorer health, social isolation.\"\n\nHelen Walker, chief executive of Carers UK, said: \"Many of us don't expect to become an unpaid carer but the reality is two in three of us will do it in our lifetimes.\n\n\"Our research shows women are disproportionately affected, facing difficult decisions about their loved ones' health, family finances and how best to combine paid work, and care more than a decade earlier than men.\"\n\nThe charity is calling on the next government to commit to delivering long-term investment in social care and give carers a right to five-to-10 days of paid care leave.\n\nThe carer's allowance has not been subject to the benefits freeze.\n\nIn November, the Department for Work and Pensions said it would rise by 1.7% from April 2020.\n\nLabour's social-care and mental-health spokeswoman Barbara Keeley said: \"Nine years of failure to fund social care properly means that carers are picking up the pieces of a broken system.\n\n\"A Labour government will help carers by introducing free personal care for older people and we will raise the carer's allowance for full-time unpaid carers in line with job-seeker's allowance, and deliver an updated national carers strategy.\"\n\n\"In government, Lib Dems will introduce a statutory guarantee of regular respite breaks for unpaid carers and require councils to make regular contact with carers to offer support and signpost services.\n\n\"We will also provide a package of carer benefits, such as free leisure centre access, free bus travel for young carers and self-referral to socially prescribed activities and courses.\"\n\nShe said Lib Dems would also raise the amount people can earn before losing their carer's allowance from £123 to £150 a week, and reduce the number of hours' care per week required to qualify for it.\n\nThe Conservative Party has not yet responded to requests for a comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Empire actor Jussie Smollett is suing the city of Chicago over their actions against him.\n\nPapers filed by his lawyers claim he's been caused \"humiliation and extreme distress\".\n\nAuthorities have accused him of staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself in January, something he's always denied.\n\nThey're trying to get him to pay $130,000 (£100,000) in costs to cover the time police spent investigating.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the background to the bizarre Jussie Smollett case - this video was published in April 2019\n\nIf you're new to this story, there are a lot of twists and turns to get your head around.\n\nAt the start of this year, police in Chicago announced they were investigating an attack on actor Jussie Smollett, who'd been punched in the face, had an \"unknown chemical substance\" poured on him and a rope wrapped around his neck.\n\nCelebrities like Viola Davis, Janelle Monae and TI, alongside his Empire co-stars, tweeted messages of support.\n\nBut in February, Jussie Smollett himself was arrested.\n\nThe police photo of Jussie Smollett from 21 February 2019\n\nPolice claimed he'd paid two brothers to carry out the attack \"to promote his career\" because he was \"dissatisfied with his salary\".\n\nBut, in March, after an emergency court appearance, all charges against Jussie Smollett were dropped.\n\nHis lawyer said his record \"had been wiped clean\", describing him as a \"victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This footage, released by police in June, was taken about seven hours after the alleged attack\n\nBut Chicago Police and the city's mayor stood by their case against Jussie Smollett - and accused the courts of letting him \"off scot-free\".\n\nThen the man who decided to drop the charges, Illinois prosecutor Joe Magats, said even he thought Smollett was guilty.\n\nBut he explained the charges were dropped because Jussie paid $10,000 (£7,600) in bail to the courts and carried out community service.\n\nAnd that's when the city of Chicago announced it was suing the actor for the money it spent investigating the attack.\n\nJussie Smollett and Taraji P Henson as Jamal and Cookie Lyon in American drama Empire\n\nIn court documents filed this week, Jussie Smollett has called this action against him \"malicious\".\n\nHe's accused the city, police and others of causing \"substantial economic damages as well as reputational harm, humiliation, mental anguish and extreme emotional distress,\" and says he's seeking compensation.\n\nBut a spokesperson for Chicago's law department has told the Reuters new agency that the city \"stands by its original complaint\".\n\nHe added: \"We fully expect to be successful in defeating these counterclaims.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A number of orphaned British children caught up in the war in Syria are to be brought home to the UK, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nThey will be the first UK citizens to be repatriated from the area of north-eastern Syria formerly controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nThe \"innocent\" children should \"never have been subjected to the horrors of war\", Dominic Raab said.\n\nCharities have urged the government to bring every British child back home.\n\nThose who are returning are expected to arrive in the UK in the coming days.\n\nFor security reasons, further details of their repatriation cannot be given.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Raab said: \"We have facilitated their return home, because it was the right thing to do.\n\n\"Now they must be allowed the privacy and given the support to return to a normal life.\"\n\nBBC Middle East Correspondent Quentin Sommerville said the orphaned children were handed over to a delegation from the Foreign Office and had left Syria, with diplomats saying they were doing \"very well\".\n\nIS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq.\n\nThe fate of foreign IS fighters and other foreigners caught up in the conflict has been a key issue since the defeat of the extremist group was declared in March 2019.\n\nThe UK had been reluctant to take back citizens from the area.\n\nOther countries including France, Denmark, Norway and Kazakhstan have brought children home.\n\nThe United Nations has said countries should take responsibility for their own citizens unless they are to be prosecuted in Syria in accordance with international standards.\n\nSave The Children - which runs services from two centres in northern Syria - welcomed the repatriation of the orphaned children but called on the government to do more.\n\nThe charity estimates there are up to 60 British children still in Syrian camps, the majority of which are with their mothers.\n\nOrla Minogue, a humanitarian adviser at the charity, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the children are facing \"absolutely dire\" conditions, including overcrowding, a shortage of clean water and limited medical care.\n\n\"Those children are just as innocent as those others,\" she said.\n\nAnd she urged the government to act quickly, warning of a \"brief time window\" to getting them out safely.\n\n\"All of these children need to be repatriated now - especially as we head into winter conditions - these camps are not set up for this kind of harsh weather we might see in Syria.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch has described government-facilitated repatriations of foreign nationals as \"piecemeal.\"\n\nIt says more than 1,200 foreign nationals have been repatriated from both Syria and Iraq to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Kosovo, and Turkey.\n\nAlison Griffin, head of humanitarian campaigns at Save The Children, said the UK government \"is transforming the lives of these innocent children who have been through terrible things that are far beyond their control\".\n\nShe added: \"They will now have the precious chance to recover, have happy childhoods and live full lives. We should be proud of everyone who has worked to make this happen.\n\n\"Every child saved is a triumph of compassion in the face of cruelty. We fervently hope this is just the start.\"", "Three patients became ill and one of them died because of the infected organs\n\nA transplant patient died after a surgeon failed to disclose he had spilt stomach contents on organs which went on to be used in NHS operations.\n\nThe 36-year-old died of an aneurysm caused directly by infection from a donated liver, while two other patients became ill from transplants.\n\nThe incident took place in 2015 but only came to light when one of the sick patients attended a hospital in Wales.\n\nIt had involved a surgeon from Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nThe trust has agreed damages of £215,000 for one of the cases.\n\nSeveral organs became infected with Candida albicans, a fungal infection, after the surgeon cut the stomach in a donor while retrieving organs, spilling the contents over other organs.\n\nThe surgeon did not tell anyone as he should have done and the organs were transplanted into three patients.\n\nOne recipient died after receiving an infected liver, while a 44-year-old received a kidney and pancreas and a 25-year-old parent from Wales received a kidney.\n\nThe incident only came to light after surgeons at Cardiff & Vale University Health Board raised the alarm with the Human Tissue Authority and the Welsh Government.\n\nThey became worried when the 25-year-old patient who received the kidney, and who was under their care at the University Hospital of Wales, became seriously unwell due to the infected organ.\n\nThe patient, who does not wish to be named but is from south Wales, needed the donor kidney removing as an emergency after suffering extreme pain and extensive internal bleeding.\n\nThe 25-year-old was placed in an induced coma and given 16 blood transfusions, before spending a year on dialysis having never needed it before.\n\nThe Oxford University trust has paid £215,000 in damages to the patient after they launched a legal challenge.\n\nA serious incident report by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said the surgeon had \"no recollection of anything of note\" when taking the organs, but had noticed a \"small nick\" on reflection which saw a small amount of stomach content spilt.\n\nThe spill was not documented at the time of the procedure, meaning those receiving the organs and their doctors were unaware of the risk of infection.\n\nThe NHSBT report concluded: \"This incident represents an example of donor-transmitted infection with Candida albicans which contributed to the loss of one kidney graft and the death of a liver recipient.\n\n\"The infection of the graft may have arisen during the retrieval procedure.\"\n\nThe trust admitted it had been in breach of duty of care by the failure of the surgeon to record the cut into the donor's stomach.\n\nIn defence of the legal action, trust lawyers claimed that, despite the stomach spill, even if known at the time of transplant, the risk would have been considered low.\n\nBut solicitor Jodi Newton, a medical negligence specialist at Hudgell Solicitors, representing the patient, said it was \"a completely unacceptable breach of duty of care\" which was \"extremely damaging for patient trust in surgeons\".\n\nThe patient said: \"What angers me to this day is that fact that the surgeon who removed the organs from the donor wasn't honest.\n\n\"It was only when people who received the organs became unwell that the truth was told.\"\n\nProf Meghana Pandit, chief medical officer at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"This is a very unusual circumstance and we are keen to ensure that we do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen again in future.\"\n\nJohn Forsythe, medical director for organ donation and transplantation at NHSBT, said: \"Our thoughts are with the recipients and their families over this sad and unusual case.\n\n\"We acted quickly to investigate what happened and we worked with transplant centres afterwards. Our report concluded the infection of the transplanted organ may have arisen during the retrieval procedure.\"\n\nIt is unclear whether the families of the 36-year-old who died or the 44-year-old are aware of the incident.\n\nNHSBT said it was up to local transplant centres to inform patients about contamination.\n\nCardiff and Vale University Health Board said the NHSBT investigation which took place after it reported the issue \"did not identify any faults or concerns with procedures in Cardiff\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A rapper described as \"a violent and controlling narcissist and a bully\" imprisoned and repeatedly raped four young women, a court has heard.\n\nAndy Anokye, 32, who performs as Solo 45, denies 31 charges against him.\n\nThey include 22 allegations of rape, five counts of false imprisonment, two of assault by penetration and two of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nProsecutor Christopher Quinlan told Bristol Crown Court the grime artist filmed some of his actions.\n\n\"Each suffered in similar ways at different times at the defendant's hands,\" he added.\n\nMr Quinlan said the abuse took place over a two-year period. One of the women reported the abuse to friends and then to police, he said.\n\nMr Anokye was arrested and his mobile phone and laptop were seized by officers, who contacted three other women.\n\nMr Quinlan said the musician had filmed \"a great deal of what he did\" on his phone.\n\n\"He physically assaulted and falsely imprisoned them, held them against their will and he raped each of them repeatedly,\" he told the court.\n\n\"He is a violent and controlling narcissist and a bully. He is a sadist who derives satisfaction and sexual pleasure from inflicting pain and suffering on his victims.\"\n\nMr Quinlan said Mr Anokye, of Millennium Promenade, Bristol, will claim that any sexual activity between him and the women was consensual.\n\nJudge William Hart told jurors the defendant was a member of the grime collective, Boy Better Know.\n\nMr Quinlan added Mr Anokye became known to each of the complainants through their \"knowledge and taste\" for grime music.\n\nHe described the genre to the jury as \"dance music influenced by garage music\".\n\n\"Artists of that genre include Skepta and Stormzy,\" he said.\n\n\"Neither has anything to do with this case but you may hear reference to either or both of them during the evidence.\"\n\nThe jury of five men and seven women have been told they will view some of the recordings made by Anokye.\n\n\"You may find it both unpleasant and upsetting,\" Mr Quinlan said.\n\n\"It is important evidence. We promise you that to show it is not gratuitous but necessary.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Google is extending a ban on political campaigns targeting advertising at people based on their supposed political leanings.\n\nIt said political groups would soon only be able to target ads based on \"general categories\" such as age, gender and rough location.\n\nThis restriction is already in place in the UK and the rest of the EU but will be imposed worldwide on 6 January 2020.\n\nThat could have big implications for next year's US Presidential vote.\n\nThe firm said it would also clarify under what circumstances it would remove political ads for making \"false claims\".\n\nFor example, Google would remove ads that falsely claimed that a candidate had died or that gave the wrong date for an election.\n\nHowever, it would not ban claims that you cannot trust a rival party, for instance, which would be viewed as being a matter of opinion.\n\nA spokeswoman told the BBC the new guidance would be provided within a week.\n\nGoogle's approach to deliberately misleading statements puts it at odds with Facebook.\n\nMark Zuckerberg said his social network would not fact-check advertising from political candidates or campaigns, although it has since stressed that this does not amount to a totally hand-off approach.\n\n\"We prohibit misinformation about voting and do not allow ads which contain content previously debunked by our third party fact-checkers,\" said a spokesman.\n\n\"As we've said, we are looking at different ways we might refine our approach to political ads.\"\n\nTwitter, meanwhile, has said it would disallow political advertising altogether.\n\nGoogle’s new policy puts it somewhere roughly in the middle, suggesting a hands-off approach, with only the the most obvious misinformation being acted upon.\n\n“We recognise that robust political dialogue is an important part of democracy, and no one can sensibly adjudicate every political claim, counterclaim, and insinuation,” said Scott Spencer, Google’s head of product management for Google Ads.\n\n\"So we expect that the number of political ads on which we take action will be very limited - but we will continue to do so for clear violations.”\n\nA decision to impose a global ban on political campaigns matching their own databases of prospective voters against Google's user base is set to have major ramifications ahead of next year's US Presidential election.\n\nUntil now, strategists could use this to target individuals across platforms such as YouTube and Google Search.\n\nBased on a user’s browsing habits - such as what news websites they frequent - Google makes an assumption about whether that user has left- or right-leaning political views.\n\nIn the US - but not in other countries, including the UK - political campaigns had the option to target people based on their political leaning.\n\nIt was however possible for campaigns in other countries to upload their own lists of contact details - a database of party members, for example - to Google, which would then match it with users on its service so ads could reach those people directly.\n\nThis will no longer be allowed.\n\n\"It will take some time to implement these changes,” Mr Spencer added.\n\nCampaigns, like any other advertiser, can still place ads against specific types of content - such as videos about football or articles on the economy - Google said.\n\nAny action taken against advertising deemed to be against its polices will be logged on Google’s Transparency Report section.\n\nDetails about deleted ads will appear on the page, but not the advertisement itself. Google said this data would remain downloadable so it could be independently analysed.\n\nPolitical advertising makes up a relatively small amount of Google’s total advertising revenues, which totalled $116bn in 2018.\n\nSince March 2019, for example, Google’s figures suggest just £171,250 has been spent on political advertising ads within the UK.\n\nIn the US, campaigns have spent $128m on Google ads since the firm started publishing data on the region in May 2018.\n\nThe biggest spender, the “Trump Make America Great Again Committee”, has spent $8.5m on Google since that date.\n\nUpdate 21 November: This article has been changed to reflect the fact in the UK and EU, Google already prevents political parties from targeting ads to users' based on their political views. The original version was based on a blog from the company that incorrectly suggested it would only begin enforcing the rule in the UK within a week and the EU by the end of the year.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The teenager drew up a \"hit list\" of areas he wanted to attack\n\nA teenage neo-Nazi who wrote about an \"inevitable race war\" in his diary and identified a series of possible targets has been convicted of preparing terrorist acts.\n\nThe 16-year-old boy listed the locations from his home city of Durham in his \"guerrilla warfare\" manual.\n\nHe also described himself as a \"natural sadist\", Manchester Crown Court heard.\n\nThe boy is the youngest person to be convicted of planning a terrorist attack in the UK.\n\nA jury found the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, guilty of preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March this year.\n\nHe was also convicted of disseminating a terrorist publication, possessing an article for a purpose connected to terrorism and three counts of possessing documents useful to someone preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 7 January.\n\nThe court heard the boy began drafting a \"manual for practical sensible guerrilla warfare against the Jewish system in Durham City area\".\n\nThe manual listed \"means of attack\" and \"areas to attack\", which listed local venues \"worth attacking\" such as post offices, pubs and schools.\n\nA \"things to do\" list from August 2018 included the words \"shed empathy\" alongside a hand-drawn symbol of the Order of Nine Angles, which the court heard was a \"self-consciously, explicitly malevolent\" Satanic organisation.\n\nThe boy denied being a neo-Nazi, saying his writings were an extremist \"alter ego\"\n\nThe boy also wrote of planning to conduct an arson spree with Molotov cocktails on local synagogues.\n\nJurors heard, in the course of his internet searches, he looked for a \"map of synagogues in the UK\" and \"Newcastle synagogue\".\n\nHe also visited websites on firearms and was in communication with a gun auctioneer.\n\nAfter his arrest in March, police found him in possession of instructions showing to make bombs and the poison ricin.\n\nThey also found he had distributed firearms manuals online by uploading them to a neo-Nazi website.\n\nGiving evidence, the boy denied being a neo-Nazi and said he had merely created an extremist \"persona\" online and in his journal.\n\nDet Chf Supt Martin Snowden, head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said: \"The extreme right wing views and hateful rhetoric displayed by this teenager are deeply concerning and we cannot account for those who may have been susceptible to his influence or how they may act in the future.\n\n\"His extensive repetitious internet searches, diary entries and escalating behaviour combined with his desire for notoriety highlight how dangerous he could have become had he not come to the attention of the authorities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeane Freeman: \"I refute absolutely that I am careless or irresponsible on these matters.\"\n\nScotland's health secretary has apologised to the parents of two patients who died in the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.\n\nJeane Freeman expressed her \"deepest sympathies\" to the families of Milly Main, 10, and a three-year-old boy.\n\nThe two children died three weeks apart in August 2017 at the hospital, which is part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.\n\nThey had been treated on a ward which was affected by water contamination.\n\nOn Monday, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) apologised for the distress caused to parents.\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Children share a campus in the south of Glasgow\n\nIn a statement to MSPs on Wednesday, Ms Freeman said: \"To lose a loved one in any circumstances is hard, but I cannot begin to imagine the pain of losing a child in these circumstances - or the suffering and grief that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"I also want to apologise to them that they feel they have not had their questions answered.\n\n\"They are absolutely right to ask and pursue their questions, and they are entitled to have them answered and to receive the support they need.\"\n\nThe children's deaths emerged after Labour MSP Anas Sarwar was contacted by a whistleblower, and the health secretary said NHS employees must have the confidence to speak up when something is wrong.\n\nMs Freeman told MSPs: \"There is no room in our health service for anyone to criticise whistleblowers, publicly or otherwise - or to put them in fear for the safety of their jobs.\n\n\"We need to recognise that whistleblowing is not something people who have dedicated their lives to health care, do lightly. It takes courage and they should be thanked.\"\n\nMSP Anas Sarwar has described the NHSGGC as \"not fit for purpose\"\n\nMs Freeman also told parliament she has asked the head of NHS Scotland to review whether any escalation of measures for the health board is required.\n\nThe five-stage NHS Board Performance Escalation Framework is the Scottish equivalent of special measures, which apply in England and Wales.\n\nLabour's Monica Lennon asked the health secretary who the parents of sick children should put their trust in.\n\nMs Freeman replied: \"They can place trust in me. I have compassion, I have empathy, and that is why I met with those families and have undertaken the work that I have done.\n\n\"I refute absolutely from Miss Lennon, or from anyone else, that I am careless or irresponsible on these matters - it could not be further from the truth. It may suit you [Ms Lennon] to make those points for other reasons but they are not true and I refute them absolutely.\"\n\nMs Lennon, Labour's health spokeswoman, later said: \"The tragic deaths and infection scandals at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have been cloaked in secrecy for too long.\n\n\"Families and the wider public need to have full confidence in the health board and the cabinet secretary. That's why vague answers from Jeane Freeman are sorely disappointing.\"\n\nScottish Conservatives health spokesman Miles Briggs called on Ms Freeman to resign or be sacked.\n\nHe said: \"At the heart of this scandal, we must never forget, are grieving families who are completely unsatisfied and think there has been a cover-up, and who can blame them?\n\n\"The SNP planned and built this hospital, and has presided over its first few years in operation - it can't just keep pointing the finger at everyone else. As the SNP health secretary, the buck stops with Jeane Freeman.\"\n\nMilly Main, ten, died at the hospital in August 2017\n\nAn independent review is examining water contamination and other problems at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.\n\nOn Tuesday Ms Freeman told MSPs on Holyrood's health committee it would publish its findings in the spring.\n\nThe health secretary said she expects a separate public inquiry, which will examine safety and wellbeing issues at the QEUH and the new children's hospital in Edinburgh, will also look at water contamination.\n\nMilly Main died on 31 August while recovering from leukaemia treatment. Her mother said she was \"100%\" convinced her death was linked to water contamination issues.\n\nNHSGGC has insisted it was impossible to determine the source of Milly's infection because there was no requirement to test the water supply at the time.\n\nOn Sunday police confirmed they had investigated the death of a three-year-old boy three weeks before Milly died. Police said they passed a report to the procurator fiscal.\n\nNHSGGC said they had fully investigated and shared their findings with the boy's family but the child's mother later described the board's media statement as \"highly inaccurate\".\n\nLast week a whistleblower revealed that a doctor-led review had identified 26 infections at RHC during 2017 which were potentially linked to contaminated water.\n\nThe £842m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital \"super hospital\" has faced a number of problems since it opened in 2015.\n\nTwo cancer wards at the adjoining children's hospital were closed last year amid concern about infections and investigation of water supply issues, with patients decanted to the adult hospital.\n\nIn January it emerged that two patients at the QEUH had died after contracting a fungal infection linked to pigeon droppings.\n• None Minister says 'trust me' over hospital concerns. Video, 00:01:09Minister says 'trust me' over hospital concerns", "Two in five adults would fake a sick day if they needed a day off, a Com Res survey for the BBC suggests.\n\nWhen questioned on their morals and values, people admitted to lying about sickness, stealing and taking credit for other people's work.\n\nWhile younger staff lied more often than their elders, they were more willing to stand up for colleagues.\n\nThe average worker takes about four sick days a year, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe most common reasons for calling off work in 2018 were the common cold, musculoskeletal problems (like back pain), mental health conditions and \"other\" problems.\n\nSickness due to fibbing was unsurprisingly not included in the government's statistics.\n\nThe findings are part of a larger survey about what people in the UK find right and wrong.\n\nAs well as faking sickies, employees are often also prepared to cover for colleagues who they know might be faking it.\n\nThe survey found that 66% would not tell bosses if they knew their colleagues were absent, but not ill.\n\nHayley Lewis, an occupational psychologist, said it takes confidence to tell your boss you need a break, and if the relationship is bad, employees will tend to be less truthful.\n\nTwo-thirds of workers would not tell bosses if they knew their colleagues were absent, but not ill.\n\n\"'People don't leave an organisation - they leave their boss' goes the saying,\" says Ms Lewis.\n\nAlso, people can be influenced by their boss' behaviour, she adds.\n\n\"We look to role models. If the boss is dragging themselves in, not taking breaks, eating lunch at their desk, it reinforces the message that it is not okay to take a break,\" she says.\n\nThat often leaves employees only one option, Ms Lewis says - to ring up sick.\n\nMen were almost twice as likely as women to say they would accept praise from a boss for work that someone else had done.\n\nAnd almost a third said they stole work supplies like staplers and notebooks.\n\nThe younger the employee, the more likely they were to speak up for women in the workplace.\n\nWorkers under 34 were more than twice as likely than older colleagues to turn to senior managers, or intervene. if they saw a male boss touch a female employee on the back during a meeting.\n\nOnly 16% of workers aged over 55 agreed.\n\nWhile 70% of younger adults would report or intervene if a senior figure in a company made sexual comments towards a younger colleague, less than half of people over 55 would do the same.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Test, Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui, day one of five: New Zealand: Yet to bat\n\nEngland batted themselves into a promising position on the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui.\n\nThree of the tourists' top five compiled half-centuries as England closed on 241-4.\n\nBen Stokes hit a unbeaten 67 against a flagging New Zealand attack after disciplined fifties from Rory Burns and Joe Denly laid the platform.\n\nColin de Grandhomme took 2-28 for the hosts on a good batting wicket.\n\nEngland have become notorious for batting collapses in recent times but this was a solid, if not perfect, way to begin a Test series.\n\nCaptain Joe Root was the only member of the top order not to reach double figures, while debutant opener Dom Sibley hinted at - but did not fully show - his patient temperament in a gritty 22.\n\nStokes was dropped on 63 by Ross Taylor at first slip late in the day but he saw England through to the close in New Zealand's North Island, along with Ollie Pope who made a sparky 18.\n• None TMS podcast: England and NZ size each other up\n• None Day one as it happened\n\nOn their last tour of New Zealand, England were dismantled for 58 on the opening day of the series, but Denly in particular showed the determination that was missing two years ago to grind out a start.\n\nJust 30 runs came from the first 10 overs and when an aggressive shot was played - such as 24-year-old Sibley clipping his first ball to the mid-wicket boundary - it was a result of the bowlers straying off line, rather than a risky shot from the batsmen.\n\nThe approach worked to an extent. Burns' half-century from 135 balls was his slowest in Test cricket, while Denly largely stayed clear of playing the drives that have been his undoing in the past and instead played himself in.\n\nBatting at three, Denly was in the middle for just under four hours before reaching his half-century as the 33-year-old grafted against New Zealand's accurate attack, before attacking left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner with a glorious straight six.\n\nStokes, too, showed the value of England's new-found patience. After a quiet start he grew in fluency, taking Trent Boult for 16 runs in the closing stages, before being dropped by Taylor.\n\nAfter a determined innings it was a surprise when Denly, faced with the second new ball, sent a thin edge off Southee through to wicketkeeper BJ Watling. The frustrated groan from the batsman showed his annoyance at, once again, falling short of a century.\n\nIn fact, England's wickets all seemed to fall to a lapse in concentration.\n\nSibley was caught at first slip playing across the line while Burns, jittery after being hit on the helmet and edging through slip, nicked De Grandhomme through to Watling.\n\nRoot was the most disappointing of all, taking 21 balls to get off the mark before slicing the next delivery to second slip.\n\nIn Boult and Southee, New Zealand have two of the best swing bowlers in the world, but there was little assistance on offer for them.\n\nAs the ball got older, Boult had to rely on his variations, bowling cross-seam, while Southee was economical but unable to make a breakthrough.\n\nIt was all-rounder De Grandhomme and his nagging medium-pacers that eventually saw off both openers, while Neil Wagner was rewarded for a lengthy, hostile spell with the wicket of captain Root.\n\nSouthee produced a fine delivery to dismiss Denly - a touch wider, drawing the batsman into a false shot - and for much of the day, the New Zealand attack kept the lid on England's scoring rate.\n\nThe only time England were able to get away was in the closing stages, when a tiring Boult returned with the new ball.\n\nOn a good wicket and with the likes of Jos Buttler and Sam Curran to come, England will hope to compile a potentially match-winning total on the second day, which begins at 22:00 GMT.\n\nEngland batsman Rory Burns on Test Match Special: \"It was a tough day but a good day. It looked like a good wicket - it was a bit slower than I thought it would be and that made the cricket a bit attritional.\n\n\"I was nowhere near my fluent best but managed to stick in and grit it out. I'm disappointed to only get a 50 and not a big one.\"\n\nNew Zealand bowler Neil Wagner on TMS: \"I thought we bowled pretty well and England batted well. When we put it in the right area, they were patient and when we got it wrong, they put it away.\n\n\"But they haven't run away from us and if we get a couple of early wickets tomorrow [Friday] we're right back in it.\"\n\nEx-England batsman Mark Ramprakash on TMS: \"England will fancy their chances. I don't think the wicket is going to change, it looks good for batting.\n\n\"The top order were focused for setting a platform for the rest of the team. Only four down at the end of the day means England will be pleased with their work.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Angela Rayner on the party's plan to build 100,000 council houses a year by 2024\n\nLabour and the Conservatives have set out rival plans to tackle England's housing shortage.\n\nJeremy Corbyn promised the biggest affordable house building programme since the 1960s, including 100,000 new council houses a year by 2024.\n\nBoris Johnson announced measures to help first-time buyers and boost private house building, promising a million homes over the next five years.\n\nThe announcements came ahead of Labour's manifesto launch on Thursday.\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner said the state was going to take \"more direct control\" of housing adding that \"the market hasn't delivered\".\n\n\"Many families are in sub-standard accommodation, paying huge amounts of money for it,\" she said.\n\nPromising to protect the green belt, she said the houses would be built on brownfield sites and unused public sector land.\n\nAsked about his party's policy, Mr Johnson said those renting would be helped \"to get the high-value mortgage they may need to buy the home\".\n\n\"We believe in home ownership. We think it's the right way forward,\" he said.\n\nLabour says its £75bn plans will be paid for using half of its £150bn Social Transformation Fund - a pot it says it will use to \"repair the social fabric\" in the country if it wins a majority in 12 December's general election.\n\nHomes would be built and run by local authorities, and paid for out of the public purse - with rent returning to the councils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss seems unsure about how many starter homes had been built by her party\n\nLabour also promised 50,000 \"genuinely affordable homes\" a year to be offered through Housing Associations - scrapping the current definition of \"affordable\" and replacing it with one linked to local incomes.\n\nHousing Associations are not-for-profit organisations which put any money made through rent back into the maintenance and building of new houses, and can be subsidised by the government.\n\nHomes run by these groups fall under the umbrella term of \"social housing\", along with council homes.\n\nLabour says its plan will be the biggest council and social housing programme in decades - a repeat of the pledge it made at the 2017 general election.\n\nHousing charity Shelter welcomed the Labour proposals, with chief executive Polly Neate saying it \"would be transformational for housing in this country\".\n\nBut Paul Johnson from the Institute for Fiscal Studies said, if carried out quickly, Labour's policies might \"risk... cannibalising what's going in the private sector\".\n\nLabour is promising to be building a very large number of homes in England in five years.\n\nIn 2017, it promised 100,000 council or housing association homes a year. Now it's 150,000 between them.\n\nYou have to go back over 40 years to find more than 100,000 council homes being built in a year, while housing associations have never managed to build as many as 50,000 homes in a year.\n\nIt has been unusual recently to see 150,000 new homes being built in a year by anybody, let alone just by local authorities and housing associations.\n\nThere has already been talk of skills shortages in the construction sector, so there is going to have to be a great deal of training or a lot of construction workers being attracted from overseas if this target is going to be met.\n\nThe Conservatives have announced a number of policies alongside their million homes pledge, which includes an overhaul of the planning system.\n\nThe party says it would not use public money to build the houses, but pursue policies that it believes will encourage the private sector to build more.\n\nIt is promising to introduce a new mortgage with long-term fixed rates, requiring only a 5% deposit, to help renters buy their first homes.\n\nAnd it says it will create a scheme where first-time buyers will be able to get a 30% discount on new homes in their area.\n\n\"The Conservatives have always been the party of homeownership, but under a Conservative majority government in 2020 we can and will do even more to ensure everyone can get on and realise their dream of owning their home,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\n\"At the moment renting a property can also be an uncertain and unsettling business, and the costs of deposits make it harder to move. We are going to fix that.\"\n\nBBC economics correspondent Dharshini David said the relaxing of affordability rules for mortgage borrowers could be controversial.\n\nThe Bank of England considered when it might be appropriate to relax this recently and concluded it should only do so if first-time buyers were being deterred by prices rising faster than they are now.\n\nSo a strategy of less cautious lending could put the government on a collision course with the Bank of England, added our correspondent.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Liberal Democrats launched their manifesto, promising to build 300,000 homes a year by 2024, including 100,000 social homes.\n\nThe Green Party also announced in their manifesto that it wants to build an extra 100,000 council houses a year.\n\nDo you have any questions about the election?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Convicted child abuser Michael Murphy was found guilty of 12 charges in February 2019, but some say they did not get justice due to double jeopardy laws\n\nVictims of sexual abuse have said they feel \"desperately let down\" after ministers refused to add child abuse to a list of serious crimes that can be retried if new evidence emerges.\n\nCharities and a group of ex-footballers had campaigned for reform of double-jeopardy laws in England and Wales.\n\nA cross-party group of MPs and the victims' commissioner had backed them.\n\nBut Justice Minister Robert Buckland said it would have \"inevitably\" led to calls for other crimes to be included.\n\nCurrently, only 29 \"serious crimes\" - including murder, rape and some class-A drug offences - allow for suspects to be tried more than once, where \"strong and viable\" new evidence has emerged.\n\nBut the victims' commissioner, Vera Baird, had wanted this extended to cover non-penetrative sexual abuse of children, prompted by the case of former football coach Bob Higgins.\n\nBob Higgins was jailed in June for 24 years and three months for abusing young players\n\nHe was jailed in June 2019 for indecently assaulting 24 boys - but six other complainants were told their allegations were not serious enough to be tried for a second time.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse had also backed calls for change, following the case.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Buckland told Ms Baird he had \"reluctantly concluded\" extending the law would \"not be right\".\n\nHe said the maximum prison sentence for child sexual abuse was \"substantially lower\" than for the crimes already covered by double jeopardy and widening the law \"would inevitably lead to demands for the inclusion of other offences\" - in particular, \"crimes of violence\".\n\nHe added: \"Ultimately, there is a risk that retrial might come to be regarded not as an extremely rare exception to the double-jeopardy rule but as a species of prosecution appeal\".\n\nOne complainant described current double-jeopardy laws as a \"slap in the face\".\n\nThe man she accuses of child sex abuse, former music-tour manager Michael Murphy, 72, went on trial in July 2018 for 15 counts of historical abuse against five children - including indecent assault, gross indecency and rape.\n\nHe was found not guilty on three charges and the jury could not decide on the other counts.\n\nAt a second trial, in February 2019, Murphy was found guilty of all remaining 12 charges but, under double jeopardy, the jury could not reconsider the not-guilty verdicts from the first trial.\n\n\"I was told I couldn't have anything to do with a second trial,\" the complainant said.\n\n\"I understand why double jeopardy is there but once they have been found guilty, it's clear they have done it to someone else.\n\n\"I was hoping that, if he went to prison, it would be enough to feel justice - but it really doesn't.\"\n\nEx-Southampton FC youth footballer Dean Radford, one of the six men whose allegations against Higgins could not be retried, said he was \"desperately disappointed\".\n\n\"Any normal person on the street can see that any child abuse should be deemed serious enough [to be re-tried],\" he said.\n\n\"This is just another example of the government sweeping it under the carpet because they don't want to put the resources into it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dean Radford told BBC News in June there had been \"no justice\" for him\n\nDino Nocivelli, a lawyer for five of the men, said Mr Buckland \"failed to listen to the thousands that have signed a petition demanding change to the double jeopardy laws\".\n\nHe added he would continue to seek a meeting with the minister \"so he can see first hand the impact of his decision\".\n\nIf you have been affected by sexual abuse or violence, help and support is available at BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTravel has been affected by heavy rain and strong winds across parts of Wales on Saturday.\n\nA yellow warning for heavy rain covered 17 of Wales' 22 counties until 00:00 GMT, with Gwynedd the only area of north Wales partially affected.\n\nA separate wind warning covered the southern counties for much of the day but has now ended.\n\nIn south Wales, roads have been closed by floods and rail services were affected with trees on the line.\n\nAccess to Swansea's Morriston Hospital from M4 Junction 46 was affected earlier with Pant Lasau Road closed due to \"heavy flooding\", according to South Wales Police.\n\nThe Met Office warning for rain is place all day on Saturday for large parts of Wales\n\nA tree blocked the rail line between Rhoose and Llantwit Major affecting services to Cardiff Airport on Saturday morning but it has since been removed, said National Rail Enquiries.\n\nFlooding also led to train delays between Gowerton and Swansea.\n\nVehicles were stuck in flood waters near the Tesco petrol station on the A4067 at Pontardawe, while roads were closed in Gowerton, Llansamlet, and Ystalyfera.\n\nMeanwhile, North Wales Police said a lorry had crashed on the Vaynol roundabout on the A487 near near Y Felinheli, Gwynedd, leaving mud and debris on the road.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMorriston leisure centre had to close on Saturday due to flooding\n\nPolice also reported major flooding on Croesnewydd Road in Wrexham, which serves Wrexham Maelor Hospital.\n\nThe Met Office had warned that road, sea and rail travel disruptions and power cuts were possible.\n\nNatural Resources Wales issued three flood warnings for the River Ritec at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the River Hoddnant at Boverton, Vale of Glamorgan and Nant Bran at Birchgrove, Swansea.\n\nStation Hill in Porthcawl saw some flooding", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSouth Africa broke English hearts with a ruthless display of power rugby to seize their third Rugby World Cup in devastating fashion.\n\nTwenty two points from the boot of nerveless fly-half Handre Pollard and second-half tries from wingers Makazole Mapimpi and Cheslin Kolbe ground England into the Yokohama dirt on a horrible night for Eddie Jones's men.\n\nEngland had trailed 12-6 at the interval after taking a hammering in the scrum and making a series of handling errors.\n\nAnd despite four penalties from captain Owen Farrell they never looked like closing that gap as the Springboks produced an outstanding display to match those of 1995 in Johannesburg and 2007 in Paris.\n\nThose were iconic moments for a nation besotted with rugby and when Siya Kolisi lifted the William Webb Ellis trophy aloft as the first black man to captain the Springboks they will have the final part of a triptych that will endure forever in the country's collective memory.\n\nFor England it was a chastening end to a campaign that had promised to end the 16-year wait for the World Cup glory.\n\nThey were out-muscled, out-run and out-thought by a team transformed by the leadership of skipper Kolisi and the coaching of Rassie Erasmus.\n\nNever before has a team beaten in the group stages gone on to win the trophy, but this is a triumph to match that of the teams of Francois Pienaar and John Smit with a wider story that perhaps surpasses both.\n• None 'South Africa's triumph will inspire far beyond the rugby pitch'\n• None I never dreamed of a day like this - Kolisi\n• None England have been beaten up - expert analysis\n• None Rugby Union Weekly podcast: Where did it go wrong for England?\n\nEngland, so quick out of the blocks in their semi-final win over the All Blacks, were rocked in the opening exchanges as prop Kyle Sinckler was knocked out in an accidental collision and forced to leave the field before touching the ball.\n\nSouth Africa took that momentum and through a Pollard Garryowen-and-gather went deep into the English 22 before Willie le Roux knocked on as he carved an outside line down the right.\n\nEngland were rattled, throwing loose passes, Farrell isolated as he tried to mop up one from Billy Vunipola and Pollard banging over the resulting penalty for 3-0.\n\nThe huge Springbok pack was making a mess of the English scrum and disrupting their line-out, but when the men in white made their first series of forays they won a breakdown penalty and Farrell levelled things up.\n\nNow it was the Springboks forced into changes, hooker Mbongeni Mbonambi off with concussion and lock Lood de Jager appearing to dislocate a shoulder.\n\nYet England knocked on at the restart, had their scrum splintered and were behind again as Pollard slotted the penalty from the angle.\n\nBack they came. The forwards hammered away at the South African line after driving a line-out on the 22, Courtney Lawes and replacement Dan Cole both going close until Duane Vermeulen infringed and Farrell kicked the penalty for 6-6.\n\nThe vast English support in the stands found their voice but the mistakes kept coming.\n\nBilly Vunipola was penalised for holding on and Pollard landed a beauty from 40m, and then Elliot Daly knocked on from Lukhanyo Am's kick ahead, the scrum was mangled again and Pollard struck again from in front of the posts.\n\nIt was a horrible half from Eddie Jones' men, that 12-6 half-time deficit the biggest they had faced in the entire tournament.\n\nSouth Africa coach Erasmus threw replacement props Steven Kitshoff and Vincent Koch on just after the break and at their very first scrum they mangled England again.\n\nPollard drilled over a beauty from just over halfway and at 15-6 England were staring into the abyss.\n\nThe South African power was stopping their big runners dead and killing England at the breakdown and Jones rolled the dice, throwing Joe Marler into the front row and Henry Slade in at outside centre as Farrell took Ford's place at fly-half.\n\nIt initially appeared to work. England blew the Springbok scrum apart, Farrell lined up the penalty and it was a six-point game.\n\nNow Curry got to work, snaffling a breakdown penalty to give Farrell another shot, this time from 45m out wide, only for the kick to drift just wide of the right-hand post.\n\nWhat could have been 15-12 was suddenly 18-9 as South Africa set up a maul in midfield and England were caught offside for a penalty that Pollard was never going to miss.\n\nEngland had 22 minutes to save their World Cup and grabbed a lifeline from Farrell's fourth penalty after Vermeulen held on from the restart.\n\nLuke Cowan-Dickie and Mark Wilson came on for Jamie George and Sam Underhill but with 14 minutes to go the killer blow came.\n\nSouth Africa went left down the blindside, Mapimpi kicked on and Am gathered before finding the winger on his outside shoulder for the first try the Springboks had scored in three World Cup finals.\n\nPollard's conversion from in front made it 25-12 and the stands were alive with green-shirted noise.\n\nAnd when the diminutive Kolbe stepped and accelerated through an exhausted rearguard in the final moments the Springboks could kick-start a Japanese party that will sweep through their homeland.\n• None The 'unique story' of South Africa's first black captain\n• None England prop Sinckler taken off with concussion\n\n'One day you're the best, the next a team knocks you off'\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We just couldn't get on the front foot. We were dominated in the scrum particularly in the first 50 minutes. When you're in a tight, penalty-driven game, it's difficult to get any sort of advantage.\n\n\"We needed to fix up the scrum, little things around the line-out, then get a bit more accurate in how we attacked. We did that for a while, got ourselves back into the game, but in the end we had to force the game and gave away a couple of tries.\n\n\"They were too good for us at the breakdown today. That's the great thing about rugby, one day you're the best team in the world and the next a team knocks you off.\"\n\nSouth Africa coach Rassie Erasmus: \"It's weird, I didn't think two years ago we could realistically do it, but six months ago began to and four weeks ago I really did. I am so proud of the players and my country. We stand together, we really believed it and I am proud to be South African.\n\n\"The country have gone through some bad times, and we have over the last two years but our challenge is to make South African rugby strong for the next six or seven years.\n\n\"I will make this my mission to make this a springboard to take it the right way.\"\n\nThe stats - Springboks score first tries in a final\n• None South Africa have lifted the Webb Ellis Cup on three occasions, no side has won the Rugby World Cup more often (level with New Zealand).\n• None South Africa are the only side to have a 100% win rate in World Cup finals, winning on each of their three appearances at this stage.\n• None South Africa's 20-point victory is the joint second biggest in a final, after Australia's 23-point win against France in 1999. New Zealand also won by 20 points in 1987.\n• None The Springboks scored two tries against England, the first time they'd ever crossed for a try in a final, they are yet to concede a try at this stage.\n• None England have lost the Rugby World Cup final on three occasions, no side has lost at this stage more often (level with France).\n• None Owen Farrell scored 12 points in this match, taking him past 100 points in the Rugby World Cup, the second player to reach that milestone for England in the tournament after Jonny Wilkinson (277).\n• None Billy Vunipola made 19 carries against South Africa, the most in the match and the most by any player in a World Cup final, surpassing Israel Folau's tally of 16 in 2015.\n• None Maro Itoje made 16 tackles against South Africa, the joint second most in a final behind Richie McCaw (18 in 2011) and level with Jonny Wilkinson (16 in 2003).\n• None Makazole Mapimpi scored his 14th try in 14 Tests for South Africa, including six tries in six games at this year's World Cup.", "Keene Street was a mass of smoke and explosions during Bonfire Night last year\n\nA street that had fireworks set off down the middle of it last Bonfire Night will be policed more heavily this year.\n\nThe incident on Keene Street, in Newport, prompted multiple calls to Gwent Police on the night, with the behaviour dubbed \"pure malevolence\".\n\nOne local councillor said the actions had been the worst he had ever seen.\n\nAt a public meeting before the 2019 celebrations, community leaders called for preventative action.\n\nLliswerry councillor Allan Morris said: \"We had a public meeting a few weeks ago and the police have promised us that they will be increasing the number of patrols and presence within the area.\n\n\"What happened last year was an absolute disgrace. It went well beyond fun. It was pure malevolence.\n\n\"It was intended to cause fear and terror.\"\n\nThe incident was filmed and posted on social media.\n\nMr Morris, who worked as a fire officer for 30 years, said he had witnessed similar behaviour during his years in the service.\n\n\"Parents should have a word with their kids before they go out for the night,\" he said.\n\n\"There were a lot of frightened people out there last year.\"\n\nInsp Martin Cawley, who attended the Lliswerry meeting, said \"dedicated staff\" would patrol \"hotspot locations\".\n\n\"This would include the Keene Street area due to the problems there last year,\" Insp Cawley said.\n\nParties and discos had been organised to discourage youths from anti-social behaviour.\n\n\"This behaviour is not acceptable,\" he added.\n\n\"We will conduct stop and searches, where grounds exist in relation to possession of fireworks, eggs or items that may be intended for use in antisocial behaviour and criminal damage.\"\n• None Who was Guy Fawkes and what was the Gun Powder Plot\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'Women in black' are demanding justice in Chile, following recent injuries and deaths of protesters.\n\nAt least 20 people have died during the nationwide protests demanding economic and political change.\n\nChile recently pulled out of hosting two major international summits because of the unrest.", "Labour is pledging to cut UK carbon emissions by 10% through the largest home improvement programme for decades.\n\nA Labour government would fund £60bn of energy-saving upgrades, such as loft insulation, enhanced double glazing and new heating systems, by 2030.\n\nLaunching the policy on Sunday, Jeremy Corbyn said it \"will create a sustainable energy network\", adding: \"We cannot go on polluting our planet.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said the plan would \"wreck the economy\" and \"put up bills\".\n\nSpeaking about the policy - called \"Warm Homes for All\" - in south-west London, Mr Corbyn said that climate change would be a major part of the party's election campaign.\n\n\"We cannot go on standing by while climate warming increases,\" the Labour leader said.\n\nLabour says low-income households will receive a grant to carry out the work on their homes, while wealthier households would receive interest-free loans for enhancements.\n\nHouseholds which take out the loan would pay it back through savings on energy bills, the party added.\n\nLabour expects the project to cost £250bn - an average of £9,300 per home - but only £60bn would come as a cost to central government, it says.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday, shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said the £60bn would come from its £250bn National Transformation Fund. Interest-free loans would make up the remaining cost of the policy, she said.\n\nShe added: \"Overall, we're looking at generating more jobs and supporting businesses through the economy, so that by 2030 the increased tax-take more than recoups that £60bn outlay.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Tories said, while tackling climate change was vital, \"independent experts and even Labour's own unions say their promises don't stack up\".\n\nLabour says its proposals would create 450,000 jobs involved in the installation of energy-saving measures and renewable and low-carbon technologies.\n\nAlmost all of the UK's 27 million homes would benefit from the pledge, either through a grant to fund works in full, or an interest-free loan, it said.\n\nInterest-free loans to improve the energy efficiency of homes are already available in Scotland, where the issue is devolved to the Scottish government.\n\nA Labour spokeswoman told the BBC the party would make every effort to work with devolved powers to implement the plan across the whole of the UK.\n\nThe party said the plan would cut carbon emissions by 10% by the year 2030 and reduce energy bills for 9.6 million low-income households by an average of £417 a year.\n\nThe policy echoes previous announcements from Labour, including a pledge last year to create over 400,000 skilled jobs through investment in renewable energy and making homes energy efficient.\n\nOver the past year or so the Labour Party has come out with a series of proposals to improve the energy efficiency of British homes.\n\nThis plan is far larger - and also far more expensive. It involves, over the next decade, spending £250bn to fit every UK house with double-glazing and loft insulation, heat pumps and solar panels.\n\nHouseholds with low incomes would not pay anything. Wealthier ones would get interest free loans. Everyone, it's said, would benefit from lower bills and the UK as a whole would see its carbon emissions fall.\n\nMuch of the country's housing stock is relatively old and upgrading it is seen as essential to meeting our targets on climate change. But critics will say Labour's scheme lacks detail and that the estimates for the costs are unrealistic.\n\nThe initiative comes a day after the Conservatives called a halt to fracking, a sign that the political parties sense the environment has become a key issue for voters.\n\nOutlining where the additional jobs would be created, Labour said an estimated 250,000 skilled jobs would be in the construction industry - roles like insulation specialists, plasterers, carpenters and electricians.\n\nIn addition, it claimed the investment would generate another 200,000 jobs \"across the economy\".\n\nMs Long-Bailey said the pledge was \"one of the greatest investment projects since we rebuilt Britain's housing after the Second World War\".\n\nShe said: \"Labour will offer every household in the UK the chance to bring the future into their homes - upgrading the fabric of their homes with insulation and cutting edge heating systems - tackling both climate change and extortionate bills.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said: \"The reality is that Jeremy Corbyn's plans would wreck the economy, putting up bills for hardworking families - and preventing any real progress on climate change.\n\n\"Only Boris Johnson and the Conservatives have a proper plan to continue reducing carbon emissions faster than any other G20 country, building on the 400,000 low-carbon jobs we've already created, while keeping bills low.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Labour said it would ensure all new-build homes in Britain were \"zero carbon\" within three years.\n\nIt said a Labour government would introduce \"tough\" standards on new builds which would see homes fitted with solar panels and a ban on gas boilers.\n\nThe party has previously said it intends to bring energy supply networks into public ownership.\n\nIt comes as the government called a halt to shale gas extraction - commonly known as fracking - in England amid fears about earthquakes.\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party want to ban fracking permanently.", "South Africans have been celebrating the country's third World Cup trophy win\n\nAcross South Africa, they've been blowing their vuvuzelas, hugging, crying, grinning until it hurts, honking their car horns, pouring and throwing and spraying beer in all directions.\n\nThey are celebrating a comprehensive victory that seems all the sweeter for being set against a backdrop of economic hardship, rising inequality, populist race-baiting, staggering official corruption and serious concerns about this young, boisterous nation's future.\n\n\"We can achieve anything if we work together as one,\" said Siya Kolisi, South Africa's now iconic black captain after the match in Japan.\n\nAnd in bars, homes, halls, and giant open-air public viewing areas, his words seemed - at least for a moment - to ring true.\n\n\"I have never seen, since I've been alive, I have never seen South Africa like this,\" Kolisi went on, and back home the crowds, black and white, nodded and cheered.\n\n\"I'm so happy!\" screamed a black schoolgirl jumping for joy with her friends at a sports centre in a suburb of Johannesburg.\n\n\"We've gone through so much as a country and this is something positive we can celebrate as a country,\" said a woman watching at a luxury resort outside the city.\n\n\"I feel this win will reunite us as a country. We've been segregated, with so much going on. So this win means so much,\" said her friend.\n\nToday's squad has twelve black players and is a truly national team\n\nSouth Africa has always cherished its reputation for pulling off miracles. After all, this was the nation that steered itself away from civil war and plotted a negotiated path out of racial apartheid towards democracy.\n\nA year later, in 1995, a smiling Nelson Mandela watched the national team win its first Rugby World Cup and used that moment to build on his dream of a \"rainbow nation\".\n\nBut the 1995 team had just one black player and many black South Africans struggled to share the enthusiasm of Mandela, and of their white compatriots so soon after the end of apartheid.\n\nToday's squad has twelve black players and has become a truly national team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We have come a long way from 1995 to where we are today. We are demonstrating to the world that we are a diverse and united nation,\" said President Cyril Ramaphosa, who had gone to Japan to be with the Springbok team.\n\nAnd there were other signs of South Africa's progress on display today. Not just a black captain and a diverse squad, but smaller details like the fact that so many more whites in the crowd now appear to have learned the words to their multi-lingual national anthem - bellowing out all the African verses in the minutes before the match began.\n\nFans have described the Springboks' win as something positive for the country\n\nBut can success in a rugby competition transform a nation's fortunes? Of course not. South Africans are all too aware that, come Monday, their economy will still be on the brink of being downgraded to junk status by international ratings agencies.\n\nYouth unemployment will remain around the 50% mark. The power utility Eskom will continue to deliver blackouts as it hovers dangerously close to collapse. And the racial polarisation that has become entrenched in the country's political scene will carry on.\n\n\"No we're not (united),\" said one of several voices on Twitter, responding to President Ramaphosa's message. \"Only our rugby team is a beacon of hope in the dark and dismal chaos that the ANC created and which you perpetuate.\"", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson will not feature in ITV's head-to-head election debate\n\nThe Lib Dems have made a formal complaint after ITV said its head-to-head election debate would only include Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nParty president Sal Brinton said leader Jo Swinson should appear alongside the Tory prime minister and the Labour leader in the 19 November debate.\n\nITV said it intends to offer viewers balanced election coverage.\n\nIn a letter to ITV's chief executive, Dame Caroline McCall, Baroness Brinton wrote \"voters of this country deserve to hear from a Remainer on the debate stage, not just from the two men who want to deliver Brexit\".\n\nThe Lib Dems have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win the election as a majority government.\n\nITV, which announced the head-to-head election debate on Friday, said it would also hold a \"multi-party debate\" before the 12 December poll. The Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, SNP, Brexit Party and Plaid Cymru will take part, represented by either their leader or \"another senior figure\", it said.\n\nThe head-to-head debate will be hosted by news presenter Julie Etchingham and take place on Tuesday 19 November.\n\nAfter the main event, ITV said it would hold a live interview-based programme to allow other parties to comment on the debate.\n\nBroadcasting rules in place during the official election campaign period require producers to ensure \"due weight\" is given to coverage of political parties and candidates.\n\nIn her letter, Baroness Brinton said: \"There is no reasonable justification for excluding Liberal Democrats from the debate. Liberal Democrats are the strongest national party of Remain.\n\n\"We secured more votes than both Labour and the Conservatives in the European elections earlier this year and have enjoyed fantastic local and by-election successes across the country.\"\n\nAn ITV spokesman said: \"ITV intends to offer viewers comprehensive and fairly balanced General Election coverage.\n\n\"This involves a wide range of programming, including a live debate programme in which seven party leaders are invited to take part, as well as a live debate between the Labour and Conservative leaders.\"\n\nPolitical leaders' TV debates have featured in the last three general elections in 2010, 2015 and 2017.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump arrived to a rowdy reception from the crowd\n\nDonald Trump was met with raucous boos - and some cheers - on Saturday as he attended the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in New York.\n\nThe US president attended the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event with high-ranking Republicans and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.\n\nA small anti-Trump protest was held at the Madison Square Garden arena.\n\nIt comes less than a week after the president was booed at the baseball World Series in Washington DC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChants of \"lock him up\" echoed around the stadium earlier in the week - a reference to a chant sometimes heard at Mr Trump's political rallies, which calls for the imprisonment of his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton.\n\nThe reception was mixed on Saturday night, however, with cheers and clapping heard from some spectators, and boos and profanities from others.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSigns reading \"Remove Trump\" and \"Impeach Trump\" were also spotted in the crowd.\n\nMr Trump is currently facing an impeachment probe relating to allegations he pressured Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his rival in the 2020 White House race, former Vice President Joe Biden.\n\nAs video of the crowd spread on social media, his son Donald Jr hit back on Twitter, saying the reception had been \"overwhelmingly positive\" and that UFC President Dana White - a long-time friend of the president's - had called it \"the most electrifying entrance he's seen in 25 years\".\n\nUFC, or the Ultimate Fighting Championship, is an American MMA promotion company. Its first mixed martial arts event was held in 1993.\n\nFrom humble beginnings, it now boasts millions of fans worldwide and has produced superstar fighters like Conor McGregor and Ronda Rousey.\n\nMr Trump hosted UFC events decades ago, when the sport was shunned by most venues and mainstream media.\n\n\"I would never say anything negative about Donald Trump because he was there when other people weren't,\" said Dana White, who spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention in support of Mr Trump's presidential campaign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of independence supporters have heard Nicola Sturgeon call for \"Scotland's future to be put into Scotland's hands\".\n\nThe first minister told a major rally in Glasgow the time would come to break away from the \"chaos of Westminster\" in a second independence poll next year.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said a new Scottish independence referendum was not \"desirable or necessary\".\n\nThe Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats also oppose a further vote.\n\nMs Sturgeon was one of a number of SNP politicians and independence campaigners to speak at the #indyref2020 rally in George Square.\n\nIt was the first time she had spoken at an independence rally since 2014.\n\nThe event prompted a counter demonstration by dozens of unionist supporters who waved flags and blew whistles as supporters of Scottish independence gathered.\n\nThe SNP leader focused on the UK-wide election on 12 December at the event, which was organised by The National newspaper.\n\nShe has made it clear that she wants to hold a poll on the issue next year and said the general election was a \"crossroads moment\" for Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the pro-indy crowds: \"Over the next few weeks, it is our job to convince everyone we know to come out on December the 12th and send the biggest, loudest most resounding message to Westminster.\n\n\"That it is time for Scotland to choose our own future. It is time for Scotland to be an independent country.\n\n\"An independent country that will be the best of friends and family with our neighbours across the British Isles, across Europe and across the world.\"\n\nThe first minister told the crowd the general election was \"the most important election for Scotland in our lifetimes\".\n\n\"The future of our country is on the line,\" she said. \"And there is no doubt whatsoever that Scotland stands at a crossroads moment.\"\n\nThere were boos from the audience when she claimed a victory for Boris Johnson in the election would result in \"a future where Scotland gets ripped out of our European family of nations against our will, a future where the UK turns in on itself, a future of a hostile environment for migrants\".\n\nInstead, she said, there was \"a much better alternative\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"That alternative is not a UK Labour government that can't event make up its mind where it stands on the question of Brexit.\"\n\nThe first minister's speech came after she confirmed that she would send a letter \"before Christmas\" to whoever is in 10 Downing Street, requesting the Scottish Parliament is granted powers to hold another independence referendum.\n\nAsked whether she believed Labour would grant the Section 30 order, Ms Sturgeon answered: \"Yes\".\n\n\"If people in Scotland demonstrate the desire - as I believe they will in this election - for an independence referendum, then I don't believe Westminster opposition to the principle or to the timetable to that will prove sustainable,\" she said.\n\nIn response, Jeremy Corbyn said only a Labour government would be able to boost Scotland's economy and see \"the levels of poverty in Scotland, particularly in the big cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee, being reduced\".\n\nAn unconventional piper joined the pro-independence crowds in George Square\n\nHe added: \"Scottish independence would mean a massive gap between what Scotland raises in taxation and what the Scottish people need at the present time.\n\n\"I think the much better option is a Labour government for the whole of the UK.\"\n\nThe Tories criticised Nicola Sturgeon for prioritising indyref2 \"above all else\".\n\nScottish Conservative MSP for Glasgow, Annie Wells, said: \"While Nicola Sturgeon is banging on about indyref2, I'm out talking to people about the state of their local schools, the drug deaths crisis and violent crime taking over our streets, and the problems at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.\n\n\"Instead of tackling the day-to-day things that Glaswegians care about, Nicola Sturgeon is headlining a nationalist rally.\n\n\"So this election is about stopping Nicola Sturgeon from dividing our communities all over again, and only a vote for the Scottish Conservatives will do that.\"", "An air ambulance was called to the scene of the crash, on the M23 near Hooley, Surrey\n\nA man has died while taking part in a classic car rally after his vintage vehicle crashed with a lorry on a motorway.\n\nThe 80-year-old, driving a 1903 Knox Runabout Old Porcupine, was killed at the scene of the crash on the M23 in Surrey at about 10:00 GMT.\n\nHis female passenger was seriously injured and taken to hospital.\n\nThe car had been entered into the Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThey said the car had \"left the route, which does not include the M23, when the crash took place\".\n\nMore than 400 vehicles dating from before 1905 were registered to take part in this year's run.\n\nThe crash happened on the southbound carriageway, near Hooley.\n\nMore than 400 pre-1905 cars were taking part in this year's Veteran Car Run, which was started by Alan Titchmarsh\n\nThe road remains closed both ways between junctions seven and eight, close to the M25 junction.\n\nThe run's organisers added: \"We are doing all we can to support the family concerned and are working with the police, but we cannot comment any further at this stage.\"\n\nSurrey Police urged anyone who witnessed the collision, or has dashcam footage, to get in touch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Veteran Car Run dates back to 1927 and commemorates the Emancipation Run of 1896 which celebrated the new-found freedom of motorists granted by the \"repeal of the Red Flag Act\".\n\nThe speed limit was raised to 14mph and the need for a man carrying a red flag to walk ahead of cars when they were being driven was abolished.\n\nThe 60-mile run began in London's Hyde Park at dawn, and the route included heading down the A23 through Gatwick, Crawley and Burgess Hill before finishing in Madeira Drive, Brighton.\n\nTwo years ago, six people were injured during the run when a 1902 Benz was involved in a crash with three other cars at Reigate Hill in Surrey.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Election pact with Brexit Party 'risks putting Corbyn into No 10'\n\nBoris Johnson has rejected the suggestion from Nigel Farage and Donald Trump that he should work with the Brexit Party during the election.\n\nThe Tory leader told the BBC he was \"always grateful for advice\" but he would not enter into election pacts.\n\nHis comments come after the US president said Mr Farage and Mr Johnson would be \"an unstoppable force\".\n\nDowning Street sources say there are no circumstances in which the Tories would work with the Brexit Party.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said the \"difficulty\" of doing deals with \"any other party\" was that it \"simply risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10\".\n\n\"The problem with that is that his [Mr Corbyn's] plan for Brexit is basically yet more dither and delay,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson also said there was \"no question of negotiating on the NHS\" as part of any future trade deal with the US, but he did not rule out expanding the amount of private provision in the health service in the future.\n\nBut Labour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said the public \"can't trust the Tories on the NHS\", saying they would \"increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump\".\n\nWhen pushed on whether he would rule out a deal with Mr Farage, Mr Johnson replied: \"I want to be very, very clear that voting for any other party than this government, this Conservative government… is basically tantamount to putting Jeremy Corbyn in.\"\n\nThe UK is going to the polls on 12 December following a further delay to the UK's departure from the EU, to 31 January 2020.\n\nThe BBC will be talking to other party leaders during the course of the campaign.\n\nUS president Donald Trump told Nigel Farage's LBC show on Thursday that the Brexit Party leader should team up with Mr Johnson to do \"something terrific\" and he also criticised the prime minister's EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Farage has called on the prime minister to drop his Brexit deal, unite in a \"Leave alliance\" or face a Brexit Party candidate in every seat in the election.\n\nMr Johnson said there were \"lots of reasons\" why he thought a Labour government would be a \"disaster\".\n\nHe said he Labour government would lead to a renegotiation with Brussels on a Brexit deal, then another referendum.\n\n\"Why go through that nightmare again?\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister also suggested that the US president was wrong to believe a trade deal would be impossible with the UK after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"proper Brexit\" deal \"enables us to do proper all-singing, all-dancing free-trade deals\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It delivers exactly what we wanted, what I wanted, when I campaigned in 2016 to come out the European Union,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhen asked about the criticism from Mr Trump, Mr Johnson said: \"I am always grateful for advice from wherever it comes and we have great relations as you know with the US and many many other countries.\n\n\"But on the technicalities of the deal anybody who looks at it can see that the UK has full control.\"\n\nThe prime minister is never short of a word or two, never short of a colourful phrase or a metaphor.\n\nWhen we sat down this afternoon there was no suggestion of him being the Hulk, but Remain-tending MPs were accused of \"rope-a-doping\" the government, planning eventually to batter the prime minister and his Brexit deal into submission until he would have had to give up.\n\nBut in Downing Street there is a serious awareness that trademark Johnson verbal gymnastics are no guarantee of success at the ballot box in six weeks' time, no guarantee at all.\n\nThat's not just because there are even friends, like Donald Trump, and of course foes, like Jeremy Corbyn, whose words and actions will hamper his attempt to secure a majority to call his own.\n\nBut also because this is a snap election, not a routine poll, and the public is hardly in a forgiving mood of our politicians right now.\n\nMr Johnson said he hoped the government could get Brexit \"over the line\" by the middle of January if he won a majority, claiming the current Parliament would never have passed his deal.\n\nHe said he'd had \"no choice\" but to call a general election, saying: \"Nobody wants an election but we've got to do it now.\n\n\"This is a Parliament that is basically full of MPs who voted Remain.\n\n\"They voted Remain and they will continue to block Brexit if they're given the chance - we need a new mandate, we need to refresh our Parliament.\"\n\nMr Johnson said his government was determined to increase taxpayer funding of the NHS but said: \"Of course there are dentists and optometrists and so on who are providers to the NHS, of course, that's how it works,\" he said.\n\n\"But... I believe passionately in an NHS free at the point of use for everybody in this country.\"\n\nLabour's Mr Ashworth said: \"Forced NHS privatisation has doubled under the Conservatives and Boris Johnson has refused to rule out expanding this further.\n\n\"You can't trust the Tories on the NHS. They will increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump that will see as much as £500m more a week sent to US corporations.\"", "More than 1,100 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan from July 1 until September 30 (file picture)\n\nNine children have been killed in a roadside blast in north-eastern Afghanistan as they made their way to school.\n\nThe children - eight boys and a girl aged between seven and 10 - accidentally stepped on a deliberately-planted mine, officials said.\n\nSo far, no one has claimed responsibility for the bomb.\n\nLast month, the UN said 1,174 Afghan civilians had been killed in the three months until the end of September.\n\nMore than 3,000 people have also been injured over this period, the UN said.\n\n\"At 8.30am (04:00 GMT) this morning, tragically, nine school children were martyred in a landmine blast,\" Jawad Hejri, a spokesman for the Takhar provincial governor, told AFP news agency.\n\nHe alleged that the roadside device had been planted by the Taliban, which had taken control of Takhar Province for several weeks before Afghan forces recently regained control.\n\nThe militants routinely plant roadside devices as they leave a district in the hope of targeting advancing security forces.\n\nThe Taliban has not responded to a request for comment on the incident.\n\nLast May, a landmine killed seven children and wounded two more in the southern province of Ghazni.\n\nIn February, seven children were killed and 10 more wounded in Laghman province when a mortar shell exploded as they played with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The young face of a brutal war: Secunder Kermani reports from one of the country's busiest hospitals in the southern city of Kandahar", "Kurdish militias fought Turkish and Turkish-backed rebels in north-east Syria last month\n\nTurkish-backed forces fighting Kurdish militias in north-east Syria have been accused of committing war crimes, with acts of brutality surfacing on mobile phone footage.\n\nThe UN has warned that Turkey could be held responsible for the actions of its allies, while Turkey has promised to investigate.\n\nBearded men shout \"Allahu Akbar [God is the Greatest]\". One captures the scene on his smartphone and says: \"We are mujahedeen [holy warriors] from Faylaq Al-Majd [Glory Corps] battalion.\" In the background are the corpses of Kurdish fighters.\n\nFurther away, a group of men plant their feet on a woman's bloodied body. One says she is a \"whore\".\n\nThe gruesome footage is much like that produced by the ultra-violent Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nYet the men in this video are not IS militants, but rather fighters for a rebel alliance known as the Syrian National Army, trained, equipped and paid for by a Nato member, Turkey. They are under the command of the Turkish army.\n\nThe video was filmed on 21 October in northern Syria. The woman beneath the fighters' feet is Amara Renas, a member of an all-woman unit of Kurdish fighters, the YPJ, a force that played a significant role in defeating IS in Syria.\n\nAmara Renas' body was seen being desecrated in a video\n\nAmara was killed in the recent Turkish assaults against Kurdish forces in Syria.\n\nOn 9 October the Turkish army and pro-Turkish Syrian rebels attacked the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), shortly after Donald Trump announced the US would pull troops out of Syria.\n\nSDF fighters had been a highly effective and trusted ally of the US-led coalition and led the defeat of IS on the ground. The group says it also provided intelligence that led to the killing last week of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nDays after Turkey's attacks, numerous videos alleged to have been filmed by pro-Turkey rebels emerged on social media. In one, an unidentified fighter shouts in Arabic: \"We have come to behead you infidels and apostates!\"\n\nIn another video, a masked rebel clad in black carries a terrified woman surrounded by other rebels - one films her, one shouts \"pig\", another says: \"Take her to be beheaded.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We were by the gate when a shell hit\"\n\nThe captured woman is Cicek Kobane, another YPJ fighter.\n\nThe widely-circulated video provoked outrage on social media. A few days after it was published, Turkish state TV showed Cicek Kobane being treated in a hospital in Turkey.\n\nUS officials have said that some of the actions in these videos probably constitute war crimes.\n\n\"Many people fled because they're very concerned about these Turkish-supported Syrian opposition forces,\" James Jeffrey, US special envoy for Syria, told Congress.\n\n\"We'd say that Turkey-supported Syrian opposition forces who were under general Turkish command, at least in one instance did carry out war crimes.\"\n\nTurkey has long been accused of taking little action against jihadists in Syria.\n\n\"I ran the ISIS [Islamic State group] campaign - 40,000 foreign fighters, jihadists from 110 countries around the world, all came into Syria to fight in that war and they all came through Turkey,\" Brett McGurk, former US President Special Envoy in the coalition against IS, told CNN last month.\n\nHe said he tried to persuade Turkey to seal its border against IS. \"They said they couldn't do it,\" he said, \"but the minute the Kurds took parts of the border, it's totally sealed with a wall.\"\n\nUS officials say they have demanded an explanation from Turkey for alleged war crimes by the rebels.\n\nIbrahim Kalin, the Turkish president's spokesman, said Turkey will investigate any suspected war crimes.\n\nBut many Kurdish activists have no faith in the Turkish government or army.\n\n\"There is strong evidence that over the past four decades, Turkish military and security forces have systematically committed war crimes and violated human rights in their conflict with the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for decades),\" says Kamran Matin, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Sussex University.\n\nIn the past decade, numerous disturbing images and videos allegedly filmed by the Turkish army and security forces document the killing of captured Kurdish dissidents in Turkey.\n\nIn one video published a few years ago, suspected Turkish soldiers behead dead PKK militants. In another video, two female PKK fighters with their hands tied behind their backs are seated on a mountain cliff, when what are apparently Turkish soldiers with automatic machine guns shoot them at close range and kick them over the edge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Martin Patience explains what's behind the conflict\n\nIn October 2015, a widely-shared video showed Turkish security forces dragging the body of 24-year-old actor Haci Lokman Birlik through the streets in Sirnak, a Kurdish town in south-east Turkey, with a rope around his neck. Part of the video appeared to have been filmed from inside the police vehicle. Turkish officials claimed his corpse might have been booby-trapped.\n\nKurdish human rights activists have accused the US and the EU of failing to condemn Turkey or take any effective punitive action.\n\n\"The EU turned a blind eye to Turkey's human rights violations, because of Turkey's Nato membership, economic ties and the fear of a backlash among millions of Turks living in European countries, Germany in particular,\" says Kamran Matin.\n\nAfter the Syrian civil war began, a new factor \"constrained European countries' reaction to Turkey's gross violation of human rights,\" he says - \"Syrian refugees. [Turkish] President Erdogan repeatedly threatened flooding Europe with them.\"\n\nThis, it seems, is something European countries want to avoid, whatever the cost.", "Air quality in Delhi has deteriorated into the \"hazardous\" category\n\nAir pollution in the north of India has \"reached unbearable levels,\" the capital Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says.\n\nIn many areas of Delhi air quality deteriorated into the \"hazardous\" category, with the potential to cause respiratory illnesses.\n\nLow visibility caused more than 30 flights to be diverted on Sunday.\n\nRules have now gone into effect allowing only cars with odd or even number plates to drive on given days.\n\nThe initiative is aimed at getting more vehicles off the road in an effort to curb air pollution.\n\nOnly cars with odd or even number plates can drive on given days in a bid to reduce pollution\n\nSchools in Delhi have been ordered to close until Tuesday, and construction has been halted.\n\nDelhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain advised the city's residents to \"avoid outdoor physical activities, especially during morning and late evening hours\".\n\nThe advisory also said people should wear anti-pollution masks, avoid polluted areas and keep doors and windows closed.\n\nA major factor behind the high pollution levels at this time of year is farmers in neighbouring states burning crop stubble to clear their fields.\n\nPolice are wearing face masks to protect themselves from the toxic smog\n\nThis creates a lethal cocktail of particulate matter, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide - all worsened by fireworks set off during the Hindu festival Diwali a week ago.\n\nVehicle fumes, construction and industrial emissions have also contributed to the smog.\n\nIndians are hoping that scattered rainfall over the coming week will wash away the pollutants but this is not due until Thursday.\n\nLevels of dangerous particles in the air - known as PM2.5 - are far higher than recommended and about seven times higher than in the Chinese capital Beijing.\n\nAn Indian health ministry official said the city's pollution monitors did not have enough digits to accurately record pollution levels, which he called a \"disaster\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFive million masks were handed out in schools on Friday as officials declared a public health emergency and Mr Kejriwal likened the city to a \"gas chamber\".\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says a third of deaths from stroke, lung cancer and heart disease are due to air pollution.\n\n\"This is having an equivalent effect to that of smoking tobacco,\" the WHO says on its website.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Kejriwal's most recent comments are unlikely to please government officials, reports the BBC's South Asia regional editor Jill McGivering. She said Indian politicians were blaming each other for the conditions.\n\nOn Sunday young people in Delhi came out to protest and demand action.\n\n\"You can obviously see how terrible it is and it's actually scary you can't see things in front of you,\" said Jaivipra.\n\nShe said she wanted long-term and sustainable anti-pollution measures put in place.\n\n\"We are concerned about our futures and about our health but we are also fighting this on behalf of the children and the elderly who bear the biggest brunt of the problem here,\" she said.\n\nSome ministers have sparked controversy on social media by suggesting light-hearted measures to stay healthy.\n\nHarsh Vardhan, the union minister for health and family welfare, urged people to eat carrots to protect against \"night blindness\" and \"other pollution-related harm to health\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Prakash Javadekar, the minister of the environment, suggested that you should \"start your day with music\", adding a link to a \"scintillating thematic composition\".\n\n\"Is that the reason you have turned deaf ears to our plight on pollution?\" one Twitter user responded. \"Seems you are too busy hearing music that you are not able to hear us!\"", "Hundreds of tonnes of ballast have been used to repair the line\n\nDirect rail services between north and south Wales are to resume after repair works were completed early.\n\nFloods washed away ballast and track foundations under the line in Herefordshire, Network Rail said.\n\nIt meant services using the line between Abergavenny and Hereford had to be replaced by buses.\n\nThe first services will run on Saturday, but Transport for Wales warned there may still be delays due to speed restrictions on the line.\n\nIt asked passengers to check for updates before they set off.\n\nNetwork Rail thanked passengers for their patience while the track was repaired.\n\nIt was originally thought the route could have been closed until Monday.\n\nThe line through Herefordshire is part of the route linking north and south Wales\n\nNetwork Rail said the work needed 300 tonnes of foundation and 600 tonnes of ballast.\n\nChris Howchin, the company's route director, said: \"I'm delighted that we've managed to reopen the line ahead of schedule - restoring a vital rail link for Wales and Borders.\n\n\"The whole team worked tirelessly in difficult weather conditions and it's a fantastic result for passengers.\"\n\nThe Met Office had issued an amber warning and said more than 4in (100mm) of rain fell in 24 hours in some places.\n\nOn Monday, 34 homes were evacuated as the River Wye continued to rise in Monmouth.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nKatie Taylor became a two-weight world champion with a classy display as she beat Christina Linardatou on points to land the WBO super-lightweight title.\n\nTaylor, 33, boxed and moved stylishly for large spells of her debut at 140lbs and, despite being cut early on, landed a unanimous 96-94 97-93 97-93 win.\n\nLinardatou brought pressure throughout but Ireland's Taylor read attacks more easily as the fight progressed.\n\n\"I'm making history again,\" said an emotional Taylor.\n• None 'The best is yet to come,' says Taylor\n\nShe was close to tears after the decision at the Manchester Arena, with the crowd serving up a rapturous ovation for a fighter who now owns all four world belts at 135lbs and now this one a division higher.\n\nThis was Taylor's first outing since she controversially beat Delfine Persoon on points in June, and there were question marks around whether she could maintain her signature speed at a higher weight.\n\nLinardatou was a bundle of movement early on - swaying her upper body left and right, she forced Taylor backwards but walked on to right hands deep into round one.\n\nThe champion - fighting under a Greek flag - was unquestionably game, so much so that when she slipped in round three she bounced up immediately to attack, only for the referee to call for a momentary pause.\n\nTaylor though, cut above the right eye after three rounds, seemingly broke her opponent's heart in the middle rounds as she began to read what was coming at her and counter repeatedly.\n\nLinardatou's corner screamed instruction but the movement and boxing IQ before her was winning the day. There were sporadic, often wild, shots that landed on Taylor but she remained poised, picked her punches well - and when things got aggressive in a grapple, dished out rough work of her own.\n\n\"Ole, ole, ole, ole,\" sang the crowd in the eighth. This was far from routine but Taylor appeared confident she would take the decision for a 15th win from as many bouts.\n\nHer next move will ideally be a unification bout at 140lbs with American Jessica McCaskill, or even more mouth-watering would be a bout with Norway's Cecilia Braekhus, who holds all four belts at 147lbs.\n\nThe next moves can be debated in the weeks to come. For now, in this sport that serves up hype from week to week, there should be no doubt that in Taylor, Ireland has a phenomenon.\n\nThis is the athlete who spoke passionately to decision-makers about staging women's boxing at the Olympic Games, the woman who topped the podium in 2012 and who, before the 2016 Games, lost her long-term coach, her dad, in a family breakdown.\n\nHer response has been to fight her way - sometimes technically, sometimes doggedly - to five world titles.\n\nThose who have watched her in close quarters will speak of an obsessive nature and relentless dedication.\n\nOnce again she stuck at her task here, her experience for all to see.\n\nHer application continues to pay dividends. More belts look set to be conquered and more boundaries broken.\n\nIt was a brilliant performance by Katie Taylor.\n\nShe started to find her range after the first two rounds and Linardatou had no idea how to deal with it.\n\nIt was not a flawless performance but it was pretty close.\n\nShe isn't just a leader or an icon. We'll have to find a new category for her.", "Fracking at Cuadrilla Resources site in Lancashire in August caused a 2.9 magnitude earth tremor\n\nThe government has called a halt to shale gas extraction - or fracking - in England amid fears about earthquakes.\n\nThe indefinite suspension comes after a report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said it was not possible to predict the probability or size of tremors caused by the practice.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said it may be temporary - imposed \"until and unless\" extraction is proved safe.\n\nLabour, Lib Dems and the Green Party want a permanent ban.\n\nFracking was suspended at the end of August after activity by Cuadrilla Resources - the only company licensed to carry out the process - at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire caused a magnitude 2.9 earthquake.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said that, after the OGA concluded that further seismic activity could not be ruled out, \"further consents for fracking will not be granted\" unless the industry \"can reliably predict and control tremors\" linked to the process.\n\nHowever, it has stopped short of an outright ban.\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme why that was, Mrs Leadsom said shale gas is a \"huge opportunity\" for the UK.\n\n\"We will follow the science and it is quite clear that we can't be certain. The science isn't accurate enough to be able to assess the fault lines, the geological studies have been shown to be inaccurate. So therefore, unless and until we can be absolutely certain, we are imposing a moratorium,\" she said.\n\nOpposition leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted that the pause was an \"election stunt\" and that Labour would ban fracking permanently.\n\nFormer Conservative energy minister Sam Gyimah, who is now a Liberal Democrat, said Mr Johnson's \"conversion to environmentalism\" was \"skin deep\".\n\n\"It's interesting that just as we approach an election he has decided he is against fracking.\"\n\nAsked whether the UK should explore methods of delivering fracking safely, Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley said fossil fuels \"need to stay in the ground\" and that the government must make an \"absolute commitment\" to end it altogether.\n\nAndrea Leadsom emphasises that this is not a ban - and the government is 'following the science'.\n\nHowever, scientists say it's hard to see a time with our current technology that fracking in the UK wouldn't cause earthquakes\n\nProfessor Richard Davies from Newcastle University says: \"The UK is crisscrossed with faults and it's difficult to avoid them because the current imaging techniques used by the industry do not yet provide enough resolution to detect many of them.\"\n\nThe big question for the businesses working in this sector is whether they are happy to spend any more money in this regulatory environment.\n\nDo they think it's worth investing, in the hope that the \"science\" will one day find in their favour and the regulation could change?\n\nOr will they decide that two moratoriums in 10 years is just too many, and that fracking has no future in the UK.\n\nFriends of the Earth said legislation should be passed to make the fracking moratorium permanent.\n\n\"For nearly a decade local people across the country have fought a David and Goliath battle against this powerful industry,\" said chief executive Craig Bennett.\n\nCharity CPRE said it had long called for fracking to be stopped and said the move would help the UK meet its target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nAnti-fracking campaigner Barbara Richardson, who has protested at Preston New Road, said she was \"cautiously optimistic\", adding that local people were \"worried\" about the impact of fracking.\n\n\"They want this to go away, they want some respite from this, they've been fighting this for five-and-a-half years,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nClaire Stephenson from Frack Free Lancashire said campaigners were celebrating that the fracking industry in the UK is \"finished\", but added that protests will continue until an \"outright ban\" is in place.\n\nSusan Holliday, chair of Preston New Action Group said: \"We will only feel able to celebrate once Cuadrilla start work on decommissioning and the site is restored.\"\n\nFracking is a process in which liquid is pumped deep underground at high pressure to fracture shale rock and release gas or oil trapped within it.\n\nAssessment by the British Geological Survey in 2013 suggested there were enough resources in the Bowland Shale across northern England to potentially provide up to 50 years of current gas demand.\n\nBut research published in August estimated there were only five to seven years' supply.\n\nThe UK's fracking industry, which has said the process could contribute significantly to future energy needs and create thousands of jobs, dismissed the report's findings.\n\nFracking must be halted for 18 hours if it causes a tremor measuring 0.5 magnitude or above.\n\nThe government announcement is the second time it has placed a moratorium on fracking.\n\nThe first suspension, which lasted a year, was in November 2011 during the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.\n\nThe fracking industry has faced fierce opposition from both communities and environmental groups.\n\nLocal communities and environmental groups have protested against fracking\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has in the past supported fracking, writing in the Daily Telegraph that the discovery of shale gas in the UK was \"glorious news for humanity\".\n\nA recent report by the National Audit Office found the UK had spent at least £32.7m supporting fracking since 2011.\n\nAll fracking in Scotland has been suspended since 2013 and the SNP recently confirmed a policy of \"no support\" for the extraction method.\n\nThe Welsh Government has also opposed fracking for several years, with a \"moratorium\" in place since 2015, while there is a planning presumption against fracking in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe suspension in England will put pressure on Cuadrilla Resources which has so far invested £270m in the country's shale gas industry.\n\nCuadrilla Resources has 30 full-time workers but also employs a number of contractors.\n\nThe BBC understands Cuadrilla and other fracking companies were not told of the government's decision in advance.\n\nKen Cronin, chief executive of UK Onshore Oil and Gas, which represents fracking companies, said: \"Going forward, we are fully committed to working closely with the Oil and Gas Authority and other relevant regulators to demonstrate that we can operate safely and environmentally responsibly.\"", "Contra Costa County search and rescue officers approach the property in Orinda\n\nAirbnb has said it will ban \"party houses\" after a mass shooting at a California home rented through the company left five people dead.\n\nCEO Brian Chesky said in a tweet the company would take steps to \"combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct\".\n\n\"We must do better, and we will. This is unacceptable,\" Mr Chesky added.\n\nThree people died at the house, in the city of Orinda, near San Francisco, and two more died later in hospital.\n\nThe house was reportedly booked under a pretence for a small group, before being publicised on Instagram as the venue for a Halloween party which eventually drew a crowd of more than 100 people. The host did not authorise the party, Airbnb said.\n\nAll of those who died were under 30. The fifth victim died in hospital on Friday night. By Saturday, police had not arrested or identified any suspects. Officers said they found two guns at the house.\n\nMr Chesky said Airbnb would create a dedicated \"party house\" rapid response team and expand manual screening of high-risk reservations. The company, which is expected to float on the stock market in 2020, would also take action against users who violated its policies, he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brian Chesky This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the mass shooting, California Governor Gavin Newsom called for Congress to pass gun control legislation. \"This will barely make the news today. That's how numb we have become to this,\" he said. \"Our hearts are aching for the victims and all those affected by this horrific tragedy.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter on Saturday, Mr Chesky said: \"What happened on Thursday night in Orinda, CA was horrible. I feel for the families and neighbors impacted by this tragedy - we are working to support them.\"", "Protesters have been erecting burning barricades across Baghdad\n\nProtesters have blocked the main thoroughfares in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as mass anti-government protests continue.\n\nDemonstrators were seen parking cars across key junctions of the city as police looked on without intervening.\n\nSince 1 October, tens of thousands of people have taken part in two waves of protests to demand more jobs, an end to corruption, and better services.\n\nMore than 250 have been killed in clashes with security forces.\n\nLast week, Iraqi President Barham Saleh said Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi would resign if political parties could agree on his replacement.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters shut down the main roads of the capital. They continued to defy a curfew introduced in late October.\n\nProtesters have been erecting barricades to block traffic in Baghdad\n\nThe epicentre of the unrest has been Baghdad's central Tahrir Square\n\nStudents staged sit-ins at their schools and government offices were closed on the first day of the working week in the Muslim nation.\n\n\"We decided to cut the roads as a message to the government that we will keep protesting until the corrupt people and thieves are kicked out and the regime falls,\" Tahseen Nasser, a 25-year-old protester, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.\n\n\"We're not allowing government workers to reach their offices, just those in humanitarian fields,\" he said.\n\nAlaa Wissam, a 25-year-old architect, said young people were heading to the square to volunteer their help. \"This thing will help young people to have a role in the change that is happening,\" she said.\n\nRiot police deployed along the bridges fired tear gas at protesters. Amnesty International has criticised Iraqi forces for using two types of military-grade tear gas canisters that have pierced protesters' skulls and lungs.\n\nThe Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights said that Siba al-Mahdawi, an activist and doctor who provided medical care to protesters, was abducted on Saturday night by an unknown group. The Commission called on the government to reveal her whereabouts.\n\nThe epicentre of the unrest has been Baghdad's central Tahrir Square. Protesters there have been attempting to cross a nearby bridge to the fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign embassies.\n\nSimilar protests have taken place in the city of Kut, south-east of Baghdad. Many government offices and schools were shut on Sunday in a number of cities and towns further south.\n\nMr Abdul Mahdi, a veteran Shia Islamist politician with a background in economics, became prime minister just over a year ago, promising reforms that have not materialised.\n\nOn 1 October, young Iraqis angered by his failure to tackle high unemployment, endemic corruption and poor public services took to the streets of Baghdad for the first time.\n\nThe protests escalated and spread across the country after security personnel responded with deadly force.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How tuk-tuks are saving lives in the Iraq protests\n\nAfter the first wave of protests, which lasted six days and saw 149 civilians killed, Mr Abdul Mahdi promised to reshuffle his cabinet, cut the salaries of high-ranking officials, and announced schemes to reduce youth unemployment.\n\nBut the protesters said their demands had not been met and returned to the streets in late October.", "A US judge said the proposal would cause \"irreparable harm\" to families\n\nA US judge has temporarily blocked a rule proposed by President Donald Trump that would require immigrants to prove they will have health insurance within 30 days of arrival in the US, or can pay for medical care.\n\nJudge Michael Simon, a district judge in Oregon, granted a preliminary injunction against the proposal.\n\nSeven American citizens and an NGO had filed a lawsuit opposing the rule.\n\nThey argued it would block hundreds of thousands of legal migrants.\n\nThe lawsuit said the number of immigrants who enter the US with family-sponsored visas would drop considerably, or be eliminated altogether.\n\nJudge Simon said the potential damage to families justified a US-wide ban.\n\n\"Facing a likely risk of being separated from their family members and a delay in obtaining a visa to which family members would otherwise be entitled is irreparable harm,\" his legal order read.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump wants to move away from an immigration system that favours people with family ties to the US\n\nWould-be immigrants had been struggling to establish how to get the required insurance coverage. The US healthcare system is complex, and has not generally catered to people yet to arrive there.\n\nThe policy is part of Mr Trump's effort to shift the US away from a family-focused immigration system.\n\nJudge Simon's 28-day temporary restraining order will prevent the rule from coming into effect on 3 November, but the legal battle is likely to continue.\n\nThe Trump administration has argued that legal immigrants are about three times more likely to lack health insurance than US citizens, and that taxpayers should not bear their medical costs.\n\nHowever, US policy experts say immigrants are less likely to use the healthcare system than American citizens.\n\nResearch from George Washington University found that recent immigrants without insurance made up less than a tenth of 1% of US medical fees in 2017.", "A version of this was first published on 30 October before South Africa's 32-12 victory over England in the World Cup final on Saturday.\n\nYou walk out in a Springbok jersey as a player and you feel history on your back and by your side.\n\nYou stand as South Africa's captain in a World Cup final and the weight is greater across your shoulders and the ghosts crowd in all around.\n\nFrancois Pienaar hoisting the Webb Ellis Cup at Ellis Park in 1995, Nelson Mandela alongside him in his own green number six jersey, happy like a kid who has just scored his first try. John Smit at the Stade de France in Paris 12 years on, left hand around the old gold pot, right hand linked with Mandela's successor Thabo Mbeki.\n\nTwelve years more have passed. Now it is the turn of Siya Kolisi to walk that path. The first black man to captain the Springboks, a kid from nowhere who hopes to go where none have gone before.\n\nRugby matters in many places around the world, but only in South Africa can it change the nation around it. Captains and presidents, politics and power, new dreams and old scars.\n\n\"It was iconic when Francois lifted the World Cup with Madiba, and it was amazing to be able to do it myself with Thabo,\" says Smit.\n\n\"But if Siya touches that trophy on Saturday... I tell you, it will be a far greater moment than 1995. Far greater. It would change the trajectory of our country.\"\n\nThat Kolisi has made it this far is a story of stoicism and self-belief. Born to teenage parents in the poor township of Zwide, just outside Port Elizabeth on the Eastern Cape, he was brought up by his grandmother, who cleaned kitchens to make ends meet.\n\nBed was a pile of cushions on the living-room floor. Rugby was on dirt fields. When he went to his first provincial trials he played in boxer shorts, because he had no other kit.\n\nHis father Fezakel was a centre, his grandfather a player of pace too. Aged 12, the young Kolisi was spotted by Andrew Hayidakis, a coach at the exclusive private school Grey, and offered a full scholarship.\n\nWhen you are from Zwide you step into this other world when the chance comes, but you never leave your old life behind. Kolisi's mother died when he was 15, his grandmother shortly afterwards. When Smit's team was beating England in that World Cup final of 2007, the 16-year-old Kolisi was watching it in a township tavern because there was no television at home.\n\n\"His story is unique,\" Hanyani Shimange, former Springboks prop, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast.\n\n\"Previous generations of black rugby players were not given the same opportunities, purely because of South Africa's laws. He's living the dream of people who weren't given the same opportunities as him.\n\n\"He's got a lot of time for people, probably too much time in some instances. But he's the same Siya he was six years ago. He loves rugby, and the team loves him.\"\n\nKolisi began at school as a small but mobile flanker, good with the ball in hand, learning to be smarter than the stronger kids around him. When a growth spurt kicked in and he got big there was power to go with the finesse.\n\nAs a loose forward he is a significant asset to a Springbok team that at this World Cup has battled through to the final rather than dazzled. Saturday will bring his 50th cap, and his 20th as captain. His impact is far greater than simply what he does on the pitch because of all that has come before.\n\n\"I do not care how the Springboks team does. It is not a reflection of the nation. It is not our team. I support the All Blacks instead. We don't support the national team, because it is a white South African team. It is not a true South African team.\"\n\nThat was Zola Ntlokoma, secretary of Soweto Rugby Club, talking to me before England played South Africa at Twickenham five years ago. It was not an uncommon view, because for all the iconography and sweet symmetry of 1995, its wider effect quickly leached away.\n\nIntegration of black players crawled along rather than accelerated. The World Cup win gave the impression that little more needed doing, and so little was.\n\nWhen the Springboks triumphed in Johannesburg 24 years ago there was just one black player, Chester Williams, in the starting XV. By the time of their second World Cup win in 2007, there were still only two.\n\nIn some corners of South African life, the story of 1995 feels old and frayed. When Williams wrote his autobiography he accused fellow winger James Small of using racially abusive language towards him in a domestic cup match after that World Cup win. Small, who said he had \"no independent recollection of the incident\", in turn felt an outsider even in victory because his native tongue was English rather than Afrikaans.\n\nSmall - often angry at the world, brilliant at his best, the man who helped keep Jonah Lomu tryless in that final - died of a heart attack aged 50 in June this year. Williams went the same way last month aged 49, the fourth player from that storied team - after flanker Ruben Kruger and virtuoso scrum-half Joost van der Westhuizen - to go at an untimely age.\n\nKolisi stands as a critical link between the past and future. He was born on 16 June 1991, one day before the repeal of apartheid - brutal laws that enforced discrimination against black people in every aspect of their lives. Separate land. Separate public transport. Separate schools.\n\nKolisi was there at Small's funeral. Williams' image was on the shirts his team wore for their World Cup opener against the All Blacks. In Kolisi's team, the legacy of that old generation is tangible.\n\nIn the starting XV that beat Wales in Sunday's semi-final there were six black players: wingers S'busiso Nkosi and Makazole Mapimpi, centre Lukhanyo Am, prop Tendai Mtawarira, hooker Bongi Mbonambi, and Kolisi. Of Rassie Erasmus's squad of 31, 11 are black.\n\nThe lesson of 1995 was that transformation is more complicated than a single iconic image. The challenge that lies for the next group of players and administrators will be to create a wider pathway from undernourished grassroots to the elite.\n\nPicking up occasional gems has worked. Kolisi made the jump. Mapimpi is also from the Eastern Cape, and did not go through the private school system. He still made it. There are other black kids, those who don't get the scholarships or find the eyes of a roving talent scout, who are still slipping through the net.\n\n\"If Mapimpi hadn't been in an area where rugby is strong and he was given the chance to play and be signed by other teams, the chances are we would never have seen him,\" says Shimange.\n\n\"It would have taken someone to go and scout him and spot the talent in him and then give him the chance to perform at the highest level.\n\n\"But we had generations of people who couldn't play for the Springboks, who weren't allowed to watch the Springboks, and now you have Siya running out there with his 15 men.\n\n\"Even the thought is incredible. It's why the most important person for the country for those 80 minutes on Saturday is going to be Siya Kolisi.\"\n\nBack in Zwide, preparations are ongoing for a weekend of World Cup parties. The tavern where the teenage Kolisi watched his first final will be open once again. The skipper is only 28, but already he is changing his old home forever.\n\n\"During the apartheid time, we could never look forward to a moment like this, because of our colour,\" says Freddie Makoki, president of Zwide United rugby club, who played with Kolisi's father and grandfather and watched the young Siya grow.\n\n\"We had so many players who could have captained the Springboks, but because of their colour they couldn't.\n\n\"Sport can bring people together in this country. There are places you can't walk at night, because of criminals. Sport is the only vehicle that can change that. If you take those boys and put them in sport it can change them and it can change our society.\n\n\"Siya has been an incredible role model for children here. Whenever he comes to visit you'll see the youngsters coming out to see him. Everyone in the townships wants to be closer to him.\n\n\"He is a son of our soil. If you could have seen how full the taverns were for the semi-final you would not believe it. All of these people are now supporting the Springboks.\n\n\"It makes me so proud to see him in the Springbok jersey, to see the crowds at the game, calling out 'Siya! Siya!'\n\n\"You can see it in the faces of the people of this country how much it meant to have Siya as captain. He is a true hero of modern South Africa.\"\n\nKolisi's father is flying out to Japan to watch the biggest game of his son's life. It is his first trip overseas.\n\nSo too is the country's president. Cyril Ramaphosa called Kolisi on FaceTime after the win over Wales. Now he is coming in person. Captains and presidents, politics and power.\n\n\"Siya has more responsibility than I did or Francois did because he represents more people,\" says Smit, who will also be in the Yokohama stadium, this time for SuperSport TV.\n\n\"Thanks to Madiba, Springbok rugby has been used almost in the opposite way to how it was used in the apartheid era. It's a team that has been able to bring people together. It's grown the country through its ability to win.\n\n\"That's the hard thing to explain to people outside South Africa - what a Springbok win in a World Cup has done in the past for unification, and us continuing on this road to democracy and a new pathway.\n\n\"That's how important this is. Siya's story about where he's come from shows how far the country has come.\"\n\nAnd so Kolisi carries that weight on his shoulders. Dreams and messy pasts, old heroes and deep-rooted struggles.\n\nOnly a game, but so much more too. Ghosts all around him, a new future ahead.\n\n\"I will be wearing my Springbok jersey,\" says 68-year-old Makoki, whose own career in the game was stunted by apartheid, who watched local heroes rise and fall short, who continues to nurse the sport in Zwide township.\n\n\"I'll be thinking about going to OR Tambo airport when they come back with that trophy. If I can be one of those people there to welcome them back I will be truly happy.\n\n\"When the Springboks won that World Cup in 1995, it brought South Africa together. But this would be more, because we have a lot of players who are knocking at the Springbok door. We'd have a lot more black players playing rugby again.\n\n\"I'm telling you! It will be more, it will be more.\n\n\"A black president and black captain, from a small town on the Eastern Cape. I'm telling you - that can save our country.\"", "A lucky koala has escaped an Australian bushfire in the state of New South Wales, amid fears that hundreds of the animals have been killed.\n\nNamed Corduroy Paul by rescuers, he's being treated in a specialist koala hospital and is said to be recovering well.", "A Scottish Conservative MP has described allegations about his behaviour in a House of Commons bar as \"completely false\".\n\nRoss Thomson was said to have been spoken to by police on Tuesday night after a report of \"sexual touching\".\n\nIn a statement released on Twitter, Mr Thomson said no complaint had been made to his party, the police or parliament.\n\nBut he said he had now referred himself to the Conservative Party's disciplinary panel.\n\nThe Aberdeen South MP said he had done so \"in the interests of openness and transparency\".\n\nHis statement added: \"A series of serious allegations have been made against me that have featured in the media.\n\n\"I would like to state that these allegations from anonymous sources are completely false.\"\n\nHe said the past few days had been \"a very distressing time for me and my family\", but stressed that he intends to be \"back at work on Monday\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday that its officers had been called \"to a bar within the Palace of Westminster following a report of sexual touching\".\n\nThe statement added: \"Officers attended and spoke to the parties involved - three men in their 20s and 30s. However, no formal allegations were made to the officers and no arrests were made.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told 31-year-old Mr Thomson was escorted from the Strangers' Bar following the incident.\n\nMr Thomson's alleged behaviour was described as being \"completely unacceptable\" by Scottish Conservative interim leader Jackson Carlaw on Thursday.\n\nMr Carlaw added: \"Inquiries are ongoing. However, I know enough to say that the alleged behaviour is completely unacceptable and falls well below the standard I think any of us would expect of any elected representative.\n\n\"We may have more to say at a later time.\"\n\nFollowing Mr Thomson's statement, a Scottish Conservative party spokesman said: \"The party's investigation process will now take this matter forward.\"", "The Reverend Simon Nguyen, who led the service, said the victims lost their lives \"seeking freedom, dignity and happiness\"\n\nServices have been held in memory of the 39 Vietnamese victims found dead in a lorry container in Essex.\n\nMore than 100 people attended the service at the Church of the Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in east London on Saturday evening.\n\nThe Reverend Simon Nguyen, who led the service, said the 39 died \"seeking freedom, dignity and happiness\".\n\nAt Mass on at the same church on Sunday Bishop Nicholas Hudson also asked for prayers for traffickers.\n\nIt was confirmed by police on Friday that all of those who were found were Vietnamese. Police had initially believed they were Chinese.\n\nCandles were arranged into a figure of 39 to represent the number who died\n\nAt the service on Saturday evening, prayers were heard and members of the Catholic congregation performed readings and candles were lit.\n\n\"We show our condolences and sympathies for the people who have lost their lives on the way seeking freedom, dignity and happiness,\" said Mr Nguyen.\n\n\"We ask God to welcome them into his kingdom even though some of them were not Catholic but they strongly believed in eternal peace, so we pray for them.\"\n\nAfter the service he said: \"The people here are very united because we are all refugees.\n\n\"All the people here - most of the Vietnamese - came here as refugees in the '70s and the '80s and the '90s.\"\n\nThe Catholic church in East London has a large Vietnamese congregation\n\nHe said in those decades, the disappearances of people from Vietnam were \"not reported by the media, but many of them died\".\n\n\"These victims [who died in the lorry last month], this tragedy, was reported but many tragedies to the Vietnamese no-one [knows about],\" he said.\n\nA memorial Mass on Sunday began with a projection of the trailer containing the bodies being removed from the industrial estate.\n\nAfter a minute's silence, Bishop Hudson said the service was to pray for the relations of congregation members who could be among the dead.\n\nHe also asked for prayers for the emergency service staff who attended the scene.\n\nBishop Hudson also sought prayers for traffickers, who he hoped \"as a result of this tragedy may have had a change of heart\".\n\nAbout 7% of Vietnam's population class themselves as Catholic, although the figure is higher in the area of the country where many of the missing people come from.\n\nIn the past some Catholics have had a fractious relationship with Vietnam's communist government.\n\nPham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong's families are concerned they may be among the victims\n\nEssex Police said it was now in \"direct contact with a number of families in Vietnam and the UK\" and the Vietnamese Government.\n\nA number of Vietnamese families have previously come forward fearing their loved ones are among the dead.\n\nPham Thi Tra My, 26, sent her family a message on the night of 22 October - the day before the 39 people were found dead - saying her \"trip to a foreign land has failed\".\n\nThe father of 30-year-old Le Van Ha, who comes from an agricultural part of Vietnam, previously told the BBC he was convinced his son was among the dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations are being carried out on the 31 men and eight women to establish the cause of their deaths.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the lorry trailer in the early hours of 23 October\n\nThe driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson, from Northern Ireland, appeared in court on Monday charged with a string of offences, including 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nExtradition proceedings have also begun against 22-year-old Eamonn Harrison, who was arrested in Dublin on a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nPolice are also seeking two brothers from Northern Ireland, Ronan and Christopher Hughes, who are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.\n\nDo you have any information about the incident? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFive people have been injured in a knife attack at the site of a pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong.\n\nThe attack happened at the Cityplaza mall in the Tai Koo district on Hong Kong Island.\n\nThe local hospital authority said four men and one woman were injured, with two in critical condition.\n\nOne of the injured, a local councillor, had his ear partially bitten off by the as-yet unidentified male attacker, who was subdued by passersby in the mall.\n\nWitnesses said the Mandarin-speaking attacker drew a knife after a political argument with people in the mall, which was the site of pro-democracy protests earlier in the day.\n\nThe local councillor, Andrew Chiu Ka-yin, reportedly was attempting to prevent the attacker leaving the scene when the man bit off a section of his ear. Witnesses said the attacker was badly beaten by passersby who intervened, before police arrested the man.\n\nAndrew Chiu Ka-yin receives first aid after he was attacked on Sunday\n\nOne of the victims, a woman, told the South China Morning Post that the suspect drew a knife after arguing with her sister and her husband, who were also injured. The Hong Kong Free Press reported that that attacker was a Mandarin-speaking pro-Beijing supporter.\n\nHong Kong has experienced five months of sometimes violent demonstrations by pro-democracy activists, who first took to the streets to protest against a bill that would have allowed extradition to mainland China, but evolved into a broader revolt against the way Hong Kong is administered by Beijing.\n\nThe wave of pro-democracy protests continued this weekend, days after a high-profile activist, Joshua Wong, was banned from standing in local elections. Police fired tear gas on Sunday into crowds of demonstrators in the eastern suburb of Taikoo Shing, home to the Cityplaza where the stabbing occurred.\n\nWith no end in sight, China's leaders signalled last week that they were preparing to change how the mainland administered Hong Kong.\n\nShen Chunyao, the director of the Hong Kong, Macau and Basic Law Commission, told reporters that officials were looking at ways to \"perfect\" how Hong Kong's chief executive was appointed and removed. He did not elaborate on what exactly might change.\n\nLast month, the leader of one of Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy groups was taken to hospital after being attacked, apparently with hammers. Photographs on social media showed Jimmy Sham of the Civil Human Rights Front lying in the street, covered in blood.\n\nFrom hospital, the activist said he \"remained committed to the ideal of peaceful non-violence\".\n\nImages and footage of the incident spread quickly around social media platforms. The man who did the biting was subdued by a crowd, which then beat him, some using metal objects.\n\nThat is was all happening in a shopping centre being stormed by riot police in pursuit of protestors who were earlier singing and chanting made it even more intense. A small group of hardcore activists had also smashed up shops whose owners they judged to be too \"pro-Beijing\".\n\nI watched the footage on a television in a small restaurant in Hong Kong. Halfway through the report, the woman running the place turned and walked away from the screen. \"This is all too depressing,\" she said in Chinese.", "The freeze in benefit payments is to come to an end next year, the government has confirmed.\n\nWorking-age benefits such as universal credit and jobseeker's allowance will rise by 1.7% from April 2020, the Department for Work and Pensions said.\n\nIt ends former Tory chancellor George Osborne's decision to introduce a freeze from April 2016.\n\nLabour called it a \"cynically-timed\" announcement ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said the move will be seen by some as an election pitch to poorer Leave-backing areas.\n\nOur correspondent added it follows a raft of other spending commitments made by Boris Johnson since he became prime minister, including funding for the NHS, schools and police.\n\nThe benefits freeze - announced in the 2015 Budget - was intended to last until the end of the current financial year.\n\nFormer chancellor Philip Hammond said in March that the freeze would end as planned and that the then administration had \"no intention of repeating the current freeze\".\n\nHe added: \"When it is over, increases in benefits will resume in line with [the CPI rate of inflation] in the normal way.\"\n\nRather than increasing each year in line with inflation - to reflect the rising cost of living - most working-age benefits and tax credits have been kept at the same value for more than four years, having last risen in April 2015.\n\nGroups such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have argued that this has been among the biggest factors in exacerbating poverty levels among working families with children.\n\nOther benefits that have been frozen but are now set to rise, by inflation, are: Employment and support allowance, income support, housing benefit, child tax credits, working tax credits and child benefit.\n\nSome of these are legacy benefits, which are being replaced by universal credit.\n\nThe government also said the state pension - which has not been frozen because of the so-called triple lock - will increase by 3.9%.\n\nDisability benefits and carer's allowance, which have not been subject to the freeze, will also increase by 1.7% next year.\n\nThe increase in benefits is expected to cost £5bn; ministers say the decision to end the freeze will help 10 million people.\n\nThe benefit freeze has cut an average of £560 per year from the income of the country's poorest seven million families since 2016, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. That's more than £2,000 of lost income those families have had to cope with, and the end of the freeze next April doesn't reverse what amounts to a 6% cut in real terms in their income.\n\nAnd remember, some of those families have experienced earlier benefit cuts too, so they'll have been struggling even more.\n\nA few more quid each week will undoubtedly help, but next April's long-planned increase needs further context.\n\nPensions will rise at more than double the rate than working age benefits will increase, despite more children living in poverty than older people. And restricting the benefits paid to families who have more than two children will also contribute to rising levels of child poverty, according to the Resolution Foundation.\n\nAnd for those who say, \"well they should just get a job\", bear in mind that in-work poverty is the fastest-rising category of poverty in the UK. Having a job is not a guarantee of not being poor.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said: \"We're clear the best way for people to improve their lives is through work, but we know some people require additional support.\n\n\"Our balanced fiscal approach has built a strong economy, with 3.6 million more people in work since 2010. And it's that strong economy which allows us to bolster the welfare safety net by increasing benefit payments for working-age claimants now.\"\n\nLabour, which is promising to scrap universal credit in a revamp of the benefits system, pointed out the freeze would remain in place for a number of months yet.\n\nAdam Corlett, senior economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation, a think tank focusing on people on lower incomes, described the announcement as a \"missed opportunity\" that would not increase living standards.\n\n\"The benefit freeze was always due to end next year. The government's confirmation that working-age benefits will only keep pace with rising prices means there will be no increase in living standards, and those in need of extra support will continue to be left behind,\" he said.\n\n\"With child poverty at risk of hitting record highs, this is a missed opportunity to provide a much-needed boost for low to middle income families.\"\n\nThe announcement comes as a committee of MPs warned the government's policy of limiting welfare benefits to two children must be scrapped because it forces families to stretch \"frozen and capped\" incomes to \"breaking point\".\n\nThe Work and Pensions Select Committee said the government had not offered evidence to counter forecasts that the policy will \"significantly increase\" child poverty.\n\nThe two-child limit means that in families where there are already two or more children, the child element in universal credit and tax credits - worth £2,780 per child per year - is restricted to the first two children. It applies to children born after 6 April 2017.\n\nAs well as the two-child limit, there also remains a cap on the total amount of benefits one household can claim. The cap was lowered in 2016, further cutting the amount of benefits some people received.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has proposed that private car park operators are obliged to give drivers a 10-minute grace period after their tickets expire before issuing fines.\n\nLocal Government Secretary Robert Jenrick said he wants a compulsory code of practice for the industry to \"restore common sense\" to the issuing of parking fines and \"crackdown on dodgy operators\" in England, Scotland and Wales.", "Lewis Hamilton sealed his sixth world drivers' title with second place in the United States Grand Prix.\n\nHe becomes the second most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, one championship behind Michael Schumacher.\n\nHamilton failed in a valiant attempt to win the race by trying a different strategy to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas, but that did not matter such was his points advantage.\n\nThe Briton held off Max Verstappen for second as Bottas won in Austin.\n\nHamilton had said before the race that he was not thinking of sealing the championship in Texas, only of winning the race, and he drove with the fierce competitive instinct that has defined his season and career.\n• None Is Hamilton already the greatest?\n• None How well do you know the six-time world champion?\n\nHis decision to run long, do a single pit stop and try to hold off his rivals at the end did not quite work out - Bottas passed him with three laps to go - but it was a drive befitting the towering achievement he was to secure at the end of the race.\n\nHamilton's sixth title has also moved him clear of the legendary Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio.\n\n\"It's just overwhelming,\" he said. \"It was such a tough race. Yesterday was a tough day. I really just wanted recover and deliver the one-two. I didn't think the one-stop was going to be possible. I am filled with so much emotion. It is an honour to be up there with those greats.\n\n\"My dad told me when I was six or seven years old to never give up. I was hopeful I might be able to win but I didn't have it in the tyres.\"\n\nAsked what he could go on to achieve in his career, Hamilton said: \"I don't know about championships but as an athlete I feel fresh as can be. We won't let up, we'll keep pushing.\"\n\nHamilton has secured the championship with 10 victories out of the 19 races held so far this season, with two remaining in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.\n\nStarting fifth on the grid after a poor qualifying session, Hamilton passed Ferrari's Charles Leclerc for fourth at the first corner, and then made a brilliant overtaking move on the other Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel around the outside of Turn Eight, to run third behind Bottas and Verstappen at the end of the first lap.\n\nVictory seemed at least a possibility for Hamilton, even given Mercedes' usual approach of favouring the lead driver to ensure a race victory.\n\nAnd Hamilton decided to give it a go by staying out when Red Bull pitted Verstappen on lap 13, and Mercedes followed suit with Bottas a lap later to retain the lead, their stops locking both into a two-stop strategy.\n\nHamilton's task was now to run as long as possible on his tyres before his single stop and hope to have enough life left in his tyres when he rejoined to be able to defend.\n\nHamilton stopped finally on lap 24, giving him 32 laps to make it to the end on a set of hard tyres on a day when the rubber was wearing at a much higher rate than expected.\n\nBottas made his second stop on lap 25, one after Verstappen, and rejoined six seconds behind Hamilton, a gap he had 20 laps to recover.\n\nIt looked as if it would be easy, but Hamilton drove with control and skill to limit his losses, and it was not until the last five laps that Bottas was with his team-mate.\n\nOne passing attempt at Turn 12 failed on lap 51, when Hamilton ran Bottas wide on his outside.\n\nBut a lap later, after Hamilton had been delayed by lapping Pierre Gasly's Toro Rosso, Bottas used the DRS overtaking aid to ease past on the long back straight.\n\nHamilton's hopes of victory were gone, but the title was still secure, and he had four laps left to defend against Verstappen, which he managed to do with help from a yellow flag that forced Verstappen to slow down, as the Red Bull finished on his tail.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc took a lonely fourth, the Italian car a long way off the pace, while Vettel retired from seventh place, after a sticky opening to the race, with a suspension failure after just eight laps.\n\nRed Bull's Alex Albon recovered from a first-lap pit stop following a clash with McLaren's Carlos Sainz at the first corner to take fifth, ahead of Renault's Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren's Lando Norris and Sainz.\n\nWhat they said\n\nBottas, who went into the race with the faintest hopes of keeping the championship alive for another race, said: \"Obviously big congrats to him. I personally failed with my target this year but he deserved it this year. He had some season.\"\n\nVerstappen added: \"Very impressive. what else to say? He is doing phenomenally. He has a great team behind him. I just hope we can challenge them next year.\"\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nBrazil in two weeks' time. A historic race track in a fervent atmosphere and an edgy city. Nothing at stake, just a battle for honour.", "Despite the hefty price tag, the bidder decided the outfit was the one that they wanted\n\nThe black leather jacket and skin-tight trousers that Olivia Newton-John wore for the finale of Grease have fetched $405,700 (£314,000) at auction - more than double the expected bid.\n\nThe actress' original script from the film was also among the items at the sale in Beverly Hills, California, which in total raised $2.4m.\n\nSome of the proceeds will go towards Newton-John's cancer treatment centre in Australia.\n\nThe buyers' identities are not public.\n\nGrease was released in 1978 and Olivia Newton-John played demure Sandy alongside John Travolta as bad boy Danny.\n\nThe infamous black outfit marked Sandy's transition from a good girl high-schooler to a sexy, leather-clad biker chick, when the couple sang You're the One That I Want in a fairground.\n\nThe original trousers were made in the 1950's\n\nThe leather trousers were already two decades old when she wore them and had a broken zip that meant Newton-John had to be sewn into them.\n\nShe said that \"limited\" what she could eat and drink while filming, adding \"those were long days\".\n\nThe pink gown she wore to the film's premiere sold for $18,750, Julien's Auctions confirmed - three times the estimate.\n\nNewton-John has asked buyers to send her photos of themselves with the items along with a personal note.\n\nShe said selling a large amount of her possessions was a \"simplification of my life\".\n\nAged 71, the British born Australian actor is currently undergoing treatment for stage four breast cancer.\n\nShe was previously diagnosed with the disease in 1992 and 2013 and has opened up about using medicinal marijuana along with other natural remedies for the disease.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olivia Newton-John: \"I'm not going to be a victim\"", "The Caernarfon Show has been taking place since the late 19th Century\n\nMore volunteers are needed to protect the future of small farm shows across the country, a chairman of one meeting has claimed.\n\nShows such as the North Wales Show in Caernarfon are struggling, with a 30-strong team of volunteers down to just six in recent years.\n\nSince the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001, five shows in Gwynedd have either folded or merged.\n\nThis year's show was cancelled over equine flu fears.\n\nThe Caernarfon show's chairman, Peter Rutherford, said it was getting \"tougher\" each year.\n\n\"The committee is very concerned that there's a lack of a new generation of young people to come forward and take over our different roles within the committee,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not just our show - there's many shows throughout Britain that are facing the same issues.\n\n\"As we get older we want to retire, some of us have been at it a very long time and it's very difficult to get replacement people to join the committee and run these particular sections, and it's very important for the farming calendar that the shows maintain their momentum.\"\n\nPeter Rutherford says more young farmers are needed to help keep the shows running\n\nShows in Pontllyfni, Pwllheli, Eifionydd, Criccieth and Trefor have all folded or merged since 2001, leaving the Caernarfon show and one in Nefyn on the Llyn Peninsula.\n\nMr Rutherford said some farmers preferred to travel to larger agricultural gatherings, and tight regulations - such as isolating cattle from the rest of their herd for a week after the meeting - can put people off.\n\n\"Possibly we need to have better communication with the young people, it's something that we'll be looking at to see if we can improve that,\" he said.\n\n\"But it would be very nice if people could come to us as well and embrace them and hopefully we will take it forward.\"", "Stephen Morris was handed back his violin in a Waitrose car park\n\nA 310-year-old violin worth £250,000 that was left on a train in south London has been returned to its owner.\n\nThe instrument was handed over to professional musician Stephen Morris in a supermarket car park in Beckenham after secret negotiations.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers attended in case the handover went wrong, as the man who had the violin said he had made a mistake and apologised.\n\nMr Morris said having the violin back had not yet \"sunk in\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Morris on the \"shock\" of getting back his violin\n\n\"I feel a bit battered and bruised,\" he said. \"I haven't had a great deal of sleep since it went missing,\" adding that he would have a beer to celebrate.\n\nThe violin, which was made by master craftsman David Tecchler in 1709, was left on the London to Orpington train on 22 October when Mr Morris got out at Penge East with his bike.\n\nStephen Morris had said losing the instrument was like \"having my arm cut off\"\n\nThe 51-year-old from Sydenham, who has played on film scores including The Lord of the Rings and James Bond and recorded with David Bowie and Steve Wonder, was distraught.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) later released a CCTV image of a man believed to have taken the violin as the train approached Bromley South and asked him to get in touch, sparking appeals on social media.\n\nThe violin, pictured here, had recently been restored\n\nThe breakthrough came on Thursday when Mr Morris received a direct Twitter message, which read: \"I recognise the person in the picture. I think it may be somebody I know - I'd like to be of help. I know what it's like to leave valuables on a train.\"\n\nOver the next 24 hours further contact was made with the person who had sent the message - it's suspected that he was in fact the individual who had taken the violin.\n\nCalling himself \"Gene\", which was not his real name, the man agreed to meet Mr Morris on Friday evening at a Waitrose car park near Beckenham train station.\n\nIn an operation co-ordinated by the musician's friend and former police officer, Mike Pannett, a team of plain-clothes officers were placed on stand-by.\n\n\"Mike was the engine room for the whole thing,\" said Mr Morris.\n\nThe violin is marked with Tecchler's name\n\nShortly after 22:10 BST, the police team watched as \"Gene\", in his mid to late 20s, approached Mr Morris, shook his hand and transferred a holdall containing the violin.\n\n\"He was very apologetic, he said he wanted to hand it to me in person,\" he said.\n\nThe violin and bows were intact and \"in tune\".\n\n\"It couldn't have ended in a happier way,\" Mr Morris said\n\nBTP said it would be taking no further action against the man because he had taken reasonable steps to contact the violin owner and had handed it back.\n\nDet Ch Insp Phil Briggs said the message from the start had been \"please return it\".\n\n\"It was a gentlemanly exchange with the victim,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson is facing renewed calls to release a report assessing the threat posed by Russia to the UK's democratic processes.\n\nFormer attorney general Dominic Grieve said its release was vital ahead of the general election because it contained information relevant to voters.\n\nMr Grieve, chairman of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, has accused the PM of sitting on the report ahead of the 12 December poll.\n\nThe report was finalised in March 2019.\n\nCompiled by the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, it includes evidence from UK intelligence services concerning Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nThe process for clearing it on security grounds was completed in the middle of October, but it has since been with Downing Street for final release.\n\nMr Grieve - who sits as an independent MP for Beaconsfield after losing the Conservative whip - said the usual 10-day wait for release has passed, and if it is not published before Parliament dissolves on Tuesday it will not be published at all.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I cannot think of a reason why he should wish to prevent this report being published.\n\n\"It's very demoralising for us when we find we put in months of work and at the end of it we're not getting an adequate response.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was not aware of any hold-up. Speaking on the Today programme, she added: \"I don't think there's anything unusual about this.\n\n\"Many select committee reports are produced and the government has to respond properly, it cannot respond in haste.\"\n\nDominic Grieve says the report contains information \"germane\" to voters\n\nIt is understood Mr Grieve had been hoping to publish the report on 28 October.\n\nThe committee heard evidence from UK intelligence agencies such as GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 about Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 EU referendum and the 2017 general election.\n\nPrevious disclosures would suggest these Russian activities did not match the scale of those directed against the 2016 US presidential election, and even in that case, there is considerable debate about how far people were actually influenced by these actions.\n\nAsked if there is useful information in the report for voters, Mr Grieve said: \"Yes I think there is. It's about information.\n\n\"I want to emphasise I'm not about to explain what's in the report, I'm not allowed to and I wouldn't dream of doing so.\n\n\"But the report is informative and people are entitled to information. It seems to us that this report is germane because we do know and I think it is widely accepted that the Russians have sought to interfere in other countries' democratic processes in the past.\"\n\nExtensive evidence has been unearthed of Russian interference in US politics thanks to investigations like the Mueller inquiry, but less has emerged when it comes to UK elections, including the Brexit referendum.\n\nAnd that is one reason why this report, simply entitled Russia has been so anticipated.\n\nHow much evidence is there? It may be less than some hope but more than others expect.\n\nThe committee's investigation is set against the wider challenge posed by Russian espionage and subversion directed against the West - which can range from cyber-hacking through social media activity to covert influence through individuals.\n\nThis could potentially mean it treads on sensitive areas politically, but those who want to see the report released believe it is vital for the public to have an informed understanding of what Moscow and its agents are really up to as the UK heads to the polls.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn echoed Mr Grieve's call for the publication of the report, asking what the government \"have got to hide\".\n\n\"Yes it should be released,\" he said on Saturday.\n\n\"And I suspect that the reason it hasn't been published is because they're going to delay it past the dissolution of Parliament on Tuesday and then they can hide it away until some point in the future.\n\n\"If a report has been called for and written, and it should be in the public domain, then what have they got to hide?\"\n\nDuring a campaign visit in Kensington, west London, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson called allegations of Russian meddling in British politics \"deeply worrying\".\n\nShe said Mr Grieve's stressing it should be published had given her \"cause for concern that the government is deliberately hiding it\".\n\nShe added that it \"would be relevant heading into an election that the report is in the public domain\".", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died when a car hit a pub in Essex.\n\nPolice said a 36-year-old man died when the white Nissan Qashqai hit the Spinnaker Inn in Hythe Quay, Colchester, at about 00:30 GMT.\n\nThree others who had been at the pub were taken to hospital, including a man who has life-changing injuries.\n\nThe 40-year-old man is also being held on suspicion of grievous bodily harm, death by dangerous driving and assault.\n\nPolice urged anyone with dashcam and mobile phone footage of the crash to contact them\n\nPolice said the seriously injured 34-year-old man was taken to hospital, along with a 34-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man who both had minor injuries.\n\nOfficers urged anyone who saw a white Nissan Qashqai before the crash to contact them, along with anyone in the pub who they have not spoken to.\n\nThey are also appealing for dashcam and mobile phone footage.\n\nThe road was closed for seven hours and reopened at 09:00.\n\nOne man said that his friend was taken to hospital by helicopter with two broken legs, two broken hips and possibly a broken sternum.\n\nHe added: \"He has injuries from the waist down, and someone was saying maybe head injuries, but I'm waiting for updates at the moment.\n\n\"He was with a group of about four people.\"\n\nThe car has destroyed a wooden fence attached to the pub, which is the seating area for smokers.\n\nYou can see it has hit the brickwork as well.\n\nMandeep Sandhu lives close by and says the area is a residential area popular with students and the pub is busy, especially on a Sunday.\n\n\"I went to sleep at about 23:00, all of a sudden, about an hour or two later, we heard a massive bang.\n\n\"Because it was Halloween and Guy Fawkes, we put it down to fireworks. We didn't think anything of it and went back to sleep,\" he said.\n\n\"Then we woke up to this kind of carnage, it's bad.\"\n\nHe said he believed the pub was not as packed as normal as many people were possibly at parties elsewhere, so \"it could have been a lot worse\".\n\nMandeep Sandhu said he heard a \"massive bang\" during the night\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has made a series of spending promises both before and after becoming prime minister. How much would all of this cost?\n\nThe plan: Immediate funds to help prepare the UK for a possible no-deal Brexit on 31 October.\n\nWhat it means: Just over a week after Mr Johnson become prime minister, the Treasury announced that £2.1bn would be spent bolstering border and customs operations, stockpiling critical medical supplies and supporting UK nationals abroad. Money will also be spent on a public awareness campaign ahead of a possible no-deal Brexit outcome.\n\nThe cost: Ramping up no deal preparations will cost £2.1bn. This is on top of the £4.2bn Theresa May's previous government had already allocated on preparing for Brexit - with or without a deal.\n\nIn total, the Treasury has now made £6.3bn available since 2016.\n\nToday I’m delivering on this promise with a £1.8bn cash injection – meaning more beds, new wards, and extra life-saving equipment.\n\nThe plan: £1.85bn for upgrades and new equipment at hospitals in England.\n\nWhat it means: The funding is divided into two parts - £1bn will be available immediately to fund existing upgrade projects and tackle urgent needs.\n\nThe Nuffield Trust has argued that this £1bn is money that NHS providers were promised in return for making savings over the past three years and then told they couldn't spend.\n\nBut it is nonetheless a pot of money that the NHS did not have available to spend before this announcement, which it now can spend.\n\nThe other £850m will be shared over the next five years between 20 hospitals in England to fund things like a new adult mental health inpatient unit in Manchester and four new hospital wards in Norwich.\n\nThe cost: Successive governments have failed to spend the amount they said they would on capital projects, but if this government does manage to spend the full £1.85bn over five years, the Barnett formula would also require it to allocate £180m for Scotland, £110m for Wales and £60m for Northern Ireland, taking the total to £2.2bn.\n\nMy job is to make your streets safer – and we are going to begin with another 20,000 police on the streets\n\nThe plan: Hire an extra 20,000 police officers by 2022.\n\nWhat it means: There are 122,000 police officers in England and Wales, down from 143,000 in 2010 when Theresa May became home secretary.\n\nMr Johnson repeated in Downing Street his plan to reverse almost all of those cuts.\n\nThere has been some dispute about the link between police numbers and levels of violent crime, with Theresa May saying there was not a direct link.\n\nBut Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said there is \"some link\" between the two.\n\nThe cost: Mr Johnson has given a figure of £1.1bn.\n\nFor police officers outside London, the lowest pay was about £25,400 in 2016 (although this differs from force to force).\n\nThat comes to £500m a year but these costs will increase once they complete training, which takes about two years.\n\nTypically, after four years, the pay will increase to £33,700 (again outside London) - so almost £700m but this doesn't account for training costs.\n\nThe Nottinghamshire police force estimated recruitment and training to be about £13,000 per officer in 2012 (not including salary received during training).\n\nThis would come in at about £258m for 20,000 new officers but again this would differ from force to force.\n\nConservative MP Kit Malthouse, who supports Mr Johnson, says part-time special constables, who already have police training, would be recruited to become police officers, to help alleviate training costs.\n\nBy the end of the programme in the mid-2020s we'll have delivered about 13,500 extra prison places.\n\nThe plan: Create an extra 10,000 prison places in England and Wales.\n\nWhat it means: Michael Gove announced the building of 10,000 new prison places in 2015 and it was a commitment in the Conservative Party's manifesto for the 2017 election.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has now told BBC News that the government is only planning to create about 3,500 of those and that the extra 10,000 will start from now - so about 6,500 of the previously announced places have clearly been scrapped.\n\n\"By the end of the programme in the mid-2020s we'll have delivered about 13,500 extra prison places,\" he said.\n\nThe first new prison will be built at HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire where there is already a maximum security prison. The new prison at Full Sutton was previously announced in 2017.\n\nThe cost: The programme is supposed to cost \"up to £2.5bn\" by the mid-2020s. That's the cost of building or refurbishing cells, not the ongoing cost of running them, which has not yet been announced.\n\nThe justice secretary maintains that \"this is new money\", but it is not clear how much of the £1.3bn previously allocated to building 10,000 new prison places has been spent so far.\n\nIf £2.5bn is actually spent then under the Barnett formula about an extra £300m would need to be allocated to Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nSafer streets and better education and fantastic new road and rail infrastructure and full-fibre broadband\n\nThe plan: It is currently government policy to have full-fibre broadband across the UK by 2033 - Mr Johnson says he will have it done by 2025.\n\nWhat it means: Having full-fibre broadband means getting high-speed optical cables going into buildings so there is no use of copper cables.\n\nThe telecoms regulator Ofcom said that in May only 7% of UK properties had full-fibre broadband.\n\nIncreasing that to 100% in six years would be a big project and there has been no detail so far of how Mr Johnson plans to do it.\n\nThe cost: Mr Johnson has said that government money would be needed to make this happen but has not specified how much.\n\nCommercial operators could be expected to fund this work in densely populated areas where they could expect to get a decent rate of return. But in more remote areas, there may have to be government subsidies.\n\nThe government's current plan estimates that getting full-fibre broadband to the most remote 10% of properties will require it to spend between £3bn and £5bn - it is reasonable to assume that doing it in six years instead of 14 years would increase that cost.\n\nFigures of about £30bn have been cited but it is not clear how much of that would be government money and how much would come from commercial investment.\n\nWe are going to level up per pupil funding in primary and secondary schools\n\nThe plan: Level up per pupil funding in primary and secondary schools in England\n\nWhat it means: Mr Johnson wants to make sure per pupil funding is at least £5,000 in secondary schools across the country.\n\nHe also said he wanted to increase funding in primary schools.\n\nAnd there were hints during the leadership campaign that he would reverse previous cuts to school spending, which would be considerably more expensive.\n\nMPs on the education select committee said that \"a multi-billion cash injection\" was needed.\n\nThe cost: Taking per pupil funding to £5,000 in secondary schools would be relatively cheap - about £50m a year.\n\nReversing previous cuts to spending was estimated during the campaign to cost about £4.6bn, although teaching unions have said that schools need an extra £12.6bn.\n\nWe should be raising thresholds of income tax – so that we help the huge numbers that have been captured in the higher rate by fiscal drag\n\nThe plan: Raise the higher income tax rate from £50,000 to £80,000.\n\nWhat it means: At the moment, individuals have to pay 40% income tax on any earnings above £50,000. So, a person earning £55,000 a year, pays 40% on £5,000.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's plan - outlined during the leadership campaign but not set out in detail since - the point at which the 40% higher rate kicks in would be raised to £80,000. This would not benefit Scottish workers because the Scottish government sets its own income tax rates and bands.\n\nMr Johnson also wants to raise the point at which people start paying National Insurance, absorbing some of the cost by also raising the point at which they stop paying NI.\n\nNational Insurance is a separate tax. It's paid for by workers and companies and is meant to fund state benefits, such as the NHS.\n\nUnder this new tax regime, someone earning £60,000 a year could benefit by £1,000 a year, while someone on £80,000 or more would gain a maximum of £3,000 (because some of the benefits would be lost because of National Insurance increases).\n\nBut it's wealthy pensioners who stand to benefit the most - up to £6,000 each, according to analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). That's because pensioners don't pay National Insurance to begin with.\n\nSo, if someone already receives a generous work pension, not only would they be subject to less income tax (up to the new threshold), they also would not be affected by the changes to National Insurance.\n\nThe cost: Changing the tax system in this way would cost about £10bn a year, according to Mr Johnson. He says the bill could be funded from £26.6bn of \"fiscal headroom\".\n\nThis \"headroom\" refers to government borrowing, which came in lower than originally expected and had been earmarked by the chancellor for no-deal Brexit planning.\n\nHowever, if Mr Johnson chooses to fund his tax changes with this £26.6bn, it would not amount to a permanent solution. That's because the money can be spent once only.\n\nSo, to pay for the policy in the long term, Mr Johnson would need to raise taxes elsewhere, announce spending cuts or continue to fund it from government borrowing.\n\nEvery time corporation tax has been cut in this country it has produced more revenue\n\nThe plan: Mr Johnson has spoken favourably about cutting corporation tax but has not been specific about how much he would like to cut it by.\n\nWhat it means: The corporation tax rate, which is the tax companies pay on their profits, has been cut from 28% in 2010 to the current rate of 19%. It is due to fall again, to 17%, next year.\n\nWhile the other candidate in the leadership election, Jeremy Hunt, wanted to cut the rate further to 12.5%, Mr Johnson was not as specific.\n\nThe cost: Mr Johnson claimed at a hustings in Darlington that every time corporation tax has been cut in this country, the amount of revenue raised has increased.\n\nThat is not the case. While there have been occasions since 2010 when corporation tax has been cut and revenue has risen, in the years after the rate was cut in 2008, revenue fell.\n\nThe government currently estimates that an extra one percentage point cut in corporation tax would cost £3.1bn in 2022-23.\n\nIn the longer term, some of that money would be clawed back in extra investment, wages or consumption.", "Mr Thomson has insisted the allegations were \"politically motivated smears\"\n\nScottish Conservative MP Ross Thomson is to stand down after being accused of sexually assaulting a Labour MP in a Commons bar.\n\nMr Thomson said he had made the \"hardest decision of my life\" not to contest the seat for Aberdeen South at the general election.\n\nLabour MP Paul Sweeney had said he reported Mr Thomson to Westminster's standards watchdog following the alleged incident last October.\n\nBut he said a number of \"anonymous and malicious allegations\" this year had made his life \"a living hell\".\n\nMr Thomson, 32, said: \"This is a political smear and I will continue to fight to clear my name. I will see this investigatory process through to a conclusion.\n\n\"I have suffered a level of personal abuse that has affected my health, my mental wellbeing and my staff. It has been a level of abuse that I never imagined possible.\"\n\nMr Sweeney said he was with a group of friends in the Commons bar when the incident happened\n\nHe added: \"I have therefore made the most difficult decision that I could ever make. I have decided that I will stand down as the Scottish Conservative and Unionist candidate for Aberdeen South.\"\n\nMr Sweeney, who is the MP for Glasgow North East, told the Scottish Mail on Sunday he was left feeling \"mortified\" by the alleged attack in the Strangers' Bar at Westminster.\n\nAccording to the paper, Mr Sweeney said he was \"paralysed\" with shock after Mr Thomson \"groped\" him in the bar.\n\nHe said the alleged incident took place in October 2018 after he had invited a group of his old Glasgow University friends for a tour of the Commons.\n\nThey later went to the Strangers' Bar for a drink where he claims they were interrupted by Mr Thomson, who was \"drunk to the point where he was barely able to stand up\".\n\nMr Thomson then allegedly grabbed at Mr Sweeney through his clothes.\n\nMr Sweeney said he repeatedly told Mr Thomson to stop touching him and asked him to leave.\n\nThe Labour MP said that he later asked for advice from the Women's Aid charity before approaching the Standards watchdog.\n\nA House of Commons spokeswoman said: \"Parliament's Independent Complaints and Grievances Scheme (ICGS) operates on the basis of absolute confidentiality.\n\n\"Therefore we cannot provide answers about any complaint that may or may not have been made.\"\n\nMr Thomson said dealing with the allegations had been \"nothing short of traumatic\"\n\nIn February, Mr Thomson was publicly accused of groping a man in the same Commons bar. The Tory MP also strongly denies any wrongdoing relating to that alleged incident.\n\nMr Sweeney said he was finally speaking out in public more than a year after the alleged assault because the investigations had \"barely progressed\".\n\nA spokesman for the MP said: \"This assault, which took place last October, was reported to the appropriate authorities after similar but entirely separate allegations were made by other men against Ross Thomson in February.\n\n\"Thomson's denials today fly in the face of what was witnessed by other MPs and visitors and show him to be utterly unrepentant.\"\n\nMr Thomson had issued a statement on Twitter on Sunday morning in which he strenuously denied Mr Sweeney's allegations, but insisted he would be a Tory candidate in the 12 December general election.\n\nHowever, he later confirmed he was standing down from the job he \"loved more than any other\".\n\nMr Thomson, who has been an MP since 2017, said: \"I always believed politics was about noble pursuits and doing what you believed to be best for your country.\n\n\"My experience is that our politics is now so poisonous that we will never attract good, honest and decent people in the first place.\n\n\"This has been without doubt the hardest decision of my life. I remain confident that the ongoing parliamentary standards process will find in my favour, and that these baseless claims will be shown up for what they are.\n\n\"As I have already said I will continue to explore all options available to me in response to the defamatory and damaging allegations made by Mr Sweeney.\"", "Yoga's popularity does not look like it will wane any time soon.\n\nIts physical benefits for flexibility and balance, as well as its spiritual connection, mean it's practised by millions across the world.\n\nAnd that means a need for more and more yoga teachers.\n\nBut now, there is a warning they may be putting their own hip health at risk.\n\nBenoy Matthews, a leading UK-based physiotherapist, warns he is seeing increasing numbers of yoga teachers with serious hip problems - many of whom require surgery - because they are pushing their bodies too hard.\n\nMr Matthews, a specialist hip and knee physiotherapist and member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, says he sees four to five yoga teachers a month.\n\nHe says the problem lies in people repeatedly pushing their bodies into \"prescribed\" positions, when their physiology prevents it.\n\nAbout half of the teachers he sees simply need advice on how to moderate the \"prescribed\" yoga positions, so as not to put too much stress on their joints.\n\nBut those with more advanced problems need medical treatment and surgery - including total hip replacements.\n\n\"People confuse stiffness and pain,\" he says. \"If there is a pinching or blocking feeling in the groin, it shouldn't be ignored. You have to know your limits.\"\n\nMr Matthews has specialised in hips and knees for the last eight of his 22 years as a physio.\n\nHe says it can be easy for yoga practitioners to mistake joint pain, which means they should stop the movement, for stiffness, which they should push through.\n\nBenoy Matthews says the key is simply to understand what your body can do\n\n\"We all know about the health benefits of yoga - I practise it myself,\" he says. \"But, like anything, it can cause injury. We can't put it on a pedestal.\n\n\"I don't want to denounce yoga, after all it's been going for thousands of years. But you have to understand yourself.\"\n\nMr Matthews says the problem often boils down to how a person's hips are formed and how flexible they are.\n\n\"What's achievable for one might not be achievable for others,\" he says. \"People tend to do the same set positions, rather than what's achievable for them.\n\n\"Ego might mean them trying to take a position 'all the way' to the end when they should just stop where it's comfortable.\n\n\"Just because the person next to you can reach all the way doesn't mean it's necessary, or desirable, to do the same.\"\n\nMr Matthews says the amount of yoga teachers do, as well as the fact they might not be doing any other kind of exercise, can explain the problems that develop.\n\n\"They might be doing yoga six days a week and think that's enough, without doing any other kind of exercise, like cardio or cross training,\" he says.\n\n\"It's like anything. If you do the same thing again and again, there can be problems. You need to mix it up in terms of the kind of exercise you do.\n\n\"The yoga teachers I'm seeing are young - 40, 42.\n\n\"If they come limping and can't walk more than 10m [33ft], say, there's no amount of physio that can help them. If it's two years in, even the best physio can't do anything.\n\nSometimes they can have keyhole surgery (hip arthroscopy), or it's a replacement.\n\nMr Matthews suggests new yoga teachers should be assessed. \"You could see what mobility they have and what their body is allowing them to do,\" he says.\n\nNatalie Gartshore has been a yoga teacher for 16 years, She thinks the popularity of yoga means it's effectively a victim of its own success.\n\n\"I don't think you're told very much when you're training as a teacher about physiology or anatomy,\" she says. \"There is an overuse issue.\n\n\"If you got people en masse taking up ballet, you would get the same results.\"\n\nNatalie, now 45, tore the cartilage in her hip five years ago.\n\nShe now makes sure she manages her class workload and doesn't work weekends. But she says it's hard for newly qualified teachers to do the same.\n\n\"They'll be doing five classes a day, running around, working weekends,\" she says.\n\nThe British Wheel of Yoga is approved by Sports England, as the practice's governing body.\n\nWendy Haring, its chair of education, says: \"It's probably true in some schools of yoga, where people hold poses for a long time without modification, that's when there are problems.\"\n\nBut learning about anatomy and physiology is a \"major part\" of BWY-approved courses.\n\n\"We would teach people how to modify poses,\" Mrs Haring says.\n\nShe adds though, people teaching yoga do need to take care and advises anyone wanting to train to make sure their courses are Ofqual-approved.\n\nPip White, professional adviser at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, says: \"Yoga is a fantastic activity for people to do, with lots of benefits for your health and general wellbeing.\n\n\"However, as with any form of exercise, it's important to do it safely and in this case, also understanding your own limits, as we are all built differently.\n\n\"Yoga is not about being in competition with anyone else. If you stay aware of your abilities and practise within your own limits, you will gain all the great benefits this practice has to offer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour is pledging to end in-work poverty within its first five years in office if it wins the next election.\n\nIn a speech in London, John McDonnell promised to tackle the issue with a \"structurally different economy\", \"public services free at the point of use\" and a \"strong social safety net\".\n\nThis includes a \"real living wage\" and stopping the Universal Credit roll-out.\n\nBut the Conservatives said the policies would \"harm the people [Labour] claim they want to help the most\".\n\nPoverty among people who are working has risen since the mid-1990s.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies said the proportion has gone up from 13% in 1994-95 to 18% in 2017, meaning about eight million people living in working households are in relative poverty.\n\nA household is defined as being in relative poverty when its income is less than 60% of the average - less than £17,040 a year, on the most recent figures.\n\nThe IFS research said the rise had been partly driven by higher housing costs and lower earnings growth.\n\nSpeaking at the Resolution Foundation, the shadow chancellor said his goal was to eradicate poverty, since \"nothing less should be the aim of a socialist government\".\n\nWhile the next Labour government would re-distribute income between the richest and poorest, he said this would only \"paper over the cracks\" unless there were major changes in the way the economy worked to address inequalities in opportunities and productivity.\n\nHe listed a number of policies - some which have been announced before - that he says will see a Labour government achieve their goal within a Parliamentary term of five years.\n\n\"Behind the concept of social mobility is the belief that poverty is OK as long as some people are given the opportunity to climb out of it, leaving the others behind,\" he said.\n\n\"I reject that completely, and want to see a society with higher living standards for everyone as well as one in which nobody lacks the means to survive or has to choose between life's essentials.\"\n\nPledging to end the \"modern-day scourge\" of in-work poverty, he added. \"As chancellor in the next Labour government, I want you to judge me by how much we reduce poverty... how much we create a more equal society... by how much people's lives change for the better.\"\n\nWhile immediately ending the most \"damaging\" aspects of Universal Credit, he said Labour would not seek to replicate the system of tax credits, designed to top up the incomes of the lowest-paid, introduced by Gordon Brown when he was chancellor.\n\nInstead, a future government would \"take a step back\" and looking at designing a welfare system that helped people \"find work and progress in work\".\n\nThe main way poverty is assessed is by using a relative measure - \"relative poverty\".\n\nIt's calculated by taking the median income in the country - that's the midpoint where half of the overall population have income more than that amount and half have less. It was £507 a week in 2017-18, or £437 after housing costs.\n\nThen you take 60% of this middle amount and anyone who has less income than this is considered to be living in relative poverty.\n\nIn 1998-99, 34% of children in the UK were living in relative-poverty households. Today, this proportion is 30%, which represents about 4.1 million children.\n\nStatistics on income after housing costs and benefits received are more widely used as this gives a better idea of how much disposable income someone might have.\n\nBut, some say relative poverty is flawed as a measure because the poverty line moves when average income changes. In times of recession, for example, when lots of people's wages decrease, relative poverty rates improve.\n\nCampaigners say the benefit freeze in place for most of the past decade has been the biggest factor in exacerbating poverty levels among working families with children.\n\nRather than rising each year in line with inflation, to reflect the rising cost of living, most working-age benefits and tax credits have been frozen in value each year.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation says this has pushed 200,000 people into poverty since 2016 and a further 200,000 could follow by 2020.\n\nClaire Ainsley, the organisation's executive director, said ending in-work poverty should be the government's \"number one priority after Brexit\".\n\n\"In-work poverty is the problem of our times as millions have been swept into poverty through low wages, low hours and rising costs,\" she said.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said it is \"essential\" that the freeze is lifted next year although she had acknowledged it will be up to the next prime minister.\n\nBut Conservative Party Chairman Brandon Lewis dismissed Labour's wider pledge, saying its plans for the economy \"would lead to worse living standards\".\n\nHe added: \"Just this week we have seen wages rise by their fastest in 11 years, giving people more money in their pockets, and record numbers of people getting the security of a wage.\n\n\"Thanks to (the Conservatives') balanced approach, we've also cut taxes for 32 million people, taking millions of the lowest paid out of paying income tax altogether, and taken action to reduce the cost of living.\"", "Huge waves batter the breakwater in Lyme Regis harbour in Dorset\n\nA woman has been killed by a falling tree which came down on her car amid high winds.\n\nThe woman, who was in her 60s but has not been named, was driving near Verwood, Dorset, at about 08:40 GMT, police said.\n\nWinds exceeding speeds of 80mph have caused damage to property and transport disruption across parts of the UK.\n\nAll passenger services into and out of Dover were suspended for several hours because of high winds.\n\nThe Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for wind along the South East and East coast of England.\n\nFerry operators DFDS and P&O halted all their sailing operations at about 13:00 GMT due to high water and 60 knot winds.\n\nThe first ship back into Dover was the P&O passenger ferry Spirit of Britain, which managed to dock at 17:30 GMT but soon after the company tweeted there were still \"severe sailing limitations\".\n\nIt later described the limitations as \"slight\" and listed delays to services in and out of Dover. DFDS also reported delays and advised passengers to check in as normal.\n\nSeveral cars were damaged when winds ripped scaffolding into a road\n\nBrittany Ferries and Condor Ferries also cancelled some of their sailings from Portsmouth and Poole - passengers are advised to check before they travel.\n\nHovertravel services between Southsea and Ryde have been stopped and Wightlink and Red Funnel ferry routes also face disruption.\n\nCars have been damaged in a street in Dorset after scaffolding collapsed in strong winds.\n\nThe structure was blown over in Dorset Street, Blandford Forum, during the early hours, closing the road.\n\nThe shed ended up in the road on its roof\n\nAlso in Dorset a shed was blown off its base into a road. The large shed ended up on its roof on the A351 Valley Road, Harmans Cross in Swanage.\n\nCastle Road, Bodmin, has been cordoned off after banks at the side of the road collapsed earlier.\n\nPolice have cordoned off Castle Road, Bodmin following the collapse\n\nThe National Coastwatch Institution at The Needles on the Isle of Wight said winds of 109.4mph had been recorded.\n\nIt said the station had been shut and plans to \"safely evacuate the watch-keeping team\" were under way.\n\nThe Met Office said winds of 83mph were recorded in Plymouth and 82mph in Culdrose in Cornwall.\n\nIt has advised those attending or organising bonfire events to be mindful of the strength of the wind before setting off fireworks.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for wind along the South East and East coast\n\nFlood warnings were also issued by the Environment Agency for Preston Beach in Weymouth and Chiswell, West Bay, Lyme Regis and Christchurch.\n\nThe agency also issued 22 flood alerts for rivers across Devon.\n\nIn West Bay, Dorset, strong winds ripped the roof off a seafront kiosk.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said the seafront had now been closed \"in case any further part of the structure should fail\".\n\nThe seafront at West Bay was closed after a roof came off a kiosk\n\nWestern Power Distribution said more than 1,500 properties in Somerset and 3,700 properties across Devon and Cornwall were without power after high winds caused faults.\n\nOn the south coast, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said more than 3,000 homes and businesses, including parts of the New Forest and the Isle of Wight, were suffering power cuts.\n\nThe companies said engineers were working to restore supplies as soon as possible.\n\nA large tree on Hove Recreation Ground in Sussex has been brought down\n\nSouth Western Railway said services between Brockenhurst, Hampshire, and Weymouth had been cancelled or delayed due to fallen trees on the line.\n\nSouthern Railway said high winds were having an impact across the network, with a reduced service running on the Brighton mainline due to a \"National Grid power blip\".\n\nSoutheastern has reported delays and cancellations due to trees on the line at Paddock Wood, Deal and Whitstable.\n\nThere is also severe disruption to Gatwick Express, Southern and Thameslink services.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gatwick Express This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tree hit the bonnet of the car in The Avenue, Southampton\n\nHigh winds have closed the pier in Bournemouth, where staff from the RockReef indoor activity had to be escorted to safety.\n\nIn Southampton, one driver escaped when a tree fell on to the bonnet of his car shortly before 09:30 GMT.\n\nIn Suffolk, strong winds have closed the Orwell Bridge. It is shut from junctions 56 to 57. Diversions are in place via the A1156, A1189 and A1214 through Ipswich.\n\nIn Wales, roads have been closed and rail services affected with two weather warnings in place.\n\nA yellow warning for heavy rain covers 17 of Wales' 22 counties, with Gwynedd the only area of north Wales partially affected.\n\nA separate wind warning runs until 18:00 and covers all southern counties.\n\nHave your travel plans been affected by the adverse weather? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The election period may not have officially started, but parties are already getting adverts out to potential supporters on social media.\n\nOn Facebook, the Conservatives have started a second geographically targeted campaign, covering 26 constituencies.\n\nIt covers a mix of seats where the Tories were a close second in 2017 and those where the party currently have fairly safe majorities.\n\nThe Labour Party also has a new campaign promoting an article in the Guardian, alongside the caption: “Boris Johnson’s disastrous Brexit would sell off our NHS to Donald Trump. The NHS says that means skyrocketing costs for life-saving medicines.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems have two new campaigns - one about the changes the party would bring if elected and the other attacking Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThere are nine versions of the advert on Mr Corbyn with a different message on each image.", "McDonald's has fired its chief executive Steve Easterbrook after he had a relationship with an employee.\n\nThe US fast food giant said the relationship was consensual, but Mr Easterbrook had \"violated company policy\" and shown \"poor judgement\".\n\nThe British businessman, who earned nearly $16m (£12.3m) last year, is due to receive 26 weeks of pay.\n\nThe full value of the deal was not clear. He is also eligible for a bonus, if the firm hits its performance goals.\n\nBloomberg estimated that he will leave with more than $37m, the bulk of which includes previously granted shares.\n\nIn exchange, Mr Easterbrook has agreed not to work for a competitor for at least two years.\n\nIn an email to staff, Mr Easterbrook acknowledged the relationship and said it was a mistake.\n\n\"Given the values of the company, I agree with the board that it is time for me to move on,\" he said.\n\nThe company's top human resources officer has also left the company, McDonald's said.\n\nMr Easterbrook, 52, who is divorced, first worked for McDonald's in 1993 as a manager in London before working his way up the company.\n\nHe left in 2011 to become boss of Pizza Express and then Asian food chain Wagamama, before returning to McDonald's in 2013, eventually becoming its head in the UK and northern Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe was appointed chief executive of McDonald's in 2015.\n\nMr Easterbrook is widely credited with revitalising the firm's menus and restaurants, by remodelling stores and using better ingredients. The value of its shares more than doubled during his tenure in the US.\n\nUnder his leadership, McDonald's also expanded its delivery and mobile payment options to emphasise convenience.\n\nThe fast food giant's board voted on Watford-born Mr Easterbrook's departure on Friday after a review. He has also stepped down as McDonald's president and member of the board.\n\nMcDonald's said it has longstanding rules against conflicts of interest.\n\nIt declined to provide further information about the person with whom Mr Easterbrook had the relationship, including whether the person was a direct report or remained employed by the company.\n\nEmployment lawyer Ruby Dinsmore, of Slater and Gordon, said it is now common for firms to have either outright bans on relationships, or to have notification clauses requiring individuals to disclose them.\n\nPotential conflicts of interest or litigation if a relationship turns sour were becoming a real risk for companies, she told the BBC.\n\n\"Some people may view this an an invasion of privacy,\" she said. \"But businesses have their own interests to protect as well.\"\n\nIn the era of MeToo \"companies are very keen to be seem not only to have a policy for this type of situation, but also to be seen to be enforcing it at all levels,\" she said.\n\nThe company has been criticised over the amount it pays shop staff, and Mr Easterbrook faced scrutiny for his $15.9m pay packet in 2018, which included a roughly $1.3m base salary, as well as benefits and bonus.\n\nIt was 2,124 times the median employee salary of $7,473.\n\nHe will be replaced by Chris Kempczinski, most recently president of McDonald's USA, with immediate effect.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Kempczinski thanked Mr Easterbrook for his contributions, adding: \"Steve brought me into McDonald's and he was a patient and helpful mentor.\"\n\nLast year Intel boss Brian Krzanich stepped down for having a consensual relationship with an Intel employee, which was against company rules.\n\nHe had been in the post since May 2013.", "The committee said the Department of Health must take \"immediate action to tackle acute issues facing the health service\"\n\nHealth services in Northern Ireland risk \"deteriorating to the point of collapse\" without a long-term funding strategy to support transformation, a report by a Westminster committee has said.\n\nIt said services are struggling to meet the needs of an ageing population.\n\nThe report added that the services are \"lacking adequate financial support or strategic guidance\".\n\nThe Department of Health said it would carefully consider the recommendations.\n\nThe warning comes as the department spelled out the scale of the budgetary pressures it faces in a letter to Northern Ireland's political parties.\n\nThe Westminister committee report, by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, said key services, \"in particular cancer, social care and mental health\", lack comprehensive strategies to guide their future direction.\n\nIt added that the Department of Health \"must do more to demonstrate its commitment to developing long-term strategies for these services\".\n\nThe committee said the department must also take immediate action to tackle \"acute issues facing the health service\".\n\nThese, it said, include cancer waiting times, shortages in social care staffing and inadequate mental health funding.\n\nThe report said decisions over health services in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the health minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, but that if the Northern Ireland Assembly was not formed by the end of the year, the government will need to take action.\n\nIn a letter to MLAs, the department spelled out how many millions are needed to train new doctors and nurses\n\nA government spokesperson said health and social care services in Northern Ireland were \"a devolved matter\".\n\nThe spokesperson added that Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith had visited a number of health and social care facilities and \"fully understands the pressures that the sectors are facing\".\n\n\"That is why he is doing everything he can to get the Stormont institutions back up and running as soon as possible, in order that local politicians make decisions affecting everyone in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The secretary of state will consider the recommendations contained in the report and respond in due course.\"\n\nThe letter, meanwhile, which the Department of Health sent to MLAs who lead on health in Northern Ireland's political parties, spells out the specific pressures under which it is operating.\n\nSimon Hoare said the committee expected \"more regular updates\" on progress\n\nNorthern Ireland Affairs Committee chair Simon Hoare said the health service in Northern Ireland was falling behind the rest of the UK.\n\n\"An approach to funding that simply keeps things ticking over, and an absence of over-arching strategy in key areas, has left services at breaking point and this situation must end as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"We have called for the government to end the insecurity and set three year minimum budget allocations to give vital services the space to breathe and look ahead.\n\n\"We also expect more regular updates on the progress in developing strategies in key areas, particularly cancer services and mental health.\"\n\nOne of the key findings of the committee was that the \"transformation of Northern Ireland's health and social care services is long overdue\".\n\nThe report said services are struggling to meet the needs of an ageing population\n\nIt said the recommendations of the Bengoa Report and Delivering Together are urgently needed if services are to keep pace with the \"increasingly complex and evolving needs of an ageing population\".\n\nIt said the UK government should also work with the Department of Health and Department of Finance to produce three-year minimum budget allocations.", "South Africans have been celebrating the country's third World Cup trophy win\n\nAcross South Africa, they've been blowing their vuvuzelas, hugging, crying, grinning until it hurts, honking their car horns, pouring and throwing and spraying beer in all directions.\n\nThey are celebrating a comprehensive victory that seems all the sweeter for being set against a backdrop of economic hardship, rising inequality, populist race-baiting, staggering official corruption and serious concerns about this young, boisterous nation's future.\n\n\"We can achieve anything if we work together as one,\" said Siya Kolisi, South Africa's now iconic black captain after the match in Japan.\n\nAnd in bars, homes, halls, and giant open-air public viewing areas, his words seemed - at least for a moment - to ring true.\n\n\"I have never seen, since I've been alive, I have never seen South Africa like this,\" Kolisi went on, and back home the crowds, black and white, nodded and cheered.\n\n\"I'm so happy!\" screamed a black schoolgirl jumping for joy with her friends at a sports centre in a suburb of Johannesburg.\n\n\"We've gone through so much as a country and this is something positive we can celebrate as a country,\" said a woman watching at a luxury resort outside the city.\n\n\"I feel this win will reunite us as a country. We've been segregated, with so much going on. So this win means so much,\" said her friend.\n\nToday's squad has twelve black players and is a truly national team\n\nSouth Africa has always cherished its reputation for pulling off miracles. After all, this was the nation that steered itself away from civil war and plotted a negotiated path out of racial apartheid towards democracy.\n\nA year later, in 1995, a smiling Nelson Mandela watched the national team win its first Rugby World Cup and used that moment to build on his dream of a \"rainbow nation\".\n\nBut the 1995 team had just one black player and many black South Africans struggled to share the enthusiasm of Mandela, and of their white compatriots so soon after the end of apartheid.\n\nToday's squad has twelve black players and has become a truly national team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We have come a long way from 1995 to where we are today. We are demonstrating to the world that we are a diverse and united nation,\" said President Cyril Ramaphosa, who had gone to Japan to be with the Springbok team.\n\nAnd there were other signs of South Africa's progress on display today. Not just a black captain and a diverse squad, but smaller details like the fact that so many more whites in the crowd now appear to have learned the words to their multi-lingual national anthem - bellowing out all the African verses in the minutes before the match began.\n\nFans have described the Springboks' win as something positive for the country\n\nBut can success in a rugby competition transform a nation's fortunes? Of course not. South Africans are all too aware that, come Monday, their economy will still be on the brink of being downgraded to junk status by international ratings agencies.\n\nYouth unemployment will remain around the 50% mark. The power utility Eskom will continue to deliver blackouts as it hovers dangerously close to collapse. And the racial polarisation that has become entrenched in the country's political scene will carry on.\n\n\"No we're not (united),\" said one of several voices on Twitter, responding to President Ramaphosa's message. \"Only our rugby team is a beacon of hope in the dark and dismal chaos that the ANC created and which you perpetuate.\"", "British nationals are among 33 people injured after a bus travelling from Paris to London overturned in northern France.\n\nFour people were seriously injured and 29 others wounded when the FlixBus coach toppled at an exit near Amiens on the A1 motorway on Sunday morning.\n\nNorthern Ireland couple Jamie Kerr and Gemma Given, both 20, were treated in hospital for head and hand injuries.\n\nEight other Britons were on board, alongside passengers from nine nations.\n\nPolice had previously said there were 11 people from the UK on the coach.\n\nThe Foreign Office said three Britons remained in hospital.\n\nJamie's father John Kerr told BBC News: \"It was a pretty traumatic end to a Halloween weekend.\"\n\nHis son, a student at Glasgow University, had called on Sunday morning to say he and his girlfriend, Ms Given, were involved in the crash, which took place at around 11:00 GMT, but were not badly injured.\n\nIt is understood Ms Given, a student at Brighton University, had her bag taken for examination by police because a passenger who was seriously injured had been lying on it.\n\n\"That brought home to me how close they were to being seriously injured,\" said John Kerr.\n\nHe said the couple were offered a bus back to the UK but said they would make their own way home.\n\n\"I feel a bit more could have been done for them,\" he said.\n\n\"They'll learn a lot from all of this but I'm expecting an emotional response when they get home and it all hits them.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was in contact with French authorities. \"We will do all we can to assist any British people who need our help,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe British embassy in France confirmed British nationals were involved in the incident.\n\nThe coach was also carrying 11 people from France, five from the US, two from Romania, and one each from Spain, Australia, Mauritius, Japan and Sri Lanka. They were taken to local hospitals.\n\nLocal police tweeted they had sent all state services to the scene, while firefighters urged motorists to avoid the area.\n\nIn a statement, FlixBus said there were 32 passengers and one bus driver on board.\n\nA spokesman said: \"FlixBus is in close contact with the relevant authorities in order to determine the exact cause of the accident and to ensure all passengers receive appropriate support.\n\n\"An emergency phone number is available for the passengers and their relatives.\"\n\nThose concerned about loved ones are asked to call 0080030013730.\n\nLast month, another FlixBus coach crashed near Narbonne, in south-west France, killing one person and injuring several others, according to local media.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. British Special Forces have been accused of covering up the killings of four young Afghans in 2012\n\nThe UK government and armed forces have been accused of covering up the killing of civilians by British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.\n\nAn investigation by BBC Panorama and the Sunday Times has spoken to 11 British detectives who said they found credible evidence of war crimes.\n\nSoldiers should have been prosecuted for the killings, say insiders.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it rejected the unsubstantiated allegation of a pattern of cover-ups.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC \"all of the allegations, that had evidence, have been looked at\".\n\nHe said \"the right balance\" had been struck over decisions whether or not to investigate alleged war crimes.\n\nThe new evidence has come from inside the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT), which investigated alleged war crimes committed by British troops during the occupation of Iraq, and Operation Northmoor, which investigated alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.\n\nThe government decided to close IHAT and Operation Northmoor, after Phil Shiner, a lawyer who had taken more than 1,000 cases to IHAT, was struck off as a solicitor following allegations he had paid fixers in Iraq to find clients.\n\nBut former detectives from IHAT and Operation Northmoor said Phil Shiner's actions were used as an excuse to close down criminal investigations. None of the cases investigated by IHAT or Operation Northmoor resulted in a prosecution.\n\nOne IHAT detective told Panorama: \"The Ministry of Defence had no intention of prosecuting any soldier of whatever rank he was unless it was absolutely necessary, and they couldn't wriggle their way out of it.\"\n\nAnother former detective said the victims of war crimes had been badly let down: \"I use the word disgusting. And I feel for the families because... they're not getting justice. How can you hold your head up as a British person?\"\n\nPanorama has re-examined the evidence in a number of alleged war crimes cases. One such case investigated by IHAT was the shooting of an Iraqi policeman by a British soldier on patrol in Basra in 2003.\n\nRaid al-Mosawi was serving as an Iraqi policeman in Basra when he was shot dead\n\nRaid al-Mosawi was shot in an alleyway as he left his family home, and later died from his wounds. The incident was investigated at the time by the British soldier's commanding officer, Maj Christopher Suss-Francksen.\n\nWithin 24 hours, Maj Suss-Francksen concluded the shooting was lawful because the Iraqi police officer had fired first and the soldier had acted in self-defence.\n\nHis report said another British soldier had seen the shooting and confirmed the Iraqi had fired first.\n\nIHAT detectives spent two years investigating the case and interviewed 80 British soldiers, including the soldier who had supposedly witnessed the shooting. But he told detectives he was not in the alleyway.\n\nIn his statement to IHAT, this soldier directly contradicted Maj Suss-Francksen's report: \"This report is inaccurate and gives the impression that I was an eyewitness. This is not true.\"\n\nRaid's brother shows where the soldier was when he fired the fatal shot\n\nThe soldier said he had only heard one shot, which suggested the policeman had not fired at all. This was confirmed by other witnesses interviewed by IHAT.\n\nDetectives concluded the soldier who shot Raid should be prosecuted for killing the Iraqi police officer and Maj Suss-Francksen should be charged with covering up what happened. But military prosecutors have not taken anyone to court.\n\nMaj Suss-Francksen's lawyer said: \"My client has not seen the IHAT material and is unable to offer any comment on the quality or reliability of the evidence gathered by the IHAT investigators or why it was insufficient to satisfy a prosecution of any soldier under UK law.\"\n\nOperation Northmoor was set up by the government in 2014 and looked into 52 alleged illegal killings.\n\nIts closure was announced by the government before Royal Military Police detectives even had a chance to interview the key Afghan witnesses.\n\nOne Northmoor detective said: \"I wouldn't write off a job until I have spoken to both parties. If you are writing off a job and the only thing you have got is the British account, how is that an investigation?\n\n\"My view is that every one of those deaths deserved to be examined and due process of law to take place.\"\n\nThe MoD said military operations are conducted in accordance with the law and there had been an extensive investigation of allegations.\n\n\"Investigations and decisions to prosecute are rightly independent from the MoD and have involved external oversight and legal advice,\" a spokesperson told the BBC.\n\n\"After careful consideration of referred cases, the independent Service Prosecuting Authority decided not to prosecute.\"\n\n\"The BBC's claims have been passed to the Service Police and the Service Prosecuting Authority who remain open to considering allegations.\"\n\nQuizzed about the allegations on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Mr Raab said the UK wanted \"to have accountability where there's wrongdoing\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told Andrew Marr that prosecuting authorities for the British armed forces are \"some of the most rigorous \"\n\nHe said: \"What we're quite rightly doing is making sure spurious claims or claims without evidence don't lead to the shadow of suspicion, the cloud of suspicion hanging over people who have served their country for years on end - and we've got the right balance.\"\n\nMr Raab refused to be drawn on whether these claims were new to him, and said that prosecuting authorities for the British armed forces are \"some of the most rigorous in the world\".\n\nMeanwhile, a lawyer who has represented several soldiers investigated by IHAT, dismissed the claims of war crimes as \"flawed, baseless and biased\".\n\nHilary Meredith, chair of Hilary Meredith Solicitors, said the claims were a \"witch hunt against our brave servicemen\" which \"had no credibility whatsoever\".\n\nShe added: \"Solicitor Phil Shiner, who masterminded countless false claims, was struck off the role of solicitors for good reason - he was found guilty of charges including dishonesty over false witness accounts about UK soldiers' actions.\"\n\nPanorama, War Crimes Scandal Exposed is on BBC One at 21:00 GMT on Monday 18 November.", "Highways England urged drivers to be patient during stoppages\n\nDrivers have been warned not to break the law by going the wrong way on the M5 to avoid long queues.\n\nHighways England said it had seen \"traffic driving the wrong way into Avonmouth\" following an accident northbound between J18 and J17 earlier.\n\nIt said in a tweet: \"This is illegal. You are putting yourselves, our roadworkers and other road users at great risk.\"\n\nTraffic that was being held has now been released, a spokesperson said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I don't want us to become an isolated society\"\n\nThe Conservatives have set out plans for an \"equal\" immigration system after Brexit as Jeremy Corbyn said he still expected a \"great deal\" of movement of people from the EU to the UK.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab outlined plans to change the rules on benefits which EU nationals can claim in time if they live and work in the UK.\n\nBut he said there would be no arbitrary target for total immigration levels.\n\nThe Labour leader said immigration was vital for growth and public services.\n\nIn a BBC interview, Mr Corbyn defended the principle of free movement, which lets EU citizens travel, live, study and work in any member country but which is currently set to end at the start of 2021.\n\nMigration from the EU had \"enriched\" the country, he said, and this had to be a part of the close economic relationship he wanted to build with the continent going forward.\n\nPressed on whether this would involve retaining freedom of movement of people, he said immigration would form part of Labour's Brexit renegotiation if it won the election, but added \"there will be a great deal of movement\".\n\nThe Lib Dems said the Conservatives' plans were based on the false assumption that overseas workers were trying to \"do us over\".\n\nAnd business groups said migrant labour was needed at \"all skills levels\" if the UK was to upgrade its infrastructure and housing.\n\n\"When we hear talk about brightest and best, I think that is a worry,\" Carolyn Fairbairn, the director of the CBI employer's group told Sky News.\n\n\"If you do want to build 200,000 houses a year, you don't just need the architects and the designers, you need the carpenters, you need the electricians, you need the labourers.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have said from the start of 2021, when the post-Brexit transition period ends, immigration rules will apply to EU nationals and non-Europeans in the same way, with no preferential treatment for any group.\n\nEarlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson also said that if he won the election, he would try to reduce the number of so-called \"unskilled\" migrants coming into the UK.\n\nThe issue of immigration has slipped down the list of voter concerns since the Brexit referendum, now at its lowest point for almost two decades.\n\nHowever, with public services stretched and the NHS under particular pressure, the Conservatives want to respond to the argument that people from overseas add to the burden on the welfare state.\n\nExtending the immigration health surcharge to EU as well as non-EU migrants after the end of free movement is logical, but increasing the charge by 56% carries risks.\n\nThe UK government is hoping foreign workers can fill desperate shortages of staff in health and social care. But nurses, doctors and carers are less likely to move to Britain if there are rising costs for them on arrival. Last week, the Tories promised to make it cheaper for foreigners coming to work in the NHS by reducing the cost of a visa. Today's announcement appears to do the opposite.\n\nFor all the political parties, there is a balance to be struck between the concerns of some communities which fear immigration will constrain access to jobs and services, and the concerns of employers who argue restricting access to foreign workers may hamper their ability to create jobs or deliver services.\n\nThe Conservatives say they would introduce an Australian-style points-based system, which would consider migrants' skills and whether they meet certain criteria.\n\nIn recent years, the party had a long-standing goal - first introduced by David Cameron and also a promise in the 2017 election manifesto - to cut net migration to less than 100,000 a year. But the government never came close to meeting the target and faced repeated calls to drop it.\n\nAnnouncing more details of their immigration policy on Sunday, the Conservatives said the \"vast majority\" of migrants would need a job offer to come to the UK to work - although there will be a \"small number of exceptions\" for example high-skilled scientists.\n\nRules on claiming benefits will be \"equalised\", meaning that like other migrants, EU citizens would have to wait five years before they can access benefits and will not be able to send child benefit payments abroad.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"What you don't want to do is encourage cheap labour from abroad\"\n\nAnd the immigration health surcharge - the payment charged to migrants to use the NHS - would apply to all migrants, both EU and non-EU, and would be raised from £400 to £625 a year.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that such \"granular controls\" would help reduce pressure on the public services while ensuring the UK had access to the labour it needed, particularly in the health service.\n\nWhile the Conservatives were committed to bringing down the overall volume of immigration, he said he would \"not fix an arbitrary target\".\n\n\"We want to be able to plug gaps in specific sectors, whether it is the NHS or elsewhere but what you don't want to do is encourage a reliance on cheap labour from abroad which has a depressing effect on wages,\" he said.\n\nAlso appearing on Andrew Marr, Mr Corbyn said a future Labour government would not \"turn its back\" on migration from the EU and suggested it would make it easier for the partners and families or those who had settled in the UK to join them.\n\n\"There has to be a recognition that our economy and society has been enriched massively by people who have made their homes here,\" he said. \"No Labour government led by me will bring in a hostile environment.\"\n\nBut Mr Corbyn deflected questions on whether free movement could continue in its current form, saying people would have to wait until Labour's manifesto is published on Thursday for more details. He also declined to say whether he wanted the UK to leave or remain in the EU.\n\nThe BBC's Iain Watson said there had been a disagreement at a key meeting on Saturday - when Labour's ruling body approved the party's manifesto - on whether to incorporate Labour's conference policy of extending freedom of movement for workers.\n\nMr Corbyn said freedom of movement would continue if voters back Remain in the new referendum pledged by Labour.\n\nBut if voters back Leave, Labour would introduce its own immigration policy, recognising there would have to be high levels of labour mobility.\n\nThis, he added, would be underpinned by stricter regulation of the employment market to prevent migrant workers \"undercutting\" employees here and to stop migrants being exploited.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson told LBC that immigration was a \"mutual good thing\" and her party would oppose all of the changes to benefits and NHS charges being talked about by the Conservatives.\n\nAnd the SNP's leader Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland needed to maintain a healthy level of inward migration to avoid a long-term decline in the working-age population and the negative impact this would have on taxpayer-funded public services.", "British photographer Terry O'Neill poses in front of his work \"Nelson Mandela at 90\" in 2009\n\nBritish photographer Terry O'Neill, whose work captured iconic images of London's Swinging Sixties, has died.\n\nO'Neill, 81, had prostate cancer and died at home on Saturday night after a long illness, his agency said.\n\nHe photographed celebrities - including The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elton John and the Queen - and received a CBE last month for services to photography.\n\nBBC Arts Correspondent David Sillito said O'Neil's work helped to define the Swinging Sixties.\n\nBorn in London, O'Neill left school with hopes of becoming a jazz drummer, but ended up working in a photographic unit at London's Heathrow Airport.\n\nIt was there that he captured then Home Secretary Rab Butler, immaculately dressed and asleep on a bench.\n\nThe image helped O'Neill land a job as a newspaper photographer on Fleet Street, where he was assigned to capture the portrait of a new band - The Beatles.\n\nO'Neill photographed The Beatles in the backyard of the Abbey Road Studios in London - it was one of their first professionally-taken portraits and helped make the photographer famous in his own right\n\nAfter receiving his CBE at Buckingham Palace, Mr O'Neill said the award \"surpasses anything I've had happen to me in my life\".\n\nHe photographed the Queen twice. In 2001 he revealed on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs how he had got her to smile during the second photo shoot in 1992 - a year described by the Queen as an \"annus horribilis\" - by telling a horse-racing joke.\n\n\"The second time was great,\" he said. \"It was in a bad year, as she put it. And I just got her to laugh because I noticed the first time when she laughed, she made a great picture.\"\n\nSir Elton John, whom O'Neill photographed on numerous occasions, was among those to pay tribute to the photographer on Twitter, saying: \"He was brilliant, funny and I absolutely loved his company\".\n\nComedian and children's author David Walliams called O'Neill \"a huge talent and an absolute gentleman\" and said his death was the \"end of an era\".\n\nElton John described O'Neill as \"brilliant and funny\"\n\nIconic Images, the agency which represents O'Neill's work, said he was \"a class act, quick-witted and filled with charm\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"Anyone who was lucky enough to know or work with him can attest to his generosity and modesty.\n\n\"As one of the most iconic photographers of the last 60 years, his legendary pictures will forever remain imprinted in our memories as well as in our hearts.\"\n\nO'Neill captured this image of US actress Faye Dunaway the day after she collected her Academy Award for Best Actress in Network in 1977 - the pair would marry six years later\n\nThis arresting image of David Bowie helped promote the singer's 1974 album Diamond Dogs\n\nO'Neill said that he told a horse racing joke to the Queen to induce this smile in this portrait taken in 1992, the second time he had photographed her\n\nThe Rolling Stones outside the Tin Pan Alley Club in London in 1963\n\nSinger Amy Winehouse poses for a shoot during a concert honouring Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday in Hyde Park, London\n\nActor Roger Moore as James Bond with Live and Let Die co-stars Gloria Hendry (left) and Jane Seymour in 1973\n\nSinger Frank Sinatra with his minders and his stand-in (who is wearing an identical outfit to him), arriving at Miami Beach while filming The Lady in Cement\n\nBritish model Twiggy was among the famous faces of London's Swinging Sixties who was photographed by O'Neill\n\nTerry O\"Neill photographs Laura Bush at the White House in 2001", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The baby was unharmed because his auntie is a hero\"\n\nA 13-year-old girl has been critically injured after she tried to protect her 11-month-old nephew from a gang of men armed with machetes, her family has said.\n\nThe teenager suffered serious stab wounds after the men forced their way into a house on Trasna Way in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, at about 21:15 GMT on Saturday.\n\nElizabeth Joyce, who is a relative of the girl, hailed her as a hero.\n\n\"It is something that we will never get over,\" Ms Joyce, who was also injured, told BBC News NI.\n\nThe 13-year-old is in a critical but stable condition.\n\n\"The baby was unharmed because his auntie is a hero. She's 13 years old and she threw her whole self over that baby, and she saved his life. She is a hero.\"\n\nPolice are treating the incident as attempted murder.\n\nA gang of men forced their way into the house\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Det Sgt Keith Monaghan said the incident was a terrifying ordeal for those involved.\n\n\"We are determined to find the men responsible,\" he added.\n\nHe said detectives were investigating several lines of inquiry.", "A £5,000 reward has been offered for information about Ms Croucher's disappearance\n\nThe brother of missing woman Leah Croucher has died, their father has said.\n\nMs Croucher, 20, was last seen in Milton Keynes on 15 February.\n\nIn a Facebook post, her father John said he had spoken to his son Haydon on Thursday to reassure him, almost nine months after Leah's disappearance.\n\nHe said the 24-year-old died hours later, after police arrived at his house to tell him his son was \"fighting for life.\"\n\nMs Croucher was last seen by her parents at their home in Quantock Crescent on the evening of 14 February.\n\nShe told her family she was meeting a friend but police said the meeting did not happen.\n\nCCTV showed her walking about half a mile from her home at about 08:15 the next day.\n\nHaydon had appeared in court earlier this year accused of making threats to a man he described as Leah's ex-boyfriend.\n\nHe accepted a voluntary restraining order and the prosecution was dropped.\n\nMr Croucher said he had arranged to meet up with his son on Friday so they could spend the day that marked nine months since Leah's disappearance together.\n\nHe said his son was a \"kind, generous, funny, witty and loving person\".\n\nHe added: \"Be at peace Haydon. If Leah is up there with you look after each other as always, until we get there.\n\n\"We love and miss you both terribly. Our world could not be more broken than it is now.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn has hailed Labour's \"transformative\" manifesto after finalising the document in a meeting with senior party figures.\n\nThe Labour leader said a \"unanimous agreement\" was reached by key union backers and his shadow cabinet after six hours of talks in London.\n\nThe details in the manifesto for the general election on 12 December are expected to be released on Thursday.\n\nIt is billed as \"more radical\" than the document campaigned on in 2017.\n\nThe party has already announced a number of policies, including a part-nationalisation of BT and extra spending on infrastructure.\n\nBut members had to decide in the talks on Saturday whether to include some policies from its party conference, including on free movement of people from the EU to the UK.\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"very, very proud\" of the contents of the manifesto that gives the \"promise of a better Britain\".\n\nSpeaking on the steps of the Institute of Engineering and Technology after the meeting, he said: \"That manifesto is a transformative document that will change the lives of the people of this country for the better.\n\n\"It will be a once in a generation opportunity to vote for a more egalitarian society that cares for all.\"\n\nThe BBC's Iain Watson said the party is expected to pledge additional support for women affected when the government in 2011 sped up plans to raise the age at which women could claim the state pension from 60 to 66.\n\nAhead of the talks, party figures were expected to debate whether to include a commitment to \"maintain and extend\" free movement rights for migrants, as demanded by delegates at September's party conference.\n\nThe party's 2017 manifesto stated that free movement - giving EU citizens the right to work and seek employment in the UK and UK citizens the same right in other EU countries - would end with Brexit.\n\nA small number of protesters gathered outside the meeting, chanting in support of free movement.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats earlier called on Labour to make a \"cast-iron commitment\" to preserve free movement rights in its manifesto.\n\nThe party's home affairs spokeswoman Christine Jardine said failing to do so would be a \"betrayal of future generations\".\n\nThe Lib Dems are pledging a \"fair, effective\" immigration system if it is elected - with plans to resettle 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children a year.\n\nHowever, some within Labour are concerned that a more open policy on immigration could alienate voters in Leave-voting areas.\n\nLen McCluskey - the leader of the Unite, the biggest Labour-supporting union - has called for new employment policies to address concerns about freedom of movement.\n\nAs he headed into the manifesto meeting, Mr Corbyn said it would be \"transformative\"\n\nOn Thursday, he denied a newspaper report that he had told Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to take a tough line on free movement of workers.\n\nBut he said Labour would \"protect all workers\" through labour market regulations.\n\n\"It won't stop the free movement of labour. It will effectively make certain that greedy bosses, agency companies, are not abusing working people,\" he said.\n\nThere was a disagreement during the talks over whether to incorporate the conference policy of extending freedom of movement for workers in the manifesto.\n\nFreedom of movement will continue if voters back Remain in the new referendum which Labour is pledging.\n\nIf voters back Leave, Labour would introduce its own immigration policy but, as the party wants a close relationship with the single market, it recognises there would be high levels of labour mobility.\n\nBut this would be underpinned by stricter regulation of the employment market to prevent migrant workers \"undercutting\" employees here and to stop migrants being exploited.\n\nSome policies were agreed and not yet announced, for example, a process for compensating women adversely affected by a more rapid rise in the state pension age than they anticipated.\n\nPrescriptions and dental checks will also be free in England too.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Corbyn confirmed an existing pledge to abolish university tuition fees will be included in the party's manifesto for the 12 December poll.\n\nHe also said bringing Royal Mail, rail and water utilities under public ownership \"are clearly going to be in our manifesto next week\".\n\nOther parties have also begun announcing policies ahead of the official launch of their manifestos later in the campaign.\n\nOn Saturday, both the Lib Dems and the Conservatives made rival pledges on tree planting.\n\nThe Conservatives also announced £500m of funding over the next five years to help support developing countries in protecting oceans.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour are set to field candidates in every constituency in Britain, except Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle's seat in Chorley in Lancashire.\n\nThe Brexit Party has put forward 275 candidates, having stood aside in all the seats won by the Tories in 2017.\n\nFigures from PA suggest the party has also opted not to contest handfuls of other seats being defended by other parties, particularly in Scotland.\n\nThe so-called \"Clause Five\" party meeting offers an opportunity for senior figures to sign off on the party's manifesto.\n\nIt is attended by Labour's ruling National Executive Committee, including the shadow cabinet and trade union representatives.\n\nParty staffers present a draft document, whose different policy areas are discussed in turn.\n\nA vote is taken at the end of the meeting on the whole document, rather than voting section-by-section.\n\nThere are usually some small amendments. Party positions are unlikely to change - but will perhaps be clarified.", "Operation Northmoor was set up in 2014 to examine allegations of executions by British Special Forces.\n\nIt had linked dozens of suspicious killings on night raids.\n\nOne of those included three children and a 20-year-old man who were killed by a British soldier in 2012 in the village of Loy Bagh in Afghanistan.\n\nBritish detectives have now told Panorama that Special Forces tried to cover-up what happened to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes.\n\nRead more: UK government and military accused of war crimes cover-up\n\nYou can watch 'War Crimes Scandal Exposed' on Monday 28th November on BBC One at 21:00 GMT.", "Live insects will not be eaten in this year's I'm A Celebrity, in a \"permanent\" change to the reality TV show.\n\nI'm A Celebrity has previously been criticised for using live bugs in its 'bushtucker trials'.\n\nSome tasks on the ITV show have included insects being eaten alive or dumped onto contestants.\n\nThe stars could still be covered in bugs during filming in Australia but any eaten will already be dead.\n\n\"Producers have taken a look at the trials and decided that no live critters would be eaten in the trials this year,\" BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat has been told.\n\nAn ITV source said: \"They have been planning this for some time and actually last year beach worms were the only critters eaten live but this time around they've decided to implement the change fully and permanently.\"\n\nInsects like this witchetty grub have been eaten alive on previous series of I'm A Celebrity\n\nThis year's line-up includes former Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle, ex-footballer and broadcaster Ian Wright and Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts.\n\nThe move has been welcomed by wildlife presenter Chris Packham, who says he's \"very pleased\" at ITV's decision, but describes it as \"a first step.\"\n\n\"I hope this is the start of some significant change,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What's long concerned me about the programme is that is portrays animals in the wrong way.\n\n\"There was never any ambiguity that eating live invertebrates was abuse and also exploitation for entertainment.\"\n\nChris also criticised the show for stereotyping animals like rats and snakes as \"bad organism.\"\n\nHe also said he thought ITV's decision was part of a change in global thinking due to the current climate crisis.\n\n\"We're going to have to make changes,\" he added.\n\n\"That means you and I making changes in our lives, that means TV producers making changes in the way they make their programmes.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Motorbike and scooter ride gathered in Brackley, Northamptonshire, for the ride\n\nHundreds of bikers have gathered to ride in memory of Harry Dunn, the teenager whose crash death led to a diplomatic row with the US.\n\nHarry, 19, died after the collision in Northamptonshire in August that led to suspect Anne Sacoolas leaving the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA file has been passed to prosecutors, but no charges have been brought.\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said support from the public was \"the only thing keeping us going\".\n\nHarry's father Tim said the support from those who took part in the motorbike and scooter ride, which started in Brackley, Northamptonshire, was \"fantastic\".\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nTalking to Sky News, Mrs Charles said decisions in the case by the Crown Prosecution Service were \"taking too long\".\n\n\"The case is a pretty clear cut, we are just waiting on their decision,\" she added.\n\nHarry was fatally injured on 27 August, when his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas, 42, outside RAF Croughton, where her husband Jonathan was an intelligence officer.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn met Donald Trump at the White House\n\nMr Dunn, who explained the family was \"struggling\", said: \"We are getting more frustrated by the delays and the authorities.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity, but was interviewed by Northamptonshire Police in the US last month.\n\nHillary Clinton said there had been confusion about the use of diplomatic immunity\n\nEarlier this week, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the rules around diplomatic immunity \"should be looked at\".\n\nMrs Clinton also said a meeting at the White House between Harry's family and President Trump, where Mrs Sacoolas was in the next room, had been \"clumsy and heavy-handed\".\n\nMr Dunn said his hoped Mrs Clinton's comments would \"help push forward\" the chance of Mrs Sacoolas return to the UK.\n\nScooter and motorcycle club members took part in the ride\n\nThe riders took to the streets close to where Harry was fatally injured\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chinese soldiers in Hong Kong have left their barracks to help dismantle barricades built by protesters.\n\nDressed in shorts and T-shirts, they also cleaned up debris left on the streets after a week of violent anti-government demonstrations.\n\nIt is thought to be the first time since the protests erupted that Chinese soldiers have taken to the streets.", "Emily Maitlis repeats the claim by Virginia Roberts’ legal team that “you could not spend time around Epstein and not know what was going on”.\n\nThe prince says that with the benefit of hindsight one might question: “Was that really the way that it was or was I looking at it the very wrong way?”\n\nHe compares Epstein’s house to Buckingham Palace in that both have lots of people walking around.\n\n“I live in an institution at Buckingham Palace which has members of staff walking around all the time and I don’t wish to appear grand but there were a lot of people who were walking around Jeffrey Epstein’s house.”\n\n“You’d notice if there were hundreds of underage girls in Buckingham Palace, wouldn’t you?” Emily Maitlis asks.\n\nThe prince says he would have noticed if that was the case at Epstein’s home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to shows Prince Andrew inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York residence in 2010\n\nPrince Andrew has given an unprecedented interview to the BBC about his relationship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe friendship between the 59-year-old member of the Royal Family and Epstein has come under close scrutiny since the American killed himself in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew said it was wrong of him to visit and stay at Epstein's house in 2010 after the financier's conviction but that he did not regret their entire friendship.\n\nHe also categorically denied having sex with Virginia Roberts, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old.\n\nHere's what we know about the links between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew said he first met Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager, in 1999 through Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's British girlfriend and a woman the prince said he had known since she was at university. That year was the first time the prince and the businessman were linked in press reports in the UK and US.\n\nPrince Andrew reportedly flew with Epstein on his private Gulfstream jet in February 1999, according to a log book seen by the Daily Mirror in 2015.\n\nThe destination was said to have been Epstein's private island, Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Daily Mail also reported that 10 months earlier Epstein's logbook showed he had flown to the same location to meet the prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. The couple had divorced in 1996.\n\nEpstein and Ms Maxwell were among a star-studded guest list at a party hosted by the Queen in June 2000.\n\nThe Dance of the Decades event, which saw more than 600 guests descend on Windsor Castle, marked four royal birthdays including Prince Andrew's 40th. Prince Andrew, the Queen's third child, told the BBC that Epstein was there at his invitation, not the Royal Family's, but was to some extent Ms Maxwell's \"plus one\".\n\nThe duke at the time appeared to be part of the social circle of Ms Maxwell, whom Epstein later described as his best friend.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured accompanying Ms Maxwell - daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell - at private parties and celebrity functions both in the UK and in the US that year.\n\nThey were photographed together at the wedding of the prince's former girlfriend, Aurelia Cecil, near Salisbury in Wiltshire in September 2000.\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell leaving the wedding of his former girlfriend Aurelia Cecil in September 2000\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell were pictured at the event in Wiltshire\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell were again photographed together at a Halloween party thrown by model Heidi Klum in Manhattan.\n\nMs Maxwell was pictured dressed in gold lame and wearing a blonde wig for the Hookers and Pimps-themed party.\n\nJust over a month later, in December 2000, the then 40-year-old prince threw Ms Maxwell a surprise birthday party at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, with Epstein among the guests.\n\nHe described it in the BBC interview as a \"straightforward shooting weekend\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham in December 2000\n\nMs Maxwell and Epstein were photographed on a pheasant shoot at the estate around that time.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell went on a number of trips together including to Florida and Thailand, according to an Evening Standard report from January 2001, which claimed Epstein had joined them on five such occasions over the previous 12 months.\n\nPrince Andrew told the BBC that he used to see Epstein a maximum of three times a year but confirmed he had been on his private plane, stayed at his private island, and stayed at his homes in Palm Beach, Florida and New York.\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial next year.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges but was facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted.\n\nIn July 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was invited to a masked ball at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 18th birthday of Princess Beatrice, Prince Andrew's elder daughter.\n\nThe theme of the evening was 1888, and the 500 guests donned period costumes.\n\nThe previous month, Epstein was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution.\n\nPrince Andrew said Epstein had been invited via Ms Maxwell but that he wasn't aware at the time the invitation was sent out \"what was going on in the United States\".\n\nHe said Epstein never mentioned that he was under investigation.\n\nThe duke was photographed with Epstein in New York's Central Park in December 2010 - after the tycoon had served his sentence.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had travelled across the Atlantic to end his friendship with Epstein and was having that conversation with him when they were photographed in the park.\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nThe prince told the BBC: \"I said, 'Look, because of what has happened, I don't think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact.'\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he attended a small dinner party while he was there but denied it was to celebrate Epstein's release.\n\nFootage released by the Mail on Sunday in August showed Prince Andrew inside the financier's Manhattan mansion around the same time.\n\nThe prince told the BBC that he regretted staying at Epstein's house during the visit, saying he \"let the side down\" by doing so. Pressed on reports that many young girls were coming and going from the house at the time, he said: \"I never saw them.\"\n\nEpstein's house was like a \"railway station\" with \"people coming in and out of that house all the time\", he added.\n\nPrince Andrew's connection to the convicted sex offender did attract criticism at the time.\n\nAfter several days of newspaper reports on the Epstein connection in spring of 2011, Prince Andrew was hit with a further blow when Sarah Ferguson admitted having accepted £15,000 from Epstein, to help pay off her debts.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in 2011 - she is said to have accepted £15,000 from Epstein that year\n\nThe fallout saw him quit his role as a UK trade envoy in July 2011. Prince Andrew later acknowledged his friendship with Epstein had been a mistake.\n\nIn 2015 the duke was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew was not party to the proceedings but was identified when a motion was filed in the court, as part of the evidence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was ordered to give the prince \"whatever he required\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Virginia Roberts in early 2001, said to have been taken at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is standing behind the pair\n\nMs Giuffre claimed in court papers in Florida she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions - in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein - between 2001 and 2002, including when she was underage under Florida law.\n\nThe details were later officially struck from the court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 was contained in documents from a defamation case. These documents were made public when they were released by a judge in August 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre had brought the defamation case against Ms Maxwell. She was alleged to have procured underage girls for Epstein and his friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had \"no recollection\" of ever meeting Ms Giuffre. He said he was looking after his children on the day in March 2001 that she alleges they went to a nightclub in London and later had sex in Ms Maxwell's house in the Belgravia area.\n\nThe prince said he had taken his daughter Beatrice to a Pizza Express restaurant in the town of Woking that afternoon for a party.\n\nHe said he remembered it \"because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I would like to reiterate and reaffirm the statements that have been issued on my behalf by the palace\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he had no recollection of a photo being taken, reportedly by Jeffrey Epstein, of him and Virginia Giuffre together in Ms Maxwell's house where his arm is around her waist.\n\n\"Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken,\" he said, adding that \"hug[s] and public displays of affection are not something that I do\".\n\nAsked whether he had sex with her in a bedroom in that house, he said: \"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued outright denials of all allegations against Prince Andrew.", "Large parts of central Venice are under water again, as another exceptionally high tide inundated the Italian city.\n\nThree of the worst 10 floods since records began in Venice, nearly a hundred years ago, have now happened in a week.", "There were three big questions and a whole pile of smaller ones that needed answering in this interview.\n\nOn the big three, the Duke of York was pressed time and time again - did he have sex with Virginia Giuffre (then called Virginia Roberts), as she claims? Why did he go back to see (and stay with) Jeffrey Epstein two years after the businessman's conviction and imprisonment for child sex offences? And how did he explain the photograph of him with his arm round the waist of the 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre.\n\nAbout his visit to New York in 2010 when he stayed at Epstein's house, Prince Andrew was, if not remorseful, then clear that (with hindsight) he had done the wrong thing. He had gone there to tell Epstein that their friendship was over, he said.\n\nHe said he did not speak to Epstein once he knew about the 2006 Palm Beach Police investigation into possible child sex offences. Nor did he speak to him or contact him when he was in prison. Then in 2010 he flew to New York and stayed with him - it was more \"convenient\", he said - for the sole purpose of telling him they could no longer be friends. By this point they had not seen each other for four years.\n\nTo have done it by phone would have been \"chicken\" and he is \"too honourable\" at times, he said. So, he says, he did the wrong thing for the right reasons. It was pretty much the only time in the interview that he admitted having made any kind of mistake over his 11-year relationship with Epstein.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew says he has wracked his brains but cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nAbout the claim by Virginia Giuffre that she slept with the prince three times, there was a categorical denial, alongside a string of reasons why her story did not add up.\n\nShe says he bought her a drink in a nightclub; he said he doesn't know where the bar is in that club. She says he was sweating heavily as he danced with her; he says he didn't sweat at all back then because of an obscure medical condition that's now gone away. She says he slept with her; he said he was at home after taking one of his daughters to a party in a pizza restaurant.\n\nHe said he didn't remember her, he didn't recollect her and again he absolutely categorically denied sleeping with her.\n\nMs Giuffre says she was abused by the prince in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home, where she was pictured in 2001\n\nAnd the photo of the prince with his arm slipped around Virginia Giuffre's naked midriff? It has plagued Prince Andrew and the palace, undercutting their blunt denials. No recollection, said the prince. No explanation.\n\nOver the past few months, so-called \"friends\" of the prince have mounted a whispering campaign about the photo trying to undercut its authenticity.\n\nHe wouldn't go so far but instead suggested he never wore the kinds of clothes he was wearing in the photo - travelling clothes - when in London, preferring a suit and tie, and that he never went to the upper floor of the house where the photo was taken. He just couldn't remember the photo, he said, and was at a loss to explain where it came from.\n\nThere was notably little in the way of apology or remorse in the interview. Aside from that visit to Epstein's house in 2010, Prince Andrew does not think he has done anything wrong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nHe does not regret the friendship with Epstein, a man who by many accounts used and abused young girls for many years. It had, he said, \"some seriously beneficial outcomes\".\n\nIn one horrible moment he described Epstein as having behaved \"in a manner unbecoming\", as if the convicted sex offender had simply passed the port round the wrong way in the regimental mess. He was picked up on that quickly, and apologised. \"I'm being polite,\" Prince Andrew said.\n\nPrince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein pictured walking in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nNothing struck him as suspicious in the various Epstein households that he visited. The Miami Herald has painstakingly put together a picture in Palm Beach of a place where three or four young (14 and 15-year-old) girls might visit a day to give Epstein massages, during which he would sexually abuse many of them.\n\nBut the prince was at pains to point out that he didn't know Epstein that well really, he might drop in a few times a year, and he said that Epstein \"may have changed his behaviour patterns\" so as to cover up his behaviour.\n\nPrince Andrew met Epstein through the businessman's girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell back in 1999. He said he had seen Ms Maxwell in late spring this year.\n\nDid they talk about their one-time friend, Jeffrey Epstein, who had accompanied Ms Maxwell to Windsor Castle and to Sandringham, who had laid his personal jet and houses and holiday island at Prince Andrew's disposal?\n\nNo, the prince replied, there was nothing to discuss: \"He wasn't in the news. We'd moved on.\"\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDemocratic Governor John Bel Edwards has secured a second term as Louisiana governor after a tightly fought election race.\n\nMr Edwards faced a strong challenge from Republican Eddie Rispone, winning with 51% of the vote.\n\nIt comes as a blow to President Donald Trump who backed his fellow Republican.\n\nMr Trump visited the state three times during the past two weeks, turning the race into a test of his own popularity in the southern state.\n\n\"Tonight, the people of Louisiana have chosen to chart their own path,\" Mr Edwards told a crowd of supporters on Saturday.\n\n\"And as for the president, God bless his heart,\" he added, drawing laughter from some onlookers.\n\nMr Edwards, 53, was first elected governor in 2015 and remains the only state-wide elected Democrat in the historically Republican state.\n\nHe positioned himself as a conservative Democrat, supporting the expansion of Obama-era healthcare reforms but opposing abortion and gun restrictions.\n\nRepublican contender Eddie Rispone positioned himself as a \"conservative outsider\" with backing from President Trump\n\nThe campaign also drew on the success of tax increases under his first term, which helped to end the state's overwhelming financial deficits. The new money has been used to fund investment in public colleges and the first pay rise in a decade for teachers.\n\nHis Republican rival, Mr Rispone, billed himself as a \"conservative outsider\" in the mould of President Trump, and spent over $12m (£9.3m) of his own money on the race.\n\nBut he avoided many traditional public events during the campaign, and often side-stepped questions about his plans for tax cuts and constitutional reform.\n\n\"We have nothing to be ashamed of,\" Mr Rispone told supporters after receiving news of his defeat. \"We had over 700,000 people in Louisiana really want something better and something different.\"\n\nSaturday's election marked the second Democratic victory in a traditionally Republican state this month, after Republicans lost the governorship race in Kentucky.", "There were three big questions and a whole pile of smaller ones that needed answering in this interview.\n\nOn the big three, the Duke of York was pressed time and time again - did he have sex with Virginia Giuffre (then called Virginia Roberts), as she claims? Why did he go back to see (and stay with) Jeffrey Epstein two years after the businessman's conviction and imprisonment for child sex offences? And how did he explain the photograph of him with his arm round the waist of the 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre.\n\nAbout his visit to New York in 2010 when he stayed at Epstein's house, Prince Andrew was, if not remorseful, then clear that (with hindsight) he had done the wrong thing. He had gone there to tell Epstein that their friendship was over, he said.\n\nHe said he did not speak to Epstein once he knew about the 2006 Palm Beach Police investigation into possible child sex offences. Nor did he speak to him or contact him when he was in prison. Then in 2010 he flew to New York and stayed with him - it was more \"convenient\", he said - for the sole purpose of telling him they could no longer be friends. By this point they had not seen each other for four years.\n\nTo have done it by phone would have been \"chicken\" and he is \"too honourable\" at times, he said. So, he says, he did the wrong thing for the right reasons. It was pretty much the only time in the interview that he admitted having made any kind of mistake over his 11-year relationship with Epstein.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew says he has wracked his brains but cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nAbout the claim by Virginia Giuffre that she slept with the prince three times, there was a categorical denial, alongside a string of reasons why her story did not add up.\n\nShe says he bought her a drink in a nightclub; he said he doesn't know where the bar is in that club. She says he was sweating heavily as he danced with her; he says he didn't sweat at all back then because of an obscure medical condition that's now gone away. She says he slept with her; he said he was at home after taking one of his daughters to a party in a pizza restaurant.\n\nHe said he didn't remember her, he didn't recollect her and again he absolutely categorically denied sleeping with her.\n\nMs Giuffre says she was abused by the prince in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home, where she was pictured in 2001\n\nAnd the photo of the prince with his arm slipped around Virginia Giuffre's naked midriff? It has plagued Prince Andrew and the palace, undercutting their blunt denials. No recollection, said the prince. No explanation.\n\nOver the past few months, so-called \"friends\" of the prince have mounted a whispering campaign about the photo trying to undercut its authenticity.\n\nHe wouldn't go so far but instead suggested he never wore the kinds of clothes he was wearing in the photo - travelling clothes - when in London, preferring a suit and tie, and that he never went to the upper floor of the house where the photo was taken. He just couldn't remember the photo, he said, and was at a loss to explain where it came from.\n\nThere was notably little in the way of apology or remorse in the interview. Aside from that visit to Epstein's house in 2010, Prince Andrew does not think he has done anything wrong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nHe does not regret the friendship with Epstein, a man who by many accounts used and abused young girls for many years. It had, he said, \"some seriously beneficial outcomes\".\n\nIn one horrible moment he described Epstein as having behaved \"in a manner unbecoming\", as if the convicted sex offender had simply passed the port round the wrong way in the regimental mess. He was picked up on that quickly, and apologised. \"I'm being polite,\" Prince Andrew said.\n\nPrince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein pictured walking in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nNothing struck him as suspicious in the various Epstein households that he visited. The Miami Herald has painstakingly put together a picture in Palm Beach of a place where three or four young (14 and 15-year-old) girls might visit a day to give Epstein massages, during which he would sexually abuse many of them.\n\nBut the prince was at pains to point out that he didn't know Epstein that well really, he might drop in a few times a year, and he said that Epstein \"may have changed his behaviour patterns\" so as to cover up his behaviour.\n\nPrince Andrew met Epstein through the businessman's girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell back in 1999. He said he had seen Ms Maxwell in late spring this year.\n\nDid they talk about their one-time friend, Jeffrey Epstein, who had accompanied Ms Maxwell to Windsor Castle and to Sandringham, who had laid his personal jet and houses and holiday island at Prince Andrew's disposal?\n\nNo, the prince replied, there was nothing to discuss: \"He wasn't in the news. We'd moved on.\"\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "Demolition work is being carried out by hand in an attempt to preserve the neighbouring buildings\n\nDemolition work has begun on a 143-year-old building in Glasgow which collapsed in a fire.\n\nThe blaze on Albert Drive in Pollokshields destroyed the shop where the fire is thought to have started a week ago, and the flats above it.\n\nMore than 40 properties near the four-storey building were evacuated and cordoned off for several days.\n\nResidents of at least 14 flats have still not been allowed back into their homes.\n\nThe fire started late last Sunday evening, and the building collapsed about six hours later, destroying the Strawberry and Spice Garden minimarket and two flats.\n\nNo one was seriously injured but one man was treated for the effects of breathing in smoke.\n\nAn exclusion zone put around the site cut off about 20 flats and more than 20 businesses, including a pharmacy, until Friday.\n\nNine of the businesses on Albert Drive are still inaccessible.\n\nGlasgow City Council said it had taken control of the site on Friday and would work with demolition experts over the weekend to make the site safe.\n\nThe initial demolition work will be done by hand from an elevated platform to try and preserve the surrounding properties, including two jewellers shops.\n\nMore than 20 businesses had to close for several days while the emergency services dealt with the site\n\nRachel Meach, who lives next to the fire damaged building, said they had been given no word of when they would be able to return home and were expecting a \"rough few months\".\n\nShe said: \"It's been really hard for everyone.\n\n\"The first few days we didn't even know what state our flat was in which was tough, but we were able to get the chief fire officer to go in and check.\"\n\nThe firefighter confirmed her family's possessions had survived the fire and managed to retrieve four years' work towards Ms Meach's PhD, along with her daughters' pet guinea pigs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We're so overwhelmed at the response of our Pollokshields community,\" she said. \"It's like none other really.\n\n\"Within 24 hours the community, both people we knew and complete strangers, made sure we had a roof over our heads, the kids had uniform, clothes and toys and that we had food and toiletries too.\n\n\"The school also raised money for the families affected and got that to us immediately, which was a huge help.\"\n\nLocal councillor Jon Molyneux said there had been a \"really strong community response\" to the fire with people rallying around to support their neighbours.\n\nHe said: \"There are still people with needs and people who don't know that the future holds, and the uncertainty is difficult for them.\"\n\nThe community would need support to recover from the fire he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYasmeen Tanveer, a community councillor and member of Pollokshields Primary School parent council, said they \"were full of praise for all of the service providers that had been involved\" in the operation, and the community that had donated goods to affected families.\n\nShe said they were still trying to trace all the residents of the buildings within the cordon to establish whether they needed help.\n\nThe primary school was working with Pollokshields Church of Scotland and Islamic Relief to get clothes, toiletries and food to those who needed it, she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nThe Duke of York stands by his decision to take part in an interview about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, sources have told the BBC.\n\nPeople close to Prince Andrew said he wanted to address the issues head-on and did so with \"honesty and humility\".\n\nIt came after the prince's interview with BBC Newsnight on Saturday was described as a \"car crash\".\n\nIn the interview, the prince denied having sex with a then 17-year-old girl - Virginia Giuffre.\n\nFormer Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter described the interview as \"excruciating\".\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the prince was \"very damaged\" by the interview and the opportunity to clear his name had \"failed, badly\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Arbiter says \"questions will be asked\" in the palace about the decision\n\nNewsnight's Emily Maitlis said she understood the Queen herself had given her approval for the interview to go ahead.\n\nWriting in The Times newspaper, she said it seemed the Queen was \"on board\" for the interview, after Prince Andrew had sought approval from \"higher up\".\n\nFor several months the Duke of York had been facing questions over his ties to Epstein - an American financier who, at the age of 66, took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew \"categorically\" denied having any sexual contact with Virginia Giuffre known at the time as Virginia Roberts.\n\nThe first occasion, she said, took place when she was aged 17.\n\nA lawyer for some of Epstein's alleged victims urged the prince to talk under oath to the US authorities.\n\nAsked about the prince's decision to be interviewed by BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis, Mr Arbiter said he thought many questions would be asked in Buckingham Palace.\n\nHe said: \"They will be wondering: Was this the right decision? Was the right decision made? Who made the decision to put him on? Did he make it himself or did he seek advice within the Palace?\n\n\"My guess is that he bulldozed his way in and decided he was going to do it himself without any advice.\n\n\"Any sensible-thinking person in the PR business would have thrown their hands up in horror at the very suggestion that he puts himself up in front of a television camera to explain away his actions and his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.\"\n\nHe added that the interview was \"not so much a car crash but an articulated lorry crash\".\n\nMr Arbiter said he believed the interview would have an impact on the Duke of York's relationships with various charities.\n\nAhead of Saturday's interview, Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson wrote of her support for him on social media.\n\nShe said: \"I am deeply supportive and proud of this giant of a principled man, [who] dares to put his shoulder to the wind and stands firm with his sense of honour and truth.\"\n\nBut other royal experts also questioned the prince's decision to speak so publicly about his relationship with Epstein.\n\nRoyal biographer Angela Levin said she was gripped by the interview but felt it was \"ill-judged\" to offer insights into his life with Epstein.\n\n\"Unfortunately it was a sign of his arrogance,\" she said. \"He has always been arrogant.\n\n\"The Queen's motto is don't complain don't explain. I think in her heart she will be extremely embarrassed.\n\n\"I know for a fact Prince Andrew does not listen to his advisers.\n\n\"A very senior member of the press team left suddenly two weeks ago and the implication is he would not have approved of what Prince Andrew did.\"\n\nPrince Andrew said this meeting with Epstein in 2010 was to end their relationship\n\nAnother royal biographer, Catharine Mayer, spent time with Prince Andrew in 2004 in China on a trade mission and said the interview was \"terrible because it erased the victims of Epstein\".\n\n\"It was as bad as I expected,\" she said. \"Probably worse.\n\n\"He did not mention those women once.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dickie Arbiter This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond said the interview reminded her of one Princess Diana gave to Panorama in 1995 where she \"spilled her soul\".\n\nMrs Bond added that Princes Andrew's lack of remorse in his interview was a \"glaring hole\".\n\nGloria Allred, who is representing some of the young women who say they were victims of Epstein, said \"there is so much truth that is yet to be revealed\".\n\nShe added: \"I would say to Prince Andrew: the charges made by [Virginia Giuffre] against you are very, very serious charges.\n\n\"I think the right and honourable thing to do would be for you to say unequivocally 'I will voluntarily speak to the FBI, I know it is the right thing to do, I have nothing to hide'.\"\n\nIn the lengthy interview, which UK viewers can watch in full on BBC iPlayer or on YouTube elsewhere in the world, the duke said that:\n\nThe duke was pictured with his accuser in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home in 2001\n\n\"Car crash\" and \"disaster\" are some of the kinder words that spring to mind about Prince Andrew's misbegotten foray into the long-form interview.\n\nThe reaction of the press and commentators is withering. Social media is burning with mockery, ridicule and a fair amount of anger.\n\nTo a fair number of people doubtful about the worth of the monarchy, Prince Andrew has emerged as an avatar of all that is wrong with the institution.\n\nThere is a reason the Royals don't do 'no-holds-barred' interviews. Unsurprisingly, given that they live in Palaces and have servants, they are somewhat out of touch.\n\nWhich is why Prince Andrew spoke of \"a straightforward shooting weekend\" and appeared to smirk at the idea of going for a pizza in Woking.\n\nNeglecting to even mention the victims of his friend Jeffrey Epstein compounded the impression of a man who entirely fails to grasp the spirit of the times.\n\nDefending his friendship with a convicted child sex offender on the grounds that he had met lots of interesting people because of him suggested a degree of self-absorption that would not survive exposure to the outside world.\n\nWho in his staff thought this interview would be a good idea and what does Prince Andrew do next?\n\nHe is very damaged. The interview was an opportunity to clear his name and rescue his reputation. It has failed, badly.", "Ms Swinson also joins in the criticism of the Duke of York in his interview with BBC Newsnight for failing to acknowledge the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse and trafficking.\n\nShe says: \"What I found hard to watch was the victims in these affairs were young women and girls who had been sexually abused, trafficked by Epstein, and the experience they had was traumatic, and for someone to be talking about it without really referencing that, without understanding that, without reaching out to understand that and how they must have felt was strange to see.\"\n\nIt was \"clearly not\" wise for him to do the interview, she says.\n\nAnd she says she was \"troubled\" by Prince Andrew's reference to sex being a \"positive act\" for a man - \"you have to take some sort of positive action\".\n\n\"I thought, 'Do you not think it's a positive act for a woman? Because if it's not a positive act, positive choice, that's not sex, that's rape. So I found that quite a worrying line.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWales eased to a comfortable win in Azerbaijan to set up a winner-takes-all match with Hungary for automatic qualification for Euro 2020.\n\nKieffer Moore headed the dominant visitors into an early lead, which was doubled when Harry Wilson nodded into an empty net after Daniel James' fierce swerving shot rebounded off the crossbar and post.\n\nWales maintained their control in the second half and, although Moore and Wilson missed the best chances to extend their advantage, it mattered little as Ryan Giggs' side coasted to victory.\n\nCroatia secured top spot in Group E by beating Slovakia 3-1 on Saturday, meaning Wales can take the second qualifying place with a win over Hungary in Cardiff on Tuesday.\n\nA draw in that match could allow Slovakia to clinch second place with a win over Azerbaijan.\n\nRyan Giggs' side do have the back-up route of a guaranteed play-off place thanks to Sweden's win over Romania in Group F on Friday.\n\nBut having suffered so many agonising qualifying near misses in the past, Wales will be eager to take the lottery of a play-off out of the equation by beating Hungary to secure what would be only their third appearance at a major tournament.\n• None Who needs what in Euro 2020 qualifiers?\n\nHaving waited 58 years between their first and second appearances - the 1958 World Cup and the run to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 - Wales are anxious not to endure another long barren spell.\n\nThey travelled to Baku walking a qualification tightrope, knowing there was precious little room for error.\n\nAlthough they were still relying on results elsewhere, Giggs and his players were aware that to have any realistic hope of qualifying automatically they had to win here and then against Hungary in Cardiff on Tuesday.\n\nWales wanted to control their own destiny as best they could, and they seized control of this match with a purposeful start.\n\nWhereas Giggs' side were hesitant and disjointed against the same opponents in September, here they were confident and dominant in possession.\n\nThey built their attacks patiently and made an early breakthrough as Harry Wilson's looping corner to the back post was bundled in from close range by Moore.\n\nThe Wigan striker had a fine chance to score a second but his right foot was less effective than his head as his low shot was smothered by Emil Balayev in the Azerbaijan goal.\n\nThat was a rare misstep in an excellent display from Moore, who has already established himself as the focal point of Wales' attack despite only making his debut in September.\n\nThe miss did not matter as, three minutes later, Wales doubled their advantage when James cut inside from the left wing and unleashed a vicious shot towards the top far corner. The ball cannoned off the crossbar and post before sitting up invitingly for Wilson, who nodded it into the empty net.\n\nThe goal put Wales in total control at half-time, giving Giggs the luxury of already turning his attention to Tuesday's match against Hungary.\n\nGiggs said in the build-up to the match in Baku that he was planning for the fixture with one eye on the group finale in Cardiff.\n\nWales needed to win both matches so, although beating Azerbaijan was the initial priority, Giggs had to ensure his squad was poised to follow up this performance with a display of similar quality against tougher opposition in the form of Hungary.\n\nThat is why the former Wales and Manchester United captain left Aaron Ramsey on the bench at the Bakcell Arena.\n\nA series of injuries meant the Juventus midfielder had not yet featured in this qualifying campaign, and his return to full fitness was regarded as a major boost for these two matches.\n\nBut like Gareth Bale, who had not played since last month's draw with Croatia, Ramsey was lacking match fitness, which meant he would have to be managed carefully over the course of this double-header.\n\nWales' position of strength in Baku meant they were able to take Bale off after an hour, limiting his exertions and ensuring he avoided a third yellow card of the campaign which would have caused him to miss the Hungary match through suspension.\n\nRamsey took his place, a useful 30-minute workout for the former Arsenal playmaker, while keeping him fresh for Tuesday's crucial fixture.\n\nRamsey and Bale have not lost a qualifier while playing together since a 2-0 defeat in Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 2015, which was academic as Wales qualified for Euro 2016 that night anyway.\n\nAgainst Hungary on Tuesday, Wales will hope to have them back on the pitch together for the first time since November 2018, with fingers crossed they can maintain their proud record in what will be a match of huge significance.\n\nWales boss Ryan Giggs on Sky Sports: \"The performance like always could be better but the result was the main thing tonight. It's set up nicely for Tuesday.\n\n\"Kieffer is a threat and we recognised they might be a bit weak at set-pieces. We were pleased to get the big man on the scoresheet again.\n\n\"I thought the referee handled the game well and there were no silly fouls from us - going into Tuesday we wanted our best players available.\n\n\"We've played some good football at times which is pleasing. It could have been better but overall I was happy with the performance.\"\n• None Wales are unbeaten in eight meetings against Azerbaijan, winning seven games and drawing once; they have faced no other side as many times without losing\n• None Azerbaijan are winless in 12 European Championship qualifying matches (D4 L8), and have failed to keep in a clean sheet in their past 10 such games.\n• None Wales have won a European Championship qualifying match away from home for the first time this campaign, having not done so since September 2015 v Cyprus under Chris Coleman.\n• None Harry Wilson has both scored and assisted in the same game for Wales for the first time since March 2018 against China in the China Cup.\n• None Kieffer Moore has scored two goals in four appearances for Wales this season, one more goal than he has scored in 14 matches in 2019-20 for club side Wigan Athletic.\n• None Moore had 10 shots against Azerbaijan, five of which were on target; the last Wales player to have as many in a single match was Aaron Ramsey v Moldova in September 2017 (also 10).\n• None Tamkin Xalilzade (Azerbaijan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Joe Morrell.\n• None Shahriyar Rahimov (Azerbaijan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Dimitrij Nazarov (Azerbaijan) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Joe Morrell (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Actor Stephen Graham has opened up about the time he attempted to take his own life, after suffering a breakdown.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the star of Line of Duty, The Irishman and This Is England said he \"didn't know how to cope\" at the time.\n\nThe ordeal came about after he had left home to go to drama school in London.\n\nThe 46-year-old said a series of traumatic family events that occurred before he moved away from home for the first time contributed to his collapse.\n\nIn the space of a few years, his beloved grandmother died and his mother gave birth to a stillborn child. \"I'd been through these few traumatic things and never really grieved,\" said the Liverpudlian actor.\n\nHis mother later became pregnant again and a baby brother arrived the day before Graham, then 20, went to start his new life in the capital.\n\n\"This beautiful joyous occasion of this little boy coming into my life and mum and pop's life and then me having to leave was kind of a bit difficult,\" he told host Lauren Laverne. \"But when you're 20 you have the world in front of you haven't you, so you try not to focus on that stuff.\"\n\nHe added: \"I had a breakdown with all of these things that had happened traumatically from my late teens that I hadn't really dealt with or I hadn't come to terms with.\"\n\nThe star recalled how he returned home and tried to explain his feelings to his parents, who tried to help him, but in vain.\n\nHe went on to attempt to hang himself in his room. \"It was very calculated,\" he said.\n\n\"I heard my nanna's voice - and I know it sounds strange and weird... and she shouted 'Stephen' and I thought I'd gone, because I'd tried to do that. And I just came to, I opened my eyes and the rope had snapped, thankfully.\n\n\"And then I put a high neck jumper on, one of them zip-up jumpers, and my ma and da came back and then my mum kind of saw it and she went, 'What's that?' And she seen it properly and then the three of us... I really opened up then, everything just came out and I just [said], 'I don't know how to cope.'\n\nHis best friends Lee and Jamie were \"magnificent\", he said. \"They were really supportive and my mum and dad and slowly built me back, slowly come around to the understanding it was OK. Life was worth living, thankfully.\"\n\nGraham also spoke about how he first attended a youth theatre group at Liverpool's Everyman theatre as a teenager on the advice of local actor Andrew Schofield, who lived over the road from his grandmother.\n\nOne of Graham's grandfathers was Jamaican, and he told Laverne that at times in his youth he didn't know where he \"belonged\".\n\n\"There were times there growing up when I was slightly unsure where I fitted in,\" he said, referencing his white and black cousins. He stressed that his parents encouraged him \"to find my own way within it\".\n\nGraham (second left) with Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino and the cast of The Irishman last month\n\nHe can now be seen playing mobster Anthony Provenzano in Martin Scorsese's film The Irishman. The director had previously cast him in Gangs of New York and as Al Capone in HBO's Boardwalk Empire.\n\nGraham admitted he was \"really nervous\" to meet Robert De Niro, his co-star in The Irishman, because movies like The Godfather, Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter were \"the films that I grew up on\".\n\nHis dad showed them to him on video straight after he confessed to having a proper interest in acting. \"That weekend we watched those three films, and I think we watched The Godfather twice actually. It was amazing,\" he recalled.\n\n\"But that was that kind of a moment where he went to me, 'If you're serious, this is how it's done, seriously and brilliantly.' That began my love affair with films.\"\n\nDesert Island Discs is on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15 GMT on Sunday and then online.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hellynne and Barry Lee used a hosepipe to soak their neighbour\n\nA couple have admitted common assault on their neighbour by turning a hosepipe on him in a long-running dispute.\n\nBarry and Hellynne Lee, both aged 72, sprayed Harold Burrows with water as he was clearing up debris that washed into his garden from their pathway in June.\n\nMagistrates at Llandudno, Conwy county, were shown footage of the incident which Mr Burrows had caught on camera.\n\nThe couple were given a 12-month conditional discharge.\n\nThey were also each ordered to pay £170 costs.\n\nBarry and Hellynne Lee arriving at court on Friday\n\nProsecutor Julia Galston said it was a \"nasty assault\" and that there had been a \"number of difficulties with the Lees\" over the years.\n\nRobert Vickery, mitigating, said the neighbours used to be friends but there had been a dispute about land and the Lees now planned to move.\n\n\"On this day Mr and Mrs Lee were doing what they have done for many years, hosing down their driveway and pathway,\" he said.\n\n\"But because of the lie of the land, water has the habit of going downhill and water containing some of the crud has gone under the fence panel.\"\n\nMr Vickery said Mr Burrows, a retired ambulance service regional staff officer, came out to brush up the debris, while carrying his camera.\n\nHe was then sprayed with water, first by Mrs Lee and then by her husband.\n\n\"This is certainly, in my nearly 40 years' experience, the first time I have ever dealt with an assault by water from a hosepipe,\" said Mr Vickery.\n\nThe couple, from Cae Fron, Denbigh, were both given a two-year restraining order banning communication with their neighbours, except through a third party, during Friday's hearing.\n\nCourt chairman Robert Bradley said they had not been ordered to compensation \"because we feel it would antagonise the situation\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The SNP has called for TV licence decisions to be made independently of government, as it pledged to fight for free licences for over-75s.\n\nThe party argues that powers over licence fees should be removed from the UK government to avoid political \"game-playing\".\n\nThe BBC announced in June that free licences for over-75s would go, affecting up to 3.7m households.\n\nThe change is scheduled to come into effect next year.\n\nThe UK government announced in 2015 that the BBC would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the licence fee settlement.\n\nUnder the agreement the BBC would determine, after consultation, what the policy should be - and then fund that policy.\n\nThe corporation has since said that the cost of maintaining the full benefit would jeopardise the future of BBC Two, BBC Four, the BBC News Channel, the BBC Scotland channel and Radio 5 Live, as well as many local radio stations.\n\nIn June it announced the licence would remain free to low income households, where one person receives pension credit, but other over 75-year-olds would be required to pay the fee, currently costing £154.50 a year.\n\nThe SNP now wants an independent body to rule on who should pay the licence fee and how much it should cost.\n\nThe party's Brendan O'Hara accused the Conservative UK government of having \"taken older people for granted for too long\".\n\nHe said pensioners should get a better deal, adding: \"SNP MPs will fight to reverse that decision and restore the free TV licence for older people.\n\n\"But more broadly, we need to stop future governments from similar game-playing and have the licence fee set independently of government.\"\n\nLabour has already pledged to keep free TV licences for over-75s if it wins power in the 12 December general election.\n\nThe party's shadow culture secretary told the Daily Mirror earlier this month that the removal of the benefit was \"utterly callous\" and \"disgraceful\".\n\nHe added: \"Four in 10 older people say the TV is their main source of company, but from next year 3.7m older people will lose their free TV licence\".\n\nIt has also been reported that Boris Johnson is looking to save free licences for older viewers as part of the Conservative election campaign.\n\nAccording to the Sun on Sunday, the prime minister ordered officials to find a way to ensure no over-75s would need to pay as a \"priority\".\n\nThe Lib Dems say scrapping free TV licenses for over-75s will have a \"huge impact\" on the mental wellbeing of older people.\n\nThey want to restore free TV licences for over-75s, and have these paid for by the UK government.\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The Duke of York has told the BBC he has wracked his brains but cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - who has said she was forced to have sex with him three times.\n\nWhen asked by BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis whether there was any way he could have had sex with Ms Roberts, or any woman trafficked by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew said \"no\".\n\nThe interview is the first time Prince Andrew has spoken publicly about his links with Jeffrey Epstein, a 66-year-old American financier who took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch the full programme on BBC iPlayer: Prince Andrew and the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview and YouTube", "The London Marathon has also introduced measures to crack down on plastic waste\n\nRunners at north Wales' largest running event were warned they would be disqualified if they dropped litter during the race.\n\nOrganisers of Sunday's Conwy Half Marathon said the measures had been introduced as plastic was becoming an \"increasing problem\".\n\nThe Run Wales website said runners would also be \"taken off the results if seen discarding their rubbish outside of a water stop or not with a marshal\".\n\nOrganisers have not yet said if anybody had been disqualified following the race, which started in front of the town's castle at 10:00 GMT.\n\nRun Wales is following a growing trend among race organisers to reduce the environmental impact of events.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn April 2019, the London Marathon trialled several measures to reduce litter after clearing 47,000 plastic bottles from the streets in 2018.\n\nThese included using compostable cups rather than plastic bottles at some stations along the route, and using plastic bottles made wholly or partly from recycled plastic.\n\nThis year's Cardiff Half Marathon used 100% recyclable plastic bottles, recycled paper for all print advertising and medals made from recycled zinc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How students Leah Mckee-Hearne and Courtney Peaker spotted the Bolton fire and raised the alarm\n\nStudents who were forced to flee a block of flats hit by a major blaze in Bolton are to be re-housed.\n\nAn investigation is under way after the fire ripped through The Cube on Friday, leaving dozens of students with \"no personal possessions\".\n\nMore than £10,000 has been raised for the University of Bolton students through a crowdfunding appeal.\n\nTwo people were injured in the fire, amid confusion among residents because fire alarms go off \"almost every day\".\n\nThe blaze at The Cube in Bolton broke out on Friday and took more than nine hours to bring under control\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the cladding on the outside of the building, although it is different to the material used at Grenfell Tower, where a blaze killed 72 people in London, in 2017.\n\nThe Cube, which is managed by private firm Valeo Urban Student Life, accommodates about 220 people.\n\nKyra Rivett, who lived in the six-storey building, told BBC Breakfast: \"Most of us have [lost belongings], especially those who lived on the top and fifth floor - all their belongings have gone.\"\n\nProf George Holmes, vice-chancellor of the university, said affected students could access £500 for emergency provisions.\n\n\"We've made sure all students have accommodation for next week,\" he said.\n\nMany international students were left without their passports after the blaze, but Prof Holmes said the government had \"assured me they will fast-track those student passport and visa requirements\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A number of students have been left with \"no personal possessions\"\n\nMs Rivett had just returned from work when she heard the alarms going off.\n\n\"[But] because it goes off so often, I just thought it's another false alarm, it's not a problem,\" she said.\n\nBeverley Hughes, deputy mayor of Greater Manchester, said the fire \"spread very, very rapidly indeed and it needed very aggressive firefighting tactics to bring it under control\".\n\nFriday's blaze was tackled by up to 200 firefighters after it broke out at 20:30 GMT.\n\n\"The immediate evacuation clearly made an incredible difference... students ambassadors were going about banging on doors, getting everybody out,\" David Greenhalgh, leader of Bolton Council, said.\n\n\"We have been assured that all alarms were working so that building was evacuated in the time that was needed.\"\n\nAbout 220 students lived at The Cube in Bolton\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said the fire service had learnt from the Grenfell fire and had also sent a team \"to focus on the evacuation rather than fighting the fire\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: \"It is not yet known when the students will be able to get back into their homes but work is ongoing to assess the safety of the building and access will be reviewed on Monday.\"\n\nThe service said residents at four nearby properties would also be unable to return to their homes due to safety concerns.\n\nThe GMFRS spokeswoman confirmed that The Cube was inspected along with other high-rise buildings in 2017 following the Grenfell tragedy.\n\nShe said a letter was sent to the building's management \"requiring the fire risk assessment to be updated to consider the risk of internal and external fire spread\".\n\n\"As part of this assessment, the building was operating an evacuation strategy,\" a spokesman said.\n\nValeo USL said it was \"not responsible for the construction of or subsequent amendments to the construction of the Cube buildings\", adding that the site's landlord was the firm Idealsite Ltd.\n\nThe latter company, which is registered in Lincolnshire and has a board of directors based in the Republic of Ireland, is yet to comment.\n\nThe high-pressure laminate cladding used at The Cube is not the same as the now-banned aluminium composite material (ACM) at Grenfell, Salford mayor Paul Dennett said.\n\n\"We have a bit of a cladding lottery,\" he added.\n\n\"The government has made resources available for ACM but this is high-pressure laminate, so we will be asking government for more funds to really deal with what is an industrial crisis.\n\n\"We need to do a full investigation of this building because it's not just about the cladding, it's about the actual structure of the cladding system and we need to investigate whether compartmentation has been breached and a whole host of different issues\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nThe US businesswoman at the centre of a misconduct controversy involving Boris Johnson has said he \"cast me aside like I am some gremlin\".\n\nIt is alleged that Jennifer Arcuri received favourable treatment during Mr Johnson's time as mayor of London due to their friendship, claims he denies.\n\nMs Arcuri told ITV she had kept his \"secrets\" but that her requests to him for media advice had been \"blocked\".\n\nThe Conservatives say any claims of impropriety are \"unfounded\".\n\nDuring the interview to be aired later, Ms Arcuri addressed the now prime minister directly, saying: \"I've been nothing but loyal, faithful, supportive, and a true confidante of yours.\n\n\"I've kept your secrets, and I've been your friend.\n\n\"And I don't understand why you've blocked me and ignored me as if I was some fleeting one-night stand or some girl that you picked up at a bar because I wasn't - and you know that.\n\n\"And I'm terribly heartbroken by the way that you have cast me aside like I am some gremlin.\"\n\nMs Arcuri appearing on the BBC's Talking Business programme in 2013\n\nHer latest interview, follows allegations, first reported in the Sunday Times in September, that Ms Arcuri's business was given £126,000 in public money along with privileged access to three foreign trade trips led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor, between 2008 and 2016.\n\nThe Greater London Authority (GLA) - whose job it is to oversee the conduct of the mayor - launched an investigation into the alleged conflict of interest following the paper's report.\n\nThat probe was paused after the authority referred the claims to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe watchdog will now decide whether or not to investigate the prime minister for a potential criminal offence of misconduct in public office - before the GLA decides whether to continue its own probe.\n\nLast month, a government review ruled that a £100,000 government grant given to Ms Arcuri's business was \"appropriate\".\n\nMs Arcuri said she had tried to ask Mr Johnson for advice on how to handle media attention over the allegations, but was left feeling \"humiliated\" after being told \"there are bigger things at stake\" by an aide.\n\nShe added: \"I was brushed off as if I was one of Kennedy's girlfriends showing up to his White House switchboard, you know, here to do my, you know, calling\".\n\nMs Arcuri would not be drawn on the nature of their relationship during the interview, but said that she had come under pressure from friends to \"admit the affair\".\n\nIn response to the programme, the Conservative Party said it considered the decision to refer Mr Johnson to the police watchdog as \"vexatious and politically motivated\".\n\nA spokesman added that any claims of impropriety in office by Mr Johnson were \"untrue and unfounded\".", "Brexit Party candidate Ann Widdecombe and leader Nigel Farage both said they had been approached\n\nCalls are growing for an investigation into claims the Tories offered peerages to Brexit Party election candidates to persuade them to stand down.\n\nPolice say they are assessing two allegations of electoral fraud.\n\nLabour peer Lord Falconer has urged the Metropolitan Police and prosecution service to launch an investigation, saying the claims raised \"serious questions\" about the integrity of the 12 December election.\n\nThe PM says the claims are \"nonsense\".\n\n\"I am sure there are conversations that take place between politicians of all parties but certainly nobody's been offered a peerage,\" Boris Johnson said on Friday.\n\nThe claims - first made public by the Brexit Party's Nigel Farage - came after the Brexit Party announced it would not field candidates in any seats won by the Conservatives in 2017, to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nBut the party said it would contest all other seats, prompting pressure from Conservatives who urged Mr Farage to withdraw more candidates to help Mr Johnson win a majority in Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter earlier this week, Mr Farage claimed he and eight other Brexit Party figures had been offered jobs \"in the (Brexit) negotiating team and in government departments\" while there had been \"hints at peerages too\".\n\nAnn Widdecombe, a Brexit Party candidate, said she was prepared to swear on the Bible that she had been approached with an offer of \"a role\" in the next phase of Brexit negotiations.\n\nA Conservative source also told the BBC that the Brexit Party candidate in Peterborough, Mike Greene, had been offered an unpaid role in education in the hope it would convince him to stand aside.\n\nThe Brexit Party candidate's team said Mr Greene would definitely be running in the Cambridgeshire constituency, which Labour held narrowly at a by-election in June.\n\nIn a letter, Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor, said he wanted to raise the issue \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nHe wrote to Cressida Dick, the Met Police commissioner, and Max Hill, the director of public prosecutions, saying: \"I believe these allegations raise serious questions about the integrity of the upcoming general election, and in particular whether senior individuals at CCHQ (Conservative Campaign Headquarters) or No 10 have breached two sections of the Representation of the People Act 1983.\"\n\nLord Falconer added: \"These are exceptionally serious allegations which the DPP must, in accordance with his statutory duty, fully investigate as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"In addition, in order to maintain public confidence in the integrity of our electoral processes and this election, it is crucial that the Metropolitan Police also examine these accusations.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme, Lord Falconer said: \"The law is that if somebody corruptly induces or procures another person to withdraw from being a candidate at an election, that's both a crime and a corrupt practice in an election, which can lead an election to be set aside.\n\n\"From my point of view, it looks as if the Conservatives might be going well beyond electoral law in trying to win this election by persuading Brexit UK candidates not to stand.\"\n\nLabour party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"This could be political corruption of the highest order and, in addition to that, it could be seen as criminal activity.\"\n\nHe said there should \"undoubtedly\" be an investigation.\n\nResponding to the claims, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said: \"Nothing would surprise me about the Conservatives these days given what they've been prepared to do.\n\n\"If Boris Johnson's prepared to lie to the Queen, lie to the country, you know, I'm going to stop being shocked at where his lack of boundaries lies.\"\n\nThe SNP has also backed a probe into the allegations, insisting there should be an urgent inquiry by the Cabinet Office.\n\nTommy Sheppard, the SNP candidate for Edinburgh, called for a \"full and frank investigation\".\n\nThe Met Police said it was assessing two allegations of electoral fraud and malpractice in relation to the general election.\n\nThe lord chancellor is a role dating back many centuries, the holder of which is also head of the Ministry of Justice.", "Firefighters have extinguished the blaze at The Cube in Bolton\n\nCladding on a block of student flats that was hit by a major blaze is a cause for \"concern\", Greater Manchester's mayor has said.\n\nTwo people were hurt when about 100 residents fled The Cube in Bolton after a blaze on Friday.\n\nMayor Andy Burnham said its cladding was not the same as at Grenfell Tower, where 72 people died in 2017.\n\nBut cladding is a \"bigger issue... than we have so far faced up to,\" Mr Burnham admitted.\n\nResidents of The Cube were also confused as to whether there was actually a fire in the building on Friday because, as one said, fire alarms go off \"almost every day\".\n\nUrban Student Life (USL), which manages the property, said all residents were successfully evacuated after the blaze broke out at about 20:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, they said two students were treated for \"minor injuries\" on site, where up to 200 firefighters tackled the blaze.\n\nOne witness said the fire was \"climbing up\" the building\n\nAssistant chief fire officer Dave Keelan, of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: \"The fire... really did spread very quickly and that was evident to see on the footage that's on social media.\"\n\nHe said an investigation had been launched into the blaze.\n\nMr Burnham said: \"[The Cube] does not have the same ACM cladding [that was on Grenfell Tower] but nevertheless it does have a form of cladding that causes concern and raises issues that will have to be addressed.\"\n\nHe said he would talk to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who visited the Bolton site earlier, about whether \"we need to go further to remove cladding from these buildings and give families peace of mind\".\n\nSalford mayor Paul Dennett said he would be asking the government for more money to remove flammable cladding, adding there was \"an industrial crisis\" around the issue.\n\nRoy Wilsher, chief of the National Fire Chiefs Council, said the fire \"once again highlights how changes to building regulations need to be moved on at a much quicker pace\".\n\nThe fire has led to damage on all floors of the six-storey building\n\nOn the issue of the fire alarms, resident Afnan Gohar said she thought it was a \"false alarm\"\n\n\"We didn't take notice of it until a girl came running and screamed, telling us to get out and we didn't believe it at first,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMelissa McGarrigle said: \"The fire alarms in the corridor went off but they aren't particularly loud, especially if you're asleep.\n\n\"It just doesn't feel real, everyone thought it was just the fire alarms acting up as usual until we heard people screaming.\"\n\nThe fire started on the fourth floor, the property management firm said\n\nWitness Ace Love, 35, said the fire \"kept getting more intense, climbing up and to the right because the wind was blowing so hard\".\n\n\"We could see it bubbling from the outside and then being engulfed from the outside,\" he added.\n\n\"A lot of students got out very fast, someone was very distressed, the rest were on phones calling for help.\n\n\"The fire got worse and worse, to the point where you could see through the beams, it was just bare frame.\"\n\nEva Crossan Jory, vice president of welfare for the National Union of Students (NUS), said it had been \"calling for a number of improvements in fire-safety measures in student accommodation\" across the UK.\n\n\"It shouldn't take another fire to put the issue of building safety back on the agenda,\" she said.\n\n\"Student safety must always be the first priority for accommodation providers and the government.\"\n\nIn 2016, Urban Student Life (USL) was criticised in a tribunal ruling for not providing clear written guidelines on fire safety procedures or displaying fire safety notices in one of its student accommodation blocks in Leeds.\n\nLeeds City Council sent in fire authority officers to inspect the building, who declared at the time it was not fit for use.\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), said the latest fire was \"deeply troubling\".\n\n\"This is not how any building should react to a fire in the 21st century, let alone a building in which people live,\" he said.\n\n\"It's time for a complete overhaul of UK fire safety before it's too late.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson met people helping residents after the fire in Bolton\n\nLes Skarratts, of the FBU in the north-west, said there would be \"hard lessons to learn as the circumstances become clearer in the coming days\".\n\nForty fire engines were called to the scene of the blaze, which affected every floor.\n\nProf George E Holmes, vice-chancellor of the University of Bolton, whose students live at the block, said: \"I can't say enough about how pleased we were with the response - it's been amazing from all emergency services.\"\n\nFootball fans attending Bolton Wanderers' match were asked to donate items for evacuated residents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe university said it was supporting students, who are being offered temporary accommodation in other student halls and in some hotels.\n\nGMFRS has asked residents who are not yet accounted for to contact authorities to let them know they are safe.\n\nMr Keelan added a team has \"concentrated purely on the high-rises across Greater Manchester to make sure that we learn from Grenfell\".\n\n\"The evacuation procedure and subsequent training - and putting it into practice last night - has paid absolute dividends,\" he told a press conference.\n\n\"We are going to continue to be here throughout the day and working very closely with the building owner to move this forward in the coming days.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the fire? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 41 of the 353 councils who returned figures to central government reported a loss on their parking operations\n\nCouncils in England made a total of £930m from parking activities in a year, figures show.\n\nThe record figure during the past financial year is a 7% increase on 2017-18, the RAC Foundation says.\n\nSeventeen of the 20 councils making the most money are in London, with Westminster Council accruing the largest amount, at £69m.\n\nBrighton and Hove, Birmingham and Milton Keynes were the only three in the top 20 not in the capital.\n\nKensington and Chelsea was second in London, with a total of £37m.\n\nAny money made from parking activities - which includes fines and tickets - must be spent on local transport projects.\n\nThe study was carried out by transport consultant David Leibling, who analysed Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government data.\n\nLocal authorities received an income of £1.746bn from their parking operations in 2018-19, which included £454m from penalties, which is up 6% year-on-year.\n\nThe amount councils spent on running their day-to-day parking operations was £816m, not including interest payments or depreciation of assets such as car parks.\n\nDavid Renard, the Local Government Association's transport spokesman, said London had the highest number of vehicles moving about looking for spaces to park.\n\n\"I would expect the higher volume of vehicles moving around London means there'll be a higher level of infringement and fines,\" he said.\n\n\"[Councils] seek to ensure they can keep the traffic moving as efficiently as possible and that means people who infringe the regulations will get fined,\" he said.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson laid out his plans as he addressed the CBI conference\n\nPlanned cuts to corporation tax next April are to be put on hold, Boris Johnson has said, with the money being spent on the NHS and other services.\n\nThe rate paid by firms on their profits was due to fall from 19% to 17%.\n\nBut the PM told business leaders it may cost the Treasury £6bn and this was better spent on \"national priorities\", including the health service.\n\nLabour said business \"handouts\" had done real damage and the Tories would \"revert to type\" after the election.\n\nThe announcement does not mean any new money for the NHS, on top of the £20bn extra a year the Conservatives are promising to give it up to 2023. The BBC understands the cash will be used, in part, to fund existing pledges on GP training.\n\nWith just over three weeks to go before the 12 December election, the leaders of the three largest parties in England have been parading their business credentials at the CBI conference.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said business had \"so much to gain\" from a Labour victory in terms of investment while Jo Swinson said the Liberal Democrats were the \"natural party of business\" because they wanted to cancel Brexit.\n\nAddressing the audience of top executives and entrepreneurs, Mr Johnson said they had \"created the wealth that actually pays for the NHS\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStressing his party's \"emphatic belief in fiscal prudence\", he said he had decided against going ahead with a further cut in corporation tax, a step first proposed by Chancellor George Osborne in 2016 to boost business in the wake of the Brexit referendum.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK already had the lowest rate of corporation tax of \"any major economy\" and further cuts would be \"postponed\".\n\n\"Before you storm the stage, let me remind you that this saves £6bn that we can put into the priorities of the British people including the NHS,\" he told the audience.\n\nCorporation tax is an important revenue-raiser, making up approximately 9% of the UK government's total tax take. The amount raised by the tax has risen by two-thirds in the past decade, as the rate has fallen from 28% to 19% and economic conditions have improved.\n\nBut many economists said the latest cut would be potentially counter-productive in terms of tax yields, with a study based on HMRC data last year suggesting it could mean £6bn a year in lost government revenues.\n\nIn response, CBI director Carolyn Fairbairn said the move could \"work for the country if it is backed by further efforts to the costs of doing business and promote growth\".\n\nBlink and you might have missed it, but the PM has just announced the single biggest tax-raising measure of the campaign so far.\n\nThe overnight headlines about Boris Johnson's CBI speech were about a £1bn cut to business taxes. It pays to read the small print.\n\nAll together, this leaves an extra £5bn a year for the Conservative manifesto to deploy in extra spending or, as seems likely, some crowd-pleasing pre-election personal tax cuts.\n\nI'm told the corporation tax move was Chancellor Sajid Javid's idea, and was discussed during plans for his aborted Budget earlier this month. The PM also confirmed Mr Javid would remain in post if he wins the election next month.\n\nCancelling the cut still leaves the UK with the lowest corporation tax rate in the G20, although not as low as Switzerland or Singapore.\n\nGiven the government's argument has long been that cuts to corporation tax raise revenue, it is interesting to see the PM now say that cancelling cuts will also raise revenue.\n\nIt is meant to show clear blue water between the Conservatives and Labour on fiscal credibility. In the event, there was barely a squeak out of the CBI audience about a significant multi-billion pound tax change.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell said Monday's freeze marked a \"temporary pause in the Tories' race to the bottom\" on business taxes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John McDonnell MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's plan has been to raise corporation tax to 26% - the 2011 level - which it says will generate billions to be spent on its priorities, including health and education.\n\nTurning to Brexit, the Conservative leader told the conference that while big business did not want the UK to leave the EU, his withdrawal deal would provide the certainty \"that you want now and have wanted for some time\".\n\nIf elected with a Commons majority, Mr Johnson is hoping to get the agreement on the terms of the UK's exit into law by 31 January, and begin talks with Brussels on a permanent trading relationship.\n\nHe also announced a review of business rates in England, with the aim of reducing the overall burden of the tax, as well as a cut in National Insurance contributions for employers, which already benefit from a reduction known as the employment allowance.\n\nIn his address, Mr Corbyn said business had nothing to fear from a Labour government, arguing that while the richest would pay more, there would also be \"more investment than you have ever dreamt of\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I understand your concern over some of our plans\"\n\nHe said he would \"make no apologies\" for the party's plan to take rail, mail, water and broadband delivery into public ownership, saying it was \"not an attack\" on the free market and would bring the UK in line with the continent.\n\n\"It is sometimes claimed I am anti-business,\" he said. \"This is nonsense. It is not nonsense to be against poverty pay. It is not nonsense to say the largest corporations should pay their taxes, just as small companies do.\n\n\"It is not anti-business to want prosperity in every part of the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Labour leader also set out plans to train about 320,000 apprentices in jobs such as construction, manufacturing and design within the renewable energy, transport and forestry sectors.\n\nMs Fairbairn said the business community shared Labour's desire to increased investment but warned the opposition's \"massive instincts towards state intervention and ownership\" put that at risk.\n\nIn her first address to the CBI as leader of her party, Ms Swinson said no-one claiming to want to \"get Brexit sorted\" was on the side of business, due to the negative impact she said it would have on investment and access to labour.\n\n\"With Boris Johnson in the pocket of Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn stuck in the 1970s, we are the only one standing up for you,\" she said.\n\nShe said her party would go further than the others and replace \"crippling\" business rates with a levy paid by commercial landlords based on land value, which she suggested would help \"rescue the High Street\".\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who is not attending the CBI event, said politicians' focus should be on helping small business and promoting what he claimed were the advantages of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nigel Farage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDo you have any questions about the forthcoming election?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "We knew this was going to be a strange election. It's been a strange few years.\n\nBut while the parties are eagerly trying to stick to their familiar scripts - the Tories on Brexit, the Labour Party on public services, something far less recognisable is going on too in this campaign.\n\nIt started with Ian Austin last week, the former Labour MP who urged voters to choose Boris Johnson instead.\n\nAnd it's fully breaking out on the other side too.\n\nDavid Gauke, who only resigned from the cabinet a few months ago, has publicly urged voters to take a good look at the Liberal Democrats, saying that a Boris Johnson majority would be bad for the country.\n\nRead the latest blog from Laura here.", "A draft copy of a review into the HS2 high-speed railway linking London and the North of England says it should be built, despite its rising cost.\n\nThe government-commissioned review, launched in August, will not be published until after the election.\n\nIt says the project might cost even more than its current price of £88bn.\n\nMembers of the panel which produced the review have told the BBC that the draft recommends that HS2 should be built with only relatively minor alterations.\n\nThese include reducing the number of trains per hour from 18 to 14, which is in line with other high-speed networks around the world.\n\nThe document says that even the most controversial stretch of the railway - linking west London to central London - should go ahead.\n\nBusiness leaders and politicians in the North of England have welcomed the review's preliminary findings.\n\nBut the draft does not have the support of the review's deputy chair, Lord Berkeley.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, he criticised the review's \"lack of balance\" and said the cost of the scheme had not been properly scrutinised.\n\nIn the letter, sent to Doug Oakervee, the chairman of the review panel, Lord Berkeley said about the review: \"I cannot support its conclusions or recommendations.\n\n\"My concerns are about the process of the report's preparation and its outcome.\n\n\"We had to complete the work in a very short time. I also detected a trend in may of the discussions within the review to accept that HS2 will go ahead.... rather than look at the pros and cons of alternative options.\n\n\"I reserve the right to publish my own alternative report in due course.\"\n\nMr Oakervee said he regretted that Lord Berkeley \"feels unable to give his support.\"\n\n\"He participated fully in panel discussions that have seen all other members converge their views, based on the extensive evidence considered,\" Mr Oakervee added.\n\nA report in The Times says that the review found that without HS2, \"large ticket price rises\" would be needed to discourage people from travelling at peak times.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said: \"The Northern Powerhouse Independent Review on HS2 said that there were no identified credible alternatives to HS2 in order to deliver the same capacity, and that it has the potential to unlock greater growth in the North and Midlands.\n\n\"It is welcome that their recommendations are mirrored by the government's own Oakervee Review.\"\n\nHowever, Penny Gaines, chairwoman of the Stop HS2 campaign, said: \"HS2 was a bad project when it was originally announced and was supposed to cost £33bn, it was a bad project when it was supposed to cost £55bn and it is a bad project now the cost is expected to be more than £88bn.\n\n\"It should be cancelled as soon as possible, so the government can focus on the real transport priorities.\"", "The Labour Party has vowed to close the gender pay gap by 2030 if it wins the election.\n\nThe difference between men's and women's average pay would take another 60 years to close under a Conservative government, the party said.\n\nBut the Conservative Party said that Labour was \"over-promising\".\n\nThe Tories said the pay gap was at a record low and that there had been \"huge progress since 2010\" in terms of the number of women in work.\n\nThe gender pay gap is the percentage difference between average hourly earnings for men and women.\n\nThe Fawcett Society said it would take until almost 2080 for the gender pay gap to close at the current rate.\n\nThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) puts that at about 35 years.\n\nAs well as the new 2030 pay gap target, Labour also restated some policies that will become manifesto commitments.\n\nThese included introducing a \"real living wage\" of £10 per hour and creating a Worker's Protection Agency with HMRC with powers to fine organisations that fail to report gender pay.\n\nLabour said the new agency would check firms with more than 250 employees were meeting gender equality criteria on recruitment, career progression, pay and work-life balance.\n\nThose that did would become certified. Labour would then lower that threshold by the end of 2020 to workplaces with 50 employees.\n\nIt will also extend maternity pay from nine to 12 months and introduce free childcare for two to four-year-olds.\n\nDawn Butler, Labour's shadow women and equalities secretary, said: \"Labour's real living wage, robust gender pay auditing - including fining organisations that fail to take action - will help us deliver real change and meet this ambitious target.\"\n\nBut Liz Truss, who was the Conservative Women and Equalities Minister, said: \"Yet again (Jeremy) Corbyn's Labour are overpromising something they cannot deliver.\n\nShe said Mr Corbyn's focus would not be on opportunities for women.\n\nThe Tories said the pay gap was \"at a record low\" having fallen from 27.5% in 1997 to 17.3% in 2019 for all employees.\n\nThe party added that female employment was at 71.8% according to the latest figures, close to a record high, and that it had launched a \"roadmap for gender equality\".\n\nMatthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director, said firms shared the Labour Party's goal but: \"Creating inclusive workplaces where everyone can thrive is the only way to tackle gender inequality at work.\"\n\nHe said the gender pay gap was caused by a wide range of factors - such as the availability of childcare, career progression and improved careers advice - which required business and government to work in partnership to bring change.\n\nBut he said that Labour's gender equality certification plan would add \"bureaucracy\" for businesses.\n\nThe causes of the gap aren't simple. Women are far more likely than men to take substantial parental leave, which can hamper career progression.\n\nStudies have shown that the more kids you have, the less likely you are as a woman to enjoy the same pay as men of the same age; and affordability of childcare is crucial to woman returning to work.\n\nBut closing the gender pay gap is a knotty problem.\n\nThe CBI, for example, says it shares the Labour Party's ambition to close the gender pay gap as quickly as possible.\n\nBut it doubts whether a system of fines and government certification will do the job.\n\nAll of the measures Labour laid out to achieve it have already been announced; no new money is being promised.\n\nDo you have any other questions about elections in the UK?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Our ambition is unlock the whole nation's potential\"\n\nDelivering Brexit would help the UK close the \"opportunity gap between rich and poor\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nIn his first big speech of the election campaign, he promised to boost regional industry and drive a \"clean energy revolution\" after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nHe said a future Tory government would double investment in high-tech research and development to £18bn.\n\nBut earlier former Tory David Gauke said Mr Johnson's plan will lead to a \"bad outcome for the country\".\n\nAnd Labour said Mr Johnson's Brexit deal was flawed and another referendum was needed.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to an electric taxi manufacturer near Coventry, the PM set out his vision for post-Brexit Britain, saying his goal was to unite the country and \"level up\" economic performance by boosting the regions.\n\nHe said the UK must be at the heart of the world's \"green revolution\", harnessing the power of science, innovation and technology to tackle climate change and create high-skilled, high wage jobs.\n\nA Tory victory on 12 December would see the UK leave the EU in January, he said, and that would be good for the country's \"politics, economy and psychological health\" after months of paralysis.\n\n\"We must get Brexit done because we are democrats,\" he said, saying while Leave voters wanted the result of the 2016 referendum result to be respected, Remain voters also accepted the \"wrangling had to end\".\n\nBut he departed from excerpts of the speech briefed to the media on Tuesday, leaving out references to Brexit \"groundhoggery\" and claims that calls for another Brexit referendum and a further vote on Scottish independence were a form of \"onanism\", or masturbation.\n\nAsked about this at a press conference after the speech, he blamed it on a \"stray draft\" of the speech released to the media.\n\nThe Tory leader said the UK's economic fundamentals were sound, but he compared the country to a \"cup-winning horse trying to run on three legs\" with huge untapped potential and often \"vastly different\" educational outcomes.\n\n\"If every child had the same start and the same encouragement, think of the all untapped talent in this country,\" he said.\n\n\"Yet the solution to that inequality is within our grasp... not just to close the opportunity gap between rich and poor but also between the regions of this country.\"\n\nHe promised to make the \"small improvements in life that people are craving\" by addressing transport bottlenecks, improving rural bus services and broadband connections. He also said British apprentices must be employed on all \"big new public sector\" contracts after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK must be at the heart of the world's \"green revolution\"\n\nTo demonstrate his party's support for enterprise, he said a future Tory government would double funding for research and development to £18bn in the next Parliament, which would amount to the \"biggest ever increase in support for R&D\".\n\n\"We proudly back businesses across this country because they are creating the wealth that actually pays for the NHS and everything else.\"\n\nA Labour victory, he claimed, would lead to a \"Technicolor coalition\" with the SNP, prolonging the uncertainty for business over Brexit and the future of the UK.\n\nThe PM is facing claims from a former cabinet colleague that his election would lead to a \"very hard Brexit\" after Mr Gauke attacked the policy of the Conservatives to not extend the implementation period for Brexit past December 2020.\n\nThe Tories plan to negotiate a free trade agreement with the European Union during that time, but have pledged to leave without one if no deal is reached by the deadline.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage cited the pledge as one of the reasons for his decision not to stand candidates in the 317 seats won by the Tories at the last general election, in 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Gauke says a Conservative majority will move the UK towards \"a very hard Brexit\"\n\nMr Gauke said \"one simply cannot renegotiate a trade deal in that time period\", and leaving without a deal would be \"disastrous for the prosperity of our country… [making] whole sectors unviable\".\n\nBut Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Michael Gove, said his former colleague was \"wrong\".\n\nHe defended the progress the prime minister has made on Brexit, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"People throughout the summer said that Boris Johnson would not be able to secure a deal with the EU.\n\n\"The withdrawal agreement will never be reopened, they said. The backstop is unviable, you won't get it changed.\n\n\"They are people who have been left with oeuf on their faces because he succeeded in securing that deal in defiance of the sceptics and the cynics, and we can secure a free trade agreement by the end of 2020.\"\n\nMPs backed Mr Johnson's Brexit deal in principle before Parliament was dissolved. But they refused to endorse his timetable to rush it through in days, meaning the PM had to abandon his \"do or die\" pledge to take the UK out by the 31 October deadline.", "All six Friends actors are in talks for a one-off unscripted reunion show, according to reports in the US.\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter and Variety claim the special programme would be shown on new streaming site HBO Max.\n\nHowever it would apparently not involve fully reviving the hit sitcom, which ran from 1994-2004.\n\nHBO Max secured the US rights to all 10 seasons of Friends for $425m (£340m) for its service, which is due to launch in April 2020.\n\nThe show will move from Netflix, where it has found a new lease of life with younger audiences, being the second most-watched show in 2018 - according to Nielsen data.\n\nJennifer Aniston, who played Rachel on the show, recently joined Instagram and attracted almost five million followers in 12 hours after posting a selfie alongside co-stars Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer.\n\nShe later cryptically told US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres they were \"working on something\".\n\nShe said: \"We would love for there to be something, but we don't know what that something is. So we're just trying.\"\n\nWhile one or two of the stars have worked together on various other projects, including the spin-off series Joey - which saw Schwimmer direct LeBlanc in several episodes - all six have not been seen together publicly since the show finished.\n\nHBO Max has not commented on the reports.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Harris served as a junior minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown\n\nA former Labour minister has urged voters to back the Conservatives in the general election to keep \"extremist\" Jeremy Corbyn out of power.\n\nTom Harris claimed that Mr Corbyn had \"instinctively sided with our country's enemies\" over the years.\n\nAnd he said the prospect of the Labour leader becoming prime minister \"chilled him to the bone\".\n\nMr Harris was the Labour MP for Glasgow South between 2001 and 2015, and is a long-standing critic of Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe former junior transport minister, who led the Vote Leave campaign in Scotland ahead of the EU referendum, made his plea to voters in an article in the Scottish Daily Mail.\n\nThe piece was published in Wednesday's edition as Mr Corbyn prepared to make a two-day visit to Scotland ahead of the election on 12 December.\n\nAhead of the trip, the Labour leader said the election would be \"a once-in-generation chance to transform Scotland and the whole UK\".\n\nMr Corbyn also pledged to deliver \"massive investment\" in Scotland if he becomes prime minister, adding: \"When Labour wins, Scotland wins.\"\n\nBut Mr Harris, who left Labour last year, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that Mr Corbyn represented a strain of left-wing politics that was \"complete anathema\" to the traditional Labour party.\n\nHe added: \"He is not somebody who can be trusted with the security of the nation. He is a man who has instinctively sided with our country's enemies over the years that he has been an MP.\n\n\"The idea of him becoming prime minister just chills me to the bone and the only way of stopping Corbyn becoming PM is to vote to vote for Boris Johnson and the Conservatives. It is a very simple, logical conclusion.\"\n\nHe claimed that the security services in countries such as the US and Australia viewed Mr Corbyn with \"great concern\" because they \"just don't feel that this is a man who can be trusted with the fundamental responsibility of protecting the country\".\n\nAnd he accused Mr Corbyn of being ready to \"betray\" the Scottish people and the Scottish Labour Party by allowing a second referendum on independence.\n\nLast week, Mr Harris backed former Labour MP Ian Austin's public desertion of the party, telling the Daily Mail: \"Like Ian, I will be far happier with a Boris Johnson government.\"\n\nElsewhere on the election campaign trail, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK faces \"a historic choice\" on 12 December as \"the country can either move forwards with policies that will deliver years of growth and prosperity, or it can disappear into an intellectual cul-de-sac of far-left Corbynism.\"\n\nThe SNP insisted it was the only party that could beat the Conservatives in Scotland and \"lock Boris Johnson out of Downing Street\".\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats will focus their day's campaigning on a pledge to invest in nurseries and provide free care for children from nine months old.", "The Conservatives have suspended a number of members over claims of Islamophobic social media posts.\n\nThe Guardian says it has seen details of racist content posted, shared or endorsed by 25 sitting and ex-Tory councillors.\n\nThe Conservatives say they take \"swift action... on not just anti-Muslim discrimination, but discrimination of any kind\".\n\nBut in a tweet Labour accused the party of \"showing their true colours\".\n\nThe Guardian says it handed a dossier containing the allegations, produced by an anonymous Twitter user, to the Conservative Party.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove reiterated the party's pledge to hold an investigation into Islamophobia and other forms of prejudice within the party, and promised it would start before the end of the year.\n\nA Conservative spokesperson said the individuals named in the dossier had been \"suspended immediately, pending investigation\".\n\n\"The Conservative Party will never stand by when it comes to prejudice and discrimination of any kind.\n\n\"That's why we are already establishing the terms of an investigation to make sure that such instances are isolated and robust processes are in place to stamp them out as and when they occur.\"\n\nIt is understood not all the names provided in the dossier are members of the Conservative Party, but the party was unable to say how many members had been suspended.\n\nResponding to the disclosures, the Muslim Council of Britain said Islamophobia was \"endemic\" in the Conservative Party.\n\nIt comes as the Conservative Party faces calls to hold an independent inquiry into Islamophobia following incidents highlighted to the party and in the media.\n\nEarlier this year a number of Conservative Party members were suspended, after the BBC highlighted 20 cases to the party of members posting or endorsing Islamophobic material online.", "The Conservative Party has suspended party members named in new allegations of Islamophobic social media posts, allegedly made by 25 current and former Conservative councillors.\n\nThe Guardian says it has seen a so-called \"dossier\" compiled by an anonymous Twitter user who says they campaign against racism.\n\nThe dossier contains alleged details of Islamophobia and racist social media content posted, shared or endorsed by 25 sitting and former Conservative councillors. Not all the names provided are understood to be party members.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said: “All those found to be party members have been suspended immediately, pending investigation.\n\n\"The swift action we take on not just anti-Muslim discrimination, but discrimination of any kind, is testament to the seriousness with which we take such issues.\n\n“The Conservative Party will never stand by when it comes to prejudice and discrimination of any kind.\n\n\"That’s why we are already establishing the terms of an investigation to make sure that such instances are isolated and robust processes are in place to stamp them out as and when they occur.”", "The campus of one of Hong Kong's top universities turned into a battleground on Tuesday as student protesters fought with police well into the night.\n\nAfter police entered the campus, protesters set up roadblocks, formed human chains to pass supplies, and made weapons including petrol bombs.\n\nOthers fought back with bows and arrows, as police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd.\n\nThe BBC spoke to some of the students at the scene.", "John Lawler died following treatment at the Chiropractic 1st clinic in York\n\nA chiropractor whose patient's neck broke during treatment has told an inquest she had \"never experienced anything\" like it.\n\nArleen Scholten was treating 80-year-old John Lawler at Chiropractic 1st in York in August 2017 when he became unresponsive.\n\nHis family were later told in hospital his neck was fractured. He died the next day.\n\nA criminal investigation into his death ruled out any charges.\n\nGiving evidence on the second day of the inquest, Mrs Scholten, said she had trained in Canada and had been practising for 16 years and moved to the UK in 2005.\n\nMr Lawler had come to her at the end of July for an initial assessment complaining of aches in his legs.\n\nShe was told Mr Lawler had back surgery a decade ago for spinal stenosis and had metal rods inserted in his lower back.\n\nMrs Scholten said despite this she believed she could relieve some of his pain by what she described as \"gentle manipulation\".\n\n\"I did think I could help. I would never start care unless I thought I could help,\" she said.\n\nMrs Scholten said treatment involved a hand-held activator, which applies a light pressure to the patient, and dropping a section of the treatment table to \"stretch\" the joint tissues.\n\nOn 11 August she began treatment in the usual way.\n\n\"I used a drop and he let out a groan and said 'my arms don't feel right'.\n\n\"I waited a couple of seconds and asked him if he was okay and he said again 'my arms don't feel right'.\"\n\nShe said it was something she had never experienced in her 16 years of adjusting people.\n\nMr Lawler's widow told the inquest on Monday he had shouted \"you are hurting me\" at this point, however Mrs Scholten said she did not hear him say that.\n\nMrs Scholten said she managed to get him to a chair before asking her receptionist to call an ambulance.\n\nShe told paramedics she had been applying \"gentle manipulation\" but did not tell them about using the drop treatment.\n\nShe said she was in a \"complete and utter state of panic\" and could not explain why she had not mentioned that element of treatment.\n\nFor the family, Mr Richard Copnall, said given the rods in his lower back he was surely not a \"suitable\" patient for chiropractic treatment.\n\nMrs Scholten said she had treated other patients who had had back surgery before.\n\n\"I felt I could help him, I wanted to help him,\" she said.\n\nShe said what happened on the 11 August was \"rare and unusual\".\n\n\"I've never experienced anything like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has rowed back on comments that he would not back a Scottish independence referendum in the \"first term\" of a new government.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the SNP will not help Mr Corbyn into power unless he accepts the \"principle\" of a second referendum.\n\nMr Corbyn initially told reporters that this would not happen in the first five-year term of a Labour government.\n\nHe later clarified that it would not be a priority in the \"early years\".\n\n‬Mr Corbyn was speaking in Glasgow at the beginning of a two-day campaign visit to Scotland, which will conclude with a rally in Edinburgh on Thursday.\n\nLabour has previously said it would not back an independence referendum in 2020, but could change its position if the SNP wins the next Scottish Parliament election in 2021.\n\nMr Corbyn told journalists in Glasgow that there would be \"no referendum in the first term of a Labour government, because I think we need to concentrate completely on investment in Scotland\".\n\nThis appeared to go further than the party's previous comments on the prospect of indyref2 if it wins power.\n\nBut a few hours later, Mr Corbyn reverted back to Labour's previous position by saying that he would \"not countenance an independence referendum in the early years of a Labour government because our priorities will be elsewhere.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn was greeted in Glasgow by Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard\n\nPressed further on whether he would grant a vote if the SNP won the Holyrood election, Mr Corbyn replied: \"I'm not in favour of it at all because I think the priorities for Scotland are ending inequality, poverty and injustice across Scotland and independence will bring with it an economic problem for Scotland.\"\n\nHe also told BBC Scotland editor Brian Taylor that: \"In the early years of a Labour government I want to concentrate totally on investment all across the UK, including the £70bn I want to invest in Scotland.\"\n\nA Labour source said the party would absolutely rule out a poll in 2020, and repeated Mr Corbyn's claim that the party would win the 2021 Scottish election.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that an \"alliance\" between Labour and the SNP if there is a hung parliament would \"ruin 2020\" with two referendums - one on independence and another on the EU.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Mr Corbyn must accept the \"principle\" of a new independence poll to win SNP backing\n\nMs Sturgeon has insisted that Mr Corbyn should not \"pick up the phone\" to ask for the support of SNP MPs unless he is ready to accept the \"principle\" of a second independence referendum, as well as ending austerity and offering further powers to Holyrood.\n\nResponding to Mr Corbyn's comments, she said: \"‪I won't help him in power, to get into power, to stay in power if he doesn't accept the principle that whether there is a referendum in Scotland and what the timescale of that referendum should be should be determined by the people of Scotland.\"\n\nShe called it a \"basic issue of democracy\" but claimed it was \"highly unlikely\" Labour would give up a chance at being in government by rejecting an independence referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"The reason that I think Jeremy Corbyn keeps getting into a mess on this question is that he knows that it is not democratically acceptable or democratically sustainable to block the right of the Scottish people to choose their future.\"\n\nWhen Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader, the party hoped he'd make the SNP look like moderate centrists and he would win back left wing voters to the red corner. But that project has had only limited success.\n\nMost of their voters have been lost to the SNP. And many of those who still vote Labour in Westminster elections are sympathetic to the idea of Scottish independence - or at least to having another referendum to allow Scotland to decide.\n\nSo you'd think the Labour Party's flirtation with the idea of allowing a second vote on independence would be welcome. But instead it appears to have thrown confusion into the debate.\n\nWhile the SNP are ferociously in favour of independence, and the Tories (and Lib Dems) implacably opposed, Labour seem lost in the middle. Squeezed out of the biggest debate in Scotland.\n\nAs he arrived for the Glasgow campaign, Mr Corbyn was heckled by a Church of Scotland minister who branded him a \"terrorist sympathiser\".\n\nAs Mr Corbyn was telling reporters about a scarf given to him by a charity group, Richard Cameron - the minister at the local Scotstoun Parish Church - shouted that he thought the Labour leader would be wearing an \"Islamic jihad scarf\".\n\nHe added: \"Who's going to be the first terrorist invited to the House of Commons when you're prime minister?\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Church of Scotland rebuked Mr Cameron, saying: \"Whilst we may occasionally robustly challenge policy issues with which we disagree, we always intend to do that in a way that is polite and measured and allows for reasoned debate.\"\n\nMr Johnson will say he wants to avoid \"more political self-obsession\"\n\nThe Conservatives and the Lib Dems have both positioned themselves in opposition to a second independence referendum.\n\nSpeaking at an electric vehicle manufacturer in the West Midlands, Boris Johnson said everyone in the UK faces \"a historic choice\" on 12 December.\n\nHe said: \"At this election, the country can either move forwards with policies that will deliver years of growth and prosperity, or it can disappear into an intellectual cul-de-sac of far-left Corbynism.\n\n\"We can honour the wishes of the people, or else we can waste more time, at the cost of a billion pounds per month, and have two more referendums, one on Scotland and one on the EU - an expense of spirit and a waste of shame, more political self-obsession.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said his party \"will never support another independence referendum\".\n\nSpeaking at a nursery in Dunfermline while promoting his party's childcare policy, he said: \"It's really important we move on, we learn the lessons from Brexit rather than trying to repeat them with independence.\n\n\"Let's try to tackle things like childcare expansion, let's tackle the climate emergency, deal with mental health service problems that we've got in this country. We've had enough of the division and damage over the constitution.\"", "Footage of a bright fireball was captured by home security systems as it travelled across the sky. The American Meteor Society said it received more than 120 reports of a meteor sighting.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"A cyber attack against a political party in an election is suspicious\"\n\nLabour is reportedly suffering a second cyber-attack after saying it successfully thwarted one on Monday.\n\nThe party says it has \"ongoing security processes in place\" so users \"may be experiencing some differences\", which it is dealing with \"quickly\".\n\nThe Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack floods a computer server with traffic to try to take it offline.\n\nThe BBC's Gordon Corera has been told Monday's attack was not linked to a state.\n\nEarlier, a Labour source said that attacks came from computers in Russia and Brazil.\n\nOur security correspondent said he had been told the first attack was a low-level incident - not a large-scale and sophisticated attack.\n\nA National Cyber Security Centre spokesman said the Labour Party followed the correct procedure and notified them swiftly of Monday's cyber-attack, adding: \"The attack was not successful and the incident is now closed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has denied that there has been a data breach or a security flaw in its systems after the Times reported the party's website had exposed the names of online donors.\n\nFollowing reports of a second cyber-attack, a Labour Party spokesperson said: \"We have ongoing security processes in place to protect our platforms, so users may be experiencing some differences. We are dealing with this quickly and efficiently.\"\n\nDDoS attacks direct huge amounts of internet traffic at a target in an effort to overwhelm computer servers, causing their software to crash.\n\nThey are often carried out via a network of hijacked computers and other internet-connected devices known as a botnet.\n\nThe owners of which may be unaware their equipment is involved.\n\nDDoS attacks are not normally recognised as being a hack as they do not involve breaking into a target's systems to insert malware.\n\nThey can vary in sophistication and size, and are sometimes used as a diversionary tactic to carry out a more damaging attack under the radar.\n\nSeveral companies provide services to repel DDoS attacks, but they can be costly.\n\nThe BBC has confirmed that Labour is using software by the technology company Cloudflare to protect its systems.\n\nThe US-based company boasts it has 15 times the network capacity of the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded, meaning it should be able to absorb any deluge of data directed at one of its clients.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jessica Parker said \"Labour Connects\", a tool for campaigners to design and print materials was disrupted on Monday and was \"closed for maintenance\" on Tuesday morning.\n\nA message on the site on Monday said it was experiencing issues \"due to the large volume of users\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday's cyber-attack was \"very serious\" and also \"suspicious\" because it took place during an election campaign.\n\n\"If this is a sign of things to come, I feel very nervous about it,\" he said.\n\nIn a letter sent to Labour campaigners, Niall Sookoo, the party's executive director of elections and campaigns, said: \"Yesterday afternoon our security systems identified that, in a very short period of time, there were large-scale and sophisticated attacks on Labour Party platforms which had the intention of taking our systems entirely offline.\n\n\"Every single one of these attempts failed due to our robust security systems and the integrity of all our platforms and data was maintained.\"\n\nLabour's general secretary Jennie Formby said on Twitter the attack was a \"real concern\" but she added she was proud of the party's staff who \"took immediate action to ensure our systems and data are all safe \".\n\nEmily Orton, from Darktrace, an AI company for cyber-security, told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"Really this is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the types of threats that, not just the Labour Party, but all political parties are going to be without a doubt experiencing on a daily basis.\"\n\n\"I think anyone involved in politics and in government need to be preparing themselves for a lot more stealthy, sophisticated attacks than this,\" she added.\n\nThe Times has revealed that Labour exposed the names of people who had donated money via an online tool.\n\nThe details could be found via an RSS web feed generated by the site's code, which most browsers provide a way to inspect.\n\nIn most cases the information was limited to the donors' first names and the sums given.\n\nBut because some people had mistakenly added their surname to the first name input box, this too was disclosed.\n\nLabour denies this represented a security flaw or that a reportable data breach had occurred. It also believes that only a small number of full names were exposed.\n\nHowever, it made changes to shut down the RSS feed last night.\n\n\"The Labour Party takes its responsibilities for data protection extremely seriously,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"If any concerns are raised, we assess them in line with our responsibilities under GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation ] and the Data Protection Act.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office told the BBC: \"We will not be commenting publicly on every issue raised during the general election.\n\n\"We will, however, be closely monitoring how personal data is being used during political campaigning and making sure that all parties and campaigns are aware of their responsibilities.\"\n\nOver the next five weeks, we want to help you understand the issues behind the headlines.\n\nKeep up to date with the big questions in our newsletter, Outside The Box.\n\nSign up to our 2019 election newsletter here.", "US rapper Kodak Black has been sentenced to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to weapons charges.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who had a US number one album last December, admitted falsifying information on background forms to buy four guns.\n\nHe was arrested before his set at Miami's Rolling Loud festival in May.\n\nOne of the guns he bought was used in an attempted shooting in March. Prosecutors said \"a rival rap artist was the intended target\".\n\nHowever, he has not been charged in relation to that shooting.\n\nReal name Bill K Kapri, the hip-hop star faced a maximum of 10 years in prison, and prosecutors had pushed for a sentence of eight years. The court heard he was alleged to have beaten up a prison guard while awaiting sentencing.\n\nUS District Judge Federico Moreno acknowledged that Black had made anonymous donations to charity in the past.\n\nBlack's lawyer Bradford Cohen told BBC News: \"After the court was apprised of all the facts and circumstances of this case and the good charitable work that Bill has done over the years, the court rejected the government's request of 96 months and sentenced Bill to 46 months.\"\n\nThe MC has had a number of legal charges and spells in prison in recent years, and is known for his violent lyrics.\n\nHis debut studio album Painting Pictures went to number three in the US in 2017.\n\nThe follow-up went to number two, and a third album, Dying to Live, reached number one last December. Two hit singles - Zeze and Tunnel Vision - have reached the Billboard top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joseph McCann is accused of 37 offences against 11 alleged victims\n\nA man embarked on a series of \"depraved\" sex attacks on women and children, one as young as 11, a court has heard.\n\nJoseph McCann is accused of 37 offences against 11 alleged victims, including rapes, kidnap and false imprisonment, over two weeks in April and May.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard the 34-year-old snatched two women off London streets and told one he would \"never release her\" as he raped her multiple times.\n\nThe jury was told the defendant's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford before continuing in London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire.\n\nOne 21-year-old woman was grabbed at knifepoint and bundled into a car as she walked home from a Watford nightclub on 21 April.\n\nProsecutor John Price QC said she was released later that morning in a \"state of great distress\".\n\nA 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight on 25 April.\n\nMr Price said the defendant told her \"to stop screaming or he would stab her\" then dragged her into a car \"and drove off\".\n\nThe court heard the woman was raped \"many times\" by Mr McCann in various locations over the next 14 hours and subjected to acts of \"shocking depravity and violence\".\n\n\"He made her call him 'daddy' and say that she was a child. At one point the man parked the car near to a school, saying that he wanted to make her rape a child,\" Mr Price said.\n\nLater the same day, and while still holding the woman prisoner, the defendant abducted a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister, the court heard.\n\nCCTV of the woman being bundled into a silver people carrier just after midday was played to the jury.\n\nMr Price said she \"suffered a similar fate\" to the 25-year-old woman before the pair managed to escape while in Watford where Mr McCann had booked a hotel room for two nights.\n\nHe told the jury they would have come to \"further harm\" but one of the women hit their captor over the head with a vodka bottle and some builders \"bravely\" intervened to prevent them being recaptured.\n\nThe attacks resumed 10 days later in the North West of England where, over 12 hours on 5 May, three women, three young girls and a boy of 11 were assaulted, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMr McCann allegedly conned his way into a mother's Greater Manchester home where he tied her to the bed and raped her 17-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son.\n\nThe court heard he then abducted a 71-year-old woman who was in her car at a Morrisons car park.\n\nHe raped her and also sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl before both managed to escape at Knutsford Service Station on the M6, the court heard.\n\nThe 34-year-old is accused of then snatching two 14-year-old girls in Cheshire.\n\nMr McCann, who was not in court, is charged with:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chris Davies had been an MP since 2015 but was unseated by a petition after admitting submitting two false expenses invoices\n\nA former MP who lost his seat following a conviction for a false expenses claim has quit the general election after briefly becoming the Conservative candidate for Ynys Mon.\n\nChris Davies pulled out after other Welsh Tories criticised his selection.\n\n\"I will not want to put my wife and family through any more distress,\" the former Brecon and Radnorshire MP said.\n\nA senior Welsh Conservative source told the BBC the campaign had been \"shaky to say the least\".\n\n\"The candidate selection has been seriously flawed and chaotic,\" the source added.\n\nAnother claimed a Conservative AM had been approached to stand in Ynys Mon on Wednesday - the approach was rejected.\n\nAnnouncing his decision to withdraw from the election, Mr Davies said: \"Given the reaction in the media to the idea of me being a candidate, I have decided to pull out of the selection process.\"\n\nConservative AM Nick Ramsay said Mr Davies had \"done the right thing\".\n\n\"As John Major once said, when the curtain falls, it's time to leave the stage,\" he tweeted.\n\nIt leaves Ynys Mon without a Tory candidate, with the deadline for candidate selection on Thursday.\n\nMr Davies lost a by-election in Brecon and Radnorshire triggered by a recall petition earlier this year.\n\nHe admitted two charges of a false expenses claim in March at Westminster Magistrates' Court after trying to split the cost of £700 worth of pictures between two office budgets by creating fake invoices, when he could have claimed the amount by other means.\n\nMr Davies made an \"unreserved apology\" and was ordered to complete 50 hours of unpaid work and was fined £1,500.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Ramsay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNews of his selection for Ynys Mon broke on Tuesday night, prompting incredulity from Angela Burns, Welsh Conservative AM for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire.\n\nClaiming Mr Davies had been imposed by the party, she said: \"You couldn't make it up.\"\n\n\"It is inexplicable,\" another Welsh Conservative source said.\n\nMr Davies had tried and failed to win selection as the general election candidate in Brecon and Radnorshire again before the Ynys Mon selection was made.\n\nBut Mr Davies withdrew after he realised he would not be able to command support on Anglesey, the source claimed.\n\nOne Conservative told BBC Wales there was a \"feeling within the party that Chris Davies had paid the penalty and deserved another try\".\n\nHowever there had been \"huge resistance\" from within the party locally and that is why Mr Davies had withdrawn, the source added, realising he would not be able to command support in Anglesey.\n\nThe local party were only made aware of his selection on Tuesday, the source said.\n\nLord Davies of Gower, Welsh Conservative chairman, had defended the selection before Mr Davies quit, saying: \"Chris made a mistake and has paid the price. He must now be allowed to move on.\"\n\nThe constituency of Ynys Mon includes the island of Anglesey and the smaller Holy Island.\n\nThe Conservatives held the seat - previously known as Anglesey - between 1979 and 1987, followed by Plaid Cymru until 2001, and since then by Labour.\n\nLabour has selected Mary Roberts for the 12 December poll, while Plaid Cymru has picked Aled ap Dafydd.\n\nMs Roberts said: \"Chris Davies has rightly withdrawn. The Welsh Conservatives are in complete disarray.\"\n\nPlaid's candidate said: \"For the Tories to consider that he was suitable in the first place shows how out of touch they are.\"\n\nDeputy leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Baroness Christine Humphreys said the Conservatives had \"demonstrated their utter contempt\" for Ynys Mon voters.\n\nThe summer by-election cut the Conservative working majority to just one when Jane Dodds overturned Mr Davies's 8,038 majority to beat Conservative Chris Davies by 1,425 votes.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBy Jack Skelton BBC Sport at the tribunal in Manchester\n\nEx-British Cycling technical director and Team Sky head coach Shane Sutton furiously denied claims he is a \"doper\" before storming out of Dr Richard Freeman's medical tribunal.\n\nDr Freeman alleges the testosterone he ordered to British Cycling headquarters in 2011 was on behalf of Sutton.\n\nIn staggering, confrontational exchanges between Sutton and Dr Freeman's lawyer, Mary O'Rourke QC, Sutton repeatedly denied this and her claim he doped during his racing career.\n\nA livid Sutton then left the tribunal in Manchester after calling Dr Freeman \"spineless\".\n\nAn official could not persuade Sutton to return and he is set to decide on Wednesday whether he will resume giving evidence, as planned, on Thursday.\n\nThe tribunal is set to resume at 11:30 GMT on Thursday, with Wednesday a planned day off.\n\nFormer British Cycling and Team Sky medic Dr Freeman is facing an allegation he ordered 30 Testogel sachets to the National Cycling Centre in May 2011 knowing or believing it was intended for an athlete to enhance performance, which he denies.\n\nSutton's highly anticipated first appearance at the tribunal started at 14:00 after a day-and-a-half delay because of private legal argument.\n\nDr Freeman has admitted to 18 of the 22 allegations against him, including that he asked supplier Fit4Sport to falsely claim the Testogel had been sent in error.\n\nIn a public session before Sutton gave evidence, Miss O'Rourke said the defence's case is that Sutton is a \"habitual and serial liar\" as well as \"a doper, with a doping history\".\n• None Miss O'Rourke said she had evidence from an anonymous witness who saw Sutton inject himself with testosterone at his home in Rowley Regis in the late 1990s\n• None Sutton strenuously denied the claim, calling it \"laughable\" and that he had never tested positive in around 100 tests during his career\n• None Miss O'Rourke claimed several witnesses had come forward in the last two weeks to say Sutton is \"a liar, a doper and a bully\"\n• None He told Miss O'Rourke he would \"do you for defamation\" and that he wanted her to \"retract\" that claim because she had \"no evidence\"\n• None Sutton repeatedly told Dr Freeman to \"take down the screen\", \"man up\" and \"look me in the eye\"\n• None Miss O'Rourke said that Sutton had sent Dr Freeman a text at the end of last year that read: \"Be careful what you say, don't drag me in, you won't be the only person I can hurt\"\n• None Referring to Dr Freeman's claim that the testosterone was to treat Sutton's alleged erectile dysfunction, the Australian said: \"My wife wants to come here and testify you're a liar\"\n• None Sutton swore on the life of his three-year-old daughter he did not order the delivery of Testogel in 2011 and said he was willing to take a lie detector test if needed\n• None Sutton said he had \"no idea\" why Dr Freeman had ordered the Testogel but that he \"would've helped him work out a way through it\" if Freeman had come to him at the time\n• None He called Miss O'Rourke a \"bully\" and criticised her for what \"you've put my family through\"\n\nAfter around two hours of increasingly hostile exchanges during Miss O'Rourke's cross-examination on Tuesday, Sutton announced he was leaving the hearing and departed with an extraordinary outburst.\n\nDespite calling Dr Freeman a \"good friend\", Sutton made a series of claims about his former colleague and called him \"spineless\" for sitting behind a screen as Sutton gave evidence.\n\n\"I'm going to leave the hearing now, I don't need to be dragged through this,\" said Sutton.\n\n\"I'm going to go back to my little hole in Spain, enjoy my retirement, sleep at night knowing full well I didn't order any [testosterone] patches.\n\n\"The person lying to you is behind the screen, hopefully one day he will come clean and tell you why. He's a good bloke, a good friend, I've no argument with him.\n\n\"I'm happy with what I achieved in my career, I wish Richard Freeman all the best going forward, no one is better bedside than him.\n\n\"Dr Freeman went through a messy divorce, he turned up to work drunk on several occasions - he was like the Scarlet Pimpernel.\n\n\"I covered for him when we couldn't get hold of him.\n\n\"I'm not lying, I've told the truth, don't ask me any more questions.\n\n\"I'm not getting dragged by this mindless little individual [O'Rourke] living in her sad world, who is defending someone who has admitted to telling a million lies to you and the rest of the world but can't come out and tell the truth.\n\n\"He is hiding behind a screen, which is spineless, Richard, you're a spineless individual.\"\n\n'Am I the one on trial here?'\n\nMiss O'Rourke said on 7 November she would attempt to question the \"integrity and credibility\" of Sutton and earlier on Tuesday said she had 100 questions planned for him.\n\nOnly three questions in, Sutton became impatient, stating his former career as a rider was \"irrelevant\", as were other questions about his level of knowledge of doping practices in cycling history.\n\nSutton directed his ire at Miss O'Rourke, asking for \"an apology\" for her claims and at one point asking, \"Am I the one on trial here? I feel like I'm the criminal.\"\n\nWhen Miss O'Rourke put it to Sutton that his claim he did not know what Testogel was until asked about it by UK Anti-Doping in 2016 was either him \"having a laugh\" or a \"blatant lie\", Sutton replied: \"There is only one joke in this room and that's you.\"\n\nHe also turned to the press gallery at one stage and said: \"I hope you are getting all this.\"\n\nSutton added there was \"nothing sinister\" in him telling the General Medical Council's legal team that he and former British Cycling chief Sir Dave Brailsford were worried about being involved in this case and it was only because \"the buck stops with you\" as the head of an organisation.\n\nBefore Sutton's appearance, the independent medical practitioners tribunal ruled that the general topic of erectile dysfunction could be the subject of questions to him in public.\n\nYet Sutton brought up the subject before Miss O'Rourke could ask, shortly before he stormed out, adding: \"I would have no problem telling the GMC it was for me, but I never ordered it.\"\n\nIf Sutton chooses not to return to the hearing on Thursday, Miss O'Rourke is hoping to call former British Cycling head of medicine Dr Steve Peters for cross-examination.\n\nSutton said Dr Peters had \"phoned me the other night\" and will \"verify everything I've had to say\".\n\nThe testosterone delivery was brought to Dr Peters after former physio Phil Burt, who is due to give evidence on Friday, discovered it.\n\nDr Peters has claimed Dr Freeman contacted supplier Fit4Sport the same day the order arrived to confirm it was sent in error and Dr Peters said he then asked Freeman to return it.\n\nDr Peters said he was satisfied after being shown an email from the supplier \"confirming\" that the Testogel had been returned and destroyed, which Dr Freeman now admits was false.\n\nThe hearing, which is to determine Dr Freeman's fitness to practise medicine, continues.", "US President Donald Trump has said he did not watch Wednesday's public hearing in the impeachment inquiry against him \"for one minute\".\n\nHe dismissed the process as a \"witch-hunt\", a \"joke\", and \"a hoax\".\n\nThe president said the phone call with the Ukrainian president around which the inquiry centres was \"perfect\" and \"highly appropriate\".\n\nHe was speaking at a press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and said their meeting was \"much more important\" than the hearing.\n\nHowever, Mr Trump had earlier retweeted clips of the hearing.", "Zia Uddin kept condoms in the control room where he sexually assaulted the girls\n\nA Primark security guard has been found guilty of sexually assaulting teenage girls he accused of shoplifting.\n\nZia Uddin, 27, from east London, attacked four 15-year-old girls while working at the Kingston store in 2017.\n\nUddin threatened the teenagers with calling the police and their parents if they did not perform sexual acts on him in the control room of the store.\n\nHe was convicted of one count of rape and four counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.\n\nKingston Crown Court heard Uddin's colleagues had noticed his strange behaviour, which included making requests to delete CCTV, and not properly completing paperwork on shoplifting.\n\nHe was also known to keep condoms in the control room, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOnce detained, some victims offered to pay for the items they had stolen, suggested they could work in the store to make amends, or even never enter the shop again.\n\nZia Uddin knew where the \"blind spots\" were on the Kingston branch's CCTV\n\nHowever, once alone in the back office, Uddin, from Manor Park in Newham, made clear he was only interested in sexual acts in exchange for letting them go.\n\nProsecutors said one girl only did as he asked because \"there was no other choice\" and it was the only way out of the situation.\n\nGraham Partridge, from the CPS, said Uddin \"preyed on young girls in a vulnerable situation\".\n\n\"He abused his authority by telling them to perform sexual acts for him on the promise they would then be released without their parents or the police being informed about what they had done.\n\n\"Having worked in security, Uddin was also well aware of the CCTV camera 'blind spots' and took advantage of these in order to carry out his offending.\"\n\nHe added that Uddin claimed all the victims were liars and refused to take responsibility for his actions.\n\nUddin will be sentenced next Tuesday.\n\nA spokeswoman for Primark said: \"This has been a horrendous ordeal for the victims and their families and we are truly sorry for what they have suffered. Our thoughts are very much with them.\n\n\"The nature of these offences is shocking and distressing.\n\n\"Zia Uddin abused the trust that was placed in him by his employer, Brooknight Security, and by us, by taking advantage of his victims, who were young and vulnerable.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The valve to cut the water was in a field which Pickle the pig called home\n\nA \"startled pig\" confronted engineers as they repaired a burst water main in London, before it was coaxed away with a bag of crisps.\n\nThe pipe burst in Lamberts Road, Surbiton, damaging nearby railway equipment, which caused train delays.\n\nThames Water said the valve to cut the water was in a field occupied by a pet pig called Pickle and engineers were concerned about disturbing it.\n\nIt is not known what flavour crisps were used to entice the pig away.\n\nThe water main burst beside the railway track in Surbiton, south-west London\n\nDamage caused by the flooding of tracks and signalling equipment meant limited trains were able to run along the line.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had inspected the railway embankment and all tracks have been reopened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Thames Water This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThames Water said engineers \"were quickly on site\" to deal with the burst 120cm (48in) pipe, but they had been unable to initially carry out the work because of Pickle's reaction.\n\nA spokesperson said the animal \"wasn't particularly angry or aggressive\" but \"startled that we were in his field\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by SWR Help This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by SWR Help\n\nEarlier reports said the animal was \"acting aggressively\".\n\nThe pet was coaxed away \"to make sure both he and our engineers would stay safe\", they added.\n\nPickle was not thought to be aware of the drama he had caused\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk: \"I could have been fired for saying this\"\n\nOutgoing European Council President Donald Tusk has urged British voters not to \"give up\" on stopping Brexit.\n\nAs campaigning ramps up ahead of next month's general election, he warned that leaving the EU would leave the UK a \"second-rate player\".\n\nIn a speech, he also said Brexit would likely mark the \"real end of the British Empire\".\n\nHe is due to step down from his role next month, having held the post for five years.\n\nMr Tusk's intervention comes as Conservative leader Boris Johnson said the UK Parliament was \"paralysed\" and had refused \"time and again to honour the mandate of the people and to deliver Brexit\".\n\nFormer head of the UK diplomatic service Sir Simon Fraser said he believed Mr Tusk was a friend of the UK but argued making the comments was \"not the right thing to do\".\n\n\"I think the principle that politicians don't comment on the electoral affairs of other countries is a wise principle,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has continued to refuse to put forward a candidate for the next European Commission, which is due to take office next month if approved by MEPs.\n\nThe BBC understands the UK's EU ambassador has written to the Commission saying that a candidate will not be put forward due to the election.\n\nIn the letter, Sir Tim Barrow is understood to say pre-election rules prevented ministers from putting forward nominees for jobs at EU institutions until after polling day.\n\nHowever, he is understood to have insisted the UK does not want to stop the Commission being formed as soon as possible.\n\nMr Johnson is hoping to win a majority in 12 December's election so that he can take the UK out of the EU on 31 January with the deal he negotiated with Brussels.\n\nBut Labour is promising to renegotiate that deal and put it to a referendum, with the option of remaining in the EU, if it wins the election - and smaller opposition parties are campaigning to Remain.\n\nSpeaking at the College of Europe in Bruges, Mr Tusk said: \"Brexit may happen at the beginning of next year.\n\n\"I did everything in my power to avoid the confrontational no-deal scenario and extend the time for reflection and a possible British change of heart\".\n\n\"The UK election takes place in one month. Can things still be turned around?\n\n\"The only words that come to my mind today are simply: Don't give up.\n\n\"In this match, we had added time, we are already in extra time, perhaps it will even go to penalties?\"\n\nDonald Tusk's term of office ends in a few weeks' time.\n\nWhich means he's prepared to brave accusations that he's interfering in the general election.\n\nAnd that he feels free to challenge the sense developing among the rest of the EU, that it would be better if the UK left as soon as possible.\n\nSpeaking at the College of Europe in Bruges tonight, he quoted the philosopher Hannah Arendt to encourage those campaigning for Britain to remain.\n\nHis message was simply not to give up.\n\nThe EU has accepted an extension to the Brexit deadline, meaning the UK is now due to leave at the end of January 2020.\n\nMr Tusk has repeatedly hinted he would like to see the UK stay in the bloc - but his comments, in the midst of an election campaign - are likely to be controversial.\n\nHe acknowledged this in his speech, adding his remarks were \"something I wouldn't have dared to say a few months ago, as I could be fired for being too frank\".\n\nHe added that a \"longing for the Empire\" could be heard in the voices of Brexiteers who strive to make the UK \"global again\" through leaving the EU.\n\n\"But the reality is exactly the opposite. Only as part of a united Europe can the UK play a global role,\" he added.\n\n\"One of my English friends is probably right when he says with melancholy that Brexit is the real end of the British Empire.\"\n\nMr Tusk is due to stand down from his role on 1 December, when he will be replaced by former Belgian PM Charles Michel.\n• None A really simple guide to the election", "Trump was just asked about the impeachment hearing during his press conference with the Turkish leader.\n\nHe took the first question from the pro-Trump One America News Network.\n\n\"You're talking about the witch hunt, is that what you mean?\" the president said. \"I hear it's a joke.\"\n\nNoting that he did not have time to watch the hearing, he said: \"This is a sham, it shouldn’t be allowed.\"\n\nHe again maintains his call with Zelensky was \"perfect\".\n\n\"I'm gonna find out who's the whistleblower, because the whistleblower gave a lot of very incorrect information about my call,\" Trump said.\n\nThe president added that he will be releasing a second call, presumably with Zelensky, \"which actually was the first of the two\" on Thursday.\n\nTrump said he's heard the congressional evidence was just \"all third-hand information, nothing direct at all. Can't be direct, because I never said it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former minister David Gauke: \"A Conservative majority... will take us in the direction of a very hard Brexit\"\n\nFormer justice secretary David Gauke says a Conservative majority at the upcoming election would be a \"bad outcome for the country\".\n\nMr Gauke - who confirmed he will run as an independent in 12 December poll - was among the MPs expelled from the Tories by Boris Johnson after he voted against a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said a majority led by Mr Johnson would mean a \"very hard Brexit\".\n\nBut Tory Minister Michael Gove said his former colleague was \"precisely wrong\".\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast the Conservatives were pursuing \"a good Brexit deal which works for whole UK [and] which will enable us to have a relationship with the EU based on free trade and friendly co-operation.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Gauke's comments, Mr Johnson said: \"We are fighting for every vote we can get. I regret we haven't got his support, but we will do our best in the campaign ahead.\"\n\nMr Gauke confirmed his decision to stand in South West Hertfordshire - where he has been the MP since 2005 - at a political awards ceremony on Tuesday.\n\nBut he has urged voters in some constituencies to vote for the Liberal Democrats\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Gauke attacked the policy of the Conservatives to not extend the implementation period for Brexit past December 2020.\n\nDuring these months, the UK would stick to the EU rules on issues such as freedom of movement.\n\nThe Tories plan to negotiate a free trade agreement with the European Union during that time, but have pledged to leave without one if no deal is reached by the deadline.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage cited the pledge as one of the reasons for his decision not to stand candidates in the 317 seats won by the Tories at the last general election, in 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory Minister Michael Gove says the UK \"can secure a free trade deal by the end of 2020\"\n\nMr Gauke said \"one simply cannot renegotiate a trade deal in that time period\", and leaving without a deal would be \"disastrous for the prosperity of our country… [making] whole sectors unviable\".\n\nBut he said Mr Johnson was so \"boxed in\" to the plan that he couldn't change his mind even if he wanted to - and he showed no sign of that.\n\n\"He would have letters flooding in to the chairman of the 1922 committee [trying to oust him] and Nigel Farage would be out making a lot of noise,\" said Mr Gauke.\n\n\"I don't think that either the parliamentary party or the wider Conservative membership would allow him to do that. He is boxed in unless Parliament is in a position to force him to extend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Gauke said his comments were not a personal attack on Mr Johnson, although he said the PM \"lacks qualities some would ideally want in prime minister\".\n\nBut he urged voters to support \"the centre ground\" in the election so they could stop a hard Brexit, even lending their support to the Liberal Democrats if needs be.\n\n\"I have to say I am impressed by [Lib Dem leader] Jo Swinson and if I was living in a lot of constituencies I would lend my vote,\" he told Today.\n\n\"I have reluctantly come to that view,\" he said. \"I thought the best outcome for our country was for us to unite behind some kind of soft Brexit [but] that option isn't there any more. The country is too polarised and there isn't the support for it.\n\n\"[Mr Johnson's plan] is a harder Brexit than what was promised to the British people in 2016.\n\n\"Because the consequences of the Johnson deal are so significant, we do need to check back in with the people, and it is perfectly possible to get a parliamentary majority for that after the election.\"\n\nJust four months ago David Gauke was a cabinet minister and regarded as one of the safest pair of hands in the Tory Party.\n\nHe is now urging voters to stop Boris Johnson from winning a majority.\n\nHis decision to stand as an independent candidate is prompted by his fear that Mr Johnson is \"boxed in\" to a no-deal Brexit by his refusal to consider any extension of the transition period beyond December 2020.\n\nAn impossible timetable, Mr Gauke believes, in which to secure a trade deal - and a view shared by many hard line Brexiteers.\n\nMr Gauke is one of only a small band of former Tory rebels who've chosen to fight on, rather than to quit politics altogether.\n\nBut Lib Dem sources said they were unlikely to stand aside in his Hertfordshire seat.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street has shrugged off his decision and later Mr Johnson will repeat his Brexit message - that his deal is the only way to get Britain out of the rut and end the \"groundhoggery\".\n\nChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr Gove, said his former colleague was \"a good friend, but I think on this issue he's got it precisely wrong\".\n\nHe told Breakfast: \"The only way that we can Brexit done is by making sure we do have a functioning majority government.\n\n\"We're going to get a good deal with the EU and we're going to get it by the end of 2020.\"\n\nMr Gove added: \"One of the problems that we've had is that Parliament has engaged in endless dither and delay on this, and that's because we haven't had a strong majority.\"\n\nEarlier, Gagan Mohindra was chosen as the Conservative candidate for Mr Gauke's constituency.\n\nMr Mohindra is a member of Essex County Council and Epping Forest District Council.\n\nSome parties are yet to choose their candidates for South West Hertfordshire, but Tom Pashby has been selected for the Green Party and Sally Symington will represent the Liberal Democrats.\n\nMr Gauke is not the first politician to call on the public to back a rival party in the December election.\n\nOn Monday, his fellow former Tory MP Nick Boles launched a scathing attack on both Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn in the Evening Standard, and said people should vote Lib Dem.\n\nThis came after two former Labour MPs - Ian Austin and John Woodcock - said the electorate should back Mr Johnson as Mr Corbyn was \"completely unfit\" to be PM.\n• None Tories choose candidate to take place of Gauke", "Hospitals in England are now seeing very high rates of patients with flu, according to Public Health England figures.\n\nA sharp rise in cases seen by GPs in the past week - up 78% on the week before - suggests it could be the worst flu season for seven years.\n\nBut PHE said the current levels of flu were \"not unprecedented\".\n\nDeaths from flu remained static with 27 in the past seven days.\n\nAround 5,000 people were admitted to hospital with flu in the first week of January, based on PHE figures for 22 out of 137 trusts.\n\nProf Paul Cosford, medical director from Public Health England, said: \"The levels of flu being seen are high and of course that is contributing to the pressures in the NHS, but they are not unprecedented levels.\"\n\nHe also suggested the coverage of the so-called Aussie flu outbreak was a little misleading, saying that while it was circulating at \"significant\" levels there were two other strains that were also causing problems.\n\nThese strains are an unknown type of influenza A and influenza B - which is normally a milder strain - but appears to be affecting older people in care homes.\n\nThe H3N2 strain - an influenza A virus - has been dubbed 'Aussie flu' because it is the same strain that recently caused big problems for Australia during their winter.\n\n18-year-old Bethany Walker died after contracting the flu and developing pneumonia\n\nThis year's flu vaccine is designed to protect against this strain and some other ones.\n\nFigures in Scotland show a doubling of flu cases in the past week but mortality rates related to the virus were still said to be low.\n\nHowever, an 18-year-old student from Wester Ross died after her flu developed into pneumonia.\n\nIn Wales, a large rise in flu cases has prompted advice to stay away from some hospitals.\n\nThe rate of hospital admissions in England rose by over 50% in the first week of January to 7.38 per 100,000.\n\nIn the same week, the GP consultation rate was 37.3 per 100,000 compared to 21 per 100,000 the week before.\n\nNearly 22,000 patients went to see their GP with flu in the first week of 2018, the Royal College of GPs said, and there was also a rise in people seen with the common cold, acute bronchitis, respiratory system diseases and asthma.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nFlu symptoms can come on very quickly and can last for a week or more.\n\nSymptoms include a fever (temperature above 38C), aches, headache, tiredness, a chesty cough, tummy pain and loss of appetite.\n\nChildren can also get pain in their ears and appear lacking in energy.\n\nFlu can be particularly unpleasant for certain people, such as the over-65s, pregnant women and those with other serious health conditions.\n\nHealth officials say getting the vaccine every year is the best way to protect against flu.", "The image showed Mel B performing at the Brit Awards in 1997\n\nMelanie Brown has clarified that a \"miscommunication\" with Tesco over the use of an image of her led to her complaining to the supermarket giant.\n\nTesco pulled an advert for Clubcard Plus which featured her as Scary Spice after she voiced objections on Monday.\n\nThe ad read: \"Stop right now. You get 10% off two big shops a month for £7.99,\" a play on the hit single Stop.\n\n\"I did this campaign for Women's Aid to raise awareness and to raise funds,\" Brown wrote in a new Instagram post.\n\n\"There was NEVER any issue about me being unhappy with my image being used and there was NEVER any issue about Tesco being given permission to use the image.\"\n\nIt's understood Brown had expected the charity, which supports women and children who have experienced domestic violence, to feature more prominently in the advertising campaign.\n\nIn a comment on the original post, Brown's mother said the advert \"should have had the Women's Aid charity on it\".\n\nBut she said she could \"hardly see the writing at the bottom\" where it featured on the finished product.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by officialmelb This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBrown said: \"There was a miscommunication between some of the parties dealing with it but luckily Tesco has been amazing. Women's Aid sadly lost funding a few weeks ago which was why I decided to do this campaign.\n\n\"I'm really pleased that Tesco understands how important Women's Aid is to me, and has agreed to match my fee in donation to the charity.\"\n\nBrown originally used her Instagram account to ask Tesco's CEO to contact her \"urgently\". Tesco said the image was cleared for use but pulled it as Brown was \"unhappy\".\n\nA Tesco spokesman said: \"Here at Tesco we are really big fans of Mel B and were excited to feature her photo in our campaign.\n\n\"We had authorisation to use this image, but we're sorry Mel B is unhappy so we've stopped using it.\"\n\nThe image was purchased by Tesco through Getty Images and a contract was signed with Getty and Brown's agent.\n\nThe advert was part of Tesco's latest campaign, featuring cultural references from the past century for its 100th anniversary with the tagline: \"Prices that take you back.\"\n\nThe photo of Brown in a leopard print catsuit was taken at the Brit Awards in 1997, during the Spice Girls' heyday.\n\nOther celebrities, including Morecambe and Wise, have also been used in the campaign.\n\nThe comedy duo replaced Mel B on Tesco's Twitter banner on Monday evening.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "UK inflation rose at its lowest pace in almost three years last month as the energy cap kept a lid on the price of electricity, gas and other fuels, according to official statistics.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said consumer prices rose 1.5% in October, against 1.7% in September.\n\nThe slower pace of price rises could boost household spending power as wages are rising faster than inflation.\n\nONS data released on Tuesday showed that average earnings, excluding bonuses, increased by 3.6% in the three months to September.\n\nThe October inflation number was lower than the 1.6% forecast by economists, although the Bank of England has said inflation could slip to 1.25% early next year - well below its 2% target.\n\nA spokesperson for the ONS said: \"A fall in utility prices due to a lowering of the energy price cap helped ease inflation in October. However, this was partially offset by rising clothing prices.\"\n\nPrices of clothes and footwear rose by 1% on the previous month, the ONS said, with the most significant price moves being in ladies' formal trousers and branded trainers.\n\nThe Bank's policy makers expect the decline in inflation to continue in the first half of next year, due partly to the impact of the energy price cap and a likely reduction in water bills.\n\nBut they think those factors will fade and inflation will move back towards the target in the latter part of 2020. So the October data doesn't very much change the argument about the next move in interest rates.\n\nTwo big uncertainties are perhaps more likely to move the dial: Brexit and the slowdown in the global economy.\n\nIndeed the Bank has already signalled as much. Persistent Brexit-related uncertainty and further weakness in global growth could mean it \"might need to reinforce the expected recovery in UK GDP growth and inflation\" - in other words cut interest rates.\n\nIf those risks don't materialise a rise would be more likely. But no move is imminent.\n\nGas and electricity prices fell by 8.7% and 2.2% respectively in October from September.\n\nOfgem said that around 15 million households on default deals or pre-payment meters will see lower bills this winter as a result of its latest cap on prices which took effect from October.\n\nThe cap means that households should typically pay £75 less a year.\n\nHoward Archer, chief economic advisor to the EY Item Club, said the inflation figures were \"decent news for consumer purchasing power\".\n\nThe 3.6% rise in wages in the three months to September compares with an inflation rate of 1.8% over the period.\n\nJing Teow, economist at PwC, said: \"The continued trend of falling inflation since late 2017, coupled with the steady rise in wages since 2018, has boosted household spending power, which has supported UK economic growth over the past two years.\"\n\nBut she said there were signs that pay growth was \"cooling off\" since peaking in June this year, which might also put less pressure on firms to raise prices.\n\nThe inflation rate has implications for interest rates. Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics, said the falls in energy prices meant that the drop in inflation was not \"a reflection of a weakening in underlying inflationary pressures\".\n\nShe expects a further fall in utility prices in April next year.\n\n\"Overall, the figures do little to change our view that inflation will spend more time below 2% than above it in 2020 and that if Brexit is delayed further, interest rates will be cut in May 2020,\" she said.\n\nEmma-Lou Montgomery, associate director for personal investing at Fidelity International, also said there could be pressure to cut in rates - currently at 0.75% - early in 2020.\n\nBut Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the inflation measure should rise back to 2% in the second half of 2020 so he doubted that rates would be cut soon.", "Caution among UK shoppers has led to a tough year so far for toy retailers, as parents search for deals and cut back on impulse buys.\n\nUK toy sales were down by 8% in the year so far, compared with the same period last year, leaving retailers dreaming of a bumper Christmas.\n\nBut economic uncertainty and Brexit planning could lead to shortages of the most popular toys.\n\nOthers may be sold off cheaper if sales fail to match retailers' expectations.\n\nAbout 30% of annual spending on toys comes at Christmas, with £86 spent on the typical child up to the age of 11, according to analysts NPD.\n\nThe industry is banking on festive sales turning around a poor year so far. The 8% drop in UK sales was worse than a 3% drop in international toy sales, said Frederique Tutt, global industry analyst for NPD. Sales last year were also flat, suggesting more than a seasonal downturn.\n\nShe said this was driven by a lack of consumer confidence and High Street woes in general, rather than issues specific to the toy industry.\n\nParents and grandparents have made fewer impulse buys outside of birthdays and Christmas, partly as they are less likely to be in stores.\n\n\"You do not get the same Willy Wonka-type excitement on the internet as children do in a toy shop,\" said Gary Grant, who chairs the committee which selects the 2019 DreamToys list of \"must-have\" toys.\n\nBlockbuster film releases had been earmarked as a saviour for the industry this year, owing to the sale of spin-off toy merchandise which account for 10% of the market. The two brands which have previously broken records for film-licensed products - Star Wars and Frozen - will see new films released before Christmas.\n\nBut Mr Grant said the financial reality for many families was that buying a toy after watching a film would be a substitute for another toy purchase, not necessarily an additional purchase.\n\nLicensed products in general have accounted for 23% of toy sales so far this year, but Ms Tutt said this sector was no longer dominated by blockbuster film releases.\n\nSome of the hotly tipped toys this year have links to YouTube stars and are marketed on social media. The fragmentation of entertainment channels has made it difficult for the big film brands to repeat previous success - although some, such as Harry Potter - have had some joy.\n\n\"Children move on to the next thing very quickly, so there is a relatively short window of opportunity to make sales,\" she said.\n\nThe extra planning required by the potential for the UK leaving the EU on 31 October led many manufacturers and retailers making early decisions on orders for the coming Christmas.\n\nThat, according to Mr Grant, could mean a shortage of certain toys before Christmas which suddenly become popular. A cautious approach by manufacturers may add to this concern.\n\nThere are already suggestions of shortages of the L.O.L Surprise! 2-in-1 Glamper\n\nHowever, there was also the chance that retailers could have over-ordered certain toys, leading to the potential for big discounts on those at some point before Christmas.\n\nThat, he said, would impact the cash taken by retailers, in addition to the extra management time and cost during the year that was caused by Brexit planning.\n\nHe predicted that a pick-up in the UK economy and consumer confidence would bring shoppers back to the High Street to spend money, but it was difficult to know when such an improvement would come.", "Rare footage of a grey seal birth has been filmed by BBC East on a beach that has an established colony.\n\nThe pup will spend the next six weeks on the sands at Horsey in Norfolk before heading out to sea.\n\nMore than 2,000 were born at the colony in 2018 and 80,000 people visited the site to catch a glimpse of them.\n\nThe beach is open to the public, but wildlife groups say it is important to keep your distance from the seals and keep dogs on leads to prevent mothers from abandoning their pups.", "Rape prosecutors in England and Wales were given a conviction rate target which was never made public.\n\nBBC Newsnight has had access to a Law Society Gazette investigation, which found that from 2016 prosecutors were judged against a 60% target of cases ending in conviction.\n\nThis may have caused prosecutors to drop weaker cases, campaigners say.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the target was used for \"benchmarking\" - and has been dropped.\n\nThe CPS decides whether cases investigated by the police go to trial.\n\nRape convictions in England and Wales are at their lowest level since 2008, despite record levels of allegations.\n\nAccording to guidance set down in the Code for Crown Prosecutors, decisions should be based on two things: whether it's in the public interest, and if the case has more than a 50% chance of a conviction.\n\nBut from 2016, rape prosecutors were also asked to consider a conviction rate target called a \"level of ambition\" of 60%.\n\nOne way to achieve improved conviction rates is by prosecuting only the strongest cases.\n\nIf 10 rape cases are prosecuted and five of them result in convictions, the conviction rate is 50%. But if only the strongest three cases are prosecuted and all three result in convictions, the conviction rate goes up to 100% - but fewer rapists have been brought to justice.\n\nThe 60% rape conviction rate target was never made public by the CPS, but was discovered by the Law Society Gazette after a trawl through CPS inspection reports.\n\nIn one such report, inspectors criticised the Cheshire-Merseyside regional CPS for missing the target in 2017. Their conviction rate was 57.3%, down from 65.4% the previous year, but their actual number of rape convictions had gone up from 100 to 138 in the same period.\n\nThe following year, the same team introduced a \"more stringent triage process for police files\" on rape.\n\nTheir number of convictions dropped to 81 - the lowest for years - but by prosecuting fewer cases they actually exceeded the CPS target. Their conviction rate was 68%.\n\nNewsnight has also spoken to a source who attended a training session for specialist rape prosecutors in 2017.\n\nThe source said senior CPS lawyers told prosecutors that the CPS would like to see conviction rates of 61% or 62% for rape cases.\n\nHarriet Wistrich from the Centre for Women's Justice said the use of conviction targets was \"extremely worrying\"\n\nA coalition of women's organisations, represented by the Centre for Women's Justice (CWJ), has launched a legal case against the service for what it says is an unlawful change in approach by the CPS.\n\nLawyer Harriet Wistrich, founder of the CWJ, told Newsnight: \"What a change in the conviction rate would suggest is if they're being targeted to improve their convictions, the easiest way to do that is to take weaker cases out of the system.\n\n\"If those that rape are not being held to account, they will feel they can continue doing so with impunity.\"\n\nIn response to the investigation, the CPS said it had stopped using \"conviction levels of ambition\" in April 2018.\n\n\"We acknowledged they were not an appropriate tool to measure our success in bringing the right cases to court,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe CPS has repeatedly denied any change in policy on rape that might account for the collapse in prosecutions.\n\n\"We are clear that all our cases should be assessed on whether there is a realistic prospect of conviction based on individual merit - no other reason,\" the spokesman added.\n\nConviction rate targets were not only applied to rape.\n\nA 75% target was applied to domestic violence cases, while the target for hate crime cases was an 85% level of conviction. An 85% conviction rate target was also applied to all magistrate court cases, with those in the Crown Court subject to a slightly lower level, 81.5%.\n\nA CPS spokesman said: \"While it is important that we track trends, and constantly strive to improve performance, no individual charging decision is influenced by any factor other than the merits of the case.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.\n• None Why do so few rape cases go to court?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Are electric cars as 'green' as you think?\n\nTesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, has said Berlin will be the site of its first major European factory as the carmaker's expansion plans power ahead.\n\n\"Berlin rocks,\" Mr Musk said, adding Tesla would build an engineering and design centre in the German capital.\n\nTesla previously said it aimed to start production in Europe in 2021.\n\nThe moves come as the firm, which has also invested heavily in a Chinese factory, faces intensifying competition in the electric vehicle industry.\n\nMr Musk made the announcement at an awards ceremony in Germany on Tuesday. The company already has an assembly site in the Netherlands, but the plans for Germany are on a far larger scale.\n\n\"Everyone knows that German engineering is outstanding and that's part of the reason we are locating our Gigafactory Europe in Germany,\" he said.\n\nMr Musk also cited risks surrounding the UK's exit from the EU for his decision, according to AutoExpress.\n\n\"Brexit [uncertainty] made it too risky to put a Gigafactory in the UK,\" he told the trade magazine.\n\nMr Musk said the facility would be located near the new Berlin airport and later gave more details on what the factory would produce on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe focus on Germany comes amid rising appetite for electric cars in Europe.\n\nOver the coming years, the biggest electric car production plants will be in Germany, France, Spain and Italy, industry analysis shows.\n\nSome 16 large-scale lithium-ion battery cell plants are confirmed or due to begin operations in Europe by 2023.\n\nElon Musk has long been pondering where to put his European facility known as a \"gigafactory\".\n\nMr Musk's announcement on Tuesday night came ahead of the Prime Minister giving a televised election speech from an electric car factory. It has long been an aim of government policy to attract such a gigafactory to the UK, but international investors are yet to bite.\n\nThe disruption of a possible no-deal Brexit has weighed down industry investment. But even the current deal proposed by the government would involve checks for customs and the origin of parts, that are difficult for the car industry and electric car industry in particular.\n\nWhile Mr Musk in 2014 expressed a long term desire to open a UK factory, that wasn't expected this soon. However, industry sources had been more hopeful that Mr Musk would choose the UK for his research and development facility in the UK. That too will be situated in Germany.\n\nTesla's European plan comes as the carmaker also moves ahead with a $2bn (£1.6bn) factory in Shanghai.\n\nThe firm is looking to ramp up production in China, the world's biggest car market, where sales have been hurt by tariffs triggered by the US-China trade war.\n\nThe Shanghai facility will produce Model 3 and Model Y cars. The automaker reportedly showed off its new China-made vehicles to local media this week.\n\nStill, Tesla has struggled with years of losses, fuelling investor doubts and casting a shadow over its shares in recent years.\n\nThe firm has yet to turn an annual profit, although it recorded positive results in the final two quarters of 2018.\n\nLast year, Tesla took aggressive steps to slash expenses, cutting thousands of jobs and reining in other spending.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parts of Venice have been left under water by record flooding\n\nSevere flooding in Venice that has left much of the Italian city under water is a direct result of climate change, the mayor says.\n\nThe highest water levels in the region in more than 50 years would leave \"a permanent mark\", Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro tweeted.\n\n\"Now the government must listen,\" he added. \"These are the effects of climate change... the costs will be high.\"\n\nThe waters in Venice peaked at 1.87m (6ft), according to the tide monitoring centre. Only once since official records began in 1923 has the tide been higher, reaching 1.94m in 1966.\n\nImages showed popular sites left completely flooded and people wading through the streets as Venice was hit by a storm.\n\nSt Mark's Square - one of the lowest parts of the city - was one of the worst hit areas.\n\nSt Mark's Basilica was flooded for the sixth time in 1,200 years, according to church records. Pierpaolo Campostrini, a member of St Mark's council, said four of those floods had now occurred within the past 20 years.\n\nThe mayor said the famous landmark had suffered \"grave damage\". The crypt was completely flooded and there are fears of structural damage to the basilica's columns.\n\nThe city of Venice is made up of more than 100 islands inside a lagoon off the north-east coast of Italy.\n\nTwo people died on the island of Pellestrina, a thin strip of land that separates the lagoon from the Adriatic Sea. A man was electrocuted as he tried to start a pump in his home, and a second person was found dead elsewhere.\n\nMr Brugnaro said the damage was \"huge\" and that he would declare a state of disaster, warning that a project to help prevent the Venetian lagoon suffering devastating floods \"must be finished soon\".\n\n\"The situation is dramatic. We ask the government to help us,\" he said on Twitter, adding that schools would remain closed until the water level subsides.\n\nHe also urged local businesses to share photos and video footage of the devastation, which he said would be useful when requesting financial help from the government.\n\nPeople throughout the city waded through the flood waters.\n\nA number of businesses were affected. Chairs and tables were seen floating outside cafes and restaurants.\n\nIn shops, workers tried to move their stock away from the water to prevent any further damage.\n\nOne shopkeeper, who was not named, told Italy's public broadcaster Rai: \"The city is on its knees.\"\n\nThree waterbuses sank, but tourists continued their sightseeing as best they could.\n\nOne French couple told AFP news agency that they had \"effectively swum\" after some of the wooden platforms placed around the city in areas prone to flooding overturned.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, a number of boats were seen stranded.\n\nA project to protect the city from flooding has been under way since 2003 but has been hit by soaring costs, scandals and delays.\n\nThe so-called Mose project - a series of large barriers or floodgates that would be raised from the seabed to shut off the lagoon in the event of rising sea levels and winter storms - was successfully tested for the first time in 2013.\n\nThe project has already cost billions of euros in investment. According to Italy's infrastructure ministry, the flood barriers will be handed over to the Venice city council at the end of 2021 following the \"final phase\" of testing.\n\nItaly was hit by heavy rainfall on Tuesday with further bad weather forecast in the coming days. Venice suffers flooding on a yearly basis.\n\nThe recent flooding in Venice was caused by a combination of high spring tides and a meteorological storm surge driven by strong sirocco winds blowing north-eastwards across the Adriatic Sea. When these two events coincide, we get what is known as Acqua Alta (high water).\n\nThis latest Acqua Alta occurrence in Venice is the second highest tide in recorded history. However, if we look at the top 10 tides, five have occurred in the past 20 years and the most recent was only last year.\n\nWhile we should try to avoid attributing a single event to climate change, the increased frequency of these exceptional tides is obviously a big concern. In our changing climate, sea levels are rising and a city such as Venice, which is also sinking, is particularly susceptible to such changes.\n\nThe weather patterns that have caused the Adriatic storm surge have been driven by a strong meridional (waving) jet stream across the northern hemisphere and this has fed a conveyor belt of low pressure systems into the central Mediterranean.\n\nOne of the possible effects of a changing climate is that the jet stream will be more frequently meridional and blocked weather patterns such as these will also become more frequent. If this happens, there is a greater likelihood that these events will combine with astronomical spring tides and hence increase the chance of flooding in Venice.\n\nFurthermore, the meridional jet stream can be linked back to stronger typhoons in the north-west Pacific resulting in more frequent cold outbreaks in North America and an unsettled Mediterranean is another one of the downstream effects.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kate Griffiths was selected as the Tory candidate for Burton\n\nThe estranged wife of a former Tory MP who sent thousands of sexual messages to two women has been selected as the candidate for his seat.\n\nAndrew Griffiths, 49, who is standing down from frontline politics, has said he is backing his wife, Kate.\n\nShe was selected as the Tory candidate for Burton on Thursday.\n\nHowever, Mrs Griffiths said she was divorcing her husband, and had not sought, and does not accept, his offer of political support.\n\nMr Griffiths resigned as small business minister in July after a newspaper reported he sent the women more than 2,000 messages in 21 days, weeks after the birth of his first child.\n\nHe was cleared of wrongdoing by the parliamentary standards watchdog, which said it found no evidence he sent the messages while engaged in parliamentary activities.\n\nA Conservative party investigation found he may have breached the Conservatives' code of conduct but said \"given his state of mental health both now and at the time\" further action would be inappropriate.\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Griffiths said the last 18 months had been the \"most difficult\" of her life but she had found a \"strength and resilience I didn't know I had\".\n\nAndrew Griffiths said he \"cared passionately\" about the Tory party and the constituency\n\nMrs Griffiths said she left Mr Griffiths \"on the day that he told me about the behaviour that was published in the press\" and their divorce is being finalised.\n\n\"I am not able to say more about this now as legal proceedings are ongoing but I want to make it clear that I have not sought, nor do I accept Andrew's offer of political support,\" she said.\n\nShe said, if elected, she wanted to be an advocate for abuse survivors.\n\nAnnouncing his decision not to stand, Mr Griffiths, who became the MP in May 2010, said he still \"cared passionately\" about the constituency.\n\n\"I'm invested in this place, I have put my whole life into it and I also love the Conservative party,\" he said.\n\nOther candidates confirmed to be standing for the seat so far are:\n\nThe BBC news page for the constituency will be updated with full 2019 candidate information after the close of nominations later this month.", "Neil McEvoy said he used a mobile phone to make the recordings\n\nPolice have launched an inquiry after a politician made secret recordings of the man who was in charge of overseeing three complaints about him.\n\nWelsh Assembly Member Neil McEvoy claimed his recordings of standards commissioner Sir Roderick Evans revealed sexism and bias.\n\nSir Roderick, who resigned on Monday, said much of what had been shared was out of context and misleading.\n\nIndependent AM Mr McEvoy said he had acted lawfully.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it had \"commenced an investigation following a referral from the National Assembly for Wales concerning allegations of covert recordings\".\n\nOpening assembly business on Tuesday, presiding officer Elin Jones said police had been asked to look into how the recordings were made and investigate their legality.\n\n\"The covert recording of private conversations on the assembly estate is a serious breach of trust,\" she said.\n\nShe alleged the recordings included confidential evidence by a witness during an investigation into Mr McEvoy's conduct.\n\nAssembly authorities have begun the process of finding an acting commissioner and Ms Jones told the assembly no complaints would be dropped as a result of Sir Roderick's resignation.\n\nMr McEvoy recorded hearings held by the commissioner as he conducted his investigation into the former Plaid Cymru AM, using a mobile phone he said was either in his jacket, bag or on a table.\n\nThey recorded conversations held while the South Wales Central AM was out of the room and others on the recordings were unaware he had made them.\n\nSir Roderick Evans had been standards commissioner since 2017\n\nMr McEvoy defended his secret recordings of Sir Roderick and his staff in a press conference on Tuesday.\n\nAccusing Sir Roderick of presiding over a \"locker room culture\", he claimed the commissioner aired \"really sexist views\" about \"female lawyers who - of course because they're female - they're emotional\".\n\nHe added: \"There was a provocative and politically incorrect culture in the commissioner's office that came across through the recordings.\"\n\nMr McEvoy alleged he heard a joke made about women politicians and a comment that former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood should \"wind her neck in\".\n\nSir Roderick, a former high court judge and pro-chancellor of Swansea University, previously said Mr McEvoy's conduct was \"wholly unacceptable\" and \"undermines the integrity of the complaints procedure\".\n\nThe office of the standards commissioner had no further comment to make about Mr McEvoy's press conference.\n\nThe controversy erupted in the assembly chamber on Tuesday, when Brexit Party Senedd leader Mark Reckless was told by Ms Jones to stop quoting from a transcript of the recordings.\n\nShe also demanded he withdraw an accusation that she was biased, to which he replied: \"The truth or otherwise of the allegation, I withdraw it.\"\n\nElin Jones said no complaints would be dropped as a result of Sir Roderick's resignation\n\nHe faces three investigations - one relating to £5,000 of building work on his constituency office.\n\nIn a transcript of the recordings released to the media by Mr McEvoy's office, Sir Roderick is reported saying the authenticity of two quotes \"couldn't be demonstrated\".\n\n\"We have to consider if they are forgeries or whatever, [and] whether he should be reported to the police,\" he added.\n\nMr McEvoy said he had taken the cheapest quote available: \"The quotes were nothing to do with me. I took them in good faith.\"\n\nHe said the builder was \"just somebody that I knew.\"\n\nThe second matter was about him losing his temper with Labour AM Mick Antoniw - he admitted being \"aggressive to him,\" but felt Mr Antoniw was arrogant.\n\n\"If the individual was really offended by my behaviour, and he was upset by it, then I apologise to Mick,\" he added.\n\nHe also faced an allegation he misused assembly funds for political campaigning.\n\nDismissing this, Mr McEvoy said: \"Strange that, isn't it, a Plaid Cymru member using his office for the benefit of Plaid Cymru.\"\n\nHe was a Plaid Cymru member until 2018, when he was expelled.", "Little is known about the ape as only a few fossils are known, including this jawbone\n\nA fossilised tooth left behind by the largest ape that ever lived is shedding new light on the evolution of apes.\n\nGigantopithecus blacki was thought to stand nearly three metres tall and tip the scales at 600kg.\n\nIn an astonishing advance, scientists have obtained molecular evidence from a two-million-year-old fossil molar tooth found in a Chinese cave.\n\nThe mystery ape is a distant relative of orangutans, sharing a common ancestor around 12 million years ago.\n\n\"It would have been a distant cousin (of orangutans), in the sense that its closest living relatives are orangutans, compared to other living great apes such as gorillas or chimpanzees or us,\" said Dr Frido Welker, from the University of Copenhagen.\n\nThe research, reported in Nature, is based on comparing the ancient protein sequence of the tooth of the extinct ape, believed to be a female, with apes alive today.\n\nObtaining skeletal protein from a two-million-year-old fossil is rare if not unprecedented, raising hopes of being able to look even further back in time at other ancient ancestors, including humans, who lived in warmer regions.\n\nThere is a much poorer chance of being able to find ancient DNA or proteins in tropical climates, where samples tend to degrade quicker.\n\n\"This study suggests that ancient proteins might be a suitable molecule surviving across most of recent human evolution even for areas like Africa or Asia and we could thereby in the future study our own evolution as a species over a very long time span,\" Dr Welker told BBC News.\n\nGigantopithecus blacki was first identified in 1935 based on a single tooth sample. The ape is thought to have lived in Southeast Asia from two million years ago to 300,000 years ago.\n\nMany teeth and four partial jawbones have been identified but the animal's relationship to other great ape species has been hard to decipher.\n\nThe ape reached massive proportions, exceeding that of living gorillas, based on analysis of the few bones that have been found.\n\nIt is thought to have gone extinct when the environment changed from forest to savannah.", "Hospitals across England have been told to cancel non-emergency operations in the new year to prepare for a post-Christmas surge in patients.\n\nThe first weeks of January are often the busiest of the year with winter illnesses peaking, combined with the growing day-to-day demand in A&E.\n\nSo an emergency panel of NHS bosses is urging hospitals to cut back on their routine work, such as knee and hip ops.\n\nThey hope it will give hospitals some breathing space to cope.\n\nPublicly, no figure is being put on the number of operations that should be put off, although the BBC understands hospitals are working on the basis of doing 10% fewer.\n\nThat would mean in the region of 15,000 operations not taking place in the first two weeks of January.\n\nThe panel has suggested hospitals use the staff freed up by the move to set up \"hot clinics\" staffed by experts in conditions such as respiratory illness to take the pressure off A&E.\n\nThe directive is the first to be issued by the NHS National Emergency Pressures Panel, a new group of senior doctors, nurses and managers set up to advise NHS England.\n\nCan't find your health trust? Browse the full list Rather search by typing? Back to search\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nPanel chair Prof Sir Bruce Keogh said it would be sensible for hospitals to curtail the amount of planned work they are doing until at least mid January.\n\n\"NHS staff are working flat out to cope with seasonal pressures and ensure patients receive the best possible care.\n\n\"However, given the scale of the challenge, hospitals should be planning for a surge that comes in the new year by freeing up beds and staff where they can to care for our sickest patients.\"\n\nHe said this would reduce the need for last-minute cancellations which were unfair on patients.\n\nIt comes as figures released on Thursday showed pressures had already started building.\n\nThe weekly bulletin from NHS England showed over 1,000 beds were closed because of the vomiting bug Norovirus - nearly 10% of the hospital bed-stock - while ambulances were increasingly likely to find themselves delayed when they dropped off patients at A&E.\n\nPauline Philip, the NHS national director for emergency care, said it was a sensible move.\n\nShe also urged hospitals to make the most of the extra £350m winter funding provided by the government, which was released into the system last week.\n\nAnd she added: \"There is still time for the public to play their part by ensuring they have their flu jab and by using local pharmacies and NHS 111.\"\n\nProf Derek Alderson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, welcomed the move as it provided clarity over what should be done as pressures grow.\n\nBut he said it was still pretty \"short notice\" for those patients who face having their operations cancelled.\n\nAnd he urged hospitals to prioritise cancer treatment and other planned operations that, if cancelled, would harm patients.", "A court order protecting the identity of two police officers charged in connection with the death of Dalian Atkinson has been lifted by a judge.\n\nThe ex-Aston Villa striker, 48, died after he was restrained by police and Tasered at his father's house in Telford, Shropshire, in 2016.\n\nA second officer, Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, is charged with assault causing actual bodily harm.\n\nJudge Simon Drew QC, sitting at Birmingham Crown Court, overturned the Contempt of Court Act order, allowing the naming of the officers after submissions by media organisations.\n\nBoth officers were present at the hearing, at which their lawyers agreed that anonymity could not be justified, instead arguing that their home addresses should not be revealed in media reports.\n\nThe officers had been granted the interim order banning publication of their names last week after it was argued there were risks to their safety.\n\nLawyers acting for six media organisations argued that the anonymity orders were an \"unjustified\" and represented a serious interference with common law open justice principles.\n\nAn alternative charge of an unlawful act manslaughter has been put forward by the CPS for PC Monk.\n\nPC Bettley-Smith has indicated that she will plead not guilty.\n\nThe 29-year-old officer and her 41-year-old colleague are both from Shropshire, but a court order prevents the media from reporting their home addresses.\n\nMr Atkinson, who also played for Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday, was detained outside an address in Trench, Telford at about 01:30 on 15 August 2016.\n\nHe was taken by ambulance to the Princess Royal Hospital, where he died.\n\nBoth defendants are next expected to appear in court on 9 December for a plea and trial preparation hearing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Barrass, 35, and Brandon Machin, 39, were half-siblings in a secret sexual relationship, police said\n\nThe parents of six children murdered their two teenage sons the day after a bid to poison them failed.\n\nSarah Barrass and Brandon Machin, who is her half-brother, strangled Tristan and Blake Barrass, aged 13 and 14, in Shiregreen, Sheffield, in May.\n\nThe court heard how Barrass, 35, would regularly tell her children: \"I gave you life, I can take it away.\"\n\nBarrass and Machin, 39, were both sentenced to a minimum of 35 years in prison at Sheffield Crown Court.\n\nThey have both previously admitted murder, conspiracy to murder all six of their children, including Blake and Tristan, and five counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe court heard how Barrass strangled Tristan with her dressing gown cord, before Machin strangled Blake with his hands.\n\nThey then put plastic bags over the boys' heads, suffocating them.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said Barrass, of Gregg House Road, Shiregreen, and Machin, of Burngreave Road, had been in a secret sexual relationship for years.\n\nBlake (left) was strangled by Machin, and Tristan was strangled by Barrass\n\nFearing they would be found out by the authorities and their children taken into care, they hatched a plot to kill them. Police said the plan was for Machin to discover what had happened and raise the alarm.\n\nOn the evening of 23 May, Barrass tried to poison the four eldest children, by collecting tablets prescribed to one of the children for ADHD and forcing them to swallow them.\n\nKama Melly QC, prosecuting, said: \"None of the children wanted to take the tablets but were forced to do so.\n\n\"The defendants expected the tablets to kill the children overnight.\"\n\nWhen it became apparent the plan had failed, Barrass began to search online for other ways of killing her children, including suffocation, strangulation and drowning.\n\nShe contacted Machin to tell him they were still alive and the pair then strangled the boys and placed bin bags over their heads \"to ensure their certain death\", Ms Melly said.\n\nThe defendants then ran a bath and repeatedly tried to drown one of the younger children.\n\nWhen that too failed, Barrass took the surviving children - two of whom are under the age of 13, and two under three - to the bedroom and phoned the police.\n\nBikers provided an escort for the funeral of Tristan and Blake in August\n\nThe court heard Barrass had previously approached the local authority to ask for help with her children.\n\nMs Melly said the mother sent a message to a friend which said: \"I've thought of every possible solution to this mess.\n\n\"I love my kids too much to kill them, I can't put them into care for the same reason.\"\n\nBryan Cox QC, mitigating for Barrass, said she was \"profoundly damaged by her childhood\".\n\nHe said: \"The defendant was desperate to prevent her children being taken into care.\n\n\"She couldn't cope with the prospect of them being removed.\"\n\nThe court heard she told police she planned to kill the younger two children and herself, after the older four had died.\n\nMr Justice Goss, sentencing, said to Barrass: \"You considered your love for them and fear of being parted from them entitled you to take their lives as well as your own.\"\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Edmund Hulbert from the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"This was an appalling crime in which two young lives were lost, and a family torn apart, leaving a community in shock.\n\n\"Two of the surviving children witnessed their older siblings being attacked and the trauma that all the children have experienced, and will continue to experience, is unimaginable.\n\n\"It is paramount now that the surviving children are allowed to rebuild their lives in peace.\"\n\nMatthew Saunders, a friend of the murdered boys, said outside court: \"A piece of all our hearts died on 24 May 2019, which we will never get back.\n\n\"Blake and Tristan leave a huge empty void in our lives, and we did not get chance to say goodbye.\n\n\"We are relieved justice has been served, but it should never have come to this.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Shukman views the scale of the flooding in the Doncaster area from a helicopter\n\nSome residents in a flood-stricken village could be out of their homes for up to three weeks as efforts continue to make the area safe.\n\nDoncaster Council said 1,900 people had been taken to safety, with the village of Fishlake being one of the worst hit.\n\nAbout 200 Army workers are in South Yorkshire supporting the flood effort.\n\nThe prime minister visited flood-hit Stainforth to see the emergency response. But some onlookers shouted at him to say \"you took your time\".\n\nOne resident told Boris Johnson: \"I'm not very happy about talking to you so, if you don't mind, I'll just mope on with what I'm doing.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he understood the strength of feeling as \"you cannot underestimate the anguish that a flood causes\".\n\nShelley Beniston, who is organising supply runs in Fishlake, told Mr Johnson there had not been enough help from authorities.\n\nWhen the prime minister asked if there was anything he could do to help, she replied: \"I think it's more or less all coming in now, a little bit too late though.\"\n\nThe PM said the government was \"plainly going to have to do more\" to equip places with flood defences.\n\nSpeaking in Warwickshire on Wednesday evening Mr Johnson added: \"We as a country need to be investing in the long term in flood defences.\n\n\"We have already put £2.6bn in as a government and we've ensured that places that are particularly vulnerable get more per capita.\n\n\"That's why I stress importance of investment in infrastructure\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson got a frosty reception from some residents in South Yorkshire\n\nDoncaster Council said every effort was being made to increase pumping so people could return home sooner but more widespread rain is forecast, with warnings in place for large parts of the country.\n\nMet Office spokesman Grahame Madge said: \"Obviously the prospect of any more rainfall is troubling for people in areas where catchments are already full.\n\n\"Taking on more rainfall is only going to add to the problems that are already there.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was monitoring the weather \"closely\" and had \"resources on the ground and on standby if needed\".\n\nAssistant chief fire officer Steve Helps advised residents to \"watch the news, monitor the weather forecast and of course to take direction from the police, the emergency services or local authorities\".\n\nElectricity supplier Northern Powergrid said it had brought in additional staff and resources in case of problems.\n\nIt said it was putting in flood barriers around two electricity substations which power around 15,000 homes and businesses in the Doncaster area.\n\nPersonnel from the Light Dragoons have laid sandbags in Stainforth, near Doncaster, in a bid to shore up the village's bridge.\n\nAbout 500 homes have been flooded in Doncaster with 1,200 properties evacuated in areas hit by the floods.\n\nHundreds of people in Fishlake have fled their homes after the village was submerged and the fire service has been working to rescue people.\n\nThe council said the village was not safe and that \"a return to properties is discouraged in the strongest possible terms\".\n\nRoads into Fishlake remain closed and the Environment Agency said people should not attempt to enter the area.\n\nSoldiers have been helping move sandbags in areas affected by the flooding\n\nDoncaster Council said the Environment Agency, along with emergency services, were working hard to make the area safe but \"the latest estimates suggest a safe return could be up to three weeks away for some residents\".\n\nScott Godfrey, landlord of the Hare and Hounds, has been using the pub as a refuge, giving affected residents accommodation and hot food as well as delivering meals to people stranded in their homes.\n\nHe said they had been let down by the council \"big style\" because it had rowed back on its promise of helping with provisions to send out to villagers.\n\n\"We had 45 residents that were stranded who wanted meals. Luckily everyone pulled together and we managed to get some hot meals out,\" he said.\n\nThe authority said it would now be offering humanitarian aid to those who have remained in Fishlake but added this should not be attempted by residents.\n\nMeanwhile, the neighbouring village of Stainforth has been coming to the aid of those evacuated from their homes.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson announced more support for communities affected by flooding following a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee.\n\nIt came amid criticism from Labour and the Liberal Democrats who said he should declare a \"national emergency\".\n\nMr Johnson said authorities were working \"flat out\" and a request had been made for \"a little bit more help\" from the military in getting sandbags and other defences to some of the affected areas.\n\nJon Trickett, shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, said Mr Johnson's proposals were \"too little too late\".\n\n\"You can't trust Boris Johnson to look out for the North or the Midlands or protect our communities from flooding,\" he said.\n\nOther measures announced on Tuesday were:\n\nFlooding wiped out the stock of Re-Read, a social enterprise that gives free books to children\n\nReferring to the response for people affected by the flooding, Mr Johnson added: \"I know there will be people who feel that that isn't good enough.\n\n\"I know there will be people who are worrying about the damage to their homes, who will be worried about the insurance situation, worried about the losses they face.\n\n\"All I want to say to those people is that there are schemes to cover those losses.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband spoke to affected residents in the Bentley suburb of Doncaster\n\nMany homeowners in South Yorkshire are keeping sandbags at their homes in case the floods return\n\nThe five severe flood warnings along the River Don in South Yorkshire have been removed, but 20 flood warnings - meaning \"flooding is expected\" - remain in place.\n\nLast week extensive downpours meant several areas were struck by a month's worth of rain in a single day.\n\nBaby Indie was born to Dan Greenslade and Jade Croft on Friday\n\nA couple who became new parents on Friday and hours later were told their home in Fishlake was underwater, have described the support they have received from local people as \"invaluable\".\n\n\"Thank God for the people of Stainforth, and other people around for the support that they've shown,\" said Dan Greenslade.\n\nMeanwhile, a Doncaster salon offered free \"pamper\" sessions for local children affected by flooding, and dozens of swans were rescued from oil from an upturned barge in Rotherham and cars which had been trapped in flood water.\n\nChurches and community centres have collected toiletries, clothes, cleaning products and food for the hundreds of people displaced from their homes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA jury has been shown CCTV of a man accused of murdering a British backpacker pushing a suitcase said to contain her body.\n\nGrace Millane, of Wickford, Essex, died on the night before her 22nd birthday while travelling in New Zealand.\n\nThe suspect, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies murder.\n\nHe had been on a date with Ms Millane the day before he left his Auckland hotel with two suitcases. Prosecutors claim Ms Millane was in one of them.\n\nThe court heard the suitcase was then buried in woodland outside the city.\n\nProsecutors allege the suspect strangled Ms Millane before disposing of her body.\n\nBut the defendant claims the University of Lincoln graduate died on 1 December after they engaged in consensual rough sex.\n\nGrace Millane died on the night before her 22nd birthday while travelling in New Zealand\n\nThe footage showed the man buying a suitcase, shovel and cleaning products as well as hiring a car in the days after Ms Millane's death.\n\nIn his police interview the man told officers he had been in a drunken stupor until 09:00 or 10:00 on 2 December - however the CCTV showed him buying a suitcase at 08:14.\n\nHe told police officers they could have the bag which was \"still in my room\" and had not been used.\n\nHowever, footage also showed him buying a second grey suitcase.\n\nThe court was shown footage of the defendant buying a shovel\n\nAuckland High Court also heard from a woman who went on a Tinder date with the 27-year-old defendant the day after Ms Millane's death.\n\nShe said: \"He said he had heard of a guy who had asked his girlfriend to have rough sex with him, strangulation and asphyxiation.\n\n\"He has tried to revive her but she died and he got sent down for manslaughter.\"\n\nGrace Millane was found buried in the Waitakere Ranges, near Auckland\n\nShe said he had been \"intense\" while talking about it and empathetic with the man in the story.\n\nHe also discussed how his police officer friends had been struggling due to the number of bodies being buried in Waitakere Ranges, the area where Ms Millane's body was discovered.\n\nAfter Ms Millane's death the man washed the rental car and left the shovel at the car wash and was also seen putting items, the crown says her personal effects, in a bin in an Auckland park, the jury was shown.", "An old hand once offered me a wise piece of advice: if an opinion poll generates a strong headline it will probably turn out to be wrong.\n\nSo it is sensible to treat the polls with caution. At this stage of the 2017 general election, the world was debating whether Theresa May's majority would be above or below 100.\n\nBut opinion polls can provide a helpful snapshot of the electorate's thinking at the moment they are conducted.\n\nWith four weeks to go until election day, there appear to be two clear strands in the current polls.\n\nFirst, Boris Johnson is ahead, in part because the Leave vote is rallying behind the Conservatives.\n\nThe second theme is that the Remain vote is splintering. That explains, in part, why Labour is so far behind the Tories and why the Liberal Democrats are continuing to enjoy a revival.\n\nAt this point a second rule of opinion poll reporting applies. Political parties will loftily claim they have better things to worry about than opinion polls, all the while spending a fortune on \"private\" polls and poring over every detail of published polls.\n\nDowning Street believes the only way Boris Johnson can deliver his Brexit deal and the subsequent future EU trade negotiations is by securing a credible parliamentary majority - 330 seats is effectively the minimum.\n\nThe Remain side - many Labour candidates and the Lib Dems as a whole - think Boris Johnson is highly likely to win the largest number of seats at the election. And so their most realistic ambition is to deny him a parliamentary majority. The way to do that is to play the classic underdog card of saying: put a check on the frontrunner.\n\nThe argument will have to be phrased carefully because of course, everyone insists they are on course for victory. But expect an argument along these lines: with a majority Boris Johnson can do what he likes on Brexit, so rein him in.\n\nThis is where the former Conservative Lord Chancellor David Gauke enters the picture.\n\nOne of Gauke's principal arguments for running as an independent in South West Hertfordshire - where he has been the MP since 2005 - is the fear that an unrestricted Boris Johnson government would threaten a no-deal Brexit through refusing to extend the transition period beyond December 2020.\n\nThe transition, dubbed the \"membership minus votes\" period, when the UK has all the benefits and obligations of EU membership without a say on the rules, is due to run out at the end of December next year. It can, in theory, be extended by one or two years.\n\nGauke - who lost the whip in September for voting to block a no-deal Brexit - agreed to vote for Johnson's new Brexit deal in October after being given a specific undertaking in the Commons by Robert Buckland. Buckland, his successor as Lord Chancellor, said MPs would be able to vote before 1 July on whether to extend the trade talks by one or two years.\n\nTalks are due to take place during the transition period that will kick in after the UK leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nHowever if the prime minister wins a majority, the Buckland commitment will probably die. While Brexiteer cabinet ministers are delighted, more pro-European cabinet ministers are disappointed.\n\nIf Johnson fails to secure a majority, the Buckland commitment could return to life. It may be the price the prime minister has to pay to stay in office.\n\nDavid Gauke may provide the Remain side with a rallying cry on the threat of a new no-deal Brexit. But the pro-Europeans are divided, as the Liberal Democrats demonstrated when they pledged to stand against Gauke.\n\nBoris Johnson, by contrast, is rapidly becoming the unofficial leader of the Leave side, even as The Brexit Party's Nigel Farage ditched plans to take on the Tories in more than 300 seats.\n\nAnd a united political force will always have an easier job in imposing its will.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "There are 650 constituencies in the UK but most of the campaigning for the general election will take place in a smaller number.\n\nAs ever, much of the focus will be on marginal constituencies - places where the winning majority in 2017 was small.\n\nHowever, at this election the parties will also be targeting a large number of constituencies beyond the marginal seats.\n\nThere will be a lot of focus on areas that voted strongly to Leave or strongly to Remain in the EU referendum - even where the majorities are large. Big swings cannot be ruled out.\n\nA striking aspect of the 2017 general election was that the result in lots of constituencies was very close.\n\nThe normal working definition for a marginal seat is one where the majority is under 10%, which usually means under about 5,000 votes - although that does depend on turnout and the size of the constituency.\n\nThen, within that group of seats, there are the ultra-marginals: places where the majority is under 2% - about 1,000 votes.\n\nIn 2017 there were 51 of these ultra-marginals - considerably more than in previous elections. In fact there were eight seats with a majority under 50.\n\nAll those will be hotly contested. The Conservatives will be hoping to win back some of the seats they lost last time - like Canterbury, Keighley and Kensington - while Labour will try to take seats where it got within a whisker - such as Arfon, Pudsey and Southampton Itchen.\n\nAnd the Lib Dems will hope to win seats they've previously held like Richmond Park, St Ives and Sheffield Hallam.\n\nIn Scotland there are 46 marginal seats, using the 10% definition, out of a total of 59. So almost all the constituencies are potentially in play.\n\nOf particular interest will be the 21 seats lost by the SNP in 2017. Nearly all voted Remain in the EU referendum so the SNP hopes its anti-Brexit stance will help it to recapture as many of them as possible.\n\nIn many cases it would only take a small shift - places like Stirling and Gordon, held by the Conservatives, and Rutherglen & Hamilton West and Midlothian, both held by Labour.\n\nAnother seat to keep an eye on is Fife North East. It's the most marginal constituency in the whole country with an SNP majority over the Liberal Democrats of just two votes. In fact, that's the smallest majority in any seat this century.\n\nIt's not just Scotland where Brexit will influence which seats are targeted. Strongly Leave and strongly Remain areas are likely to be crucial.\n\nThe Conservatives are hoping to capture longstanding Labour constituencies that voted heavily to Leave - even those outside the normal marginal range.\n\nThe map shows that these are concentrated in the Midlands and parts of the north of England - seats like West Bromwich West, Bolsover, and Hyndburn.\n\nHowever, the Brexit Party has a similar goal. It describes Hartlepool as its number one target.\n\nOn the other hand, the Liberal Democrats are targeting heavily-Remain seats, mostly in the south of England, even though some have quite big majorities. Places like St Albans, Winchester, and Cambridge.\n\nAnother feature of the Brexit battle at this election is the agreement made by the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and Green Party to stand aside for one another in 60 seats across England and Wales.\n\nIt's impossible to know whether this will affect who wins any of the constituencies but it should give a boost to Plaid in places like Llanelli and Ynys Mon and to the Lib Dems in seats including Hazel Grove and Thornbury & Yate.\n\nWhere parties choose to put up candidates could have a bigger impact in Northern Ireland than anywhere else.\n\nIn Belfast South, for example, Sinn Fein is standing aside in favour of the SDLP to increase its chances of ousting the DUP. The SDLP will return the favour in Belfast North.\n\nMeanwhile in Fermanagh & South Tyrone the DUP will stand aside to assist the UUP, as it did in 2017.\n\nAnother seat to keep an eye on is Foyle where it's a different story. It's the most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland and was a Sinn Fein gain from the SDLP last time.\n\nOne of the features of recent general elections has been Labour's increasing dominance in London.\n\nAs a region it used to be fairly representative of the whole country, politically speaking, but over time that has changed. In 2017 Labour won 49 of the 73 seats across the city.\n\nThere's also evidence that the effect has started to spill out from central London to the outskirts and to constituencies in the surrounding areas.\n\nThat seems to be linked to an increase in the number of people leaving London - especially those in their 30s and 40s.\n\nLabour will be hoping that this demographic change could help it in seats like Chingford & Woodford Green, Crawley, and Milton Keynes South - all popular destinations for people leaving London.", "Royal Mail has failed to have a record £50m fine from Ofcom overturned.\n\nThe fine, announced in August 2018, related to its actions in 2014 when Whistl, then known as TNT, was trying to become its first competitor in wholesale mail delivery.\n\nOfcom's investigation followed a complaint by Whistl that Royal Mail had abused its dominant market position.\n\nRoyal Mail challenged the fine, but on Tuesday, the Competition Appeal Tribunal dismissed its application.\n\nAn Ofcom spokesperson said: \"We found that Royal Mail pursued a deliberate strategy of pricing discrimination against Whistl, which was its only major competitor for delivering business mail.\n\n\"Royal Mail had a special responsibility to ensure its behaviour was not anti-competitive.\n\n\"We hope that our fine, which has been upheld in full by the Tribunal, will ensure that Royal Mail and other powerful companies take their legal duties very seriously.\"\n\nOfcom's investigation had found that Royal Mail price rises in 2014 meant any wholesale customers, such as Whistl, which wanted to compete with it would have to pay higher prices in the remaining areas where it used Royal Mail for delivery.\n\nWhistl said it was pleased that the Ofcom ruling had been upheld.\n\n\"Royal Mail's actions had a hugely negative impact on investment in, and the competitive health of, the UK postal sector,\" Whistl said.\n\nWhistl said it was now looking at its options to decide whether to seek damages.\n\nRoyal Mail said it was disappointed by the tribunal's decision.\n\n\"We are considering all legal options, including whether to seek permission to appeal and to request that payment of the penalty, which would otherwise become payable, be stayed pending any appeal.\n\n\"We will provide an update once we have completed our legal review,\" it said.\n\nIt had argued that it raised prices to protect the Universal Service, which means post is charged at the same rate, regardless of where it is sent across the UK.\n\nUnlike its competitors, it is required to continue providing such pricing.\n\nThe CAT decision was announced as Royal Mail was asking the High Court to stop a postal strike, claiming that the ballot of workers had \"potential irregularities\".\n\nA strike threatens to disrupt postal voting in the run-up to the general election, as well as Christmas post.\n\nRoyal Mail says the the strike ballot \"was unlawful and, therefore, null and void\", but the Communications Workers Union \"refutes\" Royal Mail's claim.", "Adam Schiff, the Democratic Chairman of the Intelligence Committee overseeing the impeachment inquiry, began laying out the questions they seek to answer during the hearings.\n\nHe described the precedent for the future of how presidents act in office.", "Greta Thunberg on La Vagabonde with Riley Whitlum, Nikki Henderson, Elayna Carausu and baby Lennon\n\nClimate activist Greta Thunberg will sail from the US to a UN climate summit in Spain by hitching a ride with two sailing YouTubers.\n\nThe 16-year-old had planned to travel to Chile, but the country pulled out of hosting the COP25 climate meeting because of protests there.\n\nOn Facebook, she announced: \"So happy to say that I'll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid.\"\n\nShe refuses to travel by air because of its environmental impact.\n\nMs Thunberg had planned to travel slowly to Chile through the Americas. Two weeks ago, she put out a call for help on social media.\n\nBut last month, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera announced that the South American country could no longer host the event after serious anti-government protests.\n\nMs Thunberg will now sail from Virginia in the US to Spain on the French 48ft sailing catamaran La Vagabonde.\n\nShe will travel with Australian YouTubers Riley Whitlum and Elayna Carausu, as well as Briton Nikki Henderson - who is a professional yachtswoman.\n\nTheir boat uses solar panels and hydro-generators for power.\n\nSpain offered to host the summit at the end of October. About 25,000 people are expected to attend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The climate activist and former US president met to discuss climate change.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRylan Clark-Neal has now raised more than £1 million for Children In Need by singing non-stop karaoke for 24 hours.\n\nThe presenter belted out 231 songs, assisted by more than 90 celebrity guests, including Rick Astley, Nicole Scherzinger and Craig David.\n\nHe ate spoonfuls of honey every hour to keep his vocal cords coated - along with the occasional Pudsey donut.\n\n\"I am in such a state,\" Clark-Neal told Radio 2's Zoe Ball as he approached the end of the challenge on Wednesday.\n\n\"It doesn't feel real. None of it feels real.\"\n\nThe crooning marathon was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 and the BBC red button. In the last half hour of his challenge the star raised more than £200,000 - with the tally reaching £845,239 by the time he finished at 09:15 GMT.\n\n\"That's unbelievable, thank you so much,\" said the star.\n\nDonations continued to flood in after Rylan took a well-deserved rest, taking the tally past the £1 million mark by Thursday morning.\n\n\"That sore throat today is totally worth it, @Rylan!\" tweeted Radio 2. \"We are so incredibly proud to announce that we've hit ONE MILLION POUNDS (£1,027,776 to be precise!)\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe final grand total will be revealed during Friday night's Children In Need broadcast on BBC One.\n\nRylan's challenge saw him duet with Dermot O'Leary on You Don't Bring Me Flowers, rap with Trevor Nelson and DJ Spoony on a version of Rapper's Delight, and dance with Strictly contestants Saffron Barker and AJ Pritchard.\n\nRylan said he was inspired to keep singing by the memories of a recent visit to a Children In Need-funded youth club.\n\nRylan was joined by Denise Van Outen and Kimberley Walsh during his 24-hour challenge\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Radio 2 This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe star met the disadvantaged children helped by the Southend Association of Voluntary Services (Turning Tides) project in Essex - playing Hungry Hippos and taking part in arts and crafts lessons.\n\n\"It was amazing and, do you know what, I didn't actually think about this when I signed up to do this,\" said the Strictly: It Takes Two presenter.\n\n\"I didn't really think that I would need that, but actually visiting the project and meeting all the kids and volunteers and speaking to them and understanding how much this money impacts their lives, when I am sort of dying at four o'clock in the morning trying to garble together a song I know what I'm doing it for now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rylan Clark-Neal is reliving his X Factor days as he takes on a singing marathon.\n\nHis final song was Tina Turner's The Best - for which he was joined by M People star Heather Small.\n\nAs it ended, the 31-year-old sank to the floor in relief and Zoe Ball played him the bells of St Margaret's Church in his hometown of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, which were ringing in his honour.\n\nRylan's charity feat came eight months after Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman danced non-stop for 25 hours on Radio 2 in aid of Comic Relief.\n\nIn 2017, Sara Cox also boogied for 24 hours in an 80's Danceathon, while Dermot O'Leary kicked off the challenges in 2015 with another 24 hours of dance - live on the plaza outside BBC New Broadcasting House.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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General election 2019: SNP to take legal action over ITV election debate\n\nThe SNP is to take legal action against ITV over its exclusion from the broadcaster's general election debate.\n\nITV plans to show a head-to-head debate between Conservative leader Boris Johnson and his Labour counterpart Jeremy Corbyn next week.\n\nBut SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said it was \"fundamentally unfair\" to not include her party, which is the third-largest in the UK.\n\nThe Lib Dems have already launched a legal challenge to ITV's plan.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the decision to only invite Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn to take part in the televised debate on 19 November \"fails to recognise that the UK is no longer a two party state\".\n\nShe added: \"The SNP is the third party in terms of Commons representation in the last Parliament, we are the governing party of Scotland and we are one of the biggest political parties in the whole of the UK in terms of membership.\n\n\"It is also entirely possible that we will hold the balance of power in the House of Commons after this election - making it all the more important that our perspective is heard and indeed scrutinised.\n\n\"To exclude the SNP would be a fundamental breach of broadcasters' obligations to fully and properly represent and reflect the views of the whole UK.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson will be the only two politicians to take part in next week's primetime ITV debate\n\nMs Sturgeon said her party would be launching a fundraiser to support the costs of the legal challenge, which she wants to be heard on Monday alongside the one from the Liberal Democrats.\n\nBut she said that, unlike the Lib Dems, the SNP would be \"arguing not just for the SNP but for other parties to have a place in this debate as well, just as was the case in the ITV leaders' debate of 2015\".\n\nWhen ITV announced its plans, the channel said it would hold a live interview-based programme alongside the leaders' head-to-head to allow other parties to comment.\n\nIt also said it would host another multi-party debate ahead of the election on 12 December.\n\nThe BBC will host a live head-to-head debate between Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn in Southampton on 6 December, and will also broadcast a seven-way podium debate between senior figures from the UK's major political parties on 29 November, live from Cardiff.\n\nAnd BBC Scotland will stage a televised debate between the SNP, Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats on 10 December, although the Scottish Greens have criticised the decision not to include them.", "Former chief of the Armed Forces Lord Bramall has died at the age of 95.\n\nThe Normandy D-Day veteran, who oversaw the Falklands campaign, retired from the House of Lords in 2013.\n\nLord Bramall was awarded a military cross in 1945 for his bravery during World War Two.\n\nIn his later years, he was falsely accused in 2014 of child sexual abuse by the paedophile and fantasist Carl Beech.\n\nHe was too ill to attend the trial of Beech in person earlier this year. Beech was later jailed for making the false allegations.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died in 2015 before detectives announced they were not charging him.\n\nA field marshal and baron, Lord Bramall served during the Normandy landings and commanded UK land forces between 1976 and 1978.\n\nHe became chief of the general staff - the professional head of the Army - in 1979, and in 1982 he oversaw the Falklands campaign.\n\nLater that year he became chief of the defence staff - the most senior officer commanding the UK's armed forces - and served until 1985.\n\nHe went on to have a 26-year career in the House of Lords.\n\nLord Bramall - known to his family and friends as Dwin, from his first name Edwin - spoke out in the House of Lords against the involvement of the UK in the Iraq war.\n\nDuring a debate in 2004, he said: \"We really should know by now that, unlike naked aggression, terrorism cannot be defeated by massive military means, but by concentrating more on the twin pillars of competent protection and positive diplomacy.\"\n\nHe also spoke out against the UK's nuclear missiles, telling the Lords in 2007 that abandoning Trident \"could be seen as a bold and striking decision intended to show that the country is resolved to return to the position of moral and ethical standards for which it was once widely recognised\".\n\nThe Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament praised Lord Bramall over his comments.\n\nAlso paying tribute was former defence minister Tobias Ellwood, who tweeted that Lord Bramall had been an \"inspirational leader\".\n\nEx-defence secretary Lord Heseltine called him an \"outstanding soldier\", adding: \"From his earliest experiences in the liberation of Europe and the D-Day landings, to his distinguished tenure as chief of the defence staff, he was a man who inspired confidence.\n\n\"His public humiliation following the scandalous allegations was one of the most disgraceful episodes of my political life.\n\n\"The country has lost a great patriot who deserved better from us.\"\n\nFormer Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, who was also wrongly accused by Beech, paid tribute to Lord Bramall and said the country was \"poorer for his death\".\n\n\"He will be remembered as a military leader of enormous stature, courage and ability,\" Mr Proctor said.\n\nLord Bramall will be remembered as a war hero, despite the false claims towards the end of his life.\n\nHe joined the Army at the age of 18 and took part in the D-Day landings.\n\nIn Normandy, he was wounded twice but quickly returned to duty. For his bravery he was awarded the military cross.\n\nHe served in Borneo and then west Germany at the height of the Cold War as he rose through the ranks. By the time of the Falklands War he was the head of the Army. He retired in 1985 as a field marshal.\n\nHe was still respected as a strategic thinker - warning of the dangers of the Iraq invasion in 2003.\n\nHe also questioned the cost of renewing Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system.\n\nHis reputation still survived, despite what he called the ridiculous allegations made by a fantasist who wrongly claimed he was part of an establishment paedophile ring.\n\nPaying tribute to Lord Bramall, chief of the defence staff General Sir Nick Carter said his \"many admirers\" would be \"deeply saddened\" to hear of his death.\n\n\"He was a remarkable soldier who served our country with great bravery and dedication over many decades, inspiring his many subordinates, and overseeing significant change as a chief of staff that we still benefit from today,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative parliamentary candidate Nigel Evans focused on the impact of the false allegations, tweeting: \"I trust more than a few people will hang their heads in shame following this news. He deserved so much better from the police. RIP Lord Bramall.\"\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said Lord Bramall's last years were \"dominated\" by Operation Midland, the Metropolitan Police's probe into Beech's false claims.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said she was \"very sad\" to learn of his death.\n\n\"I met him recently to apologise personally for the great damage the Metropolitan Police investigation into Carl Beech's false allegations has had on him and his family,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"I was struck by his selflessness and generosity in the issues he wanted to discuss, focusing on a desire to ensure the lessons from Operation Midland had been learnt by the Met.\n\n\"It was very humbling to be in his company and hear first-hand his experience.\n\n\"He was a great man, a brilliant soldier and leader, and much-loved family man. He was a true gentleman and will be hugely missed.\"\n\nLord Bramall, a father-of-two, thumped the desk and called the allegations \"ridiculous\" when he was questioned by police in 2015.\n\nFootage of his police interview, which happened weeks after his home was raided, was played at Beech's trial.\n\n\"I am absolutely astonished, amazed and bemused,\" Lord Bramall said in that interview.\n\n\"I find it incredible that anybody should believe that someone of my career standing, integrity, should be capable of any of these things, including things like torture - unbelievable.\"", "Royal Mail has won its legal battle to prevent a postal strike after the High Court backed its application for an injunction.\n\nThe decision is a setback for union plans to stage strikes in the run-up to the general election and Christmas.\n\nLast month, 100,000 Royal Mail staff were balloted and voted to take action over job security and terms.\n\nBut Royal Mail argued that the ballot had \"potential irregularities\" and was null and void.\n\nThe Communications Workers Union (CWU) said its members were \"extremely angry and bitterly disappointed\".\n\nIt also accused Royal Mail of a \"cowardly and vicious attack on its own workforce\" and said it intended to appeal.\n\nShane O'Riordain, director of corporate affairs at Royal Mail, said it had not taken the decision to go to the High Court lightly.\n\n\"We sought to reach resolution outside the courts. We asked CWU to confirm it would refrain from taking industrial action, based on clear evidence of planned and orchestrated breaches by CWU officials of their legal obligations.\"\n\nMembers of the CWU voted by 97% in favour of a nationwide strike, saying the company had failed to adhere to an employment deal agreed last year.\n\nRoyal Mail denied this and said it had evidence of CWU members coming under pressure to vote \"yes\" in the ballot.\n\nThis included, the company said, union members \"being encouraged to open their ballot papers on site, mark them as 'yes', with their colleagues present and filming or photographing them doing so, before posting their ballots together at their workplace postboxes\".\n\nRoyal Mail said this amounted to a \"de facto workplace ballot\", contrary to rules on industrial action, to maximise the turnout and the \"yes\" vote.\n\nThe CWU thought the ballot result couldn't have been clearer - a 97% vote in favour of strike action on a turnout of 76%.\n\nBarring the result of any appeal, the CWU will have to go back to the drawing board and re-ballot its 110,000 members.\n\nIt's not a quick process and there's a strict code of practice to follow which takes at least a month.\n\nRealistically, it seems there's little chance of strike action before the new year, meaning postal workers have lost their moment of maximum leverage.\n\nA Christmas strike plus a threat to postal votes during the election would have been very damaging for the Royal Mail. It'll now be breathing a temporary sigh of relief. But the dispute, which covers a wide range of issues, is far from over.\n\nRoyal Mail's procedures state that employees cannot open their mail at delivery offices without the prior authorisation of their manager.\n\nBut CWU lawyers argued there was no evidence of interference with the ballot and that \"legitimate partisan campaigning\" by the union in favour of a \"yes\" vote did not violate the rules.\n\nIn the High Court, Mr Justice Swift said in his judgement: \"This was an interference that was accurately described as improper. Strike ballots should be postal ballots. Each voter should receive a voting paper at home.\n\n\"What CWU did was a form of subversion of the ballot process. It was an interference with voting.\"\n\nIf the action had gone ahead, it would have been Royal Mail's first national postal strike in a decade. In the 2017-18 financial year, Royal Mail delivered about 14.4 billion letters and 1.2 billion parcels.", "It looks nicer on the outside than on the inside, apparently\n\nCity of London regulators tasked with mucking out the financial stables have been making a \"shameful\" mess of their own, it has emerged.\n\nFinancial Conduct Authority staff have been upbraided for leaving their HQ in an \"unacceptable\" state.\n\nChief operating officer Georgina Philippou complained of \"bad behaviour\" including \"colleagues defecating on the floor in toilet cubicles\".\n\nCatering and security teams had been verbally abused, she said.\n\nMs Philippou made the complaints in a letter to the 4,000 employees at the FCA's Stratford headquarters that was posted on the authority's intranet.\n\nShe said she was \"ashamed\" at the behaviour of a \"minority of colleagues\".\n\nAs first reported by the Evening Standard newspaper, she outlined a series of incidents, including:\n\nMs Philippou said: \"You may have heard about some of these behaviours already and I'm sure others will come as a shock.\n\n\"This kind of behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated here.\"\n\nThe FCA has been responsible for regulating the conduct of the UK's financial firms and markets since 2013. It moved from Canary Wharf to its current home in July last year.\n\nAn FCA spokesperson said: \"There has been a small number of incidents of bad behaviour towards our colleagues and building.\n\n\"We have a duty as an employer to highlight this sort of poor behaviour and our senior management are very clear it is simply unacceptable.\n\n\"We value all of our staff and it is only right that we call out poor behaviour when we see it. Judging from the feedback we have received on the article, our staff agree.\"\n\nKPMG has also had to warn staff about their behaviour\n\nBosses at audit giant KPMG were also forced to warn staff about their conduct at work in 2018.\n\nAn email to workers at its Reading office seen by the BBC warned: \"We have had some incidents recently where the first floor accessible toilet sink is being used as a toilet, not for urinating.\n\n\"This is not the behaviour we expect from KPMG staff.\"\n\nA KPMG spokesperson told the BBC: \"This was an isolated incident which occurred in one of our offices well over a year ago and was clearly totally unacceptable.\n\n\"Where there is behaviour that falls short of the standards we expect we are quick to call it out, as we have done here.\"\n\nDo your work colleagues have any unsanitary habits? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n• None Five rules for eating at your desk", "A Children in Need album featuring stars like Jodie Whittaker and Olivia Colman has been removed from the race to be number one in this week's chart.\n\nThe Official Charts Company said Got It Covered, which features actors each singing a song, was heading for the top spot in the main album chart.\n\nBut it has now been moved to the compilations chart.\n\nChildren in Need chief executive Simon Antrobus said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the decision.\n\nOn Monday, the Official Charts Company said the album, which also includes tracks sung by David Tennant, Helena Bonham Carter and Suranne Jones, was 4,000 sales ahead in the race to be number one in the main chart.\n\nGentleman Jack and Broadchurch actor Shaun Dooley, who covered Taylor Swift's Never Grow Up, wrote on Twitter that he was \"saddened & angry\", pointing out that the decision could stop the CD from being stocked in supermarket chart racks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shaun Dooley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Official Charts Company said it had decided that the album was a various artists' compilation and so should not be in the main chart.\n\nMr Antrobus said: \"I'm deeply saddened that the industry has chosen to pull the album from the number one race after announcing it was well on its way to securing the top spot this week.\n\n\"Got It Covered is the result of an inspiring collaboration by some of the UK's biggest stars in support of disadvantaged children and young people and this very special project has clearly captured the public's imagination.\n\n\"It's sad that a charity album solely for the benefit of children should be denied the chance of further promotion and celebration which inevitably would lead to more money being raised.\"\n\nDavid Tennant covered The Proclaimers' Sunshine on Leith, and Helena Bonham Carter performed Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now\n\nChildren in Need is the BBC's corporate charity, and the album's release came ahead of the annual fundraising night on 15 November. The recording sessions were shown on a BBC One documentary.\n\nA BBC statement said: \"This is extremely disappointing, we know many of the contributors are also saddened by the news. It's important to remember what this album is about - helping the lives of disadvantaged children in need.\n\n\"The public have been buying the album in huge volumes and that should be recognised. They should think again.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Official Charts Company apologised for not identifying it as a compilation sooner. A statement said: \"We understand and sympathise with Children In Need's concerns that their album will no longer feature in the UK's artist albums chart.\n\n\"The album is on course to take the number one spot on the compilation albums chart and be the biggest-selling album of the week - which is a huge achievement, while raising money for such a deserving cause.\n\n\"Got It Covered was described to us pre-release as an artist album, but on release it was clear that it was a various artists compilation, as it is widely credited as across retail and music services. We are sorry this fact was not picked up sooner, and we are huge supporters of all the incredible and important work Children in Need do and would urge everyone to continue to go out and buy the album.\"\n\nChart rules say the only compilations allowed in the main artist album chart must be by a single artist or orchestra, or soundtracks where all recordings are performed by the cast.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nDefender Kyle Walker had to play in goal for the closing stages as Manchester City held on to draw with Atalanta in the Champions League.\n\nWalker replaced substitute goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, who was sent off for a sliding tackle on Josip Ilicic outside the box, having replaced first-choice keeper Ederson at half-time.\n\nRaheem Sterling had given the visitors a 1-0 lead in the first half of their group-stage game before Chelsea loannee Mario Pasalic equalised four minutes after the restart.\n\nCity striker Gabriel Jesus also missed a first-half penalty in a bizarre game at the San Siro.\n• None 'One of the most fun things in football' - Walker dons the gloves and everyone loves it\n• None Champions League permutations: Who is through and who can still progress?\n• None Football Daily podcast: A clean sheet for Kyle Walker and Son doubles up for Spurs\n\nA victory would have sent City through to the last 16 but they remain five points clear at the top of Group C despite failing to win for the first time in the group stages this season.\n\nThings went to plan after seven minutes when Sterling coolly slotted into the bottom corner following a brilliant backheel flick from Jesus.\n\nBut the Brazilian forward's penalty miss and Pasalic's thumping header early in the second half rocked the boat - City were no longer in control and Atalanta were posing a threat.\n\nWith Ederson substituted at half-time for a suspected injury, there was nervousness at the back and Bravo's rash tackle meant an outfield player was forced to go in goal.\n\nUp stepped Walker, after a six-minute delay while Bravo's red card was checked by the video assistant referee, and his first action was to make a smart save from Ruslan Malinovskyi's free-kick.\n\nWalker, only the third outfield player to go in goal during a Champions League match, actually made more saves than both of Manchester City's recognised keepers during the game.\n\nThe moment Bravo came on, City looked nervous at the back.\n\nThe Chile international played with fire on several occasions, coming out of his box to make a diving header and taking his time with clearances while being pressed by Atalanta's forwards.\n\nHe conceded within four minutes of coming on - though he could do nothing about Pasalic's terrific header, which came at him with pace from an unmarked position in the box.\n\nAnd when Bravo came charging out of his area sliding, bringing down Ilicic and consequently being shown a red card, it caused chaos for City, who had no other keepers on the bench to turn to.\n\nWalker was given instructions on the sidelines while the big screen in the stadium showed 'VAR check' but it took six minutes for his substitution to be made.\n\nHe high-fived Riyad Mahrez, who was sacrificed on his behalf, before running straight over to the goalposts and organising the defence into a wall to prepare for the free-kick.\n\nMalinovskyi, who had come on for Atalanta during the six-minute wait, hit it low and straight down the middle but Walker got his body behind it and gobbled up the rebound, to great cheers from the travelling City fans.\n\nManchester City should have had the game wrapped up in the first half but instead, spent the final seven minutes of stoppage time keeping the ball in the corner to prevent Atalanta from having a shot at Walker.\n\nIn the first half, City had eight shots, including six inside the box and had Jesus scored his spot kick, they would have been 2-0 up after 43 minutes.\n\nJesus, who has missed three of his seven penalties in all competitions for City, had a chance early on too when he was played in by Kevin de Bruyne, but his first touch let him down.\n\nAnd when asked whether Jesus' penalty miss affected the game, Guardiola told BT Sport: \"Definitely. Football is emotion.\"\n\nSterling also came close - missing Mahrez's cross by inches at the back post before the ball was taken away from him as he was about to shoot from a few yards out.\n\nThey were ultimately punished for their lack of ruthlessness and sloppiness at the back - something Liverpool will hope to take advantage of when the two Premier League rivals go head-to-head in Sunday's game at Anfield.\n\nAtalanta had lost their previous three group games and this was their first point in the Champions League this season.\n\n'In the second half we suffered'\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola on BT Sport: \"In this competition you know you have your chances and moments and you have to take it. But with the problems we have, we made a good first half. First half, we were outstanding and second, we suffered. In the last 15 minutes we had the issue with the new keeper.\n\n\"The second half we didn't do exactly what we should do. It was few chances conceded against one of the teams who create more. It was a perfect result away and we need one more point to go though.\n\n\"When we land in Manchester we will think about the next game in the Premier League.\"\n\nA first for Bravo - best of the stats\n• None Manchester City failed to win a Champions League group stage game they were winning at half-time for just the second time, also doing so against CSKA Moscow in October 2014 (2-2)\n• None City have been shown more red cards in their 18 games in all competitions this season (3) than they were in 61 games last term (2)\n• None This was Guardiola's 600th game in charge of a top-flight club in all competitions (W440, D95, L65)\n• None Six of Sterling's 19 Champions League goals have been against Italian sides, more than he's scored against opponents from any other country in the competition.\n• None Bravo became the first substitute goalkeeper to be sent off in Champions League history\n• None Gabriel Jesus has missed three of his seven penalties taken in all competitions for Manchester City, with this his first failure in the Champions League\n\nManchester City travel to Anfield for a crucial Premier League fixture against leaders Liverpool on Sunday (16:30 GMT), hoping to close their six-point gap at the top. City are back in European action on Tuesday, 26 November when they host Shakhtar Donetsk at Etihad Stadium.\n• None Benjamin Mendy (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Ruslan Malinovskiy (Atalanta) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Timothy Castagne (Atalanta) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jodie Chesney was stabbed to death just weeks before completing her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award\n\nTwo teenagers have been convicted of murdering teenage girl scout Jodie Chesney, who was ambushed by a drug dealer who mistook her for a rival. She was stabbed to death while simply sitting with friends in an east London park.\n\nFriday night, college is out and Jodie is looking forward to spending time with her friends. It was all planned - she would meet the group at Amy's Park in Harold Hill, Romford. There she would listen to music and unwind after a busy week.\n\nThe 17-year-old had spoken to her father, Peter Chesney, that morning - 1 March. It was his birthday.\n\n\"She popped her head around the stairs and wished me a happy birthday,\" says Peter. \"She said that my present would arrive in the post the next day - and that she was sorry it was late.\"\n\nClosing the door behind him, he could never have known that that would be the last time he would see his daughter alive.\n\nSitting on a bench in the home he shared with his two daughters and his partner Joanne, Peter looks up at pictures of Jodie on top of the piano, a shrine perfectly placed on the instrument she loved playing so much.\n\nRemembering the \"shy little girl\" growing up, Peter says his daughter had started playing piano in school.\n\n\"She played really well. She loved playing classical music like Ludovico Einaudi and Beethoven.\"\n\nJodie loved the colour purple - she even dyed her hair that colour on various occasions.\n\nHer head teacher at Havering Sixth Form College, Paul Wakeling, says those who knew Jodie knew her as an \"amazingly weird\" young girl.\n\n\"She was very quirky and different as is evident by her hair colours. She was artistic and a loving and caring student.\"\n\nEducation was important to Jodie, and she would \"always want to do well\", her father adds.\n\n\"She loved school and her subjects. She was in the middle of studying for her A-levels in Photography, Psychology and Sociology.\n\n\"Photography was her favourite. She would often go down to the South Bank on her own and take pictures.\"\n\nHer best friend Clarice Sharp, 18, describes Jodie as helping her come out of her shell.\n\n\"I was an introvert,\" she says. \"But when I met Jodie she made me realise the world was a great place to live in.\n\n\"We would go shopping together, or go to the movies. We loved pizza. I can't even eat pizza now without thinking of how we would fight over the last slice.\"\n\nA determination of getting the most out of life also saw Jodie getting involved with the girl scouts.\n\nProud to wear her scout uniform, Jodie had not long completed her Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh award.\n\n\"Jodie was simply a beautiful person whose life was cut short just as she was blossoming into a wonderful young woman,\" Peter says.\n\nShe was weeks away from finishing her Gold Award before she was stabbed to death.\n\nAt 21:20 on 1 March, Jodie and her friends were well into their night in Amy's Park, sitting on a bench, listening to music and smoking cannabis.\n\n\"It was a normal Friday night,\" Clarice says. \"Lots of laughing and joking.\n\n\"Earlier that day we had just been chatting about make-up and some boots she had just bought.\"\n\nIt had been dark for some time when Jodie's boyfriend, Eddie Coyle, noticed two figures coming out of the darkness towards them.\n\nJodie was sitting on a bench table with her back to them.\n\nWithin a few minutes, calm turned to chaos for the teenager and her friends.\n\nJodie was stabbed in the back in an unprovoked and almost silent attack by who we now know was 19-year-old Svenson Ong-a-Kwie.\n\nShe collapsed to the ground. The knife came within millimetres of fully passing through her body.\n\nDuring the trial, Mr Coyle told an Old Bailey jury Jodie had \"screamed\" out in shock.\n\n\"She didn't know what had happened. We just thought they had stolen our bags,\" the 18-year-old said.\n\n\"But then she started screaming continuously, very loud, and it lasted about two minutes straight.\n\n\"Then she began to faint. At this time she was falling off the bench.\"\n\nIt was only when he shone his iPhone torch on to Jodie's back he realised how bad she had been hurt.\n\nThe white lining of her burgundy denim jacket was covered in blood.\n\nHe would later learn that Jodie's wound was 18cm deep and penetrated her right lung, causing heavy bleeding.\n\nAs her attackers fled the scene, a local resident who heard the screams ran out to help and called 999.\n\nWhen an ambulance arrived at 21:30, Jodie showed no sign of life.\n\nJodie's father Peter, who described his daughter as a \"proud geek\", was celebrating his birthday in Dirty Martini in central London when his brother, Dave Chesney, received news of Jodie's injury.\n\n\"My brother got a phone call to say that the police were on their way to pick me up because Jodie had been attacked,\" he says.\n\n\"As you can imagine I was deep in shock. One minute I'm laughing the next minute Jodie has been attacked.\"\n\nThe police told Peter they were taking him one mile north to The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, to see Jodie.\n\nPeter never made it to hospital - and neither did Jodie.\n\nDespite doctors performing emergency surgery en route to hospital, Jodie was pronounced dead at 22:26 on the forecourt of an Esso Garage in Gants Hill, Ilford.\n\n\"I heard over the radio someone telling them to reroute to my house because Jodie had gone,\" Peter says.\n\n\"At that moment I just lost my composure and dropped on my knees. I cried all the way home.\"\n\nThroughout the night, members of Jodie's family made their way to Peter's house to offer support.\n\n\"Fences got punched, people were getting angry and then getting sad and then not understanding what was going on,\" Peter says.\n\n\"There and then - my life fell apart.\n\n\"She died, but there was no reason why she died.\"\n\nPurple ribbons were tied to bollards outside the Old Bailey on the morning of Jodie Chesney's murder trial\n\nIt was a miserable rainy Monday morning on 16 September 2019 - the first day of an eight-week trial of two teenagers and two men accused of Jodie's murder.\n\nIt's a 13-mile journey from Peter's home in east London to the Old Bailey, though it felt like an eternity for the 39-year-old.\n\nEn route he passed children wearing school uniforms on bikes on their way to Jodie's old school.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie was a known drug dealer in the Harold Hill and Collier Row areas of east London\n\nThe taxi drove through rush hour traffic from Dagenham into the city - a route which Peter frequently used for his work commute.\n\nThis journey, however, had a completely different feel.\n\nSpeaking that day, a nervous Peter said: \"This will be the first time I come face to face with the suspects. Seeing them will make me want to destroy them. But I have to control myself.\n\n\"I just want to know why. Why Jodie? She did absolutely nothing to anybody.\"\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited the scene where Jodie Chesney was stabbed to death\n\nThe public gallery was packed with members of Jodie's family and friends, all wearing a purple ribbon in her memory.\n\nOutside the Old Bailey, purple ribbons were tied to posts and pillars, reminding passers by of the tragedy.\n\nPeter sat in the court and listened to those involved in his daughter's murder deny any involvement.\n\nIt was too much for him to attend everyday.\n\n\"It was just killing me. Someone said to me why was I putting myself through this?\" he said.\n\nBut one day that Peter did attend, was to hear Ong-a-Kwie's evidence.\n\nThe 19-year-old told jurors he was driven to Harold Hill on the evening of 1 March to drop off drugs.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie disposed of his trainers the morning after Jodie was killed\n\nBut jurors heard how Ong-a-Kwie was looking to take out a rival drug dealer who was encroaching on his turf.\n\nCCTV footage of the defendant and his 17-year-old accomplice was shown to the jury. An expert concluded Ong-a-Kwie was holding an object at waist height which reflected light.\n\nThe prosecution claimed this was a knife, while Ong-a-Kwie claimed it was his mobile phone.\n\nCell site evidence also proved Ong-a-Kwie's phone was turned off minutes before Jodie was stabbed.\n\nThe prosecution claimed he mistook Jodie and her friends as his rivals, stabbing Jodie in an \"unprovoked ambush\".\n\nOng-a-Kwie insisted it was his 17-year-old co-defendant who had stabbed Jodie that night.\n\nBut witness statements from Jodie's friends proved the killer was a dark-skinned tall man in a tracksuit who stood up on the bench before swinging a knife into the innocent girl's back.\n\nJodie's boyfriend, Eddie Coyle, was a witness during the trial\n\nHis movements after the murder added to the suspicion. He burnt his clothes, dumped his trainers and threw his iPhone into a bin.\n\nThis behaviour and the evidence convinced the jury, who subsequently found Ong-a-Kwie, of Collier Row, guilty of Jodie's murder.\n\nThey also found the 17-year-old, of Barking, who also went into the park with Ong-a-Kwie, guilty of murder.\n\nManuel Petrovic, and the 16-year-old boy, both of Romford, were acquitted of all charges.\n\n\"Jodie's murder was the terrible but predictable consequence of an all-too casual approach to the carrying - and using - of knives,\" prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said.\n\nThrough all the sadness and despair, Peter is determined to positively mark his daughter's life.\n\nHe set up The Jodie Chesney Foundation, a charity which will aim to tackle knife crime through supporting the parents of children and youths caught up in drug dealing and violence.\n\n\"Many charities go into schools, but I think I can be inspirational because it has happened to me,\" he says.\n\n\"I can get the message across to kids and parents the real effect as to what this does. How it destroys families.\n\n\"I strongly believe it all starts at home. Parents, first and foremost, must take that responsibility - that's a given.\"\n\nDuring the trial the prosecution said all four of the defendants accused of Jodie's murder had \"broken homes\" and had \"drifted into a life of crime\".\n\n\"What I've been told by local councillors and MPs is that no-one is really there to help the parents as much as they can be - so we are going to fill that void.\"\n\nFor Peter, although he has lost his daughter, he says he will not \"give in to hate\".\n\n\"I'm not going to spend my life hating and I know Jodie would not want that of me.\n\n\"She's going to want me to be the best version of myself and sitting here with hate is only going to eat me up inside.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has announced he is stepping down from his role after the general election, and will not be standing as an MP.\n\nMr Watson said it was for \"personal not political\" reasons and was the the right time for a change.", "Special adviser Geraint Evans (left) sent Alun Cairns (centre) an email about Ross England in August 2018\n\nThe victim in the collapsed rape trial that led to Alun Cairns' resignation as Welsh secretary said the case shows why women do not alert police.\n\nMr Cairns said he did not know about a former aide's involvement in the collapse of her trial until last week.\n\nBut he resigned after BBC Wales obtained an email sent to him discussing the case over a year ago.\n\nA spokesman for Alun Cairns said he and his staff supported the victim in a \"kind, caring and considerate way\".\n\n\"It is important to reiterate that Mr Cairns had no role or association with the trial.,\" the spokesman added.\n\nThe victim has called for Mr Cairns to quit as a general election candidate.\n\nThe politician, who still intends to stand for the Conservatives in Vale of Glamorgan, denies any wrongdoing.\n\nThe Conservative Party had said Mr Cairns was \"completely unaware\" until last week of the details of the case, which collapsed in April 2018 when his former aide Ross England, a witness, was accused by the trial judge of deliberate sabotage.\n\nBut an email sent on 2 August 2018 shows Mr Cairns received an update regarding Mr England's situation.\n\nIt was sent to Mr Cairns by Geraint Evans, his special adviser, and copied to Richard Minshull - the director of the Welsh Conservatives - and another member of staff.\n\nIt said: \"I have spoken to Ross and he is confident no action will be taken by the court.\"\n\nFour months after that email was sent, Mr England was selected to represent the Conservative Party in the Vale of Glamorgan for the 2021 Welsh assembly election.\n\n\"It is because of situations like this that women don't come forward and report rape,\" the victim - who cannot be named for legal reasons and who previously worked in Mr Cairns' constituency office - told BBC Wales.\n\n\"I think Alun Cairns did the right thing resigning,\" she said. \"However, I feel that the way he has handled this does not reflect well on the Conservative Party and raises serious questions as to whether he's a suitable candidate to be standing in the general election.\n\n\"What he did was to minimise my experience as a rape victim.\n\n\"He was aware that Ross England had delayed my right to justice and made me go through another trial and still felt that he was a suitable candidate.\n\n\"This brings into question his judgment and the party's judgment.\"\n\nRoss England has been suspended as a Tory party candidate for the Welsh Assembly election\n\nLord Davies of Gower, who has been the chairman of the party in Wales since 2017, said he \"deeply regrets\" the situation has arisen but added: \"There will be an apology if I find out that one should be forthcoming.\n\n\"I'm very sorry that this has happened to her. There is nothing I can do about it. It all happened before I became chairman of the party. I deeply regret it and I will deal with it very sympathetically,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Mr Cairns said: \"This is a very sensitive matter, and in light of continued speculation, I write to tender my resignation as secretary of state for Wales.\n\n\"I will co-operate in full with the investigation under the ministerial code which will now take place and I am confident I will be cleared of any breach or wrong doing.\"\n\nIn a statement issued last week, Lord Davies said he could \"categorically state\" that he and Mr Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public this week\".\n\nFollowing Mr England's selection to stand as an AM, Mr Cairns endorsed the candidate as a \"friend and colleague\" with whom \"it will be a pleasure to campaign\".\n\nMr England was suspended from his candidacy and his employment with the Conservative Party last week.\n\nAt the rape trial Mr England, giving evidence, made claims he had had a casual sexual relationship with the victim, which she has denied.\n\nThe judge Stephen John Hopkins had earlier told the trial evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nHe told Mr England: \"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nThe defendant James Hackett, a friend of Mr England's, was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.\n\nRoss England gave a speech at the Welsh Conservatives' conference in 2016\n\nMr Cairns is facing further pressure to resign his candidacy in the upcoming general election from other parties.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn questioned the \"moral right\" of Mr Cairns to stand, while Plaid Cymru's Liz Saville Roberts said he should do the \"honourable thing\" and withdraw.\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds said he was \"not fit to represent Wales\".\n\nAssembly Tory leader Paul Davies has distanced himself from Mr England, saying he had fallen short of the standards expected of a Conservative candidate.\n\nShazia Awan-Scully, a former Conservative Party member who ran to be an MP in 2010, said the actions of the party \"alienate women\".\n\n\"It says everything about the moral state of the party right now that the prime minister thinks it's OK for Alun Cairns to stand as a candidate I think it's absolutely disgraceful,\" she added.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Welsh Conservatives said the party encouraged women, adding it had \"elected some strong female candidates for the forthcoming general election and look forward to selecting even more\".\n\nOther candidates standing in the Vale of Glamorgan include Sally Stephenson, for the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Belinda Loveluck-Edwards for Welsh Labour and Ian Johnson for Plaid Cymru.\n\nThe close of nominations is 14 November.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alun Cairns resigned the same day the Conservatives' election campaign began\n\nThe resignation of Alun Cairns as Welsh Secretary has big implications for the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nIt raises many questions to which we do not know the answers.\n\nIt leaves their general election campaign in disarray, because as Welsh secretary Mr Cairns was supposed to be leading that campaign.\n\nAs things stand, it is not clear who that person will be.\n\nWho from the current cohort of Welsh Tory politicians could be called up? Could it be Paul Davies, the low-profile leader of the party in the Welsh assembly?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Looking back on the political career of Alun Cairns\n\nMeanwhile, the party is hoping to make gains in leave voting seats in the north east of Wales.\n\nThey have been targets for the party for a long time and efforts were made to move onto Labour's turf in the region in 2017.\n\nWe will have to see what impact this row will have on their chances.\n\nAnother question is whether Mr Cairns' resignation from government will draw a line under the questions of who in the party knew about Ross England's role in the collapse of the rape trial before they selected him as a candidate.\n\nThe leaked email that prompted Mr Cairns' resignation was also sent to the party's director, Richard Minshull.\n\nAnd the chairman, Byron Davies, has yet to clarify his statement that he could \"categorically\" state that neither he nor Mr Cairns knew about the details of the collapse of the trial until last week.\n\nWill Paul Davies lead the Welsh Conservative campaign?\n\nAnd what of Mr Cairns' hopes of re-election?\n\nHis constituency - the Vale of Glamorgan - is seen as a marginal and he had a majority of 2,190 in 2017.\n\nLabour have had high hopes of a gain here. They have the seat in the Welsh assembly and held it through the Blair years.\n\nAnd will a new secretary of state be appointed? Who could that be - when there is no obvious deputy ready to take over?\n\nAnd what about the rape survivor's observation yesterday - that not a single senior Welsh Conservative has apologised for party selecting a man accused by a judge of deliberately sabotaging her rape trial, as a candidate?", "A Belfast doctor who killed his mother had been raised by her \"in almost third-world conditions\" and in an atmosphere of \"intimidation and bullying\", a court has heard.\n\nAnne O'Neill, 51, was found in the garden of her parents' home at Ardmore Avenue in Finaghy on 21 October, 2017.\n\nHer son, Declan Kevin O'Neill, 29, attacked her with a chisel.\n\nHe admitted murdering her in court in September.\n\nIt was a \"brutal killing\" during which neighbours heard her screams for help, prosecutors said.\n\nHowever, relatives asked the court to show \"mercy\" as Mrs O'Neill, a retired nurse, had been a \"controlling personality\" who had driven her son \"beyond his limits\".\n\nThe judge will rule on the conditions of O'Neill's sentence next Thursday.\n\nThe court was told how Anne O'Neill's children had grown up with \"relentless emotional violence\" and \"domestic abuse\".\n\nThey slept on mattresses, in a home which had no bathroom and little furniture - their clothes were kept in cardboard boxes.\n\nDuring the attack, the victim was heard to scream \"leave me alone, Declan\" and \"somebody help me\".\n\nShe suffered severe head injuries. Her son was arrested at the apartment he shared with his partner a short time later.\n\nPolice found the shower had been recently used, clothes were in the washing machine and a bag with a rubber mask, tape and metal chisel was lying in a communal area of the building.\n\nTraces of Mrs O'Neill's blood and hair was found on the chisel and in O'Neill's car.\n\nThe litany of abuse Anne O'Neill's children claimed they suffered was both shocking and upsetting in court.\n\nAs family members watched from the public gallery, Declan O'Neill shook continuously and sobbed in the dock.\n\nAt one point, Mr Justice Colton reflected that it was difficult to avoid concluding Anne O'Neill herself had a mental illness.\n\nDefence lawyers said O'Neill, of Malone Avenue, changed his plea to guilty and \"surrendered his [legal] fight\" in September to spare any further distress to his family.\n\nIt was argued he would have been able to argue diminished responsibility due to his mental state at the time of the killing.\n\n\"His mother controlled his daily life,\" the court was told.\n\nThe victim's mother said in a statement: \"There are too many examples of the controlled life they had to lead for me to begin to explain.\"\n\nThe victim's daughter revealed in her statement to the court that her mother had on one occasion \"held me by the throat against a wall\" and \"hit me with a brush\".\n\nShe said the children had a lifetime of their mother calling them names and \"being horrible\" and it had \"a profound effect\".\n\nIt was \"a very difficult upbringing\", she said.\n\n\"I always knew the way she treated us was not normal.\n\n\"Our whole childhood and right into our adult lives was destroyed,\" she added.\n\nShe said both children were \"trapped\" and Anne O'Neill \"constantly blackmailed\" them.\n\nFollowing his arrest, O'Neill told police in an interview: \"I didn't mean to.\n\n\"You don't know what it's like every day - thousands of pounds of debts in my name.\n\n\"[She] keeps taking money off me.\"\n• None Doctor is sentenced to life for mother's murder", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passengers faced disruption as parts of the building were closed\n\nA pilot on a plane has accidentally set off a hijack alarm and sparked a major security alert at Schiphol airport in the Dutch city of Amsterdam.\n\nDutch military police tweeted at about 19:30 (18:30 GMT) to say they were investigating a \"suspicious situation\".\n\nPart of the airport - one of Europe's busiest - was then closed off as police responded to the reported threat.\n\nBut about an hour later, Air Europa announced that a pilot had accidentally triggered the alarm.\n\n\"False alarm. In the flight Amsterdam-Madrid this afternoon was activated, by mistake, a warning that triggers protocols on hijackings at the airport,\" the airline tweeted.\n\n\"Nothing has happened, all passengers are safe and sound waiting to fly soon. We deeply apologise.\"\n\nShortly before their announcement, Dutch military police confirmed all passengers and staff had been safely evacuated from the Madrid-bound flight.\n\nImages posted on social media showed parts of the airport's D-pier cordoned off to the public, with passengers waiting around for information.\n\nThe alert caused parts of the airport to be closed off to passengers\n\nFlights still landed at other parts of the airport during the disruption, but emergency services scrambled and some flights were held on the tarmac.\n\nRoberto Carrera, 38, landed at the airport in the midst of the alert at about 19:45 local time.\n\n\"The pilot let us know an incident may have happened,\" he told the BBC in a phone interview.\n\nMr Carrera said he and other passengers on his flight from Dublin were then held on the tarmac for about an hour before they were allowed to disembark.\n\nHe saw police in the terminal but described the atmosphere in the airport as calm overall, despite the disruption.\n\nThe incident was described as a GRIP-3 situation, Dutch officials said, meaning an incident or serious event with major consequences to a local population.\n\nRegulation documents published by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) explain that pilots can use a special transponder beacon code, typing 7500, to raise an alert for unlawful interference in the case of a hijacking.\n\nIt remains unclear if this is what happened during the false alarm on Wednesday.\n\nAmsterdam's airport is one of the busiest transport hubs in Europe, handling more than 70 million passengers a year.\n• None 'The longest and most spectacular plane hijack'", "Crispin Aylett QC told the jury to 'put aside any sympathies' they may have in the Jodie Chesney murder trial\n\nThe fatal stabbing of a teenage girl in an east London park had \"nothing to do with drugs but everything to do with an ambush,\" a court has heard.\n\nJodie Chesney, 17, was knifed in the back on 1 March as she chatted with friends in Harold Hill.\n\nIn his closing speech, prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told the Old Bailey jury Jodie was \"a victim of a brutal act of unprovoked violence\".\n\nAll four defendants, aged between 16 and 20, deny murder.\n\nMr Aylett said Jodie's death was \"but another example\" of the \"terrible consequences of the carrying and using of knives\".\n\nHe added: \"It seems every day now in our city, another young life is lost to a knife.\n\n\"I am sorry to say that your verdicts in this trial will not bring this to an end.\"\n\nManuel Petrovic and Svenson Ong-a-Kwie both admitted being drug dealers in the Harold Hill and Collier Row areas of east London\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, from Romford, Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, from Collier Row, a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy have been on trial since September.\n\nMr Aylett said all four defendants had \"drifted into a life of crime whether stealing motorbikes or drug dealing\".\n\nOn the night Jodie died, Mr Ong-a-Kwie \"urgently\" asked Mr Petrovic for a lift from Collier Row to Harold Hill, the jury was told.\n\nJodie Chesney had been drinking and socialising with friends in Amy's Park, Harold Hill, when she was stabbed in the back\n\nMr Petrovic drove the group in his black Vauxhall Corsa to Retford Road and waited while Mr Ong-a-Kwie and the 17-year-old went into Amy's Park.\n\n\"This was an ambush,\" Mr Aylett added: \"The car need to be turned around so they could get away quickly.\n\n\"We now know the two in the park were Svenson and the boy, I say now know because the police were not told this before.\"", "George Kent, Marie Yovanovitch and Bill Taylor have all testified in the ongoing impeachment inquiry\n\nCongressional Democrats have announced the first public hearings next week in an inquiry that may seek to remove President Donald Trump from office.\n\nThree state department officials will testify first. So far lawmakers from three key House committees have heard from witnesses behind closed doors.\n\nThe impeachment inquiry centres on claims that Mr Trump pressured Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into political rival Joe Biden.\n\nHouse Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, who is overseeing the inquiry, told reporters on Wednesday that an impeachment case was building against the president.\n\nHe said: \"We are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year - and the degree to which the president enlisted whole departments of government in the illicit aim to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent.\"\n\nMr Trump has been making discredited corruption claims about former US vice-president Joe Biden, whose son Hunter Biden once worked for a Ukrainian gas company.\n\nThe Capitol Hill hearings will now be broadcast live, with both Democratic and Republican lawmakers questioning witnesses.\n\nOne of the first to appear will be Bill Taylor, acting US ambassador to Ukraine, who delivered some of the most explosive private testimony last month.\n\nOn Wednesday - a week ahead of his scheduled public hearing - House Democrats released a transcript of his evidence.\n\nIt shows Mr Taylor told lawmakers it was his \"clear understanding\" that the president had withheld nearly $400m (£310m) in US military aid because he wanted Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.\n\nJoe Biden is a Democratic front-runner for the presidential election a year from now.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it take to impeach a president?\n\nAlso scheduled to testify publicly next Wednesday is career state department official George Kent.\n\nMr Kent reportedly told lawmakers that department officials had been sidelined as the White House put political appointees in charge of Ukraine policy.\n\nHe testified that he had been warned to \"lay low\" by a superior after expressing concern about Mr Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was lobbying Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Mr Giuliani has denied wrongdoing.\n\nFormer US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was recalled in May after falling from favour with the White House, is due to testify on Friday next week.\n\nShe told the hearing last month that she had felt threatened by Mr Trump's remark to Ukraine's president that was \"going to go through some things\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What we know about Biden-Ukraine corruption claims\n\nThe military aid to Ukraine was released in September, after a whistleblower raised the alarm about a 25 July phone call in which Mr Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate the Bidens.\n\nThe whistleblower's complaint prompted House Democrats to launch the impeachment inquiry.\n\nImpeachment is the first part - the charges - of a two-stage political process by which Congress can remove a president from office.\n\nIf, following the hearings, the House of Representatives votes to pass articles of impeachment, the Senate is forced to hold a trial.\n\nA Senate vote requires a two-thirds majority to convict and remove the president - unlikely in this case, given that Mr Trump's party controls the chamber.\n\nOnly two US presidents in history - Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson - have been impeached, but neither was convicted.\n\nPresident Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Labour MP Ian Austin tells the BBC's Today programme that Jeremy Corbyn is \"completely unfit to lead our country\"\n\nLabour voters should support Boris Johnson in the general election, former Labour MP Ian Austin has said.\n\nThe former minister resigned from the party in February, accusing leader Jeremy Corbyn of failing to tackle anti-Semitism.\n\nMr Austin, MP for Dudley North, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Mr Corbyn was \"completely unfit\" to be PM.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the comments were unsurprising as Mr Austin \"now works for the Tory party\".\n\n\"What else do you expect him to do,\" he said, \"when you are employed by the Tories you speak on behalf of the Tories?\"\n\nIn response, Mr Austin said it was \"a complete lie\" to say he was working for the Tories. He said he had been appointed by the government as a trade envoy, an unpaid role, in July \"along with 27 other MPs and peers from different parties\".\n\nAnother ex-Labour MP, John Woodcock, said he would be voting Conservative at the election and urged others to do the same. Mr Woodcock has been appointed as special government envoy to tackle violent extremism.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak called Mr Austin's comments a \"truly devastating indictment of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He's now employed by the Tories\": John McDonnell hits back at ex-Labour MP Ian Austin's comments on Corbyn\n\nSpeaking to the Express and Star newspaper, Mr Austin also announced he would be standing down as MP for Dudley North - a seat he held at the 2017 election with a majority of just 22.\n\nHe said: \"I am so sorry that it has come to this, but as has always been the case, I have to do what I think is right.\"\n\nHe added: \"I must do everything I can to stop Jeremy Corbyn from getting into power.\"\n\nMr Austin became a Labour councillor in Dudley in his twenties, later working as a press officer for Gordon Brown.\n\nHe was elected MP for Dudley North in 2005 and served in Mr Brown's government from 2008 to 2010.\n\nMr Austin quit the party earlier this year, blaming Mr Corbyn for \"creating a culture of extremism and intolerance\" and accused the Labour leadership of failing to tackle anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nTom Watson has said he is stepping down as Labour deputy leader\n\nHis comments came after Tom Watson announced he was stepping down as Labour's deputy leader and as an MP.\n\nHe said the decision was \"personal, not political\" and that he would continue to campaign for the party.\n\nBut Mr Austin said: \"If Tom thought that Jeremy Corbyn was fit to lead our country and fit to form a government, then he would have been in that cabinet. Would he really be standing down?\"\n\nHe said Mr Watson was \"appalled\" by \"the scandal of anti-Semitism that has poisoned the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership\".\n\nShadow chancellor John Mc Donnell said those who had expressed anti-Semitism accounted for \"less than 0.1% of the Labour Party membership\".\n\nAsked about the Jewish Chronicle's front page - which urges non-Jewish voters not to support Labour - he said he was \"sad about it\" but insisted the party was doing \"everything they asked of us\" to tackle anti-Semitism.", "More than half of students are ready to vote tactically in the general election, with Brexit the key factor, according to research.\n\nThe analysis from the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) says 53% will vote in a way to maximise the chances of their side of the Brexit divide.\n\nThe poll of more than 1,000 undergraduates shows 74% oppose Brexit.\n\nHepi director Nick Hillman says for many students it would be \"full-on tactical voting because of Brexit\".\n\nThe 12 December election date means many students will be back in their family home for Christmas - but they will still have the option to vote in their university constituency, or from their home address.\n\nBut the polling analysis from Hepi, using data from YouthSight polling firm, shows more students expecting to vote tactically than in the previous election, with Brexit driving much of the decision making.\n\nThe polling shows 53% would vote tactically, 15% would be unwilling and 33% were \"neutral\".\n\nIn 2017, there were 47% ready to vote tactically.\n\nTactical voting for students could be choosing in which seat to vote or whether to back a candidate more likely to win, who otherwise might not be their first choice.\n\nMr Hillman says rather than student-focused issues - such as tuition fees - Brexit seems more influential on voting intentions.\n\nAccording to the pollsters, Brexit seems to be intensifying as a factor for student voters, rather than diminishing.\n\nAmong student voters, 70% want another referendum and 75% expect Brexit to have a negative impact on their future prospects.\n\nFor student voters, 71% said Brexit would have an influence on their voting.\n\nIn the 2017 general election, the student vote was seen as delivering some big swings to Labour, helping them to take seats with a significant student population, such as Canterbury and Portsmouth South.\n\nBut Mr Hillman, a former special adviser to a Conservative universities minister, says this is now a different student electorate.\n\n\"Most of today's full-time undergraduates were not at university when the 2016 referendum took place, nor when the 2017 election occurred,\" he said.\n\n\"They are literally different people to past student voters. But the majority of today's students are strongly pro-Remain. They want another referendum and most say Brexit could affect how they vote at this election.\n\n\"A sizeable number are willing to consider full-on tactical voting because of Brexit.\"\n\nThe survey was carried out across UK universities in October, before the election was called.\n\nYouthsight, which conducted the poll, has a panel of 150,000 people aged 16-30 which it uses for research projects.", "\"If it sticks we'll be fine\" - hammer the core message, again and again, and plot a path to victory.\n\nThat's how one cabinet minister reckons the Tories can win.\n\nAfter the last couple of extremely bumpy days for their party, they are hoping this will be a campaign where surprises are not a regular feature.\n\nInstead, they and many of their colleagues reckon the plea for a majority to sort out the Brexit-induced mess of the last few years super fast will find resonance on the doors, saying they are already hearing voters quote back the '\"get Brexit done\" slogan.\n\nAnother cabinet minister says \"it's not Parliament versus the people, it's more positive than the pitchfork, but it feels good on the ground - we are hearing from a lot of people they do reckon it's Parliament that's out of touch\".\n\nEvents of the last 48 hours have shown already, as I wrote on Tuesday night, that events come crashing into parties' hopes and fears pretty fast and knock them off course.\n\nThere is another fear among some Conservatives though. The strategy coming out of Tory HQ is crystal clear - end the political agony of Brexit, attract extra Leave voters who are fed up, while hanging on to as many of their existing seats as they can.\n\nBut, with such a Brexit-heavy message, will they - can they - do both at the same time?\n\nOne former minister (one of a tiny number who predicted a hung Parliament last time round!) fears \"this campaign is for the 52%, and the problem is that it is not the same electorate\".\n\nIn their area, the highest turnout in the 2016 referendum was in a Labour part of the constituency, where people chose overwhelmingly to Leave. But in general elections in that same ward, the turnout is lowest.\n\nAnd it's not just the question that's been much discussed - would Leave voters who wouldn't normally dream of voting Tory vote for Boris Johnson because of Brexit - that matters. It's how motivated that group will be.\n\nThe same senior Tory worries there just won't be enough voters and many of their normal voters are so cross about Brexit that, \"we have lost the professional classes\".\n\nNo-one would deny that Brexit has changed the political arithmetic, but the sums may not add up for the Conservatives at all.\n\nOther senior figures argue that it won't be as one dimensional. One cabinet minister says \"the pool is larger than during the referendum. There will be a strong economy argument that will work in Lib Dem-facing seats\" - broadly hoping there will be a reason for those Remain-tending Tories to stick with the party.\n\nThere's a big speech from the chancellor tomorrow morning that might start to build that too. One No 10 insider says \"we have to appeal to a bunch of richer, better-educated Tory Remainers who might be tempted by the Lib Dems\".\n\nThat is why another minister is so relieved their party is going into the election with a Brexit deal. \"It's changed everything,\" they say.\n\nIn other words, they don't have to knock on doors and argue for leaving the EU in eight weeks' time with potential economic turmoil.\n\nAround the country in the next few weeks, Boris Johnson and his team of Vote Leavers will make arguments as bold and likely as brash as they did in 2016. But it's not the same year, not the same political atmosphere, and potentially, not the same voters who'll make the difference.", "The bodies were discovered in a lorry trailer in the early hours of 23 October\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a refrigerated lorry have all been formally identified, police said.\n\nEssex Police had been working with Vietnamese officials to identify the 31 men and eight women found dead in Grays, Essex, on 23 October.\n\nA series of files have been handed to Essex senior coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray.\n\nThe force said it wanted to give families time to take in the news before making the names public.\n\nThe victims came from Vietnamese provinces Haiphong, Hai Duong, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and Hue, according to police in the country.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable for Essex Tim Smith said identification was \"an important step\" in the investigation.\n\nThe bodies were found on the Waterglade Industrial Estate after the container had travelled to nearby Purfleet from Zeebrugge, in Belgium.\n\nThe driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson, from Northern Ireland, appeared in court last week charged with a number of offences, including 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nExtradition proceedings have also begun against 22-year-old Eamonn Harrison, who was arrested in Dublin on a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nPolice are also seeking two brothers from Northern Ireland, Ronan and Christopher Hughes, who are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.\n\nThere have been 11 arrests in two provinces of Vietnam in relation to the deaths.\n\nPham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong's families are concerned they may be among the victims\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Smith said: \"It is only right that we provide an opportunity for family members to take in the news confirming the death of their loved ones before releasing any further information.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the families and friends of those whose tragic journey ended on our shores.\"\n\nThe Reverend Simon Nguyen, who led the service, said the victims lost their lives \"seeking freedom, dignity and happiness\"\n\nA service was held in memory of the victims at the Church of the Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in east London on Saturday evening.\n\nCoroner Mrs Beasley Murray offered her \"deepest condolences\" to the victims' families.\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.", "The union has warned that further strikes could come \"at any time\"\n\nLufthansa has cancelled 1,300 flights after it lost a last-minute legal bid to halt a strike by cabin crew.\n\nThe two-day action over pay and conditions began at midnight local time. About 180,000 passengers are set to face travel disruption.\n\nThe UFO union said it would hit all Lufthansa flights from German airports.\n\nFlights by Lufthansa's other airlines including Eurowings, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, and Brussels Airlines are not affected, the airline said.\n\nLufthansa has cancelled 700 flights on Thursday and 600 on Friday, amounting to about one-fifth of its planned flights over the 48-hour period.\n\nThousands of passengers are set to face disruption\n\nIt said it regretted the inconvenience caused, adding: \"We will do everything we can to minimise the impact of this massive strike on our customers.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, a Frankfurt labour court rejected Lufthansa's application to prevent the strike, which is part of a long-running dispute at the airline.\n\nLufthansa has said passengers travelling between German airports can exchange their tickets online for rail tickets. Other passengers will be offered alternative flights.\n\nThe union's vice-president, Daniel Flohr, has warned that further strikes could come \"at any time\".", "Dr Peter Hutchinson stopped teaching after an internal investigation in 2015\n\nA Cambridge academic accused of sexually harassing 10 students has resigned, two weeks after his college confirmed that he remained in his post.\n\nDr Peter Hutchinson stopped teaching at Trinity Hall in 2015, following an internal inquiry into the allegations.\n\nBut a row erupted after he attended a lecture in 2017, after which Trinity Hall said, as an emeritus fellow, he could still attend college events.\n\nDr Hutchinson said he had now resigned in the \"best interests of the college\".\n\nThe former lecturer in modern and medieval languages said the resignation was also in the interests of his \"health and family\".\n\nTrinity Hall says it will now \"review its decision-making processes\" and how cases of \"harassment and other disciplinary issues\" are handled.\n\nIn 2015, following complaints of sexual harassment from 10 Trinity Hall students, Dr Hutchinson agreed to stop teaching and from attending \"any social events at which students might be present\".\n\nHowever, in November 2017 he went to a lecture at the college to which he had been invited.\n\nThe following month Trinity Hall said Dr Hutchinson was \"withdrawing permanently from the college\" as a result.\n\nHowever, legal documents obtained by the BBC show that was not agreed by Dr Hutchinson and he had threatened to sue Trinity Hall.\n\nAfter the BBC contacted Trinity Hall, it later confirmed this was because he had been invited \"in error\" to the lecture at the time.\n\nLast month the college sought to further clarify the situation, saying that because the former lecturer had become an emeritus fellow upon his retirement, he would continue to attend certain college events and to exercise his dining rights.\n\nHe was entitled to emeritus status, which includes special privileges such as the right to have free meals in college, because he had taught there for more than 25 years.\n\nThe decision saw more than 1,300 students, alumni and academics at Trinity Hall and Cambridge University sign an open letter calling for Dr Hutchinson to be banned.\n\nThe BBC understands former students had also asked to be removed from alumni-databases, withdrawn donations, lobbied sponsors and sent in torn-up degree certificates.\n\nCleodie Rickard was one of the complainants against Dr Hutchinson\n\nCleodie Rickard, 23, a complainant who graduated in Arabic and Middle Eastern studies in 2018, called the college's handling of the case \"wholly insufficient, offensive and negligent\".\n\nBBC News has spoken to three staff members who said they left the college with \"serious concerns\" over the decision to allow Dr Hutchinson to keep his post.\n\nThe BBC understands one resigned, one chose not to remain affiliated with Trinity Hall and another cited the handling of Dr Hutchinson's case for not renewing their job.\n\n\"We sent the message that appeasing one retired male insider was worth more than keeping our word to the student body who had trusted us,\" one academic said.\n\nIn a statement, the Master of Trinity Hall, Dr Jeremy Morris, said: \"Dr Peter Hutchinson has resigned from his post as emeritus fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge with immediate effect. The college has accepted his resignation.\n\n\"We have listened carefully to concerns raised about how the situation with Dr Hutchinson was handled procedurally and how decisions made by the governing body were communicated.\"\n\nHe said \"the safety and welfare of everyone at Trinity Hall is, and has always been, of paramount importance\".", "The Duchess of Cornwall visited a farmers' market with her husband, Prince of Wales, on Wednesday afternoon\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall has pulled out of a memorial event due to a chest infection, Clarence House has said.\n\nThe 72-year-old was due to visit the Field of Remembrance in the grounds of Westminster Abbey with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Thursday.\n\nHowever, a spokeswoman said that Camilla's doctor told her to cancel her engagements because the infection had \"got progressively worse\" of late.\n\nThe duchess also missed an event on Wednesday due to the illness.\n\nShe and the Prince of Wales were pictured on a visit to a farmers' market in west London earlier that day.\n\nBut the duchess was forced to cancel her scheduled appearance at a gala dinner in London to mark the 200-year anniversary of Prince Albert's birth.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex stood with veterans during a rendition of the Last Post during their visit to Westminster Abbey\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have been taking part in memorial events ahead of Remembrance Sunday.\n\nOn Thursday, Camilla, who is patron of the Poppy Factory, had been due to attend the 91st Westminster remembrance alongside Prince Harry and Meghan.\n\nIt is thought the event would have been her first public outing alongside the couple without her husband, the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex paid their respects to servicemen and women who have died in conflicts by planting tiny crosses in the grounds of Westminster Abbey.\n\nAbout 70.000 small crosses have been erected by regiments and military units since the tradition began in 1928.\n\nRegiments, military associations and other organisations have laid crosses in the grounds\n\nDuring the visit, Harry spoke with his great-grandmother's former driver Arthur Barty, who was representing his former unit The Black Watch.\n\nMr Barty, who drove the Queen Mother for 27 years until her death in 2002, said: \"I covered almost 100,000 miles with the Queen Mother.\n\n\"I never thought for a minute I would meet His Royal Highness or Her Royal Highness but it was an absolute pleasure to chat to them.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the Queen will lead senior royals in paying tribute to those who have lost their lives in armed conflict during the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall.\n\nLast year, the Duke of Edinburgh, 97, did not attend the service, having retired from his public duties in 2017.", "A Scottish tourist is suspected to have died in a shark attack after his severed hand and wedding ring were found inside the animal.\n\nThe 44-year-old man was last seen snorkelling off the French island of Reunion, near Madagascar, over the weekend.\n\nIt is believed he was on a week-long holiday with his wife in Saint-Gilles.\n\nHis hand, identified by his wedding ring, was found inside a tiger shark which was caught for research purposes.\n\nLocal resident Erick Quelquejeu told BBC Scotland the man had left his wife for just \"a few minutes\" to go for a swim.\n\nMr Quelquejeu told BBC Scotland the beaches have signs warning people against swimming\n\nMr Quelquejeu said: \"It's an area enclosed by a reef, there's a very slight passage where it goes deeper into the ocean but actually it's really well protected by the reef.\"\n\nHe added: \"His wife was really scared by what happened. Many helicopters, many planes, swimmers and boats went to try and find the guy in the ocean but couldn't find him for a few days.\n\n\"Apparently they found a shark a few days ago with his hand so we are really not sure how it happened.\"\n\nMr Quelquejeu said that many beaches on the west coast of the island were well signposted, warning people against swimming because of previous shark attacks. There were also warnings at the airports.\n\nThe island has put measures in place to protect people from shark attacks\n\n\"There are a lot of shark attacks on Reunion island but we are quite aware about that now,\" he added.\n\n\"It's something we don't hide from anybody. All the places around the island where you can't swim - where there's not a natural reef - there are signs in front of the beach to warn people.\n\n\"Even at that you have a few boats that go around the west area of the island - because that's where all the beaches are - to protect them, to watch if anyone makes that mistake anyway.\"\n\nThe shark was among several caught on Monday and Tuesday in the Indian Ocean by the Centre de Securite Requin (CSR).\n\nIt was found just over four miles (7km) from the lagoon where the man was last seen. The shark was examined on Wednesday morning.\n\nIt is not yet known whether the man drowned and was subsequently eaten by the shark, or whether he was attacked by it.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: \"We are providing support to the family of a British man who died while snorkelling in La Reunion and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nThere have been two fatal shark attacks this year at Reunion, which is in the Indian Ocean.\n\nLocal authorities have implemented a ban on swimming and water sports across almost all of the island's beaches following attacks in 2013.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said last month that he would like to see water sports reintroduced by 2022, but added that he wanted \"to be sure\" that it would be safe to do so.", "Video caption: Remembrance Day: D-Day veteran and schoolboy on what it means to them\n\nRemembrance Day: D-Day veteran and schoolboy on what it means to them", "Bill Gates has become the latest billionaire to express concern for presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren's plan for a new tax on the super-rich.\n\nAt a conference, the philanthropist and Microsoft founder said it would stifle business innovation in America.\n\nMs Warren, a Democratic front-runner in the 2020 presidential race, has offered to meet Mr Gates in response.\n\nIt comes after criticism of Ms Warren's policy from figures like Jamie Dimon, head of banking giant JP Morgan.\n\nUnder the original plan, households with a net worth between $50m (£39m) and $1bn (£780m) will be charged with a 2% \"wealth tax\" every year. This would rise to 3% for any households with a net worth of over $1bn.\n\nBut last week, Ms Warren suggested doubling the latter rate - from 3% to 6%. She said the money raised from this new tax would be used to fund her healthcare plan, which is expected to cost the federal government $20.5tn over 10 years.\n\nMr Gates hit back at the idea during a talk at the New York Times DealBook conference in New York on Wednesday.\n\n\"I'm all for super-progressive tax systems,\" he said. \"I've paid over $10bn in taxes. I've paid more than anyone in taxes. If I had to pay $20bn, it's fine.\n\n\"But when you say I should pay $100bn, then I'm starting to do a little math about what I have left over. Sorry, I'm just kidding,\" he added.\n\n\"So you really want the incentive system to be there and you can go a long ways without threatening that.\"\n\nMr Gates is the second-richest person in the world, according to Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $106.2bn.\n\nWhen asked if he would be willing to meet with her about the policy, Mr Gates said he wasn't sure if Ms Warren would \"sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money\".\n\nHours after his comments, Ms Warren said she would \"love\" to meet Mr Gates to explain her plan in more detail.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elizabeth Warren This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTax reform has become a key talking point among contenders for the US presidential election. The debate has been partially spurred by tax reform under Donald Trump's administration, which the president dubbed \"the biggest tax cut in history\".\n\nMr Trump said cuts would help to boost the economy, but critics argue they disproportionately benefit the country's wealthiest individuals.\n\nEarlier this year, a group of America's richest people penned an open letter calling on presidential candidates to roll out a wealth tax on the super-rich.\n\n\"America has a moral, ethical and economic responsibility to tax our wealth more,\" they said in a letter, proposing that the money be spent on tackling climate change and economic inequality.\n\nSignatories included investor George Soros and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. The group said they were non-partisan and not endorsing any candidate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detective Inspector Perry Benton explains how the Met Police pieced together evidence to catch Jodie's killers\n\nTwo teenagers have been found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Jodie Chesney in a park in east London.\n\nJodie was stabbed in the back in a case of mistaken identity as she socialised with friends in Harold Hill on 1 March.\n\nDrug dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, and a 17-year-old boy were both convicted of murder following an eight-week trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, of Romford, and a 16-year-old boy were both cleared of murder and manslaughter.\n\nThe jury spent less than six hours deliberating their verdicts on all four defendants.\n\nJudge Wendy Joseph QC said Ong-a-Kwie and the 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would be sentenced on 18 November.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie was one of two people to be found guilty of Jodie's murder\n\nFollowing the guilty verdicts, Det Ch Insp Dave Whellams, of Scotland Yard, said the murder of \"girl next door\" Jodie had \"shocked a nation\".\n\nHe added: \"It could have been anybody's daughter. She was a very nice girl, she had a small circle of friends, she did well at school, worked in the community.\n\n\"They have gone there purposefully to stab somebody and they have not cared who they stabbed. They stabbed a 17-year-old girl in the back for no reason.\"\n\nThe 17-year-old was stabbed once in the back while she was socialising with friends in Amy's Park\n\nThroughout the trial it was never disputed that Ong-a-Kwie and the teenager were the two people who went into Amy's Park on the night Jodie was stabbed.\n\nThe pair blamed each other for the stabbing, while Ong-a-Kwie admitted burning his clothes with a cigarette lighter.\n\nJurors heard Jodie had her back to her attackers and the knife almost passed right through her body.\n\nAfter being stabbed the teenager screamed and fell into the arms of her boyfriend Eddie Coyle, the court was told.\n\nFrantic efforts were made to save her but she was pronounced dead in a petrol station in Gants Hill about an hour later.\n\nJodie's boyfriend Eddie Coyle described the motion the attacker used to stab her\n\nFollowing the verdict, Peter Chesney said his daughter's murder had \"destroyed my life\".\n\n\"I have no idea how I am going to continue with my life or even come to terms with the loss,\" he said.\n\nJodie's sister Lucy wrote in a victim impact statement that she had been \"dreading my life rather than looking forward to it\" following the 17-year-old's death.\n\n\"Jodie was not only my sister she was my best friend. Losing her is like losing half of myself.\"\n\nShe added that she was now \"anxious about everything\" as \"if someone as good and pure as Jodie could be murdered, it could happen to anyone and I spend everywhere I go looking over my shoulder because of it\".\n\nWitnesses described Amy's Park as being \"very dark\" at the time of the attack\n\nProsecutor Crispin Aylett QC told the jury Jodie was \"a victim of a brutal act of unprovoked violence\".\n\nHe described the girl's death as \"another example\" of the \"terrible consequences of the carrying and using of knives\".\n\n\"It seems every day now in our city another young life is lost to a knife,\" he said.\n\nDuring his evidence, Mr Petrovic admitted driving the group to Harold Hill but denied any knowledge of what happened in Amy's Park.\n\nHe told jurors he was \"glad he was arrested because he had nothing to hide\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swindon Borough Council has asked people to ignore the letter as it was sent \"by mistake\"\n\nA council that wrongly warned thousands of voters they would not be able to vote in the general election has been criticised for the blunder.\n\nSwindon Borough Council admitted nearly 3,000 voters were contacted in error.\n\nResidents were told in the letter they would be \"removed from the Register of Electors\" as they were \"not entitled to remain registered\" at their property.\n\nThe council has asked people to ignore the letter as it was sent \"by mistake\".\n\nOriginally it was thought the letters had been sent to 1,500 voters but the council has since said about 3,000 people were contacted.\n\nJennifer Miles said she had a \"borderline heart attack\" when her letter arrived at her home, adding: \"I was absolutely aghast.\"\n\n\"It's these kind of things that make people nervous or disillusioned about going out to vote, and that's negative for society,\" she said.\n\n\"Swindon is a marginal constituency and the vote really, really does matter here.\"\n\nThis is a cock-up rather than a conspiracy, but the timing is pretty dreadful.\n\nAbout 3,000 people were sent a letter by mistake suggesting they may not be able to vote, in a town which historically is known to be a close race at election time.\n\nThe fact councils send out letters like this isn't unusual, they all regularly check up on who is registered to vote at each address to reduce the risk of voter fraud.\n\nBut the error here, we're told, is who those letters got sent to. The council's printers used the wrong distribution list - if you have such a letter and it's dated 4 November, ignore it. You will get another very soon explaining what's happened, and you will still get your polling card.\n\nSouth Swindon was particularly close last time around - in a constituency of 70,000, the Tories won a majority of just 2,400.\n\nSo it's easy to see why political campaigners across the spectrum are worried and clearly angry about anything that could stop local people voting on 12 December.\n\nThe letter, dated 4 November, said the Conservative-run council was reviewing its \"registration entitlement\" and it was the authority's \"opinion\" that the resident was \"not entitled to remain registered at this property\".\n\nRecipients were warned that if they did not appeal against the decision within 14 days they would be removed from the electoral register.\n\nAnother person who received the letter, Anthony Clarkson, said: \"I couldn't believe what I was reading. I thought it must have been some sort of scam.\"\n\nAndrew Whitford, another recipient, said he thought it \"could affect the outcome of the general election and should be investigated completely\".\n\nSouth Swindon Labour parliamentary candidate Sarah Church said: \"Any hint of removing anyone's right to vote is simply unacceptable and a mistake on this scale is really unforgivable.\"\n\nMs Church is due to stand against Conservative Robert Buckland, the Brexit Party's Justin Stares, Liberal Democrat Stan Pajak and Steve Thompson for The Green Party.\n\nMr Buckland called it an \"unacceptable error\" and Mr Pajak described it as a \"threat to democracy\".\n\nIn a statement, the council said anyone who received a letter should ignore it.\n\n\"The error occurred after our printers used an incorrect distribution list,\" it said.\n\nThe authority added it would be writing to every resident who had received a letter in error to explain what had happened and to apologise.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"This is a very personal decision for me, I've got lots of other things I want to do in life\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson is stepping down from his role and will not run as an MP in the December election.\n\nHe says he will continue to campaign for the party, and the decision was \"personal, not political\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn thanked Mr Watson for his service, adding: \"This is not the end of our work together.\"\n\nMr Watson has often been at odds with the leadership and faced an attempt to oust him at Labour's conference.\n\nAs an ardent Remainer, Mr Watson was also at odds with his own constituency, which voted 66% in favour of Leave at the 2016 referendum.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Corbyn, the former MP for West Bromwich East thanked the leader \"for the decency and courtesy you have shown me over the last four years, even in difficult times\".\n\nHe added: \"Our many shared interests are less well known than our political differences, but I will continue to devote myself to the things we often talk about\" - including gambling regulation, stopping press intrusion and campaigns on public health.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also said that after the election, he \"won't be leaving politics altogether\" - with plans to work on public health campaigns and release a book about his own struggle with type 2 diabetes.\n\nHe told the BBC that after 35 years in front-line politics, he wanted to \"take a leap and do something new\", but he said he would be out campaigning for the Labour Party to make sure a Labour government is elected.\n\n\"In politics you have got to know when to step away and for me this is a personal decision. There's lots I have got going on in the future. I just think I need a complete change after a long period of frontline politics and I am rather looking forward to it,\" he said.\n\nTom Watson and Jeremy Corbyn seem keen to part on good terms but their supporters were often at loggerheads.\n\nMr Watson was at the head of a group of around 100 moderate or centrist Labour MPs which called itself the Future Britain group.\n\nLabour's deputy set the group up in March and it was widely assumed it was a means of keeping critics of Jeremy Corbyn inside the party following the inauguration of the ill-fated Independent Group of MPs.\n\nIt was more than a mutual support group - it also intended to develop social democratic policies rather than simply cede the agenda to the left.\n\nBut it has lost its well-known figurehead tonight and the question now is whether some of its members will follow Tom Watson out of Westminster, convinced that dragging Labour back to the pre-Corbyn era is a lost cause.\n\nThat answer may come in the election of Mr Watson's successor - or successors as Jeremy Corbyn apparently favours two gender-balanced deputies.\n\nA Blairite or Brownite candidate is unlikely to succeed.\n\nBut whether an MP on the soft left - beyond Mr Corbyn's circle - succeeds him, could determine whether the party remains a broad church.\n\nIn his reply, Mr Corbyn said: \"Few people have given as much to the Labour movement as you have and I know that many thousands of members and trade unionists you have inspired and worked with over the years will be very sorry to see you go.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Watson was elected deputy leader in 2015 on the same day that Mr Corbyn won his own ballot to run the party.\n\nBut the pair come from different political wings of Labour.\n\nMr Watson was a close ally of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and worked in the top team of previous party leader Ed Miliband.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn was on the backbenches during this period and further left on the political spectrum than his deputy.\n\nSince the pair have been running Labour, there have been a number of public disagreements, including most recently over the party's Brexit position.\n\nWhile Mr Corbyn has refused to say how he would campaign in a further referendum - as promised by the leader if Labour wins the election - Mr Watson has called for the party to \"unequivocally back Remain\".\n\nThe day before the party's conference in September, there was also an attempt to kick Mr Watson out of his post by the chief of the left wing campaign group Momentum, Jon Lansman.\n\nHowever, the motion Mr Lansman tabled at a meeting of the National Executive Committee was dropped after Mr Corbyn intervened.\n\nIn recent months, Mr Watson has also faced criticism for meeting Carl Beech, the paedophile fantasist who falsely accused VIPs of sexually abusing him.\n\nHe was accused of giving \"oxygen\" to Beech's claims, but Mr Watson said he met Beech to offer him reassurance on behalf of the police.\n\nDaniel Janner, the son of the late MP Lord Janner who was falsely accused by Beech, said Mr Watson's position had become \"untenable\" and he \"has stood down because he would have been defeated\".\n\nA number of former Labour MPs have paid tribute to Mr Watson.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said his \"energy, passion for politics and commitment to campaigning - whether fighting against Tory austerity or for better regulation of the gambling industry - will be much missed\".\n\nJess Phillips, who also represented a seat in the West Midlands before Parliament dissolved for the election, told the BBC: \"It's so very, very sad. I feel genuinely sad.\n\n\"I think the Labour Party needs to fight the election hard and then do some serious work to make sure we are the best we can be.\"\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement also called the decision \"shocking and saddening\", saying he had been a \"strong ally in the fight against anti-Semitism in the Labour Party\".", "Risto Mattila photographed the \"ice eggs\" on Hailuoto Island on Sunday\n\nThousands of egg-shaped balls of ice have covered a beach in Finland, the result of a rare weather phenomenon.\n\nAmateur photographer Risto Mattila was among those who came across the \"ice eggs\" on Hailuoto Island in the Gulf of Bothnia between Finland and Sweden.\n\nExperts say it is caused by a rare process in which small pieces of ice are rolled over by wind and water.\n\nMr Mattila, from the nearby city of Oulu, told the BBC he had never seen anything like it before.\n\n\"I was with my wife at Marjaniemi beach. The weather was sunny, about -1C (30F) and it was quite a windy day,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"There we found this amazing phenomenon. There was snow and ice eggs along the beach near the water line.\"\n\nMr Mattila said the balls of ice covered an area of about 30m (100ft). The smallest were the size of eggs and the biggest were the size of footballs.\n\n\"That was an amazing view. I have never seen anything like this during 25 years living in the vicinity,\" Mr Mattila said.\n\n\"Since I had a camera with me I decided to preserve this unusual sight for posterity.\"\n\nBBC Weather expert George Goodfellow said conditions needed to be cold and a bit windy for the ice balls to form.\n\n\"The general picture is that they form from pieces of larger ice sheet which then get jostled around by waves, making them rounder,\" he said.\n\n\"They can grow when sea water freezes on to their surfaces and this also helps to make them smoother. So the result is a ball of smooth ice which can then get deposited on to a beach, either blown there or getting left there when the tide goes out.\"\n\nSimilar sights have been reported before, including in Russia and on Lake Michigan near Chicago.\n\nIn 2016 residents of Nyda in Siberia found giant balls of ice and snow covering an 18km (11-mile) stretch of coastline.\n\nThey ranged from the size of a tennis ball to almost 1m (3ft) across.\n\nThe giant balls of ice and snow amazed villagers in Nyda, on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have agreed not to stand against each other.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have formed an electoral pact, agreeing not to stand against each other in dozens of seats.\n\nThe deal between the three anti-Brexit parties will cover 60 constituencies across England and Wales.\n\nChair of the Unite to Remain group Heidi Allen said it was \"an opportunity to tip the balance of power\".\n\nThe three parties all support another Brexit referendum and want the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nTheir pact means that, in Wales, two of the parties will agree not to field a candidate, boosting the third candidate's chances of picking up the Remain vote.\n\nIn England, it will simply be a two-way agreement between the Lib Dems and the Greens.\n\nLib Dem candidate Layla Moran said the Unite to Remain group had approached Labour about pacts, but \"they said no [and] they didn't even enter into those conversations\".\n\nIn a speech in Liverpool earlier, Labour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said: \"We will never enter pacts, coalitions, or deals like that - ever.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Stephen Gethins said: \"If other parties want to deliver a Remain message in Scotland, they know they have to get behind the SNP.\"\n\nThursday marks exactly five weeks until the UK general election on 12 December.\n\n\"We are delighted that an agreement has been reached,\" said Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson. \"This is a significant moment for all people who want to support Remain candidates across the country.\"\n\nThe pact follows a similar deal earlier this year in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, when Plaid Cymru and the Greens agreed not to put forward a candidate but instead gave way to the Lib Dems' Jane Dodds. She went on to defeat the Conservative incumbent, Chris Davies.\n\nLib Dem MP Jane Dodds (third from left) celebrates her by-election win\n\nIt's impossible to know in advance whether this will affect who wins any of the constituencies.\n\nNone of them would have had a different result in 2017 if Liberal Democrat, Plaid Cymru and Green votes had been added together.\n\nIt's also likely that Brexit will have a bigger influence on how people vote at this election, so the idea of having a united candidate for Remain could give them a boost.\n\nThere are some seats already held by one of the parties where their majorities will be bolstered, such as Arfon and Bath.\n\nAnd there are other places where it makes it a bit easier to win, such as Cheltenham, Montgomeryshire and Winchester - all places the Lib Dems are gunning for - and Ynys Mon, a target for Plaid.\n\nIn England, the Greens will stand aside for the Lib Dems in 40 seats including Totnes, York Outer, Winchester and Twickenham.\n\nAnd the Green Party will run unchallenged by the Lib Dems in nine seats including the Isle of Wight, Bristol West, Exeter and Brighton Pavilion - where Caroline Lucas is the Greens' only MP.\n\nThe pact comes after Plaid Cymru's leader Adam Price wrote to several pro-Remain parties earlier this year, calling on them to work together in a snap general election.\n\nIn Wales, the plan will involve the Lib Dems and Greens standing their candidates aside for Plaid Cymru in seven seats including Pontypridd.\n\nThe deal does not involve the Ceredigion seat - which is currently held by Plaid Cymru but is a top election target for the Lib Dems.\n\nHowever Mike Powell, who had been the Lib Dem candidate in Pontypridd, said he would run as an independent against Plaid Cymru.\n\nHe told Radio 4's World at One: \"I think the people deserve to have an opportunity to vote for someone who is going to represent the people of Pontypridd, rather than standing to represent a cause to remove Wales from the United Kingdom.\n\n\"I know there is an awful lot of members in the Welsh Liberal Democrats who are extremely unhappy with the way these negotiations have been dealt with.\"\n\nThe prospective parliamentary candidates for Pontypridd chosen by their parties so far include Alex Davies-Jones (Labour), Steve Bayliss (the Brexit Party) and Fflur Elin (Plaid Cymru).\n\nIn Northern Ireland the Green Party has said it will not stand candidates in East, West or North Belfast.\n\nGreen Party NI leader Clare Bailey said she was \"prepared to put the need to have pro-Remain MPs returned ahead of party interest\".\n\nSinn Fein leader Michelle O'Neill welcomed the move, which she said would maximise \"the representation of pro-Remain and progressive candidates facing down DUP Brexiteers across Belfast\".\n\nLast week, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage called on Boris Johnson to form a similar election pact. He wanted the PM to drop his Brexit deal and then agree to stand aside candidates for each other.\n\nMr Johnson rejected the offer and said he would not enter election pacts.", "'I know where your mum lives and snitches get stitches'\n\nAfter being arrested at his sister's address in Leicester and being interviewed by police in east London, Manuel Petrovic was charged with Jodie's murder on 9 March - a week after the fatal stabbing. Mr Petrovic was remanded into custody at Belmarsh Prison - and he told jurors he and Svenson Ong-a-Kwie had a \"heated\" chat in prison. \"He came to my door at one point,\" Mr Petrovic said. \"He asked me to go on a visit with someone. \"Someone called Kevin. I said I did not know a Kevin. \"He said, 'I know where your mum lives' and 'snitches get stiches or something'. \"I can't remember what I said that day and that was it.\" The following day, Mr Petrovic said the pair met again in the exercise yard at Belmarsh. The 20-year-old told jurors: \"He came to me and said sorry for what he had said the day before. \"He said I was only the driver, I was not involved and I should be going home.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham forward Son Heung-min said he was \"really sorry\" for his tackle which led to Everton midfielder Andre Gomes' horrific ankle injury.\n\nGomes had surgery on Monday after he suffered a fractured dislocation to his right ankle in Sunday's league draw.\n\nSon was sent off for his tackle on Gomes and was visibly distressed.\n\n\"It has been a really tough few days,\" Son told BT Sport after scoring twice in Spurs' 4-0 Champions League win at Red Star Belgrade.\n\n\"I have realised how lucky I am with all the support I have had from the fans and my team-mates,\" he added.\n\n\"I can say I'm really sorry for the accident and the situation but I had to focus for the team and I had to keep going and it was the right response to all the people who have supported me.\"\n• None Football Daily podcast: A clean sheet for Kyle Walker and Son doubles up for Spurs\n\nSon scored two goals in four minutes as second-placed Tottenham easily won their Group B game to open up a four-point gap over Red Star Belgrade in third.\n\nThe South Korean did not celebrate his first goal, instead clasping his hands and bowing his head.\n\nHis red card for the tackle on Gomes at Goodison Park was overturned by the Football Association on Tuesday following an appeal by Tottenham.\n\nSpurs boss Mauricio Pochettino had described Son as \"devastated\" following the incident, while team-mate Dele Alli said he \"couldn't pick his head up\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Gomes thanked fans on social media for their support.\n\n\"I am already at home with my family. I would like to thank you all for the supportive messages,\" he posted on Twitter .", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVoters in Kansas City, Missouri, overwhelmingly approved the removal of Martin Luther King's name from a major road, months after it was renamed.\n\nThe proposal to remove Dr King's name claimed almost 70% of a public vote, preliminary results show.\n\nThe council voted in January to rename The Paseo, a 10 mile (16km) boulevard in the city's mostly black east side.\n\nBut the change sparked a battle, with opponents arguing that residents had not been properly consulted.\n\nSome residents said they felt their neighbourhood was losing its identity.\n\nOpponents of the name change set up the Save The Paseo group earlier this year. In April, it gathered enough signatures to put the removal to a vote.\n\nMore than 1,000 streets worldwide are said to bear the name of Dr King, with at least 955 found in the US. Kansas City is one of the only major US cities without a street named after the civil rights icon.\n\nMartin Luther King is honoured by many cities, including Berkeley California\n\nThose who wanted Dr King's name removed said they respect his legacy, but criticised the council's decision to push the change through by waiving a requirement that 75% of property owners on the boulevard should approve it.\n\n\"I overwhelmingly heard from my constituents that they did not want it,\" Alissia Canady, who served as councilwoman for the district that encompasses The Paseo, told the BBC. \"There were African American property owners that did not agree with this way of honouring Dr King.\"\n\nMs Canady, who is black, said the council had been aware that \"the political will was not there\".\n\n\"They rushed to put the signs up with the hope that once the signs were up people would be afraid to take them down. That was the rhetoric: Kansas City can't be the city that takes Dr King's name down,\" Ms Canady says.\n\nThe Kansas City Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) - an organisation founded by Dr King - led efforts to keep the street's name in his honour. They did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nMartin Luther King was the most visible and inspirational figure in the US civil rights movement\n\nRev Vernon Howard, president of Kansas City's SCLC, told The Associated Press news agency that renaming the street Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard was meant to be a symbol for the city's black children.\n\n\"Only if you are a black child growing up in the inner city lacking the kind of resources, lacking the kinds of images and models for mentoring, modelling, vocation and career, can you actually understand what that name on that sign can mean to a child in this community,\" Mr Howard said.\n\nIf the sign is taken down \"the reverse will be true\", he added.\n\nTensions between the SCLU and Save The Paseo reached a high point last Sunday, when a silent protest was staged at a church rally held by those pushing to keep Dr King's name. Protesters refused requests by pastors to sit down, fuelling accusations of racism.\n\nBut Ms Canady, who worked with Save The Paseo, says the charges are \"a deflection of what the real issue was\".\n\nShe continued: \"Residents should not be silenced by special interest groups.\"\n\n\"We pushed a reset button,\" Ms Canady said. \"Now everyone has to go back to the drawing board to find a way where we can all celebrate Dr King, and that's a huge opportunity for Kansas City.\"", "Airbnb says it will verify every single property on its platform after a news website found a series of scams.\n\nIn October, Vice News uncovered a pattern of false or misleading property listings posted on the rentals site.\n\nAirbnb said it would review every property by December 2020, and also promised to refund customers if they were misled by inaccurate listings.\n\nIt is the first time Airbnb, which launched in 2008, has pledged to verify every home promoted on its platform.\n\nDuring its investigation, Vice News spoke to several people who had booked accommodation on Airbnb and been scammed.\n\nWhen the guests arrived for their holiday, they typically received a last-minute phone call from the landlord saying the property was no longer available, due to an emergency or double-booking.\n\nThey would then be moved to another property, often in a different area and without the amenities promised in the original booking.\n\nIn many cases the guests felt they had no option but to stay at least one night, after arriving late at night in a city far from home.\n\nBut they say Airbnb then refused to give them a full refund despite the misleading bookings.\n\nIn a series of tweets, Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky said: \"Airbnb is in the business of trust. We are making the most significant steps in designing trust on our platform since our original design in 2008.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brian Chesky This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAdam French, a consumer rights expert from Which?, told the BBC: \"Holiday booking fraud is on the rise, with people losing millions every year to fraudsters tricking them out of their money with holiday lettings that do not actually exist.\n\n\"Steps from Airbnb to finally verify all of its listings are positive, but the industry must do more to ensure people are no longer being stripped of their money and having their holiday plans left in tatters.\"\n\nOn 2 November, Airbnb said it would ban \"party houses\" after a mass shooting at a California home rented through the company left five people dead.\n\nAnd in 2017, it changed its security policy, after a BBC investigation found criminals were hijacking accounts and burgling homes.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said media reports had highlighted issues over the use of unregulated accommodation for children in care\n\nThe education secretary has written to council leaders in England to express \"concern\" over the use of unregulated accommodation to house under-16s.\n\nGavin Williamson said these placements for children in care should be \"eliminated\".\n\nThis type of accommodation is not registered to deliver care.\n\nBut in October, Newsnight found that more than 100 children under 16 in England and Wales were living in such places, on any given night.\n\nMr Williamson said he could not \"imagine a circumstance under which a child under the age of 16 should be living in an independent or semi-independent setting\".\n\nUnregulated accommodation is often flats and houses with support workers on site or visiting, but can also be hostels and lodgings or even hotels and holiday parks.\n\nRunning an unregistered home that provides support but not care for children under 16 is not illegal.\n\nBut it is potentially a criminal offence to run a children's home that provides care without registering with the regulator Ofsted or the Welsh Care Inspectorate.\n\n\"I am concerned about the number of children under 16 placed in settings that are not registered with Ofsted, so should not be delivering care, and I am certain that you will want to pay immediate and close attention to those placements,\" Mr Williamson wrote to local authority chief executives.\n\n\"I look forward to working together to make sure these types of placements are eliminated,\" he added.\n\n\"Such settings must only be used for older children who are ready to live with the level of independence afforded by these settings.\"\n\nTeenagers in semi-independent care are treated as young adults and expected to do things like open bank accounts, wash clothes and buy food.\n\n'Amy', who lived in an unregulated home when she was 17, said the minister's concern was \"completely right\".\n\n\"It's just neglect to put under 16s in these places,\" she told Newsnight.\n\n\"They need to be finding better places to put kids. They're creating more problems for society in the future. \"\n\n'Emma', who was placed in an unregulated placement last year at the age of 15, also welcomed the intervention.\n\n\"It is not the right environment for someone so young,\" she said.\n\nThe mother of a boy, 15, placed in an unregulated home, told Newsnight she was horrified when she realised the placement was not registered with Ofsted.\n\n\"Ofsted is important to me because it is telling me that a place is fit for purpose and has been checked.\"\n\nThe placement was more than 100 miles from the family home.\n\n\"I was told it would be for twelve weeks only. But my son was there for nearly a year. He received no structured education for most of the time he was there and often stayed in bed until 4 pm.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Wild tells Newsnight 'there's something wrong' with the care system\n\nLocal authorities can pay to place children in unregulated accommodation if they deem it to be in a child's best interests, a place in registered accommodation cannot be found or a court approves the placement.\n\nThe BBC previously learned children as young as 11 years old are being placed in these homes.\n\nA freedom of information request carried out by Newsnight revealed that at least 63 local authorities placed under-16s in unregulated accommodation in the past three years.\n\nChris Wild, who manages a home for teenagers aged 16 and above, said he has refused to take children under 16 because it was \"unsafe\".\n\n\"At 15 you might be in care with an 18-year-old, who's been arrested for something sinister, or is affiliated with county lines drugs,\" he told Newsnight.\n\nNewsnight has been investigating this part of the care sector, as part of its Britain's Hidden Children's Homes series.\n\nPreviously, the programme revealed that, according to figures from the Department for Education, about 5,500 looked after children in England were living in unregulated accommodation, up 70% from 2,900 10 years ago.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "A police officer has been charged with the murder of retired footballer Dalian Atkinson who died after being tasered.\n\nThe ex-Aston Villa striker, 48, was restrained by police officers at his father's house in Telford, Shropshire, on 15 August 2016.\n\nA second police officer, also from the West Mercia Police force, has been charged with assault causing actual bodily harm.\n\nBoth were bailed after appearing at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) has not named the officers because it believes their defence will apply for them to remain anonymous.\n\nJudge Simon Drew allowed the officers' identities to remain undisclosed over concerns there may be a threat to their lives, although this will be reviewed at a hearing next week.\n\nAn alternative charge of an unlawful act manslaughter has also been put forward by the CPS for the officer charged with murder, known as \"Officer A\".\n\nThe second officer, \"Officer B\", indicated she would plead not guilty and was bailed after an earlier appearance at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nOfficer A did not indicate a plea but was also granted bail at a later hearing at the city's crown court.\n\nDalian Atkinson started his career in Ipswich in the 1980s\n\nThe CPS made the decision to press charges following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nMr Atkinson's family has been informed, a spokesperson said, and issued a statement welcoming the decision but they \"regret that already more than three years have passed since Dalian died\".\n\nPolice officers attended Meadow Close in Trench, Telford, where Mr Atkinson was detained outside an address at about 01:30 BST.\n\nHe was taken by ambulance to the Princess Royal Hospital where he later died.\n\nIt's rare for a police officer to be charged with murder following the death of someone they were in contact with on duty.\n\nThe last time this happened in the UK was five years ago, when Anthony Long, a retired Metropolitan Police firearms officer, was charged with the murder of robbery suspect Azelle Rodney.\n\nHe was shot dead in north-west London in 2005, but 10 years later Mr Long was acquitted.\n\nThe exact circumstances of Dalian Atkinson's death haven't been revealed and it is not known whether the Taser contributed to, or caused, his death.\n\nHowever this is believed to be the first time an officer has been charged with murder after a person has been tasered by police.\n\nRelatives said the former footballer was suffering from a number of health issues and had a weak heart when the Taser was deployed.\n\nMr Atkinson started his career at Ipswich Town before moving to Sheffield Wednesday, Real Sociedad, Aston Villa and Fenerbahçe in Turkey.\n\nHe is best remembered for scoring the Match of the Day goal of the season in 1992-93 when he dribbled the ball from inside his own half before chipping the Wimbledon keeper from the edge of the penalty area.\n\nIn a statement, West Mercia Police said: \"Our thoughts continue to remain with the family and friends of Dalian Atkinson at this difficult time.\"\n\nChief Constable Anthony Bangham said it would not be appropriate to comment on the circumstances around Mr Atkinson's death, but added he would ensure the officers in question \"have the appropriate support throughout the forthcoming criminal justice process\".\n\nThe IOPC said it appreciates the \"patience\" shown during their investigation, which concluded in October 2018.\n\nActions of a third police officer, who was also investigated over Mr Atkinson's death, were not referred to the CPS, the watchdog added.\n\nBoth defendants are next expected to appear in court on 9 December. However, a hearing on Wednesday will decide whether they can be named following an application by the media.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China's Jingye Group has emerged as the frontrunner to buy British Steel out of insolvency, according to reports.\n\nA possible deal has emerged after a preliminary offer from Turkish company Ataer faltered in late October, leaving the company in limbo.\n\nSince May, British Steel has been kept running by the government as it seeks a buyer for the business.\n\nThe Official Receiver, which is handling the insolvency process, declined to comment.\n\nSome 5,000 jobs hang in the balance at British Steel's Scunthorpe plant, and another 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\nJingye Group, which also makes steel, is reportedly looking to reach an agreement in principle by next Monday.\n\nA spokesperson for Jingye confirmed talks are ongoing but would not provide detail on the timing of any potential bid.\n\nIts chairman, Li Ganpo, visited British Steel sites last week and met with Scunthorpe MP Nic Dakin and Andrew Percy, representative for the Brigg and Goole constituency.\n\nMr Percy said he had been assured that if Jingye succeeds in buying British Steel, it would protect the company.\n\n\"They have assured us that if they do progress with this acquisition, they have every intention of investing to expand production to serve the UK and European market,\" he told the Grimsby Telegraph.\n\n\"That's really important and what they wanted from us was assurance from the government and the council about support we could give and we said we are committed to work together for that.\"\n\nBritish Steel was put into compulsory liquidation in May after rescue talks with the government broke down.\n\nAtaer - which is a subsidiary of Turkey's state military retirement scheme Oyak and owns 50% of the country' biggest steel producer - signed a preliminary agreement to buy British Steel in August.\n\nBut hopes faded in October when the Official Receiver said the parties had failed to agree terms.\n\nThere is no guarantee an agreement will be struck with Jingye, which has returned to the bidding process after having previously pulled out.\n\nIf an offer is formally tabled it would also take weeks of legal work and administration to finalise.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, the Chinese firm would aim to increase production at Scunthorpe from 2.5 million tonnes each year to more than 3 million.\n\nIt also wants to upgrade the plant and improve efficiency, although it reportedly views cutting costs as crucial as well.\n\nJingye was founded in 1994 and has 23,500 employees. Along with steel it also owns interests in hotels, chemicals and real estate.It is not the only bidder left in the race for British Steel. UK-based industrial metals conglomerate Liberty House is considered to be an outside contender.\n\nTalks with Ataer are also continuing, the Official Receiver said in late October.", "Parts of the cliff face have collapsed into gardens\n\nThirty-five homes have been evacuated in Nottinghamshire after a mudslide.\n\nPolice and fire service crews were called to the former Berry Hill Quarry, Mansfield, just before 17:00 GMT after reports part of a cliff was giving way.\n\nMansfield District Council confirmed it attended Bank End Close \"following concerns for the safety of people living in the houses\".\n\nA number of roads have been closed in the area. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\nEmergency accommodation has been offered to those affected\n\nThe fire service said two crews had been sent to the scene and residents were being evacuated from the area as a precautionary measure.\n\nResident Natalie Palmer said: \"Me and my daughter were in the living room when we heard a really loud noise and looked out of the window.\n\n\"We realised the cliff was coming down and for a moment it looked like it was all going to come down. We were really worried.\"\n\nThe district council said it had offered emergency accommodation to those affected.\n\nThe region has seen heavy rain throughout the day, following days of persistent rainfall.\n\nA number of roads have also been closed in the county, including the A1.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Sheffield business is warning drivers in Sheffield of a large build-up of surface water on the A61.\n\nStaves Estate Agents, on Chesterfield Road, Woodseats shared the video of cars driving through water.\n\nMuch of the area has been affected by the recent heavy rainfall , prompting South Yorkshire Police to warn motorists to \"please drive with caution and reduce speed to allow time to react.\"", "Two Celtic fans were taken to hospital after being stabbed by masked men outside a bar in Rome.\n\nThe men had been drinking in the Flann O'Brien pub ahead of Thursday's Europa League match against Lazio.\n\nBoth fans are understood to have been stabbed in the leg but their injuries are not life-threatening.\n\nOne of the men, aged 52, is still in hospital but the other has been released. Police said an investigation was ongoing.\n\nTensions were high after warnings that Lazio fans wanted revenge for a controversial banner unfurled by Celtic fans at a match in Glasgow last month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lazio v Celtic: 'We just want the fans to have a celebration' - Neil Lennon\n\nThe banner showed the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging upside down.\n\nA statement released by Celtic said: \"Celtic can confirm that two fans have been injured after being stabbed last night. Both will receive every support from the club and the British consulate in Rome.\n\n\"Again, we would strongly advise supporters to closely follow all guidance issued by the club.\"\n\nThe club has also issued safety advice to fans ahead of the match.\n\nBBC Scotland's sports news correspondent Chris McLaughlin, who is in Rome for the game, said local police and Celtic officials were \"well aware\" of the threat of reprisals.\n\nHe said: \"Lazio are a club that has right-wing leanings and their fans have a reputation for violence.\n\n\"There were reports of violence last night around 11 o'clock local time and a police source told me that two men had been taken to hospital.\n\n\"Both had been stabbed in the leg and both, I am told, were Celtic fans. Reports this morning suggested that one of the men is a German.\n\n\"There were also reports on social media last night that other bars around the city were attacked.\"\n\nFans were targeted at the Flann O'Brien pub\n\nHe added: \"In terms of the Flann O'Brien pub, I'm told that around five or six masked men appeared from a side street and started to attack the Celtic fans randomly, for no apparent reason.\"\n\nAbout 10,000 Celtic fans are expected in Rome for the match and an extra 1,000 police officers will be on the streets.\n\nChris McLaughlin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"They are used to dealing with large European games and large domestic fixtures here in Rome.\n\n\"So they were well aware and, to be fair, well prepared for this. But there were warnings from Celtic for fans not to wear their colours when they were out and about on the streets last night.\n\n\"The police said to me, we don't have a problem with that. The Celtic fans can come here, they can party, they can drink - we are ready. Of course, when it comes to situations like this, there is only so much the police can do.\n\n\"Most fans I spoke to said they would heed the warnings, won't wear Celtic tops at night and will stay within the bars. Most said they were quite happy to be here and the locals had been very welcoming. But what happened in some of the bars last night is clearly worrying.\"\n\nCeltic fan Keith Allan said violence erupted \"from nowhere\" after a group of Italian men entered the bar.\n\nHe said: \"The Lazio boys came in the top door and worked their way through the boozer. They were asking all the Scottish boys if they had spare tickets.\n\n\"Then they came outside and one of them just stabbed a Scottish boy in the leg. Then it all kicked off and he got battered with a chair.\"\n\nMr Allan, from York, added: \"All the Celtic boys came into the pub and staff pulled all the shutters down. Then the police came and got rid of all the Lazio fans. They were kicking hell out of the doors and windows.\n\n\"It was quite scary, but there are a lot of Celtic boys in town. \"\n\nIn a separate incident elsewhere in Rome, Celtic fans were also targeted at the Baccanale bar.\n\nTravelling supporter Sam Houston, from Jordanhill in Glasgow, said about 15 hooded men threw chairs at the pub's locked windows and doors in a bid to get to fans inside.\n\nCeltic fans had previously held up a banner showing Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging upside down\n\nHe said: \"We retreated to the back of the bar and the staff put the big metal shutters down and we just had to wait.\n\n\"It was horrible. We had heard all the stuff about the warnings that have been put in place. But we thought that if we were in this quiet pub we would be fine.\n\n\"We weren't singing, we weren't drawing attention to ourselves - were just having a quiet drink.\n\n\"But this group were definitely out looking for Celtic fans.\"\n\nHe added: \"We had no idea what they were carrying or if they had weapons.\n\n\"No-one was going to act brave and try and fight back. We were all just staying at the back of the bar and fearing for our lives.\n\n\"After about 15 minutes, the bar staff told us it was all clear. We headed out and a group of riot police who were out looking for the gangs escorted us to a taxi rank and we got away safely.\"", "Virgin Media is ditching telecoms group BT and switching its three million mobile phone customers to the network run by Vodafone.\n\nCustomers are being promised a host of new services and will not have to change Sim cards, Virgin Media said.\n\nThe cable group's current contract with BT, which owns the EE network, expires in 2021, although Virgin will launch 5G services with Vodafone before then.\n\nThe contract is reportedly worth about £200m to BT, whose shares fell 4.7%.\n\nVirgin Media chief executive Lutz Schuler said: \"This agreement with Vodafone will bring a host of fantastic benefits and experiences to our customers, including 5G services in the near future.\n\n\"Twenty years ago, Virgin Mobile became the world's first virtual operator and this new agreement builds on that heritage.\n\n\"It will open up a whole new world of opportunity for Virgin Media as we focus on becoming the most recommended brand for customers and bring our mobile and broadband connectivity closer together in one package for one price.\n\n\"We want our customers to have a limitless experience - it's now the right time to take a leap forward with Vodafone to grow further and faster.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Vodafone UK chief executive Nick Jeffery said the deal combines \"two great British brands... combining our strong heritage in innovation\".\n\nAnalyst Paolo Pescatore, from PP Foresight, said: \"For Vodafone, this is a great coup as it continues to turn around its fortunes in the highly competitive UK market.\"\n\nVirgin Media is owned by US telecoms giant Liberty Global, which is also rumoured to be in talks with Sky to invest in a full-fibre network.\n\nWednesday's Vodafone deal, along with any tie-up between Liberty and Sky, raises the competitive pressure on BT, which is investing heavily in upgrading its own network.\n\nA BT spokesperson said: \"The successful relationship between BT and Virgin Media spans nearly 20 years and they remain a highly valued customer.\n\n\"Our EE network is consistently ranked number one for speed and coverage in independent benchmarking tests, providing our EE customers... with the UK's best mobile experience.\"", "The UK's competition watchdog has raised concerns train ticket prices could rise under the new operators of the West Coast Rail franchise.\n\nFirstGroup and Trenitalia won the contract to run the rail route between London Euston and Glasgow or Edinburgh.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority said that on 21 routes, passengers would have little or no option but to choose a service run by FirstGroup.\n\nFirstGroup said there were no competition issues on most routes.\n\nThe CMA said that following the first phase of an investigation into the new contract, it discovered that on 17 routes between Preston and Scotland passengers could only choose from West Coast Rail, operated by the joint venture between FirstGroup and Trenitalia, or from TransPennine Express, which is operated solely by FirstGroup.\n\nIt also pointed out that there were four routes between Oxenholme in the Lake District and Carlisle where travellers could only choose between the joint venture, TransPennine Express, and from one other company.\n\n\"The CMA is concerned this could lead to higher fares and less availability of cheaper tickets because train passengers would have no alternatives, or limited options, to choose from,\" it said.\n\nA spokesman for FirstGroup, said: \"We have been discussing our plans for the new West Coast Partnership franchise with the CMA for several months and we are pleased that on the vast majority of routes, it has found no competition issues.\n\n\"Now that this update gives more clarity, we look forward to submitting our proposals which we envisage will satisfy their concerns.\"\n\nThe CMA said that in previous cases, when it had raised competition concerns with rail companies, its concerns were resolved \"by the companies agreeing to price caps on affected lines\".\n\nBut it said that if FirstGroup and Trenitalia's proposals to guard against higher prices were insufficient, the CMA would launch a more in-depth investigation into the issue.\n\nFirstGroup and Trenitalia won the contract to run the West Coast Rail franchise following a controversial process that saw Stagecoach banned from bidding for the contract in a row over pensions.\n\nStagecoach ran the franchise with Virgin Trains for more than 20 years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: 'Come with us to get Brexit done'\n\nBoris Johnson has launched the Conservative Party's election campaign, saying his Brexit deal \"delivers everything I campaigned for\".\n\nSurrounded by supporters holding signs with messages including \"Get Brexit Done\", he told activists he had \"no choice\" but to hold an election.\n\nParliament is \"paralysed\" and \"blocked\", he said in Birmingham.\n\nHe said once Brexit was done, a Tory government could get on with \"better education\" and \"better infrastructure\".\n\nEarlier, the prime minister met the Queen at Buckingham Palace, marking the official start of the election period in the run-up to the 12 December poll.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's plans to grab the headlines for his party's campaign launch were blown off course by the resignation of a cabinet minister - an unusual event during an election campaign.\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns has quit the cabinet after claims he knew about a former aide's role in the \"sabotage\" of a rape trial.\n\nIt comes after two Conservative candidates were forced to apologise for comments about victims of the Grenfell tragedy.\n\nOpening the party's campaign launch, the Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street said the party's success in the area showed \"when Conservatives work together at all levels we can do tremendous things\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel followed, telling a crowd of supporters: \"This election is a choice between real change or simply more uncertainty, more dither and more delay.\"\n\nAnd Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said: \"We need to break the Brexit deadlock and get on with delivering on voters priorities - something the last Parliament proved incapable of doing.\"\n\nMr Johnson told the audience the deadlock over Brexit had been like a \"bendy bus jack-knifed on a yellow box junction [which] no-one can get round it and it is blocking in every direction\".\n\n\"We can't go on like this,\" he added.\n\nHe said the thing he was \"most proud of\" during his 100 days in office was his Brexit deal.\n\nTurning his fire on his election opponents, Mr Johnson accused the Labour Party of \"always running out of other people's money\" and despite making a raft of his own spending promises, the party leader said Labour \"know themselves that their policies for the economy are ruinous\".\n\nInstead, he says voters should \"come with us\" and support Tory measures on education, the police and immigration.\n\nIn contrast, he said a Labour victory would result in another referendum and a second vote on Scottish independence.\n\n\"If I come back with a working majority, I will get Parliament working again.\"\n\nElsewhere, as the starting pistol is fired on five weeks of official campaigning:\n\n\"If it sticks we'll be fine\" - hammer the core message, again and again, and plot a path to victory. That's how one cabinet minister reckons the Tories can win.\n\nAfter the last couple of extremely bumpy days for their party, they are hoping this will be a campaign where surprises are not a regular feature.\n\nInstead, they and many of their colleagues reckon the plea for a majority to sort out the Brexit-induced mess of the last few years super fast will find resonance on the doorsteps, saying they are already hearing voters quote back the '\"get Brexit done\" slogan.\n\nAnother cabinet minister says \"it's not Parliament versus the people, it's more positive than the pitchfork, but it feels good on the ground - we are hearing from a lot of people they do reckon it's Parliament that's out of touch\".\n\nEvents of the last 48 hours have shown already, as I wrote on Tuesday night, that events come crashing into parties' hopes and fears pretty fast and knock them off course.\n\nThere is another fear among some Conservatives though. The strategy coming out of Tory HQ is crystal clear - end the political agony of Brexit, attract extra Leave voters who are fed up, while hanging on to as many of their existing seats as they can.\n\nBut, with such a Brexit-heavy message, will they - can they - do both at the same time?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I've been wanting to chew my own tie in frustration\"\n\nParliament was dissolved - or formally shut down - at just after midnight, meaning all MPs revert to being members of the public. Government ministers keep their posts.\n\nThe PM's audience with the Queen lasted about 20 minutes. While the election has already been approved by MPs, the monarch still needed to sign a royal proclamation confirming the end of the last Parliament.\n\nAt his own campaign event, Mr Corbyn said he would be a \"very different kind of prime minister\" who \"only seeks power in order to share power\".\n\nHe said Labour is \"well prepared and utterly determined\" to win power to \"transform\" the country and said recent comments by Tory candidates about the Grenfell tragedy were \"shameful\" and suggested his opponents felt there were \"above us all\".\n\nHe said the election was a once-in-a-generation chance to \"tear down the barriers that are holding people back\" and to \"rebuild\" the NHS, schools and the police force.\n\nThe Labour leader said his Brexit strategy was to unite people, with a second referendum on a \"sensible set of proposals\" rather than the \"disaster\" of a US trade deal with Donald Trump.\n\nMr Corbyn has previously said a new Scottish independence referendum was not \"desirable or necessary\" - but the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon said she believed Labour would give the go-ahead for one if in government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWednesday's dissolution ended the shortest parliamentary session since 1948, with the Commons having met for only 19 days since the state opening on 14 October.\n\nWhat question do you have about the general election?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, location and age as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question or get in touch using #BBCYourQuestions:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Jodie Chesney was killed a few weeks before completing her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award\n\nOne of Jodie Chesney's alleged killers has been accused of throwing his business partner \"under the bus\" over the teenager's death.\n\nDrug dealer Manuel Petrovic drove Svenson Ong-a-Kwie and two youths to the park where Jodie was fatally stabbed on 1 March.\n\nMr Petrovic denied he was trying to \"rewrite the truth\".\n\nHe, along with Mr Ong-a-Kwie and two youths, aged 16 and 17, deny murder and are on trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nCross-examining Mr Petrovic, Mr Ong-a-Kwie's lawyer accused him of distancing himself from his co-accused.\n\nCharles Sherrard QC said: \"What I suggest is that you have, from the minute you were arrested, decided your best tactic is to present yourself as a particular type of person - somebody who is too nice, the older brother type, and wherever possible, distanced yourself from Svenson.\"\n\nManuel Petrovic (left) described Svenson Ong-a-Kwie (far right) as \"business associates\"\n\nMr Sherrard continued: \"And in distancing yourself you have chosen to rewrite the truth and metaphorically throw him under the bus.\"\n\nThe 20-year-old repeated: \"That's not correct.\"\n\nMr Sherrard asserted that it was Mr Petrovic that 19-year-old Mr Ong-a-Kwie turned to when he needed a lift to Harold Hill on the night of 1 March.\n\nHe turned to him again when he needed fresh clothes and trusted him with a \"drug line\", it was claimed.\n\nBut Mr Petrovic told jurors: \"It was more business associates than friends but I would not not class him as a friend.\"\n\nAsked why he picked up Ong-a-Kwie on 1 March, leaving customers waiting, he said: \"It's not out of the blue, he would help me out on occasions so I would try to help him out too.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nDiamond League meetings will no longer feature the 200m, 3,000m steeplechase, discus or triple jump at all of its events in 2020.\n\nAthletics' governing body the IAAF said it did research on the popularity of events and wished to cut the length of meetings for a \"90-minute broadcast\".\n\nThere will be 12 disciplines staged at each of the 15 Diamond League meetings.\n\nThe 3,000m steeplechase and 200m will feature at 10 meetings, while two will stage the discus and triple jump.\n\nNone of the four disciplines removed from the 'core' list will form part of the Diamond League Final in Zurich in September.\n\n\"Our objective is to create a faster-paced, more exciting global league that will be the showcase for our sport. A league that broadcasters want to show and fans want to watch,\" IAAF president and Diamond League chairman Lord Coe said.\n\n\"However, we understand the disappointment of those athletes in the disciplines not part of the 2020 Diamond League season.\"\n\nBritish sprinter Adam Gemili appeared to show his surprise over the move by tagging the Diamond League Twitter account in a tweet featuring a gif of actor Tom Hanks mouthing \"really?\".\n\nThe 2020 Diamond League begins in Doha on 17 April.\n\nThe IAAF said its decision followed research on the popularity of events which was conducted in China, France, South Africa and the USA, while surveys were carried out in Belgium, Great Britain and Switzerland.\n\nClick-throughs on Diamond League social media videos also helped guide the governing body.\n\nDiscus, triple jump and the 3,000m steeplechase ranked lowest in terms of popularity, while the 200m was taken off the core list as organisers felt its inclusion alongside the 100m meant the schedule would be \"too congested, particularly in an Olympic Games year\".\n\nFormer world 400m hurdles champion Dai Greene tweeted: \"There's no such thing as a boring event, it's how you present it to the public that's the problem.\"", "Christopher (left) and Ronan Hughes are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and human trafficking\n\nHomes belonging to two brothers wanted for questioning about the deaths of 39 people in a lorry in Essex have been searched by the Irish authorities.\n\nRonan and Christopher Hughes have links to Armagh in Northern Ireland and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nTwo County Monaghan homes owned by the pair were among 10 properties searched by Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), according to police sources.\n\nCAB seized vehicles and cash as part of its year-long smuggling investigation.\n\nThe bureau also secured court orders to freeze 20 bank accounts holding about €200,000 in total.\n\nThe CAB investigation is focused on \"a group suspected of being involved in various international smuggling activities\".\n\nHowever, that investigation has \"intensified over the past two weeks\" according to a statement issued by gardaí (Irish police).\n\nTwo lorry tractors and trailers were seized last week as part of the investigation\n\nThe statement, issued on Thursday morning, said the CAB investigation was \"not linked to the ongoing Essex Police investigation\".\n\nHowever, it is understood that the discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry in Essex on 23 October has given added impetus to CAB's long-running investigation into international smuggling.\n\nThe 10 County Monaghan properties searched by CAB staff on Thursday consisted of seven homes and three industrial premises, which were described by gardaí as sheds or yards.\n\nThe items seized during the raids included two BMW cars; a Volkswagen van and a Mitsubishi Shogun.\n\nOne of the cars seized in County Monaghan\n\nCash in different currencies was also found, with CAB seizing €1,400, $900 and £600.\n\nIn addition to the four vehicles seized in Monaghan on Thursday, a Northern Ireland-registered lorry and a Bulgarian-registered lorry were seized at Dublin Port last Tuesday as part of the same investigation.\n\nGarda sources also confirmed that some of the material seized belongs to 40-year-old Ronan Hughes and his 34-year-old brother Christopher.\n\nThe Hughes brothers were identified as suspects in the lorry deaths investigation by Essex Police at the end of last month.\n\nInvestigating officers said at the time the pair were wanted on suspicion of manslaughter of the 39 Vietnamese victims.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the force said all 39 people have been formally identified but their names are not yet being released.\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.\n• None Bodies found in lorry have all been identified", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "Election officers have hit back angrily at calls from the education secretary for general election polling stations not to be placed in schools.\n\nGavin Williamson wanted to avoid disruption to school nativity plays and Christmas concerts, which could clash with the 12 December election day.\n\nBut election officers have written to the education secretary to express their \"extreme disappointment\".\n\nThey say in many areas there are \"no alternatives\" to using schools.\n\nThis week Mr Williamson wrote to returning officers telling them that councils would be funded to find alternative venues for polling stations - and not to use schools as places to vote.\n\nHe said he wanted to make sure that \"long-planned and important events\" in schools at Christmas, such as plays and carol concerts, would not have to be cancelled.\n\nBut the announcement has prompted anger from the Association of Electoral Administrators, which is the professional body representing people who run elections.\n\nIn a stinging letter to Mr Williamson, they accuse him of a \"complete lack of knowledge and understanding\".\n\n\"We question why this letter was sent out so late, after most polling stations have already been booked,\" say the election officers, who warn that arranging a December election at short notice is already challenging enough.\n\nThey reject Mr Williamson's claim that \"every community\" will have alternative venues for voting, so that schools will not have to be used.\n\n\"That is simply not the case. In many parts of the United Kingdom, including towns and cities but especially in rural areas, there are simply no alternatives to the venues designated as polling places,\" says the letter from the association.\n\nChief executive Peter Stanyon says the process of deciding where to locate polling stations has mostly taken place - and the data has been sent to printers for polling cards.\n\nHe says schools are used as polling stations because they are well-known local venues and are likely to be accessible for people with disabilities - and often there are not any other practical options.\n\nThe move not to use schools for polling stations had been backed by head teachers' leader Geoff Barton.\n\nHe said many schools would have Christmas events scheduled - and he questioned whether schools were really \"suitable venues\" for voting, particularly when elections had become more frequent.", "Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has outlined plans for a £150bn social transformation fund to be spent over five years under a Labour government.\n\nDuring a speech in Liverpool, he said it would deal with the \"human emergency created by the Tories\". The money would be spent on upgrading or replacing public services such as schools, hospitals, care homes and council housing.", "Confused by the latest election developments? Got a question about polling or policy? Or is there anything else you'd like us to explain?\n\nSend your questions to BBC News via the form on this page and we'll do our best to answer them.\n\nToday we have been answering questions specifically from younger people, like this one from Stephen Blaney in Manchester:\n\nQ - Can a candidate standing for a constituency demand a recount at the general election?\n\nA - According to the Electoral Commission \"any candidate or election agent may request to have the votes recounted or, following a recount, recounted again\".\n\nThe final decision as to whether a recount is allowed is taken by the returning officer (though usually by the acting returning officer, as the former post is largely ceremonial), who has overall responsibility for the conduct of the election in that constituency.\n\nThey will decide if the request is a reasonable one, for example when two or more candidates are separated by a small number of votes.\n\nYou can read more answers to questions from young people here.", "Environmental campaigners in Edinburgh during a mass global \"climate strike\" protest in September\n\nA phrase which hit headlines after millions of people joined climate change protests around the world has been named 2019's word of the year.\n\n\"Climate strike\" was picked by Collins Dictionary after being used on average 100 times more this year than in 2018.\n\nThe term was first recorded four years ago when pupils skipped school to protest over global warming - but the movement has grown over the last year.\n\nCollins said it has also recognised the word \"non-binary\" as a specific term.\n\nLexicographers said it added non-binary in recognition of \"changes in how people relate to each other and define themselves\".\n\nNon-binary people do not identify as either male or female and often prefer the pronouns they or them instead of he or she.\n\nIt comes after pop star Sam Smith said this year that they identified as non-binary, joining other celebrities including Me Too campaigner Rose McGowan and Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness.\n\nSinger Sam Smith said \"I'm not male or female\" during an interview in March\n\nAlso added by Collins are the terms \"double down\", \"influencer\", \"hopepunk\" (a TV genre) and \"deepfake (\"a digital imaging technique\").\n\nThe 2019 word of the year - which will get its own entry in the next edition of the dictionary - is defined by Collins as \"a form of protest in which people absent themselves from education or work in order to join demonstrations demanding action to counter climate change\".\n\nIt is the second year in a row that an environmental term has been picked as word of the year, after \"single-use\" in 2018.\n\nThe term climate strike was first registered in November 2015 during the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris when the first event of its kind took place.\n\nBut the movement was reignited thanks to Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg.\n\nOn 20 August 2018, Thunberg sat outside Sweden's parliament carrying a \"school strike for climate change\" sign and saying she was refusing to attend classes until Swedish politicians took action.\n\nGreta Thunberg is credited with launching the wave of school strikes for climate change this year\n\nThe movement snowballed with students around the world missing school to demand action on global warming, and in September millions of people took part in a global climate strike.\n\nBBC News first appeared to use the term on its website in February 2019, and used it again the following day when covering the wave of protests in the UK.\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary also choose their own word of the year, opting for \"toxic\" in 2018, \"youthquake\" in 2017 and \"post-truth\" in 2016.", "Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold a referendum in the second half of 2020\n\nFurther legislation would need to be tabled at Holyrood before a new referendum on independence could be held, ministers have confirmed.\n\nThe Scottish government wants to hold a new ballot in 2020 and has tabled the Referendums Bill to pave the way.\n\nHowever MSPs have now been told that a further \"short bill\" will be needed to legislate for an independence vote.\n\nThe pro-UK parties have opposed the Referendums Bill at Holyrood, but is set to pass with SNP and Green backing.\n\nThe issue of a referendum has become a key topic of debate in the general election campaign, with the SNP putting it \"at the heart\" of their platform and Labour and the Conservatives disputing whether they would agree to hold one in future.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to have a new vote in the second half of 2020, and has targeted having the Referendums (Scotland) Bill in law \"by the new year\" as part of the preparations for this.\n\nShe has also pledged to formally request a transfer of power from Westminster - similar to the agreement prior to the 2014 referendum, which she said would put the legality of the vote \"beyond any doubt\" - before Christmas.\n\nHolyrood's three pro-UK parties oppose the bill, but are outnumbered by the pro-independence SNP and Greens\n\nThe legislation sets the general framework for any referendum, and as drafted would give ministers the power to set the date, question and campaign period of any poll later.\n\nHowever after complaints that this handed too much leeway to ministers, Holyrood's constitution committee said new primary legislation should be needed for any ballot on a constitutional issue.\n\nConstitutional Relations Secretary Mike Russell told MSPs that he was \"happy to accept this\", underlining that this would mean further legislation would now be needed before a new independence poll.\n\nHe said: \"I agree that normally a short bill should be the way to trigger a referendum and I can confirm that any proposal for a future Scottish independence referendum should now require a short bill.\"\n\nMr Russell also said he would reconsider the issue of whether the Electoral Commission would be allowed to test the question of any future independence referendum.\n\nThe watchdog would normally be brought in to test the question for any plebiscite, but the bill as it stands would not require this if the \"yes\" or \"no\" question used in 2014 was repeated.\n\nMr Russell has previously argued that there is no need to re-test questions, and Ms Sturgeon has claimed the move was part of an attempt to \"rig\" the referendum by her opponents.\n\nThe Scottish government has argued that the 2014 referendum provides \"clear precedent\" for a question\n\nThe Commission \"firmly recommend\" they are allowed to test again, and Holyrood's constitution committee unanimously said ministers \"must recognise the weight of evidence in favour\" of this and come to an agreement with the watchdog.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Russell offered instead to amend the bill to give previously tested questions a \"shelf life\" of two parliamentary terms.\n\nHowever, he added: \"Some of those who propose testing every question even if it has been tested before are doing so out of principle, and I respect that.\n\n\"I entirely accept that it is right for me to look at this issue again in the light of those views and the evidence that the committee has received and consider if I should go even further.\n\n\"I am therefore in agreement that I should discuss the matter with the Electoral Commission and come back at stage two with any proposal that may arise from those discussions.\"\n\nMr Russell may ultimately be forced to back down, as Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie said the case for his \"shelf life\" proposal was \"not overwhelming\".\n\nHe said politicians could not choose to only trust independent watchdogs when they agree with their decisions, saying: \"If there is time to conduct question testing, then I struggle to see why that testing should be dispensed with.\"\n\nMike Russell said he was read to \"look again\" at the issue of Electoral Commission testing\n\nThe legislation looks set to pass through Holyrood with support from the SNP and Greens - but all three of the unionist opposition parties said they would oppose it.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have pledged to oppose independence \"every step of the way\", and said they would vote against the \"bad bill\" at every stage.\n\nConstitution spokesman Adam Tomkins said it was \"vital\" that the Electoral Commission is \"not only permitted, but required by law\" to test all referendum questions.\n\nHe said there was \"no good reason\" for avoiding testing, calling the move \"nothing other than another ill-conceived power grab from a minister desperate for indyref2\".\n\nLabour's Alex Rowley said there was no need for a new independence vote until the \"current constitutional crisis\" of Brexit is resolved, saying it was \"impossible to put a clear proposition to the Scottish people\" at present.\n\nHe said the \"flawed\" Referendums Bill was \"the SNP indyref2 bill\" and an attempt to \"rig\" the vote, saying Labour could not support it on that basis.\n\nAnd Lib Dem MSP Mike Rumbles said the bill was a \"fraud\" and a \"waste of taxpayers money\", and said the SNP would \"face electoral consequences sooner rather than later\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Glasgow has been listed as the top cultural and creative centre in the UK in a report from the European Commission.\n\nFollowing in the top five were London, Bristol, Brighton and Manchester, with Edinburgh just missing out in sixth place.\n\nDundee was the next Scottish city to be ranked, coming in 12th.\n\nGlasgow came first for \"openness, tolerance and trust\" and \"cultural participation and attractiveness\".\n\nThe study ranks 190 cities in 30 European countries on various factors.\n\nGlasgow band Mogwai on stage in the Clyde Auditorium\n\n\"Cultural vibrancy\", \"creative economy\", and the ability to bring in creative talent and nourish cultural engagement were all taken into account.\n\nEdinburgh came first for cultural venues and facilities in the UK.\n\nThe report said: \"Glasgow was one of the first European capitals of culture, in 1990. Known as an industrial city, it has now gained recognition as a creative and cultural centre of European importance.\"\n\nThe Simon Fraser University play in Buchanan Street during the Piping Live! festival\n\nCelebrations to mark the Chinese Lunar New Year\n\nGlasgow boasts over 100 cultural organisations and is home to five of Scotland's six national performing arts companies: the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; National Theatre of Scotland; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Scottish Opera and Scottish Ballet.\n\nThe council said that Glasgow's museums have more visitors than in any UK city outside London.\n\nEight Turner Prize winners have been born, trained or worked out of Glasgow in recent years, and the city's Tramway hosted the event in 2015.\n\nAn exhibition by artist Jenifer West at the Tramway theatre\n\nA visitor looks at 'DOUG' by artist Janice Kerbel ahead of the 2015 Turner Prize\n\nChildren making artworks at the Gallery of Modern Art\n\nBridget McConnell from Glasgow Life, the organisation that delivers cultural and sports events for Glasgow City Council, said: \"We always knew Glasgow was a global cultural leader and we're delighted that the European Commission has confirmed our position of the UK's leading cultural and creative city.\n\n\"Glasgow is a city bursting with energy, passion and creativity and filled with artists, designers, creators and innovators.\n\n\"We have world-class museums and galleries, incredible architecture and history and, as a Unesco City of Music, there's nowhere better to enjoy a gig.\n\n\"What's more, our openness, tolerance and trust has been rated as the best in Europe, confirming what we already know, that our people make Glasgow the best city in the world.\"\n\nFans at a Post Malone concert at the SSE Hydro", "Warrants were carried out at Danygraig Nursing Home (pictured) and Ashville Residential Care Home\n\nThree men have been arrested amid allegations that staff at two care homes were victims of modern day slavery.\n\nGwent Police and the National Crime Agency (NCA) carried out warrants at Danygraig Nursing Home in Newport and Ashville Residential Care Home in Brithdir on Thursday morning.\n\nTwo Newport men, aged 53 and 64 and a third from Surrey, 43, are in custody.\n\nA reception centre for potential victims has been set up.\n\nA number of police remain outside Ashville Care Home and officers are also focusing on a nearby house where local people have said a group of up to 13 women live, according to BBC Wales reporter Nelli Bird, who is at the scene.\n\nOne neighbour said they saw police arrive at the house at around 06.30 GMT.\n\nThe neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: \"I went to have a nose through the window. There was a lady stood there on her own.\n\n\"Then about half hour later two men came. They were going to put the door through but then they let them in through the back.\n\n\"[The women] are back and forth, they're always dragging suitcases around.\n\n\"There are men coming back and forth. They're always partying in there.\n\n\"The youngest looks about 18, oldest could be 40 or 50.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Nicky Brain said: \"The offences that are being investigated are serious...\n\n\"We would like to reassure [residents and their families] that this investigation is not as a result of any concerns raised regarding crimes committed against people residing in these homes.\"\n\nGwent Police said officers from its human trafficking team were working with partner agencies including the British Red Cross, the Salvation Army and New Pathways.\n\nIn a joint statement, Newport council and Caerphilly council said they were working with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and Care Inspectorate Wales to \"ensure a continuation of care\".\n\n\"We appreciate families may be concerned as a result of today's events but we would like to reassure them that their loved ones are safe and their well-being is our priority,\" it continued.\n\nModern slavery is defined as the recruitment, movement, harbouring or receiving of children, women or men through the use of force, coercion, abuse of vulnerability, deception or other means for the purpose of exploitation.\n\nIt is a crime under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Video caption: CCTV of Jodie Chesney walking with friends in Harold Hill CCTV of Jodie Chesney walking with friends in Harold Hill\n\nOn Friday 1 March 2019, Jodie and her friends decided to go to Amy's Park, Harold Hill, to listen to music and smoke cannabis.\n\nJodie attended Havering Sixth Form College where she studied psychology, sociology and photography and was also an active scout member and volunteer.\n\nIt was an \"ordinary\" Friday night for the group of friends, until Jodie's boyfriend Eddie Coyle, 18, noticed two figures coming towards them in the darkness.\n\nWithin a few seconds, calm turned to chaos, as one of the two boys plunged a knife into Jodie's back in an unprovoked attack.\n\nShe collapsed to the ground.\n\nHer boyfriend Eddie told the court how she screamed before fainting.\n\n\"She was in shock at first,\" the 18-year-old recalled. \"She did not know what had happened. We just thought they had stolen our bags.\"\n\n\"But then she started screaming continuously, very loud, and it lasted about two minutes straight.\n\n\"After she stopped screaming she began to faint. At this time she was falling off the bench.\"", "Justin Jackson doused the officers during disorder as police tried to arrest a youth riding a stolen motorbike\n\nA man who doused eight police officers with a watering can full of petrol and left them fearing for their lives has been jailed.\n\nJustin Jackson, 28, doused the officers in the flammable liquid during disorder in Basildon, Essex on 5 May.\n\nOne officer said that he remembered thinking at the time \"we could all go up in flames here like Roman candles\".\n\nJackson, of Ward Close, was jailed for three years and nine months at Basildon Crown Court.\n\nHe had admitted eight counts of administering a noxious substance with intent to cause injury at an earlier hearing.\n\nProsecutor Joe Bird told the court that disorder had broken out as police tried to arrest a youth riding a stolen motorbike and people interfered with attempts to arrest him.\n\nDuring this disorder, Jackson \"armed himself with a watering can full of petrol\" then \"brings it to the scene and sprays officers with it\", Mr Bird said.\n\nTemporary Supt Jonathan Baldwin said: \"At the time of the incident while being covered with petrol I remember thinking 'we could all go up in flames here like Roman candles'.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was one of those days I realised I might not have got home at all.\"\n\nAlison Gurden, defending, said Jackson had written a letter of apology in which he said: \"I'm deeply sorry for what I've done and I can only imagine the fear they felt.\"\n\nJudge Samantha Cohen said Jackson did it to prevent them from making arrests.\n\nShe said: \"Initially some (of the officers) thought they were splashed with a disfiguring acid or bleach, but when they smelled it was petrol they feared they would be set alight.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Jackson's mother Janine Justin, 47, of Ward Close, was given a suspended nine-month prison sentence after being found guilty of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.\n\nThe court heard she had threatened police officers with a hammer during the disorder.\n\nAfter the sentencing, Supt Baldwin said that \"to say that it does not have an effect on us is incorrect\".\n\n\"We have had a lot of support from the organisation and colleagues and specialists to help us,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeveral people were injured when parts of a ceiling collapsed during a Piccadilly Theatre show in London's West End.\n\nThe venue in Denman Street was packed on Wednesday for a performance of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman, starring US actor Wendell Pierce.\n\nAudience members \"heard dripping sounds indicating water was coming through the ceiling,\" according to the theatre production company.\n\nMore than 1,000 people were evacuated.\n\nFour people were taken to hospital after three men and two women were treated at the scene by paramedics.\n\n\"We are ascertaining the extent of the situation, and will be providing an update on future performances as soon as possible,\" the Ambassador Theatre Group said.\n\nThe production team said three special performances of the play would take place at the Young Vic theatre on Friday night, as well as a matinee and evening performance on Saturday.\n\nThe performances at the Piccadilly Theatre for the rest of the week have been cancelled.\n\nRescue units were sent to the theatre by London Fire Brigade after the collapse\n\nWendell Pierce, who plays Willy Loman in the show which opened on Monday, said: \"First, I hope those injured last night are recovered and healing.\n\n\"Their well-being is the most important thing. I am also so grateful that the Death of a Salesman company is able to continue performances of Arthur Miller's great play.\n\n\"The nightly audience response has been overwhelming, and I would like to thank the Young Vic for enabling us to continue on this special journey.\n\n\"In the time-honoured tradition of the theatre, the show must go on.\"\n\nHe apologised for having to stop the performance and evacuate the theatre.\n\nA video shared on social media shows the US actor outside the venue asking the crowd to come back and see the play another time.\n\n\"We're so honoured that you came tonight. We are so sorry that this happened,\" he said.\n\nTicket holders for the cancelled performances will be contacted to make arrangements for the performances at the Young Vic.\n\nWendell Pierce with Dominic West (left), his co-star from acclaimed crime drama The Wire, at the play's opening night on Monday\n\nBBC journalist Iain Haddow, who was in the audience, said the collapse happened about 20 minutes into the show.\n\nHe said that before the ceiling caved in there had been a steady drop of water \"which turned progressively into a stream\" - although it was not raining at the time - and said there was some panic when the ceiling fell in.\n\nHe said that outside the theatre there was scaffolding and building work going on.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn December 2013, 76 people were injured, seven seriously, when part of a ceiling at London's Apollo Theatre collapsed during a show, while 1,200 people had to leave the Queen's Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, following a small fire during a matinee performance of Les Miserables.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Patricia Arce was covered in red paint and had her hair cut off\n\nThe mayor of a small town in Bolivia has been attacked by opposition protesters who dragged her through the streets barefoot, covered her in red paint and forcibly cut her hair.\n\nPatricia Arce of the governing Mas party was handed over to police in Vinto after several hours.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of violent clashes between government supporters and opponents in the wake of controversial presidential elections.\n\nAt least three people have died so far.\n\nA group of anti-government protesters was blocking a bridge in Vinto, a small town in Cochabamba province in central Bolivia, as part of their ongoing demonstrations following the presidential election on 20 October.\n\nRumours spread that two opposition protesters had been killed nearby in clashes with supporters of incumbent president, Evo Morales, prompting an angry group to march to the town hall.\n\nPolice officers escorted Ms Arce to a health centre after the protesters released her\n\nThe protesters accused Mayor Arce of having bussed in supporters of the president to try and break a blockade they had set up and blamed her for the reported deaths, one of which was later confirmed.\n\nAmid shouts of \"murderess, murderess\" masked men dragged her through the streets barefoot to the bridge. There, they made her kneel down, cut her hair and doused her in red paint. They also forced her to sign a resignation letter.\n\nMs Arce was eventually handed over to the police who took her to a local health centre.\n\nProtesters also set alight parts of the town hall\n\nHer office was set alight and the windows of the town hall were smashed.\n\nThe person killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of President Morales was identified as 20-year-old student Limbert Guzmán Vasquez. Doctors said Mr Guzmán Vasquez had a fractured skull which may have been caused by an explosive device.\n\nHe is the third person to be killed since the clashes between the two sides erupted on 20 October.\n\nTension has been running high since election night when the results count was inexplicably paused for 24 hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is not Cuba neither Venezuela,\" Bolivian protesters chanted last month\n\nThe suspension prompted suspicions among supporters of opposition candidate Carlos Mesa that the result had been rigged to allow Mr Morales, who has been in power since 2006 to stay on for another five years.\n\nThe final result gave Mr Morales just over the 10-percentage-point lead he needed to win outright in the first round of the presidential election.\n\nElection observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) expressed their concerns and an audit by the body is currently underway. However, Mr Mesa has rejected the audit arguing that it was agreed without his or his party's input.\n\nMr Morales has accused Mr Mesa of staging a coup d'etat and supporters of each side have squared off in La Paz and other cities.", "Both major political parties have dropped a key target that would see the national debt falling over time.\n\nThe move will allow tens or even hundreds of billions more in investment spending on hospitals, schools, housing and public transport.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour would change the way public spending is accounted for, freeing it up to spend.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid also plans to relax his debt rules and spend more.\n\nHe said his new rule would allow 3% of GDP in investment on public infrastructure projects - potentially an additional £100bn over current plans.\n\nThis would allow the party to spend more on hospitals, schools, roads, railways and broadband, he said.\n\nMr Javid said he still expected the debt to be lower at the end of the next parliament, but this was not a hard-and-fast stricture.\n\nLike Labour, he also channelled some of the same arguments about taking advantage of cheap borrowing.\n\nLabour's plan is a major revolution in fiscal targeting, designed to allow hundreds of billions in extra investment spending to grow public sector assets.\n\nMr McDonnell described the new approach as targeting \"public sector net worth\", saying that it was akin to how companies report their balance sheets. It also builds on a new set of figures that the Office for National Statistics has started to report regularly.\n\nIt means there will be little incentive to use off-balance sheet mechanisms, such as the much-criticised Private Finance Initiative.\n\nBut it also means a much more generous treatment for Labour's plan to nationalise some privately owned utilities, because the funding required will be offset by the acquisition of the asset - the company.\n\nIt is radical too. It relies on the continuation of the current very low borrowing rates offered to governments around the world.\n\nAnd while there is an emerging international consensus on taking advantage of these cheap rates to boost growth, at a time when central banks are running out of ammunition, there is a limit.\n\nThere is a new post-austerity consensus on spending more for the future.\n\nThe dividing line is whether it is tens of billions required or hundreds of billions. And who voters trust to spend it well.", "MSPs vote to back the general principles of the Referendums (Scotland) Bill , with 65 MSPs backing it and 55 against.\n\nThe Scottish government wants to hold a new ballot in 2020 and has tabled the Referendums Bill to pave the way.\n\nThere have been calls for parts of the bill to be amended, in particular over whether the Electoral Commission would test the question for \"indyref2\".\n\nConstitution Secretary Mike Russell told MSPs he would discuss the issue of an indyref2 question with the Electoral Commission and introduce an amendment requiring a short bill to instigate the referendum.\n\nAdam Tomkins, speaking for the Scottish Tories, insisted his party would oppose any attempt at another independence referendum every step of the way.\n\nThis was echoed by Labour MSP Alex Rowley who said \"the bill is flawed, vote it down\".\n\nScottish Green Party co-convener Patrick Harvie backed the bill but called for the indyref2 question to be tested.\n\nThe Lib Dems reiterated their opposition through Mike Rumbles, who called it \"bad legislation\".", "Police were called to Hillingdon Civic Centre on High Street in Uxbridge\n\nAn 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death in a west London council's central offices.\n\nThe victim was stabbed in the chest in Hillingdon Civic Centre on High Street, Uxbridge, at about 16:40 GMT.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but pronounced dead less than an hour later. Another teenage boy was also stabbed during the attack.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder, Scotland Yard said.\n\nThe other injured teenager suffered a knife injury to his ear, but his injuries were not considered life-threatening.\n\nAnother teenager suffered a knife injury to his ear during the attack\n\nThe Met has granted itself enhanced stop-and-search powers, under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.\n\nThis allows officers to search anyone in a designated area without \"reasonable grounds\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh described the stabbing as \"a tragic loss of life\".\n\nHillingdon Civic Centre was cordoned off by police tape while forensic officers investigated\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grace Millane's last movements were captured on CCTV\n\nBritish backpacker Grace Millane and the man accused of her murder were spotted kissing on CCTV while on a Tinder date, a court heard.\n\nFootage shows them in bars and at the hotel where Miss Millane is alleged to have been killed in New Zealand.\n\nMiss Millane, from Wickford, Essex, was on a round-the-world trip when she died in Auckland, last December.\n\nDuring the date Miss Millane messaged a friend about the defendant, saying \"I click with him\", the jury heard.\n\nReferring to the footage \"just short of six terabytes of data, which is a significant amount\" was examined, detective Adam Bicknell told Auckland High Court.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Atkinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt shows Miss Millane leaving the Base Backpackers hostel and walking to the Sky City entertainment complex, where she met and embraced the 27-year-old defendant, who cannot be be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe trial earlier heard how the man accused of Miss Millane's murder went on a further Tinder date while her body was in a suitcase in his hotel room.\n\nGrace Millane's parents are attending the trial in Auckland\n\nMiss Millane, was last seen in Auckland on 1 December, before her body was found a week later.\n\nReferring to the messages she sent during the date, a letter by her university friend Ameena Ashcroft was read to the jury.\n\nIn it, she said Miss Millane told her she was \"getting smashed\" and the date was going \"really good\".\n\nThe prosecution believes the suspect was not concerned or distressed by the death\n\nIn the hours before she disappeared Miss Millane and the defendant were seen at a burger bar in the Sky City development, before going to a Mexican cafe and then the Bluestone Room in Durham Lane.\n\nIn the hours before she disappeared Miss Millane and the defendant were seen in the Sky City Development\n\nFootage shows they spent just over an hour at the venue, during which time the defendant leaned across and kissed Miss Millane lightly, before then putting his hand on the back of her head and kissing her in a more sustained manner.\n\nThey continued kissing and talking for a while, before leaving and walking arm-in-arm down the street and into the lobby of CityLife at 21:40.\n\nThey entered the lifts and Miss Millane followed the accused out of the lift to his apartment on the third floor of the hotel.\n\nProsecutors allege she was strangled to death in the apartment.\n\nOn the face of it this was, as the lead prosecutor put it , \"the sort of evening many a young person travelling the world would enjoy\".\n\nMeeting someone, touring bars, drinking and chatting. There were lots of smiles from Grace Millane on the CCTV footage played to the court room .\n\nA text message exchange with a friend in one of those bars read out in court was an emoji-packed carefree stream of consciousness from a young woman having a good time.\n\nBut knowing what happened next meant watching those shots of Grace was chilling. I'm told the Millane family had already been taken through the CCTV by police.\n\nLater there were images of a different sort. Seen only by the jurors - intimate pictures of Grace Millane that the killer took on his phone after Grace had died.\n\nHer mother Gillian sobbed as a police detective in the witness box was asked about the pictures - until it became too much and she hurried out - unable to bear hearing any more.\n\nThe defence team argues Ms Millane died by accident during consensual sex, saying \"acts designed to enhance sexual pleasure went wrong\".\n\nThe court has been told he buried her later in a suitcase in the Waitakere Ranges, near Auckland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMiss Millane's death prompted an outpouring of public grief in New Zealand with the country's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologising to her family.\n\nThe young woman had been on a round-the-world trip, travelling alone in New Zealand for two weeks, following six weeks in South America.\n\nThe trial is expected to last one month.", "Hundreds queued for designer discounts at Chris Brown's house. The US singer announced that he would be selling clothes and accessories at a fraction of the normal price via social media.\n\nBrown previously received five years probation and a community service order for the assault of Rihanna, his girlfriend at the time.", "Jordan (left) and partner Ben were falsely accused by a vigilante paedophile hunter group\n\nA couple have been falsely accused of trying to meet a child, during a sting that was filmed by so-called paedophile hunters and live-streamed to an audience of thousands on Facebook.\n\nJordan and Ben, from West Sussex, had been visiting Jordan's sister in Hull when they were confronted by a number of people outside her home.\n\nThe pair received homophobic abuse, before police came to arrest them.\n\nYorkshire Child Protectors has since apologised for what happened.\n\nJordan and Ben, who did not want to give their surnames for fear of reprisals, said they set off for Hull on Monday.\n\nBen, 31, said: \"When we parked up a car blocked us in and people got out. We thought we were being robbed.\n\n\"They took us to the end of the road and cornered us so we couldn't escape and put the cameras in our faces.\"\n\nThe police were called and Jordan and Ben were arrested and their phones were taken.\n\nIt was during this time their innocence was proven, as the decoy was still receiving messages from the actual suspect.\n\nBen said: \"We were eventually released and they had put up a post to say they were sorry and got it wrong.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are fearful of our lives.\"\n\nBen also said he and Jordan were looking to sue Yorkshire Child Protectors.\n\nThe group's apology read: \"We at YCP take responsibility for our part played in these innocent men being arrested but we won't be taking all the blame.\"\n\nThe group, which said it was \"heartbroken\" for the two innocent men, explained that it had received false information from other vigilante organisations.\n\nYCP added that it was \"truly sorry\" and that the men would be receiving a personal message of apology.\n\nHumberside Police declined to comment on Monday's arrests but the force has previously warned against vigilante groups carrying out stings, saying they can create more problems than they solve.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Police shut the A350 close to Chippenham while the lorry was recovered from the scene\n\nFifteen men have have been arrested on suspicion of entering the UK illegally after they were found in the back of a lorry on a motorway.\n\nThe driver, a man in his 50s from Ireland, was detained on suspicion of assisting illegal entry to the UK, at the scene near Chippenham, Wiltshire.\n\nEmergency crews attended and the A350 was closed near to junction 17 of the M4 on Wednesday evening.\n\nA member of the public alerted Wiltshire Police at about 20:30 GMT.\n\nParamedics carried out medical checks at the scene and deemed 14 of the men, all believed to be aged between 16 and 30, fit and well.\n\nOne man was taken to hospital in Swindon as a precaution and later taken into custody.\n\nThe lorry was later driven away from the scene by officers, BBC journalist Andrew Plant confirmed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe force said in a statement: \"Officers attended the scene and located 15 people in the rear of the vehicle.\n\n\"At this early stage of our investigation, we believe they are all over the age of 16.\"\n\n\"Colleagues from the ambulance and the fire service attended the scene and carried out initial medical checks.\"\n\nOf those people found in the lorry, 14 have been taken into custody and one person has been taken to hospital for further medical examination, although their condition is not thought to be serious.\n\n\"A road closure has been put in place on the A350 at the Kington Langley crossroads while the lorry is recovered,\" the force continued.\n\n\"In addition, one man, aged in his 50s, has been arrested on suspicion of assisting with illegal entry and taken to Swindon custody for further questioning.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2m (£1.6m) for misusing funds from his charity to finance his 2016 political campaign.\n\nThe Donald J Trump Foundation closed down in 2018. Prosecutors had accused it of working as \"little more than a chequebook\" for Mr Trump's interests.\n\nCharities such as the one Mr Trump and his three eldest children headed cannot engage in politics, the judge ruled.\n\nMr Trump hit out at the ruling, saying \"every penny\" went to charity.\n\n\"I am the only person I know, perhaps the only person in history, who can give major money to charity ($19m), charge no expense, and be attacked by the political hacks in New York State,\" he wrote in a statement posted to Twitter.\n\nHe accused New York's attorney general, Letitia James, who brought the civil lawsuit, of \"deliberately mischaracterising this settlement for political purposes\" and called New York \"a corrupt state\".\n\nJudge Saliann Scarpulla said Mr Trump had \"breached his fiduciary duty\" by allowing funds raised for US veterans to be used for the Iowa primary election in 2016.\n\nThe money was raised in a televised fundraiser during a Republican primary debate that Mr Trump skipped.\n\n\"I direct Mr Trump to pay the $2,000,000, which would have gone to the Foundation if it were still in existence,\" the judge wrote, saying it must be paid by Mr Trump himself and should go to eight charities he has no relationship to.\n\nMr Trump said the case had been resolved and that he was \"happy to donate\" $2m to the Army Emergency Relief, Children's Aid Society, City Meals-on-Wheels, Give an Hour, Martha's Table, United Negro College Fund, United Way of Capital Area and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.\n\nMs James said Mr Trump had admitted to \"personally misusing funds at the Trump Foundation\".\n\nShe had asked Judge Scarpulla to ban Mr Trump from ever running a charity again. However, this was not imposed.\n\nDonald Trump Jr, Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump - who were also directors of the Trump Foundation - are required to undergo mandatory training \"on the duties of officers and directors of charities\", Ms James said.\n\nThe case was opened following an investigation into the Trump Foundation by the Washington Post in 2016.\n\nYou may also want to watch:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump impeachment: What you might have missed", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"An electric baton to the back of the head\" - a former inmate described conditions at a secret camp to the BBC\n\nLeaked documents detail for the first time China's systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps.\n\nThe Chinese government has consistently claimed the camps in the far western Xinjiang region offer voluntary education and training.\n\nBut official documents, seen by BBC Panorama, show how inmates are locked up, indoctrinated and punished.\n\nThe leak was made to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which has worked with 17 media partners, including BBC Panorama and The Guardian newspaper in the UK.\n\nThe investigation has found new evidence which undermines Beijing's claim that the detention camps, which have been built across Xinjiang in the past three years, are for voluntary re-education purposes to counter extremism.\n\nAbout a million people - mostly from the Muslim Uighur community - are thought to have been detained without trial.\n\nThe leaked Chinese government documents, which the ICIJ have labelled \"The China Cables\", include a nine-page memo sent out in 2017 by Zhu Hailun, then deputy-secretary of Xinjiang's Communist Party and the region's top security official, to those who run the camps.\n\nThe instructions make it clear that the camps should be run as high security prisons, with strict discipline, punishments and no escapes.\n\nThe Chinese government says the camps are for voluntary re-education\n\nThe documents reveal how every aspect of a detainee's life is monitored and controlled: \"The students should have a fixed bed position, fixed queue position, fixed classroom seat, and fixed station during skills work, and it is strictly forbidden for this to be changed.\n\n\"Implement behavioural norms and discipline requirements for getting up, roll call, washing, going to the toilet, organising and housekeeping, eating, studying, sleeping, closing the door and so forth.\"\n\nOther documents confirm the extraordinary scale of the detentions. One reveals that 15,000 people from southern Xinjiang were sent to the camps over the course of just one week in 2017.\n\nSophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch, said the leaked memo should be used by prosecutors.\n\n\"This is an actionable piece of evidence, documenting a gross human rights violation,\" she said. \"I think it's fair to describe everyone being detained as being subject at least to psychological torture, because they literally don't know how long they're going to be there.\n\nThe memo details how detainees will only be released when they can demonstrate they have transformed their behaviour, beliefs and language.\n\n\"Promote the repentance and confession of the students for them to understand deeply the illegal, criminal and dangerous nature of their past activity,\" it says.\n\n\"For those who harbour vague understandings, negative attitudes or even feelings of resistance… carry out education transformation to ensure that results are achieved.\"\n\nBen Emmerson QC, a leading human rights lawyer and an adviser to the World Uighur Congress, said the camps were trying to change people's identity.\n\n\"It is very difficult to view that as anything other than a mass brainwashing scheme designed and directed at an entire ethnic community.\n\n\"It's a total transformation that is designed specifically to wipe the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang as a separate cultural group off the face of the Earth.\"\n\nDetainees are awarded points for their \"ideological transformation, study and training, and compliance with discipline\", the memo says.\n\nThe punishment-and-reward system helps determine whether inmates are allowed contact with family and when they are released. They are only considered for release once four Communist Party committees have seen evidence they have been transformed.\n\nThe leaked documents also reveal how the Chinese government uses mass surveillance and a predictive-policing programme that analyses personal data.\n\nOne document shows how the system flagged 1.8m people simply because they had a data sharing app called Zapya on their phone.\n\nThe authorities then ordered the investigation of 40,557 of them \"one by one\". The document says \"if it is not possible to eliminate suspicion\" they should be sent for \"concentrated training\".\n\nThe documents include explicit directives to arrest Uighurs with foreign citizenship and to track Uighurs living abroad. They suggest that China's embassies and consulates are involved in the global dragnet.\n\nChinese ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming said the measures had safeguarded local people and there had not been a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang in the past three years.\n\n\"The region now enjoys social stability and unity among ethnic groups. People there are living a happy life with a much stronger sense of fulfilment and security.\n\n\"In total disregard of the facts, some people in the West have been fiercely slandering and smearing China over Xinjiang in an attempt to create an excuse to interfere in China's internal affairs, disrupt China's counter-terrorism efforts in Xinjiang and thwart China's steady development.\"", "Boris Johnson appeared in a special edition of Question Time on Friday\n\nThe BBC has said editing footage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson for a news bulletin was \"a mistake on our part\".\n\nThe Prime Minister appeared on Question Time: Leaders Special on BBC One on Friday evening.\n\nThe audience laughed when he was asked a question about how important it is for people in power to tell the truth.\n\nBut the laughter and subsequent applause was absent from a cut-down version of the exchange on a lunchtime news bulletin the following day.\n\n\"This clip from the BBC's Question Time special, which was played out in full on the News at Ten on Friday evening and on other outlets, was shortened for timing reasons on Saturday's lunchtime bulletin, to edit out a repetitious phrase from Boris Johnson,\" the BBC said in a statement.\n\n\"However, in doing so we also edited out laughter from the audience. Although there was absolutely no intention to mislead, we accept this was a mistake on our part, as it didn't reflect the full reaction to Boris Johnson's answer.\n\n\"We did not alter the soundtrack or image in any way apart from this edit, contrary to some claims on social media.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News Press Team This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the original programme, an audience member asked the prime minister: \"How important is it for someone in your position of power to always tell the truth?\"\n\nThere was laughter and applause from the audience as Mr Johnson answered: \"I think it's absolutely vital.\"\n\nMr Johnson then repeated the sentence once the laughter and applause had died down.\n\nThe second version was the one used in the BBC's News at One bulletin on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC originally explained that the Saturday edit was \"shortened for time reasons\" in reply to a tweet later the same day, although did not acknowledge it was a mistake at that point.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC's statement follows an error on BBC Breakfast earlier this month when out-of-date footage of Mr Johnson laying a wreath was broadcast due to \"a production mistake\".", "Alliance leader Naomi Long has said the current general election campaign is \"one of the worst\" she has ever fought in terms of \"smears and lies\".\n\nShe was speaking as she helped launch her party's manifesto at a Belfast hotel.\n\nIn recent weeks, banners attacking a variety of politicians and parties have appeared in North and South Belfast and in North Down.\n\nThe party is standing candidates in all 18 seats in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt had no MPs in the last Parliament.\n\nMrs Long told BBC News NI: \"I think it is one of the worst elections that I have ever fought in terms of the levels of smears, the levels of lies. The levels of discrimination.\n\n\"I think it is just a fact now of the kind of culture that we see in politics where we treat people with disrespect where people are not allowed to differ and have a disagreement.\"\n\nMrs Long, who won East Belfast in 2010 but lost it in 2015, refused to be drawn on what her target was in terms of winning seats.\n\nShe said: \"Of course I want to win seats and of course we are ambitious to be represented at Westminster.\n\n\"It is the only level of government where we don't have an elected representative.\"\n\nThe party remains confident that it can win parliamentary seats next month.\n\nEarlier this year, Mrs Long became the party's first MEP and Alliance secured gains in the local council elections.\n\nThe 40-page manifesto, entitled Demand Better, examines Brexit, Stormont, governance and transparency, work and welfare and climate action.\n\nThe party wants a fresh EU referendum with the option to remain in the EU.\n\nIt says there should be a special deal for Northern Ireland and that the whole of the UK should remain in the single market and the customs union.\n\n\"Brexit must not become an orange and green issue,\" Mrs Long said.\n\nThe Alliance leader added that her party was pro-Remain.\n\n\"Our future lies at the heart of the EU,\" she said.\n\nIn relation to restoring devolution in Northern Ireland, Alliance say any future inter-party talks should be \"time-bound\" and should be chaired by an \"independent mediator\".\n\nMrs Long said that if there is no agreement by 13 January 2020, there should be \"fresh elections\".\n\nOn the issue of securing local political agreement, the Alliance leader said \"the DUP and Sinn Féin must compromise\".\n\nAlliance would like to see a new civic forum made up of local politicians and citizens.\n\nThe party says there should be \"full transparency of political donations\" and it would like to see proportional representation for elections to the House of Commons and a directly elected House of Lords.\n\nAlliance would also like to see 16-year-olds allowed to vote in elections.\n\nOn work and welfare issues, Alliance would like to see the repeal of the bedroom tax and an overhaul of bereavement benefits.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Tim Berners-Lee said it was \"really brazen\".\n\nThe inventor of the World Wide Web has accused the Conservatives of spreading misinformation during the general election campaign.\n\nSir Tim Berners-Lee described the renaming of a Tory Twitter account as a fact checking body as \"impersonation\".\n\n\"That was really brazen,\" he told the BBC. \"It was unbelievable they would do that.\"\n\nDuring a live TV leaders' debate on Tuesday the Tory press office account @CCHQ was rebranded \"factcheckuk\".\n\nThe renaming remained for the duration of the hour-long debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. The Conservatives have said \"no one will have been fooled\" by the move.\n\nBut Sir Tim said the renaming \"was impersonation. Don't do that. Don't trust people who do that.\"\n\nHe went on to compare what happened with someone impersonating a friend for the purpose of defrauding them. \"What the Conservative Party has done is obviously a no no. That's amazingly blatant,\" Sir Tim said.\n\nThe Conservative Party has yet to respond to a BBC request for comment on Sir Tim's criticism, but has previously insisted that it was clear at all times that the Twitter account belonged to the party.\n\nThe Tories have said \"no-one will have been fooled\" by the renaming\n\nThe web's creator also called on Facebook to stop allowing targeted political adverts. He issued a personal appeal to the company's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to ban them before the election.\n\nSir Tim said: \"It's not fair to risk democracy by allowing all these very subtle manipulations with targeted ads which promote completely false ideas. They do it just before the election, and then disappear.\"\n\nHe was speaking as he unveiled Contract For The Web, an attempt to bring governments, companies and individuals together to shape a better future for the online world.\n\nThe contract sets out nine principles to halt the misuse of the web and protect it as a force for good. They include making the internet freely available and affordable, and respecting consumers' privacy and their data.\n\nA handful of countries have been involved in drawing up the contract, along with companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft. .\n\nSir Tim admitted that countries such as China and Russia were unlikely to sign up to the project. He also conceded that the US might not be too keen on a document which stresses the importance of net neutrality, the principle that internet providers should treat all net traffic equally.\n\nThe Trump administration has sought to overturn net neutrality rules brought in under President Obama.\n\n\"The current administration hasn't shown any interest in signing up to those kinds of principles,\" he said. But he pointed out that elections were coming up in the UK and the US and urged people to talk to candidates about the Contract for the Web.\n\nThirty years after he created the World Wide Web at the CERN particle physics lab near Geneva, Sir Tim admits that he is concerned about the way it has developed in recent years.\n\nAs for any optimism about what comes next, he is uncertain: \"If optimism is seeing a place where it could be, which is very empowering to individuals and to humanity. Yes. I am very optimistic. If optimism is being very confident that we will get there - I'm not.\"\n\nThe Web Foundation, which has spent the last year drawing up the detailed clauses behind the Contract for the Web, will now work to get more governments and companies to sign up to it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Rachael Allison was at the Birmingham Star City complex when the brawl broke out\n\nFive teenagers, including a 13-year-old girl, have been arrested after a mass brawl involving machetes broke out at a cinema.\n\nSeven West Midlands Police officers were hurt while attempting to disperse the fighting at the Star City complex in Birmingham on Saturday evening.\n\nThe force said for those responding to the disorder \"it may be the worst thing they have ever seen\".\n\nPolice drew Tasers and used a dispersal order to clear about 100 youths.\n\nFootage from inside the venue appears to show disorder breaking out and people on the floor screaming.\n\nA girl aged 13, a girl and boy both aged 14, and a 19-year-old man were all held on suspicion of assaulting police. In addition, a boy aged 14 was held on suspicion of obstructing police.\n\nAll five were later arrested on suspicion of violent disorder but have now been released on bail with conditions which ban them leaving home at night and ban them from Star City and any cinema in the UK, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy had also been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder after an image circulated on social media showing a number of youths, with one carrying a machete.\n\nAsked if he was concerned about the ages of those involved, Ch Supt Steve Graham said: \"It is concerning, there's no point pretending otherwise.\n\n\"That's why we've got plans in place, starting from first thing on Monday morning, where we'll be sending neighbourhood policing officers into schools around Birmingham to try and find out why.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several arrests have been made following the fighting (Courtesy Rachael Allison)\n\nMr Graham added: \"It's always hard to gauge these sorts of things - but what I will say is incidents like last night are rare.\n\n\"As for some officers who were there last night, it may be the worst thing they have ever seen.\"\n\nThe trouble \"seemed to be focussed at the cinema\" but \"pockets of disorder\" broke out around the whole complex for between 90 minutes and two hours, the force said.\n\nTwo machetes were seized and a knife was recovered from a roundabout nearby.\n\nSince the disorder, the Vue cinema chain has pulled the gang film Blue Story from its 91 outlets in the UK and Ireland, a decision its director Rapman described as \"truly unfortunate\".\n\nHe said he sent his love to all those caught up in the trouble, adding: \"It's truly unfortunate that a small group of people can ruin things for everybody. Blue Story is a film about love, not violence.\"\n\nA Vue spokesman said: \"We can confirm a decision was made to remove the film. The safety and welfare of our customers and staff is always our first priority.\"\n\nMr Graham said: \"I understand there is a lot of speculation on social media and people are citing that film. At this stage we are not jumping to any conclusions. That will form part of our investigations as it carries on.\"\n\nWitness Choleigh McGuire described the brawl as \"one of the scariest moments of [her] life\", as she queued to watch the new Frozen film with her daughter.\n\n\"Armed police come, Tasers come, all of the people that were fighting ran off into the cinema, hiding. I am shaking,\" she said.\n\nAnother witness, Rachael Allison, said \"a young boy was crying on the floor with his mother\" as a number of people started fighting.\n\n\"The police told everyone to leave the cinema as they held Taser guns in their hands and started to bring in guard dogs.\"\n\nThe force was called to the complex, in Nechells, at about 17:30 GMT and cleared the area by 21:00. The officers hurt during the disorder suffered minor facial injuries.\n\nPolice used Tasers and dogs to break up the disorder\n\nSupt Ian Green said: \"This was a major outbreak of trouble which left families who were just trying to enjoy a night out at the cinema understandably frightened.\n\n\"We worked quickly to move the crowds on, but were met with a very hostile response and officers had to draw Tasers to restore order.\n\n\"It's clear that some of those who went to Star City last night were intent on causing trouble.\"\n\nHe said the force's response was necessary to restore order as quickly as possible.\n\n\"We understand that families with young children will have been left upset by what they saw last night, but we urge people to appreciate that our aim last night was to protect the public and restore order, and that's what we achieved,\" he added.\n\nAdditional security is in place at the complex and police will be there on Sunday night.\n\nMr Graham added: \"We know that Birmingham isn't unusual in this. Let's not pretend that knife crime or violence in the under 25s is rare or is just isolated around Birmingham.\n\n\"There are no short-term fixes to this, so we're prepared and we're in this for the long run and we're going to work with schools and other partners to prevent youth violence becoming an increasing problem.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Frozen 2 raked in $350 million (nearly £272m) in its opening weekend worldwide, beating forecasts and the box office debut of the original film.\n\nThe sequel made about £15m in the UK and Ireland and $127m (£98.9m) in the US and Canada, which are not counted towards the worldwide figures.\n\nThe 2013 original took $93m (£72.28m) during its first five days in theatres, according to Reuters.\n\nIt ended up making a whopping $1.27bn in total.\n\nDisney say the sequel has set a new record for the biggest opening weekend for an animation.\n\nThat's owing to the fact they consider this year's remake of The Lion King, which made $269m on its opening weekend, to be a live action film.\n\nDisney declined to enter the film in the category for best animated feature at next year's Oscars.\n\nBut some feel the digital 3D film is more of a photo-realistic animation.\n\nJennifer Lee, chief creative officer of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, said: \"If Frozen was happily ever after then Frozen 2 is the day after happily ever after.\n\n\"Life gets in the way. It throws you curve balls. So, this is about learning to fight for your place in the world, do what's right - all of the grown-up things you have to do.\"\n\nShe added: \"There's still fun and humour, but it's a deeply emotional story about finding out who we are meant to be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The newest trailer for Frozen 2 has been released!\n\nThe original Frozen, which centres around the relationship of princess Elsa and her sister Anna, made box office history by becoming the top-grossing animated film.\n\nThe sequel topped the North American domestic rankings list this weekend, according to Comscore, with Ford versus Ferrari (known as Le Mans '66 in the UK) collecting $16m (£12.4m) in a distant second, and Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood taking $13.5m (£10.5m) in third place.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Compared to the Labour manifesto, Boris Johnson's plan for the country is a shopping list of promises, not an encyclopaedia of ambitions.\n\nThere are new vows - no tax rises, a target of 50,000 more nurses to be working in the NHS by the end of the Parliament, scrapping many hospital parking charges, more money to fix potholes, an end to the Fixed Term Parliament Act and a mysterious-sounding \"Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission\".\n\nAn historic document, however, this is not - for three political reasons.\n\nFirst, the Conservatives are haunted by their manifesto calamity of 2017, when Theresa May presented the country with a list of hard choices in the expectation that a big majority would give her the political space to drive through controversial reforms.\n\nNo-one in the Tory campaign this time wanted to put forward ideas that could unravel into painful choices for the electorate.\n\nSecond, this is still a new government, and Boris Johnson has already made major commitments during his short time in Downing Street - big new spending on infrastructure, for example, under a new, more relaxed, set of spending rules; more cash for the health service and the beginnings of a plan to bring police numbers back up by 20,000.\n\nRemember too, his tax cut from raising the National Insurance threshold was blurted out just last week.\n\nLast and most importantly, the big contrasts in this election have been there since day one.\n\nThe manifestos have served to underline, rather than reveal that reality.\n\nThe Conservatives and the Labour Party have totally different approaches to the size of the state and their willingness to intervene in the market.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson called this election because he wants to leave the EU at speed.\n\nWhereas Jeremy Corbyn is, after months of Labour evolving its position, offering another referendum.\n\nThat is the clear difference between the two big parties this time.\n\nVote to leave the EU at speed, and enact the 2016 referendum, or choose Labour to push for another big national ballot, and plump for the chance to stay.\n\nIt's worth adding, of course, that often in the small print there are surprises, or sometimes mistakes, in these documents that trip up the parties in time.\n\nIt is too early to say with confidence, only a number of hours after the manifesto has emerged, that there is nothing that will cause problems in the days to come.", "Blue Story is the tale of two friends who become rivals\n\nA cinema chain has reversed its decision to pull the film Blue Story after a brawl.\n\nShowcase said it had reinstated screenings of the film on Monday night after \"careful consideration\".\n\nIt comes after youths, some armed with machetes, sparked a police operation at Vue's multiplex cinema at Star City in Birmingham.\n\nA ban is still in place at Vue cinemas' 91 UK and Ireland venues, it said, after multiple \"significant incidents\".\n\nThe move has prompted a backlash on social media with some labelling the ban as \"racist\".\n\nCinema firm Showcase had initially stopped showing the film, but reinstated screenings on Monday night after \"careful consideration and discussions with the distributor\".\n\n\"We have come up with a plan to reinstate screenings of the film supported with increased security protocols and will be doing so from this evening,\" it said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rapman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFive teenagers, including a 13-year-old girl, were arrested in connection with the disturbance, which involved up to 100 young people in a public area of the multiplex, on Saturday night.\n\nIn a statement, Vue said the film opened in 60 of its sites across the UK and Ireland on Friday.\n\n\"But during the first 24 hours of the film over 25 significant incidents were reported and escalated to senior management in 16 separate cinemas,\" it said.\n\n\"This is the biggest number we have ever seen for any film in a such a short time frame.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several arrests were made at a multiplex in Birmingham on Saturday (Courtesy Rachael Allison)\n\nA spokeswoman for Vue confirmed police had been called to some of the incidents, but could not confirm exactly how many times.\n\nThe chain has stressed the decision to pull the film was prompted only because of the risk of further violence.\n\nA spokeswoman for Vue said a \"significant incident\" was \"any incident that has a risk to audience members\", adding that they were awaiting clarification of the details of individual cases.\n\nThe Odeon chain says it is not withdrawing the film, but \"a number of security measures are in place\" for Blue Story screenings, though it refused to elaborate on what they are.\n\nIn Birmingham, a note on the door of the Odeon cinema at the Broadway Plaza said staff would be carrying out bag searches throughout the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Onwubolu, known as Rapman, wrote and directed the film Blue Story\n\nBlue Story's writer and director, Andrew Onwubolu known as Rapman, said Saturday's disturbance in Birmingham was \"truly unfortunate\".\n\nIn an Instagram post on Sunday, the rapper-turned-filmmaker wrote: \"Sending love to all those involved in yesterday's violence at Star City in Birmingham.\n\n\"It's truly unfortunate that a small group of people can ruin things for everybody.\n\n\"Blue Story is a film about love not violence.\"\n\nOn Monday, he tweeted: \"We lost nearly half of our screens on the third day but we still made history with £1.3m in 3 days. Blue Story is number three in the UK box office. Thank you.\"\n\nAn online petition calling for the film to be reinstated at Vue cinemas has attracted more than 13,000 signatures.\n\nThe film was released last Friday\n\nOn Saturday, West Midlands Police officers drew Tasers and used a dispersal order to clear the Star City venue.\n\nFootage from inside the multiplex appeared to show fights and people on the floor screaming.\n\nThe five teenagers - two girls aged 13 and 14 and three 14-year-old boys - have all now been bailed alongside a 19-year-old man.\n\nFour were held on suspicion of assaulting police and one of the boys was detained on suspicion of obstructing police.\n\nAnother of the boys was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder after an image circulated on social media showing a number of youths, with one carrying a machete.\n\nPolice were called to the complex, in Nechells, at about 17:30 GMT and cleared the area by 21:00. The officers hurt during the disorder suffered minor facial injuries.\n\nThe film focuses on two friends from different south London postcodes on rival sides of a street war.\n\nIt is rated 15 for strong language, strong violence, threat, sex and drug misuse.\n\nDistributor Paramount Pictures said it was \"saddened\" by events at Star City but said the movie had had an \"incredibly positive reaction and fantastic reviews\".\n\nIn Sheffield on Sunday evening, there was an increased police presence around Centertainment in Broughton Lane ahead of the showing of the film after disorder was reported outside the Cineworld within the complex on Saturday.\n\n\"Officers carried out patrols of the area to ensure everyone's safety,\" police said in a statement, adding that they would \"be liaising with Cineworld over the coming week to discuss further screenings of this film\".\n\nCineworld has confirmed that it will not be pulling the film.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aslan King went missing early on Saturday after suffering a suspected seizure\n\nA search has failed to find any trace of a British man missing in the Australian state of Victoria.\n\nAslan King, 25, went missing early on Saturday morning after suffering a suspected seizure during a camping trip.\n\nVictoria Police said officers searched for Mr King on Sunday using a helicopter, boats, horses, motorcycles and sniffer dogs.\n\nMr King, an illustrator from Brighton, relocated to Australia two weeks ago.\n\nHis friends and family had described his disappearance as \"completely out of character\".\n\nMr King is said to have hit his head on the ground before getting up quickly and rushing into thick bushland surrounding the campsite where he and four friends had been staying.\n\nThe site is near the town of Princeton, beside cliffs on the Victorian coast near the tourist site known as the Twelve Apostles.\n\nOfficers told local media they were concentrating on a radius of 300m around the campsite, but said the search was difficult because of the thick vegetation, rocky clifftops and deep coastal waters in the region.\n\nOfficers searched for Mr King on Sunday using a helicopter, horses, boats, motorcycles and sniffer dogs\n\nMr King had been on a coastal camping trip when he disappeared\n\nThe area is also known to contain a large population of deadly tiger snakes.\n\nSgt Danny Brown, of Victoria Police, said thermal imaging sensors had detected no trace of Mr King, but they might be used again as the search continued.\n\nAn air and sea search has failed to find any sign of Mr King\n\n\"You're using every sense, whether that be eyes, ears and touch as well,\" he told Nine newspapers, adding the heat sensors would make \"a massive difference, because we're going to find things in areas that the eye can't see\".\n\n\"Some of this scrub, you have to get on hands and knees to move through it,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said: \"Our staff are seeking further information following the disappearance of a British man near Princeton, Australia, and are in contact with the Australian police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Secondary ticketing firm Viagogo has announced a $4bn (£3.1bn) deal to buy its rival StubHub, in a move it said would create more choice for customers.\n\nViagogo is buying its rival from eBay, which bought StubHub in 2007 for $310m.\n\nIt means Viagogo's boss Eric Baker will be reunited with StubHub, which he co-founded but left before the eBay sale.\n\nThe deal comes after the UK's competition authority suspended legal action against Viagogo after it made changes to the way it operates.\n\nIn September, Viagogo amended the way it presents information to customers which the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said meant the website was now \"worlds apart\" from the one that prompted the legal action.\n\nThe CMA had asked operators such as Viagogo to improve the information they provided about tickets, such as the risk a buyer would be turned away at the door, which ticket they were getting, and the availability and popularity of tickets.\n\nIn May 2018, the then Digital Minister Margot James told the BBC that if fans had to use a secondary site to buy tickets, \"don't choose Viagogo - they are the worst\".\n\nMr Baker, who is co-founder and chief executive of Viagogo, said that it had \"long been my wish to unite the two companies\".\n\n\"I am so proud of how StubHub has grown over the years and excited about the possibilities for our shared futures.\n\n\"Buyers will have a wider choice of tickets, and sellers will have a wider network of buyers. Bringing these two companies together creates a win-win for fans - more choice and better pricing.\"\n\nStubHub has a bigger presence in the US than Viagogo, which is better known in the UK and other parts of the world.\n\nThey are \"pretty perfect complementary businesses,\" Cris Miller, Viagogo's managing director, told the BBC.\n\nViagogo says the deal will mean more choice and better prices for ticket buyers\n\nHe acknowledged the controversies surrounding Viagogo - which two years ago did not turn up to a hearing with MPs - and did not rule out StubHub becoming the preferred brand.\n\n\"The reality is we don't know quite yet,\" Mr Miller said.\n\n\"We, at Viagogo, have made a considerable amount of changes to the website, have addressed a considerable amount of the concerns that regulators have seen over the world... so it remains to be seen. Certainly we have a lot to learn from them [StubHub].\"\n\nThe takeover is subject to regulatory approval. Mr Miller said he expected that \"steps would be required for us to adhere to\" and added that Viagogo would work with regulators to ensure the deal was approved.\n\nHe said the deal was good for ticket buyers as sellers had to compete on price on the website.\n\n\"The sellers are required to compete with each other, so the more sellers that are on the platform the more ticket inventory that is up there. That puts pressure on the prices and brings prices down, which is ultimately better for the customers\"\n\nShares in eBay rose 3% after the deal was announced. It comes after the company faced pressure from activist investors - Elliott Management Corp and Starboard Value - to sell off parts of its operations, including StubHub.\n\nScott Schenkel, interim chief executive at eBay, said the deal was a \"great outcome and maximises long-term value for eBay shareholders\".", "Labour would not block indyref2 if pro-independence parties win a majority at the next Holyrood election, according to Scottish leader Richard Leonard.\n\nMr Leonard said a Labour-led UK government would grant the powers to hold a second independence referendum in this scenario.\n\nHowever, he also said he still opposed breaking up the UK.\n\nMr Leonard also promised \"further consultation\" on controversial plans for an oil and gas windfall tax.\n\nThe Scottish Labour leader was speaking in a live interview and phone-in session on BBC Radio Scotland, which all of the country's main party leaders will take part in during the election campaign.\n\nLabour's position on a second independence referendum has been the subject of much focus during the election campaign.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has claimed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will have little choice but to back a second independence referendum if he wants to be prime minister and Boris Johnson has ruled out giving permission for another vote while he is prime minister.\n\nMr Leonard said his opposition to independence had not changed but added: \"If the SNP or other parties put in their manifesto that they wanted to hold a second independence referendum and they got a mandate for that, either in 2021 or at some future point, then of course what we are saying is that would not be blocked by a UK Labour Westminster government.\"\n\nThe Central Scotland MSP said that the independence question is a \"battle that will be won or lost in Scotland\" but an issue that could be reframed by the election of a Labour UK government.\n\nHe said: \"The terms of the debate on the constitutional position in Scotland would change because, instead of a UK government which is embarking upon a programme of austerity, you would see a UK government embarking upon a programme of significant investment in both the economy and public services.\"\n\nMr Leonard also claimed the prospect of a second Brexit vote under Labour and the chance of the UK staying in the EU would also weaken the SNP's argument for a second independence referendum.\n\nAt the Scottish Labour general election manifesto launch Mr Leonard said the party's free school meals pledge was part of Labour's plan for \"transformational change\" across Scotland and the UK\n\nThe Scottish Labour manifesto promised a windfall tax of the profits of the oil and gas industry.\n\nThe idea has been controversial, especially in the north east of Scotland where many people are employed in the sector, and Mr Leonard used his interview to suggest it would be subject to consultation in the event of a UK Labour government being elected.\n\nHe said: \"We think there ought to be a windfall tax on the profits of the oil and gas sector; the level at which that is pitched, when that is introduced, is a matter of consultation and negotiation.\n\n\"It will form a fund to enable those currently employed in the oil and gas sector to change their occupation and roles into other part of the economy.\"\n\nMr Leonard also said the money raised from the levy is not an \"intrinsic part\" of Labour's spending plans.\n\nConcerns over Labour's proposed windfall tax on the oil and gas industry have been raised given the sector is still recovering from a recent downturn in fortunes\n\nOn Brexit, Mr Leonard said he would again campaign to remain if there was a second Brexit referendum, in contrast to Jeremy Corbyn who said he would remain neutral on the issue if prime minister.\n\nElsewhere, Mr Leonard suggested a Labour promise to compensate more than three million women who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised could be funded by borrowing.\n\nIt has been estimated this policy would cost £58bn and the Scottish Labour leader said governments can borrow money to pay for \"exceptional items\", insisting it is \"the right thing to do\".\n\nOn a second independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon said Labour would not \"walk away\" from a deal with the SNP if it allowed the party to get the keys to Number 10.\n\nBoris Johnson has ruled out granting a \"section 30 order\" - which grants permission for a new referendum from the UK government - while he is prime minister, arguing the issue is settled as, \"the people of Scotland, were told in 2014 that that was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have said a second referendum on the future of the UK is unnecessary and would be \"divisive\" with Scottish leader Willie Rennie claiming his party was \"unique\" in this election by opposing both Brexit and independence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bloomberg to BBC in 2018: 'I'd like to make a difference'\n\nBillionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has officially announced he is standing to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee.\n\nIn a statement, the 77-year-old said he was standing \"to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America\".\n\n\"The stakes could not be higher. We must win this election,\" Mr Bloomberg wrote.\n\nHe joins 17 other candidates vying for the Democratic nomination to take on Mr Trump in 2020.\n\nAs things stand, former Vice-President Joe Biden, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are the party's front-runners.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mike Bloomberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Bloomberg is said to be concerned the current field is not strong enough to challenge the president.\n\nHe enters the race after months of debate over wealth inequality in the US, with Mr Sanders and Ms Warren announcing plans for steep tax rises for billionaires. Unveiling his tax proposals in September, Mr Sanders said: \"Billionaires should not exist.\"\n\nPresident Trump taunted Mr Bloomberg earlier in November, saying there was \"nobody I'd rather run against than little Michael\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe same day, Mr Bloomberg filed paperwork for the Democratic primary election in Alabama.\n\nMichael Bloomberg is the eighth richest American with a net-worth of $54.4bn (£42bn), according to Forbes.\n\nBorn in Massachusetts, he started out in business as a Wall Street banker before going on to create the financial publishing empire that bears his name.\n\nOver the years he has given millions of dollars to educational, medical and other causes - including political ones.\n\nHe staged a successful campaign to become New York mayor in 2001 and remained in office for three consecutive terms until 2013.\n\nRumours of presidential ambitions have surrounded him for more than a decade.\n\nMr Bloomberg is a very data-driven businessman. But it doesn't take an advanced degree in quantitative analysis to realise that the Democratic field, even at this (relatively) late date is still in flux.\n\nThere are four candidates at or near the top of early state and national primary polls - all with their strengths, of course, but also obvious weaknesses. His strategy appears to be to let the other candidates fight it out in the early voting states, then take on a diminished field later in the process, where his near unlimited resources will allow him to compete in the dozens of states that vote in March.\n\nIt's a risky play that only someone of Mr Bloomberg's vast wealth can afford to make.\n\nEven so, it takes quite a leap of faith to imagine that Democrats these days are ready to jump over to a New York City plutocrat ex-Republican with a smorgasbord of a record that's business friendly, fiscally conservative and includes opposition to government-run health insurance and legalised marijuana, and past support for aggressive policing measures.\n\nAt the very least, however, his entry will provide him a means to push a party that he sees drifting dangerous leftward back to the pro-business centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the timescale for an independent Scotland joining the EU would be “relatively quick\".\n\nAn independent Scotland could rejoin the EU on a \"relatively quick\" timescale, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe Scottish first minister and SNP leader wants a new referendum on independence to be held in 2020, and is also opposed to the UK leaving the EU.\n\nShe told the BBC that Scotland would be \"seeking a way back in\" to the EU if Brexit happened.\n\nThe Conservatives have claimed that a Labour government backed by SNP votes would lead to two referendums in 2020.\n\nThe SNP leader was taking part in a special interview with Andrew Neil as part of the build-up to the snap general election on 12 December.\n\nOther party leaders are also set to be quizzed by Mr Neil, with Labour's Jeremy Corbyn to follow on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said her SNP MPs could potentially help to put Mr Corbyn in Downing Street in the event of a hung parliament, but said the Labour leader must first accept the \"fundamental principle\" that an independence referendum should be \"in Scotland's hands\".\n\nShe told Mr Neil that she would always back a new, UK-wide EU referendum but said there was \"no guarantee that fixes the problem for Scotland\", as \"we could end up with exactly the same result we had in 2016\" - with a majority in Scotland backing Remain, while the UK as a whole votes to Leave.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to hold a new Scottish independence referendum in 2020\n\nQuestioned about how swiftly an independent Scotland could re-enter the EU, Ms Sturgeon said she did not want to set out a \"specific timescale\", but said talks she had had previously meant she thought it would be \"relatively quick\".\n\nShe explained: \"We understand the conditions we would require to meet, and the discussions that would require to take place. But if we're in a position of Scotland being taken out of the European Union then we will be seeking a way back in.\"\n\nThe SNP currently plan to have Scotland continue to use the pound in the years immediately after independence, before establishing a new currency after a series of stringent economic tests are met.\n\nChallenged on whether Scotland could join the EU while using the currency of a non-member state, Ms Sturgeon said this was possible.\n\nShe said: \"We would be setting up a central bank, the infrastructure that is required for that, that is part of the discussion we would have with the EU, but it is not true to say we would have had to establish an independent currency before joining the European Union.\"\n\nThe MSP added: \"We would have a discussion with the EU about the journey an independent Scotland was on in terms of currency, and the accession if Scotland was already out of the EU to the point where we rejoined the EU.\n\n\"Scotland faces right now the uncertainty of being ripped out of the EU against our own will. It's not of our making. And we need to plot the best way forward for our country where we are in charge of the decision that we make.\"\n\nThe SNP's currency plan would see Scotland continue to use the pound in the years immediately after independence\n\nMs Sturgeon also said an independent Scotland would \"aspire to run a surplus\" through faster economic growth, which she said would be aided by remaining in or returning to the EU.\n\nPressed on trade friction if Scotland was inside the EU and the rest of the UK was not, Ms Sturgeon said it was \"a priority\" to ensure smooth movement of goods and services.\n\nShe said: \"We don't yet know what the UK's final relationship with the EU will be. Once we have clarity on that we have to understand the implications and set out clearly how we deal with those, in order to keep trade flowing between Scotland and England, which is in our interests and in the interests of the rest of the UK.\n\n\"It is also in our interests to stay in the single market, which is eight times the size of the UK market. The experience of Ireland, albeit at a different time in history, is when they combined independence with membership of the EU, their exports to the EU grew and they became more prosperous. That's the best of both worlds I believe Scotland can attain.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also came under pressure on her domestic record on health which has seen Scotland's largest health board being placed in \"special measures\" and calls for her health secretary to resign.\n\nA recent report by Audit Scotland highlighted that just two out of eight key waiting time standards had been met and warned that the NHS in Scotland could face a £1.8bn shortfall in less than five years if it is not reformed.\n\nMs Sturgeon acknowledged there were problems, adding: \"All health services everywhere face these challenges. We are not immune from that but I believe we are doing the things that are required.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have said a Jeremy Corbyn government at Westminster - potentially supported on an issue-by-issue basis by the SNP - could lead to two referendums in 2020, on Brexit and independence.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said a \"coalition of chaos\" between the two parties would be a \"nightmare on Downing Street\".\n\nLaunching his party's manifesto, he \"confidently prophesised\" that in 10 years' time \"people will be passionately proud of their Scottish identity, and their Welsh and Northern Irish, and - yes - their English identity\".\n\nHe added: \"We will also all be a proud strong and whole United Kingdom, more united than ever, flying that red, white and blue union flag that represents the best of our values, from democracy and the rule of law.\"\n\nLabour meanwhile have said they would not back a new independence vote within the \"early years\" of a Corbyn-led administration at Westminster.\n\nScottish leader Richard Leonard told BBC Scotland on Monday that a request for a referendum \"would not be blocked\" by a UK Labour government if there was a pro-independence majority after the Holyrood elections in 2021.\n\nHowever, he said Labour would be seeking to win that election, and restated his opposition to independence.\n\nThe Scottish Lib Dems are opposed to both Brexit and independence, with campaign chairman and MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton saying the party is seeking to \"reclaim our lost heartlands\" in the Highlands and Fife while \"breaking new ground\" in areas like Edinburgh which recorded a heavy Remain vote in 2016.", "Children exposed to roadside air pollution could have their lung growth stunted by up to 14%, a study suggests.\n\nLiving within 50m of a major road could increase the risk of lung cancer by up to 10%, the paper also found.\n\nThe study of 13 cities in the UK and Poland found air pollution contributes to a higher chance of heart disease, strokes, heart failure and bronchitis.\n\nCampaigners called on the government to commit to tackling \"dangerous\" air pollution in the UK.\n\nThe report written by King's College London analysed 13 health conditions in people living in high pollution areas and compared them to the general population.\n\nIt focused not just on hospital admissions and deaths but also symptoms such as chest infections.\n\nThe study found roadside air pollution stunted lung growth in children by approximately 14% in Oxford, 13% in London, 8% in Birmingham, 5% in Liverpool, 3% in Nottingham and 4% in Southampton.\n\nResearchers also said if air pollution was cut by a fifth, there would be thousands fewer cases of children with symptoms of bronchitis across those UK cities.\n\n\"Air pollution makes us, and especially our children, sick from cradle to the grave, but is often invisible,\" said Dr Rob Hughes, senior fellow at the Clean Air Fund.\n\n\"This impressive research makes this public health crisis - which affects people all across the UK - visible, and shows the urgency with which all political parties must prioritise cleaning up our air.\"\n\nDr Penny Woods, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, called on the UK government to legally commit to the World Health Organisation's targets to clean up the country's \"dangerous\" air.\n\nWHO's clean air target is for 40 µg/m3 - 40 micrograms of annual nitrogen dioxide per cubic metre of air.\n\n\"It seems as if every day we see more and more evidence of the terrible health effects air pollution is having on our lungs,\" Dr Woods said.\n\n\"It's the most vulnerable that are hit hardest,\" she added.\n\n\"We know air pollution stunts our children's still-developing lungs and those with a lung condition can find their symptoms are made far worse by poor air quality.\"\n\nThe group behind the study - a coalition of 15 health and environment NGOs, including the British Lung Foundation - is calling for a national network of Clean Air Zones across the UK.\n\nToxic air pollution in central London has reportedly fallen by a third since the introduction of a new traffic charging zone.\n\nLevels of nitrogen dioxide in the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) dropped by 30% in the first six months of the scheme, according to City Hall.", "A woman says she only discovered a car had crashed into the front of her house and was on fire when a police officer told her.\n\nSylvia Walden, 61, slept through the early morning smash before being woken by the sound of shouting.\n\nThree people suffered serious injuries in the incident on the A857 at Barvas in Lewis on Saturday. The car was involved in a police chase.\n\nA 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with road traffic offences.\n\nHe is due to appear in court next month.\n\nSylvia Walden said her first concern was for her dog\n\nMs Walden, 61, was not injured in the incident.\n\nShe said: \"I believe it was about 01:30. I was fast asleep and didn't hear the car go into the house. People think it rather funny I didn't get woken up by that.\"\n\nMs Walden added: \"I could hear shouting. I got up, opened the door and there was a police officer with a torch saying 'hello, hello this is the police. You need to get out of the house'.\"\n\nShe said her first concern was for her dog, but was told by the police officer that it was fine before adding that there was a car on fire in her garden.\n\n\"It was up against the house on fire,\" she said.\n\nThe car had ended up upright on its bonnet, leaning against Ms Walden's property.\n\nThree people were seriously injured in the crash\n\nThe driver and two passengers of the blue Vauxhall Zafira were taken to Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway for treatment to serious injuries.\n\nThe incident has been referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) by Police Scotland.\n\nIt is thought the actions of officers in the lead-up to the crash will be looked into.\n\nA Pirc spokesman said: \"As is standard procedure, Police Scotland have referred to the Pirc the circumstances of an incident in the early hours of Saturday 23 November 2019 on the Isle of Lewis.\n\n\"We are now carrying out an assessment to determine whether a full investigation is required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases once again reached new highs in 2018.\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says the increase in CO2 was just above the average rise recorded over the last decade.\n\nLevels of other warming gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, have also surged by above average amounts.\n\nSince 1990 there's been an increase of 43% in the warming effect on the climate of long lived greenhouse gases.\n\nThe WMO report looks at concentrations of warming gases in the atmosphere rather than just emissions.\n\nThe difference between the two is that emissions refer to the amount of gases that go up into the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuels, such as burning coal for electricity and from deforestation.\n\nConcentrations are what's left in the air after a complex series of interactions between the atmosphere, the oceans, the forests and the land. About a quarter of all carbon emissions are absorbed by the seas, and a similar amount by land and trees.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to reduce your carbon footprint when you fly\n\nUsing data from monitoring stations in the Arctic and all over the world, researchers say that in 2018 concentrations of CO2 reached 407.8 parts per million (ppm), up from 405.5ppm a year previously.\n\nThis increase was above the average for the last 10 years and is 147% of the \"pre-industrial\" level in 1750.\n\nThe WMO also records concentrations of other warming gases, including methane and nitrous oxide. About 40% of the methane emitted into the air comes from natural sources, such as wetlands, with 60% from human activities, including cattle farming, rice cultivation and landfill dumps.\n\nMethane is now at 259% of the pre-industrial level and the increase seen over the past year was higher than both the previous annual rate and the average over the past 10 years.\n\nNitrous oxide is emitted from natural and human sources, including from the oceans and from fertiliser-use in farming. According to the WMO, it is now at 123% of the levels that existed in 1750.\n\nLast year's increase in concentrations of the gas, which can also harm the ozone layer, was bigger than the previous 12 months and higher than the average of the past decade.\n\nWhat concerns scientists is the overall warming impact of all these increasing concentrations. Known as total radiative forcing, this effect has increased by 43% since 1990, and is not showing any indication of stopping.\n\n\"There is no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline, in greenhouse gases concentration in the atmosphere despite all the commitments under the Paris agreement on climate change,\" said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.\n\n\"We need to translate the commitments into action and increase the level of ambition for the sake of the future welfare of mankind,\" he added.\n\n\"It is worth recalling that the last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was three to five million years ago. Back then, the temperature was 2-3C warmer, sea level was 10-20m higher than now,\" said Mr Taalas.\n\nThe UN Environment Programme will report shortly on the gap between what actions countries are taking to cut carbon and what needs to be done to keep under the temperature targets agreed in the Paris climate pact.\n\nPreliminary findings from this study, published during the UN Secretary General's special climate summit last September, indicated that emissions continued to rise during 2018.\n\nBoth reports will help inform delegates from almost 200 countries who will meet in Madrid next week for COP25, the annual round of international climate talks.\n\nAir monitoring stations like this one in Switzerland", "More than 300 people have been killed in protests in Iraq since they began in early October.\n\nSeveral are reported to have died after being shot in the face with tear gas canisters, like 26-year-old Safaa al Saray who was protesting against the lack of jobs, an end to alleged corruption and better public services.\n\nThe anti-government protests began in Baghdad's Tahrir Square and spread to cities across the south of the country.", "Sturgeon 'absolutely certain' own currency not required to join EU\n\nChallenged on how quickly Scotland could rejoin the EU if Brexit goes ahead and the country votes for independence, Ms Sturgeon says she is “not going to give a specific timescale” but it “could be relatively quick”. But Mr Neil says Scotland’s Growth Commission says it could be five or ten years, as the country would need to establish its own currency. Ms Sturgeon says she is “absolutely certain” that an independent currency would not be a requirement. “We would have a discussion with the EU about the journey\" Scotland was on in terms of an independent currency, she says. Mr Neil says Scotland would also be required to build substantial reserves in its new currency and asks how it can do that with the largest deficit in Europe. Ms Sturgeon says Scotland is reducing its deficit faster than expected. “Our task is to get our deficit reducing faster. That is principally through growing our economy faster, which remaining in the EU or returning to the EU helps us to do,” she says.", "At your service: The prime minister visits the Royal Welsh Winter Fair at Llanelwedd\n\nBoris Johnson has launched the Welsh Conservatives' manifesto for the general election.\n\nThe prime minister, speaking at Bangor-on-Dee racecourse, Wrexham, has promised to \"unleash a tide of investment\".\n\nMr Johnson had returned to the Clwyd South constituency, which he contested in 1997.\n\nIt follows the publication of the Conservatives' UK-wide manifesto in Telford, Shropshire, on Sunday.\n\n\"I started this project 22 years ago,\" he told the audience, adding that it was \"absolutely vital that we get a Conservative elected here\".\n\nMr Johnson said the Tories had high ambitions in Wales, including resolving the long delays at the Brynglas Tunnels along the M4 at Newport.\n\nHe said the tunnels were blocked \"like the nostrils of the Welsh dragon\", adding his party would be the \"Vicks inhaler\".\n\nThe visit to Wales began in Powys with a bid to court the farming vote at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair in Llanelwedd, joking how Jeremy Corbyn and Labour would \"fleece the entire country\".\n\nHe said the Brexit deal he had secured with the European Union would keep farming \"absolutely protected\" and enabled his party to find more markets.\n\nMr Johnson said his party would also back the Welsh steel industry.\n\nIn October, the UK government announced £55m over 15 years for a Mid Wales Growth Deal, which followed the £500m Cardiff City Deal, the £115m Swansea City Deal and the £120m North Wales Growth Deal.\n\nSpeaking before the visit, Mr Johnson repeated his plan \"to get Brexit done\" in order to \"unleash this domestic agenda and deliver our exciting plans for Wales\".\n\nThe party's UK manifesto included a specific section on Wales, which promised the country \"major investments\" in infrastructure and industry if the Tories win the general election.\n\nIt included some previous announcements, such as plans for a West Wales Parkway station outside Swansea, and promises on devolved issues that are the responsibility of the Welsh Government, such as delivering a new M4 relief road.\n\nOther policies that apply to Wales include:\n\nIn a statement released ahead of the Conservatives' Welsh manifesto launch, Mr Johnson said: \"With a Conservative majority government, we will improve connectivity and infrastructure across the whole of our country.\"\n\nHe said the Marches Growth Deal would \"make a real difference for people on both sides of the border\".\n\nHe added: \"Labour has a rotten record in Wales and has let down people across Wales badly, from healthcare services to a lack of investment in transport networks. The Conservative party will put that right.\n\n\"The Welsh dragon will roar louder than ever before.\"", "Spanish police brought the submarine, which was 20 metres (65 feet) long, to port in Aldán\n\nA submarine loaded with more than 2,000kg (4,409lb) of cocaine has been seized in Spain, police sources say.\n\nThey say two people were held after the vessel ran aground off Galicia's coast in the north-west. A third person fled. They all are said to be from Ecuador.\n\nSpanish media report that the submarine was from Colombia and police are trying to work out whether it sailed all the way from South America with the drugs.\n\nNarco-subs have been used to smuggle drugs from Latin America into the US.\n\nThe submarine was refloated and investigated after police seized it\n\nThe semi-submersible was seized on Sunday off the coast of Aldán, south-west of the city of Pontevedra.\n\nIn July, dramatic footage emerged of the US Coast Guard boarding a self-propelled semi-submersible suspected to be smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nDespite the discovery in 2006 of a suspected \"drugs\" submarine off Galicia's coast, such tactics are seen as relatively new for Europe.", "Amanda White said she wants to warn others about the potential dangers of surgery abroad\n\nA 29-year-old Belfast woman had to have her left breast removed after contracting an infection following breast reduction surgery in Turkey.\n\nAmanda White travelled to a clinic in the country on 6 November, but when she returned she became ill and had to have surgery at the Ulster Hospital.\n\nDespite doctors' efforts to save her breast, she had to have a mastectomy.\n\nMs White has spoken out because she wants to warn others of the potential dangers of having surgery abroad.\n\nThe mother of two young boys, who lives in south Belfast, spoke to BBC News NI from her hospital bed.\n\n\"I had always wanted surgery from I was about 18,\" she said.\n\n\"My chest made me very uncomfortable and I had severe back pain but I had no idea it would turn out like this.\n\n\"The doctor told me if I'd left it any later before getting treatment I wouldn't be here.\"\n\nAmanda White has been recovering in the Ulster Hospital\n\nMs White said alarm bells began to ring as soon as she arrived at the clinic in Turkey.\n\n\"They just wanted my passport and cash,\" she said.\n\n\"I had to sign a consent form which wasn't in English and the surgeon was only in the room for a few seconds.\"\n\nA few hours after surgery, she was taken to a villa where she stayed for three nights in a sparsely-furnished room with no windows.\n\n\"The beds weren't changed and when I asked for the corset they gave me to wear to be washed, it came back and it was still stained,\" Ms White said.\n\nShe is far from alone. The Ulster Hospital has recently treated six other patients who travelled to foreign countries for their operations with terrible consequences.\n\nAlastair Brown, a consultant plastic surgeon at the Ulster Hospital, said there had been a worrying increase in what he described as cosmetic surgery tourism.\n\nAlastair Brown said the NHS is dealing with \"disastrous consequences\" in some cases\n\n\"To me it's just ludicrous. I don't know why someone would subject their body to that sort of thing, I just can't understand it,\" he said.\n\n\"I can understand them trying to save a little bit of money and the cost saving, but really over the long term, is that cost saving?\n\n\"If it goes well then brilliant and some of the cases do go well, but when it goes wrong it goes very wrong and that's where we're just seeing these disastrous consequences.\n\n\"And we cannot emphasise enough the importance of getting this message across to the public - please be very, very careful before subjecting yourself to this.\"\n\nMs White did her research before going abroad and said she was heavily influenced by a number of celebrities who said they had used the same clinic.\n\n\"All the celebrities are saying 'this place is great' and you trust that,\" she said.\n\nThe surgery would have cost about £7,000 in Northern Ireland but Ms White spent £3,250 to have the operation in Turkey and that included flights and the extra cost of hotels.\n\nWhen she came home the wound on her left side became infected and when she went to her doctor she was told to go to the emergency department.\n\nThen, last Wednesday, she had to have more surgery.\n\n\"When they opened me up they realised they had to remove my nipple and then had to remove most of my left breast, there was nothing they could do.\"\n\nMs White told reporter Tara Mills that celebrity endorsements had influenced her choice of clinic\n\nShe will be able to have reconstruction surgery in about nine months.\n\n\"The doctors here have been amazing but it's not okay to go away and I think we have to let girls know - don't go away, save the extra couple of pound and get it done at home.\"\n\nMr Brown also wants the public to be aware of the dangers.\n\n\"Think about the establishment and the aftercare,\" he said.\n\n\"Anybody can get complications but what is in place if something does go wrong?\n\n\"Our surgeons are highly skilled and trained and have ongoing assessment. Does that happen in other countries? We just don't know.\n\n\"We had another case today but from what I'm told it wasn't so severe but it will require a lengthy period of care in the NHS.\"\n\nBBC News NI contacted the Comfort Zone Surgery in Turkey where Amanda had the operation.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"As with any surgical procedure, the biggest risk is infection and this can happen to anyone in any country.\n\n\"We are obviously very sad to hear this and are more than happy to make any free corrections that she may need in the short near future.\"", "A record breaking number of people turned out to vote\n\nHong Kong's district elections have delivered an unprecedented landslide victory for the city's pro-democracy movement, leaving the government reeling.\n\nFor months, young people have visibly been at the helm of demonstrations, protests and clashes, sparked by a now-withdrawn extradition bill which morphed into a broader cry for democracy and police accountability.\n\nThese elections saw many young and novice candidates take on political heavyweights - in the name of Hong Kong's democracy movement - and emerge victorious.\n\nHere are four of their stories.\n\nJimmy Sham has been attacked twice this year\n\nIn the months since the protest movement began, Jimmy Sham has been beaten up twice - by unknown hammer and bat-wielding assailants for reasons that still remain unclear.\n\nNevertheless the 32-year-old leader of the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), one of Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy groups which has organised several major rallies, has emerged one of the biggest winners.\n\nHe won his seat in the Lek Yuen constituency by almost 1,000 votes over the incumbent Michael Wong of the pro-Beijing Civil Force.\n\nMr Sham might have risen to prominence as leader of the CHRF but he has been an active LGBT rights campaigner for years and even in the last few months his gay identity became the focus of attacks on him on social media.\n\nThe most recent physical assault on Mr Sham in October left him lying in the street and covered in blood. The CHRF linked that attack to government supporters.\n\nHe persisted with his vocal campaign and is quoted as saying after his victory: \"No matter how strong Carrie Lam is I hope she can comply with the wishes of the people, fulfil the five demands [and] give the youngsters a chance.\"\n\nKarrine Fu won her Fort Street constituency by the smallest of margins - just 59 votes.\n\nThe 23-year-old was born and bred in the Fortress Hill area. She is a third-generation Fujianese Hong Konger - so is part of a community who came over from China's Fujian province and which is known to be more conservative and pro-Beijing.\n\nIt makes her victory all the more remarkable.\n\nShe defeated the incumbent, 45-year-old Hung Lin Cham, a secondary school teacher representing the main pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), who won the past three elections without contest.\n\nHe is also of Fujianese descent and has held sway over this relatively conservative pro-Beijing stronghold since 2007.\n\nAccording to news outlet HK01, Ms Fu, an arts graduate from the University of Hong Kong, decided to run in the district elections precisely because of the anti-government protests.\n\nShe told the news outlet that she felt \"encouraged\" to do more for Hong Kong as a result of the movement. Reports say she was offered a job in a school but turned it down because of the protests.\n\nBy winning the Sai Wan constituency last night, a fourth-year politics and public administration student took out one of the biggest political scalps of the election: Horace Cheung.\n\nMr Cheung is the vice-chairman of the DAB - Hong Kong's largest pro-Beijing party.\n\nJordan Pang made his name with his articulacy and passionate advocacy of the protesters' cause as leader of the Hong Kong University Students' Union.\n\nHe defeated Mr Cheung, a 45-year-old solicitor who had represented Sai Wan since 2011, by almost 800 votes: a man who was known as a \"triple councillor\" having held positions in the district council, Legislative Council and Executive Council.\n\nHis opponent said the results of the elections were \"not much to do with local district work\".\n\nIn a statement on Facebook, Mr Pang said he was \"humbled\" by the victory but added that there was \"still a long road ahead\".\n\nThe 21-year-old is one of several high-profile student leaders who have received threatening anonymous messages. Mr Pang said he was told to surrender to the police, or face death - but he continued with his campaign.\n\n\"The victory today and record-shattering turnout rate reflects exactly the voice of the people amidst this critical plight,\" he told supporters.\n\nCary Lo of the Democratic Party won by around 1,200 votes\n\nIn what is being celebrated as perhaps the most unexpected victory by pro-democracy activists, Cary Lo of the Democratic Party unseated pro-Beijing politician Junius Ho.\n\nThe 37-year-old compliance officer beat Mr Ho - one of the city's most controversial politicians - by around 1,200 votes in the Lok Tsui constituency.\n\nMr Ho, a 57-year-old lawyer, became a member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council in 2016 and so he remains a lawmaker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut he has recently become a hate-figure among pro-democracy activists, who accused him of helping orchestrate an attack on activists and passers-by in the district of Yuen Long.\n\nHe denies such links but the anger persisted and earlier this month he was stabbed while campaigning by a man who pretended to be one of his supporters.\n\nAfter the results came out, images of crowds apparently cheering his defeat were circulated on social media.\n\n\"I'm moved, the opposition overwhelmed me with congratulations,\" said Mr Ho on social media. \"It is not a bad things to transform their brutality to harmony.\"\n\nAs far as the man who defeated him goes, his Facebook campaign page features footage of him jogging along Hong Kong's waterfront amid friendly exchanges with residents.\n\nFor all his campaign cunning, many analysts would argue that simply being an alternative to Junius Ho was Cary Lo's major advantage.", "The quagga looked like it was part-zebra, part-horse and is now extinct\n\nThe aerial bombing of London during World War Two saw many of the city's treasures shipped out for safekeeping.\n\nOne of the world's rarest skeletons was sent from the Grant Museum of Zoology to Wales.\n\nThe extinct quagga had the appearance of being half-zebra, half-horse, and died out in 1872.\n\nThe skeleton was sent to Bangor University but on its return the museum found one of the limbs was missing and its whereabouts remain a mystery.\n\nTannis Davidson is curator at the museum which is part of University College London.\n\nShe said when it was first sent to Bangor, Gwynedd, no-one realised it was a quagga.\n\nThat only came to light in 1972.\n\nUntil then it was thought to simply be a zebra or a horse.\n\n\"It is one of many mysteries here,\" Ms Davidson said.\n\n\"Every specimen in the collection has an interesting mystery about how it got here.\n\n\"It would have been used by students as a zebra from 1940 to 1972 when it was identified as a quagga.\"\n\nThere are just seven quagga skeletons in the world - making it the planet's rarest\n\nShe urged anyone who thought they might have the missing leg to get in touch.\n\n\"Not that I want to receive 50,000 random horse legs,\" she said.\n\n\"If this was a crime caper I would definitely follow up this Welsh lead,\" Ms Davidson said.\n\nBut when BBC Wales called Bangor University they were unable to locate the runaway leg.\n\nTannis Davidson hopes someone knows where the missing back leg is\n\nSenior biology lecturer Rosanna Robinson is museum curator at Bangor University's school of natural sciences.\n\n\"We wish we could give this story legs,\" she said.\n\n\"But the extensive catalogue of our Brambell Natural History Museum has not thrown up any 'horse' limbs which shouldn't be there, so the trail has gone cold at our end.\"\n\nMs Davidson hopes the riddle might yet be solved - though the skeleton is also missing a shoulder bone.\n\n\"It is a long-standing mystery and to have the rarest skeleton in the world fully completed again would be fabulous,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Staff at Leicester University have joined the strike\n\nStudents across the UK face disruption as lecturers and support staff in 60 universities start an eight-day strike.\n\nMembers of the University and Colleges Union (UCU) are taking action in two separate disputes, one on pensions and one on pay and conditions.\n\nThe strikes will affect almost half of all UK universities.\n\nThe universities say strikes are not the way forward and promise to do all they can to minimise the impact of industrial action on students.\n\nIn addition to striking, union members are taking other forms of industrial action, including working strictly to contract, not covering for absent colleagues and refusing to reschedule lectures lost during the strikes.\n\nThis latest action follows strikes in February and March last year, meaning some students are being affected for the second time.\n\nStaff taking action will walk out between 25 November and 4 December and the union has not ruled out further action next term.\n\nUCU says staff have reached \"breaking point\" over a number of issues, including workloads, real-terms cuts in pay, a 15% gender pay gap and changes to pensions for staff in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), which the union says will leave members paying in more and receiving less in retirement.\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady said about 43,600 members would be taking strike action for \"systemic change\".\n\nDr Grady said the higher education sector had \"made a lot of money over the past 10 years\" but that spending on staff in that period had gone down and that there had been \"an attack on working conditions in the sector\".\n\nThe UCU is angry that members are now having to pay 9.6% in pension contributions, up from 8% and wants universities to pay the full increase instead.\n\nThe union estimates that, overall, changes to the pension could leave lecturers about £240,000 worse off in retirement, rising to £730,000 for professors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the University and Colleges Employers Association and Universities UK say employers have increased their pension contributions from 18% to 21.1% of salary, paying in an extra £250m each year.\n\nThe employers say even increasing their contributions to 22.7% of salary would cost them £373m a year.\n\nThey have warned that in order to meet the union's current demands, employers \"would have to divert unsustainable amounts of money from other budgets with potential consequences including for jobs, student support, course closures and larger class sizes\".\n\nFor the employers, Carol Costello of Liverpool University, acknowledged the union's concerns but said recent rises both in staff pay and in employers' contributions to staff pensions were at the limit of affordability.\n\n\"It's important that the... pension scheme trustees secure the benefits for the future of the 230,000 staff in the scheme,\" Ms Costello told the BBC.\n\n\"They've got to meet the legal requirements that the Pensions Regulator sets out.\n\n\"We believe that what the Pensions Regulator has said is that ultimately the level of contributions that we're putting in is at the limit.\"\n\nAt London's City University, the employers' arguments do not convince staff like Dr Claire Marris.\n\n\"I'm going on strike because I really care about the education that we deliver to our students and I feel our working conditions are being eroded,\" Dr Marris told BBC news.\n\nShe says that although she loves her teaching and research she feels her pay and pension \"which is essentially deferred pay\" are being whittled away.\n\n\"By giving us less money and expecting us to do more and more work, they're making it really hard for us to deliver the quality education and the quality research which we want to do and that we want to contribute to society.\n\n\"I want parents out there who are paying the fees for their children to know that 50% of the staff in universities today are casual staff, they are on short-term contracts, they are on hourly contracts and yet that's the money they are paying those fees for and I think that money should be invested in staff.\"\n\nMaster's student Lucy is conflicted about the strike\n\n\"I'm angry because I've paid all this money for this course... it makes it seem that this course is not important.\n\n\"Obviously I do understand why they striking... I do understand but there are different ways of going about it... I just don't think that's fair.\"\n\nGrace, another trainee journalist, said losing a week out of such a short course was \"really frustrating\".\n\nShe believes strikes during her undergraduate course affected her final mark: \"I had no dissertation tutor for six weeks... so for it to be happening again is just really annoying.\"\n\nA young man in the first year of his undergraduate degree said while he supported the staff in terms of workers' rights \"the timing isn't the best\".\n\nHe has an assignment presentation due before the end of term but, with his seminar leader out on strike, he's not sure when or if it will take place.\n\n\"It is disturbing the rhythm of studying... it's a very pivotal time,\" he said.\n\nThe action involves members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme which covers staff in pre-1992 universities - those which had university status before former polytechnics became universities.\n\nIn total, the UCU says 43 universities are taking industrial action over both pensions and pay and conditions:\n\nStaff at a further 14 institutions are striking over pay and conditions only:\n\nAnd staff at three universities are walking out in a dispute over pensions alone:", "Tiffany is known for its signature robin's-egg blue packaging\n\nThe world's biggest luxury goods company is buying US-based jeweller Tiffany & Co for more than $16bn (£12.5bn).\n\nThe largest luxury goods deal to date gives LVMH's billionaire owner Bernard Arnault a bigger slice of one of the fastest growing upmarket sectors.\n\nHe said Tiffany had an \"unparalleled heritage\" and fitted with his other brands.\n\nTiffany has been hit by lower spending by tourists and a strong US dollar.\n\nTiffany is something of a New York institution and its flagship store is next to Trump Tower on 5th Avenue. The company hit global fame after being featured in the 1961 Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's.\n\nFounded in 1837, it employs more than 14,000 people and operates about 300 stores - 12 of them in the UK.\n\nMr Arnault has coveted the business since buying the Bulgari brand in 2011 for $5.2bn.\n\nThe Breakfast at Tiffany's film starring Audrey Hepburn made the store famous\n\n\"We have an immense respect and admiration for Tiffany and intend to develop this jewel with the same dedication and commitment that we have applied to each and every one of our Maisons [brand houses],\" he said.\n\nLVMH has 75 brands, 156,000 employees and a network of more than 4,590 stores. Its other brands include Kenzo, Tag Heuer, Dom Pérignon, Moet & Chandon, and Christian Dior.\n\n\"We will be proud to have Tiffany sit alongside our iconic brands and look forward to ensuring that Tiffany continues to thrive for centuries to come,\" Mr Arnault said.\n\nKnown for its signature robin's-egg blue packaging, Tiffany rebuffed LVMH's initial advance made just five weeks ago, arguing it significantly undervalued the company.\n\nThe new deal values each Tiffany share at $135 in cash and is higher than the initial offer of $120 a share - which valued the business at $14.5bn.\n\nTiffany chairman Roger Farah said the board had concluded this deal \"provides an exciting path forward with a group that appreciates and will invest in Tiffany's unique assets and strong human capital\".\n\nTiffany is trying to appeal to younger customers through influencers such as Kendall Jenner\n\nThe brand is associated with diamond rings but it has lost its appeal in recent years, according to Fiona Cincotta, market analyst at City Index.\n\nShe told the BBC's Today programme that there had been a \"changing of the times\".\n\n\"It's not quite keeping up with millennials so it just needs a re-boost and a re-brand,\" she said.\n\nLVMH has experience of revitalising businesses. Ms Cincotta cited jeweller Bulgari, which when LVMH took it over in 2011 had operating margins of 8%. These have now widened to 25% on double the sales.\n\n\"This something that LVMH appears to do very well... this is a real turnaround story,\" Ms Cincotta said.\n\nStep through the doors of the Tiffany & Co flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York and you go back in time to the 1960s.\n\nYou don't quite expect Audrey Hepburn to be gazing longingly at one of the glass display cases, but the shop's atmosphere is redolent of the eponymous film that did so much to make the jewellery chain an international name.\n\nThat ready association is an asset - everyone knows what Tiffany does - but is also a weakness.\n\nMillennials don't want to shop where their parents did, which is why Tiffany has been struggling in recent years and has now given up the fight to remain an independent company.\n\nLVMH is paying a decent price - $135 a share is not far off its all-time high - but it's worth bearing in mind that luxury brands are notoriously difficult to value. Tiffany's staff will be hoping that LVMH can repeat what it did with Bulgari, turning a rather old-fashioned brand into something more cutting edge, and doubling sales in the process.\n\nInvestment bankers, ever eager for the sniff of a deal, will also be wondering whether this move by LVMH might trigger a reshuffle of its sprawling empire.\n\nOne obvious deal - which has been touted many times but never made it off the drawing board - would be the sale of its majority holding in Moet-Hennessy to Diageo, the drinks giant that currently owns a one-third share. Diageo would be an eager buyer, but over the years LVMH has shown itself reluctant to sell.\n\nTiffany has attempted to broaden its appeal to younger customers.\n\nLast year, actor Elle Fanning was named as the face of the brand and fronted an advertising campaign to the strains of Moon River - the theme tune to the film Breakfast at Tiffany's - but remixed and featuring the rapper A$AP Ferg.\n\nIt also secured Kendall Jenner, one of the biggest \"influencers\" on Instagram with 119 million followers, as one of the models for this year's spring and summer collection.\n\nIn 2018, it brought in Reed Krakoff, widely credited for transforming the US handbag brand Coach into a multi-billion dollar business, as its chief artistic officer.\n\nOne of his first collections when he joined Tiffany was called \"Everyday Objects\" and features products such as a sterling silver ball of yarn for £8,750 and a set of 10 Lego-like silver and walnut building blocks which cost £1,550.\n\nIts main focus, though, is jewellery which was one of the strongest performing areas of the luxury industry in 2018. Consultancy Bain & Co forecast that comparable sales in the $20bn global market were expected to rise by 7% this year.\n\nThis has encouraged firms to expand in the sector. Luxury goods firm Kering has launched high-end jewellery lines for its fashion brand Gucci, while Switzerland's Richemont - a sector leader with labels such as Cartier - recently bought Italy's Buccellati.", "Mo Robinson is accused of 39 counts of manslaughter\n\nA lorry driver who is accused over the deaths of 39 migrants in Essex has admitted plotting to assist illegal immigration.\n\nMaurice Robinson pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to conspiring with others to assist illegal immigration between 1 May 2018 and 24 October 2019.\n\nThe 25-year-old, from County Armagh, is accused of being part of a larger plot to bring people into the UK illegally.\n\nMr Robinson was not asked to plead to 39 charges of manslaughter.\n\nThe charges relate to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people, including children, who were discovered in the back of a refrigerated lorry being driven by Mr Robinson in Grays on 23 October.\n\nMr Robinson, who appeared via video-link from Belmarsh prison, also admitted acquiring criminal property - namely cash - between 1 May 2018 and 24 October 2019.\n\nAs well as the manslaughter charges, Mr Robinson is accused of conspiracy to commit human trafficking offences and transferring criminal property.\n\nThe defendant, of Laurel Drive, Craigavon, was remanded into custody until a further hearing on 13 December.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nEight women and 31 males, including two boys, aged 15, were among those who died.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blue Story is the tale of two friends who become rivals\n\nA second cinema chain has pulled the gang-themed film Blue Story after seven police officers were injured during a brawl at an entertainment complex.\n\nIt comes after youths, some armed with machetes, sparked a police operation at the Star City multiplex in Birmingham.\n\nVue has banned the film from its 91 UK and Ireland venues and Showcase has also dropped the movie.\n\nThe move has prompted a backlash on social media with some labelling the ban as \"racist\".\n\nFive teenagers including a girl, 13, were arrested in connection with the disturbance, which involved up to 100 young people in a public area of the multiplex, on Saturday night.\n\nIn a statement, Vue said the film opened in 60 of its sites across the UK and Ireland on Friday.\n\n\"But during the first 24 hours of the film over 25 significant incidents were reported and escalated to senior management in 16 separate cinemas,\" it said.\n\n\"This is the biggest number we have ever seen for any film in a such a short time frame.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Vue confirmed police had been called to some of the incidents, but could not confirm exactly how many times.\n\nThe Odeon chain says it is not withdrawing the film, but \"a number of security measures are in place\" for Blue Story screenings, though it refused to elaborate on what they are.\n\nIn Birmingham, a note on the door of the Odeon cinema at the Broadway Plaza said staff would be carrying out bag searches throughout the day.\n\nThe film's writer and director says it is about love not violence\n\nBlue Story's writer and director, Andrew Onwubolu, said Saturday's disturbance in Birmingham was \"truly unfortunate\".\n\nIn an Instagram post on Sunday, the rapper-turned-filmmaker wrote: \"Sending love to all those involved in yesterday's violence at Star City in Birmingham.\n\n\"It's truly unfortunate that a small group of people can ruin things for everybody.\n\n\"Blue Story is a film about love not violence.\n\n\"I hope that the blame is placed with the individuals and not an indictment of the film itself.\n\n\"I pray that we can all learn to live with love and treat each other with tolerance and respect.\"\n\nAn online petition has been launched calling for the film to be reinstated at Vue cinemas. It attracted more than 6,700 signatures in 18 hours.\n\nThe film was released last Friday\n\nThe Vue chain has stressed the decision to pull the film was prompted only because of the risk of further violence.\n\n\"This decision is not, as some have alleged, based on biased assumptions or concern about the content of the film itself,\" it said.\n\nOn Saturday, West Midlands Police officers drew Tasers and used a dispersal order to clear the Star City venue.\n\nFootage from inside the multiplex appeared to show fights and people on the floor screaming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Onwubolu, known as Rapman, wrote and directed the film\n\nThe five teenagers - two girls aged 13 and 14 and three 14-year-old boys - have all now been bailed alongside a 19-year-old man.\n\nFour were held on suspicion of assaulting police and one of the boys was detained on suspicion of obstructing police.\n\nA group of youths, one of whom was carrying a machete, were caught on camera\n\nAnother of the boys was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder after an image circulated on social media showing a number of youths, with one carrying a machete.\n\nWest Midlands police and crime commissioner David Jamieson said the unrest was \"very worrying and very disturbing\".\n\n\"Some of these children were so young,\" he said. \"I think parents have a role if they see those sorts of [weapons] in the home, to discipline their own children.\"\n\nThe teenagers' bail conditions ban them from leaving home at night, as well as from Star City and any cinema in the UK, police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Rachael Allison was at the Birmingham Star City complex when a brawl broke out\n\nAnnouncing it was following Vue in cancelling all screenings, Showcase said: \"Due to the recent incidents tied to screenings of the film Blue Story, after careful consideration with the film's distributor, Showcase Cinemas has immediately removed the film from all of our participating cinemas.\n\n\"Any guests that have purchased tickets in advance can receive a full refund at the cinema box office. We remain in discussions with the distributor with regards to the possibility of reintroducing the film in due course.\n\n\"We apologise for any inconvenience but guest safety remains our top priority.\"\n\nBlue Story, which was developed from a YouTube mini-series, follows the life of Timmy who lives in Lewisham but goes to school in Peckham - two parts of south-east London that have a notorious rivalry.\n\n\"That part of it was based on my life - it made my school experience very difficult,\" director Onwubolu told Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nHe said he wanted the audience to see past crime statistics and headlines about knife crime, to understand how a \"good kid\" can lose their way.\n\n\"They didn't come from child abuse or neglectful mothers. What kids go through in the school playground is so intense, it all starts there.\"\n\nThe film was developed from a YouTube mini-series\n\nBBC Films, which developed and co-financed the film, said it was an \"outstanding, critically acclaimed debut feature which powerfully depicts the futility of gang violence\".\n\n\"It's an important film from one of the UK's most exciting new filmmakers which we're proud to be part of,\" it added.\n\nDistributor Paramount Pictures said it was \"saddened\" by events at Star City but said the movie had had an \"incredibly positive reaction and fantastic reviews\".\n\nHowever, Errol Lawson, a reformed gangster from Birmingham, said the film was \"stirring up\" violence.\n\n\"The spirit behind it is stirring up this undercurrent, or supporting or fuelling this undercurrent, this narrative of violence, youth violence and disregard for life,\" he said.\n\nWest Midlands Police has not asked for or recommended the film be pulled following Saturday's violence.\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said: \"I understand there is a lot of speculation on social media and people are citing that film.\n\n\"At this stage we are not jumping to any conclusions. That will form part of our investigations as it carries on.\"\n\nPolice were called to the complex, in Nechells, at about 17:30 GMT and cleared the area by 21:00. The officers hurt during the disorder suffered minor facial injuries.\n\nSupt Ian Green said: \"This was a major outbreak of trouble which left families who were just trying to enjoy a night out at the cinema understandably frightened.\n\n\"We worked quickly to move the crowds on, but were met with a very hostile response and officers had to draw Tasers to restore order.\n\n\"It's clear that some of those who went to Star City were intent on causing trouble.\"\n\nIn Sheffield on Sunday evening, there was an increased police presence around Centertainment on Broughton Lane ahead of the showing of the film after disorder was reported outside the Cineworld within the complex on Saturday.\n\n\"Officers carried out patrols of the area to ensure everyone's safety,\" police said in a statement, adding that they would \"be liaising with Cineworld over the coming week to discuss further screenings of this film\".\n\nCineworld has confirmed that it will not be pulling the film.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud\n\nScientists believe they've finally tracked down the dead remnant from Supernova 1987A - one of their favourite star explosions.\n\nAstronomers knew the object must exist but had always struggled to identify its location because of a shroud of obscuring dust.\n\nNow, a UK-led team thinks the remnant's hiding place can be pinpointed from the way it's been heating up that dust.\n\nThe researchers refer to the area of interest as \"the blob\".\n\n\"It's so much hotter than its surroundings, the blob needs some explanation. It really stands out from its neighbouring dust clumps,\" Prof Haley Gomez from Cardiff University told BBC News.\n\n\"We think it's being heated by the hot neutron star created in the supernova.\"\n\nWhen telescopes first spotted the explosion in 1987, it caused huge excitement.\n\nSited in the Large Magellanic Cloud, some 168,000 light-years from Earth - the blast was the nearest, brightest supernova seen in the night sky in 400 years.\n\nAs such, it's become the test case for what we think we know about stars when their fuel runs out and they suffer a cataclysmic collapse.\n\nThe team used the Alma facility to study the dust and gas at the heart of Supernova 1987A\n\nThree decades on, astronomers routinely observe Supernova 1987A and its constantly developing form.\n\nIt is a thing of beauty: it has a series of bright rings that represent bands of gas and dust thrown out by the star in its dying phases and which have since been excited by the expanding shockwaves emitted in the end-moment explosion.\n\nOne of these rings looks like a string of pearls, and it's at the centre of this celestial jewellery that the scientists reckon they've now located the star remnant.\n\nIt should be a dense object composed entirely of neutron particles and measuring just a few tens of kilometres across. The thick cloud of dust in which it sits, however, is perhaps 30 times the size of our Solar System and this makes the neutron star impossible to see directly.\n\n\"We see the recycled light, if you like. The hot neutron star heats the dust grains and as they absorb that energy - they shine at sub-millimetre wavelengths. That's what we detect,\" explained Prof Gomez.\n\nThe team has been probing the area of interest using data from Europe's now defunct Herschel space telescope and the international Atacama Large Millimeter Array (Alma) facility in Chile.\n\nAlma has the resolution to tease out the important details\n\nWhat Alma in particular reveals is that the blob also resides in a region deficient in carbon monoxide (CO) molecules. The CO is being destroyed, presumably in the same heating process that's making the dust shine.\n\nUnfortunately, it's difficult to be more descriptive about the neutron star because of its dust shroud, but the group expects this to change with time.\n\nIn maybe 50 to 100 years, the dust should clear to reveal the object's true guise.\n\nA paper detailing the new findings is published in The Astrophysical Journal. Its lead author is Cardiff's Dr Phil Cigan.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"The amazing thing about [Supernova 1987A] is that we are watching the changes in real time, seeing how it evolves over months and years. It's like watching the plot develop in the acts of a play.\n\n\"By monitoring its progress, we can compare the reality to what different models predict, and we are eagerly anticipating seeing the direct radiation from the neutron star when the dust thins out.\"\n\nAstronomers are interested in supernovas because they are integral to the evolution of the Universe.\n\nThe explosions stir up the environment, nudging nearby gas clouds to gravitationally fall in on themselves and birth new stars. The dust ejected in supernovas also seeds the cosmos with the heavier elements that go into building rocky planets.\n\nArtwork: The neutron star at the centre of \"the blob\" is a few tens of km across", "Leaked documents seen by BBC Panorama detail for the first time China's systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps.\n\nThe Chinese government has consistently claimed the camps in the far western Xinjiang region offer voluntary education and training.\n\nReporter Richard Bilton confronted China’s UK ambassador, Liu Xiaoming, over the revelations at a press conference, where the ambassador dismissed them as \"fake news\".\n\nThe leak was made to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which has worked with 17 media partners, including BBC Panorama and The Guardian newspaper in the UK.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch Panorama: How to Brainwash a Million People, on BBC One at 2030 on Monday 25 November, or afterwards on iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland fast bowler Jofra Archer says he was subjected to racist abuse by a spectator during the final day of the first-Test defeat by New Zealand.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who was making his first appearance in an overseas Test for England, says he heard comments from \"one guy\" at the Bay Oval.\n\nEngland lost the match in Mount Maunganui by an innings and 65 runs.\n\n\"A bit disturbing hearing racial insults today whilst battling to help save my team,\" said Archer.\n\nIn a post on social media, he added: \"The crowd has been amazing this week except for that one guy. The Barmy Army was good as usual.\"\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said it is conducting an investigation into the incident, which took place as Archer walked off the field following his dismissal.\n\nAs part of the investigation, England said Archer had received a direct message via social media from someone who is alleged to be the culprit.\n\n\"It's emotional, it hurts and we fully support Jofra,\" said England's director of men's cricket Ashley Giles. \"He is a young man making his way in the game and we don't need that sort of distraction.\n\n\"Hopefully we find out who it is. There is a lot of CCTV around the ground. We are hoping someone there can identify person, and we are working hard to find the culprit.\n\n\"We are working closely with New Zealand Cricket; they are incredibly concerned it happened on their patch and believe it is an isolated incident.\"\n\nNew Zealand Cricket (NZC) said it would be apologising to Archer but added it has yet to identify the perpetrator.\n\n\"New Zealand Cricket will be contacting, and apologising to English fast bowler Jofra Archer, who was racially abused by a spectator as he left the field at the conclusion of the first Test at Bay Oval,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Although security providers at the venue were unable to locate the perpetrator, NZC will be examining CCTV footage and making further inquiries tomorrow in an endeavour to identify the man responsible.\n\n\"NZC has zero tolerance towards abusive or offensive language at any of its venues and will refer any developments in the case to police.\"\n\nIn September, an England fan said he heard a group of eight men singing a racist song about Barbados-born Archer during the fourth Ashes Test against Australia at Old Trafford.\n\nArcher took one wicket during the defeat at the Bay Oval, dismissing BJ Watling for 205.\n\nThe second Test of the two-match series starts in Hamilton on Thursday (22:00 GMT).\n• None New Zealand showed England how to play Tests - Agnew\n• None England must not panic after loss - Root\n• None New Zealand bowler Boult doubtful for second Test", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Test, Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui, day five of five:\n\nEngland were crushed by New Zealand as the tourists lost the first Test by an innings and 65 runs at the Bay Oval.\n\nResuming on 55-3, England needed to bat through the day to save the Test but were bowled out for 197 with 21.4 overs remaining in Mount Maunganui.\n\nJoe Denly made 35 from 142 balls and Ben Stokes 28 from 84 but no batsman could produce a defining innings.\n\nPace bowler Neil Wagner took a superb 5-44 and Mitchell Santner 3-53 as the Black Caps secured a 1-0 series lead.\n\nThe second and final Test begins at 22:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nNew Zealand could be without Trent Boult, who was absent for much of the day with a rib injury, but the performance of his other bowlers will offer captain Kane Williamson some reassurance.\n\nEngland were let down by their shot making and will be left to rue the collapse on the second day that prevented them posting a substantial total.\n\nIt is perhaps fortunate for England the series is not part of the World Test Championship, meaning that they have not lost out on any points in defeat.\n\nBut it was a fine all-round performance from New Zealand, and leaves England with plenty to ponder before they travel to Hamilton.\n\nStuart Broad said before play on day five that England \"don't just believe we can save this game, we expect to\".\n\nAt times, it looked as though they might. Joe Root and Denly batted serenely in the first hour of the day and Stokes and Denly showed real grit in their 52-run stand.\n\nWhile New Zealand were disciplined with the ball, limiting England's scoring options, the tourists were largely architects of their own downfall. They were passive and, when they did decide to hit out, they picked the wrong shot to the wrong ball.\n\nRoot was caught tamely at gully off a Colin de Grandhomme short ball, Stokes dragged a wide delivery on to his stumps, Ollie Pope thrashed another wide ball to short cover, where Santner took a superb diving catch, and Jos Buttler was bowled leaving a yorker.\n\nOnly Denly could really claim to have fallen to a good ball, a rising short delivery from Wagner that caught his glove as he tried to shoulder arms.\n\nMuch of England's pre-series talk was about patience, and they had the perfect template to follow after watching BJ Watling's lengthy double century over the previous two days.\n\nOn this evidence, it will be a long learning process.\n\nNew Zealand are second in the Test rankings and in this victory they demonstrated why - this was a complete performance, grinding England down with the bat before preying on the tourists' long-held batting weaknesses.\n\nWith strike bowler Boult only able to bowl one over before walking off with a rib injury, New Zealand had to rely on their change bowlers to take the wickets.\n\nA superb spell from Wagner, who switched to round the wicket after becoming frustrated with the footholes, did the damage. Known as a bowler who favours short-pitched bowling, he instead used his variations with the old ball and found movement with the new one in Boult's absence.\n\nSam Curran and Jofra Archer provided some late entertainment but it never felt as though New Zealand were panicked, and Wagner wrapped up the innings in consecutive balls to dismiss Archer and Broad.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Santner did not add to his three wickets from overnight, but he found enough turn and bounce to keep England's batsmen wary.\n\nShould Boult miss the next Test, New Zealand could call on extra pace, in the form of Lockie Ferguson - the second highest wicket taker at this summer's World Cup - or Matt Henry. They have plenty of options - something which England will be wary of.\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"We did a lot of good stuff - we just need to do it for longer. It's different to the style of cricket we've had to play in our home conditions.\n\n\"We can't panic and think it's the end of the world. We are working hard behind the scenes and if we come back strong, we'll hopefully level it up.\"\n\nEx-England batsman Mark Ramprakash on TMS: \"England didn't quite get their mentality right.\n\n\"Stokes said runs would be important, but they didn't bat normally. England went nowhere. It's that indecision that cost Root his wicket.\"\n\nNew Zealand captain Kane Williamson: \"It feels great to win a Test match and it took a huge amount of work to get past their total.\n\n\"It was huge heart from our middle order to get over 600 and that gave us the only chance of winning.\"\n\nEngland bowler Steven Finn on TMS: \"There are lessons for England to learn.\n\n\"If you look at England's first innings, they'd laid a platform after day one but didn't capitalise on day two, and that's probably the difference.\"", "Tesco has temporarily withdrawn pots of its own-brand honey amid concerns that it contains adulterated ingredients.\n\nIt comes after tests conducted by Richmond council in London indicated that \"Tesco Set Honey 454g\" contains syrups made from sugar.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) said it was \"[looking] into these reports\" to see if further action was necessary.\n\nThe supermarket chain denied there were any problems with the product and insisted it was \"100% pure\".\n\nConcerns were raised over the honey, which costs £1.35 per jar, by Richmond council in south-west London, which conducted tests after it was alerted by a member of the public.\n\n\"The findings of the analysis is that there is likely to be adulteration with non-natural products,\" a council spokeswoman told the Sunday Times.\n\nThe council contacted the FSA, which confirmed it was looking into the matter, but has denied it called for Tesco to withdraw the product.\n\n\"We are continuing to look into these reports to determine whether further action is required,\" the FSA said in a statement.\n\n\"Honey is a natural but complex product and there are a number of different tests which may be used to determine authenticity.\"\n\nNevertheless, the retailer said it has temporarily taken the honey off the shelves for further examination, but insists the product is \"100% pure, natural and can be directly traced back to the beekeeper\".\n\n\"We carry out regular tests to ensure our honey meets this standard and is fully compliant with all legal requirements,\" Tesco said in a statement.\n\n\"However, as a precautionary measure, we have temporarily withdrawn the product to conduct further tests.\"\n\nChris Elliott, professor of food safety at Queen's University Belfast, who led a review of food systems following the 2013 horsemeat scandal, said it was a \"bold\" statement from Tesco.\n\n\"They are claiming they are 100% sure it is pure honey. If they are correct then the testing method is wrong. If it proves to be adulterated then Tesco doesn't have the control over their supply chain they claim,\" he said.\n\nThe method used by Richmond council was nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which he said was a relatively new technique that can be used to determine the sources of sugars.\n\nTesco's decision to withdraw the product was a \"prudent\" step, Professor Elliott added.\n\n\"There's no food safety issue here but consumers must trust our retailers to take every precaution that they are not selling us adulterated food,\" he said.", "Voters celebrated with champagne on the streets of Hong Kong as unprecedented results for the district council elections rolled in.\n\nPro-democracy candidates swept many seats, defeating a number of pro-Beijing opponents. Controversial politician Junius Ho was one such loser, and was unseated in Tuen Mun.\n\nMeanwhile first-time politician Kelvin Lam, who stepped in to replace activist Joshua Wong who was disqualified, won a seat in South Horizons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We shouldn't have to be out here doing this again\"\n\nStaff at Welsh universities are beginning an eight-day strike over pay, conditions and pensions.\n\nCardiff University and Bangor University will be affected by the strikes which involve members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 60 UK universities.\n\nThey object to increases to pension contributions, casual contracts and a squeeze on wages.\n\nUniversities said they had taken steps to protect pensions and pay.\n\nSome non-teaching staff at the University of Wales will also be striking, but it will not involve academics teaching students on campuses, the university said.\n\nPickets are expected outside university buildings on Monday, and there are plans for \"teach-outs\" in Cardiff and Bangor where public talks are held off campus.\n\nSome Open University staff in Wales are also on strike.\n\nStaff will be striking for eight days\n\nThis is the second time in two years UCU members have taken strike action, after a 14-day walk-out over pensions in February 2018.\n\nThe union said universities had continued to support increased staff contributions to the universities' superannuation scheme pensions system.\n\nThe other strike ballot focused on casual contracts in universities, the gender pay gap and a squeeze on wages.\n\nUnion officials said the decision to strike had not been taken lightly.\n\n\"Teach-outs\" - public talks off-campus - are being held in both Bangor and Cardiff\n\nDoris Merkl-Davies, vice-president of Bangor UCU, said: \"A lot of members, including those on permanent full-time contracts, are feeling the squeeze of declining salaries and increasing living costs, but are prepared to fight for fair wages by going on strike and taking a one-off financial hit.\"\n\nBut Universities UK and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association urged staff to reconsider in an open letter.\n\n\"In recent months employers have taken significant steps to protect the value of both pensions and pay because we care about our dedicated and talented staff,\" the letter said.\n\n\"We are very sorry that the industrial action called by UCU is likely to cause unwelcome disruption to students\".\n\nIn open letters to students and staff, Cardiff's vice-chancellor Colin Riordan offered \"sincere apologies\" for inconvenience, adding: \"My priority throughout the strike period is to ensure that any disruption to education and the student experience is minimised.\"\n\nColin Riordan wrote an open letter to staff and students\n\nHe said most teaching would go ahead but in some areas there would be a \"significant impact\".\n\n\"I am keen to see this situation resolved as soon as possible, and to avoid further strike action this academic session,\" he added.\n\n\"As a university we cannot solve these issues on our own.\"\n\nHe told those striking he \"fully respects\" their decision, adding: \"I also appreciate how difficult this situation is for staff, especially given your commitment and loyalty to your students.\"\n\n\"I want a solution that meets the needs of employees and employers alike and I will continue to advocate for such an outcome.\n\n\"We all know from previous periods of industrial action that emotions can and do run high.\n\n\"However, I hope that we will be able to treat one another with dignity, courtesy and respect.\"\n• None University strike: What's it all about?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The town's high street received 21% of the public's vote\n\nKirkwall has been named Scotland's most beautiful high street after topping a public poll.\n\nIt narrowly beat Lerwick and Milngavie, receiving nearly 5,000 votes - 21% of the online poll. Lerwick secured 18% of the vote and Milngavie 15%.\n\nThe competition, organised by Scotland's Towns Partnership and Keep Scotland Beautiful, ran for four weeks.\n\nChristmas lights on St Magnus Cathedral's trees, near the high street\n\nDuncan McLean, chairman of Kirkwall Business Improvement District, made the submission on behalf of the town.\n\nHe said the award \"recognises both the beauty of the town's historic centre, and the efforts of local individuals, public bodies and voluntary organisations to make the town a wonderful place to live, work and socialise.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was the support of our community that won this award, and to know that the people of Kirkwall love and are proud of their town is the best reward of all.\"\n\nThe Kirkwall Business Improvement District made the submission on behalf of the town\n\nPhil Prentice, Chief Officer of Scotland's Towns Partnership, said: \"It's no secret that our high streets have been under pressure for the past few years, but this competition gives us hope for the future.\n\n\"When people come together and take ownership of their places, great things can happen and big challenges can be overcome.\"\n\nKirkwall received more than a fifth of the vote", "The mountain forests in Kenya and Tanzania contain many threatened and rare plant species\n\nA third of tropical African plants are on the path to extinction, according to a new assessment.\n\nMuch of western Africa, Ethiopia, and parts of Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are the hardest hit regions, standing to lose more than 40% of their richness of plants.\n\nThreats include deforestation, population growth and climate change, the scientists said.\n\n\"Biodiversity provides countless benefits to humans and losing diversity jeopardises our future,\" said lead researcher Dr Thomas Couvreur of the French National Institute for Sustainable Development.\n\nLoss of biodiversity will be particularly problematic in tropical Africa, \"a region of incredible diversity but with major social and political challenges and expected rapid population growth over the next decades\", he added.\n\nAn example of a critically endangered tree species from Tanzania\n\nThe findings of the study, published in Science Advances, are based on a revised method for assessing extinction risk.\n\nExample of an endangered orchid species from Cameroon and Gabon\n\nSo far, almost nine in 10 mammals and two-thirds of birds have been assessed, but less than 8% of vascular plants (flowering plants and most other plants, excluding mosses and algae).\n\nThe researchers used a similar, but more speedy, method to assess the likely extinction risk of more than 20,000 plant species.\n\nThey found that 33% of the species are potentially threatened with extinction, and another third of species are likely rare, potentially becoming threatened in the near future.\n\nThis is mainly due to human activities such as deforestation, land-use changes, population growth, economic development, and climate change, they said.", "Ephraim Mirvis urged people to vote \"with their conscience\"\n\nThe chief rabbi has strongly criticised Labour, claiming the party is not doing enough to root out anti-Jewish racism - and asked people to \"vote with their conscience\" in the general election.\n\nIn the Times, Ephraim Mirvis said \"a new poison - sanctioned from the very top - has taken root\" in the party.\n\nLabour's claim it had investigated all cases of anti-Semitism in its ranks was a \"mendacious fiction\", he added.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said the party had taken \"rapid and effective\" action.\n\nAt the launch of the party's \"race and faith manifesto\", the Labour leader said anti-Jewish racism was \"vile and wrong\" and would not be tolerated in any form under a future Labour government.\n\nHe said internal processes for dealing with anti-Semitism cases were \"constantly under review\" and his door would be open to Rabbi Mirvis and other faith leaders to discuss their concerns if he entered Downing Street.\n\nLabour has been beset by allegations of anti-Semitism for more than three years, leading to the suspension of a number of high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson, and an unprecedented investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nA number of prominent Jewish Labour politicians, including Luciana Berger and Louise Ellman, have quit the party after being the subject of anti-Semitic abuse on social media while others have accused Mr Corbyn of personally endorsing anti-Semitic tropes and imagery.\n\nIn his article, the Orthodox chief rabbi of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - who is the spiritual leader of the United Synagogue, the largest umbrella group of Jewish communities in the country - says raising his concerns \"ranks among the most painful moments I have experienced since taking office\".\n\nBut he claims \"the overwhelming majority of British Jews are gripped by anxiety\" at the prospect of a Labour victory in 12 December's general election.\n\nHe writes: \"The way in which the leadership of the Labour Party has dealt with anti-Jewish racism is incompatible with the British values of which we are so proud - of dignity and respect for all people.\n\n\"It has left many decent Labour members and parliamentarians, both Jewish and non-Jewish, ashamed of what has transpired.\"\n\nHe adds that it was \"not my place to tell any person how they should vote\" but he urged the public to \"vote with their conscience\".\n\nThe chief rabbi claimed the response of Labour's leadership to threats against parliamentarians, members and staff has been \"utterly inadequate\" and said it \"can no longer claim to be the party of equality and anti-racism\".\n\nMike Katz, the chair of the Jewish Labour Movement group which is officially affiliated to the party, said the chief rabbi was \"absolutely right\" and there had been a failure of leadership over anti-Semitism in Labour.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said the chief rabbi's \"unprecedented\" intervention \"ought to alert us to the deep sense of insecurity and fear felt by many British Jews\".\n\nIn a statement, he said everyone should be able to \"live in accordance with their beliefs and freely express their culture and faith\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Labour peer Lord Dubs, the child refugee campaigner who fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, said he regretted some of the language Mr Corbyn had used in the past about Israel and the fact he had met with groups who denied its right to exist.\n\nBut he told BBC Radio 4's Today these episodes were \"quite a long time ago\" and had to be seen \"in the context\" of Mr Corbyn's support for peace in the Middle East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I think things have happened under his leadership which should have been stopped way back,\" he added. \"I believe the Labour party is moving forward. It is not good enough what has happened in the past.\"\n\nThis is a sweeping and unequivocal condemnation of Labour's leadership, its treatment of Jewish parliamentarians and its handling of allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\nIt's also highly unusual for such an intervention by the leader of a religious denomination during a general election campaign. The chief rabbi has pastoral oversight for a large proportion of people who identify as Jewish in the United Kingdom.\n\nLast week, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York appealed to voters and politicians to \"honour the truth\" and \"challenge falsehoods\" but there was no specific criticism of individual candidates nor their party leaders.\n\nBut the chief rabbi's article asks if Jeremy Corbyn is fit for high office and calls on voters to consider what the result of this election \"will say about the moral compass of this country?\"\n\nLast year, three Jewish newspapers, - The Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish News and The Jewish Telegraph - published exactly the same front cover on 25 July - arguing that a Labour government under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn would prove \"an existential threat\" to British Jewry.\n\nThe chief rabbi, in this highly critical column, is saying much the same.\n\nThe Labour leader faced criticism from Jewish groups when he said in last week's general election ITV leader's debate that the party had \"investigated every single case\" raised by complainants.\n\nThe chief rabbi takes issue with Mr Corbyn's claim, citing figures from the Jewish Labour Movement of \"at least 130 outstanding cases\".\n\nAt an event in Tottenham, north London, the Labour leader did not directly address the number of outstanding cases but defended the party's disciplinary processes as being \"rapid and effective\".\n\n\"Anti-Semitism in any form is vile and wrong, it is an evil within our society,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism in any shape or form or in any place whatsoever in modern and Britain and under a Labour government it will not be tolerated in any form whatsoever.\"\n\nHe added: \"In government our door will be open to all faith leaders. Chief Rabbi welcome. Archbishop of Canterbury welcome. Those from the Hindu community are all very welcome.\"\n\nSouth-African born Rabbi Mirvis became chief rabbi in 2013. In a Facebook post in July, he congratulated Boris Johnson on his election as Conservative leader, describing the new prime minister as a \"long-standing friend and champion of the Jewish community\".\n\nAccording to the British Board of Deputies, there are between 260,000 and 300,000 Jews in England and Wales. Around half belong to the Central Orthodox denomination which includes the United Synagogue, led by the chief rabbi.\n\nMeasures to combat anti-Semitism were among a number of policies unveiled by the party, including:\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain, which has repeatedly criticised the Conservatives for failing to address anti-Muslim prejudice amongst their members, said not enough was being done to tackle racism \"whether from the left or the right\".\n\nIt said British Muslims would \"agree on the importance of voting with their conscience\".", "TSB is to close 82 branches next year as part of a plan by new chief executive Debbie Crosbie to make £100m of cost cuts by 2022.\n\nThe Spanish-owned bank has 540 branches and is trying to restore its reputation after last year's huge IT failure, which hit 1.9 million customers.\n\nThe outlets to be shut will be named on 28 November after staff have been told.\n\nTSB would not comment on job numbers, but it is thought that between 300 and 400 positions will be affected.\n\nMs Crosbie replaced Paul Pester, who stepped down in September last year following the IT debacle that began in April 2018 when an attempt to move data to a new computer system went wrong.\n\nLast week, customers again faced problems, this time with wages and other payments being paid into their accounts.\n\nAnnouncing the new strategy, Ms Crosbie said: \"The plan we're sharing today involves some difficult decisions, but it sets TSB up to succeed in the future.\n\n\"Our new strategy positions TSB to succeed in a challenging environment at a time when we know customers want something different and better from their bank.\"\n\nThe bank - which was spun out of Lloyds Banking Group - will spend £180m closing the branches and on other restructuring costs.\n\nTSB was created in 2013 under the instruction of the European Commission after Lloyds was bailed out by UK taxpayers in 2008.\n\nIt started with 631 branches, which included those that were branded Cheltenham & Gloucester as well as all Lloyds branches in Scotland.\n\nThat network has already been reduced in size and it is thought that under this latest reduction the staff affected will be offered redeployment opportunities where possible.\n\nLloyds floated TSB as a stand-alone bank on the London stock market, but it was then bought by Sabadell of Spain in 2015.\n\nAs well as closing branches, Ms Crosbie said the bank would spend £120m on improving its digital offering and automating some of its branches. By 2022, it expects 90% of transactions to be self-service.\n\nThe bank also wants to speed up the time it takes to open and start using a current account from seven days to 10 minutes.\n\nIn April, TSB had already announced that 71 branches in Scotland and 22 in England would open for only two or three days a week.\n\nDominic Hook, national officer at union Unite, urged Ms Crosbie to rethink the latest branch closures. \"With over 3,300 bank branches having closed since 2015 this TSB news will hit High Streets extremely hard,\" he said.\n\nLast year's IT failure drove the bank to a loss in 2018, although in the first half of this year it reported a profit of £21.1m. Ms Crosbie is aiming for profits of between £130m and £140m in 2022.\n\nThe humiliation of last year's catastrophic breakdown has forced TSB to abandon grandiose promises.\n\nWhen it was hived off from Lloyds six years ago, it pledged to be a bank you could trust, without the \"funny stuff\" that tainted other scandal-ridden banks.\n\nIts then chief executive, Paul Pester, attacked rivals for \"savagely cutting branches\" and made a firm commitment to his outlets, promising to expand the network.\n\nThe IT failure knocked a deep dent in customer trust, and then TSB cut its flagship interest rate.\n\nAnd now Debbie Crosbie, the boss brought in to steady the ship, is targeting branches.\n\nIt is true that the rise of the internet is forcing the industry to change.\n\nBut that's the point. TSB promised it would be something different. Now we see it is just another bank.", "The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nAnother man has been arrested on suspicion of the manslaughter of 39 people found dead in a lorry in Essex.\n\nThe 36-year-old man from Purfleet, Essex, is also being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were found in a refrigerated lorry in Grays on 23 October.\n\nThe arrested man was taken into custody in Dalston, east London, on Monday.\n\nEight women and 31 males, including two boys, aged 15, were among those who died.\n\nLorry driver Maurice Robinson, of Craigavon, County Armagh, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey earlier to conspiring with others to assist illegal immigration between 1 May 2018 and 24 October 2019.\n\nAnother man, Christopher Kennedy, of Darkley, County Armagh, appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with human trafficking offences. No pleas were entered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The winners of the Radio 1 Teen Awards have been announced - with Stormzy, Ariana Grande, Little Mix and Lewis Capaldi all taking home prizes.\n\nStranger Things and Avengers: Endgame took the best TV and film awards.\n\nThe awards do was hosted by Radio 1's Greg James, Mollie King and Maya Jama and featured performances from Yungblud, AJ Tracey and Jax Jones.\n\nRadio 1's teen heroes were also recognised and the BBC young sports personality of the year was unveiled.\n\nMaya Jama, Mollie King and Greg James were this year's hosts\n\nThe awards - voted for by the public - were unveiled at a star-studded ceremony in front of 500 Radio 1 listeners.\n\nLittle Mix won in the best group category - a new award which combines the previous best British group and international group categories.\n\nThe girlband had won the best British group title in 2017 and 2018.\n\nLewis Capaldi got two awards - winning best British singer and best single for Someone You Loved.\n\nStormzy was crowned best British rapper and Ariana Grande won for best international solo artist.\n\nAJ Tracey, Jax Jones and Yungblud all performed at the show\n\nBBC young sports personality of the year was revealed to be 18-year-old boxer Caroline Dubois, who hopes to compete at the Olympics in Tokyo next year.\n\nThe Radio 1 teen heroes were recognised too - from the ten finalists, the top three were Rachel, 17, Scarlett, 14 and Hazel, 12.\n\nThey were surprised on Saturday with a special performance from Bastille in the Radio 1 Live Lounge.\n\nPreviously, they'd gone with the other finalists to Kensington Palace with Camila Cabello to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nRachel is a volunteer for her local youth council and a member of the UK Youth Parliament, and has won a Diana Award for her work towards tackling cyberbullying.\n\nShe also chairs the UK Youth Select Committee, which this year has focussed on knife crime.\n\n\"When I found out [I was a teen hero] I was very, very surprised,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"I was also really happy as well, when I found out that we would be going to the palace and we would be meeting Will and Kate.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I spoke to them about how I got a Diana award for being an anti-bullying champion. And obviously, that was something that William was really passionate about.\"\n\nRachel, Scarlett and Hazel the this year's teen heroes\n\nScarlett is a young carer to her mum, older sister and granny.\n\nBoth Scarlett and her mum have an incurable nerve condition called HNPP, which can make everyday activities like carrying shopping bags extremely painful.\n\n\"It was overwhelming and you kind of question why people would think it was a heroic act,\" she says about finding out that she'd been named a teen hero.\n\n\"Those are just things that you'd normally do for your family. So it's not really something you expect to be awarded for.\"\n\nLove Island's Amber and Ovie were at the Teen Awards\n\nHazel lives with a rare genetic disorder called Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) which limits the body's ability to repair damage caused by UV light.\n\nShe's since learnt how to manage the condition safely in her daily life, and raises awareness through campaigns such as climbing the 900m Ben Lomond mountain in Scotland and giving talks to schools.\n\n\"I didn't really think that I was actually going to win,\" she says.\n\n\"But when I found out I was jumping about. I was really excited.\"\n\nPerrie and Jade were there representing Little Mix\n\nBest single - Someone You Loved (Lewis Capaldi)\n\nThe Radio 1 teen awards show will be broadcast on Saturday 30 November on Radio 1 (12-1pm) and BBC Two (4-5pm).\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Matthew Stokes and his brother Adam were found dead at their home in Hinckley\n\nA woman says she was locked in a house, smothered and stabbed by her husband, who was found dead with their two sons.\n\nDavid Stokes, 43, and children Adam, 11, and Matthew, five, were discovered in their home on Welwyn Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, on 2 November 2016.\n\nThe boys were found dead under a quilt in the same bed and holding hands.\n\nAn inquest heard that, hours before the bodies were discovered, Mr Stokes locked Sally Stokes in the house sparking a stand-off with police.\n\nMrs Stokes told Rutland & North Leicestershire Coroner's Court she was stabbed before she managed to escape.\n\nMr Stokes was later found dead from a single stab wound.\n\nA medical cause of death for both boys has been given as \"unascertained\" but a pathologist said it could have been a result of drowning or pressure to the neck.\n\nDr Frances Hollingbury added that \"it is likely they were unconscious or already dead when they were positioned where they were found\".\n\nMrs Stokes told the court she and Mr Stokes had been married since 2011 and separated three months before the deaths.\n\nIn addition to problems in the marriage, Mrs Stokes said she discovered Mr Stokes had searched online for escorts and a date rape drug.\n\nShe said she confronted him about this on 1 November, but the situation at the time was \"calm\" and she left just after 18:00 GMT.\n\nSally Stokes, arriving at the inquest earlier, said David Stokes tried to smother her with a pillow\n\nMrs Stokes told the court she returned at about 21:15 and, in the hours that followed, Mr Stokes locked her in the house, hit her on the back of the head with a rolling pin and tried to smother her with a pillow.\n\nShe said she got to the back garden and screamed for help before Mr Stokes hit her head against a wall.\n\nThe inquest was told police were called and there were regular phone calls between negotiators and Mr Stokes before he stabbed her and she ran out into the street.\n\nShe said: \"I felt a bump in my back, felt the warmth of blood, then I realised he'd stabbed me.\n\n\"The look on his face was like satisfaction. I'll never forget it - as though he'd won.\"\n\nMrs Stokes was taken to hospital and told the following day about her sons and that Mr Stokes had killed himself.\n\nShe was ruled out of the investigation as a suspect by police, the inquest heard.\n\nFinishing her evidence, Mrs Stokes said she felt police acted in the right way during the stand-off.\n\n\"If police had forced the situation, I wouldn't be here,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest also heard Mr Stokes filmed a video of himself with the boys at about 19:00 on 1 November and that is the last time the boys are known to have been alive.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The elderly campaigner was canvassing with a walking stick on Parkstone Crescent in the village of Hellaby, Rotherham\n\nA 72-year-old party election campaigner has been attacked and injured while going house-to-house.\n\nThe man, who uses a walking stick, was initially taken to hospital with a suspected broken jaw, South Yorkshire Police said.\n\nSophie Wilson, Labour's candidate in Rother Valley, said it was \"a completely unacceptable and vicious act\".\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nThe 51-year-old remained in custody, the force said.\n\nOfficers said they were called out just after 16:00 GMT on Sunday to Parkstone Crescent, Hellaby, Rotherham.\n\nPosting on Facebook shortly afterwards, Ms Wilson said: \"I am sad to report that one of our members... was assaulted while out campaigning today.\"\n\nShe said he was \"doing well and in good spirits\" when she visited him in hospital.\n\n\"He will not let this get him down,\" she said.\n\nThe campaigner was understood to be \"back out knocking on doors\" on Monday, a Labour Party spokesman said.\n\nThe other candidates standing in Rother Valley are:\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nicola Sturgeon said she had a \"moral objection to weapons of mass destruction\"\n\nScrapping Trident would be one of the SNP's key demands to gain its support in the event of a minority Labour government, says Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nThe SNP is willing to support a Labour government if no party wins an overall majority - but the SNP leader has ruled out a formal coalition.\n\nMs Sturgeon also wants Labour to stop Brexit and commit to an independence referendum next year.\n\nThe Labour manifesto includes a pledge to renew the Trident nuclear programme.\n\nMs Sturgeon was asked by Sky's Sophie Ridge if scrapping Trident would be a red line for the SNP to support Labour. She replied \"Yes\", adding that the SNP would be \"absolutely firm\" on that.\n\nThe SNP leader continued: \"I have a moral objection to weapons of mass destruction... I wouldn't be prepared to press a nuclear button that would kill potentially millions, tens of millions, of people.\n\n\"But there's also the opportunity costs of Trident - the billions, tens of billions, that are required to renew Trident in my view are better spent on stronger, conventional defence that is more effective to protect our country but also hospitals and schools and better social security provision.\n\n\"And these are the choices that we should be thinking very carefully about.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said that in the event of a hung parliament, where no party had an overall majority and the SNP held the balance of power, Scotland would have \"maximum influence\", adding: \"That would be a pretty good outcome I think in terms of making sure Scotland's voice is heard.\"\n\nShe reiterated that there would be no coalition with Labour, saying instead SNP support would be \"less formal\" - such as a confidence and supply arrangement, where the SNP would support a Labour government on explicit votes in return for government support of specific policies.\n\n\"Other matters\" that she would want to progress would include holding an independence referendum next year, stopping Brexit, devolving control of migration, employment and drugs classification laws to Holyrood and a \"real end to austerity\" and \"to the misery of Universal Credit and welfare cuts\".\n\nShe insisted these issues would \"resonate strongly with many people across the UK\", as well as her supporters in Scotland.\n\nShe added that she would \"never, ever\" put Boris Johnson into power.\n\nLabour say they will not agree to a Scottish independence referendum in the \"early years\" of government.\n\nAnd during Friday's Question Time leaders' special, Jeremy Corbyn said he did not plan to rely on other parties for support after the election.\n\nHe said: \"We're not doing any deals with any other parties. I'm not trying to form a coalition government.\n\n\"I'm fighting this election to win it for Labour.\"\n\nHMS Vigilant is one of four submarines which carry the UK's Trident nuclear programme\n\nSince 1969, according to government documents, a British submarine carrying nuclear weapons has always been on patrol, gliding silently beneath the waves, somewhere in the world's oceans.\n\nThe logic is to deter a nuclear attack on the UK because, even if the nation's conventional defence capabilities were destroyed, the silent submarine would still be able to launch a catastrophic retaliatory strike on the aggressor - a concept known as mutually assured destruction.\n\nThe UK has four Vanguard-class submarines, which each carry Trident missiles. While not on patrol, the submarines are located at Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde - commonly known as Faslane.\n\nFaslane was chosen to host the UK's Polaris nuclear-armed submarine fleet at the height of the Cold War in the 1960s because of its relatively secluded position next to the deep waters of the Gare Loch and Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland.\n\nAlthough Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been a longstanding critic of nuclear weapons, his party's manifesto for the 12 December election did include a pledge to renew the Trident nuclear programme and spend at least 2% of GDP on defence.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said on Tuesday in an interview with ITV that she would be prepared to press the nuclear button if she was prime minister.\n\nA spokesman for the Conservatives, who launched their manifesto on Sunday, said: \"Trident is good for Britain's security, and good for Scottish jobs. Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon want to do a deal that would wreck both.\"\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Children will be taught about injustice and the role of the British Empire as part of the national curriculum under Labour, Jeremy Corbyn has said.\n\nAt the launch of his race and faith manifesto on Tuesday, the Labour leader said a new trust will educate on how to address the legacy of slavery.\n\nHe also set out policies on how to combat anti-Semitism in Britain.\n\nThe Tories said it was \"staggering\" to see Labour \"lecture people\" during a probe over claims of anti-Semitism.\n\nBut National Education Union joint general secretary Mary Bousted welcomed Labour's \"set of joined-up proposals to proactively tackle racism\".\n\nMeanwhile, in a letter to the Times, Ephraim Mirvis, the Orthodox chief rabbi of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has attacked the \"utterly inadequate\" response of the Labour leadership in dealing with anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nHe said there was anxiety in the Jewish community over a Labour government and he called on the public to \"vote with their conscience\".\n\nSpeaking at an event in Tottenham, north London, Mr Corbyn said: \"Anti-Semitism in any form is vile and wrong, it is an evil within our society\".\n\n\"There is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism in any shape or form or in any place whatsoever in modern Britain and under a Labour government it will not be tolerated in any form whatsoever,\" he added.\n\nMr Corbyn made the comments while launching - with shadow women and equalities secretary Dawn Butler and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott - the party's race and faith manifesto with pledges to improve social justice and human rights.\n\nIf Labour wins the 12 December election, the party says an \"emancipation educational trust\" would be formed \"to ensure historical injustice, colonialism and role of the British Empire is taught in the national curriculum\".\n\nMr Corbyn said the history of colonialism - including the \"unbelievable levels of brutality\" of the slave trade - should be \"part and parcel of what our children learn all year round\" and \"not just in Black History Month\".\n\nLabour wants to review the national curriculum\n\nThe trust would educate on migration and how to address the legacy of slavery and teach how it \"interrupted a rich and powerful black history\".\n\nThe national curriculum will also be reviewed by the party to ensure it teaches children about racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia and black history, and to continue education about the Holocaust.\n\nAlso, the party says it wants to extend pay gap reporting to BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) groups for businesses with 250 employees or more.\n\nOn guaranteeing the security of the Jewish community, Labour says it will amend the law to include attacks on places of worship as a specific aggravated offence.\n\nLabour has also pledged to work with social media platforms including Twitter, YouTube and Facebook \"to combat the rise of anti-Semitism online\".\n\n\"Labour has already been working with Facebook to take action against groups and individuals which have hijacked Labour's name to share anti-Semitic content,\" the party said.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission launched a formal investigation in May into the Labour Party over allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\nIt is formally looking into whether Labour has \"unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish\".\n\nAt the time, Labour said the party was \"anti-racist\" and would \"fully co-operate\" with the investigation.\n\nAhead of his speech at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Mr Corbyn said Labour \"will do everything necessary to guarantee the security of the Jewish community, defend the Jewish way of life and the right to live it freely, and to combat rising anti-Semitism in our country and across Europe\".\n\nMr Corbyn called Labour \"the party of equality and human rights\" and said it would \"tackle head-on the barriers that have unfairly held back so many people and communities\".\n\nMs Butler said: \"Only by acknowledging the historical injustices faced by our communities can we work towards a better future that is prosperous for all, that isn't blighted by austerity and the politics of fear.\"\n\nConservative Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was \"staggering\" that Labour \"sees fit to lecture people about race and faith\" during the anti-Semitism investigation.\n\nDr Bousted said the National Education Union welcomed the proposal for a \"new emancipation educational trust\".\n\n\"All young people benefit from learning about how human rights were won and about the struggle against colonialism and racial injustice,\" she said.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke at the launch in Telford, Shropshire\n\nWales would get \"major investments\" in infrastructure and industry if the Conservative Party wins the general election, its manifesto claims.\n\nThe document, launched in Telford, Shropshire, on Sunday, promises to \"deliver\" on the decision of the Welsh people to leave the European Union.\n\nIt says the party is \"ambitious\" for the Welsh economy and the union.\n\nThe 59-page manifesto comes 18 days before the general election.\n\nThe manifesto also says if there was a Welsh Conservative government in Cardiff Bay it would deliver an M4 relief road.\n\nRoad transport decisions are devolved to Wales' National Assembly, and are not the responsibility of the UK government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford axed the M4 relief road in June because of its cost and impact on the environment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does devolution mean for voters?\n\nThe manifesto says the Conservative government worked to bring Ineos Automotive to Bridgend in September, which is expected to create 500 new jobs, and it would \"continue to back Welsh car manufacturing\".\n\nIt also states: \"Conservatives are proud of Welsh language and culture.\n\n\"We will support Welsh institutions such as S4C, the national library and museum, the Urdd and the National Eisteddfod.\n\n\"We will support the ambition for one million people in Wales to be able to speak Welsh by 2050.\"\n\nOther policies that apply to Wales include:\n\nSpeaking at the launch, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the choice facing the UK in this \"closely fought\" contest had \"never been starker\".\n\n\"Get Brexit done and we can focus our hearts and minds on the priorities of the British people,\" he added.\n\nResponding to the launch, Plaid Cymru candidate for Dwyfor Meirionnydd Liz Saville Roberts said: \"Unsurprisingly Wales is just an afterthought in this manifesto, with a handful of mentions.\n\n\"Boris Johnson and the Conservatives care little and know even less about what our nation needs... he wants to force Brexit through despite the fact that it would be disastrous for Wales.\"\n\nAnd Welsh Labour's Economy and Transport Minister Ken Skates said: \"The Tories have absolutely nothing to be proud about when it comes to transport investment.\n\n\"Not only have they starved the Welsh Labour government of funding, they have historically underinvested in Welsh rail infrastructure which is their clear responsibility.\"\n\nIf you were looking for a long list of sparkling new projects for Wales, then look elsewhere.\n\nThe section of the manifesto dedicated to Wales is mostly a list of platitudes (\"we are ambitious for the Welsh economy\"), previous announcements (West Wales Parkway station), and devolved issues that are not relevant to this election (develop an M4 relief road).\n\nOf course, many of the Tories' UK-wide tax and benefit proposals will have a major impact on people in Wales - the \"triple lock\" on the state pension; no increases in income tax, National Insurance and VAT; the continued roll-out of Universal Credit.\n\nBut Boris Johnson's main election pitch is summed up in just a few lines: \"Only the Welsh Conservatives can end the current uncertainty by delivering on the democratic decision of the Welsh people to Leave\" the European Union.\n\nDespite the odd tax offer here and recycled pledge there, the prime minister and his team is banking everything on the public seeing this election as being about Brexit above all else.\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "More than one in 10 cancer patients die from heart and blood vessel problems, rather than their initial illness, a study says.\n\nThe European Heart Journal looked at three million US patients, with 28 different cancers, over 40 years.\n\nThe researchers say the increase in the numbers surviving cancer means more attention should be focused on cardiovascular risk.\n\nUK experts say doctors should be more aware and monitor patients accordingly.\n\nAmong the 3.23 million cancer patients studied, 38% died from cancer and 11% from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) - of which, three-quarters were from heart disease.\n\nThe proportion of cancer survivors dying from CVD was highest in those with disease of the bladder, larynx, prostate, womb, bowel and breast.\n\nThe risk in the first year could be explained by the effects of chemotherapy or radiation treatment on people's bodies.\n\nBut rates continued to be higher than those in the general population. The study said cancer patients were \"perpetually at elevated risk\".\n\nDr Nicholas Zaorsky, a radiation oncologist, from Penn State Cancer Institute, who led the study, said knowing about the risk could help patients live more healthily in the long term.\n\n\"Increasing awareness of this risk may spur cancer survivors to implement healthy lifestyle behaviours that not only decrease their risk of cardiovascular disease, but also the risk of cancer recurrence.\"\n\nMartin Ledwick, head cancer information nurse at Cancer Research UK, said: \"Doctors should be aware of this research as it suggests cancer patients need to be monitored more closely after treatment, for heart disease and stroke.\n\n\"But it doesn't tell us why some cancer patients may be at higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.\n\n\"For some, it might be treatment-related - radiotherapy to the chest and some chemotherapy drugs can lead to a higher risk of heart disease.\n\n\"But some of the cancers included in the study share lifestyle risk factors with cardiovascular disease - for example, obesity and smoking, which might also explain the increased risk.\n\n\"This is another reason why it's important for everyone to have a healthy lifestyle.\"\n\nProf Metin Avkiran, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said the study offered further evidence that, compared with the general population, cancer survivors are at much greater risk of death from heart and circulatory diseases.\n\nHe added: \"We need more research to understand why this is, and whether factors other than the known damaging effects of some anti-cancer treatments on the heart and blood vessels are at play.\n\n\"What is becoming increasingly clear is that cancer doctors and cardiologists need to work together from an early stage to try and minimise the risk of patients surviving cancer but succumbing to heart and circulatory diseases.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A helicopter and lifeboats searched for the missing aircraft\n\nThe search for a missing light aircraft and its pilot off the Welsh coast has been suspended for the night, the coastguard said.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the plane had been flying from Caernarfon Airport to the Great Orme, Llandudno and back on Monday afternoon when it disappeared.\n\nThe force added that there were no other passengers, and officers were supporting the missing pilot's family.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the search would resume on Tuesday.\n\nA coastguard helicopter and the RNLI searched an area around Puffin Island, near Penmon, Anglesey for the aircraft on Monday.\n\nA flight which travelled from Caernarfon towards Llandudno on Monday appeared to disappear from the radar\n\nHM Coastguard said it received a call for assistance shortly before 12:50 GMT.\n\nA spokesperson said the search was launched after a report that an aircraft had disappeared from radar contact.\n\nLifeboats from Beaumaris, Moelfre and Llandudno, and North Wales Police all took part.\n\nNorth Wales Police said: \"We received a call at 12:59 reporting a possible crash involving a light aircraft in the Penmon area.\n\n\"Officers are currently assisting HM Coastguard and our enquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch also said it had sent a team to investigate an accident involving a light aircraft near Beaumaris, Anglesey.\n\nThe RNLI said two lifeboats were launched from Anglesey to assist in the search for an aircraft last seen two miles north east of Penmon.\n\nThe search is focusing on an area around Puffin Island, off the east coast of Anglesey", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. During a demo for the new Tesla 'Cybertruck', Elon Musk had an embarrassing moment\n\nElon Musk has revealed why the windows of Tesla's Cybertruck broke during an embarrassing launch incident.\n\nHe blamed the mishap on the order in which a demonstration had taken place.\n\nThe vehicle was first struck with a sledgehammer in what appeared to be a successful demonstration of its armour body's strength.\n\nBut this had caused an unseen crack, Mr Musk revealed, which had subsequently led to the windows smashing when they had been hit with a steel ball.\n\nThe futuristic vehicle was unveiled on Thursday in Hawthorne, California, where its stainless steel, angular design drew a mixed response from the audience.\n\nResponding to a fan on Twitter, Mr Musk said the incident could have been easily avoided.\n\n\"Sledgehammer impact on door cracked the base of the glass, which is why the steel ball didn't bounce off,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Should have done steel ball on window, then sledgehammer the door. Next time.\"\n\nOver the weekend, Mr Musk tweeted footage of an earlier demonstration, carried out behind the scenes moments before the launch, showing the windows withstanding the impact of the steel ball.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDespite the awkward mishap, Tesla announced it had received more than 200,000 \"orders\" for its Cybertruck following the demonstration. The firm is charging $100 to reserve the vehicle, but the sum is refundable if the customer later changes their mind.\n\nThe success of the launch event has caused some speculation on social media the incident, viewed millions of times online, had been orchestrated to go viral.\n\n\"It's hard to say if that one infamous moment is why Tesla has been able to get 200,000 deposits on the Cybertruck but all the extra attention certainly didn't hurt,\" said Jessica Caldwell, from vehicle marketplace Edmunds.\n\n\"Moments like that are why Tesla has such a passionate fan base: while most executives are always hyper-rehearsed and polished, Elon Musk has never been afraid to show his human side, for better or worse.\n\n\"Tesla's fans are notorious for giving the company the benefit of the doubt and assume the technology will be sorted out by the time the truck actually goes on sale.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA member of the audience on last night's Question Time on BBC One criticised Labour's policy of raising income taxes for people earning over £80,000 on the grounds that it wouldn't be enough to put them in the top 5% of earners.\n\n\"I am nowhere near in the top 5%, let me tell you, I'm not even in the top 50%,\" he said.\n\nPresenter Fiona Bruce said Labour, \"would raise income tax on those earning over £80,000. You're saying that would affect you because you earn over that sum?\" The man confirmed he did.\n\nHMRC publishes tables each year breaking down income taxpayers into 100 equally-sized groups based on how much they earn.\n\nThe most recent figures, for 2016-17, show that you needed to be earning £75,300 to be in the top 5%.\n\nIf you adjust that using average earnings figures from the ONS, it's likely that you need to be earning about £81,000 to be in the top 5% of income taxpayers today.\n\nBut the figures from HMRC exclude people earning too little to pay income tax, which means that the audience member would have been well into the top 5% of all earners.\n\nHe's certainly not outside the top 50% - anything over about £25,000 would put him in the top half.\n\nAll the figures so far have been for the whole of the UK but there are clearly regional variations in these figures.\n\nWhile we do not have figures for how much you would need to earn to be in the top 5% of earners in a particular region, we do have figures for median earnings by region, that's the amount you'd have to earn to be in the top 50%.\n\nThe region with the lowest average weekly earnings is the North East of England at £531.10, which is 24% or £168 a week lower than the highest earning region, London at £699.20.\n\nThe audience-member also said: \"Every doctor in the country earns more than that [£80,000]. Every doctor, every accountant, every solicitor earns more than that.\"\n\nThe ONS publishes figures for average earnings in various professions (it's table 14.7a here).\n\nThe median solicitor (that's the one half of solicitors earn more than and half earn less than) earns £41,127 while the median chartered or certified accountant earns £35,730.\n\nFor doctors you have to go for the category medical practitioners, which includes anaesthetists, consultants, doctors, general practitioners, paediatricians, psychiatrists, radiologists and surgeons. Their average earnings are £60,838.\n\nCorrection: This piece was amended to reflect the fact that the HMRC figures exclude earners who do not make enough to pay income tax.", "A man who strangled a British backpacker and hid her body inside a suitcase has been found guilty of murder.\n\nGrace Millane was found buried in bushland outside Auckland, New Zealand in 2018.\n\nA jury at the city's high court rejected claims by the 27-year-old man, who cannot be named, that she died accidentally during \"rough sex\".\n\nThe trial was shown CCTV footage of the pair on a date in a bar and arriving back at his hotel before he is seen taking a suitcase out of his hotel on a luggage trolley, said to contain the 21-year-old’s body.", "US Attorney General William Barr has called the death of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein \"a perfect storm of screw-ups\".\n\nIn an interview with AP News, Mr Barr said the jailhouse suicide, which came as Epstein awaited trial, was due to a \"series\" of mistakes.\n\nHis comments come after two guards who were responsible for Epstein were charged with falsifying prison records.\n\nLawyers for Epstein's victims are urging Prince Andrew, a longtime friend of Epstein, to speak to US police.\n\nThe US attorney general said he had personally reviewed CCTV footage that confirmed nobody entered the area where Epstein was detained on the night he died.\n\n\"I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups,\" Mr Barr said in an interview as he flew to the US state of Montana for an event on Thursday.\n\nEpstein, a wealthy financier who partied with the rich and famous, died in Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial on charges of sexually abusing girls as young as 14.\n\nEarlier this week, two guards tasked with watching over Epstein's jail unit were charged with sleeping and browsing the internet during their shift as Epstein died.\n\nOfficers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were supposed to check on Epstein every 30 minutes. According to an indictment, the guards had not done their 03:00 or 05:00 checks.\n\nEpstein was placed on suicide watch after he was found on 23 July on his cell floor with bruises on his neck.\n\nHe was taken off suicide watch about a week before his death, though kept on a heightened watch that required him to have a cellmate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut his cellmate was transferred on 9 August to another prison a day before Epstein's death, which a medical examiner ruled to be suicide by hanging.\n\nMr Barr, who leads the US Department of Justice, said: \"I think it was important to have a roommate in there with him and we're looking into why that wasn't done, and I think every indication is that was a screw-up.\n\n\"The systems to assure that was done were not followed.\"\n\nHe added that New York prosecutors who are continuing to investigate Epstein's crimes \"say there is good progress being made\" in the case.\n\n\"And I'm hopeful in a relatively short time there will be tangible results,\" he continued.\n\nExecutors of Epstein's estimated $577m (£450m) estate are seeking a judge's approval to create a fund to settle claims by his victims in civil cases.\n\nJeffrey Epstein was charged with sexually abusing dozens of girls\n\nMeanwhile, victims of Epstein are calling for Prince Andrew, a former friend of Epstein, to submit to an FBI interview.\n\nThe Duke of York announced on Wednesday he was stepping back from royal duties amid the fallout from his recent BBC Newsnight interview.\n\nOne of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre, has claimed she was forced to have sex with the duke three times.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK. The full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Test, Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui, day two of five:\n\nEngland continued to scrap their way into the ascendency on a hard-fought second day of the first Test against New Zealand.\n\nHaving ground their way to a competitive, if not imposing, 353 all out with the bat, their bowlers maintained the pressure to leave the hosts 144-4 at the close, trailing by 209.\n\nSam Curran took the key wicket of New Zealand captain Kane Williamson in the final hour, having made the initial breakthrough to dislodge Tom Latham.\n\nJack Leach and Ben Stokes also took wickets on another attritional day of Test cricket in Mount Maunganui, leaving Henry Nicholls and BJ Watling to watchfully see off the final few overs.\n\nThe tourists will be disappointed not to have a more substantial lead, having fallen from 277-4 to 353 all out - at one stage losing four wickets for 18 runs.\n\nGoing into the two-match series England spoke of adopting a more measured approach to batting in order to tire out the opposition attack and make run scoring easier for their middle-order strokemakers.\n\nHere, though, a disciplined approach from the likes of Rory Burns, Joe Denly and Stokes on day one was squandered, and the end result was all too familiar - England once again failing to post a match-controlling first-innings total.\n\nThe mini collapse began when Stokes, who had looked in complete command of the bowling on his way to 91, came down the wicket to Tim Southee and slashed hard to first slip, where Ross Taylor took an excellent catch.\n\nOllie Pope (29) will be similarly disappointed to perish chasing a wide one, while Curran (0) and Jofra Archer (4) fell cheaply as Southee took three of the four wickets to fall.\n\nJos Buttler, in his first Test as England's wicketkeeper since displacing Jonny Bairstow, intelligently shepherded the tail from there - putting on 52 with Leach for the ninth wicket before carving a simple catch to Mitchell Santner at deep cover.\n\nStuart Broad lasted just 10 balls, meaning England fell to 353 all out on a pitch where they might have expected 400-plus.\n\n\"England would have started the day saying they were on course for 430 or more, so they were restrained a little by New Zealand,\" said Test Match Special commentator Jeremy Coney.\n\nNew Zealand, though, made similar mistakes while using the same tactics.\n\nJeet Raval and Taylor were particularly culpable as they played horrible shots to pick out fielders at mid-wicket and on the square leg boundary respectively.\n\nWilliamson played nicely for his 31st Test half-century, although England will be cheered by the half-chances they created with clever fields designed to nullify the opposition captain's strengths through gully and third man.\n\nTwice Williamson escaped playing chipped cuts through that area before he was surprised by a lifting delivery from Curran that suggested the wicket will become two-paced the further this match goes on.\n\nOpener Latham, who like Williamson is ranked among the world's top 10 Test batsmen, was also dismissed by Surrey all-rounder Curran.\n\nHe was out lbw to one that straightened, walking off without reviewing despite replays showing a thin nick before the ball hit the pad.\n\nSlow left-armer Leach, too, will be pleased with his wicket. While it was gifted by a poor shot, he will know New Zealand is not a country that traditionally favours spin bowling.\n\nNone of the last 101 wickets taken by New Zealand in their home country have fallen to spin - the last one being when England last toured in early 2018.\n\nThe day ended with Archer delivering a hostile spell of short-pitched bowling including hitting Nicholls on the head.\n\nFormer England batsman Mark Ramprakash on Test Match Special: \"Joe Root has had a good day as captain. He's got a real vote of confidence from Ashley Giles (England's director of men's cricket) and they've talked about building a team for the next Ashes series down under.\n\n\"At times in the past you've felt he's been one step behind the game but he's rotated his bowlers really well today.\n\n\"He brought Sam Curran on when it wasn't working with the new ball and he struck early.\n\n\"He got Jack Leach into the attack early and that will give him confidence and make him think he's a wicket-taking option.\"\n\nEngland's Jack Leach: \"The ball from Sam Curran to get Kane Williamson misbehaved and that's a good sign when you've got runs on the board.\n\n\"We would have liked to have got more runs, we were aiming for at least 400. We wanted that big score and we wanted a century in there and that's something we're working hard to do. Hopefully that'll come in the second innings.\"\n\nNew Zealand's Tim Southee: \"It would have been nice to be three down tonight but we've still got batting to come.\n\n\"I thought we bowled well yesterday and we got our rewards for that today. We would have taken 6-112 at the start of the day.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn has told a Question Time audience that if he becomes prime minister he will remain neutral on Brexit.\n\nHe said that would allow him to \"credibly carry out the result\" of any future referendum.", "Labour's manifesto includes a pledge to be building 100,000 council houses and at least 50,000 affordable homes through housing associations a year by the end of the Parliament.\n\nHousing is devolved, so the party is talking about England only.\n\nThis is a properly large number of homes to be building. To put it into context, a combination of council housing, housing associations and the private sector has managed to produce more than 150,000 dwellings in total for only two of the past 10 years.\n\nThe last year in which more than 100,000 council houses were built in England was 1977.\n\nAnd since the early 1990s, only a very few years have seen more than one or two thousand council houses built.\n\nBut while local authorities tend not to be as involved in building houses as they once were, there are also homes not built by councils but still for social rent, of which 6,287 were built in 2018-19.\n\nLabour, however, has been clear in its manifesto it is talking about homes \"built by councils for social rent\".\n\nAnd it defines social rent as being about half the cost of market rates.\n\nPerhaps the biggest challenge would be finding people to build these houses.\n\nThe construction sector has been complaining about skills shortages for several years, so even diverting all the workers currently building homes for the private sector would not necessarily be enough.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner told BBC News the key would be better training.\n\n\"We can get people into these courses and get people on the ground being able to do the work,\" she said.\n\nAsked about who these people might be given unemployment is at relatively low levels (1.3 million in the most recent figures), she said many of those on zero-hours contracts or having to work several jobs would prefer to be retrained.\n\nIn 2017-18, there were 69,897 enrolments in further education courses in construction, planning and the built environment, while 44,570 people took part in apprenticeships in that area.\n\nLabour is separately committed to creating one million \"green\" jobs, of which just under half would be used to transform existing homes, so a lot of workers would need to be retrained into these sorts of roles.\n\nAnd on top of that, Labour is also committed to a big programme of infrastructure investment, covering things such as schools, hospitals and care homes, which would also require workers with construction skills.\n\nIt's not just bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, electricians and plumbers who would be needed - councils not currently geared up to large-scale housebuilding would also need to employ extra staff, as well as expanding their planning departments.\n\nSome of the people with these skills could be attracted from overseas but any sort of Brexit that did not keep the UK as part of the single market would probably make it harder for employers to hire workers from the rest of Europe.\n\nLabour has, however, given itself five years to be building 100,000 council houses and 50,000 housing association homes a year, which means there would be time to create the courses and get people trained to do the work, as well as preparing local authorities for the task.\n\nThere are also questions about whether enough land could be found to build all these new properties on but if the government was sufficiently committed to the programme (and had a big enough majority) it could change the planning rules.\n\nThere is not a specific costing for the housebuilding programme - it is part of Labour's £150bn Social Transformation Fund.\n\nSo, there are significant challenges but if a Labour government spent the billions of pounds necessary to train workers, offered high enough wages to attract people to retrain and took the time and effort to push through the structural changes needed in local authorities and the planning system, this housebuilding target would not be impossible.", "Grace Millane was last seen alive on the eve of her 22nd birthday\n\nGuilty. The intake of breath, a sob from the dead woman's mother. A single word was all it took to bring to an end one of the most highly publicised murder cases in New Zealand's history.\n\nThree weeks of evidence, hundreds of hours of painstaking police work and a year of grief for a family had built up to the moment 12 jurors agreed that a 27-year-old man had murdered Grace Millane.\n\nWhat had started out as a missing person inquiry in December 2018 when a daughter, sister and friend failed to respond to 22nd birthday messages swiftly turned into a murder investigation.\n\nWhen Ms Millane did not respond to birthday messages, her family issued an appeal on social media\n\nWithin days of her disappearance, police had identified a suspect, spoken to him and, unbeknownst to the killer, tracked his movements by trawling through CCTV evidence.\n\nBefore long police would find Ms Millane's body, which he had stuffed into a suitcase and buried in the mountainous Waitākere Ranges. There followed an outpouring of grief from a small nation unused to such crimes.\n\nThe backpacker's body was discovered in bushland outside Auckland\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern issued an apology to Ms Millane's parents David and Gillian, saying \"your daughter should have been safe here, she wasn't and I'm sorry for that\".\n\nMs Millane, from Wickford, Essex, and the man who would go on to murder her made contact through a dating app and hit it off immediately.\n\nShe was in Auckland as part of a round-the-world trip, while he had been living there working in various sales jobs.\n\nIt was clear from the footage they enjoyed each other's company; they were close, they kissed. Ms Millane even messaged a friend back home to tell her how much she was connecting with him.\n\nThe pair were seen getting on well at various locations in the city\n\nThey returned to his hotel.\n\nBut after she left the lift, she was never seen alive again.\n\nThey were seen in a lift, heading for the room where Ms Millane would be murdered\n\nThere he strangled her before taking pictures of her and watching pornography. He claimed she had died accidentally during consensual sex.\n\nDespite his murder conviction, her killer still cannot be named. A court suppression order remains in place and is likely to do so beyond his sentencing on 21 February, in part because of the level of interest in the case.\n\nReporting on the trial has proved challenging; because the defendant could not be named, CCTV footage had to be blurred, and there were legal disputes over some pieces of evidence. Several witnesses also had their identities protected.\n\nThe killer's identity is suppressed under New Zealand law\n\nBecause of the nature of the killer's defence, Ms Millane's parents have had to listen to claims about their daughter's sex life, with the details reported across New Zealand and around the world.\n\nGraphic information, in particular regarding the night of her murder, was analysed as Mr and Mrs Millane watched in court.\n\nAt times, Mrs Millane would look at the floor or hold her head in her hands as the injuries inflicted on her daughter were described.\n\nThe University of Lincoln graduate was on a round-the-world trip at the time of her death\n\nThe prosecution accused the man of \"eroticising\" Ms Millane's death by taking intimate photographs of her body and looking up pornography while she lay dead in his room.\n\nIn a way, he managed to do the same during her trial with his story about consensual sex gone wrong - a tale rejected by the jury - leading to a focus on BDSM and breath-play.\n\nExperts, Tinder dates and ex-lovers were all brought to court to talk about the killer and his victim.\n\nThe defendant was portrayed as a serial dater; he even messaged and met up with a woman as Ms Millane's body lay in a suitcase.\n\nIt was the sexualising of the murder that brought the killer down.\n\nThe timeline of his Google searches and the naked pictures of Ms Millane were irreconcilable with his case, the prosecution said. Either Ms Millane was dead when they were taken, or he had searched for the Waitākere Ranges, where he buried her body, while she was still living - thus showing he planned to kill her.\n\nThe defence could only offer that they had been \"random\" drunk searches, and the Waitākere Ranges was perhaps somewhere the pair had planned to go for a day out.\n\nDavid and Gillian Millane attended the trial in Auckland\n\nThe killer's right to use the \"rough sex\" defence, and some of the reporting of it, has angered Fiona Mackenzie, founder of the campaign group We Can't Consent To This.\n\nDescribing it as the \"ultimate victim blaming\", she said: \"He gets to tell her story, he gets to tell the story of what she was like and how she asked for it.\n\n\"Families not only lose their loved one but these men [those who use such a defence] steal the public perception of them and destroy their reputation. It's appalling.\"", "Boris Johnson has been challenged as to why a report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy has not been published.\n\nDuring a BBC Question Time leaders' special, he said: \"There is absolutely no evidence that I know of to show any interference in any British electoral event\".", "A group of orphaned British children caught up in the war in Syria have returned to the UK.\n\nThe children, who are all from one family, are the first to be repatriated from the area of Syria once controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nThe Foreign Office was asked by the High Court to help them return.\n\nThe court heard they arrived in London on Friday and were in good spirits, having met with members of their family who they had breakfast with.\n\nThey were brought back to the UK at the request of relatives after they were made wards of court - meaning they were placed under supervision and protection of the High Court.\n\nThe judge said it had been a complex and difficult operation.\n\nMr Justice Keehan said the children had now gone to their family homes where they appeared settled and as happy as possible in difficult circumstances.\n\nTheir return comes after pressure on the government - and with calls from aid agencies for all British children who survived the fall of IS to be returned to the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the \"innocent\" children should \"never have been subjected to the horrors of war\".\n\nMr Raab added: \"We have facilitated their return home because it was the right thing to do.\n\n\"Now they must be allowed the privacy and given the support to return to a normal life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the end for Islamic State?\n\nThe fate of foreign IS fighters and other foreigners caught up in the conflict has been a key issue since the defeat of the extremist group was declared in March 2019.\n\nIS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq.\n\nThe UK had been reluctant to take back citizens from the area.\n\nOther countries including France, Denmark, Norway and Kazakhstan have brought children home.\n\nThe United Nations has said countries should take responsibility for their own citizens unless they are to be prosecuted in Syria in accordance with international standards.\n\nSave The Children said the repatriation was a \"triumph of compassion in the face of cruelty,\" and that it would allow the youngsters to live full, happy lives.\n\nBut Alison Griffin, head of humanitarian campaigns at the children's charity, said more work was needed.\n\nShe added: \"There are still as many as 60 British children that remain stranded in appalling conditions and Syria's harsh winter will soon begin to bite.\n\n\"All are as innocent as those rescued today and our very real fear is that they won't all survive to see the spring.\n\n\"They must all be brought home before it is too late.\"", "Barbara Taylor Bradford said period TV dramas since A Woman of Substance were \"junk\"\n\nBarbara Taylor Bradford's blockbuster A Woman of Substance sold millions of copies and became a mini-series that is still Channel 4's most-watched show.\n\nNow, the author is writing a new novel that revisits the story - but from a different point of view.\n\nThe 1979 original followed Emma Harte from Yorkshire maid to business giant.\n\nThe new book will return to the young Emma's era, but telling the story of her friend Blackie O'Neill - played by a young Liam Neeson in the TV version.\n\nJenny Seagrove as young Emma and Liam Neeson as Blackie in the 1985 TV version\n\n\"I'm in the in the process of creating a life for Blackie which we never saw in A Woman of Substance,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe 86-year-old author was inspired to write Blackie and Emma while at her husband Robert's bedside in hospital. She had been due to write a third instalment in her House of Falconer saga instead, but was unable to do the required research.\n\nRobert, a film producer, died in July. \"I was sitting there, my mind wandering and knowing what was going to happen, and trying to think, what can I write that will be… no book is easy, but what would be easier than having to do a load of research? And I suddenly thought of Blackie.\n\n\"My editor said that was Bob's gift to me. He made me think of Blackie as a book.\"\n\nPart of the new novel acts as a prequel to A Woman of Substance, following Blackie from 13-year-old orphan in Ireland until he meets Emma Harte on a Yorkshire moor. The story then runs in parallel to the original, following Blackie's fortunes rather than Emma's.\n\nDeborah Kerr as an older Emma at the head of the table\n\n\"Where does he go? What does he do? Is he really a good man? Has he any troubles? Has he had other women? It's really Blackie's book,\" the Yorkshire-born writer said.\n\nA Woman of Substance has sold 30 million copies, according to Bradford's official biography, and spawned six sequels. The original mini-series was watched by almost 14 million people on Channel 4 in 1985 and was nominated for two Emmys.\n\n\"I think it was ahead of its time in every way,\" the author said. \"There's been no TV series made since that's had any plot or drama. It's all junk when it comes to those sorts of 'big house' stories.\n\n\"A Woman of Substance was very much a big hit with Channel 4. It took all the ratings and it's a story that's got everything in it. It's got love, it's got drama, it's got death, it's got success, it's got tragedy.\"\n\nTaylor Bradford said she doesn't watch much TV, and when she does she prefers factual programmes.\n\n\"I have watched some of Downton,\" she said. \"It's very pretty. But I'm more for a documentary or news.\"\n\nThe second book in her House of Falconer series, In the Lion's Den, is published on 28 November.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A man has been found guilty of strangling British backpacker Grace Millane.\n\nThe defendant, 27, stuffed her body inside a suitcase which was found buried in bushland outside Auckland, New Zealand.\n\nSpeaking outside the court Grace's father David Millane said:\n\n\"The verdict of murder today will be welcomed by every member of the Millane family\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra from Wednesday, 20 November; Live text coverage on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nDan Evans dug deep to send Great Britain into the semi-finals of the inaugural Davis Cup finals in Madrid with a thrilling win over Germany.\n\nBritish number one Evans, who had lost his previous two matches, beat Jan-Lennard Struff 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 7-6 (7-2) to give GB an unassailable 2-0 lead.\n\nEarlier, Kyle Edmund beat Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets as Andy Murray sat out again.\n\nBritain face hosts Spain, led by world number one Rafael Nadal, on Saturday.\n\nEvans' relief at pushing Britain over the line without needing Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski to win the doubles, and finally earning a vital victory himself, was clear as he threw his racquet high towards the roof of the indoor arena when Struff pushed a forehand wide on the first match point.\n\nSprinting over to his team, Evans then leapt into the arms of his jubilant captain Leon Smith before being mobbed by his delighted team-mates and their support staff.\n\n\"The last two days I came up short and the other guys got it done,\" Evans, 29, said. \"But it's not about me - it is about everyone.\"\n\nBritain's semi-final will take place on the same 12,500-seater Manolo Santana arena at 16:30 GMT on Saturday, with live text and radio coverage across the BBC Sport website and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.\n\nBy reaching the last four, Britain also assured themselves of a spot in next year's season-ending finals, which are the brainchild of Barcelona footballer Gerard Pique and have features 18 nations competing at the inaugural 'World Cup of tennis' in the Spanish capital.\n\nIt is the third time in five years that 2015 champions Britain have reached the semi-finals.\n• None Djokovic's Serbia lose to Russia despite having three match points\n\n'Boy, did he step up' - Evans puts defeats behind him\n\nAlthough British captain Smith had said whether to recall Andy Murray was likely to be one of his \"most difficult\" decisions, the absence of the three-time Grand Slam champion was still a major surprise when the team was announced an hour before the quarter-final tie.\n\nMurray, 32, produced a laboured performance in his victory over Dutch world number 179 Tallon Griekspoor in the opening group match on Wednesday, admitting afterwards he was still a couple of kilograms heavier than he would like to be.\n\nWhether down to a lack of sharpness or something else, his absence again meant Britain were relying on Edmund and Evans to deliver against the Germans.\n\nBoth men repaid the faith shown in them by Smith.\n\nEvans' place had come under particular scrutiny after the British number one lost both of his group-stage matches, despite leading by a set against tricky opponents who upped their levels considerably to overpower him.\n\nAfter edging the first-set tie-break against a powerful Struff, who is ranked 35th in the world, Evans could not sustain his level as the German won the final four games of the second to force a decider.\n\nFor the British fans, it was another sense of deja vu.\n\nBut, despite a stark physical disadvantage of seven inches in height and 17 kilograms in weight, Evans refused to be bullied off the court.\n\nHe showed remarkable mental strength to stave off two break points at 2-1, then reassert himself as he faced scoreboard pressure by serving when behind before dominating Struff in a one-sided tie-break.\n\n\"Dan felt down the past couple of days, but boy did he step up,\" Smith told Eurosport.\n\n\"He loves playing Davis Cup. We'll savour this one.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nEdmund steps in to deliver again\n\nEdmund, like he did against Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin in Thursday's must-win group tie, fulfilled his role spectacularly, producing one his finest matches of a year where he has struggled for victories on the ATP Tour.\n\nDespite slipping to 69th in the world, Edmund has rediscovered his most potent weapon - blistering clean forehands - and improved his weaker backhand side at exactly the right time for his country.\n\nThe Yorkshireman hit 10 winners, compared to just six unforced errors, in a first set wrapped up in 32 minutes thanks to two breaks of serve and without facing a break point himself.\n\nWhen 36-year-old Kohlschreiber did take his first chance at the third attempt in the fourth game of the second set, Edmund responded instantly to stop any momentum the German hoped to garner.\n\nShowing a resilience and confidence often lacking this year, Edmund broke back with a forehand winner down the line, seconds after he chose the wrong side with a backhand which allowed the German to return at the net.\n\nTwo backhand winners down the line laid the platform for Edmund to break again for 6-5 and the opportunity to serve for the match, a chance he took with a hold to love sealed by a long Kohlschreiber return.\n\nEdmund, usually so placid, revealed the emotions stirred by representing his nation in the Davis Cup by swinging a forearm high into the air after sealing a dominant win, embracing both Smith and Murray courtside before returning to the middle again to soak up the acclaim of the British fans.\n\nWhile there appeared to be fewer Britons on a half-full court than at the two group ties against the Netherlands and Kazakhstan, those still in the Spanish capital provided sterling vocal support as they outnumbered their German counterparts.\n\n\"We have the best away fans here 100%, it feels like a home tie playing here,\" Edmund said.\n\n\"We appreciate the efforts and we really feel it.\"\n\nThis was the finest performance of Dan Evans' Davis Cup career.\n\nHe was conceding seven inches in height, and a few weight divisions, to Jan-Lennard Struff, and knew only too well that he had lost his first two matches of the week having won the first set.\n\nEvans had to absorb a lot of pressure early in the deciding set, but gradually subdued the previously free-wheeling Struff, and was by far the stronger in the tie-break.\n\nEvans has now played nine sets of tennis over three days, but assuming there is no adverse reaction, he and Kyle Edmund are set to feature in the semi-final.\n\nThat would mean no Andy Murray for a third tie running. But as captain Leon Smith pointed out, Evans and Edmund are making a stronger claim right now.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeane Freeman explains why health board is in \"special measures\"\n\nGlasgow's health board has been placed in \"special measures\" following the deaths of two children at the city's largest hospital.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde would be escalated to stage four of the NHS Board Performance Escalation Framework.\n\nThis means an oversight board will be put in place, chaired by chief nursing officer Prof Fiona McQueen.\n\nMs Freeman said there were issues over infection prevention and control.\n\nThe move was welcomed by opposition MSPs who had been calling for the government to take greater control of the board.\n\nEarlier this week Ms Freeman apologised to the parents of two patients who died in 2017 in the Royal Hospital for Children (RHC), which is part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus.\n\nIn a letter to the Scottish Parliament's health and sport committee on Friday, she said there were \"ongoing issues\" over infection prevention, management and control at the hospitals.\n\n\"I have concluded that further action is necessary to support the board to ensure appropriate governance is in place to increase public confidence in these matters and therefore that for this specific issue the board will be escalated to stage four of our performance framework,\" she said.\n\nA stage four ranking means there are \"significant risks to delivery, quality, financial performance or safety\" and that senior level external support is required.\n\nIn her letter, Ms Freeman said the escalation would \"ensure appropriate governance is in place to increase public confidence and strengthen current approaches that are in place to mitigate avoidable harms\".\n\nThere will be specific support for infection prevention and control, communications and engagement.\n\nWhen asked whether she had lost confidence in the health board, Ms Freeman told BBC Scotland it was \"performing well\" in a number of areas.\n\nShe said: \"In their clinical performance they provide excellent quality of care to patients across their area.\n\n\"But in this particular area of infection prevention and control and how they manage that, how they have governance around that, how they collect and use the data and in their engagement with patients and families - and by that I mean giving people the answers to their questions - there is significant room for improvement.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Anas Sarwar said the health secretary had taken the right course of action.\n\n\"The Glasgow health board is not fit for purpose, and this is a necessary step following the unforgiveable failings of senior management,\" he said.\n\n\"The focus now must be to tell parents, patients and the public the truth about infections at the hospital.\n\n\"I pay tribute to the brave whistleblowers who came forward to shine a light on the catastrophic failings in the hope that nothing like this can ever happen again.\"\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Children share a campus in the south of Glasgow\n\nThe health board and Ms Freeman have both apologised to the parents of two children who died at the hospital.\n\nThree-year-old Mason Djemat, who was being treated for a rare genetic disease, died on 9 August 2017. Milly Main, 10, died three weeks later while recovering from leukaemia treatment.\n\nBoth children were treated on a ward affected by water contamination at the Royal Hospital for Children.\n\nTheir deaths emerged after Mr Sarwar was contacted by a whistleblower.\n\nIt also emerged on Friday that the NHS board has written to parents confirming that one of the wards affected will reopen for general admissions.\n\nIt explained there was \"no evidence to support the continued restriction of new admissions\" in the ward, and that new parent and staff facilities would be provided.", "The four party leaders are quizzed on Brexit in a Question Time special in Sheffield.", "SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has been challenged about whether she would back a confirmatory vote on any Scottish independence deal.\n\nShe made the comments while taking part in a BBC Question Time Leaders' Special.", "The Conservatives have raised £5.7m in the first week of the official election campaign, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nThe Tories received 87% of registered donations in that period, figures show, while Labour raised a total of £218,500.\n\nBut the figures do not represent all donations, as only those above £7,500 have to be reported.\n\nThe biggest gift to the Tories was £1.5m from theatre producer and regular donor John Gore.\n\nMeanwhile, the largest single registered donation to Labour was £62,000 from the Unite union, led by Jeremy Corbyn ally Len McCluskey.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the figures showed an \"astonishing gap in fundraising\".\n\nThe discrepancy between the two main parties is even wider than in the first week of the 2017 campaign, when the Tories raised £4.1m in comparison to the £2.7m received by Labour.\n\nIn addition, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said he understood the Conservatives had raised more than £4m in unregistered smaller donations since the beginning of the election campaign.\n\nThis is four times the £1m in small donations - averaging £26 each - that Labour says it has received over the same period.\n\nIn the first week of the current campaign, the Green Party raised £30,000 in registered donations - half the £60,000 raised by the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.\n\nThis is the first UK-wide election when pre-poll donations and loan reports have been published for parties in Northern Ireland.\n\nMoney received during the other weeks of the five-week official election campaign will be detailed in later releases.\n\nFor Labour, 70% of registered donations came from unions.\n\nFor the Conservatives, 47% of the party's donations came from individuals, with the remainder coming from companies.\n\nThe party received £500,000 from investment firm WA Capital and the same from property company Countywide Developments.\n\nAnother Tory donor, Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of a former minister for Russian President Vladimir Putin, gave £200,000 in the same period.\n\nThe biggest donor to the Lib Dems was wealth management firm Attestor Services, which gave £75,000.\n\nFinancier Jeremy Hosking, a former donor to the Vote Leave campaign, was the biggest donor to the Brexit Party with £250,000.", "TSB says it has resolved an IT failure which meant wages and other payments were not paid into some of its customers' accounts.\n\nThe bank says it was due to a \"processing error\" and those affected will not be left out of pocket.\n\nBut customers complained about being unable to pay their rent and long call wait times when trying to seek help.\n\nIt comes just days after TSB was criticised over IT failures that hit 1.9 million customers in April 2018.\n\nAn independent report into last year's incident said the bank's board lacked \"common sense\" as it prepared to switch customers on to a new IT system, which the investigation said had not been tested properly before going live.\n\nIt is unclear how many customers were affected by the latest problem and exactly how long the system was down.\n\nTSB said: \"We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.\"\n\nA number of customers contacted the BBC suggesting the issue went beyond processing of payments, with internet banking and the app down as well.\n\nBob Skinley said: \"I've been trying all morning to get into my internet banking account and can't so looks like they're having a bit of a meltdown yet again.\n\n\"Sounding horribly like the last fiasco.\"\n\nLorna tweeted that her pay had eventually come through.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lorna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYanique Sharifa told the BBC: \"I started to notice an issue from yesterday morning. I made a wire transaction that was not showing as it usually does right away. Then I get paid every Friday without fail, I've called and checked if payment was issued. That was confirmed but still I see no money in my bank.\n\n\"I been on the phone trying to get through to TSB for over an hour and no answer.\"\n\nThe timing of this latest IT error was bad for customers - some of whom were expecting wages or preparing their finances for the weekend - but it was even worse for TSB.\n\nEarlier this week, nobody at the bank came out with any credit from the independent report by law firm Slaughter and May into last year's meltdown.\n\nIts new chief executive Debbie Crosbie is putting the finishing touches to TSB's new strategy, expected to be announced on Monday.\n\nThe last thing she wanted was an IT problem that reminded people of a difficult recent past when she hopes to talk about the bank's future.\n\nIT glitches are expected in most banks. Regulators call for them to be overcome quickly and without major disruption to customers. Inside the bank, they will be relieved the problems were sorted out quickly this time, but again it has chipped away at its reputation with customers.", "The new Tory policy would mainly affect the London property market\n\nForeigners buying properties in England will be forced to pay 3% more in stamp duty than UK residents, if the Conservatives win the general election.\n\nThe party claim it will help people get on the housing ladder by taking the heat out of the property market.\n\nThe government was already planning a 1% hike for foreign buyers.\n\nLabour is also proposing a levy on \"overseas companies buying housing\", and wants to give local people \"first dibs\" on homes built in their area.\n\nCurrently, foreign individuals and companies can buy homes as easily as UK residents - but there are longstanding concerns about properties being bought as investments and standing empty, particularly in upmarket areas of London.\n\nThe Conservatives quote a study saying 13% of homes in London were bought by overseas buyers between 2014 and 2016.\n\nResearch last year by the King's College Business School suggested foreign buyers did not just push up prices at the high-end of the property market, but there was a \"trickle down\" effect to less expensive properties, and that cities outside London also felt the effect.\n\nThe Conservative government announced a consultation for a 1% levy on stamp duty for buyers who are not tax resident in the UK in February.\n\nBut a study for Labour's London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the figure was not high enough, pointing to other cities with large numbers of foreign buyers - such as Vancouver and Singapore, which both have a 20% surcharge.\n\nThe Conservatives are now proposing a surcharge of 3%, to be paid in addition to all other stamp duty charges.\n\nThey estimate the measure will affect about 70,000 transactions a year, raising £120m, which the party would direct at programmes tackling rough sleeping.\n\nWhen he was London mayor, Boris Johnson said it would be wrong to \"slam the door on the right of overseas residents to buy homes in London - notwithstanding the effect they may have in some parts of prime London on the market\".\n\nAnnouncing the new policy, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak said: \"Evidence shows that by adding significant amounts of demand to limited housing supply, purchases by non-residents inflate house prices.\"\n\nHe said the UK would \"always be open to people coming to live, work, and build a life in this great country\", adding: \"The steps we are taking will ensure that more people have the opportunity of a great place to live and build a family.\"\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of housing charity Shelter, welcomed the commitment to invest in services to support rough sleepers.\n\n\"Rough sleeping has been rising for the last decade and frontline services need all the support they can get to help tackle this mounting issue,\" she said.\n\n\"At the same time, however, we can't solve homelessness without tackling the root of the housing crisis, and that means an investment in the social homes we so desperately need.\n\n\"We want the next government to deliver at least 90,000 new social homes a year over the next parliament to help end this emergency.\"\n\nThe main parties have set out competing proposals to address the UK's housing shortage, ahead of 12 December's general election.\n\nLabour said it would embark on the biggest house-building programme since the 1960s, including 100,00 new council houses a year by 2024.\n\nThe Conservatives announced measures to help first-time buyers and boost private house building, promising a million homes over the next five years.\n\nThe Lib Dems set out plans for 300,000 new properties a year - a third of which would be social rented homes.\n\nThe party also said it would also tackle \"wasted vacant housing stock\" by allowing local authorities to increase council tax by up to 500% where homes are left empty for more than six months.\n\nThey also want to launch a rent-to-own scheme, which would see social tenants build up an equity stake in their homes over 30 years.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "University of Lincoln graduate Grace Millane had been travelling alone in New Zealand\n\nThe man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane \"eroticised her death\", prosecutors have said.\n\nMs Millane, 21, died in a hotel room in Auckland, New Zealand, before being buried in woodland outside the city.\n\nIn a closing speech, prosecutor Brian Dickey said the defendant had \"sexualised\" the killing by taking intimate photos of her dead body before viewing pornography online.\n\nHis defence claims the death was an accident during consensual sex.\n\nMs Millane, from Wickford, Essex, died on the night before her 22nd birthday in December last year.\n\nCCTV pictures showed Ms Millane and the defendant ordering cocktails during a date\n\nThe defence has told Auckland High Court her death was not murder, but the result of choking during sex which \"went wrong\".\n\nIn his closing remarks, Mr Dickey said evidence from pathologists had shown fatal strangulation results from \"sustained pressure\" to the neck.\n\nMs Millane would have \"gone limp\" and shown other signs of physical distress some time before death, he said.\n\n\"If you are satisfied that [the defendant] knew he was doing something that would cause some harm, he did it and then death occurred, he would be guilty of murder,\" he told jurors.\n\nIn his closing speech, Ian Brookie, for the defendant, said the \"core\" of his client's story of an accident matched with the evidence.\n\n\"These two people did get carried away in the moment, they did get affected by alcohol and were not experienced in these types of activities, particularly pressure to the neck,\" he said\n\nThe defendant's behaviour had shown a \"real lack of planning and a lack of sophistication\", he added.\n\nMs Millane and the man were seen entering his apartment building on their way to his room\n\nBut Mr Dickey said the man's actions after Ms Millane's death had been \"cool, calm and calculated\" and not panicked as claimed by the defence.\n\nThe 27-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admits putting Ms Millane's body in a suitcase which was found in the mountainous Waitākere Ranges outside Auckland.\n\nMr Dickey said the man had searched for information about the area before taking photos of Ms Millane's corpse.\n\nHe had bought a second suitcase in a bid to cover his tracks, as well as cleaning products and a shovel, jurors heard.\n\nThe man further showed a lack of concern for Ms Millane's dignity when he went on a Tinder date the next day while her body was still inside his hotel room, Mr Dickey said.\n\nGrace Millane was found buried in the Waitakere Ranges, near Auckland", "Lingerie brand Victoria's Secret has cancelled its annual fashion show amid dwindling television ratings and rising criticism of the event.\n\nThe show launched in 1995 and was once a major pop culture event, drawing millions of viewers each year.\n\nLast year it had its lowest ratings ever and drew criticism that it was sexist, outdated and lacked diversity.\n\nThe brand's parent company L Brands said it was important to \"evolve\" its marketing strategy.\n\n\"We're figuring out how to advance the positioning of the brand and best communicate that to customers,\" Stuart Burgdoerfer, L Brands chief financial officer, told investors on an earnings call.\n\nNevertheless, he said the shows were \"an important aspect of the brand and a remarkable marketing achievement\".\n\nThe annual show featured some of the world's top supermodels, often wearing elaborate outfits.\n\nThe show was a milestone in the career of many supermodels including Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum and Miranda Kerr.\n\nChanging attitudes appear to have hit sales and the brand's bottom line.\n\nPoor sales at Victoria's Secret weighed on the performance of L Brands, which reported a net loss of $252m (£195.1m) in third quarter results announced this week.\n\nBella Hadid is one of the many supermodels to have walked in runway shows for Victoria's Secret\n\nThe underwear brand has also faced a number of recent controversies.\n\nLast year, there was a furious response to an interview in Vogue with then-chief marketing officer Ed Razek who suggested \"transsexual\" models should not be part of the event.\n\nHe later apologised for the comments and left the company earlier this year.\n\nL Brands also received bad publicity due to billionaire founder Les Wexner's friendship with the late US financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nEpstein died in prison in August while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.\n\nMr Wexner employed Epstein as an adviser, but cut ties in 2007, and has previously accused Epstein of misappropriating money.", "A criminal investigation in Russia has been opened under the charge of \"sexual assault\" after a video in which children ask a gay man questions about his life and sexuality was posted online.\n\nReal Talk hosted a series where children meet people with different life experiences and ask unscripted questions.\n\nThe interview with the gay man did not include any discussion of sex, but the deputy speaker of parliament filed a complaint with police.\n\n\"Promoting\" homosexuality to young people was banned in 2013 - punishable by a fine.\n\nBut the repercussions for those involved in this video are far more serious.", "Helen McCourt was murdered by Ian Simms in Billinge, Merseyside, in 1988\n\nThe mother of a murder victim is \"horrified\" her daughter's killer will be freed despite never revealing where her body is.\n\nIan Simms, 63, was jailed in 1989 for murdering Helen McCourt who disappeared in February 1988 aged 22.\n\nHe was originally sentenced to a minimum of 16 years.\n\nThe killer was considered for parole for the seventh time on 8 November and officials said he \"met the test for release\".\n\nSimms killed Ms McCourt as she walked home from work in Liverpool.\n\nHer mother Marie said she was left shaking with anger after receiving a call earlier from her victim liaison officer at the parole board confirming Simms' release.\n\nIan Simms, seen here in 1988, was jailed for murder\n\n\"I'm just in a state of shock to be honest,\" Mrs McCourt said, from the family home in Billinge near St Helens, Merseyside.\n\n\"I've just had some forms come through, I think that's on what grounds the parole board has granted him release on licence, but I don't know all the conditions.\n\n\"I was just in shock. I'm still trying to deal with it. I'm horrified by it, I'm horrified by it. This man is a danger.\"\n\nShe has urged the next government to introduce Helen's Law, legislation that would deny parole to killers who do not disclose their victims' remains.\n\nThe bill recently ran out of time, when the general election was called.\n\nIt feels wrong, unjust and unfair that a convicted murderer can be freed from jail without giving any clue as to where their victim's body is, but parole decisions are not based on fairness.\n\nThey're about assessing objectively whether an offender can be safely managed outside prison after they've served the minimum term, the punishment part, of their sentence.\n\nIn Simms' case it appears the Parole Board did consider his refusal to divulge where Helen McCourt's remains are, but weighed that alongside numerous other factors.\n\nIt is hard to see, therefore, how Helen's Law would have made a difference in this case. It does no more than \"require\" the Board to take the non-disclosure of information by an offender into account when determining if they should be let out.\n\nHowever, the Bill, backed by the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, will be reintroduced when parliament sits again after the election, and when it becomes law may well affect cases in the future - a lasting legacy of Marie McCourt's tireless campaigning.\n\nSimms was denied release at a hearing in 2016, but was subsequently transferred to an open prison \"due to progress made\", where he has \"followed the rules\" when granted temporary release.\n\nThe Parole Board said it had \"carefully considered\" Simms' failure to reveal where he concealed Ms McCourt's body and concluded there is \"no prospect of Simms ever disclosing the whereabouts of his victim even if he were kept in prison until he died\".\n\nThe board added the refusal continues to cause understandable distress and misery to the victim's family and the panel concluded this demonstrated a lack of empathy.\n\nBut it said denial was not a \"necessarily-determining factor\" and also considered evidence from two psychologists who recommended release.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why should he be let out to torture us some more?'\n\nThe Parole Board said: \"The progress that Mr Simms has made, the considerable change in his behaviour, the fact that he has not been involved in any violence or substance misuse for many years, his protective factors, the recommendations from all the professionals and all the evidence presented at the hearing, the panel was satisfied that Mr Simms met the test for release.\"\n\nMrs McCourt has described not knowing the whereabouts of her daughter's body as \"torture\".\n\n\"If Helen's Law had been on the statute books right now those judges would have to really make sure in their decision to release him that he would be safe.\n\n\"They would have to go into that, they would have to obey that law and it hasn't happened.\"\n\nShe added she did not know when or where Simms would be released and had \"very little to go on\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's not clear if the lively grilling of major politicians will shift the dial at this election.\n\nBut it certainly marked a shift in Jeremy Corbyn's position on Brexit.\n\nHe had been put under pressure by his opponents to say whether he would support Leave or Remain in the new referendum Labour is promising.\n\nSo he tried to eliminate a negative by providing clarity, of a sort: a clear commitment to stay neutral.\n\nLabour's strategists are suggesting he could now be seen as an honest broker that can bring a divided country together.\n\nIn truth, though, behind the scenes there are fears that the party may have over-estimated the threat from the Lib Dems and underestimated the importance voters in Leave areas attach to delivering Brexit.\n\nSo his neutrality is in part an attempt to reassure those voters that his promised referendum isn't the means of cancelling Brexit by the back door.\n\nHis followers will say he has risen above the fray; his critics - that he has become more decisive about sitting on the fence.", "Leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson has told an audience at Question Time that her party are being clear in their Brexit stance.\n\n\"I don't think you could accuse us of not being upfront about wanting to stop Brexit,\" she said.", "One of the Chagos Islands - Diego Garcia - is home to a US military base\n\nThe UK has been called an illegal colonial occupier by Mauritius after it ignored a deadline to return control of an overseas territory to the island nation.\n\nThe UN had given the UK six months to give up control of the Chagos Islands - but that period has now passed.\n\nMauritius says it was forced to trade the small archipelago in the Indian Ocean in 1965 for independence.\n\nThe UK says it does not recognise Mauritius' claim to sovereignty.\n\nBritain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) insists it has every right to hold onto the islands - one of which, Diego Garcia, is home to a US military airbase.\n\n\"The UK has no doubt as to our sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which has been under continuous British sovereignty since 1814,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Mauritius has never held sovereignty over the BIOT and the UK does not recognise its claim.\"\n\nBut Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was important to return the islands \"as a symbol of the way in which we wish to behave in international law\".\n\nHe added: \"I am looking forward to being in government to right one of the wrongs of history.\"\n\nThe Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased it for £3m - creating the BIOT.\n\nMauritius claims it was forced to give it up in exchange for independence, which it gained in 1968.\n\nIn May, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Chagos Islands being returned - with 116 states backing the move and only six against.\n\nThe UN said that the decolonisation of Mauritius \"was not conducted in a manner consistent with the right to self-determination\" and that therefore the \"continued administration... constitutes a wrongful act\".\n\nThe UN resolution came only three months after the UN's high court advised the UK should leave the islands \"as rapidly as possible\".\n\nAs the six-month period came to a close, Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said the UK was now an illegal colonial occupier.\n\nOver the decades Mauritius has staked its claim, and finally - particularly after the Brexit vote - Britain's traditional allies in the international community have started to desert Britain, to abstain or to vote against it at the UN.\n\nAnd the UN is now taking pretty significant steps to say: \"Britain you are behaving appallingly, this is still colonialism - give it back.\"\n\nBritain has ignored those calls - so what might any repercussions look like?\n\nSanctions would be slow, incremental and largely institutional - in the sense that Britain is going to find itself squeezed at institutions that it has traditionally seen as very important.\n\nBritain no longer has a judge on 14-seat International Court of Justice in The Hague, and it's going to start to see UN maps reflecting the legal fact that the UN sees this islands as belonging to Mauritius.\n\nThe deadline is not binding, so no sanctions or immediate punishment will follow - but that could change.\n\nAt the time of the UN resolution, the FCO said the UK did not recognise Mauritius' claim to sovereignty, but would stand by an earlier commitment to hand over control of the islands to Mauritius when they were no longer needed for defence purposes.\n\nBetween 1968 and 1974, Britain forcibly removed thousands of Chagossians from their homelands and sent them more than 1,000 miles away to Mauritius and the Seychelles, where they faced extreme poverty and discrimination.\n\nMany moved to the UK in the hope of a better life.\n\nBritain then invited the US to build a military base on Diego Garcia.\n\nUS planes have been sent from the base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq. The facility was also reportedly used as a \"black site\" by the CIA to interrogate terrorism suspects. In 2016, the lease for the base was extended until 2036.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly apologised for the forced evictions, which Mr Jugnauth has said were akin to a crime against humanity.\n\nIn 2002, the British Overseas Territories (BOTs) Act granted British citizenship to resettled Chagossians born between 1969 and 1982. But the 13-year window has left some families divided.", "Emilia Clarke's role as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones initially required her to take her clothes off\n\nDirectors UK has published its first guidelines for scenes involving nudity and simulated sex.\n\nThe body that represents UK TV and film directors is aiming to show best practice for working with actors, intimacy coordinators, and others.\n\nThe news comes a day after Emilia Clarke said she found Game of Thrones' nude scenes \"hard\" and that she was pressured to go naked in other roles.\n\n\"Everyone deserves the right to feel safe at work,\" Directors UK said.\n\n\"This is just as true when working on a Hollywood blockbuster as it is on a prime-time drama or a debut short film.\"\n\nThe new guidelines, which are supported by industry bodies including Bafta, Equity, the BFI and the Casting Directors' Guild, come in the wake of the #MeToo movement and allegations that some bosses demanded sexual favours for acting work.\n\nThe guidelines advise a ban on full nudity in any audition or call back and no semi-nudity in first auditions.\n\nThe document states that \"by their nature, auditions are based on a power imbalance\", and that \"some performers can feel obligated to agree to uncomfortable requests to get a job\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Equity This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInstead they suggest performers wear a bikini or trunks and also bring a chaperone, as well as demanding 48 hours' notice and full-scripts be given for any recalls that require semi-nudity.\n\nProductions must also obtain explicit written consent from the performer prior to them being filmed or photographed nude or semi-nude.\n\n\"The director, as the creative lead on a production, should set the tone for a professional and respectful on-set environment,\" said UK Directors film committee chair Susanna White.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We are all here because we want to tell compelling and impactful stories, and no member of a cast or crew should ever be put in a position where they feel unsafe, exploited or mismanaged — especially when making sensitive material.\"\n\nThe Bafta-winning director, whose work includes Generation Kill, Parade's End and Bleak House, added: \"Throughout my career, I have seen how vitally important it is to know how to approach sensitive content with professionalism.\n\n\"The guidelines created by Directors UK set the standard for directing intimate scenes, and will help to foster a safe working environment for everyone on a film or television set.\"\n\nA statement from Bafta described Directors UK as being \"hugely instrumental\" in addressing \"bullying and harassment\" in the industry.\n\n\"They've really embraced the agenda and have created a suite of additional resources which build on the guidance and help their members not only to tackle poor behaviour when they witness it, but also to recognise their role in creating an environment where bullying, harassment and all kinds of coercive behaviour are not tolerated.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Mark D'Arcy-Smith said he and his friend are now boycotting the Wetherspoon's pub in Bromley\n\nA Wetherspoon's customer who had a banana sent to his table in an act of racial abuse is boycotting the pub.\n\nMark D'arcy-Smith was drinking with a friend at The Richmal Crompton in Bromley, south-east London, on 8 November, when the fruit arrived on a plate with a receipt.\n\nThe 24-year-old said he \"froze\" when staff gave it to him and was left feeling \"upset, shocked and scared\".\n\nWetherspoon said it had apologised to Mr D'arcy-Smith.\n\nThe pub chain has an app that allows customers to order food and drink and have it delivered to a table.\n\nThe Met Police said it was investigating the \"racially aggravated public order offence\". No arrests have been made.\n\nThe piece of fruit was sent to a table in the Richmal Crompton pub\n\nMr D'arcy Smith said: \"I looked at my friend and he knew straight away. We both thought this is wrong.\n\n\"I had this rush of emotions - I was upset, a little bit angry, shocked and scared. I just froze in place.\n\n\"I don't think a lot of people understand what racial abuse is like.\n\n\"You are essentially saying a black person is not human and they are an animal.\"\n\nIn a statement, Wetherspoon said it had apologised to Mr D'arcy Smith for any distress caused.\n\n\"This is now a police matter,\" a spokesman added.\n\n\"We have responded to the customer and pointed out that the pub cannot be held responsible for app orders.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tomatin Distillery said it wanted to protect its brand\n\nA place name in the Highlands is at the centre of a dispute between a whisky distiller and a hotel developer.\n\nTomatin Distillery in Tomatin is opposed to The Tomatin Trading Company using the small village's name for its planned development in the community.\n\nThe distillery's owners have raised the case at the Court of Session.\n\nBusinessman William Frame said notice of the legal action had come as a \"bombshell\" and said his hotel would bring much needed jobs to the area.\n\nTomatin is a community of about 200 people south of Inverness.\n\nLast November, Mr Frame's The Tomatin Trading Company secured planning permission from Highland Council for a £10m hotel and retail development in the village.\n\nA 99-bedroom hotel, 200-seat restaurant, farm shop, drive-through bakery, food outlet, four retail units and a fuel filling station are planned.\n\nAn artist's impression of hotel development at Tomatin\n\nThe site is the location of Tomatin's former Freeburn Hotel, filling station and Little Chef restaurant.\n\nConstruction of the development is expected to create work for 100 people and about 50 jobs once open.\n\nTomatin Distillery said it was an \"engaged member\" of the local community and it \"wholeheartedly\" welcomed and supported any development that benefited the area.\n\nBut managing director Mr Stephen Bremner added: \"We do, however, object to the development's proposed branding, which, we believe, takes unfair advantage of our reputation and we have repeatedly asked Mr Frame to reconsider.\n\n\"We firmly believe we must protect our valuable brand, which is inherently associated with our distillery and our whisky as a result of over 120 years of dedicated craftsmanship.\"\n\nMr Frame, who has owned the site of his proposed development since 2005, said he was in a \"David and Goliath battle\" over use of the name \"Tomatin\".\n\nHe said his business had kept the distillery's owners \"fully informed\" of its plans from the start and notice of the legal action had come as a \"huge disappointment\".\n\nThe businessman said: \"I feel this should wholeheartedly be about helping and promoting the village of Tomatin, giving young people jobs that are sustainable and getting young people back into the Highlands.\n\n\"No company can exclusively own the rights to a geographical place name.\"", "Labour has launched its general election manifesto, promising to transform the UK and to re-nationalise rail, mail, water and energy.\n\nMr Corbyn said his offer to voters was radical and would mean \"real change\".\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent, Iain Watson, explores what that all means.", "Twenty-two people were killed in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) has been accused of jeopardising the start of the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bomb attack.\n\nThe force was criticised for missing a deadline to provide statements from officers in command on the night of the May 2017 blast in which 22 people died.\n\n\"It has been a huge undertaking for GMP involving an enormous amount of material,\" said the force's barrister.\n\nThe inquiry is due to begin on 6 April 2020.\n\nTwenty two people were killed and hundreds injured when a device was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May, 2017.\n\nThe victims' inquests were turned into a public inquiry in October so that secret evidence could be heard behind closed doors.\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, told the hearing there was a second problem with \"gaps\" in the 550 hours of radio transmission recordings from the night of the bombing provided by GMP.\n\nTwelve organisations have been asked to provide written statements to the inquiry's legal team.\n\nGMP was said to be the only one not to have met the deadline.\n\nPeter Weatherby QC, who is representing some of the bereaved families, said that they desperately wanted to have confidence in GMP but \"the sorry tale is frankly not good enough\".\n\nThe chairman of the inquiry, Sir John Saunders, warned the police that if there was a delay to the inquiry there would be \"extremely extensive public criticism made of GMP\".\n\nHe said it was \"simply not fair to the families or to Manchester in general\" but added \"no comments should be made about lack of candour until we see the statements.\"\n\nFiona Barton QC, representing GMP, apologised to families in court for the delay.\n\nOne relative was heard to say that he did not accept the apology.\n\n\"This is not a piece of work GMP has sat on,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been a huge undertaking for GMP involving an enormous amount of material. GMP has done its best.\"\n\nMs Barton explained the statements had been delayed because the force had hundreds of officers on duty at the attack, and it had taken time to identify which ones should provide the evidence.\n\nShe said they were now in the process of being provided.\n\nIn relation to the missing radio recordings she explained that the force was undergoing a system update at the time of the bombing, and work was under way to find the audio.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA jury has been shown CCTV of a man accused of murdering a British backpacker pushing a suitcase said to contain her body.\n\nGrace Millane, of Wickford, Essex, died on the night before her 22nd birthday while travelling in New Zealand.\n\nThe suspect, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies murder.\n\nHe had been on a date with Ms Millane the day before he left his Auckland hotel with two suitcases. Prosecutors claim Ms Millane was in one of them.\n\nThe court heard the suitcase was then buried in woodland outside the city.\n\nProsecutors allege the suspect strangled Ms Millane before disposing of her body.\n\nBut the defendant claims the University of Lincoln graduate died on 1 December after they engaged in consensual rough sex.\n\nGrace Millane died on the night before her 22nd birthday while travelling in New Zealand\n\nThe footage showed the man buying a suitcase, shovel and cleaning products as well as hiring a car in the days after Ms Millane's death.\n\nIn his police interview the man told officers he had been in a drunken stupor until 09:00 or 10:00 on 2 December - however the CCTV showed him buying a suitcase at 08:14.\n\nHe told police officers they could have the bag which was \"still in my room\" and had not been used.\n\nHowever, footage also showed him buying a second grey suitcase.\n\nThe court was shown footage of the defendant buying a shovel\n\nAuckland High Court also heard from a woman who went on a Tinder date with the 27-year-old defendant the day after Ms Millane's death.\n\nShe said: \"He said he had heard of a guy who had asked his girlfriend to have rough sex with him, strangulation and asphyxiation.\n\n\"He has tried to revive her but she died and he got sent down for manslaughter.\"\n\nGrace Millane was found buried in the Waitakere Ranges, near Auckland\n\nShe said he had been \"intense\" while talking about it and empathetic with the man in the story.\n\nHe also discussed how his police officer friends had been struggling due to the number of bodies being buried in Waitakere Ranges, the area where Ms Millane's body was discovered.\n\nAfter Ms Millane's death the man washed the rental car and left the shovel at the car wash and was also seen putting items, the crown says her personal effects, in a bin in an Auckland park, the jury was shown.", "Jeremy Corbyn always promised something different.\n\nHe was chosen by his party in 2015 largely because he was such a contrast to the other candidates who seemed, fairly or unfairly, somehow to merge into one.\n\nIf his 2017 general election manifesto was exciting for those on the left of the Labour Party, today's publication might feel like their dreams have come true.\n\nIndeed, as the Labour leader went through his programme for the country at the party's manifesto launch today there was a sense that finally, after more than four years of being in charge, when he has often been tangled up in the party's own internal wars, he's been able to say what he really wants to do, and how he would really seek to achieve it.\n\nThis isn't a souped-up version of Ed Miliband in 2015, it's not really a more full throttle version of 2017.\n\nThis is Labour's 2017 election manifesto with rocket boosters - several huge nationalisations, higher taxes for the wealthy and business, a rewiring of the rules on the economy, a huge expansion in the role of the state almost everywhere you look.\n\nThis has, of course, always been how Jeremy Corbyn and the hugely influential Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell think the country should be run.\n\nThat's why for so long they were the rebels in their own party.\n\nThere is nothing new for them in the broad principles they have laid out today.\n\nWhat they are gambling on, and many in their own party are really sceptical of, is whether a 21st century version of the beliefs they have stood by for so long can find favour with the country at large.\n\nClearly, many public services are stretched after years of a squeeze on public spending.\n\nThere is no question that Jeremy Corbyn's transformation of the Labour Party has shifted the whole political compass round to the left.\n\nBut that doesn't mean Labour can be confident at all that it means the country is hungry for a total reboot of the kind the party is promising.\n\nPolls at this stage suggest that most people are not that enthusiastic about change in such a dramatic way.\n\nVoters might like the idea of what one senior Labour figure simply described as 'lots of free stuff'.\n\nPerhaps the manifesto today could be the start of a breakthrough in this campaign.\n\nBut there are doubts tonight about whether the plans are realistic, and whether the public would be willing in anything like enough numbers to put their trust in Mr Corbyn to make it happen.", "One in three young people has not registered to vote, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nYouth worker Jerahl Hall, from Stoke-on-Trent, is trying to persuade young people in his home city to vote in the general election.\n\nThe 27-year-old works at the city's YMCA. He has spent the past few years trying to educate people about why they should take part in the democratic process.\n\nThe deadline to register to vote is 26 November.\n\n·Stories from We Are Stoke-on-Trent", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "The men were found when police searched the back of the trailer\n\nTen men found inside a lorry container on the M25 have been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences.\n\nThe driver of the vehicle was also arrested when police stopped the vehicle on the motorway near Waltham Abbey at about 18:10 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said one of the male suspects found at the rear of the container had been taken to hospital for treatment.\n\nThe force has not provided details of the men's ages or nationalities.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Irish Police found 16 people inside a sealed trailer on board a ferry from France.\n\nGardai (Irish police) said all appeared to be \"in good health\" and were being medically assessed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are 91 Davids standing for election this year, ahead of John and James as the most popular name for wannabe MPs.\n\nYou have to go as far as number 18 on the list before you find a female name - there are 22 Sarahs.\n\nAlthough there are a record number of female candidates this year, it is still just a third of the total.\n\nThe fact that female names are so low on our list isn't just because of gender imbalance, though. Women's names are more diverse than men's in general, so are less likely to be grouped together.\n\nJones and Smith are the most popular surnames, 31 and 30 respectively.\n\nThere are 17 Johnsons, although for the first time this decade none of them are directly related to the prime minister.\n\nBoris Johnson brother Jo was elected in Orpington in 2010 but stood down earlier this year.\n\nThe two biggest Westminster parties, Labour and the Conservatives, have the best coverage in terms of candidates, although neither has a representative in every constituency.\n\nBoth are staying away from Chorley, held by new Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle.\n\nAnd the Conservatives - the full name of which is the Conservative and Unionist Party - are contesting a handful of seats in Northern Ireland where Labour are not.\n\nIt's a tradition that the main parties allow the Speaker to be re-elected unopposed, as he's supposed to be impartial.\n\nSir Lindsay's two opponents in Chorley are the Green Party's James Melling and an independent called Mark Brexit-Smith.\n\nThe latter was going to be the Brexit Party candidate before he was stood down by the national party. He changed his name to get round electoral rules that limit descriptions of independents on ballot papers.\n\nUse our look-up to find who's standing in your area.\n\nNigel Farage has controversially withdrawn his candidates from the 317 seats the Conservatives won in the 2017 election.\n\nUnfortunately for them, that leaves the party unable to compete for a lot of the areas with the highest amount of 2016 Leave voters, like Clacton and Boston & Skegness along the east coast of England.\n\nThey hope to be most effective in Leave-voting Labour-marginals in northern England, like Workington and Bishop Auckland.\n\nThere are some seats won by other parties in 2017 where the Brexit Party isn't standing - typically Remain areas.\n\nA lot of those are in Scotland, like Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson's Dunbartonshire East seat. Labour/Tory marginal Canterbury, in south-east England, is another.\n\nOn the other side of the Brexit divide, a pact between the Lib Dems, the Green Party and Plaid Cymru - the Welsh national party - has meant many of their candidates have stood aside in areas where one of the others is more likely to win.\n\nThe Isle of Wight and Brighton Pavilion are two English seats where the Greens will have no Liberal Democrat opposition, as well as Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems have been allowed a free run to try to repeat their by-election success in Brecon & Radnorshire, as well as Tory-held Winchester, where three in five voters backed remain in the 2016 referendum.\n\nPlaid Cymru have been allowed to target a few northern Welsh seats where they are particularly strong, including Ynys Mon, which is currently held by Labour.\n\nThere are still some seats where all three are standing, like Ceredigion on the Welsh coast and a few Labour-held constituencies in south Wales.\n\nThe SNP has stood candidates in all 59 seats in Scotland. It performed incredibly well in 2015, winning all but three - one each for Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems.\n\nThey were down to 35 in 2017 but hope that the unpopularity in Scotland of the Labour and Conservative Westminster leaders will allow them to win back some of those seats.\n\nUKIP has substantially fewer candidates this year compared to both 2017 and its high point in the 2015 election.\n\nAfter standing almost everywhere in 2015 and securing 12.6% of the vote (although just one seat), UKIP has scaled down its ambitions.\n\nThe Independent Group for Change has put up three candidates: leader Anna Soubry, Chris Leslie and Mike Gapes.\n\nThey are defending seats won in 2017, but they were won as Conservative and Labour candidates.\n\nThe Yorkshire Party is standing in 28 seats on a platform of devolved power for Yorkshire and the Christian Peoples Alliance has 29 candidates.\n\nNo other party has more than 25 candidates, although the Monster Raving Loony Party is closest with 24, including Boris Johnson's opponent Lord Buckethead, Jeremy Corbyn's rival Nick The Incredible Flying Brick and leader \"Howling Laud\" Hope in Hampshire North East.\n\nThere are also interesting electoral pacts in Northern Irish politics.\n\nThe Alliance Party, the biggest liberal centrist party in Northern Ireland, is only party to be contesting every seat in the country.\n\nAlliance performed well at the European elections in May, coming third behind the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein and winning their first ever MEP in the process.\n\nSinn Féin, the biggest republican party in Northern Ireland, has stood down from three seats it would usually contest - Belfast East, Belfast South and North Down - to make way for its fellow remain-supporting parties, Alliance and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).\n\nThe DUP, whose 10 seats won in 2017 allowed it to form a \"confidence and supply\" arrangement to prop up Theresa May's Conservative government, has stood down for a fellow unionist party, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), in Fermanagh & South Tyrone.\n\nThe UUP has repaid the courtesy in Belfast West and Belfast North - the seat of DUP Westminster leader Nigel Dodds.", "Sana Muhammad, formerly known as Devi Unmathallegadoo, was nine months pregnant when she was killed\n\nA man who shot dead his heavily pregnant ex-wife with a crossbow has been found guilty of murder.\n\nSana Muhammad was shot through the abdomen by Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo at her home in Ilford, east London, in November 2018.\n\nHe hid in a shed in his ex-partner's garden armed with two crossbows, bolts, a knife, duct tape, cable ties and a hammer, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMrs Muhammad's son - her sixth child -was delivered by Caesarean section.\n\nJudge Mark Lucraft QC told Unmathallegadoo he had committed \"the most horrendous crime in the face of your own children\".\n\nJurors heard Unmathallegadoo plotted the attack - buying two crossbows which were discovered near his ex-wife's home by a neighbour in March 2018.\n\nAfter they were removed, he replaced the weapons and organised surveillance on the house in Applegarth Drive.\n\nJurors heard the couple's relationship ended in 2012 and at the time of the attack, Unmathallegadoo was the subject of a court order which banned him from going within 100 metres of his ex's home.\n\nMrs Muhammad's second husband Imtiaz told the court he was in the garden and thought he was \"dreaming\" when he saw the defendant step out of the shed with two crossbows.\n\nHe shouted to his wife to run as Unmathallegadoo chased him into their home.\n\n\"When she got an arrow she just screamed. I was thinking, 'what is happening?', I was screaming for her.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement he described her as \"my soul mate, my best friend, my wife, my companion and my everything and I love her dearly.\n\n\"Ram has finished everything. We all feel lost now\", he said.\n\nHer mother Ellemah (Joytee) Sutharamandoo said the loss of her only child had had a \"profound impact\".\n\n\"I lived for my daughter and my grandchildren.\n\n\"I now feel alone, there are days I do not want to live.\"\n\nOne of two crossbows used to kill Sana Muhammad\n\nUnmathallegadoo had denied murder and claimed he went to the house to talk to Mr Muhammad about his daughter's religion.\n\nHe told police Mr Muhammad was his target but that his ex-wife got in the way.\n\nBut the prosecution said Unmathallegadoo had wanted to kill the couple and their unborn child.\n\nThe court heard Unmathallegadoo's children tried to take the crossbow from him.\n\nSusan Krikler, from the CPS, said: \"This was a cold-blooded and calculated execution.\n\n\"This devastating attack has left six children without their mother.\"\n\nHe will be sentenced next week.\n\nMrs Muhammad who was born in Mauritius married the defendant when she was 16-years-old\n\nUnmathallegadoo first trial in April was discharged after a juror raised an issue about the defendant's mental health despite the judge asking the jury not to speculate on the matter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victoria Freeman: \"Going through the right procedures, it didn't work, no-one was listening to me and no-one wanted to help - no one at all.\"\n\nThe mother of a boy who died in a Glasgow hospital two years ago has claimed she was ignored by the health board and the Scottish government.\n\nMason Djemat, three, was being treated at the Royal Hospital for Children and died weeks before Milly Main, 10.\n\nBoth children were patients on a ward which was affected by water contamination.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Health Secretary Jeane Freeman have apologised to their parents.\n\nBut Mason's mother, Victoria Freeman, told BBC Scotland she is still fighting for answers as to why her son never came home.\n\nIn her first interview Ms Freeman said: \"There was no-one listening to me. No-one wanted to help. No-one at all.\"\n\nShe spoke out after the health secretary's apology, which was made during a statement in the Scottish parliament.\n\nBut she believes it did not go far enough.\n\nShe also criticised the health secretary's response to her case since she first wrote to her in September last year.\n\n\"I don't think that Mason was acknowledged, particularly by her, and I feel that she did not take Mason's death seriously,\" his mother said.\n\n\"If she did maybe we would not be sitting here today speaking about this.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman made a statement in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday\n\nPolice Scotland investigated the boy's death and have submitted a report to the procurator fiscal.\n\nHis mother said Mason had Hunter syndrome, a rare genetic condition, but was strong and \"extremely healthy\" when he was admitted to the RHC, part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus, for treatment in the summer of 2017.\n\nAt the time she said the family were told there was no concern and he would be getting home within weeks.\n\nShe added: \"He kept me on my feet that whole time. He was running wild, he was always up and playing and enjoyed his lunch and dinner.\n\n\"I remember the nurse came in with his food and he was clapping and laughing, he had such a good character about him.\"\n\nShe said she always called Mason \"my good boy\".\n\nThe three-year-old could not fully talk but, on the day he died, he surprised his mother by turning to her for the first time and saying: \"Mummy good boy\".\n\nShe said: \"I actually held him so tight and told him he was the best boy.\"\n\nMason pictured in the Royal Hospital for Children, just hours before he died\n\nLater that day his mother took a call to say that her son's condition had rapidly and unexpectedly deteriorated.\n\nShe recalled: \"To be standing in ICU and thinking over in my head 'What's happened?'...I just still don't have the answers and they don't have the answers as well.\"\n\nPaying tribute to her son, Ms Freeman added: \"Mason was the love of my life. Unfortunately I will never be able to replace him. Never.\n\n\"He was just really something. I absolutely adored him.\"\n\nAfter his death on 9 August 2017 she said she contacted NHSGGC's management department and members of the board but got no response.\n\n\"At the time I took myself back to the hospital, I stood in the lobby and I told them I wasn't leaving until someone in charge came and spoke to me,\" she said.\n\nA general manager invited her into his office for a meeting that proved pivotal.\n\nMs Freeman added: \"I think that if I didn't do that and I didn't have the strength to do that then they would have closed the book on Mason.\"\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Children opened in 2015 and share a campus in the south of Glasgow\n\nThe grieving mother said she first took up her case with the government when she wrote to the health secretary in September last year.\n\nShe got a response from the management department and then sent two further letters to the health secretary's office.\n\nIn February she got a \"very scripted\" response which stated it would be \"inappropriate\" for the government to get involved.\n\nAsked how she felt she had been treated, Victoria Freeman replied: \"I don't think as a family we have been treated fairly.\"\n\nShe said she kept the matter private and took the \"correct steps\" to raise her concerns about her son's death.\n\nBut she described the Scottish government's response as \"shocking\" and expressed disappointment that the health secretary had not acknowledged a letter she sent at the weekend, when the story about her son's death broke in the Mail on Sunday.\n\nShe added: \"It is extremely serious and I think she (health secretary) has to answer not only to my family but to every family involved.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeane Freeman told the BBC on Monday 18 December that she had not been made aware of Mason Djemat's case before seeing it in the newspapers\n\nMason's mother also criticised the health secretary for stating in a BBC Radio Scotland interview on Monday that she only learned about the case at the weekend.\n\nDuring First Minister's Questions on Thursday Nicola Sturgeon was asked by acting Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw about the health secretary's response.\n\nMs Sturgeon told him Health Secretary Jeane Freeman had simply picked up the question wrong.\n\nThe first minister added: \"I would simply ask him to reflect on why then she would have sought to say that she didn't know about it when there was correspondence in existence that showed that she had.\"\n\nMason's mother has requested a meeting with the health secretary and said suggestions the family had been told the cause of death were \"totally incorrect\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no confirmation of why my son is not here today.\"\n\nIn response to Victoria Freeman's BBC interview, the health secretary said: \"I cannot begin to imagine the pain of losing a child in these circumstances - or the suffering and grief that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"My sincerest condolences go to Ms Freeman and the other families affected by this.\"\n\nThe health secretary acknowledged she was first contacted by Ms Freeman in \"late 2018\".\n\nThe minister added: \"She wrote to me again at the start of this year and I replied, and this was followed by further correspondence just a few days ago.\n\n\"I'd like the opportunity to meet with Ms Freeman to listen to her views but also assure her, and the other families affected by this, that we are taking action.\"\n\nMason was filmed brushing his teeth during his stay in hospital\n\nAn NHSGGC spokesman said: \"We are very sorry Ms Freeman feels she has unanswered questions regarding the death of her son, Mason Djemat.\n\n\"The case was fully investigated and the outcome shared with the family.\n\n\"We met with Ms Freeman on a number of occasions to respond to any concerns she had and can confirm we remain in contact to answer any follow up questions.\"\n\nAn independent review is examining water contamination and other problems at the QEUH campus and will be published in the spring.\n\nA separate public inquiry, which will examine safety and wellbeing issues at the QEUH and the new children's hospital in Edinburgh, is also expected to look at water contamination.\n\nMilly Main, ten, died at the Royal Hospital for Children on 31 August 2017, three weeks after Mason\n\nMilly's death was made public after Labour MSP Anas Sarwar was contacted by a whistleblower.\n\nThe ten-year-old was recovering from leukaemia treatment when she died on 31 August 2017.\n\nHer mother, Kimberly Darroch, told BBC Scotland she was \"100%\" convinced her death was linked to water contamination issues.\n\nNHSGGC has insisted it was impossible to determine the source of Milly's infection because there was no requirement to test the water supply at the time.\n\nLast week it also emerged a doctor-led review had identified 26 infections at RHC during 2017 which were potentially linked to contaminated water.\n\nThe £842m QEUH \"super hospital\" has faced a number of problems since it opened in 2015.\n\nTwo cancer wards at the adjoining children's hospital were closed last year amid concern about infections and investigation of water supply issues, and patients were moved to the adult hospital.\n\nIn January it emerged that two patients at the QEUH had died after contracting a fungal infection linked to pigeon droppings.", "Hays Travel, which bought Thomas Cook after it collapsed, has announced plans to hire an extra 1,500 staff.\n\nThe travel agent has already taken on 2,330 former Thomas Cook employees.\n\nBut now Hays plans to hire another 200 people at its head office in Sunderland, an extra 500 to handle foreign exchange, and an apprentice at each of its 737 branches.\n\nThe move has been seen as a vote of confidence in the package holiday market.\n\nHays took on all of Thomas Cook's 555 shops in October after the travel agent spectacularly collapsed earlier this year.\n\nSince then it has reopened 450 of those stores and hired a lot of its old staff.\n\nBut now it is expanding further.\n\nJohn Hays, who runs the travel agent with his wife Irene, said: \"We're further increasing staffing to ensure we have the highest customer service levels across all of our stores and our head office functions.\"\n\nHe said applicants didn't need experience in the sector \"just an enthusiasm for travel\".\n\nThe hiring spree will take Hays' workforce to 5,700 people.\n\n\"The former Thomas Cook managers have said the biggest difference for them is being empowered and valued - as an independent travel agent they are not tied to certain products or scripts and they feel trusted,\" Mr Hays said.\n\n\"This is a key principle of our business.\"\n\nIt is the latest sign of renewed confidence in the package holiday business.\n\nEarlier this week, EasyJet announced plans to relaunch its own package holiday operation in a bid to fill the gap in the market left by Thomas Cook.\n\nAbout 20 million people fly with EasyJet to Europe annually but only 500,000 book accommodation through it.", "Coca-Cola says a video made by Labour-backing group Momentum using the company's footage was done without their permission or endorsement.\n\nThe video posted to the campaigners' social media feeds used edited footage from the iconic Coca-Cola \"holidays are coming\" advert from the 1990s.\n\nIt superimposed Labour slogans onto the side of lorries and ended with an image of Jeremy Corbyn as Santa Claus.\n\nCoca-Cola said it was \"taking steps\" to ensure it was permanently removed.\n\nThe BBC understands the US soft drinks giant is seeking legal advice on the matter.\n\nThe video was viewed more than 70,000 times and shared widely on Twitter before the site blocked it for copyright reasons. The original post was removed by Momentum about 30 minutes after Coca-Cola issued a statement warning of action.\n\nA Coca-Cola spokeswoman said: \"We have been made aware of a social post from Momentum which uses footage from the Coca-Cola Christmas advert. The film is in no way endorsed by the Coca-Cola Company and we have not given permission for any footage to be used in this way. We are taking steps to ensure this is removed.\"\n\nOne leading copyright lawyer said Momentum could be in danger of facing a substantial damages claim from the company.\n\n\"I imagine a cease-and-desist letter has already been submitted to Momentum,\" Helen Griffin, senior associate solicitor at Harrison Drury, told the BBC.\n\n\"Companies need to act quickly in these situations to keep as many legal remedies open as possible. The letter is the first step and will probably include any details of trademarks and copyright ownership that Coca-Cola has.\"\n\nMomentum is likely to have a short deadline in which to comply, she added. Alternatively, the firm has the option of seeking a court injunction.\n\nIt comes after another iconic advert was also used for political purposes on social media.\n\nOn Thursday, The Sun newspaper posted a video filmed in the style of BT's famous 1980s \"Beattie\" advert - featuring the ad's original actress Maureen Lipman but not using any of BT's footage. The spoof ad attacked Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party's policies.\n\nBT has not yet commented.", "The bodies were discovered early on 23 October in an industrial estate in Grays\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a lorry in Essex.\n\nThe bodies were found in a refrigerated container in Thurrock on 23 October.\n\nA 23-year-old man from Northern Ireland was detained in the early hours of Friday on the M40 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.\n\nEssex Police said he would be questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nThe people found dead, who were from Vietnam, were eight women and 31 men. Ten teenagers, including two 15-year-old boys, were among the victims.\n\nLorry driver Maurice Robinson, 25, has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter. Three other people who were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people have been released on bail.\n\nPolice also started the extradition of a County Down lorry driver at the High Court in Dublin.\n\nEssex Police is seeking the extradition of Eamonn Harrison, 22, a truck driver from Mayobridge, who is being held in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHe appeared at Dublin's Central Criminal Court on Thursday after he was arrested on a European arrest warrant in respect of 39 counts of manslaughter, one count of a human trafficking offence and one count of assisting unlawful immigration.\n\nThe court heard that the UK authorities say Mr Harrison drove the truck with the refrigerated container to Zeebrugge in Belgium before it was collected in Essex by Craigavon driver Maurice Robinson.\n\nMr Robinson, 25, of Laurel Drive, Craigavon, appeared in court in Chelmsford on 28 October.\n\nHe will next appear at the Old Bailey in London on Monday.\n• None Essex lorry deaths: What we know\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A number of orphaned British children caught up in the war in Syria are to be brought home to the UK, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nThey will be the first UK citizens to be repatriated from the area of north-eastern Syria formerly controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nThe \"innocent\" children should \"never have been subjected to the horrors of war\", Dominic Raab said.\n\nCharities have urged the government to bring every British child back home.\n\nThose who are returning are expected to arrive in the UK in the coming days.\n\nFor security reasons, further details of their repatriation cannot be given.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Raab said: \"We have facilitated their return home, because it was the right thing to do.\n\n\"Now they must be allowed the privacy and given the support to return to a normal life.\"\n\nBBC Middle East Correspondent Quentin Sommerville said the orphaned children were handed over to a delegation from the Foreign Office and had left Syria, with diplomats saying they were doing \"very well\".\n\nIS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq.\n\nThe fate of foreign IS fighters and other foreigners caught up in the conflict has been a key issue since the defeat of the extremist group was declared in March 2019.\n\nThe UK had been reluctant to take back citizens from the area.\n\nOther countries including France, Denmark, Norway and Kazakhstan have brought children home.\n\nThe United Nations has said countries should take responsibility for their own citizens unless they are to be prosecuted in Syria in accordance with international standards.\n\nSave The Children - which runs services from two centres in northern Syria - welcomed the repatriation of the orphaned children but called on the government to do more.\n\nThe charity estimates there are up to 60 British children still in Syrian camps, the majority of which are with their mothers.\n\nOrla Minogue, a humanitarian adviser at the charity, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the children are facing \"absolutely dire\" conditions, including overcrowding, a shortage of clean water and limited medical care.\n\n\"Those children are just as innocent as those others,\" she said.\n\nAnd she urged the government to act quickly, warning of a \"brief time window\" to getting them out safely.\n\n\"All of these children need to be repatriated now - especially as we head into winter conditions - these camps are not set up for this kind of harsh weather we might see in Syria.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch has described government-facilitated repatriations of foreign nationals as \"piecemeal.\"\n\nIt says more than 1,200 foreign nationals have been repatriated from both Syria and Iraq to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Kosovo, and Turkey.\n\nAlison Griffin, head of humanitarian campaigns at Save The Children, said the UK government \"is transforming the lives of these innocent children who have been through terrible things that are far beyond their control\".\n\nShe added: \"They will now have the precious chance to recover, have happy childhoods and live full lives. We should be proud of everyone who has worked to make this happen.\n\n\"Every child saved is a triumph of compassion in the face of cruelty. We fervently hope this is just the start.\"", "As politicians campaign for votes, we will be looking closely at the places where the election could be won or lost.\n\nNorwich is a city made up of two constituencies, one of them a marginal with only 507 votes between first and second place. Away from the national stories, here are some of the issues the people of Norwich are talking about.\n\nA full list of candidates standing in Norwich North can be found here and a full list of candidates standing in Norwich South can be found here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Strictly Come Dancing professionals Johannes and Graziano dance together\n\nStrictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli has said the fact that around 200 people complained about the show's first same sex routine is \"very sad\".\n\nGraziano Di Prima and Johannes Radebe danced together on the 3 November show.\n\nThe BBC's latest complaints log shows that 189 people found it \"offensive\".\n\nBruno said: \"It's hard to believe after such progress in society and many other topics going on that [around] 200 people felt so upset they complained when two men danced with each other.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bruno Tonioli This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProfessional dancer Kevin Clifton added his voice, writing: \"What on earth were they complaining about? It was ace.\"\n\nThe BBC's latest complaints round-up revealed that 189 people had got in touch to protest that it was \"offensive to feature two men dancing as a pair\".\n\nAlmost 10.5 million people tuned in to the results show during which Graziano and Johannes performed while pop star Emeli Sande sang her single Shine. Fellow professionals Aljaz Skorjanec and Luba Mushtuk also took part in the routine.\n\nLuba and Aljaz joined Johannes and Graziano during Emeli Sande's performance\n\nCommenting on a story about the 189 complaints, TV presenter Lorraine Kelly added: \"But made millions and millions of us very very happy.\"\n\nIn response to the complaints, the BBC said: \"Strictly Come Dancing is an inclusive show and is proud to have been able to facilitate the dance between Johannes and Graziano during the professionals' dance.\n\n\"They are dancers first and foremost, and their sex had no bearing on their routine.\"\n\nAfter the dance, Johannes told Hello! magazine: \"I've never felt so liberated. For the first time in my life, I feel accepted for who I am. That says so much about the people of this country.\n\n\"To be able to dance with a friend I respect and adore is joyous. There's bromance galore between us, but there were no male and female roles, just free movement. It was beautiful, classy and elegant.\"\n\nStrictly Come Dancing, which is in its 17th series, has not featured a same sex pairing between a celebrity and a professional.\n\nDancing on Ice will have one such couple early next year when Steps singer Ian \"H\" Watkins teams up with professional skater Matt Evers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Barclays has become the latest big company to pull its support for Prince Andrew's business mentoring initiative.\n\nThe bank joined firms including Standard Chartered and KPMG in cutting ties with Pitch@Palace, which provides start-ups with advice and contacts.\n\nThere has been a growing backlash over a BBC Newsnight interview about the royal's friendship with convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe prince is stepping down from royal duties for the \"foreseeable future\".\n\nFollowing Wednesday's statement confirming this, a variety of organisations have continued to announce the end of their association with the prince.\n\nThe Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was among those on Friday to confirm he would no longer be its patron.\n\nAnnouncing its decision to cut ties with the Pitch@Palace, Barclays, which had been an official partner of the scheme, said: \"In light of the current situation, we have informed Pitch@Palace that going forward we will, regretfully, no longer be participating in the programme.\n\n\"Pitch@Palace has been historically highly successful in supporting entrepreneurs and job creation and we hope a way forward can be found that means they can continue this important work.\"\n\nPrince Andrew with his former private secretary, Amanda Thirsk\n\nEarlier, it emerged the woman who organised the Duke of York's interview with the BBC about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been moved from her role as the prince's private secretary following his withdrawal from royal duties.\n\nAmanda Thirsk, who has worked for the duke since 2012, will become chief executive of Pitch@Palace.\n\nIt remains unclear what role the duke will have at Pitch@Palace, which he founded in 2014, moving forwards.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman would not comment on reports the duke had stepped down from leading Pitch.\n\nShe said: \"The duke will continue to work on Pitch and will look at how he takes this forward outside of his public duties, and outside of Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"We recognise there will be a period of time while this transition takes place.\"\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the decision to move Ms Thirsk into her new role was part of a \"downscaling\" of the duke's office.\n\nThe BBC understands there are no plans to recruit a replacement.\n\nOur correspondent added it was a demonstration of the Queen and Prince Charles acting \"very assertively when they perceived a reputational risk to the monarchy itself\".\n\nNewsnight producer Sam McAlister, who has been credited with securing the interview for the BBC, said Ms Thirsk was the person she was \"mostly dealing with\" during the negotiation process.\n\nShe told GQ magazine she was \"extremely charming, well-informed, thorough and brilliant\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre, has claimed she was forced to have sex with the duke three times. Prince Andrew has \"categorically\" denied having any sexual contact with her.\n\nMs Giuffre will reveal further details about her time with Epstein in her first UK interview with BBC Panorama on Monday 2 December.\n\nOn Friday, the English National Ballet, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Metropolitan University all announced the prince would no longer be their patron, with immediate effect.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured horse riding with the Queen on Friday\n\nLawyers representing Epstein's accusers have also urged the prince to speak to US authorities about his former friendship with Epstein.\n\nIn his statement announcing that he would be stepping back from royal duties, the prince said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The snow left vehicles stranded and some roads impassable\n\nFlooding has caused travel disruption, after heavy snow in south and mid Wales led to some roads becoming impassable.\n\nA Met Office yellow weather warning for snow was issued for 11 of Wales' 22 counties, but ended at 10:00 GMT.\n\nTraffic analysts Inrix warned of hazardous driving conditions on some roads in Powys, Ceredigion and Neath Port Talbot, but no schools had to close because of the snow.\n\nNatural Resources Wales also issued a flood warning for the River Teme at Knighton, Powys.\n\nTransport for Wales said flooding on the railway between Gloucester and Lydney was causing disruption to trains between Gloucester and Cardiff Central.\n\nTrains could be cancelled, delayed by up to 40 minutes or terminated at Gloucester, it warned.\n\nMeanwhile, the A466 between the A4136 in Monmouth and the Newland turn off in Redbrook has been closed in both directions due to flooding.\n\nThe rain warning is in place in Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSnow caused problems on the roads after falling overnight.\n\nSome vehicles were left stranded on the A4109 between Seven Sisters and Banwen in Neath Port Talbot, while the A482 in Lampeter, Ceredigion, and A4221 between Abercrave and Coelbren in Powys were blocked for a time.\n\nBBC Wales weather presenter Derek Brockway said \"a huge swirl of low pressure\" was causing the unsettled conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by ᴅᴇʀᴇᴋ ʙʀᴏᴄᴋᴡᴀʏ ᴡᴇᴀᴛʜᴇʀᴍᴀɴ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCarys Evans took this picture of roads near Ystradgynlais, Powys\n\nThe weather warning for snow covered Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea and Torfaen.\n\nOn Wednesday, a multi-vehicle accident and snow forced the closure of a 12-mile (19km) stretch of the A470 between Merthyr Tydfil and Libanus in Powys.\n\nThomas Winstone captured this image in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, on Thursday morning\n\nSouth Wales Police said it received \"a high number of calls about weather-related incidents\" and advised people to allow extra time if travelling.\n\nBrecon Mountain Rescue said it was called in to assist police on Wednesday evening with a \"minor incident\" caused by snow on the A470 near the Cantref reservoir in the Brecon Beacons, Powys.\n\nThe team also helped a woman whose car had lost forward momentum on the Hirwaun Road in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff.\n\nPeople are being told to take care on the roads\n\nSnow has settled at a pub in Penderyn", "Five rockets were launched from Gaza hours after the ceasefire\n\nA ceasefire between Israel and militants in Gaza appears to be holding, despite the launch of several rockets hours after it took effect.\n\nThe truce ended two days of intense fighting in which militants fired some 450 rockets towards Israel and Israeli aircraft carried out waves of strikes.\n\nEarly on Thursday, a family of eight were killed in an air strike in Gaza.\n\nThe fighting left 34 Palestinians dead and 111 injured in total, while 63 Israelis needed medical treatment.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said 25 of the Palestinian fatalities were militants.\n\nThe escalation began on Tuesday when a senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Baha Abu al-Ata, and his wife were killed in an Israeli air strike.\n\nThe Israeli prime minister said Abu al-Ata was \"responsible for most of the terror attacks in the last year from the Gaza Strip\" and called him a \"ticking bomb\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gaza militants retaliated with rocket fire - then Israel responded with further air strikes\n\nPIJ spokesman Musab al-Buraim said early on Thursday that it had agreed to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt after Israel was \"forced to accept the conditions set by the Palestinian resistance\".\n\nThose conditions were to stop \"assassination operations\" and the use of live fire against protesters near the Gaza border fence, and to start implementing steps to end the blockade of Gaza, he added.\n\nIsrael did not publicly confirm the ceasefire, but Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Army Radio that \"quiet will be answered with quiet\".\n\nHe also said he considered it a \"matter of success\" that the dominant militant group in Gaza, Hamas, had not been involved in the hostilities.\n\nPublic Security Minister Gilad Erdan denied any concessions had been made to PIJ, tweeting that the group \"wanted a ceasefire and it received no commitments in exchange\".\n\nPalestinian Islamic Jihad said it had forced Israeli to accept conditions for the ceasefire\n\nIDF Spokesman Brig Gen Hidai Zilberman said its operation in Gaza, dubbed \"Black Belt\", had achieved all of its objectives.\n\n\"With a combination of military personnel from a variety of units who specialize in SIGINT [signals intelligence], HUMINT [human intelligence], we were able to attack cells and close the circle against targets very quickly. That's what killed 25 terrorists who were in the midst of carrying out hostile activity,\" he added.\n\nUN Middle East peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov said both the UN and Egypt had \"worked hard to prevent the most dangerous escalation in and around Gaza from leading to war\" and called on all sides to \"show maximum restraint\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nickolay E. MLADENOV This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, five rockets were launched from Gaza about five hours after the ceasefire came into effect, the IDF said. Two were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defence system.\n\nThere were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage.\n\nIn the late afternoon, rocket alert sirens sounded in Israeli communities near the Gaza border and the IDF said another rocket was shot down.\n\nMeanwhile, Gaza's health ministry said eight members of the Abu Malhous family, including five children and two women, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, before dawn on Thursday.\n\nThe Israeli military said the deadly air strike in Deir al-Balah had targeted a militant commander\n\nThe ministry said the dead were all civilians. But the IDF insisted that the head of the family, Rasmi Abu Malhous, was a commander of a PIJ rocket-launching unit.\n\n\"He was an Islamic Jihad commander and he, like many others, had the tactic of hiding ammunition and military infrastructure in their own residence,\" spokesman Lt Col Jonathan Conricus told AFP news agency. \"Of course we try always to minimise the amount of non-combatants killed or injured.\"\n\n\"They were children, civilians, not militants and they have nothing to do with politics,\" he told AFP. \"They were innocent people, asleep. We were shocked by four rockets landing on the tin house, this is not normal.\"\n• None Is Palestinian-Israeli peace out of reach?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeane Freeman has said she did not make details of the child's death public due to patient confidentiality\n\nThe health secretary says she knew in September a child had died after contracting an infection possibly linked to water at Glasgow's largest hospital, but did not make it public.\n\nJeane Freeman learned in September that the patient had died after contracting an infection in a cancer ward in 2017.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she acted on the information but chose to maintain patient confidentiality.\n\nLabour MSP Anas Sarwar has described the situation as a \"cover-up\".\n\nMs Freeman said she felt for the child's parents.\n\nShe said: \"I deeply regret not only the death of their child. In any circumstance that has to cause a pain that I can't possibly imagine, but I also deeply regret that they feel they haven't been given the information that they have a perfect right to receive and are entitled to.\n\n\"They have my commitment to act to ensure that situation does not happen to parents in the future.\n\n\"I don't regret honouring patient confidentiality. But upholding patient confidentiality does not mean I don't act on the information I am given.\"\n\nMr Sarwar had raised the issue - which was brought to light by an NHS whistleblower - during First Minister's Questions on Thursday.\n\nThe whistleblower raised concerns about the findings of a review into infections in child cancer patients.\n\nThe MSP said he had seen information which showed that senior managers were repeatedly alerted to the fact a previous review failed to include cases of infection related to the water supply in 2017. He said the parents of the child had never been told the true cause of their child's death.\n\nGreater Glasgow Health Board say a link between the infection and the hospital cannot be proven because regulations at the time did not require water testing.\n\nMr Sarwar said: \"This is a remarkable confession from the health secretary.\n\n\"There are now incredibly serious questions for the government and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to answer, and a huge challenge to rebuild trust.\"\n\nLabour MSP Anas Sarwar described the allegations as a 'scandal'\n\nHe added: \"This devastating death has been covered up since September. Jeane Freeman says she acted, but the most important act would be to inform the parents.\n\n\"At the centre of this scandal is a tragic loss of life, and the priority must be seeking answers for the parents who lost a child.\"\n\nLast September, two wards at the Royal Hospital for Children were closed and patients moved to the adjoining Queen Elizabeth University Hospital as Health Protection Scotland (HPS) investigated water contamination incidents.\n\nAn HPS investigation found 23 cases of blood stream infections with organisms potentially linked to water contamination were identified between 29 January and 26 September, 2018.\n\nThe Daily Record reported a clinician-led team at NHSGGC investigated further back than 2018.\n\nThe whistleblower who contacted Mr Sarwar claimed this investigation found up to 26 cases of water supply infections in children in the cancer wards in 2017, and that one child with cancer died after contracting an infection.\n\nIn March a report found some areas of the hospital could not be cleaned properly because they were awaiting repair work.\n\nThe inspection was ordered by Ms Freeman after patients became infected with a fungus linked to pigeon faeces.\n\nMr Sarwar said he has had difficult information shared with him before but this case \"felt different\".\n\nHe added: \"I immediately imagined how I would feel if that was my child, if I was that parent. I would want to know - I would expect answers.\"\n\nAn NHSGGC spokesman said: \"When a patient dies in our care, our clinical teams discuss with family members the cause of death and the factors that have contributed to this, where they are known.\n\n\"Patients who are very sick are prone to infections and we closely monitor all infections to ensure patients are appropriately cared for. \"\n\nHe said that two individual cases of Stenotrophomonas were investigated in 2017 which were not linked and those were reported to Health Protection Scotland and the NHSGGC Board.\n\nThe cases were reviewed again in July 2019 when the clinical view was taken that no further action was required.\n\nHe added: \"At the time of the initial investigation into these cases, national guidance did not include a requirement for health boards to test for Stenotrophomonas in the water supply.\n\n\"As no tests were carried out at the time, it is not possible to conclude that these infections were connected to the water supply. It is extremely disappointing therefore that a whistleblower has made this claim causing additional distress to families and to other families of cancer patients.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Our ambition is unlock the whole nation's potential\"\n\nDelivering Brexit would help the UK close the \"opportunity gap between rich and poor\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nIn his first big speech of the election campaign, he promised to boost regional industry and drive a \"clean energy revolution\" after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nHe said a future Tory government would double investment in high-tech research and development to £18bn.\n\nBut earlier former Tory David Gauke said Mr Johnson's plan will lead to a \"bad outcome for the country\".\n\nAnd Labour said Mr Johnson's Brexit deal was flawed and another referendum was needed.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to an electric taxi manufacturer near Coventry, the PM set out his vision for post-Brexit Britain, saying his goal was to unite the country and \"level up\" economic performance by boosting the regions.\n\nHe said the UK must be at the heart of the world's \"green revolution\", harnessing the power of science, innovation and technology to tackle climate change and create high-skilled, high wage jobs.\n\nA Tory victory on 12 December would see the UK leave the EU in January, he said, and that would be good for the country's \"politics, economy and psychological health\" after months of paralysis.\n\n\"We must get Brexit done because we are democrats,\" he said, saying while Leave voters wanted the result of the 2016 referendum result to be respected, Remain voters also accepted the \"wrangling had to end\".\n\nBut he departed from excerpts of the speech briefed to the media on Tuesday, leaving out references to Brexit \"groundhoggery\" and claims that calls for another Brexit referendum and a further vote on Scottish independence were a form of \"onanism\", or masturbation.\n\nAsked about this at a press conference after the speech, he blamed it on a \"stray draft\" of the speech released to the media.\n\nThe Tory leader said the UK's economic fundamentals were sound, but he compared the country to a \"cup-winning horse trying to run on three legs\" with huge untapped potential and often \"vastly different\" educational outcomes.\n\n\"If every child had the same start and the same encouragement, think of the all untapped talent in this country,\" he said.\n\n\"Yet the solution to that inequality is within our grasp... not just to close the opportunity gap between rich and poor but also between the regions of this country.\"\n\nHe promised to make the \"small improvements in life that people are craving\" by addressing transport bottlenecks, improving rural bus services and broadband connections. He also said British apprentices must be employed on all \"big new public sector\" contracts after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK must be at the heart of the world's \"green revolution\"\n\nTo demonstrate his party's support for enterprise, he said a future Tory government would double funding for research and development to £18bn in the next Parliament, which would amount to the \"biggest ever increase in support for R&D\".\n\n\"We proudly back businesses across this country because they are creating the wealth that actually pays for the NHS and everything else.\"\n\nA Labour victory, he claimed, would lead to a \"Technicolor coalition\" with the SNP, prolonging the uncertainty for business over Brexit and the future of the UK.\n\nThe PM is facing claims from a former cabinet colleague that his election would lead to a \"very hard Brexit\" after Mr Gauke attacked the policy of the Conservatives to not extend the implementation period for Brexit past December 2020.\n\nThe Tories plan to negotiate a free trade agreement with the European Union during that time, but have pledged to leave without one if no deal is reached by the deadline.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage cited the pledge as one of the reasons for his decision not to stand candidates in the 317 seats won by the Tories at the last general election, in 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Gauke says a Conservative majority will move the UK towards \"a very hard Brexit\"\n\nMr Gauke said \"one simply cannot renegotiate a trade deal in that time period\", and leaving without a deal would be \"disastrous for the prosperity of our country… [making] whole sectors unviable\".\n\nBut Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Michael Gove, said his former colleague was \"wrong\".\n\nHe defended the progress the prime minister has made on Brexit, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"People throughout the summer said that Boris Johnson would not be able to secure a deal with the EU.\n\n\"The withdrawal agreement will never be reopened, they said. The backstop is unviable, you won't get it changed.\n\n\"They are people who have been left with oeuf on their faces because he succeeded in securing that deal in defiance of the sceptics and the cynics, and we can secure a free trade agreement by the end of 2020.\"\n\nMPs backed Mr Johnson's Brexit deal in principle before Parliament was dissolved. But they refused to endorse his timetable to rush it through in days, meaning the PM had to abandon his \"do or die\" pledge to take the UK out by the 31 October deadline.", "The Labour Party has vowed to close the gender pay gap by 2030 if it wins the election.\n\nThe difference between men's and women's average pay would take another 60 years to close under a Conservative government, the party said.\n\nBut the Conservative Party said that Labour was \"over-promising\".\n\nThe Tories said the pay gap was at a record low and that there had been \"huge progress since 2010\" in terms of the number of women in work.\n\nThe gender pay gap is the percentage difference between average hourly earnings for men and women.\n\nThe Fawcett Society said it would take until almost 2080 for the gender pay gap to close at the current rate.\n\nThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) puts that at about 35 years.\n\nAs well as the new 2030 pay gap target, Labour also restated some policies that will become manifesto commitments.\n\nThese included introducing a \"real living wage\" of £10 per hour and creating a Worker's Protection Agency with HMRC with powers to fine organisations that fail to report gender pay.\n\nLabour said the new agency would check firms with more than 250 employees were meeting gender equality criteria on recruitment, career progression, pay and work-life balance.\n\nThose that did would become certified. Labour would then lower that threshold by the end of 2020 to workplaces with 50 employees.\n\nIt will also extend maternity pay from nine to 12 months and introduce free childcare for two to four-year-olds.\n\nDawn Butler, Labour's shadow women and equalities secretary, said: \"Labour's real living wage, robust gender pay auditing - including fining organisations that fail to take action - will help us deliver real change and meet this ambitious target.\"\n\nBut Liz Truss, who was the Conservative Women and Equalities Minister, said: \"Yet again (Jeremy) Corbyn's Labour are overpromising something they cannot deliver.\n\nShe said Mr Corbyn's focus would not be on opportunities for women.\n\nThe Tories said the pay gap was \"at a record low\" having fallen from 27.5% in 1997 to 17.3% in 2019 for all employees.\n\nThe party added that female employment was at 71.8% according to the latest figures, close to a record high, and that it had launched a \"roadmap for gender equality\".\n\nMatthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director, said firms shared the Labour Party's goal but: \"Creating inclusive workplaces where everyone can thrive is the only way to tackle gender inequality at work.\"\n\nHe said the gender pay gap was caused by a wide range of factors - such as the availability of childcare, career progression and improved careers advice - which required business and government to work in partnership to bring change.\n\nBut he said that Labour's gender equality certification plan would add \"bureaucracy\" for businesses.\n\nThe causes of the gap aren't simple. Women are far more likely than men to take substantial parental leave, which can hamper career progression.\n\nStudies have shown that the more kids you have, the less likely you are as a woman to enjoy the same pay as men of the same age; and affordability of childcare is crucial to woman returning to work.\n\nBut closing the gender pay gap is a knotty problem.\n\nThe CBI, for example, says it shares the Labour Party's ambition to close the gender pay gap as quickly as possible.\n\nBut it doubts whether a system of fines and government certification will do the job.\n\nAll of the measures Labour laid out to achieve it have already been announced; no new money is being promised.\n\nDo you have any other questions about elections in the UK?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "All six Friends actors are in talks for a one-off unscripted reunion show, according to reports in the US.\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter and Variety claim the special programme would be shown on new streaming site HBO Max.\n\nHowever it would apparently not involve fully reviving the hit sitcom, which ran from 1994-2004.\n\nHBO Max secured the US rights to all 10 seasons of Friends for $425m (£340m) for its service, which is due to launch in April 2020.\n\nThe show will move from Netflix, where it has found a new lease of life with younger audiences, being the second most-watched show in 2018 - according to Nielsen data.\n\nJennifer Aniston, who played Rachel on the show, recently joined Instagram and attracted almost five million followers in 12 hours after posting a selfie alongside co-stars Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer.\n\nShe later cryptically told US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres they were \"working on something\".\n\nShe said: \"We would love for there to be something, but we don't know what that something is. So we're just trying.\"\n\nWhile one or two of the stars have worked together on various other projects, including the spin-off series Joey - which saw Schwimmer direct LeBlanc in several episodes - all six have not been seen together publicly since the show finished.\n\nHBO Max has not commented on the reports.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The badly-damaged cathedral is now covered in scaffolding\n\nThe army general overseeing the reconstruction of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris has said the building's chief architect should \"shut his mouth\".\n\nGeneral Jean-Louis Georgelin and architect Philippe Villeneuve disagree over whether the cathedral's new spire should look modern or medieval.\n\nNotre Dame caught fire in April, losing its spire, roof and many artefacts.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has set a five-year deadline for completing the huge restoration project.\n\nSome experts warn that this target may be too ambitious - and Mr Villeneuve has previously said the only way it can be met is if the spire is a replica of the one that burned down.\n\nBut President Macron and General Georgelin both believe the new spire should be \"contemporary\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Notre-Dame’s spire fell as the fire raged in April\n\nA public argument over the spire's design broke out at a meeting of the French National Assembly's cultural affairs committee late on Wednesday.\n\n\"As for the chief architect, I have already explained that he should shut his mouth,\" General Georgelin snapped, prompting gasps from those at the meeting, AFP news agency reported.\n\nHe later said that all involved ought to \"move ahead in wisdom so that we can serenely make the best choice for Notre Dame, for Paris, for the world\".\n\nA final decision on the spire would be settled on in 2021, he added.\n\nThe historic cathedral lost its spire and roof in the huge fire on 15 April\n\nOn the same day, France 3 TV channel broadcast footage from inside Notre Dame - showing its missing spire and burned-out roof, as well as debris that has collected on the cathedral floor.\n\nLast month, Mr Villeneuve told the broadcaster RTL: \"Either I restore it identically... or they make a contemporary spire and it will be someone else [doing it].\"\n\nWithin 24 hours of the fire on 15 April, hundreds of millions of euros were pledged to help fund the rebuilding of the cathedral.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Ed said Labour and the Tories are \"competing to bankrupt Britain\".\n\nA Liberal Democrat government would spend £100bn tackling the effects of climate change and protecting the environment, the party's deputy leader has announced.\n\nSir Ed Davey said the five-year investment would \"jump-start\" efforts to combat the \"climate emergency\".\n\nThe pledge would be funded through borrowing and tax changes, to be set out in detail in the party's manifesto.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour both have targets to reduce carbon emissions.\n\nSir Ed, who served as secretary of state for energy and climate change in the coalition government, said his party would \"decarbonise capitalism\" if elected.\n\nHe said a Lib Dem administration would be a \"government of business\" by stopping Brexit, increasing investment in infrastructure, and promoting new green jobs.\n\nSpeaking in Leeds, he also pledged his party would build a new tram or metro system in the West Yorkshire city.\n\nSir Ed, who is also the party's finance spokesman, said the climate investment would include a new £10bn \"renewable power fund\" to leverage more than £100bn of extra private climate investment.\n\nEnvironmental campaigners recently floated a replica of a British home in the River Thames to highlight rising sea levels\n\n\"This will fast track deployment of clean energy, to make Britain not just the world leader in offshore wind, but also the global number one in tidal power too.\n\n\"And we will invest £15bn more to make every building in the country greener, with an emergency ten-year programme to save energy, end fuel poverty and cut heating bills.\"\n\nThe party said the policy would be funded through £85bn of borrowing and £15bn raised through tax changes, which will be detailed in its manifesto.\n\nSir Ed also attacked the \"fantasy economics\" of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, claiming that the spending plans unveiled by the two parties represent a \"debate between fantasies\".\n\n\"Fantasies born of nostalgia for a British Imperial past. Competing with fantasies from a failed 1970s ideology.\"\n\nHe said his party would not do any kind of deal with Mr Johnson or Mr Corbyn if no party wins a majority on 12 December.\n\nBut he said they would vote \"issue by issue\" with a minority Conservative or Labour government, in an effort to make them more \"moderate\".\n\n\"What we will not do is have a coalition or have a supply and confidence relationship, because we think these parties have become too extreme,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could your vote save the planet? This Matters looks into what's really going on in this election\n\nHe also repeated his claim that stopping Brexit would deliver a £50bn \"Remain bonus\" for public services, due to better economic growth.\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris said the vast majority of forecasts do expect the economy would be bigger if the UK were to stay in the EU.\n\nBut he added the size of that \"bonus\" cannot be predicted with any certainty, and £50bn was not a hugely significant amount in terms of overall government expenditure.\n\nThe Lib Dem climate pledge follows the Green Party's promise to appoint a \"carbon chancellor\" to allocate £100bn per year towards climate change.\n\nLabour has announced it would make all new-build homes \"zero carbon\" by 2022, as well as reducing the UK's carbon emissions by 10% through a huge home improvement programme.\n\nThe Conservatives have announced a halt to fracking, the controversial process of extracting gas from shale rock, and, in government, the party set a target of \"net-zero\" carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems, the Scottish National Party and the Green Party have called for a live TV debate on climate change before the 12 December election.", "Bringing high-speed broadband to remote areas will be challenging\n\nThree months ago, Boris Johnson set a hugely ambitious target - giving every home in the UK full-fibre broadband by 2025. Now, at the Conservative Party conference, the Chancellor, Sajid Javid, has promised the funds to make that happen.\n\nIn the press release previewing a speech promising as much as £50bn in new infrastructure spending, there is this section about broadband.\n\n\"We are setting out plans to invest £5bn to support the rollout of full-fibre, 5G and other gigabit-capable networks to the hardest-to-reach 20% of the country,\" it says.\n\n\"This doubles the previous commitment to support rollout to the hardest 10%.\"\n\nLast year's Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review, commissioned by Theresa May's government, set an \"ambitious target\" of full fibre - a pure fibre-optic cable running directly into the building rather than to a roadside cabinet - reaching 15 million premises by 2025.\n\nThe whole country - including about 30 million homes as well as millions more businesses and public buildings - would be covered by 2033, it added.\n\nAnd a government statement at the time said this would \"require require additional funding of around £3bn to £5bn to support commercial investment in the final 10% of areas\".\n\nBut in June, as he stood for the leadership of the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson described that strategy as \"laughably unambitious\".\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said: \"We should commit now to delivering full fibre to every home in the land not in the mid-2030s - but in five years at the outside.\"\n\nThat 2025 target was reaffirmed - albeit somewhat less explicitly - in speeches after Mr Johnson won the Conservative leadership contest and as he entered No 10. There was talk of \"fantastic full-fibre broadband sprouting in every household\".\n\n5G mobile technology is available in only a few UK cities\n\nNow, the chancellor is promising £5bn to make that sprouting happen - but fulfilling that pledge to move the target eight years earlier should mean the cost goes up. After all, this is a massive building project. Scarce workers will have to be recruited and trained and materials bought.\n\nTell your builder your extension has to be built by Christmas, not next summer and you'll find the bill spirals.\n\nAnd it's not just about having a tighter deadline.\n\nThe 2033 target envisaged the government providing funds to cover the 10% of the country that would not be reached by private-sector investment.\n\nMoving the goal forward means it now expects 20% of the UK won't have been covered by the commercial sector in time.\n\nSo, the chancellor appears to be expecting to get a lot out of the £5bn, assuming he really is sticking to the promise of full-fibre for all - a much faster more extensive programme to bring the best possible broadband to everyone, without dipping deeper into public funds.\n\nI was given a glimpse of some of the issues last month, when I visited the remote island community on Grimsay, in the Hebrides, which had recently been given full-fibre broadband.\n\nIt had proved pretty expensive, something like £4,000 to hook up each household, with much of the funding coming from the Scottish government.\n\nAnd while the inhabitants were naturally enthusiastic about the project, their neighbours on other islands had immediately begun asking: \"What about us?\"\n\nThere is one more puzzling thing about the chancellor's speech - does it contain a watering down of the prime minister's full-fibre pledge?\n\nIt talks of investment not just in fibre but in \"5G and other gigabit-capable networks\".\n\nNow, some in the telecoms industry have suggested laying a fibre connection up every remote farm track or mountainside may not be sensible when other technologies such as 5G or even low earth-orbit satellites could supply similar speeds.\n\nBut fibre purists - and that seems to include the prime minister - insist it is the only reliable option if we are not to have a two-speed country with rural areas left in the slow lane.\n\nAnd Mr Javid's team is not providing much more clarity, except to say \"gigabit-capable\" broadband networks will be provided to everyone and further details will be set out later this year in the National Infrastructure Strategy.", "Herbal compounds such as garlic, ginger and ginseng can delay the healing of skin wounds\n\nCancer patients should tell their doctors if they are taking herbal products because some of the ingredients could stop their treatment working, a cancer conference has heard.\n\nGarlic, ginger and ginkgo pills, for example, can delay the healing of skin wounds when breast cancer spreads.\n\nSurgeon Prof Maria Joao Cardoso, said there was no evidence that herbal therapies or creams worked.\n\nIf in doubt, it was best not to take anything, she said.\n\n\"Doctors need to be more proactive about asking their patients what else they are taking when they are being treated for cancer,\" Prof Cardoso, head breast surgeon at the Champalimaud Cancer Centre in Lisbon, Portugal, told the BBC.\n\nShe said it was particularly important that patients always checked with their doctors first before trying complementary therapies for cancer that had spread to the skin.\n\nThis happens in one in five cases of breast cancer - and less in other cancers.\n\nThe danger is that many products can interfere with hormone therapy or chemotherapy treatments, and certain ones prolong the blood clotting process - which can lead to wounds taking longer to heal and more scarring.\n\nShe highlighted the following herbal products as examples of those which slow down clotting:\n\nProf Cardoso said it was not surprising that patients and their carers went searching for complementary or alternative treatments that might make a difference.\n\nBut she said people should know \"they could end up doing more harm than good\".\n\n\"The highest goal in medicine is important to remember: do no harm,\" she said.\n\nGrapefruit and its juice is known to affect enzymes which break down cancer drugs in the body\n\nOn its website, Cancer Research UK says some complementary therapies might stop conventional treatments working as well as they should.\n\nIt also says it is important to avoid some food and drinks such as grapefruit and oranges during cancer treatment, because they can affect how well cancer drugs are broken down in the body.\n\nThe charity says: \"Talk to your doctor about any complementary therapies you're thinking of using. Tell them before you start having complementary therapy, especially if you're in the middle of a course of cancer treatment.\"\n\nGrete Brauten-Smith, clinical nurse specialist at charity Breast Cancer Now said: \"With a lot of unproven information available online and little reliable research into these products, a discussion with a healthcare professional can ensure a patient has the accurate information they need to make an informed choice.\"\n\nSpeaking at the Advanced Breast Cancer Fifth International Consensus Conference, Prof Cardoso said therapies like yoga, mindfulness, reiki and acupuncture could have a positive impact on patients' quality of life.", "US rapper Kodak Black has been sentenced to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to weapons charges.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who had a US number one album last December, admitted falsifying information on background forms to buy four guns.\n\nHe was arrested before his set at Miami's Rolling Loud festival in May.\n\nOne of the guns he bought was used in an attempted shooting in March. Prosecutors said \"a rival rap artist was the intended target\".\n\nHowever, he has not been charged in relation to that shooting.\n\nReal name Bill K Kapri, the hip-hop star faced a maximum of 10 years in prison, and prosecutors had pushed for a sentence of eight years. The court heard he was alleged to have beaten up a prison guard while awaiting sentencing.\n\nUS District Judge Federico Moreno acknowledged that Black had made anonymous donations to charity in the past.\n\nBlack's lawyer Bradford Cohen told BBC News: \"After the court was apprised of all the facts and circumstances of this case and the good charitable work that Bill has done over the years, the court rejected the government's request of 96 months and sentenced Bill to 46 months.\"\n\nThe MC has had a number of legal charges and spells in prison in recent years, and is known for his violent lyrics.\n\nHis debut studio album Painting Pictures went to number three in the US in 2017.\n\nThe follow-up went to number two, and a third album, Dying to Live, reached number one last December. Two hit singles - Zeze and Tunnel Vision - have reached the Billboard top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hospital performance in England is at its worst level on record, data shows.\n\nKey targets for cancer, hospital care and A&E have been missed for over three years - with delays for hospital care and in A&E hitting their highest levels since both targets were introduced.\n\nThe monthly figures - the last before the election - prompted Labour and the Liberal Democrats to attack the Tories' record on the NHS.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson said \"huge demand\" was to blame.\n\nHe said only the Tories could be trusted to have a \"strong, dynamic economy\" to ensure the rises in the NHS budget being planned could be made.\n\n\"I'm afraid when I look at the rival proposals and the economic disaster that Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party would cause, that will make it impossible for us in the long term to fund the NHS.\"\n\nBut Labour leader Mr Corbyn said the performance figures were \"disgusting\" and a lack of staff and funding was to blame.\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat health spokeswoman Luciana Berger said the Tories had a \"shameful\" record.\n\nAll the parties are proposing to increase the NHS budget. The government announced a five-year funding plan last year, which would see the front-line budget rise by 3.4% a year up to 2023.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour said it would spend more - 3.9% extra a year.\n\nThe Lib Dems are proposing to use a penny rise in income tax to invest extra in social care, mental health and public health.\n\nDemand for all services is rising and the NHS is still managing to see the over-whelming majority in time.\n\nBut performance has been deteriorating for a number of years - and is now well below what it should be.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are also missing their targets, although health is devolved so NHS decisions are taken by the administrations in those parts of the UK.\n\nFrances Reid, 55, is one of many patients to have faced a long wait.\n\nShe said she was left in \"excruciating\" pain waiting for a hip replacement.\n\nMs Reid, from South Cambridgeshire, was referred for surgery in January 2018, after struggling for the previous two years with hip pain.\n\nShe should have been seen in April 2018, but waited until July for her surgery.\n\nThe NHS ended up paying for her to be treated at a private unit because of the wait.\n\n\"The final weeks were really difficult,\" she says.\n\n\"I was waking up six, seven times a night and had to use walking sticks to get around.\n\n\"Daily tasks like shopping became very difficult.\"\n\nDr Nick Scriven, of the Society of Acute Medicine, said: \"These figures are truly worrying as we haven't even reached the 'traditional' winter period yet.\"\n\nHe said urgent action was needed, warning the system was \"imploding\".\n\nBritish Medical Association leader Dr Chaand Nagpaul said the NHS was facing a \"catastrophe\".\n\n\"This is completely unfair for patients and staff.\"\n\nBut Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents health managers, tweeted senior staff should be more careful with the language they used, criticising the use of imploding in particular.\n\nHowever, he admitted he was worried about the \"huge pressure\" on the system at this point before the full onset of winter.\n\nNHS England conceded hospitals were under pressure, seeing \"more older and sicker patients\".\n\nA spokesman said, with winter coming, hospitals would be opening extra beds.\n\nBut he urged the public to play their part by getting the flu jab and using the 111 phone line and NHS online services \"as first port of call for non-emergencies\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he is \"pro-immigration for talented people\" but he is \"also in favour of control\"\n\nBoris Johnson says he will seek to reduce unskilled migration coming into the UK, if the Tories win the election.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel made a commitment on Wednesday to reduce \"overall\" immigration to the UK.\n\nAsked about it, she said the Tories would \"look to reduce the numbers\" through better immigration controls but would not set \"arbitrary\" targets.\n\nMr Johnson was also asked whether immigration would go down under a future Tory government.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I certainly think that when it comes to people who don't have a job to go to and are coming in in an uncontrolled way, we certainly need to be reducing that.\"\n\nBut he he added that he was \"in favour of people of talent coming to this country\".\n\nMr Johnson claimed in the past 20 years, the UK had seen \"a lot of people coming without a job to go to\", who were \"putting pressure on public services\" and did not \"necessarily have the skills that the economy demands\".\n\nBoth Mr Johnson and Mrs Patel reiterated the Conservatives' plan for a \"points-based\" immigration system, which would apply to EU and non-EU migrants.\n\nLabour has yet to announce its policy on immigration.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said he would commit to \"a fair immigration process that recognised the huge contribution made by migrant workers to this country\".\n\n\"We have got to be realistic about the needs of our economy for bringing workers in, skilled workers in to help us,\" he added.\n\nAn SNP spokesman said cutting immigration would be \"hugely damaging\" for the Scottish economy and called the issue to be devolved to the Scottish government.\n\nAnd the Lib Dems' home affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine called the Conservatives' approach \"an insult to the millions who have come to the UK and made it their home\".\n\nMs Patel said in a statement released by the party on Wednesday: \"We will reduce immigration overall while being more open and flexible to the highly skilled people we need, such as scientists and doctors.\n\n\"This can only happen if people vote for a Conservative majority government so we can leave the EU with a deal.\"\n\nHowever, in an interview on Thursday, Ms Patel stopped short of committing to reducing the overall numbers of people coming to the UK.\n\nShe said her party's policy would be \"firm but fair while at the same time we can absolutely look to reduce the numbers in the system by having control over our immigration policy\".\n\nAsked if the Conservatives would set a target for reducing immigration, Ms Patel said targets were \"arbitrary\" adding \"clearly that is where public confidence has been eroded in the past\".\n\nThe Conservatives had previously pledged to cut net migration - the difference between the number of people entering and leaving the country - to below 100,000.\n\nSecurity Minister Brandon Lewis acknowledged that, by not fulfilling the pledge, the Conservatives had \"let people down\".\n\nMs Patel said a future Conservative government would seek to control immigration numbers through a points-based system.\n\nUnder a points-based system, immigration applicants are assigned points according to a number of professional and personal characteristics, with higher points awarded for certain traits such as proficiency in the English language.\n\nThe Conservatives say they will end free movement from the EU on 1 January 2021, if they win the election and get their Brexit deal through by 31 January.\n\nThe government's immigration strategy fell into the parliamentary dustbin when the election was called.\n\nWe still await the party manifestos but today the home secretary said in a press release: \"We will reduce immigration overall.\"\n\nAsked to repeat this for the TV cameras later in the afternoon, she repeatedly refused, speaking only about \"controlling\" immigration.\n\nThe reason this is difficult territory for the Conservatives is that in some part of the UK, migrant workers are desperately needed to keep public services going.\n\nThe prime minister is known to favour a policy that works for the needs of the economy, even if that means migration numbers remain broadly where they are.\n\nImmigration is not the electoral issue it once was - pollsters say it is at its lowest level of concern for almost two decades.\n\nBut some communities remain concerned that foreign arrivals put extra pressure on public services and jobs and those voters are often in the Labour seats that the Tories are looking to take.\n\nLabour members backed a party conference motion in September defending the right of EU migrants to live and work in the UK, to reject any immigration system based on quotas, caps, targets or incomes, and to extend migrant rights.\n\nBut there is a debate at the top of the party over whether to include such a commitment in the party's general election manifesto, which is set to be finalised at a weekend meeting of its national executive committee.\n\nUnite union leader Len McCluskey, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn, said extending free movement would not be \"sensible\", telling the Guardian that the only beneficiaries of uncontrolled immigration were \"the bosses of unscrupulous companies\".\n\n\"It's wrong in my view to have any greater free movement of labour unless you get stricter labour market regulation,\" he said.\n\nHe said Labour had to heed public concerns over levels of unskilled immigration, as it was used to undercut the pay and conditions of British workers.\n\n\"If you don't understand those concerns, you fail to grasp the divisions that exist,\" he said.\n\n\"If we don't deal with the issues and concerns, we will create a vacuum that will be filled by a far right seeking to become the voice of the white working class.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said a Labour government would \"extend freedom of movement rights to all those legally entitled to be here\".\n\nPriti Patel claimed there would be a \"surge\" in immigration under a Labour government\n\nLabour promised to end free movement from Europe - which is a condition of EU membership - in its 2017 general election manifesto, but some of the party's senior figures want to remain in the EU.\n\nLabour have said, if they win power, they will tear up Boris Johnson's Brexit agreement with the EU and negotiate a better deal based on a much stronger relationship with the EU's single market.\n\nSome within the party see Norway, which is outside the EU's political institutions but remains part of the single market as a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), as a model for the UK's future relationship.\n\nBut the Conservatives claimed that if the UK was to remain in the EEA, it would have to accept free movement rules and that would see levels of net migration to the UK of 260,000 each year over the next decade\n\nIf free movement rights were extended to non-EU countries, the Conservatives estimated that this figure could rise to an average of 840,000 a year - a number it said was based on \"official figures and the government's own methodology\".\n\nThis is based on the assumption that Labour would allow free movement with the rest of the world and that the economy would continue to grow at its current level.\n\nAccording to the latest official figures, net migration totalled 226,000 in the year to March 2019.\n\nAlthough numbers have remained \"broadly stable\" since the end of 2016, EU immigration to the UK is currently at its lowest level since 2013.\n\nLabour said the Tories were knowingly misleading the public on its conference motion, which has no mention of geographically extending freedom of movement to other countries.\n\nAsked whether maintaining and extending free movement from the EU would be in their manifesto, Mr Corbyn said what goes in the manifesto is \"not necessarily every last dot and comma of every resolution passed at conference\".\n\nOn Conservative accusations that immigration would rise under Labour, he said: \"I've no idea where they get those figures from - I suspect they just, quite simply, make them up.\"\n\nDo you have any other questions about elections in the UK?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Nicola Sturgeon has predicted Jeremy Corbyn will soon back her call for a Scottish independence vote in 2020.\n\nThe SNP leader was responding to further confusion over Mr Corbyn's position on a second Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader said on Thursday that indyref2 would not happen in the first two years of his party winning power.\n\nThe previous day, he initially told journalists that a referendum would not happen in the first five-year term.\n\nBut just hours later, he clarified that a referendum would not be held in the \"early years\" of a Labour government, with the party's focus instead being on \"massive investment\" in Scotland.\n\nMr Corbyn and Scottish Labour have said they will campaign against independence if the issue is put to another referendum.\n\nBut a Scottish Labour candidate in a key target seat for the party ahead of the general election told BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley that the \"mixed messaging\" from Mr Corbyn on the issue was a \"disaster\" for the party.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon tweeted: \"Yesterday it was 'not in the first term'. Today, it's 'not in the first two years'. By the end of the week, at this rate, Corbyn will be demanding #indyref2020\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe prospect of a second vote on independence and Brexit was discussed at first minister's questions, with the Conservatives also raising questions about the timing of a vote.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she will request a transfer of power from Westminster by the end of this year, with the goal of holding a referendum in the second half of 2020.\n\nBut the first minister has also given her support to having another referendum on Brexit next year.\n\nIf Labour wins power, it has committed to renegotiating the Brexit deal with the EU, before putting this \"credible Leave option\" to the public in a fresh vote, up against Remain.\n\nLabour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his wife Laura Alvarez (wearing hat) with Labour activists while canvassing in Glasgow on Wednesday evening\n\nInterim Scottish Tory leader Jackson Carlaw asked Ms Sturgeon which vote would come first, saying he was \"not sure the first minister has thought through her big double referendum promise\".\n\nHe said: \"When is all this supposed to happen? Both referendums on the one day, or different days? Which vote would come first - indyref, euroref - which?\"\n\nMs Sturgeon replied: \"My priority - and I can't believe Jackson Carlaw hasn't actually cottoned on to this yet - my priority is to give the people of Scotland the opportunity to choose independence next year and I look forward to delivering on that.\"\n\nThis led Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie to say Ms Sturgeon had \"abandoned Remain voters across the UK\", saying this was \"hugely disappointing\".\n\nHe said: \"If you are a Remainer in Scotland, you should know that the SNP will twist every vote into an endorsement of independence. Her party will always put independence ahead of anything else.\"\n\nThis evening Jeremy Corbyn will wrap up his trip to Scotland with a rally in Edinburgh. Labour are expecting hundreds of supporters to turn up.\n\nWinning seats in Scotland could be crucial to Mr Corbyn's hopes of getting into Number Ten, but long gone are the days when Labour could rely on definitely returning a healthy number of Scottish MPs.\n\nDespite recent disasters at the polls - including coming FIFTH in the European elections in Scotland - a number of candidates I've spoken to are upbeat and say they're getting decent reception from voters.\n\nBut this trip has not gone according to plan for Mr Corbyn.\n\nHe has - not for the first time - been unclear about Labour's position on a second independence referendum. Yesterday, he said he wouldn't allow for in his first term (5 years). He then said in the \"formative years\" of a Labour government. This morning he suggested not in the first two years.\n\nThis might all sound a bit like splitting hairs, but some candidates here are worried that not being clear on independence is harming their chances of winning votes from unionists, who helped the party do well in 2017.\n\nOne candidate told me earlier Mr Corbyn's comments had been a \"bloody disaster\". The fear is those who oppose independence will side with the Conservatives or the Lib Dems- while independence supporters will vote SNP.\n\nThere's another school of thought though. The leadership in Scotland doesn't think independence will be a key issue on 12 December. They're confident that - over the next month - their focus on ending austerity, investing in the economy and climate change will cut through.\n\nMr Corbyn said this morning in Midlothian that voters make their decision based on a number of issues. Some in Scottish Labour are desperately hoping independence isn't the main one.\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chance Bright was dragged about 95m by a scrap metal van\n\nA driver who left an Amazon delivery worker paralysed from the waist down by dragging him along a road for almost 100m has been jailed for 12 years.\n\nMitchell Rose, 27, ploughed into Chance Bright as he ran after his van, which had been stolen by Rose's accomplice Brian Atkinson, in Coven, near Wolverhampton, on 4 March.\n\nThe former soldier, 23, was on his last week with Amazon when he was injured.\n\nHe said Rose \"shook his head to tell me that he wasn't going to stop\".\n\nThe former soldier, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, suffered a broken spinal cord and other injuries including a wound under his chin that required 200 stitches.\n\nRose's attempted murder trial at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court had heard how his victim had just delivered a parcel in the south Staffordshire village when he saw someone driving off in his van.\n\nAs he ran after the vehicle, Rose, who was following behind, mowed him down, the Crown Prosecution Service said.\n\nRose, of Redshank Road in Walsall, was cleared of attempted murder in September, but convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and sentenced at Stafford Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nChance Bright said he passed out \"from the pain of being dragged along the tarmac\"\n\nAtkinson, 41, of Parker Street, Walsall, admitted stealing the van and was convicted of assisting an offender. He was sentenced to 36 months.\n\nCarol Davies, 39, of Yew Road, Walsall, was given a 12-month community order and Emma Griffin, 34, of Field Road, Walsall, received a four-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months. Both admitted assisting an offender.\n• None Driver who ran down Amazon driver guilty of GBH\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 7,000 unborn children are recorded as \"in need\"\n\nAlmost one in 50 of those officially classified as \"children in need\" in England have not yet been born.\n\nMore than 7,000 of such vulnerable children have been put into this category before their birth, an analysis of government figures shows.\n\nThe number of \"unborn\" recorded in the total of vulnerable children has almost trebled in the last eight years.\n\nThe most common concerns were neglect or abuse - and that children were being born into \"dysfunctional families\".\n\nThe Department for Education recently published annual figures showing there were 400,000 so-called \"children in need\".\n\nThese are children about whom there are concerns about their health or development, and who are at risk of being \"significantly impaired\" without extra support.\n\nDomestic violence, parents with mental health problems, and drug and alcohol abuse are among the biggest factors.\n\nThis could lead to child protection plans or other interventions by social services or local authorities.\n\nBut a further analysis of the figures shows a continuing rise in the numbers of pre-birth children who are designated as being of concern.\n\nThe figures for 2018-19, show a new high of 7,360 children considered vulnerable before their birth. This figure has risen steadily over recent years from 2,630 in 2010-11.\n\nWhile the odds might be stacked against some children from an early age, these figures show a sharp rise in those being officially monitored even before their birth.\n\nThe Department for Education says unborn children are put on this list because of concerns over their \"safety or welfare\", or because of the problems already facing their parents.\n\nThe most recent figures for unborn children in need show \"abuse or neglect\" to be the biggest concerns, along with \"family dysfunction\", \"family in acute stress\", \"parents' disability or illness\" and \"low income\".\n\n\"It is absolutely vital that councils are able to support families and help children who are at risk of significant harm, but it is also important that help is available before problems escalate to that point,\" said the Local Government Association.\n\nMore than 50% of children in need cases, over 200,000 incidents, involved domestic violence.\n\nThe Local Government Association also raised concerns about children in need for reasons \"linked to faith or belief\", which had risen by 320 to 1,950 cases, representing 0.4% of children in need.\n\nThe councils' group says that some cases could include beliefs in witchcraft or \"spirit possession\", but there was no breakdown to show how many.", "Labour is promising free full fibre broadband to every UK home by 2030 – if it wins the election – by bringing part of BT back into public ownership.\n\nJohn McDonnell told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that the roll-out would cost £20bn, and that maintenance of the network would be paid for by a tax on multinational tech companies.\n\nThe shadow chancellor said with an investment of public money on that scale \"people would expect us to get something in return\".\n\nBoris Johnson has promised £5bn to bring full-fibre to every home by 2025.", "Political parties are generally in agreement about one thing - that the NHS needs more money. But is money all it takes?\n\nTo answer this, it's helpful to look at whether the NHS is getting the best out of its existing budget - and how that compares with other countries.\n\nThere's no single way of measuring the efficiency of a health service, though various bodies have tried.\n\nBloomberg's annual healthcare efficiency index, for example, looks simply at spending on healthcare versus life expectancy.\n\nIts latest report ranked 56 wealthy countries, based on 2015 data. It put the UK 35th - down from 21st the year before, partly reflecting the slowing of growth in spending on the NHS particularly in England.\n\nHong Kong and Singapore - mixed public and private systems with elements of both government funding and insurance - came top. They were followed by Italy and Spain - with national health services - which both have higher life expectancies than the UK and spend less per person to achieve this.\n\nThe UK was also beaten by France which has a system of social insurance paid for by the government, individuals and employers.\n\nCompared with 35 other OECD countries (Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development) - a group of rich nations - the UK spends an average amount on healthcare (about 9.8% of GDP) and has a slightly higher than average life expectancy for the group (81.3 years).\n\nLife expectancy is a reasonable proxy for how good a healthcare system is, but it's not a perfect one.\n\nWhile higher healthcare spending is linked to higher life expectancy, it's affected by other complicated social factors including diet and smoking. In the US, for example, opioid deaths and gun crime have been linked to a fall in life expectancy.\n\nIt's also a fairly crude measure - living longer isn't the only thing most people would want to achieve from a health system.\n\nAs a 2018 report by three health think tanks and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, entitled \"How good is the NHS?\", said, UK patients were more likely than average to report having had a good experience of the health system. The think tanks said this was \"a valuable goal of health care in its own right\".\n\nUK patients were also less likely to say they skipped a consultation or prescription medicine because of cost.\n\nAnd looking just at life expectancy doesn't capture how good a health system is at dealing with conditions that may require long-term care but don't cause death.\n\nThe 2018 report concludes that the NHS across the UK is relatively efficient, performing well in managing long-term conditions with \"an unusually low level of staffing and, in at least some categories, equipment\" compared with other countries. This suggests the NHS is doing quite well with the money it has.\n\nBut equally, life expectancy measures don't capture experiences like waiting for a long time on a trolley in A&E or waiting in pain for a routine operation, which aren't fatal but are also not good experiences for patients.\n\nThese have worsened as funding increases have slowed.\n\nThe NHS is below average among OECD countries at treating the illnesses that are the most common direct causes of death.\n\nFor example, the UK mortality rate for cancer and heart disease is higher than the average among similar countries and that's a longer-term trend.\n\nPart of the reason the UK does worse on cancer survival is that British patients present late with cancer symptoms, and get diagnosed at a later stage. That's not necessarily a funding issue.\n\nAcross the UK, waiting times for routine surgery like hip replacements are about average, and waiting times in A&E just below average, compared with other rich countries.\n\nAs the growth in funding has slowed, though, the NHS has become worse at seeing people within four hours in A&E and getting cancer patients into treatment within two months.\n\nThis is significant for patients and their experience of the system, but it hasn't dramatically effected outcomes - although this may take some time to show up. Those worse than average trends pre-dated recent funding cutbacks, again suggesting there's something other than just money going on.\n\nImproving outcomes in the health service often requires funding plus other action - for example training and retaining more staff or launching public information campaigns. Money alone is not enough to make those things happen.\n\nThe NHS is devolved, meaning each nation runs its own health system and can set its own priorities. On waits in A&E, Scotland has fared comparatively better than other UK nations.\n\nUS-based foundation the Commonwealth Fund published a comparison in 2017 which put the UK top out of 11 countries for healthcare performance.\n\nIt looked at five areas including equity and access, as well as health outcomes and the care process.\n\nThe UK came top partly because of the ranking's heavy weighting towards universal systems - since equity and access formed two out of the five criteria.\n\nWhen it came to health outcomes, though, the UK scored tenth out of 11 countries which detracts from the overall score.\n\nAlthough, arguably, the UK's relative equality of access to healthcare for both the rich and poor is a significant when it comes to assessing how well the health service is spending its money.\n\nThe IFS, Health Foundation, King's Fund and Nuffield Trust say the NHS \"does better than health systems in comparable countries at protecting people from heavy financial costs when they are ill\" and that overall, \"the NHS performs neither as well as its supporters sometimes claim nor as badly as its critics often allege.\"", "University of Lincoln graduate Grace Millane died on the night before her 22nd birthday\n\nA man accused of murdering a British backpacker told police he struggled to put her body in a suitcase, a court has heard.\n\nGrace Millane was travelling in New Zealand when she died on the night before her 22nd birthday.\n\nThe defendant claimed he panicked after finding her not breathing and put her body in a suitcase which he buried in a shallow grave in woods near Auckland.\n\nHe denies murdering Ms Millane, who was from Wickford in Essex.\n\nProsecutors have told Auckland High Court the 27-year-old defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, strangled Ms Millane on 1 December 2018 after a Tinder date.\n\nBut his defence team claim the death was an accident during consensual sex.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The court has been shown CCTV of the suspect taking a suitcase out of his hotel\n\nIn a police interview played to the jury, the defendant said the pair engaged in rough sex which he claimed was initiated by Ms Millane.\n\nThe man told police he had a shower and fell asleep before waking up the next day to find Ms Millane with \"blood coming from her nose\".\n\n\"I was very scared and called out to her and tried to move her to see if she was awake,\" he said.\n\nAfter discovering she was not breathing, the defendant said he \"panicked\" and went out to buy a suitcase and cleaning products before trying to hide her body.\n\n\"I remember putting Grace in the suitcase, I was just in shock, I couldn't put her in it, it didn't seem right, it didn't seem right,\" he said.\n\nGrace Millane was found buried in the Waitakere Ranges, near Auckland\n\nThe defendant said he left Ms Millane \"half in half out of the suitcase\" in his Auckland hotel room while he went to buy bleach and then again when he went on a Tinder date.\n\nHe said: \"Then I put her in the bag and was I was saying 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry' and then I went downstairs and got the porter thing (trolley) and I put the suitcase on top of it with another suitcase and I took it downstairs and put it in the hire car.\"\n\nThe man told officers he went out early on 3 December and buried the suitcase in a shallow grave in woodland outside the city.\n\nHe claimed he had attempted to take his own life by taking an overdose after discovering Ms Millane's body and again when he buried her.\n\n\"I was in shock, I didn't know what to do,\" he said.\n\nIn his first police interview, the defendant said the pair had drinks and then went home separately after their Tinder date.\n\nAsked in the second interview by his own lawyer why he was changing his story, he said he wanted Ms Millane's family to have closure and to know \"it wasn't intentional\".\n\nFollowing the interview he was arrested and took officers to Ms Millane's body.", "We knew this was going to be a strange election. It's been a strange few years.\n\nBut while the parties are eagerly trying to stick to their familiar scripts - the Tories on Brexit, the Labour Party on public services, something far less recognisable is going on too in this campaign.\n\nIt started with Ian Austin last week, the former Labour MP who urged voters to choose Boris Johnson instead. You can read about it here.\n\nAnother former Labour MP, John Woodcock, joined him, then today another former Labour minister, Tom Harris, wrote spikily today also urging people to back the Conservatives rather than his old party.\n\nAll three of these have switched their support to another party and then overtly made the case for their old rivals.\n\nAnd it's fully breaking out on the other side too.\n\nDavid Gauke, who only resigned from the Cabinet a few months ago, has not just decided to stand as an independent candidate after losing the Conservative whip, but has publicly urged voters to take a good look at the Liberal Democrats, saying that a Boris Johnson majority would be bad for the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Tory minister David Gauke: \"A Conservative majority... will take us in the direction of a very hard Brexit\"\n\nMr Gauke is hot on the heels of the former Conservative MP, minister, and Boris Johnson's one time ally at London's City Hall, Nick Boles who slammed Boris Johnson's character.\n\nOf course, in the last few weeks of the Parliament of 2019 there were a fair number of defections to the Liberal Democrats over Brexit.\n\nBut it feels different now we are actually in a campaign to have politicians popping up to cheer for a party that is not their own.\n\nIt's partly because both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are politicians who infuriate some members, and former members, of their own political parties.\n\nThey both face regular questions about their character, not just their policies.\n\nBut it's also because Brexit has created new faultlines in our politics.\n\nThe line between Leavers and Remainers is a zigzag, not a reliable party division.\n\nAll of the big parties have designed their strategies with this fragmentation in mind.\n\nWhether that is the Lib Dems trying to appeal to Labour voters who want to stay in the EU, or the Tories targeting Labour voters who wanted to leave.\n\nOne of the big questions the results on Friday the 13th will answer is the extent to which the old allegiances actually apply.", "US President Donald Trump has said he did not watch Wednesday's public hearing in the impeachment inquiry against him \"for one minute\".\n\nHe dismissed the process as a \"witch-hunt\", a \"joke\", and \"a hoax\".\n\nThe president said the phone call with the Ukrainian president around which the inquiry centres was \"perfect\" and \"highly appropriate\".\n\nHe was speaking at a press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and said their meeting was \"much more important\" than the hearing.\n\nHowever, Mr Trump had earlier retweeted clips of the hearing.", "Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has claimed the Conservatives offered his candidates jobs and peerages to try to get them to stand down.\n\nMr Farage also said his candidates received \"thousands of phone calls and emails\" trying to get them to withdraw ahead of next month's election.\n\nHe made the claims shortly after candidate nominations closed before the 12 December poll.\n\nMr Farage has confirmed his candidates will not contest seats won by the Tories at the 2017 general election, but will stand candidates against the party elsewhere.\n\nConservative figures have urged his party not to run in Labour-held marginal constituencies, fearing his candidates could divide the Brexit-backing vote.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter, Mr Farage said that he, along with eight \"senior figures\" in his party, had been offered peerages to stand down.\n\nHe said the offer had been made by people \"deep inside Number 10 Downing Street\" - although he did not think Prime Minister Boris Johnson was involved.\n\n\"As you can imagine, I said I do not want, and I will never have, anything to do with this kind of behaviour,\" he said.\n\nA Tory source has told the BBC the Brexit Party candidate in Peterborough was offered an unpaid role in education in the hope it would convince him to stand aside.\n\nMike Greene is standing for the party in the Cambridgeshire constituency, which Labour held narrowly at a by-election in June.\n\nIt is understood friends of Mr Greene had indicated that the role could be enough of an inducement.\n\nMr Greene's team confirmed the offer of a role had been made to him, but said their candidate would definitely be running.\n\nMr Farage also later said his candidates had been \"subjected to thousands of phone calls, and emails and threats all over the country\" to get them to stand aside.\n\nHe said candidates had been offered jobs \"in the negotiating team, jobs in government departments and hints at peerages too\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Conservative Party said: \"We don't do electoral pacts - our pact is with the British people.\"\n\n\"The only way to get Brexit done and unleash Britain's potential is to vote for your local Conservative candidate\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Question Time, Conservative party chairman James Cleverly said allegations that his party has offered peerages were \"completely unfounded\".\n\n\"There are a number of people who went to the Brexit Party, who had been up until very, very recently Conservatives,\" he said.\n\n\"I have no doubt that Conservatives will have spoken to people they know locally and said 'if you genuinely want to deliver Brexit, the only way of doing that is with a Conservative majority government'.\n\n\"I have no doubt conversations like that have been happening up and down the country.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I'm telling you that I have no truck with a pact or agreements. Nigel Farage has asked for one for months. We said no.\"\n\nLabour party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"It looks like Boris Johnson is trying to stitch-up this election by offering jobs to Brexit party candidates to get them to stand down.\n\n\"This gives a whiff of the corrupt way the establishment works. We can't allow the Tories to run the country a minute longer. It's time for real change.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey said the Conservative Party had seen a \"hard-right takeover\" that \"has now been endorsed by both Trump and Farage\".\n\n\"As Nigel Farage has admitted, the Liberal Democrats are the only party at this election that can take seats from the Conservatives, stop Brexit and build a brighter future,\" he added.", "This evening Jeremy Corbyn will wrap up his trip to Scotland with a rally in Edinburgh. Labour are expecting hundreds of supporters to turn up.\n\nWinning seats in Scotland could be crucial to Mr Corbyn’s hopes of getting into No 10. And long gone are the days when Labour could rely on definitely returning a healthy number of MPs from Scotland.\n\nDespite recent disasters at the polls - including coming fifth in the European elections - a number of candidates I’ve spoken to are upbeat and say they’re getting decent a reception from voters.\n\nBut this trip has not gone according to plan for Mr Corbyn.\n\nMr Corbyn has - not for the first time - been unclear about Labour’s position on a second independence referendum. Yesterday, he said he wouldn’t allow one for in his first term (five years). He then said not in the “formative years” of a Labour government. This morning he suggested not in the first two years.\n\nThis might all sound a bit like splitting hairs, but some candidates here are worried that not being clear on independence is harming their chances of winning votes from unionists, who helped the party do well in 2017. One candidate told me earlier that Mr Corbyn’s comments had been a “bloody disaster”.\n\nThe fear is those who oppose independence will side with the Conservatives or the Lib Dems - while independence supporters will vote SNP.\n\nThere’s another school of thought though. The Labour leadership in Scotland doesn’t think independence will be a key issue on 12 December. They’re confident that - over the next month - their focus on ending austerity, investing in the economy and tackling climate change will cut through.\n\nMr Corbyn said this morning in Midlothian that voters make their decision based on a number of issues. Some in Scottish Labour are desperately hoping independence isn’t the main one.", "The new Razr is ever-so-slightly thicker when folded compared to the 2004 original\n\nMotorola has revived its slim Razr flip phone, some 15 years after the original “game changing” device hit the market.\n\nThe new device features a 6.2in screen which folds together when closed, with another, smaller screen to display notifications on its outer shell.\n\nThe device will be sold for $1,500, starting in the US on 26 December, with other markets coming later.\n\nAnalysts told the BBC they did not expect the device to have much impact on the global smartphone sales.\n\n“The question everyone will be asking is whether this foldable device will change Motorola fortunes, because their market share is extremely small,” said Francisco Jeronimo, an analyst with IDC. \"Honestly, I don’t think it will.\"\n\nBut the new Razr is, at the very least, being seen as an innovative statement piece from Motorola, which is now a unit of Chinese giant Lenovo, having being acquired - from previous owner Google - in 2014.\n\nThe new Motorola Razr is all-screen on the inside rather than featuring the thin keypad of its predecessor\n\n“In the current era of similar looking black rectangular phones with touch screens, the new Motorola Razr has the potential to bring some excitement back into the market,” said Ben Wood, from CCS Insight.\n\n\"I have little doubt that Lenovo will struggle to keep up with demand as soon as it is available to buy.”\n\nReports prior to the device’s launch suggested only 200,000 units would be available - but the company would not confirm this.\n\nIt will come to the UK in early 2020, and be exclusive to EE's network.\n\nMotorola is describing its new Razr as an “impossible” feat of engineering, with a fold that closes flush against the other side. Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, by contrast, has a considerable gap between each screen when folded.\n\n“With the new Razr we had to rethink how to engineer a phone,” said Glenn Schultz, the firm’s head of product development.\n\n“Our zero-gap hinge allowed us to bring to market a device that folds completely in half. Many didn’t believe we could do it, but let me tell you, it's fun to work on something that everyone thinks is impossible.”\n\nThe external screen displays notifications and allows basic functionality\n\nMotorola’s intent to release its first foldable device became apparent at the beginning of this year when the firm’s application for a patent was discovered by mobile phone news blog 91 Mobiles.\n\nReports had suggested the device would be released in the summer, but it suffered unspecified setbacks. That allowed other manufacturers, such as Samsung, to beat them to market. However, Samsung’s haste meant its Galaxy Fold device was besieged with problems, and the company has warned about the $2,000 device’s durability.\n\nThe firm said the new Razr was water resistant, though in an attempt to reassure consumers, Motorola said its screen could be replaced free of charge within 24 hours, while the product is still under warranty.\n\nThe new Razr will become the first flip phone - or “clam shell” - to make use of a foldable screen. When shut, the device has a thickness of 14mm. The original Razr was 13.9mm.\n\nThe outer screen - which the company refers to as the Quick View display - can be used to view notifications, reply to messages (using either a fixed response or a voice reply), take calls and make contactless payments.\n\nAt its developers’ conference in October, Samsung teased a similar vertically-folding phone on stage, but did not offer any specifics, saying it was simply “exploring” the idea.\n\nThe Razr will initially be released in the US, ahead of other markets in 2020\n\nThe slow emergence of foldable devices presents an opening for the more minor players in the sector to release a breakthrough device, just as Motorola did in 2004 with its original Razr, famed for its slim build and metallic aesthetic.\n\nIt was unveiled to the world with the help of Paris Hilton and David Beckham, who were photographed extensively while holding up the device; side on so people could see how strikingly slim it was.\n\nParis Hilton was on hand to promote the Razr phone when it first launched some 15 years ago\n\nBy creating arguably the first mobile device to successfully cross the bridge from tech into fashion, Motorola’s mobile devices business soared. By 2006, less than two years after Razr’s debut, Motorola was selling almost a quarter of the world’s mobile phones, second only to Finnish giant Nokia.\n\n“It was a true fashion icon, initially in silver aircraft grade aluminium. Later there were a whole spectrum of colours, notably the highly successful pink Razr and also the memorable Dolce & Gabbana version - which at the time cost an eye-watering £400.”\n\nBut then the iPhone arrived. Motorola’s market share fell off a cliff - from 21.4% in 2007, to 13.9% just a year later. It has been mostly falling ever since, to around 2% today.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Zipporah Kuria: \"They've robbed us of our closure\"\n\nEight months after the Boeing 737 Max crash that killed Ms Kuria's father, Joseph Waithaka, the site of impact was covered on Thursday and unidentified remains of the victims were buried in rows of identical coffins. But Ms Kuria wasn't there.\n\nOfficials from Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines are believed to have attended a ceremony at the site, but because of the short notice Ms Kuria and other relatives of the dead were unable to attend.\n\nFamily members of three separate victims told the BBC they were only notified of the ceremony days ago. As a result, only relatives of two of the 157 victims attended.\n\n\"It is absurd. It makes me shudder that Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines are at my father's funeral and I'm not,\" Ms Kuria said.\n\nThe crash happened in a rural area to the south-east of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. It left behind a deep crater which until this week still contained accident debris and some human remains.\n\nFamilies of those killed say they were left horrified after they visited the site last month and found that recent rains had uncovered bones and other items. Some, they said, were floating in flood water in the crater.\n\nRows of coffins were placed neatly in the crater\n\nEthiopian Airlines flight ET302 was lost minutes after take-off on what should have been a routine flight from Addis Ababa to the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 10 March.\n\nIt came down in farmland, in a deeply rural area. In the immediate aftermath, those human remains that could be found were removed, along with the plane's flight recorders and large items of wreckage.\n\nThe crash is believed to have occurred after a flight control system known as MCAS deployed at the wrong time, forcing the nose of the aircraft down when the pilots were trying to gain height.\n\nA similar malfunction has been blamed for the loss of a near-identical 737 Max in Indonesia a year ago. The aircraft has been grounded for the past nine months, banned from flying by aviation authorities around the world.\n\nThe violence of the impact of the Ethiopian Airlines flight meant that when my colleagues and I visited the site in May, there was still a great deal of smaller debris lying in the fields.\n\nThe deep impact crater itself remained, alongside huge mounds of earth from the recovery operation, with a rough wooden fence the only barrier to access. Animals were able to roam freely across the site. There were no guards and no official presence.\n\nAfter that, the victims' relatives say, the situation worsened as a result of seasonal rains. They have been demanding action.\n\nSamya Rose Stumo was 24 years old and was on board ET302\n\nNadia Millieron, whose daughter Samya Rose Stumo died in the crash, recently told the BBC: \"There were bones being revealed all the time and local people are coming to the site and covering them. We want Ethiopian Airlines to move the piles of earth into the crater, take the unidentifiable remains into the crater and to cover everything\".\n\nEthiopian Airlines, which is managing the site, told victims' families it was aware of the issue, but claimed insurance issues had prevented it from taking action. But after coming under pressure from the relatives, and following an investigation by the BBC, it appears those difficulties have now been overcome.\n\nOn Thursday, rows of coffins were placed neatly in the crater. These contained remains that had previously been removed for forensic analysis, but which could not be identified due to contamination. Then they were covered over and the crater itself was filled, the dark earth matching the surrounding fields.\n\nThe site is now a permanent grave.\n\nRelatives of the victims believe Ethiopian Airlines had a duty to keep them informed about the burial and should have given them more notice. The BBC has approached the carrier for a comment.\n\nBoeing has refused to comment on reports that one of its senior executives, Jennifer Lowe, was among those present.\n\nThe company said in a statement: \"We continue to offer our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610 and we are committed to helping those affected by these tragedies.\"\n\nLast month, Ms Kuria travelled with her family to Ethiopia to collect and bring home some of her father's remains. She said it was \"heartbreaking\" that she was unable to get to the site in time for the covering of the site.\n\n\"My dad is being buried, well most of him, as we only received a small amount of him back,\" she said.\n\nShe said she would have jumped on a flight if it had been possible.\n\n\"They've robbed us of our closure,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk: \"I could have been fired for saying this\"\n\nOutgoing European Council President Donald Tusk has urged British voters not to \"give up\" on stopping Brexit.\n\nAs campaigning ramps up ahead of next month's general election, he warned that leaving the EU would leave the UK a \"second-rate player\".\n\nIn a speech, he also said Brexit would likely mark the \"real end of the British Empire\".\n\nHe is due to step down from his role next month, having held the post for five years.\n\nMr Tusk's intervention comes as Conservative leader Boris Johnson said the UK Parliament was \"paralysed\" and had refused \"time and again to honour the mandate of the people and to deliver Brexit\".\n\nFormer head of the UK diplomatic service Sir Simon Fraser said he believed Mr Tusk was a friend of the UK but argued making the comments was \"not the right thing to do\".\n\n\"I think the principle that politicians don't comment on the electoral affairs of other countries is a wise principle,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has continued to refuse to put forward a candidate for the next European Commission, which is due to take office next month if approved by MEPs.\n\nThe BBC understands the UK's EU ambassador has written to the Commission saying that a candidate will not be put forward due to the election.\n\nIn the letter, Sir Tim Barrow is understood to say pre-election rules prevented ministers from putting forward nominees for jobs at EU institutions until after polling day.\n\nHowever, he is understood to have insisted the UK does not want to stop the Commission being formed as soon as possible.\n\nMr Johnson is hoping to win a majority in 12 December's election so that he can take the UK out of the EU on 31 January with the deal he negotiated with Brussels.\n\nBut Labour is promising to renegotiate that deal and put it to a referendum, with the option of remaining in the EU, if it wins the election - and smaller opposition parties are campaigning to Remain.\n\nSpeaking at the College of Europe in Bruges, Mr Tusk said: \"Brexit may happen at the beginning of next year.\n\n\"I did everything in my power to avoid the confrontational no-deal scenario and extend the time for reflection and a possible British change of heart\".\n\n\"The UK election takes place in one month. Can things still be turned around?\n\n\"The only words that come to my mind today are simply: Don't give up.\n\n\"In this match, we had added time, we are already in extra time, perhaps it will even go to penalties?\"\n\nDonald Tusk's term of office ends in a few weeks' time.\n\nWhich means he's prepared to brave accusations that he's interfering in the general election.\n\nAnd that he feels free to challenge the sense developing among the rest of the EU, that it would be better if the UK left as soon as possible.\n\nSpeaking at the College of Europe in Bruges tonight, he quoted the philosopher Hannah Arendt to encourage those campaigning for Britain to remain.\n\nHis message was simply not to give up.\n\nThe EU has accepted an extension to the Brexit deadline, meaning the UK is now due to leave at the end of January 2020.\n\nMr Tusk has repeatedly hinted he would like to see the UK stay in the bloc - but his comments, in the midst of an election campaign - are likely to be controversial.\n\nHe acknowledged this in his speech, adding his remarks were \"something I wouldn't have dared to say a few months ago, as I could be fired for being too frank\".\n\nHe added that a \"longing for the Empire\" could be heard in the voices of Brexiteers who strive to make the UK \"global again\" through leaving the EU.\n\n\"But the reality is exactly the opposite. Only as part of a united Europe can the UK play a global role,\" he added.\n\n\"One of my English friends is probably right when he says with melancholy that Brexit is the real end of the British Empire.\"\n\nMr Tusk is due to stand down from his role on 1 December, when he will be replaced by former Belgian PM Charles Michel.\n• None A really simple guide to the election", "The elm is is named after creatures in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings stories\n\nA tree known as the Last Ent of Affric is the \"symbolic leader\" of a campaign aiming to halt Dutch elm disease.\n\nThe elm stands alone in Glen Affric, south of Inverness, and its location is credited with protecting it from the beetle that spreads the disease.\n\nRecently named Scotland's tree of the year, it has a face-like shape on its trunk and is named after creatures in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.\n\nIt has now been adopted for the ElmWatch campaign.\n\nThe campaign's organisers hope to raise awareness about Dutch elm disease and the measures people can take to help stop it spreading to disease-free areas.\n\nAlasdair Firth, of Woodland Trust Scotland, said: \"Dutch elm disease has swept round the north-east of Scotland to Inverness and is now making its way along the Great Glen towards the west coast.\n\n\"There are healthy elm populations on the west coast now under threat.\n\n\"The ElmWatch campaign launched today aims to stop the spread of the disease and carry out research to secure the future of the species.\"\n\nThe Last Ent of Affric stands alone in a Highlands glen\n\nDr Euan Bowditch, of the Wooded Landscapes Research Group at Inverness College UHI, said diseased firewood is one way the infection can be spread.\n\n\"The beetles are hitchhiking their way across the Highlands, most likely through the transport of diseased wood that will infect and kill more trees,\" he said.\n\n\"If we can limit the movement of infected elm wood, we can give healthy elm populations, such as those in the west, a shot at survival.\"\n\nPublic agency Scottish Forestry is urging the public to avoid moving elm timber and firewood.\n\nJohn Risby, of Scottish Forestry, said: \"Major infection has spread around the Moray Firth in the last four years.\n\n\"The beetle cannot fly far and would be unlikely to make it to the west coast unaided.\"\n• None 'Lord of the Rings' elm wins tree of the year", "Mavis Bran died six days after sustaining severe burns at the chip shop\n\nA man accused of murdering his wife in their chip shop described how hot oil fell on her chest \"like a waterfall\" after she accidentally slipped.\n\nGeoffrey Bran, 71, denies murdering his wife Mavis Bran, 69, in Hermon, Carmarthenshire, on 23 October 2018.\n\nMrs Bran died in Morriston Hospital six days after suffering burns.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard Mr Bran had told detectives he had not lost his temper following an argument about burnt fish.\n\nHe has claimed Mrs Bran sustained the burns in an accident.\n\n\"At the corner of my eye I could see the fat fryer moving as if it was in slow motion,\" he told the court.\n\n\"The front legs slipped off the table, instantly the legs fell off the edge and the weight of the oil tipped the whole thing forward, the whole two tubs came out in one whoosh.\n\n\"One of the legs got to the edge and the weight of the oil must have moved things fast and it was like a waterfall and it landed on her chest.\"\n\nThe couple ran The Chipoteria in Carmarthenshire, one of a number of businesses they owned\n\nMr Bran said he moved his wife and sat her up to take off her oil soaked clothes after the accident.\n\n\"I didn't know if I was doing the right thing to be honest,\" he added.\n\n\"I just grabbed the bottom of her jumper and pulled it over her head.\"\n\nHe told her to run to their house and ask their lodger Gareth to call an ambulance.\n\nThe defendant said his wife had turned to drink that caused \"paranoic\" moments and she would \"blame him for everything\".\n\nHe said she consumed two and a half bottles of wine a day and was drinking from 09:30 on the morning of the accident.\n\nDescribing their relationship, he said: \"There was a few arguments. Nothing serious.\"\n\nHe described how the couple met in 1980 and married four years later.\n\nMr Bran told the jury Mavis was the \"business brain\" and he carried out renovations on a string of businesses they owned together including restaurants, pubs and cafes.\n\nThe court heard when paramedics arrived at Bryn Tawel, the family home, Mrs Bran had a blood alcohol reading of 108 mg/dl. The current drink drive limit in England and Wales is 80mg/dl.\n\nWhen asked whether he threw oil over his wife at The Chipoteria in Hermon, Mr Bran told detectives: \"I would not throw oil over anybody.\"\n\nHe was asked why he did not follow Mrs Bran back to their house after she was injured, and replied: \"There was nothing I could do\", adding he did not call for an ambulance because he believed their lodger was doing so.\n\nSteven Jeffery, a consultant burns and plastic surgeon, agreed with the pathologist's report that Mrs Bran's eyes were closed when her face was burnt.\n\n\"The eyes were actually scrunched up,\" he said.\n\nProf Jeffery was asked whether Mrs Bran's burns could have been sustained by her falling to the floor and pulling the fryer down over herself.\n\n\"This version of events is consistent with her injuries,\" he said.\n\nHe also agreed her injuries may have been caused by oil being thrown at her in an assault.\n\nProf Jeffrey said there were no cuts or bruises to suggest Mrs Bran had pulled the fryer on top of herself.\n\nChristopher Clee QC, defending Mr Bran, said: \"If it's an act of throwing, he's more likely to have splashed himself with oil. There's no evidence of that?\"\n\nHe confirmed burns on Mr Bran's fingertips were consistent with his version of events.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Our immigration strategy is based on fairness, justice and the economic needs of our society.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has refused to say if he wants the number of immigrants coming to the UK to rise or fall.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the Labour leader said people should be \"realistic\" about needing to fill jobs so the economy's needs can be met.\n\nHe said: \"Putting arbitrary figures on it as successive governments have done simply doesn't work.\"\n\nThe Tories say they would aim to cut overall immigration but will not set targets, if they win the election.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton said immigration was \"not the electoral issue it once was\", with pollsters saying it is at its lowest level of concern for almost two decades.\n\nBut he added: \"Some communities remain concerned that foreign arrivals put extra pressure on public services and jobs, and those voters are often in the Labour seats that the Tories are looking to take.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg on a campaign visit to Scotland, Mr Corbyn hinted that Labour would make it easier for families to bring relatives to live in the UK from overseas and for foreign workers to come to the UK .\n\nHe said Labour's immigration policy was \"based on fairness and justice, and on the economic needs of our society, and they are considerable\".\n\nMr Corbyn added: \"We have to be realistic that in this country we have 40,000 nurse vacancies, we have a great shortage of doctors, we have shortages of many skills, and they cannot be met very quickly because we're not training enough people, so there's going to be immigration in the future.\"\n\nBut asked again whether he wanted the figure to be higher or lower, the Labour leader just said: \"I want our system to be decent, to be fair, and our services to be properly run and properly staffed.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said a motion passed at his party's conference, calling for \"freedom of movement\" - the right of EU citizens to live and work in any other EU country - to be maintained and extended after Brexit \"doesn't necessarily form part of the manifesto\".\n\nThis is despite his shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, tweeting earlier about Labour's \"commitment\" to the pledge.\n\nMr Corbyn said her remarks were specifically about those EU citizens with settled status - people who have lived in the UK for five years, applied to the Home Office, and have been given the right to stay in the country for as long as they like - and to aid the reunion of families.\n\nBut he added: \"I have made my case very clear about the value of migration to our society, about the stability of people living in our society, about the horrors of the hostile environment created deliberately by Theresa May, and others, and the uncertainty that so many EU nationals have been put through.\n\n\"I think that uncertainty should finish, they should have guaranteed rights to remain in Britain.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour's eventual policy on immigration would also depend on the outcome of Brexit - with his party promising to renegotiate a deal with the EU within three months after winning an election and putting it to the public against Remain in a further referendum.\n\nHe called the plan \"a sensible approach\", adding: \"I recognise why people voted Remain and why people voted Leave in different parts of the country and for different reasons - in my own communities where I represent and also all across the country.\n\n\"[But] I think that is actually a sensible approach that a very large number of people [have] come to think, well, at least somebody has been grown-up about this.\"\n\nLen McCluskey, the leader of the biggest Labour-supporting union, Unite, and a key ally of Mr Corbyn, has called for new employment policies to address concerns about freedom of movement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr McCluskey told the BBC: \"Labour's policy will be to protect all workers - migrant workers as well as British workers. It will be done with labour market regulations.\n\n\"It won't stop the free movement of labour. \"It will effectively make certain that greedy bosses, agency companies, are not abusing working people.\"\n\nMr McCluskey denied a newspaper report that he had told Jeremy Corbyn to take a tough line on free movement of workers.\n\nMore than 130 Labour candidates have signed a pledge to campaign to Remain in the EU - which would mean accepting the continuing right of EU citizens to seek work in the UK.\n\nBut Mr McCluskey stressed that Labour \"is not a Remain\" party and a referendum with a Leave option - \"a fair deal\" - would be offered to voters if Labour wins the election.\n\nThe Conservatives have said they will end free movement from the EU on 1 January 2021, if they win the election and get their Brexit deal through Parliament by 31 January.\n\nThe party made its promise to reduce \"immigration overall\" in a press release on Thursday, quoting Home Secretary Priti Patel, and reiterating its plan for a \"points-based\" immigration system, which would apply to EU and non-EU migrants.\n\nHowever, in an interview later in the day, Mrs Patel was asked several times before saying the party would \"look to reduce the numbers\" through better immigration controls.\n\nThe Conservatives also are expected to ditch their long-standing commitment to cut net migration - the difference between the number of people entering and leaving the country - to below 100,000, after repeatedly failing to meet it.", "Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater, which once hosted a body of liquid water\n\nThe oxygen in Martian air is changing in a way that can't currently be explained by known chemical processes.\n\nThat's the claim of scientists working on the Curiosity rover mission, who have been taking measurements of the gas.\n\nThey discovered that the amount of oxygen in Martian \"air\" rose by 30% in spring and summer.\n\nThe pattern remains a mystery, but researchers are beginning to narrow the possibilities.\n\nWhile the changes are most likely to be geological in nature, planetary scientists can't completely rule out an explanation involving microbial life.\n\nThe results come from nearly six Earth years' (three Martian years') worth of data from the Sample Analysis at Mars (Sam) instrument, a portable chemistry lab in the belly of the Curiosity rover.\n\nThe scientists measured seasonal changes in gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars, where Curiosity landed. They have published their findings in the journal JGR-Planets.\n\nThe Martian atmosphere is overwhelmingly composed of carbon dioxide (CO2), with smaller amounts of other gases such as molecular nitrogen (N2), argon (Ar), molecular oxygen (O2) and methane (CH4).\n\nNitrogen and argon followed a predictable seasonal pattern, changing according to how much CO2 was in the air (which is in turn linked to changes in air pressure). They expected oxygen to follow this pattern too, but it didn't.\n\nOxygen rose during each northern hemisphere spring and then fell in the autumn.\n\nThey considered the possibility that CO2 or water (H2O) molecules released oxygen when they broke apart in the atmosphere, leading to a short-lived rise. But it would take five times more water than there actually is to produce the additional oxygen, and CO2 breaks up too slowly to generate it over such a short time.\n\n\"We know oxygen is created and destroyed on Mars through the energy provided by sunlight breaking down CO2 and H2O, both of which are observed in the atmosphere of Mars. The thing that doesn't make sense is the size of the variation - it doesn't match what we expect to see,\" Dr Manish Patel, from the Open University - who was not involved with the study, told BBC News.\n\n\"Given that Curiosity makes measurements at the surface of Mars, it is tempting to think that this is coming from the surface - but we have no evidence for that. Geologically-speaking, it seems unlikely - I can't think of a process that would fit.\"\n\nThe results may point to a reservoir of oxygen close to the Martian surface\n\nDr Timothy McConnochie, from the University of Maryland in College Park, who is one of the authors on the JGR-Planets paper, told the BBC: \"You can measure the water vapour molecules in the Martian atmosphere and you can measure the change in oxygen... There just aren't enough water molecules.\n\n\"Mars in general has a pretty small amount of water vapour, and there's several times more oxygen atoms that mysteriously appear than there is in the water vapour on the entire planet.\"\n\nThey also considered why the oxygen dropped back to levels predicted by known chemistry in the autumn. One idea was that solar radiation could break up oxygen molecules into two atoms, which then escaped into space. But after running the numbers, scientists concluded it would take at least 10 years for the oxygen to disappear in this way.\n\nIn addition, the seasonal rises aren't perfectly repeatable; the amount of oxygen varies between years. The results imply that something is producing the gas and then taking it away.\n\nDr McConnochie thinks the evidence suggests a source of oxygen in the near-surface. \"I think it points to a reservoir (of oxygen) in the soil that interchanges with the atmosphere,\" he said.\n\n\"To exchange (with the atmosphere) fairly rapidly on a seasonal timescale it has to be close to the surface. If it's deeper, any process is going to be slower,\" he told BBC News.\n\nAn experiment carried out by the Viking landers in the 1970s provides tantalising clues in the oxygen mystery\n\nSome supporting evidence for this comes from Nasa's Viking landers, which touched down on the Red Planet in the 1970s. Results from the Viking Gas Exchange Experiment (GEX) showed that when the humidity was increased in a chamber containing a sample of Martian soil, it led to a release of oxygen.\n\nHowever, says Dr McConnochie, the temperature in the Viking spacecraft chamber was much warmer than it would be outside, even during spring and summer. This complicates any attempt to apply the results to the Martian environment: \"It's a tantalising clue, but it's not helping us solve the problem directly,\" he explained.\n\nMars does become more humid during spring and summer. Water-ice gets deposited on the poles during the winter. Then, throughout the summer, there is a release of water vapour in the polar regions.\n\nThere could be a link between the humidification of the entire planet at this time and the release of oxygen.\n\nIntriguingly, the changes in oxygen are similar to those seen for methane, which increases in abundance by about 60% in summer for inexplicable reasons. It's unclear whether there's any connection though.\n\nThe methane mystery has attracted much attention over the years because most of Earth's methane is produced by living organisms. Though there are several ways that methane could be released by geological processes on Mars, the production of this gas by microbes living deep beneath the surface remains a tantalising possibility.\n\nOxygen, too, can be produced by microorganisms. The possibility that biology is behind the changing levels of the gas in the Martian atmosphere can't be ruled out. But the scientific bar on such claims is set very high indeed.\n\nIt's a very remote possibility, but we still don't understand enough about the behaviour of oxygen to use it as an indicator for life.\n\nIn addition, the near sub-surface of Mars is a very difficult place to live because of the high levels of radiation that leak through the Martian atmosphere, large variations in temperature and limited availability of water.\n\n\"With current instruments on Mars spacecraft, we have no way of knowing whether biology is producing the springtime rise in oxygen. Abiotic processes look very promising, so we'll need to firmly rule them out first before pursuing microbial contribution,\" Prof Sushil Atreya, from the University of Michigan, who is a co-author on the study, told BBC News.\n\nBut he added that future missions would make interrelated measurements that could shed light on Martian habitability.\n\nDr Manish Patel says that oxygen can last for years in the Martian atmosphere\n\nDr Patel said: \"Whilst I believe biological activity in the Martian sub-surface at some point in Mars' history is a real possibility, there is no way to explain this through oxygen-producing microbes - we are missing the copious other indicators that would come along with that.\n\n\"Maybe it's all hidden, but as a scientist, I can only comment on what we observe - and an extraordinary claim requires an extraordinary observation.\"\n\nThe notion of oxygen being locked up in some chemical form in the Martian soil remains much more likely.\n\n\"One phenomenon that applies to most gas molecules is they stick to surfaces... especially anything with a lot of surface area. That sticking, that adsorption, changes on the basis of temperature,\" Tim McConnochie explained.\n\n\"Oxygen is a very active molecule, so it changes to some other form and then sticks and then changes back. The tricky thing is the forms of oxygen we know about in the Martian soil are the ones that are pretty stable.\"\n\nOne of these stable molecules is a compound called perchlorate, which is widespread in Martian soil. It doesn't give up its oxygen easily, but it's possible that exposure to high energy radiation - cosmic rays, for example - could make some of it break down, leaving by-products.\n\nOne potential by-product is hypochlorite - found in bleach - which is less stable and thus more prone to releasing its oxygen.\n\n\"I feel we're closer to an idea of how to release it from the soil than we are to an idea of how to sequester it back into the soil,\" said Tim McConnochie. But he explained: \"Presumably there is some cycle that sequesters it.\"\n\nProf Atreya explained: \"There are at least three potential abiotic reservoirs of oxygen in the surface/subsurface of Mars - oxidant, in the form of perchlorates; oxidant in the form of hydrogen peroxide; and oxidised rocks or hydrated minerals.\n\n\"Water-rock reactions in the past, or even today if liquid water exists beneath the surface or as brines, were most likely responsible for the third reservoir.\"\n\nDr Patel believes it may not be possible to apply the result from Gale Crater to the whole of Mars. \"This has been highlighted by the recent methane measurement, where Curiosity measured a huge amount of methane, but it wasn't detectable by the NOMAD and ACS instruments on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which makes measurements of these things at a global-scale and at higher sensitivity.\"\n\nThe authors of the study in JGR-Planets say they are throwing out the problem to scientists in the field, in a bid to harness expertise from across the community.\n\nWe've learned huge amounts about the Red Planet over the last few decades, but it's clear from this there are still lots of puzzles to crack.", "Labour's annual conference has urged Jeremy Corbyn to include a commitment to the free movement of people in the party's next election manifesto.\n\nLabour's 2017 manifesto vowed to end free movement when the UK leaves the European Union.\n\nBut delegates in Brighton have voted overwhelmingly to reject that - and to extend migrant rights in other areas.\n\nMr Corbyn had to miss the final day of conference to head back to Westminster for the resumption of Parliament.\n\nBut delegates have continued to debate and vote on policies - and cheered as the motion on extending migrant rights was carried unanimously in a show of hands.\n\nAna Oppenheim, from the Labour Campaign for Free Movement, which put forward the motion, said: \"In 2017, it was a source of shame for many activists that our manifesto included ending free movement.\n\n\"Now we can move forward not only committed to defending free movement, but to giving migrants the vote.\"\n\nVijay Jackson, a delegate from Edinburgh Central, who seconded the motion, said: \"This set of policies is nothing less than what every migrant worker deserves and it is Labour's class duty as socialists and internationalists to implement our demands in full.\"", "Prof Ponsati greeted supporters as she arrived at the police station in Edinburgh on Thursday\n\nFormer Catalan government minister Clara Ponsati has been bailed at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after handing herself in to police.\n\nThe St Andrews University professor is wanted in Spain over her role in the Catalan independence movement.\n\nThe 62-year-old appeared in court and was granted bail and allowed to keep her passport.\n\nProf Ponsati's next court appearance has been scheduled for 12 December in Edinburgh.\n\nThe full hearing is likely to take place in Spring 2020.\n\nShe arrived at St Leonard's Police Station in the capital with her solicitor Aamer Anwar on Thursday morning and was transferred to the court hearing.\n\nThe two emerged from the court to cheers from supporters.\n\nMr Anwar said: \"Clara Ponsati faces a single charge of 'sedition' which relates to the organising of the referendum in her role as the minister for education.\n\n\"The warrant is full of contradictions and mistakes, whilst it accuses Clara of everything, in reality the warrant provides no real examples of any alleged crime.\n\n\"Clara submits that she should not be extradited for a 'show trial' in the Supreme Court, where she believes the only verdict would be one of guilt. \"\n\nHe added: \"Clara views these charges as a 'politically-motivated prosecution'. We will submit that Clara's human rights cannot be guaranteed in the Spanish Courts. \"\n\nProf Ponsati was greeted and cheered by supporters\n\nSedition is the illegal act of inciting people to resist or rebel against a government in power. The crime no longer exists in Scotland.\n\nMr Anwar said his client now trusted her fate to the Scottish justice system which she believes \"to be impartial, robust and independent\".\n\nThe charges relate to Catalonia's October 2017 independence referendum - which the Spanish state deemed illegal and refused to sanction.\n\nProf Ponsati was education minister in the Catalan government at the time.\n\nIf extradited and convicted, she could face a sentence of up to 15 years.\n\nOn 6 November, Mr Anwar advised the academic not to report to police because of \"glaring contradictions\" in the arrest warrant.\n\nMr Anwar said the warrant was translated by a senior judge, Pablo Llarena, and the UK authorities were seeking clarifications on the 59-page document.\n\nFollowing clarification from Judge Llarena, it was finally accepted by the UK authorities for execution.\n\nThe latest European warrant was issued after a previous warrant was withdrawn last summer.\n\nThe development comes after nine Catalan leaders were convicted of sedition over their role in the 2017 referendum.\n\nRiot police in Barcelona tried to disperse protesters who set up burning barricades last month\n\nProtests erupted in Barcelona last month after they were sentenced to between nine and 13 years in prison by Spain's Supreme Court.\n\nProsecutors argued that the unilateral declaration of independence was an attack on the Spanish state and accused some of those involved of a serious act of rebellion.\n\nThey also said separatist leaders had misused public funds while organising the 2017 referendum.", "The claim: Immigration has held down wages in the UK.\n\nReality Check verdict: Current research suggests there was a small, negative impact on the wages of low-skilled workers, which was outweighed by other factors such as the impact of the financial crisis and rises in the minimum wage.\n\nIn a Brexit speech, Leave campaigner and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said some big corporations had held wages down because they had access to so many workers from other countries. He said the UK needed to think \"about how we control immigration\". So, has it affected wages?\n\nWe'll start by looking at European migrants, because migration from other countries is already restricted, whereas workers from other European countries benefit from freedom of movement.\n\nThe Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), an independent body that advises the government, published a report in September 2018 about the impact of migration from the European Economic Area (EEA), which is the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.\n\nRemember that this sort of research is difficult to do - comparing what actually happened with what might have happened is complex and there is considerable uncertainty about the conclusions.\n\nThe MAC found there was some evidence that immigration depressed the wages of lower-skilled workers while inflating those of higher-skilled workers, but added that the impact was generally small.\n\nWhen it talks about a small impact, it looked at the period from 1993 to 2017, over which time average earnings for the lowest-paid rose by 55%. Using economic modelling, they estimated that - if there hadn't been European migration into the UK - that rise would have been around 5% higher.\n\nIt added that more research was needed to find out if there had been any impact on self-employed workers.\n\nThe MAC concluded that other factors had a greater impact on wages, with all workers having done badly since the financial crisis. Real wages are still struggling to rise above where they were in 2008, but lower-skilled workers have done marginally better due to the minimum wage rising faster than average earnings.\n\nThe assertion that immigration put a small amount of pressure on wages for lower-skilled workers is supported by a paper from the Bank of England, which also looked at non-EU workers.\n\nIt found there was no difference in the impact of EU and non-EU workers.\n\nThe Bank of England said that the biggest impact had been for semi-skilled and unskilled workers in the services sector, where they estimated that a 10 percentage point increase in the proportion of immigrants working in the sector would have been associated with a 1.88% reduction in pay.\n\nA 10 percentage point increase in immigrants working in a sector is a lot.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics estimates that between 1997 and 2018, the proportion of non-UK nationals working in the UK rose from 3.7% to 10.7%, an increase of seven percentage points over 21 years.\n\nBut, of course, that is an overall figure, and the impact on some individual sectors and regions will have been considerably bigger.\n\nFor example, the MAC said that about a quarter of workers in food and drink manufacturing in 2016 were EU nationals.\n\nThe National Farmers' Union estimates that in 2017 there was a 9% increase in wages compared with 2016, reflecting a shortage of seasonal workers.\n\nIt is by definition hard to find figures on the extent of the hidden economy and how much it uses migrant workers.\n\nResearch by the Salvation Army quoted by the MAC found that EEA victims of labour exploitation were most likely to work in a carwash, but a significant proportion were also involved in factory work, construction and cleaning. It did not give any figures for this impact.", "Caution among UK shoppers has led to a tough year so far for toy retailers, as parents search for deals and cut back on impulse buys.\n\nUK toy sales were down by 8% in the year so far, compared with the same period last year, leaving retailers dreaming of a bumper Christmas.\n\nBut economic uncertainty and Brexit planning could lead to shortages of the most popular toys.\n\nOthers may be sold off cheaper if sales fail to match retailers' expectations.\n\nAbout 30% of annual spending on toys comes at Christmas, with £86 spent on the typical child up to the age of 11, according to analysts NPD.\n\nThe industry is banking on festive sales turning around a poor year so far. The 8% drop in UK sales was worse than a 3% drop in international toy sales, said Frederique Tutt, global industry analyst for NPD. Sales last year were also flat, suggesting more than a seasonal downturn.\n\nShe said this was driven by a lack of consumer confidence and High Street woes in general, rather than issues specific to the toy industry.\n\nParents and grandparents have made fewer impulse buys outside of birthdays and Christmas, partly as they are less likely to be in stores.\n\n\"You do not get the same Willy Wonka-type excitement on the internet as children do in a toy shop,\" said Gary Grant, who chairs the committee which selects the 2019 DreamToys list of \"must-have\" toys.\n\nBlockbuster film releases had been earmarked as a saviour for the industry this year, owing to the sale of spin-off toy merchandise which account for 10% of the market. The two brands which have previously broken records for film-licensed products - Star Wars and Frozen - will see new films released before Christmas.\n\nBut Mr Grant said the financial reality for many families was that buying a toy after watching a film would be a substitute for another toy purchase, not necessarily an additional purchase.\n\nLicensed products in general have accounted for 23% of toy sales so far this year, but Ms Tutt said this sector was no longer dominated by blockbuster film releases.\n\nSome of the hotly tipped toys this year have links to YouTube stars and are marketed on social media. The fragmentation of entertainment channels has made it difficult for the big film brands to repeat previous success - although some, such as Harry Potter - have had some joy.\n\n\"Children move on to the next thing very quickly, so there is a relatively short window of opportunity to make sales,\" she said.\n\nThe extra planning required by the potential for the UK leaving the EU on 31 October led many manufacturers and retailers making early decisions on orders for the coming Christmas.\n\nThat, according to Mr Grant, could mean a shortage of certain toys before Christmas which suddenly become popular. A cautious approach by manufacturers may add to this concern.\n\nThere are already suggestions of shortages of the L.O.L Surprise! 2-in-1 Glamper\n\nHowever, there was also the chance that retailers could have over-ordered certain toys, leading to the potential for big discounts on those at some point before Christmas.\n\nThat, he said, would impact the cash taken by retailers, in addition to the extra management time and cost during the year that was caused by Brexit planning.\n\nHe predicted that a pick-up in the UK economy and consumer confidence would bring shoppers back to the High Street to spend money, but it was difficult to know when such an improvement would come.", "Michael Weir was found guilty of two counts of murder at the Old Bailey\n\nA jewel thief who beat two elderly people to death in their own homes has been convicted of their murders two decades on.\n\nMichael Weir fatally attacked 78-year-old Leonard Harris and Rose Seferian, 83, in 1998, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nThe original investigation missed clues to link the killings but DNA testing connected Weir to both London attacks after 20 years, the court heard.\n\nWeir, 52, of Hackney, had denied two counts of murder.\n\nProsecutor Tom Little QC told the jury the \"defenceless pensioners\" had been struck repeatedly and \"left for dead\".\n\nWeir was originally found guilty of murdering Mr Harris by an Old Bailey jury in July 1999, but his conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in 2000 on a technicality.\n\nHe was retried under the so-called double jeopardy law when new forensic evidence came to light, and prosecutors believe Weir is \"the first convicted man to be convicted twice\".\n\nTrial judge Mrs Justice McGowan told the jury they had made \"legal history\".\n\nGertrude Harris and her husband Leonard were attacked in January 1998\n\nOn 28 January 1998, Weir broke into Mr Harris's flat in East Finchley, north London, leaving him with serious head injuries.\n\nThe pensioner was found by an estate agent while his wife, who suffered from dementia, was left badly injured on a bedroom floor.\n\nAn 18-carat gold watch Mr Harris had taken from a German soldier during World War Two and his gold ring were missing.\n\nThree days after the attack, police found a palm print on the bedroom door but missed the match to the defendant at the time, the court heard.\n\nOn 5 March, Weir violently attacked Ms Seferian in her bedroom when she was at home on her own.\n\nHe stole jewellery including a gold wedding ring with her husband's initials and the date of their marriage engraved on it, a diamond solitaire gold ring, and a silver diamond ring, as well as cash.\n\nIn 2005, the 800-year-old \"double jeopardy\" law that prevented a defendant from being tried a second time for the same offence was scrapped.\n\nFrom that point the Court of Appeal was able to grant a retrial if \"new, compelling, reliable and substantial evidence\" had emerged.\n\nBilly Dunlop became the first person to be convicted under the new law. He brutally murdered Julie Hogg in 1989 but, after two trials in which jurors could not reach a verdict, he was acquitted. In 2006 he was convicted at a fresh trial following the law change.\n\nHowever, until today the law had only been used to convict those acquitted at a first trial - making Michael Weir the first defendant ever to be found guilty of the same murder, twice.\n\nAnd as the trial judge Mrs Justice McGowan told the jury, that made \"legal history\".\n\nJurors were told a palm print found inside her Kensington flat on a window frame where Weir broke in was not matched to him until 2017.\n\nThe trial heard that by 2018 new DNA evidence had been obtained and palm prints from both murder scenes were matched to Weir.\n\nIt is believed to be the first time a defendant has been found guilty of the same murder twice, and where a second murder charge has been added to a double jeopardy case.\n\nDet Ch Insp Shaun Fitzgerald, from the Met, said: \"Nothing can ever take away the pain of Leonard and Rose's families but we hope this conviction brings them some kind of closure.\n\n\"Weir literally thought he had got away with murder but he now faces a considerable custodial sentence where he will have significant time to reflect on his utterly callous actions towards two completely innocent victims.\"\n\nSentencing was adjourned until a date to be fixed.\n\nRose Seferian died after being violently assaulted in her home in March 1998\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Transport Police and Network Rail said a \"vast amount\" of services were being cancelled or delayed in the West Midlands\n\nNo trains are running between Derby and Nottingham due to flooding on the tracks at Draycot, and other East Midlands' services have been disrupted.\n\nIn the West Midlands, a \"vast amount\" of services were cancelled or delayed because of floods and landslides.\n\nThe prime minister said an emergency meeting about flooding - which has affected 818 properties across England - would be held.\n\nA station between Birmingham and Stratford upon Avon has flooded\n\nBoris Johnson said troops were \"helping deploy over 20,000 sandbags\" in South Yorkshire, where hundreds have been forced to leave their homes.\n\nMore than 100 schools in the West Midlands have shut and weather warnings are in place across the country, including Oxfordshire.\n\nHeavy rain has forced a major route into Hull to close in both directions between South Cave and Melton, in East Yorkshire, causing travel disruption.\n\nThe A63 is the only link between the M62 motorway and the city. Highways England said the closure was \"due to increased flooding from water running off the surrounding fields\".\n\n'Increased flooding' in East Yorkshire has forced the closure of a major route into Hull\n\nNorthern Rail warned commuters not to travel between Sheffield, Gainsborough and Lincoln until further notice.\n\nEast Midlands Railway (EMR) said Network Rail was working to lower the water level at the flooded track in Draycott and disruptions would continue through Friday.\n\nWet weather over the next 48 hours could bring heavy flooding to areas already affected by rising waters, the Environment Agency (EA) said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Shukman views the scale of the flooding in the Doncaster area from a helicopter\n\nThe Met Office said yellow warnings for rain for South Yorkshire and the East Midlands meant fast flowing or deep floodwater was possible, \"causing a danger to life\".\n\nIt said further homes or businesses could be flooded and some communities \"may be cut off by flooded roads\", warning of \"heavy and persistent\" rain until 22:00 GMT.\n\n\"Even some amount of rain could cause rivers to rise,\" Met Office meteorologist Luke Miall said.\n\nSoldiers from the Light Dragoons sandbag homes in Bentley, South Yorkshire\n\nSoldiers have been helping the flood relief effort in Fishlake\n\nFloodwater has eased off in some parts of the village\n\nParts of Lincolnshire and the Midlands could also be affected by rain falling on already saturated ground, the EA said.\n\nIn South Yorkshire, which has been badly hit, hundreds of people have had to leave their homes in the village of Fishlake and the Army was deployed to help the relief effort around Doncaster.\n\nAbout 30 residents have been evacuated from a caravan park in Lincolnshire as a precaution.\n\nThe Short Ferry Caravan Park near to Bardney is close to the River Barlings Eau, which burst its banks over the weekend flooding more than 1,000 acres of fields.\n\nA number of people have been trapped in vehicles in Oxfordshire\n\nSchools are shut in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire along with dozens of road closures.\n\nSeveral motorists have had to be rescued from their cars with river levels expected to peak on Friday.\n\nRail services in and out of Birmingham stations are being cancelled or delayed by flooding affecting at least eight different routes with a knock-on effect for other train journeys because of congestion at stations and on the tracks.\n\nAnne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon was closed on Thursday afternoon because surrounding roads were flooded.\n\nIt is not known if the venue will reopen on Friday\n\nPolice said \"nobody was trapped or injured\" when a car became stuck in flood water in Stainfield, Lincolnshire\n\nThe Sea Scouts at Newbold in Warwickshire, which claims to be the most inland Royal Navy recognised Sea Scout troop in the country, said it was \"not used to being on the water in our hut\" after it was hit by flooding\n\nIn Oxfordshire, fire crews rescued a number of people from vehicles stuck in flood water.\n\nKate Marks, flood duty manager, said: \"The Environment Agency has teams working around the clock on the ground erecting temporary barriers and delivering sandbags to areas expecting further rainfall.\"\n\nThere are 130 flood warnings in place across the country, meaning flooding is expected. Sixteen of those have been issued along various parts of the River Don, while seven are for the River Severn including the Tewkesbury and Shrewsbury areas.\n\nThe agency has advised people \"to stay away from swollen rivers\" and not to walk or drive through floodwater as just 30cm (11.8in) of flowing water is enough to move your car.\n\nThe torrential downpours left the village cut off\n\nAbout 500 homes have been flooded in Doncaster with 1,200 properties evacuated in areas hit by the floods.\n\nFishlake has been cut off by the floods and the council said the village was not safe and that residents were advised not to return home.\n\nThe EA said it was \"currently pumping 1.2 tonnes of flood water every second out of Fishlake\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDoncaster Council said roads into the area remain closed, adding: \"There is still a lot of deep standing water in the area presenting significant safety risks.\n\n\"The advice from South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue is that where you cannot see the ground it is unsafe to walk or drive.\"\n\nThe authority said the EA, along with emergency services, were working hard to make the area safe but \"the latest estimates suggest a safe return could be up to three weeks away for some residents\".\n\nPeople hit by flooding in Fishlake start to salvage belongings from their homes and businesses\n\nThe village of Fishlake is among the worst hit areas\n\nIt said nine hubs had been set up in the town for residents to get help on returning to their homes and how to claim financial support.\n\nMore than £190,000 has been donated to an appeal to support flood victims in South Yorkshire as well as £50,000 being pledged from the Red Cross for those affected in Yorkshire and the Midlands.\n\nPeter Pridham, a church warden in Fishlake, said residents had been told the risk of further flooding was \"being managed and is manageable\".\n\nHe said: \"We are moving from an immediate emergency to a long-term recovery. It's going to take a very long time to return to any normality.\"\n\nPersonnel from the Light Dragoons have laid sandbags in Stainforth, near Doncaster, in an attempt to shore up the village's bridge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson got a frosty reception from some residents in South Yorkshire\n\nOn Wednesday, the prime minister faced criticism over his response to the flooding during a visit to Stainforth.\n\nOne resident told Boris Johnson: \"I'm not very happy about talking to you so, if you don't mind, I'll just mope on with what I'm doing.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he understood the strength of feeling as \"you cannot underestimate the anguish that a flood causes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "(L-R) Jacob Sporon-Fiedler, Nathan Selcon, Gurjaipal Dhillon and Mohammed Afzal were sentenced at the Old Bailey\n\nA group of men who ran an operation worth more than £65m distributing illegal steroids have been jailed.\n\nDanish national Jacob Sporon-Fiedler ran an Indian pharmaceutical company that supplied four tonnes of anabolic steroids per month to Europe.\n\nHis gang in the UK included former bodybuilding champion Nathan Selcon who had a £1m home in Milton Keynes.\n\nSporon-Fiedler and Selcon admitted conspiring to import steroids at the Old Bailey.\n\nSporon-Fiedler, 38, was jailed for five years and four months.\n\nSelcon, 45, was also found guilty of conspiring to manufacture steroids and was sentenced to six years in prison.\n\nThree other men were also convicted for their roles:\n\nPolice raided two laboratories connected to the gang\n\nThe steroids - which were similar to those used by the London Bridge and Westminster terrorists - were said to have been sold to bodybuilders, gym users and possibly professional athletes, the court heard.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said it had evidence of at least £65m worth of drugs connected to the gang but the true figure could run into the hundreds of millions.\n\nAn investigation began when 600kg of anabolic steroids were seized at Heathrow in 2014.\n\nThe NCA raided a laboratory on an industrial estate near Heathrow Airport in March 2015 and discovered packaging for £43m worth of steroids.\n\nThe group was also connected to another lab in Slough which produced about £10m worth of steroids before it was raided by Thames Valley Police in 2009.\n\nSentencing the men, Judge Angela Rafferty QC said: \"I am satisfied this was a long-running, sophisticated and well managed operation and no [previous steroid case] is comparable to the scale of this particular conspiracy. This was exceptionally large.\"\n\nSenior investigator at the NCA David Cunningham said afterwards: \"If Sporon-Fiedler thought he could trade class C illicit anabolic steroids and be beyond the reach of law enforcement, he was wrong.\"\n\nAlexander Macgregor is due to be sentenced at a later date due to illness\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rape prosecutors in England and Wales were given a conviction rate target which was never made public.\n\nBBC Newsnight has had access to a Law Society Gazette investigation, which found that from 2016 prosecutors were judged against a 60% target of cases ending in conviction.\n\nThis may have caused prosecutors to drop weaker cases, campaigners say.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the target was used for \"benchmarking\" - and has been dropped.\n\nThe CPS decides whether cases investigated by the police go to trial.\n\nRape convictions in England and Wales are at their lowest level since 2008, despite record levels of allegations.\n\nAccording to guidance set down in the Code for Crown Prosecutors, decisions should be based on two things: whether it's in the public interest, and if the case has more than a 50% chance of a conviction.\n\nBut from 2016, rape prosecutors were also asked to consider a conviction rate target called a \"level of ambition\" of 60%.\n\nOne way to achieve improved conviction rates is by prosecuting only the strongest cases.\n\nIf 10 rape cases are prosecuted and five of them result in convictions, the conviction rate is 50%. But if only the strongest three cases are prosecuted and all three result in convictions, the conviction rate goes up to 100% - but fewer rapists have been brought to justice.\n\nThe 60% rape conviction rate target was never made public by the CPS, but was discovered by the Law Society Gazette after a trawl through CPS inspection reports.\n\nIn one such report, inspectors criticised the Cheshire-Merseyside regional CPS for missing the target in 2017. Their conviction rate was 57.3%, down from 65.4% the previous year, but their actual number of rape convictions had gone up from 100 to 138 in the same period.\n\nThe following year, the same team introduced a \"more stringent triage process for police files\" on rape.\n\nTheir number of convictions dropped to 81 - the lowest for years - but by prosecuting fewer cases they actually exceeded the CPS target. Their conviction rate was 68%.\n\nNewsnight has also spoken to a source who attended a training session for specialist rape prosecutors in 2017.\n\nThe source said senior CPS lawyers told prosecutors that the CPS would like to see conviction rates of 61% or 62% for rape cases.\n\nHarriet Wistrich from the Centre for Women's Justice said the use of conviction targets was \"extremely worrying\"\n\nA coalition of women's organisations, represented by the Centre for Women's Justice (CWJ), has launched a legal case against the service for what it says is an unlawful change in approach by the CPS.\n\nLawyer Harriet Wistrich, founder of the CWJ, told Newsnight: \"What a change in the conviction rate would suggest is if they're being targeted to improve their convictions, the easiest way to do that is to take weaker cases out of the system.\n\n\"If those that rape are not being held to account, they will feel they can continue doing so with impunity.\"\n\nIn response to the investigation, the CPS said it had stopped using \"conviction levels of ambition\" in April 2018.\n\n\"We acknowledged they were not an appropriate tool to measure our success in bringing the right cases to court,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe CPS has repeatedly denied any change in policy on rape that might account for the collapse in prosecutions.\n\n\"We are clear that all our cases should be assessed on whether there is a realistic prospect of conviction based on individual merit - no other reason,\" the spokesman added.\n\nConviction rate targets were not only applied to rape.\n\nA 75% target was applied to domestic violence cases, while the target for hate crime cases was an 85% level of conviction. An 85% conviction rate target was also applied to all magistrate court cases, with those in the Crown Court subject to a slightly lower level, 81.5%.\n\nA CPS spokesman said: \"While it is important that we track trends, and constantly strive to improve performance, no individual charging decision is influenced by any factor other than the merits of the case.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.\n• None Why do so few rape cases go to court?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man who crushed a three-year-old boy to death with a car seat has been jailed.\n\nA man who crushed a three-year-old boy to death with a car seat has been jailed for more than seven years.\n\nStephen Waterson, 26, inflicted irreversible brain injuries on Alfie Lamb, his girlfriend's son, who was in the footwell behind him in 2018.\n\nWaterson initially denied manslaughter but changed his plea to guilty before a retrial in September.\n\nAlfie had been at his mother Adrian Hoare's feet at the time. She was jailed for child cruelty in May.\n\nSentencing Waterson at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Kerr described him as \"cunning, manipulative, threatening, and controlling\".\n\nJustice Kerr said: \"I do not find you were annoyed with Alfie and moved your seat back because of that annoyance.\"\n\nBut he said he was satisfied the nightclub worker from Croydon moved his car seat back twice \"for your own comfort\".\n\nDescribed by police as \"arrogant, selfish and deeply unpleasant\", Waterson lied to detectives about what happened and threatened his girlfriend and two friends who were in his Audi convertible - along with a second child - on 1 February 2018.\n\nMr Justice Kerr sentenced him to five years and six months for the manslaughter.\n\nHe was handed a further two years for witness intimidation and 18 months for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, which will run concurrently.\n\nAlfie's death was the first time anyone in the UK had died from crush asphyxiation as a result of an electronic car seat, police said.\n\nHoare, 24, of Gravesend, Kent, watched as her son was crushed in front of her and then lied to protect her boyfriend.\n\nShe was sentenced to two years and nine months but cleared of manslaughter.\n\nDuring her trial, prosecutors said Alfie was crying during the journey to Waterson's home after a shopping trip in Sutton, south London.\n\nWhen he continued to moan, Waterson, who was in the front passenger seat, reversed his chair twice and said \"I won't be told what to do by a three-year-old\", Hoare told the jury.\n\nThe maximum space in the footwell was 30cm, and, at the touch of a button, that could be reduced to just 9.5cm, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nAlfie collapsed in the car and died in hospital from his injuries three days later.\n\nAt a trial in February, Mr Waterson told the court he only moved his seat back an inch, before moving forwards again\n\nHoare eventually confessed to her half-sister Ashleigh Jeffrey in a taped conversation handed to police.\n\nShe said: \"He [Alfie] was always smiling. His death has had such a profound effect on my life.\"\n\n\"No sentence will be enough but today we finally gave Alfie a voice and justice has been done.\"\n\nBarmaid Emilie Williams, 20, who had been in the car with Waterson and Hoare, admitted conspiring to pervert the course of justice after being threatened and \"coerced\" into lying by Waterson.\n\nShe was sentenced to five months imprisonment suspended for 18 months and 100 hours of unpaid work, to be completed after she gives birth.\n\nJurors in the first trial heard Waterson was a controlling womaniser who had a violent temper and three previous convictions for attacking an ex-girlfriend and his sister's husband.\n\nHis parents, who were in court for sentencing, refused to comment outside court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parts of Venice have been left under water by record flooding\n\nSevere flooding in Venice that has left much of the Italian city under water is a direct result of climate change, the mayor says.\n\nThe highest water levels in the region in more than 50 years would leave \"a permanent mark\", Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro tweeted.\n\n\"Now the government must listen,\" he added. \"These are the effects of climate change... the costs will be high.\"\n\nThe waters in Venice peaked at 1.87m (6ft), according to the tide monitoring centre. Only once since official records began in 1923 has the tide been higher, reaching 1.94m in 1966.\n\nImages showed popular sites left completely flooded and people wading through the streets as Venice was hit by a storm.\n\nSt Mark's Square - one of the lowest parts of the city - was one of the worst hit areas.\n\nSt Mark's Basilica was flooded for the sixth time in 1,200 years, according to church records. Pierpaolo Campostrini, a member of St Mark's council, said four of those floods had now occurred within the past 20 years.\n\nThe mayor said the famous landmark had suffered \"grave damage\". The crypt was completely flooded and there are fears of structural damage to the basilica's columns.\n\nThe city of Venice is made up of more than 100 islands inside a lagoon off the north-east coast of Italy.\n\nTwo people died on the island of Pellestrina, a thin strip of land that separates the lagoon from the Adriatic Sea. A man was electrocuted as he tried to start a pump in his home, and a second person was found dead elsewhere.\n\nMr Brugnaro said the damage was \"huge\" and that he would declare a state of disaster, warning that a project to help prevent the Venetian lagoon suffering devastating floods \"must be finished soon\".\n\n\"The situation is dramatic. We ask the government to help us,\" he said on Twitter, adding that schools would remain closed until the water level subsides.\n\nHe also urged local businesses to share photos and video footage of the devastation, which he said would be useful when requesting financial help from the government.\n\nPeople throughout the city waded through the flood waters.\n\nA number of businesses were affected. Chairs and tables were seen floating outside cafes and restaurants.\n\nIn shops, workers tried to move their stock away from the water to prevent any further damage.\n\nOne shopkeeper, who was not named, told Italy's public broadcaster Rai: \"The city is on its knees.\"\n\nThree waterbuses sank, but tourists continued their sightseeing as best they could.\n\nOne French couple told AFP news agency that they had \"effectively swum\" after some of the wooden platforms placed around the city in areas prone to flooding overturned.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, a number of boats were seen stranded.\n\nA project to protect the city from flooding has been under way since 2003 but has been hit by soaring costs, scandals and delays.\n\nThe so-called Mose project - a series of large barriers or floodgates that would be raised from the seabed to shut off the lagoon in the event of rising sea levels and winter storms - was successfully tested for the first time in 2013.\n\nThe project has already cost billions of euros in investment. According to Italy's infrastructure ministry, the flood barriers will be handed over to the Venice city council at the end of 2021 following the \"final phase\" of testing.\n\nItaly was hit by heavy rainfall on Tuesday with further bad weather forecast in the coming days. Venice suffers flooding on a yearly basis.\n\nThe recent flooding in Venice was caused by a combination of high spring tides and a meteorological storm surge driven by strong sirocco winds blowing north-eastwards across the Adriatic Sea. When these two events coincide, we get what is known as Acqua Alta (high water).\n\nThis latest Acqua Alta occurrence in Venice is the second highest tide in recorded history. However, if we look at the top 10 tides, five have occurred in the past 20 years and the most recent was only last year.\n\nWhile we should try to avoid attributing a single event to climate change, the increased frequency of these exceptional tides is obviously a big concern. In our changing climate, sea levels are rising and a city such as Venice, which is also sinking, is particularly susceptible to such changes.\n\nThe weather patterns that have caused the Adriatic storm surge have been driven by a strong meridional (waving) jet stream across the northern hemisphere and this has fed a conveyor belt of low pressure systems into the central Mediterranean.\n\nOne of the possible effects of a changing climate is that the jet stream will be more frequently meridional and blocked weather patterns such as these will also become more frequent. If this happens, there is a greater likelihood that these events will combine with astronomical spring tides and hence increase the chance of flooding in Venice.\n\nFurthermore, the meridional jet stream can be linked back to stronger typhoons in the north-west Pacific resulting in more frequent cold outbreaks in North America and an unsettled Mediterranean is another one of the downstream effects.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kate Griffiths was selected as the Tory candidate for Burton\n\nThe estranged wife of a former Tory MP who sent thousands of sexual messages to two women has been selected as the candidate for his seat.\n\nAndrew Griffiths, 49, who is standing down from frontline politics, has said he is backing his wife, Kate.\n\nShe was selected as the Tory candidate for Burton on Thursday.\n\nHowever, Mrs Griffiths said she was divorcing her husband, and had not sought, and does not accept, his offer of political support.\n\nMr Griffiths resigned as small business minister in July after a newspaper reported he sent the women more than 2,000 messages in 21 days, weeks after the birth of his first child.\n\nHe was cleared of wrongdoing by the parliamentary standards watchdog, which said it found no evidence he sent the messages while engaged in parliamentary activities.\n\nA Conservative party investigation found he may have breached the Conservatives' code of conduct but said \"given his state of mental health both now and at the time\" further action would be inappropriate.\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Griffiths said the last 18 months had been the \"most difficult\" of her life but she had found a \"strength and resilience I didn't know I had\".\n\nAndrew Griffiths said he \"cared passionately\" about the Tory party and the constituency\n\nMrs Griffiths said she left Mr Griffiths \"on the day that he told me about the behaviour that was published in the press\" and their divorce is being finalised.\n\n\"I am not able to say more about this now as legal proceedings are ongoing but I want to make it clear that I have not sought, nor do I accept Andrew's offer of political support,\" she said.\n\nShe said, if elected, she wanted to be an advocate for abuse survivors.\n\nAnnouncing his decision not to stand, Mr Griffiths, who became the MP in May 2010, said he still \"cared passionately\" about the constituency.\n\n\"I'm invested in this place, I have put my whole life into it and I also love the Conservative party,\" he said.\n\nOther candidates confirmed to be standing for the seat so far are:\n\nThe BBC news page for the constituency will be updated with full 2019 candidate information after the close of nominations later this month.", "Little is known about the ape as only a few fossils are known, including this jawbone\n\nA fossilised tooth left behind by the largest ape that ever lived is shedding new light on the evolution of apes.\n\nGigantopithecus blacki was thought to stand nearly three metres tall and tip the scales at 600kg.\n\nIn an astonishing advance, scientists have obtained molecular evidence from a two-million-year-old fossil molar tooth found in a Chinese cave.\n\nThe mystery ape is a distant relative of orangutans, sharing a common ancestor around 12 million years ago.\n\n\"It would have been a distant cousin (of orangutans), in the sense that its closest living relatives are orangutans, compared to other living great apes such as gorillas or chimpanzees or us,\" said Dr Frido Welker, from the University of Copenhagen.\n\nThe research, reported in Nature, is based on comparing the ancient protein sequence of the tooth of the extinct ape, believed to be a female, with apes alive today.\n\nObtaining skeletal protein from a two-million-year-old fossil is rare if not unprecedented, raising hopes of being able to look even further back in time at other ancient ancestors, including humans, who lived in warmer regions.\n\nThere is a much poorer chance of being able to find ancient DNA or proteins in tropical climates, where samples tend to degrade quicker.\n\n\"This study suggests that ancient proteins might be a suitable molecule surviving across most of recent human evolution even for areas like Africa or Asia and we could thereby in the future study our own evolution as a species over a very long time span,\" Dr Welker told BBC News.\n\nGigantopithecus blacki was first identified in 1935 based on a single tooth sample. The ape is thought to have lived in Southeast Asia from two million years ago to 300,000 years ago.\n\nMany teeth and four partial jawbones have been identified but the animal's relationship to other great ape species has been hard to decipher.\n\nThe ape reached massive proportions, exceeding that of living gorillas, based on analysis of the few bones that have been found.\n\nIt is thought to have gone extinct when the environment changed from forest to savannah.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland celebrated their 1,000th game in style as they secured qualification for Euro 2020 and won Group A with an emphatic demolition of Montenegro at Wembley.\n\nCaptain Harry Kane moved to sixth in England's list of leading scorers as a first-half hat-trick took his tally to 31 - overhauling Frank Lampard, Alan Shearer, Nat Lofthouse and Tom Finney.\n\nAlex Oxlade-Chamberlain opened the scoring on his first start for 18 months while Marcus Rashford was also on the scoresheet in that 45-minute barrage.\n\nAs England and the Football Association enjoyed this landmark occasion, with a parade of legends and 1966 World Cup winners in attendance, Montenegro proved the most amenable of opponents, particularly in the opening half when Kane and company ran riot and the visitors' defending was shambolic.\n\nOxlade-Chamberlain finished superbly to begin the rout while Kane quickly added two headers, with all three goals created by Leicester City defender Ben Chilwell. England's captain and Rashford were also the beneficiaries of Montenegro generosity before the interval.\n\nIt was also in evidence in the second half when Aleksandar Sofranac diverted Mason Mount's shot into his own net for England's sixth.\n\nTo complete a perfect night for Gareth Southgate and England- who by qualifying automatically ensured they will play all three Euro 2020 group matches at Wembley - the manager was able to give a debut to Leicester City's James Maddison, while substitute Tammy Abraham scored his first full international goal.\n\nThe introduction of Liverpool's Joe Gomez appeared to be bizarrely greeted by some jeers from England fans after the clash with Raheem Sterling that saw the Manchester City forward dropped as a disciplinary measure, but otherwise Southgate's side marked this gala occasion and qualification with a flourish before Sunday's final game in Kosovo.\n• None England at Euro 2020: What do we know?\n\nIt has been a testing week for Southgate as he had to handle the fallout from the altercation between Sterling and Gomez at St George's Park on Monday, 24 hours after Liverpool beat Manchester City in the Premier League.\n\nSouthgate dropped Sterling but he could sit back and relax as England answered any remaining questions with a first-half performance that ended this game as a contest in short order. Sterling is a world-class player but was not missed as the team Southgate picked dissected hapless Montenegro.\n\nIf results have been comfortable in this group - defeat in the Czech Republic apart - Southgate has had difficulties off the field following the racial abuse aimed at England's players in Montenegro and Bulgaria, and the disturbance involving Sterling and Gomez.\n\nIt was a moment that tested the unity of an England squad so carefully crafted by Southgate, but all seemed well as Sterling applauded defender Gomez's appearance as a second-half substitute.\n\nHowever, the booing from some sections of the Wembley crowd was mystifying, whoever was the target. It was the only sour note of the night and totally unnecessary.\n\nEngland's players provided the best medicine with a victory that once again demonstrated their ability to destroy vulnerable opponents with a potent attack, as they have done throughout this qualifying campaign.\n\nNow they must finish the job with victory in Kosovo as they try to ensure they are seeded for Euro 2020. Greater tests then lie ahead.\n\nEngland's youth comes through with panache\n\nThis was England's youngest starting line-up for 60 years, with an average age of 23 years and 255 days - and while the opposition was poor, this was a very promising glimpse into the future.\n\nLeicester City's Chilwell demonstrated his growth as a player of international stature and his rounded game as he created those first three goals, while Wembley cheered the arrival of his Foxes team-mate Maddison as the gifted midfielder finally got his debut.\n\nAbraham's development into a striker and poacher of growing quality was emphasised by his clinical near-post finish for England's seventh, and his young Chelsea team-mate Mount was unlucky not to get on the scoresheet.\n• None Three Lions: One World Cup, 147 years and 1,000 games\n\nMount is 20, while Chilwell, Abraham and Maddison are all still only 22, so they can be part of England's plans for years to come.\n\nLiverpool's Oxlade-Chamberlain may be one of the older brigade these days even though he is still only 26 - but he has endured a lengthy absence from the England scene because of injury. He has been in rich goalscoring form this season, as proved by his powerful, low finish that set England on their way. Southgate will be delighted to have him back at his disposal.\n\nAll in all, this was pretty much the ideal night for Southgate and his players as they prepare to travel to Kosovo to conclude another successful qualifying campaign.\n\n'We wanted to put on a show'\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We played so well in the first half. I know France have taken a long time tonight to get a victory against Moldova.\n\n\"We have won a group that we should win but we have won it comfortably and we have found a way of playing against those lower-ranked teams that defend in numbers. We have found a way to break them down, which maybe in the past we haven't.\"\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane to ITV: \"We have had one slip-up in the group and responded really well. We got the job done and wanted to put on a show in our 1,000th game. With five goals in the first half, I think we did that.\n\n\"We want to win that game away from home [against Kosovo]. We will enjoy this with one eye on Sunday.\"\n\nScoring big - the best of the stats\n• None In what was England's 1,000th match (W569, D241, L190), the Three Lions earned their biggest home win since October 1987 (8-0 against Turkey).\n• None England were 5-0 up after just 37 minutes, which is the earliest they have scored five goals in a game since November 1946 (35 minutes against the Netherlands).\n• None England have scored 34 goals in nine games in 2019, their highest tally in a calendar year since 1982 (34 in 15 games). They last scored more in a single year in 1966 (38).\n• None England (33) have overtaken Belgium (30) as the highest scorers in Euro 2020 qualifying so far.\n• None England have benefited from 54 own goals in their 1,000 matches - one more than their all-time highest goalscorer Wayne Rooney netted.\n• None Abraham got his first senior international goal for England, becoming the 430th player to score for the Three Lions.\n\nEngland travel to Pristina to take on Kosovo in their final Euro 2020 qualifier on Sunday, 17 November (17:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, England. Trent Alexander-Arnold tries a through ball, but Jadon Sancho is caught offside.\n• None Goal! England 7, Montenegro 0. Tammy Abraham (England) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jadon Sancho.\n• None Marko Jankovic (Montenegro) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Trent Alexander-Arnold (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Jadon Sancho. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Italy has declared a state of emergency in Venice after the Italian city was engulfed by 1.87m (6ft) high water levels, flooding its historic basilica and cutting power to homes.\n\nMore than 80% of the city, a Unesco world heritage site, was under water when tides were at their highest.\n\nItaly's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte described the flooding as \"a blow to the heart of our country\".\n\nHe said the government would now act quickly to provide funds and resources.\n\n\"It hurts to see the city so damaged, its artistic heritage compromised, its commercial activities on its knees,\" Mr Conte, who visited the region late on Wednesday, wrote in a Facebook post (in Italian).\n\nHe said the government would \"accelerate\" the building of structural defences for the lagoon city, referring specifically to the so-called Mose project - a hydraulic barrier system to shut off the lagoon in the event of rising sea levels and winter storms.\n\nThe prime minister said he was declaring emergency measures on Thursday, adding that individuals could claim up to €5,000 (£4,300; $5,500), and businesses up to €20,000, in compensation.\n\nIt comes as Venetians woke to sirens indicating that the tide would \"remain high\" in the coming days.\n\nThe mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, blamed climate change for the highest water levels in more than 50 years this week, saying the impact was \"huge\" and would leave \"a permanent mark\".\n\nSt Mark's Square - one of the lowest parts of the city - was one of the worst hit areas.\n\nMr Brugnaro said the famous St Mark's Basilica had suffered \"grave damage\". The crypt at the historic landmark was completely flooded on Tuesday and there are fears that the basilica's columns may have been structurally damaged.\n\n\"The damage will run into hundreds of millions of euros,\" Mr Brugnaro warned.\n\nOn Wednesday, pumps were deployed to drain water from the church and its 12th Century crypt.\n\nSmall business owners and vendors in the city were appealing to tourists, many of whom had left the city after the water levels rose, to return.\n\nOne merchant told the mayor that his business relied on tourism, but that his kiosk was swept away by the tide.\n\nThe city of Venice is made up of more than 100 islands inside a lagoon off the north-east coast of Italy. It suffers flooding on a yearly basis.\n\nOnly once since official records began in 1923, however, has the tide been higher than it reached this week - hitting 1.94m in 1966.\n\nOn the island of Pellestrina, two people died as a result of the flooding on a thin strip of land that separates the lagoon from the Adriatic Sea. A resident was electrocuted as he tried to start a pump in his home and a second person was found dead elsewhere on the island.\n\nThe flooding in Venice was caused by a combination of high spring tides and a meteorological storm surge driven by strong winds blowing north-eastwards across the Adriatic Sea.\n\nThe winds were so strong that an empty vaporetto - or public water bus - ended up grounded in Venice's Arsenale complex.\n\nMr Conte said the Mose flood defence project, part of which was successfully tested in 2013, was not expected to be operational until the end of 2021.\n\nWork on the project began back in 2003 and has already cost billions of euros. It has been plagued by corruption and bribery allegations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parts of Venice left under water by record flooding\n\nIn 2014, the former mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, stepped down after he was accused of involvement in the embezzling of around €20m ($27m; £16m) in public funds earmarked for flood defences.\n\nThis latest Acqua Alta (high water) occurrence in Venice is the second highest tide the city has experienced in recorded history. However, if we look at the top 10 tides, five have occurred in the past 20 years and the most recent was only last year.\n\nWhile we should try to avoid attributing a single event to climate change, the increased frequency of these exceptional tides is obviously a big concern. In our changing climate, sea levels are rising and a city such as Venice, which is also sinking, is particularly susceptible to such changes.\n\nThe weather patterns that have caused the Adriatic storm surge have been driven by a strong meridional (waving) jet stream across the northern hemisphere and this has fed a conveyor belt of low pressure systems into the central Mediterranean.\n\nOne of the possible effects of a changing climate is that the jet stream will be more frequently meridional and blocked weather patterns such as these will also become more frequent. If this happens, there is a greater likelihood that these events will combine with astronomical spring tides and hence increase the chance of flooding in Venice.\n\nFurthermore, the meridional jet stream can be linked back to stronger typhoons in the north-west Pacific resulting in more frequent cold outbreaks in North America and an unsettled Mediterranean is another one of the downstream effects.\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "Villagers sort through plastic in Bangun for the better-quality material they can sell\n\nThe burning of plastic waste in Indonesia, much of which has been sent there by the West, is poisoning the food chain, the BBC has learned.\n\nEnvironmental group IPEN found, in one East Java village, toxic dioxins in chicken eggs 70 times the level allowed by European safety standards.\n\nLong-term exposure to the chemicals is linked to cancer, damage to the immune system and developmental issues.\n\nIndonesia's government says it is sending the waste back to countries.\n\nThe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme also spoke to people with respiratory issues caused by the fumes from the burning of plastics, and filmed the open burning of plastics supposedly sent to Indonesia to be recycled.\n\nAt one tofu factory, plastic is burned as fuel\n\nResearchers from IPEN (the International Pollutants Elimination Network) collected free-range chicken eggs at two sites near Surabaya, in East Java.\n\nTesting eggs, the researchers said, was the easiest way to check whether the chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as dioxins had made it into the food chain.\n\nThe most serious reading was taken near a group of tofu factories that burn plastics for fuel, in the village of Tropodo.\n\nThe tests found eating one egg would exceed the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) tolerable daily intake for chlorinated dioxins 70 times over.\n\nResearchers said this was the second-highest level of dioxins in eggs ever measured in Asia - only behind an area of Vietnam contaminated by the chemical weapon Agent Orange.\n\nThe eggs also contained toxic flame-retardant chemicals, SCCPs and PBDEs, used in plastics.\n\nOne resident in Tropodo said it was known as the \"city of smoke\".\n\n\"We don't need to tell the doctor what our symptoms are... we just tell them that we are from Tropodo and they know right away.\"\n\nResearcher Yuyun Ismawati found recyclable plastics among the waste set to be burned\n\nExperts believe eating a few contaminated eggs would not impact health - but long-term exposure could lead to serious problems.\n\n\"The results of our research are some of the most shocking we have ever had. In Indonesia, we've never had these results before,\" explained Yuyun Ismawati, a leading Indonesian environmentalist behind the tests.\n\nDr Agus Haryono, from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, said the country's government needed to implement \"a proper infrastructure for testing and monitoring POPs [Persistent Organic Pollutants]\" to combat the \"uncontrolled cross-border plastic trade\".\n\nIn the first six months of this year, the UK sent 18,000 tonnes of plastic and 55,000 tonnes of paper to Indonesia\n\nThe researchers focused on the area around a paper factory in East Java, where around 40% of its paper is imported. But the paper is arriving contaminated with low quality plastic.\n\nThe plastic is then sold to local villagers, many of whom rely on the plastic for their livelihoods.\n\nOne so-called \"plastic farmer\" in the village of Bangun, Supiyati, told the BBC she made a living by searching through plastic waste to sell the better-quality material to plastic factories.\n\n\"I used the money to buy this land and to send my children to school,\" she said, sitting among large mounds of plastic bought by the lorry-load by residents and divided up.\n\nImports of plastic waste rose 141% last year to 283,000 tonnes - primarily from countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, the UK and the US - according to Indonesia's statistics agency.\n\nChina imposed a ban on waste imports to the mainland at the start of 2017, leading to a huge influx of waste being sent to other countries.\n\nProf Peter Dobson, from the University of Oxford, believes Western countries exporting their plastic waste must also be held accountable.\n\n\"A ban would encourage the development of technologies to recycle or re-use waste plastic, or to discourage the wide use of plastic,\" he said.\n\nExperts say Western waste is one part of the problem when it comes to tackling plastic in Indonesia.\n\nThey cite a lack of infrastructure and funding for waste collection, which means large amounts are fly-tipped in rivers or burned.\n\nMasrur is the local chief in Sindang Jaya\n\nIn Sindang Jaya, on the other side of Java, local chief Masrur claimed he had seen numerous people have respiratory problems due to the fumes created when plastics are burned.\n\nOne resident, Mila Damila, said her granddaughter had been hospitalised four times.\n\n\"The doctor said her illness was caused by the smoke,\" she said. \"It looks like fog, but it's smoke. It's black in the afternoon.\"\n\nAnother local, Eli Prima, said his daughter was taken into the emergency unit and placed on an oxygen tube because she had difficulty breathing.\n\nMila Damila says her granddaughters' health has been badly affected\n\nMuch of the larger-scale, open burning of plastic in the area has now been stopped after \"tense\" discussions with plastic traders.\n\nAnd there is evidence that suggests government policy is having an impact.\n\nIndividuals are still burning waste, but the flow of new imported waste in Sindang Jaya is beginning to dry up.\n\nThe BBC saw lorries that had been seized by Indonesian customs\n\nThe BBC also saw lorries with containers parked up outside plastic factories in Sindang Jaya that had been seized by Indonesian customs, suggesting they might contain contaminated waste.\n\nBut while there may be less waste entering Indonesia, there is concern about where it is ending up.\n\nRecent research by the environmental group Basel Action Network found many containers that were intended to be sent back to the West ended up in other South-East Asian countries.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Zoe Sugg (Zoella), singer Rita Ora and model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are all social-media influencers\n\nThe money made by social-media influencers has risen meteorically in the last few years, according to a new report.\n\nMarketing firm Izea found the average price of a sponsored photo on Instagram has jumped from $134 (£104) in 2014 to $1,642 (£1,276) in 2019.\n\nBrands appear willing to pay handsomely to sponsor posts, videos, stories and blogs, too, says Business Insider.\n\nBut one expert insists it will not mean the end of traditional advertising.\n\n\"Digital marketing is the equivalent of word of mouth but there will always be a mix between that and traditional advertising,\" said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief executive of social media marketing platform Socialbakers.\n\nThe report looked at sponsored content on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and blogs, examining negotiated rates from 2014 to 2019.\n\nFrom micro-influencers - people with fewer than 100,000 followers - to celebrities, it found that there was good money to be made.\n\nAs more and more people join the rush to become social-media influencers, the industry has gained more scrutiny from regulators.\n\nLast month, three influencers had Instagram posts touting diet products banned by the Advertising Standards Authority, which dubbed them \"irresponsible\".\n\nAnd at the beginning of the year, the Competition and Markets Authority warned that some influencer posts could break consumer law if they did not make clear when posts endorsing products were ads.\n\nZoe Sugg (Zoella), singer Rita Ora and model Rosie Huntingon-Whiteley were among 16 influencers who agreed to change the way they posted content.\n\nBrands will continue to pour money into social-media advertising, according to data from Socialbakers.\n\nIts research suggests that influencer-sponsored posts grew by 150% in the last year, with the use of the hashtag #ad more than doubling.\n\nIt predicts that brands will up their spend on influencer marketing in 2020, making it a $10bn industry.\n\nInstagram is currently experimenting with hiding \"likes\" on posts but Mr Ben-Itzhak does not think this will have an impact on the influencer industry.\n\n\"Influencers will still be able to see what engagement they have and it is common practice to grant permission to brands so that they can see that too,\" he said.\n\n\"The bigger question will be whether consumers will continue to engage when they can't see 'likes'.\"", "US President Donald Trump is in the middle of an impeachment inquiry.\n\nThree BBC reporters based in North America, Ritu Prasad, Laura Trevelyan and Chris Buckler, break down the key points as the inquiry goes public.", "Labour is promising free full fibre broadband to every UK home by 2030 – if it wins the election – by bringing part of BT back into public ownership.\n\nJohn McDonnell said the roll-out would cost £20bn and maintenance of the network would be paid for by a tax on multinational tech companies.\n\nHe was speaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg – you can watch a longer version of this interview here.\n\nThe Conservatives have promised £5bn to bring full-fibre to every home by 2025.", "A total of 29 women aged 20 to 40 believed to be victims of trafficking were rescued in the operation by the Met\n\nSeventeen people have been arrested in early morning raids across east London in an international human trafficking investigation.\n\nA total of 29 women aged 20 to 40 were rescued in the operation by the Met, supported by officers from Romania.\n\nThe potential victims were taken to a \"place of safety\", and the suspects, 14 men and three women, remain in custody.\n\nSixteen warrants were executed at properties in Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham and Tower Hamlets.\n\nThe suspects, who were aged between 17 and 50, were held on suspicion of modern slavery, controlling prostitution, Class A drug offences and firearm offences relating to a stun gun.\n\nThey remain in custody in a central London police station.\n\nFour warrants were carried out in Romania at the same time, leading to the arrest of a man in Constanta.\n\nDet Ch Insp Richard McDonagh, said: \"The Met recognises the seriousness of modern slavery and the devastation it brings to people's lives.\n\n\"Today's synchronised operational activity [had] the aim of, in one fell swoop, dismantling an organised crime network and providing support to the victims.\"\n\nA spokesman for Romanian police in the UK said: \"Romanian police officers working shoulder to shoulder with our British partners is a great achievement, a proof of our mutual permanent support and a great professional reward.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has won its legal battle to prevent a postal strike after the High Court backed its application for an injunction.\n\nThe decision is a setback for union plans to stage strikes in the run-up to the general election and Christmas.\n\nLast month, 100,000 Royal Mail staff were balloted and voted to take action over job security and terms.\n\nBut Royal Mail argued that the ballot had \"potential irregularities\" and was null and void.\n\nThe Communications Workers Union (CWU) said its members were \"extremely angry and bitterly disappointed\".\n\nIt also accused Royal Mail of a \"cowardly and vicious attack on its own workforce\" and said it intended to appeal.\n\nShane O'Riordain, director of corporate affairs at Royal Mail, said it had not taken the decision to go to the High Court lightly.\n\n\"We sought to reach resolution outside the courts. We asked CWU to confirm it would refrain from taking industrial action, based on clear evidence of planned and orchestrated breaches by CWU officials of their legal obligations.\"\n\nMembers of the CWU voted by 97% in favour of a nationwide strike, saying the company had failed to adhere to an employment deal agreed last year.\n\nRoyal Mail denied this and said it had evidence of CWU members coming under pressure to vote \"yes\" in the ballot.\n\nThis included, the company said, union members \"being encouraged to open their ballot papers on site, mark them as 'yes', with their colleagues present and filming or photographing them doing so, before posting their ballots together at their workplace postboxes\".\n\nRoyal Mail said this amounted to a \"de facto workplace ballot\", contrary to rules on industrial action, to maximise the turnout and the \"yes\" vote.\n\nThe CWU thought the ballot result couldn't have been clearer - a 97% vote in favour of strike action on a turnout of 76%.\n\nBarring the result of any appeal, the CWU will have to go back to the drawing board and re-ballot its 110,000 members.\n\nIt's not a quick process and there's a strict code of practice to follow which takes at least a month.\n\nRealistically, it seems there's little chance of strike action before the new year, meaning postal workers have lost their moment of maximum leverage.\n\nA Christmas strike plus a threat to postal votes during the election would have been very damaging for the Royal Mail. It'll now be breathing a temporary sigh of relief. But the dispute, which covers a wide range of issues, is far from over.\n\nRoyal Mail's procedures state that employees cannot open their mail at delivery offices without the prior authorisation of their manager.\n\nBut CWU lawyers argued there was no evidence of interference with the ballot and that \"legitimate partisan campaigning\" by the union in favour of a \"yes\" vote did not violate the rules.\n\nIn the High Court, Mr Justice Swift said in his judgement: \"This was an interference that was accurately described as improper. Strike ballots should be postal ballots. Each voter should receive a voting paper at home.\n\n\"What CWU did was a form of subversion of the ballot process. It was an interference with voting.\"\n\nIf the action had gone ahead, it would have been Royal Mail's first national postal strike in a decade. In the 2017-18 financial year, Royal Mail delivered about 14.4 billion letters and 1.2 billion parcels.", "An \"audacious\" attempt to steal two valuable paintings by Rembrandt from a south London gallery has been thwarted, police say.\n\nAn intruder broke into Dulwich Picture Gallery on Wednesday night but the paintings were \"secured at the scene\", it was confirmed on Thursday.\n\nNeither of the art works, by the Dutch golden age painter, left the grounds.\n\nThe gallery praised their \"robust security\" and \"the swift response of the Metropolitan Police.\"\n\nThe Rembrandt's Light exhibition and gallery will remain closed for now, while a \"full investigation\" takes place.\n\nThe police said an intruder used a canister to spray an officer in the face with an unknown substance, and as a result was able to get away. The officer did not suffer serious injuries and quickly recovered both paintings, with the help of security staff,\n\n\"This was an audacious attempted burglary and was clearly planned in advance,\" said detective inspector Jason Barber from the Flying Squad.\n\n\"Two paintings in the exhibition were targeted and it was only down to the prompt response of gallery security staff and the courage and swift intervention of officers that these two works of art were not stolen. Thankfully both the paintings were quickly recovered and secured.\"\n\nThe exhibition on \"one of the greatest painters who ever lived\" opened last month and focused on 35 of his paintings, etchings and drawings, including those owned by the gallery and others on loan from The Louvre and Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Women should have the right to know what their male colleagues are being paid if they suspect pay discrimination, a gender equality charity has said.\n\nThe Fawcett Society is calling for a change in the law to try to cut down on instances of unequal pay.\n\nBut men can help by simply telling female colleagues what they earn, the charity added.\n\nThe call comes as Labour pledges to close the gender pay gap by 2030.\n\nFawcett Society chief executive Sam Smethers said: \"Pay secrecy means women cannot know if they are being paid equally and fairly.\n\n\"Even if they do suspect a man is earning more it is almost impossible to do anything about it. This is why we are calling for a change in the law.\"\n\nShe said that women need an enforceable \"right to know\" what their colleagues earn so that they can challenge unequal pay.\n\n\"Men can help by simply telling their female colleagues what they earn. It really is that simple,\" Ms Smethers added.\n\nShanti Kelemen, investor director at Brown Shipley, told BBC Radio 4's Programme that it should be \"all or nothing\".\n\n\"I just think giving women the right isn't the answer. Why not minorities, old people, young people?\"\n\n\"If I was going to implement something like this, use a system like Sweden where anyone can look at anyone's tax return. The catch is that everyone will know you've looked.\"\n\nUnder UK law, men and women are supposed to be paid the same for doing comparable work.\n\nThe call from the Fawcett Society comes after the Labour Party pledged to close the gender pay gap by 2030 if it wins the election.\n\nThe gender pay gap is the percentage difference between average hourly earnings for men and women.\n\nKay Collins now cares for her husband William full-time\n\nKay Collins had a job with a catering firm, but her work-life started to unravel after a chance conversation with a male colleague in September 2015.\n\nShe found out that he was earning £6,000 more per year than her for doing exactly the same role as a chef.\n\n\"I was shaking, I was so angry,\" she said.\n\nShe was older and more experienced than her male colleague, and so raised a grievance with her female line manager.\n\nHowever, her manager said the man had more responsibilities - although he himself said he didn't.\n\nHe ended up resigning, and Kay lost her job, although she won a settlement at a tribunal after a process that took many years.\n\n\"It was an ordeal, that's what it was,\" she says. \"I lost two stone over a couple of years [because of the stress].\"\n\nHowever, the settlement was not enough to cover her £15,000 court costs.\n\nKay, who is 60 next year, felt \"down and betrayed\" afterwards, and is now a full-time carer for her husband William, who has a heart condition, and is still having to work from home to pay their mortgage.", "The minibus overturned after a collision with a car near St Ives in Cambridgeshire\n\nTwenty people are being treated in hospital after a minibus overturned in rural Cambridgeshire.\n\nThe two-vehicle collision happened on the B1040 Somersham Road near the villages of Woodhurst and Bluntisham, at 16:51 GMT.\n\n\"Multiple people are involved and some are seriously injured,\" police said.\n\nMore than 20 firefighters are at the scene, the fire service said. A police cordon is also in place.\n\nThe crash happened near the villages of Woodhurst and Bluntisham\n\nBelongings have been strewn around the carriageway after the accident\n\nCasualties are being taken to Addenbrooke's and Hinchingbrooke hospitals in Cambridge and Huntingdon, a spokeswoman for the East of England Ambulance Service said.\n\nA spokesman from Cambridgeshire Constabulary said they had \"varying levels of injury\".\n\nRoads in both directions near Wheatsheaf Road are closed and diversions are in place through Pidley.\n\nThe East Anglian Air Ambulance and a hazard response team are also at the scene.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene of the crash in rural Cambridgeshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe parents of Harry Dunn have been told by the UK government their claims of abuse of power by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab are \"without foundation\".\n\nThe 19-year-old died in hospital after a crash in Northamptonshire in August. US suspect Anne Sacoolas left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe teenager's parents allege the granting of immunity by Mr Raab was \"wrong in law\".\n\nThe Foreign Office (FCO) has written to the family rejecting the allegations.\n\nIt told the BBC it had sent a letter - seen by the BBC - to Mr Dunn's parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, but would not comment on its content. It expressed its \"deepest sympathy\" to the family.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn have met US president Donald Trump at the White House about the crash\n\nIn the letter, the FCO said it would \"seek costs\" for any judicial review brought and argues the family has not found \"any reasonably arguable ground of legal challenge\".\n\nIt said the allegation that the foreign secretary had \"misused and/or abused his power\" was \"entirely without foundation\".\n\nMr Dunn's motorbike crashed with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas, the 42-year-old wife of US intelligence officer Jonathan Sacoolas, outside RAF Croughton, near Brackley, on 27 August.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police has handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service after interviewing Mrs Sacoolas in the US.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"The FCO relies on two private agreements between the USA and UK dated in 1995 and 2001 to assert that Anne Sacoolas did have diplomatic immunity.\"\n\nHe added the family had taken legal advice and its \"position is clear that these arrangements have no basis in law\".\n\nHe continued: \"As if it were not enough for the family to have to endure the loss of Harry, the British government now appear[s] intent on putting them through a needless and protracted legal battle culminating in court. So be it. They will not rest until justice is done. But shame on the government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Diphtheria vaccination programmes protect most people in the UK\n\nTwo people are being treated in Scotland for the potentially deadly diphtheria infection.\n\nNHS Lothian has confirmed the two cases are related and both patients are thought to be in hospital in Edinburgh.\n\nThe health board said those involved had recently returned from overseas.\n\nPublic health experts said the likelihood of any additional cases was very small, as most people were protected by immunisation given in childhood.\n\nIn Lothian, 98% of children are vaccinated against diphtheria by the age of 24 months.\n\nAlison McCallum, director of public health for NHS Lothian, said: \"All close contacts of these patients have been identified, contacted and followed up in line with nationally agreed guidelines.\n\n\"We encourage people travelling abroad to visit Fit for Travel where they can access information on how to stay safe and healthy abroad, as well as destination specific health advice.\"\n\nThe diphtheria infection is spread by coughs and sneezes and can prove potentially fatal\n\nDiphtheria is a highly contagious and potentially fatal infection that can affect the nose and throat, and sometimes the skin.\n\nIt can lead to difficulty breathing, heart failure and paralysis.\n\nThe infection is spread by coughs and sneezes, or by sharing items such as cups, cutlery, clothes or bedding with an infected person.\n\nIt is rare in the UK, because babies and children are routinely vaccinated against it.\n\nThere is a small risk of catching the disease while travelling in some parts of the world.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China's Jingye Group has emerged as the frontrunner to buy British Steel out of insolvency, according to reports.\n\nA possible deal has emerged after a preliminary offer from Turkish company Ataer faltered in late October, leaving the company in limbo.\n\nSince May, British Steel has been kept running by the government as it seeks a buyer for the business.\n\nThe Official Receiver, which is handling the insolvency process, declined to comment.\n\nSome 5,000 jobs hang in the balance at British Steel's Scunthorpe plant, and another 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\nJingye Group, which also makes steel, is reportedly looking to reach an agreement in principle by next Monday.\n\nA spokesperson for Jingye confirmed talks are ongoing but would not provide detail on the timing of any potential bid.\n\nIts chairman, Li Ganpo, visited British Steel sites last week and met with Scunthorpe MP Nic Dakin and Andrew Percy, representative for the Brigg and Goole constituency.\n\nMr Percy said he had been assured that if Jingye succeeds in buying British Steel, it would protect the company.\n\n\"They have assured us that if they do progress with this acquisition, they have every intention of investing to expand production to serve the UK and European market,\" he told the Grimsby Telegraph.\n\n\"That's really important and what they wanted from us was assurance from the government and the council about support we could give and we said we are committed to work together for that.\"\n\nBritish Steel was put into compulsory liquidation in May after rescue talks with the government broke down.\n\nAtaer - which is a subsidiary of Turkey's state military retirement scheme Oyak and owns 50% of the country' biggest steel producer - signed a preliminary agreement to buy British Steel in August.\n\nBut hopes faded in October when the Official Receiver said the parties had failed to agree terms.\n\nThere is no guarantee an agreement will be struck with Jingye, which has returned to the bidding process after having previously pulled out.\n\nIf an offer is formally tabled it would also take weeks of legal work and administration to finalise.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, the Chinese firm would aim to increase production at Scunthorpe from 2.5 million tonnes each year to more than 3 million.\n\nIt also wants to upgrade the plant and improve efficiency, although it reportedly views cutting costs as crucial as well.\n\nJingye was founded in 1994 and has 23,500 employees. Along with steel it also owns interests in hotels, chemicals and real estate.It is not the only bidder left in the race for British Steel. UK-based industrial metals conglomerate Liberty House is considered to be an outside contender.\n\nTalks with Ataer are also continuing, the Official Receiver said in late October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen watched the ceremony from a balcony alongside the Duchess of Cornwall, left, and the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nPoliticians, Royal Family members and veterans have commemorated those who lost their lives in conflict as the UK marks Remembrance Sunday.\n\nAt 11:00 GMT, a two-minute silence was held across the country.\n\nBoris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson broke away from the election campaign to attend the annual ceremony at the Cenotaph in London.\n\nPrince Charles laid a wreath of poppies during the service on behalf of the Queen, who was watching from a balcony.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and Duke of Sussex followed their father in laying wreaths.\n\nThe Queen, dressed in black, stood beside the Duchess of Cambridge and Duchess of Cornwall as she viewed the commemorations.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex looked on from another balcony with the Countess of Wessex and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nThe beginning and end of the two minutes' silence were marked by the firing of a gun by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery.\n\nUp to 10,000 war veterans marched during the remembrance service at the Cenotaph\n\nHundreds of members of the armed forces attended the commemoration\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex observed the two-minute silence\n\nWilliam and Harry followed Prince Charles in laying wreaths\n\nThe commemorations at the Cenotaph honoured the armed forces community, British and Commonwealth veterans, the allies who fought alongside the UK and the civilian servicemen and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts.\n\nCabinet ministers, religious leaders and representatives of Commonwealth nations attended alongside more than 800 members of the armed forces.\n\nA royal aide laid a wreath on behalf of the Duke of Edinburgh, who retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, the ambassador of Nepal placed a wreath to honour the contribution Gurkha regiments have made to the UK's military campaigns over two centuries.\n\nIn another first, the intelligence services were honoured during the ceremony, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Home Secretary Priti Patel laying wreathes on their behalf.\n\nPrince Charles laid two wreaths - one of his own and one on behalf of The Queen\n\nFormer Prime Ministers Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Sir John Major attended the event\n\nBoris Johnson laid his wreath on the Cenotaph\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon laid a wreath at the Stone of Remembrance in Edinburgh\n\nFive former prime ministers Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and Theresa May, were all present.\n\nAfter wreaths were laid, Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally led a service that ended with the Royal Air Force sounding the bugle call, Rouse.\n\nFollowing the service, crowds lined the streets in the winter sun to watch as up to 10,000 war veterans marched in a slow procession past the war memorial.\n\nRegiments and societies walked past the Cenotaph in groups, their pace matching the drum beat of a brass band.\n\nSome wheelchair-using veterans left their chairs behind and walked the distance instead, their medals sparkling on their lapels.\n\nWorld War Two veteran Ron Freer, 104, who is blind, is thought to be the oldest person to have marched at the Cenotaph this year.\n\nThe Remembrance Sunday commemorations always hold \"special significance\" for him because his father was killed in 1918 and is buried at Dernancourt Communal Cemetery in the Somme, France, according to Blind Veterans UK.\n\nRon Freer from Kent was the oldest person marching at the Cenotaph\n\nSpeaking ahead of the ceremony, Mr Johnson said he would be \"proud\" to lay his first wreath at the Cenotaph as prime minister, and vowed to continue to \"champion those who serve today with such bravery in our military\".\n\nHe later posted on Twitter: \"We will remember them.\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said: \"It was an honour meeting and hearing the stories of veterans, and all those who came to pay their respects.\"\n\nHe earlier said in a video message that many serving personnel, veterans and their families were \"not getting the support they deserve\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn wrote a note on his wreath saying \"let us strive for a world of peace\"\n\nCarrie Symonds and Boris Johnson made the short journey from Downing Street to Whitehall\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat leader Ms Swinson said people should pause to reflect and remember how \"fragile\" peace can be.\n\nThe trio were joined at the commemorations by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford and the DUP's Nigel Dodds.\n\nElsewhere, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon laid a wreath at the Stone of Remembrance at Edinburgh City Chambers before giving a reading at the service at St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar laid a green laurel wreath at the war memorial in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, on behalf of his government.\n\nCeremonies also took place across Wales, including at the Welsh National War Memorial in Cardiff.\n\nThis year marks 100 years since the first two-minute silence was observed to mark Armistice Day on 11 November 1919.\n\nThe UK's Chief of Defence Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, told BBC One's Andrew Marr show it was important to remember that Remembrance Sunday was not only about older people and previous generations.\n\nGen Carter - Britain's most senior military officer - said many who participated in the commemorations were young men and women who fought in places such as Afghanistan.\n\n\"We have to remember the living veterans as well who have a huge amount to offer to society,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Remembrance Day: D-Day veteran and schoolboy on what it means to them\n\nThe ceremony at the Cenotaph came after Prince Harry, Meghan, Prince William and Kate joined the Queen at London's Royal Albert Hall on Saturday for the Festival of Remembrance.\n\nIt was their first appearance as a group since Harry and Meghan said they were struggling with public life.", "Antony Calvert is said to have made the posts on his personal Facebook account more than ten years ago\n\nA Conservative election candidate has stepped down over historic social media posts about a Labour MP and Colonel Gaddafi.\n\nAntony Calvert, who was standing to be MP for Wakefield, also made comments about food poverty, as reported by the Sunday Times.\n\nThe 41-year-old said the Facebook posts were more than 10 years old.\n\nMr Calvert said his comments were \"certainly not intended to cause any offence\".\n\nIn one post, Mr Calvert is said to have written that if former Libyan dictator Gaddaffi wanted to walk the streets unrecognised \"he should surely have fled to Bradford\".\n\nHe is also accused of criticising the appearance of Mary Creagh - who has been Wakefield's MP since 2005.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Calvert said: \"Over the last 24 hours a number of very historic posts from my personal Facebook timeline have featured in the news media.\n\n\"While I would prefer to stand and fight the assertions, these comments represent neither my views nor those of the Conservative Party.\"\n\nMr Calvert's decision to stand down came days after Tory candidate Nick Conrad stood down for historic comments in which he said women should \"keep their knickers on\" in a conversation about rape.\n\nAnd Labour candidate Gideon Bull resigned in Clacton, Essex, after it emerged he had used the word \"Shylock\" during a private meeting.", "The politician had a Commons career that lasted more than 25 years\n\nThe Conservative peer Brian Mawhinney has died at the age of 79.\n\nThe Belfast-born former chairman of the Conservative Party joined the House of Lords in 2005 after standing down as MP for North West Cambridgeshire.\n\nIn 2003 he was appointed as chairman of the Football League, a role he carried out for seven years.\n\nIn a statement, his family said the \"much-loved husband, father and grandfather and a friend to many\" died on Saturday after a long illness.\n\n\"His death brings an end to a life dedicated to public service and rooted in an unwavering Christian faith,\" the statement said.\n\nHe was first elected to the Commons in 1979 as MP for Peterborough, becoming North West Cambridgeshire MP on the creation of that constituency in 1997. He was knighted in the same year.\n\nIn his role as chairman of the Football League, Lord Mawhinney was involved in England's 2018 World Cup bid\n\nHe had a Commons career that lasted more than 25 years, and served as transport secretary under John Major. He also served as a minister in the Northern Ireland Office for four years until 1990.\n\nDuring his time as Football League chairman, Lord Mawhinney introduced the fit and proper persons test for prospective club directors and was made a life member of its successor, the EFL.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by iain watson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEFL chairman Rick Parry said: \"Everyone associated with the EFL is saddened to hear of the loss of Lord Mawhinney, a hugely respected and influential figure in our recent past, most notably for his work as chairman of the Football League but also for the significant impact he had on the wider game.\"\n\nFormer Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson paid tribute to Lord Mawhinney, calling him a \"dedicated man of faith, a diligent public servant, dynamic advocate for the city and a generous mentor and supporter\".\n\nShailesh Vara, who succeeded Lord Mawhinney as MP for North West Cambridgeshire, tweeted: \"Very sorry to hear of the sad passing of Lord Mawhinney. He was firm in his Christian faith and totally committed to public service. He will be missed by many. Thoughts and prayers with his family and friends at this difficult time.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reunited for the Royal British Legion's annual Festival of Remembrance.\n\nThey joined the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at the Royal Albert Hall to commemorate those who lost their lives in conflicts.\n\nIt is their first appearance as a group since Harry and Meghan said they were struggling with public life.\n\nThe annual event is also being attended by servicemen and women.\n\nIt comes ahead of the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in central London on Sunday, which will also be attended by senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined Prince Harry and Meghan in the royal box\n\nSaturday's event marks 75 years since notable battles of 1944, including Monte Cassino, Kohima and Imphal, D-Day and the collaboration of Commonwealth and Allied forces.\n\nIt also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and pays tribute to the RFA Mounts Bay, which delivered supplies and aid to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian this year.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds joined other members of the Royal Family in the royal box.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan sat behind the prime minister and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds (foreground)\n\nThose in the royal box included (L-R) the Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward, the Countess of Wessex, the Queen, the Duchess of Gloucester, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, Prince Charles, Princess Anne and the Duchess of Cornwall\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall was also present, after she was forced to pull out of engagements earlier in the week due to ill health.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall made an appearance\n\nThe service at the Royal Albert Hall was also attended by the Duke of York, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nPrince Andrew chatted to Boris Johnson during the ceremony\n\nIn interviews in October, the Sussexes both said they were struggling with the intense scrutiny from elements of the British tabloid press.\n\nPrince Harry, 35, described his mental health and the way he deals with the pressures of his life as a matter of \"constant management\".\n\nAnd Meghan, 38, said in an ITV documentary that adjusting to royal life had been \"hard\".\n\nPrince Harry also responded to reports of a rift between him and his brother William by saying they were on \"different paths\" and have \"good days\" and \"bad days\".\n\nFollowing the documentary, a Kensington Palace source played down suggestions that the Duke of Cambridge was \"furious\" with his brother about the interview, saying he was \"worried\" and hoped the couple \"are all right\".\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "Tens of thousands of people gathered in Japan's capital, Tokyo, to celebrate the enthronement of the country's Emperor Naruhito.\n\nDancers, musicians and flag-waving well-wishers marked the occasion during a festival on Saturday.\n\nOn Sunday, the royal couple paraded in a convertible car along a 4.6-km (2.9-mile) route from the palace to their residence in central Tokyo to mark the enthronement.\n\nThe event was originally scheduled for 22 October but postponed after more than 80 people were killed when Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan and caused widespread damage.", "Labour MP Keith Vaz has been suspended from the Commons for six months after he was found to have \"expressed willingness\" to purchase cocaine for male prostitutes.\n\nMPs approved the recommendation from the Commons standards body, which released its report earlier this week.\n\nIt said there was \"compelling evidence\" he offered to pay for a class A drug and had paid-for sex in August 2016.\n\nMr Vaz said he was receiving treatment for a serious mental health condition.\n\nA statement issued by his office said Mr Vaz had cooperated at all stages of the inquiry and he had been admitted to hospital on Monday. He was not present in the Commons on Thursday.\n\nLabour's Chief Whip Nick Brown told MPs his party accepted the suspension recommendation, saying it is a \"sad day for us\".\n\nStandards Committee chairwoman Kate Green said she had written to ask the leader of the House in the next Parliament to bring forward the suspension again, if Mr Vaz is re-elected, so that he would have to serve the full six months.\n\nEarlier, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said Mr Vaz should stand aside as the Labour candidate for Leicester East, the seat he has held since 1987, in the 12 December election.\n\n\"I think he himself should agree not to be a candidate,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It has been a very sad issue, not just for him but for his family and his children.\"\n\nWhen it was put to her that Mr Vaz had not had the Labour whip withdrawn, and still remained a member of the Parliamentary party, she replied: \"Not yet.\"\n\nIn a scathing report the committee said there was \"convincing evidence\" that Mr Vaz was \"evasive or unhelpful\" during an investigation into his conduct by Commons standards commissioners Kathryn Hudson and Kathryn Stone.\n\nA statement on Mr Vaz's website \"vigorously\" rejected this allegation and said he cooperated at \"all stages of this process\".\n\n\"He holds the standards system in the highest regard and with the highest respect,\" it said.\n\nThe revelations, first reported by the Sunday Mirror, led to Mr Vaz standing down as chairman of the Home Affairs Select committee - which at the time was conducting an inquiry into drug policy.\n\nIt was alleged the MP had met two men at his London flat to engage in paid-for sex, and that during this encounter - which was covertly recorded by one of the men - he offered to buy illegal drugs for a third person to use.\n\nIn her report, the commissioner said the recording \"contains evidence of Mr Vaz's apparent willingness to purchase controlled drugs for others to use\".\n\n\"While his comments regarding this may not amount to a criminal offence, he shows disregard for the law and that, in turn, is disrespectful to the House and fellow members, who collectively are responsible for making those laws.\"\n\nAt the time, Mr Vaz said he had met the men to discuss the redecoration of his flat.\n\nBut the cross-party committee said Mr Vaz's characterisation of the meeting - in which he reportedly posed as a washing machine salesman - was \"not believable and ludicrous\".\n\nThe MP's claim during the inquiry that his drink may have been spiked and that he had since suffered memory loss about the incident were \"not relevant\", the report found.", "A man was bundled away by police as an angry crowd shouted at him\n\nA man who disrupted a Remembrance Sunday event with fireworks had to be rushed away from angry veterans by police.\n\nThe fireworks exploded in the sky as hundreds of people stood in silence at 11:00 GMT and listened to the Last Post at the cenotaph in Eccles, Salford.\n\nA man had set them off from a window ledge in a disused pub across the road.\n\nAngry veterans began shouting, \"Get him out!\" and trying to break down the pub door before officers took the man away.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said a 38-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and was being questioned.\n\nSome members of the crowd attempted to climb up to the window from which a man, believed to be a squatter at the pub, had ignited the fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angry veterans shouted, \"Get him out!\" before officers took a man away in a police car\n\nA police officer blocked the door while shouting into his radio as he struggled to hold back the crowd, before reinforcements arrived.\n\nThe man, wearing what appeared to be army-style fatigues, then appeared at the window to remonstrate with the crowd.\n\nTraffic cones were thrown up at him and he retreated inside.\n\nWhen police reinforcements arrived, the man was handcuffed with his head held down and rushed out of the pub to a waiting police car.\n\nA large crowd remained at the scene while a team of police officers guarded the entrance.\n\nA group of people, who appeared to be squatting at the pub, remained inside.\n\nA GMP spokeswoman said officers were called shortly after 11:05 to reports of a disturbance at a pub on Church Street.\n\n\"Initial inquiries suggest that a firework was thrown through the window of the pub\", she said.\n\nNo injuries were reported, she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by nine runs in super over; England won series 3-2\n\nEngland beat New Zealand in another super over to win a thrilling final Twenty20 and take the series 3-2.\n\nIn a repeat of July's World Cup final, the scores were tied at the end of a wildly unpredictable game in Auckland.\n\nNew Zealand plundered 146-5 from 11 overs, and it took Chris Jordan hitting 12 off the final three deliveries to take the game to a super over.\n\nJonny Bairstow, who earlier struck 47 off 18 balls, and captain Eoin Morgan scored 17 off England's six deliveries, before Jordan limited New Zealand to eight.\n\nIt was a remarkable finish to a rain-delayed game that contained a staggering 29 sixes in 24 overs.\n\nWhile England, who won the World Cup final by virtue of scoring more boundaries, held their nerve in admittedly less pressurised circumstances, New Zealand will take little comfort from once again missing out by the thinnest of margins.\n\nIf the two-Test series which starts on 21 November comes close to matching the excitement on offer at Eden Park, supporters from both sides can have no complaints.\n• None First the World Cup final, now this...\n• None TMS podcast: ANOTHER super over success for England\n\nThere were several moments around which this game hinged: Bairstow's three sixes in a row off Ish Sodhi; Jordan's four off the final delivery to tie the scores; and Morgan's stunning catch over his shoulder as he ran back from cover to remove Tim Seifert from the fourth ball of the super over.\n\nBut Jordan's nerveless display with the ball deserves particular praise, given the batting pyrotechnics which had gone before.\n\nOn a pitch that offered the bowlers no assistance, and on a ground with boundaries so short that mis-hits frequently cleared the rope, his yorkers restricted Seifert and Martin Guptill to a two, a four and two singles.\n\nEngland's celebrations may not have matched those at Lord's on 14 July, but they can be rightly proud of the manner in which they pulled off an away series win with a squad featuring six T20 debutants.\n\nVictory in the Tests would cap an impressive first series for new England coach Chris Silverwood.\n\nBairstow bullies New Zealand after Guptill goes large\n\nThat Guptill's 19-ball fifty, Colin Munro's equally savage 46 off 21 deliveries and Seifert's 39 off 16 will go down as footnotes in this memorable match says much for the excitement that followed.\n\nMan of the match Bairstow was almost solely responsible for leading England's pursuit, which veered between probable and unlikely amid a barrage of brutal hitting and clumps of wickets.\n\nRequiring more than 13 runs an over from the beginning, England lost Tom Banton, James Vince and Morgan in slipping to 39-3.\n\nBut Bairstow, pummelling the short, straight boundaries, added 61 in four overs with the resourceful Sam Curran before he became the first of three wickets to fall in four balls.\n\nSam Billings and Tom Curran kept England afloat - just - but three runs and the departure of Curran off the first three balls of Jimmy Neesham's last over left new man Jordan needing 13 off three.\n\nNo bother. He swatted a full toss over long-off for six, scampered a two, then swung to fine leg for four to tie the scores. Given what took place four months ago, perhaps it was no surprise.\n\nBairstow was subsequently given one demerit point by the International Cricket Council for an \"audible obscenity\" after he was dismissed. He now has two points on his record - accumulating four within a two-year period would earn a suspension.\n\n'Epic', 'manic', 'absolutely remarkable' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan on BBC Test Match Special: \"It's absolutely remarkable. We didn't expect to play much cricket today and it's turned out to be an epic end to a series where there wasn't much between the two sides.\n\n\"To win it in such fashion with a young, inexperienced side in the long term will pay huge dividends for us.\"\n\nEngland batsman Jonny Bairstow: \"It was manic. The way they came out and put on that total was very, very impressive. It was a pretty imposing total but we thought we had a chance.\n\n\"We don't want to keep making a habit of super overs. It just shows how close the sides are. It sets up a fantastic Test series.\"\n\nEngland bowler Chris Jordan: \"A few of us have played T10 cricket so the mood was very calm the entire way through. I just tried to keep a clear mind.\n\n\"I'd bowled a super over before in Sharjah against Pakistan, so it was more or less going through processes and letting what will be will be.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"It was fitting that the last match of this series should end in a super over.\n\n\"It's been as difficult to separate these two teams now as it was in the World Cup final - but this time, England's victory was emphatic.\"\n\nNew Zealand captain Tim Southee: \"The shorter the game, the harder the side can go. It would have been nice to have one more run there somewhere but it wasn't to be.\n\n\"It's been a good series throughout - it has ebbed and flowed. It will be good to get the whites back on.\"", "Woody Allen had filed a $68m (£52m) lawsuit over the termination of his contract with Amazon\n\nWoody Allen has reached a legal settlement with Amazon Studios after it abandoned a four-film deal.\n\nAllen initially filed a $68m (£52m) lawsuit in February amid resurfaced allegations that he molested his adopted daughter.\n\nAmazon argued that his comments about the #MeToo movement \"sabotaged\" its attempts to promote his new movies.\n\nThe film director denies sexually assaulting Dylan Farrow, who lost a court case against him in 1992.\n\nUnder the movie deal, signed in 2016, Allen received a $10m advance payment. But two years later, the release of his first film, A Rainy Day in New York, was shelved and plans for three other movies were cancelled.\n\nShortly before Amazon withdraw from the agreement, Allen reportedly expressed sympathy for movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who was accused of sexually assaulting dozens of women.\n\nMr Weinstein denied the accusations against him, but has since reached a $44m settlement with some of the alleged victims.\n\nMonths after these initial comments, Allen accused Dylan Farrow of \"cynically using the #MeToo movement\" after she repeated allegations that he assaulted her when she was seven years old.\n\nIn an interview with Argentinean broadcaster Eltrece, Allen said he \"should be the poster boy for the Me Too movement\" since he had worked with \"hundreds of actresses\" and was \"only accused by one woman in a child custody case\".\n\nAmazon Studios said its decision to terminate the deal was justified because Allen's comments undermined its financial security.\n\nDylan Farrow claims her father sexually abused her in 1992\n\nIt also pointed out that \"scores of actors and actresses expressed profound regret for having worked with Allen in the past, and many declared publicly that they would never work with him in the future\".\n\nIn response, Allen said Amazon was fully aware of Dylan Farrow's accusation when the deal was signed.\n\nHis company, Gravier Productions, secured an international release for A Rainy Day in New York this year, but US distribution has not been secured.\n\nTimothee Chalamet and Rebecca Hall, who star in the film, said last year that they would donate their wages to charity.", "Authorities have deployed more than 1,000 firefighters and 70 aircraft in the battle against the bushfires blazing along Australia's east coast.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGermany struck late to put a dampener on a historic day for England as a boisterous, record-breaking crowd for a Lionesses home international of 77,768 saw the hosts beaten.\n\nPlaying at the home of English football for the first time since a 3-0 defeat by the Germans in 2014 - attended by their previous home record crowd of 45,619 - the Lionesses were roared on magnificently throughout.\n\nBut Klara Bühl's low clinical finish past Mary Earps in the 90th minute inflicted a fifth loss in seven matches on Phil Neville's side.\n\nManchester City striker Ellen White had poked the World Cup semi-finalists level after a nervy and sloppy start from England saw Germany captain Alexandra Popp head in an eighth-minute opener.\n\nEngland winger Nikita Parris saw her first-half penalty saved before White's equaliser, and the match looked set for a draw during a quieter second half, until Bühl's dramatic late strike.\n\nThe two-time world champions were worthy of their victory as there had been an element of controversy about the Lionesses' equaliser, with replays showing that White was in an offside position when Keira Walsh delivered her dangerous cross. There was no video assistant referee system in operation for the friendly.\n\nHowever, the visitors' Kathrin Hendrich was fortunate to be shown only a yellow card for a dangerous challenge on England's Beth Mead early on.\n\nThe result extended England's wait for a first win on home soil against the Germans, who have won 21 of the 26 meetings between the sides.\n\nSaturday's friendly at Wembley was a sell-out, with 86,619 tickets issued, but the attendance of 77,768 narrowly missed out on setting a new record for a women's football fixture in the United Kingdom.\n\nThat remains the 80,203 who were at the same venue for the Olympic final between the United States and Japan in 2012.\n\nBut Saturday's crowd became the largest to see a British women's international team on home soil, surpassing the 70,584 that saw Great Britain beat Brazil 1-0 at Wembley in those London Olympics.\n\nAnd it far exceeded the previous record for an England Women home match in their only previous appearance at the new Wembley five years ago.\n\nOn that occasion, almost 10,000 spectators did not turn up after about 55,000 tickets were initially allocated, and a similar number failed to attend on Saturday, with the torrential rain across large parts of the country possibly one of the factors, although the atmosphere was still outstanding.\n\nParris' first-half miss was her third from the past four penalties she has taken for England, and the Lionesses' fourth failure from five.\n\nThe Lyon winger saw back-to-back spot-kicks against Argentina and Norway saved during World Cup victories, before Steph Houghton's late penalty against the United States was also stopped in July's semi-final.\n\nParris netted from the spot in a 3-3 draw in Belgium in August, but Merle Frohms denied England's number seven with her feet at Wembley, after the Freiburg goalkeeper had brought down Mead in the area.\n\nIn addition to their penalty problems, the hosts will be concerned about their defending from aerial balls. Before this game, eight of the previous 11 goals against England had come from a cross or a corner. Popp's early opener made it nine from 12.\n\nThe Lionesses have a long history of struggle in this fixture. Germany won the first 15 meetings between the two sides from 1984 onwards; England did not manage a draw until a goalless 2007 friendly, and took 21 attempts to record a first win, in the third-place play-off at the 2015 World Cup in Canada.\n\nGermany, ranked second in the world, were good value for their victory at Wembley. They would love another win there in less than two years' time - and a ninth European title - when the stadium hosts the Euro 2021 final.\n\n'Playing at Wembley for England a dream come true'\n\nEngland manager Phil Neville speaking to BBC Two: \"It a was killer blow later on; I thought we competed well in the game. We conceded late because we did not use our experience in game management. The players are devastated as they wanted to get a good result.\n\n\"We spoke at half-time about being more courageous. I can't fault the players' endeavour but some mistakes are costing us.\n\n\"The results are not good enough - there's no hiding away but there's a long-term plan that we have. We have to take the criticisms that come our way and stick together.\n\n\"I have been in football long enough and I know I need to take responsibilities, I need to make sure I improve as a manager and the players improve too.\"\n\nEngland striker Ellen White speaking to BBC Two: \"It's unbelievable - the support, the noise, the atmosphere - we are really sorry we couldn't get the result.\n\n\"It's a dream come true to play at Wembley for your country and score.\"\n\nEngland are away to the Czech Republic for a friendly in Ceske Budejovice on Tuesday, 12 November at 19:15 GMT.\n• None Attempt saved. Jodie Taylor (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jill Scott.\n• None Goal! England 1, Germany 2. Klara Bühl (Germany) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dzsenifer Marozsán.\n• None Attempt missed. Sophia Kleinherne (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lena Lattwein (Germany) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Turid Knaak with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Klara Bühl (Germany) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Melanie Leupolz (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Marina Hegering (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Politicians had urged voters to turn out to cast their ballot and break months of political deadlock\n\nVoters in Spain returned to the polls for the fourth general election in as many years.\n\nIn the last election in April, the governing Socialist Party won the most seats but fell short of a majority and was unable to form a coalition.\n\nSpain has not had a stable government since 2015.\n\nPolls closed at 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT), but the election was overshadowed by unrest in Catalonia and the rise of the far-right Vox party.\n\nAfter April's vote, Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez entered coalition talks with the leftist Podemos party, but talks collapsed - causing them to miss a September deadline to form a new government.\n\nAt a closing rally on Friday, Mr Sánchez had told supporters: \"There are only two options: either vote for the Socialists so that we have a government, or vote for any other party to block Spain from getting a progressive government.\"\n\nThe five main candidates are PP leader Pablo Casado, Pedro Sánchez, Vox leader Santiago Abascal, Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, and Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera\n\nThousands of people held a rally in Barcelona on the eve of the election\n\nMr Sanchez is thought to be at an advantage given his current position as caretaker leader, despite having never won a parliamentary majority.\n\nBut the latest opinion polls before voting began showed none of the parties winning a majority.\n\nInstead, they showed Socialist Party (PSOE) in the lead again, but with fewer votes than in April's election, and the conservative People's Party (PP) and Vox making gains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe election comes less than a month after Spain's Supreme Court handed out lengthy jail sentences to nine Catalan independence leaders, over their role in organising an outlawed referendum in 2017.\n\nThe move triggered protests and violence on the streets of Barcelona and other cities in Catalonia.\n\nThe Catalan crisis dominated the election campaign, with parties on the right - Vox, the PP and the centre-right Ciudadanos - taking a hardline anti-separatist stance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSupport for Vox surged in the last election, with the party winning 24 seats in parliament with more than 10% of the vote. Meanwhile, the PP suffered its worst-ever general election performance.", "A US financial regulator has opened an investigation into claims Apple's credit card offered different credit limits for men and women.\n\nIt follows complaints - including from Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak - that algorithms used to set limits might be inherently biased against women.\n\nNew York's Department of Financial Services (DFS) has contacted Goldman Sachs, which runs the Apple Card.\n\nAny discrimination, intentional or not, \"violates New York law\", the DFS said.\n\nThe Bloomberg news agency reported on Saturday that tech entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson had complained that the Apple Card gave him 20 times the credit limit that his wife got.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hansson said the disparity was despite his wife having a better credit score.\n\nLater, Mr Wozniak, who founded Apple with Steve Jobs, tweeted that the same thing happened to him and his wife despite their having no separate bank accounts or separate assets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steve Wozniak This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBanks and other lenders are increasingly using machine-learning technology to cut costs and boost loan applications.\n\nBut Mr Hansson, creator of the programming tool Ruby on Rails, said it highlights how algorithms, not just people, can discriminate.\n\nUS healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group is being investigated over claims an algorithm favoured white patients over black patients.\n\nMr Hansson said in a tweet: \"Apple Card is a sexist program. It does not matter what the intent of individual Apple reps are, it matters what THE ALGORITHM they've placed their complete faith in does. And what it does is discriminate.\"\n\nHe said that as soon as he raised the issue his wife's credit limit was increased.\n\nThe DFS said in a statement that it \"will be conducting an investigation to determine whether New York law was violated and ensure all consumers are treated equally regardless of sex\".\n\n\"Any algorithm that intentionally or not results in discriminatory treatment of women or any other protected class violates New York law.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Goldman Sachs for comment.\n\nOn Saturday, the investment bank told Bloomberg: \"Our credit decisions are based on a customer's creditworthiness and not on factors like gender, race, age, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law.\"\n\nThe Apple Card, launched in August, is Goldman's first credit card. The Wall Street investment bank has been offering more products to consumers, including personal loans and savings accounts through its Marcus online bank.\n\nThe iPhone maker markets Apple Card on its website as a \"new kind of credit card, created by Apple, not a bank\".\n\nWithout access to the Goldman Sachs computers, it's impossible to be certain of what is going on. The fact there appears to be a correlation between gender and credit doesn't necessarily mean one is causing the other. Even so, the suspicion is that unintentional bias has crept into the system.\n\nThat could be because when the algorithms involved were developed, they were trained on a data set in which women indeed posed a greater financial risk than the men. This could cause the software to spit out lower credit limits for women in general, even if the assumption it is based on is not true for the population at large.\n\nAlternatively, the problem might lie in the data the algorithms are now being fed. For example, within married couples, men might be more likely to take out big loans solely using their name rather than having done so jointly, and the data may not have been adjusted to take this into account.\n\nA further complication is that the software involved can act as a \"black box\", coming up with judgements without providing a way to unravel how each was determined.\n\n\"There have been a lot of strides taken in the last five to six years to improve the explainability of decisions taken based on machine learning techniques,\" commented Jonathan Williams of Mk2 Consulting. \"But in some cases, it's still not as good as it could be.\"\n\nIn any case, for now Apple would prefer Goldman Sachs take the heat, despite the fact its marketing materials state that its card was \"created by Apple, not a bank\". But that's a tricky position to maintain.\n\nApple's brand is the only one to feature on the minimalist styling of its card's face, and many of its consumers have higher expectations of its behaviour than they would do for other payment card providers.\n\nThat means that even if issues of gender bias prove to be common across lenders, Apple faces becoming the focal point for demands that they are addressed.", "The bodies were found at a flat in Oxford Road, near Moseley Church of England Primary School\n\nA man and a woman have been found dead at a flat in Birmingham.\n\nThe pair, both 28 and known to each other, were found at the property in Oxford Road, Moseley, at about 17:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nPost-mortem examinations have not yet taken place but police said they had suffered serious injuries.\n\nWest Midlands Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths. One of the pair lived at the flat, a spokeswoman added.\n\nOfficers have been speaking to neighbours near the property, which is opposite Moseley Church of England Primary School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Khulna, Bangladesh, seek shelter from the storm\n\nMore than two million people in India and Bangladesh have been evacuated as Cyclone Bulbul hits the Bay of Bengal.\n\nThe storm made landfall at midnight local time (18:30 GMT) on Saturday, near Sagar Island in Indian West Bengal, and is expected to unleash surges as high as 7ft (2m).\n\nTwo people have already been killed by the cyclone, local media report.\n\nServices at many seaports and airports in the region were also suspended - including at the busy Kolkata airport.\n\nBangladesh's two biggest ports, Mongla and Chittagong, were closed and flights into Chittagong airport were stopped.\n\nShah Kamal, Bangladesh's disaster management secretary, told AFP agency that the evacuated residents had been moved to more than 5,500 cyclone shelters.\n\nMamata Banerjee, Chief Minister for the Indian state of West Bengal, tweeted before the cyclone made landfall urging people to stay calm.\n\n\"Please do not panic,\" she wrote. \"Kindly remain calm and co-operate with the administration in its rescue and relief efforts. Be alert, take care and stay safe.\"\n\nForecasters expect the storm to move north and weaken gradually.\n\nMany seaports and airports have been closed along the Bay of Bengal\n\nIt is set to reach wind speeds of up to 120km/h (75mph), with gusts of 150km/h, and create tidal surges in the sea and rivers when it hits the coastal regions, says the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.\n\nAlong its predicted path is the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest and home to the endangered Bengal tigers.\n\nThousands have been urged to move to storm shelters before the storm makes landfall\n\nBut the closure of transport hubs left thousands of other people stranded on islands off the coast, including St Martin's Island in Bangladesh.\n\nIndian authorities said military ships and planes have been put on standby to assist with emergencies.\n\nBangladesh's low-lying coast is often hit by deadly cyclones, but the country has successfully reduced the number of casualties in recent years.\n\nEarly cyclone warning systems have improved, giving authorities more time to evacuate people. More cyclone shelters have also been constructed to protect local residents.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nHannah Cockroft set a new world record to win her fifth consecutive T34 100m title at the World Para-Athletics Championships as Maria Lyle and Aled Davies also won gold on a medal-filled day four for Great Britain in Dubai.\n\nLyle won her first individual world title in the T35 100m, while Davies won gold in the F63 shot put.\n\nAndrew Small won a silver and Harri Jenkins and Kyron Duke took bronze.\n\nBritain have now won 10 medals in Dubai.\n\n\"I don't have any words,\" Cockroft, now an 11-time world champion across all distances, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I've worked really hard this year on my start, knowing that it's Kare's strong point, so I had to make the weakest part of my race the strongest too.\n\n\"I'm so glad it has paid off.\"\n\nA rare rainy day in Dubai led Cockroft to joke she \"might as well have been in Yorkshire\".\n\nShe added: \"Sub-17 still felt like it was going to be next year's goal. It still felt a little out of my league. I haven't pushed that quick ever, so I'm not sure how I just did it.\n\n\"I think I had settled for silver in my head, so to come out on top, I actually got the medal I wanted.\"\n\nIn Sunday's evening session, Scotland's three-time Paralympic medallist Lyle dominated her race from the moment the starter's gun sounded, crossing the line in 14.62 secs.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who recently spoke of her battle with anxiety, won 4x100m gold in Doha in 2015 but admitted a first individual global title had been a long time coming.\n\n\"I'm so happy,\" she told BBC Sport. \"There were a few stumbles at the start of the race so to pull off a performance like that it means so much. It gives me confidence going into the Paralympic year.\n\n\"This is my third Worlds so it's been a number of years of just learning from previous experiences, not only physically but mentally, and learning how to cope with the challenges that come along with a championships.\n\n\"I think it's just growing up, experiencing stuff and just actually enjoying the sport for once. I think people take things too seriously but [the key is] if you remember you're just running from one line to another.\"\n\nWelsh Paralympic champion Davies, who recently became a father for the first time, won his fourth consecutive world title in the shot put with a 15.32m effort.\n\n\"This was the hardest competition of my life,\" the 28-year-old told BBC Sport. \"I wanted to show my little girl how it is done.\n\n\"I've won every accolade, I'm world record holder, but this competition was about regaining my confidence, and we'll take that to Tokyo now.\"\n\nFive-time Paralympic champion Cockroft now holds the world records for every T34 distance from 100m to 1500m.\n\nAdenegan, 18, set the previous world best - 16.80 secs - in beating Cockroft at last year's Anniversary Games.\n\nCockroft admits she \"fell out of love\" with the sport in 2018, a year in which she also won 100m silver behind Adenegan at the European Championships in Berlin.\n\n\"I was really distracted last year, I'm not ashamed to say that I had fallen out of love with the sport a little bit,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't really feel motivated to be at the European Championships, but Kare winning there was a real eye-opener for me, it really woke me up.\n\n\"To see her elation at winning, it made me realise maybe what I had lost. I didn't enjoy winning anymore, I felt like I had to win.\n\n\"It really made me get my head down this winter, work hard, and I made a lot of changes.\n\n\"I moved out of Yorkshire, I moved to a new training group, I'm still with my coach but I changed a lot of my life to be the best athlete I can be.\"\n\nAdenegan, who took up the sport after watching Cockroft at the London 2012 Paralympics, set a season's best of 17.49 secs on Sunday.\n\n\"I came here thinking 'what if I could be world champion?', and I went into the race with that mindset,\" she said.\n\n\"I said I was going to give it everything I have got, and whatever happens, I've got to be happy. Hannah was the better athlete today.\n\n\"I believe that you don't lose, you learn. I've learned a lot from this race.\n\n\"Coming here as the world record holder, I did have some pressure. My world record has gone now, and that gives me motivation to work harder and try and get it back.\"\n\nIn the T33 100m final, Paralympics bronze medallist Small, 26, won silver with a performance that saw him lead for the majority of the race before Kuwait's world record holder Ahmad Almutairi came through to win by more than 0.6 seconds.\n\nEuropean champion Jenkins, 23, placed third behind his team-mate but was emotional after the race, telling BBC Sport: \"I can do a lot better than that.\"\n\nDuke, 27, set a new world record of 14.19m in Leverkusen in June but the F41 shot put in Dubai saw the gold medal won by Uzbekistan's Bobirjon Omonov with a new championship record of 14.03m.\n\n\"When new people come in and throw big distances, it affects you,\" said the Welshman, who managed a best effort of 13.82m.\n\n\"I'm going to go back to the drawing board and learn from it. I still have my world record.\n\nElsewhere, Hannah Taunton and Luke Sinnott finished fifth in the women's T20 1500m and T63 long jump finals respectively, while Ben Rowlings placed sixth in his T34 100m heat, missing out on a place in the final.\n\nLondon 2012 Paralympic bronze medallist Ola Abidogun, earning his first British vest since 2014, reached the T47 100m semi-finals, which take place on Tuesday.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool struck a potentially decisive blow in the Premier League title race as victory over reigning champions Manchester City at Anfield opened up an eight-point lead at the top of the table.\n\nThe confrontation between the two domestic superpowers had been billed as a defining moment in Liverpool's 30-year quest to land the title - and this outcome leaves them with a commanding advantage over Leicester City in second place.\n\nLiverpool took the lead after only six minutes when Fabinho flashed a 25-yard drive past keeper Claudio Bravo, deputising for injured Ederson, the goal given after a video assistant referee check for handball against Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nManchester City were threatening in possession but Jürgen Klopp's team are ruthless in attack, as proved when Mohamed Salah doubled their lead six minutes later, heading in at the far post from Andrew Robertson's superb cross.\n\nRaheem Sterling missed a headed chance and Sergio Agüero saw a shot deflected on to the post as City tried to find a foothold but it was all over six minutes after the break when Jordan Henderson's pinpoint delivery lured Bravo into a critical moment of hesitation and Sadio Mané headed in.\n\nBernardo Silva pulled one back with 12 minutes left but it was too late for City, who will rue not making the most of their plentiful possession and opportunities as they now lie nine points off the top in fourth place.\n\nGuardiola was fuming at the final whistle, appearing to thank referee Michael Oliver sarcastically before leaving the pitch, shortly after being enraged when another penalty claim against Alexander-Arnold was waved away.\n\nLiverpool, meanwhile, celebrated a victory that gives them a real hold at the Premier League summit.\n• None 'They keep telling me it's not over' - Peter Crouch analysis\n• None Was this the 21 seconds that swung the title?\n• None I don't know if we can catch Liverpool, says Guardiola\n\nThe manner in which Klopp and Anfield celebrated this victory said everything about its magnitude - if self-belief was not surging through them before, then it surely is now after last season's champions were overcome.\n\nA huge roar went up from the Kop as Liverpool's players gathered in front of it after the final whistle. Such is their form this season, with 11 wins from 12 league games, that it is surely their title to lose now. This is a team who have lost one of their past 51 league games - where will the numerous slips needed for them to lose this lead come from?\n\nLiverpool's defence was actually seriously troubled by City, but Klopp's side can score from anywhere at any time makes them so dangerous - as it proved here.\n\nCity opened well but were stunned by Fabinho's superb strike and once Robertson provided that terrific arcing cross for Salah, Liverpool were in control of what may well come to be seen as a pivotal moment in the season.\n\nLiverpool were relieved when City missed what opportunities they had and the scoreline was flattering - but Klopp and his players will not care.\n\nThey have game-changers in all areas of the pitch and carry an ominous threat even when under pressure.\n\nThere is a growing sense of destiny about Liverpool's season, although they will still look in the direction of Brendan Rodgers' excellent Leicester City side and Chelsea after seeing off Manchester City at an exultant Anfield.\n\nPep Guardiola's touchline rage late in the game, after referee Michael Oliver had ignored another claim for handball against Alexander-Arnold, was a mirror into his mood.\n\nGuardiola will know this may well be the moment when a third successive Premier League title was pushed out of reach.\n\nYet he will also feel City had the chance to take something from this match, with chances created and missed, especially by Sterling and Agüero.\n\nThis was not a poor performance but City's defence is vulnerable without Aymeric Laporte and the loss of Ederson to injury not only robbed them of his outstanding goalkeeping ability but also his important contribution to their overall possession game.\n\nBravo was not at fault for Liverpool's first two goals but he was suspect for the third. He simply does not give off the assurance and confidence of City's Brazilian first choice.\n\nDavid Silva's midfield influence was also missed but the bottom line is that over the season so far Liverpool have looked the more driven and less flawed team, a fact reflected in the league table.\n\nManchester City and Guardiola will not give up the fight, as it is only November after all, but it looks a long way back now to catch a Liverpool team that will feel the force is with them.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, speaking on BBC 5 Live: \"What a game. If you want to win against City you have to do something special and we had to be intense.\n\n\"When City started to control it more in the last 15 minutes, it was tense, but then you saw the quality and what the boys can do it. The boys did 75 minutes of unbelievable stuff.\"\n\nOn the early VAR incident, when a handball claim against Trent Alexander-Arnold was rejected: \"I feel sympathy for Pep but I did not see the situation, what I heard is that the ball hit first David Silva's arm and then Trent Alexander-Arnold.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking on BBC 5 Live: \"We lost - we'd liked to win but now we have to rest and prepare for Chelsea next.\n\n\"We played an incredible performance, I don't know how many teams can come to this stadium and play the way we did. They scored with the first shot on target, but we played incredibly well.\n\n\"There are three teams that have more chances to win the Premier League than us. We're in November so let's see what happens.\"\n\nAnfield continues its hold over Man City - the stats\n• None Liverpool have won 11 of their first 12 Premier League games this season and lead the table by eight points - only Manchester United in 1993-94 have had a bigger lead after 12 games of a Premier League season (nine points).\n• None Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has lost eight matches in all competitions against Jurgen Klopp - three more than he has against any other manager.\n• None Guardiola has lost more away games at Anfield against Liverpool than he has at any other ground in all competitions (four defeats).\n• None This is the fewest points Guardiola has won through his first 12 top-flight league matches of a season (25), and the first time he has been more than three points behind the top of the table at this stage of the season (nine points currently).\n• None This was the second time this season that City have conceded three goals in a Premier League game (also 3-2 against Norwich) - they only did so once last season, losing 3-2 to Crystal Palace in December 2018.\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their past 17 home Premier League games against Manchester City (W12 D5 L0) since losing 2-1 in May 2003.\n• None Mohamed Salah has been involved in 69 goals in 60 appearances at Anfield for Liverpool in all competitions (51 goals, 18 assists), scoring in three of his four home appearances against Manchester City in that time.\n• None Fabinho's goal was Liverpool's ninth from outside the box in all competitions this season - more than any other Premier League side.\n• None Since August 2018, Sadio Mané has scored 22 Premier League goals at Anfield for Liverpool - more than any other player has scored at a single venue in that time.\n• None Manchester City conceded twice in the opening 15 minutes of a Premier League game for the first time since December 2016 against Leicester City.\n• None Since the start of last season, only Bournemouth's Ryan Fraser (16) has provided more Premier League assists than Liverpool full-back Andrew Robertson (15).\n• None This was Sergio Agüero's ninth match at Anfield against Liverpool in all competitions for Manchester City - he has never scored there for City, attempting 14 shots without success across those nine games.\n\nLiverpool travel to south London to play Crystal Palace on Saturday, 23 November at 15:00 GMT, while City are at home to Chelsea at 17:30 later that afternoon.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Fernandinho tries a through ball, but Kyle Walker is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Alisson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Kevin De Bruyne tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Angeliño with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Angeliño.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Manchester City 1. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Annie Hall's family said: “We are in great shock and grieving\"\n\nA woman swept to her death by a flooded river was Derbyshire's former High Sheriff Annie Hall, police have said.\n\nHer body was pulled from the River Derwent near Matlock on Friday, as persistent rain caused floods across Yorkshire and the Midlands.\n\nDerbyshire Chief Constable Peter Goodman said he was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the death of his friend.\n\nSeven severe flood warnings - deemed a threat to life - remain in place on the River Don in South Yorkshire.\n\nFlooding has caused evacuations and travel disruption, with trains still not running in parts of the East Midlands.\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Hall's family said: \"We are in great shock and grieving.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage filmed from Matlock shows the extent of the floodwater\n\nServices are cancelled on the Matlock-Derby-Nottingham route and diversions are in place between Derby and Chesterfield, adding about 30 minutes to journeys.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said it had declared a major incident on Friday night, and said it had carried out more than 160 rescues over 24 hours.\n\nDeputy chief fire officer Alex Johnson advised people to \"keep themselves safe, help each other and don't drive into floodwater\".\n\nResidents from 12 homes in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, are still unable to return home after a mudslide on Thursday led to 35 properties being evacuated.\n\nThe River Derwent burst its banks in Derby city centre\n\nIn Derby city centre, officials considered a city-wide evacuation as authorities saw the River Derwent swell to record levels of 3.35m (11ft).\n\nThe bus station was temporarily evacuated on Friday evening, and some major roads remain flooded.\n\nIn Worksop, Nottinghamshire, water levels are receding after 200 homes and businesses were evacuated on Thursday evening.\n\nBassetlaw District Council said it had closed its emergency rest centre as everyone who had left their homes were with friends and relatives.\n\nThe River Don, which flows through Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster, hit its highest recorded level at just over 6.3m (21ft), higher than it was in 2007 when it also flooded.\n\nRescuers used boats to reach people trapped in Rotherham\n\nPeople continued to be rescued from flood-hit towns and cities on Friday.\n\nOne man told the BBC he carried children from his gym in Rotherham through flooded streets.\n\n\"The whole of the gym was completely flooded in water,\" said Neil Wilson.\n\n\"We had to wade through water to get children to the cars so they could get home with their parents.\"\n\nOne of the most severely hit areas was Bentley, Doncaster, where flooding affected many homes 12 years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This home in Fishlake, near Doncaster, has been left nearly submerged in floodwater\n\nOne resident told BBC Radio Sheffield: \"The worry is our insurance policies are expensive as it is because of the 2007 floods, so now we're all worried whether we're going to get reinsured.\"\n\nReporter Richard Cadey said some residents were \"angry and frustrated\" at Doncaster Council - claiming it had not been providing sandbags early enough to prevent properties from flooding.\n\nA rest facility has been set up by the council at the Salvation Army centre in the town.\n\nFlooding has caused disruption in the region since Thursday evening, when dozens of shoppers were left stranded in the Meadowhall Shopping Centre after torrential downpours.\n\nSheffield has had 84mm of rain over the past 36 hours, which is the near the average monthly rainfall for Yorkshire.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson helping with the clean up in Matlock on Friday evening\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Matlock, close to where Mrs Hall died.\n\nHe said the town could expect \"extra help from the government\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited flood-hit Conisbrough, near Doncaster, on Saturday and warned the UK could expect more extreme weather due to climate change.\n\n\"Obviously we need much better flood management and prevention schemes,\" he said.\n\n\"It also means properly funding our fire and rescue services and properly funding our Environment Agency to deal with this.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nHave you been affected by the floods? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A row has broken out over the publication of an intelligence report into Russian covert actions in the UK, with critics saying Downing Street is stalling on its release until after the election.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid said the timescale for the publication of the report from Parliament's Intelligence Security Committee (ISC) was \"perfectly normal\".\n\nBut pressure is mounting on No 10 after the Sunday Times claimed nine Russian business people who have donated money to the Conservative Party were named in the document.\n\nSo what is in the Intelligence and Security Committee report?\n\nThe answer is that only a small circle of people know for sure and none of them are saying. But it is possible to get a sense of what might be in it.\n\nWe know the report looks at a wide range of Russian activity - ranging from traditional espionage to subversion - and not just in the UK.\n\nBut the greatest interest has been in what it might say on political interference in the UK. The Mueller inquiry in the US laid out a broad pattern of interference in the US 2016 presidential election, particularly using social media and leaking of documents.\n\nSo far, no evidence of a cyber campaign on the same scale has been produced in the UK. While it is possible there is evidence of attempts in the report, government ministers have already said there is no evidence of \"successful\" interference in elections, including the Brexit referendum (although defining what \"successful\" means is hard and may be disputable).\n\nHowever, last week former deputy national security adviser Paddy McGuinness told the BBC not enough had been done to deal with vulnerabilities that the Russians and others could exploit. Mr McGuinness, who sat on the Oxford Technology and Elections Commission, said reforms were needed, including more transparency from political parties on how they collect and use data.\n\nThe ISC report is likely to focus more on broader aspects of Russian influence in politics and public life.\n\nThe committee took evidence from a number of independent experts and also from the secret intelligence agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.\n\nSome of those external experts are well known figures. Bill Browder is a former investor in Russia who became an arch-critic of the Kremlin and campaigns for sanctions on Russian individuals in the form of the Magnitsky Act (named after his former lawyer who died in jail in Moscow).\n\nAnother witness is understood to be Chris Steele, the former MI6 officer behind the famous dossier on US President Donald Trump. Another is journalist Edward Lucas.\n\nThese and other observers are understood to have been highly critical of the UK's openness to Russian influence - in particular the way in which Russian money had compromised first the financial system in London and then bled over into politics.\n\nThere have been questions about some donors to political parties and the Sunday Times suggests that nine who gave to the Conservative Party could be named in the report (although this may be more likely in a classified annex rather than the public report).\n\nThere may also have been evidence about specific relationships with Russians. For instance Boris Johnson as foreign secretary went to a party at an Italian villa hosted by Evgeny Lebedev, who runs the Evening Standard and whose father is a former KGB officer.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Chancellor Sajid Javid said: \"When it comes to party donors, whether it is to the Conservative Party or any other party, there are very strict rules that need to be followed and of course we will always follow those rules.\"\n\nAsked whether he was sure no Russian money was pulling the strings in December's general election, he said: \"I am as sure as I can be. I'm absolutely sure in terms of our own party and I am very confident about how we are funded and we are very transparent about that.\"\n\nMr Javid says the Tory Party follows strict rules on party donors\n\nThe BBC understands that witnesses have given evidence to the ISC that the UK government itself is partly to blame because it has not done enough to deter Russian subversion and interference - for instance in successive governments' weak response to events like the killing of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.\n\nThe UK, it was argued, is uniquely placed to be able to push back precisely because of the amount of Russian money in London and the importance of the city to Russia's elite. The failure to push back and instead to protect the financial centre in London has been, it is argued, a choice - but one with consequences.\n\nIt is easier to know what evidence from well-known critics of the Kremlin will have been. What is harder to know is how much of this the committee accepted and included in the final report.\n\nThe committee will likely have given most weight to evidence produced by the intelligence agencies themselves. What they said is less clear but it is unlikely they will have wanted details of specific individuals included in the report and any names will probably have been redacted and blacked out.\n\nThe report has gone through the formal security clearance process and sources have told the BBC there was no objection from any other government agency or department to its publication.\n\nThat left the decision entirely with Downing Street. It has been adamant that a normal process needs to be followed which explains why it could not be released ahead of the election.\n\nBut critics have been unconvinced. They believe that the embarrassing details - perhaps of party funding - were something that the government did not want out ahead of the election.\n\nAnother source suggested it could also have been references to evidence of interference in the US which might have added to the concerns since Donald Trump is due to come to the UK for a Nato summit just days before the election.\n\nOne official told the BBC there were details of Russian interference in the report but they also thought the government could have rebutted many of the allegations.\n\nThey suggested these were not as explosive as some people thought and that Downing Street had made a mistake by not releasing the report since by failing to do so, the questions of what is in the report and why it has not been released will now dog them throughout the campaign.", "A month's worth of rain has fallen in some parts of the north of England.\n\nThis home in Fishlake, near Doncaster, has been left nearly submerged by floodwater.", "A young woman accused of witchcraft by Puritan ministers appeals to Satan to save her\n\nWould you have stood up to a witch-hunt? In 1597, a Glasgow woman called Marion Walker did just that, taking on the most powerful and vengeful men in the land.\n\nMarion Walker used the methods of the modern day whistleblower. She obtained, copied and leaked documents. She wanted the guilty held to account for the horrors of the Glasgow witch-hunt, a shocking miscarriage of justice even by the standards of the day.\n\nWe know more about her thanks to Dr Daniel MacLeod of the University of Manitoba. He came across Marion as he researched the networks of resistance of the city's Catholics.\n\n\"She's a clear and active resister of the new Protestant religion over three decades,\" Dr MacLeod says.\n\n\"She's a widow, she's not wealthy but she's got an ability to be heard.\"\n\nMarion was not afraid to take on any foolhardy minister who dared to upbraid her.\n\nAn illustration depicts a woman being burned at the stake for the crime of engaging in witchcraft\n\nHer Glasgow wasn't like Glasgow today. For one thing, says Dr MacLeod, it was tiny, \"maybe even half the size of modern day Fort William\".\n\nYet it became the stage for one of the worst excesses of the Scottish witch-hunt.\n\nInnocent people were being falsely accused by an utterly bogus witch-finder and put to death.\n\nThe witch-finder was also a woman - the so-called \"Great Witch of Balwearie\", Margaret Aitken.\n\nShe'd been arrested for witchcraft in Fife and tried to save her skin by claiming she could identify other witches just by looking in their eyes.\n\nThe authorities, including King James VI, saw her as a new super-weapon in the war on Satan, and soon terrified Glaswegians were being led out in front of this desperate individual. People were being strangled and burned at the stake because of her evidence.\n\nA group of supposed witches being beaten in front of King James\n\nThen as the witch-hunt went on, someone had a bright idea. Take the people Margaret condemned one day and bring them back the next in different clothes and a different order. The great witch turned witch-finder failed to recognise them, condemning and exonerating a different selection.\n\nIt dawned on the ministers and magistrates that what they really had was a horrifying fraud. They'd killed people for nothing. They ran for cover.\n\nAnd this is where Marion stepped up. She wasn't going to let the ministers get away with this, particularly not John Cowper, the Great Witch's most zealous promoter. Cowper was a thin-skinned vengeful individual.\n\n\"He was not very popular\" says Dr MacLeod. \"But I think he did a lot of it to himself.\"\n\nMarion wanted to take him down. Through her networks of resistance she managed to get her hands on the most incriminating document of all, the final confession of the Great Witch herself where she pointed her finger at Cowper and blamed him for all that he had done. The church wanted to hush it up - so Marion circulated it.\n\nCowper was livid. Thanks to Marion, the confession was passing hand-to-hand, making sure Glaswegians knew exactly who to blame for the deaths of their innocent friends and relatives. To strike back at her, he mobilised his fellow ministers to back him up.\n\nAccording to Dr MacLeod: \"The presbytery passed this act threatening the branks for any who blamed the ministry of the city for putting to death the persons lately executed for witchcraft.\"\n\nThe use of branks torture devices was first recorded in Scotland in 1567\n\nThe branks were literally a gag - the scold's bridle - with a metal cage for the head and often with a prong to stop the mouth. But in the end they backed off. They didn't dare gag Marion.\n\n\"It would go on almost a cycle,\" said Dr MacLeod. \"Marion would 'slander' Cowper, he would call her before the presbytery and it would go on like that, but the root of it was this confession and her role in passing it around.\"\n\nBut wasn't Marion putting herself in danger of being prosecuted as a witch?\n\nDr MacLeod thinks people were a bit more sophisticated than that.\n\n\"They knew she wasn't a witch but a defender of wrongfully-accused women,\" he said.\n\nMarion lived to fight another day against the Protestant ministry. She became a prominent supporter of the Jesuit, John Ogilvy, who was eventually martyred, but despite being linked to him by multiple witnesses she survived that too.\n\nIn the fevered religious environment of the time, it took courage to harbour a hunted man.\n\nDr MacLeod said: \"A lot of times when we think about women in the early modern religious context we think of this quiet, meek kind of devotion but that is not Marion Walker.\"\n\nFind out more about Marion Walker and how King James himself got caught up in the scandal in Episode 2 of our BBC Radio Scotland podcast 'Witch Hunt' now available on BBC Sounds.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of \"whitesplaining\" by Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi after he said others in the party took a \"more balanced approach\" on Islamophobia than her.\n\nBaroness Warsi has repeatedly criticised the party's response to Islamophobia in its own ranks.\n\nOn Friday, Boris Johnson appeared to rule out an independent inquiry specifically into Islamophobia.\n\nHe said the party would hold a \"general investigation into prejudice\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday, Mr Hancock said the Tories needed to hold an inquiry on Islamophobia within the party.\n\nBut he added: \"Well look, I like Sayeeda [Warsi], she has a particular view on this. There are others who take a more balanced approach,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he was saying she was \"unbalanced\", Mr Hancock replied: \"No, I'm certainly not saying that. I have an enormous amount of respect for Sayeeda but she does take a particular view.\"\n\nBaroness Warsi was the first Muslim woman to sit round the cabinet table\n\nHe added: \"There needs to be an inquiry of course but, of course, you should look into all kinds of prejudice.\n\n\"I think that this is something that any responsible party always needs to be on the look-out for.\"\n\nBaroness Warsi, the UK's first female Muslim cabinet minister, responded with a tweet saying she was \"glad\" to have colleagues like the health secretary to educate her on the issue after working in race relations for 30 years.\n\nThe Conservative Party has come under pressure to open itself up to an independent inquiry into Islamophobia following incidents highlighted to the party and in the media.\n\nIn September, a number of party members were suspended after the BBC highlighted more than 20 cases of Islamophobic material being posted or endorsed online.\n\nThe incidents ranged from individuals \"liking\" anti-Muslim pictures or statements on one or two occasions, to regular Islamophobic posts by people who said they were members of the Conservative Party.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sayeeda Warsi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn one occasion, a Conservative councillor responded to a tweet in March, writing: \"Islam and slavery are partners in crime.\"\n\nSpeaking to Channel 4 News on Saturday evening, Baroness Warsi said Mr Johnson's comments suggesting a broader investigation showed the party was still not taking the issue of Islamophobia seriously.\n\nShe called for him to be an \"anti-racist\" and \"take all forms of racism seriously\".\n\n\"We've quite rightly been calling out the Labour Party for the allegations of racism within their ranks... we seem to be able to take our opponents to task, and yet we singularly fail to deal with the Islamophobia and racism in our own backyard,\" she said.\n\nAsked whether she could urge her fellow British Muslims to vote Conservative, Baroness Warsi said: \"I would say that the climate for British Muslims within the Conservative Party is hostile.\n\n\"I think that the climate that has been created in the country because of the Conservative leadership is hostile for British Muslims.\"\n\nIn June, during a BBC debate as part of the Tory leadership contest, candidate Sajid Javid, now the chancellor, asked other candidates to agree to open up the Conservatives to an external investigation into Islamophobia within its ranks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sayeeda Warsi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Tuesday, cabinet minister Michael Gove told the Today programme the party would \"absolutely\" hold an independent inquiry into Islamophobia before the end of the year.\n\nBut in an interview with BBC Radio Nottingham on Friday, the prime minister said the party would investigate \"prejudice of all kinds\".\n\nIn response, Baroness Warsi tweeted: \"Today #BorisJohnson has confirmed that there will NOT be an inquiry into #Islamophobia. Yes disappointing. Yes predictable.\"", "Australian authorities say an \"unprecedented\" number of emergency-level bushfires are threatening the state of New South Wales.\n\nMore than 90 blazes were raging across the state on Friday, some of which turned the sky orange.\n\nThere are reports of people trapped in their homes in several places, with crew unable to reach them due to the strength of the fires.\n\nRead more: Record number of emergencies in New South Wales", "A member of Labour's shadow cabinet has denied singing \"Hey Jews\" to The Beatles' song Hey Jude on a coach trip last year.\n\nShadow international development secretary Dan Carden was accused of singing an altered version of the song on a journey back from Cheltenham Festival, BuzzFeed News reported.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said: \"If it's true, it is utterly and totally unacceptable.\"\n\nMr Carden said he stood by his record as an anti-racist campaigner.\n\nBuzzFeed News journalist Alex Wickham claimed he was sitting behind Mr Carden on a \"private bus\" in March 2018, along with other Labour MPs and MPs from other parties.\n\nHe said Mr Carden, who is seeking to be re-elected as MP for Liverpool Walton, \"repeatedly sang the chorus of 'Hey Jude', replacing the word 'Jude' with 'Jews'.\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said he was \"looking into\" the allegation.\n\nIn a Twitter thread, Mr Carden said: \"I have been categorical in my denial about allegations relating to a coach trip some 20 months ago.\n\n\"This was a coach full of journalists and MPs. If anyone genuinely believed any anti-Semitic behaviour had taken place, they would've had a moral responsibility to report it immediately.\n\n\"Yet this allegation is only made now when a general election is imminent.\n\n\"I stand by my record as an anti-racist campaigner. I would never be part of any behaviour that undermines my commitment to fighting racism in all its forms.\"\n\nThe news website said it was \"choosing to publish\" the story now after \"fresh anti-Semitism allegations against Labour candidates over the last 48 hours\".\n\nA Labour candidate in Aberdeenshire quit on Thursday after the Jewish Chronicle reported that she compared Israel to an abused child who becomes an abusive adult.\n\nAnd another Labour candidate pulled out of the election race on Friday over the use of an anti-Semitic remark.\n\nOn Thursday, the Labour leader told the BBC \"anti-Semitism is a poison and an evil\" and insisted his party had confronted anti-Semitism and taken action.\n\nMr Corbyn said members had been suspended or expelled and an education programme had been set up.", "The UK's credit rating could be downgraded, according to ratings agency Moody's, which says Brexit has caused \"paralysis in policy-making\".\n\nIt has changed the outlook on the UK's current rating - which is a marker of how likely it is to pay back its debts - from \"stable\" to \"negative\".\n\nMoody's also criticised the general election promises to raise spending with \"no clear plan\" to finance it.\n\nThe UK is currently rated Aa2 - the third highest grade.\n\nCredit ratings agencies grade countries and institutions by their credit-worthiness. That in turn can affect the amount that it costs countries to borrow money.\n\nAll the major political parties have committed to ramping up borrowing as part of their general election campaigning.\n\nThey have said this is to take advantage of low interest rates. Moody's change in outlook suggests this could alter in the future.\n\nJane Sydenham, from Rathbone Investment Management, said: \"The vast spending plans announced this week make the UK look a higher risk prospect from an international debt investors point of view.\"\n\nMoody's said its concern was that the UK's debt level could rise as a result. \"In the current political climate, Moody's sees no meaningful pressure for debt-reducing fiscal policies,\" it said.\n\nJane Foley, from Rabobank, said to borrow more - without increasing debt levels - you need to see economic growth which is \"a big ask when global growth is slowing and when UK investment has been chased away by political uncertainty\".\n\nFollowing the financial crisis the credit ratings agencies were discredited for giving gold-plated ratings to companies that later collapsed.\n\nThe last time that the UK's rating was downgraded, in 2017, there was little impact on borrowing costs. We are still in the \"A\" band of countries, even if no longer on a par with Germany.\n\nSo for some in the City, these reports can be easily dismissed. \"It just tells us stuff we already know,\" one investor told me.\n\nBut the language and timing of this (long-scheduled) report are sobering, coming as it has when politicians are looking to splash out, making big promises about the future of the UK's public services.\n\nIt ends by saying a downgrade would happen if policy-makers don't have a credible strategy to cut debt. And cutting debt doesn't seem to be on anyone's manifesto.\n\nThe Moody's report said \"deep divisions within society and the political landscape\" underpin its decision because they are reducing the UK's ability to make policy decisions.\n\nIt said even if a deal was struck with the European Union over Brexit, that uncertainty over the future of trade is unlikely to diminish.\n\nHowever, the agency said it has decided to hold the UK's current rating because it still saw positives in the economy such as a broad range of economic activity, a sound monetary policy framework and a highly flexible labour market.\n\nThe Conservative Party said: \"This election is about ending paralysis in Parliament and delivering certainty on Brexit, and our commitment to produce a robust, costed manifesto.\"\n\nThe Labour Party said the biggest dangers to the UK economy were the Conservative Party's \"Brexit deal and stubborn refusal to prepare for the climate emergency\".", "Labour's Keith Vaz, who was suspended from the Commons after he was found to have \"expressed willingness\" to purchase cocaine for others, will not be standing for re-election.\n\nMr Vaz, who has been MP for Leicester East for 32 years, said in a statement he was retiring from Parliament.\n\nHe said it had been \"an honour and a privilege\" to serve his constituency.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he had \"made a substantial and significant contribution to public life\".\n\nMr Vaz was suspended for six months after a scathing report by the Commons standards commission, which found he \"disregarded\" the law by \"expressing a willingness\" to help buy cocaine for male prostitutes.\n\nHe had been re-selected as Labour's candidate in Leicester East a few weeks before the publication of the standards report.\n\nIf he had been re-elected in 12 December's general election he could have taken up his seat, with the suspension requiring a new vote in the next Parliament.\n\nLabour's ruling National Executive Committee failed to reach a decision on Mr Vaz's future last week - but he has faced calls from Labour allies to stand down.\n\nLabour must now choose a new candidate in the constituency before Thursday's deadline.\n\nThe standards committee said in its report that there was \"compelling evidence\" Mr Vaz offered to pay for a class A drug and had paid-for sex in August 2016.\n\nThe revelations, first reported by the Sunday Mirror, led to him standing down as chairman of the Home Affairs committee - which at the time was conducting an inquiry into drug policy.\n\nMr Vaz, a former Europe minister, rejected the standards committee's claim that he had been \"evasive or unhelpful\" during the investigation into his conduct.\n\nA statement on his website said he was admitted to hospital on the day the committee's report was published.\n\nIt said he had been receiving treatment for a \"serious mental health condition\" since details of the encounter were published in 2016.\n\nIn a statement, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"Keith Vaz was among the pioneering group of black and Asian Labour MPs elected in 1987. I was proud to support his selection and incredibly proud when he won, taking the seat from the Tories.\n\n\"Keith has made a substantial and significant contribution to public life, both as a constituency MP for the people of Leicester and for the Asian community across the country. He has helped to pave the way for more BAME people to become involved in politics.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said Mr Vaz's work in Parliament had been \"exemplary\".\n\nMr Vaz said in a statement: \"I have decided to retire after completing 32 years as the Member of Parliament for Leicester East.\n\n\"In that time I have won eight general elections. It has been an honour and a privilege to serve my constituency since I came to the city in 1985.\n\n\"I want to thank the people of Leicester East for their absolute loyalty and support.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nThe biggest event in internet history? Possibly. Pure entertainment? Definitely.\n\nIn front of a global audience of millions, the YouTube boxing grudge match between Britain's KSI and his American rival Logan Paul on Saturday produced, perhaps surprisingly for some, a superb sporting spectacle in Los Angeles on Saturday.\n\nKSI won on a split decision in a tear-up that was dripping in controversy after Paul was deducted two points for hitting his opponent on his way down.\n\nHere's how the entertaining - and sometimes surreal - night unfolded in LA.\n\nFirst, the fight. Fury-Wilder it wasn't, but it was an entertaining bout from the first bell to the last.\n\nKSI, 26, deserved to win. He was the better fighter for the first four rounds as he continually threw booming rights which rocked the taller, rangier Paul onto the back foot.\n\nIt was one-way traffic until Paul sneaked through KSI's defences with an uppercut and then, with his opponent on his way to the canvas, landed another blow which took the wind from the Brit's sails.\n\nThe referee intervened because Paul broke KSI's fall, following the uppercut, to land another blow and the official demonstrably gave the Brit time to regain his composure.\n\nAnd while two points were deducted from Paul's card, a knockdown was registered in the American's favour on account of the first blow.\n\nKSI belied his inexperience to stay out of trouble for the remainder of the fourth round - displaying much improved footwork from the pair's first fight - and the frenetic pace continued for the full six round.\n\nKSI - whose real name is Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji - was judged the winner 57-54, 56-55, 55-56 on the judges' scorecards.\n\nIt was a popular victory for the Brit, who was the more popular fighter inside the sell-out arena, despite crossing the Atlantic to fight on his opponent's home soil.\n\nWho was there?\n\nYou could tell it was going to be a something special from the moment the two YouTubers walked into the ring.\n\nLogan Paul came in like a pantomime villain - booed and jeered in front of a home crowd as he strutted through in a star-spangled USA robe.\n\nKSI arrived in a red and black mask covering most of his face, and American rapper Rick Ross walked him in performing Down Like That - a song they've collaborated on.\n\nWhile most people became enthralled in the tense fight, there was also a Justin Bieber sideshow to keep an eye on. The Canadian singer was in Paul's corner and after appearing with him backstage before the fight, Bieber was soon trending on social media after giving Paul a standing ovation after the second round.\n\nThe Staples Center was full of internet celebrities who wanted in on the action, and social media full of messages for the two fighters.\n\nWill it happen again?\n\nWhen both men were asked post-fight, Paul, 24, definitely fancied another crack at KSI. The victor less so.\n\n\"It's done,\" KSI said. \"I'm on to the next thing.\"\n\nIn response, Paul, who said he would appeal against the decision to deduct him two points, said: \"I'd love to fight KSI again - these are the best moments of my life. The more I practise the more I feel comfortable.\"\n\nBritish boxing promoter Eddie Hearn was pleased with his first foray into staging a show headlined by two men with a combined YouTube subscribership of 40 million.\n\n\"That fight was everything that is great about boxing,\" said Hearn.\n\n\"There has to be a narrative and a respect for the sport and these two have that.\n\n\"If there are any other men or women who want to get into the ring - and they respect the code - then this can happen again.\"\n\nAs with most great boxing narratives, beneath all the ugly words is a deep-rooted respect for each other.\n\nWhen asked to make up with Paul at the end, KSI paused, looked down and then offered his hand. Drama to the bitter end.\n\nWhat you said\n\nArx: When you watch white collar boxing you can tell those who took the training seriously and those who didn't. Both of these guys put the work in and it made what could've been a shambles a pretty entertaining fight. Respect for both. Enjoyed it!\n\nBambalam: Logan won that fight, if not a draw. KSI missed with a majority of shots and the ref gave him the win with the ridiculous two-point deduction!\n\nmarswalker23: Boxing is in really bad shape if two YouTube personalities headline a boxing event. Especially over a world title fight.\n\nnotbad: KSI had absolutely no technique. He just swung wildly. How they could talk their own ability up so much is beyond me.\n\nBigglesworth: Some people saying this was more entertaining than a Tyson Fury bout? It was a good fight for the level of the fighters but not as entertaining as watching Wilder v Fury where you know that one wrong move is a knockout, more so for Fury. It was not the most technically appealing fight.\n\nKritikulHit: Amazing six rounds, probably the best fight of the night! Do not appear to be \"clowns\" in my eyes!\n\nAkay721: I never thought the day would come when YouTubers would fight it out in the ring, but here we are. Congratulations to KSI for taking the win in a close fight. I gotta give both KSI and Logan props for taking this seriously and training like real boxers.", "The Buckley family are concerned about the future of Scunthorpe\n\n\"I think it will just go downhill. It'll be left almost barren.\"\n\nJulian Buckley paints a gloomy picture of his hometown of Scunthorpe if the British Steel plant closes down.\n\nSitting around the family dining room table over a fish-and-chip supper, Julian, aged 21, tells me he hopes to come back home to live after graduating from Liverpool University.\n\n\"I actually want to work in health and safety, which the steelworks would be such a good employer for.\n\n\"But if it's not there, I'll have to look somewhere else. And that's the problem really, isn't it?\"\n\nJulian's father Matthew has been working at British Steel's on-site power station in Scunthorpe for 19 years, but now fears losing his job.\n\n\"The last few months have been quite awful really,\" he admits, reflecting on months of rumour and fear about the future of the plant.\n\nMatthew, who is 50, has faced this situation before. He used to work at British Steel in Stoke-on-Trent and left just before it closed in 2000.\n\n\"We started to reduce shift patterns,\" he recalls.\n\n\"You felt that the writing was on the wall, and it was only a matter of time before that closed, so we decided to take the plunge and we transferred up here.\"\n\nThe family settled in the pretty village of Winterton, six miles north of the town centre. But in 2016, Matthew faced another job crisis when Tata, the owners of the Scunthorpe plant, decided to sell up.\n\n\"We were at a really sticky place there,\" Matthew says.\n\n\"It took a long time to get the ball rolling and get some interest from the central government.\n\n\"We had marches in Scunthorpe and London to keep steelmaking alive and well in the town.\"\n\nThe campaign worked. London-based Greybull Capital moved in to save the company, but it was only a temporary reprieve.\n\nIn May, they too conceded defeat and British Steel was forced into liquidation.\n\nMatthew's wife Joy, 48, says: \"If the worst comes to worst, and the steelworks does actually shut, it will be devastating for so many people here.\n\n\"People will probably have to move away.\"\n\nJulian reflects on the youngsters who he grew up with, who didn't go to university, but instead secured much-prized British Steel apprenticeships.\n\n\"Without the steelworks, they won't get those apprenticeships,\" he says.\n\n\"They'll either be stuck in Scunthorpe because they haven't got those skills, or they will have to look elsewhere, and you'll have this exodus of young people.\n\n\"It sounds cheesy, but they are the future of society.\n\n\"Without all those young people, what's going to happen to Scunthorpe?\"\n\nFile on 4 investigates the collapse of British Steel on Radio 4 on Tuesday 2 July at 20:00.", "There's nothing new about politicians trying to please the crowd, or people lacking faith in politicians.\n\nBack in 1834, when Westminster caught fire, a large crowd turned out to cheer on the fire.\n\nWhat's new now is the scale of the promises, the polling evidence that public trust in politicians is as low as its been in modern times, and the clear signs that voters' loyalty to political parties is looser than we've seen before.\n\nWe are seeing the biggest spending plans from the Tories since before the financial crash.\n\nAnd the biggest borrowing plan by Labour since the 1970s.\n\nSo a big factor in deciding this election will probably be who's trusted least?\n\nAnd it's not just about the economy.\n\nThere's growing suspicion around the government's seeming slow progress in publishing a report by the Commons Intelligence Committee on Russian influence.\n\nThere've been reports today that it discusses, among other things, political donations by named wealthy Russians to the Tory Party.\n\nIt's not suggested the donations were illegal. Donations from people registered to vote in the UK are perfectly lawful.\n\nBut there's a long-running question about whether it's possible to buy political influence.\n\nThere's also controversy surrounding Russian investment in the UK, and of course, interference in UK elections.\n\nWe don't know the MPs' verdict. We haven't seen it.\n\nA high-ranking former MI6 official I spoke to today said the controversy itself was destabilising and that alone amounted to a win for President Putin.\n\nAll the party leaders are worried trust is at stake in this election.\n\nWhether you believe them or not, for anyone concerned about the health of politics, it's true.", "The world's most profitable company has published more details about its planned stock market flotation.\n\nOil giant Saudi Aramco's long-awaited prospectus said individual retail investors will have a chance to buy shares as well as big institutions.\n\nBut the 600-page prospectus did not say how much of the Saudi firm would be sold, nor the date of the listing.\n\nIt did, though, mention possible risks, including the government's control over oil output and terrorist attack.\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seeking to sell the shares to raise billions of dollars to diversify the Saudi economy away from oil by investing in non-energy industries.\n\nBankers think the long-awaited flotation will value Aramco at $1.5-2 trillion, making the stock market listing the biggest ever.\n\nThe prospectus said up to 0.5% of the company would be set aside for retail savers, but Aramco had not yet decided on the percentage for larger institutional buyers.\n\nAfter the flotation, Aramco will not list any more shares for six months, the prospectus says. Although one of the attractions for investors is the potential of high dividends, the document said Aramco has the right to change dividend policy without prior notice.\n\nAramco has hired a host of international banking giants including Citibank, Credit Suisse and HSBC as financial advisers to assess interest in the share sale and set a price. Based on the level of interest - a final value will be put on the shares on 5 December.\n\nThe sale of the company, first mooted four years ago, has been overshadowed by delays and criticism of corporate transparency at Saudi Arabia's crown jewel.\n\nIt was initially thought about 5% of Aramco would be sold, but the final figure is now expected to be half that.\n\nAmid speculation that some foreign institutional investors are cool on the flotation, the government has reportedly pressed wealthy Saudi business families and institutions to invest, and many nationalists have labelled it a patriotic duty.\n\nAramco last year posted $111bn in net profit. In the first nine months of this year, its net profit dropped 18% to $68bn.", "Parts of northern England have endured a month's worth of rain in 24 hours, forcing many to leave their homes.\n\nMore than 100 flood warnings are in place across England. The Environment Agency (EA) has urged people to take them seriously.\n\nFive severe warnings - meaning a danger to life - are in place along the River Don in Doncaster.\n\nHere are pictures of some of the affected areas.\n\nIn Worksop, residents from 25 homes were told to leave after parts of the town centre flooded.\n\nResidents in Rotherham have been told to stay at home and not leave unless asked to do so by emergency services. Some have been taken to safety by boats.\n\nFlood water covered the rail tracks at Rotherham Central train station (below).\n\nSome shops in Rotherham have been flooded.\n\nRail lines around the New York Stadium in Rotherham are blocked due to flooding.\n\nIn Derbyshire, the River Derwent at Chatsworth has reached its highest recorded level and council workers have been putting up sandbags around Matlock and Matlock Bath, where the river is \"dangerously high\".\n\nThe River Derwent in Belper (above and below) burst its banks.\n\nShortly after midnight, Sheffield City Council declared a major incident, saying there was \"some water\" coming over the top of the River Don's defences.\n\nDozens of people spent the night in a shopping centre in Sheffield after torrential downpours flooded the city's streets.\n\nPeople bedded down on benches and chairs in the Meadowhall centre, while others tried throughout the night to get home in cars or taxis.\n\nThe River Don (seen below in Kirk Sandall) has hit its highest recorded level, currently at just over 6.3m, higher than it was in 2007 when it also flooded.\n\nThe River Don was close to bursting its banks in Barnby Dun, near Doncaster (below).", "Posters should be displayed in schools warning against violence or threats to staff, a teaching conference has heard.\n\nA motion to the National Education Union (NEU) Cymru conference raised the idea of posters in reception areas, similar to those in GP surgeries.\n\nThe union claims aggressive behaviour is a growing concern, calling for a review of the causes.\n\nThe Welsh Government said councils and schools needed to ensure schools were a safe environment for all.\n\nThis teacher spoke of his frustration about how his case was dealt with\n\nOne teacher said he had been punched by a teenager when he tried to intervene in an incident on the yard.\n\nAs well as the physical impact and a suspected broken bone, he says he became stressed and anxious and did not return to work for a year, before formally leaving his job.\n\n\"There didn't seem to be any consequences for the pupils or any support for me,\" he said. \"What was I feeling like?\"\n\n\"Staff safety and well-being is just as important as pupil safety and well-being. It should be equal - it's not equal\".\n\nAnother secondary school teacher said she had been forced to take time off work after several incidents including threats of violence and \"a torrent of abuse\" from pupils.\n\nShe felt drink and drug abuse was a factor, something schools were \"not well equipped to deal with and are loath to recognise\".\n\n\"These incidents are happening more and more frequently\", she said.\n\nThe union, which debated the issue in Newport on Sunday, said that funding cuts are making the problem worse, as well as issues around discipline at home and wider problems in society.\n\nDavid Evans, Wales secretary of NEU Cymru, said: \"It's not an every day occurrence in every school - incidents are few and far between, but even one attack is one too many.\n\n\"It highlights the difficulty in dealing with it. Managers have to deal with unusual incidents but they have to deal with it properly and ensure people are protected in their workplace.\"\n\nAt the lowest level there was verbal abuse, then intimidation, right up to physical assaults and injuries.\n\nThere was also threatening behaviour involving parents.\n\nMr Evans said there was variation in the action from the guidelines which came from local authorities, but there needed to be consistency.\n\nHe said the poster idea was a start and highlighted the issue, but cited a need for respect for teachers from a minority causing problems.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"Any form of violence or abuse against staff in our schools is completely unacceptable.\n\n\"We want our schools to be safe and welcoming environments where teachers can get on with their jobs, helping pupils achieve the best they can.\n\n\"There is a duty is on local authorities and schools to ensure that schools are a safe environment for all. If at any point the environment within a school becomes unsafe, the school should ensure that the relevant authorities are informed so that appropriate support can be made available.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Greetings card chain Clintons is considering shop closures and rent cuts as part of a survival plan.\n\nThe retailer, which has about 2,500 staff, is in restructuring talks with landlords in another sign of the High Street crisis.\n\nA spokeswoman told the BBC no decisions have yet been made.\n\nClintons was responding to reports on Sunday that it wanted to close 66 out of 332 shops, with landlords slashing rents on most of the other stores.\n\nThe restructuring would involve a controversial scheme known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), an insolvency process that allows companies to continue trading while pushing through closures and rent cuts.\n\nA Clintons spokeswoman said \"discussions are continuing with our landlords but no decisions have been made\".\n\nBut she declined to comment on a Sunday Telegraph report that the company told landlords 90 of its shops were loss-making and that sales were expected to continue to decline.\n\nOne landlord told the BBC that although there was a meeting with Clintons last week, very few details of the restructuring plan were given. More talks are expected this week.\n\nThe Sunday Times said landlords would have until 20 December to air their objections to a CVA. However, landlords have taken an increasingly tough stance on the growing use of CVAs and are more prepared to fight demands for rent cuts.\n\nThe retailer, formed in 1968, is owned by the Weiss family, which previously controlled the American Greetings retail chain in the US.\n\nClintons, previously known as Clinton Cards, had appointed advisers from consultancy KPMG to explore a potential sale, but it is thought no acceptable offers were received.\n\nNews of Clintons' restructuring comes days after baby goods retailer Mothercare announced its UK operation was going into administration, putting 2,500 jobs at risk.\n\nMothercare is part of a long list of High Street names to go under, including Maplin and Poundworld. Others, including Homebase, Debenhams and Carpetright, have been forced into restructuring.\n\nA string of restaurant chains have also closed amid a squeeze on consumer spending.\n\nRetail experts expect more pain, however, as firms approach the make-or-break Christmas trading period. It is common for banks to wait until they have a clearer picture of Christmas and New Year sales before pulling the plug on retailers.", "Rescuers used boats to reach people trapped in Rotherham\n\nAlmost 50 flood warnings are in place across England after days of persistent rain.\n\nFive severe warnings - deemed a threat to life - remain on South Yorkshire's River Don, with flooding in that area likely to continue until Wednesday.\n\nTowns and cities across Yorkshire and the Midlands have faced disruption and in some cases emergency evacuations.\n\nFormer High Sherriff of Derbyshire Annie Hall was swept to her death by the flooded River Derwent near Matlock.\n\nIn addition to the severe warnings, the Environment Agency earlier issued a further 43 warnings - meaning flooding is expected - and 103 alerts.\n\nIt said water levels were still very high on stretches of the River Don and expected flooding in that area until midweek.\n\nA military helicopter would be used on Sunday evening to drop sandbags at Bentley Ings by the river.\n\nA flooded field 100 metres from the River Don on the outskirts of Kirk Bramwith in South Yorkshire\n\nRoads to Fishlake have been closed, cutting off the South Yorkshire village\n\nOn Sunday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who visited flood-hit Derbyshire on Friday, said he was \"in awe of the community's spirit and resilience in the face of this awful ongoing event\".\n\nHe said he was receiving regular briefings on the situation and added the government's emergency Bellwin scheme had been activated to reimburse eligible councils for certain costs they incur.\n\nBoris Johnson visited Matlock on Friday where he met emergency workers\n\nA military helicopter has been delivering sandbags to flood-hit Doncaster\n\nDoncaster Council reiterated its call to evacuate Fishlake and has set up a rest centre in nearby Stainforth \"for as long as is needed\".\n\nAccording to the Salvation Army, some people had been rescued from their homes by boat since the early hours of Saturday morning but others remained in their properties.\n\nDamian Allen, chief executive of Doncaster Council, said: \"We are concerned over reports that some residents remain in the Fishlake area.\n\n\"South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue crews are on hand to evacuate any Fishlake residents who may be stuck in their homes, and we would urge everybody to take advantage of this.\n\n\"The council are unable to offer on-the-ground support to residents who are in severe flood warning areas, based on advice from the Environment Agency.\"\n\nThe authority said it expected it would be \"at least 48 hours until you can return to your homes, if not longer\" and was told by the Environment Agency that flood waters in the village would \"not start to go down for at least the next 24 hours\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHelen Batt, from the agency, said 4,000 properties had been protected by flood defences in the village, but added 300 had been flooded, with more than 1,200 evacuated.\n\nBBC reporter Richard Cadey said some roads around Fishlake had been closed and the village was \"effectively cut off because of flooding\".\n\nMany parts of the area remain under 3ft (1m) of water and only tractors are able to get in by some roads.\n\nHe said people on the ground had told him 90% of the homes there had been flooded.\n\nPam Webb, who owns a spa in Fishlake, said: \"We've got blue skies, it looks picturesque until you actually get in to the village and you see the devastation that's been caused to homes and businesses.\n\n\"Devastating is an easy word to use but it's completely devastating and it's heartbreaking.\"\n\nPam Webb's business in Fishlake is among the many that have been flooded in the village\n\nMany parts of Fishlake remain under 3ft (1m) of water\n\nTrying to get to Fishlake seemed like an impossible task. The village has suffered severe flooding and I was constantly met by road and bridge closures.\n\nIn nearby Stainforth people had collected food in the local pub and taken it to those stranded in Fishlake by tractor. But now even this has become impractical.\n\nThe 63-year-old told me he had never seen flooding as bad as this in his lifetime. He put it down to a number of different factors, including torrential rainfall and the lack of dredging on the River Don.\n\nThis was a recurring concern from a number of residents and they all echoed Mr Pashley's call for dredging to begin again on this section of the river.\n\nThe fields surrounding these villages were like lakes and Mr Pashley's field of potatoes was submerged by up to five feet of water, just two weeks before he was due to harvest them.\n\nKirk Bramwith has also seen flooding\n\nNational Rail said a number of routes were affected by flooding and advised those travelling by train to check before setting out.\n\nSome train routes between Doncaster and Sheffield were closed and Northern Rail has warned commuters they are likely to remain shut until further notice.\n\nIn Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 12 properties remained evacuated after a landslide at an old quarry site saw debris and soil fall onto Band End Close.\n\nBassetlaw District Council said it was being removed and \"temporary safety measures\" had been put in place.\n\nNatalie and Jonathan Palmer were evacuated from their home in Mansfield, along with their children, and are staying in a hotel.\n\nThey said they had been told they would not be able to return to their property for at least a fortnight, adding they were \"disgusted and angry\" at the prospect.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Newark, people living in mobile homes were evacuated on Saturday evening as river levels peaked in the town.\n\n\"Major incidents\" were declared on Friday in Worksop after the River Ryton burst its banks and in South Yorkshire as a result of wide-spread flooding.\n\nBoats were used in Worksop town centre to help evacuate flooded premises\n\nParts of Worksop were without power on Saturday.\n\nFirefighters evacuated 25 homes, and a community information point has been set up for those affected by the floods.\n\nIn Derby city centre, officials considered a city-wide evacuation as authorities saw the River Derwent swell to record levels of 3.35m (11ft).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommunities around Matlock, Derbyshire, where flood victim Annie Hall was swept away, are cleaning up after the flooding.\n\nRowsley Church of England Primary School is trying to raise £5,000 after its classrooms were heavily damaged.\n\nGovernor Marianne Quick said: \"The school will remain closed until it has been expertly assessed but the likelihood of our children getting back into their much loved classrooms anytime soon is unlikely.\"\n\nResident Sarah Sutcliffe said: \"Parents, teachers and especially the children are all distraught about the damage which has been caused.\"\n\nRowsley Church of England School, which sits on the confluence of the River Wye and the River Derwent, was extensively damaged\n\nOne of the most severely hit areas has been Bentley in Doncaster, where flooding affected many homes 12 years ago.\n\nOne resident told BBC Radio Sheffield: \"The worry is our insurance policies are expensive as it is because of the 2007 floods, so now we're all worried whether we're going to get reinsured.\"\n\nSome residents were \"angry and frustrated\" at Doncaster Council - claiming it had not provided sandbags early enough to prevent properties from flooding, the station reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage filmed from Matlock shows the extent of the floodwater\n\nHomes in Stainforth, Thorpe in Balne and Trumfleet have also been evacuated.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said it had extra officers out on patrol to \"protect the evacuated areas and support those affected by the floods\".\n\n\"There is no suggestion of any criminality resulting from the floods but we hope our extra patrols can offer at least a little reassurance to those worst affected.\"\n\nAnnie Hall's family said they were “in great shock\"\n\nHave you been affected by the floods? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A poster from the time of Shona Stevens' murder\n\nThe killer of a woman who was murdered 25 years ago has been urged to \"search your conscience\" by police.\n\nShona Stevens was savagely attacked in broad daylight 200 yards (180m) from her home in Irvine, North Ayrshire, in November 1994.\n\nMs Stevens, 31, suffered \"horrific injuries\" and died three days later.\n\nHer mother and her daughter, who was only seven at the time, joined police in marking the anniversary with a fresh appeal for information.\n\nAsked if he had a message for the killer, Det Supt Paul Livingstone said: \"It has been 25 years. It is a huge burden. Shona's family have endured this for too long now. Do the right thing and come forward.\"\n\nDet Supt Paul Livingstone issued a direct appeal to the killer to mark the 25th anniversary of Ms Stevens' murder\n\nOn Thursday 10 November, 1994, Ms Stevens left the Co-op at Bourtreehill Shopping Centre and was last seen alone on Towerlands Road at 13:10.\n\nTen minutes later her body was found in bushes near a footpath, close to the rear of her home in Alder Green in the Bourtreehill Park area.\n\nDet Supt Livingstone described the attack as \"vicious and frenzied\".\n\nHe said: \"Her family have had to endure this for too long now. That's why we are having this appeal 25 years on, because I firmly believe that the answer lies in the local community.\"\n\nOfficers believe a weapon was involved but it was never recovered.\n\nDet Supt Livingstone also said the inquiry team were keeping an open mind as to a motive for the crime.\n\nHe would not disclose whether officers had a DNA profile of the suspect but said technology was constantly creating new forensic opportunities.\n\nDuring the Elaine Doyle murder trial in 2014 a court heard that convicted killer Gavin McGuire was interviewed in connection with Ms Stevens' murder.\n\nThe then Strathclyde Police staged a reconstruction of Ms Stevens' final movements\n\nDespite extensive media coverage, including a reconstruction of Ms Stevens' final movements, no one has been brought to justice.\n\nThe senior detective also encouraged anyone who knew the identity of Ms Stevens' attacker to consider the devastating impact the crime has had on her family, especially her daughter.\n\nHe said: \"Shona was a young mother who was subject to an unprovoked attack that has left her family devastated and we want to trace those responsible.\n\n\"I think everyone can assume for themselves what it must have been like for any child to grow up without a parent.\n\n\"That to me is all the catalyst that anyone should need that, if they have any information, to come forward and tell us about that.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is very much an open case and we will keep working away until we find who is responsible and bring them to justice.\"\n\nHe said the footpath where Ms Stevens was found was regularly used by the public to access Bourtreehill Shopping Centre.\n\nShona's mother, Mhairi Smith, issued an emotional appeal to the media a week after the murder in November 1994\n\nAs part of the new appeal Ms Stevens' family issued brief statements through Police Scotland.\n\nDaughter Candice, who is now one year older than her late mother, said: \"I was only seven at the time of my mum's murder but that does not make it any easier to deal with.\n\n\"I spent a large part of my childhood years growing up without my mum and I would please ask anyone who knows anything about the incident to please come forward.\"\n\nThe victim's mother Mhairi Smith said: \"It has been 25 years since Shona was taken from us and we are still as hopeful as ever that those responsible for her murder can be brought to justice.\n\n\"I cannot emphasise enough how important even the smallest piece of information could be in being able to give me and my family closure.\n\n\"I want to know who was responsible for this attack and why they did it. If you have any information about Shona and her murder please contact the police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chris Williamson, Stephen Hepburn, Roger Godsiff (l-r) have been excluded by Labour\n\nFour Labour Parliamentary candidates have been banned from standing by the party's National Executive Committee.\n\nThree are former Labour MPs - including Jeremy Corbyn ally Chris Williamson - and the fourth is Sally Gimson who was selected less than two weeks ago.\n\nMr Williamson was suspended in an anti-Semitism row and Mrs Gimson is facing claims she says are a \"smear campaign\" against her.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has confirmed it is reviewing another candidate.\n\nZarah Sultana, who apologised for saying she would \"celebrate\" the deaths of world leaders in 2015 on social media, is being \"re-interviewed\" by a panel, the party said.\n\nNew candidates will be chosen in place of former Derby North MP Mr Williamson, ex-MP for Jarrow Stephen Hepburn, and Roger Godsiff, who was facing a reselection battle in Birmingham Hall Green.\n\nMr Williamson said on Twitter that he was resigning from the Labour Party \"with a heavy heart\" after 44 years and will be standing as an independent candidate in Derby North.\n\nIt comes as Conservative Alun Cairns resigned from the cabinet over claims he knew about a former aide's role in the \"sabotage\" of a rape trial.\n\nMr Cairns still intends to stand as a Tory candidate in the general election.\n\nLabour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) has not made a final decision on whether Keith Vaz can stand for the party, the BBC understands.\n\nThe former Leicester East MP was last week suspended from the House of Commons for six months by a standards watchdog.\n\nMr Vaz \"disregarded\" the law by \"expressing a willingness\" to help buy cocaine for male prostitutes, the Commons standards commission said in a scathing report.\n\nMr Vaz was re-selected as Labour's candidate in Leicester East, a seat he has represented for 32 years, a few weeks before the publication of the standards report.\n\nIf he was re-elected on 12 December, he would take up his seat until parliament voted again on a potential suspension, which ended with the conclusion of the previous parliament- and he could face a recall petition, giving voters a chance to remove him.\n\nMr Vaz did not make any comment on his suspension, but a spokesman said he was receiving treatment for a serious mental health condition.\n\nLabour's ruling NEC ditched Chris Williamson because the disciplinary case against him hadn't concluded. That meant he was still suspended and therefore ineligible to be a candidate.\n\nBut this apparently bureaucratic formulation somewhat understates the political sensitivities, some on the left want him reinstated because they argue that while he said the party had given too much ground on anti-Semitism, what he said wasn't in itself anti-Semitic.\n\nBut others - including some of his fellow left-wingers - wanted him out as they knew opponents would suggest any reinstatement showed a lack of seriousness in addressing anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nPlus I am told many in the Labour leader's office lost patience with Chris Williamson's loose tongue - and tendency to shoot from the hip.\n\nKeith Vaz's fate is less certain. Labour's NEC didn't throw him out - apparently as he is in hospital. Well-placed sources say they hope he stands down voluntarily.\n\nBut a rather stranger row might yet overshadow all this.\n\nSometimes candidates are \"parachuted in\" by the leadership. Sometimes they are deselected. But it's rare to be selected then deselected in the space of a week\n\nSally Gimson contested the selection in Bassetlaw where John Mann is standing down - unexpectedly beating a candidate favoured by some in the leadership and by the powerful Unite union.\n\nBut the decision of local members was overturned by a panel of Labour's ruling NEC.\n\nSources cite complaints about Sally Gimson - but from party members in her home constituency in London, not Bassetlaw where the local executive is right behind her.\n\nShe has denounced the NEC as a \"kangaroo court\" acting on \"trumped-up charges\" and the row could now be settled in the actual courts.\n\nChris Williamson was suspended by Labour in February after claiming the party had \"been too apologetic\" in its response to criticism of handling anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nHe was reinstated in June but was suspended again after a backlash from MPs, peers and Jewish groups.\n\nLast month, he lost a High Court bid to be reinstated by the party - but the judge also ruled Labour acted unlawfully when it re-opened the disciplinary case against him.\n\nMarie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, called on Labour to go further after the NEC made what she called the \"correct\" decision to stop him standing again.\n\nShe said: \"Labour's leadership must now stop dragging their feet and act immediately to expel from the party this disgraced politician who has baited the Jewish community for far too long.\"\n\nStephen Hepburn was suspended by the Labour Party last month, as it launched an investigation into claims he sexually harassed a female party member in her 20s at a curry house 14 years ago.\n\nMr Hepburn said he \"completely refutes\" the allegation.\n\nRoger Godsiff, meanwhile, had been facing a vote of constituency party members over whether he should be allowed to stand again before the NEC stepped in.\n\nThe former MP has been at the centre of a row over his support for protesters against LGBT teaching and was formally reprimanded by Labour after he was seen in a video agreeing with the demonstrators.\n\nCorrection 7th November 2019: This article originally referred to how, if re-elected, Keith Vaz would not be able to take up his seat until his suspension ends. This has been amended to make clear that he could take up his seat, with the suspension requiring a new vote in the next parliament.", "British Airways has launched a review into a money-saving practice which increases its greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nIt follows a BBC investigation exposing \"fuel tankering\" by airlines - in which planes are filled with extra fuel, usually to avoid paying higher prices for refuelling at destination airports.\n\nThe industry-wide practice could mean extra annual emissions equivalent to those of a large European town.\n\nBA now says that using tankering to cut costs \"may be the wrong thing to do\".\n\nHowever, the airline added that it also uses the practice for safety and operational reasons, including helping planes to turn around quickly.\n\nBBC Panorama has discovered the airline's planes generated an extra 18,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide last year through fuel tankering.\n\nCost savings made on a single flight can be as small as just over £10 - though savings can run to hundreds of pounds.\n\nResearchers have estimated that one in five of all European airlines' flights involves some element of fuel tankering.\n\nThe practice on European routes could result in additional annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to that produced by a town of 100,000 people.\n\nCritics say the widespread use of the practice undermines the aviation industry's claims that it is committed to reducing its carbon emissions.\n\nJohn Sauven, Greenpeace UK's executive director, told the BBC that fuel tankering was a \"classic example of a company putting profit before planet\".\n\nResponding to BA's decision to carry out a review, Mr Sauven, said it showed how the airline industry had been treating climate change \"like a PR problem\".\n\n\"This is why we need government-enforced reduction targets to ensure airlines take responsibility for the damage their emissions are causing,\" he said.\n\nJohn Sauven called for rules and regulations to be \"tougher\"\n\nInternational Airlines Group (IAG), the company that owns BA, says it wants to be the world's leading airline group on sustainability.\n\nBA boasts it even prints its in-flight magazine on lighter paper to save weight.\n\nYet BBC Panorama has seen dozens of internal BA documents that show up to six tonnes of extra fuel have been loaded onto planes in this way. It has also seen evidence that Easyjet carries extra fuel in this way.\n\nAirlines can save money from the fact that the price of aviation fuel differs between European destinations.\n\nBA insiders say the company - like many airlines running short haul routes in Europe - has computer software that calculates whether costs can be saved by fuel tankering.\n\nThe software will calculate whether there is a cost saving to be made. If there is, crews load up the extra fuel.\n\nAn example of documents seen by Panorama show that a recent BA flight to Italy carried nearly three tonnes of extra fuel.\n\nThe extra weight meant the plane emitted more than 600kg of additional carbon dioxide - the same emissions one person is responsible for on a return flight to New York.\n\nThe cost saving on that trip was less than £40, but the documents Panorama has seen show that it can be even lower than that.\n\nIAG made an annual profit of €2.9bn (£2.6bn) in 2018, about 80% of which came from BA.\n\nA BA insider described the practice as \"hypocritical\".\n\n\"For such a big company to be trying to save such small amounts while emitting so much extra CO2 seems unjustifiable in the current climate,\" he said.\n\nIn response to the claims, the chief executive of BA's parent company, IAG, announced the airline would carry out a review of the practice.\n\nOn Friday, Willie Walsh told investors that the airline wanted to ensure it was not \"incentivising the wrong behaviour\" from managers.\n\n\"Because clearly the financial saving would have incentivised us to do fuel tankering,\" he said.\n\n\"But maybe... this the wrong thing to do and the wrong thing to incentive. So we want to make sure we have our incentives aligned to the right activities so ensure financial sustainability but also environmental sustainability.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to reduce your carbon footprint when you fly\n\nBA said it was common practice for the airline industry to carry additional fuel on some flights.\n\nThe airline said for BA this applies mainly to short-haul destinations \"where there are considerable price differences between European airports\".\n\nIt said the additional emissions from the airline represented approximately 2% of the total extra emissions generated by all airlines tankering fuel in Europe, based on research by Eurocontrol.\n\nBA pointed out that since 2012 all flights within Europe had been covered by the EU Emissions Trading System.\n\nIt added that from 2020 the company would offset all CO2 emissions from its UK domestic flights.\n\nEasyjet said it had reduced the level of tankering in recent years and that it only took place on a tiny proportion of flights for operational and commercial reasons.\n\nEurocontrol, the body which coordinates air traffic control for Europe, has calculated that tankering in Europe resulted in 286,000 tonnes of extra fuel being burnt every year, and the emission of an additional 901,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.\n\nIt calculates that the practice saved airlines a total of €265m (£228m) a year.\n\nEurocontrol described the practice as \"questionable\" at a time when aviation is being challenged for its contribution to climate change.\n\nPanorama: Can Flying Go Green? is on BBC1 at 20:30 GMT on 11 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour has pledged to keep free TV licences for over-75s if it wins power in the 12 December general election.\n\nThe BBC has said from 2020 only those on pension credit will qualify, after it was made responsible for funding them under the charter agreement.\n\nShadow culture secretary Tom Watson told the Daily Mirror the removal of the benefit was \"utterly callous\".\n\nIt has also been reported that Boris Johnson is looking to save the perk, as part of his election campaign.\n\nAccording to the Sun on Sunday, the prime minister has ordered officials to find a way to ensure no over 75s would need to pay as a \"priority\".\n\nThe BBC and the government have come under fierce criticism over the move to scrap free licences to all people aged over 75, which was announced in June.\n\nThe decision came after the government made the BBC shoulder the cost of the benefit as part of its funding settlement.\n\nThe corporation said retaining the benefit for all over-75s would have cost £745m - a fifth of the BBC's budget - by 2021-22 and led to \"unprecedented closures\".\n\nMr Watson, who is also Labour's deputy leader, made the party's announcement in the Mirror, saying: \"Four in 10 older people say the TV is their main source of company, but from next year 3.7 million older people will lose their free TV licence.\n\n\"It's disgraceful. Our message is clear - vote Labour to save free TV licences.\"\n\nPaul Johnson, director of economic think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), questioned the idea of free licences for over-75s.\n\nHe highlighted IFS analysis produced earlier this year which showed that households receiving a free licence had, on average, significantly lower poverty rates than other social groups, for example, families with children.\n\nHowever, charities such as Age UK have supported free licences for over-75s.\n\nIn July, they organised an open letter addressed to the next prime minister, signed by public figures including Dame Helen Mirren and Ricky Tomlinson, arguing they helped older people facing loneliness.\n\nThe letter said: \"For those who have lost a loved one, live alone, don't have family around and live with poor mobility and health issues, the TV provides a great source of companionship.\n\n\"It helps them connect to the outside world and brings news and entertainment to lonely and dark days.\"\n\nLast month, a committee of MPs urged both the BBC and government to find a way to keep the benefit.", "Labour is pledging to cut UK carbon emissions by 10% through the largest home improvement programme for decades.\n\nA Labour government would fund £60bn of energy-saving upgrades, such as loft insulation, enhanced double glazing and new heating systems, by 2030.\n\nLaunching the policy on Sunday, Jeremy Corbyn said it \"will create a sustainable energy network\", adding: \"We cannot go on polluting our planet.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said the plan would \"wreck the economy\" and \"put up bills\".\n\nSpeaking about the policy - called \"Warm Homes for All\" - in south-west London, Mr Corbyn said that climate change would be a major part of the party's election campaign.\n\n\"We cannot go on standing by while climate warming increases,\" the Labour leader said.\n\nLabour says low-income households will receive a grant to carry out the work on their homes, while wealthier households would receive interest-free loans for enhancements.\n\nHouseholds which take out the loan would pay it back through savings on energy bills, the party added.\n\nLabour expects the project to cost £250bn - an average of £9,300 per home - but only £60bn would come as a cost to central government, it says.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday, shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said the £60bn would come from its £250bn National Transformation Fund. Interest-free loans would make up the remaining cost of the policy, she said.\n\nShe added: \"Overall, we're looking at generating more jobs and supporting businesses through the economy, so that by 2030 the increased tax-take more than recoups that £60bn outlay.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Tories said, while tackling climate change was vital, \"independent experts and even Labour's own unions say their promises don't stack up\".\n\nLabour says its proposals would create 450,000 jobs involved in the installation of energy-saving measures and renewable and low-carbon technologies.\n\nAlmost all of the UK's 27 million homes would benefit from the pledge, either through a grant to fund works in full, or an interest-free loan, it said.\n\nInterest-free loans to improve the energy efficiency of homes are already available in Scotland, where the issue is devolved to the Scottish government.\n\nA Labour spokeswoman told the BBC the party would make every effort to work with devolved powers to implement the plan across the whole of the UK.\n\nThe party said the plan would cut carbon emissions by 10% by the year 2030 and reduce energy bills for 9.6 million low-income households by an average of £417 a year.\n\nThe policy echoes previous announcements from Labour, including a pledge last year to create over 400,000 skilled jobs through investment in renewable energy and making homes energy efficient.\n\nOver the past year or so the Labour Party has come out with a series of proposals to improve the energy efficiency of British homes.\n\nThis plan is far larger - and also far more expensive. It involves, over the next decade, spending £250bn to fit every UK house with double-glazing and loft insulation, heat pumps and solar panels.\n\nHouseholds with low incomes would not pay anything. Wealthier ones would get interest free loans. Everyone, it's said, would benefit from lower bills and the UK as a whole would see its carbon emissions fall.\n\nMuch of the country's housing stock is relatively old and upgrading it is seen as essential to meeting our targets on climate change. But critics will say Labour's scheme lacks detail and that the estimates for the costs are unrealistic.\n\nThe initiative comes a day after the Conservatives called a halt to fracking, a sign that the political parties sense the environment has become a key issue for voters.\n\nOutlining where the additional jobs would be created, Labour said an estimated 250,000 skilled jobs would be in the construction industry - roles like insulation specialists, plasterers, carpenters and electricians.\n\nIn addition, it claimed the investment would generate another 200,000 jobs \"across the economy\".\n\nMs Long-Bailey said the pledge was \"one of the greatest investment projects since we rebuilt Britain's housing after the Second World War\".\n\nShe said: \"Labour will offer every household in the UK the chance to bring the future into their homes - upgrading the fabric of their homes with insulation and cutting edge heating systems - tackling both climate change and extortionate bills.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said: \"The reality is that Jeremy Corbyn's plans would wreck the economy, putting up bills for hardworking families - and preventing any real progress on climate change.\n\n\"Only Boris Johnson and the Conservatives have a proper plan to continue reducing carbon emissions faster than any other G20 country, building on the 400,000 low-carbon jobs we've already created, while keeping bills low.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Labour said it would ensure all new-build homes in Britain were \"zero carbon\" within three years.\n\nIt said a Labour government would introduce \"tough\" standards on new builds which would see homes fitted with solar panels and a ban on gas boilers.\n\nThe party has previously said it intends to bring energy supply networks into public ownership.\n\nIt comes as the government called a halt to shale gas extraction - commonly known as fracking - in England amid fears about earthquakes.\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party want to ban fracking permanently.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Strictly Come Dancing professionals Johannes and Graziano dance together\n\nStrictly star Johannes Radebe says he feels accepted for the first time in his life after he made history on the show by dancing with another man.\n\nJohannes Radebe and fellow professional Graziano di Prima performed together to Emeli Sande's Shine on Sunday's Strictly Come Dancing results show.\n\nViewers said they were moved to tears as the series made history with its first individual same-sex dance.\n\nOne tweeted that she felt her \"heart was going to burst.\"\n\nFormer Strictly winner Joe McFadden congratulated the show for the move.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joe McFadden This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome viewers found it an emotional moment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by p This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJohannes, who was eliminated from the competition last weekend along with his celebrity partner Catherine Tyldesley, told Hello! magazine: \"I've never felt so liberated. For the first time in my life, I feel accepted for who I am. That says so much about the people of this country.\n\n\"To be able to dance with a friend I respect and adore is joyous. There's bromance galore between us, but there were no male and female roles, just free movement. It was beautiful, classy and elegant.\"\n\nJohannes posted his delight at the performance on Instagram, as did Graziano on Twitter.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johannesradebe This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Labour MP Sir Lindsay Hoyle was regarded as the frontrunner for the role\n\n\"A kind of embodiment of the British constitution,\" one Westminster savant told me, the sort of politician who has been marinated in parliamentary practice so long they have an instinctive feel for its unwritten rules and unspoken conventions.\n\nTo him, Lindsay Hoyle is a classic example of the political operator turned constitutional fixture.\n\nHis father was an MP (and is now a Labour Peer) and he served as a councillor in his home seat of Chorley in Lancashire, becoming deputy leader, before moving to Parliament in 1997.\n\nThis is a man steeped in politics.\n\nAnd that shows through in other ways.\n\nHe is seen in the tea room as a strategic streetwise campaigner, who set his eyes on the prize he won today perhaps a decade ago, when he was one of the first three MPs to be elected as deputy Speaker.\n\n\"The by-ways of Lancashire are littered with the bodies of those who've underestimated Lindsay,\" one former parliamentary neighbour told me.\n\nThere is steel under the cheerful surface.\n\nThe succession to John Bercow had been a Westminster talking point for at least 18 months, and it was striking how cautious potential competitors were about showing their hand too soon, with Lindsay already spoken of as the commanding frontrunner in that race.\n\nWhen the election finally came, much later than many expected, he played a cautious hand - emphasising his record in the chair, for example during the terror attack on Westminster.\n\nHe has also been the point of contact for MPs concerned about security issues, for themselves, their staff and their families - a vital role in the current political climate.\n\nHis list of nominators was a careful cross-section of serious backbenchers - balanced on Brexit and on party factions, and on political generations.\n\nLindsay Hoyle with his array of animals, all named after politicians including Dennis and Patrick the cats, Gordon and Betty the dogs, parrot Boris, and tortoise Maggie\n\nHeading the list of nominators was Sir Charles Walker, vice chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee, and one of those who dragged John Bercow to the chair (I'm told he won't be doing any dragging this time, though).\n\nSir Charles was talked of as a potential candidate himself, so it was quite a coup to have him front and centre, signalling seriousness of purpose and a dash of reform-mindedness to MPs.\n\nAs chairman of the Commons Procedure Committee, Mr Walker has a shopping list of changes he wants to implement, but he has also shown his disquiet at some of Speaker Bercow's recent rulings, so his support sends a nuanced message.\n\nWhat kind of Speaker will he be?\n\nSir Lindsay has taken the traditional route - serving since 2010 as a deputy, so MPs have had plenty of opportunities to observe his avuncular style, and, on occasion to contrast it favourably with Speaker Bercow's.\n\nAnd as the senior deputy, the Chairman of Ways and Means, he has a guaranteed spot in the limelight every year, chairing the Budget debates (this is a tradition going back to the Stuart kings, when the Speaker was seen as an agent of the Crown, while the deputy was chosen by MPs and therefore seen as more suited to chairing debates on taxation).\n\nHe also selects amendments to be considered when MPs sit as a Committee of the Whole House, as they did over the Early Election Bill, last week.\n\nHis decision to rule out amendments not strictly within the compass of the Bill bolstered his reputation as a straight shooter who was not keen on Bercow-esque stretching of the rules.\n\nIf there is to be change, the likelihood is that it will be by consensus, and probably with the stamp of approval of Sir Charles's committee.\n\nBut Mr Speaker Hoyle could find himself having to decide, in the heat of controversy, whether to allow some of his predecessor's innovations to continue; extra amendments to the address of thanks for the Queen's Speech (Speaker Bercow's 2013 decision to allow an extra amendment ratcheted up the Commons pressure for an EU referendum), amendments to Business of the House Motions and substantive emergency motions.\n\nThese all sound like technical in-house issues, but their impact on the politics of the last few years has been enormous.\n\nSome of these questions may not arise if there is a stable government majority to vote them down - but, especially if there is a hung Parliament, the new Speaker may have to decide whether to accept or reject some of the precedents that have been set in the last few years. And the consequences could be huge.\n\nEven if the next House of Commons has a majority, the chances are that it will not default back to its 2005 factory settings - and MPs will still expect plenty of urgent questions, emergency debates and chances to put their questions at PMQs, and a Speaker who seeks to erase the practice of the last decade may get some pushback.\n\nAnd MPs will also expect their Speaker to stand up to ministers where appropriate - which is a lot more difficult to do where the government has a majority.\n\nIn conducting debates, his put-downs and shuttings-up will be gentler, and the advice of the clerks - those priests of parliamentary practice - is more likely to be implemented.\n\nWith a demand for a kinder, gentler politics, this could help the Commons lead the way.", "The deaths of 39 Vietnamese people in the back of a lorry in Essex should act as a \"wake-up call for the government\" over its migration policy, MPs say.\n\nA report from the Foreign Affairs Select Committee says the UK's policy of closing borders drives migrants into smugglers' hands.\n\nCommittee chair and Tory MP Tom Tugendhat said the UK should \"lead by example\" on the issue.\n\nThe government said tackling human trafficking is a \"major priority\".\n\nThe bodies of eight women and 31 men were found in a lorry trailer on an industrial estate in Grays on 23 October.\n\nMr Tugendhat, the MP for Tonbridge and Malling, said the incident had \"shocked us all\".\n\nHe said: \"The full story won't be clear for some time but this tragedy is not alone.\n\n\"Today, hundreds of families across the world are losing loved ones who felt driven to take the fatal gamble to entrust their lives to smugglers.\n\n\"This case should serve as a wake-up call to the Foreign Office and to government.\"\n\nMeanwhile, police investigating the lorry deaths in Nghe An province said eight people have been arrested in connection with people smuggling.\n\nThe committee's report says the human cost of so-called \"irregular\" migration - which takes place outside laws, regulations, and agreements - made international partnerships, including with the EU, \"essential\".\n\nIt found UK representatives \"have already ceased to attend EU-level meetings where irregular migration is discussed\".\n\nThe committee called on the government to \"urgently resume\" its attendance at the meetings during the delay to Brexit and to seek to attend them afterwards \"wherever it is possible\".\n\nDuring the 2015 refugee crisis, the UK received asylum applications from just 2% of the 1.4m people on the move.\n\nThe UK used two EU deals to keep numbers down: it opted out of an agreement to redistribute refugees and used another rule to send people to other states.\n\nIt has a seat in the EU's European Migrant Smuggling Centre, dedicated to gathering intelligence and catching the gangs - and has taken part in naval operations.\n\nBut after Brexit, nobody knows if the UK will be allowed to take part in any joint initiatives.\n\nWhen Helen Wheeler, a foreign office minister, was quizzed by MPs alongside her chief official on Mediterranean migration, she couldn't say if the UK had been at the EU's last key meeting on tackling illegal migration - it hadn't - or whether it would attend the next.\n\nThe report finds government agreements to limit irregular migration from certain countries, including Libya, Niger and Sudan, risk \"fuelling human rights abuses, and endorsing authoritarian regimes\".\n\nThe committee adds it is concerned by evidence of \"dire conditions\" for migrants in northern France, where many of those intending to reach the UK gather.\n\nIt says the government's focus on security at ports there \"has pushed migrants to take more dangerous routes\" to the UK.\n\nPham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luon are feared to be among the lorry death victims\n\nOne witness tells the committee that enhanced security had led to an increase in people trying to get to Britain on small boats across the English Channel.\n\nThe committee also says the government should consider \"wider, interlinked factors\" driving irregular migration \"including climate change, conflict, repressive governance and corruption - rather than focusing narrowly on reducing the numbers reaching Europe's borders in the short term\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Calais migrants caught on camera trying to reach the UK - This video has no sound\n\nOther recommendations include the expansion of legal pathways to apply for asylum outside Europe.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Tackling the scourge of human trafficking at every stage of the migrant journey - overseas, at our borders and in the UK - is a major priority.\n\n\"The UK does this by addressing irregular migration, from reducing factors driving migration - conflict, instability and poverty - to strengthening border security and counter-trafficking operations.\n\n\"The UK government and law enforcement agencies work extensively with international partners, key transit countries, and the nations of origin to stand up to this global criminal industry that perpetuates human suffering.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBrescia striker Mario Balotelli has criticised the \"small-minded\" fans who shouted racist abuse at him on Sunday.\n\nBalotelli, 29, kicked the ball into the crowd and threatened to walk off the pitch following abuse during Brescia's 2-1 away loss against Hellas Verona.\n\n\"This has nothing to do with football,\" said the Italian, who played for Manchester City and Liverpool.\n\n\"You are getting into social and historical situations that are bigger than you, you small-minded people.\"\n\nBalotelli posted a message on Instagram in response to Luca Castellini, the head of the Verona ultras, who had said \"Balotelli is Italian because he has Italian citizenship, but he can never be completely Italian.\"\n\nCastellini added they had recently signed a black player \"and the whole of Verona applauded him\".\n\nBalotelli, who has played 36 times for Italy and helped them reach the final of the 2012 European Championships, added: \"Wake up you imbeciles, you are shambolic.\n\n\"When Mario scored a goal for Italy, and - I guarantee you - I will do so again, you are fine with that, aren't you?\"\n\nFormer Tottenham and Portsmouth midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, who also faced racist abuse when playing in Italy, says \"nothing has changed\" in football's fight against racism.\n\nBoateng, who now plays for Fiorentina, refused to continue playing a friendly for his AC Milan side against Pro Patria in January 2013 in protest at racist abuse from the terraces, with the match then abandoned.\n\n\"Six years later nothing has changed but we don't give up,\" he tweeted. \"Let's keep fighting all together against racism. #Notoracism.\"\n\nPremier League side Watford have reported racist abuse directed at defender Christian Kabasele to Hertfordshire Constabulary.\n\nThe 28-year-old Belgian defender had earlier flagged up the abusive post as part of Watford's #BuzzOff campaign, which calls out discrimination on social media.\n\nWatford wrote on Twitter that they \"have already received a crime reference number from the Hate Crime team\" and added they would \"report back news of any action against the offender\".", "Duncan Carson is taking advice from his union after rejecting the new terms\n\nDuncan Carson has just lost his job as a baker at an Asda store near Stoke, but he is preparing to put up a fight.\n\nHe is among the Asda workers who have been sacked after refusing to sign up to new contracts, but he aims to take the supermarket to an employment tribunal.\n\n\"I think someone should stand up to them,\" he said. \"What is the point in having a contract if they can unilaterally change it?\"\n\nAsda gave its workers until midnight on Saturday to agree to new terms, which include unpaid breaks, changes to night shift payments and being called to work at shorter notice.\n\nThe supermarket said 120,000 workers had agreed to the deal, and that fewer than 300 had yet to sign up to the new contract.\n\nBut Mr Carson, who has worked for Asda for 13 years, said the new contract was \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"I have an appointment with my union officer on Thursday to start the process,\" he said.\n\nHe usually works from 06:00 until noon as a baker, which he says suits him as he is used to working mornings. The new contract means he can be asked to work any hours from 05:00 until midnight.\n\nThe move will destroy trust in the business, he says. While the new terms stipulate that Asda must give four weeks' notice of new shift patterns, \"what will stop them changing it again?\" he asks.\n\nAsda has extended its deadline to accept the new term by a week, meaning workers who return can do so on the new terms. Those who do not will remain sacked, however.\n\n\"We have been clear that we do not want anyone to leave us as a result of this necessary change and so we have written to the fewer than 300 colleagues who have not signed the contract to offer a little more time to sign up and continue to work with us, should they wish,\" the company said.\n\nIt added that it had always been clear that it understood people had responsibilities outside of work and would \"always help them to balance these with their work life\".\n\nNeil Derrick, GMB regional officer for Yorkshire and North Derbyshire, said his union would offer advice on what legal challenges his members can mount.\n\n\"We are working with every individual member with a view to lodging a claim,\" he said, which might be based on unfair dismissal, sex discrimination or potentially disability discrimination.\n\nMany Asda workers are women who are on part-time contracts to fit in with looking after family members, he added.\n\n\"This new contract completely turns that on its head,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Sarah Crowther, a barrister at Outer Temple Chambers, noted that other retailers had made similar contract changes and that they were perfectly legal.\n\nShe said employees that refused to accept the changes had two potential ways to make a claim: unfair dismissal or indirect discrimination.\n\n\"Those with two years of qualifying employment could bring a claim for unfair dismissal. In that situation it would depend on whether the tribunal was satisfied that there was a good business reason and that procedurally everything had been done with adequate consultation,\" she told the BBC's Today Programme.\n\nMs Crowther added that people \"disproportionately affected\" by the change such as \"those less able to accommodate the flexibility... might have a case, but then it would be open to an employer to justify that\".\n\nLast week, Leeds-based Asda said it was increasing its hourly pay rates.\n\nThe supermarket said it would raise its basic rate for its hourly-paid retail employees to £9.18 an hour from 1 April next year, following an increase to £9 from 3 November.\n\nIn London, which has an additional allowance to reflect the higher cost of living, basic pay will increase to £10.31 an hour.\n\nThe retailer, owned by Walmart, acknowledged that the announcement for April pay rises had come earlier that usual.", "Artwork: The Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977\n\nData sent back by the two Voyager spacecraft have shed new light on the structure of the Solar System.\n\nForty-two years after they were launched, the spacecraft are still going strong and exploring the outer reaches of our cosmic neighbourhood.\n\nBy analysing data sent back by the probes, scientists have worked out the shape of the vast magnetic bubble that surrounds the Sun.\n\nThe two spacecraft are now more than 10 billion miles from Earth.\n\nResearchers detail their findings in six separate studies published in the journal Nature Astronomy.\n\n\"We had no good quantitative idea how big this bubble is that the Sun creates around itself with its solar wind - ionised plasma that's speeding away from the Sun radially in all directions,\" said Ed Stone, the longstanding project scientist for the missions.\n\n\"We certainly didn't know that the spacecraft could live long enough to reach the edge and leave the bubble to enter interstellar space.\"\n\nThe plasma consists of charged particles and gas that permeate space on both sides of the magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere.\n\nMeasurements show that the identical probes have exited the heliosphere and entered interstellar space - the region between stars. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, Voyager 2 crossed over late last year. The key sign in both cases was a jump in the density of plasma.\n\nThis showed that the spacecraft were passing from an environment with hot, lower density plasma characteristic of the solar wind and entering a region with the cool, higher density plasma thought to be found in interstellar space.\n\nThe boundary between the two regions is known as the heliopause.\n\nArtwork showing the heliosphere, along with the interstellar medium\n\n\"We saw the plasma density at the heliopause jump by a very large amount - a factor of 20, at this rather sharp boundary out there,\" said Prof Don Gurnett, from the University of Iowa.\n\n\"Actually, with Voyager One we saw an even bigger jump.\"\n\nThe findings suggest that the heliosphere is symmetrical, at least at the two points that the Voyager spacecraft crossed. The researchers say these points are almost at the same distance from the Sun, indicating a spherical front to the bubble - \"like a blunt bullet\", according to Prof Gurnett.\n\nThe results also provide clues to the the thickness of the \"heliosheath\", the outer region of the magnetic bubble. This is the point where the solar wind piles up against the approaching wind of particles in interstellar space, which Prof Gurnett likens to the effect of a snow plow on a city street.\n\nThe heliosheath appears to vary in its thickness. This is based on data showing that Voyager 1 had to travel further than its twin to reach the heliopause, where the solar wind and the interstellar wind are in balance.\n\nSome had thought Voyager 2 would make that crossing into interstellar space first, based on models of the magnetic bubble.\n\n\"In a historical sense, the old idea that the solar wind will just be gradually whittled away as you go further into interstellar space is simply not true,\" says Don Gurnett.\n\n\"We show with Voyager 2 - and previously with Voyager 1 - that there's a distinct boundary out there. It's just astonishing how fluids, including plasmas, form boundaries.\"", "Renowned Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne has died at the age of 85.\n\nA broadcasting giant in the Republic of Ireland, he hosted the Late Late Show for more than 30 years on the country's national broadcaster RTÉ.\n\nMajor figures from entertainment and politics paid tribute to him after his death on Monday after a long illness.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins said Byrne was a \"man of great charisma\", had compassion in abundance and a \"sense of what was just\".\n\nRTÉ's director general Dee Forbes described him as an exceptional broadcaster with a \"unique and groundbreaking style\".\n\n\"He not only defined generations but he deftly arbitrated the growth and development of a nation,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Ireland grew up under Gay Byrne and we will never see his like again.\"\n\nHis wife Kathleen and their daughters Crona and Suzy said he died at home surrounded by his family.\n\n\"We wish to thank everybody for their love and support during Gay's illness, particularly the wonderful teams in the Mater Hospital, St Francis Hospice and the Irish Cancer Society,\" they said.\n\nGay Byrne interviewed Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams on the Late Late Show in 1994\n\nGay Byrne, or Gaybo as he was almost universally known, was the leading Irish broadcaster of his era.\n\nAs anchor of the Late Late Show, he steered the audience through the highs and lows of Irish life.\n\nFrom Ballybunion to Buncrana, he was a familiar and controversial face on Irish screens every Friday night, presiding over the shifting moods of the country.\n\nRead more: The leading Irish broadcaster of his era\n\nByrne hosted the Late Late Show - which combined light entertainment and current affairs - in a relaxed but intelligent manner.\n\nThe show embraced discussion about divorce, abortion and sexuality, which were regarded as controversial subjects in Ireland at the time.\n\nIt made headlines with highlights such as a 1993 interview with Annie Murphy, who had a child with the former Bishop of Galway Eamon Casey.\n\nByrne's wife Kathleen Watkins - pictured with him in 2015 - said he died surrounded by his family\n\nIn 1992, the then Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke fell foul of the show when he was coaxed into singing Oh My Darling Clementine on a day when seven Protestant workmen were killed in an IRA bomb.\n\nByrne also fronted a long-running radio show that was first known as the Gay Byrne Hour and later the Gay Byrne Show.\n\nHe also presented the Rose of Tralee pageant, the Housewife of the Year competition and a range of special programmes.\n\nHe presented his final daily radio show in 1998 and his last Late Late Show the following summer.\n\nEarly in his career he also worked for Granada Television and the BBC.\n\nPresident Higgins said Mr Byrne's work \"shone a light not only on the bright but also the dark sides of Irish life\".\n\n\"[He helped] shape our conscience, our self-image and our idea of who we might be,\" added the president.\n\nSome of Byrne's fellow broadcasters took to social media to pay tribute to him.\n\nGraham Norton, the Irish presenter who hosts TV and radio shows for the BBC, said Byrne \"showed us all how it should be done\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by graham norton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIrish comedian and presenter Dara Ó Briain tweeted that Byrne had lived an \"enormous life\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Dara Ó Briain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPresenter Eamonn Holmes, from Northern Ireland, called him \"the broadcaster we all wanted to be\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Eamonn Holmes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nByrne was described as Ireland's greatest broadcaster by the ITV presenter Piers Morgan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Irish former Manchester United and Aston Villa footballer Paul McGrath, who was interviewed by Byrne, said the presenter had been \"so kind to me\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Paul McGrath This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said Byrne \"changed Ireland for the better\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Leo Varadkar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDublin's lord mayor said a book of condolence would open on Tuesday to allow people to send their sympathies to Byrne's family.\n\nIn spite of his considerable success, Byrne faced financial problems after his pension was wiped out during the Irish recession.\n\nA dispute between a financial fund and his family partnership was settled in court last year.", "The NHS in Scotland is to receive £10m to help cope with the \"particular pressures\" of winter, the health secretary has announced.\n\nJeane Freeman said the money would go to health boards and the ambulance service to ensure they were \"well prepared\" for the coming months.\n\nThe money will be spent on staffing and efforts to tackle bed blocking.\n\nIt comes as Labour's Richard Leonard accused Scottish ministers of \"failing to plan for the future of the NHS\".\n\nWatchdogs last month warned Scotland's NHS was \"seriously struggling to become financially sustainable\".\n\nScotland's largest health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, will receive the biggest share of the cash, almost £2.14m, with NHS Lothian in line to receive more than £1.4m.\n\nMs Freeman said the funding would help ensure those who were well enough to leave hospital could be discharged at weekends and over holiday periods.\n\nShe added: \"Winter creates particular pressures on our health and social care system, so it's important that we are well prepared.\"\n\nJeane Freeman said the money would support boards as well as health and social care services\n\nShe said the money would support boards as well as health and social care services.\n\nSpeaking ahead of a visit to Monklands Hospital in North Lanarkshire, Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard accused the Scottish government of being \"asleep at the wheel\" when it came to the management of the health service.\n\nThe Central Scotland MSP will highlight what he describes as a \"catalogue of missed targets that ministers have set for themselves\".\n\nHe will say: \"Be in no doubt: you cannot trust the Tories with our NHS - they opposed its creation, and they are intent on destroying it once and for all if we leave the EU.\n\n\"Be in no doubt: you cannot trust the SNP with our NHS - they have mismanaged it for over a decade. The SNP is asleep at the wheel as our health service faces its biggest danger since it was created.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has made a number of NHS spending pledges for the rest of the UK since becoming prime minister which, if enacted, would result in additional funding for services in Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nParties should not use the NHS as \"a political weapon\" in the election campaign, health service bosses say.\n\nNHS Providers chief Chris Hopson said \"over-dramatising NHS difficulties\" or making \"disingenuous\" funding claims did the service \"no favours\".\n\nBoth the Tories and Labour are vowing to spend billions to improve care.\n\nBut Mr Hopson, who acts for health trust leaders in England, urged parties not to make \"empty promises\" or create \"unrealistic expectations\".\n\nThe long-term future of the NHS and social care is likely to be a key battleground in the run-up to the 12 December election.\n\nThe Tories are expected to trumpet extra spending on the health service in England, including a £2.7bn investment for six hospitals over five years and £100m for a further 34 hospitals to start developing future projects.\n\nThis is on top of an extra £20bn in funding agreed by Theresa May's government up to 2023.\n\nLabour argues the NHS is reeling from the tightest funding squeeze in modern history since 2010, which it says has left nearly four and half million people waiting for treatment and seen thousands of cancelled operations last year.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said he will end austerity in the NHS via a \"proper funding settlement\", with the exact details to be announced ahead of the launch of the party's manifesto.\n\nMr Hopson called for a \"proper, mature, evidence-based\" debate on what the NHS needs.\n\n\"Let's not resort to the cheap political slogans and skimming across the top which is what we've seen over the last four or five elections,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nWriting on the Times website, he said it was understandable that during election campaigns politicians should \"cast themselves as champions and defenders of the NHS\".\n\nHowever, he warned \"it becomes counter-productive when the NHS is used as a political weapon\" - something he said leaders in the health service were worried was already starting to happen in this campaign.\n\nIt is unrealistic to expect the parties to dial down their highly-charged debates on the subject.\n\nBut NHS Providers argues that already things are getting out of hand with signs that the NHS is being \"weaponised\".\n\nUnderlying all this is a warning that the NHS in England cannot seem to keep up with growing demand for care, which is \"particularly worrying\" with winter looming.\n\nHospital chiefs are known to be concerned that there was intense pressure in recent weeks before winter had really set in. How that pressure develops before polling day could be a major issue in this campaign.\n\nWhile there were areas where \"the NHS is falling short\", he said \"over-dramatising or distorting the difficulties for political ends will do nothing to help those frontline staff who are working flat out for patients\".\n\nAnd Carrie MacEwen, from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said undeliverable promises \"simply set up the NHS to fail\".\n\n\"The NHS's role is to manage the health of the nation, not to be used as a tool to swing voters in a three-way marginal,\" she told the Times. \"Our fear is in these febrile times we will see irrational, undeliverable promises or even outright lies.\"\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he agreed that the NHS \"shouldn't be weaponised\" during the election campaign but voters deserved an \"honest debate about it.\"\n\nSpeaking after a visit to Unison headquarters to meet NHS staff, he also repeated that under a Labour government, the health service would be \"brought back in house\" when privatised contracts \"come to an end\".\n\nThe Tories have repudiated Labour claims that privatisation has exploded in recent years, pointing to figures showing the total number of private contracts has remained static at 7% in the past four years.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock accused Labour of peddling \"scare stories\" to try and win votes because they have \"nothing positive to offer\".\n\n\"These stories worry some of the most vulnerable people in the country, who the Labour Party used to say they represented,\" he said in a video message on Twitter. \"It is only with the Conservatives, with our strong support for the economy, that we can make sure the health service is always there for you and your family.\"\n\nBut former Conservative health secretary Stephen Dorrell, who is standing as a Lib Dem candidate in the election, said both the main parties were driven by ideology when it came to the issue.\n\nThe NHS, he told the BBC Radio 4's World at One, was a \"perfect example of a place where our economy works best when the public and private work together\".\n\nDo you have any other questions about the election in the UK?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Government spending is likely to head back towards 1970s levels over the next parliament whichever party wins the general election, research suggests.\n\nThink tank the Resolution Foundation said both Labour and the Conservatives were planning big increases in the size of the state.\n\nBut it said they faced \"huge questions\" over how they would pay for it.\n\nThe Conservatives said they were focusing on people's priorities. Labour has been contacted for a response.\n\nThe 1970s are often described as a period of economic turmoil for the UK, with public spending soaring during the decade.\n\nManifestos for the 12 December general election have not been published yet.\n\nBut the Resolution Foundation, which aims to promote higher living standards for people on low and middle incomes, based its estimates on what the main parties have promised to date, as well as the underlying trends affecting the UK economy.\n\nIt said that if the Conservatives won and simply maintained current spending levels - which were recently raised - then public spending as a share of the economy was likely to climb to 41.3% by 2023-4.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid is pumping money into public services that were problematic for the Conservatives at the last election\n\nThat would be \"well above\" the average of 37.4% seen in the two decades running up to the financial crisis of 2007-8, and \"marginally\" below the 42% seen between 1966 and 1984.\n\nHowever, any further spending increases on areas like the NHS would take it above the 1970s average, the Resolution Foundation said.\n\nIf Labour won the election, by contrast, the think tank said government spending as a share of GDP was likely to rise to 43.3% by 2023-4.\n\nThat assumes the party would re-commit to the £48.6bn of extra spending it promised in its 2017 manifesto, while investing billions extra in capital infrastructure projects.\n\n\"This would mean the size of the state under Labour being significantly above the 1970s average,\" the Resolution Foundation said.\n\nJohn McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn want to invest more in infrastructure\n\nLabour has argued that its spending plans will create a fairer society and continue to grow the economy.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Sajid Javid has recently signalled his desire to boost spending to end austerity.\n\nHe said: \"We make no apologies for focusing on the people's priorities. At this election, we will set our plans in a fully funded manifesto, balancing the need to keep borrowing under control and investing in our future.\"\n\nHowever, the Resolution Foundation said that given current economic uncertainty facing the UK - and the growing cost of an ageing population - both parties needed to explain how they intended to pay for their plans.\n\nMatt Whittaker, deputy chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, said: \"After an unprecedented decade of austerity, both main parties are gearing up to turn the spending taps back on.\n\n\"Whichever party wins is going to face huge questions about how they are going to pay for Britain's growing state. The fact is that whatever promises are made over the course of this election campaign, taxes are going to have to rise over the coming decade.\"\n\nIt said that Labour had specified £49bn of tax rises, but these were unlikely to be enough to fully fund its plans.\n\nOn the other hand, it said the Conservatives had placed more of an emphasis on tax cuts - leaving an \"even bigger funding question\" over their economic plans.", "An air ambulance was called to the scene of the crash, on the M23 near Hooley, Surrey\n\nA man has died while taking part in a classic car rally after his vintage vehicle crashed with a lorry on a motorway.\n\nThe 80-year-old, driving a 1903 Knox Runabout Old Porcupine, was killed at the scene of the crash on the M23 in Surrey at about 10:00 GMT.\n\nHis female passenger was seriously injured and taken to hospital.\n\nThe car had been entered into the Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThey said the car had \"left the route, which does not include the M23, when the crash took place\".\n\nMore than 400 vehicles dating from before 1905 were registered to take part in this year's run.\n\nThe crash happened on the southbound carriageway, near Hooley.\n\nMore than 400 pre-1905 cars were taking part in this year's Veteran Car Run, which was started by Alan Titchmarsh\n\nThe road remains closed both ways between junctions seven and eight, close to the M25 junction.\n\nThe run's organisers added: \"We are doing all we can to support the family concerned and are working with the police, but we cannot comment any further at this stage.\"\n\nSurrey Police urged anyone who witnessed the collision, or has dashcam footage, to get in touch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Veteran Car Run dates back to 1927 and commemorates the Emancipation Run of 1896 which celebrated the new-found freedom of motorists granted by the \"repeal of the Red Flag Act\".\n\nThe speed limit was raised to 14mph and the need for a man carrying a red flag to walk ahead of cars when they were being driven was abolished.\n\nThe 60-mile run began in London's Hyde Park at dawn, and the route included heading down the A23 through Gatwick, Crawley and Burgess Hill before finishing in Madeira Drive, Brighton.\n\nTwo years ago, six people were injured during the run when a 1902 Benz was involved in a crash with three other cars at Reigate Hill in Surrey.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Newsreader Huw Edwards will be the lead presenter for the BBC's 2019 election night coverage, taking over from the long-serving David Dimbleby.\n\nFran Unsworth, the BBC's director of news, said he would be \"the perfect presenter to have at the helm as a trusted and authoritative guide\".\n\nEdwards said he hoped \"to put his 35 years of experience to good use\".\n\nHe said his job was to guide viewers through what he called \"the most important election for decades\".\n\n\"Our aim in BBC News is to provide the best possible service to voters in a very uncertain world,\" he said.\n\nEdwards will serve as lead presenter of the BBC's election night coverage on 12 December and will be joined by Reeta Chakrabarti, Andrew Neil and Tina Daheley.\n\nJeremy Vine will use the traditional \"swingometer\" to measure electoral shifts, while Sophie Raworth will analyse the results as they come in on a giant constituency map of the UK.\n\nSarah Smith and Kirsty Wark will broadcast live from Scotland, while Naga Munchetty, Andrew Marr and Nick Robinson will be among the presenters reporting from key constituency locations.\n\nPolitical editor Laura Kuenssberg, Europe editor Katya Adler, economics editor Faisal Islam and media editor Amol Rajan will also be part of the election programme team.\n\nEmily Maitlis will become the first female news anchor to front the BBC's coverage of day two.\n\nHe will follow in the footsteps of long-time election presenter David Dimbleby\n\nUnsworth said the 2019 election was \"one of the most important - and unpredictable - elections for years\".\n\n\"The BBC's aim is simple,\" she said. \"We want to give audiences the information they need to help them decide how to cast their vote.\"\n\nWriting in her blog, the BBC's director of news and current affairs said audiences should expect a range of opinions and political persuasions to be given air time.\n\nThe BBC, she said, would \"report on, scrutinise, and interview representatives from all relevant political parties\".\n\n\"Interviewing is not 'platforming' and reporting someone's words isn't an endorsement of what they've said.\"\n\nDavid Dimbleby was the BBC's main presenter for all UK general elections from 1979 to 2017.\n\nLast year the veteran presenter stepped down as host of Question Time, having chaired the show since 1994.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None As it happened: Parliament's last day", "Frankie Brunker's children Ayla and Jago still use the Little Bird lamp that was bought for their sister\n\nAs Mothercare announces the closure of all 79 of its UK stores, parents share their memories of the baby brand.\n\nIt was once the one-stop shop for all things baby-related, but Mothercare has been loss-making for years and now 2,500 jobs are at risk.\n\nFrankie Brunker, from Hertfordshire, said the brand held poignant memories for her after she bought a Little Bird bedside lamp and cot bedding during her first pregnancy in 2013.\n\nFrankie Brunker said she made meaningful connections with Mothercare ranges\n\n\"Sadly we never got to use it for our daughter as she was stillborn at full term a couple of months later,\" she said.\n\n\"We'd barely bought anything for her as we were fortunate to have so many hand-me-downs from relatives, so those purchases became even more meaningful as items that were connected just to her.\n\n\"I would sit in her beautifully-decorated nursery with her little light on when I was pregnant with her little brother, hoping against hope that he would arrive safely.\n\n\"Thankfully he did in October 2014, and we were able to welcome another little girl into our family in March 2017.\"\n\nFrankie Brunker said she loved Mothercare's Little Bird clothing range\n\nThe family still use the lamp, while the brightly-coloured Little Bird clothing range became their favourite, she said.\n\n\"It was not only because of the association with rainbow babies born, the name given to babies born after a loss, but just because we loved the colourful gender-neutral designs,\" she said.\n\n\"It will be a huge shame if Little Bird goes along with Mothercare.\"\n\nAisa Kara said Mothercare's online offering was not as strong as competitors\n\nAisa Kara's parenting journey started in Mothercare when she used its Babybond ultrasound scanning service.\n\nShe has fond memories of having her early pregnancy scan in the store on Nottingham's Castle Marina Retail Park.\n\n\"I was so anxious waiting for my 12-week scan, and I don't think either of us could believe it was actually happening, so we booked our private appointment,\" she said.\n\n\"Everything was OK and we viewed a heartbeat, so we left elated, and as it was in Mothercare we got to buy our first item of baby clothing at the same time. That's when it dawned on us that it was all real.\"\n\nAisa Kara dressed her children Arabella and Theo almost exclusively in Mothercare clothes\n\nMs Kara, who is mother to Arabella, aged five, and Theo, two, said: \"We bought all our nursery items and pushchair from there, and my daughter and son have been dressed in Mothercare almost exclusively.\n\n\"My only complaint is that the online experience isn't as good as you would have expected from a company trying to keep up with the market.\"\n\nShona Parker, from Carterton, Oxfordshire, posted a picture of a baby name book from Mothercare.\n\n\"My own mum used it to name a couple of my siblings; I now have a baby of my own and drew inspiration from it,\" she said.\n\nAmena Khan said Mothercare could have created better social media campaigns\n\nAmena Khan is disappointed to see Mothercare go as it was her \"first port of call\" for essentials for son Ibraheem, 10 and daughter Aleena, eight.\n\n\"It was a no-brainer - if we needed something for the babies or for me as a new mum, we'd pop into Mothercare,\" the entrepreneur and influencer from Leicester said.\n\n\"The physical experience of being able to compare products and ask the sales assistants questions couldn't be beaten.\"\n\nBut Mrs Khan said the brand could have gone further to enhance customer experience.\n\n\"Mothercare could've easily created social media campaigns to amplify the voices of diverse mothers and fathers in today's society,\" she said.\n\nLydia Robinson, 28, from Dudley, West Midlands, said she \"couldn't live\" without Mothercare.\n\n\"I've used Mothercare from the moment I found out I was pregnant in March 2018,\" she said.\n\n\"I have bought his pushchair, high chair, Moses basket, clothing, walker and all bathing and feeding items from the store.\n\n\"I couldn't imagine buying anything so essential and important over the internet and not seeing it in the flesh beforehand.\n\n\"Mothercare staff are always so knowledgeable and helpful, they make you feel at ease and never pressure you in to buying anything unnecessary.\n\n\"It's a unique High Street store with everything you need throughout pregnancy and once your baby has arrived - there's nowhere else like it. Losing a store like this would be a massive loss.\"\n\nShona Parker drew inspiration for her baby's name from this Mothercare book\n\nJustine Roberts, Mumsnet founder, said users were saddened to hear about potential job losses at Mothercare and the demise of a high street \"legend\".\n\n\"That said, lots of users report being sometimes frustrated by low levels of stock, cluttered stores with variable service and high prices,\" she said.\n\n\"But many are deeply invested in the brand and its long years of service to UK families and very much wish to see it stay on its feet.\"\n\nMumsnet users have been swapping stories about shopping in Mothercare to prepare for the arrival of babies who are now adults.\n\nOne user talks about accompanying her pregnant daughter to the same local store that had provided baby clothes for the now-expectant young mother.\n\nAnother has a specific memory of Mothercare's \"blissful\" breastfeeding rooms, adding: \"Wall-to-wall breasts, and more latching-on advice from strangers than was decent.\"\n\nSome people responding to the news on Twitter said the prices in the stores were too high.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSharron Taylor said when her four children were younger Mothercare was the only store with a dedicated area to feed and change babies.\n\n\"As a first-time parent their help was reassuring and priceless,\" she said. \"As a parent I wanted to view what I was buying.\n\n\"My then children loved to see Timothy Tree, so every shopping visit we would go and say hello to the tree.\n\n\"Sadly they moved to a retail park when my granddaughter came along 15 months ago.\n\n\"That personal touch had gone; that visible choice to look and browse was gone; and [there was] no baby changing or feeding area.\"\n\nDo you work at Mothercare? Share your experiences of Mothercare by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Figures from a BBC News investigation suggest that young people are increasingly going missing from unregulated homes that provide support to over 16 year-olds.\n\nResponses from councils to freedom of information requests by the BBC indicate that the number of times those in care or who have recently left care have gone missing has more than doubled in the last three years in England and Wales.\n\nThe BBC has also learned that more than 60 children were found by councils to have been sexually assaulted and exploited while missing from unregulated homes.\n\nThe Department for Education declined to be interviewed but says it is trying to improve how local areas respond when a child in care goes missing.", "Pham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong's families are concerned they may be among the victims\n\nEight suspects have been held in Vietnam after 39 people were found dead in a lorry in Essex.\n\nThe arrests came as a team of Vietnamese officials arrived in Britain to help formally identify the 31 men and eight women.\n\nThe suspects are being held in relation to people smuggling offences, the director of police in the Nghe An province in north-central Vietnam said.\n\nTwo people were arrested in the Ha Tinh province of Vietnam last week.\n\nThe victims were discovered in a refrigerated lorry trailer on an industrial estate in Grays on 23 October.\n\nOn Friday, Essex Police said all 39 people were believed to be Vietnamese.\n\nThe force initially said it believed they were Chinese.\n\nA service was held for the victims in east London on Saturday evening\n\nEssex Police said it was now in \"direct contact with a number of families in Vietnam and the UK\" and the Vietnamese Government.\n\nA spokeswoman for the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the incident a \"serious humanitarian tragedy\".\n\nPost-mortem examinations are being carried out on the victims to establish the cause of their deaths.\n\nMore than 100 people attended a service for the victims at the Church of the Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in east London on Saturday evening.\n\nThe driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson, from Northern Ireland, appeared in court last week charged with a string of offences, including 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nExtradition proceedings have also begun against 22-year-old Eamonn Harrison, who was arrested in Dublin on a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nPolice are also seeking two brothers from Northern Ireland, Ronan and Christopher Hughes, who are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the lorry trailer in the early hours of 23 October\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.\n\nDo you have any information about the incident? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Air quality in Delhi has deteriorated into the \"hazardous\" category\n\nAir pollution in the north of India has \"reached unbearable levels,\" the capital Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says.\n\nIn many areas of Delhi air quality deteriorated into the \"hazardous\" category, with the potential to cause respiratory illnesses.\n\nLow visibility caused more than 30 flights to be diverted on Sunday.\n\nRules have now gone into effect allowing only cars with odd or even number plates to drive on given days.\n\nThe initiative is aimed at getting more vehicles off the road in an effort to curb air pollution.\n\nOnly cars with odd or even number plates can drive on given days in a bid to reduce pollution\n\nSchools in Delhi have been ordered to close until Tuesday, and construction has been halted.\n\nDelhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain advised the city's residents to \"avoid outdoor physical activities, especially during morning and late evening hours\".\n\nThe advisory also said people should wear anti-pollution masks, avoid polluted areas and keep doors and windows closed.\n\nA major factor behind the high pollution levels at this time of year is farmers in neighbouring states burning crop stubble to clear their fields.\n\nPolice are wearing face masks to protect themselves from the toxic smog\n\nThis creates a lethal cocktail of particulate matter, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide - all worsened by fireworks set off during the Hindu festival Diwali a week ago.\n\nVehicle fumes, construction and industrial emissions have also contributed to the smog.\n\nIndians are hoping that scattered rainfall over the coming week will wash away the pollutants but this is not due until Thursday.\n\nLevels of dangerous particles in the air - known as PM2.5 - are far higher than recommended and about seven times higher than in the Chinese capital Beijing.\n\nAn Indian health ministry official said the city's pollution monitors did not have enough digits to accurately record pollution levels, which he called a \"disaster\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFive million masks were handed out in schools on Friday as officials declared a public health emergency and Mr Kejriwal likened the city to a \"gas chamber\".\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says a third of deaths from stroke, lung cancer and heart disease are due to air pollution.\n\n\"This is having an equivalent effect to that of smoking tobacco,\" the WHO says on its website.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Kejriwal's most recent comments are unlikely to please government officials, reports the BBC's South Asia regional editor Jill McGivering. She said Indian politicians were blaming each other for the conditions.\n\nOn Sunday young people in Delhi came out to protest and demand action.\n\n\"You can obviously see how terrible it is and it's actually scary you can't see things in front of you,\" said Jaivipra.\n\nShe said she wanted long-term and sustainable anti-pollution measures put in place.\n\n\"We are concerned about our futures and about our health but we are also fighting this on behalf of the children and the elderly who bear the biggest brunt of the problem here,\" she said.\n\nSome ministers have sparked controversy on social media by suggesting light-hearted measures to stay healthy.\n\nHarsh Vardhan, the union minister for health and family welfare, urged people to eat carrots to protect against \"night blindness\" and \"other pollution-related harm to health\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Prakash Javadekar, the minister of the environment, suggested that you should \"start your day with music\", adding a link to a \"scintillating thematic composition\".\n\n\"Is that the reason you have turned deaf ears to our plight on pollution?\" one Twitter user responded. \"Seems you are too busy hearing music that you are not able to hear us!\"", "Zarah Sultana: \"I should not have articulated my anger in the manner I did, for which I apologise\"\n\nA Labour general election candidate has apologised for saying she would \"celebrate\" the deaths of world leaders, including Tony Blair.\n\nZarah Sultana wrote on social media in 2015: \"Try and stop me when the likes of Blair, Netanyahu and Bush die.\"\n\nIn her apology on Monday, Ms Sultana said she had been \"exasperated by endless cycles of global suffering, violence and needless killing\".\n\nShe is contesting the Coventry South seat on 12 December.\n\nIn 2015, Ms Sultana also wrote of her support for \"violent resistance\" by Palestinians, the Jewish Chronicle reported.\n\nShe told the BBC the tweets were from a \"deleted account dating back several years from when I was a student\".\n\n\"This was written out of frustration rather than any malice,\" she said in a statement, explaining that her anger had arisen \"from decisions by political leaders, from the Iraq War to the killing of over 2,000 Palestinians in 2014, mostly civilians, which was condemned by the United Nations\".\n\nShe added: \"I do not support violence and I should not have articulated my anger in the manner I did, for which I apologise.\"\n\nWhen she was announced as the Coventry South candidate last week, she wrote on social media: \"With your support, I will be a strong socialist voice for working people in this city.\"\n\nLabour won a majority of nearly 8,000 in the 2017 general election, when Jim Cunningham was the party's candidate in the constituency.\n\nThe revelation comes on the same day a Conservative general election candidate apologised for a Facebook post in which she said people on a reality TV show needed \"putting down\".", "Miss Millane had been travelling alone in New Zealand\n\nA jury has been sworn in for the trial of a man accused of murdering a British backpacker.\n\nGrace Millane, 22, was last seen in central Auckland, New Zealand, on 1 December last year, before her body was found in bushland a week later.\n\nA 27-year-old local man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has denied her murder.\n\nThe Auckland High Court trial is scheduled to last up to five weeks.\n\nMiss Millane's death prompted an outpouring of public grief in New Zealand with the country's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologising to her family.\n\nShe had been travelling alone in New Zealand for two weeks, following a six-week group trip through South America.\n\nThe family of Miss Millane, from Wickford, Essex, became concerned for the University of Lincoln graduate after she failed to respond to birthday messages on 2 December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sadly, this case of a doctored video shows that what matters for an effective social media strategy is not accuracy, but noise.\n\nThe Conservatives’ video will have induced in many viewers a false impression of what Sir Keir Starmer said. Their defence, that it was edited for time and effect, and the jaunty music shows it to be clearly satirical in nature, rubs up against the fact that it was in a basic sense misleading.\n\nBut the fact the Conservative Party’s press office, having received enquiries, then released a further attack on Sir Keir, shows why this minor saga will be chalked up as a success.\n\nBy highlighting the original misrepresentation, journalists merely draw attention to it. In an age of media consumption when our attention is finite, and fought over by the world’s most powerful companies, what matters is briefly capturing enough voters’ minds for long enough to convey the impression that Labour is in a pickle over Brexit.\n\nOf course, everything about this minor affair shows a world in which campaigning isn’t about civilised debate, nuance, policy or argument. It’s about the digital blitzkrieg, and who has the most brutal weaponry. In social media elections, might is right.", "Protesters have been erecting burning barricades across Baghdad\n\nProtesters have blocked the main thoroughfares in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as mass anti-government protests continue.\n\nDemonstrators were seen parking cars across key junctions of the city as police looked on without intervening.\n\nSince 1 October, tens of thousands of people have taken part in two waves of protests to demand more jobs, an end to corruption, and better services.\n\nMore than 250 have been killed in clashes with security forces.\n\nLast week, Iraqi President Barham Saleh said Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi would resign if political parties could agree on his replacement.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters shut down the main roads of the capital. They continued to defy a curfew introduced in late October.\n\nProtesters have been erecting barricades to block traffic in Baghdad\n\nThe epicentre of the unrest has been Baghdad's central Tahrir Square\n\nStudents staged sit-ins at their schools and government offices were closed on the first day of the working week in the Muslim nation.\n\n\"We decided to cut the roads as a message to the government that we will keep protesting until the corrupt people and thieves are kicked out and the regime falls,\" Tahseen Nasser, a 25-year-old protester, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.\n\n\"We're not allowing government workers to reach their offices, just those in humanitarian fields,\" he said.\n\nAlaa Wissam, a 25-year-old architect, said young people were heading to the square to volunteer their help. \"This thing will help young people to have a role in the change that is happening,\" she said.\n\nRiot police deployed along the bridges fired tear gas at protesters. Amnesty International has criticised Iraqi forces for using two types of military-grade tear gas canisters that have pierced protesters' skulls and lungs.\n\nThe Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights said that Siba al-Mahdawi, an activist and doctor who provided medical care to protesters, was abducted on Saturday night by an unknown group. The Commission called on the government to reveal her whereabouts.\n\nThe epicentre of the unrest has been Baghdad's central Tahrir Square. Protesters there have been attempting to cross a nearby bridge to the fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign embassies.\n\nSimilar protests have taken place in the city of Kut, south-east of Baghdad. Many government offices and schools were shut on Sunday in a number of cities and towns further south.\n\nMr Abdul Mahdi, a veteran Shia Islamist politician with a background in economics, became prime minister just over a year ago, promising reforms that have not materialised.\n\nOn 1 October, young Iraqis angered by his failure to tackle high unemployment, endemic corruption and poor public services took to the streets of Baghdad for the first time.\n\nThe protests escalated and spread across the country after security personnel responded with deadly force.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How tuk-tuks are saving lives in the Iraq protests\n\nAfter the first wave of protests, which lasted six days and saw 149 civilians killed, Mr Abdul Mahdi promised to reshuffle his cabinet, cut the salaries of high-ranking officials, and announced schemes to reduce youth unemployment.\n\nBut the protesters said their demands had not been met and returned to the streets in late October.", "The Reverend Simon Nguyen, who led the service, said the victims lost their lives \"seeking freedom, dignity and happiness\"\n\nServices have been held in memory of the 39 Vietnamese victims found dead in a lorry container in Essex.\n\nMore than 100 people attended the service at the Church of the Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in east London on Saturday evening.\n\nThe Reverend Simon Nguyen, who led the service, said the 39 died \"seeking freedom, dignity and happiness\".\n\nAt Mass on at the same church on Sunday Bishop Nicholas Hudson also asked for prayers for traffickers.\n\nIt was confirmed by police on Friday that all of those who were found were Vietnamese. Police had initially believed they were Chinese.\n\nCandles were arranged into a figure of 39 to represent the number who died\n\nAt the service on Saturday evening, prayers were heard and members of the Catholic congregation performed readings and candles were lit.\n\n\"We show our condolences and sympathies for the people who have lost their lives on the way seeking freedom, dignity and happiness,\" said Mr Nguyen.\n\n\"We ask God to welcome them into his kingdom even though some of them were not Catholic but they strongly believed in eternal peace, so we pray for them.\"\n\nAfter the service he said: \"The people here are very united because we are all refugees.\n\n\"All the people here - most of the Vietnamese - came here as refugees in the '70s and the '80s and the '90s.\"\n\nThe Catholic church in East London has a large Vietnamese congregation\n\nHe said in those decades, the disappearances of people from Vietnam were \"not reported by the media, but many of them died\".\n\n\"These victims [who died in the lorry last month], this tragedy, was reported but many tragedies to the Vietnamese no-one [knows about],\" he said.\n\nA memorial Mass on Sunday began with a projection of the trailer containing the bodies being removed from the industrial estate.\n\nAfter a minute's silence, Bishop Hudson said the service was to pray for the relations of congregation members who could be among the dead.\n\nHe also asked for prayers for the emergency service staff who attended the scene.\n\nBishop Hudson also sought prayers for traffickers, who he hoped \"as a result of this tragedy may have had a change of heart\".\n\nAbout 7% of Vietnam's population class themselves as Catholic, although the figure is higher in the area of the country where many of the missing people come from.\n\nIn the past some Catholics have had a fractious relationship with Vietnam's communist government.\n\nPham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong's families are concerned they may be among the victims\n\nEssex Police said it was now in \"direct contact with a number of families in Vietnam and the UK\" and the Vietnamese Government.\n\nA number of Vietnamese families have previously come forward fearing their loved ones are among the dead.\n\nPham Thi Tra My, 26, sent her family a message on the night of 22 October - the day before the 39 people were found dead - saying her \"trip to a foreign land has failed\".\n\nThe father of 30-year-old Le Van Ha, who comes from an agricultural part of Vietnam, previously told the BBC he was convinced his son was among the dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations are being carried out on the 31 men and eight women to establish the cause of their deaths.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the lorry trailer in the early hours of 23 October\n\nThe driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson, from Northern Ireland, appeared in court on Monday charged with a string of offences, including 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nExtradition proceedings have also begun against 22-year-old Eamonn Harrison, who was arrested in Dublin on a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nPolice are also seeking two brothers from Northern Ireland, Ronan and Christopher Hughes, who are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.\n\nDo you have any information about the incident? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Andy Murray and his wife Kim already have two daughters, Sophia and Edie\n\nSir Andy Murray's wife Kim has given birth to their third child, a boy.\n\nThe baby, described by his grandmother Judy Murray as a \"lovely, happy, healthy baby boy\", was born last week in London, where the family live.\n\nSir Andy and Kim, both aged 32, married in the tennis star's hometown of Dunblane in 2015.\n\nThey already have two daughters, Sophia, who was born in 2016, and Edie, born in 2017.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Scotland's Mornings with Kaye Adams programme, Sir Andy's mother Judy said: \"It's lovely news, lovely to have a little boy to go with the two little girls.\"\n\nShe said baby was born \"a few days ago\" and added: \"I'll leave it to Andy and Kim to fill in all the details.\"\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam champion Murray won his first singles title since career-saving hip surgery by beating Stan Wawrinka at the European Open in October.\n\nHe had surgery in January and was playing in just his seventh tournament since returning to singles.\n\nAfter the tournament he joked: \"I'll have three kids under four years old. When I've been off the tour my family has got bigger so I need to get back on the road so we don't get out of control!\n\n\"I'm excited for the third kid. My wife's been a huge support for getting me back on the court and making me fight to keep playing.\"\n\nSir Andy is representing Great Britain in the Davis Cup, which starts on 18 November.", "The freeze in benefit payments is to come to an end next year, the government has confirmed.\n\nWorking-age benefits such as universal credit and jobseeker's allowance will rise by 1.7% from April 2020, the Department for Work and Pensions said.\n\nIt ends former Tory chancellor George Osborne's decision to introduce a freeze from April 2016.\n\nLabour called it a \"cynically-timed\" announcement ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said the move will be seen by some as an election pitch to poorer Leave-backing areas.\n\nOur correspondent added it follows a raft of other spending commitments made by Boris Johnson since he became prime minister, including funding for the NHS, schools and police.\n\nThe benefits freeze - announced in the 2015 Budget - was intended to last until the end of the current financial year.\n\nFormer chancellor Philip Hammond said in March that the freeze would end as planned and that the then administration had \"no intention of repeating the current freeze\".\n\nHe added: \"When it is over, increases in benefits will resume in line with [the CPI rate of inflation] in the normal way.\"\n\nRather than increasing each year in line with inflation - to reflect the rising cost of living - most working-age benefits and tax credits have been kept at the same value for more than four years, having last risen in April 2015.\n\nGroups such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have argued that this has been among the biggest factors in exacerbating poverty levels among working families with children.\n\nOther benefits that have been frozen but are now set to rise, by inflation, are: Employment and support allowance, income support, housing benefit, child tax credits, working tax credits and child benefit.\n\nSome of these are legacy benefits, which are being replaced by universal credit.\n\nThe government also said the state pension - which has not been frozen because of the so-called triple lock - will increase by 3.9%.\n\nDisability benefits and carer's allowance, which have not been subject to the freeze, will also increase by 1.7% next year.\n\nThe increase in benefits is expected to cost £5bn; ministers say the decision to end the freeze will help 10 million people.\n\nThe benefit freeze has cut an average of £560 per year from the income of the country's poorest seven million families since 2016, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. That's more than £2,000 of lost income those families have had to cope with, and the end of the freeze next April doesn't reverse what amounts to a 6% cut in real terms in their income.\n\nAnd remember, some of those families have experienced earlier benefit cuts too, so they'll have been struggling even more.\n\nA few more quid each week will undoubtedly help, but next April's long-planned increase needs further context.\n\nPensions will rise at more than double the rate than working age benefits will increase, despite more children living in poverty than older people. And restricting the benefits paid to families who have more than two children will also contribute to rising levels of child poverty, according to the Resolution Foundation.\n\nAnd for those who say, \"well they should just get a job\", bear in mind that in-work poverty is the fastest-rising category of poverty in the UK. Having a job is not a guarantee of not being poor.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said: \"We're clear the best way for people to improve their lives is through work, but we know some people require additional support.\n\n\"Our balanced fiscal approach has built a strong economy, with 3.6 million more people in work since 2010. And it's that strong economy which allows us to bolster the welfare safety net by increasing benefit payments for working-age claimants now.\"\n\nLabour, which is promising to scrap universal credit in a revamp of the benefits system, pointed out the freeze would remain in place for a number of months yet.\n\nAdam Corlett, senior economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation, a think tank focusing on people on lower incomes, described the announcement as a \"missed opportunity\" that would not increase living standards.\n\n\"The benefit freeze was always due to end next year. The government's confirmation that working-age benefits will only keep pace with rising prices means there will be no increase in living standards, and those in need of extra support will continue to be left behind,\" he said.\n\n\"With child poverty at risk of hitting record highs, this is a missed opportunity to provide a much-needed boost for low to middle income families.\"\n\nThe announcement comes as a committee of MPs warned the government's policy of limiting welfare benefits to two children must be scrapped because it forces families to stretch \"frozen and capped\" incomes to \"breaking point\".\n\nThe Work and Pensions Select Committee said the government had not offered evidence to counter forecasts that the policy will \"significantly increase\" child poverty.\n\nThe two-child limit means that in families where there are already two or more children, the child element in universal credit and tax credits - worth £2,780 per child per year - is restricted to the first two children. It applies to children born after 6 April 2017.\n\nAs well as the two-child limit, there also remains a cap on the total amount of benefits one household can claim. The cap was lowered in 2016, further cutting the amount of benefits some people received.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has proposed that private car park operators are obliged to give drivers a 10-minute grace period after their tickets expire before issuing fines.\n\nLocal Government Secretary Robert Jenrick said he wants a compulsory code of practice for the industry to \"restore common sense\" to the issuing of parking fines and \"crackdown on dodgy operators\" in England, Scotland and Wales.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gerti Qamili was challenged after the secret filming\n\nHundreds of London minicab drivers may be working fraudulently after buying qualifications, the BBC has found.\n\nDrivers must sit mandatory exams to get a licence. But a BBC undercover investigation has exposed colleges cheating the required tests.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said it would immediately investigate at least 1,667 applications in light of the evidence.\n\nTfL, the licensing authority, said it was \"deeply concerned\" by the findings.\n\nThe growth in taxi booking firms such as Uber have seen the number of private hire vehicle licences in use that were issued in the capital surge by 86% between 2011 and 2018, from 61,200 to 113,645.\n\nUnder the cab application process, along with a criminal record check and medical test, drivers must sit a topographical exam and an English test at one of eight official TfL testing centres.\n\nEvidence of these exams can also be accepted via other qualifications including BTecs, which are usually taken at private colleges and centres.\n\nThe qualification can be used to gain a minicab licence from many councils across the UK.\n\nOne of these colleges, Vista Training Solutions in Newham, east London, offered to take the tests for several BBC researchers for £500 per BTec.\n\nAt a mandatory English and maths assessment answers were read out to eight candidates taking the BTec fraudulently.\n\nRegisters were falsified before the online BTec exam was taken by the managers on the candidates' behalf.\n\nThe researcher, who had neither attended any classes nor completed an exam, received a BTec level two certificate in Introduction to the Role of the Professional Taxi and Private Hire Driver.\n\nAnother undercover BBC researcher, who had also done nothing other than pay, subsequently received a certificate stating he had passed his BTec level two.\n\nVista was one of the several centres the BBC heard was facilitating fraudulently obtained qualifications.\n\nDuring undercover filming Gerti Qamili, a college manager, bragged he had helped \"over 300 students\" fraudulently achieve the qualification.\n\nThe scam had been successfully winning licences from TfL for more than two years, Mr Qamili said.\n\nHe warned the researchers \"not to tell anyone that someone does the test for you\".\n\nVista Training Solutions has received more than £1.5m since 2018 for apprenticeships.\n\nOfsted singled out the college for \"ensuring that the training meets the needs of the industry\" in a monitoring report in December last year.\n\nAbdalla Jamac was filmed handing out answers to a test during undercover filming at Vista Training Solutions\n\nCaroline Pidgeon, deputy chair of London's Transport Committee, said: \"Passengers are getting into those vehicles, and they need to know they're safe.\n\n\"To hear parts of that (qualifications) are being forged around London, that's not right, that's really worrying and TfL need to get a grip on this.\"\n\nHelen Chapman, a director at TfL, said: \"It is deeply concerning to learn that some colleges or schools could be illegally providing certificates.\n\n\"We will support the relevant authorities with any wider investigations into these organisations. We will take immediate action against any driver identified as fraudulently obtaining a licence.\"\n\nTfL said all new applications in which the topographical test had been taken at a private college rather than at one of its eight official examination centres had now been put on hold.\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan whose office oversees TfL said: \"This was a very serious breach.\"\n\nHe added that TfL would be working with the police to investigate any rules that had been broken.\n\n\"The reason why it's so serious is because we know that in the past there have been examples of serious criminal offences committed,\" he added.\n\nVista Training Solutions said it was shocked by the allegations, which it said would be a violation of its policies, as well as a crime. It added it would be launching its own internal investigation.\n\nMr Qamili and Abdalla Jamac, who the company claimed were responsible for the BTec level two taxi course, are no longer working at Vista.\n\nBoth were contacted by the BBC but refused to comment.\n\nThis story will be featured on BBC London TV News and Inside Out on BBC One in London on Monday 4 November at 19:30 GMT and afterwards on the iPlayer.", "\"Substantial\" is the third out of five possible ratings for the country's level of terror threat\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level has been downgraded from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", the Home Office says.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the UK was still at \"a high level of threat\" and an attack could \"occur without further warning\".\n\nThe terrorism threat is now at its lowest since August 2014. Substantial is the third of five ratings at which the threat level can stand.\n\nMs Patel said in a statement on Monday that terrorism remained a \"direct and immediate\" risk to the UK's national security.\n\nAssessments determining the country's threat level are taken by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) - part of MI5 - which makes its recommendations independently from the government.\n\nThere was a surge in terror attacks in 2017, including in London Bridge where eight people were killed\n\n\"Government, police and intelligence agencies will continue to work tirelessly to address the threat posed by terrorism in all its forms,\" Ms Patel said.\n\nThe threat level is kept under \"constant review\", she added.\n\nNeil Basu, head of counter terrorism policing, said there had been \"positive developments\" in the fight against terrorism but it was \"vital that we all maintain a high level of vigilance\".\n\nHe said the UK's counter terrorism policing team had about 800 live counter terrorism investigations - while 24 attack plots had been thwarted since the Westminster attack in March 2017.\n\nThis is a significant change in the only official public measure of the threat posed by terrorism to the UK - but it's not a sign that there are suddenly fewer people with aspirations to do us harm.\n\nThe security services are still monitoring thousands of \"subjects of interest\" - the top-tier of would-be plotters from jihadist groups to the far-right.\n\nMany of these people are very dangerous because, in the jargon, they are \"lone actors\" bent on DIY violence.\n\nBut what appears to have changed is the resources and capability available to IS-supporting plotters who need help.\n\nQuite simply, a huge number of the foreign fighters who played a key role linking these followers to resources and support died on the battlefields of the militant group's last stand.\n\nContinuing propaganda from the survivors, portraying IS as a force to be reckoned with, also has less credibility for would-be recruits.\n\nAnd so it has become harder - for now at least - for some of those with intent to get the help they need to carry out their aspirations.\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level was raised to the highest rating, \"critical\", in the days following the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017.\n\nIt last reached this level again briefly in September that year, after a bomb partially exploded on a Tube train at Parsons Green.\n\nThe threat level had remained at the second highest rating, \"severe\", until Monday.\n\nThe Northern Ireland threat level specifically refers to threat to the country from Northern Ireland-related terrorism. It remains at severe - the second-highest level.\n\nThe five levels of threat set by the JTAC are:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The starting gun has been fired, the election campaign is under way and the future of the NHS has dominated the opening lap of the contest. If the early exchanges are anything to go by, health will feature prominently in the campaign.\n\nLabour has for some time argued that the NHS is vulnerable to privatisation under the Conservatives. The party has developed a new attack line, that any post-Brexit trade deal with the United States will open the door to big American health corporations. It has also picked up on suggestions that the US authorities will demand that the NHS pays more for drugs supplied by American companies.\n\nIn essence, Labour is alleging that the NHS is not safe after a Brexit presided over by the Tories.\n\nThe Conservatives have strongly denied that the NHS is in any way \"up for sale\". They argue that there will be red lines with the British position in any trade talks, which protect the current status of the health service and the drug purchasing regime.\n\nFuelling this row was a documentary by Channel 4 Dispatches which asserted that the price the NHS pays for US medicines could rise steeply in any future trade deal with the United States. The programme reported that \"drug pricing\" had been discussed in six initial meetings between trade officials from the UK and the US and that there had been \"secret meetings\" between the pharmaceutical companies and British civil servants.\n\nIn response to the programme, the government said: \"We could not agree to any proposals on medicines pricing or access that would put NHS finances at risk or reduce clinician and patient choice.\"\n\nPresident Trump has made no secret of his frustration that US drug corporations can in many cases charge American health providers more for their products than what the NHS pays.\n\nThis is because the US health system is market-based, and insurers are more ready to pay the asking price.\n\nThe NHS in England relies on the advice of the medical cost watchdog NICE, on what offers the best benefits for patients balanced against value for money.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland tend to follow NICE rulings, while Scotland has its own equivalent, the SMC.\n\nThe NICE regime, introduced 20 years ago, is seen as a great success in helping the NHS strike realistic pricing deals. A recent deal for the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi was hailed by health leaders in England as a big win for the system, with the American manufacturer Vertex, having initially refused to bring down its price, eventually signing up. The Scottish Government had already done its own deal.\n\nThe NHS has immense bargaining power because of its size and its centralised control over drug availability is always attractive to pharmaceutical companies who are keen to be part of that market.\n\nSo the suggestion in some quarters is that the American negotiators will demand that higher prices are paid to US pharmaceutical companies, potentially adding damaging extra costs to the already stretched NHS budget. The response by the Conservatives is that no British government would knowingly agree to something which added billions of pounds to public spending.\n\nSo what about private provision in the NHS? There is evidence that the number of contracts awarded to private organisations by NHS commissioners has increased. But these have tended to be for smaller service deals, and a more rounded picture is gained by looking at the overall spending numbers.\n\nThe proportion of government health spending in England going to private providers has risen by more than three-quarters in the last decade and now stands at 7.3%, according to official figures for 2018/19.\n\nBut that rate has remained little changed for the last few years.\n\nLabour says this is evidence of creeping gains made by the private sector winning NHS contracts. The Conservative response is that private provision also rose rapidly under the last Labour government, which outsourced some routine surgery to private hospitals.\n\nCurrent rules allow American and other foreign firms to bid for NHS contracts if they have a European subsidiary. The US company United Health owns Optum, for example, which provides IT and research services to some NHS organisations.\n\nIt is conceivable that in any trade talks, US negotiators would demand a more streamlined bidding process to open up access. It should be noted, however, that the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, has called for an end to any competitive tendering.\n\nWhen asked in his radio interview with LBC, whether the NHS would feature in trade talks, President Trump said: \"We wouldn't even be involved in that, no. It's not for us to have anything to do with your health care system.\"\n\nThe Conservatives argue that it simply would not be on the table. But it is impossible to be certain at this stage what precisely would or would not be in the mix when the negotiators get to work after Brexit.", "The government is facing calls to overhaul its High Street policies after estimates were made of 85,000 retail sector job losses on a year ago.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium made the calculation after finding that the number of retail employees in the third quarter fell by 2.8% on a year earlier.\n\nThis is the 15th consecutive quarter of year-on-year decline, the BRC said.\n\nHelen Dickinson, BRC boss, said it was time to overhaul business rates and the apprenticeship levy.\n\n\"Weak consumer demand and Brexit uncertainty continue to put pressure on retailers already focused on delivering the transformation taking place in the industry.\n\n\"While MPs rail against job losses in manufacturing, their response to larger losses in retail has remained muted,\" she said.\n\nShe said reforms to business rates and the apprenticeship levy would allow retailers to focus on enhancing their online presence and adapt to changes on the High Street.\n\nThe Treasury did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\n\"The government should enact policies that enable retailers to invest more in the millions of people who choose to build their careers in retail,\" Ms Dickinson said.\n\nThe figures are released at time when shops are closing on the High Street with clothing retailer Karen Millen and Coast among the recent outlets to shut.\n\nIn July the proportion of all shops that are empty reached 10.3%, its highest level since January 2015, according to a BRC and Springboard survey.\n\nThe BRC used data from the Office for National Statistics to calculate that a 2.8% fall in jobs in the third quarter was the equivalent of 85,000 jobs being lost in a year.\n\nThe largest impact was on full-time jobs with a 4.5% fall year-on-year and a 1.5% fall in part-time roles.\n\nThe figures were released ahead of the all-important Christmas season and while the BRC said the retailers it surveyed were not planning on cutting more jobs - unlike a year ago - it was only a temporary seasonal pick-up.\n\n\"We expect the long-term decline in employment to continue due to a combined effect of the on-going structural change, weak consumer spending and fierce competition in the industry,\" the BRC said.\n\nIt said 62% of retailers had plans to increase staff in the coming quarter, higher than the 43% last year.\n\nThe lobby group contrasted the state of the job market in the retail sector with the broader economy where it said ONS data showed employment increased 0.3% on the year.", "Baby goods retailer Mothercare has said it plans to call in administrators to the troubled firm's UK business, putting 2,500 jobs at risk.\n\nMothercare said its 79 UK stores were \"not capable\" of achieving a sufficient level of profitability and that so far it had failed to find a buyer.\n\nIt said its stores would continue to trade as normal for the time being.\n\nAnalysts said Mothercare had been slow to adapt to competition from rivals and the switch to online retailing.\n\nMothercare has already gone through a rescue deal, known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA). This is an insolvency process that allows a business to reach an agreement with its creditors to pay off all or part of its debts. The process enabled the chain to shut 55 shops.\n\nThe firm said the decision to appoint administrators was \"a necessary step in the restructuring and refinancing\" of the group.\n\n\"Plans are well advanced and being finalised for execution imminently. A further announcement will be made in due course,\" it said.\n\nAisa Kara said Mothercare's online offering was not as strong as competitors\n\nAisa Kara's parenting journey started in Mothercare when she used its Babybond ultrasound scanning service.\n\n\"I was so anxious waiting for my 12-week scan, and I don't think either of us could believe it was actually happening, so we booked our private appointment,\" she said.\n\n\"Everything was OK and we viewed a heartbeat, so we left elated, and as it was in Mothercare we got to buy our first item of baby clothing at the same time.\n\n\"We bought all our nursery items and pushchair from there, and my daughter and son have been dressed in Mothercare almost exclusively.\n\n\"The baby clothing is beautiful and I love the vintage styles. My only complaint is that the online experience isn't as good as you would have expected from a company trying to keep up with the market.\"\n\nDave Gill, national officer at the shopworkers' union Usdaw, said: \"Usdaw is providing our members in Mothercare with the support, representation and advice they need at this difficult and uncertain time.\n\n\"We will urge the administrators to treat the staff with dignity and respect, keep them fully informed through the administration process, do everything possible to save jobs and keep as many stores open as possible and prioritise stabilising the business to provide a more certain future.\"\n\nIt is understood Mothercare is in advanced talks to move its pension schemes from its British operations over to its international parent company which remains profitable.\n\nAs first reported by Sky, the aim is to stop the schemes being placed in the Pension Protection Fund, which would likely result in cuts for members.\n\nThe company operates in more than 40 overseas territories, which are not subject to administration.\n\nIn the financial year to March 2019, Mothercare's international business generated profits of £28.3m, whereas the UK retail operations lost £36.3m.\n\nIn its heyday, Mothercare had hundreds of stores. It was the go-to place for new parents. But it failed to keep up with our changing shopping habits. Mothercare's UK arm has been loss-making for years. One big reason is there's so much more competition these days.\n\nFrom Zara and H&M to the major supermarkets, there are no shortages of places to buy children's clothing and often at cheaper prices. And then there's online, with the likes of Amazon who are able to deliver basic kit to your doorstep within hours of ordering. It has all eaten into Mothercare's market share.\n\nTruth is, this is a business that's been losing money for a very long time. Last year's CVA wasn't enough to turn things around. Mothercare ran out of time and money to try to revive its fortunes.\n\nMothercare's move comes as High Street retailers continue to face tough times amid a squeeze on consumers' income, the growth of online shopping and the rising costs of staff, rents and business rates.\n\nRetail analyst Steve Dresser told the BBC that like collapsed travel firm Thomas Cook, Mothercare had failed to adapt to the world of online retail.\n\n\"They got very used to fat margins and a way of trading that's store-based,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the firm had also lost its way on the High Street, with poor store environments that deterred customers. Ultimately, he said, people did not think of Mothercare first when it came to buying baby goods: \"I think you would be hard-pressed to know what the brand stands for.\"\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said Mothercare had become \"a byword for trouble on the High Street\", demonstrating \"the failure of well-established brands to stay afloat\".\n\nShe added: \"Other retailers, particularly those who have also previously filed for CVAs, will be concerned that these restructuring plans haven't succeeded and a more radical approach may be required in order to survive.\"\n\nRichard Lim, boss of independent research consultancy Retail Economics, said: \"This is perhaps one of the most highly anticipated collapses on the High Street... the cost-cutting operation and disposal of assets have not gone far enough to revive plummeting profits.\n\n\"Years of underinvestment in the online business and its inability to differentiate itself as a specialist for young families and expectant parents has been the root of its seemingly inevitable downfall. As competition has become fiercer they have been beaten on price, convenience and the overall customer experience.\"", "The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that current tension between Russia and the West is putting the world in \"colossal danger\" due to the threat from nuclear weapons.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Steve Rosenberg, former President Gorbachev called for all countries to declare that nuclear weapons should be destroyed.", "Lewis Hamilton sealed his sixth world drivers' title with second place in the United States Grand Prix.\n\nHe becomes the second most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, one championship behind Michael Schumacher.\n\nHamilton failed in a valiant attempt to win the race by trying a different strategy to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas, but that did not matter such was his points advantage.\n\nThe Briton held off Max Verstappen for second as Bottas won in Austin.\n\nHamilton had said before the race that he was not thinking of sealing the championship in Texas, only of winning the race, and he drove with the fierce competitive instinct that has defined his season and career.\n• None Is Hamilton already the greatest?\n• None How well do you know the six-time world champion?\n\nHis decision to run long, do a single pit stop and try to hold off his rivals at the end did not quite work out - Bottas passed him with three laps to go - but it was a drive befitting the towering achievement he was to secure at the end of the race.\n\nHamilton's sixth title has also moved him clear of the legendary Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio.\n\n\"It's just overwhelming,\" he said. \"It was such a tough race. Yesterday was a tough day. I really just wanted recover and deliver the one-two. I didn't think the one-stop was going to be possible. I am filled with so much emotion. It is an honour to be up there with those greats.\n\n\"My dad told me when I was six or seven years old to never give up. I was hopeful I might be able to win but I didn't have it in the tyres.\"\n\nAsked what he could go on to achieve in his career, Hamilton said: \"I don't know about championships but as an athlete I feel fresh as can be. We won't let up, we'll keep pushing.\"\n\nHamilton has secured the championship with 10 victories out of the 19 races held so far this season, with two remaining in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.\n\nStarting fifth on the grid after a poor qualifying session, Hamilton passed Ferrari's Charles Leclerc for fourth at the first corner, and then made a brilliant overtaking move on the other Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel around the outside of Turn Eight, to run third behind Bottas and Verstappen at the end of the first lap.\n\nVictory seemed at least a possibility for Hamilton, even given Mercedes' usual approach of favouring the lead driver to ensure a race victory.\n\nAnd Hamilton decided to give it a go by staying out when Red Bull pitted Verstappen on lap 13, and Mercedes followed suit with Bottas a lap later to retain the lead, their stops locking both into a two-stop strategy.\n\nHamilton's task was now to run as long as possible on his tyres before his single stop and hope to have enough life left in his tyres when he rejoined to be able to defend.\n\nHamilton stopped finally on lap 24, giving him 32 laps to make it to the end on a set of hard tyres on a day when the rubber was wearing at a much higher rate than expected.\n\nBottas made his second stop on lap 25, one after Verstappen, and rejoined six seconds behind Hamilton, a gap he had 20 laps to recover.\n\nIt looked as if it would be easy, but Hamilton drove with control and skill to limit his losses, and it was not until the last five laps that Bottas was with his team-mate.\n\nOne passing attempt at Turn 12 failed on lap 51, when Hamilton ran Bottas wide on his outside.\n\nBut a lap later, after Hamilton had been delayed by lapping Pierre Gasly's Toro Rosso, Bottas used the DRS overtaking aid to ease past on the long back straight.\n\nHamilton's hopes of victory were gone, but the title was still secure, and he had four laps left to defend against Verstappen, which he managed to do with help from a yellow flag that forced Verstappen to slow down, as the Red Bull finished on his tail.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc took a lonely fourth, the Italian car a long way off the pace, while Vettel retired from seventh place, after a sticky opening to the race, with a suspension failure after just eight laps.\n\nRed Bull's Alex Albon recovered from a first-lap pit stop following a clash with McLaren's Carlos Sainz at the first corner to take fifth, ahead of Renault's Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren's Lando Norris and Sainz.\n\nWhat they said\n\nBottas, who went into the race with the faintest hopes of keeping the championship alive for another race, said: \"Obviously big congrats to him. I personally failed with my target this year but he deserved it this year. He had some season.\"\n\nVerstappen added: \"Very impressive. what else to say? He is doing phenomenally. He has a great team behind him. I just hope we can challenge them next year.\"\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nBrazil in two weeks' time. A historic race track in a fervent atmosphere and an edgy city. Nothing at stake, just a battle for honour.", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "Fierce fires have burned thousands of acres of California\n\nUS President Donald Trump has threatened to cut federal funding for the wildfires sweeping California, in a Twitter spat with the state's governor.\n\nNearly 100,000 acres have been destroyed by wildfires in recent weeks, and thousands have been forced from their homes.\n\nMr Trump blamed Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, saying he had done a \"terrible job of forest management\".\n\nSeveral of this year's major wildfires have burned in unforested areas.\n\n\"Every year, as the fire's (sic) rage & California burns, it is the same thing - and then he comes to the Federal Government for $$$ help. No more. Get your act together Governor,\" Mr Trump wrote on Twitter.\n\nMr Newsom, who has been highly critical of Mr Trump's environmental policies, responded: \"You don't believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.\"\n\nIncreased temperatures due to global warming are causing huge wildfires in California, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nDrier, warmer conditions lead to vegetation drying out and becoming more flammable.\n\nPresident Trump made a similar threat to cut federal aid in 2018, when the most deadly fire in California's history killed 86 people.\n\nIn California, 57% of forested areas are managed by federal agencies such as the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service.\n\nIn 2018, the state requested $72 million (£55.6 million) in reimbursements from the US Forest Service, with $9 million (£7 million) of that money withheld, the Los Angeles Times reports.\n\nFirefighters have contained about half of the Maria Fire, the major blaze in southern California.\n\nThe fire, which broke out on Thursday, has burned more than 9,400 acres, the Ventura County Fire Department said on Sunday.\n\nThe largest blaze, the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, was 76% contained on Sunday after burning nearly 80,000 acres since it started on 23 October, officials said.\n\nAll evacuation orders were lifted on Saturday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Smoke from Kincade Fire seen from space", "Six of the nine MPs seeking to become Commons Speaker gave their views on the role\n\nWith the election for the next Speaker of the House of Commons due to happen next month, six of the candidates appeared at an Institute for Government event. Here's what they had to say.\n\nJohn Bercow wasn't there, but his influence was still heavily felt.\n\nSix of the nine candidates vying to replace him as Speaker sought to define themselves against the man who has held the job for 10 years.\n\nDuring the discussion, criticism of Mr Bercow's tenure ranged from the subtle to the blunt, with Conservative MP Shailesh Vara labelling him \"a verbal playground bully\".\n\n\"He demeans colleagues. He insults them. That cannot continue,\" he said\n\nAnd Labour's Chris Bryant said he would bring an end to \"long lectures from the chair\".\n\nMr Bercow is standing down on 31 October. MPs will elect his replacement on 4 November.\n\nOne of his current deputies, Dame Eleanor Laing, did not explicitly attack Mr Bercow's manner but said: \"You don't need to be rude to exert discipline.\" She added: \"The Speaker needs to exert authority with kindness.\"\n\nWhile Conservative Sir Henry Bellingham praised what Mr Bercow had done for backbench MPs, he said a good Speaker should be like \"a good umpire - he should not grandstand\".\n\nHe also suggested it would be a good thing if the public did not know the name of the Speaker, in contrast to the massive media and social media interest in Mr Bercow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow's most memorable moments as Speaker of the House\n\nCandidates were also asked how they would change the culture of the House of Commons, including making its members more diverse and the building more accessible.\n\nLabour's Meg Hillier lamented the lack of formal advice for MPs going on maternity leave and described Parliament's provisions for breastfeeding and expectant mothers as \"barely legal\".\n\nShe also called for MPs to get training in how to manage their staff, telling the audience she had heard \"horror stories\" about how some employees had been treated.\n\nFormer deputy Labour Party leader Harriet Harman is one of nine candidates hoping to replace Mr Bercow\n\nAnd Labour's Harriet Harman said Parliament should have modern employment practices such as bereavement leave.\n\n\"You have to be in touch with where the public is going,\" she said.\n\nMr Bryant said he would tackle the unpredictably of the timing of votes, highlighting the difficulty it placed on MPs with caring duties.\n\nMr Vara told the audience that he had come to England as an immigrant at the age of four without being able to speak any English. He said he wanted to send a message to children of any background that \"if that bloke Vara can make it, then I can\".\n\nIn September, Mr Bercow was criticised for allowing a controversial procedure which gave MPs control of the parliamentary agenda in order to pass a bill aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAsked if they would have done the same, Mr Bryant, Ms Harman and Ms Hillier all said yes, while Sir Henry and Mr Vara said no.\n\nDame Eleanor - who is currently a deputy Speaker - instead heaved a sigh, at which point Ms Harman suggested it was \"not fair to ask her\" the question as she still worked with Mr Bercow.\n\nDame Eleanor said she had sympathy for \"the difficult decision\" Mr Bercow had to make.\n\nUnusually for a political hustings, the B-word was hardly mentioned.\n\nHowever, Mr Bryant did admit that \"one of the good reasons for standing as Speaker [a politically neutral role] is that you never have to have a view on Brexit again\".\n\nThe nine candidates bidding to replace Mr Bercow as Commons Speaker are:", "The vehicle smashed into a building on Burnage Lane on Sunday night\n\nA teenage boy has died after a car involved in a police pursuit crashed into a building.\n\nOfficers tried and failed to stop a Ford Fusion on Burnage Lane in Burnage, Greater Manchester, at about 21:25 GMT on Sunday.\n\nTwo people in the car were taken to hospital with injuries believed to be life-threatening and one, thought to be a boy in his late teens, has died.\n\nThe other person remains in hospital for treatment, police said.\n\nThe crash has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the case had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nDet Ch Supt Jon Chadwick said: \"I would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family of the person who has passed away following the collision in Burnage last night.\n\n\"The response to the incident is still ongoing and there are a number of road closures in place in the nearby area, with the scene likely to remain for some time.\"\n\nOfficers tried and failed to stop a Ford Fusion before it crashed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Francesca O'Brien admitted her \"use of language was unacceptable\"\n\nA Conservative general election candidate has apologised for a Facebook post in which she said people on a TV show needed \"putting down\".\n\nFrancesca O'Brien, who is running for the Gower seat in December's election, made the comments about Channel 4's Benefits Street in January 2014.\n\nMs O'Brien said her comments were made \"off the cuff\" but admitted her \"use of language was unacceptable\".\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems called for the candidate to be dropped.\n\nBut Welsh Conservative chairman Byron Davies has stood by Ms O'Brien, who is still set to run in the general election on 12 December.\n\nLabour First Minister Mark Drakeford said he could not imagine voters in Gower backing such a candidate, while a Tory peer has said the candidate should consider her position.\n\nThe former commissioned officer with the RAF Air Cadets was selected to be the Conservative party candidate for Gower in October after an open primary in which residents were able to participate as opposed to just party members.\n\nHaving lost Gower to Labour in the 2017 election, the seat is a top Tory target in Wales.\n\nIn the posts following the broadcast of the first episode of Benefits Street five years ago, Ms O'Brien said: \"Benefit Street..anyone else watching this?? Wow, these people are unreal!!!\"\n\nResponding to another user's comment, she said: \"My blood is boiling, these people need putting down.\"\n\nThe Conservatives won Gower - which Labour held for more than 100 years - in 2015, but lost it in the 2017 snap election\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, Ms O'Brien said: \"These comments were made off the cuff, a number of years ago.\n\n\"However, I accept that my use of language was unacceptable and I would like to apologise for any upset I have caused.\"\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey told the Today programme what Ms O'Brien said was \"clearly wrong\", adding it was important she had apologised.\n\nAsked if Ms O'Brien should stand, she said: \"I think that would be a decision for the people of Gower to make the choice on who they want to be their next Member of Parliament.\"\n\nBut Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford said he could not imagine \"decent people\" in the constituency backing a candidate with \"views of that sort\".\n\n\"I think she is condemned out of her own mouth more eloquently than anything I could say,\" Mr Drakeford told his monthly press conference.\n\nIan Lavery, Labour Party chairman, said: \"Removing a candidate who used such vile language about people on benefits should be a no brainer.\n\n\"The cuts to benefits and Universal Credit programme that Therese Coffey and her party are responsible for have forced people into poverty.\"\n\nHe said Ms O'Brien's candidacy was \"shameful\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Two's Politics Live, Conservative peer Lord Finkelstein said he thought Ms O'Brien's comments were \"awful\".\n\n\"I'm sure she does too,\" he added. \"I do think she should consider her position.\"\n\nByron Davies said Ms O'Brien was not subject to any internal disciplinary process\n\nThe chairman of the Welsh Conservatives said Ms O'Brien was not subject to any internal disciplinary process.\n\nLord Davies - a former MP for the constituency - said: \"The comments were inadvisable, obviously, but made in the heat of the moment watching a television programme.\n\n\"But I don't condone it in any shape or form. However, this is a dredging exercise on the part of the Labour Party whose candidate in the Gower doesn't want to talk about Brexit.\"\n\nBenefits Street, which featured the residents of James Turner Street in Birmingham, was a ratings hit for Channel 4 when it was broadcast.\n\nBut a total of 887 viewers complained to the broadcasting regulator, claiming the show had vilified and misrepresented benefits claimants.\n\nOfcom decided the programme did not breach broadcasting rules.\n\nMs O'Brien is due to stand against Labour's Tonia Antoniazzi, Plaid Cymru's John Davies and Sam Bennett of the Liberal Democrats. Other parties are yet to confirm their candidates.\n\nMr Davies invited Ms O'Brien to join him on a soup run \"to see how real people have been affected by Tory cuts to public housing\".\n\nLib Dem Mr Bennett called for her to step down, adding: \"These kind of comments show the Tories are still very much the nasty party.\"", "Fracking at Cuadrilla Resources site in Lancashire in August caused a 2.9 magnitude earth tremor\n\nEnergy company Cuadrilla has said it hopes to \"address concerns\" about fracking so that a moratorium announced by the government can be overturned.\n\nAt the weekend, ministers called a halt to the practice following research from the Oil and Gas Authority.\n\nIt raised concerns about the ability to predict fracking-linked earthquakes.\n\nBut Cuadrilla, which was forced to suspend work at its Preston New Road site after a series of tremors, said it would continue to give regulators data.\n\nIt said it hoped \"to address concerns so that the moratorium can be lifted\" and that the Bowland gas resource - which stretches across northern England - could be \"further appraised and developed\".\n\nOn Monday, Business and Energy Secretary Andrea Leadsom confirmed the \"effective moratorium\" in a written statement to the House of Commons.\n\nShe said it would be \"maintained until compelling new evidence is provided which addresses the concerns around the prediction and management of induced seismicity\".\n\nHowever, the government is under pressure to make the ban permanent, amid concerns ministers - who have previously been supportive of fracking - are using it as an election ploy.\n\nFracking is a process in which liquid is pumped deep underground at high pressure to fracture shale rock and release gas or oil trapped within it.\n\nAssessment by the British Geological Survey in 2013 suggested there were enough resources in the Bowland resource across northern England to potentially provide up to 50 years of current gas demand.\n\nLocal communities and environmental groups have protested against fracking\n\nOthers, however, have questioned these findings.\n\nPreviously the government said shale development would provide opportunities for jobs and investment, and could play a \"key role\" in maintaining energy security.\n\nBut the industry has faced fierce opposition from both communities and environmental groups, at a time when there is growing concern about the role of fossil fuels in climate change.\n\nIt is not impossible, however, that the current moratorium could be lifted.\n\nFracking previously faced a moratorium during the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government that was overturned after just one year.", "Capt David Traill's partner said the inquiry's determination did no justice to his reputation or the memories of nine others killed\n\nThe fiancee of the helicopter pilot who died in the Clutha crash has described the fatal accident inquiry's findings as \"distressing and incomprehensible\".\n\nDr Lucy Thomas said she felt compelled to respond after Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull \"opted to sully the distinguished reputation\" of the pilot.\n\nThe inquiry, which closed on Thursday, found Captain David Traill \"took a chance\" and ignored low fuel warnings.\n\nThe police helicopter crashed into the Glasgow bar's roof on 29 November 2013.\n\nThe tragedy claimed the lives of the pilot, his two crew members and seven customers in the pub.\n\nMr Turnbull said the tragedy happened because 51-year-old Captain David Traill had ignored the five warnings he received during the flight.\n\nHe said that was a \"conscious decision\" which had \"fatal consequences\" for the 10 people who died.\n\nCrew members PC Tony Collins, 43 and PC Kirsty Nelis, 36, were killed, as were customers Gary Arthur, 48; Joe Cusker, 59; Colin Gibson, 33; Robert Jenkins, 61; John McGarrigle, 58; Samuel McGhee, 56; and Mark O'Prey, 44. Another 31 people were injured.\n\nDr Thomas, who was engaged to Captain Traill, broke almost six years of media silence on the incident with a public statement.\n\nShe said: \"Such is my strength of feeling since the sheriff principal's determination on the fatal accident inquiry into the Clutha helicopter crash, I feel compelled to make this statement.\n\n\"I am overwhelmed by the support that I have received from so many people, many of whom don't know me and didn't know Dave. I am eternally grateful for this.\n\n\"It is my understanding that due to misleading information from the aircraft fuel gauge and display system, Dave had only moments to make decisions and carry out tasks in an attempt to respond to this issue.\"\n\nThe manufacturer's maintenance manual incorrectly said there was three to four-minute flameout time before the helicopter would lose both engines, but in reality he only had 32 seconds, Dr Thomas said.\n\n\"That 32 seconds ended in tragedy and the loss of his and nine other valuable lives. This has devastated the lives of all who surround them and impacted on so many more.\"\n\nDr Thomas said the determination did \"no justice to the memories\" of the nine other people killed in the crash or to the \"memory and reputation of Dave Traill\".\n\n\"It insults the intelligence of those who know of the evidence presented at the inquiry and are aware of the content of the initial AAIB report,\" she added.\n\nThe expression of disbelief from many family members of those who died at the conclusion drawn in the inquiry \"speaks volumes and means much more to me than the opinion of the sheriff principal\", she said.\n\n\"I find it distressing and incomprehensible that given months, not moments, to consider the facts, the sheriff principal has come to this conclusion.\"\n\nDr Thomas pointed out the EC135 model of helicopter's \"history of faults with the caution advisory display\" amongst other technical problems such as contamination of the fuel tanks, which she said were never fully resolved by the manufacturer.\n\n\"Instead, the sheriff principal has opted to sully the distinguished reputation of a pilot with an exemplary record who was renowned for his sense of responsibility and his regard for the safety of his crew,\" she said.\n\n\"The opportunity for closure and maybe some peace for so many people has been denied.\"\n\nFollowing the 32-day inquiry, which heard testimony from families, experts and eyewitnesses, Mr O'Prey's father Ian said he was \"really angry\" at the inquiry's findings and that Capt Traill had been made \"a fall guy\".\n\nThe Clutha's owner, Alan Crossan, also expressed \"shock and disappointment\" at the report and how \"brutal\" it had been towards Capt Traill.\n\nIn his findings, Mr Turnbull said there was \"no doubt\" that the crash had happened because the helicopter's engines \"flamed out\" due to a lack of fuel.\n\nThe fuel supply tanks had been depleted because Capt Traill had failed to ensure that at least one of the aircraft's fuel transfer pump switches was on.\n\n\"The central question for the inquiry is why did that happen?\" said Sheriff Turnbull.\n\n\"The answer is a simple one. Capt Traill ignored the low fuel warnings he received.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRap star Krept says he nearly lost his life after being attacked backstage at a BBC Radio 1Xtra gig in Birmingham.\n\nThe star, whose real name is Casyo Johnson, was left with slash wounds in the leg and neck after the incident.\n\n\"I got a report back saying if [the blade] was a millimetre deeper, it could have been fatal,\" he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"I'm just grateful to even be here. It could have been a lot worse,\" he added. \"Thank God.\"\n\nThe star is one half of the grime duo Krept & Konan. They had been due to perform at 1Xtra Live at the Birmingham Arena on 5 October; but the concert was called off after the violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe stars subsequently postponed their tour to allow Krept to recover, but the 29-year-old said he wouldn't let the injury affect their career.\n\n\"I'm fine, I'm good,\" he said. \"I'm still going to get on with it... We're still going to do positive things and let people know that, no matter what happens, you can get through it.\"\n\nThe duo appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to discuss their new album, Revenge Is Sweet.\n\nIt's a record that showcases their breadth and versatility, from the bristling confidence of the opening track, Goat Level, to the cathartic closer, Broski - a tribute to their friend and business partner, Nash Chagonda, who tragically took his own life last year.\n\nThe duo said the song was written to \"change the perspective\" on mental health.\n\n\"I feel like a lot of people suffer from it, but they keep it to themselves,\" said Konan, whose real name is Karl Wilson.\n\n\"A lot of people aren't confident to reach out and talk about what they're going through. So if you're listening to our music and you hear us talking about it, maybe it'll make you think, 'The people I look up to are talking about it, so I don't [need to] feel scared'.\"\n\n\"We have to spread this message and let people know it's OK to talk,\" added Krept.\n\n\"Let people know. There's someone in your life that's definitely willing to help. Nobody wants anybody to commit suicide.\"\n\nKrept and Konan say Drill can provide young people with a route out of violence\n\nThe band were dealt a second blow earlier this year, when Krept's cousin Blaine Johnson was killed in a car accident while travelling to a gig in Staffordshire.\n\nBlaine, who was 28, performed under the name Cadet, and had just scored his first Top 20 single before he died.\n\n\"We was inseparable, we grew up together, we had the same dream of making music,\" said Konan. \"It was very hard to get through it.\"\n\n\"We have a group chat and we used to banter every day. And now they [Nash and Blaine] are not here, but you go in the group chat and their names are still in the group chat and it feels so weird.\"\n\nHe said losing two of his closest friends had overshadowed the making of his own record, but the band resolved to be positive.\n\n\"We said, 'We are going to keep his name alive and we're gonna do this for him and continue his dream. And that is what motivated us to get through to finishing the album.\"\n\nThe band hit the headlines earlier this year with the release of a short film, Ban Drill, that argued against a police initiative that requires social media companies to delete drill videos that are found to encourage violence.\n\n\"If it is inciting or glamorising violence, then we think they have a social responsibility to work with us to take those videos down,\" Met Commissioner Cressida Dick explained.\n\nKrept and Konan said that logic was \"just lazy,\" and failed to tackle \"the actual root\" of violence in deprived areas of London.\n\nIn response, the duo have set up the Positive Direction Foundation, which provides after-school activities in an effort for teenagers.\n\n\"We've gone to the heart of where everything's happening,\" said Konan. \"We've gone to the kids, and tried to help them, give them something to do after school and distract them from that kind of life.\"\n\n\"When we was getting in trouble when we was younger, what would have happened if they'd banned our music?\" added Krept. \"We wouldn't be here, setting up foundations, changing our lives, changing our perspectives.\n\n\"You've got to take people out of these situations to change their situation.\n\n\"We want to get to the actual root of what the issue is, rather than just saying just 'ban the music'.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Evha Jannath fell out of a circular boat on the Splash Canyon attraction\n\nA schoolgirl was unsupervised when she fell from a theme park ride to her death, an inquest heard.\n\nEvha Jannath, 11, from Leicester, was on a school trip in 2017 when she fell from Splash Canyon at Drayton Manor.\n\nEvha, who could not swim, was \"propelled\" from the vessel into 12ft deep water where she drowned.\n\nAn inquest at South Staffordshire Coroner's Court heard that she stood up on the ride \"at the worst possible time\".\n\nCCTV footage played to the inquest jury showed that, despite rules that riders should sit down, Evha was standing and reaching into the water before the circular boat she was in struck a barrier, sending her headfirst into the water.\n\nFootage then showed her wading through the water trying to get back to her friends before climbing an \"algae-covered travelator\" and falling off into a \"much deeper\" area of water.\n\nThe Splash Canyon ride has remained closed since Evha's death\n\nThe inquest heard she was spotted face down by staff about 11 minutes later before she was pulled out lifeless.\n\nIt had been her second turn on the ride - her first, accompanied by teachers, had passed \"without incident\", assistant coroner Margaret Jones said.\n\nStaffordshire Police said the member of staff from Jameah Girls Academy assigned to accompany the group of pupils waited by the exit with another pupil who had not wanted to board the ride.\n\nHead teacher Erfana Bora said the teacher acted in line with the school's health and safety policy on the day.\n\nShe said: \"We can't stipulate teachers must be on rides, as there will be instances where some children would not wish to be on the ride, and so in those cases it's safer overall for the teacher to stay with that child... they make the assumption the park staff are responsible for overall safety on that ride.\"\n\nAnother teacher, Aaminah Rasid Isat, said when the schoolgirls asked if they could go on the ride by themselves, the teachers agreed they were \"safe\" to do so.\n\nShe said: \"Seeing their behaviour previously on the other rides, we came to a decision they were responsible enough and having been on it once before, they were safe to go on the ride on their own.\"\n\nEvha died in hospital after suffering chest injuries, however her cause of death has since been changed to drowning.\n\nSplash Canyon has been closed since she fell on 9 May 2017.\n\nThe inquest, due to last two weeks, continues.", "The Paisley Centre was closed when the interior roof collapsed\n\nEmergency services have been called to a Renfrewshire shopping centre after the roof collapsed inside the mall.\n\nScottish Fire and Rescue Service sent twelve appliances to the Paisley Centre on High Street, Paisley after the alarm was raised at about 15:10 on Monday.\n\nAmbulance crews were also summoned but no one is believed to have been hurt.\n\nPolice Scotland helped to evacuate the centre after the incident. Members of the public posted pictures of ceiling material on the floor.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Connor Gillies This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Police Scotland were made aware of structural damage to the roof at the Paisley Centre, at the High Street entrance.\n\n\"There appear to be no injuries. Officers are in attendance to assist with closing the centre.\"\n\nSFRS confirmed there were no reported casualties.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Thomson has insisted the allegations were \"politically motivated smears\"\n\nScottish Conservative MP Ross Thomson is to stand down after being accused of sexually assaulting a Labour MP in a Commons bar.\n\nMr Thomson said he had made the \"hardest decision of my life\" not to contest the seat for Aberdeen South at the general election.\n\nLabour MP Paul Sweeney had said he reported Mr Thomson to Westminster's standards watchdog following the alleged incident last October.\n\nBut he said a number of \"anonymous and malicious allegations\" this year had made his life \"a living hell\".\n\nMr Thomson, 32, said: \"This is a political smear and I will continue to fight to clear my name. I will see this investigatory process through to a conclusion.\n\n\"I have suffered a level of personal abuse that has affected my health, my mental wellbeing and my staff. It has been a level of abuse that I never imagined possible.\"\n\nMr Sweeney said he was with a group of friends in the Commons bar when the incident happened\n\nHe added: \"I have therefore made the most difficult decision that I could ever make. I have decided that I will stand down as the Scottish Conservative and Unionist candidate for Aberdeen South.\"\n\nMr Sweeney, who is the MP for Glasgow North East, told the Scottish Mail on Sunday he was left feeling \"mortified\" by the alleged attack in the Strangers' Bar at Westminster.\n\nAccording to the paper, Mr Sweeney said he was \"paralysed\" with shock after Mr Thomson \"groped\" him in the bar.\n\nHe said the alleged incident took place in October 2018 after he had invited a group of his old Glasgow University friends for a tour of the Commons.\n\nThey later went to the Strangers' Bar for a drink where he claims they were interrupted by Mr Thomson, who was \"drunk to the point where he was barely able to stand up\".\n\nMr Thomson then allegedly grabbed at Mr Sweeney through his clothes.\n\nMr Sweeney said he repeatedly told Mr Thomson to stop touching him and asked him to leave.\n\nThe Labour MP said that he later asked for advice from the Women's Aid charity before approaching the Standards watchdog.\n\nA House of Commons spokeswoman said: \"Parliament's Independent Complaints and Grievances Scheme (ICGS) operates on the basis of absolute confidentiality.\n\n\"Therefore we cannot provide answers about any complaint that may or may not have been made.\"\n\nMr Thomson said dealing with the allegations had been \"nothing short of traumatic\"\n\nIn February, Mr Thomson was publicly accused of groping a man in the same Commons bar. The Tory MP also strongly denies any wrongdoing relating to that alleged incident.\n\nMr Sweeney said he was finally speaking out in public more than a year after the alleged assault because the investigations had \"barely progressed\".\n\nA spokesman for the MP said: \"This assault, which took place last October, was reported to the appropriate authorities after similar but entirely separate allegations were made by other men against Ross Thomson in February.\n\n\"Thomson's denials today fly in the face of what was witnessed by other MPs and visitors and show him to be utterly unrepentant.\"\n\nMr Thomson had issued a statement on Twitter on Sunday morning in which he strenuously denied Mr Sweeney's allegations, but insisted he would be a Tory candidate in the 12 December general election.\n\nHowever, he later confirmed he was standing down from the job he \"loved more than any other\".\n\nMr Thomson, who has been an MP since 2017, said: \"I always believed politics was about noble pursuits and doing what you believed to be best for your country.\n\n\"My experience is that our politics is now so poisonous that we will never attract good, honest and decent people in the first place.\n\n\"This has been without doubt the hardest decision of my life. I remain confident that the ongoing parliamentary standards process will find in my favour, and that these baseless claims will be shown up for what they are.\n\n\"As I have already said I will continue to explore all options available to me in response to the defamatory and damaging allegations made by Mr Sweeney.\"", "McDonald's has fired its chief executive Steve Easterbrook after he had a relationship with an employee.\n\nThe US fast food giant said the relationship was consensual, but Mr Easterbrook had \"violated company policy\" and shown \"poor judgement\".\n\nThe British businessman, who earned nearly $16m (£12.3m) last year, is due to receive 26 weeks of pay.\n\nThe full value of the deal was not clear. He is also eligible for a bonus, if the firm hits its performance goals.\n\nBloomberg estimated that he will leave with more than $37m, the bulk of which includes previously granted shares.\n\nIn exchange, Mr Easterbrook has agreed not to work for a competitor for at least two years.\n\nIn an email to staff, Mr Easterbrook acknowledged the relationship and said it was a mistake.\n\n\"Given the values of the company, I agree with the board that it is time for me to move on,\" he said.\n\nThe company's top human resources officer has also left the company, McDonald's said.\n\nMr Easterbrook, 52, who is divorced, first worked for McDonald's in 1993 as a manager in London before working his way up the company.\n\nHe left in 2011 to become boss of Pizza Express and then Asian food chain Wagamama, before returning to McDonald's in 2013, eventually becoming its head in the UK and northern Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe was appointed chief executive of McDonald's in 2015.\n\nMr Easterbrook is widely credited with revitalising the firm's menus and restaurants, by remodelling stores and using better ingredients. The value of its shares more than doubled during his tenure in the US.\n\nUnder his leadership, McDonald's also expanded its delivery and mobile payment options to emphasise convenience.\n\nThe fast food giant's board voted on Watford-born Mr Easterbrook's departure on Friday after a review. He has also stepped down as McDonald's president and member of the board.\n\nMcDonald's said it has longstanding rules against conflicts of interest.\n\nIt declined to provide further information about the person with whom Mr Easterbrook had the relationship, including whether the person was a direct report or remained employed by the company.\n\nEmployment lawyer Ruby Dinsmore, of Slater and Gordon, said it is now common for firms to have either outright bans on relationships, or to have notification clauses requiring individuals to disclose them.\n\nPotential conflicts of interest or litigation if a relationship turns sour were becoming a real risk for companies, she told the BBC.\n\n\"Some people may view this an an invasion of privacy,\" she said. \"But businesses have their own interests to protect as well.\"\n\nIn the era of MeToo \"companies are very keen to be seem not only to have a policy for this type of situation, but also to be seen to be enforcing it at all levels,\" she said.\n\nThe company has been criticised over the amount it pays shop staff, and Mr Easterbrook faced scrutiny for his $15.9m pay packet in 2018, which included a roughly $1.3m base salary, as well as benefits and bonus.\n\nIt was 2,124 times the median employee salary of $7,473.\n\nHe will be replaced by Chris Kempczinski, most recently president of McDonald's USA, with immediate effect.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Kempczinski thanked Mr Easterbrook for his contributions, adding: \"Steve brought me into McDonald's and he was a patient and helpful mentor.\"\n\nLast year Intel boss Brian Krzanich stepped down for having a consensual relationship with an Intel employee, which was against company rules.\n\nHe had been in the post since May 2013.", "OneCoin's promoters claimed it would deliver a \"financial revolution\"\n\nThe trial of a US lawyer accused of laundering some of the proceeds from the OneCoin cryptocurrency \"scam\" has begun in New York.\n\nMark Scott is accused of routing approximately $400m (£310m) out of the US while trying to conceal the true ownership and source of the funds.\n\nSome is alleged to have ended up in Bank of Ireland accounts.\n\nProsecutors claim he also spent some of the fraud's proceeds on a yacht, three homes and a Ferrari car.\n\nThey add that while the accused had earned hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in his role as a partner at a top-ranked law firm, this was \"a fraction of the money he was paid to launder OneCoin fraud scheme proceeds\".\n\nA recent filing by his lawyers indicate that they expect the government will prove that money that originated with OneCoin was indeed invested in funds controlled by the defendant.\n\nA BBC podcast about OneCoin's missing co-founder Dr Ruja Ignatova has drawn attention to the scheme\n\nBut they point to the fact that Mr Scott previously told the FBI that that he had asked a colleague to look into rumours that OneCoin might be a \"pyramid scheme\" before getting involved, and had been reassured \"there was nothing illegal going on\".\n\n\"The central issue at trial will be whether or not Mr Scott knew OneCoin was operating a criminal scheme,\" they add.\n\nMr Scott faces one charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and another to commit bank fraud.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe judge in the case has said it is likely to last between two to three weeks.\n\nUS-based investors claiming to have been defrauded by the scheme are also attempting to sue Mr Scott for recompense in a related case.\n\nIn total, investigators believe as much as £4bn sterling has been raised globally via what is said to have amounted to a Ponzi scheme, with investors based in Uganda, China and the UK, among other countries.\n\n\"OneCoin used the success story of Bitcoin to induce victims to invest under the guise that they, too, could get rich through their investments,\" New York state attorneys say in one filing.\n\n\"This was, of course, completely false because the price of OneCoin was a fiction and not based on supply and demand.\"\n\nAmong the evidence the prosecutors intend to present is testimony from one investor who they say wired thousands of dollars for a OneCoin package to a German entity, which in turn sent millions of euros directly to the defendant's investment funds.\n\nOthers involved in OneCoin are also facing prosecution.\n\nThe man alleged to be one of the scheme's leaders, Konstantin Ignatov, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport in March.\n\nAnd one of its co-founders, Sebastian Greenwood, was extradited from Thailand to the US following an operation involving the FBI in November 2018.\n\nHowever, the Bulgarian-based organisation behind OneCoin Ltd continues to operate and denies all wrongdoing.\n\n\"OneCoin verifiably fulfils all criteria of the definition of a cryptocurrency,\" it said in a recent statement given to The Missing Cryptoqueen, a BBC podcast.\n\nIt added: \"Our partners, our customers and our lawyers are fighting successfully proceedings against OneCoin. We are sure that the vision of a new system on the basis of a financial revolution will be established.\"\n\nJournalist Jamie Batlett has been investigating OneCoin for a BBC podcast series\n\nThe BBC podcast has been documenting the search for Dr Ruja Ignatova, another of the co-founders and the original public face of OneCoin.\n\nThe ex-McKinsey consultant had appeared at numerous events and on social media to promote the scheme.\n\nBut she disappeared from view around October 2017 and there has not been a confirmed sighting since.\n• None The mystery of the disappearing 'Cryptoqueen'", "British nationals are among 33 people injured after a bus travelling from Paris to London overturned in northern France.\n\nFour people were seriously injured and 29 others wounded when the FlixBus coach toppled at an exit near Amiens on the A1 motorway on Sunday morning.\n\nNorthern Ireland couple Jamie Kerr and Gemma Given, both 20, were treated in hospital for head and hand injuries.\n\nEight other Britons were on board, alongside passengers from nine nations.\n\nPolice had previously said there were 11 people from the UK on the coach.\n\nThe Foreign Office said three Britons remained in hospital.\n\nJamie's father John Kerr told BBC News: \"It was a pretty traumatic end to a Halloween weekend.\"\n\nHis son, a student at Glasgow University, had called on Sunday morning to say he and his girlfriend, Ms Given, were involved in the crash, which took place at around 11:00 GMT, but were not badly injured.\n\nIt is understood Ms Given, a student at Brighton University, had her bag taken for examination by police because a passenger who was seriously injured had been lying on it.\n\n\"That brought home to me how close they were to being seriously injured,\" said John Kerr.\n\nHe said the couple were offered a bus back to the UK but said they would make their own way home.\n\n\"I feel a bit more could have been done for them,\" he said.\n\n\"They'll learn a lot from all of this but I'm expecting an emotional response when they get home and it all hits them.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was in contact with French authorities. \"We will do all we can to assist any British people who need our help,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe British embassy in France confirmed British nationals were involved in the incident.\n\nThe coach was also carrying 11 people from France, five from the US, two from Romania, and one each from Spain, Australia, Mauritius, Japan and Sri Lanka. They were taken to local hospitals.\n\nLocal police tweeted they had sent all state services to the scene, while firefighters urged motorists to avoid the area.\n\nIn a statement, FlixBus said there were 32 passengers and one bus driver on board.\n\nA spokesman said: \"FlixBus is in close contact with the relevant authorities in order to determine the exact cause of the accident and to ensure all passengers receive appropriate support.\n\n\"An emergency phone number is available for the passengers and their relatives.\"\n\nThose concerned about loved ones are asked to call 0080030013730.\n\nLast month, another FlixBus coach crashed near Narbonne, in south-west France, killing one person and injuring several others, according to local media.", "A report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy will not be published until after the election.\n\nIt has gone through the standard security clearance process, but sources say No 10 is stalling on releasing it.\n\nEx-terrorism watchdog Lord Anderson said any further delay would \"invite suspicion\" of the government's motives in the run-up to next month's election.\n\nMinisters said the report would be published \"in due course\" in line with procedures for \"sensitive\" information.\n\nThe report examines Russian activity including allegations of espionage, subversion and interference in elections.\n\nThe BBC's Mark Urban said the delay would increase concerns the report would be \"buried\".\n\nThe report, written by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, was finalised in March and referred to No 10 on 17 October.\n\nHowever, approval for its publication has yet to be given and this now looks highly unlikely before Parliament is dissolved on Tuesday.\n\nThe chairman of the committee, Dominic Grieve, says there is no legitimate reason for delaying it and that voters have a right to see its conclusions before they go to the polls on 12 December.\n\n\"We continue to be very disappointed by the failure of the government to publish this report and to provide any explanation as to why it should not be published. Explanations currently advanced that the timing are too short are entirely disingenuous and grossly misleading,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe report includes evidence from UK intelligence services such as GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 concerning covert Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Urban This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral MPs and peers believe No 10 is sitting on the report for political reasons ahead of the election.\n\nRaising the issue in the Lords, Lord Anderson, the former reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, said concerns over security could not be used as an excuse for non-publication as all the necessary redactions had taken place.\n\n\"This unjustified delay undermines the ISC, it invites suspicion of the government and its motives. Will the minister urge No 10 to think again?\"\n\nThe former head of the Foreign Office, Lord Ricketts, said claims that the government needed time to respond was a red herring given that it had 60 days in which to do so under existing conventions.\n\nHe said there was a \"clear public interest\" for publication \"in the national security implications of Russia's adversarial conduct\".\n\nThe BBC understands that, if previous practice was followed, the report will have been vetted by the intelligence agencies before being referred to Downing Street.\n\nPeople familiar with the committee's workings say 10 days should have been adequate for it to be \"cleared\".\n\nMr Grieve said the report was highly relevant given the scale of Russian interference in elections in other countries, notably the 2016 US Presidential election.\n\nBut Earl Howe said the established protocols had to be followed and there was no case for \"accelerating\" the report's release.\n\n\"The length of time the government has had this report is not at all unusual,\" he told the Lords. \"The prime minister is entitled to take his view on what the report contains.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Having said all that, I do realize that the subject of this report is a matter of particular public interest. And I have no doubt that level Lords comments will not be lost on those in Number 10.\"", "A red panda that escaped from a wildlife park on the Isle of Man has been recaptured after being spotted up a tree in a garden.\n\n\"Kush\" went missing from Curraghs Wildlife Park three weeks ago, after a tree fell across his enclosure.\n\nThe panda is now being checked over in the park's hospital unit before being returned to its home.\n\nGeneral manager Kathleen Graham said staff were \"really relieved\" the search had ended positively.\n\nA live trap had been set and a drone was also used to locate the animal, which was eventually spotted in the garden of a home about a mile away in Tholt-y-Will, Sulby.\n\nThe seven-year-old mammal \"might have lost a bit of weight\" but otherwise \"looks quite healthy,\" Mrs Graham said.\n\nIt took staff \"about an hour\" to capture the animal with a net before he was taken back to the park in a box.\n\nSince the escape, tree branches that looked in danger of breaking in the red panda enclosure had been removed, Mrs Graham said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA builder and a shop worker have been named as the winners of a £105m EuroMillions jackpot.\n\nSteve Thomson, 42, and his wife Lenka, 41, from West Sussex, were the sixth jackpot prize winners in the UK this year, operator Camelot said.\n\nTheir ticket won £105,100,701.90 on 19 November, the 25th anniversary of the National Lottery's first draw.\n\nMr Thomson said when he realised he had won that he felt he was \"on the verge of having a heart attack\".\n\nThe winning numbers picked were 8, 10, 15, 30 and 42, with 4 and 6 selected for the Lucky Star numbers.\n\nThe couple said they went to work after finding out about their win\n\nAs he was handed the cheque at the official presentation of the couple's winnings, Mr Thomson said: \"I think that's mine.\"\n\nHe also said the couple had made no big purchases yet, although he admitted he had bought a new shirt and had a haircut.\n\nMr Thomson, from Selsey, said: \"I started shaking a lot. I knew it was a really big win but didn't know what to do. I think I was on the verge of having a heart attack.\"\n\nHe said he would not be giving up his job straight away.\n\n\"Once I am over the shock I will need to keep doing something,\" he said.\n\n\"I am not the type just to sit still. My business partner knows that if he needs a hand, I'll be there.\"\n\nHe added he will complete all of his outstanding jobs fitting windows and conservatories.\n\nMr Thomson said both he and his wife went to work after finding out they had won.\n\nHe said he ended up painting a ceiling.\n\nThe couple said they plan to stay in the Selsey area and will be sharing the money with friends and family, as well as \"doing things for the community\".\n\nMr Thomson added that his family will not be cooking their Christmas dinner this year.\n\nThe couple say they will be sharing their winnings with friends and family\n\nHe said he decided to go public so he did not have to hide.\n\n\"I am not going to flutter it away, at the end of the day I am still Steve,\" he said.\n\n\"I do not want to change, we are just financially better off.\"\n\nMr Thomson said his family were looking forward to a \"good Christmas\".\n\n\"I am not cooking. Mum is not cooking. Lenka is not cooking,\" he added.\n\n\"It's so much money, I still can't get my head around it.\"\n\nSteve Thomson says he will keep working and is \"not the type to sit still\"\n\nMrs Thomson, a shop worker originally from Slovakia, said: \"It's life-changing for the family. It's so emotional.\"\n\nBefore the £170m jackpot, the biggest UK winners were a couple from Largs in North Ayrshire, Scotland, who won £161m in July 2011.", "Aslan King went missing early on Saturday after suffering a suspected seizure\n\nMissing British man Aslan King has been found dead three days after he disappeared while camping, Australian police have confirmed.\n\nMr King, 25, had been away with friends in a popular tourist region in Victoria when he was last seen on Saturday.\n\nHis body was found about a kilometre (0.6 miles) away in a creek. Victoria Police said the cause of his death was under investigation.\n\nAn illustrator from Brighton, Mr King relocated to Australia two weeks ago.\n\nHis body was identified by two of his travelling partners, who were close friends, Victoria Police Sgt Danny Brown said.\n\nAuthorities said Mr King had been with four friends when he hit his head on the ground about 02:00 local time on Saturday (15:00 GMT Friday) and suffered a suspected seizure.\n\nHe then suddenly ran into surrounding bushland and may have been disoriented, police said.\n\nSearch crews had scoured the coastal area near Princetown - not far from the Twelve Apostles tourist site - since Sunday.\n\nOfficers searched for Mr King using a helicopter, horses, boats, motorcycles and sniffer dogs\n\nPolice said Mr King's behaviour on Saturday had appeared to be out of character.\n\n\"This is why it made it so hard for us [to search] because there was no intelligence to suggest why he left or where he went,\" Sgt Danny Brown said on Tuesday, according to a report by the Herald Sun.\n\n\"His behaviour took everyone by surprise. By all accounts he was very fit, physically and mentally.\"\n\nOfficers said the search was difficult because of the thick vegetation, rocky clifftops and deep coastal waters in the region.\n\nSgt Brown said Mr King's friends would be offered counselling.\n\n\"They have suffered a trauma as well by losing their friend in the beginning and the worry that goes with that,\" he said.\n\n\"And now to have two friends formally identify one of their own, one of their good close friends, and they have been friends for a lot of years, is traumatic on its own.\"\n\nNeil Trotter, mayor of Corangamite Shire, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the death of Aslan. We feel for his family and friends.\"\n\nHe said his friends were \"understandably traumatised\", and that be believes Mr King's mother is en route to Australia.\n\n\"We feel for her having to do what no parent would ever wish to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was in close contact with Australian police and was supporting Mr King's family.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nPolice said they would prepare a report for the coroner.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has \"guaranteed\" there will not be a Scottish independence referendum if the Conservatives win the forthcoming general election.\n\nThe prime minister claimed Scotland had been \"paralysed\" by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP over the past decade.\n\nAnd he pledged that any request to hold indyref2 would be rejected with \"no negotiation\".\n\nHe made the promise as he launched the Scottish Conservative manifesto ahead of the election on 12 December.\n\nSpeaking at the event in Inverkeithing, Mr Johnson ruled out allowing either a second Brexit vote or a fresh Scottish independence referendum if the Conservatives are forced to seek support from other parties to stay in power after the election.\n\nThe manifesto, entitled No To Indyref2, also outlines an oil and gas sector deal which the Conservatives say will help to protect more than 100,000 jobs in Scotland that rely on the industry.\n\nWriting in the foreword to the document, Mr Johnson argued that Scotland had been \"trapped like a lion in a cage\" for the past decade.\n\nAnd he said the country needed to move on from talk of a further referendum in order to \"restore confidence and certainty to businesses and families\" and to allow politicians to instead focus on improving public services.\n\nHe added: \"You have been paralysed by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP who simply refuse to accept your decision to keep our United Kingdom together. And that is why this election is so essential.\n\n\"If the outcome of this election is a strong Conservative majority government, then I can guarantee that we will reject any request from the SNP government to hold an independence referendum. There will be no negotiation - we will mark that letter return to sender and be done with it.\n\n\"You already made your decision five years ago, when two million Scots said no to independence. Nicola Sturgeon promised you this was a once-in-a-generation decision and I will hold her to that.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon argues that Scotland must have the right to determine its own future\n\nMr Johnson also insisted that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was prepared to do a \"shady backroom deal with Nicola Sturgeon to get into government\" if there was a hung parliament after the election, and that \"the price of that deal will be an independence referendum in 2020\".\n\nAnd he claimed in his speech that he \"understood\" the SNP leader had confirmed in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil that she wanted an independent Scotland to \"rejoin the EU, to join the euro\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, the SNP wants Scotland to continue using the pound in the years after independence before establishing its own separate currency, and Ms Sturgeon did not say during the interview that she wanted to join the euro.\n\nMs Sturgeon also told the interviewer that she was confident that an independent Scotland could rejoin the EU on a \"relatively quick\" timescale and insisted that it is \"not true to say we would have had to establish an independent currency before joining the European Union.\"\n\nMr Corbyn has repeatedly denied that he would offer a referendum in return for SNP support - but Ms Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister and the SNP leader, says he would have little choice if he wants to be prime minister.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she wants to hold an independence referendum next year\n\nBut she has also said that the formal consent of the UK government would be needed to ensure its legality was \"beyond doubt\" - as was the case ahead of the 2014 referendum, when Scottish voters opted to remain in the UK by 55% to 45%.\n\nLabour has said it would not seek to block a second referendum if there is a pro-independence majority after the next Holyrood election in 2021.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have proposed a federal United Kingdom, and have said they would not allow a second independence referendum during the next parliament.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Muslim Council of Britain’s Miqdaad Versi says Islamophobia is \"endemic, institutional within the Conservative Party”\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain has accused the Conservative Party of \"denial, dismissal and deceit\" over the issue of Islamophobia.\n\nThe MCB said the party had a \"blind spot for this type of racism\" and had failed to take steps to tackle it.\n\nThe group was responding to criticism of Labour's handling of anti-Semitism by the chief rabbi.\n\nConservative leader Boris Johnson said party members guilty of Islamophobia \"are out first bounce\".\n\nIn the Times, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said Labour had not done enough to tackle anti-Semitism and urged people to \"vote with their conscience\" in the general election.\n\nHe wrote that the \"overwhelming majority of British Jews are gripped by anxiety\" at the prospect of a Labour victory in the 12 December poll.\n\nIn response, the MCB said British Muslims would \"listen to the chief rabbi and agree on the importance of voting with their conscience\".\n\nA spokesperson added that the \"unacceptable presence of anti-Semitism in Britain\" was a source of \"real fear\" for British Jews.\n\nThey added the chief rabbi's comments \"highlighted the importance of speaking out on the racism we face, whilst maintaining our non-partisan stance.\"\n\n\"It is abundantly clear to many Muslims that the Conservative Party tolerate Islamophobia, allow it to fester in society\".\n\nThe spokesperson added that the issue was \"particularly acute\" within the party itself.\n\nThe MCB is an umbrella organisation of various UK Muslim bodies, including mosques, schools, and charitable associations.\n\nIt has previously called for allegations of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party to be investigated by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission - the body which is currently investigating allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, Mr Johnson said: \"If anybody is convicted, if anybody is done for Islamophobia, or any other prejudice or discrimination in the Conservative Party they are out first bounce.\"\n\nBut Mr Johnson has also faced accusations of Islamophobia himself, after he wrote in a newspaper column last year that Muslim women wearing burkas \"look like letter boxes\".\n\nAlso speaking on Tuesday, Chancellor Sajid Javid refused to criticise the prime minister for these remarks, added he had \"explained why he's used that language\".\n\nHe said the column from which the quote was taken had defended the rights of Muslim women to \"wear what they like\", adding: \"He's explained that, and I think he's given a perfectly valid explanation.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have pledged to start an investigation into Islamophobia and other forms of prejudice within the party before the end of the year.\n\nThe party suspended a number of members earlier this month after the Guardian supplied it with a dossier produced by an anonymous Twitter user containing examples of allegedly Islamophobic social media posts.\n\nA number of members were also suspended in September, after the BBC highlighted 20 cases to the party of members posting or endorsing Islamophobic material online.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Do you know when you're being manipulated?\n\nBlack Friday sales offer few real deals with most goods cheaper or available for the same price at other times, according to consumer group Which?.\n\nIt found that just four of 83 products they studied last year were cheaper during the Black Friday promotion.\n\nAmong products cheaper outside of Black Friday were a tumble dryer, smart speaker, coffee maker and TV soundbar.\n\nWhich? home products and services chief Natalie Hitchins said shoppers should do research and never impulse buy,\n\nThe consumer group tracked the products on Black Friday last year - 23 November. The items, from retailers including Currys PC World, Amazon, and John Lewis, were monitored six months before the date and six months after.\n\nJust four products were cheaper on Black Friday than at other times of the year. Six in 10 items were cheaper or the same price on at least one day in the six months prior to last year's Black Friday event.\n\nWhen looking at the two-week period surrounding Black Friday itself - including sale prices in the week before and after - it was found that three quarters of products were cheaper or the same price in the six months after.\n\nWhile Which? did not find evidence that any of the retailers were breaking the law, the consumer group said it showed that so-called deals may not be all they are claimed.\n\nMs Hitchins said: \"We have repeatedly shown that deals touted by retailers on Black Friday are not as good as they seem. Time-limited sales can be a good opportunity to bag a bargain, but don't fall for the pressure tactics around Black Friday.\n\n\"Our investigation indicates that this popular shopping event is all hype and there are few genuine discounts,\" she said.\n\nThe shops can get very busy\n\nRetailers rejected suggestions consumers were being misled and said that shoppers were getting some of the best deals of the year.\n\nAmazon said: \"\"The claim from Which? with regard to Echo is false and we have made this clear in our response to them. Amazon.co.uk customers were not able to buy the Echo (2nd gen) device cheaper before Black Friday 2018.\"\n\nIt added that its Black Friday sale was about \"thousands of deals on a huge selection of products from every category across the site, at a time of year when we know saving money is important to our customers\".\n\nCurrys PC World told Which?: \"Our customers tell us that they appreciate the increased choice during Black Friday where we have the most deals on at once. When we launched our Black Friday event last year, 40% of those products were the lowest price they had ever been.\"\n\nAnd John Lewis said: \"In addition to the variety of offers we have in-store and online during the Black Friday period, our commitment to being 'Never Knowingly Undersold' means that we continuously monitor and match the prices of our high street competitors throughout the year.\"\n\nWhich?'s advice for consumers during this year's sales bonanza is:", "Jo Swinson asked the court to stop the Royal Mail distributing the leaflet\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson has succeeded in her bid to stop an SNP leaflet which accuses her of accepting a £14,000 donation from \"a fracking company\".\n\nMs Swinson asked the Court of Session in Edinburgh to stop the Royal Mail from distributing the leaflet in her East Dunbartonshire constituency.\n\nThe SNP's QC had argued there was no \"substantial untruth\" in the leaflet.\n\nBut Lord Pentland said a statement on the leaflet was false in substance, materially inaccurate and defamatory.\n\nHe said: \"I don't consider it would be right for an official election leaflet which contains a prima facie defamatory statement to be distributed by the Royal Mail.\"\n\nRuling in favour of Ms Swinson, Lord Pentland ordered the SNP and its candidate Amy Callaghan to pay Ms Swinson's costs.\n\nThe SNP's legal team is considering an appeal.\n\nMs Swinson's lawyers said the leaflet had accused her of hypocrisy because she had accepted a £14,000 donation \"from a fracking company.\"\"\n\nHowever, lawyers acting for Ms Swinson claimed the statement was defamatory.\n\nThey also sought an order from judge Lord Pentland which would stop the Royal Mail from distributing the leaflet.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC told the court earlier that a director of Warwick Energy, a renewable energy company which holds licences for fracking, had made the £14,000 donation in a personal capacity to Ms Swinson's constituency office.\n\nThe QC said the donation had not been made to Ms Swinson personally and had not come from a fracking company, and that 80% of the company's output came from renewable energy sources.\n\nHe said: \"It does have a fracking licence but it doesn't engage in shale gas fracking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop added: \"We are in the midst of a general election. It is unlawful for there to be made a false statement of fact in relation to the personal character or conduct of a character.\"\n\nThe leaflets were due to be distributed by the end of this week.\n\nThe court heard that a number of them had already been distributed.\n\nFor the SNP, Jonathan Mitchell QC said there was no \"substantial untruth\" in the leaflet. He said the money was from a \"fracking source.\"\n\nHe added: \"These are allegations, disgraceful allegations, made against her which have been out in the public domain since June.\n\n\"The criticism is of her voting record and her connection to frackers.\n\n\"There is no substantial falseness in any of this.\"\n\nThe claims contained in the leaflet did not meet the legal test for defamation, he added.\n\nHe said the hypocrite remark was justified given Ms Swinson's past public statements in which she said she supported pro-environment government policies.\n\nHe added: \"The allegation is not one regarding personal conduct or character. It is of her policies.\n\n\"The complaint is about her priorities; her record.\"\n\nFollowing Lord Pentland's decision, Mr Mitchell said his clients would consider launching an appeal as a matter of \"urgency\".\n\nHe said this was because voters in East Dunbartonshire casting postal votes would do so without receiving an electoral communication from the SNP.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism in our society, our country or in my party.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has insisted there is no place for anti-Semitism within Labour and those guilty of anti-Jewish racism have been \"brought to book\".\n\nHe urged the Jewish community to \"engage\" with him following outspoken criticism from the chief rabbi.\n\nEphraim Mirvis had claimed \"a new poison - sanctioned from the very top - has taken root\" in the party.\n\nMr Corbyn said anti-Semitism was \"vile\" and \"rapid and effective\" action had been taken against offenders.\n\nAt the launch of the party's \"race and faith manifesto\", he said anti-Semitism would not be tolerated in any form under a future Labour government.\n\nHe said no community would be \"at risk because of its faith, identity, ethnicity or language\".\n\nMr Mirvis, the Orthodox chief rabbi of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, earlier warned that \"the overwhelming majority of British Jews are gripped by anxiety\" at the prospect of a Labour victory in 12 December's general election.\n\nThe chief rabbi, who is the spiritual leader of the United Synagogue, the largest umbrella group of Jewish communities in the country, said Labour's claim it had investigated all cases of anti-Semitism in its ranks was a \"mendacious fiction\".\n\nIn an article for the Times, he asked people to \"vote with their conscience\" in the election.\n\nAsked if he regretted not doing enough to tackle the issue, Mr Corbyn said internal processes for dealing with anti-Semitism were \"constantly under review\" and his door would be open to Mr Mirvis and other faith leaders to discuss their concerns if he entered Downing Street.\n\nEphraim Mirvis urged people to vote \"with their conscience\"\n\n\"Since I became leader, there are disciplinary procedures that didn't exist before. Where people have committed anti-Semitic acts they are brought to book and, if necessary, expelled from the party or suspended, or asked to be educated better about it.\n\n\"I want to live in a country where people respect each other's faiths and people feel secure to be Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or Christian.\n\n\"But be absolutely clear of this assurance from me: No community will be at risk because of its faith, identity, ethnicity or language. I have spent my life fighting racism.\n\n\"I ask those who think things have not been done correctly to talk to me about it but above all engage. I am very happy to engage.\"\n\nLabour has been beset by allegations of anti-Semitism for more than three years, leading to the suspension of a number of high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson, and an unprecedented investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nThe BBC's political editor said one of the Labour candidates present at the party's race and faith manifesto launch had herself been accused of making allegedly anti-Semitic comments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of prominent Jewish Labour politicians, including Luciana Berger and Louise Ellman, have quit the party after being the subject of anti-Semitic abuse on social media while others have accused Mr Corbyn of personally endorsing anti-Semitic tropes and imagery.\n\nMs Ellman said the chief rabbi had been right to speak out and his remarks highlighted the \"gravity of the situation\" facing British Jews.\n\n\"It is unprecedented for a major political party - a potential party of government - to be perpetuating anti-Semitism,\" she told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\n\"This is not just about Jewish people, it is about the whole of our society.\"\n\nAny intervention like this from a significant religious leader would be damaging, but the timing is a nightmare - just two weeks from polling day and on the very day Labour launched its race and faith manifesto. And the language the chief rabbi used - it's all bad, bad, bad.\n\nMr Corbyn didn't really take on the chief rabbi's comments. He talked about how anti-Semitism was vile and evil, how if he was PM he would want to ensure greater security and protection for synagogues and mosques.\n\nThe nearest he actually got to directly addressing the chief rabbi's intervention was to say \"engage\"- appealing to all religious groups to engage with him if they have concerns.\n\nI take it from that that Team Labour have decided there is not much they can say or do that is going to make any difference to how he is seen by many, many people in the Jewish community.\n\nTeam Corbyn take the view that they have introduced new disciplinary procedures, fast-tracked them and, as a result, more people are getting turfed out of the party.\n\nMr Corbyn has said again and again and again that he abhors anti-Semitism, and yet it doesn't really seem to have made any difference to his relationship with large sections of the Jewish community.\n\nThey almost just had to take the hit, move on and hope this blows over and the election moves on to other issues.\n\nFormer Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, who had been due to lead an independent review into anti-Semitism before the equality watchdog intervened, urged the party to heed the chief rabbi's words.\n\n\"We deserved an attack that strong,\" he told the BBC. \"We need to deal with anti-Semitism properly.\"\n\nHe added: \"I really hope that the chief rabbi's absolutely extraordinary, but justified, intervention will be listened to by my party.\"\n\nRabbi Jonathan Romain said he had written \"to my own community\" to say there was \"a serious problem with Corbyn-led Labour\" and that they should vote for whichever party \"is most likely to defeat a Labour candidate\".\n\nAnd historian Simon Sebag Montefiore said the \"overwhelming majority of the Jewish community\" felt anti-Semitism was \"rife and unchecked\" in the Labour Party.\n\nBut the Labour peer Lord Dubs, the child refugee campaigner who fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, said he was \"bitterly disappointed\" by the tone of the chief rabbi's remarks.\n\nHe said he was reassured that Mr Corbyn - a longstanding campaigner for peace in the Middle East and the rights of the Palestinian people - was not personally an anti-Semite. He said where Labour had failed was in not acting \"a bit quicker\" in dealing with the issue.\n\nThe Labour leader faced criticism from Jewish groups when he said in last week's general election ITV leader's debate that the party had \"investigated every single case\" raised by complainants. He did not address the chief rabbi's claim that 130 cases were outstanding.\n\nCampaigning in Scotland, Conservative leader Boris Johnson said it was \"clearly a failure of leadership\" on Mr Corbyn's part that he \"has not been able to stamp out this virus in the Labour Party\".\n\nBut he faced criticism of his own party's record on racism, after the Muslim Council of Britain accused the Conservative Party of \"denial, dismissal and deceit\" over the issue of Islamophobia.\n\nSouth-African born Mr Mirvis became chief rabbi in 2013. In a Facebook post in July, he congratulated Mr Johnson on his election as Conservative leader, describing the new prime minister as a \"long-standing friend and champion of the Jewish community\".\n\nAccording to the British Board of Deputies, there are between 260,000 and 300,000 Jews in England and Wales. Around half belong to the Central Orthodox denomination which includes the United Synagogue, led by the chief rabbi.", "The initial scope of the inquiry was to examine 23 cases but this has now grown to hundreds\n\nMore than 200 new families have contacted an inquiry into mother and baby deaths at a hospital trust in Shropshire.\n\nInvestigators were already looking at more than 600 cases where newborns and mothers died or were left injured while in the care of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust.\n\nOne expert says the scandal, spanning decades, may be the tip of the iceberg.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup says it suggests failure might be more widespread in the NHS.\n\nThe surge in new cases follows the leak of an interim report last week.\n\nThe leaked report, compiled by the maternity expert Donna Ockenden for NHS Improvement, outlined a catalogue of maternity failings from 1979 to the present day that led to avoidable deaths of mothers and babies at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH).\n\nIt revealed that some children were left disabled, staff got the names of some dead babies wrong and, in one case, referred to a child as \"it\".\n\nSources say hundreds of new families have now come forward in the wake of the coverage of the leaked report.\n\nKay Kelly, head of clinical negligence at the law firm Lanyon Bowdler, is a solicitor acting for some of the families involved.\n\nShe says that since the leaked report was made public, her firm alone has had more than 80 new inquiries.\n\nShrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust was placed in special measures\n\n\"A lot of them aren't brand new stories.\n\n\"They're things that have happened many years ago and these people have been prompted to telephone us because of the story.\n\n\"Many of them are people who lost babies at the hospital and that worries me because I understood that the hospital had passed on the information to the Donna Ockenden inquiry.\"\n\nOne of those being represented by Kay Kelly is Chrissie, whose son, a twin, was left with cerebral palsy after birth.\n\nChrissie's case against SaTH is continuing and she didn't want to be identified.\n\nBut she told me she was furious that so many families have also had to go through the terrible events she experienced.\n\n\"Nobody learned any lessons from what happened to me.\n\n\"And to know now that there've been hundreds of cases, I'm angry.\n\n\"I am really angry. Angry at them for lying to me.\n\n\"I'm angry for all the poor families, the hundreds of families and that's thousands of people because they've got the grandparents, the aunts, the uncles.\n\n\"I just feel overwhelmed at the moment with anger, anger and just, I don't understand it.\"\n\nThere are concerns too that the failings seen at SaTH echo closely those at another maternity unit run by the Morecambe Bay Trust.\n\nThe man who headed the inquiry into that scandal where 11 babies and one mother died is Dr Bill Kirkup, a respected expert on maternity care.\n\n\"These are not two separate one-offs, these point to underlying systemic failure that might be widespread.\n\n\"The notion that it could never happen here is one of the most dangerous ones an NHS Trust can have.\n\n\"The truth is, there are points of learning from all of these things that everybody should be looking at and learning from.\"\n\nThe investigation team is not expected to report until late next year.\n\nBut with families still coming forward, its work may last much longer.\n\nDonna Ockenden, chair of independent review, said: \"I would like to thank the brave families who have come forward and shared their experiences - my team are now contacting families on a daily basis. If families would like to raise a concern I am asking them to please get in touch.\"", "Zoe Wanamaker has said too much of today's television is \"violent and nasty\".\n\nThe actress appears in a new adaptation of Worzel Gummidge, which airs on BBC One over Christmas.\n\n\"I learnt on My Family how great it is when kids and adults can watch TV together,\" she told The Radio Times.\n\n\"It's very unusual and I think it's missed now. Something that catches everybody's imagination is to be lauded.\"\n\nShe continued: \"If you think of Harry Potter, for instance, it goes on forever and can be enjoyed by different generations. Too much television is violent and nasty.\n\n\"We've got that surrounding us in the world, so why should we have it on our televisions all the time as well? To have joy is always important, and to be desired.\"\n\nThe character of Worzel Gummidge was originally invented by Barbara Euphan Todd in her series of books that began in 1936.\n\nJon Pertwee became famous for playing the straw-haired version in the ITV series which aired from 1979 to 1981.\n\nMackenzie Crook writes, directs and stars in the new adaptation of Worzel Gummidge\n\nMackenzie Crook, who writes, directs and stars in the new two-part adaptation of Worzel Gummidge, has kept many original elements from both the books and the TV series.\n\nThe adaptation focuses on a walking, talking scarecrow, who lives on Scatterbrook Farm and makes friends with children called Susan and John.\n\nBut Crook has invented his own adventures for them and the characters look entirely different.\n\nThanks to prosthetics and CGI, the actor and director has designed a Worzel Gummidge who has a turnip for a head and butterflies living in his beard.\n\n\"I came from one of those BBC-centric households that frowned upon commercial TV, so I didn't watch it,\" Crook told The Radio Times, adding it was helpful not to have seen any previous versions of the character.\n\n\"I wanted to adapt the books without having the old series in my mind at all. The books are from the 1930s and are very dated, so there was a lot of room to do something completely fresh with it.\"\n\nMichael Palin, Steve Pemberton, Rosie Cavaliero and Vicki Pepperdine also appear in the new adaptation alongside Crook and Wanamaker.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "De La Rue, the company that prints the UK's banknotes, has said there is a risk that the firm will collapse if its turnaround plan fails to work.\n\nThe announcement came as it suspended its dividend and reported a loss in the first half of its financial year.\n\nDe La Rue said its warning was based on a worst-case scenario.\n\nHowever, it concluded that there was \"a material uncertainty that casts significant doubt on the group's ability to operate as a going concern\".\n\nUK-based De La Rue prints cash for about 140 central banks and employs more than 2,500 people globally.\n\nAll current Bank of England banknotes are printed by the firm at a site in Debden, Essex.\n\nIt is unclear what would happen if the firm got into difficulties, but it is likely that a rival would take over its Bank of England contract. Its main competitors are all based outside the UK.\n\nThe BBC understands that preparations have already been made for the launch of the new £20 note featuring artist JMW Turner, printed by De La Rue, which enters circulation on 20 February next year.\n\nDe La Rue has faced some big setbacks in the past two years, including the loss of the post-Brexit UK passport printing contract to a Franco-Dutch firm last year.\n\nIn May last year, it had to write off £18m after Venezuela's central bank failed to pay its bills.\n\nThe company is also under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office in connection with \"suspected corruption\" in South Sudan.\n\nIt appointed a new chief executive, Clive Vacher, in October as part of a management shake-up.\n\nAround 11% of the 171 billion banknotes issued globally in 2017 were printed by a handful of commercial printers. De La Rue is now the largest of these firms.\n\nIt began producing banknotes in 1860, first for Mauritius and then elsewhere. Today it produces enough notes each week that if stacked up would reach the peak of Everest twice.\n\nIts main competitor, German company Giesecke & Devrient, produces notes for roughly 100 central banks, while the Canadian Banknote Company and US-founded Crane Currency are also major players.\n\nDe La Rue reported a £12.1m pre-tax loss for the six months to 28 September, compared with a £7.1m profit in the same period last year.\n\nIn its results statement, the company said it was accelerating its restructuring plan, including a reduction in overhead costs.\n\nIt is also planning new banknote security feature products to bolster its position in the \"increasingly competitive\" banknote market.\n\n\"De La Rue is teetering on the brink,\" said Neil Wilson, chief market analyst for Markets.com.\n\n\"Bad management and decisions seems to be the main reason for the malaise.\"\n\nInvestors sometimes wonder whether a company's board of directors can, in the short term, have much sway over a company's trading.\n\nThe scepticism is warranted: boards normally comprise a small number of executives and a larger number of non-executive directors, who have no involvement with day-to-day operations, and there are plenty of examples of companies going off the rails without the board suspecting anything was wrong.\n\nToday's results from De La Rue show, however, that boards are vital. The banknote and secure-printing company turned in a disastrous set of numbers - a £10m operating loss, a string of one-off charges and mounting debt - which it blamed on falling demand and too many companies chasing too few contracts.\n\nBut it also admits that a period of unprecedented turmoil at the top has not helped, with the chairman, chief executive, finance director and most of the other directors changing in short order.\n\n\"The board believes that significant changes in the board and executive teams, along with a restructuring of the business, has contributed to the poor performance of the business in the period,\" the results statement says.\n\n\"This has contributed to a larger variance between forecasts and performance than has been experienced historically.\"\n\nManagement matters, and will matter even more in the next few months. The directors warn that if the revival plan put in place by (newish) chief executive Clive Vacher does not yield results, there is a threat to the company being able to continue as a going concern.\n\nIn plain English, that means it will have to find more money, either by renegotiating the terms of its bank loans or by asking shareholders to stump up more cash.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Andrew has previously said he regretted this 2010 meeting with Epstein\n\nAn air ambulance service has become the latest charity to withdraw its connection to the Duke of York.\n\nYorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) said \"staff, volunteer and donor opinion\" had led to the move by its trustee board.\n\nIt follows Prince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight and the controversy over his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe duke opened the air ambulance base at Nostell in 2015.\n\nFor several months the duke had been facing questions over his ties to US financier Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, claimed she was forced to have sex with the prince three times. The duke has always denied any form of sexual contact or relationship with her.\n\nBT and Barclays have joined universities and other charities in distancing themselves from the duke.\n\nYAA, which has become the latest charity to withdraw its connection, said: \"As a charity funded generously by public donations, we must seriously consider the opinions of our donors and supporters, and this has been a significant factor in reaching this decision.\"\n\nPrince Andrew, 59, announced on Wednesday he would step back from royal duties and all organisations he is patron of because the Epstein scandal had become a \"major disruption\" to the Royal Family.\n\nBuckingham Palace had described it as \"a personal decision\" following discussions with the Queen and Prince Charles.\n\nPrince Andrew's resignation from all royal duties followed an interview on the BBC's Newsnight programme\n\nHe is no longer patron of the Outward Bound Trust, the English National Ballet, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Metropolitan University.\n\nThe University of Huddersfield has also said the prince would step down as chancellor.\n\nThe main role of a royal patron is to raise the profile and attract publicity for work done by charities.\n\nThe prince will no longer carry out public engagements but will still attend Royal Family events such as Trooping the Colour and Remembrance Sunday.\n\nStandard Chartered Bank and KPMG also announced they were withdrawing support for the duke's business mentoring initiative Pitch@Palace, though sources told the BBC the decisions were made before the interview.\n\nFour Australian universities also said they would not be continuing their involvement in Pitch@Palace Australia.\n\nPrince Andrew also cancelled a planned visit to flood-hit areas of Yorkshire on 19 November, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJose Mourinho made a dramatic entrance at his new home as Tottenham came from two goals down to beat Olympiakos and qualify for the Champions League knockout phase.\n\nMourinho made a low-key entrance for his first game as manager at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - but then it was drama all the way as he was subjected to all facets of the side he inherited from sacked Mauricio Pochettino.\n\nSpurs were dreadful at the back in the first half, going behind after only six minutes to Youssef El-Arabi's low drive and conceding a second 13 minutes later when Ruben Semedo scored from close range at a corner.\n\nMourinho acted quickly, sending on Christian Eriksen for Eric Dier, but it still took a horrendous error from Yassine Meriah to gift Dele Alli a goal in first-half stoppage time to throw Spurs a lifeline they accepted with relish.\n\nHarry Kane levelled from Lucas Moura's cross five minutes after the break, Mourinho hugging an alert ball boy who helped Serge Aurier take a quick throw-in that caught Olympiakos flat-footed, and the recovery was complete 17 minutes from time when the defender powered home a finish at the far post from Alli's cross.\n\nMourinho fist-pumped furiously in delight and he was ecstatic again when Kane wrapped things up with a header from Eriksen's inviting free-kick.\n\nThe England captain broke Alessandro del Piero's record as the player to score 20 Champions League goals in the fewest games - 24, compared to the Italian's 26 games with Juventus.\n• None 'I was a brilliant ball boy and so was this kid - Mourinho\n• None The Humble One - Mourinho's new persona in evidence in Spurs comeback\n\nThere was no fanfare when Mourinho took his seat in the technical area before kick-off, although inevitably banks of photographers were there to welcome him.\n\nHe had a distinctly uncomfortable start as this lively Olympiakos side exposed so many of the flaws that led to Pochettino's sacking and Mourinho's arrival when Spurs were run ragged early on.\n\nIt was then that Mourinho made his impact with a positive - and necessary - substitution, introducing the creativity of Eriksen for the stability of pivot Dier to try to edge Spurs back into the contest.\n\nThis was not a cautious Mourinho but one who knew something had to change, even though only 26 minutes had gone.\n\nYes, Spurs and Mourinho needed a huge slice of luck, but once they emerged for the second half the mood had changed after Alli's goal, which deflated Olympiakos and revitalised the home side and their supporters.\n\nIt allowed Mourinho to join in the celebrations with the Spurs fans, and even hug that ball boy, as a night that started by threatening a serious anti-climax had the perfect conclusion.\n\nMourinho stayed on the pitch at the final whistle to congratulate his Spurs players before politely applauding fans behind the technical area and making his way down the tunnel.\n\nThis was a good night for Mourinho in the context of the result and Spurs' performance once they had the encouragement of a goal right on half-time.\n\nThey were galvanised and the usual suspects came to the party as Kane struck twice and Alli showed superb footwork to set up the third goal for Aurier.\n\nMourinho, however, will not get carried away because he will note how Spurs were so easily cut open early on and how defensive uncertainty, and moments of poor communication between goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga and his backline, threatened more problems.\n\nHe knew he had problems to solve when he succeeded Pochettino and two wins from two will not blind him to the fact they still need addressing.\n• None Tottenham striker Harry Kane is the fastest player to score 20 Champions League goals, reaching the tally in just 24 appearances and breaking the record held by Alessandro del Piero since 1998 (26 appearances).\n• None Kane has scored 23 goals in 23 appearances for Tottenham and England this season.\n• None This was the first time a team managed by Jose Mourinho has come from two goals down to win a Champions League game - he had lost on the previous 13 occasions.\n• None Mourinho took charge of his sixth different club in the Champions League (Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Spurs). Only Carlo Ancelotti has managed more teams in the competition (eight).\n• None Olympiakos have not won in their past 13 Champions League matches (D3 L10), conceding 34 goals.\n• None Dele Alli ended a run of 16 Champions League games without a goal, scoring for the first time since November 2017 against Real Madrid. All four of Alli's goals in the competition have come at home.\n\nTottenham host Bournemouth on Saturday (15:00 GMT) in the Premier League as they look to make it three wins from three under Mourinho.\n• None Attempt missed. Rúben Semedo (Olympiakos) header from very close range is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Mathieu Valbuena with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 4, Olympiakos 2. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Blue Story is the tale of two friends who become rivals\n\nA cinema chain has reversed its decision to pull the film Blue Story after a brawl.\n\nShowcase said it had reinstated screenings of the film on Monday night after \"careful consideration\".\n\nIt comes after youths, some armed with machetes, sparked a police operation at Vue's multiplex cinema at Star City in Birmingham.\n\nA ban is still in place at Vue cinemas' 91 UK and Ireland venues, it said, after multiple \"significant incidents\".\n\nThe move has prompted a backlash on social media with some labelling the ban as \"racist\".\n\nCinema firm Showcase had initially stopped showing the film, but reinstated screenings on Monday night after \"careful consideration and discussions with the distributor\".\n\n\"We have come up with a plan to reinstate screenings of the film supported with increased security protocols and will be doing so from this evening,\" it said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFive teenagers, including a 13-year-old girl, were arrested in connection with the disturbance, which involved up to 100 young people in a public area of the multiplex, on Saturday night.\n\nIn a statement, Vue said the film opened in 60 of its sites across the UK and Ireland on Friday.\n\n\"But during the first 24 hours of the film over 25 significant incidents were reported and escalated to senior management in 16 separate cinemas,\" it said.\n\n\"This is the biggest number we have ever seen for any film in a such a short time frame.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several arrests were made at a multiplex in Birmingham on Saturday (Courtesy Rachael Allison)\n\nA spokeswoman for Vue confirmed police had been called to some of the incidents, but could not confirm exactly how many times.\n\nThe chain has stressed the decision to pull the film was prompted only because of the risk of further violence.\n\nA spokeswoman for Vue said a \"significant incident\" was \"any incident that has a risk to audience members\", adding that they were awaiting clarification of the details of individual cases.\n\nThe Odeon chain says it is not withdrawing the film, but \"a number of security measures are in place\" for Blue Story screenings, though it refused to elaborate on what they are.\n\nIn Birmingham, a note on the door of the Odeon cinema at the Broadway Plaza said staff would be carrying out bag searches throughout the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Onwubolu, known as Rapman, wrote and directed the film Blue Story\n\nBlue Story's writer and director, Andrew Onwubolu known as Rapman, said Saturday's disturbance in Birmingham was \"truly unfortunate\".\n\nIn an Instagram post on Sunday, the rapper-turned-filmmaker wrote: \"Sending love to all those involved in yesterday's violence at Star City in Birmingham.\n\n\"It's truly unfortunate that a small group of people can ruin things for everybody.\n\n\"Blue Story is a film about love not violence.\"\n\nOn Monday, he tweeted: \"We lost nearly half of our screens on the third day but we still made history with £1.3m in 3 days. Blue Story is number three in the UK box office. Thank you.\"\n\nAn online petition calling for the film to be reinstated at Vue cinemas has attracted more than 13,000 signatures.\n\nThe film was released last Friday\n\nOn Saturday, West Midlands Police officers drew Tasers and used a dispersal order to clear the Star City venue.\n\nFootage from inside the multiplex appeared to show fights and people on the floor screaming.\n\nThe five teenagers - two girls aged 13 and 14 and three 14-year-old boys - have all now been bailed alongside a 19-year-old man.\n\nFour were held on suspicion of assaulting police and one of the boys was detained on suspicion of obstructing police.\n\nAnother of the boys was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder after an image circulated on social media showing a number of youths, with one carrying a machete.\n\nPolice were called to the complex, in Nechells, at about 17:30 GMT and cleared the area by 21:00. The officers hurt during the disorder suffered minor facial injuries.\n\nThe film focuses on two friends from different south London postcodes on rival sides of a street war.\n\nIt is rated 15 for strong language, strong violence, threat, sex and drug misuse.\n\nDistributor Paramount Pictures said it was \"saddened\" by events at Star City but said the movie had had an \"incredibly positive reaction and fantastic reviews\".\n\nIn Sheffield on Sunday evening, there was an increased police presence around Centertainment in Broughton Lane ahead of the showing of the film after disorder was reported outside the Cineworld within the complex on Saturday.\n\n\"Officers carried out patrols of the area to ensure everyone's safety,\" police said in a statement, adding that they would \"be liaising with Cineworld over the coming week to discuss further screenings of this film\".\n\nCineworld has confirmed that it will not be pulling the film.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree men falsely convicted of murder in the US state of Maryland have been set free after 36 years in prison.\n\nAlfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins had been sentenced to life in 1984 for killing a 14-year-old boy a year earlier.\n\nThey were freed in Baltimore on Monday after a judge cleared their convictions following a review of their case.\n\nThe case was reopened this year after Mr Chestnut sent a letter to Baltimore's Conviction Integrity Unit.\n\nHe included evidence he had uncovered last year.\n\nMr Chestnut, Mr Stewart and Mr Watkins were arrested as teenagers in November 1983 following the death of DeWitt Duckett, who was shot in the neck on his way to class at a Baltimore junior high school and had his Georgetown University jacket stolen.\n\nDeWitt's death received widespread press coverage. It was the first fatal shooting of a student in a Baltimore public school.\n\n\"These three men were convicted, as children, because of police and prosecutorial misconduct,\" Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby said after the men were released.\n\nIn a statement, her office said \"detectives targeted the three men, all 16-year-old black boys, using coaching and coercion of other teenage witnesses to make their case\".\n\nAlfred Chestnut embraced his mother following his release\n\nProsecutors said during the initial investigation police ignored and withheld reports from multiple witnesses identifying another person as the killer, and that trial witnesses failed to identify the three teenagers in photo line-ups.\n\nAll trial witness have now recanted evidence, Ms Mosby said.\n\n\"I don't think that today is a victory, it's a tragedy. And we need to own up to our responsibility for it,\" she said.\n\nThe other suspect died in 2002.\n\nCase documents had been sealed by a judge, but Mr Chestnut obtained them last year with a public records request.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Watkins said \"this should never have happened\".\n\n\"This fight is not over,\" he said. \"You all will hear from us again.\"\n\nMs Mosby also announced the launch of a new programme - Resurrection After Exoneration - to provide services to help exonerated people reintegrate into society, including support for education and mental and physical health.\n\nShe said the state of Maryland did not have legislation that guided compensation for those falsely convicted of a crime, and that she would work to change that.\n\nCurrently, the Board of Public Works has the authority to direct compensation.\n\nIn October, the board awarded about $9m (£7m) in payments to five men who were wrongfully imprisoned for decades. Walter Lomax - who served 38 years for murder - received about $3m, the largest payout ever made by the state for a wrongful conviction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man has been in prison in the US for 23 years for shooting dead a British tourist, even though the judge in his case and police detectives believe he is innocent of the crime.", "Labour would not block indyref2 if pro-independence parties win a majority at the next Holyrood election, according to Scottish leader Richard Leonard.\n\nMr Leonard said a Labour-led UK government would grant the powers to hold a second independence referendum in this scenario.\n\nHowever, he also said he still opposed breaking up the UK.\n\nMr Leonard also promised \"further consultation\" on controversial plans for an oil and gas windfall tax.\n\nThe Scottish Labour leader was speaking in a live interview and phone-in session on BBC Radio Scotland, which all of the country's main party leaders will take part in during the election campaign.\n\nLabour's position on a second independence referendum has been the subject of much focus during the election campaign.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has claimed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will have little choice but to back a second independence referendum if he wants to be prime minister and Boris Johnson has ruled out giving permission for another vote while he is prime minister.\n\nMr Leonard said his opposition to independence had not changed but added: \"If the SNP or other parties put in their manifesto that they wanted to hold a second independence referendum and they got a mandate for that, either in 2021 or at some future point, then of course what we are saying is that would not be blocked by a UK Labour Westminster government.\"\n\nThe Central Scotland MSP said that the independence question is a \"battle that will be won or lost in Scotland\" but an issue that could be reframed by the election of a Labour UK government.\n\nHe said: \"The terms of the debate on the constitutional position in Scotland would change because, instead of a UK government which is embarking upon a programme of austerity, you would see a UK government embarking upon a programme of significant investment in both the economy and public services.\"\n\nMr Leonard also claimed the prospect of a second Brexit vote under Labour and the chance of the UK staying in the EU would also weaken the SNP's argument for a second independence referendum.\n\nAt the Scottish Labour general election manifesto launch Mr Leonard said the party's free school meals pledge was part of Labour's plan for \"transformational change\" across Scotland and the UK\n\nThe Scottish Labour manifesto promised a windfall tax of the profits of the oil and gas industry.\n\nThe idea has been controversial, especially in the north east of Scotland where many people are employed in the sector, and Mr Leonard used his interview to suggest it would be subject to consultation in the event of a UK Labour government being elected.\n\nHe said: \"We think there ought to be a windfall tax on the profits of the oil and gas sector; the level at which that is pitched, when that is introduced, is a matter of consultation and negotiation.\n\n\"It will form a fund to enable those currently employed in the oil and gas sector to change their occupation and roles into other part of the economy.\"\n\nMr Leonard also said the money raised from the levy is not an \"intrinsic part\" of Labour's spending plans.\n\nConcerns over Labour's proposed windfall tax on the oil and gas industry have been raised given the sector is still recovering from a recent downturn in fortunes\n\nOn Brexit, Mr Leonard said he would again campaign to remain if there was a second Brexit referendum, in contrast to Jeremy Corbyn who said he would remain neutral on the issue if prime minister.\n\nElsewhere, Mr Leonard suggested a Labour promise to compensate more than three million women who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised could be funded by borrowing.\n\nIt has been estimated this policy would cost £58bn and the Scottish Labour leader said governments can borrow money to pay for \"exceptional items\", insisting it is \"the right thing to do\".\n\nOn a second independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon said Labour would not \"walk away\" from a deal with the SNP if it allowed the party to get the keys to Number 10.\n\nBoris Johnson has ruled out granting a \"section 30 order\" - which grants permission for a new referendum from the UK government - while he is prime minister, arguing the issue is settled as, \"the people of Scotland, were told in 2014 that that was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have said a second referendum on the future of the UK is unnecessary and would be \"divisive\" with Scottish leader Willie Rennie claiming his party was \"unique\" in this election by opposing both Brexit and independence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC Wales debate: What are you doing to restore our faith in politics?\n\nFor the last question, Patrick Jones asks: what will the panel will do to restore our faith in politics and politicians? David TC Davies for the Conservatives says that to restore trust \"we must carry out our promises\". He says that it is outrageous that people are saying the Tories would sell off the NHS. The Brexit Party's James Wells says the party slogan of \"change politics for good\" is why he got involved in politics. But the audience member Mr Jones is unimpressed. \"Stop lying to us, don't insult our intelligence,\" he says. Unlike her party leader earlier tonight, Labour's Nia Griffith says: \"We need to apologise to the whole of the Jewish community.\" She says she is \"very, very ashamed\" of anti-Semitism in the party. Lib Dem Jane Dodds says: \"We have to trust each other, if we say we're going to do something, we have to do it. We have to work together.\" Plaid's Liz Saville-Roberts says people are fed up with \"soap-opera slogan politics\". \"As a society we have to look at politics is for, politics is how we live together,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the timescale for an independent Scotland joining the EU would be “relatively quick\".\n\nAn independent Scotland could rejoin the EU on a \"relatively quick\" timescale, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe Scottish first minister and SNP leader wants a new referendum on independence to be held in 2020, and is also opposed to the UK leaving the EU.\n\nShe told the BBC that Scotland would be \"seeking a way back in\" to the EU if Brexit happened.\n\nThe Conservatives have claimed that a Labour government backed by SNP votes would lead to two referendums in 2020.\n\nThe SNP leader was taking part in a special interview with Andrew Neil as part of the build-up to the snap general election on 12 December.\n\nOther party leaders are also set to be quizzed by Mr Neil, with Labour's Jeremy Corbyn to follow on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said her SNP MPs could potentially help to put Mr Corbyn in Downing Street in the event of a hung parliament, but said the Labour leader must first accept the \"fundamental principle\" that an independence referendum should be \"in Scotland's hands\".\n\nShe told Mr Neil that she would always back a new, UK-wide EU referendum but said there was \"no guarantee that fixes the problem for Scotland\", as \"we could end up with exactly the same result we had in 2016\" - with a majority in Scotland backing Remain, while the UK as a whole votes to Leave.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to hold a new Scottish independence referendum in 2020\n\nQuestioned about how swiftly an independent Scotland could re-enter the EU, Ms Sturgeon said she did not want to set out a \"specific timescale\", but said talks she had had previously meant she thought it would be \"relatively quick\".\n\nShe explained: \"We understand the conditions we would require to meet, and the discussions that would require to take place. But if we're in a position of Scotland being taken out of the European Union then we will be seeking a way back in.\"\n\nThe SNP currently plan to have Scotland continue to use the pound in the years immediately after independence, before establishing a new currency after a series of stringent economic tests are met.\n\nChallenged on whether Scotland could join the EU while using the currency of a non-member state, Ms Sturgeon said this was possible.\n\nShe said: \"We would be setting up a central bank, the infrastructure that is required for that, that is part of the discussion we would have with the EU, but it is not true to say we would have had to establish an independent currency before joining the European Union.\"\n\nThe MSP added: \"We would have a discussion with the EU about the journey an independent Scotland was on in terms of currency, and the accession if Scotland was already out of the EU to the point where we rejoined the EU.\n\n\"Scotland faces right now the uncertainty of being ripped out of the EU against our own will. It's not of our making. And we need to plot the best way forward for our country where we are in charge of the decision that we make.\"\n\nThe SNP's currency plan would see Scotland continue to use the pound in the years immediately after independence\n\nMs Sturgeon also said an independent Scotland would \"aspire to run a surplus\" through faster economic growth, which she said would be aided by remaining in or returning to the EU.\n\nPressed on trade friction if Scotland was inside the EU and the rest of the UK was not, Ms Sturgeon said it was \"a priority\" to ensure smooth movement of goods and services.\n\nShe said: \"We don't yet know what the UK's final relationship with the EU will be. Once we have clarity on that we have to understand the implications and set out clearly how we deal with those, in order to keep trade flowing between Scotland and England, which is in our interests and in the interests of the rest of the UK.\n\n\"It is also in our interests to stay in the single market, which is eight times the size of the UK market. The experience of Ireland, albeit at a different time in history, is when they combined independence with membership of the EU, their exports to the EU grew and they became more prosperous. That's the best of both worlds I believe Scotland can attain.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also came under pressure on her domestic record on health which has seen Scotland's largest health board being placed in \"special measures\" and calls for her health secretary to resign.\n\nA recent report by Audit Scotland highlighted that just two out of eight key waiting time standards had been met and warned that the NHS in Scotland could face a £1.8bn shortfall in less than five years if it is not reformed.\n\nMs Sturgeon acknowledged there were problems, adding: \"All health services everywhere face these challenges. We are not immune from that but I believe we are doing the things that are required.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have said a Jeremy Corbyn government at Westminster - potentially supported on an issue-by-issue basis by the SNP - could lead to two referendums in 2020, on Brexit and independence.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said a \"coalition of chaos\" between the two parties would be a \"nightmare on Downing Street\".\n\nLaunching his party's manifesto, he \"confidently prophesised\" that in 10 years' time \"people will be passionately proud of their Scottish identity, and their Welsh and Northern Irish, and - yes - their English identity\".\n\nHe added: \"We will also all be a proud strong and whole United Kingdom, more united than ever, flying that red, white and blue union flag that represents the best of our values, from democracy and the rule of law.\"\n\nLabour meanwhile have said they would not back a new independence vote within the \"early years\" of a Corbyn-led administration at Westminster.\n\nScottish leader Richard Leonard told BBC Scotland on Monday that a request for a referendum \"would not be blocked\" by a UK Labour government if there was a pro-independence majority after the Holyrood elections in 2021.\n\nHowever, he said Labour would be seeking to win that election, and restated his opposition to independence.\n\nThe Scottish Lib Dems are opposed to both Brexit and independence, with campaign chairman and MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton saying the party is seeking to \"reclaim our lost heartlands\" in the Highlands and Fife while \"breaking new ground\" in areas like Edinburgh which recorded a heavy Remain vote in 2016.", "Harry Dunn's father Tim Dunn was left outside the hustings\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab was called a \"coward\" by the friends and family of Harry Dunn as they were left outside constituency hustings.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to the suspect leaving the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nHis family had hoped to put pressure on Mr Raab at the event in Surrey.\n\nMr Raab said he felt a \"constructive conversation\" would not have been possible due to crowds there.\n\nA member of staff at the church where the hustings were held said they were kept outside due to fire safety.\n\nMr Dunn's parents have begun legal action against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), alleging the granting of immunity by Mr Raab was \"wrong in law\".\n\nBut the FCO has said it will \"seek costs\" for any judicial review brought and argue the family has not found \"any reasonably arguable ground of legal challenge\".\n\nIt said an allegation that the foreign secretary had \"misused and/or abused his power\" was \"entirely without foundation\".\n\nDominic Raab (second from left) attended the event at East Molesey Methodist Church\n\nSigns calling for Harry's family and friends to be allowed to enter were held up against the East Molesey Methodist Church door, which was monitored by staff.\n\nThere were chants of \"let us in\" from more than 50 people who were left outside on Monday night.\n\nAs Mr Raab left the church in an official car, a crowd booed and branded him a \"coward\".\n\nMr Raab told the BBC: \"I'm happy to see the family whenever they want to, but doing it outside in those circumstances… I don't think was the right thing to do, it's not like we'd be able to have a constructive conversation.\"\n\nHe reiterated his sympathy for the Dunn family and said he would \"like to see justice done\" but that he had \"no control over the case\".\n\nHarry's father Tim Dunn said he had hoped to call on voters to back another candidate to unseat Mr Raab at the Esher and Walton constituency hustings.\n\nAsked why he thought the foreign secretary did not speak to him, Mr Dunn said: \"I think he doesn't want to give me the answers I need.\n\n\"There's things going on, we're not quiet about it, we think the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) and the FCO are talking and delaying tactics.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMr Dunn was fatally injured on 27 August, when his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Anne Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton, where her husband Jonathan was an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity but the family are seeking a judicial review of that decision.\n\nDuring the hustings, Rebecca Little, who lives in Cobham, said she asked about Mr Dunn's case on behalf of his family.\n\n\"There were several security detail preventing the family from coming in but they have a right to enter the hustings,\" she said.\n\nSigns calling for Harry's family and friends to be allowed to enter were held up against the door\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Obama was served sushi at the restaurant in 2014\n\nA world-renowned sushi restaurant where Barack Obama dined has been dropped from the Michelin gourmet guide.\n\nSukiyabashi Jiro, focus of the 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams Of Sushi, has earned three Michelin stars every year since 2007.\n\nBut the Tokyo restaurant has been dropped from the 2020 guide because it no longer accepts public reservations.\n\nTo get a table you need to be a regular, have special connections, or go through a top hotel.\n\nIt is run by sushi maestro Jiro Ono, who is in his 90s, and his eldest son, Yoshikazu.\n\nThe restaurant can only take 10 guests at a time, with prices starting at around 40,000 yen (£285) for the chef's selection.\n\nIt made headlines in 2014 when the then-US president and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dined there, with Mr Obama reportedly saying it was the best sushi he had ever tasted.\n\n\"We recognise Sukiyabashi Jiro does not accept reservations from the general public, which makes it out of our scope,\" a spokeswoman from the Japanese branch of Michelin told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"Michelin's policy is to introduce restaurants where everybody can go to eat,\" she said.\n\nAllan Jenkins, editor of Observer Food Monthly, said the move would probably not faze the owners.\n\n\"Not sure they are bothered, though presume some tourists might be,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Truth is since the film and Obama he is the most famous Japanese sushi chef alive and he will be fine. He is ancient and only has to fill 10 spots anyway.\"\n\nAndy Hayler, a restaurant critic for Elite Traveler magazine, pointed out that despite \"fascination\" within the press over the restaurant, it is only rated 66th best in Tokyo for sushi by the main local guide Tabelog.\n\n\"From 2008, when Michelin started covering Tokyo, it did not cover places like Mibu or Kyoaji, which are famous but are essentially private members clubs,\" he added.\n\nThe dropping of Sukiyabashi Jiro comes after The Araki, a sushi restaurant in London's Mayfair, was stripped of all three of its Michelin stars this year after its chef went back to Tokyo.\n\nIn 2017, French chef Sebastien Bras asked to be stripped of his three stars as it put him under \"huge pressure\".", "A woman says she only discovered a car had crashed into the front of her house and was on fire when a police officer told her.\n\nSylvia Walden, 61, slept through the early morning smash before being woken by the sound of shouting.\n\nThree people suffered serious injuries in the incident on the A857 at Barvas in Lewis on Saturday. The car was involved in a police chase.\n\nA 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with road traffic offences.\n\nHe is due to appear in court next month.\n\nSylvia Walden said her first concern was for her dog\n\nMs Walden, 61, was not injured in the incident.\n\nShe said: \"I believe it was about 01:30. I was fast asleep and didn't hear the car go into the house. People think it rather funny I didn't get woken up by that.\"\n\nMs Walden added: \"I could hear shouting. I got up, opened the door and there was a police officer with a torch saying 'hello, hello this is the police. You need to get out of the house'.\"\n\nShe said her first concern was for her dog, but was told by the police officer that it was fine before adding that there was a car on fire in her garden.\n\n\"It was up against the house on fire,\" she said.\n\nThe car had ended up upright on its bonnet, leaning against Ms Walden's property.\n\nThree people were seriously injured in the crash\n\nThe driver and two passengers of the blue Vauxhall Zafira were taken to Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway for treatment to serious injuries.\n\nThe incident has been referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) by Police Scotland.\n\nIt is thought the actions of officers in the lead-up to the crash will be looked into.\n\nA Pirc spokesman said: \"As is standard procedure, Police Scotland have referred to the Pirc the circumstances of an incident in the early hours of Saturday 23 November 2019 on the Isle of Lewis.\n\n\"We are now carrying out an assessment to determine whether a full investigation is required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Child poverty risks reaching a record high under the Conservatives, according to a Resolution Foundation report.\n\nThe party's manifesto does not propose changes to existing benefit policy and, as a result, relative child poverty would reach a 60-year high of 34% by 2023-4, the think tank said.\n\nBut none of the three main party manifestos would reduce child poverty from its current rate of 29.6% by then.\n\nThe Tories said they were committed to tackling child poverty.\n\nThe report, which was published on Tuesday, said: \"It is notable that both the Labour and Liberal Democrat approaches could be expected to halt potential increases in relative child poverty over the next Parliament.\n\n\"We forecast that under current policy plans (ie the Conservative package) child poverty will rise from 29.6% in 2017-18 to 34.4% in 2023-24.\"\n\nUnder Labour's plans, which include around £9bn of extra social security spending, the foundation forecast there would be some 550,000 fewer children in poverty compared to Conservative plans.\n\nLabour's plans would see child poverty remain roughly the same, with a rate of around 30.2% in 2023-4.\n\nThat figure under Lib Dems' plans, meanwhile, would be 29.7% in 2023-4.\n\nTheir social security pledges are slightly more progressive than Labour's and would see 600,000 fewer children in poverty than there would be under Conservative plans, the foundation said.\n\n\"However, this would not do enough to see child poverty fall from today's already high levels,\" the Resolution Foundation's Laura Gardiner said.\n\nMs Gardiner added: \"Policy choices since 2010 have reduced the generosity of support for working age families by £34bn.\n\n\"Against the backdrop of major cuts, the parties' manifestos do offer big choices on social security.\"\n\nThe foundation - a think tank focusing on people on lower incomes - defined relative child poverty as those living in households with incomes below 60% of the median in a given year.\n\nIn 2017-18, that figure was £304 a week, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"Our reforms to social security, including scrapping Universal Credit, the Two-Child Limit and the Benefit Cap, will stop child poverty increasing, as this report rightly acknowledges.\"\n\nHe added that other pledges would seek to tackle the root cause of child poverty, including free school meals for all primary school pupils and an expansion of free childcare.\n\n\"We are committed to tackling child poverty and have made progress since we came into government - with 730,000 fewer children in workless households,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"But we know that we must continue to make every effort on this issue and our manifesto sets out how we will use the tax and benefits system to do this.\n\n\"The prime minister has committed to giving every child in the country the opportunities to make the most of their talents.\"\n\nThe report said that while workless households were in decline, one of the new challenges was \"in-work poverty\".\n\nCorrection 5 December 2019: An earlier version of this article included a Conservative Party spokesman's claim that there were 750,000 fewer children in poverty since the party came into government. This claim is incorrect and was removed from the article shortly after publication.", "Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases once again reached new highs in 2018.\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says the increase in CO2 was just above the average rise recorded over the last decade.\n\nLevels of other warming gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, have also surged by above average amounts.\n\nSince 1990 there's been an increase of 43% in the warming effect on the climate of long lived greenhouse gases.\n\nThe WMO report looks at concentrations of warming gases in the atmosphere rather than just emissions.\n\nThe difference between the two is that emissions refer to the amount of gases that go up into the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuels, such as burning coal for electricity and from deforestation.\n\nConcentrations are what's left in the air after a complex series of interactions between the atmosphere, the oceans, the forests and the land. About a quarter of all carbon emissions are absorbed by the seas, and a similar amount by land and trees.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to reduce your carbon footprint when you fly\n\nUsing data from monitoring stations in the Arctic and all over the world, researchers say that in 2018 concentrations of CO2 reached 407.8 parts per million (ppm), up from 405.5ppm a year previously.\n\nThis increase was above the average for the last 10 years and is 147% of the \"pre-industrial\" level in 1750.\n\nThe WMO also records concentrations of other warming gases, including methane and nitrous oxide. About 40% of the methane emitted into the air comes from natural sources, such as wetlands, with 60% from human activities, including cattle farming, rice cultivation and landfill dumps.\n\nMethane is now at 259% of the pre-industrial level and the increase seen over the past year was higher than both the previous annual rate and the average over the past 10 years.\n\nNitrous oxide is emitted from natural and human sources, including from the oceans and from fertiliser-use in farming. According to the WMO, it is now at 123% of the levels that existed in 1750.\n\nLast year's increase in concentrations of the gas, which can also harm the ozone layer, was bigger than the previous 12 months and higher than the average of the past decade.\n\nWhat concerns scientists is the overall warming impact of all these increasing concentrations. Known as total radiative forcing, this effect has increased by 43% since 1990, and is not showing any indication of stopping.\n\n\"There is no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline, in greenhouse gases concentration in the atmosphere despite all the commitments under the Paris agreement on climate change,\" said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.\n\n\"We need to translate the commitments into action and increase the level of ambition for the sake of the future welfare of mankind,\" he added.\n\n\"It is worth recalling that the last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was three to five million years ago. Back then, the temperature was 2-3C warmer, sea level was 10-20m higher than now,\" said Mr Taalas.\n\nThe UN Environment Programme will report shortly on the gap between what actions countries are taking to cut carbon and what needs to be done to keep under the temperature targets agreed in the Paris climate pact.\n\nPreliminary findings from this study, published during the UN Secretary General's special climate summit last September, indicated that emissions continued to rise during 2018.\n\nBoth reports will help inform delegates from almost 200 countries who will meet in Madrid next week for COP25, the annual round of international climate talks.\n\nAir monitoring stations like this one in Switzerland", "Alibaba chairman Daniel Zhang (centre) flanked by company executives and a Chinese official at the Hong Kong stock exchange\n\nShares in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba have surged in its Hong Kong trading debut in one of the year's most anticipated stock offerings.\n\nThe firm, which is already traded in the US, raised around $11.3bn (£8.8bn) in its secondary listing.\n\nAt the launch, Chairman Daniel Zhang cheered Alibaba's return to Hong Kong.\n\nThe move is seen as a boost for the city amid fears long-running protests have tarnished its reputation as a financial hub.\n\nIn opening moves on Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index on Tuesday, Alibaba's stock jumped more than 6%.\n\nThe company was met with strong appetite for its shares, priced at HK$176 each.\n\nMr Zhang struck the gong at the ceremony at the city's exchange and welcomed the firm's return \"home\" to Hong Kong.\n\nHe was joined by the territory's Financial Secretary Paul Chan and former Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa.\n\nThe Hangzhou-based firm had originally considered a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) in 2013, but opted for New York after failing to secure regulatory approval in the Asian territory.\n\nOver the years, Alibaba has grown from an online marketplace into an e-commerce giant with interests ranging from financial services to artificial intelligence.\n\nAhead of its Hong Kong debut, the company said the listing would allow investors across Asia to \"participate in Alibaba's growth,\" as it seeks to tap \"substantial new capital pools\" in the region.\n\nAlibaba has been listed in New York since 2014\n\nThe share sale has knocked Uber off the top spot as this year's biggest IPO, according to Dealogic data. The ride-sharing firm raised $8.1bn in its New York float in May.\n\nThe move to go ahead with the Hong Kong listing comes after Alibaba delayed plans to do so earlier this year, amid ongoing unrest and the US-China trade war.\n\nThe long-running protests have hurt the economy, which has fallen into recession, and knocked business confidence in the city.\n\nThe protests started in June against plans to allow extradition to the mainland - which many feared would erode the city's freedoms.\n\nHong Kong is part of China, but as a former British colony it has some autonomy and people have more rights.\n\nWhile the extradition plans were withdrawn in September, the demonstrations have continued, with protesters calling for an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality, and democratic reform.", "Supt Novlett Robyn Williams (right) was on trial with her sister Jennifer Hodge and Dido Massivi (left)\n\nA senior police officer convicted of possessing a child abuse video on her phone has been told she faces \"immense\" career consequences.\n\nA court heard Novlett Robyn Williams failed to report her sister for sending the \"disturbing\" clip last year.\n\nWhile jurors at the Old Bailey accepted Williams did not view the material, they rejected her claim she was unaware of its presence on her phone.\n\nShe was ordered to carry out 200 hours' community service.\n\nWilliams had denied the charge, saying she \"zoned out\" when she received the video.\n\nThe jury was told she was one of 17 people to receive the 54-second clip via WhatsApp, and prosecutors had argued there was no way she could have missed its arrival in her inbox.\n\nThey said a response sent to her older sister Jennifer Hodge, saying \"please call\", was evidence that she wanted to discuss the content.\n\nJudge Richard Marks QC, sentencing, told the Old Bailey her \"grave error of judgement\" was likely to have \"immense\" career consequences.\n\nSupt Williams, pictured with London mayor Sadiq Khan, was highly commended for her work helping families affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster\n\nThe court heard Williams, who was commended for her work after the Grenfell Tower disaster, had an exemplary disciplinary record, was highly regarded for her work and was awarded the Queen's Policing Medal for distinguished service in 2003.\n\nJudge Marks told her it was \"completely tragic you found yourself in the position you now do\" considering her \"stellar career in the police force over 30 years\".\n\nShe was cleared of a charge of corrupt or improper exercise of police powers in failing to report the distribution of an image.\n\nAs the prosecuting barrister, Richard Wright QC, noted, this is a \"sad\" case for all those involved, particularly for Robyn Williams who could well lose the job she cherishes.\n\nShe was the only one to be prosecuted of the 17 people who received the child abuse video.\n\nTwo individuals reported it, but no action was taken against the other 14, raising concerns among her supporters that she's been unfairly targeted.\n\nDid it have to end up in a trial at the Old Bailey? Or could the superintendent have been dealt with through internal misconduct procedures, given her 36 years' distinguished service?\n\nThere is also a wider question for all of us about our legal responsibilities when we're sent material on social media that we haven't asked for.\n\nThis case has demonstrated the risks of not reporting and deleting footage that contains illegal content.\n\nWilliams' sister Jennifer Hodge, 56, of Brent, was ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service having been found guilty of distributing an indecent image of a child.\n\nThe social worker had denied sending the video, which she received from her partner and allegedly depicted a young girl performing a sex act on a man.\n\nHer barrister Andrea Brown also told the court the conviction had \"destroyed her relationship\" with her police officer sister, who is her only immediate family member.\n\nSupt Novlett Robyn Williams had denied all the charges\n\nHodge's partner Dido Massivi, 61, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment suspended for two years as well as 200 hours of community service.\n\nThe bus driver had denied two counts of distributing indecent photos and one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image portraying a person having sex with a horse.\n\nProsecutors said there was no suggestion the defendants derived any sexual gratification from the images but all three will be placed on the sex offenders' register - Hodge and Williams for five years, and Massivi for 10.\n\nBoth Hodge and Massivi were also sacked from their jobs following their arrest, the court heard.\n\nScotland Yard said Williams remains on restricted duties but that would be \"reviewed now criminal matters are complete\".\n\nMet Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matthew Horne said: \"The Independent Office for Police Conduct is carrying out an independent misconduct investigation into the actions of Supt Williams and we await the outcome.\"\n\nThe National Black Police Association said it was \"stunned and shocked\" by the 54-year-old's sentence, calling it \"institutional racism\".\n\n\"She receives this perverse outcome despite being the only one of 17 recipients of this vile video who did not view it\", it said.\n\nBut Internet Watch Foundation, a UK charity responsible for finding and removing online child sexual abuse, described the officer's conviction as \"a salutary reminder of what people should do in these situations if they stumble across images or videos of child sexual abuse\".\n\nThe Police Superintendents' Association said it had \"supported Supt Williams throughout this process and will continue to do so as her legal team considers an appeal\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amanda White said she wants to warn others about the potential dangers of surgery abroad\n\nA 29-year-old Belfast woman had to have her left breast removed after contracting an infection following breast reduction surgery in Turkey.\n\nAmanda White travelled to a clinic in the country on 6 November, but when she returned she became ill and had to have surgery at the Ulster Hospital.\n\nDespite doctors' efforts to save her breast, she had to have a mastectomy.\n\nMs White has spoken out because she wants to warn others of the potential dangers of having surgery abroad.\n\nThe mother of two young boys, who lives in south Belfast, spoke to BBC News NI from her hospital bed.\n\n\"I had always wanted surgery from I was about 18,\" she said.\n\n\"My chest made me very uncomfortable and I had severe back pain but I had no idea it would turn out like this.\n\n\"The doctor told me if I'd left it any later before getting treatment I wouldn't be here.\"\n\nAmanda White has been recovering in the Ulster Hospital\n\nMs White said alarm bells began to ring as soon as she arrived at the clinic in Turkey.\n\n\"They just wanted my passport and cash,\" she said.\n\n\"I had to sign a consent form which wasn't in English and the surgeon was only in the room for a few seconds.\"\n\nA few hours after surgery, she was taken to a villa where she stayed for three nights in a sparsely-furnished room with no windows.\n\n\"The beds weren't changed and when I asked for the corset they gave me to wear to be washed, it came back and it was still stained,\" Ms White said.\n\nShe is far from alone. The Ulster Hospital has recently treated six other patients who travelled to foreign countries for their operations with terrible consequences.\n\nAlastair Brown, a consultant plastic surgeon at the Ulster Hospital, said there had been a worrying increase in what he described as cosmetic surgery tourism.\n\nAlastair Brown said the NHS is dealing with \"disastrous consequences\" in some cases\n\n\"To me it's just ludicrous. I don't know why someone would subject their body to that sort of thing, I just can't understand it,\" he said.\n\n\"I can understand them trying to save a little bit of money and the cost saving, but really over the long term, is that cost saving?\n\n\"If it goes well then brilliant and some of the cases do go well, but when it goes wrong it goes very wrong and that's where we're just seeing these disastrous consequences.\n\n\"And we cannot emphasise enough the importance of getting this message across to the public - please be very, very careful before subjecting yourself to this.\"\n\nMs White did her research before going abroad and said she was heavily influenced by a number of celebrities who said they had used the same clinic.\n\n\"All the celebrities are saying 'this place is great' and you trust that,\" she said.\n\nThe surgery would have cost about £7,000 in Northern Ireland but Ms White spent £3,250 to have the operation in Turkey and that included flights and the extra cost of hotels.\n\nWhen she came home the wound on her left side became infected and when she went to her doctor she was told to go to the emergency department.\n\nThen, last Wednesday, she had to have more surgery.\n\n\"When they opened me up they realised they had to remove my nipple and then had to remove most of my left breast, there was nothing they could do.\"\n\nMs White told reporter Tara Mills that celebrity endorsements had influenced her choice of clinic\n\nShe will be able to have reconstruction surgery in about nine months.\n\n\"The doctors here have been amazing but it's not okay to go away and I think we have to let girls know - don't go away, save the extra couple of pound and get it done at home.\"\n\nMr Brown also wants the public to be aware of the dangers.\n\n\"Think about the establishment and the aftercare,\" he said.\n\n\"Anybody can get complications but what is in place if something does go wrong?\n\n\"Our surgeons are highly skilled and trained and have ongoing assessment. Does that happen in other countries? We just don't know.\n\n\"We had another case today but from what I'm told it wasn't so severe but it will require a lengthy period of care in the NHS.\"\n\nBBC News NI contacted the Comfort Zone Surgery in Turkey where Amanda had the operation.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"As with any surgical procedure, the biggest risk is infection and this can happen to anyone in any country.\n\n\"We are obviously very sad to hear this and are more than happy to make any free corrections that she may need in the short near future.\"", "Climate change is said to have increased the severity of recent wildfires in Australia\n\nCountries will have to increase their carbon-cutting ambitions five fold if the world is to avoid warming by more than 1.5C, the UN says.\n\nThe annual emissions gap report shows that even if all current promises are met, the world will warm by more than double that amount by 2100.\n\nRicher countries have failed to cut emissions quickly enough, the authors say.\n\nFifteen of the 20 wealthiest nations have no timeline for a net zero target.\n\nHot on the heels of the World Meteorological Organization's report on greenhouse gas concentrations, the UN Environment Programme (Unep) has published its regular snapshot of how the world is doing in cutting levels of these pollutants.\n\nThe emissions gap report looks at the difference between how much carbon needs to be cut to avoid dangerous warming - and where we are likely to end up with the promises that countries have currently committed to, in the Paris climate agreement.\n\nThe UN assessment is fairly blunt. \"The summary findings are bleak,\" it says. \"Countries collectively failed to stop the growth in global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that deeper and faster cuts are now required.\"\n\nThe report says that emissions have gone up by 1.5% per year in the last decade. In 2018, the total reached 55 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent. This is putting the Earth on course to experience a temperature rise of 3.2C by the end of this century.\n\nJust last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that allowing temperatures to rise more than 1.5 degrees this century would have hugely damaging effects for human, plant and animal life across the planet.\n\nThis report says that to keep this target alive, the world needs to cut emissions by 7.6% every year for the next 10 years.\n\n\"Our collective failure to act early and hard on climate change means we now must deliver deep cuts to emissions - over 7% each year, if we break it down evenly over the next decade,\" said Inger Andersen, Unep's executive director.\n\nThe report pays particular attention to the actions of the richest countries. The group of the 20 wealthiest (G20) are responsible for 78% of all emissions. But so far, only the EU, the UK, Italy and France have committed to long-term net zero targets.\n\nForest clearing in Asia has contributed significantly to carbon emissions over the past decade\n\nSeven G20 members need to take more action to achieve their current promises. These include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and the US.\n\nFor example, Brazil's plans were recently revised, \"reflecting the recent trend towards increased deforestation\".\n\nThree countries - India, Russia and Turkey - are all on track to over-achieve their plans by 15% but the authors of the report say this is because the targets they set themselves were too low in the first place.\n\nFor three others - Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia - the researchers are uncertain as to whether they are meeting their targets or not.\n\nFlooding is one of the most damaging consequences of rising temperatures\n\nThat leaves China, the EU and Mexico as three countries or regions that are set to meet their promises or nationally determined contributions (NDCs), as they are called, with their current policies.\n\nWithout serious upgrades to most countries' plans, the UN says the 1.5C target will be missed by a significant amount.\n\n\"We need quick wins to reduce emissions as much as possible in 2020, then stronger NDCs to kick-start the major transformations of economies and societies,\" says Inger Anderson.\n\n\"We need to catch up on the years in which we procrastinated,\" she added. \"If we don't do this, the 1.5C goal will be out of reach before 2030.\"\n\nThe report outlines some specific actions for different countries in the G20.\n\nThere will have to be a huge increase in spending on renewable energy\n\nSo for Argentina it's recommended that they work harder to shift the public towards widespread use of public transport in big cities. China is urged to ban all new coal-fired power plants, something that recent research casts doubt on.\n\nThe biggest focus of action is the energy system. To get a sense of the massive scale of change that is needed, the study says the world will have to spend up to $3.8 trillion per year, every year between 2020 and 2050 to achieve the 1.5C target.\n\nThe impression that time is running short is reinforced by the report - and UN negotiators gearing up to meet in Madrid next week at COP25 are feeling the pressure to increase their ambitions on carbon.\n\n\"This is a new and stark reminder by the Unep that we cannot delay climate action any longer,\" said Teresa Ribera, Spain's minister for the ecological transition.\n\n\"We need it at every level, by every national and subnational government, and by the rest of the economic and civil society actors. We urgently need to align with the Paris Agreement objectives and elevate climate ambition.\n\n\"It would be incomprehensible if countries who are committed to the United Nations system and multilateralism did not acknowledge that part of this commitment requires further climate action. Otherwise, there will only be more suffering, pain, and injustice.\"", "Employee activism has been a major disruption for Google over the past two years\n\nGoogle has fired four employees in what activists within the company describe as an attempt to \"crush\" workers' attempts to organise.\n\nThe people, who have been dubbed the \"Thanksgiving Four\", had their contracts terminated on Monday.\n\nStaff were told via an internal memo that the firings were related to data security and employee safety.\n\nBut those who lost their jobs have said they were being punished for \"speaking out\".\n\nThe sackings followed a demonstration at Google's San Francisco office on Friday, attended by more than 200 Google employees. Two of the four fired employees, Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland, spoke at the protest.\n\nThe Silicon Valley giant has confirmed the authenticity of the memo, first published by Bloomberg, but would not comment further.\n\nGoogle's Security and Investigations team said the employees were routinely accessing information about other projects and employees inappropriately.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees’ materials and work,” the memo read.\n\n\"This includes searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their jobs - repeating this conduct even after they were met with and reminded about our data security policies.\n\n\"This information, along with details of internal emails and inaccurate descriptions about Googlers’ work, was subsequently shared externally.\"\n\nAt Friday's protest, Ms Rivers told the crowd she had been put on administrative leave for accessing confidential documents. She tweeted on Monday that her contract had been terminated.\n\n\"Four of our colleagues took a stand and organised for a better workplace,\" a statement representing the Four, and other organising employees, read. The confirmed Mr Berland was among the four. The other two employees’ identities have not been made public.\n\nThe statement continued: \"This is explicitly condoned in Google's Code of Conduct, which ends: 'And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up’.\n\n\"When they did, Google retaliated against them. Today, after putting two of them on sudden and unexplained leave, the company fired all four in an attempt to crush worker organising.”\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmong the issues causing discomfort among Google employees is the firm's work with the US Border Patrol. More than 1,500 workers have signed a petition demanding Google backs down from its bid to provide the agency with cloud computing services.\n\nBut the workers point to Google's hiring of IRI Consultants, a firm which bills itself as a leader in helping major firms avoid \"union vulnerability”, as a sign of the search giant’s growing unease at internal activism.\n\nThe row has caught the attention of Washington. \"This type of union busting is unacceptable,\" tweeted presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders.\n\n\"I say to Google: it is time to address the racism, harassment, and harmful contracts at your company and treat your workers with the respect and dignity they deserve.\"\n\nObservers see the move as heralding the end of Google's famously open working culture. Executives have locked down the degree to which employees can access information on projects they are not involved with, while earlier this month Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai told staff its weekly \"all-hands\" meeting would no longer take place.\n\nThe open forum, which used to take place every Friday, will be replaced by a monthly meeting that focused only on \"product and business strategy\", according to tech news site The Verge, referencing an internal memo sent at the time.\n\nNo longer allowed at the meetings: free-flowing questions on Google's political controversy, such as its role in China, dealings with the military, and co-operation with US Immigrations, Customs and Enforcement - known as Ice.\n\n\"They think this will crush our efforts, but it won't,\" the Google workers statement distributed on Monday added.\n\n\"For every one they retaliate against, there are hundreds of us who will fight, and together we will win. One of the most powerful companies in the world wouldn't be retaliating against us if collective action didn't work.\"\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Indian doctors have removed a kidney weighing 7.4kg (16.3lbs) - as much as two newborn babies - from a patient.\n\nIt's believed to be the largest kidney ever removed in India - a kidney usually weighs between 120-150g.\n\nThe patient was suffering from a condition called Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease, which causes cysts to grow all over the organ.\n\nOne doctor involved in the operation said large kidneys were common in patients with the disease.\n\nHowever Dr Sachin Kathuria, from Sir Ganga Ram hospital in Delhi, said doctors generally would not remove the organ unless there were symptoms of infection and internal bleeding, as they were performing at least some filtering functions in the body.\n\n\"This patient had contracted a bad infection that was not responding to antibiotics, and the kidney's massive size was causing the patient breathing difficulties, so we had no choice but to remove it,\" he said.\n\nDr Kathuria added that doctors were expecting a large kidney when they operated, but the size of this organ had still surprised them.\n\n\"His other kidney is even bigger\", he told the BBC.\n\nHe said the heaviest kidney according to the Guinness World Records is 4.5kg, although urology journals had records of kidneys that were even heavier than this one. One from the US weighed 9kg while another from the Netherlands was 8.7kg.\n\nDr Kathuria said doctors had not decided whether to submit their findings to the Guinness commission as a world record, but they were \"considering it\".\n\nAccording to the NHS website, Polycystic kidney disease is a common hereditary condition, which causes problems when patients are between 30 and 60 years old.\n\nIt causes kidney function to deteriorate until it finally culminates in kidney failure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why foreigners are travelling to India for better healthcare", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Episode six sees him travelling at the request of the Queen to learn Welsh before the ceremony\n\nThe prominence of Welsh in The Crown's new series is \"incredibly useful\" for the promotion of the language, a veteran campaigner has said.\n\nThe latest series puts Welsh at the forefront of the Prince of Wales' time in Aberystwyth and Caernarfon ahead of his investiture in 1969.\n\nIt also includes an episode focusing on the Queen's reaction to the Aberfan disaster.\n\nThe Crown is one of Netflix's most successful series.\n\n\"Millions of people are going to be aware of the existence of the language, as a living language, for the first time ever,\" said Dafydd Iwan.\n\nEpisode six, which covers the investiture, is called Tywysog Cymru - Welsh for Prince of Wales - and the Prince, portrayed by actor Josh O'Connor, is seen travelling to Aberystwyth at the request of the Queen to learn the language before the big ceremony.\n\nMark Lewis Jones plays Dr Tedi Millward, who taught Welsh to the Prince of Wales\n\nOn arrival at the university he meets his tutor Dr Tedi Millward, played by actor Mark Lewis Jones. Nia Roberts plays the role of Dr Millward's wife, Silvia Millward.\n\nThe husband and wife are shown speaking naturally in Welsh in scenes at their home, with English subtitles on screen.\n\nJones said the Prince and Dr Millward developed \"a respect for each other during this time even though they came from different worlds\".\n\nHe said having Welsh spoken in the series \"means a massive amount\".\n\n\"This is so important, I think, that this language is heard throughout the world, with subtitles and no apology for that,\" he said.\n\nRoberts said she hoped \"people will be pleased about how much Welsh there is in the episode\".\n\n\"I don't say anything in English in this episode and I think that was a really brave decision by The Crown producers,\" she added.\n\nMark Lewis Jones and Tedi Millward on the set of The Crown in Aberystwyth\n\nMr Iwan said: \"I didn't feel uncomfortable at all about the way they treated the Welsh language. Unfortunately, we have become used to an English treatment of the Welsh language - which has often been done in either a patronising or ignorant fashion.\"\n\nHe said the episode gave a \"fairly fair treatment of the language as a living language\".\n\nThe Crown producers approached him to ask permission to use his song, Carlo, and to collect \"ephemera and posters\" for the episode.\n\nOlivia Colman plays the Queen in the series\n\nPosters of language pressure group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg and one advertising Mr Iwan can be seen in the background of some scenes, something he admitted was \"a little strange\".\n\n\"They work within a historical, factual framework, and then use a bit of license to use their imagination,\" he said.\n\nWhile the historical opposition to the Prince's presence is shown as Charles arrives in Aberystwyth, and as his coach travels through Caernarfon on its way to the castle, Mr Iwan said he had expected to see more. But he added that Dr Millward's character did convey the dissatisfaction effectively.\n\n\"I would expect to see more of the conflict, and crowds protesting against the investiture. But they chose to focus on the language, which is interesting and a good thing for the Welsh language.\"\n\nNia Roberts said she hoped \"people will be pleased about how much Welsh there is in this episode\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales met Dafydd Iwan earlier this year during his week-long visit to Wales\n\nMr Iwan said he liked the series, which was released on Netflix on November 17.\n\n\"They could have focused on the great success of the investiture and portrayed the opposition as some kind of crazy bunch of students. But by portraying the other side in the character of Tedi Millward they have given it a bit more strength.\n\n\"In other words, it could have been a lot worse.\"\n\nIn real life the language campaigner met Prince Charles earlier this year.\n\n\"It is true to say that he was very, very aware of the Welsh language and the importance of the Welsh language, and the aspirations of Welsh nationalists,\" he said.", "A tweet from a US academic calling Indian food \"terrible\" has sparked a hot debate about cultural intolerance and racism in international cuisine.\n\n\"Indian food is terrible and we pretend it isn't,\" said international affairs professor Tom Nichols.\n\nThe remark led to a wider discussion of the immigrant experience and how many in the US have experienced racism in relation to food.\n\nMr Nichols - who teaches at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island - posted his opinion after another Twitter user had asked for \"controversial food opinions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Nichols This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCritics were quick to respond. \"Do you not have taste buds?\" asked celebrity chef Padma Lakshmi.\n\n\"Imagine going through life this flavourless,\" wrote another commenter.\n\nPreet Bharara, a former prosecutor from New York, tweeted: \"Tom, I'll take you to a place. We need to bring the country together. #ButterChickenSummit.\"\n\nOthers said Mr Nichols had probably tried \"less than 1%\" of all Indian dishes, which come from a hugely diverse country. Mr Nichols later admitted that he had only ever eaten at Indian restaurants in the US and UK.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN🗽🤘🏽 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Nichols' initial tweet led to a wider discussion about the way food plays into the immigrant experience.\n\nSome noted that in the US, international food - sometimes called \"ethnic food\" - is often marketed as \"cheap eats\". Therefore many people are more familiar with pared-down, \"Americanised\" street dishes that lack authentic ingredients.\n\n\"There is no 'Indian' food',\" wrote one commenter.\n\n\"Also there is no curry flavour. There is no chai tea,\" she added, referring to the fact that chai is simply a word meaning \"tea\" in Hindi, and \"curry\" is a style of dish, rather than a flavouring.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sonia Gupta This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers pointed out how smell and flavour have long been prevalent in racist comments towards minorities, and accused Mr Nichols of intolerance.\n\nFirst-generation American Saira Rao wrote: \"Having white people trash Indian food is extremely triggering as an Indian who has been told that I smell weird, that my food smells weird and that Indians [expletive] on the street which is why everything we are smells bad.\"\n\nAs the story drew attention in Indian media, the hashtag #MyFavoriteIndianFood started trending.\n\nUS presidential candidate Kamala Harris, whose mother's family hails from south India, shared a teaser for a cooking video with comedian Mindy Kaling using the hashtag.\n\nBut some foodies dismissed the row outright saying simply: \"I see someone on twitter has racist views on Indian food. Well, more for me then.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From korma to coconuts – the evolution of Indian cuisine in the UK\n\nOthers took similar issue with a \"controversial food\" tweet from ABC senior reporter Terry Moran, who said: \"Chinese food is tired. It's boring, gloppy, over-salted and utterly forgettable.\"\n\nOne person replied to his tweet: \"Oh Lord here we go again with bubble-inhabiting white guy, announcing his pathetic ignorance of an entire cuisine and its myriad regional varieties\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Peter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAsian food lovers rounded on Moran, accusing him of having only eaten at takeout restaurants and never tasted authentic cuisine from the most populated country on Earth.\n• None Why your local 'Indian' isn’t actually Indian. Video, 00:05:22Why your local 'Indian' isn’t actually Indian", "Leaked documents seen by BBC Panorama detail for the first time China's systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps.\n\nThe Chinese government has consistently claimed the camps in the far western Xinjiang region offer voluntary education and training.\n\nReporter Richard Bilton confronted China’s UK ambassador, Liu Xiaoming, over the revelations at a press conference, where the ambassador dismissed them as \"fake news\".\n\nThe leak was made to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which has worked with 17 media partners, including BBC Panorama and The Guardian newspaper in the UK.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch Panorama: How to Brainwash a Million People, on BBC One at 2030 on Monday 25 November, or afterwards on iPlayer.", "Tesco has temporarily withdrawn pots of its own-brand honey amid concerns that it contains adulterated ingredients.\n\nIt comes after tests conducted by Richmond council in London indicated that \"Tesco Set Honey 454g\" contains syrups made from sugar.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) said it was \"[looking] into these reports\" to see if further action was necessary.\n\nThe supermarket chain denied there were any problems with the product and insisted it was \"100% pure\".\n\nConcerns were raised over the honey, which costs £1.35 per jar, by Richmond council in south-west London, which conducted tests after it was alerted by a member of the public.\n\n\"The findings of the analysis is that there is likely to be adulteration with non-natural products,\" a council spokeswoman told the Sunday Times.\n\nThe council contacted the FSA, which confirmed it was looking into the matter, but has denied it called for Tesco to withdraw the product.\n\n\"We are continuing to look into these reports to determine whether further action is required,\" the FSA said in a statement.\n\n\"Honey is a natural but complex product and there are a number of different tests which may be used to determine authenticity.\"\n\nNevertheless, the retailer said it has temporarily taken the honey off the shelves for further examination, but insists the product is \"100% pure, natural and can be directly traced back to the beekeeper\".\n\n\"We carry out regular tests to ensure our honey meets this standard and is fully compliant with all legal requirements,\" Tesco said in a statement.\n\n\"However, as a precautionary measure, we have temporarily withdrawn the product to conduct further tests.\"\n\nChris Elliott, professor of food safety at Queen's University Belfast, who led a review of food systems following the 2013 horsemeat scandal, said it was a \"bold\" statement from Tesco.\n\n\"They are claiming they are 100% sure it is pure honey. If they are correct then the testing method is wrong. If it proves to be adulterated then Tesco doesn't have the control over their supply chain they claim,\" he said.\n\nThe method used by Richmond council was nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which he said was a relatively new technique that can be used to determine the sources of sugars.\n\nTesco's decision to withdraw the product was a \"prudent\" step, Professor Elliott added.\n\n\"There's no food safety issue here but consumers must trust our retailers to take every precaution that they are not selling us adulterated food,\" he said.", "Ms Aziz said she wanted to raise awareness about China's detainment of \"innocent Muslims\"\n\nA US teenager's TikTok video clip accusing China of putting Muslims into \"concentration camps\" has gone viral on the Chinese-owned social network.\n\nThe post appears to be about beauty tips at its start - but the young woman then changes tack to ask her viewers to raise awareness of what she describes as a \"another Holocaust\".\n\nFeroza Aziz later tweeted that TikTok had blocked her from posting new content, as a result.\n\n\"TikTok does not moderate content due to political sensitivities,\" a spokesman told BBC News. Although, Douyin, the Chinese version of the app, on which Ms Aziz's posts would not have appeared, is politically censored.\n\nThe company had permanently banned one of Ms Aziz's old TikTok accounts on, 15 November, for posting an unrelated video that had broken its rules on terrorism-related material, he said.\n\nAs an additional measure, it had then blocked her smartphone, on 25 November, but that too had been unrelated to her posts about China.\n\n\"Her new account and its videos, including the eyelash video in question, were not affected and continue to receive views,\" the spokesman added.\n\nBBC News has contacted Ms Aziz and her family for comment.\n\nFor its part, the Chinese government has consistently said the camps in question offer voluntary education and training, despite evidence to the contrary.\n\nMs Aziz posted three videos about China's treatment of the Uighur Muslims, between Sunday and Monday.\n\nThe first has been watched more than 1.4 million times and \"liked\" nearly 500,000 times on the app.\n\nA copy uploaded to Twitter by other TikTok users has attracted a further five million views.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by saltys backup This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd further copies have been posted to YouTube and Instagram.\n\nPart of the videos' appeal is they are presented as a deliberate attempt to circumvent supposed censorship by TikTok's Beijing-based owner, Bytedance.\n\nMs Aziz bookends her critical comments with talk about to make eyelashes look longer.\n\n\"I say that so TikTok doesn't take down my videos,\" she explains in one of the recordings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"An electric baton to the back of the head\" - a former inmate described conditions at a secret camp to the BBC\n\nWhile the version of TikTok used in mainland China does censor criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, the company says it does not take the same action against posts to the separate library of user-generated content it offers elsewhere.\n\nAnd it notes other clips about the mistreatment of Uighurs within Chinese camps have been allowed to remain on its international platform, although they do not tend to get anywhere close to the amount of attention Ms Aziz has generated.\n\nThe 17-year-old's videos were posted the same week BBC Panorama revealed how leaked documents detailed some of the measures used to brainwash hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang.\n\nThey undermine China's claims attendance at the camps is voluntary and designed to counter extremism.\n\nChina's UK ambassador has dismissed the documents as \"fake news\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Aziz provides her own list of abuses.\n\n\"Spreading awareness does wonders,\" she says.\n\n\"We can reach millions across the world [and] reach those with the power to do something about it.\"\n\nThe BBC has also confirmed that Ms Aziz is in control of a Twitter account created earlier this month. She has tweeted that TikTok has given her a one-month suspension and said that \"China is terrified of the news [about the camps] spreading\".\n\nOthers have picked up on her posts, including a member of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think tank, who called Ms Aziz's use of TikTok \"creatively subversive\".\n\nAny apps that operate within mainland China need to be approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.\n\nSocial networks recognise they are not allowed to operate unless they comply with local guidelines - and that means ensuring any content on their platform paints the government in a positive light.\n\nTikTok, known locally as Douyin, is heavily filtered.\n\nFor example, in April 2018, it censored all mentions of British cartoon character Peppa Pig, concerned she was being used as a symbol of rebellion.\n\nBut the Chinese government is not concerned about, and has less control over, filtering content on the version offered overseas.\n\nAnd in October this year, TikTok denied it screened anti-China content on its international app, saying all its US user data was stored in the United States, with a back-up in Singapore.\n• None Should we be worried about TikTok?", "Ephraim Mirvis urged people to vote \"with their conscience\"\n\nThe chief rabbi has strongly criticised Labour, claiming the party is not doing enough to root out anti-Jewish racism - and asked people to \"vote with their conscience\" in the general election.\n\nIn the Times, Ephraim Mirvis said \"a new poison - sanctioned from the very top - has taken root\" in the party.\n\nLabour's claim it had investigated all cases of anti-Semitism in its ranks was a \"mendacious fiction\", he added.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said the party had taken \"rapid and effective\" action.\n\nAt the launch of the party's \"race and faith manifesto\", the Labour leader said anti-Jewish racism was \"vile and wrong\" and would not be tolerated in any form under a future Labour government.\n\nHe said internal processes for dealing with anti-Semitism cases were \"constantly under review\" and his door would be open to Rabbi Mirvis and other faith leaders to discuss their concerns if he entered Downing Street.\n\nLabour has been beset by allegations of anti-Semitism for more than three years, leading to the suspension of a number of high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson, and an unprecedented investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nA number of prominent Jewish Labour politicians, including Luciana Berger and Louise Ellman, have quit the party after being the subject of anti-Semitic abuse on social media while others have accused Mr Corbyn of personally endorsing anti-Semitic tropes and imagery.\n\nIn his article, the Orthodox chief rabbi of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - who is the spiritual leader of the United Synagogue, the largest umbrella group of Jewish communities in the country - says raising his concerns \"ranks among the most painful moments I have experienced since taking office\".\n\nBut he claims \"the overwhelming majority of British Jews are gripped by anxiety\" at the prospect of a Labour victory in 12 December's general election.\n\nHe writes: \"The way in which the leadership of the Labour Party has dealt with anti-Jewish racism is incompatible with the British values of which we are so proud - of dignity and respect for all people.\n\n\"It has left many decent Labour members and parliamentarians, both Jewish and non-Jewish, ashamed of what has transpired.\"\n\nHe adds that it was \"not my place to tell any person how they should vote\" but he urged the public to \"vote with their conscience\".\n\nThe chief rabbi claimed the response of Labour's leadership to threats against parliamentarians, members and staff has been \"utterly inadequate\" and said it \"can no longer claim to be the party of equality and anti-racism\".\n\nMike Katz, the chair of the Jewish Labour Movement group which is officially affiliated to the party, said the chief rabbi was \"absolutely right\" and there had been a failure of leadership over anti-Semitism in Labour.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said the chief rabbi's \"unprecedented\" intervention \"ought to alert us to the deep sense of insecurity and fear felt by many British Jews\".\n\nIn a statement, he said everyone should be able to \"live in accordance with their beliefs and freely express their culture and faith\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Labour peer Lord Dubs, the child refugee campaigner who fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, said he regretted some of the language Mr Corbyn had used in the past about Israel and the fact he had met with groups who denied its right to exist.\n\nBut he told BBC Radio 4's Today these episodes were \"quite a long time ago\" and had to be seen \"in the context\" of Mr Corbyn's support for peace in the Middle East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I think things have happened under his leadership which should have been stopped way back,\" he added. \"I believe the Labour party is moving forward. It is not good enough what has happened in the past.\"\n\nThis is a sweeping and unequivocal condemnation of Labour's leadership, its treatment of Jewish parliamentarians and its handling of allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\nIt's also highly unusual for such an intervention by the leader of a religious denomination during a general election campaign. The chief rabbi has pastoral oversight for a large proportion of people who identify as Jewish in the United Kingdom.\n\nLast week, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York appealed to voters and politicians to \"honour the truth\" and \"challenge falsehoods\" but there was no specific criticism of individual candidates nor their party leaders.\n\nBut the chief rabbi's article asks if Jeremy Corbyn is fit for high office and calls on voters to consider what the result of this election \"will say about the moral compass of this country?\"\n\nLast year, three Jewish newspapers, - The Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish News and The Jewish Telegraph - published exactly the same front cover on 25 July - arguing that a Labour government under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn would prove \"an existential threat\" to British Jewry.\n\nThe chief rabbi, in this highly critical column, is saying much the same.\n\nThe Labour leader faced criticism from Jewish groups when he said in last week's general election ITV leader's debate that the party had \"investigated every single case\" raised by complainants.\n\nThe chief rabbi takes issue with Mr Corbyn's claim, citing figures from the Jewish Labour Movement of \"at least 130 outstanding cases\".\n\nAt an event in Tottenham, north London, the Labour leader did not directly address the number of outstanding cases but defended the party's disciplinary processes as being \"rapid and effective\".\n\n\"Anti-Semitism in any form is vile and wrong, it is an evil within our society,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism in any shape or form or in any place whatsoever in modern and Britain and under a Labour government it will not be tolerated in any form whatsoever.\"\n\nHe added: \"In government our door will be open to all faith leaders. Chief Rabbi welcome. Archbishop of Canterbury welcome. Those from the Hindu community are all very welcome.\"\n\nSouth-African born Rabbi Mirvis became chief rabbi in 2013. In a Facebook post in July, he congratulated Boris Johnson on his election as Conservative leader, describing the new prime minister as a \"long-standing friend and champion of the Jewish community\".\n\nAccording to the British Board of Deputies, there are between 260,000 and 300,000 Jews in England and Wales. Around half belong to the Central Orthodox denomination which includes the United Synagogue, led by the chief rabbi.\n\nMeasures to combat anti-Semitism were among a number of policies unveiled by the party, including:\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain, which has repeatedly criticised the Conservatives for failing to address anti-Muslim prejudice amongst their members, said not enough was being done to tackle racism \"whether from the left or the right\".\n\nIt said British Muslims would \"agree on the importance of voting with their conscience\".", "The traditional Christmas dinner is likely to make a bigger dent in your wallet this year, because supply issues have pushed up prices.\n\nFewer turkeys have been hatched this year after high summer temperatures reduced the number of eggs, according to business consultancy CGA.\n\nMeanwhile, wet weather and floods have hit supplies of vegetables such as Brussels sprouts and potatoes.\n\nIt said the risk was supermarkets could pass on the higher costs to consumers.\n\n\"Problems with production this year have accelerated inflation in the turkey market in particular,\" CGA said\n\nIt said some former turkey producers had got out of the business altogether, preferring to rear chickens instead.\n\n\"From a turkey perspective, the vast majority of sales take place over Christmas, which has caused producers to move to a more profitable alternative in chicken,\" said Fiona Speakman, CGA's client director for food and retail.\n\n\"This has been compounded by bad weather impacting egg yield, meaning that turkeys are at a premium,\" she told the BBC.\n\nPrices of Brussels sprouts are also rising\n\nChristmas ham is expected to be more expensive as well, because large numbers of pigs have been culled in an effort to halt the global spread of African Swine Fever.\n\n\"The pressure on supply means whole-pig prices rose by more than 10% between March and October,\" CGA said.\n\nCGA, in association with procurement firm Prestige Purchasing, monitors wholesale food prices by compiling a monthly Foodservice Price Index.\n\nIt says it has seen a \"relentless\" rise in food and drink inflation over the past three years.\n\nIn the past 12 months alone, it says food and drink prices have gone up by 6.77% - more than four times the official Consumer Prices Index inflation rate of 1.5%, as measured by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe difference suggests operators and retailers have largely absorbed the higher costs.\n\nPrestige Purchasing's chief executive, Shaun Allen, said the price rises for turkey and ham could lead to a surge in demand for other meats at Christmas, such as beef.\n\nHe added: \"The increasing costs on a number of traditional Christmas dinner items will be extremely unwelcome and will put pressure on margins for both operators and retailers in order to keep the costs down for customers over the festive period.\"\n\nSeparate research by CGA indicates that more people are eating out during the Christmas period, with 70% of consumers visiting a restaurant over December.\n\n\"Set menus and Christmas promotions often add further value to meals,\" said Ms Speakman, \"not to mention the time saved on shopping, cooking and all that washing-up.\"\n• None Christmas adverts - do they really work?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the moment Mohamud struck at Manchester Victoria\n\nA man who launched a frenzied knife attack at a railway station has admitted trying to kill three people, including a police officer.\n\nMahdi Mohamud, 26, stabbed and slashed at a couple and then attacked Sgt Lee Valentine at Manchester Victoria railway station on New Year's Eve.\n\nMohamud pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court to three counts of attempted murder and a terror offence.\n\nHe admitted possession of a document or record likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism and will be sentenced on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe court heard Mohamud, of Cheetham Hill in Manchester, walked up behind a man and a woman in their 50s shouting \"Allahu Akbar\" and \"Long live the caliphate\" as they headed for a tram platform shortly before 21:00 GMT on 31 December.\n\nHe stabbed the man repeatedly in the back, shoulders and head and then slashed the woman across the face after the couple randomly crossed his path.\n\nThe man suffered 13 injuries including a skull fracture while the woman's right lung was punctured and she suffered a slash to her forehead that cut down to the bone.\n\nFour officers, including Sgt Valentine (second left) and two tram staff, received commendations following the attack\n\nBritish Transport Police officers and tram staff confronted Mohamud, who witnesses said was \"like an animal\" and was \"fixated\" on stabbing and slashing.\n\nSgt Valentine, 31, shot Mohamud with his Taser but the barbs got stuck in the knifeman's coat and failed to paralyse him.\n\nThe sergeant was stabbed in the shoulder before the suspect was wrestled to the ground and arrested.\n\nSgt Valentine said Mohamud was \"dancing around, waving this knife around\" before he started to run at the officers.\n\n\"He probably closed a seven foot gap in half a second,\" he added.\n\n\"It was just like a dive, he flew, he probably jumped three or four foot off the ground and just sort of lunged, probably lunged at my head with his knife.\"\n\nA woman and a man in their 50s and a police sergeant were stabbed\n\nA second kitchen knife was found in Mohamud's waistband.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers recovered a large amount of \"counter-terrorism mindset material\", including images and a document about how to carry out knife attacks.\n\nThe defendant, a Dutch national from a Somali family, had arrived in the UK aged nine and became radicalised online, the force said.\n\nMohamud was sectioned under the Mental Health Act following the attack and taken to a secure mental health facility where he is currently detained.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC said: \"The prosecution's case is that the attack at Victoria Station was not simply a product of that mental illness.\n\n\"It was intended to be a lethal attack, carefully planned over a number of months, reflecting the defendant's extremist ideology and his desire to perform violent jihad.\n\n\"The defendant's actions may have been disinhibited by his mental illness, but they were driven by an entrenched desire to undertake jihad against the West.\"\n\nThe court heard how Mohamud has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and he will need treatment for the rest of his life.\n\nMahdi Mohamud will be sentenced on Wednesday following the stabbing at Manchester Victoria railway station on New Year's Eve\n\nRebecca Trowler QC, defending, said Mohamud had first been admitted to a UK mental health hospital in December 2015.\n\nHe was also admitted to institutions in Somalia on three occasions in 2017 during which time he swung an axe at a nurse, stabbed a second nurse with a knife in a separate attack, and also stabbed his uncle, the court heard.\n\nHis symptoms include hallucinations and \"complex persecutory delusional beliefs\" which led him to be believe his actions were being controlled as he followed by MI5 and the government.\n\nIn a letter to the judge, Mohamud's father said he felt a \"terrible sense of guilt\" for not getting his son the right treatment earlier and thanked police and the emergency services.\n\nMs Trowler said the defendant's family had slipped anti-psychotic drugs into his food in the days before the attack and made him a doctor's appointment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nAnother man has been arrested on suspicion of the manslaughter of 39 people found dead in a lorry in Essex.\n\nThe 36-year-old man from Purfleet, Essex, is also being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were found in a refrigerated lorry in Grays on 23 October.\n\nThe arrested man was taken into custody in Dalston, east London, on Monday.\n\nEight women and 31 males, including two boys, aged 15, were among those who died.\n\nLorry driver Maurice Robinson, of Craigavon, County Armagh, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey earlier to conspiring with others to assist illegal immigration between 1 May 2018 and 24 October 2019.\n\nAnother man, Christopher Kennedy, of Darkley, County Armagh, appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with human trafficking offences. No pleas were entered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Matthew Stokes and his brother Adam were found dead at their home in Hinckley\n\nA woman says she was locked in a house, smothered and stabbed by her husband, who was found dead with their two sons.\n\nDavid Stokes, 43, and children Adam, 11, and Matthew, five, were discovered in their home on Welwyn Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, on 2 November 2016.\n\nThe boys were found dead under a quilt in the same bed and holding hands.\n\nAn inquest heard that, hours before the bodies were discovered, Mr Stokes locked Sally Stokes in the house sparking a stand-off with police.\n\nMrs Stokes told Rutland & North Leicestershire Coroner's Court she was stabbed before she managed to escape.\n\nMr Stokes was later found dead from a single stab wound.\n\nA medical cause of death for both boys has been given as \"unascertained\" but a pathologist said it could have been a result of drowning or pressure to the neck.\n\nDr Frances Hollingbury added that \"it is likely they were unconscious or already dead when they were positioned where they were found\".\n\nMrs Stokes told the court she and Mr Stokes had been married since 2011 and separated three months before the deaths.\n\nIn addition to problems in the marriage, Mrs Stokes said she discovered Mr Stokes had searched online for escorts and a date rape drug.\n\nShe said she confronted him about this on 1 November, but the situation at the time was \"calm\" and she left just after 18:00 GMT.\n\nSally Stokes, arriving at the inquest earlier, said David Stokes tried to smother her with a pillow\n\nMrs Stokes told the court she returned at about 21:15 and, in the hours that followed, Mr Stokes locked her in the house, hit her on the back of the head with a rolling pin and tried to smother her with a pillow.\n\nShe said she got to the back garden and screamed for help before Mr Stokes hit her head against a wall.\n\nThe inquest was told police were called and there were regular phone calls between negotiators and Mr Stokes before he stabbed her and she ran out into the street.\n\nShe said: \"I felt a bump in my back, felt the warmth of blood, then I realised he'd stabbed me.\n\n\"The look on his face was like satisfaction. I'll never forget it - as though he'd won.\"\n\nMrs Stokes was taken to hospital and told the following day about her sons and that Mr Stokes had killed himself.\n\nShe was ruled out of the investigation as a suspect by police, the inquest heard.\n\nFinishing her evidence, Mrs Stokes said she felt police acted in the right way during the stand-off.\n\n\"If police had forced the situation, I wouldn't be here,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest also heard Mr Stokes filmed a video of himself with the boys at about 19:00 on 1 November and that is the last time the boys are known to have been alive.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twitter said the accounts would start being deactivated from 11 December\n\nTwitter will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for more than six months, unless they log in before an 11 December deadline.\n\nThe cull will include users who stopped posting to the site because they died - unless someone with that person's account details is able to log-in.\n\nIt is the first time Twitter has removed inactive accounts on such a large scale.\n\nThe site said it was because users who do not log-in were unable to agree to its updated privacy policies.\n\nA spokeswoman also said it would improve credibility by removing dormant accounts from people's follower counts, something which may give a user an undue sense of importance. The first batch of deleted accounts will involve those registered outside of the US.\n\nThe firm bases inactivity on whether or not a person has logged in at least once in the past six months. Twitter said the effort is not, as had been suggested by some users on the network, an attempt to free up usernames.\n\nThat said, previously unavailable usernames will start coming up for grabs after the 11 December cut-off - though Twitter said it would be a gradual process, beginning with users outside of the US.\n\nIn future, the firm said it would also look at accounts where people have logged in but don't \"do anything\" on the platform. A spokeswoman would not elaborate, other to say that the firm uses many signals to determine genuine human users - not just whether they interact with, or post, tweets.\n\nThe site has sent out emails to users of accounts that will be affected by the deletions. The firm would not say how many current accounts fit the criteria, although it is expected to be in the many millions. It will send out more notice closures closer to the deadline.\n\nThe cull will not affect Twitter's reported user numbers, as the firm bases its usage level only on users who log-in at least once a day. According to its latest earnings report, from September, Twitter has 145m \"monetisable\" daily active users (users who come into contact with Twitter's advertising on a daily basis).\n\n\"As part of our commitment to serve the public conversation, we’re working to clean up inactive accounts to present more accurate, credible information people can trust across Twitter,\" the firm said about the upcoming account removals.\n\n\"Part of this effort is encouraging people to actively log-in and use Twitter when they register an account, as stated in our inactive accounts policy.”\n\nIt means users who have died will have their accounts removed unless a loved one or other person is already in possession of their log-in details, and is able to sign in and accept Twitter's latest privacy policy.\n\nTwitter's current policy offers only deactivation of a dead person's account once a trusted third-party - a parent, for example - has proven their identity. However, the policy states that in no circumstances would Twitter grant access to the account, which would prevent deletion.\n\nThe firm does not, unlike Facebook, offer a \"memorialisation\" option that freezes the account in place and disallows new interactions - a measure to prevent abuse.\n\nSince inactivity is based on logging in, not posting, bot accounts - such as those which automatically tweet news or alerts - would also come under the cull if the account owners do not log-in before the December deadline. So too would accounts set up specifically as an archive, such as @POTUS44, a collection of all the tweets made by President Barack Obama while in office.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The elderly campaigner was canvassing with a walking stick on Parkstone Crescent in the village of Hellaby, Rotherham\n\nA 72-year-old party election campaigner has been attacked and injured while going house-to-house.\n\nThe man, who uses a walking stick, was initially taken to hospital with a suspected broken jaw, South Yorkshire Police said.\n\nSophie Wilson, Labour's candidate in Rother Valley, said it was \"a completely unacceptable and vicious act\".\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nThe 51-year-old remained in custody, the force said.\n\nOfficers said they were called out just after 16:00 GMT on Sunday to Parkstone Crescent, Hellaby, Rotherham.\n\nPosting on Facebook shortly afterwards, Ms Wilson said: \"I am sad to report that one of our members... was assaulted while out campaigning today.\"\n\nShe said he was \"doing well and in good spirits\" when she visited him in hospital.\n\n\"He will not let this get him down,\" she said.\n\nThe campaigner was understood to be \"back out knocking on doors\" on Monday, a Labour Party spokesman said.\n\nThe other candidates standing in Rother Valley are:\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Don't get left outside on polling day - here's how to register to vote\n\nMore than 3.1m people have applied to register to vote since MPs agreed to an election at the end of October.\n\nThe Electoral Reform Society says 875,300 more applications have been made in this period, compared to the 34 days between the calling of the election and polling day in 2017.\n\nIt says the \"surge\" in registrations is \"highly encouraging\".\n\nPeople who want to take part in the general election on 12 December had until midnight to register.\n\nThose in England, Scotland or Wales who want to apply to vote by post had until 17:00 GMT on Tuesday to do so.\n\nPeople who want someone to vote on their behalf have until the same time on 4 December to apply.\n\nHowever the deadline for voters in Northern Ireland to apply for a postal or proxy vote has already passed.\n\nAbout 45.8m people were already registered to vote in UK parliamentary elections as of December 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAbout two-thirds of those who have registered since the end of October are under the age of 35, and more than a million are under 25.\n\nThere was a spike in registration among all age groups on 30 October, the day after MPs gave their backing to the pre-Christmas poll.\n\nOut of 177,000 registrations on that day, 115,400 were from people aged under 35, according to the government website that tracks registration.\n\nThe next big spike came on 12 November, which coincided with a Labour Party Facebook campaign aimed at getting young people to register.\n\nAnd another was on Friday, when nearly 308,000 registrations were recorded - the same day as BBC One's Question Time featured Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Swinson and Nicola Sturgeon in a two-hour special.\n\nThe biggest spike in applications so far was on Monday, the day before the registration deadline, when there were more than 366,000 registrations recorded - 150,000 of these were from people aged under 25.\n\nAn increase in applications is not firm evidence of an increase in the number of people able to vote - previous elections have seen voter registration applications from people who are already registered or who are below the voting age.\n\nDuring the 50 days before voter registration deadline day, more than a third of applications, 1.3 million, were from under-25s. And while that is a significant increase on the 2017 figure of nearly 900,000, it should be seen in the context of an overall boost to the numbers of people applying to register. As a proportion of overall applications it is almost exactly the same as in 2017.\n\nHowever, there has been a fall in the proportion of applications coming from 25-34 year olds, a group that was seen by experts as key to Labour's result two years ago. In 2017 33% of applications were from this group, this year it's below 30%.\n\nConversely, there's been an increase in the proportion of applications by voters over the age of 45, who make up nearly 20 percent of the total this year, compared with 16.5% in 2017.\n\nSo - while nearly half a million young people applying to join the electoral register might initially look like good news for Labour, the detail suggests the figures might not be quite as helpful for them as they first appear.\n\nIt comes as celebrities use their social media platforms to encourage people to register ahead of the deadline.\n\nOn Instagram, a video by the Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke urging people to register had been viewed over 5.7m times by Tuesday morning.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children will be taught about injustice and the role of the British Empire as part of the national curriculum under Labour, Jeremy Corbyn has said.\n\nAt the launch of his race and faith manifesto on Tuesday, the Labour leader said a new trust will educate on how to address the legacy of slavery.\n\nHe also set out policies on how to combat anti-Semitism in Britain.\n\nThe Tories said it was \"staggering\" to see Labour \"lecture people\" during a probe over claims of anti-Semitism.\n\nBut National Education Union joint general secretary Mary Bousted welcomed Labour's \"set of joined-up proposals to proactively tackle racism\".\n\nMeanwhile, in a letter to the Times, Ephraim Mirvis, the Orthodox chief rabbi of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has attacked the \"utterly inadequate\" response of the Labour leadership in dealing with anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nHe said there was anxiety in the Jewish community over a Labour government and he called on the public to \"vote with their conscience\".\n\nSpeaking at an event in Tottenham, north London, Mr Corbyn said: \"Anti-Semitism in any form is vile and wrong, it is an evil within our society\".\n\n\"There is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism in any shape or form or in any place whatsoever in modern Britain and under a Labour government it will not be tolerated in any form whatsoever,\" he added.\n\nMr Corbyn made the comments while launching - with shadow women and equalities secretary Dawn Butler and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott - the party's race and faith manifesto with pledges to improve social justice and human rights.\n\nIf Labour wins the 12 December election, the party says an \"emancipation educational trust\" would be formed \"to ensure historical injustice, colonialism and role of the British Empire is taught in the national curriculum\".\n\nMr Corbyn said the history of colonialism - including the \"unbelievable levels of brutality\" of the slave trade - should be \"part and parcel of what our children learn all year round\" and \"not just in Black History Month\".\n\nLabour wants to review the national curriculum\n\nThe trust would educate on migration and how to address the legacy of slavery and teach how it \"interrupted a rich and powerful black history\".\n\nThe national curriculum will also be reviewed by the party to ensure it teaches children about racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia and black history, and to continue education about the Holocaust.\n\nAlso, the party says it wants to extend pay gap reporting to BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) groups for businesses with 250 employees or more.\n\nOn guaranteeing the security of the Jewish community, Labour says it will amend the law to include attacks on places of worship as a specific aggravated offence.\n\nLabour has also pledged to work with social media platforms including Twitter, YouTube and Facebook \"to combat the rise of anti-Semitism online\".\n\n\"Labour has already been working with Facebook to take action against groups and individuals which have hijacked Labour's name to share anti-Semitic content,\" the party said.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission launched a formal investigation in May into the Labour Party over allegations of anti-Semitism.\n\nIt is formally looking into whether Labour has \"unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish\".\n\nAt the time, Labour said the party was \"anti-racist\" and would \"fully co-operate\" with the investigation.\n\nAhead of his speech at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Mr Corbyn said Labour \"will do everything necessary to guarantee the security of the Jewish community, defend the Jewish way of life and the right to live it freely, and to combat rising anti-Semitism in our country and across Europe\".\n\nMr Corbyn called Labour \"the party of equality and human rights\" and said it would \"tackle head-on the barriers that have unfairly held back so many people and communities\".\n\nMs Butler said: \"Only by acknowledging the historical injustices faced by our communities can we work towards a better future that is prosperous for all, that isn't blighted by austerity and the politics of fear.\"\n\nConservative Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was \"staggering\" that Labour \"sees fit to lecture people about race and faith\" during the anti-Semitism investigation.\n\nDr Bousted said the National Education Union welcomed the proposal for a \"new emancipation educational trust\".\n\n\"All young people benefit from learning about how human rights were won and about the struggle against colonialism and racial injustice,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Jeremy Corbyn is pressed over his handling of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party\n\nJeremy Corbyn has declined to apologise to the UK Jewish community after the chief rabbi criticised how the party deals with anti-Semitism claims.\n\nIn a BBC interview with Andrew Neil, the Labour leader was asked four times whether he would like to apologise.\n\nMr Corbyn said his government will protect \"every community against the abuse they receive\".\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis claimed \"a new poison - sanctioned from the very top - has taken root\" in Labour.\n\nFollowing the interview, Labour's Shadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith said Mr Corbyn should apologise, adding: \"We need to apologise to our colleagues in my own party who have been very upset and to the whole of the Jewish community.\"\n\nLabour has been beset by allegations of anti-Semitism for more than three years, leading to the suspension of a number of high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson, and an unprecedented investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Neil on BBC One, Mr Corbyn was asked four times whether he was going to apologise to the British Jewish community following the chief rabbi's claim that Labour was not doing enough to root out anti-Jewish racism.\n\nMr Corbyn replied: \"What I'll say is this I am determined that our society is safe for people of all faiths.\n\n\"I don't want anyone to be feeling insecure, in our society and our government will protect every community against the abuse they receive on the streets, on the trains, or in any other form of life.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said racism \"is a total poison\", adding: \"I want to work with every community, to make sure it's eliminated. That is what my whole life has been about.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says restoring Waspi pensions would be be paid for from government reserves and long-term borrowing.\n\nRabbi Mirvis described Mr Corbyn's claim that Labour had \"investigated every single case\" of alleged anti-Semitism as a \"mendacious fiction\".\n\nChallenged about the rabbi's comment, Mr Corbyn said: \"No, he's not right. Because he would have to produce the evidence to say that's mendacious.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said he was \"looking forward to having a discussion with him because I want to hear why he would say such a thing\".\n\nMr Corbyn also insisted he had \"developed a much stronger process\" for dealing with allegations and had sanctioned and removed members who were judged to have made anti-Semitic statements.\n\nHe added that anti-Semitism allegations \"didn't rise after I became leader\".\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is there in society, there are a very, very small number of people in the Labour Party that have been sanctioned as a result about their anti-Semitic behaviour,\" he told Andrew Neil.\n\nSpeaking in the BBC Wales election TV debate, Ms Griffith, a senior member of Mr Corbyn's team, said the party's handling of anti-Semitism claims was \"a shame on us\" and \"we must absolutely put right\".\n\nShe added: \"We have not been as effective as we should have been in dealing with this problem.\"\n\nMr Corbyn was also quizzed about his plan to get a \"credible\" Brexit deal with the EU and then be neutral in the referendum on the deal he has promised to hold within six months of taking power.\n\nAsked what he would do during the referendum campaign, he said: \"I will be the honest broker that will make sure the referendum is fair and make sure that the Leave deal is a credible one.\n\n\"That seems to me actually an adult and sensible way to go forward.\"\n\nMr Corbyn was also quizzed about Labour's plan to increase income tax on those earning more £85,000 a year to pay for better public services.\n\nHe denied many of these people would leave the country under a Labour government, destroying the tax base the party would rely on to fund its plans.\n\nBut he said they \"could and should\" pay more.\n\n\"They can see all around them the crumbling of public services and the terrible levels of child poverty that exist across Britain.\n\n\"There is no reason why they would have to leave the country and they shouldn't.\"\n\nMr Corbyn also said a Labour government would not borrow money \"willy-nilly\".\n\n\"What we are going to do is deal with the worst aspects of what's happened in austerity, the worst aspects of poverty in Britain,\" he said.\n\nOn Labour's policy to compensate some of the women who lost out as a result of changes to the pension age, Mr Corbyn said the women were \"short-changed\" and a \"moral debt\" was owed.\n\nThe campaign for compensation has been led by the group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi).\n\nLabour says the policy would cost about £58bn, paid in instalments over five years.\n\nWhen pressed on where this money would come from, Mr Corbyn said it will be paid from government reserves and, if necessary, borrowing, \"over some years\".\n\nHe conceded that there were not sufficient funds in the government's reserves to cover the bill, but insisted the women deserved to be repaid.\n\n\"We will make sure they are compensated,\" he said.\n\nAndrew Neil will be speaking to other party leaders during the election campaign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson was \"thrilled\" the school was not criticised by the judge\n\nDemonstrations against LGBT inclusive education have been permanently banned outside a primary school.\n\nA High Court judge ruled in favour of an exclusion zone to remain around Anderton Park, in Birmingham, which has been targeted by protesters for months.\n\nThe protests had an averse effect on pupils, residents and staff, leading to 21 teachers being treated for stress, Mr Justice Warby said.\n\nCampaigners accused the city council of trying to silence debate.\n\nThe protests at the school in Balsall Heath aimed to stop LGBT relationships education, with many parents and activists claiming it contradicts their Islamic faith and is not \"age appropriate\".\n\nProtesters were banned from the school gates in June\n\nOctober's five-day hearing at the city's Priory Courts heard there were further \"untrue\" and \"harmful\" allegations made about the school on social media, and how a visiting imam had claimed to parents there were \"paedophiles\" inside the school.\n\nOther false claims included that the school had a \"paedophile agenda\" and staff were \"teaching children how to masturbate\".\n\n\"None of this is true,\" Mr Justice Warby said as he handed down the ban at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre.\n\n\"None of the defendants have suggested it was true and the council has proved it is not true.\"\n\nThe lessons had been \"misrepresented by parents\", he said, adding the school does not promote homosexuality and seeks to weave the language of equality into everyday school life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lead protester Shakeel Afsar is \"bitterly disappointed\" by the ban\n\nSince June protesters have gathered just outside the exclusion zone.\n\nIn the hearing last month, the city council argued an interim injunction should be extended beyond school gates and made permanent.\n\nBirmingham City Council said the noisy protests at the school gates were disrupting lessons and meant children were unable to use the playground.\n\nThe council maintained the court action was in response to campaigners' behaviour, not the issue of the protests.\n\nThe prior injunction named lead protester Shakeel Afsar, who does not have children at the school, his sister Rosina and Amir Ahmed, all of whom contested the need for a legal injunction.\n\nMr Justice Warby directed that the three named defendants should be liable to 80% of those costs, which the court heard have yet to be calculated.\n\nThe judge said the reason the award was not in full was because part of the council's claim - for an injunction on the making of abusive social media posts against teachers - had been unsuccessful.\n\nTeaching at the school had been \"grossly misrepresented\", Mr Justice Warby said\n\nMr Afsar said he was \"bitterly disappointed with the decision of the court\".\n\nHe branded the court \"one-sided\", pointing out that the judge, the council's barrister and key witnesses had been \"white\", compared with the \"diverse\" protest supporters.\n\n\"We can continue to protest in the same area that we have been protesting in since June this year,\" he added.\n\n\"These young children are not being taught the status of law.\"\n\nProtests have continued outside an exclusion zone at Anderton Park Primary School\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said staff would be \"over the moon\".\n\n\"We knew it was misrepresented and that was the frustration when you are trying to go about your daily business as educators and when people say things about you that are not true, that is very difficult,\" she said\n\n\"It has been awful, but my staff are unbelievable and parents are unbelievable and the children of Anderton Park are incredible human beings and we are a strong school and every single person is part of that strength.\"\n\nIt's hard to see what the protesters can do now. One of the group's three leaders - Amir Ahmed - has said they would seek leave to appeal, but it's far from clear on what grounds they could do so.\n\nOnly a handful of the people who regularly gathered outside the school were parents or had any direct connection with Anderton Park, but the demonstrators do reflect concern felt by some religious communities about equality teaching, and particularly lessons about same sex relationships.\n\nIt won't matter to them that the judge has said their allegations about \"promoting\" homosexuality are false and that they have \"misrepresented\" what is being taught in the school.\n\nIt will simply confirm their belief that they are the victims of bias against them by the establishment and the mainstream media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is in the books that Parkfield parents are protesting about?\n\nBirmingham City Council said it was \"really pleased\" with Mr Justice Warby's decision.\n\n\"This was always about protecting the school and community from the escalating levels of anti-social behaviour of the protests,\" Dr Tim O'Neill, the council's director of education and skills, said.\n\n\"Birmingham is diverse and inclusive - these are its strengths - and we must all come together to ensure all children get the best education possible.\"\n\nHe said \"fringe elements\" had been attracted to the protests with the aim of \"stoking division and hatred\".\n\nChristian campaigner John Allman, from Okehampton in Devon, had joined proceedings with a view to \"raising freedom of expression arguments\" in opposition to aspects of the injunction that sought to restrict statements on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Afsar had claimed the weekly protests were \"peaceful\" despite the use of megaphones and a sound-boosting PA system.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers, which has supported the school, welcomed an end to the \"noisy and aggressive protests\".\n\n\"This judgement makes it abundantly clear that the school gate is no place to hold a protest,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIt was also welcomed by the Department for Education, which has previously faced criticism for a perceived lack of support for the school, but said it wanted to \"encourage positive dialogue\".\n\nUpdate 29 November 2019: This article has been updated to reflect that John Allman's part in proceedings was related to freedom of expression arguments and not the exclusion zone.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. During a demo for the new Tesla 'Cybertruck', Elon Musk had an embarrassing moment\n\nElon Musk has revealed why the windows of Tesla's Cybertruck broke during an embarrassing launch incident.\n\nHe blamed the mishap on the order in which a demonstration had taken place.\n\nThe vehicle was first struck with a sledgehammer in what appeared to be a successful demonstration of its armour body's strength.\n\nBut this had caused an unseen crack, Mr Musk revealed, which had subsequently led to the windows smashing when they had been hit with a steel ball.\n\nThe futuristic vehicle was unveiled on Thursday in Hawthorne, California, where its stainless steel, angular design drew a mixed response from the audience.\n\nResponding to a fan on Twitter, Mr Musk said the incident could have been easily avoided.\n\n\"Sledgehammer impact on door cracked the base of the glass, which is why the steel ball didn't bounce off,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Should have done steel ball on window, then sledgehammer the door. Next time.\"\n\nOver the weekend, Mr Musk tweeted footage of an earlier demonstration, carried out behind the scenes moments before the launch, showing the windows withstanding the impact of the steel ball.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDespite the awkward mishap, Tesla announced it had received more than 200,000 \"orders\" for its Cybertruck following the demonstration. The firm is charging $100 to reserve the vehicle, but the sum is refundable if the customer later changes their mind.\n\nThe success of the launch event has caused some speculation on social media the incident, viewed millions of times online, had been orchestrated to go viral.\n\n\"It's hard to say if that one infamous moment is why Tesla has been able to get 200,000 deposits on the Cybertruck but all the extra attention certainly didn't hurt,\" said Jessica Caldwell, from vehicle marketplace Edmunds.\n\n\"Moments like that are why Tesla has such a passionate fan base: while most executives are always hyper-rehearsed and polished, Elon Musk has never been afraid to show his human side, for better or worse.\n\n\"Tesla's fans are notorious for giving the company the benefit of the doubt and assume the technology will be sorted out by the time the truck actually goes on sale.\"", "Rod Stewart was presented with an honorary membership by Market Deeping Model Railway Club chairman Peter Davis\n\nRod Stewart has been given honorary membership to a model railway club he helped rebuild after it was destroyed by vandals.\n\nThe singer gave £10,000 to Market Deeping Model Railway Club for rebuilding costs in May.\n\nThe £30,000 display, built over 23 years, was destroyed by four teenagers on a pre-exam night out.\n\nClub chairman Peter Davis presented Sir Rod with the honour on BBC's The One Show to say thank you for his support.\n\nIt took 10,000 hours for 25 people to completely rebuild the railway by hand - trains, tracks and electrics\n\nThe 74-year-old singer - who has had nine number one albums and 26 top 10 singles including Maggie May, Handbags and Gladrags, and a cover of Downtown Train by Tom Waits - appeared on The One Show to mark his 50th anniversary as a solo artist.\n\nSir Rod told the show he had loved model railways since childhood, \"ever since my dad gave me a guitar for Christmas instead of the model train I wanted\".\n\nThe club had set up for its annual show in Stamford when vandals struck\n\nEarlier this month he revealed his own model rail collection built by hand over 23 years in the attic of his LA home.\n\nMr Davis presented the singer with a Market Deeping Model Railway Club certificate and sweatshirt embroidered with his name.\n\nSir Rod recently told Railway Modeller magazine he had been working on an intricate model of a US city for 23 years\n\nFour boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted destroying the model which had been set up for the club's annual show at Welland Academy in Stamford in May.\n\nLincoln Youth Court heard they had shared a bottle of vodka.\n\nA fund set up for repair work raised more than £107,000 from the public - and Sir Rod.\n\nThe model railway exhibit went back on display at the weekend at a show at Birmingham's NEC.\n\nMr Davis said: Rod's money not only helped us get back up and running [...] it's changed a lot of people's lives in the club, but more - we're also working with a charity Little Miracles to support youngsters wuth cerebral palsy.\"\n\nSir Rod was made an honorary member of the Market Deeping club, with his own t-shirt\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "McIntosh was convicted last year of the attempted murder of Linda McDonald\n\nThere were no warning signs to predict that a convicted killer would carry out a brutal attack on a woman while on home leave, a review has found.\n\nRobbie McIntosh, 32, battered Linda McDonald with a dumbbell in Templeton Woods, Dundee, in August 2017.\n\nMcIntosh had been jailed for life in 2002 for stabbing a dog walker to death on Dundee Law when he was 15 years old.\n\nHe was being prepared for possible release on parole at the time of the 2017 attack.\n\nA multi-agency report said McIntosh had not shown any \"violent behaviours or attitudes\" that would have suggested an attack was imminent or could have been predicted.\n\nHowever, it said there were flaws within the balance of information shared to assess risk, particularly from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to Scottish Ministers when seeking approval for home leave.\n\nLinda McDonald sustained two skull fractures in the attack\n\nThe report said that although McIntosh was subject to a number of standard and additional licence conditions, the level of monitoring was \"less than what might be considered reasonable\".\n\nIt noted that a fiction book about a lone male who attacked females in wooded areas was found in McIntosh's cell after the crime.\n\nThe report made 10 recommendations, including for the SPS to review the information which is \"available and considered\" during risk management team meetings.\n\nThe review was carried out by the multi-agency public protection arrangements (Mappa), which includes members from the police, local authorities, health board and the SPS.\n\nIt was commissioned to consider the circumstances of McIntosh's offence and identify \"any necessary improvements to public protection arrangements\".\n\nMcIntosh was jailed for life in 2002 for stabbing Anne Nicoll to death\n\nThe report said McIntosh's \"positive behaviour\" in prison and on community leave constituted \"relevant evidence\" that supported the decisions to increase his community access.\n\nIt said there were subsequent flaws in the meeting structure that divided tasks between the SPS risk management team and Mappa.\n\nThis resulted in neither of them being able to take full responsibility for compiling a \"structured and fully-defensible risk management plan.\"\n\nThe SPS said it accepted all the relevant recommendations \"without reservation\".\n\nAt the time of the attack in 2017, McIntosh had been allowed home leave in preparation for being considered for parole.\n\nHe had been sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison in 2002 after being found guilty of murder.\n\nMcIntosh stabbed 34-year-old civil servant Anne Nicoll almost 30 times during the attack in Dundee in 2001.\n\nLinda McDonald had been walking her dog in Tempeton Woods in August 2017 when she was attacked by McIntosh.\n\nHe fled after being disturbed by two dog walkers who had heard Mrs McDonald screaming. She sustained multiple injuries including two skull fractures.\n\nMcIntosh admitted attempted murder and was given an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR), which means he will be supervised for the rest of his life.\n\nMrs McDonald's husband Matthew has criticised the decision to grant McIntosh home leave and said the attack had \"turned our family's life upside down\".", "The body of Nicola Stevenson was found by a dog walker on Wednesday\n\nA man has been charged with murder after the body of a woman was found in a wheelie bin in undergrowth.\n\nPolice have named the victim as 39-year-old Nicola Stevenson, from Lewes, although she has yet to be formally identified.\n\nThe body was discovered at a recreation ground off Landport Road in Lewes, East Sussex, by a dog walker last Wednesday.\n\nRichard Canlin, 41, of no fixed address, appeared at Brighton Magistrates' Court earlier.\n\nHis case has been referred to Lewes Crown Court, where he is due to appear on Tuesday.\n\nSussex Police said a 37-year-old man of no fixed address, arrested on suspicion of murder, had been released on bail until 12 December.\n\nFlowers were left at the scene in Landport Road, Lewes\n\nA post-mortem examination found Ms Stevenson died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nSussex Police said search and forensic teams had finished their work at the recreation ground but searches would continue at Ms Stevenson's home in nearby Stansfield Road.\n\nA spokesperson for the force urged anyone who saw Ms Stevenson in the days before her death to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British photographer Terry O'Neill poses in front of his work \"Nelson Mandela at 90\" in 2009\n\nBritish photographer Terry O'Neill, whose work captured iconic images of London's Swinging Sixties, has died.\n\nO'Neill, 81, had prostate cancer and died at home on Saturday night after a long illness, his agency said.\n\nHe photographed celebrities - including The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elton John and the Queen - and received a CBE last month for services to photography.\n\nBBC Arts Correspondent David Sillito said O'Neil's work helped to define the Swinging Sixties.\n\nBorn in London, O'Neill left school with hopes of becoming a jazz drummer, but ended up working in a photographic unit at London's Heathrow Airport.\n\nIt was there that he captured then Home Secretary Rab Butler, immaculately dressed and asleep on a bench.\n\nThe image helped O'Neill land a job as a newspaper photographer on Fleet Street, where he was assigned to capture the portrait of a new band - The Beatles.\n\nO'Neill photographed The Beatles in the backyard of the Abbey Road Studios in London - it was one of their first professionally-taken portraits and helped make the photographer famous in his own right\n\nAfter receiving his CBE at Buckingham Palace, Mr O'Neill said the award \"surpasses anything I've had happen to me in my life\".\n\nHe photographed the Queen twice. In 2001 he revealed on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs how he had got her to smile during the second photo shoot in 1992 - a year described by the Queen as an \"annus horribilis\" - by telling a horse-racing joke.\n\n\"The second time was great,\" he said. \"It was in a bad year, as she put it. And I just got her to laugh because I noticed the first time when she laughed, she made a great picture.\"\n\nSir Elton John, whom O'Neill photographed on numerous occasions, was among those to pay tribute to the photographer on Twitter, saying: \"He was brilliant, funny and I absolutely loved his company\".\n\nComedian and children's author David Walliams called O'Neill \"a huge talent and an absolute gentleman\" and said his death was the \"end of an era\".\n\nElton John described O'Neill as \"brilliant and funny\"\n\nIconic Images, the agency which represents O'Neill's work, said he was \"a class act, quick-witted and filled with charm\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"Anyone who was lucky enough to know or work with him can attest to his generosity and modesty.\n\n\"As one of the most iconic photographers of the last 60 years, his legendary pictures will forever remain imprinted in our memories as well as in our hearts.\"\n\nO'Neill captured this image of US actress Faye Dunaway the day after she collected her Academy Award for Best Actress in Network in 1977 - the pair would marry six years later\n\nThis arresting image of David Bowie helped promote the singer's 1974 album Diamond Dogs\n\nO'Neill said that he told a horse racing joke to the Queen to induce this smile in this portrait taken in 1992, the second time he had photographed her\n\nThe Rolling Stones outside the Tin Pan Alley Club in London in 1963\n\nSinger Amy Winehouse poses for a shoot during a concert honouring Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday in Hyde Park, London\n\nActor Roger Moore as James Bond with Live and Let Die co-stars Gloria Hendry (left) and Jane Seymour in 1973\n\nSinger Frank Sinatra with his minders and his stand-in (who is wearing an identical outfit to him), arriving at Miami Beach while filming The Lady in Cement\n\nBritish model Twiggy was among the famous faces of London's Swinging Sixties who was photographed by O'Neill\n\nTerry O\"Neill photographs Laura Bush at the White House in 2001", "More from the Chinese Ambassador to the UK's news conference in London. Liu Xiaoming accused the British government of taking sides in the Hong Kong protests.\n\n\"We have made our position known to the British side when they have made irresponsible remarks on Hong Kong. I think when the British government criticise Hong Kong police, criticise the Hong Kong government in handling the situation they are interfering into China's internal affairs.\n\n\"They look like they are balanced but as a matter of fact they are taking sides. That is our position.\"\n\nAs he was speaking at the Chinese embassy, the UK Foreign Office issue a statement, saying the government was seriously concerned by the escalation in violence from both the protesters and the authorities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The baby was unharmed because his auntie is a hero\"\n\nA 13-year-old girl has been critically injured after she tried to protect her 11-month-old nephew from a gang of men armed with machetes, her family has said.\n\nThe teenager suffered serious stab wounds after the men forced their way into a house on Trasna Way in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, at about 21:15 GMT on Saturday.\n\nElizabeth Joyce, who is a relative of the girl, hailed her as a hero.\n\n\"It is something that we will never get over,\" Ms Joyce, who was also injured, told BBC News NI.\n\nThe 13-year-old is in a critical but stable condition.\n\n\"The baby was unharmed because his auntie is a hero. She's 13 years old and she threw her whole self over that baby, and she saved his life. She is a hero.\"\n\nPolice are treating the incident as attempted murder.\n\nA gang of men forced their way into the house\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Det Sgt Keith Monaghan said the incident was a terrifying ordeal for those involved.\n\n\"We are determined to find the men responsible,\" he added.\n\nHe said detectives were investigating several lines of inquiry.", "The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Children share a campus in the south of Glasgow\n\nScotland's health secretary has refused to rule out government intervention at an under-fire health board.\n\nJeane Freeman is facing calls to put NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) into special measures following the deaths of two children in 2017.\n\nBoth were treated in a ward in a Glasgow hospital which was later closed because of problems with the water supply, according to newspaper reports.\n\nMs Freeman said she would make a statement to parliament this week.\n\nBoth children were patients at the Royal Hospital for Children at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nA three-year-old boy who was being treated for a rare genetic disease died on 9 August 2017. Milly Main, 10, died three weeks later while recovering from leukaemia treatment.\n\nLast week Milly's mother told BBC Scotland that she was \"100%\" convinced her death was linked to water contamination issues.\n\nIt emerged on Sunday that police have investigated the death of the young boy and a report had been passed to the procurator fiscal.\n\nNHSGGC said they had fully investigated and shared their findings with the boy's family but the child's mother later described the board's media statement as \"highly inaccurate\".\n\nSeparately, the board has insisted it was impossible to determine the source of Milly's infection because there was no requirement to test the water supply at the time.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland that she only learned of the young boy's death at the weekend.\n\nShe described both deaths as \"absolutely tragic\" but claimed the difference between the two was that the boy's parents were fully informed by the board about what had happened and the causes of his death.\n\nHealth secretary Jeane Freeman will make a statement in the Scottish Parliament this week\n\nThe health secretary said the child's mother wrote to her at the weekend and said she had acted on the information in a bid to get answers.\n\nAsked about putting the health board into special measures, Ms Freeman said she would make a statement to the Scottish Parliament later this week.\n\nThe powers were last used on NHS Tayside in 2018 and mean the Scottish government takes a more direct role in management.\n\nMs Freeman said it was not appropriate to elaborate but, pressed on whether it was an option, she replied: \"It's always an option. It's something that we've done before in other cases, so of course it's an option to look at how we escalate any board.\n\n\"By escalation, that means that the government takes a more interventionist role.\"\n\nThe health secretary also said she had a \"great deal of concern\" over the way the cases were handled.\n\nAnas Sarwar, the MSP who went public with details of Milly's case after being contacted by a whistleblower, has written to the Holyrood's health and sport committee to call for NHSGGC board chiefs to be forced to answer questions about water contamination.\n\nMr Sarwar said: \"Health board chiefs have tried to cover this up, and they need to urgently appear before MSPs, answer questions about the scale of the crisis, tell the truth, apologise to the whistleblower and staff for attacking them, and apologise to patients, parents and the public.\"\n\nMs Freeman is due to appear before the committee on Tuesday.\n\nMSP Anas Sarwar has described the health board as \"not fit for purpose\"\n\nIn response to reports about the boy's death and the police investigation, NHSGCC spokesman said: \"We have already provided information to this family but are sorry that they have further questions.\n\n\"We fully investigated this child's death at the time and also asked for two independent experts to investigate the case, the outcome of which has been communicated to the family.\n\n\"We are absolutely committed to providing patients and families with information and ensuring they get answers to the questions they have. In this case the full findings were shared with the family.\"\n\nBut on Sunday Labour's health spokeswoman Monica Lennon said she had been in contact with the child's mother.\n\nMs Lennon said: \"She believes the statement issued by NHSGGC in response to media reports about her son is highly inaccurate.\n\n\"She disputes the accuracy of their investigations and reports and is in receipt of documentation that confirms bacteria was present in the showerhead within her son's hospital bathroom.\"\n\nThe MSP said that when the mother last met with NHSGGC she walked out of the meeting and advised them she would be taking legal action.\n\nMilly Main contracted an infection while recovering from a stem cell transplant in Glasgow\n\nA whistleblower had earlier revealed that a doctor-led review had identified 26 infections at RHC during 2017 which were potentially linked to contaminated water.\n\nThe £842m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital \"super hospital\" has faced a number of problems since it opened in 2015.\n\nTwo cancer wards at the adjoining children's hospital were closed last year amid concern about infections and investigation of water supply issues, with patients decanted to the adult hospital.\n\nIn January it emerged that two patients at the QEUH had died after contracting a fungal infection linked to pigeon droppings.", "The star last played Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage in 2004\n\nOne of the worst-kept secrets in pop has been confirmed: Sir Paul McCartney will headline Glastonbury in 2020.\n\nThe former Beatle will top the bill on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday 27 June, a week after his 78th birthday.\n\nHe last played the Somerset event in 2004, and organisers have long been keen to get him back for an encore.\n\nNext year will be Glastonbury's golden jubilee and co-organiser Emily Eavis said: \"There really was no-one that we wanted more for the 50th anniversary.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, the star teased the announcement on Twitter - posting a picture of Philip Glass, Emma Stone and Chuck Berry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmily Eavis subsequently confirmed the news, saying: \"Having Paul McCartney coming back to headline the Pyramid for the second time next year is an absolute dream come true.\"\n\nIn April, her father, festival founder Michael Eavis, admitted he had the star in his sights, but asked a BBC reporter not to \"make a big thing of it\".\n\nIn September, Sir Paul told BBC Radio 2 the booking \"was starting to become [a] remote kind of possibility\".\n\nHe told breakfast host Zoe Ball: \"My kids are saying, 'Dad, we've got to talk about Glastonbury', and I think I know what they mean.\n\n\"We played there quite a long time ago so maybe it is time to go back. I don't know. I'd have to put a few things in place.\"\n\nThe rock legend's last appearance on the Pyramid Stage came after a day of heavy rain that left fans soaked to the skin.\n\nBut his arrival was greeted with an almighty cheer, and he responded with a joyous, two-and-a-half hour greatest hits set - opening with Wings classic Jet and racing through 22 Beatles songs, including Helter Skelter, Back In The USSR and Yesterday.\n\n\"Spare a thought for Michael Eavis. He could live to host a hundred more Glastos and he'd never top this,\" wrote the NME in its review.\n\n\"And pity us poor punters, oblivious to the fact we are sinking in mud and soaked to the skin, because every gig we go to from now will fall short of this.\"\n\nThe gig later won an NME Award for musical event of the year\n\nIncredibly, after playing more than 3,000 concerts, Glastonbury was the star's first ever festival set. He later recalled looking out over the the flags, banners and bedraggled fans and thinking it looked \"like the Battle of Agincourt\".\n\nHe closed the show with The End, the final song on The Beatles' Abbey Road album. But it was the all-together-now chorus of Hey Jude that made a lasting impression, echoing around Worthy Farm until the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\n\"Paul won the day for me,\" said Michael Eavis after the concert. \"He hugged and kissed me afterwards but I should have kissed him.\"\n\nSir Paul later told Clash magazine: \"It was a good night for us. It was a blast, and the audience seemed to love it. It was like, 'Yeah man! People have come together!' Very uplifting.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe star is the first headliner to be confirmed for Glastonbury 2020. Diana Ross will play the Sunday afternoon \"legends slot\", while other rumoured headliners include Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, The 1975 and Foals.\n\nFleetwood Mac, who have long been linked with the festival, also prompted speculation that they would be heading to Somerset next year when Mick Fleetwood told fans at Wembley Stadium they still \"had a big field to play\".\n\nBut speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival last month, Emily Eavis ruled the band out after negotiations apparently stalled over money.\n\n\"I can't afford them at the moment,\" Michael told fans in June. \"But they said the other day that they really want to do it and if they don't do it before they die they'll go to hell.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A £5,000 reward has been offered for information about Ms Croucher's disappearance\n\nThe brother of missing woman Leah Croucher has died, their father has said.\n\nMs Croucher, 20, was last seen in Milton Keynes on 15 February.\n\nIn a Facebook post, her father John said he had spoken to his son Haydon on Thursday to reassure him, almost nine months after Leah's disappearance.\n\nHe said the 24-year-old died hours later, after police arrived at his house to tell him his son was \"fighting for life.\"\n\nMs Croucher was last seen by her parents at their home in Quantock Crescent on the evening of 14 February.\n\nShe told her family she was meeting a friend but police said the meeting did not happen.\n\nCCTV showed her walking about half a mile from her home at about 08:15 the next day.\n\nHaydon had appeared in court earlier this year accused of making threats to a man he described as Leah's ex-boyfriend.\n\nHe accepted a voluntary restraining order and the prosecution was dropped.\n\nMr Croucher said he had arranged to meet up with his son on Friday so they could spend the day that marked nine months since Leah's disappearance together.\n\nHe said his son was a \"kind, generous, funny, witty and loving person\".\n\nHe added: \"Be at peace Haydon. If Leah is up there with you look after each other as always, until we get there.\n\n\"We love and miss you both terribly. Our world could not be more broken than it is now.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The book by Charlotte Bronte slipped through the museum's fingers eight years ago\n\nA book written by Charlotte Bronte at the age of 14 will return home after being bought by the Bronte Society at auction in Paris.\n\nThe miniature work, called The Young Men's Magazine, will go to the Parsonage Museum in the Brontes' old home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.\n\nIt was bought for €600,000 (£512,970) after a fundraising campaign by the Bronte Society, which runs the museum.\n\nThe museum lost out on the book when it last went under the hammer in 2011.\n\nThe work is one of six \"little books\" written by Charlotte, the eldest of the three sisters, in 1830. Five are known to survive, and the Bronte Parsonage Museum already holds the other four.\n\nThe works were created for Charlotte's toy soldiers and document an imaginary world created by the family called Glass Town.\n\nCharlotte is best known for her 1847 classic novel Jane Eyre.\n\nKitty Wright, executive director of The Bronte Society, said: \"We were determined to do everything we could to bring back this extraordinary 'little book' to the Bronte Parsonage Museum and now can't quite believe that it will in fact be coming home to where it was written 189 years ago.\n\n\"We have been truly overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from people from all over the world backing our campaign and can't wait to have it in place with the others and on public view to the world.\"\n\nThe museum's principal curator Ann Dinsdale added that bringing the \"unique manuscript\" back to Haworth was an \"absolute highlight\" of her 30-year career at the venue.\n\n\"Charlotte wrote this miniscule magazine for the toy soldiers she and her siblings played with and as we walk through the same rooms they did, it seems immensely fitting that it is coming home and we would like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who made it possible.\"\n\nPart of the Young Men's Magazine describes a murderer driven to madness after being haunted by his victims, and how \"an immense fire\" burning in his head causes his bed curtains to set alight.\n\nExperts at the museum say this section of the story is \"a clear precursor\" of a famous scene between Bertha and Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre, which Charlotte would publish 17 years later.\n\nThe society said more than 1,000 people had pledged money to help buy the book. Several celebrities, including Dame Judi Dench, Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Tracy Chevalier, backed the society's efforts to raise money.\n\nDame Judi Dench led a campaign to raise funds for the book to be secured for the Bronte Parsonage Museum\n\nYork-born Dame Judi, who is president of the Bronte Society, said earlier this year: \"I have long been fascinated by the little books created by the Brontes when they were children.\n\n\"These tiny manuscripts are like a magical doorway into the imaginary worlds they inhabited, and also hint at their ambition to become published authors.\"\n\nThe existence of the book that went up for sale - measuring 35mm x 61mm and consisting of 20 pages - came to light in 2011 when it was auctioned at Sotheby's.\n\nThe Bronte society was outbid by a discredited investment scheme that is no longer operational. The scheme was run by Gérard Lhéritier and his company Aristophil, who set up the Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits in Paris.\n\nLhéritier saw the potential financial rewards in rare works such as the Bronte book, so bought and filled his museum with them. His company was accused of selling shares in a Ponzi-style pyramid scheme, built on false advertising and illusionary market values.\n\nAbout 18,000 people in France are believed to have been defrauded in what went on to become one of the biggest ever arts market scams, having invested nearly €1bn. The company behind it was shut down by regulators in 2014.\n\nAccording to The Art Newspaper, the French government is seeking to recover hundreds of public archives that should never have been sold and a criminal investigation is ongoing.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lib Dem chairman Sal Brinton said their exclusion was \"shameful\" and SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he hoped \"sense prevails\"\n\nThe views of voters who want to remain in the EU will be excluded if the Lib Dems and SNP are not part of ITV's election debate, a court has heard.\n\nLawyers for both parties told London's High Court that their views on Brexit would not be represented on the show.\n\nThe head-to-head between Conservative leader Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is on Tuesday.\n\nITV lawyers told the court the debate would be cancelled if the ruling - due after 16:00 GMT - went against them.\n\nAn interview with Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, due to follow the head-to-head, would also be pulled, they said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Lib Dems have sent a legal letter to the BBC over its decision not to include Ms Swinson in a debate on 6 December.\n\nIn court, lawyers for the Liberal Democrats argued that Brexit was the \"dominant\" issue in the 12 December general election and that the \"voice of Remain has been excluded\" by ITV's decision not to include Ms Swinson.\n\nGuy Vassall-Adams QC said the decision not to include the party was unlawful because it \"breaches the duty of impartiality and the requirement to give due weight to a wide range of significant views\".\n\n\"The dominant issue of this election campaign is Brexit, which is on any view a matter of major political controversy and current public policy,\" he told the court.\n\n\"In the first national TV debate of the campaign it is essential that a wide, balanced range of views on Brexit is represented.\"\n\nHe said this had \"serious consequences for the fairness of the democratic process\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats want leader Jo Swinson to be included in the debate\n\nMr Vassall-Adams also argued there was evidence that TV debates \"are very influential with voters\", saying the programme \"will attract millions of viewers\".\n\nLawyers for the SNP - which lodged a separate legal challenge last week - said the party represented views, including on Brexit and Scottish independence, that would not be represented in a debate between Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nPhilip Coppel QC said: \"Prior to 2010 it may have been the case that a debate between the Labour and the Conservative leaders would cover the full range of significant views in a general election.\n\n\"That was, arguably, a time when those parties encompassed the spectrum of mainstream political opinion.\n\n\"That is no longer the case. In the current, pluralistic political landscape it is simply not possible for a debate which only includes two parties to include 'all significant views'.\"\n\nITV lawyers argued there was no basis for alleging any unlawful conduct on the part of the broadcaster.\n\nWhen ITV announced its plans, the channel said it would hold a live interview-based programme alongside the leaders' head-to-head to allow other parties to comment, as well as another multi-party debate ahead of the 12 December poll.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also criticised the BBC's plan for a live head-to-head between Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn on Friday, 6 December, because Ms Swinson is not taking part.\n\nThe party's lawyers have sent a letter to the BBC's director general Tony Hall, saying the exclusion of Ms Swinson is \"clearly unlawful\".\n\n\"It also means that viewers will be denied the opportunity to hear the fresh and distinct perspective that the Liberal Democrats bring on the dominant issue of this election, namely Brexit,\" the letter said.\n\nThe BBC declined to comment on the letter.\n\nThe broadcaster will host the live head-to-head debate between Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn in Southampton on 6 December, plus a seven-way podium debate between senior figures from the UK's major political parties on 29 November, live from Cardiff.\n\nAnd BBC Scotland will stage a televised debate between the SNP, Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats on 10 December, although the Scottish Greens have criticised the decision not to include them.", "Operation Northmoor was set up in 2014 to examine allegations of executions by British Special Forces.\n\nIt had linked dozens of suspicious killings on night raids.\n\nOne of those included three children and a 20-year-old man who were killed by a British soldier in 2012 in the village of Loy Bagh in Afghanistan.\n\nBritish detectives have now told Panorama that Special Forces tried to cover-up what happened to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes.\n\nRead more: UK government and military accused of war crimes cover-up\n\nYou can watch 'War Crimes Scandal Exposed' on Monday 28th November on BBC One at 21:00 GMT.", "Motorbike and scooter ride gathered in Brackley, Northamptonshire, for the ride\n\nHundreds of bikers have gathered to ride in memory of Harry Dunn, the teenager whose crash death led to a diplomatic row with the US.\n\nHarry, 19, died after the collision in Northamptonshire in August that led to suspect Anne Sacoolas leaving the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA file has been passed to prosecutors, but no charges have been brought.\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said support from the public was \"the only thing keeping us going\".\n\nHarry's father Tim said the support from those who took part in the motorbike and scooter ride, which started in Brackley, Northamptonshire, was \"fantastic\".\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nTalking to Sky News, Mrs Charles said decisions in the case by the Crown Prosecution Service were \"taking too long\".\n\n\"The case is a pretty clear cut, we are just waiting on their decision,\" she added.\n\nHarry was fatally injured on 27 August, when his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas, 42, outside RAF Croughton, where her husband Jonathan was an intelligence officer.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn met Donald Trump at the White House\n\nMr Dunn, who explained the family was \"struggling\", said: \"We are getting more frustrated by the delays and the authorities.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity, but was interviewed by Northamptonshire Police in the US last month.\n\nHillary Clinton said there had been confusion about the use of diplomatic immunity\n\nEarlier this week, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the rules around diplomatic immunity \"should be looked at\".\n\nMrs Clinton also said a meeting at the White House between Harry's family and President Trump, where Mrs Sacoolas was in the next room, had been \"clumsy and heavy-handed\".\n\nMr Dunn said his hoped Mrs Clinton's comments would \"help push forward\" the chance of Mrs Sacoolas return to the UK.\n\nScooter and motorcycle club members took part in the ride\n\nThe riders took to the streets close to where Harry was fatally injured\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Folau was sacked by Rugby Australia earlier this year for his comments on gay people\n\nRugby player Israel Folau has drawn anger for linking Australia's bushfire crisis to the nation's same-sex marriage and abortion laws.\n\nFolau, who was sacked by Australia in May for making anti-gay remarks on social media, described the fires as a \"little taste of God's judgement\".\n\nSix people have died since last month in blazes raging in eastern Australia.\n\n\"He is a free citizen, he can say whatever he likes but that doesn't mean he can't have regard to the grievance [and] offence this would have caused to the people whose homes have burnt down,\" Mr Morrison told reporters on Monday.\n\nFolau, who is Christian, gave a sermon in his Sydney church on Sunday in which he said Australia's decision to pass abortion and same-sex marriage laws had gone against \"God's word\", adding the nation needed to \"repent\".\n\n\"Look how rapid, these bushfires, these droughts, all these things have come, in a short period of time. You think it's a coincidence or not?,\" he said.\n\nHis comments sparked outrage from many Australians online, who noted the widespread devastation of the fires.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Warren Smith's home was destroyed in recent bushfires in Australia\n\nHe was also criticised by high-profile local figures who had previously supported him.\n\n\"Israel, button up,\" said broadcaster Alan Jones on his radio show on Monday. \"These comments don't help.\"\n\nRugby Australia (RA) sacked the former Wallabies player in May after he said on social media that \"hell awaits\" gay people.\n\nThe 30-year-old fullback has been widely condemned for those comments and others targeting transgender people, but he has also received vocal support from Christian groups.\n\nFolau is suing RA over his dismissal, claiming his contract was unlawfully terminated due to his religious beliefs.\n\nRugby Australia has stood by its decision to sack Folau, saying he breached a players' code of conduct. He was previously one of the nation's highest-paid athletes.", "Protesters around Hong Kong Polytechnic University have armed themselves with an array of weapons, including bow and arrows, and even fencing swords.\n\nThey have been defending the occupied campus against police water cannon and tear gas.\n\nThere have also been heavy clashes on a nearby bridge above the Cross Harbour tunnel, where a police truck was set on fire and forced to retreat.\n\nRead more on this story.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detective Inspector Perry Benton explains how the Met Police pieced together evidence to catch Jodie's killers\n\nTwo teenagers have been jailed for life for murdering a 17-year-old girl in an east London park.\n\nJodie Chesney was stabbed in the back as she sat with friends in Harold Hill on 1 March.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, and Arron Isaacs, 17, of Barking, were both convicted earlier this month after a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nOng-a-Kwie, of Romford, will serve a minimum of 26 years while Isaacs was detained for at least 18 years.\n\nExplaining the sentences, Judge Wendy Joseph QC told the court she was \"satisfied\" Ong-a-Kwie had stabbed Jodie while Isaacs was a \"willing supporter\".\n\n\"When that knife was driven into Jodie, that intention was to kill,\" she said.\n\nShe added that her death \"was part of a series of tit-for-tat attacks\" which had been \"increasing in ferocity\", and \"although the target was not Jodie... there was a degree of planning\".\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie (l) and Arron Isaacs (r) were both found guilty of Jodie's murder\n\nDuring the trial, each of the defendants blamed each other for the attack but a jury took less than six hours to find them both guilty of murder.\n\nIn an impact statement read before sentencing, Jodie's father Peter Chesney said the death of his daughter \"has destroyed my life\".\n\nThe 39-year-old, who was not in court, described how a year ago he had started a new job as a salesman in the City \"and I was about to take over the world in a promising career.\n\n\"Now I sit here in the cabin in my garden writing this statement. I have left that job, the relationship with my wife has fallen apart and we are now getting divorced. I must sell my house, and above all, I have lost the most precious human being I will ever know,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police body-worn video captured Svenson Ong-a-Kwie falling through a conservatory roof as officers tried to arrest him\n\nFollowing the stabbing, Jodie collapsed into the arms of her boyfriend Eddie Coyle who told the court he had been \"completely changed\" by the events of that night.\n\n\"I find it hard to sleep most of the time. I've been diagnosed with PTSD from this, and it keeps me up most nights so I don't sleep,\" he said.\n\nThe court had heard drug dealer Ong-a-Kwie and his runner Isaacs had been looking to take revenge on rivals but had killed Jodie by mistake.\n\nShe had been socialising with friends that evening when two figures emerged out of the dark and one plunged a knife in her back.\n\nThe two defendants fled in another drug dealer's car but were arrested together days later as they fled from a house linked to Isaacs, the jury were told.\n\nThe 17-year-old was stabbed once in the back while she was socialising with friends in Amy's Park\n\nOng-a-Kwie had convictions for possessing and supplying drugs and had admitted being in breach of a six-week suspended sentence for handling stolen jewellery.\n\nTwo other people - Manuel Petrovic, 20, of Romford, and a 16-year-old boy - were both cleared of murder and manslaughter.\n\nMet Police officer Det Insp Perry Benton described the investigation as \"one of the hardest I've ever dealt with\", adding that the defendants \"have shown no remorse from day one\".\n\nJodie Chesney was an active Scout member who was described as \"one of our brightest and best\" by chief scout Bear Grylls\n\nSpeaking following the sentencing, Jodie's uncle Terry Chesney said the family were \"happy\" with the jail terms and would now \"try\" to get on with their lives.\n\n\"Today was justice. We'll never get her back, but we've got justice,\" he said.\n\nJustice for Jodie: Searching for the Killers can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and can also be seen on YouTube.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to shows Prince Andrew inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York residence in 2010\n\nPrince Andrew has given an unprecedented interview to the BBC about his relationship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe friendship between the 59-year-old member of the Royal Family and Epstein has come under close scrutiny since the American killed himself in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew said it was wrong of him to visit and stay at Epstein's house in 2010 after the financier's conviction but that he did not regret their entire friendship.\n\nHe also categorically denied having sex with Virginia Roberts, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old.\n\nHere's what we know about the links between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew said he first met Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager, in 1999 through Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's British girlfriend and a woman the prince said he had known since she was at university. That year was the first time the prince and the businessman were linked in press reports in the UK and US.\n\nPrince Andrew reportedly flew with Epstein on his private Gulfstream jet in February 1999, according to a log book seen by the Daily Mirror in 2015.\n\nThe destination was said to have been Epstein's private island, Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Daily Mail also reported that 10 months earlier Epstein's logbook showed he had flown to the same location to meet the prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. The couple had divorced in 1996.\n\nEpstein and Ms Maxwell were among a star-studded guest list at a party hosted by the Queen in June 2000.\n\nThe Dance of the Decades event, which saw more than 600 guests descend on Windsor Castle, marked four royal birthdays including Prince Andrew's 40th. Prince Andrew, the Queen's third child, told the BBC that Epstein was there at his invitation, not the Royal Family's, but was to some extent Ms Maxwell's \"plus one\".\n\nThe duke at the time appeared to be part of the social circle of Ms Maxwell, whom Epstein later described as his best friend.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured accompanying Ms Maxwell - daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell - at private parties and celebrity functions both in the UK and in the US that year.\n\nThey were photographed together at the wedding of the prince's former girlfriend, Aurelia Cecil, near Salisbury in Wiltshire in September 2000.\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell leaving the wedding of his former girlfriend Aurelia Cecil in September 2000\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell were pictured at the event in Wiltshire\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell were again photographed together at a Halloween party thrown by model Heidi Klum in Manhattan.\n\nMs Maxwell was pictured dressed in gold lame and wearing a blonde wig for the Hookers and Pimps-themed party.\n\nJust over a month later, in December 2000, the then 40-year-old prince threw Ms Maxwell a surprise birthday party at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, with Epstein among the guests.\n\nHe described it in the BBC interview as a \"straightforward shooting weekend\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham in December 2000\n\nMs Maxwell and Epstein were photographed on a pheasant shoot at the estate around that time.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell went on a number of trips together including to Florida and Thailand, according to an Evening Standard report from January 2001, which claimed Epstein had joined them on five such occasions over the previous 12 months.\n\nPrince Andrew told the BBC that he used to see Epstein a maximum of three times a year but confirmed he had been on his private plane, stayed at his private island, and stayed at his homes in Palm Beach, Florida and New York.\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial next year.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges but was facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted.\n\nIn July 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was invited to a masked ball at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 18th birthday of Princess Beatrice, Prince Andrew's elder daughter.\n\nThe theme of the evening was 1888, and the 500 guests donned period costumes.\n\nThe previous month, Epstein was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution.\n\nPrince Andrew said Epstein had been invited via Ms Maxwell but that he wasn't aware at the time the invitation was sent out \"what was going on in the United States\".\n\nHe said Epstein never mentioned that he was under investigation.\n\nThe duke was photographed with Epstein in New York's Central Park in December 2010 - after the tycoon had served his sentence.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had travelled across the Atlantic to end his friendship with Epstein and was having that conversation with him when they were photographed in the park.\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nThe prince told the BBC: \"I said, 'Look, because of what has happened, I don't think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact.'\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he attended a small dinner party while he was there but denied it was to celebrate Epstein's release.\n\nFootage released by the Mail on Sunday in August showed Prince Andrew inside the financier's Manhattan mansion around the same time.\n\nThe prince told the BBC that he regretted staying at Epstein's house during the visit, saying he \"let the side down\" by doing so. Pressed on reports that many young girls were coming and going from the house at the time, he said: \"I never saw them.\"\n\nEpstein's house was like a \"railway station\" with \"people coming in and out of that house all the time\", he added.\n\nPrince Andrew's connection to the convicted sex offender did attract criticism at the time.\n\nAfter several days of newspaper reports on the Epstein connection in spring of 2011, Prince Andrew was hit with a further blow when Sarah Ferguson admitted having accepted £15,000 from Epstein, to help pay off her debts.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in 2011 - she is said to have accepted £15,000 from Epstein that year\n\nThe fallout saw him quit his role as a UK trade envoy in July 2011. Prince Andrew later acknowledged his friendship with Epstein had been a mistake.\n\nIn 2015 the duke was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew was not party to the proceedings but was identified when a motion was filed in the court, as part of the evidence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was ordered to give the prince \"whatever he required\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Virginia Roberts in early 2001, said to have been taken at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is standing behind the pair\n\nMs Giuffre claimed in court papers in Florida she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions - in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein - between 2001 and 2002, including when she was underage under Florida law.\n\nThe details were later officially struck from the court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 was contained in documents from a defamation case. These documents were made public when they were released by a judge in August 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre had brought the defamation case against Ms Maxwell. She was alleged to have procured underage girls for Epstein and his friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had \"no recollection\" of ever meeting Ms Giuffre. He said he was looking after his children on the day in March 2001 that she alleges they went to a nightclub in London and later had sex in Ms Maxwell's house in the Belgravia area.\n\nThe prince said he had taken his daughter Beatrice to a Pizza Express restaurant in the town of Woking that afternoon for a party.\n\nHe said he remembered it \"because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I would like to reiterate and reaffirm the statements that have been issued on my behalf by the palace\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he had no recollection of a photo being taken, reportedly by Jeffrey Epstein, of him and Virginia Giuffre together in Ms Maxwell's house where his arm is around her waist.\n\n\"Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken,\" he said, adding that \"hug[s] and public displays of affection are not something that I do\".\n\nAsked whether he had sex with her in a bedroom in that house, he said: \"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued outright denials of all allegations against Prince Andrew.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nThe Duke of York should apologise for his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a lawyer for the convicted sex offender's accusers has said.\n\nSpencer Kuvin, who represents several unnamed alleged victims, said \"royalty has failed them\".\n\nHe called Prince Andrew's interview with BBC Newsnight on Saturday \"sad\" and \"depressing\".\n\nThe prince has stood by his decision to take part, despite critics describing it as a \"car crash\".\n\nAmid the backlash, Prince Andrew is now facing renewed calls to tell US authorities about his friendship with US financier Epstein - who, at the age of 66, took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in the US.\n\nThe duke has been facing questions over his ties to Epstein for several years.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Kuvin told the Today programme: \"It was depressing that he [Prince Andrew] really did not acknowledge the breadth of his friendship with this despicable man and apologise.\n\n\"The mere fact that he was friends with a convicted sex offender and chose to continue his relationship with him - it just shows a lack of acknowledgement of the breadth of what this man [Epstein] did to these girls.\"\n\nPrince Andrew said this meeting with Epstein in 2010 was to end their relationship\n\nIn the interview with Newsnight, Prince Andrew - the Queen's third child - said he never suspected Epstein's criminal behaviour during visits to his three homes.\n\nBut Mr Kuvin said he did \"not think there was any way\" the prince could have avoided seeing what was going on, \"with young girls being shuttled in and out of those homes\".\n\nMr Kuvin said the focus of Epstein's accusers had now turned to potential co-conspirators.\n\nIt has led to questions about the role Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, may have played in procuring underage girls for the financier.\n\nLawyer Lisa Bloom - who represents five other Epstein accusers - joined the calls for Prince Andrew to be interviewed by US authorities following his BBC interview.\n\nShe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"I think he's made things worse for himself in this interview and I think it's more likely the authorities are going to want to speak to him now - and they should want to.\"\n\nLawyer Lisa Bloom has also questioned why Prince Andrew did not apologise about his friendship with Epstein\n\nGloria Allred - another lawyer, also representing one of Epstein's accusers - told ITV's Good Morning Britain: \"Now he's been in the court of public opinion, he should testify to the FBI.\"\n\nShe said she did not know how the prince \"could have not known that there were underage girls\" present during his visits to Epstein's homes in New York, Palm Beach and the Virgin Islands.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's shadow trade secretary, Barry Gardiner, said Prince Andrew should do whatever he can to help Epstein's victims.\n\nHe said: \"By saying what he knows of the time that he spent with his former friend, can only be the right thing to do.\"\n\nIn the Newsnight interview, Prince Andrew said he will testify under oath \"if push came to shove\" and his lawyers advised him to.\n\nIt comes as the prince continues to face heavy criticism for the interview, which many royal commentators branded a PR disaster.\n\nUniversity of Huddersfield students will discuss a motion to put pressure on the duke to resign as chancellor later. In response, the university said Prince Andrew's \"enthusiasm for innovation and entrepreneurship is a natural fit\" with its work.\n\nThe duke was pictured with his accuser in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home in 2001\n\nIn his BBC interview, Prince Andrew \"categorically\" denied having any sexual contact with Virginia Giuffre, known at the time as Virginia Roberts.\n\nThe first occasion, she said, took place when she was aged 17.\n\nPeople close to Prince Andrew said he wanted to address the issues head-on and did so with \"honesty and humility\" in speaking to Newsnight.\n\nIn a lengthy interview, which UK viewers can watch in full on BBC iPlayer or on YouTube elsewhere in the world, the prince said that:", "The protests have raged for months - but now expat workers are looking to leave the financial hub\n\n\"I've been tear gassed a few times, but never when I was outside my office - popping out to get my lunch,\" says one trader at HSBC.\n\nHe is describing the moment this week when Hong Kong's protests came to the central financial district , one of the world's biggest commercial hubs.\n\nHe says it was a watershed moment, that's made him and many of his peers question their future in the city.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC under condition of anonymity, directors at some of the biggest international banks and law firms said they are seeing their business in Hong Kong shrink as the protests continue to escalate.\n\nFinancial services make up a fifth of Hong Kong's economy and people come from all over the world to live and work here. Its large expatriate community is attracted by the low taxes, well-paid jobs, stability and high standards of living.\n\nHowever, the lure of prosperity and stability in the East Asian hub has been undermined substantially since Hong Kong has been racked by five months of anti-government protests, backing increased democracy and opposing the actions of the police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a rare move, Chinese soldiers left their barracks on Saturday to help clean up Hong Kong's streets\n\nThis last week where violence has intensified has made many firms reconsider the safety of their staff in the city.\n\nOne hedge fund manager has even been given a panic button app in case of an emergency and plans are in place with his work to evacuate him and his family to another major city \"if we were in danger they have a team of people who would get us out\".\n\nA banker at HSBC says only half of their staff came in to the office on Friday as people are encouraged to work remotely if they can't get in safely.\n\nStaff are kept closely informed about the situation on the ground according to a BNP Paribas employee \"We get regular emails early in the morning and through the day from the business continuity management team - telling us whether it's safe to go into offices - and whether we should go home early.\"\n\nAnecdotally, the political pressure from the Chinese government on banks and law firms is also growing - and it's putting pressure on staff.\n\nSome partners in law firms are being asked to pin their colours to the mast and state whether they support the protesters or the Chinese government before winning business from Chinese firms.\n\nPolice have faced off with protesters alarmed at growing influence from Beijing\n\nFirms are under pressure to keep a lid on their staff speaking in public about their views.\n\nOne lawyer explains \"I've been on calls where people are asked to verbally communicate restraint and caution when sharing their views. Given the amount of people we employ here, it's a minor miracle nothing has happened\".\n\nIn the workplace, people are making informal rules not to discuss the subject within their teams because emotions are running so high.\n\n\"Clearly it's the only topic of conversation in the office, but opinions are so split,\" one banker says.\n\n\"In my team of nine, three are Chinese and two are Hong Kong Chinese and the rest are expats - it's a bit like Brexit - we all have violently different views.\"\n\nA video on social media of a man who claims to work at Citigroup being arrested by police has been widely shared in the banking community.\n\n\"This has scared people here - it makes you feel we could all get caught up in this\"\n\nA spokesperson for the US-headquartered banking group said: \"We are investigating this incident and while investigations continue it would be inappropriate to comment further\".\n\nThe issue of democracy in Hong Kong is fraught\n\nOne of the biggest concerns for financial firms is the impact all of this is having on the economy as its reputation for stability unravels.\n\nA source at one of the world's biggest international banks says it expects its Hong Kong revenue to be down by 25% in the last quarter of their financial year as a result of the violence.\n\nMany banks are now reviewing their investment plans in Hong Kong over the next few years \"If we're still talking about this in six months time, people will start giving up on Hong Kong\"\n\nThey are concerned that people who are planning major deals will now turn to banks and law firms in Singapore because, in the words of one, \"it has a more predictable medium-term outlook\".\n\nHong Kong has long been a financial services hub in Asia\n\nSo far most of the business impact has been on small companies - restaurants for example. There is concern amongst bankers, borne out in recent economic statistics, that this could spread more widely.\n\n\"The classic company we deal with would be lending money to a Chinese shipping company that does its financial transactions through HK. They rely on a healthy business environment in Hong Kong. Now we worry they will go bankrupt\".", "Large parts of central Venice are under water again, as another exceptionally high tide inundated the Italian city.\n\nThree of the worst 10 floods since records began in Venice, nearly a hundred years ago, have now happened in a week.", "Mr Lawler had celebrated his 80th birthday just three days before he died\n\nFirst aid training should be mandatory for chiropractors, a coroner said at the end of the case of a man whose neck broke during chiropractic treatment.\n\nJohn Lawler, 80, died in hospital a day after becoming unresponsive at Chiropractic 1st in York in 2017.\n\nJonathan Heath, assistant coroner for North Yorkshire, found Mr Lawler suffered a fractured neck and spinal cord injury while undergoing treatment.\n\nHe said he would recommend changes to the General Chiropractic Council (GCC).\n\nIt emerged during the six-day hearing that Mr Lawler had a condition in his cervical spine meaning it was far more rigid than a healthy spine.\n\nOver time the ligaments along the cervical spine had become bone-like resulting in limited movement in his neck.\n\nMedical experts said the condition was abnormal but not uncommon in older people.\n\nIt can be visible on imaging, such as a CT scan, but the inquest heard that imaging is no longer common before chiropractic treatment.\n\nMr Lawler had sought treatment after complaining of aches in his legs in 2017.\n\nHe visited Chiropractic 1st with his wife at the end of July and booked three sessions for the first week of August with Mrs Arleen Scholten.\n\nThe chiropractor, Arleen Scholten, has been practicing for 16 years\n\nDuring treatment on 11 August 2017 Mr Lawler suddenly moaned and said he could not feel his arms and became unresponsive.\n\nThe chiropractor manoeuvred him onto a chair and gave mouth-to-mouth until the ambulance service arrived.\n\nThe inquest has heard that had Mr Lawler been immobilized immediately after the fracture he would have survived.\n\nDelivering a narrative conclusion, Mr Heath said Mr Lawler had died from the fracture to his neck and resulting spinal cord injury, while undergoing chiropractic treatment, which led to respiratory depression.\n\nHe said he would be writing to the GCC with two recommendations.\n\nHe would request it carries out a review of the requirements for pre-treatment imaging, and secondly, to consider first aid training being made mandatory for chiropractors.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the Lawler family said it hoped the publicity surrounding the case \"will highlight the dangers\" of chiropractic practice, especially for the elderly and those with \"already compromised spines\".\n\n\"We would again urge the regulator to take immediate measures to ensure the profession is properly controlled,\" they said.\n\nA representative for Mrs Scholten said she wished to express her \"deepest sympathies\" to Mr Lawler's family.\n\n\"This was an extremely rare and unusual incident, which has been thoroughly investigated by the Coroner during the course of the inquest,\" he continued.\n\n\"She will take on board the Coroner's findings, and has already made changes to her practice since the incident.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Japanese tidying guru Marie Kondo, who made her name preaching against clutter, is launching an online store selling homeware and fashion.\n\nThe author and media star has added a collection of more than 100 items that \"spark joy\" to her KonMari website.\n\nThe range includes, among other things, an $86 (£66.3) scented candle and a $42 (£32.4) flower bouquet tote bag.\n\nIn a letter posted on the site, Ms Kondo said her tidying method \"isn't about getting rid of things\".\n\nInstead, she wrote: \"It's about heightening your sensitivity to what brings you joy.\n\n\"Once you've completed your tidying, there is room to welcome meaningful objects, people and experiences into your life.\"\n\nMs Kondo's books on organising have sold millions of copies and led to a spin-off series for Netflix.\n\nHer online store, which also sells storage containers and trays, opened on Monday. Its debut comes a few months after Ms Kondo announced a partnership with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten.\n\nThe launch was greeted with a few eye rolls on social media.\n\n\"So now #mariekondo wants you to buy as much of her stuff as possible #ironic\", wrote one person on Twitter.\n\nIn an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Ms Kondo said the idea for a store came out of reader questions about what items she likes to use. But she said she is not trying to encourage consumerism.\n\n\"What's most important to me is that you surround yourself with items that spark joy,\" she said. \"If the bowl that you're using currently sparks joy for you, I don't encourage replacing it at all.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jennifer Arcuri tells Victoria Derbyshire she is \"upset\" Boris Johnson did not \"man up and call me\"\n\nA US businesswoman at the centre of a misconduct controversy involving Boris Johnson says he should \"man up\" and call her.\n\nJennifer Arcuri claims she texted the prime minister last week, accusing him of \"ignoring and blocking\" her.\n\nShe allegedly received favourable treatment during Mr Johnson's time as mayor of London due to their friendship - claims he denies.\n\nThe prime minster has previously said he acted \"with full propriety\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Monday, Ms Arcuri said she called Mr Johnson last week, before he hung up and refused further calls from her.\n\nShe said: \"I am very upset that he could not man up and pick up the phone and call me.\"\n\nReading from her mobile phone, she claims to have texted Mr Johnson after the phone call, asking: \"Is this the price of loyalty, to be hung up on, ignored and blocked?\n\n\"Why would I remain silent if you can't even speak to me, and I've been nothing but loyal to you?\"\n\nAsked whether Mr Johnson called her when he was busy as London mayor, Ms Arcuri replied \"absolutely\".\n\nShe said: \"This was why it was so hard for me to date, because every guy would tell you they'd call and never follow up.\n\n\"Not Boris Johnson. Every time he told me he would call, he called me. I was convinced this was a man of his word, because I couldn't believe the fervent, linear focus which he had on me.\n\n\"And I assure you, it was not just a sexual intention.\n\n\"He actually was very intrigued by my energy, my ability to get things done. He loved my events and he saw the way I could work a room, the way I met everybody.\"\n\nShe refused to say whether she dated the prime minister but accused him of \"feeding her to the wolves\" in his handling of the allegations surrounding the pair.\n\nMs Arcuri added: \"He didn't have to ignore me. It could have been a 30-second phone call, just to let me know that he's acknowledging the fact that he, while he gets to be prime minister, gets to feed me to the wolves - and I find that really disturbing.\"\n\nIn an earlier interview with ITV's Good Morning Britain, she refused to say whether she had an affair with Mr Johnson.\n\nThe entrepreneur revealed she also called the prime minister back in August.\n\nMs Arcuri says he answered the phone before it was passed to someone speaking English in a Chinese accent, in an apparent attempt to \"mock\" her.\n\nShe denied that he should have declared their friendship as an \"interest\" when he was London mayor.\n\nMs Arcuri said there was \"no interest\" to declare, adding: \"He didn't do me any favours.\"\n\nWhen pressed again on this, she said: \"If declaring me as an interest would have saved me this entire embarrassment and humiliation... then yes, I wish he had.\"\n\nShe added it would have been the \"transparent and open\" thing to do.\n\nWhen asked if he should have declared their friendship, Mr Johnson previously told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that everything was done \"with full propriety\" and said there was \"no interest to declare\".\n\nHer BBC interview comes after she accused Boris Johnson of casting her aside as if she was a \"gremlin\".\n\nIn an interview broadcast by ITV on Sunday, she said she had kept his \"secrets\" and could not understand why he had \"blocked and ignored\" her requests for help to handle the media interest surrounding the allegations.\n\nAddressing the prime minister, she said: \"I'm terribly heartbroken by the way that you have cast me aside like I am some gremlin.\"\n\nIn response to the programme, the Conservative Party said that any claims of impropriety in office by Mr Johnson were \"untrue and unfounded\".\n\nThe statement added: \"Given that City Hall has made an unfounded complaint to the Independent Office for Police Conduct we will not be making detailed comments until that process is finished.\"\n\nBoris Johnson and Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nMr Johnson's friendship with the entrepreneur first came under scrutiny when the Sunday Times reported in September that Ms Arcuri's business received £126,000 in public money along with privileged access to three foreign trade trips led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor, between 2008 and 2016.\n\nThe Greater London Authority (GLA) - whose job it is to oversee the conduct of the mayor - launched a probe into the alleged conflict of interest following the paper's report.\n\nThat investigation was paused after the authority referred the claims to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe watchdog will now decide whether or not to investigate the prime minister for a potential criminal offence of misconduct in public office - before the GLA decides whether to continue its own probe.\n\nLast month, a government review ruled that a £100,000 government grant given to Ms Arcuri's business was \"appropriate\".", "Maria Carroll said she had not seen the relevant social media posts and would have \"immediately condemned them\"\n\nThe Labour Party has said it will not investigate a Welsh general election candidate's alleged role in a Facebook group with links to anti-Semitic comments.\n\nMaria Carroll was referred to the party by Welsh Labour following reports in the Mail on Sunday.\n\nUK Labour has said Ms Carroll had not been accused of making anti-Semitic comments.\n\nShe said she had not seen the relevant social media posts.\n\nMs Carroll, the Welsh Labour candidate for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, added that she would have \"immediately condemned them\" had she seen the comments.\n\nThe Facebook group, whose contents are only available to group members, was reportedly set-up in order to advise Labour members subject to internal party disciplinary investigation on how to defend themselves.\n\nMs Carroll said: \"I joined that group when left wing members were being suspended from the Labour Party en masse to prevent them from voting in the 2016 Labour leadership election, for incidents as small as retweeting [former Green Party leader] Caroline Lucas.\n\n\"When the group took an anti-Semitic conspiratorial direction I left it.\"\n\nLabour's former Peterborough Council candidate, Alan Bull, was reportedly a member of the closed Facebook group.\n\nHe withdrew as a candidate after acknowledging it was a \"bad mistake\" to share an article on Facebook in 2015 which suggested the Holocaust was a hoax.\n\nMs Carroll said she did not see the \"horrific social media posts\" by Alan Bull as \"these posts were not made in the group\" she was in.\n\nShe added: \"I've been an outspoken critic of anti-Semitism in our party, including calling out anti-Semitic abuse towards [former Labour MP] Luciana Berger and anti-Semitism denialism within our party.\n\n\"I've been blocked by anti-Semitic accounts as a result.\"\n\nWelsh Labour became aware of the accusations against Maria Carroll after being approached by the Mail on Sunday on Friday night.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the party in Wales acted \"immediately\" over the concerns\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Welsh Labour leader and first minister, Mark Drakeford said: \"I am of course concerned of reports on the actions taken by Maria Carroll.\n\n\"Welsh Labour acted immediately and referred these matters to the Governance and Legal Unit of the UK Labour Party for investigation.\n\n\"I have consistently made it clear that anti-Semitism has no place in our party or in Wales,\" he added.\n\nUK Labour has since told BBC Wales it will not be investigating Ms Carroll as she did not make anti-Semitic comments herself.\n\nA source said the party centrally had not received any complaints about Ms Carroll.\n\nBut in a statement on Sunday evening, Fiona Sharpe from Labour Against Antisemitism, attacked the party's stance.\n\n\"We call on senior figures within Welsh Labour, including First Minister Mark Drakeford, to demand that a full investigation be carried out immediately and urge Ms Carroll to step down ahead of the general election,\" she said.\n\nOther candidates standing in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr include Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards, Havard Hughes for the Conservatives and the Brexit Party's Peter Prosser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. British Special Forces have been accused of covering up the killings of four young Afghans in 2012\n\nThe International Criminal Court could open its first investigation into the British military following a BBC programme about alleged war crimes.\n\nPanorama found evidence the state had covered up killings of civilians by UK troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nThe ICC said it took the findings very seriously. The MoD has said the allegations are unsubstantiated.\n\nThe MoD said it had co-operated fully with the ICC and saw no justification for further interventions by the court.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said the allegations against the MoD are \"untrue\".\n\nA formal investigation by the ICC, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, would be the first time it has taken action against any UK nationals for war crimes.\n\nThe ICC's Office of Prosecutor said it would \"independently assess\" the findings of Panorama, which could be \"highly relevant\" to their decision whether to open a landmark investigation into the UK.\n\nThe court has previously concluded there is credible evidence that British troops committed war crimes in Iraq.\n\nMost of those cases involve allegations of the mistreatment of detainees.\n\nThe best known is that of Baha Mousa, a hotel worker in Basra who died after being tortured and beaten by British troops in 2003. It led to a public inquiry and the only conviction of a British soldier for war crimes in Iraq.\n\nHowever, Panorama, working with the Sunday Times, has uncovered new information about alleged killings in British custody.\n\nDetectives from the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT), which investigated alleged war crimes committed by British troops during the occupation of Iraq, say they found evidence of widespread abuse occurring at a British army base in Basra three months before Mousa was killed.\n\nIt happened at Camp Stephen, run by the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland. IHAT investigated the deaths of two men, who died within a week of each other, in May 2003. The MoD accepts both were innocent civilians.\n\nIHAT gathered statements from British soldiers and army staff that described how the two men were tortured before being found dead with bags tied over their heads.\n\nThis summer, British military prosecutors decided no-one would be prosecuted in connection with the two deaths.\n\nWhen he was shown Panorama's evidence, former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord Macdonald said he thought it was \"staggering\" that no soldier had been charged.\n\n\"I think the conclusion begins to become rather obvious, that prior to their deaths, it's overwhelmingly likely that these men were physically abused.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC \"all of the allegations, that had evidence, have been looked at\".\n\nA No 10 spokesman said that the service police had already carried out \"an extensive investigation\" about the conduct of forces in Iraq and Afghanistan - and the independent Service Prosecuting Authority had decided not to prosecute any of the cases.\n\nThe MoD said military operations are conducted in accordance with the law and there had been an extensive investigation of allegations.\n\n\"Investigations and decisions to prosecute are rightly independent from the MoD and have involved external oversight and legal advice,\" a spokesperson told the BBC.\n\n\"After careful consideration of referred cases, the independent Service Prosecuting Authority decided not to prosecute.\"\n\n\"The BBC's claims have been passed to the Service Police and the Service Prosecuting Authority who remain open to considering allegations.\"\n\nPanorama, War Crimes Scandal Exposed is on BBC One at 21:00 GMT on Monday 18 November.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Comic book film Joker passed the $1bn (£772m) mark in global ticket sales this weekend, becoming the first R-rated movie to do so.\n\nA US R rating requires everyone under the age of 17 watching the film in a cinema to be accompanied by an adult.\n\nJoker is currently number seven on this weekend's US box office chart, with Le Mans film Ford v Ferrari topping the chart with takings of $31m (£24m).\n\nThe latest Charlie's Angels movie could only manage to open in third spot.\n\nThe reboot, which stars Kristen Stewart and UK actresses Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska, took $8.6m (£6.6m) between Friday and Sunday.\n\nWorld War Two naval drama Midway was second this weekend, taking $8.8m (£6.8m).\n\nJoker became the most profitable comic book movie of all time earlier this month.\n\nIt has now reached $1bn despite not being released in China, where overseas releases with too much sex or violence can be blocked.\n\nIts nearest R-rated rivals are 2018's Deadpool 2 ($785m) and its 2016 predecessor Deadpool ($783m), both starring Ryan Reynolds.\n\nGitesh Pandya, founder and editor of Box Office Guru, described it as a \"jaw-dropping achievement\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gitesh Pandya This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDirector Todd Phillips made the movie on a budget of $62.5m (£49m), a fraction of the budget of many comic book adaptations.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Parents can help by creating a space for homework to be done\n\nHaving a desk to work at, good grades and high expectations from parents, as well as being happy at school, are key factors in encouraging children to go on to university, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers in Croatia found these influences were more important than class size, school, average grades at the school or the wealth of an area.\n\nAnd they say this suggests schemes to raise aspirations should be targeted at an individual rather than school level.\n\nResearchers from the Institute for Social Research, in Zagreb, asked 1,050 pupils aged 13, 14 and 15 at 23 schools in the city:\n\nThe researchers also gathered data on the pupils' academic grades, as well as on the size of each school and its classes, the average grade for each school and property prices in the local area.\n\nThey found none of the school-level factors had any influence on the pupils' desire to continue to higher education.\n\nBut several factors related to parents and home life did.\n\nGender was also found to play a part, with the girls more likely than the boys to want to progress to university study.\n\nHigh academic grades, however, were the strongest predictor of the pupils' desire to continue to higher education.\n\nEnjoying school was also an important factor.\n\nThe report says: \"The major finding arising from the present study is that none of the school level variables used in our analysis contributes to the explanation of pupils' aspirations for higher education.\n\n\"In other words, pupils who have similar individual characteristics but attend different schools will likely hold similar aspirations for higher education.\n\n\"An important finding arising from the present study is that parents can influence their child's aspirations by expressing their expectations regarding the child's educational path and by providing the basic conditions for completing homework and learning (ie a desk to work on).\n\n\"From an equal-opportunity standpoint, it is encouraging that parental employment and educational status did not predict pupils' aspirations.\"\n\nBut the researchers acknowledge the vast majority of parents in the research sample were employed and lived in Zagreb, which is the country's capital city and a university centre.\n\n\"It should be stressed that it is possible that different predictors would behave differently for pupils living in rural areas and smaller cities without higher education institutions, where lower socioeconomic status represents a greater obstacle for pursuing educational goals,\" they say.\n\nThe paper is published in the journal Educational Studies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dog improving the mental wellbeing of students", "Jeremy Corbyn has told business leaders he \"understands\" their concerns, but refused to apologise for his plans to nationalise some key services.\n\nSpeaking at a conference in London, the Labour leader told the conference it wasn't an \"attack\" on businesses, but essential to making energy supply and public transport better.", "The head of Britain's biggest pawnbroker has said regulation on cash loans risks pushing some people to loan sharks ahead of Christmas.\n\nIt comes after H&T revealed that the City watchdog was reviewing the short term cash loans it offered and could ask it to pay compensation.\n\nBoss John Nichols said the firm would work with regulators but that its cash-strapped customers would be affected.\n\nIt has stopped offering short term cash loans while the review is carried out.\n\nMr Nichols said he hoped these cash loans, which are separate to pawnbroking and typically amounted to about £500, would be available again from January.\n\nHe admitted that the timing was a concern for the business, with pre-Christmas a busy time for giving short-term loans, and had come \"a bit out of the blue\" from the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\n\"The unintended consequence is that people could go to unregulated lenders,\" he said.\n\nRegulation of short-term, high-interest cash loans has had a significant impact on the credit industry in recent years - particularly among big payday lenders, some of which have collapsed. Regulators have introduced stricter rules on ensuring that loans should only be given to those who can afford to repay.\n\nThe company is working with the FCA to review its affordability checks for loans over the last six years, which Mr Nichols suggested had previously been given a clean bill of health.\n\nThey relate to cash loans, sold from H&T stores, which typically required repayment within six to 12 months. Such loans would have relatively high interest, as they were available to people who might struggle to be accepted for a loan from the bank.\n\nOver the past six years the company said total customer interest payments were £24m. The review will consider whether any compensation should be paid.\n\nMany were taken by surprise when A&B abruptly ceased trading in September\n\nIt said: \"Should any redress be payable, H&T anticipates being able to fund this from its existing financial resources.\"\n\nAlthough the company said this area of its business only accounted for 4% of revenues, its shares fell by 25% in early trading before recovering later in the morning.\n\nThe pawnbroking arm of the business, one of the biggest in the UK, is unaffected. This will be a relief to some customers who were shifted over from rival Albemarle & Bond (A&B) when the latter collapsed in early September.\n\nMany were taken by surprise when A&B abruptly ceased trading, blaming \"significant\" financial losses. Some even feared goods such as jewellery and gold would never be returned.\n\nBut H&T agreed to buy £8m worth of loans linked to customers' belongings - known as \"pledge books\" - from Speedloan Finance, which had traded under the name Albemarle & Bond.\n\nThe deal meant customers of A&B could redeem or extend their existing loans at H&T's 248 UK pawn shops.", "Boris Johnson said that planned cuts to corporation tax next April are to be put on hold.\n\nThe prime minister told the CBI conference the move could cost the Treasury £6bn and the cash would be better spent on the \"nation's priority\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nThe Duke of York stands by his decision to take part in an interview about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, sources have told the BBC.\n\nPeople close to Prince Andrew said he wanted to address the issues head-on and did so with \"honesty and humility\".\n\nIt came after the prince's interview with BBC Newsnight on Saturday was described as a \"car crash\".\n\nIn the interview, the prince denied having sex with a then 17-year-old girl - Virginia Giuffre.\n\nFormer Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter described the interview as \"excruciating\".\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the prince was \"very damaged\" by the interview and the opportunity to clear his name had \"failed, badly\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Arbiter says \"questions will be asked\" in the palace about the decision\n\nNewsnight's Emily Maitlis said she understood the Queen herself had given her approval for the interview to go ahead.\n\nWriting in The Times newspaper, she said it seemed the Queen was \"on board\" for the interview, after Prince Andrew had sought approval from \"higher up\".\n\nFor several months the Duke of York had been facing questions over his ties to Epstein - an American financier who, at the age of 66, took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew \"categorically\" denied having any sexual contact with Virginia Giuffre known at the time as Virginia Roberts.\n\nThe first occasion, she said, took place when she was aged 17.\n\nA lawyer for some of Epstein's alleged victims urged the prince to talk under oath to the US authorities.\n\nAsked about the prince's decision to be interviewed by BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis, Mr Arbiter said he thought many questions would be asked in Buckingham Palace.\n\nHe said: \"They will be wondering: Was this the right decision? Was the right decision made? Who made the decision to put him on? Did he make it himself or did he seek advice within the Palace?\n\n\"My guess is that he bulldozed his way in and decided he was going to do it himself without any advice.\n\n\"Any sensible-thinking person in the PR business would have thrown their hands up in horror at the very suggestion that he puts himself up in front of a television camera to explain away his actions and his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.\"\n\nHe added that the interview was \"not so much a car crash but an articulated lorry crash\".\n\nMr Arbiter said he believed the interview would have an impact on the Duke of York's relationships with various charities.\n\nAhead of Saturday's interview, Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson wrote of her support for him on social media.\n\nShe said: \"I am deeply supportive and proud of this giant of a principled man, [who] dares to put his shoulder to the wind and stands firm with his sense of honour and truth.\"\n\nBut other royal experts also questioned the prince's decision to speak so publicly about his relationship with Epstein.\n\nRoyal biographer Angela Levin said she was gripped by the interview but felt it was \"ill-judged\" to offer insights into his life with Epstein.\n\n\"Unfortunately it was a sign of his arrogance,\" she said. \"He has always been arrogant.\n\n\"The Queen's motto is don't complain don't explain. I think in her heart she will be extremely embarrassed.\n\n\"I know for a fact Prince Andrew does not listen to his advisers.\n\n\"A very senior member of the press team left suddenly two weeks ago and the implication is he would not have approved of what Prince Andrew did.\"\n\nPrince Andrew said this meeting with Epstein in 2010 was to end their relationship\n\nAnother royal biographer, Catharine Mayer, spent time with Prince Andrew in 2004 in China on a trade mission and said the interview was \"terrible because it erased the victims of Epstein\".\n\n\"It was as bad as I expected,\" she said. \"Probably worse.\n\n\"He did not mention those women once.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dickie Arbiter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond said the interview reminded her of one Princess Diana gave to Panorama in 1995 where she \"spilled her soul\".\n\nMrs Bond added that Princes Andrew's lack of remorse in his interview was a \"glaring hole\".\n\nGloria Allred, who is representing some of the young women who say they were victims of Epstein, said \"there is so much truth that is yet to be revealed\".\n\nShe added: \"I would say to Prince Andrew: the charges made by [Virginia Giuffre] against you are very, very serious charges.\n\n\"I think the right and honourable thing to do would be for you to say unequivocally 'I will voluntarily speak to the FBI, I know it is the right thing to do, I have nothing to hide'.\"\n\nIn the lengthy interview, which UK viewers can watch in full on BBC iPlayer or on YouTube elsewhere in the world, the duke said that:\n\nThe duke was pictured with his accuser in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home in 2001\n\n\"Car crash\" and \"disaster\" are some of the kinder words that spring to mind about Prince Andrew's misbegotten foray into the long-form interview.\n\nThe reaction of the press and commentators is withering. Social media is burning with mockery, ridicule and a fair amount of anger.\n\nTo a fair number of people doubtful about the worth of the monarchy, Prince Andrew has emerged as an avatar of all that is wrong with the institution.\n\nThere is a reason the Royals don't do 'no-holds-barred' interviews. Unsurprisingly, given that they live in Palaces and have servants, they are somewhat out of touch.\n\nWhich is why Prince Andrew spoke of \"a straightforward shooting weekend\" and appeared to smirk at the idea of going for a pizza in Woking.\n\nNeglecting to even mention the victims of his friend Jeffrey Epstein compounded the impression of a man who entirely fails to grasp the spirit of the times.\n\nDefending his friendship with a convicted child sex offender on the grounds that he had met lots of interesting people because of him suggested a degree of self-absorption that would not survive exposure to the outside world.\n\nWho in his staff thought this interview would be a good idea and what does Prince Andrew do next?\n\nHe is very damaged. The interview was an opportunity to clear his name and rescue his reputation. It has failed, badly.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson says her party would scrap business rates if elected, in order to support small businesses.\n\nBusiness rates are a tax based on rental values of the property that businesses occupy. Business lobby groups often complain that rates have gone up faster than inflation since the current regime was introduced in 1990.\n\nSpeaking to business leaders in London, Ms Swinson said her government would provide \"clear action\" to breathe new life into high streets.", "The prime minister has had plenty to chew on this week\n\nLabour's latest \"retail offer\" of free broadband for all showed - if it still needed showing - voters are being handed a choice of rival ideologies as stark as any we've seen since Margaret Thatcher took on Labour's Michael Foot in 1983.\n\nYounger voters may imagine this is what normal politics looks like. It isn't. Or at least, it wasn't.\n\nAll the parties are desperate to grab the attention of an electorate which has never trusted its politicians less, or been less tightly bound by old party loyalties.\n\nSo far, the 2019 general election has been unlike any in living memory.\n\nTrust between people and politicians - as measured, for example, by the YouGov \"Trust Index\" - has never been lower in modern times.\n\nParty loyalties have never been looser.\n\nMonday's quarterly GDP figures set the economic tone. Annual economic growth at 1% was nothing to celebrate, even if the UK hadn't actually tipped into recession.\n\nAnd yet the spending arms race picked up speed; the Tory promise of £34bn extra cash for the NHS overtaken this week by Labour's £40bn.\n\nSo, the rivals are now racing desperately in the face of economic and political headwinds, compounded by the almost bottomless uncertainties of Brexit.\n\nThe Conservative slogan \"get Brexit done\", for example, glosses over the fact that, even if Boris Johnson wins a majority on 12 December and manages to pass his EU divorce deal intact, it would be just the start of tougher trade negotiations than any we've seen so far.\n\nThe prime minister's assessment on BBC Breakfast that there's \"bags of time\" to achieve a comprehensive EU trade deal may be true, though plenty of experts don't believe a word of it.\n\nIf those experts are right, we would again be looking at the possibility of a no-deal Brexit at the end of next year.\n\nImmigration also dominated the argument this week.\n\nPro-EU parties like the Lib Dems and the SNP unapologetically, defiantly, banged their drums for freedom of movement.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour, both so wary of offending voters in Leave-supporting constituencies, spent much more time condemning each other's migration policies than explaining the consequences of their own.\n\nThe Labour leader has been put on the spot over immigration and Scottish independence\n\nWould the Tory promise of a points-based immigration policy mean lower levels of immigration?\n\nPriti Patel said yes, eventually and rather quietly. There were no numbers attached.\n\nMr Corbyn would only say Labour's plan would be \"fair\". He meant cutting numbers was not the point, even if a lot of potential Labour voters think it is.\n\nUnder his leadership, Labour is more interested in enforcing fair wages, stopping home-grown workers being undercut by migrants and giving trade unions more power to help set pay rates in companies across the UK.\n\nWhere is the election heading, just over a week into the official contest?\n\nYou only a need a memory stretching back as far as Theresa May's 2017 campaign to realise making hard and fast predictions is a game for mugs.\n\nThe Brexit Party's decision to pull candidates out of 317 Tory-held constituencies this week was a help to the Tories, but not enough to hand a sure victory to the Conservatives.\n\nThe Lib Dems are fighting to win, while ruling out any kind of deals if they do not\n\nNow, leading Brexit Party players are claiming they've been quietly offered peerages, jobs and, in the case of Ann Widdecombe, a role in future trade talks if only they'd back off.\n\nThe Conservatives deny it. She says she's a practising Catholic and she'd swear on a bible it's true. Call her a liar if you wish. I'll hold your coat.\n\nThe Lib Dems have been campaigning on familiar themes, including climate change. They're hoping, of course, to hold the balance of power in the new Parliament, and use it to frustrate Boris Johnson, or force out Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIt's not inconceivable that their leader Jo Swinson could become a political \"kingmaker\".\n\nLocal council by-election results this week suggest the Lib Dems may, just may, outperform their poll ratings. It wouldn't be the first time.\n\nThere's still nearly a month of this to come. Already, Jeremy Corbyn has carried out 20 campaign visits, often targeting marginal Tory seats.\n\nThat's one third more than Boris Johnson and more than double the Lib Dem leader.\n\nThose numbers will surely even out. All of them have been to areas hit by the floods this week. The prime minister's response was strongly criticised by his opponents. Then he promised grant money for councils and businesses.\n\nMr Johnson also committed some 100 troops to help out, useful no doubt; maybe even more useful than the similar number of party leaders and members of their campaign entourages who've converged on the stricken areas of the Midlands and South Yorkshire in recent days.", "Ford has unveiled its all-electric Mustang Mach-E at a glitzy event in Los Angeles that included an appearance by actor Idris Elba.\n\nThe top-range version of the car can travel up to 370 miles on a full charge and recharge 57 miles (92km) of range in 10 minutes on a high-power charge.\n\nThere are buttons in place of conventional door handles and storage space under the front bonnet.\n\nThe fastest model can accelerate from 0-60mph in under five seconds.\n\nIn comparison, the Tesla Model X 100D can do 0-60mph in 4.4 seconds.\n\nLike the Tesla, the Mustang Mach-E has a 15.5in (40cm) touch screen beside the steering wheel.\n\nPrices range from £44,000 to £58,000 ($44,000 to $60,000 in the US).\n\nAmanda Stretton, motoring editor at the price comparison website confused.com said \"a lot of hopes\" were riding on the vehicle.\n\n\"The interesting thing is that they've decided to use the Mustang name with this car, because of course it's the name synonymous with American muscle cars, with big V8s... and yet they are taking the performance aspect of that name and putting it into this electric car,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"I really hope this is a game-changer.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Ford announced plans to close six manufacturing plants in Europe by the end of 2020.\n\nStuart Rowley, president of Ford of Europe, said at the time the company's future was \"rooted in electrification\".\n\nAnalyst Natalie Sauber, from Arcadis, said infrastructure was still a deterrent for consumers considering buying an electric vehicle.\n\nFord says owners will be able to recharge the car for a 57 mile (92km) journey in 10 minutes\n\n\"Norway is the country with the highest uptake of electric vehicles, followed by other Scandinavian countries,\" she told the BBC's WorkLife programme.\n\n\"The UK is coming in at the lower end, similar to Germany and the US.\"\n\nAccording to analyst Jato, 91% of global car sales in 2019 have been vehicles with an internal combustion engine.\n\nWould Mustang Sally have driven an electric vehicle?\n\nIf there's one brand which symbolises the American \"pony car\", it's the Mustang. The term was invented for it.\n\nThe original was affordable, sporty and - with a hefty engine under the bonnet - decidedly rorty.\n\nThe electric Mustang Mach-E certainly won't be loud, but maybe it can make a pretty vocal statement nonetheless.\n\nThe Mustang Mach-E has a large touchscreen display to adjust its various settings\n\nFord is far from being a leader in the race to produce electric cars, but it's putting its foot down in an effort to catch up.\n\nIt has even done a deal with Volkswagen to use some of the German giant's heavily funded know-how on future models.\n\nThe new Mach-E will be leading Ford's electric charge.\n\nWith a range of at least 260 miles, and plenty of power, the new car will be going up against models from Tesla, Jaguar, Audi and Mercedes.\n\nThe car can be plugged into a normal domestic socket or connected to a special Wallbox for faster charging\n\nSally may have driven a full-fat petrol V8, but Ford is hoping her eco-conscious granddaughter can be won over by silent elegance - coupled with a decent turn of speed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hellynne and Barry Lee used a hosepipe to soak their neighbour\n\nA couple have admitted common assault on their neighbour by turning a hosepipe on him in a long-running dispute.\n\nBarry and Hellynne Lee, both aged 72, sprayed Harold Burrows with water as he was clearing up debris that washed into his garden from their pathway in June.\n\nMagistrates at Llandudno, Conwy county, were shown footage of the incident which Mr Burrows had caught on camera.\n\nThe couple were given a 12-month conditional discharge.\n\nThey were also each ordered to pay £170 costs.\n\nBarry and Hellynne Lee arriving at court on Friday\n\nProsecutor Julia Galston said it was a \"nasty assault\" and that there had been a \"number of difficulties with the Lees\" over the years.\n\nRobert Vickery, mitigating, said the neighbours used to be friends but there had been a dispute about land and the Lees now planned to move.\n\n\"On this day Mr and Mrs Lee were doing what they have done for many years, hosing down their driveway and pathway,\" he said.\n\n\"But because of the lie of the land, water has the habit of going downhill and water containing some of the crud has gone under the fence panel.\"\n\nMr Vickery said Mr Burrows, a retired ambulance service regional staff officer, came out to brush up the debris, while carrying his camera.\n\nHe was then sprayed with water, first by Mrs Lee and then by her husband.\n\n\"This is certainly, in my nearly 40 years' experience, the first time I have ever dealt with an assault by water from a hosepipe,\" said Mr Vickery.\n\nThe couple, from Cae Fron, Denbigh, were both given a two-year restraining order banning communication with their neighbours, except through a third party, during Friday's hearing.\n\nCourt chairman Robert Bradley said they had not been ordered to compensation \"because we feel it would antagonise the situation\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The wildlife in the Flow Country burnt for six days in May\n\nA massive wildfire on peatland in the far north in May doubled Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions for the six days it burnt, a study has estimated.\n\nAbout 22 sq miles (5,700 hectares) of blanket bog in the Flow Country, which stretches across Caithness and Sutherland, was affected.\n\nThe WWF Scotland study claimed 700,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent was released into the atmosphere as a result.\n\nThat is similar to the amount released across the rest of Scotland.\n\nGreenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, contribute to climate warming and are released by many activities such as energy supply, industrial processes, transport, heating and agriculture.\n\nThe fire caused damage of thousands of acres\n\nA satellite image of the Caithness fire on 16 May\n\nPeat bogs are an important natural store for carbon.\n\nThe Flow Country, home to the largest continuous peatbog in Europe, is estimated to hold almost 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e).\n\nThe study, commissioned by environmental campaign group WWF, called for more government investment to protect and improve peat bogs.\n\nHead of policy Gina Hanrahan said: \"This analysis puts into stark figures the importance of our peatlands and the huge cost to climate and nature when something goes wrong.\"\n\nThe Flow Country peatbog is formed from layers of dead vegetation such a sphagnum moss\n\nThe Flow Country peatbog is formed from layers of dead vegetation such a sphagnum moss. Because of the waterlogged conditions, the plants do not decompose which traps carbon in the peat soil.\n\nExperts say the quality of peatlands can play a significant role in minimising emissions in the event of a wildfire.\n\nEmma Goodyer, from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), said: \"Healthy peatlands are more resilient to fire. A great deal of peatland restoration work is being undertaken across the UK already with at least 150 projects carried out in Scotland.\n\n\"However, we need to increase the scale of funding available for peatland restoration if we are to urgently respond to the climate crisis and to increase the resilience of our peatlands.\"\n\nRSPB staff helping to tackle flare-ups of the wildfire\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said restoring peatland had an important part to play in delivering climate change ambitions.\n\nHe said the government was committed to delivering the peatland restoration targets set out in the Climate Change Plan.\n\n\"We are currently updating our Climate Change Plan which will set out detailed actions to deliver on our climate change ambitions,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe fire stretched from the outskirts of Melvich on the north coast to the village of Forsinard, about 15 miles further south.\n\nA long-term project is being carried out in the Flow Country to estimate the ecological impact of the fire.\n\nMeasurements gathered before the fire give researchers a unique data set for understanding the way vegetation and water quality has changed.", "A woman who was not informed that her father had a fatal, inherited brain disorder has told the High Court that she would have had an abortion if she'd known at the time of her pregnancy.\n\nShe is suing three NHS trusts saying they owed a duty of care to tell her about her dad's Huntington's disease.\n\nAny child of someone with the condition has a 50% chance of inheriting it.\n\nDoctors suspected the diagnosis after her father killed her mother and was detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nThe father tested positive for Huntington's Disease, which is caused by a faulty gene and leads to the progressive loss of brain cells, affecting movement, mood and thinking skills. It can also cause aggressive behaviour.\n\nHe told doctors he did not want his daughter told about his diagnosis, fearing she might kill herself or have an abortion if she found out.\n\nThe claimant is known as ABC in order to protect the identity of her own daughter, who is now nine.\n\nABC only found out about that her father had Huntington's Disease, a progressive, incurable condition, four months after giving birth.\n\nThe case is being heard in the Royal Courts of Justice in central London\n\nAt the High Court she said she'd been told about her father's condition by accident.\n\n\"I was utterly traumatised by the way I was told\", she said. \"I had no family support and was left to Google the condition.\"\n\nABC eventually had a test and found that she also carries the faulty gene. Her daughter, who's not been tested, has a 50:50 chance of inheriting it from her.\n\nThe symptoms of Huntington's Disease usually appear between the ages of 30 and 50.\n\nABC, who's now in her 40s, told the court: \"I'm now the prime age to get unwell. The future is absolutely terrifying.\"\n\nShe told the High Court that had she known during her pregnancy that she has the gene for Huntington's she would definitely have had an abortion.\n\nShe is suing St George's and two other NHS Trusts involved in the family's care, for £345,000 in damages.\n\nIn written submissions Philip Havers QC on behalf of the trusts, said the question for the court was whether there was \"a duty to disclose to her confidential information about her father against his express wishes\" which he said was \"plainly not the case\".\n\nThe court heard that after ABC had found out about her father's disorder, her sister also became pregnant.\n\nPhilip Havers QC for the trusts said ABC had asked doctors not to tell her sister that their father had tested positive for Huntington's.\n\nMr Havers said it was \"a bit rich\" for ABC to be bringing this claim for damages.\n\nHe said she could have told her sister in time for her to have a termination, but that was what she was complaining about for herself.\n\nABC said at the time, she'd been \"utterly terrified\" about the impact on her sister adding that the situation should have been managed by health professionals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two other sisters talk of dilemma over Huntington's disease test\n\nThis case was first argued at the High Court in 2015 when a judge ruled that a full hearing should not go ahead.\n\nThe judgement said there was \"no reasonably arguable duty of care\" owed to ABC.\n\nBut in 2017, the Court of Appeal reversed that decision and said the case should go to trial.\n\nShe is now suing St George's Healthcare NHS Trust in south-west London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for damages.\n\nIf ABC wins the case, it would trigger a major shift in the rules governing patient confidentiality, and raise questions over the potential duty of care owed to family members following genetic testing.\n\nA spokesperson for St George's Healthcare NHS Trust said: \"This case raises complex and sensitive issues in respect of the competing interests between the duty of care and the duty of confidentiality.\n\n\"It will be for the court to adjudicate on those issues during the trial.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It took the two judges just a matter of 10-to-15 minutes to reach a decision about the claim from the Lib Dems and the SNP that they should be allowed access to ITV's head-to-head debate between Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson.\n\nThe judges came back and said they would not agree to that – effectively they refused to even hear the judicial review.\n\nThey said ITV was not exercising a public function - it’s a private broadcaster, albeit regulated – and therefore could not be subject to a judicial review.\n\nBut they also said that if the two parties had a complaint about the programme, they had a way of complaining to Ofcom, the regulator.\n\nNow that can only be done after the programme is broadcast – but the judges said that was a way the two parties could raise their objections.\n\nThey also said that the editorial judgement made by ITV was not irrational and perverse and that they did not want, as judges, to get in the way of an editorial matter for a major broadcaster.\n\nSo the debate goes ahead tomorrow.\n\nThe full reasoning behind the judges' decision have yet to be given to the court - that will probably come tomorrow.\n\nThe Lib Dems, for one, are going to take a closer look before deciding what to do next.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson laid out his plans as he addressed the CBI conference\n\nPlanned cuts to corporation tax next April are to be put on hold, Boris Johnson has said, with the money being spent on the NHS and other services.\n\nThe rate paid by firms on their profits was due to fall from 19% to 17%.\n\nBut the PM told business leaders it may cost the Treasury £6bn and this was better spent on \"national priorities\", including the health service.\n\nLabour said business \"handouts\" had done real damage and the Tories would \"revert to type\" after the election.\n\nThe announcement does not mean any new money for the NHS, on top of the £20bn extra a year the Conservatives are promising to give it up to 2023. The BBC understands the cash will be used, in part, to fund existing pledges on GP training.\n\nWith just over three weeks to go before the 12 December election, the leaders of the three largest parties in England have been parading their business credentials at the CBI conference.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said business had \"so much to gain\" from a Labour victory in terms of investment while Jo Swinson said the Liberal Democrats were the \"natural party of business\" because they wanted to cancel Brexit.\n\nAddressing the audience of top executives and entrepreneurs, Mr Johnson said they had \"created the wealth that actually pays for the NHS\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStressing his party's \"emphatic belief in fiscal prudence\", he said he had decided against going ahead with a further cut in corporation tax, a step first proposed by Chancellor George Osborne in 2016 to boost business in the wake of the Brexit referendum.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK already had the lowest rate of corporation tax of \"any major economy\" and further cuts would be \"postponed\".\n\n\"Before you storm the stage, let me remind you that this saves £6bn that we can put into the priorities of the British people including the NHS,\" he told the audience.\n\nCorporation tax is an important revenue-raiser, making up approximately 9% of the UK government's total tax take. The amount raised by the tax has risen by two-thirds in the past decade, as the rate has fallen from 28% to 19% and economic conditions have improved.\n\nBut many economists said the latest cut would be potentially counter-productive in terms of tax yields, with a study based on HMRC data last year suggesting it could mean £6bn a year in lost government revenues.\n\nIn response, CBI director Carolyn Fairbairn said the move could \"work for the country if it is backed by further efforts to the costs of doing business and promote growth\".\n\nBlink and you might have missed it, but the PM has just announced the single biggest tax-raising measure of the campaign so far.\n\nThe overnight headlines about Boris Johnson's CBI speech were about a £1bn cut to business taxes. It pays to read the small print.\n\nAll together, this leaves an extra £5bn a year for the Conservative manifesto to deploy in extra spending or, as seems likely, some crowd-pleasing pre-election personal tax cuts.\n\nI'm told the corporation tax move was Chancellor Sajid Javid's idea, and was discussed during plans for his aborted Budget earlier this month. The PM also confirmed Mr Javid would remain in post if he wins the election next month.\n\nCancelling the cut still leaves the UK with the lowest corporation tax rate in the G20, although not as low as Switzerland or Singapore.\n\nGiven the government's argument has long been that cuts to corporation tax raise revenue, it is interesting to see the PM now say that cancelling cuts will also raise revenue.\n\nIt is meant to show clear blue water between the Conservatives and Labour on fiscal credibility. In the event, there was barely a squeak out of the CBI audience about a significant multi-billion pound tax change.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell said Monday's freeze marked a \"temporary pause in the Tories' race to the bottom\" on business taxes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John McDonnell MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's plan has been to raise corporation tax to 26% - the 2011 level - which it says will generate billions to be spent on its priorities, including health and education.\n\nTurning to Brexit, the Conservative leader told the conference that while big business did not want the UK to leave the EU, his withdrawal deal would provide the certainty \"that you want now and have wanted for some time\".\n\nIf elected with a Commons majority, Mr Johnson is hoping to get the agreement on the terms of the UK's exit into law by 31 January, and begin talks with Brussels on a permanent trading relationship.\n\nHe also announced a review of business rates in England, with the aim of reducing the overall burden of the tax, as well as a cut in National Insurance contributions for employers, which already benefit from a reduction known as the employment allowance.\n\nIn his address, Mr Corbyn said business had nothing to fear from a Labour government, arguing that while the richest would pay more, there would also be \"more investment than you have ever dreamt of\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I understand your concern over some of our plans\"\n\nHe said he would \"make no apologies\" for the party's plan to take rail, mail, water and broadband delivery into public ownership, saying it was \"not an attack\" on the free market and would bring the UK in line with the continent.\n\n\"It is sometimes claimed I am anti-business,\" he said. \"This is nonsense. It is not nonsense to be against poverty pay. It is not nonsense to say the largest corporations should pay their taxes, just as small companies do.\n\n\"It is not anti-business to want prosperity in every part of the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Labour leader also set out plans to train about 320,000 apprentices in jobs such as construction, manufacturing and design within the renewable energy, transport and forestry sectors.\n\nMs Fairbairn said the business community shared Labour's desire to increased investment but warned the opposition's \"massive instincts towards state intervention and ownership\" put that at risk.\n\nIn her first address to the CBI as leader of her party, Ms Swinson said no-one claiming to want to \"get Brexit sorted\" was on the side of business, due to the negative impact she said it would have on investment and access to labour.\n\n\"With Boris Johnson in the pocket of Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn stuck in the 1970s, we are the only one standing up for you,\" she said.\n\nShe said her party would go further than the others and replace \"crippling\" business rates with a levy paid by commercial landlords based on land value, which she suggested would help \"rescue the High Street\".\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who is not attending the CBI event, said politicians' focus should be on helping small business and promoting what he claimed were the advantages of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The driver was charged with dangerous driving\n\nPolice have criticised a BMW driver for failing to clear their windscreen, after they crashed into a pole in West Lothian.\n\nOfficers were alerted to the two-car collision on Clarkson Road, Broxburn at about 09:15 on Monday.\n\nA spokesperson for the force tweeted the crash was \"likely avoidable\" had the driver cleared the frost.\n\nA 57-year-old man was charged with a number of offences including dangerous driving.\n\nHe will be reported to the procurator fiscal.\n\nPolice confirmed there were no serious injuries.", "A driver who caused the \"needless\" death of a woman in an 80mph crash has been jailed for eight years.\n\nNeil Brooks, 49, of Beaufort, Ebbw Vale, in Blaenau Gwent, raced his friend Jay Bayliss through residential streets in Brynmawr in July 2017.\n\nMr Bayliss' girlfriend Sophie Brimble, 20, was a front seat passenger when he lost control to smash into a lamppost.\n\nBrooks had earlier been found guilty at Cardiff Crown Court of causing her death by dangerous driving.\n\nHe was also found guilty of causing serious injury to Mr Bayliss by dangerous driving.\n\nMr Bayliss was so severely injured he was not fit to be charged over Miss Brimble's death.\n\nSophie Brimble was killed in the crash in July 2017\n\nBrooks, driving a VW Bora, instigated the \"impromptu\" race late at night when he recognised Mr Bayliss' VW Polo.\n\nProsecutor Matthew Cobbe said: \"It was one driver egging the other on. It was this race that led to the catastrophic collision which led to the death of Miss Brimble.\"\n\nMr Cobbe said the pair were driving \"aggressively\" at more than double the 30mph speed limit in the minutes before the fatal crash.\n\nHe said: \"They pushed their vehicles hard through this residential area, both of them reaching speeds in excess of 80mph, their focus now on their race.\n\n\"Mr Bayliss lost control, his car began to rotate and it slid towards a metal lamp-post. The result was a catastrophe.\"\n\nMs Brimble, of Crickhowell, Powys, died at the scene on King Street, Brynmawr.\n\nHer mother, Ruth Jenkins, said in a victim impact statement, the family's life had \"changed forever\" on that day.\n\n\"Having the police officer tell us that Sophie had died left us in complete shock and for days, everything was a daze,\" she said.\n\n\"I was so angry with Bayliss for driving like an idiot. How could be so stupid and selfish.\n\n\"This should never have happened. It was all down to two drivers' stupidity and carelessness with no thoughts of consequences.\"\n\nSentencing Brooks, Judge Michael Fitton said: \"The loss of Sophie's life at the age of 20 was a needless tragedy that could so easily have been avoided.\n\n\"The hurt that has been caused is incalculable.\"\n\nBrooks was also disqualified from driving for a total of nine years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kylie Jenner will sell the majority of her cosmetics company for $600 million (£463 million).\n\nThe 22-year-old's brand, including Kylie Cosmetics and Kylie Skin, will be controlled by beauty giant Coty.\n\nKylie says she is building the brand into an \"international beauty powerhouse\".\n\nForbes reported that she made $360 million in sales in 2018, making her the youngest self-made billionaire ever.\n\nThe chairman of Coty's board called Kylie a \"modern-day icon, with an incredible sense of the beauty consumer\".\n\nHer online influence is so powerful that she reduced Snapchat's stock market value by $1.3bn (£1bn) when she tweeted that she does not use the app anymore.\n\nKylie Cosmetics products are available in 1,163 Ulta Beauty stores throughout the US\n\nThe reality TV star launched her brand in 2015 with a line of lipsticks, and has since then branched out into face make-up and skincare.\n\nAlthough she's the youngest, Kylie is the highest earner in the Kardashian family.\n\nShe faced backlash after being named a \"self-made\" billionaire, but defended herself saying that none of her money has come from inheritance.\n\nShe has more than 151 million followers on her personal Instagram account, as well as 22 million on her Kylie cosmetics account.\n\nCoty, which owns brands like Max Factor and Hugo Boss, will have a 51% stake in the company.\n\nIt said the deal will be completed in 2020.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How students Leah Mckee-Hearne and Courtney Peaker spotted the Bolton fire and raised the alarm\n\nStudents who were forced to flee a block of flats hit by a major blaze in Bolton are to be re-housed.\n\nAn investigation is under way after the fire ripped through The Cube on Friday, leaving dozens of students with \"no personal possessions\".\n\nMore than £10,000 has been raised for the University of Bolton students through a crowdfunding appeal.\n\nTwo people were injured in the fire, amid confusion among residents because fire alarms go off \"almost every day\".\n\nThe blaze at The Cube in Bolton broke out on Friday and took more than nine hours to bring under control\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the cladding on the outside of the building, although it is different to the material used at Grenfell Tower, where a blaze killed 72 people in London, in 2017.\n\nThe Cube, which is managed by private firm Valeo Urban Student Life, accommodates about 220 people.\n\nKyra Rivett, who lived in the six-storey building, told BBC Breakfast: \"Most of us have [lost belongings], especially those who lived on the top and fifth floor - all their belongings have gone.\"\n\nProf George Holmes, vice-chancellor of the university, said affected students could access £500 for emergency provisions.\n\n\"We've made sure all students have accommodation for next week,\" he said.\n\nMany international students were left without their passports after the blaze, but Prof Holmes said the government had \"assured me they will fast-track those student passport and visa requirements\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A number of students have been left with \"no personal possessions\"\n\nMs Rivett had just returned from work when she heard the alarms going off.\n\n\"[But] because it goes off so often, I just thought it's another false alarm, it's not a problem,\" she said.\n\nBeverley Hughes, deputy mayor of Greater Manchester, said the fire \"spread very, very rapidly indeed and it needed very aggressive firefighting tactics to bring it under control\".\n\nFriday's blaze was tackled by up to 200 firefighters after it broke out at 20:30 GMT.\n\n\"The immediate evacuation clearly made an incredible difference... students ambassadors were going about banging on doors, getting everybody out,\" David Greenhalgh, leader of Bolton Council, said.\n\n\"We have been assured that all alarms were working so that building was evacuated in the time that was needed.\"\n\nAbout 220 students lived at The Cube in Bolton\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said the fire service had learnt from the Grenfell fire and had also sent a team \"to focus on the evacuation rather than fighting the fire\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: \"It is not yet known when the students will be able to get back into their homes but work is ongoing to assess the safety of the building and access will be reviewed on Monday.\"\n\nThe service said residents at four nearby properties would also be unable to return to their homes due to safety concerns.\n\nThe GMFRS spokeswoman confirmed that The Cube was inspected along with other high-rise buildings in 2017 following the Grenfell tragedy.\n\nShe said a letter was sent to the building's management \"requiring the fire risk assessment to be updated to consider the risk of internal and external fire spread\".\n\n\"As part of this assessment, the building was operating an evacuation strategy,\" a spokesman said.\n\nValeo USL said it was \"not responsible for the construction of or subsequent amendments to the construction of the Cube buildings\", adding that the site's landlord was the firm Idealsite Ltd.\n\nThe latter company, which is registered in Lincolnshire and has a board of directors based in the Republic of Ireland, is yet to comment.\n\nThe high-pressure laminate cladding used at The Cube is not the same as the now-banned aluminium composite material (ACM) at Grenfell, Salford mayor Paul Dennett said.\n\n\"We have a bit of a cladding lottery,\" he added.\n\n\"The government has made resources available for ACM but this is high-pressure laminate, so we will be asking government for more funds to really deal with what is an industrial crisis.\n\n\"We need to do a full investigation of this building because it's not just about the cladding, it's about the actual structure of the cladding system and we need to investigate whether compartmentation has been breached and a whole host of different issues\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sai Aletaha was described as \"a lovely character with a beautiful soul\"\n\nAn amateur kickboxer has died after suffering a brain injury during a match.\n\nSaeideh Aletaha, 26, was critically injured at a Fast and Furious Fight Series event in Central Hall in Southampton on Saturday night.\n\nShe was taken to Southampton General Hospital shortly before 21:00 GMT, but died later, police said.\n\nHampshire Police said it had launched an investigation into exactly what happened.\n\nFFS posted a statement on Facebook confirming Ms Aletaha had not recovered from her injury, and urged any family and friends needing support to get in touch.\n\nIt said: \"All competitors get in prepared that they may be injured, and this is something not expected to happen 99.9% of the time.\n\n\"But, it can, and in this we make the environment as safe as possible with pre and post medicals from a doctor, and full medical cover throughout.\"\n\nIt said it had a doctor, paramedic and an ambulance on site alongside its own team at the event organised by Lookborai and Exile Gym.\n\n\"Safety is not something ever skimped on in any of our 19 shows and all matches are made equal,\" it added.\n\nFellow martial artists and friends have paid tribute to Ms Aletaha, known as Sai.\n\nOne posted on Exile Gym's Facebook page: \"Saeideh Aletaha was a lovely character with a beautiful soul.\n\n\"Her dedication to the sport was 110% travelling miles every day just to train.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A number of protesters have been arrested while trying to run from a Hong Kong university campus surrounded by police.\n\nGroups of demonstrators have made several attempts to flee following a violent and fiery overnight stand-off at Polytechnic University.\n\nThe BBC's Robin Brant was at the university and described the scene as one group made its move.", "Groups of protesters have been trying to leave the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong (PolyU), but have been met with tear gas and rubber bullets fired by police surrounding the campus.\n\nSome protesters fought back with petrol bombs and bricks before retreating.\n\nUniversity officials had said earlier on Monday that police would not use force and let protesters leave peacefully, if protesters themselves did not use force.\n\nPolice later said they fired tear gas as they were faced with \"rioters suddenly charging at them\".\n\nRead more: HK protesters use rope ladders to flee siege", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Conservative Party donor has called for the publication of a report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy.\n\nAlexander Temerko said the paper by the Intelligence Security Committee (ISC) should be published \"for democracy reasons\".\n\nThe report has formal security clearance, but it will not be released until after the 12 December election.\n\nDowning Street has denied claims it is suppressing the document.\n\nFormer Russian official Mr Temerko has donated more than £1m to the Tory Party and its candidates in recent years.\n\n\"I think for democracy reasons, this report should be released, because if there is real Russian influence, people and country should know about that,\" he told BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera.\n\nThe Sunday Times said nine Russian business people who had donated money to the Conservatives were named in the report.\n\nMr Temerko, a Ukrainian-born businessman who became a British citizen in 2011, said it was \"ridiculous\" to suggest he had worked with Russia.\n\nHe added he had \"never\" been considered a \"friend\" of the Kremlin or of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"I'm against [the] Kremlin,\" he said.\n\nAlexander Temerko is adamant he is not an agent of the Kremlin but a critic.\n\nAnd he wants people to know it.\n\nThe failure to release the Intelligence and Security Committee Russia report has led the vacuum to be filled with speculation about what might be in it and for questions to be raised about how Russia might be trying to exercise influence on public life.\n\nMr Temerko argues his own story - of fleeing Russia a decade and a half ago - shows he cannot be working on the Kremlin's behalf.\n\nBut without seeing the details of the report, questions will remain about what it really says in terms of what other routes Moscow might have used.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nKPMG has not renewed its sponsorship of the Duke of York's entrepreneurship initiative, Pitch@Palace.\n\nThe accountancy firm is thought to have made the decision at the end of October.\n\nThe controversy over the prince's ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is understood to have been one reason behind the decision.\n\nThe revelation follows Prince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight in what critics called a \"car-crash\" interview.\n\nIn the interview, the Queen's third child said he still did not regret his friendship with US financier Epstein - who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in the US.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Buckingham Palace for comment regarding KPMG's decision.\n\nThe accountancy and auditing firm - which is not the only company associated with Pitch@Palace - declined to comment.\n\nThe scheme was founded by the prince in 2014 and involves entrepreneurs competing for the chance to pitch their business ideas to influential business figures.\n\nThe project operates in 64 countries and claims to have created more than 6,300 jobs.\n\nMeanwhile, University of Huddersfield students passed a motion on Monday evening to lobby the prince to resign as the university's chancellor.\n\nThe university itself said Prince Andrew's \"enthusiasm for innovation and entrepreneurship\" was a \"natural fit\" with its work.\n\nThe Outward Bound Trust, of which the prince is patron, said it would hold a special board meeting over the next few days for members to discuss \"the issues raised\" by the interview.\n\nAmid the backlash from the BBC's interview on Saturday, Prince Andrew is facing renewed calls to tell US authorities about his friendship with Epstein.\n\nThe prince said he would testify under oath \"if push came to shove\" and his lawyers advised him to.\n\nLawyer Gloria Allred - who has called on the Duke of York to make a statement - said an anonymous client had filed a civil lawsuit against Epstein's estate.\n\nThe alleged victim said: \"I would also like to say I agree with Gloria that Prince Andrew, and any others that are close to Epstein, should come forward and give a statement under oath on what information they have.\"\n\nPrince Andrew defended meeting Epstein after the financier was registered as a sex offender\n\nIn his BBC interview, Prince Andrew also \"categorically\" denied having any sexual contact with an American woman, who says she was forced to have sex with him aged 17.\n\nVirginia Giuffre - one of Epstein's accusers, previously known as Virginia Roberts - claimed she was forced to have sex with the prince three times.\n\nResponding to the allegation, the prince said: \"I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"\n\nHe added Ms Giuffre's account of him \"profusely sweating\" and \"pouring with perspiration\" when they danced at the club on the night in 2001 when she says they first had sex was impossible, because he had a medical condition preventing him from perspiring.\n\nPeople close to Prince Andrew said he wanted to address the issues head-on and did so with \"honesty and humility\" in speaking to Newsnight.\n\nJonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, said it was \"likely\" the prince would receive a legal summons if he went to the US and lawyers representing alleged victims managed to access him.\n\n\"There are a lot of these lawyers who would love to hand Prince Andrew a subpoena [an order to give evidence],\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut Prof Turley added the duke would have diplomatic immunity if he was in the US as part of a royal - rather than personal - engagement.\n\n\"This interview [has] put him in a rather precarious position if he plans to visit the United States any time soon,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: 'Going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do'\n\nThe prince has stood by his decision to speak out, but former Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter described the interview as \"excruciating\".\n\nAnd BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the prince was \"very damaged\" by the interview, adding the attempt to clear his name had \"failed, badly\".\n\nA lawyer for several of Epstein's accusers described the interview as \"sad\" and \"depressing\".\n\nSpencer Kuvin, who represents several unnamed alleged victims, said \"royalty has failed them\".\n\n\"The mere fact that he was friends with a convicted sex offender and chose to continue his relationship with him - it just shows a lack of acknowledgement of the breadth of what this man [Epstein] did to these girls,\" Mr Kuvin said.\n\nThe prince said he visited Epstein in 2010, after he was released from jail, to tell him their friendship was over. He said that was the last contact he ever had with him.\n• None The official website of HRH The Duke of York, KG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nGareth Southgate says his England side are \"further ahead\" than they were at the corresponding stage of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.\n\nSouthgate's side finished fourth at the finals in Russia and go to Euro 2020 next summer as one of the top seeds.\n\n\"I think the team have belief, for sure, you can see the confidence,\" Southgate said.\n\n\"They have got the confidence to control games with possession, and they know they're going to score goals.\"\n• None England at Euro 2020: What do we know about their prospects?\n• None How you rated England against Kosovo\n\nEngland's 4-0 win over Kosovo on Sunday rounded off another impressive qualifying campaign for Southgate's squad, who topped Group A after winning seven of their eight fixtures.\n\nWhile they also finished top of their 2018 World Cup qualification group, England have progressed as an attacking force, more than doubling their goal tally - scoring 37 in eight games, compared to 18 in 10 games.\n\n\"They don't come into these matches worrying about what might go wrong,\" Southgate added.\n\n\"We're definitely further ahead than we were heading into Russia, but we made massive strides in this period when we went into Russia.\n\n\"We've got to make sure that, to get the level of performance next summer, we're going to have to improve in the way that we did over that spell as well.\"\n\nGoals from Harry Winks, captain Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and Mason Mount gave England victory in Kosovo.\n\nIf reservations exist, they are based upon how England will fare once they meet opposition of a higher calibre.\n\nEngland lost to the Netherlands in the semi-finals of the Nations League in June, and in Russia, despite reaching the semi-finals of a major tournament for the first time since 1996, they were beaten by Croatia and twice by Belgium.\n\nAnd the Czech Republic, at 43rd in the world the highest-ranked side England faced in Euro 2020 qualifying, inflicted their only Group A defeat in October.\n\n\"What we don't know, because we haven't had those tests more recently against the top eight or 10, is exactly how we're going to cope in those moments,\" Southgate added.\n\n\"To win the European Championship is, at the moment, no easier than the World Cup. The final four [at the World Cup in Russia] were all European, and you've got to add Spain, Germany, Portugal and all the others into that, so it's a really high-level tournament.\"", "Boris Johnson with Jennifer Arcuri at an event in 2014\n\nThe US businesswoman at the centre of a misconduct controversy involving Boris Johnson has said he \"cast me aside like I am some gremlin\".\n\nIt is alleged that Jennifer Arcuri received favourable treatment during Mr Johnson's time as mayor of London due to their friendship, claims he denies.\n\nMs Arcuri told ITV she had kept his \"secrets\" but that her requests to him for media advice had been \"blocked\".\n\nThe Conservatives say any claims of impropriety are \"unfounded\".\n\nDuring the interview to be aired later, Ms Arcuri addressed the now prime minister directly, saying: \"I've been nothing but loyal, faithful, supportive, and a true confidante of yours.\n\n\"I've kept your secrets, and I've been your friend.\n\n\"And I don't understand why you've blocked me and ignored me as if I was some fleeting one-night stand or some girl that you picked up at a bar because I wasn't - and you know that.\n\n\"And I'm terribly heartbroken by the way that you have cast me aside like I am some gremlin.\"\n\nMs Arcuri appearing on the BBC's Talking Business programme in 2013\n\nHer latest interview, follows allegations, first reported in the Sunday Times in September, that Ms Arcuri's business was given £126,000 in public money along with privileged access to three foreign trade trips led by Mr Johnson when he was mayor, between 2008 and 2016.\n\nThe Greater London Authority (GLA) - whose job it is to oversee the conduct of the mayor - launched an investigation into the alleged conflict of interest following the paper's report.\n\nThat probe was paused after the authority referred the claims to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe watchdog will now decide whether or not to investigate the prime minister for a potential criminal offence of misconduct in public office - before the GLA decides whether to continue its own probe.\n\nLast month, a government review ruled that a £100,000 government grant given to Ms Arcuri's business was \"appropriate\".\n\nMs Arcuri said she had tried to ask Mr Johnson for advice on how to handle media attention over the allegations, but was left feeling \"humiliated\" after being told \"there are bigger things at stake\" by an aide.\n\nShe added: \"I was brushed off as if I was one of Kennedy's girlfriends showing up to his White House switchboard, you know, here to do my, you know, calling\".\n\nMs Arcuri would not be drawn on the nature of their relationship during the interview, but said that she had come under pressure from friends to \"admit the affair\".\n\nIn response to the programme, the Conservative Party said it considered the decision to refer Mr Johnson to the police watchdog as \"vexatious and politically motivated\".\n\nA spokesman added that any claims of impropriety in office by Mr Johnson were \"untrue and unfounded\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Lib Dems and SNP have lost their legal challenge to be included in an ITV head-to-head debate ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nThe channel is due to air a face-off between Tory leader Boris Johnson and Labour's Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday.\n\nThe Lib Dems said they wanted their pro-Remain stance to be represented, while the SNP also wanted the issue of Scottish independence to be raised.\n\nBut judges ruled there was \"no arguable breach of the Broadcasting Code\".\n\nIn the High Court in London, Lord Justice Davis and Mr Justice Warby said the case was not suitable for judicial review as ITV was not carrying out a \"public function\" in law by holding the debate.\n\nHowever, the parties had the right to complain to Ofcom about the programme after it had been broadcast, they said.\n\nLord Justice Davis said: \"The clear conclusion of both members of this court is that, viewed overall, these claims are not realistically arguable.\"\n\nBut Lib Dem education spokeswoman Layla Moran tweeted \"the fight must continue\", adding: \"It is outrageous that the Remain voice is missing from the ITV debate.\n\n\"It's simply wrong of broadcasters to present a binary choice and pre-empt the decision of the people in a general election.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, also condemned the decision, saying it \"discriminated against Scottish voters\" and \"treated them as second-class citizens\".\n\nHe added: \"That is, quite simply, a democratic disgrace, and the fact that election law and broadcasting codes allow such gross unfairness is unacceptable.\"\n\nAnd he called for Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn to commit to take part in an all-party debate on 1 December, rather than sending other senior figures from their respective parties.\n\nIt took the two judges just a matter of 10 or 15 minutes to reach a decision about the claim that the Lib Dems and SNP should be allowed access to the head-to-head debate.\n\nThe judges came back and said they would not agree to that and effectively refused to even hear the judicial review.\n\nTheir legal argument was that ITV was not exercising a public function as it is a private broadcaster - albeit regulated - therefore could not be subject to judicial review.\n\nThey also said if the two parties had a complaint about the programme, they had a way of complaining and that was to the regulator Ofcom - but that can only be done after the programme is broadcast\n\nHowever, the judges said an important part of their decision was the editorial judgment made by ITV was not irrational and perverse.\n\nThey did not want as judges to get in the way of an editorial matter for a major broadcaster.\n\nSo the application from the parties is rejected and the debate goes ahead.\n\nBut the Lib Dems still have big problems with this court decision, and say they they are going to take a closer look before deciding what to do next.\n\nThe BBC will also host a live head-to-head debate between the Conservative and Labour leaders in Southampton on 6 December, plus a seven-way podium debate between senior figures from the UK's major political parties on 29 November, live from Cardiff.\n\nThe Lib Dems have sent a legal letter to the BBC over its decision not to include Ms Swinson in the head-to-head.\n\nBBC Scotland will stage a televised debate between the SNP, Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats on 10 December, although the Scottish Greens have criticised the decision not to include them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of security appearing to grapple with Mr Azamati was filmed in the chamber\n\nA blind student who was \"violently\" removed from a prestigious debating society has been cleared of any wrongdoing.\n\nEbenezer Azamati was \"accosted\" by a security guard when he tried to return to a seat he had earlier reserved before the debate on 17 October.\n\nHe said he was \"very pleased\" that claims of \"false violent disorder\" were retracted by the Oxford Union.\n\nThe union has been asked for comment.\n\nThe postgraduate student from Ghana said his treatment made him feel \"unwelcome in the union, Oxford and even the country\".\n\nThe Oxford Union, which is independent from the university, has a tradition of hosting debates and speakers stretching back to 1823.\n\nMr Azamati, who is visually impaired, was \"forcibly and violently prevented from re-entering the union to resume his seat\" before a debate, according to the university's Africa Society.\n\nIt said he arrived to the union in Frewin Court early to reserve his seat in the chamber before the debate and then returned to his college.\n\nThe student was then confronted by a security guard when he tried to return to his seat so Mr Azamati sat in another seat offered by another member before staff attempted to remove him.\n\nThe Oxford Union intentionally resembles the House of Commons\n\nThe society said: \"Even if he had re-entered when the debate had started, such poor treatment through violent means remains unjustifiable.\"\n\nNwamaka Ogbonna, president of the Oxford University Africa Society, said a security guard had told Mr Azamati he could not enter the chamber because \"the union was full\" despite the student having apparently reserved a seat.\n\nMs Ogbonna said: \"The argument that he had to leave because there were not any seats is invalid. People are allowed to stand.\n\n\"I think everyone is quite perplexed.\"\n\nVideo footage shared online showed an argument between security and Mr Azamati in the chamber before staff appeared to manhandle him.\n\nMr Azamati was attending the debate in which the motion \"This house has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government\" was discussed by members and politicians from various parties.\n\nThe St John's College student, who studies International Relations, said he was \"treated as not being human enough to deserve justice and fair treatment\".\n\nAfter the charges against Mr Azamati were successfully appealed on Saturday, the president of the Oxford Union, Brendan McGrath, apologised to the Africa Society \"for the distress and any reputational damage\" to the student.\n\nHelen Mountfield QC, who represents Mr Azamati, said there were ongoing talks with the union over what steps it can take to address the \"failings\" exposed by the case.\n\nThe university tweeted its support for Mr Azamati, and said it shared \"the widespread outrage regarding the unacceptable treatment\" of the student.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt added: \"The union is an entirely independent club not governed by the university, but this student's treatment goes against our culture of inclusivity and tolerance.\n\n\"We are pressing the union for answers on how they plan to remedy the issue and ensure this does not happen in future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "GCSE performance across Wales improved this year, with 62.8% of pupils getting A*-C grades\n\nGCSEs should not be ditched as part of major reforms to the school curriculum in Wales, the exams watchdog has urged.\n\nQualifications Wales is launching a consultation on the future of GCSEs and other qualifications taken by 16-year-olds.\n\nIt said there would need to be changes to fit the reforms but the GCSE brand was \"valued and widely recognised\".\n\nThe Future Generations Commissioner wants GCSEs to be scrapped and a move to other forms of assessment.\n\nQualifications are being looked at because of changes to the curriculum which will see a move from narrow subject areas to six areas of learning and experience.\n\nThe changes will be introduced in primary schools and Year 7, the first year of secondary school, in September 2022.\n\nThe year 7 pupils will be the first to take qualifications under the new system, reaching 16 in 2026.\n\nThe new curriculum for Wales will based be around six areas of learning\n\nQualifications Wales says it believes there is still a strong case for having qualifications at 16 but they should evolve to meet the needs of young people, the economy and society.\n\nIt is asking for views on its proposal to keep GCSEs as a central part of the qualifications offered to 16-year-olds.\n\n\"The GCSE name is well-established and offers a considerable degree of flexibility,\" it said.\n\n\"We believe that keeping the GCSE name enables us to make all the necessary changes to the design of qualifications, while also reaping the benefits of retaining a name that is valued and widely recognised,\" it added.\n\nThe regulator believes developing an entirely new qualification could detract attention and resources from the new curriculum.\n\nBut a discussion paper published last month by Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe said GCSEs were \"no longer fit for purpose\", and there was \"a strong rationale for their replacement with narrative based assessment that tells employers exactly what learners are all about\".\n\nThe consultation also raises questions about the future of the Skills Challenge Certificate (SCC) which is the core element of the Welsh Baccalaureate.\n\nThe regulator believes that the SCC provides a good basis for a new skills-based qualification, but leaves open the question of whether or how it would fit into the Welsh Baccalaureate\n\nOther proposals include streamlining the 1,600 qualifications currently available to 16-year-olds.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man was found unwell in the NCP car park in Mitchell Lane, Glasgow\n\nA man, believed to be homeless, has died after being found in a Glasgow car park on one of the coldest nights of the year.\n\nThe 43-year-old was discovered in the NCP car park in Mitchell Lane just before 18:00 on Sunday.\n\nHe was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.\n\nOn Sunday, parts of Scotland recorded a low of -8.1C (17.4F). Temperatures for Monday were forecast to drop to as low as -9C (15.8F) overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said Monday night would be cold and frosty for many areas and could be the coldest night across the UK as a whole.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"About 5.50pm on Sunday 17 November 2019, police were called to a report of a man unwell within a car park in Mitchell Lane, Glasgow.\n\n\"The 43-year-old man was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where he was pronounced dead.\n\n\"A post mortem examination will take place in due course, however at this time the death is not being treated as suspicious.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Glasgow's Health & Social Care Partnership said: \"Homelessness services have not been officially notified of the death of anyone they have been working with.\n\n\"We await formal identification of the deceased and, of course, will fully assist the police and emergency services in their investigation, if requested to do so.\"", "The Not Just a Boy in a Dress programme followed Lewis's \"very personal journey\", the BBC said\n\nA 15-year-old boy who was banned from performing his drag act at a school event has put on his own talent show.\n\nLast year, Castle High School and Visual Arts College in Dudley told Lewis Bailey his act was not permitted, saying it celebrated diversity but felt the performance was not \"appropriate\".\n\nLewis's own show at a working men's club \"went really well\", his mother Natalie, 38, said.\n\nA documentary on him is on the BBC iPlayer and will be broadcast on CBBC.\n\nLewis was banned from performing his drag act at the school's end-of-year talent show in 2018 and said he was upset by the decision.\n\n\"In the long run it worked out in his favour as he's had the chance to do other things,\" his mum said.\n\n\"Lewis has done shows on his own before but this was the first show he's put together himself.\"\n\nLewis, who has performed as Athena Heart, said he was \"very lazy\" but felt she was \"completely opposite... more outgoing\"\n\nSpeaking in the programme, Lewis said: \"Drag is amazing for me. All the negativity just disappears. I'm on that stage in front of people. It makes me feel like I'm wanted in the world.\n\n\"I am actually already trying to plan another performance... That's very important for me to help out and give what I can.\"\n\nThe event in September this year, called Proud To Be Different, attracted a crowd of about 50 or 60 people, said his mother.\n\n\"For every negative comment, there have been 30 to 100 positive comments,\" Natalie said.\n\n\"So I said that's what he needs to concentrate on. He's just amazing.\"\n\nLewis has raised money for The Albert Kennedy Trust, which said it helps keep \"LGBTQ+ young people safe and supported\"\n\nThe Not Just a Boy in a Dress TV programme followed Lewis's \"very personal journey\", the BBC said.\n\nAfter \"years of bullying and a prolonged and difficult estrangement from his biological dad - Lewis has finally found the strength\" to be confident in his own skin, it said.\n\n\"Gran makes his costume, sister Mariah does the choreography, sister Gemma helps with the publicity, stepdad Dale helps with the music and Mum is there for constant support,\" BBC publicity for the episode featuring Lewis said.\n\nHe was banned from performing his drag act at the school's end-of-year talent show in 2018\n\nLast year the school, now St James Academy, said: \"Our decision not to let Lewis perform was based on his age and the nature of his act.\n\n\"We are happy for Lewis to express his identity in whichever way he chooses, when it is appropriate for him to do so, as he did on Friday at our non-uniform day.\"\n\nThe episode from the My Life series will be broadcast on CBBC at 17:30 GMT on Monday.\n• None I was banned from prom for dressing in drag – now my story is a West End musical", "A Children in Need album featuring stars like Jodie Whittaker and Olivia Colman has been removed from the race to be number one in this week's chart.\n\nThe Official Charts Company said Got It Covered, which features actors each singing a song, was heading for the top spot in the main album chart.\n\nBut it has now been moved to the compilations chart.\n\nChildren in Need chief executive Simon Antrobus said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the decision.\n\nOn Monday, the Official Charts Company said the album, which also includes tracks sung by David Tennant, Helena Bonham Carter and Suranne Jones, was 4,000 sales ahead in the race to be number one in the main chart.\n\nGentleman Jack and Broadchurch actor Shaun Dooley, who covered Taylor Swift's Never Grow Up, wrote on Twitter that he was \"saddened & angry\", pointing out that the decision could stop the CD from being stocked in supermarket chart racks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Official Charts Company said it had decided that the album was a various artists' compilation and so should not be in the main chart.\n\nMr Antrobus said: \"I'm deeply saddened that the industry has chosen to pull the album from the number one race after announcing it was well on its way to securing the top spot this week.\n\n\"Got It Covered is the result of an inspiring collaboration by some of the UK's biggest stars in support of disadvantaged children and young people and this very special project has clearly captured the public's imagination.\n\n\"It's sad that a charity album solely for the benefit of children should be denied the chance of further promotion and celebration which inevitably would lead to more money being raised.\"\n\nDavid Tennant covered The Proclaimers' Sunshine on Leith, and Helena Bonham Carter performed Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now\n\nChildren in Need is the BBC's corporate charity, and the album's release came ahead of the annual fundraising night on 15 November. The recording sessions were shown on a BBC One documentary.\n\nA BBC statement said: \"This is extremely disappointing, we know many of the contributors are also saddened by the news. It's important to remember what this album is about - helping the lives of disadvantaged children in need.\n\n\"The public have been buying the album in huge volumes and that should be recognised. They should think again.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Official Charts Company apologised for not identifying it as a compilation sooner. A statement said: \"We understand and sympathise with Children In Need's concerns that their album will no longer feature in the UK's artist albums chart.\n\n\"The album is on course to take the number one spot on the compilation albums chart and be the biggest-selling album of the week - which is a huge achievement, while raising money for such a deserving cause.\n\n\"Got It Covered was described to us pre-release as an artist album, but on release it was clear that it was a various artists compilation, as it is widely credited as across retail and music services. We are sorry this fact was not picked up sooner, and we are huge supporters of all the incredible and important work Children in Need do and would urge everyone to continue to go out and buy the album.\"\n\nChart rules say the only compilations allowed in the main artist album chart must be by a single artist or orchestra, or soundtracks where all recordings are performed by the cast.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn armed mugger who tried to rob Arsenal footballers Mesut Özil and Sead Kolasinac has been jailed.\n\nAshley Smith admitted attempting to steal luxury watches worth £200,000 from the pair in Hampstead, north-west London.\n\nA second man, Jordan Northover, 26, has also admitted his role in the robbery.\n\nSmith, 30, of Archway in north London, was jailed for 10 years at Harrow Crown Court on Friday. Northover will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nSmith was also ordered to pay a £181 victim surcharge.\n\nArsenal said both Sead Kolasinac and Mesut Özil were fine after the attempted carjacking\n\nCCTV footage showed Kolasinac chasing off two masked attackers on 25 July.\n\nIn a video that circulated on social media, the 26-year-old Bosnian defender could be seen fighting off two knife-wielding men.\n\nSmith was described by Judge Ian Bourne QC as a prolific \"career criminal\" who was well known to the police.\n\nThe judge said Smith had \"an appalling criminal record\" of 20 convictions from 38 offences dating back to when he was 14 years old.\n\nHe was out on licence for a 42-month sentence for burglary in 2017 when he tried to rob the Arsenal duo.\n\nAshley Smith (left) and Jordan Northover both admitted trying to rob the Arsenal stars\n\nThe court heard Smith and his accomplice did not count on the bravery of Kolasinac in fighting back.\n\nThe would-be robbers used a stolen moped, and were dressed in helmets and dark clothing to try and conceal their identities.\n\nThe weapons were described as a 10-12 inch long screwdriver and a smaller instrument about six inches long.\n\nThe players managed to flee but stones thrown at their vehicle caused \"significant\" damage.\n\nKolasinac and the Germany midfielder were left out of the Arsenal side ahead of the opening weekend of the Premier League campaign after the attack.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some shops stayed open late while Carphone Warehouse reportedly let people charge their phones\n\nDozens of people have spent the night in a shopping centre in Sheffield after torrential downpours flooded the city's streets.\n\nPeople bedded down on benches and chairs in the Meadowhall centre, while others tried throughout the night to get home in cars or taxis.\n\nA major incident was declared in Sheffield as rain continued overnight.\n\nElsewhere, in Rotherham firefighters rescued people by boat who were stranded in the Parkgate centre.\n\nPeople are being told to evacuate their homes in the villages of Old Kirk Sandall and Sandal Grove near Doncaster after the River Don burst its banks.\n\nThere are three severe flood warnings - meaning a danger to life - in place along the River Don.\n\nMore than 100 flood warnings remain in place, mostly in the north of England, with the rain causing serious disruption to roads and rail services.\n\nThe Environment Agency said a number of high volume pumps were being used to move water away from homes in Catcliffe in Rotherham.\n\nSheffield City Council said several major roads from Derbyshire to Sheffield remained closed.\n\nThe fire service pulled people to safety from the Parkgate centre\n\nEarlier on Thursday, 35 homes in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, were evacuated after a mudslide caused by torrential rain.\n\nIn Sheffield, hundreds of people - including those attending the Christmas Live event, which was cancelled - were kept inside Meadowhall centre by police after the surrounding streets were flooded.\n\nThe centre later reopened but many people chose to stay overnight, after being unable to get home.\n\nThe floodwater surrounding Meadowhall shopping centre, just off the M1\n\nDisney Store worker Jodie Whelan, 23, stayed at the centre, where she said staff were handing out free drinks and trying to arrange taxis.\n\nShe said she travelled in for her shift by bus but said getting back was \"an absolute no-go\".\n\n\"I'm feeling very tired,\" she added. \"A bit fed up but trying to make the best out of an awful situation. The atmosphere is very weird but communal.\n\n\"Some people got a bit rowdy and it was upsetting seeing some older people and people with babies or children, but thankfully we are all warm and safe.\"\n\nShoppers who were unable to get home found comfort where they could\n\nAnother member of staff, Luke Turner, who works at a restaurant, said he was unable to drive home after his shift so bedded down in the stockroom where he said he could use \"aprons\" as a pillow.\n\n\"I've got options, I could have got a taxi home but that still leaves me having to get a taxi back to work tomorrow,\" Mr Turner, from Chesterfield, said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Becky said people 'bought pyjamas from Primark' to make their stay more comfortable\n\n\"I had an offer from my higher management that if I could get a hotel room for the night... but unfortunately all the hotel rooms around me are full.\"\n\n\"There's people in suits sleeping, one guy in a Tesco uniform,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile Charlotte Lowther-Fuller, 18, from Grimsby said she was unable to get to a taxi as the roads and junction were cordoned off.\n\n\"It was impossible for him to get us,\" she said, adding: \"I am feeling quite tired, drained and cold from the whole situation and just want to get home as I have college to go to in the morning.\"\n\nCharlotte Lowther-Fuller and her friend set up camp outside shops before being moved to the dining area\n\nSixth-form student Rosie De Roeck, 16, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, spent around nine hours in the centre with her friend before her mum managed to rescue her shortly before 01:00 GMT.\n\nIt was \"horrible\" and \"quite scary\", she said, adding that Primark stayed open late, with her and many others buying pyjamas after getting wet in the rain.\n\nShe said coffee chain Starbucks gave out free cookies and a man who was also stranded shared a box of crisps he had bought.\n\n\"I honestly don't think I'll be able to sleep,\" said Saskia Hazelwood, second from left, who bought pyjamas\n\nCollege student Saskia Hazelwood, 17, from Doncaster, who was stranded with three friends when trains were cancelled, said people were \"stressed, tired and bored\" in the centre.\n\n\"My dad tried to drive but he literally couldn't get in,\" she said. \"He tried going up all the back roads, up streets the other way, he couldn't get in.\"\n\nOne man found his car stranded in Sheffield after torrential rain\n\nRoads close to Meadowhall were flooded after hours of persistent rainfall\n\nA man cycles through a flooded street in Sheffield on Thursday after torrential rain\n\nAt shortly after midnight, Sheffield City Council declared a major incident, saying there was \"some water\" coming over the top of the River Don's defences, but it was not yet a breach.\n\nAccording to the forecast from the Environment Agency, the River Don at Doncaster is predicted to reach its highest recorded level later on Friday.\n\nMeadowhall shopping centre said it would open as normal on Friday, providing the Environment Agency lifts its flood warning as forecasted.\n\n\"Whilst the extreme weather conditions persist, the centre remains dry and secure,\" it said in a statement.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police worked through the night to move up to 100 people who were stranded in the Parkgate Shopping Park in Rotherham.\n\nAlex Johnson, South Yorkshire's deputy chief fire officer, said additional resources had been brought in from elsewhere in the country - that included five high-volume pumps and five more boat crews.\n\nRotherham Borough Council urged residents to stay at home and not leave unless told to by emergency services.\n\n\"Roads across the region have been adversely affected and we would advise people not to travel unless it is absolutely necessary,\" the council said in a statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads across Sheffield have been flooded, prompting warnings to drivers\n\nEarlier on Thursday, South Yorkshire Police said there were \"significant issues\" in Doncaster, with Bentley, Toll Bar and Scawthorpe the worst affected areas.\n\nThe weather has also caused train services to be cancelled.\n\nNorthern Rail issued a \"do not travel\" warning to commuters using three routes, saying flooding had closed the lines between Sheffield and Gainsborough, Sheffield and Lincoln and Hebden Bridge and Manchester Victoria.\n\nFears about rising river levels on the River Ryton in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, has led to a number of homes being evacuated in Central Avenue.\n\nWere you in the shopping centre? Or have you been affected in other ways by the flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nA third Celtic fan has been stabbed and 12 Lazio supporters arrested following Thursday night's match in Rome.\n\nThe stab victim, thought to be a 20-year-old man, was treated in hospital for a back wound before being released.\n\nSeveral Celtic supporters were also attacked when a shuttle bus transporting them from the stadium broke down and was ambushed.\n\nPolice arrested 12 people known to be members of the Lazio Ultras group in connection with the bus attack.\n\nFireworks, bottles and other objects were thrown after the Europa League game, which Celtic won 2-1.\n\nIt is understood those arrested belong to the most extreme element of the Lazio support.\n\nIt is not thought that any Celtic fans sustained serious injuries after their bus was ambushed.\n\nIn the lead up to the game, two Celtic fans were stabbed by masked men outside the Flann O'Brien pub in the city.\n\nBoth were stabbed in the leg but their injuries are not life-threatening.\n\nOne of the men, aged 52, is still in hospital but the other has been released. Police said an investigation was ongoing.\n\nTensions were high after warnings that Lazio fans wanted revenge for a controversial banner unfurled by Celtic fans at a match in Glasgow last month.\n\nThe banner showed the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging upside down.", "Scientists have developed a technique for making fake rhino horn, which they hope will undermine the illegal market in the genuine article.\n\nResearchers at the University of Oxford and Fudan University in China have found a way of making fake rhino horn cheaply from horse hair.\n\nDemand for rhino horn has been blamed for driving poaching and threatening the survival of the species.\n\nThe Oxford team said the fakes would \"confuse the trade\".\n\nBut there has been some scepticism about whether this will be effective - with Save the Rhino International warning it could inadvertently stimulate the market for rhino horn.\n\nThe conservation charity says it is more important to focus on anti-poaching measures and attempts to reduce consumer demand.\n\nRhino horn has been claimed as an aphrodisiac in traditional Chinese medicine - which has sustained demand despite official attempts to prevent the trade.\n\nThis joint UK and Chinese project is the latest attempt to find a way of making artificial horn that is realistic enough to be convincing, with the aim of flooding the market with fakes and undermining the financial incentives for poachers and smugglers.\n\nThere have been previous ideas for fake horn, but this project wants a credible version that can be cheaply mass-produced.\n\nCreating fake horn is intended to reduce the financial incentive for rhino poachers\n\nThe scientists say the \"horn\" of a rhino is not like the horn of a cow, but is formed from tufts of tightly packed hair that are glued together by secretions from the animal.\n\nAnd the team of zoologists in Oxford and molecular scientists in Fudan University in Shanghai have developed a way of compressing and moulding horse hair in a way that looks and feels similar even when the \"horn\" is cut.\n\nIf credible fakes could be produced cheaply, the scientists say it would cut prices and reduce the incentive for killing the rhinos.\n\n\"It appears from our investigation that it is rather easy as well as cheap to make a bio-inspired horn-like material that mimics the rhino's extravagantly expensive tuft of nose hair,\" said Prof Fritz Vollrath, from the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology.\n\nHe said he hoped the technique could be used to \"confuse the trade, depress prices and thus support rhino conservation\".\n\nBut John Taylor, deputy director of Save the Rhino International, is unconvinced how much fake horn would reduce the threat to rhinos.\n\nHe says there is a risk that attempts to \"flood the market\" would have the unintended consequence of expanding the market and creating even more demand, which could cause even more poaching for real rhino horn.\n\nHe also questions how in practice fake horn could be inserted into an illegal black market trade.\n\nMr Taylor is not certain that artificial horn would really convince two of the main markets - where it is ground up for traditional Chinese medicine and where wild rhino horn is used as a status symbol, particularly in Vietnam.\n\n\"There is no substitute for anti-poaching measures at one end and reducing demand at the other,\" he says.", "Born Slippy, which famously featured on the Trainspotting soundtrack, was a huge hit for techno act Underworld in 1995\n\nA noisy neighbour who blasted out dance anthem Born Slippy on a loop has been warned he could face jail if he fails to keep the noise down.\n\nClyde Taylor, 54, ignored official warnings to stop playing the Underworld track in the early hours.\n\nHi-fi equipment, speakers and an electric guitar were seized from his home in Eccles after repeated breaches of a noise abatement notice.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay a £1,500 fine, and a £30 victim surcharge.\n\nA court order obtained by Salford Council prevents him from playing music or \"permitting music to be played at a level that can be heard outside the property\".\n\nThe authority said the action could have been avoided had Mr Taylor obeyed the first \"polite request to keep the noise down\".\n\nCouncillor David Lancaster said a little \"neighbourly consideration\" would have prevented action being taken.\n\n\"If people refuse to be reasonable and considerate then we will use our full powers,\" he said.\n\nThe council confiscated two sets of equipment\n\nMr Taylor did not attend court in October, and was found guilty in his absence of eight breaches of failing to comply with a noise abatement notice.\n\nThe council said it was the first criminal behaviour order made in relation to noise pollution made in Greater Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Conservatives say they will make it easier for doctors and nurses from around the world to work in the UK after Brexit, if they win the election.\n\nThe party would introduce an \"NHS visa\" as part of a promised \"points-based immigration system\".\n\nBut Labour said the policy was \"full of holes,\" with nothing to say about low-paid nurses and other hospital staff.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Nursing said \"more ambitious\" plans were needed to address NHS staffing shortages.\n\nThe Conservatives plan to end free movement of workers from EU countries when the UK leaves the EU - something they have promised will happen on 31 January if they are returned to power on 12 December.\n\nThe party would introduce a \"points-based system\" for migrant workers from EU and non-EU countries.\n\nIt has yet to spell out in detail how this will work - but it has announced that extra points will be awarded for coming to work in the NHS.\n\nThe cost of applying for a visa would also be reduced from £928 to £464 for medical professionals, and they would be guaranteed a decision within two weeks, under Tory plans.\n\nThose granted an NHS visa would also be allowed to pay the annual £400 compulsory health insurance charge out of their salary.\n\nSpeaking during a campaign visit to the East Midlands, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the proposals would make it easier for \"talented\" medical staff to get visas.\n\nThe Conservatives have already announced a fast-track visa route to attract specialists in science, engineering and technology.\n\nThey have also previously said they will scrap the cap on the number of skilled workers, such as doctors, from the EU and elsewhere, after Brexit.\n\nThe party is considering scrapping the minimum salary requirement of £30,000 for skilled migrants seeking five-year visas.\n\nWhen asked if there would be more people from overseas working in the UK under a future Conservative government, Home Secretary Priti Patel did not answer directly but said the public wanted \"controlled immigration\".\n\nFinding staff from outside the UK to come to work in the health service is as important as ever.\n\nBut those who wish to do so are often surprised at the fees they have to pay for the privilege.\n\nTo address this, the Conservatives plan to halve the £928 visa cost for NHS staff and their dependents.\n\nBut the £400 surcharge to cover their healthcare costs if they are from outside the EU won't be reduced, nor will the levy paid by the NHS and other employers if they hire foreign workers.\n\nSo it may be a move in the right direction, but if the health service badly needs trained doctors, nurses and others from abroad, it might be asked why they should pay any fees for visas or healthcare?\n\nThe Cavendish Coalition, representing a range of health and care organisations, says any steps towards tackling the high vacancy rate are welcome, but by not covering social care the policy is not ambitious enough.\n\nThese groups want any incoming government to recruit and employ any necessary workers from outside the UK \"without criteria\".\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing said a failure to train enough nurses was forcing the NHS to \"recruit overseas in the short-term\".\n\nRCN chief executive Dame Donna Kinnair said she wanted to see a fairer immigration system that valued skills and did not fixate on \"arbitrary targets\".\n\n\"But the devil will be in the detail and we cannot be satisfied by rhetoric alone,\" she said.\n\n\"There are tens of thousands of unfilled nursing jobs and we need more ambitious plans than this to address it.\"\n\nShe added it was \"immoral and heartless\" to continue to make nurses contribute towards \"the same services they keep running\" through the health insurance charge.\n\n\"It should be abolished, not spread out every month,\" she said.\n\nLabour's Diane Abbott accused the Conservatives of using \"dog-whistle anti-migrant rhetoric\"\n\nLabour also attacked the lack of detail in the Conservative plans.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: \"The Tories are tying themselves in knots over immigration. They use dog-whistle anti-migrant rhetoric but are forced to accept we need migrant workers for key sectors, not just the NHS, but many more besides.\n\n\"This policy is full of holes, with nothing to say about the nurses earning below their income threshold, as well as all the cooks, cleaners, hospital porters and others who are vital to hospitals, and nothing at all about their right to bring family members here.\n\n\"Labour's immigration policy is rational and fair and will prioritise attracting the people we need, and treat them as human beings.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat home affairs spokeswoman Christine Jardine said that, even with the visa application costs reduced for medical professionals, the £464 charge still amounted to a \"nurse tax\".\n\nMore than 12% of the NHS workforce reported their nationality as not British, according to a report published last year.\n\nThe biggest group of foreign NHS workers are from the EU - 56 in every 1,000 - but, the report added, the number of new staff coming from the EU is falling, and that this decline particularly applies to nurses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDo you have any other questions about elections in the UK?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Mobile phone users in the US received messages sent in February\n\nText messages received overnight on Wednesday confused thousands of mobile phone users in the US.\n\nThe messages were sent on Valentine's Day, but bizarrely arrived eight months later, carrying Wednesday's time stamp.\n\nThe issue occurred across all major carriers in the US, and affected both Apple and Android devices.\n\nSyniverse, which provides services for major telecommunications companies, placed the blame for the error on an \"internal maintenance cycle\".\n\nThousands of T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon customers rushed to Twitter to air their frustrations over the confusing error.\n\nSome complained about awkward messages being sent to their ex-partners, while others were left shaken after receiving messages from a relative or friend who had since passed away.\n\n\"I just got a text from my best friend's phone, the only issue is she's been dead since February,\" complained a customer on Twitter.\n\n\"I got a random text last night at 3am from my Dad saying 'I love and support you' but he said he had no recollection of sending it and doesn't remember ever writing it,\" added another.\n\nOther users claimed that messages from as far back as two years ago had been received.\n\nIn a statement on its website, Syniverse apologised to the 168,149 customers who were affected by the mishap, assuring them that the issue has since been resolved.\n\n\"While the issue has been resolved, we are in the process of reviewing our internal procedures to ensure this does not happen again, and actively working with our customers' teams to answer any questions they have,\" said William Hurley, a company spokesman.", "A relative lights an incense stick in front of a portrait of Bui Thi Nhung\n\nThe names of 39 Vietnamese nationals who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex have been released by police.\n\nMany of their families had feared the worst ever since the bodies were discovered in the early hours of 23 October.\n\nThe BBC has been speaking to friends and relatives of those who died about how they came to be the victims of the tragedy.\n\nThis article will be updated as further information about the victims comes to light.\n\nThe family of Pham Thi Tra My said they paid £30,000 to people smugglers to get her to the UK.\n\nMiss Tra My, who was from Vietnam's Ha Tinh province, flew to China before travelling via France and Belgium, according to her brother.\n\nHe told the BBC she first attempted to cross the border to the UK on 19 October but was caught and turned back.\n\nThe last message the family received from her was at 22:30 BST on 22 October - two hours before the trailer arrived at the Purfleet terminal from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nThe texts, sent to her parents, read: \"I am really, really sorry, Mum and Dad, my trip to a foreign land has failed.\n\n\"I am dying, I can't breathe. I love you very much Mum and Dad. I am sorry, Mother.\"\n\nNguyen Dinh Luong, also from Ha Tinh, had been living in France but hoped to work in a nail salon in the UK.\n\nThe last his father heard from him was in mid-October, explaining that the journey would cost £11,000.\n\nAmong the youngest of the victims, Mr Hung was also from Ha Tinh. He wanted to join his parents who live in the UK, his brother told local media.\n\nHis sister asked for help to find him in a Facebook post after the lorry was discovered. She wrote that he flew from Hanoi to Russia on 26 August, then to France on 6 October, but that the family lost contact when he went to the UK on 21 October.\n\nA friend who lives in Glasgow did not want to be identified, but told the BBC he had been due to meet up with Miss Tho - who was from Nghe An province - when she arrived in the UK.\n\nHer eyes are blurred in this image at the request of her family.\n\nBui Thi Nhung left her job in a clothes shop in Nghe An province to travel to the UK using money that her friends had helped her raise.\n\nOnce there Miss Nhung, who was also known as Anna, hoped to meet up with friends and family, and to work to pay off debt owed by her late father.\n\nShe was the youngest of four siblings - and the most educated - her sister Bui Thi Loan told the BBC.\n\nThe sisters had exchanged messages on Facebook on 21 October, when Miss Nhung said she was fine and \"in storage\".\n\nOriginally from Nghe An province, Mr Nam had been working in Romania and planned to travel to the UK. His family did not want to be interviewed.\n\nNguyen Dinh Tu, 26, borrowed thousands of pounds when he was discharged from the military in order to get married and build a house.\n\nBut with no work available in his hometown in Nghe An province, he went abroad to seek employment and repay his debts, leaving behind his wife and 18-month-old baby.\n\nMr Tu paid smugglers the equivalent of around £4,960 in the hope of making it to the UK, according to AFP news agency.\n\nLe Van Ha left his heavily pregnant wife and young son behind in Nghe An province when he began his journey to the UK in June.\n\nHe went in search of better-paid work to repay money that his family had borrowed to build their house.\n\nHis father, Le Minh Tuan, mortgaged two plots of land to fund the £20,000 journey.\n\n\"I don't know when we can ever pay it back. I'm an old man now, my health is poor, and I have to help bring up his children,\" he said.\n\nLess than two weeks before his body was found in Essex, Nguyen Van Hung was photographed with his cousin, Hoang Van Tiep, at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.\n\nThe music graduate had tricked his parents when he left Nghe An to join his cousin in France last year, leaving his passport at home and travelling on a different one.\n\nHe found work in a kitchen but had spoken about how it was hard, and said he wanted to grow marijuana in the UK.\n\nHoang Van Tiep, Nguyen Van Hung's cousin, left Nghe An province for France in 2017, funded by his mother, who borrowed money from banks and relatives to fund the trip.\n\nOnce there, he worked illegally at a restaurant, his mother said. He was arrested multiple times and his passport was taken.\n\nOn being threatened with deportation, he told his mother he wanted to travel to the UK.\n\nHaving worked in his family's timber business, Mr Thai had often talked about leaving Nghe An province and going abroad.\n\nHe told his family he was going to Germany for business, his mother told the BBC. But after several phone calls in the first few days, they stopped hearing from him.\n\nMr Hung, who was from Thua Thien - Hue province, had been speaking to his family about trying to get to the UK in mid-October, according to his brother-in-law, Tom Wright, who is a US citizen but lives with his wife in Vietnam.\n\nBelieving that he would have a better life in the UK, Mr Hung's mother agreed to pay the estimated $15,000 (£11,800).\n\nHe was in regular contact with his family while travelling through Europe, sending a photo of himself and a friend in front of the Eiffel Tower. He told his mother that he would be boarding a truck and would contact her in a few days, once he had reached the UK - but he never did.\n\nMr Du left his home in Ha Tinh province in June, staying in Germany for 15 days and France for three months, his father told Vietnamese media.\n\nThe last his father heard from him was on 22 October, when he called to say he was about to leave for the UK.", "The shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, has said Labour will make \"no deals with the Scottish Nationalists.\"\n\nSpeaking in Crawley, she said: \"We keep telling Nicola Sturgeon, and she does need to listen. There are no deals. No deals.\"\n\nShe said this would remain the case even if the party had to form a minority government. \"If we get into power and we're a minority government, and the Scots Nats bring us down, they will have to go back to their voters in Scotland and explain how they've let the Tories back in. No deals. No deals,\" she said.\n\nMs Thornberry added: \"What we're focusing on is that within six months of a general election we get Brexit sorted.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ex-Welsh secretary declines to answer questions about a row that led him to quit\n\nA former minister has refused to answer questions on when he knew his former aide had \"sabotaged\" a rape trial, in his first interview since the story broke.\n\nAlun Cairns, who resigned as Welsh secretary on Wednesday, said he was \"determined to clear his name\".\n\nHis former aide was selected as an assembly candidate eight months after the trial collapsed.\n\nMr Cairns is facing pressure to quit as a general election candidate.\n\nHis former colleague Ross England told a rape trial in April 2018 that he had been in a casual sexual relationship with the victim - claims the victim had denied.\n\nHe was thrown out of court by the judge, who had ruled such evidence inadmissible, and the trial collapsed. The defendant James Hackett was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.\n\nMr Cairns had denied he knew about the trial's collapse until last week, but resigned after BBC Wales obtained an email addressed to him discussing the case - it had been sent in August 2018.\n\nAsked how he reconciled the differences between the statement and the email, Mr Cairns said: \"This is a highly sensitive situation, and I've taken this seriously throughout.\"\n\nAlun Cairn, standing with his mother Maragret (L) and his wife Emma (R), said he is \"determined to clear his name\"\n\nInterviewed with his mother Margaret and his wife Emma by his side, the politician said: \"The party has made a statement that has expressed sympathy to the victim. That is something I would absolutely fully support\".\n\n\"Now it's important to realise that I had nothing, no association in anyway with the trial and that I've stood aside as the secretary of state for Wales in order to give the cabinet office the space they need to fully look at all of the facts so they can come to a conclusion and a judgement.\n\n\"I'm keen to get on with the campaign of the general election. Of course people will judge all of the facts rather than trial by media.\"\n\nAsked by BBC Wales if he would stick to what he had said previously, he said: \"There is a due process\", referring to an investigation that will be carried out by the cabinet office.\n\nHe said Mr England \"left my employment some 13 months before the trial\", and that he had \"no communication from the court or the judge\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson denied his general election campaign had been thrown off course by a rape trial row\n\nIt was put to Mr Cairns that BBC Wales had spoken to sources within the Conservative Party who had been aware of the matter. Asked why he did not know about the situation if they did, he repeated his argument.\n\n\"Let the cabinet office look at all of the evidence, let them take into account all of the facts, and they will make the judgement rather than be faced by trial by media,\" he said.\n\nCriticising the comments, a Welsh Conservative source said: \"We can't go on for the next five weeks with this hanging over the party with the constant flow of damaging interviews like we've seen today\".\n\nRoss England has been suspended as a candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan at the assembly election\n\nMr Cairns resigned from the cabinet following the publication of the email earlier this week.\n\nLabour, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats have called for Mr Cairns to quit as a general election candidate, as has the rape victim at the centre of the case.\n\nThe email message on 2 August 2018 was sent to Mr Cairns by Geraint Evans, his special adviser. It was also copied to Richard Minshull - the director of the Welsh Conservatives - and another member of staff.\n\nIt said: \"I have spoken to Ross and he is confident no action will be taken by the court.\"\n\nIn December 2018, the former Welsh secretary endorsed Mr England's candidacy to represent the Vale of Glamorgan in the 2021 Welsh assembly election.\n\nAt the time of his selection to stand as an AM, Mr Cairns described Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\" with whom \"it will be a pleasure to campaign\".\n\nMr England was suspended as a candidate and as an employee last week after details of the court case emerged. The Welsh Conservative party said a \"full investigation will be conducted\".\n\nOther candidates standing in the Vale of Glamorgan for the 12 December general election include Belinda Loveluck-Edwards for Welsh Labour and Anthony Slaughter for the Wales Green Party.\n\nThe close of nominations is 14 November.", "Hundreds of millions of pounds of care home fees paid by residents and local authorities are never reaching frontline services, claims a report.\n\nThe Centre for Health and Public Interest has revealed £1.5bn a year \"leaks out\" through rental payments, interest on loans, and profits.\n\nThe figure is 10% of the total annual income of the UK care home industry.\n\nThe think tank says some of this money could be used for frontline care if the industry were restructured.\n\nThe centre's study - which is part funded by Unison - analysed the accounts of 830 adult care home companies across the UK.\n\nThe average cost for a residential care home place in the UK is £32,084 per year, not including nursing care.\n\nThe study found that among the 26 largest care home providers, £261m of the money they receive to provide care goes towards repaying debt.\n\nOf this, £117m goes to related companies.\n\n\"Hundreds of millions of pounds a year leak out of the care home industry in the form of rental payments to offshore landlords, in the form of profit, in the form of management fees and in the form of rental payments again to offshore companies,\" CHPI director David Rowlands told Newsnight.\n\n\"Lots of debt has been loaded onto large care home companies by the companies that brought them and that means in some cases that 16% of all the money that is given over to care for a resident each week disappears out of the system to pay off those high cost loans.\"\n\nMore than 90% of all care home services are now provided by the private sector.\n\nNick Hood, a senior analyst at Opus restructuring, said: \"The average interest rate paid by the major care home operators in 2017 was 11.8%, which means that they were paying over £235m a year in interest and that's money that could be going to frontline care, but isn't.\"\n\nHe said some estimates suggest this financing model pushes up the cost for a care home resident \"by anything between £100 and £200 a week\".\n\nAccording to the Health Foundation think tank, £4.4bn per year will be needed by 2023 just to stabilise the market.\n\nOne of Britain's largest care home groups, Four Seasons Health Care, went into administration earlier this year after struggling to repay debts.\n\nOne of their homes - Ross Wyld in north-east London - closed the year before after they were unable to renegotiate the renewal of their lease.\n\nAlan Lazurus's mother, Hettie, was one of the residents forced to relocate.\n\n\"She was 93, she was obviously getting on but she wasn't actually senile or had dementia at that stage,\" he said.\n\n\"You put someone into a nursing home - you certainly expect there would be a longevity for her.\"\n\nFour Seasons declined to comment on the closure of Ross Wyld.\n\nThe CHPI is calling for A Care Home Transparency Act, so that those paying for care in a care home know exactly where their money goes.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Hakim Sillah was attacked at Hillingdon Civic Centre on Thursday\n\nA teenager who was fatally stabbed in a council headquarters in west London was attending a knife awareness course.\n\nHakim Sillah was attacked in the youth offending service department at the Hillingdon Civic Centre in Uxbridge on Thursday.\n\nThe Met said a group had gathered at the venue when a fight broke out. The 18-year-old was taken to hospital but died an hour later.\n\nA 17-year-old boy who was arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody.\n\nA teenage boy who tried to stop the fight also sustained a knife wound to his ear.\n\nHe was praised by detectives for \"bravely\" trying to break up the fight.\n\nAnother teenager suffered a knife injury to his ear during the attack\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sillah's family described him as \"a lovely lad who cared about his family\".\n\n\"He loved looking after his little brother, who had been ill,\" they said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh described the attack as \"an absolute tragedy\" and praised the teenager who tried to stop the fight.\n\n\"A young man with his whole life ahead of him has been fatally attacked and his family are absolutely devastated,\" he said.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to find those involved.\n\n\"What we know so far is that a fight broke out between males at the location and as a result this young man received fatal injuries.\n\n\"A second independent male, bravely tried to intervene to break up the fight and as a result was also stabbed.\"\n\nHillingdon Civic Centre was cordoned off while forensic officers investigated\n\nHillingdon Council said it was \"offering support and counselling\" to any of its employees affected.\n\nIt is the second murder investigation to be launched in Hillingdon this year - after Tashan Daniel was stabbed to death at Hillingdon Tube Station on 24 September.\n\nMr Daniel's family plans to organise a march in central London on 7 December to raise awareness of the impact of knife crime.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Designer clothing was taken in the break-in and a car and a van were also damaged.", "The starting gun has been fired, the election campaign is under way and the future of the NHS has dominated the opening lap of the contest. If the early exchanges are anything to go by, health will feature prominently in the campaign.\n\nLabour has for some time argued that the NHS is vulnerable to privatisation under the Conservatives. The party has developed a new attack line, that any post-Brexit trade deal with the United States will open the door to big American health corporations. It has also picked up on suggestions that the US authorities will demand that the NHS pays more for drugs supplied by American companies.\n\nIn essence, Labour is alleging that the NHS is not safe after a Brexit presided over by the Tories.\n\nThe Conservatives have strongly denied that the NHS is in any way \"up for sale\". They argue that there will be red lines with the British position in any trade talks, which protect the current status of the health service and the drug purchasing regime.\n\nFuelling this row was a documentary by Channel 4 Dispatches which asserted that the price the NHS pays for US medicines could rise steeply in any future trade deal with the United States. The programme reported that \"drug pricing\" had been discussed in six initial meetings between trade officials from the UK and the US and that there had been \"secret meetings\" between the pharmaceutical companies and British civil servants.\n\nIn response to the programme, the government said: \"We could not agree to any proposals on medicines pricing or access that would put NHS finances at risk or reduce clinician and patient choice.\"\n\nPresident Trump has made no secret of his frustration that US drug corporations can in many cases charge American health providers more for their products than what the NHS pays.\n\nThis is because the US health system is market-based, and insurers are more ready to pay the asking price.\n\nThe NHS in England relies on the advice of the medical cost watchdog NICE, on what offers the best benefits for patients balanced against value for money.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland tend to follow NICE rulings, while Scotland has its own equivalent, the SMC.\n\nThe NICE regime, introduced 20 years ago, is seen as a great success in helping the NHS strike realistic pricing deals. A recent deal for the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi was hailed by health leaders in England as a big win for the system, with the American manufacturer Vertex, having initially refused to bring down its price, eventually signing up. The Scottish Government had already done its own deal.\n\nThe NHS has immense bargaining power because of its size and its centralised control over drug availability is always attractive to pharmaceutical companies who are keen to be part of that market.\n\nSo the suggestion in some quarters is that the American negotiators will demand that higher prices are paid to US pharmaceutical companies, potentially adding damaging extra costs to the already stretched NHS budget. The response by the Conservatives is that no British government would knowingly agree to something which added billions of pounds to public spending.\n\nSo what about private provision in the NHS? There is evidence that the number of contracts awarded to private organisations by NHS commissioners has increased. But these have tended to be for smaller service deals, and a more rounded picture is gained by looking at the overall spending numbers.\n\nThe proportion of government health spending in England going to private providers has risen by more than three-quarters in the last decade and now stands at 7.3%, according to official figures for 2018/19.\n\nBut that rate has remained little changed for the last few years.\n\nLabour says this is evidence of creeping gains made by the private sector winning NHS contracts. The Conservative response is that private provision also rose rapidly under the last Labour government, which outsourced some routine surgery to private hospitals.\n\nCurrent rules allow American and other foreign firms to bid for NHS contracts if they have a European subsidiary. The US company United Health owns Optum, for example, which provides IT and research services to some NHS organisations.\n\nIt is conceivable that in any trade talks, US negotiators would demand a more streamlined bidding process to open up access. It should be noted, however, that the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, has called for an end to any competitive tendering.\n\nWhen asked in his radio interview with LBC, whether the NHS would feature in trade talks, President Trump said: \"We wouldn't even be involved in that, no. It's not for us to have anything to do with your health care system.\"\n\nThe Conservatives argue that it simply would not be on the table. But it is impossible to be certain at this stage what precisely would or would not be in the mix when the negotiators get to work after Brexit.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nDawid Malan hit the fastest T20 century by an England batsman as the tourists crushed New Zealand by 76 runs in Napier to level the five-match series with one game remaining.\n\nOn an astonishing night, Malan struck 103 from 51 balls to become the second England player to make a T20 ton.\n\nCaptain Eoin Morgan made 91 from just 41 balls as England posted their highest T20 total of 241-3.\n\nLeg-spinner Matt Parkinson took 4-47 as New Zealand were dismissed for 165.\n\nThe final match takes place in Auckland on Sunday at 01:00 GMT.\n\nIn a brutal display, Malan reached three figures from just 48 balls, hitting a ragged New Zealand attack for nine fours and six sixes.\n\nHe and Morgan put on 182 runs - the highest stand for England in a T20 international - in just 12.2 overs.\n\nAlex Hales is the only other England international to make a T20 century, having made an unbeaten 116 from 64 balls against Sri Lanka in 2014.\n\nNew Zealand could not match England's hitting as they were dismissed with 19 balls remaining, with all five of England's bowlers claiming at least one wicket.\n• None Morgan hails England's batting display as one of their best\n\nEngland were 18-1 in the early stages of the match but that was a distant memory by the time Morgan was dismissed in the final over.\n\nNapier might be a small ground but Morgan and Malan produced a stunning display of hitting to power England to their match-winning total.\n\nNo bowler was allowed to settle. Leg-spinner Ish Sodhi had his final over smashed for 28 by Malan while Blair Tickner, so economical in the third T20, was taken for 50 from his four overs.\n\nThe two came together in the eighth over and Morgan showed his intent as he dispatched his sixth ball for six. Helped by New Zealand's poor discipline, the two plundered the bowling - Morgan hit straight while Malan went square.\n\nThey never looked troubled, their hard hitting allowing the ball to evade the fielders. Malan's half-century came from 31 balls, while Morgan's, brought up just three balls after Malan, was from 21. From there, the pace only accelerated.\n\nDot balls were a rarity in the final few overs as Malan moved smoothly towards his century. His sixth six of the evening, brought up off New Zealand's premier bowler Trent Boult, took him to a superb century.\n\nIt looked as though Morgan would match him as he swiped the third ball of the final over for six, but he holed out in the deep to fall nine runs short.\n\nThe England captain had said at the toss that he would have bowled first. As he left the field, he may have been relieved that the decision was taken out of his hands.\n• None Malan and Morgan hit 29 boundaries between them, including 13 sixes\n• None There were just nine dot balls in the final 10 overs\n• None Malan and Morgan's 182-run stand is the fourth highest in all T20 internationals\n• None Malan is the first player to register more than four 50+ scores in his first 10 T20Is\n• None Morgan now has the fastest half-century in T20 and ODI cricket for England\n\nNew Zealand had the chance to clinch a series victory and, having dismissed Jonny Bairstow cheaply and trapped Tom Banton lbw just as his innings began to fire after opting to bowl, they were in a strong position.\n\nHowever, their discipline crumbled as Malan and Morgan attacked, with even the returning Boult unable to stop the boundaries from flowing.\n\nThey made a frenetic start with the bat, racing to 49-0 inside the first four overs as Martin Guptill hit Chris Jordan out of the ground, but the innings stuttered along.\n\nOnly five players reached double figures and stand-in captain Tim Southee was the top-scorer as he hit out from the number eight spot.\n\nEngland's fielding was not at its best, with Pat Brown dropping two chances off Parkinson, but ultimately it was enough to take the series into a deciding match.\n\n'It was a lot of fun' - what they said\n\nEngland batsman Dawid Malan, speaking to Sky Sports: \"It's not often in your career everything comes off, it was a lot of fun out there.\n\n\"I felt rusty in the first game of the series but it's felt smoother and smoother. I said this morning that I felt I had got rid of the rust and thankfully it clicked here.\n\n\"Morgs came out and changed the momentum of the game and I piggy-backed that.\"\n\nEngland bowler Steven Finn on Test Match Special: \"It was a professional performance from England. They managed to turn the screw when needed.\n\n\"Dawid Malan takes pride in being able to pace his innings, judge who to attack and when to attack them and he did that really well today.\"\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"It was quite a clinical performance. Myself and Dawid have played for a long time together at Middlesex and we know each other pretty well.\n\n\"It was enjoyable, we had a lot of laughs out there. It was a beautiful wicket to bat on.\"\n\nNew Zealand stand-in captain Tim Southee: \"That can happen in Twenty20 cricket, in two days time we've got another chance to go out and win the series.\n\n\"You have to go out and believe when you're chasing a target like that, we got off to a good start but whenever we looked like getting away they took wickets.\"", "Latest projections indicate an further £400m to £650m will be needed to complete the project, Crossrail Ltd said\n\nThe opening of London's Crossrail project will be delayed until 2021 as Europe's biggest infrastructure scheme is set to go another £650m over budget.\n\nThe route, to be known as the Elizabeth Line, was originally due to open in December 2018.\n\nCrossrail Ltd chief executive Mark Wild said services would be delayed to allow time for more testing.\n\nHe also said the cost of the project could reach £18.25bn, more than £2bn more than the original budget.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was \"considering\" where this new funding would come from.\n\nThe cost was originally set at £15.9bn for the scheme, which will connect major landmarks such as Heathrow Airport and the Canary Wharf business district.\n\nHowever, Mayor Sadiq Khan, the government and Transport for London (TfL) had since agreed a figure of £17.6bn.\n\nBosses said in April that services would begin between October 2020 and March 2021.\n\nAnnouncing the latest delay, Mr Wild insisted services would begin \"as soon as practically possible in 2021\".\n\nHe added: \"The central section will be substantially complete by the end of the first quarter in 2020, except for Bond Street and Whitechapel stations where work will continue.\n\n\"We will provide Londoners with further certainty about when the Elizabeth line will open early in 2020.\"\n\nThe delay will allow more time to complete software development and allow safety systems to be tested.\n\nJust weeks ago I spoke to businesses up and down the Crossrail line and there was very little confidence with anything they were being told by the company.\n\nWell they were right. We are getting a drip-drip of delay and uncertainty.\n\nCrossrail's hopeful \"opening window\" of between October 2020 and March 2021 just got slammed shut. Now it'll open \"as soon as possible in 2021\".\n\nAnd then there's the extra cost. I suspect that will again come from London businesses through the precept, which was meant to be earmarked for other transport projects like the second phase of Crossrail.\n\nYes, this will be an incredible project when it's finished. But at the moment businesses will despair.\n\nThe line will make use of some existing track, but involves 26 miles of new tunnels connecting Paddington and Liverpool Street stations to improve rail capacity crossing the capital.\n\nEventually it will connect London to Reading and Shenfield.\n\nMike Cherry, chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the delay to the service is \"fast-becoming a national embarrassment\".\n\nHe said: \"Another delay to Crossrail is disappointing to see and will leave a sour taste in the mouths of businesses and commuters who had been preparing for the start of the service in 2020.\"\n\nMr Khan said he was \"deeply frustrated\" by the new delay.\n\nA spokesman for the Mayor said \"Further work is taking place immediately to assess Crossrail's latest cost estimates.\n\n\"TfL and the Department for Transport, as joint sponsors, will continue to hold the Crossrail leadership to account to ensure it is doing everything it can to open Crossrail safely and as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe Elizabeth Line had been due to open in December 2018\n\nAn estimated 200 million passengers will use the new underground line annually, increasing central London rail capacity by 10% - the largest increase since World War Two.\n\nCrossrail says the new line will connect Paddington to Canary Wharf in 17 minutes.\n\nIn May, Crossrail was criticised by the National Audit Office for running late and over budget, suggesting that bosses had clung to an unrealistic opening date.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"It is only over the last year that the new Crossrail leadership has established the full complexity of finishing the software development and signalling systems, while getting the necessary safety approvals to complete the railway.\n\n\"Full testing is due to get under way next year and there can be no shortcuts on this hugely complex project.\"", "Jeff Sessions appeared on Fox News shortly after confirming his run (file photo)\n\nFormer US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced he is entering the Republican Party race to reclaim his former Senate seat in Alabama.\n\nPresident Donald Trump fired his top law official last year after a protracted feud over the inquiry into 2016 election meddling, which Mr Sessions declined to oversee.\n\nMr Sessions, 72, held his Senate seat for two decades before serving as AG.\n\nMr Trump is expected to campaign against him.\n\nIn a statement announcing his run, Mr Sessions reiterated his support for the president despite their public \"ups and downs\".\n\n\"When I left President Trump's cabinet, did I write a tell-all book? No. Did I go on CNN and attack the president? No. Have I said a cross word about President Trump? No,\" a press release on his website said.\n\n\"And I'll tell you why: first, that would be dishonourable. I was there to serve his agenda, not mine. Second, the president is doing a great job for America and Alabama, and he has my strong support.\"\n\nMr Sessions also described himself in the statement as still being Mr Trump's \"strongest advocate\", in spite of being publicly ridiculed by the president.\n\nMr Sessions was the first US senator to endorse Mr Trump for president\n\nThe former senator is entering an already crowded race to seek the state's Republican nomination for the 2020 general election.\n\nAmong those who have announced their intention to run is former Chief Justice Roy Moore, 72, who lost the special election for Mr Sessions' seat in December 2017.\n\nMr Moore had been expected to win but his campaign was dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls.\n\nHe eventually lost out to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a US Senate seat in the deeply conservative state for 25 years.\n\nAn attack advert released hours after Mr Sessions launched his campaign told Alabama voters to \"say no to traitor Jeff\".\n\nThe video, funded by supporters of Tommy Tuberville, US football coach also running for the Senate seat, showed a speech by Mr Trump saying: \"He's bad, he's a bad, bad guy\".\n\nAsked about Mr Sessions on Friday, Mr Trump told reporters: \"I heard he said very nice things about me last night. I have to see. I haven't made a determination.\"\n\n\"You have some good people in Alabama,\" he said referring to other candidates. \"We'll see what happens.\"\n\nMr Trump said he would not campaign against Mr Sessions.\n\nMr Sessions is a lifelong conservative who worked as a lawyer and served in the US Army reserves before entering the political stage.\n\nHe became attorney general in Alabama - his home state - in 1994 and joined the Senate two years later.\n\nHe was also the first US senator to endorse Mr Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeff Sessions was an early Trump supporter, but their relationship soured long before he was asked to resign\n\nDuring his time in Congress, Mr Sessions was an outspoken opponent of liberalising drug laws, gay marriage and immigration.\n\nDespite remaining deeply popular in Alabama, he resigned from his post in the Senate in 2017 to become Mr Trump's first attorney general.\n\nIn March 2017, Mr Sessions recused himself from overseeing the Department of Justice's independent probe into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election after it emerged he had met Russia's ambassador during the campaign.\n\nThe decision was criticised by Mr Trump, who blamed it for the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel by Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.\n\nMr Sessions was the butt of many presidential barbs - in August 2018 Mr Trump tweeted that his attorney general was \"scared stiff and missing in action\".\n\nMr Sessions was forced to resign less than three months later. A letter confirming the move made clear that the decision to go was not his own.", "Diane Abbott is facing criticism for posting a \"misleading\" tweet, which has been shared widely across social media and even used in Labour-affiliated advertising.\n\nThe shadow home secretary compared the media coverage of ex-Labour MP Ian Austin saying he would vote for the Conservatives with the coverage of former Tory MP Ken Clarke when he spoke of being conflicted about voting for his old party in the election.\n\nShe tweeted: \"Ian Austin, one year as a junior minister at DCLG, says he won't vote for Labour. Wall-to-wall coverage. Ken Clarke, nine years as secretary of state, including as chancellor, says he won't vote for the Conservatives. Silence. Balanced election coverage?\"\n\nAccording to independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact, Ms Abbott's tweet is incorrect and misleading.\n\n\"While it's true that the two sets of comments received different levels of media attention, Ms Abbott's phrasing doesn't portray them entirely accurately, overstating what Ken Clarke said and implying the two sets of comments to be more similar than they are,\" it said.\n\n\"Mr Austin didn't just say he personally wouldn't vote Labour this election… he explicitly called on Labour voters to vote for the Conservatives. Meanwhile Ken Clarke did not say he 'won't vote for the Conservatives'.\n\n\"He did say that it was a possibility that he would not, but that it would depend on the campaign the Conservative party ran, and that he did not expect them to run a campaign which would cost them his vote.\"\n\nThe Labour Party declined to comment and has not removed the post from any of its platforms.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Ms Abbott's team, but they have not respond to calls or emails.\n\nMs Abbott's twitter account has 290,000 followers and her tweet has, so far, received more than 17,500 retweets and 44,000 likes on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Austin: Jeremy Corbyn is \"completely unfit to lead our country\"\n\nDespite criticism of it by Full Fact, an image of the tweet was shared by the official Labour Party Instagram account. The account has 90,000 followers, and the post has so far attracted more than 6,200 likes and almost 300 comments.\n\nIt has also been shared on Facebook by Ms Abbott, as well as Labour supporting groups, receiving around 4,000 interactions.\n\nThe tweet is also being used as a paid-for advert on Facebook and Instagram, funded by a Labour-affiliated group called Labour Future.\n\nThe organisation says on its website it is a group at \"the cutting edge of modern campaigning\", and it is working with Labour to \"add value\" and help the party win the election.\n\nMr Clarke suggested his support for his party could not be taken for granted\n\nFull Fact says Mr Clarke's comments appeared to come from a Channel 4 interview on 1 November when he said his voting Conservative next month was \"not as certain as it has been in previous elections\".\n\nHe suggested his support depended on what sort of campaign the party ran.\n\n\"If we really do make ourselves the Brexit Party under our brand, my loyalty is going to be strained absolutely,\" he said.\n\n\"I am not voting for some crazy right-wing nationalist organisation calling themselves a Conservative government - but that, I think, is laying it on a bit. I don't think that's where we'll wind up.\"\n\nThe former chancellor, who is standing down from Parliament after nearly 50 years, prefaced his statement by telling his interviewer: \"I'm slightly teasing you and myself.\"", "The court heard Ellie Gould was a keen horse rider who talked of joining the mounted police\n\nA teenager stabbed his ex-girlfriend repeatedly in the neck in a \"frenzied attack\" before trying to make it appear her wounds were self-inflicted.\n\nThomas Griffiths admitted murdering Ellie Gould, 17, at her home in Calne, Wiltshire, in May, after she ended their relationship.\n\nGriffiths, now aged 18, went to the schoolgirl's home, killed her and then left her hand on the knife handle.\n\nHe was jailed for a minimum of 12 and a half years at Bristol Crown Court.\n\nCarole Gould said there was nothing in Griffiths' behaviour before her daughter's death that \"would ring alarm bells\".\n\n\"We welcomed him into our home. We ate dinner with him,\" she said.\n\nThe packed courtroom heard the night before Griffiths murdered her, Ellie had told friends they had broken up and he had \"not taken it well\".\n\nThe pair were A-level students at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham, had known each other since Year 7, and been in a relationship for three months.\n\nThomas Griffiths was 17 when he killed Ellie in her family home\n\nGriffiths walked out of school on the morning of 3 May and drove to Ellie's home in Springfield Drive.\n\nThere he attempted to strangle her, before stabbing her 13 times in the neck with a knife taken from the kitchen.\n\n\"Griffiths became angry, perhaps by Ellie's continued rejection of him, and he attacked her,\" prosecutor Richard Smith QC said.\n\nA statement was read out in court from Ellie's father, Matt Gould, who found her lying on the kitchen floor with the knife still in her neck.\n\nHe said it was \"the most frightening, horrific and saddest scene I have ever experienced\" and it \"fills my thoughts all day\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEvidence suggested Griffiths had put Ellie's hand on the weapon to make it look like she had done it to herself.\n\nThe court heard Griffiths spent an hour at the house before he drove home, changed his clothes and dumped a bag of items taken from Ellie's house in a wood.\n\nLater that day he sent a series of \"fake\" messages to friends and to Ellie's mobile phone asking if she wanted to meet.\n\nGriffiths also told friend marks on his neck were caused by self-harm but the court heard they most likely caused by his \"young victim fighting for her life\".\n\nEllie Gould told friends Griffiths had \"not taken their break-up well\"\n\nSentencing him, Judge Mr Justice Garnham told Griffiths his actions had been a \"frenzied knife attack\" and \"the most appalling act\" on a \"vulnerable young woman in her own home where she should have been safe\".\n\nHe said Ellie had \"tried desperately to fight back, scratching frantically at your neck\" and \"most chilling is that you left her on the kitchen floor with the knife still in her neck and with her left hand on the knife\".\n\nThe judge told Griffiths it was one of several steps he had taken to \"cover your tracks\".\n\n\"There can be no more dreadful scene for any parent to contemplate than that which confronted Ellie's father when he came home that day from work,\" Mr Justice Garnham said.\n\nThe court had previously heard Ellie was a keen horse rider who competed in local shows and cross-country events, and talked of joining the mounted police.\n\nThe judge told Griffiths: \"The effects of your actions have not only snuffed out the life of this talented girl... but loaded pain on her friends and family.\"\n\nThe court was told that following his guilty plea in August, Griffiths, of Derry Hill, Wiltshire, had written a letter outlining his \"heartfelt remorse\".\n\nIn it, he said: \"I feel confused and angry at myself that I was able to hurt someone so special to me.\"\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive, Calne\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Taylor of Wiltshire Police said Griffiths ended Ellie's life \"in the cruellest way imaginable\" and \"destroyed the lives of those who were close to her\".\n\n\"While I know that this prison sentence will not bring Ellie back, and 12 and a half years no doubt seems insignificant given the severity of this crime and the colossal loss for this family, I hope that in some way it provides them with some form of closure,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Welsh Tories have said they are \"deeply sorry\" for the circumstances around a collapsed rape trial involving a former aide to Alun Cairns.\n\nRoss England caused the case's collapse when he gave evidence a judge had ruled inadmissible.\n\nEight months later he was selected to stand for the Conservatives in the 2021 Welsh Assembly elections.\n\nA spokeswoman said the party was sorry for the distress caused to the victim at the centre of the trial.\n\nA row over what Mr Cairns knew about the collapse of the court case led to his decision to quit as Welsh secretary on Wednesday.\n\nMr England had been accused by a crown court judge of sabotage.\n\nThe defendant James Hackett, a friend of Mr England's, was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.\n\nOn Thursday morning Lord Davies of Gower, who has been the chairman of the party in Wales since 2017, said he \"deeply regrets\" the situation has arisen but added: \"There will be an apology if I find out that one should be forthcoming.\"\n\nFollowing the interview a statement was sent to BBC Wales in which a party spokeswoman said: \"We are deeply sorry for the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the trial and the deep distress this must have caused the victim, her family and friends.\n\n\"Mr England has been suspended from the party and a full investigation is under way.\n\n\"We are proud to support the many women who work for or engage with our party and employ a strict ethical code for staff and volunteers as part of our human resource strategy.\"\n\nIn evidence to the April 2018 trial Mr England made claims of a casual sexual relationship with the victim, which she has denied.\n\nThe judge Stephen John Hopkins had earlier told the trial that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nHe told Mr England: \"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nRoss England has been suspended as a candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan at the assembly election\n\nMr Cairns, the Conservative general election candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan, had claimed he did not know about Mr England's involvement in the collapse of the trial until last week.\n\nHe resigned from the cabinet after BBC Wales obtained an email from August 2018 that had been sent to him discussing the case.\n\nIn his resignation letter Mr Cairns said: \"I will co-operate in full with the investigation under the ministerial code which will now take place and I am confident I will be cleared of any breach or wrong doing.\"\n\nDavid TC Davies, the party's candidate for Monmouth, said he did not believe Mr England should be eligible to stand as a candidate for the Welsh assembly elections.\n\nOther candidates standing in the Vale of Glamorgan include Belinda Loveluck-Edwards for Welsh Labour and Anthony Slaughter for the Wales Green Party.\n\nThe close of nominations is 14 November.", "Video caption: Remembrance Day: D-Day veteran and schoolboy on what it means to them\n\nRemembrance Day: D-Day veteran and schoolboy on what it means to them", "SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is grilled by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg on Scottish independence, Brexit and whether she would be willing to form an alliance with Labour's Jeremy Corbyn.", "The SNP leader has made her conditions clear for supporting a minority Labour government\n\nThis election is happening because of Brexit. For good or for ill, the Parliament of 2017 to 2019 failed to come to a conclusion.\n\nSo the still new prime minister decided that the best way for him to achieve his desired departure from the EU was to go again to the country, disappointing Brenda from Bristol, and giving anxiety to the organisers of nativity plays, Christmas fairs, and carol singers - that's even before you start considering the implosion of political operatives looking for ways of running a campaign in the cold and dark of the winter months when, as today's floods are demonstrating, the weather can't be relied on to play ball for balmy summer evenings on the doorstep.\n\nBefore the campaign is even a week old, however, it is squarely also about another massive constitutional issue - whether the UK stays as one, or Scotland has another chance to choose to go its own way.\n\nWithout obsessing about the potential permutations of a hung Parliament, the polls suggest that neither of the main big tribes are on their way to a thumping majority.\n\nAnd that means at this stage, it is relevant to think about the what ifs, and the politicians certainly are.\n\nAt the SNP's campaign launch today it was striking how explicit First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was about how she might play a powerful hand if there is no overall clear winner on the morning of Friday 13th.\n\nEssentially, she has named her price. Even though she has previously branded Jeremy Corbyn \"pitifully ineffective\" and \"not credible as an alternative prime minister\", the SNP leader told us today that she would be willing to work with him on an \"issue by issue\" basis as long as he gave her an in-principle commitment to holding another referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nImportantly, Ms Sturgeon softened her previous insistence that this would have to happen immediately, suggesting that as long as a potential Corbyn government was willing to commit to letting it happen that would be enough.\n\nPrevious Labour leaders have said no way, as plenty of Labour candidates still do. Senior figures like Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry were quick to say after Ms Sturgeon's comments that there had been no deal, and there won't be.\n\nThe 2014 referendum was meant to be a \"once in a generation\" (remember when politicians used to give those kind of promises?!) decision.\n\nBut both Jeremy Corbyn and his right-hand man John McDonnell have given strong signals, that they would not stand in the way of the SNP pushing for another vote, just not in the first year of a potential Labour government.\n\nBut we've seen today the two sides may be lining up to hypothetically make it happen if there is a hung Parliament. Ms Sturgeon is not insisting any more it would have to happen straight away and Mr Corbyn is not insisting that it could never happen.\n\nAnd so, while there are plenty of other issues in this election of course, it's clear one of the possible outcomes leads Scotland again to having the choice of leaving the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson is hoping talk of another vote in Scotland will drive unionist support to his party\n\nThe Tories were already campaigning with claims that somehow the SNP and the Labour Party were in cahoots somehow.\n\nWhile that was denied, and there is even today nothing official about any arrangement, the First Minister's comments have done the Conservatives a big favour, especially in Scotland where unionist voters who do not like the Tories conceptually one bit, might yet be tempted to vote for them because they don't want another Scottish referendum.\n\nThat was a big reason why, in 2017, the Tories surged (relatively!) to 13 seats, and it may help them hang on to more of their seats on the green benches this time round.\n\nAnd across the UK it gives the Tories more ammunition to back up their accusation that a vote for Jeremy Corbyn could mean more political uncertainty - another referendum on our membership of the EU, and possibly another vote on the UK too.\n\nOf course any of this only comes to pass in the event that neither the Tories nor the Labour Party can form a government on their own. But given the state of the polls, it's a potential scenario, and just as in 2015, the chatter about that potential situation is a factor in the campaign itself, and the SNP are determined to make it so too.\n\nOur messy national struggle over the EU has frustrated politicians and voters alike for three years now. And while some SNP members are wildly enthusiastic about it, there are plenty of people here too who think another referendum on independence would be a disaster.\n\nBut in Scotland it's hard to talk about one, without talking about the other. Brexit is the reason for this election. But with no obvious route to a comfortable majority for either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn, the future shape of the whole UK is now slap bang in the middle of the campaign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detective Inspector Perry Benton explains how the Met Police pieced together evidence to catch Jodie's killers\n\nTwo teenagers have been found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Jodie Chesney in a park in east London.\n\nJodie was stabbed in the back in a case of mistaken identity as she socialised with friends in Harold Hill on 1 March.\n\nDrug dealer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, and a 17-year-old boy were both convicted of murder following an eight-week trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, of Romford, and a 16-year-old boy were both cleared of murder and manslaughter.\n\nThe jury spent less than six hours deliberating their verdicts on all four defendants.\n\nJudge Wendy Joseph QC said Ong-a-Kwie and the 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would be sentenced on 18 November.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie was one of two people to be found guilty of Jodie's murder\n\nFollowing the guilty verdicts, Det Ch Insp Dave Whellams, of Scotland Yard, said the murder of \"girl next door\" Jodie had \"shocked a nation\".\n\nHe added: \"It could have been anybody's daughter. She was a very nice girl, she had a small circle of friends, she did well at school, worked in the community.\n\n\"They have gone there purposefully to stab somebody and they have not cared who they stabbed. They stabbed a 17-year-old girl in the back for no reason.\"\n\nThe 17-year-old was stabbed once in the back while she was socialising with friends in Amy's Park\n\nThroughout the trial it was never disputed that Ong-a-Kwie and the teenager were the two people who went into Amy's Park on the night Jodie was stabbed.\n\nThe pair blamed each other for the stabbing, while Ong-a-Kwie admitted burning his clothes with a cigarette lighter.\n\nJurors heard Jodie had her back to her attackers and the knife almost passed right through her body.\n\nAfter being stabbed the teenager screamed and fell into the arms of her boyfriend Eddie Coyle, the court was told.\n\nFrantic efforts were made to save her but she was pronounced dead in a petrol station in Gants Hill about an hour later.\n\nJodie's boyfriend Eddie Coyle described the motion the attacker used to stab her\n\nFollowing the verdict, Peter Chesney said his daughter's murder had \"destroyed my life\".\n\n\"I have no idea how I am going to continue with my life or even come to terms with the loss,\" he said.\n\nJodie's sister Lucy wrote in a victim impact statement that she had been \"dreading my life rather than looking forward to it\" following the 17-year-old's death.\n\n\"Jodie was not only my sister she was my best friend. Losing her is like losing half of myself.\"\n\nShe added that she was now \"anxious about everything\" as \"if someone as good and pure as Jodie could be murdered, it could happen to anyone and I spend everywhere I go looking over my shoulder because of it\".\n\nWitnesses described Amy's Park as being \"very dark\" at the time of the attack\n\nProsecutor Crispin Aylett QC told the jury Jodie was \"a victim of a brutal act of unprovoked violence\".\n\nHe described the girl's death as \"another example\" of the \"terrible consequences of the carrying and using of knives\".\n\n\"It seems every day now in our city another young life is lost to a knife,\" he said.\n\nDuring his evidence, Mr Petrovic admitted driving the group to Harold Hill but denied any knowledge of what happened in Amy's Park.\n\nHe told jurors he was \"glad he was arrested because he had nothing to hide\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nigel Farage: \"We are the challengers here in south Wales\"\n\nNigel Farage has said the Brexit Party will try \"for a few more days\" to agree an electoral pact with the Tories.\n\nCampaigning in south Wales, he said his party would beat Labour in \"many constituencies\" in the region if the Conservatives withdrew from the field.\n\nBut he also denounced Boris Johnson's deal with the EU as \"not Brexit\", calling it a \"short term political fix\" to win December's general election.\n\nHe also challenged the prime minister to a head-to-head debate on the deal.\n\nThe event took place on Friday in Little Mill near Pontypool, just over the border from the Labour-held constituency of Torfaen but located in the Tory-held constituency of Monmouth.\n\nSpeaking at a village hall, Mr Farage had this message for Mr Johnson: \"If you really believe that this is a great new deal, or as you said in the last couple of days a fantastic deal, if you are really trying to tell the British public this gets Brexit done, let's have a civilised head-to-head debate on what this EU treaty means and I'd be only be too happy to stand with Boris to talk this through.\"\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson rejected suggestions that he should work with the Brexit Party during the election.\n\nPlaid Cymru, Liberal Democrats and the Greens have agreed a pro-EU electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nRepeating his call for a leave alliance, Mr Farage said: \"if that leave alliance was put to the country it would win a very big majority\".\n\nBoris Johnson said last week he was \"always grateful for advice\" but would not enter into pacts\n\nMr Farage denied trying to split the vote and accused the Conservative Party of not wanting to come to \"any sort of accommodation\".\n\n\"I'm going to go on trying for a few more days and make the point that in Torfaen, and other constituencies here in south Wales, the Conservatives haven't won for a hundred years,\" he said.\n\n\"And they're not going to win here on 12 December, there is no chance of them winning.\n\n\"So I would make this urgent plea to Boris Johnson and others - don't split the Brexit Party vote here in south Wales.\n\n\"We are the challengers here in south Wales and if you're not in the field we will beat Labour in many of these constituencies.\"\n\nMr Farage said the prime minister should ditch his Brexit deal because \"it's not Brexit, it's a short term political fix and an attempt to win a general election\".\n\nHe urged Mr Johnson to \"make it clear that we absolutely have to leave\" the EU \"at some point in 2020, with or without any form of deal\".\n\nThat deal \"must be a trade deal, not one based on regulatory and political alignment\", he added.\n\nNigel Farage and MEP Nathan Gill meeting voters in Merthyr Tydfil ahead of May's European elections\n\nMr Farage said his party was ready to fight all the Welsh seats, if there was no pact with the Conservatives.\n\nAsked earlier on BBC Radio Wales how many seats his party would win, Mr Farage said: \"I've no idea. Do you know, when I launched the campaign for the European elections, going back to April this year, I had no idea how we would do.\n\n\"We comfortably topped the poll in Wales, coming first in many, many seats.\"\n\nAsked if he would publish an election manifesto, Mr Farage said he would produce what he called a \"contract with the British people\".\n\nHe said it was 95% ready and the party would launch it in the next few weeks.\n\nLaunched just seven months ago, the Brexit Party has four Welsh Assembly members, who were previously members of UKIP, the party Mr Farage used to lead.\n\nThere are also two Welsh Brexit Party MEPs.", "Wearing glasses at work has become an emotive topic in Japan following reports that some firms have told female employees to remove them.\n\nSeveral local news outlets said some companies had \"banned\" eyewear for female employees for various reasons.\n\nAmong them, some retail chains reportedly said glasses-wearing shop assistants gave a \"cold impression\".\n\nThat has sparked heated discussion on Japanese social media over dress practices and women in the workplace.\n\nThe Nippon TV network and Business Insider were among the outlets to report on the issue, which looked at how firms in different industries prohibit women from wearing glasses.\n\nThey included safety reasons for airline workers, or being unable to see make-up properly for women working in the beauty sector.\n\nIt was not clear whether the so-called \"bans\" were based on company policies, or rather reflected what was socially accepted practice in those workplaces.\n\nBut the topic has led to heated debates on social media.\n\nThe hashtag \"glasses are forbidden\" has been popular in Japan and the topic continued to attract tweets on Friday.\n\nKumiko Nemoto, professor of sociology at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, said people in Japan were reacting to the \"outdated\" policies.\n\nShe said: \"The reasons why women are not supposed to wear glasses... really don't make sense. It's all about gender. It's pretty discriminatory.\"\n\nShe added that the reports reflected \"old, traditional Japanese\" thinking.\n\n\"It's not about how women do their work. The company... values the women's appearance as being feminine and that's opposite to someone who wears glasses,\" Prof Nemoto said.\n\nThe discussion has echoes of a recent workplace controversy in Japan over high heels.\n\nActor and writer Yumi Ishikawa launched a petition calling for Japan to end dress codes after being made to wear high heels while working at a funeral parlour.\n\nThe movement attracted a stream of support and a strong social media following.\n\nSupporters tweeted the petition alongside the hashtag #KuToo in solidarity with her cause, mirroring the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse.\n\nThe slogan plays on the Japanese words for shoes \"kutsu\" and pain \"kutsuu\".\n\nYumi Ishikawa submitted her petition to the Japanese government in June\n\nCampaigners say that wearing high heels is seen as obligatory when applying for jobs.\n\nSupporters were further aggravated after a Japanese minister said it is \"necessary\" for companies to enforce dress codes that mandated high heels.\n\nProf Nemoto said there continues to be discussion by women in Japan \"criticising the high heel\" policies.\n\n\"Women are evaluated mostly on their appearance,\" she said. \"That's the message that these policies are sending, at least.\"\n\nHave you ever been told what to wear or not to wear at work? You can share your experience by emailing katie.hope@bbc.co.uk .\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Pham Thi Tra My, 26, and Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, were among the victims\n\nThe names of all 39 Vietnamese nationals who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex have been released by police.\n\nTen teenagers, including two 15-year-old boys, were among the victims.\n\nTheir bodies were found in a lorry trailer in an industrial park in Grays on 23 October.\n\nEssex coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray said: \"May I take this opportunity to offer my deepest condolences to the victims' families.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Smith said: \"This was an incredibly important process and our team has been working hard to bring answers to worried families who fear their loved one may be among those whose tragic journey ended on our shores.\n\n\"Our priority has been to identify the victims, to preserve the dignity of those who have died and to support the victims' friends and families.\"\n\nBui Thi Nhung, 19, from Nghe An province, was also found dead in the lorry\n\nThe bodies were discovered in a lorry trailer in the early hours of 23 October\n\nPham Thi Tra My, 26, sent her family a message on the night of 22 October - the day before the 39 people were found dead - saying she could not breathe and her \"trip to a foreign land has failed\".\n\nLe Minh Tuan, the father of 30-year-old Le Van Ha, who comes from an agricultural part of Vietnam, previously told the BBC he was convinced his son was among the dead.\n\nThe process of identifying those who died in the container has taken just over two weeks.\n\nAn Identification Commission, overseen by the coroner for Essex, used fingerprints, DNA, dental records and distinctive body markings such as tattoos and scars to confirm the victims' names.\n\nMost of those who died were in their 20s and 30s; there were 10 teenagers; and two were in their early 40s. Eight were women.\n\nAll the victims came from central or northern Vietnam.\n\nPolice say the authorities are now discussing arrangements for the bodies to be repatriated.\n\nThe bodies were found on the Waterglade Industrial Estate in a container which had been shipped to nearby Purfleet from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nLorry driver Maurice Robinson, from Northern Ireland, has appeared in court charged with offences including 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nExtradition proceedings have also begun against 22-year-old Eamonn Harrison, who was arrested in Dublin on a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nPolice are also seeking two brothers from Northern Ireland, Ronan and Christopher Hughes, who are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.\n\nThere have been 11 arrests in two provinces of Vietnam in connection with the deaths.\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.\n• None Essex lorry deaths: What we know\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Risto Mattila photographed the \"ice eggs\" on Hailuoto Island on Sunday\n\nThousands of egg-shaped balls of ice have covered a beach in Finland, the result of a rare weather phenomenon.\n\nAmateur photographer Risto Mattila was among those who came across the \"ice eggs\" on Hailuoto Island in the Gulf of Bothnia between Finland and Sweden.\n\nExperts say it is caused by a rare process in which small pieces of ice are rolled over by wind and water.\n\nMr Mattila, from the nearby city of Oulu, told the BBC he had never seen anything like it before.\n\n\"I was with my wife at Marjaniemi beach. The weather was sunny, about -1C (30F) and it was quite a windy day,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"There we found this amazing phenomenon. There was snow and ice eggs along the beach near the water line.\"\n\nMr Mattila said the balls of ice covered an area of about 30m (100ft). The smallest were the size of eggs and the biggest were the size of footballs.\n\n\"That was an amazing view. I have never seen anything like this during 25 years living in the vicinity,\" Mr Mattila said.\n\n\"Since I had a camera with me I decided to preserve this unusual sight for posterity.\"\n\nBBC Weather expert George Goodfellow said conditions needed to be cold and a bit windy for the ice balls to form.\n\n\"The general picture is that they form from pieces of larger ice sheet which then get jostled around by waves, making them rounder,\" he said.\n\n\"They can grow when sea water freezes on to their surfaces and this also helps to make them smoother. So the result is a ball of smooth ice which can then get deposited on to a beach, either blown there or getting left there when the tide goes out.\"\n\nSimilar sights have been reported before, including in Russia and on Lake Michigan near Chicago.\n\nIn 2016 residents of Nyda in Siberia found giant balls of ice and snow covering an 18km (11-mile) stretch of coastline.\n\nThey ranged from the size of a tennis ball to almost 1m (3ft) across.\n\nThe giant balls of ice and snow amazed villagers in Nyda, on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia", "Parts of northern England have endured a month's worth of rain in 24 hours, forcing many to leave their homes.\n\nMore than 100 flood warnings are in place across England. The Environment Agency (EA) has urged people to take them seriously.\n\nFive severe warnings - meaning a danger to life - are in place along the River Don in Doncaster.\n\nHere are pictures of some of the affected areas.\n\nIn Worksop, residents from 25 homes were told to leave after parts of the town centre flooded.\n\nResidents in Rotherham have been told to stay at home and not leave unless asked to do so by emergency services. Some have been taken to safety by boats.\n\nFlood water covered the rail tracks at Rotherham Central train station (below).\n\nSome shops in Rotherham have been flooded.\n\nRail lines around the New York Stadium in Rotherham are blocked due to flooding.\n\nIn Derbyshire, the River Derwent at Chatsworth has reached its highest recorded level and council workers have been putting up sandbags around Matlock and Matlock Bath, where the river is \"dangerously high\".\n\nThe River Derwent in Belper (above and below) burst its banks.\n\nShortly after midnight, Sheffield City Council declared a major incident, saying there was \"some water\" coming over the top of the River Don's defences.\n\nDozens of people spent the night in a shopping centre in Sheffield after torrential downpours flooded the city's streets.\n\nPeople bedded down on benches and chairs in the Meadowhall centre, while others tried throughout the night to get home in cars or taxis.\n\nThe River Don (seen below in Kirk Sandall) has hit its highest recorded level, currently at just over 6.3m, higher than it was in 2007 when it also flooded.\n\nThe River Don was close to bursting its banks in Barnby Dun, near Doncaster (below).", "Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has launched the Scottish National Party's election campaign in Edinburgh.\n\nShe made a few claims worth looking at - the first was about the potential impact of Brexit on Scotland.\n\nTalking about the prospect of the UK leaving the European Union's (EU) single market and customs union, she said: \"Economic analysis says that it will cost every person in Scotland £1,600\".\n\nThe single market is the agreement between EU countries that provides for free movement of people, goods, services and capital, while also having the same regulations about things like food safety, transport and packaging.\n\nThe customs union is an agreement to have no taxes charged on trade between EU countries, while charging the same taxes on things coming from outside the bloc.\n\nThe figure came from a Scottish government assessment in January 2018 (before either Theresa May's or Boris Johnson's deals).\n\nIt estimated that leaving the single market and customs union would mean Scotland's GDP (the value of the total output of the country) would be 6.1% lower by 2030 than it would have been if the UK had stayed in the EU.\n\nIt predicted that would knock £9bn off Scottish output (in 2016 pounds), which it divided by the population of Scotland to get about £1,600 per person.\n\nSo it's saying that GDP per person would be £1,600 lower than it would otherwise have been in 11 years, but that's not the same as costing each individual £1,600.\n\nGDP includes other things like company profits, some of which could go to shareholders outside Scotland. GDP per head does feed into average income, but it is not necessarily on a one-to-one basis.\n\nTo be clear, almost all economic analysis predicts that, over this sort of time period, leaving the customs union and the single market would mean GDP would be lower than it would have been if the UK had stayed in the EU.\n\nBut the £1,600 per person figure is unhelpful.\n\nYou can read more about this from the BBC's Scotland economics editor Douglas Fraser here.\n\nThe first minister also said: \"We have the best performing accident and emergency services anywhere in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nHealth is a devolved power, and each nation expects 95% of patients to be treated or admitted in four hours.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is right to say that performance against this target was better in Scotland than in the rest of the UK in 2018-19 - when 91.2% of patients were treated or admitted in that time - but Scotland still missed its target.\n\nThe figure compares with 88% in England, 80% in Wales and 69.9% Northern Ireland.\n\nScotland is also the most recent nation to have hit the target, which it achieved in the summer of 2017.\n\nYou can read more about it in this piece from last year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDozens of people have been evacuated from their homes in Nottinghamshire following flooding and a landslide.\n\nIn Worksop, residents from 25 homes were told to leave after parts of the town centre flooded.\n\nAnd 35 homes were evacuated from Berry Hill Quarry, Mansfield, after part of the cliff behind it gave way, burying gardens in mud.\n\nNo injuries have been reported and the district council have offered residents emergency accommodation.\n\nBoats have been used in Worksop town centre to help evacuate flooded premises\n\nA \"major incident\" has been declared in Worksop, councillor Simon Greaves, of Bassetlaw District Council, told the BBC.\n\nAn emergency rest centre has been set up at the town's Leisure Centre to help those affected.\n\nFirefighters had to use a boat to rescue \"a large number of people\" in the town, they said.\n\nBoats have been used in Worksop town centre to help evacuate flooded premises\n\nIt was originally reported by police that 300 people were evacuated, but Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service later clarified that it was only 25 homes, with 65 others offered the chance to move.\n\nHundreds were contacted to check they were safe, the fire service said.\n\nResidents from 28 properties in Mansfield have been told it is still unsafe for them to return home following the mudslide.\n\nThe evacuation was ordered shortly before 17:00 GMT after part of a cliff gave way at Berry Hill Quarry .\n\nMansfield District Council said emergency accommodation was provided for a family of four and three couples, while others have stayed with family and friends.\n\nResident Natalie Palmer said: \"Me and my daughter were in the living room when we heard a really loud noise and looked out of the window.\n\n\"We realised the cliff was coming down and for a moment it looked like it was all going to come down. We were really worried.\"\n\nParts of Worksop are still underwater this morning\n\nThe region has seen persistent rainfall for days.\n\nA number of roads are closed, including the A1 northbound between Newark and Worksop and between Blyth and Doncaster, the A617 in both directions between Chesterfield and the M1, the A6 near Rowsley and Matlock Bath, and the A61 in Chesterfield.\n\nIn Derbyshire, the River Derwent at Chatsworth has reached its highest recorded level and council workers have been putting up sandbags around Matlock and Matlock Bath, where the river is \"dangerously high\".\n\nA tractor on the A6 leading into Matlock\n\nResidents have had to bucket water out of their cars around Matlock\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council has declared the situation an \"emergency\", and the Derwent is expected to near for highest level recorded in Matlock Bath which was set more than 50 years ago.\n\nOfficers have already used seven tonnes of sand protecting properties. They had \"virtually ran out\" of sand earlier, but said they would be restocking.\n\nDrivers have been warned not to enter flood water on roads\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The wife of an ex-Conservative MP has been chosen to contest his former seat at the general election.\n\nNatalie Elphicke was selected by Tory members to be the party's candidate in Dover and Deal.\n\nHer husband Charlie Elphicke said he was standing down to fight three charges of sexual assault. He denies any wrongdoing.\n\nMr Elphicke said he regretted having to make way but was determined to clear his name and ensure a fair trial.\n\nMr Elphicke, who has held the Kent seat since 2010, lost the Conservative whip this summer after being charged with three counts of sexual assault against two women.\n\nWhile he continued to sit in Parliament as an independent, as he no longer had the party whip he was not eligible to fight the seat again as a Conservative.\n\nHe won the constituency for a third time in 2017 with a majority of 6,437\n\nA lawyer by training and housing expert, Natalie Elphicke is chief executive of the Housing and Finance Institute, set up by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government in 2013.\n\nShe has sat on the board of the Principality Building Society and Student Loans Company. She is also a former director of the Conservative Party's national policy forum.\n\nShe received an OBE in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to housing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Natalie Elphicke OBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKeith Single, chairman of the local Conservative association, said he was saddened by Mr Elphicke's decision to stand down but respected his reasons for doing so and remained fully supportive of him.\n\n\"We have always supported him because we believe in the principle of innocence unless proven otherwise,\" he said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, these protracted events have unfolded in a way that meant Charlie did not get the chance to clear his name before this election.\"\n\nHe said the association thought \"carefully\" before selecting Natalie Elphicke to succeed her husband but he believed she was an \"outstanding\" candidate who would make a first-class MP.\n\nMrs Elphicke said she was looking forward, if elected, to building on her husband's achievements.\n\n\"I will fight tirelessly to deliver better healthcare, more jobs and money, better schools, high quality affordable housing, more police on our streets - and stronger, more secure borders,\" she said.\n\nMr Elphicke said he was incredibly proud of what he had achieved for his constituency but his focus was now on proving his innocence.\n\n\"I have been subjected to daily falsehoods and vile abuse - from the malfeasance of cabinet ministers to the malice of Twitter trolls,\" he said.\n\n\"This has had the cumulative effect of jeopardising my right to a fair trial on charges I know to be baseless.\"\n\n\"I would like to thank our Conservative association, my dedicated team of staff, the people of Dover and Deal and my family for their unwavering kindness throughout this difficult time.\"", "A Sheffield business is warning drivers in Sheffield of a large build-up of surface water on the A61.\n\nStaves Estate Agents, on Chesterfield Road, Woodseats shared the video of cars driving through water.\n\nMuch of the area has been affected by the recent heavy rainfall , prompting South Yorkshire Police to warn motorists to \"please drive with caution and reduce speed to allow time to react.\"", "Parts of the cliff face have collapsed into gardens\n\nThirty-five homes have been evacuated in Nottinghamshire after a mudslide.\n\nPolice and fire service crews were called to the former Berry Hill Quarry, Mansfield, just before 17:00 GMT after reports part of a cliff was giving way.\n\nMansfield District Council confirmed it attended Bank End Close \"following concerns for the safety of people living in the houses\".\n\nA number of roads have been closed in the area. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\nEmergency accommodation has been offered to those affected\n\nThe fire service said two crews had been sent to the scene and residents were being evacuated from the area as a precautionary measure.\n\nResident Natalie Palmer said: \"Me and my daughter were in the living room when we heard a really loud noise and looked out of the window.\n\n\"We realised the cliff was coming down and for a moment it looked like it was all going to come down. We were really worried.\"\n\nThe district council said it had offered emergency accommodation to those affected.\n\nThe region has seen heavy rain throughout the day, following days of persistent rainfall.\n\nA number of roads have also been closed in the county, including the A1.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman who was stuck in a flood-hit shopping centre in Sheffield says she saw people buying pyjamas from Primark as they planned to spend the night there.\n\nDozens of people were trapped overnight at Meadowhall and bedded down on benches and chairs after \"Biblical rain\" hit the city on Thursday.\n\nBecky said people were buying \"their own pyjamas from Primark\" to make their overnight stay more comfortable.", "Please ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).", "Tazeen Ahmad on the set of BBC Three's The News Show in 2003\n\nTributes have been paid to journalist and news presenter Tazeen Ahmad, who has died at the age of 48.\n\nAhmad worked for BBC News, Channel 4 Dispatches and as a foreign correspondent for NBC News.\n\nThe Asian Media Awards said she was \"one of the most gifted journalists of her generation\".\n\nHer brothers, Faheem and Nadeem, said \"she left a lasting impression on everyone she met\", both personally and professionally.\n\n\"We remain immensely proud of all she achieved - as a mother, journalist, writer and for her coaching work,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"So many people have been in touch remarking on her powerful ability to turn around people's lives for the better.\n\n\"Her groundbreaking and award-winning television reporting work took her across the world into some of its most troubled areas and, at home in the UK, Tazeen tackled difficult but crucial subjects which resulted in real change.\"\n\nAhmad's brothers added that she died surrounded by her close friends and family.\n\nHer agents, Knight Ayton Management, said the Bafta-nominated Ahmad \"shone a light on important stories but did so with care, sympathy and integrity\".\n\nBroadcaster Adil Ray remembered her as \"extraordinary\", adding that she was \"committed to real, authentic issues & [had] an amazing ability to tell the stories to a wider audience\".\n\nShe co-presented The Truth About Child Sex Abuse on BBC Two with Professor Tanya Byron in 2015\n\nAhmad was a reporter on BBC Three's Liquid News and a presenter for the channel's 60 Seconds bulletins and News Show.\n\nShe later carried out and presented investigations for Dispatches on subjects ranging from sex gangs, female jihadis, beauty creams and cruise ships.\n\nShe won an RTS Journalism award for the documentary The Hunt For Britain's Sex Gangs, earning a Bafta current affairs nomination for the same programme.\n\nShe co-presented The Truth About Child Sex Abuse on BBC Two in 2015, and wrote a book about six months she spent undercover working on supermarket checkouts.\n\nBBC London's Riz Lateef paid tribute to the \"fearless, passionate and kind\" Ahmad, and Radio 4's Aasmah Mir described her as \"a great journalist and a lovely person\".\n\nBBC South Asian correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan wrote: \"Graceful, kind and inspirational, she became a mentor and friend. It meant so much to see a brilliant Asian woman excel. She was a dogged journalist and a role model.\"\n\nOutside journalism, Ahmad was the founder and director of emotional intelligence consultancy EQ Matters.\n\nWorld Service chief Mary Hockaday was head of the Newsroom when Tazeen was on 60 seconds. She said: \"Tazeen was always an engaging and professional broadcaster who brought the news to audiences on BBC Three in a fresh way before becoming an excellent and determined investigative journalist. Our condolences to her family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Christopher (left) and Ronan Hughes are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and human trafficking\n\nHomes belonging to two brothers wanted for questioning about the deaths of 39 people in a lorry in Essex have been searched by the Irish authorities.\n\nRonan and Christopher Hughes have links to Armagh in Northern Ireland and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nTwo County Monaghan homes owned by the pair were among 10 properties searched by Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), according to police sources.\n\nCAB seized vehicles and cash as part of its year-long smuggling investigation.\n\nThe bureau also secured court orders to freeze 20 bank accounts holding about €200,000 in total.\n\nThe CAB investigation is focused on \"a group suspected of being involved in various international smuggling activities\".\n\nHowever, that investigation has \"intensified over the past two weeks\" according to a statement issued by gardaí (Irish police).\n\nTwo lorry tractors and trailers were seized last week as part of the investigation\n\nThe statement, issued on Thursday morning, said the CAB investigation was \"not linked to the ongoing Essex Police investigation\".\n\nHowever, it is understood that the discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry in Essex on 23 October has given added impetus to CAB's long-running investigation into international smuggling.\n\nThe 10 County Monaghan properties searched by CAB staff on Thursday consisted of seven homes and three industrial premises, which were described by gardaí as sheds or yards.\n\nThe items seized during the raids included two BMW cars; a Volkswagen van and a Mitsubishi Shogun.\n\nOne of the cars seized in County Monaghan\n\nCash in different currencies was also found, with CAB seizing €1,400, $900 and £600.\n\nIn addition to the four vehicles seized in Monaghan on Thursday, a Northern Ireland-registered lorry and a Bulgarian-registered lorry were seized at Dublin Port last Tuesday as part of the same investigation.\n\nGarda sources also confirmed that some of the material seized belongs to 40-year-old Ronan Hughes and his 34-year-old brother Christopher.\n\nThe Hughes brothers were identified as suspects in the lorry deaths investigation by Essex Police at the end of last month.\n\nInvestigating officers said at the time the pair were wanted on suspicion of manslaughter of the 39 Vietnamese victims.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the force said all 39 people have been formally identified but their names are not yet being released.\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.\n• None Bodies found in lorry have all been identified", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Part of the ceiling collapsed on Wednesday\n\nA localised water leak caused the ceiling of a West End theatre in London to collapse, an investigation has found.\n\nSeveral people were injured when part of the ceiling fell during a performance of Death of a Salesman at the Piccadilly Theatre on Wednesday.\n\nThe theatre's owners said Westminster City Council had \"deemed the venue safe for use\" and it could now reopen.\n\nFull performances are set to resume on Monday.\n\nAll shows at the theatre had been cancelled for the week, with three special \"scratch\" performances of the play being held at the Young Vic theatre instead.\n\nRescue units were sent to the theatre by London Fire Brigade after the collapse\n\nMore than 1,000 people had to be evacuated from the venue at the time of the collapse.\n\nFour were taken to hospital after three men and two women were treated at the scene by paramedics.\n\nThe Ambassador Theatre Group said permission to return to the theatre had been granted \"provided the affected area is covered and off-limits until repairs are completed\".\n\nIn a statement, it added an annual safety check had taken place at the theatre in February and the venue was also \"undergoing a multi-million pound modernisation and improvement programme\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian authorities say an \"unprecedented\" number of emergency-level bushfires are threatening the state of New South Wales.\n\nMore than 90 blazes were raging across the state on Friday, some of which turned the sky orange.\n\nThere are reports of people trapped in their homes in several places, with crew unable to reach them due to the strength of the fires.\n\nRead more: Record number of emergencies in New South Wales", "Disney+ will be accessible through smart TVs as well as smartphones and tablets\n\nDisney's streaming service, which will include the likes of Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar and National Geographic, is hitting the UK on 31 March.\n\nDisney+ will also arrive in Germany, France, Italy, Spain on the same date, having already soft-launched in the Netherlands.\n\nThe service's biggest launch will be The Mandalorian, Jon Favreau's TV series set in the Star Wars universe.\n\nThe US gets the hotly-anticipated show when Disney+ launches on 12 November.\n\nThe service will eventually be the exclusive home of Star Wars films and other spin-off content\n\nDisney, which will rival services including Apple TV+, Netflix, Amazon Prime and the upcoming Britbox, will feature many staples from its own back catalogue, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi.\n\nThe studio's films have taken $8.3bn (£6.4bn) at box offices worldwide so far this year, and account for about $4 in every $10 spent at North American cinemas. It also spent $70bn on 20th Century Fox in March, so is able to able to incorporate content such as the first 30 seasons of The Simpsons.\n\nBut according to Tech Radar, just seven of the 23 hugely successful Marvel films will be initially available to watch, partly due to rights issues and also because \"it's possible that Disney doesn't want to make its entire Marvel movie catalogue available right away - there are DVD and Blu-ray sales to maintain after all\".\n\nTom Hiddleston's Loki is reprising his role as the god of mischief in the Marvel TV series\n\nDisney+ will be hosting Marvel TV series including Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston, and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, although they're not expected to hit screens until at least next year and beyond.\n\nBut Marvel boss Kevin Feige recently told Bloomberg that Marvel fans will need to watch the Disney+ shows to keep on top of plotlines for the Marvel films.\n\nBloomberg reported: \"If you want to understand everything in future Marvel movies, he says, you'll probably need a Disney+ subscription, because events from the new shows will factor into forthcoming films such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.\n\n\"The Scarlet Witch will be a key character in that movie, and Feige points out that the Loki series will tie in, too. 'I'm not sure we've actually acknowledged that before'.\"\n\nDisney+ will cost: $6.99 in the US per month, but the UK price is yet to be announced.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Cyril McGuinness had more than 50 convictions\n\nThe main suspect in the investigation into the kidnap and torture of a Northern Ireland businessman has died during a police raid in England.\n\nCyril McGuinness, 54, is thought to have suffered a heart attack as police searched his Derbyshire home on Friday.\n\nThat search was part of a joint police operation across the UK and Ireland in which almost 20 properties were raided.\n\nQuinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executive Kevin Lunney was beaten by a gang in on 17 September.\n\nDerbyshire Constabulary said its officers carried out the search of McGuinness's home in Buxton on behalf of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\n\"Shortly after that warrant was carried out at 07:30 GMT, a 54-year-old man inside the property was taken ill,\" added Derbyshire Constabulary.\n\nThe force said officers administered first aid and called paramedics but the man died.\n\nA convicted smuggler, Cyril McGuinness was known as \"Dublin Jimmy\" and had an extensive criminal record.\n\nThe 54-year-old from Derrylin in County Fermanagh was exposed in an investigation by BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme in 2004 into the illegal transport of waste.\n\nIn 2007, he received a suspended sentence after he admitted 22 charges relating to the illegal transport of waste from the Republic of Ireland, through Northern Ireland to Scotland.\n\nIn 2011, he was extradited to Belgium to serve a seven-year prison term for stealing lorries and cranes that were brought to Ireland.\n\nHe was described in a European extradition warrant in 2008 as an \"active member of an Irish criminal organisation\".\n\nIn April that year, he was stopped by Serbian police near the Croatian border - when they realised he was subject to a Europe-wide warrant he was extradited to Bruges.\n\nHe faced charges in Bruges but left the country after being granted bail and was convicted in his absence.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct, which handles complaints made against police forces in England and Wales, is investigating McGuinness's death.\n\n\"We have sent investigators to the property and to the police post incident procedure to begin gathering information,\" it said.\n\nPhones, computers and documents were seized during the search.\n\nAs part of the police operation on Friday, the PSNI carried out five searches in Derrylin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kevin Lunney was driving home from work in Kinawley when he was attacked on 17 September\n\nThe Garda Síochána (Irish police force) said 100 of its officers were involved in searching five locations in County Cavan, three in County Longford and four in Dublin.\n\nThey said the locations were a mixture of houses and commercial premises.\n\nMcGuinness had been a target of the police on both sides of the Irish border for years and had more than 50 convictions.\n\nHe was the main suspect in the kidnap of and violent attack on 50-year-old Mr Lunney, who was abducted as he was driving home from work in Kinawley in County Fermanagh.\n\nMr Lunney, a father of six, had his leg broken, was slashed with a knife and doused with bleach in a two-and-a-half hour ordeal.\n\nKevin Lunney's car was burnt close to his home after he was kidnapped\n\nHe had the letters QIH cut into his chest with a knife and told the BBC's Spotlight this week that he feared that he would never see his wife and children again.\n\nAfter the attack, Mr Lunney was dumped on a road in County Cavan 22 miles (35km) from where he was abducted.\n\nHe was found by a member of the public.\n\nPolice on both sides of the Irish border are under pressure to get results after a long-running series of threats and other incidents.\n\nThe campaign against QIH and senior staff has spanned several years.\n\nThere have been scores of incidents but to date no-one has been charged.\n\nThe abduction of Kevin Lunney represented a significant ratcheting-up of things.\n\nPolice have given priority to the investigation and the scale of the co-ordinated searches appears to represent a major response.\n\nThe PSNI's Det Ch Insp Julie Mullan said its detectives would \"continue to work closely\" with the Garda Síochána and Derbyshire Constabulary to try to \"bring the perpetrators to justice\".\n\nIn the past week, signs near the headquarters of QIH in Derrylin attacking the directors have been removed and the PSNI has increased its patrols in the area.\n\nThe companies comprising QIH were formerly owned by Sean Quinn, who was once Ireland's richest man.\n\nWhen his business empire collapsed, businessmen, including his former associates, bought the companies.\n\nPosters like this are part of a campaign to intimidate Kevin Lunney, a court heard in March\n\nMr Lunney, who worked with Mr Quinn for many years and remained loyal after the County Fermanagh tycoon's bankruptcy, was reinstated as a director and Mr Quinn was employed as a consultant.\n\nMr Quinn left that role in 2016, later saying he was forced out and his family had been \"stabbed in the back\".\n\nHe has repeatedly condemned attacks on property belonging to the owners of his former businesses.\n\nThe Irish News reported on Friday that the directors of QIH have rejected an offer to meet the Quinn family.\n\nIt said Mr Quinn's son Sean Quinn Jr made the offer in a statement to the BBC's Spotlight.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nParents of a child who has to make 200-mile round trips for cancer treatment are calling for more help with the costs of travel.\n\nElin Rowlands, 13, from Anglesey, was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2013 and had to travel to Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital to get specialist treatment.\n\nElin's mother said it cost them between £35 and £40 for each return trip.\n\nThe Welsh Government said some families are eligible to claim for travel costs if they meet certain criteria.\n\nThere is a specialist cancer unit for young people in Cardiff but there is no service for those further north.\n\nAlison Rowlands gave up work to care for her daughter Elin and said she had to depend on friends for financial help when their car broke down.\n\nMrs Rowlands told Newyddion 9: \"At the start it was very scary... you don't think about the journey right, it's get your daughter there, get her better.\n\n\"It's then as the treatment goes on, that it's 'oh my goodness, I've got to go there a lot'.\n\n\"We were spending roughly £35 to £40 each trip to go there and come back and most of them were day trips, and there's a lot of them.\n\n\"We stayed there quite a lot in the beginning, but then we had to go back about four times a week.\n\nElin, pictured with her mother, suffered a relapse last year\n\n\"You had to look at the diary constantly, what time are we going? When do we need to set off? Have we got petrol in the car?\n\n\"My husband drove most of the time, but because of his job he couldn't do it all the time.\n\n\"I wouldn't like to imagine how much I've spent on the fuel in that amount of time.\n\n\"You worry enough about your daughter going through this horrible treatment without having to worry where the money's going to come to put petrol in the car.\"\n\nMrs Rowlands said the local community pulled together and collected \"a really good amount of money\" they were able to spend on fuel.\n\n\"If the government did decide to help out with families, that would be amazing - until you go through something like this, you have no idea whatsoever.\"\n\nElin relapsed in January 2018 and needed a bone marrow transplant, but had to be transferred to a unit in Manchester.\n\nShe still travels to Liverpool and Manchester for tests, but no longer needs treatment.\n\nAlder Hey children's hospital cares for over 330,000 young people every year\n\nRichard Pugh, from the Wales Cancer Alliance, is also backing the calls for more support: \"The cost ramifications are huge because those specialist services aren't that local.\n\n\"You've got to travel. Unless you're in Cardiff and those services are right on your doorstep.\"\n\nThe charity CLIC Sargent estimated Elin's family would spend on average £600 a month on travel costs.\n\nThe charity want the Welsh Government to create a £250,000 annual travel fund, to help families pay for travel costs.\n\nMr Pugh said: \"What we'd like to see is a travel fund for young people affected by cancer so they don't have that financial burden.\"\n\nRichard Pugh said \"in an ideal world\" there would be multiple treatment units across the country\n\nThe Teenage Cancer Trust unit at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff is the only specialist unit for young people with cancer in Wales.\n\nAshley Bassett, 23, from Pencoed, Bridgend, was diagnosed with leukaemia when he was studying for his GCSEs and visited the unit.\n\n\"This unit is very important. It's a place I can come and relax. It's a nice environment. There's a pool table, TV and games,\" he said.\n\n\"There's opportunities to try and be as normal as you can in hospital, because hospitals aren't the place to be sometimes, but this unit makes it much more bearable.\n\n\"It's unfortunate that people live too far away to come here for treatment.\"\n\nMr Pugh said \"in an ideal world\" there would be multiple units across Wales.\n\n\"Unfortunately, our workforce isn't in the condition it should be to do that,\" he said.\n\nAshley Bassett said the support unit he used has a \"nice environment\"\n\n\"We're at a real cusp of some massive issues with our workforce, not just for children but across the board.\n\n\"So we need to make sure that we get the support for patients in the right location, at the right time. At this time, it does mean travelling.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said some families can be eligible to claim for travel costs if they meet certain criteria, such as claiming benefits.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Families can be eligible to claim help for travel costs from the NHS if their child has to go to hospital for NHS treatment.\n\n\"We are committed to the provision of excellent care for children and young people but recognise that this may require families to travel outside of their health board area.\n\n\"While we appreciate the impact this has on families, it is also important to ensure that children and young people can receive expert care for what are often complex conditions from a sustainable service.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nScotland Women thumped Albania to maintain their emphatic start to Euro 2021 qualifying Group E.\n\nAfter opening their campaign with an 8-0 rout of Cyprus, the Scots started strongly in Elbasan with Claire Emslie and Jane Ross scoring before the break.\n\nErin Cuthbert and debutant Hannah Godfrey added further goals as Christie Murray rounded off the scoring.\n\nScotland are second in the group, three points shy of Finland, who have played a game more.\n\nThe result means Shelley Kerr's team have scored 13 goals and conceded none in their opening two matches.\n\nThey are next in qualifying action away to Cyprus on 9 April.\n• None Kerr wants more despite Albania rout\n\nScotland's previous visit to Albania, 14 months ago, brought a rousing 2-1 victory that sealed their passage to this year's World Cup. By comparison, this was an absolute cruise for a Scotland team which never hit top gear but frankly never needed to.\n\nIn the early skirmishes, they stretched and lacerated a largely hapless foe with the panache of their wide players and the slickness of their passing.\n\nEmslie and Emma Mitchell on the left flank, and debutant Kirsty Hanson on the right, made foray after telling foray. Hanson in particular was a constant menace, crossing for Ross to head over with 90 seconds gone then swaggering inside to blast a left-foot drive that was tipped away by Viola Rexhepi.\n\nThe early siege bore fruit when Emslie prodded in with 15 minutes gone, pouncing on a chance at the back post after Ross had glanced on a Hanson delivery.\n\nThe forward did likewise nine minutes later, seizing on a horrible spill from Rexhepi to plunder her 60th Scotland goal.\n\nThere should have been more before the break, Ross and Lisa Evans coming closest. A 2-0 advantage was a meagre reflection of their supremacy.\n\nCaroline Weir fizzed over seven minutes into the second half before a delightful manoeuvre yielded Scotland's third.\n\nEvans danced clear down the right, and slid back towards Weir, whose sumptuous dummy let the ball roll in to the path of Cuthbert. The Chelsea forward, an unusually understated presence until then, caressed brilliantly beyond Rexhepi.\n\nPlay continued to flow in an inexorable torrent towards the home goal. Ross' header was too weak to trouble Rexhepi, but Cuthbert's curler from the left was poked in a trifle clumsily by Godfrey at the second attempt.\n\nWhat little resistance Albania had offered early in proceedings had now been eroded. Hanson struck the bar with a cross from a piercing drive up the left, before Murray was allowed the freedom of the home box to delicately stroke home from another neat Evans cut-back.\n\nOn her international bow, Hanson was an outstanding architect of Scotland chances, appearing on either flank and filleting the Albanian defence.\n\nWhen she scurried her way into space, her deliveries were crisp and accurate and she was twice unlucky not to cap her debut with a goal.\n\nA late call-up for Martha Thomas, who was also in line for a first Scotland outing, Hanson has given Kerr another exciting attacking option.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage filmed from Matlock shows the extent of the floodwater\n\nA woman has died after becoming submerged in floodwater as parts of England were deluged with a month's worth of rain in a day.\n\nHer body was found hours after she was swept into Derbyshire's River Derwent.\n\nElsewhere, people have been evacuated from their homes as rivers reached record levels in some areas.\n\nDuring a visit to the area, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We need to prepare and we need to be investing in defences.\"\n\nThe Derwent is expected to peak in Derby city centre at 22:00 GMT, while police have ordered the closure of a main route into the city.\n\nThe woman was reported to have been swept away by floodwater in Rowsley, near Matlock, in the early hours of Friday and the body was found about two miles away in Darley Dale.\n\nDerbyshire Police said her family had been informed and formal identification was yet to take place.\n\nMark Hopkinson, who witnessed the emergency operation to find the woman, said he saw police officers and mountain rescuers searching in the area.\n\n\"We saw a little drone go up and the coastguard helicopter came, and that was then circling, hovering over some trees,\" he said.\n\nThere has been severe flooding in Darley Dale where the woman's body was found\n\nThe heaviest rainfall on Thursday night was at Swineshaw in the Peak District, which had 112mm (4.4in) in 24 hours.\n\nParts of Sheffield experienced 85mm - just 3mm (0.1in) less than the area's monthly average.\n\nMore than 100 flood warnings are in place across England.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued six severe flood warnings for locations on the River Don.\n\nFran Lowe, from the Environment Agency (EA), urged people to take them seriously \"as they represent a threat to life\".\n\n\"Respond immediately and get out of any place affected by a severe flood warning,\" he said.\n\nThe River Don, which flows through Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster, has hit its highest recorded level, at just over 6.3m, higher than it was in 2007 when it also flooded.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said in the past 28 hours crews rescued more than 120 people, with about 1,200 calls to its control room.\n\nPeople were taken to safety in boats in Rotherham\n\nWhile visiting Matlock in Derbyshire, Boris Johnson thanked emergency workers and said he was impressed at how people \"had pulled together\".\n\nHe said: \"It's businesses particularly who deserve our sympathies and they've had a really tough time.\n\n\"You cannot underestimate the psychological effect of flooding on people - it is a big, big blow.\n\n\"People have been moved out of their homes and probably hundreds of businesses have seen damage to their properties - we stand ready to help in any way that we can.\"\n\nSome residents of Yarborough Terrace in Doncaster criticised the official response\n\nThe town's mayor, Liberal Democrat David Hughes, said: \"Is this an election stunt or is the government concerned for the people of Matlock?\n\n\"It's very difficult to determine.\"\n\nIn Derby, flood defences were built on Exeter Bridge as the River Derwent continued to rise.\n\nThe A52, the main route into the city from the M1 was one of several roads partly closed due to flooding and many bus services were suspended.\n\nIt reached its highest-ever recorded level and is expected to peak at 22:00. Some premises in the city have been evacuated and Derby Theatre has cancelled performances for the night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElsewhere in the East Midlands:\n\nEvery time there's serious flooding, questions are asked about why it was allowed to happen.\n\nOne simple answer is governments of all parties have been accused of not spending enough on protection.\n\nYou can build walls along river banks and many places have been guarded this way but such 'hard defences' are expensive and obtrusive.\n\nAn alternative is to employ what are known as soft defences. These include encouraging farmers to manage their land in ways that let fields hold back floodwater.\n\nDriveways and car parks can be surfaced with materials that allow it to reach the soil underneath.\n\nAnother option is to make homes more resilient - fitting exterior doors with waterproof plastic panels, sealing the ground floor and raising fuse boxes.\n\nIn some ways the country has become better prepared for flooding but lessons are not always learned and the misery for many keeps being repeated.\n\nA Morrisons van was trapped in the Rufford Ford in Nottinghamshire\n\nSerious disruption continues to affect the transport network, with Northern warning of severe delays and cancellations across its network.\n\nThe rail operator issued \"do not travel\" advice for passengers using several lines hit by floods.\n\nThe line between Hebden Bridge and Manchester reopened in the early afternoon.\n\nEast Midlands Railway said flooding had affected the line close to Derby with trains on the London/Sheffield route being diverted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EMR This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said although the rain was easing, the \"impact of that will continue to be felt\".\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Justin Jackson doused the officers during disorder as police tried to arrest a youth riding a stolen motorbike\n\nA man who doused eight police officers with a watering can full of petrol and left them fearing for their lives has been jailed.\n\nJustin Jackson, 28, doused the officers in the flammable liquid during disorder in Basildon, Essex on 5 May.\n\nOne officer said that he remembered thinking at the time \"we could all go up in flames here like Roman candles\".\n\nJackson, of Ward Close, was jailed for three years and nine months at Basildon Crown Court.\n\nHe had admitted eight counts of administering a noxious substance with intent to cause injury at an earlier hearing.\n\nProsecutor Joe Bird told the court that disorder had broken out as police tried to arrest a youth riding a stolen motorbike and people interfered with attempts to arrest him.\n\nDuring this disorder, Jackson \"armed himself with a watering can full of petrol\" then \"brings it to the scene and sprays officers with it\", Mr Bird said.\n\nTemporary Supt Jonathan Baldwin said: \"At the time of the incident while being covered with petrol I remember thinking 'we could all go up in flames here like Roman candles'.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was one of those days I realised I might not have got home at all.\"\n\nAlison Gurden, defending, said Jackson had written a letter of apology in which he said: \"I'm deeply sorry for what I've done and I can only imagine the fear they felt.\"\n\nJudge Samantha Cohen said Jackson did it to prevent them from making arrests.\n\nShe said: \"Initially some (of the officers) thought they were splashed with a disfiguring acid or bleach, but when they smelled it was petrol they feared they would be set alight.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Jackson's mother Janine Justin, 47, of Ward Close, was given a suspended nine-month prison sentence after being found guilty of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.\n\nThe court heard she had threatened police officers with a hammer during the disorder.\n\nAfter the sentencing, Supt Baldwin said that \"to say that it does not have an effect on us is incorrect\".\n\n\"We have had a lot of support from the organisation and colleagues and specialists to help us,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Patricia Arce was covered in red paint and had her hair cut off\n\nThe mayor of a small town in Bolivia has been attacked by opposition protesters who dragged her through the streets barefoot, covered her in red paint and forcibly cut her hair.\n\nPatricia Arce of the governing Mas party was handed over to police in Vinto after several hours.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of violent clashes between government supporters and opponents in the wake of controversial presidential elections.\n\nAt least three people have died so far.\n\nA group of anti-government protesters was blocking a bridge in Vinto, a small town in Cochabamba province in central Bolivia, as part of their ongoing demonstrations following the presidential election on 20 October.\n\nRumours spread that two opposition protesters had been killed nearby in clashes with supporters of incumbent president, Evo Morales, prompting an angry group to march to the town hall.\n\nPolice officers escorted Ms Arce to a health centre after the protesters released her\n\nThe protesters accused Mayor Arce of having bussed in supporters of the president to try and break a blockade they had set up and blamed her for the reported deaths, one of which was later confirmed.\n\nAmid shouts of \"murderess, murderess\" masked men dragged her through the streets barefoot to the bridge. There, they made her kneel down, cut her hair and doused her in red paint. They also forced her to sign a resignation letter.\n\nMs Arce was eventually handed over to the police who took her to a local health centre.\n\nProtesters also set alight parts of the town hall\n\nHer office was set alight and the windows of the town hall were smashed.\n\nThe person killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of President Morales was identified as 20-year-old student Limbert Guzmán Vasquez. Doctors said Mr Guzmán Vasquez had a fractured skull which may have been caused by an explosive device.\n\nHe is the third person to be killed since the clashes between the two sides erupted on 20 October.\n\nTension has been running high since election night when the results count was inexplicably paused for 24 hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is not Cuba neither Venezuela,\" Bolivian protesters chanted last month\n\nThe suspension prompted suspicions among supporters of opposition candidate Carlos Mesa that the result had been rigged to allow Mr Morales, who has been in power since 2006 to stay on for another five years.\n\nThe final result gave Mr Morales just over the 10-percentage-point lead he needed to win outright in the first round of the presidential election.\n\nElection observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) expressed their concerns and an audit by the body is currently underway. However, Mr Mesa has rejected the audit arguing that it was agreed without his or his party's input.\n\nMr Morales has accused Mr Mesa of staging a coup d'etat and supporters of each side have squared off in La Paz and other cities.", "Royal Mail is seeking a High Court injunction to stop a postal strike, claiming that the ballot of workers had \"potential irregularities\".\n\nThe company said it would make a formal application on Friday that the strike ballot \"was unlawful and, therefore, null and void\".\n\nA strike threatens to disrupt postal voting in the run-up to the general election as well as Christmas post.\n\nThe Communications Workers Union says it \"refutes\" Royal Mail's claim.\n\nThe ballot of 100,000 Royal Mail staff was held over job security and terms. No dates for a strike have yet been set.\n\nMembers of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) last month voted by 97% in favour of a nationwide strike, saying the company had failed to adhere to an employment deal agreed last year. Royal Mail rejects this, which is why there are no grounds for industrial action, it says.\n\nIn the company's statement on Friday, Royal Mail said it had evidence of CWU members coming under pressure to vote \"yes\" in the ballot.\n\nThis included, the company claimed, union members \"being encouraged to open their ballot papers on site, mark them as 'yes', with their colleagues present and filming or photographing them doing so, before posting their ballots together at their workplace postboxes\".\n\nRoyal Mail's procedures state employees cannot open their mail at delivery offices without the prior authorisation of their manager.\n\nCWU general secretary Dave Ward said: \"It will be clear to all our members and everybody connected with Royal Mail and this dispute, that the chief executive and his board will go to any lengths to deny the democratic mandate of our members to stand together and fight for their future and the very future of UK postal services.\"\n\nHe said the CWU had made it clear to Royal Mail that it was willing to talk, including through this weekend.\n\nA High Court hearing into Royal Mail's application for the injunction is expected to be heard early next week.\n\nRoyal Mail has previously told the union that if it removed the threat of industrial action for the rest of 2019, the company would enter talks without preconditions. But the CWU called Royal Mail's offer a \"stunt\" which the union would not fall for.\n\nIndustrial relations at the company have worsened this year, with frequent unofficial strikes breaking out.\n\nThe CWU has said the result of the ballot, held between 24 September and 15 October, represents the largest \"yes\" vote for national industrial action since the passing of the Trade Union Act 2016.\n\nThe union claims that up to 50,000 jobs are at risk at Royal Mail and Parcelforce, under plans to separate Parcelforce from the postal business. Shane O'Riordain, Royal Mail's managing director of regulation and corporate affairs, described this as \"unfounded speculation\"", "Police were called to Hillingdon Civic Centre on High Street in Uxbridge\n\nAn 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death in a west London council's central offices.\n\nThe victim was stabbed in the chest in Hillingdon Civic Centre on High Street, Uxbridge, at about 16:40 GMT.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but pronounced dead less than an hour later. Another teenage boy was also stabbed during the attack.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder, Scotland Yard said.\n\nThe other injured teenager suffered a knife injury to his ear, but his injuries were not considered life-threatening.\n\nAnother teenager suffered a knife injury to his ear during the attack\n\nThe Met has granted itself enhanced stop-and-search powers, under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.\n\nThis allows officers to search anyone in a designated area without \"reasonable grounds\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh described the stabbing as \"a tragic loss of life\".\n\nHillingdon Civic Centre was cordoned off by police tape while forensic officers investigated\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour is promising a \"step-change\" in women's working rights if it wins the general election, pledging an increase in the length of statutory maternity pay from nine months to a year.\n\nThe party also wants managers at large firms to be trained in supporting staff going through the menopause.\n\nAnd it is promising the right to choose flexible working when starting a job.\n\nThe Conservatives say they would introduce \"responsible reforms\" to get more women into work.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said Labour's \"reckless plans would cripple businesses across the country\".\n\nElection campaigning is under way ahead of voters going to the polls on 12 December.\n\nShadow women and equalities secretary Dawn Butler said she was \"sick\" of the way women were treated at work, and that concerns had been ignored for \"years\".\n\nShe added: \"Labour will deliver a workplace revolution to bring about a step-change in how women are treated at work. We'll boost pay, increase flexibility, and strengthen protections against harassment and discrimination.\"\n\nCurrently women on maternity leave are entitled to 90% of average weekly earnings for the first six weeks, then 90% of average weekly earnings or £148.68 (whichever is lower) for the next 33 weeks.\n\nLabour says it will ensure women continue to get the latter rate for another three months.\n\nThe party also wants to create a Workers' Protection Agency, with powers to fine businesses that fail to report their gender pay or publish action plans to reduce pay gaps.\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics indicate that, in the year to April 2019, the gender pay gap for full-time workers was 8.9% in the UK - up from 8.6% the previous year.\n\nBy law, companies, charities and public sector departments of 250 employees or more must publish their gender pay gap figures.\n\nLabour says it wants to lower the threshold to workplaces with more than 50 employees by 2020.\n\nLabour says it wants to transform the workplace for women. It's a powerful statement of intent from the party.\n\nIt's a policy pitched at a large chunk of the electorate. The proposals on maternity pay are obviously designed to appeal to younger women, who want to start or extend a family. But there are also plans for a \"menopause policy\", which will force companies to address the needs of women at a very different stage in their lives.\n\nAnd then there are the measures to reduce the gender pay gap, and create a right to flexible working. That would affect pretty much every female employee.\n\nEmployers might complain about the bureaucracy and expense involved in much of this - \"the wrong answers to the right questions\" is how the CBI puts it - but there's no question there's a challenge here to the other parties.\n\nLabour wants to be seen as the champion of working women. The rival parties will have to find ways to respond.\n\nThe party has reconfirmed a pledge made in February to give workers the right to choose their working hours from the first day in a new job. They can currently request this after 26 weeks in post.\n\nLabour also wants companies with more than 250 employees to provide training for line managers on the menopause.\n\nAt its party conference in September, it said this should include understanding \"what adjustments may be necessary to support\" those going through it and making sure work absence procedures are \"flexible to accommodate menopause as a long-term fluctuating health condition\".\n\nAnd it wants to make employers liable for sexual harassment experienced by staff by \"third parties\", such as clients, require employers to publish their policies and lengthen the timeframe within which employment tribunals can be taken from three months to six months.\n\nBut Business Secretary Mrs Leadsom said a vote for Labour \"won't solve anything\".\n\n\"Only the Conservatives will get Brexit done so we can all move on to focus on people's priorities like making the UK the best place to work and run a business with responsible reforms to increase flexible working, get more women back into work and ensure equality of opportunity regardless of gender, age, race or class,\" she said.\n\nMatthew Percival, the CBI's director of people and skills policy, said: \"The CBI has long supported the reintroduction of protection against third-party harassment and the extension of statutory maternity pay to 12 months - which will also support fathers taking shared parental leave.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Needing government approval to set working patterns and company diversity action plans is bureaucratic to the point of being ineffective and unaffordable.\n\n\"They are the wrong answers to the right questions. The next government should work with business to develop policies that tackle gender inequality in ways that work for everyone.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDo you have any other questions about election in the UK?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Hundreds queued for designer discounts at Chris Brown's house. The US singer announced that he would be selling clothes and accessories at a fraction of the normal price via social media.\n\nBrown previously received five years probation and a community service order for the assault of Rihanna, his girlfriend at the time.", "A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2m (£1.6m) for misusing funds from his charity to finance his 2016 political campaign.\n\nThe Donald J Trump Foundation closed down in 2018. Prosecutors had accused it of working as \"little more than a chequebook\" for Mr Trump's interests.\n\nCharities such as the one Mr Trump and his three eldest children headed cannot engage in politics, the judge ruled.\n\nMr Trump hit out at the ruling, saying \"every penny\" went to charity.\n\n\"I am the only person I know, perhaps the only person in history, who can give major money to charity ($19m), charge no expense, and be attacked by the political hacks in New York State,\" he wrote in a statement posted to Twitter.\n\nHe accused New York's attorney general, Letitia James, who brought the civil lawsuit, of \"deliberately mischaracterising this settlement for political purposes\" and called New York \"a corrupt state\".\n\nJudge Saliann Scarpulla said Mr Trump had \"breached his fiduciary duty\" by allowing funds raised for US veterans to be used for the Iowa primary election in 2016.\n\nThe money was raised in a televised fundraiser during a Republican primary debate that Mr Trump skipped.\n\n\"I direct Mr Trump to pay the $2,000,000, which would have gone to the Foundation if it were still in existence,\" the judge wrote, saying it must be paid by Mr Trump himself and should go to eight charities he has no relationship to.\n\nMr Trump said the case had been resolved and that he was \"happy to donate\" $2m to the Army Emergency Relief, Children's Aid Society, City Meals-on-Wheels, Give an Hour, Martha's Table, United Negro College Fund, United Way of Capital Area and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.\n\nMs James said Mr Trump had admitted to \"personally misusing funds at the Trump Foundation\".\n\nShe had asked Judge Scarpulla to ban Mr Trump from ever running a charity again. However, this was not imposed.\n\nDonald Trump Jr, Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump - who were also directors of the Trump Foundation - are required to undergo mandatory training \"on the duties of officers and directors of charities\", Ms James said.\n\nThe case was opened following an investigation into the Trump Foundation by the Washington Post in 2016.\n\nYou may also want to watch:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump impeachment: What you might have missed", "Residents hope the sign can stay in the area\n\nA giant Hollywood-style sign installed to mark the National Eisteddfod in Llanrwst will be taken down next week.\n\nOverlooking the Conwy Valley, the sign has been popular with residents and there are now calls for it to be re-erected on a permanent basis.\n\nCouncillor Aaron Wynne said the sign had been \"fantastic\" for the area.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the structure's permit had \"sadly expired\" and would be taken down on Monday.\n\nIwan Glyn Williams, who was part of the team that organised installing the sign, said it has been visited more than a million times since July.\n\n\"It's been great to see it on the hill since July, and I've lost count of the number of positive comments about it,\" he said.\n\nNicola Maysmor, Senior Officer Land Management at NRW said: \"The Hollywood-style Llanrwst sign installed for the Eisteddfod has been a huge success and we were thrilled to see it attract so much attention and visitors to the forest.\n\n\"While it has been extremely popular, the structure's permit has sadly expired.\n\n\"However, we are aware of how fond local residents and visitors are of the sign and future discussions will take place on the possibility of it becoming a permanent feature in Gwydir Forest.\"\n\nMr Wynne said: \"I absolutely agree that it would be great to keep the sign in place, although I'm aware that this version was designed as a temporary structure so we'll be discussing with Natural Resource Wales and the National Park to see what's possible in the future.\n\nThe sign was erected in July\n\n\"Locals have adopted the sign and asked for it to stay.\"\n\nBut he said if the sign was to stay, it would need to be rebuilt with \"more robust materials\".\n\nThe Snowdonia National Park Authority said planning permission was valid \"until the last day of the year\" and it had not \"received a further request for planning permission\".\n\n\"The authority deals with every application on an individual basis,\" a spokesman said.\n\nWho did it best: Hollywood or Llanrwst?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councils are required to draw up a local development plan to reflect housing and business needs\n\nWrexham will miss out on nearly 800 affordable homes as a result of changes to a key housing blueprint, opposition councillors have claimed.\n\nThe Local Development Plan (LDP) for 3,400 new homes now expects 505 to be classed as affordable instead of 1,283.\n\nPlaid Cymru members claimed council officers had been pressurised by house builders who would benefit to the tune of millions of pounds.\n\nChief planning officer Lawrence Isted said developments had to be viable.\n\nLocal authorities are required to draw up an LDP to reflect expected housing and business needs, with the Wrexham plan looking ahead to 2028.\n\nDevelopers are generally asked to make some of the houses they build available as social or affordable housing below market rates, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nThe alterations partly follow an assessment by district valuers of the viability of two schemes - on Ruthin Road and Cefn Road - where more than 3,000 houses could be built.\n\nPlaid Cymru councillor Carrie Harper, who represents the Queensway area of Caia Park, said: \"Reducing the numbers of affordable homes allocated seriously jeopardises the plan as a whole and the decision seems to have been made as a result of developers putting pressure on officers and councillors.\n\n\"Why bother to have a long and detailed planning process if the goalposts can be moved at the very last minute?\"\n\nMr Isted defended the decision, saying: \"Whilst any reduction in affordable housing is to be regretted, the council must use the most up to date evidence available when presenting its case to the inspectors who are examining the LDP.\n\n\"The aspirations that we have for affordable housing must actually be deliverable and the LDP will have to adapt to reflect evidence of viability as well as of need.\"\n\nThe LDP is being examined in public on Thursday and Friday by independent inspectors who will take the decision as to how the plan, and the policy on affordable housing, is taken forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour MP Sir Lindsay Hoyle was regarded as the frontrunner for the role\n\n\"A kind of embodiment of the British constitution,\" one Westminster savant told me, the sort of politician who has been marinated in parliamentary practice so long they have an instinctive feel for its unwritten rules and unspoken conventions.\n\nTo him, Lindsay Hoyle is a classic example of the political operator turned constitutional fixture.\n\nHis father was an MP (and is now a Labour Peer) and he served as a councillor in his home seat of Chorley in Lancashire, becoming deputy leader, before moving to Parliament in 1997.\n\nThis is a man steeped in politics.\n\nAnd that shows through in other ways.\n\nHe is seen in the tea room as a strategic streetwise campaigner, who set his eyes on the prize he won today perhaps a decade ago, when he was one of the first three MPs to be elected as deputy Speaker.\n\n\"The by-ways of Lancashire are littered with the bodies of those who've underestimated Lindsay,\" one former parliamentary neighbour told me.\n\nThere is steel under the cheerful surface.\n\nThe succession to John Bercow had been a Westminster talking point for at least 18 months, and it was striking how cautious potential competitors were about showing their hand too soon, with Lindsay already spoken of as the commanding frontrunner in that race.\n\nWhen the election finally came, much later than many expected, he played a cautious hand - emphasising his record in the chair, for example during the terror attack on Westminster.\n\nHe has also been the point of contact for MPs concerned about security issues, for themselves, their staff and their families - a vital role in the current political climate.\n\nHis list of nominators was a careful cross-section of serious backbenchers - balanced on Brexit and on party factions, and on political generations.\n\nLindsay Hoyle with his array of animals, all named after politicians including Dennis and Patrick the cats, Gordon and Betty the dogs, parrot Boris, and tortoise Maggie\n\nHeading the list of nominators was Sir Charles Walker, vice chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee, and one of those who dragged John Bercow to the chair (I'm told he won't be doing any dragging this time, though).\n\nSir Charles was talked of as a potential candidate himself, so it was quite a coup to have him front and centre, signalling seriousness of purpose and a dash of reform-mindedness to MPs.\n\nAs chairman of the Commons Procedure Committee, Mr Walker has a shopping list of changes he wants to implement, but he has also shown his disquiet at some of Speaker Bercow's recent rulings, so his support sends a nuanced message.\n\nWhat kind of Speaker will he be?\n\nSir Lindsay has taken the traditional route - serving since 2010 as a deputy, so MPs have had plenty of opportunities to observe his avuncular style, and, on occasion to contrast it favourably with Speaker Bercow's.\n\nAnd as the senior deputy, the Chairman of Ways and Means, he has a guaranteed spot in the limelight every year, chairing the Budget debates (this is a tradition going back to the Stuart kings, when the Speaker was seen as an agent of the Crown, while the deputy was chosen by MPs and therefore seen as more suited to chairing debates on taxation).\n\nHe also selects amendments to be considered when MPs sit as a Committee of the Whole House, as they did over the Early Election Bill, last week.\n\nHis decision to rule out amendments not strictly within the compass of the Bill bolstered his reputation as a straight shooter who was not keen on Bercow-esque stretching of the rules.\n\nIf there is to be change, the likelihood is that it will be by consensus, and probably with the stamp of approval of Sir Charles's committee.\n\nBut Mr Speaker Hoyle could find himself having to decide, in the heat of controversy, whether to allow some of his predecessor's innovations to continue; extra amendments to the address of thanks for the Queen's Speech (Speaker Bercow's 2013 decision to allow an extra amendment ratcheted up the Commons pressure for an EU referendum), amendments to Business of the House Motions and substantive emergency motions.\n\nThese all sound like technical in-house issues, but their impact on the politics of the last few years has been enormous.\n\nSome of these questions may not arise if there is a stable government majority to vote them down - but, especially if there is a hung Parliament, the new Speaker may have to decide whether to accept or reject some of the precedents that have been set in the last few years. And the consequences could be huge.\n\nEven if the next House of Commons has a majority, the chances are that it will not default back to its 2005 factory settings - and MPs will still expect plenty of urgent questions, emergency debates and chances to put their questions at PMQs, and a Speaker who seeks to erase the practice of the last decade may get some pushback.\n\nAnd MPs will also expect their Speaker to stand up to ministers where appropriate - which is a lot more difficult to do where the government has a majority.\n\nIn conducting debates, his put-downs and shuttings-up will be gentler, and the advice of the clerks - those priests of parliamentary practice - is more likely to be implemented.\n\nWith a demand for a kinder, gentler politics, this could help the Commons lead the way.", "Kevin Mcleod's family has long campaigned for his death to be investigated as a murder\n\nA team of six retired \"experienced\" detectives and two serving officers are reviewing the case of a man's death in the Highlands almost 23 years ago.\n\nKevin Mcleod's body was found in Wick harbour on 9 February 1997.\n\nHis family has long campaigned to have his death investigated as murder because of injuries found on his body.\n\nThe team from Merseyside Police are looking at how police officers and Crown officials have handled of the case.\n\nThe review, which has already started, is expected to take a minimum of nine months to complete.\n\nPolice Scotland has said there were \"serious failings\" by a previous force in its handling of the case and asked Merseyside to carry out a review.\n\nMr Mcleod's parents June and Hugh Mcleod and his uncle and aunt Allan and Yvonne Mcleod met officers from Merseyside Police for the first time on Tuesday. Crown officials also attended the meeting in Inverness.\n\nAllan Mcleod welcomed the involvement of the English force. He said there were \"countless unanswered questions\" relating to his nephew's case which we hoped Merseyside Police would uncover.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"It was a meaningful and positive meeting.\n\n\"They told us a team of six retired experienced detectives working with two senior officers are already reviewing the case.\"\n\nMr Mcleod said the family's hope was \"for the person who murdered Kevin to be brought to justice\".\n\nKevin Mcleod's parents June and Hugh and uncle Allan believe the 24-year-old was murdered\n\nMr Mcleod, an electrician from Wick, was last seen alive in the early hours of 8 February 1997 while on a night out with friends in the Caithness town.\n\nHis body was recovered from the sea late the following morning.\n\nMr Mcleod had sustained stomach injuries, a post-mortem examination revealed. It prompted a procurator fiscal to instruct the former Northern Constabulary to treat his death as a potential murder inquiry.\n\nPolice then discovered the 24-year-old had been involved in an altercation during his night out, but determined his injuries were not suspicious and described his death as a \"tragic accident\".\n\nThey said Mr Mcleod had been injured either falling on to a bollard, on part of a berthed boat or a boat's fishing creels before he ended up in the water.\n\nA pathologist's report concluded he had died from drowning and the \"major abdominal injury\" was consistent with him falling on to an object such as the bollards found at Wick harbour.\n\nBut Mr Mcleod's family believe he suffered the injuries during his murder.\n\nMr Mcleod was 24 when he died\n\nBut the inquiry's sheriff criticised elements of the initial police investigation. He concluded it had not been established the \"very serious abdominal injuries\" were the result of an assault, but this remained \"a possibility\".\n\nIn 2017, Police Scotland, which replaced Northern Constabulary in 2013, apologised for \"serious failings\" on the part of the former force and said officers had missed \"the opportunity to gather vital evidence\".\n\nLast year, the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, instructed an experienced prosecutor to review police handling of Mr Mcleod's death. This review remains ongoing.\n\nIn July this year, Police Scotland asked Merseyside Police to carry out a separate \"detailed review\" of the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"The additional investigations requested of Merseyside Police in this case will be conducted under the direction of the Crown.\n\n\"The question of what further steps might be taken will be addressed upon completion of further work.\n\n\"The family will continue to be kept up to date at regular intervals on the progress of the review.\"\n\n7 February 1997: Kevin goes on a night out with friends. He is last seen alive in the early hours of the following day.\n\n17:25, 8 February: Kevin's father reports him missing and police immediately begin inquiries to find him.\n\n01:00, 9 February: A search by police, coastguard and a lifeboat is called off due to bad weather. Kevin's relatives continue their own search until 05:00.\n\n11:05, 9 February: A local diver, asked to help with the earlier resumed police co-ordinated search, finds Kevin's body in the harbour.\n\n10 February: Injuries are found on Kevin's stomach in a post-mortem examination and a procurator fiscal instructs Northern Constabulary to treat his death as a potential murder inquiry.\n\n11 February: Police tell Kevin's family the injuries were likely caused by a fall on to a bollard, but the family are not happy with this conclusion.\n\n28 July: A person Kevin had an altercation with earlier on his night out is found. Police are instructed to carry out a second inquiry into Kevin's death. More than 100 witnesses are interviewed to help trace Kevin's final moments.\n\nAugust: During the second inquiry, police say the injuries could have been consistent with a fall on to a berthed boat before Kevin went into the sea.\n\nApril 2000: The net weave pattern on Caithness Creels, a type of fishing pot used locally, is suggested by police as the cause for diamond-shape bruising that was found on the 24-year-old's body. The following year Northern Constabulary ask an expert to review the pathological aspects of Kevin's death.\n\n4 October 2001: The expert's report suggests Kevin had fallen on to creels on a boat berthed at the harbour.\n\nDecember 2007: The Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland issues a critical report on Northern Constabulary's handling of complaints from Kevin's family. The report describes the force behaving with \"institutional arrogance\" and orders that its chief constable apologise to the family.\n\nDecember 2017: Police Scotland says there had been \"serious failings\" on the part of Northern Constabulary, and officers had missed \"the opportunity to gather vital evidence\".\n\nMay 2018: The Lord Advocate instructs an experienced prosecutor to review police handling of the case. This review remains ongoing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCritics have mostly come out in force to praise the third series of The Crown, calling it a \"class act\", \"beautiful\", and \"confident\".\n\nAnita Singh's five-star Telegraph review said: \"The Crown remains, by far, the best soap opera\" on TV.\n\nCarol Midgley's four-star assessment in The Times highlighted the acting, including Olivia Colman's \"skill\" in playing Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe Mirror's Lewis Knight gave the drama five stars, describing it as \"a majestic return\".\n\nWriting in the Financial Times, Suzi Feay was effusive about how \"wonderful\" the Netflix drama is visually, making viewers \"feel as though we're peeping into the Royal apartments\".\n\nHowever, Feay also felt there were signs the show's writer Peter Morgan is finding it harder to dramatise something as long and complex as the history of the current Queen.\n\nHelena Bonham Carter and Ben Daniels play Margaret and her husband\n\n\"As the years trudge on, and the big national events are counted off, the storytelling shows signs of strain,\" Feay wrote.\n\n\"Peter Morgan's script is ever-efficient with a twist of elegance, but some scenes are reduced to the most banal of stock phrases.\"\n\nThe reviewers have had the benefit of watching season three in its entirety, which spans the years 1964-1977 and sees a raft of new actors - those taking over roles, or playing newly introduced characters.\n\nMorgan's handling of the multiple twists and turns in a story spanning so many years was also a concern for other reviewers.\n\n\"How much artistic licence has been taken?... Is it good or bad?\" asks Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. \"Yes. On the one hand, it's tremendous. You're riveted.\n\n\"And on the other, it has the action stop every 12 minutes or so - usually for a new prime minister to come for his first audience with the Queen, or a state dinner at which somebody under-informed sits next to someone fully informed - for a chunk of exposition so we all know who everybody is...\n\n\"But like the royals themselves, it is so confident and so precision-engineered that you don't notice the defects.\"\n\nThe third season of The Crown sees Colman take over from Claire Foy, who played Queen Elizabeth in the two preceding series.\n\nMost critics agreed the adjustment from Foy to Colman felt somewhat uncomfortable at first but went on to echo the sentiments of Ed Power in The Independent.\n\nColman \"brilliantly inhabits the Elizabeth we all know and take for granted. There's something dazzlingly banal about her. This is the monarch who cuts ribbons at motorway openings and sends you to sleep mid-Christmas message,\" he wrote.\n\nPower, who gave the series three stars, also had misgivings about the script, writing that \"Morgan initially seems at a loss as to what to do with his magnificent caricatures\".\n\nIn the Telegraph, Anita Singh referred to a revelation scene at the end of episode one: \"Colman conveys her (the Queen's) sense of betrayal - the shock, the disgust, the anger and the sadness - with one look. Ah, you think. Here it is. This is why she's so good.\"\n\nTobias Menzies said the series was as much \"an investigation of the institution\" as of the Royals\n\nColman herself has admitted becoming \"almost obsessed\" with the real-life Queen while playing her in The Crown.\n\n\"She's a rock for the nation,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Her training is she has to be stoic and strong,\" the actress said. \"You never see what she's thinking, which is eternally fascinating.\"\n\nColman is joined by Tobias Menzies, who takes on the role of Prince Philip, and Helena Bonham Carter, who takes over from Vanessa Kirby as Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister.\n\nBoth actors received mixed comments from reviewers. Menzies \"deserves special mention for his portrait of a charming, brutal, wounded man,\" said Mangan.\n\nHowever Ed Power in the Independent said Menzies \"looks and sounds like the Duke of Edinburgh. Yet he's never completely alive in the role\".\n\nIn the BBC Breakfast interview, the actor said: \"The show is as much an investigation of the institution as it is of the people - the pressures, the weird loneliness of it and what happens to a family within those strictures.\"\n\nAs for Bonham Carter, as Princess Margaret she performs the role with \"magnificently casual disdain\", according to Mangan.\n\nBonham Carter told BBC Breakfast it felt \"very special\" to be portraying \"fantastically complicated\", real-life individuals.\n\nThe new series of the Crown will be released in its entirety on 17 November.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBrescia striker Mario Balotelli has criticised the \"small-minded\" fans who shouted racist abuse at him on Sunday.\n\nBalotelli, 29, kicked the ball into the crowd and threatened to walk off the pitch following abuse during Brescia's 2-1 away loss against Hellas Verona.\n\n\"This has nothing to do with football,\" said the Italian, who played for Manchester City and Liverpool.\n\n\"You are getting into social and historical situations that are bigger than you, you small-minded people.\"\n\nBalotelli posted a message on Instagram in response to Luca Castellini, the head of the Verona ultras, who had said \"Balotelli is Italian because he has Italian citizenship, but he can never be completely Italian.\"\n\nCastellini added they had recently signed a black player \"and the whole of Verona applauded him\".\n\nBalotelli, who has played 36 times for Italy and helped them reach the final of the 2012 European Championships, added: \"Wake up you imbeciles, you are shambolic.\n\n\"When Mario scored a goal for Italy, and - I guarantee you - I will do so again, you are fine with that, aren't you?\"\n\nFormer Tottenham and Portsmouth midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, who also faced racist abuse when playing in Italy, says \"nothing has changed\" in football's fight against racism.\n\nBoateng, who now plays for Fiorentina, refused to continue playing a friendly for his AC Milan side against Pro Patria in January 2013 in protest at racist abuse from the terraces, with the match then abandoned.\n\n\"Six years later nothing has changed but we don't give up,\" he tweeted. \"Let's keep fighting all together against racism. #Notoracism.\"\n\nPremier League side Watford have reported racist abuse directed at defender Christian Kabasele to Hertfordshire Constabulary.\n\nThe 28-year-old Belgian defender had earlier flagged up the abusive post as part of Watford's #BuzzOff campaign, which calls out discrimination on social media.\n\nWatford wrote on Twitter that they \"have already received a crime reference number from the Hate Crime team\" and added they would \"report back news of any action against the offender\".", "Ross England has been suspended by the Welsh Conservatives\n\nA Tory assembly candidate who was accused by a crown court judge of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial has been suspended by his party.\n\nRoss England was selected eight months after the trial collapsed.\n\nWhile giving evidence, he claimed he had a casual sexual relationship with the victim, which she denied.\n\nWelsh Conservative chairman Byron Davies said: \"Ross England has been suspended pending this matter being presented to the candidates committee.\"\n\nBoris Johnson refused to say whether or not he would sack the Vale of Glamorgan candidate at prime minister's questions on Wednesday.\n\nGiving evidence in the April 2018 trial, Mr England made claims about the sexual relationship after the judge Stephen John Hopkins QC, had made it clear that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nMr Hopkins said to Mr England: \"Why did you say that? Are you completely stupid\", later telling him to: \"Get out of my court.\"\n\nThe defendant, James Hackett, was later convicted following a retrial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said he could not comment because of ongoing legal proceedings - although proceedings have concluded in the case\n\nIt is not clear from Lord Davies' statement whether Mr England is suspended from his candidacy, as a party member, or both.\n\nParty officials have also not answered questions about whether they had knowledge of the incident when he was selected.\n\nLeanne Wood, who earlier called for Mr England to be deselected, said on Twitter: \"Good. This should have happened before now, but at least action [has] finally been taken on this.\"\n\nMr England has worked for Alun Cairns, the Welsh Secretary and Conservative Vale of Glamorgan MP.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday Preseli Pembrokeshire Conservative MP Stephen Crabb said he was not aware of the details but added: \"There needs to be some kind of process to look at these allegations and make a decision about it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A rape victim says Ross England had a \"formulated plan\" to wreck the trial of her attacker\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns endorsed Mr England as the Assembly election candidate following his selection in December 2018.\n\nHe described him as a \"friend and colleague\" who it would be \"a pleasure to campaign with\".\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday, Mr England said: \"I was not told that anything had been ruled inadmissible prior to my testimony.\n\n\"I gave an honest answer, honouring the oath I took to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.\n\n\"I complied fully with the conditions of the court before and after the trial.\"\n\nWill that be the end of the matter? It will not, because many questions remain unanswered by the party.\n\nThe Conservatives have failed to answer questions about whether they had knowledge of this case when they selected him.\n\nMr England denies wrongdoing but his actions had very serious consequences.\n\nThe trial had to be abandoned, a rape victim endured the added trauma of having to go through a retrial and the delivery of justice to a rapist was delayed.\n\nEven though he was not a candidate in the forthcoming campaign, I think the party realised this row could overshadow it. It is not clear they've done enough to stop that.\n\nIt also raises questions about the rigour of the party's selection process.", "The RMT has announced drivers and guards will take 27 days of industrial action\n\nA union has announced 27 days of rail strikes during December and on New Year's Day as part of a long-running dispute over train guards.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said its staff at South Western Railway (SWR) had been left with \"no choice\" but to take industrial action.\n\nThe union said the dispute would continue for as long as SWR \"refuse to give assurances\" on the role of guards.\n\nSWR said it was \"extremely disappointed\" by the planned strikes.\n\nA spokesperson for the company added: \"The deliberate targeting of services up to, and during, the Christmas period is typical of the lack of concern the RMT continue to have for our customers.\"\n\nThe union has told its members not to book on for duty:\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said: \"At the last meeting we held with SWR, principles in agreements were made in good faith with the company's negotiating team and we now feel hugely let down again.\n\n\"As long as the company continues to refuse to give assurances on the future operational role of the guard, we will remain in dispute.\n\n\"I want to congratulate our members on their continued resolve in their fight for safety and the role of the guard on SWR.\n\n\"It is wholly down to the management side that the core issue of the safety critical competencies and the role of the guard has not been agreed.\"\n\nIn a statement, SWR said it has offered to keep guards on all trains and the union was \"purely focussed on keeping control of train doors in a misguided attempt to hold power over the industry\".\n\nIt added: \"Whilst we have shown commitment to the role of the guard by introducing over 80 additional guard roles since the start of our franchise, the RMT do not have the long-term interests of either our customers or our colleagues, including their members, at the heart of their actions.\n\n\"We remain committed to finding a solution that will help us build a better railway for everyone.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to keep customers moving during strike action.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women who are too anxious or embarrassed to go for a smear test could instead provide a urine sample to be screened for cervical cancer, research suggests.\n\nA trial found urine testing was as good at detecting a virus called HPV that is a big risk factor for the cancer.\n\nBigger trials are still needed but experts said self-testing could be a game-changer for women.\n\nThe number of people going for smear tests is lower than ever in the UK.\n\nNHS figures show attendance is now down to 71%, meaning several million women across England have not had a smear test for at least three and a half years.\n\nSmear tests prevent 75% of cervical cancers, so while they may not be pleasant, they are important.\n\nA smear test can detect early, abnormal cell changes before a cancer develops.\n\nBig Brother contestant Jade Goody died on 22 March 2009 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer\n\nThe NHS invites women between the ages of 25 and 64 to attend for smears.\n\nCelebrities and campaigners have tried to encourage more women to attend but scientists are also looking at other ways to screen for the condition to improve screening uptake.\n\nSome pilot studies are already asking women to try out self-testing at home with a vaginal swab.\n\nNow, researchers at the University of Manchester say urine testing would be another option.\n\nThey asked 104 women attending a colposcopy clinic to try the urine test and it performed just as well as conventional smears for detecting high-risk HPV, BMJ Open reports.\n\nLead researcher Dr Emma Crosbie said: \"We're really very excited by this study, which we think has the potential to significantly increase participation rates for cervical cancer screening.\n\n\"Campaigns to encourage women to attend cervical screening have helped. The brilliant campaign by the late Jade Goody increased numbers attendance by around 400,000 women.\n\n\"But sadly, the effects aren't long lasting and participation rates tend to fall back after a while. We clearly need a more sustainable solution.\"\n\nShe said larger trials of the urine test were still needed before it could be recommended to the NHS.\n\nAthena Lamnisos, from the Eve Appeal, said: \"Finding ways of screening that avoid the need for a physical test and use of a speculum is important.\n\n\"For women living with the impact of FGM [female genital mutilation] or those who have suffered sexual abuse or live with conditions such as vaginismus, screening in a non-invasive way could be game-changing for screening uptake.\n\n\"This research sounds like a promising early step but is some way off being rolled out through the NHS.\n\n\"In the meantime, women must continue to book their screening appointment when they're called. It's a life-saving test.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said he could not comment because of ongoing legal proceedings - although proceedings have concluded in the case.\n\nThe prime minister has refused to be drawn on whether he should sack Tory assembly candidate Ross England.\n\nMr England was selected by the Conservatives eight months after he was accused by a crown court judge of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial which collapsed.\n\nBoris Johnson said it would be \"inappropriate for me to comment on ongoing legal proceedings\".\n\nLegal proceedings have concluded in the case.\n\nThe defendant, James Hackett, was later convicted following a retrial. Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens said Mr England's selection was \"unbelievable\".\n\nStephen Crabb, a Welsh Tory MP said: \"Clearly someone needs to look into it.\"\n\nRoss England was giving evidence in a rape trial in April 2018 when he made claims about the victim's sexual history, which the complainant denies.\n\nIn December 2018 he was selected for the Conservatives in the Vale of Glamorgan seat.\n\nRoss England is standing for the Welsh Conservatives in the 2021 assembly election\n\nMr England has worked for Alun Cairns, the Welsh Secretary and Conservative Vale of Glamorgan MP.\n\nAt prime minister's questions in the Commons Ms Stevens said: \"Yesterday it was reported that a former staff member of the secretary of state for Wales, Ross England, had in the words of a trial judge single-handedly and deliberately sabotaged a rape trial by referring to the victim's sexual history against the judge's instructions.\n\n\"The trial had to be stopped, and started again from scratch and the defendant was convicted.\n\n\"Unbelievably the party then selected Mr England as a Welsh Assembly candidate with the Secretary of State's endorsement. Is the prime minister going to sack Mr England?\"\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said: \"It would be inappropriate for me to comment on ongoing legal proceedings.\"\n\nRoss England has worked for Alun Cairns in his constituency office\n\nThe Conservative party has been repeatedly asked for comment by BBC Wales.\n\nWelsh Conservative chairman Byron Davies and Welsh Conservative director Richard Minshull have been approached and BBC Wales has contacted Conservative Party press officers about the story.\n\nThey are yet to provide a reply.\n\nPreseli Pembrokeshire MP Mr Crabb said: \"I don't know all the details of it but clearly there needs to be some kind of process to look at these allegations and make a decision about it.\n\n\"It's with cases like this that it's really important for the party in London and in Cardiff to show that it's got a clear process for handling complaints.\n\n\"If a complaint does get made about Mr England it is important that we show there's a fair process for adjudicating on that.\"\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said Mr England should be deselected.\n\n\"This whole case and the actions of the Tories in this absolutely stinks,\" she said.\n\n\"Ross England should be sacked as a candidate now and it would do no harm for the Tories to understand our strength of feeling.\"\n\nFormer Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said the action of the Tories \"stinks\"\n\nGiving evidence in the April 2018 trial Mr England made claims that he had had a casual sexual relationship with the complainant, which she denies.\n\nThe trial judge in the case, Stephen John Hopkins QC, had earlier made clear that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nHe went on to say to Mr England: \"Why did you say that? Are you completely stupid?\"\n\nMr England said that he thought the question was about his relationship with the woman. Replying, His Honour Judge Hopkins said it was not: \"It was quite clear what the question was.\"\n\nThe judge then said: \"You have managed singlehanded, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial\".", "UK drone pilots have until the end of November to register their details with the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nThe mandatory requirement to register covers owners of drones or model aircraft weighing more than 250g (8.8oz). Owners of unregistered drones could then face the threat of a fine.\n\nAt the same time, the CAA is starting a service it hopes will reunite owners with their lost drones.\n\nA quarter of owners have lost a drone at some point, CAA research suggests.\n\nMost lost drones go missing because of malfunctions in flight, the research indicates. This includes losing battery power, loss of signal or technology failures.\n\nCAA spokesman Jonathan Nicholson said: \"Our aim is for the Drones Reunited platform to become an essential service for the drone community - the first port of call for anyone who has lost, or found, a drone.\"\n\nThe CAA said anyone who registered their drone would get free access to the service, which issues each device with a unique identification code.\n\nPilots who lose a drone will be able to record the loss via the CAA's drones-reunited site. Anyone who finds a downed drone bearing an ID number will be able to look it up on the site and inform its owner it has been located.\n\nRegistering craft weighing between 250g and 20kg costs £9 a year. Registered drone owners, who must be over 18, will need to pass an online test that quizzes them on using their device safely.\n\nAnyone who wants to fly a drone, including children, will also have to pass the test, which can be taken as many times as required.\n\nNot all owners must register by 30 November. Exemptions have been granted for members of several associations involved with flying model aircraft or other small, remotely controlled craft such as drones.\n\nThe five associations are\n\nSimon, Dale, chief executive of FPV UK, said it had opposed registration since it was announced. About 4,000 members of FPV UK are regular drone flyers.\n\n\"Registration will do nothing to improve safety or security because bad actors will not register their drones,\" he said.\n\nInstead, he said, the regulations would put people off model and drone flying.\n\nMr Dale said FPV UK would continue to actively oppose registration.\n\nHe added: \"Hopefully it will be scrapped before long, just like the dog licence.\"", "Fracking at Cuadrilla Resources site in Lancashire in August caused a 2.9 magnitude earth tremor\n\nEnergy company Cuadrilla has said it hopes to \"address concerns\" about fracking so that a moratorium announced by the government can be overturned.\n\nAt the weekend, ministers called a halt to the practice following research from the Oil and Gas Authority.\n\nIt raised concerns about the ability to predict fracking-linked earthquakes.\n\nBut Cuadrilla, which was forced to suspend work at its Preston New Road site after a series of tremors, said it would continue to give regulators data.\n\nIt said it hoped \"to address concerns so that the moratorium can be lifted\" and that the Bowland gas resource - which stretches across northern England - could be \"further appraised and developed\".\n\nOn Monday, Business and Energy Secretary Andrea Leadsom confirmed the \"effective moratorium\" in a written statement to the House of Commons.\n\nShe said it would be \"maintained until compelling new evidence is provided which addresses the concerns around the prediction and management of induced seismicity\".\n\nHowever, the government is under pressure to make the ban permanent, amid concerns ministers - who have previously been supportive of fracking - are using it as an election ploy.\n\nFracking is a process in which liquid is pumped deep underground at high pressure to fracture shale rock and release gas or oil trapped within it.\n\nAssessment by the British Geological Survey in 2013 suggested there were enough resources in the Bowland resource across northern England to potentially provide up to 50 years of current gas demand.\n\nLocal communities and environmental groups have protested against fracking\n\nOthers, however, have questioned these findings.\n\nPreviously the government said shale development would provide opportunities for jobs and investment, and could play a \"key role\" in maintaining energy security.\n\nBut the industry has faced fierce opposition from both communities and environmental groups, at a time when there is growing concern about the role of fossil fuels in climate change.\n\nIt is not impossible, however, that the current moratorium could be lifted.\n\nFracking previously faced a moratorium during the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government that was overturned after just one year.", "Evha Jannath fell out of a circular boat on the Splash Canyon attraction\n\nA schoolgirl was unsupervised when she fell from a theme park ride to her death, an inquest heard.\n\nEvha Jannath, 11, from Leicester, was on a school trip in 2017 when she fell from Splash Canyon at Drayton Manor.\n\nEvha, who could not swim, was \"propelled\" from the vessel into 12ft deep water where she drowned.\n\nAn inquest at South Staffordshire Coroner's Court heard that she stood up on the ride \"at the worst possible time\".\n\nCCTV footage played to the inquest jury showed that, despite rules that riders should sit down, Evha was standing and reaching into the water before the circular boat she was in struck a barrier, sending her headfirst into the water.\n\nFootage then showed her wading through the water trying to get back to her friends before climbing an \"algae-covered travelator\" and falling off into a \"much deeper\" area of water.\n\nThe Splash Canyon ride has remained closed since Evha's death\n\nThe inquest heard she was spotted face down by staff about 11 minutes later before she was pulled out lifeless.\n\nIt had been her second turn on the ride - her first, accompanied by teachers, had passed \"without incident\", assistant coroner Margaret Jones said.\n\nStaffordshire Police said the member of staff from Jameah Girls Academy assigned to accompany the group of pupils waited by the exit with another pupil who had not wanted to board the ride.\n\nHead teacher Erfana Bora said the teacher acted in line with the school's health and safety policy on the day.\n\nShe said: \"We can't stipulate teachers must be on rides, as there will be instances where some children would not wish to be on the ride, and so in those cases it's safer overall for the teacher to stay with that child... they make the assumption the park staff are responsible for overall safety on that ride.\"\n\nAnother teacher, Aaminah Rasid Isat, said when the schoolgirls asked if they could go on the ride by themselves, the teachers agreed they were \"safe\" to do so.\n\nShe said: \"Seeing their behaviour previously on the other rides, we came to a decision they were responsible enough and having been on it once before, they were safe to go on the ride on their own.\"\n\nEvha died in hospital after suffering chest injuries, however her cause of death has since been changed to drowning.\n\nSplash Canyon has been closed since she fell on 9 May 2017.\n\nThe inquest, due to last two weeks, continues.", "OneCoin's promoters claimed it would deliver a \"financial revolution\"\n\nThe trial of a US lawyer accused of laundering some of the proceeds from the OneCoin cryptocurrency \"scam\" has begun in New York.\n\nMark Scott is accused of routing approximately $400m (£310m) out of the US while trying to conceal the true ownership and source of the funds.\n\nSome is alleged to have ended up in Bank of Ireland accounts.\n\nProsecutors claim he also spent some of the fraud's proceeds on a yacht, three homes and a Ferrari car.\n\nThey add that while the accused had earned hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in his role as a partner at a top-ranked law firm, this was \"a fraction of the money he was paid to launder OneCoin fraud scheme proceeds\".\n\nA recent filing by his lawyers indicate that they expect the government will prove that money that originated with OneCoin was indeed invested in funds controlled by the defendant.\n\nA BBC podcast about OneCoin's missing co-founder Dr Ruja Ignatova has drawn attention to the scheme\n\nBut they point to the fact that Mr Scott previously told the FBI that that he had asked a colleague to look into rumours that OneCoin might be a \"pyramid scheme\" before getting involved, and had been reassured \"there was nothing illegal going on\".\n\n\"The central issue at trial will be whether or not Mr Scott knew OneCoin was operating a criminal scheme,\" they add.\n\nMr Scott faces one charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and another to commit bank fraud.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe judge in the case has said it is likely to last between two to three weeks.\n\nUS-based investors claiming to have been defrauded by the scheme are also attempting to sue Mr Scott for recompense in a related case.\n\nIn total, investigators believe as much as £4bn sterling has been raised globally via what is said to have amounted to a Ponzi scheme, with investors based in Uganda, China and the UK, among other countries.\n\n\"OneCoin used the success story of Bitcoin to induce victims to invest under the guise that they, too, could get rich through their investments,\" New York state attorneys say in one filing.\n\n\"This was, of course, completely false because the price of OneCoin was a fiction and not based on supply and demand.\"\n\nAmong the evidence the prosecutors intend to present is testimony from one investor who they say wired thousands of dollars for a OneCoin package to a German entity, which in turn sent millions of euros directly to the defendant's investment funds.\n\nOthers involved in OneCoin are also facing prosecution.\n\nThe man alleged to be one of the scheme's leaders, Konstantin Ignatov, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport in March.\n\nAnd one of its co-founders, Sebastian Greenwood, was extradited from Thailand to the US following an operation involving the FBI in November 2018.\n\nHowever, the Bulgarian-based organisation behind OneCoin Ltd continues to operate and denies all wrongdoing.\n\n\"OneCoin verifiably fulfils all criteria of the definition of a cryptocurrency,\" it said in a recent statement given to The Missing Cryptoqueen, a BBC podcast.\n\nIt added: \"Our partners, our customers and our lawyers are fighting successfully proceedings against OneCoin. We are sure that the vision of a new system on the basis of a financial revolution will be established.\"\n\nJournalist Jamie Batlett has been investigating OneCoin for a BBC podcast series\n\nThe BBC podcast has been documenting the search for Dr Ruja Ignatova, another of the co-founders and the original public face of OneCoin.\n\nThe ex-McKinsey consultant had appeared at numerous events and on social media to promote the scheme.\n\nBut she disappeared from view around October 2017 and there has not been a confirmed sighting since.\n• None The mystery of the disappearing 'Cryptoqueen'", "Almost two-thirds of homebuyers who used the government's Help to Buy scheme could have bought a home without it, an official report has said.\n\nHowever, they may not have been able to buy the house they wanted without the help, the report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found.\n\nIt also found that one in 25 of participants had household incomes of over £100,000.\n\nThe scheme did help boost the profits of building firms, the NAO said.\n\nIt was too early to determine if the scheme had delivered value for money for the taxpayer, the report said.\n\n\"Help To Buy has increased home ownership and housing supply, particularly for first-time buyers,\" Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, said.\n\n\"However, a proportion of participants could have afforded to buy a home without the government's help.\n\n\"The scheme has also exposed the government to significant market risk if property values fall, as well as tying up a significant public financial capacity.\n\n\"The government's greatest challenge now is to wean the property market off the scheme with as little impact as possible on its ambition of creating 300,000 homes a year by 2021,\" he said.\n\nThe scheme comes in two forms, Help to Buy loans and Help to Buy Individual Savings Accounts (Isas).\n\nIn the first version, the government lends up to 20% of the cost of a newly built property, or 40% within Greater London, so buyers need only a 5% deposit and a 75% mortgage to buy it.\n\nThose purchasing a new-build home are not charged interest for the first five years.\n\nThe Help to Buy ISA was launched later, in December 2015, and is open to first-time buyers in the UK.\n\nSavers receive a 25% bonus from the government when they withdraw the money they have saved to buy their first property. The maximum purchase price is £250,000, or £450,000 in London.\n\nThe maximum government bonus that someone can receive is £3,000, if they have saved £12,000.\n\n\"By 2023, the government will have invested up to £29bn in the scheme, tying up cash which cannot be used elsewhere,\" the NAO said.\n\nBigger firms made the most of the scheme.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2018 more than half the sales in England made by Redrow, Bellway, Taylor Wimpey, Barratt and Persimmon involved Help to Buy.\n\nPersimmon is the biggest beneficiary, with almost 15% of the sales made under the Help to Buy Scheme.\n\nPersimmon saw its annual profits top £1bn last year.\n\nLast year Persimmon's previous chief executive refused to answer questions about his £75m bonus, walking off-camera.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last year Persimmon's previous chief executive refused to answer questions about his pay\n\nJeff Fairburn said it was \"unfortunate\" he had been asked about the payout, which was reduced from £100m after a public backlash.\n\nMike Amey, managing director of global investment management firm Pimco, has told the BBC that profit on a house sold by Persimmon had trebled since Help to Buy was introduced, \"roughly from £20,000 to £60,000\".\n\nFran Boait, executive director of campaigning body Positive Money, said: \"It's now beyond clear that rather than helping those who can't afford to buy a home, Help To Buy has mainly been a subsidy for a housing bubble, benefiting property developers and existing home owners.\"\n\nThe government's investment is expected to be returned from the scheme by 2032 after it closes in 2023. However, the size of the loans mean it is very much exposed to the performance of the housing market.\n\nFrom April 2021, the scheme will be restricted just to first-time buyers.", "Sim arrived at the school in 1988 after the toy shop he was living in closed down\n\nA school parrot has celebrated its 70th birthday with a special party.\n\nThe septuagenarian songbird named Sim, was sung happy birthday by the choir at the Rouge Bouillon School in St Helier, Jersey, and received a cake that was edible to both humans and birds.\n\nThe brightly coloured Amazon parrot has been the school's pet since 1988. In 1991 Sim survived a fire which destroyed part of the building.\n\nStudents help with his care, feeding him and cleaning his cage daily.\n\nSim is a particularly long-lived member of his species, with most Amazon parrots not living much beyond 50.\n\nHe was rehomed at the school after living in a toy shop which was forced to close.\n\nSim was treated to a special cake and singing from the school choir\n\nOne student said Sim was a great companion to spend time with if you were feeling lonely.\n\nDeputy head teacher Jess Doyle described the ageing parrot as having become a \"really big part of the school\" during her 30 years in education.\n\nShe said: \"When we have new children arrive at the school who may not speak English, we take them to go see him and he makes them feel very welcome.\"\n\nShe added that there must be \"thousands of people\" across the island with fond memories of Sim.", "Ross England was selected to stand for the Welsh Conservatives for the 2021 assembly election\n\nThe Conservative Party has denied knowledge of Ross England's involvement in a rape trial collapse before he was selected as a candidate.\n\nMr England was accused by a Crown Court judge of deliberately sabotaging the trial in April 2018, by making claims about the victim's sexual history.\n\nThe defendant, James Hackett, was convicted following a retrial.\n\nSources had told BBC Wales the party knew about his involvement, but the Welsh party chairman denied this.\n\nIn the first of two statements issued on Thursday evening, Lord Davies of Gower said the party only became aware of the \"full extent of the proceedings\" when Hackett's appeal process ended earlier this month.\n\nHe said: \"We were fully aware that Ross England was involved as a witness in a sensitive case. We are also aware of the responsibility we have as employers.\n\n\"Since the end of the Appeal Court case, we have now been made aware of the full extent of the proceedings.\"\n\nIn a second statement, he said he could \"categorically state\" that he and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public this week\".\n\nMr England used to work for Mr Cairns in the Vale of Glamorgan, and was selected as the party's candidate to fight for the constituency seat at the 2021 Welsh assembly elections.\n\nMr Cairns also told BBC Wales he only became aware of Mr England's role in the trial's collapse when the story broke earlier this week.\n\nThe party has suspended Mr England as a candidate and an employee and a full investigation will be conducted.\n\nHe has said he acted honestly during the aborted trial, and was not aware that any evidence had been ruled inadmissible.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales on Thursday, one Conservative Party source said they called the party's Cardiff headquarters on the day the trial collapsed to inform management that Mr England's actions had led to that happening.\n\nHe had been giving evidence at the trial of his friend, when he claimed to have had a casual sexual relationship with the victim, which she denies.\n\nThe judge Stephen Hopkins QC stopped the trial, asking Mr England: \"Why did you say that, are you completely stupid?\"\n\nThe judge continued: \"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nThe judge added he would be writing to Mr England's political allies in the hope they would take \"appropriate action\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A rape victim says Ross England had a \"formulated plan\" to wreck the trial of her attacker\n\nA separate source told BBC Wales: \"Richard Minshull [Director, Welsh Conservatives] got a letter around this timeframe about Ross because the party were his employer.\n\n\"Whether this letter was from the judge or not, I'm not sure, but he was certainly speaking with both Alun [Cairns - Welsh Secretary] and Byron [Lord Davies, chairman of the Welsh Conservatives] regularly regarding 'what to do about Ross.'\"\n\nThe victim has told BBC Wales that \"people in Conservative HQ know... I know that Alun Cairns knows what he did in court and they knew by that evening.\n\n\"Therefore for them to make him a candidate in their target seat for the Welsh assembly proves to me how little respect they have for me, how little respect they have for the criminal justice system.\"\n\nAfter three days of virtual silence, two statements from the Welsh Conservatives in two hours.\n\nThe last emphatic in its denial that neither Lord Davies, the party chair, nor Alun Cairns, the Welsh Secretary had any knowledge of the details of the collapsed rape trial until they were reported in the media this week.\n\nThe party will hope this draws a line under a hugely damaging row, just as they're about to embark on a general election campaign.\n\nIn April 2018, Ross England was working for the party when a Crown Court judge accused him of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial, precipitating a retrial.\n\nThe party say they were \"fully aware\" he was a witness in a sensitive trial and of their responsibility as an employer.\n\nIf, despite that full awareness, his employers did not realise for 18 months he'd caused the collapse of a criminal trial and been thrown out of court by the judge, it raises fundamental questions about supervision, vetting and candidate selection processes.\n\nMr Cairns has previously endorsed Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\" with whom \"it will be a pleasure to campaign\".\n\nOn Thursday, he said he only became aware of the collapse of the trial \"some considerable time afterwards and had no knowledge of the role of Ross England\".\n\nLord Davies said \"continued speculation from an unspecified source\" about what party officials or elected representatives knew was \"unhelpful\".\n\nHe also said \"at no time\" had any party officials received any correspondence in relation to the matter.\n\n\"As soon as it came to my attention, we acted immediately,\" he added.\n\n\"As chairman of the Welsh Conservative Party, I take all allegations concerning members, officials and elected representatives extremely seriously.\"", "The new Commons Speaker shows off his wild menagerie - complete with Boris the parrot and Maggie the tortoise.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle, 62, of Chorley, Lancashire showed off his six pets with their unusual names inspired by politicians.\n\nHis tortoise is called Maggie as \"she's got a hard shell and isn't for turning\", said Sir Lindsay.\n\nHe also has Betty named after Baroness Boothroyd, the first woman speaker; a cat called Dennis - inspired by Labour veteran MP Dennis Skinner; Gordon the Rottweiler - after former Labour PM Gordon Brown.\n\nSir Lindsay has revealed that Boris the parrot can already squawk: \"Order, order\".", "In the first episode, British citizen Carolynne smuggled herself in a mobile home\n\nChannel 4 has defended itself over the broadcast of its new reality series Smuggled, 11 days after the deaths of 39 people in a lorry in Essex.\n\nThe start of the series, which sets eight British citizens the task of entering the UK using illegal means, was dropped from schedules last week.\n\nBut it aired on Monday evening and the Home Office said it was \"insensitive and irresponsible\" to show it so soon.\n\nChannel 4 argued the show was \"a matter of urgent public interest\".\n\nThe programme aimed to test the UK's border security by following the progress of eight people trying to smuggle themselves into Britain from various points in Europe without showing valid documentation.\n\nAs the eight are all British citizens, who would be able to produce valid passports if challenged, they are not committing a criminal offence, the Home Office has confirmed.\n\nAmong those featured in the first episode was a pensioner from Reading who hid inside a mobile home and successfully passed through French and English border controls.\n\nThe show's producers say they found major weaknesses with border checks and UK audiences should be shown these flaws.\n\nIt had initially been scheduled for broadcast on 28 October but was pushed back by a week after the 39 people, later confirmed as Vietnamese, were discovered in a refrigerated lorry trailer in Grays, Essex, on 23 October.\n\nThe family of one of those feared to be among the victims say they paid £30,000 to people smugglers.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the lorry trailer in the early hours of 23 October\n\nA spokeswoman for the Home Office said \"broadcasting this programme so soon after the tragic incident at Grays is both insensitive and irresponsible\".\n\n\"Organised crime gangs have no respect for human life so it is reckless to provide a platform for the illegal activity that they facilitate,\" she said.\n\n\"Doing so can encourage them to exploit our border for profit, risking the lives of vulnerable, desperate people as they do so.\"\n\nOn social media, some viewers also criticised the broadcast.\n\n\"Congratulations on the most insensitive program [sic] of the year Channel 4,\" one person wrote on Twitter, while another asked: \"Poorly timed or just in poor taste, who knows?\"\n\nBut others praised the show, including Channel 4 News broadcaster Krishnan Guru-Murthy who called it \"fascinating\", saying: \"And it's making me think about the 39, and countless others. That's good.\"\n\nPsychologist Jo Hemmings added: \"Perhaps it's more important than ever that they show it.\"\n\nAt the start of the episode, a message on the screen read: \"On October 23rd 2019, 39 people were found dead in the back of a lorry on an industrial estate in Essex.\n\n\"This series was filmed before these tragic events took place.\"\n\nA spokesman for Channel 4 said: \"This documentary series investigates concerns that the UK Border Force is failing to adequately secure the UK from clandestine entrants.\n\n\"In line with our remit as a public service broadcaster this series, filmed in the summer, investigated the capability of Border Force and demonstrated the porous nature of our border which is exploited by criminals. The initial broadcast was postponed following the tragic news of the deaths of 39 people, found in a lorry container in Essex. More than ever, following this awful tragedy, the findings of the films have become a matter of urgent public interest.\"\n\n\"Filmed this summer, the programmes question the security of UK borders and give the viewing public a much broader insight into an important issue facing this country - which is part of our remit as a public service broadcaster.\n\n\"More than ever, following this awful tragedy, the shocking findings of the films have become a matter of urgent public interest.\"\n\nAnd responding to accusations they are giving a platform for the work of smuggling gangs, a Channel 4 statement continued: \"All of the methods of entry into the UK tested in the programme are well-documented and publicised methods used by illegal entrants and refugees.\n\n\"The only surprise in the programme is just how easy it is to enter the UK undetected.\"", "Zarah Sultana: \"I should not have articulated my anger in the manner I did, for which I apologise\"\n\nA Labour general election candidate has apologised for saying she would \"celebrate\" the deaths of world leaders, including Tony Blair.\n\nZarah Sultana wrote on social media in 2015: \"Try and stop me when the likes of Blair, Netanyahu and Bush die.\"\n\nIn her apology on Monday, Ms Sultana said she had been \"exasperated by endless cycles of global suffering, violence and needless killing\".\n\nShe is contesting the Coventry South seat on 12 December.\n\nIn 2015, Ms Sultana also wrote of her support for \"violent resistance\" by Palestinians, the Jewish Chronicle reported.\n\nShe told the BBC the tweets were from a \"deleted account dating back several years from when I was a student\".\n\n\"This was written out of frustration rather than any malice,\" she said in a statement, explaining that her anger had arisen \"from decisions by political leaders, from the Iraq War to the killing of over 2,000 Palestinians in 2014, mostly civilians, which was condemned by the United Nations\".\n\nShe added: \"I do not support violence and I should not have articulated my anger in the manner I did, for which I apologise.\"\n\nWhen she was announced as the Coventry South candidate last week, she wrote on social media: \"With your support, I will be a strong socialist voice for working people in this city.\"\n\nLabour won a majority of nearly 8,000 in the 2017 general election, when Jim Cunningham was the party's candidate in the constituency.\n\nThe revelation comes on the same day a Conservative general election candidate apologised for a Facebook post in which she said people on a reality TV show needed \"putting down\".", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nPremiership champions Saracens will appeal against a 35-point deduction and £5.36m fine for breaching salary cap regulations over three seasons.\n\nThe punishment comes after an investigation into business partnerships between chairman Nigel Wray and some of the club's players.\n\nEuropean champions Saracens described the sanctions as \"heavy-handed\".\n\nBoth punishments have been suspended until the outcome of the appeal, which is likely to be next year.\n• None Why were Sarries punished and what are the consequences?\n\nHad the points deduction been applied immediately, Mark McCall's side would drop from fourth to bottom of the Premiership with -26 points.\n\nSarries have several of the game's highest-profile players on the books and started the current campaign with a significant number still on World Cup duty.\n\nOf the 31-man squad representing England in Japan, seven players came from Saracens - including captain Owen Farrell, and forwards Mako and Billy Vunipola, and Maro Itoje.\n\nFull-back Elliot Daly, another member of the side that lost the final against South Africa on Saturday, joins Sarries now the tournament has finished.\n\nThe charges relate to a failure to disclose player payments in each of the 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons.\n\nSaracens previously claimed they \"readily comply\" with salary cap rules and were able to spend above the £7m cap because of the high proportion - almost 60% - of home-grown players in their squad.\n\nThe club apologised for \"administrative errors relating to the non-disclosure of some transactions\" to Premiership Rugby Limited, but added it will \"continue to vigorously defend this position especially as PRL precedent already exists whereby co-investments have not been deemed part of salary in the regulations\".\n\nIn a separate statement, Wray said: \"This is absolutely devastating for everyone associated with this amazing group of players, staff, partners and fans.\n\n\"It's been acknowledged by the panel that we never deliberately sought to mislead anyone or breach the cap.\n\n\"That's why it feels like the rug is being completely pulled out from under our feet. We will appeal [against] all the findings.\"\n\nDuring an independent disciplinary panel hearing, Saracens saw their challenge of the validity of the regulations on competition law grounds rejected.\n\nPremiership Rugby introduced its salary cap in 1999 to ensure the financial viability of all clubs and the competition.\n\nThe regulations are also designed to control inflationary pressures on clubs' costs and provide a level playing field for clubs and a competitive Premiership.\n\n\"The decision upholds both the principle of the salary cap and the charges brought following an extensive investigation,\" a Premiership spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're pleased this process has reached a conclusion.\"\n\nSaracens have been the dominant force in the domestic game for the best part of a decade - scooping eight major titles and providing the spine of the England World Cup team - but that success will now be considered tainted.\n\nHow long has it been going on? Will the club keep their titles? What will happen with their review, given they insist they were involved in legitimate business dealings with players? What happens now to the current squad, which may need to be dismantled, especially with a £5m fine and the threat of relegation?\n\nAnd what do players, coaches and fans at other clubs think, given everyone is affected in some way by this? On that note, do any other clubs in the league have something to hide?\n\nLike with the Bloodgate scandal involving Harlequins 10 years ago, the fallout to this will be significant and lengthy, and will damage the integrity of the Premiership just at the point the league is looking to launch a global expansion.\n\nThis is probably the biggest story in English club rugby history.\n\nSaracens have developed into a true sporting powerhouse during the past decade, winning five Premiership titles and three European Champions Cups since 2010-11.\n\nTwo of those domestic titles came in the timeframe that Premiership Rugby have been investigating, with Mark McCall's side winning 53 of 72 league and play-off matches during that period.\n\nThey have been equally dominant in European competition, having lifted the trophy in three of the past four seasons.\n\nIn the five seasons Saracens have finished as Premiership champions, a 35-point deduction would have meant them not reaching the play-offs by finishing in the top four, but would also not have seen them relegated.\n\nThey would have finished 10th last season had the same punishment been imposed.\n\nSaracens have won two of their three Premiership matches so far this season and their England players are unlikely to return for another couple of weeks.", "Domestic violence, family conflict and drink and drug abuse are the biggest drivers of the rise in child-protection cases in England, says the Local Government Association (LGA).\n\nThe organisation representing English councils has surveyed the councillors in charge of children's services about the causes of a 53% rise in child-protection cases over the past decade.\n\nMore than 80% identified domestic violence and substance misuse as being behind the increased numbers in their local authorities.\n\nAn average of 88 children are taken into care each day and the LGA asked the lead councillors for children's services for their view of the most common causes.\n\nThe behaviour of adults around children - in the form of domestic violence, drinking and drug taking - was the most frequent explanation for councils having to intervene to protect 18,000 more children than a decade ago.\n\nThis was followed by factors such as poverty, housing problems and debt.\n\nFigures published last week by the Department for Education showed 52,000 child-protection plans, identifying how to deal with children considered to be at risk, had been drawn up - a slight annual decline against a significant long-term increase.\n\nThese figures also showed domestic violence to be the most common factor for so-called \"children in need\" - much more so than issues such as abuse, gangs, trafficking or anti-social behaviour.\n\nThere are almost 400,000 \"children in need\" where there are concerns about their health or development and where they are at risk of being \"significantly impaired\" without extra support.\n\nAfter domestic violence, the most common underlying problems are mental health issues, emotional abuse, drug and alcohol abuse.\n\nPhysical abuse, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation were all lower than the previous year.\n\nBut numbers of serious cases investigating fears of children suffering or facing \"significant harm\" have continued to climb.\n\nThere were more than 200,000 of these safeguarding inquiries - rising every year from 127,000 in 2012-13.\n\nThe Local Government Association is warning of the financial pressures on councils.\n\n\"Funding pressures are coinciding with huge increases in demand for support because of problems like hardship and family conflict,\" said Judith Blake, chairwoman of the LGA's children and young people board.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new European arrest warrant has been issued for a St Andrews University professor over her role in the 2017 push for independence in Catalonia.\n\nClara Ponsatí, who was education minister in the Catalan government, is wanted in Spain on a charge of sedition.\n\nProf Ponsati, 62, denies wrongdoing and says she will resist extradition.\n\nA previous warrant was withdrawn last summer, but the academic again faces being sent to Spain to stand trial.\n\nThe move comes after nine Catalan leaders were convicted of sedition over their role in an unsanctioned referendum on independence in 2017.\n\nProtests erupted in Barcelona last month after they were sentenced to between nine and 13 years in prison by Spain's Supreme Court.\n\nProsecutors argued that the unilateral declaration of independence was an attack on the Spanish state and accused some of those involved of a serious act of rebellion.\n\nThey also said separatist leaders had misused public funds while organising the 2017 referendum.\n\nRiot police in Barcelona tried to disperse protesters who set up burning barricades last month\n\nSpeaking to BBC Political Correspondent Niall O'Gallagher, Prof Ponsati said: \"I feel a very intense feeling of outrage and injustice.\n\n\"A guilty verdict on the Catalan leaders is a guilty verdict on the Catalan people that went to the polls on the referendum day. So everyone will feel the verdict in their own souls.\"\n\nProf Ponsati said she did not regret returning to her post at St Andrews University early last year, having fled the Catalan capital.\n\nShe added: \"I think I can be more useful as a free person.\"\n\nProf Ponsatí considers herself an exile, unable to go home for fear of arrest.\n\nAsked if there were moments when she wondered if it was worth it, she replied: \"Of course - but at this point all I can do is keep up the fight, and submit to Scottish justice if I have to.\n\n\"This is much greater than myself, I'm just one small grain of sand.\"\n\nProf Ponsati was given a standing ovation after addressing the SNP conference in Aberdeen last year\n\nProf Ponsati's lawyer Aamer Anwar confirmed she will report to St Leonard's Police Office in Edinburgh at 10:30 on Thursday where she will be detained and arrested.\n\nThe academic will then be transferred to Edinburgh Sheriff Court for a hearing where her legal team will apply for bail.\n\nMr Anwar confirmed Prof Ponsati faces a single charge of sedition and, if extradited and convicted, could face a sentence of up to 15 years.\n\nHe said: \"It will be argued by Clara's legal team that there is no guarantee of a right to a fair trial in Spain, where most members of the Catalan government are already in prison or in exile.\n\n\"Clara believes the charge to be part of 'a political motivated prosecution' and submits her extradition would be unjust and incompatible with her human rights.\"\n\nMr Anwar vowed the extradition will be \"opposed robustly\" and said the academic is \"deeply grateful\" for the support she has received.\n\nHe added: \"Once again she is taking on the might of the Spanish state and Clara is resolute and determined to fight and believes that Spain will never be able to crush the spirit of the Catalan People.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We can confirm we are in possession of a European Arrest Warrant for Clara Ponsati.\n\n\"We have now been in contact with her solicitor, who is making arrangements for her to hand herself in to police.\"\n\nSpain withdrew the previous European arrest warrant for Prof Ponsati last July, four months after she was arrested by Scottish police.\n\nAt the time Prof Ponsati argued that the charges against her were politically-motivated, and claimed she would not receive a fair trial if she returned to Spain.\n\nThe independence movement in Catalonia has close links with its Scottish counterpart, and Prof Ponsati was given a standing ovation at the SNP conference in Aberdeen last year.\n\nProf Ponsati had been working as the director of the School of Economics and Finance at St Andrews University since January 2016, before being appointed as the Catalan government's education minister in July 2017.\n\nShe returned to work at St Andrews last year, having been in Belgium since fleeing Spain with deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and three other former cabinet members following an unsuccessful bid to declare independence from Spain in October 2017.\n\nCatalan nationalists have long complained that their region, which has a distinct history dating back almost 1,000 years, sends too much money to poorer parts of Spain, as taxes are controlled by Madrid.\n\nThe wealthy region is home to about 7.5 million people, with their own language, parliament, flag and anthem.\n\nDuring the Supreme Court case last month prosecutors argued the leaders had carried out a \"perfectly planned strategy... to break the constitutional order and obtain the independence of Catalonia\" illegally.\n\nCarme Forcadell, the former parliament speaker who read out the independence result on 27 October 2017, was also accused of allowing parliamentary debates on independence despite warnings from Spain's Constitutional Court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"The Tories have failed on Brexit for three years\"\n\nLabour's promise to \"get Brexit sorted\" within six months of winning power has been dismissed as \"fairytale politics\" by the Conservatives in the first clash of the election campaign on the issue.\n\nIn a speech in Essex, Jeremy Corbyn said his plan to get a better deal and then put it to the public in another referendum was \"clear and simple\".\n\nHe said a deadline to hold the vote next summer was \"realistic and doable\".\n\nBut the Tories said Labour's plan would result in \"paralysing uncertainty\".\n\nHowever, the Conservative commitment to negotiate a new free trade deal with the EU in just over a year is also coming under scrutiny.\n\nIt took seven years for the EU to conclude a free trade deal with Canada, an agreement which many Brexiteers see as a template for the UK. Any deal would need to be agreed by all 27 remaining EU states before it could come into force.\n\nMichael Gove, the minister in charge of Brexit planning, said a majority Conservative government would \"absolutely not\" extend the transition period after the UK's departure from the EU - under Mr Johnson's deal it is due to end at the start of 2021.\n\nPressed on whether this could ultimately lead to a no-deal exit - with the UK defaulting to World Trade Organisation rules - if no free trade deal could be agreed by that point, he pointed out that Mr Johnson had been able to secure major changes to the current withdrawal agreement in \"just 90 days\".\n\nEx-Justice Secretary David Gauke, who lost the Tory whip after rebelling over Brexit, said it would be \"reckless\" to exit transition without a trade deal and MPs must get a vote before this happened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe political parties are ramping up their election campaigning, ahead of the official start to the five-week campaign period at just after midnight on Wednesday.\n\nBrexit is set to be a crucial issue when voters go to the polls on 12 December, with Mr Johnson insisting the UK will leave in January if he wins power.\n\nThe UK and US have both said they are eager to do a free trade deal after Brexit, and in August, President Donald Trump predicted that leaving the EU would be like losing \"an anchor round the ankle\".\n\nBut in a speech in Harlow - a target seat for Labour - Mr Corbyn accused Mr Johnson of seeking to \"hijack Brexit to sell out the NHS\" to American firms in a future trade deal with the US.\n\nLabour is hoping its candidate Laura McAlpine will take the Conservative-held seat of Harlow\n\nThe PM's strategy could see an extra £500m a week spent on buying medicines, he claimed, as well as leading to a \"race to the bottom\" on workers' rights and product standards.\n\nMr Johnson has insisted the NHS would \"not be on the table\" in post-Brexit trade talks with the US.\n\nThe BBC's Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris said the £500m figure was a theoretical worst-case scenario in which the prices of all medicines used in the NHS were the same as the prices of those medicines in the US.\n\nHowever, he said in practice that was highly unlikely - although there was no question US pharmaceutical companies would lobby aggressively for greater access to the NHS, and the ability to set higher prices.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\n\"Given the chance, they'll slash food standards to match those of the US where 'acceptable levels' of rat hairs in paprika and maggots in orange juice are allowed,\" he will claim.\n\n\"And they will put chlorinated chicken on the supermarket shelves.\"\n\nIf elected next month, Mr Corbyn said he could strike a \"sensible\" new deal with the EU within months \"based on terms we have already discussed with the EU - including membership of a customs union and absolute guarantees on workers rights.\n\nAt the same time, a Labour government would plan for a new public vote in June or July.\n\n\"Labour's plan would get Brexit sorted so a Labour government can get on with delivering the real change Britain needs,\" he told activists.\n\nBoris Johnson said his cabinet could be \"proud\" of its record on Brexit\n\n\"Only a Labour government would put a decision in your hands... It cannot be left to the politicians...The Brexit crisis must be resolved but it must done democratically.\"\n\nMr Corbyn has refused to say whether he would back Leave or Remain, but said he would \"immediately carry out\" the public's decision so the country could \"move on\".\n\nSpeaking at the same event, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said a Labour government would \"rip up\" Mr Johnson's deal with the EU, describing it as a \"trap door\" to a no-deal exit at the end of the transition period.\n\nHe said reaching a new economic and security relationship with the EU was a \"massive task\" and there would be \"no safety net\" if the talks were not concluded next year.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said another referendum would be a \"disastrous, clamorous\" waste of time.\n\nAddressing ministers in Downing Street at his final cabinet meeting before Parliament is dissolved for the election, he said his government \"could be proud\" of what it had achieved on Brexit, despite failing to meet his \"do-or-die\" deadline to leave on 31 October.\n\n\"We've achieved something people thought we really couldn't do - get a great new deal on Brexit from EU - they said it couldn't be done.\n\n\"The choice before country is really very clear - do you want to go forward with our agenda which is to get Brexit done and then get on with delivering all the wonderful things we want to do for this country... or do you want to waste 2020?\"\n\nAnd Mr Gove suggested Mr Corbyn was incapable of negotiating a new Brexit deal in the way Mr Johnson had done.\n\n\"It is a fairy tale if you imagine Jeremy Corbyn can get Brexit done. His policy on Brexit has been constructed by a terminally weak leader in order to paper over the cracks in his party.\"\n\nAnd on a visit to a gymnasium in the Derbyshire seat of Bolsover, Nigel Farage said The Brexit Party was \"going after\" Labour MPs who he said had failed to deliver what people voted for in the 2016 referendum.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nigel Farage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Lib Dems and the SNP, who both want the UK to remain in the EU, are also campaigning on the issue on Tuesday.\n\nStopping Brexit will deliver a £50bn \"Remain bonus\" for public services over the next five years, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said.\n\nAnd SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will claim that Scottish voters have the chance to escape from the \"lost decade\" Brexit risks by backing her party.", "A report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy will not be published until after the election.\n\nIt has gone through the standard security clearance process, but sources say No 10 is stalling on releasing it.\n\nEx-terrorism watchdog Lord Anderson said any further delay would \"invite suspicion\" of the government's motives in the run-up to next month's election.\n\nMinisters said the report would be published \"in due course\" in line with procedures for \"sensitive\" information.\n\nThe report examines Russian activity including allegations of espionage, subversion and interference in elections.\n\nThe BBC's Mark Urban said the delay would increase concerns the report would be \"buried\".\n\nThe report, written by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, was finalised in March and referred to No 10 on 17 October.\n\nHowever, approval for its publication has yet to be given and this now looks highly unlikely before Parliament is dissolved on Tuesday.\n\nThe chairman of the committee, Dominic Grieve, says there is no legitimate reason for delaying it and that voters have a right to see its conclusions before they go to the polls on 12 December.\n\n\"We continue to be very disappointed by the failure of the government to publish this report and to provide any explanation as to why it should not be published. Explanations currently advanced that the timing are too short are entirely disingenuous and grossly misleading,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe report includes evidence from UK intelligence services such as GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 concerning covert Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Urban This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral MPs and peers believe No 10 is sitting on the report for political reasons ahead of the election.\n\nRaising the issue in the Lords, Lord Anderson, the former reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, said concerns over security could not be used as an excuse for non-publication as all the necessary redactions had taken place.\n\n\"This unjustified delay undermines the ISC, it invites suspicion of the government and its motives. Will the minister urge No 10 to think again?\"\n\nThe former head of the Foreign Office, Lord Ricketts, said claims that the government needed time to respond was a red herring given that it had 60 days in which to do so under existing conventions.\n\nHe said there was a \"clear public interest\" for publication \"in the national security implications of Russia's adversarial conduct\".\n\nThe BBC understands that, if previous practice was followed, the report will have been vetted by the intelligence agencies before being referred to Downing Street.\n\nPeople familiar with the committee's workings say 10 days should have been adequate for it to be \"cleared\".\n\nMr Grieve said the report was highly relevant given the scale of Russian interference in elections in other countries, notably the 2016 US Presidential election.\n\nBut Earl Howe said the established protocols had to be followed and there was no case for \"accelerating\" the report's release.\n\n\"The length of time the government has had this report is not at all unusual,\" he told the Lords. \"The prime minister is entitled to take his view on what the report contains.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Having said all that, I do realize that the subject of this report is a matter of particular public interest. And I have no doubt that level Lords comments will not be lost on those in Number 10.\"", "A red panda that escaped from a wildlife park on the Isle of Man has been recaptured after being spotted up a tree in a garden.\n\n\"Kush\" went missing from Curraghs Wildlife Park three weeks ago, after a tree fell across his enclosure.\n\nThe panda is now being checked over in the park's hospital unit before being returned to its home.\n\nGeneral manager Kathleen Graham said staff were \"really relieved\" the search had ended positively.\n\nA live trap had been set and a drone was also used to locate the animal, which was eventually spotted in the garden of a home about a mile away in Tholt-y-Will, Sulby.\n\nThe seven-year-old mammal \"might have lost a bit of weight\" but otherwise \"looks quite healthy,\" Mrs Graham said.\n\nIt took staff \"about an hour\" to capture the animal with a net before he was taken back to the park in a box.\n\nSince the escape, tree branches that looked in danger of breaking in the red panda enclosure had been removed, Mrs Graham said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Angela Taylor and Paul Cannon sent explicit text messages about killing her estranged husband William Taylor\n\nThe estranged wife of a wealthy farmer has been found guilty of murdering him.\n\nAngela Taylor and her partner Paul Cannon shared \"a venomous hatred\" for William Taylor as he would not divorce her, St Albans Crown Court heard.\n\nThe 69-year-old's skeletal remains were found waist-deep in mud by a passing fisherman near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in February, eight months after he was reported missing.\n\nTaylor and Cannon were both convicted of murder and arson.\n\nThe pair will be sentenced on Friday and Judge Michael Kay QC told them: \"There is only once sentence that can be passed and it will be a life sentence.\"\n\nGwyn Griffiths, 60, who was a colleague of Cannon and from Folkestone, Kent, was cleared of conspiracy to murder.\n\nMr Taylor was reported missing by his lodger on 4 June 2018. Several days before he went missing his Land Rover was set on fire.\n\nDNA found in the torched car matched that of Cannon.\n\nWilliam Taylor was reported missing by his lodger on 4 June\n\nTaylor, 53, and Cannon, 54, fantasised about killing Mr Taylor, who was known as Bill, in explicit messages sent to each other on WhatsApp, their trial heard.\n\nMessages read in court spoke about \"the best way\" to kill the farmer and hurt his family. They included references to pickaxes, chainsaws and barbed wire.\n\nVarious scenarios were discussed in the messages and Taylor described them as \"a turn-on\".\n\nOn the night Mr Taylor disappeared, Cannon sent a message which said: \"Just watching Kill Bill 2 lol.\"\n\nCannon told police officers: \"Messages between Angela and me related to no more than fantasy and banter of an extreme nature.\"\n\nAngela Taylor said she had sent the messages \"out of frustration\" as Mr Taylor was \"getting on her nerves\".\n\nEarlier in the trial, prosecutor John Price QC said: \"It will become apparent that he and she shared and encouraged in each other in a venomous hatred for William Taylor. They loathed him.\"\n\nExperts told the court that it was impossible to determine a cause of death because Mr Taylor's body was so badly decomposed.\n\nThe farmer was still wearing his boots and blue overalls when his remains were found.\n\nThe defence argued Mr Taylor probably died after getting \"stuck in mud\" and might have gone to the area for a picnic.\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there was no sign of blunt force injuries, no gunshot or stab wounds and no evidence of toxic substances.\n\nBut the court heard there was a \"possible fracture\" to the hyoid bone in the neck, which could have been due to compression.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Huddersfield Road at its junction with Lumb Lane has been closed\n\nTwo men have suffered serious injuries following a shooting in West Yorkshire.\n\nPolice were called to Huddersfield Road, Liversedge, at 19:10 GMT to reports of a firearms incident.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police confirmed two men, aged 22 and 27, were found with gunshot wounds.\n\nIt is believed the suspects drove away in a small, dark coloured vehicle and police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.\n\nThe road at its junction with Lumb Lane has been closed while officers investigate.\n\nThey are also conducting high visibility patrols in the vicinity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The nursery can cater for more than 50 children up to the age of five\n\n\"A number of children\" have been identified as potential victims by police investigating claims of a sexual assault at a nursery.\n\nOfficers were called to Jack and Jill Childcare, in Torquay, in July.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said it had since identified several children as \"potential victims of contact offences\".\n\nAn employee, who was arrested and bailed in July, has been moved out of the area while inquiries continue.\n\nThe nursery, which caters for children as young as two, has had its licence suspended.\n\nActing Det Ch Insp James Stock, of Devon and Cornwall Police's Public Protection Unit, said more than 250 hours of CCTV at the nursery had been reviewed.\n\nHe said \"a number of children aged two-plus have been identified as potential victims of contact offences\" as a result.\n\nMore than 100 families who have children at the nursery have been contacted as part of the investigation, police said.\n\nOfficers and social workers had visited parents and guardians of those believed to be victims.\n\nCCTV at the nursery has been reviewed by police\n\nIn a notice posted on a window at the nursery, Ofsted said the suspension runs from 24 October to 24 December.\n\n\"The purpose of the suspension is to allow time to investigate our belief that a child may be exposed to a risk of harm and for any necessary steps to be taken to eliminate or reduce the risk of harm,\" the notice said.\n\n\"We will regularly review the situation and will stop the suspension within this period if we believe children are no longer at risk.\n\n\"Suspension does not automatically mean that a provider is unsuitable to provide care in the future or that we will cancel registration.\n\n\"We only take steps to cancel registration if we consider that the provider is no longer suitable to provide childcare.\"\n\nActing Det Ch Insp Stock said contact with the suspect appeared to be \"limited to within the nursery setting and we do not believe that any other member of staff had knowledge of these matters\".\n\n\"These appear to be the actions of a lone individual. and the offences do not involve the taking or distributing of any images,\" he said.\n\nNancy Meehan, deputy director of Torbay Children's Services, said safeguarding children was taken \"incredibly seriously\" and a helpline had been set up for anyone who had concerns.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Election campaigns are a branch of the marketing industry. In the 21st Century, that means they have shifted online.\n\nThe appeal of social media platforms such as Facebook for someone with a message to sell is irresistible: they're cheap, fast, less regulated, and you can target much more specifically than through, say, billboard advertising.\n\nOnce upon a time, like say the middle of the twentieth century, the sources of media in our culture were finite. This was deleterious to democracy, because it limited scrutiny of power, information available to citizens, and led to excessive concentrations of power. But it may - may - have had some benefits in creating social solidarity. Establishing a set of facts that are commonly accepted helps keep a society glued together.\n\nNow the glue is gone, and we're being ripped apart by the forces of modern media. All our social media feeds - for those of us who are on social media, that is - vary according to interest. So what we know is very different. And the reason so many people, especially the young, are glued to social media is that their attention has been captured by the smartest engineers on the planet.\n\nThose engineers designed platforms which are the greatest cash cows in human history. Every time you do anything on these platforms, you provide them with information which allows anyone with a message to sell to target you. This is why the likes of Facebook (to coin a phrase) are also in essence a branch of the marketing industry.\n\nThis is boom time for those in the industry. But how do they work exactly? I asked the boss of a marketing agency that doesn't work for any UK political party. It's called BrainLabs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How election campaigns could target you online", "Duncan Carson is taking advice from his union after rejecting the new terms\n\nDuncan Carson has just lost his job as a baker at an Asda store near Stoke, but he is preparing to put up a fight.\n\nHe is among the Asda workers who have been sacked after refusing to sign up to new contracts, but he aims to take the supermarket to an employment tribunal.\n\n\"I think someone should stand up to them,\" he said. \"What is the point in having a contract if they can unilaterally change it?\"\n\nAsda gave its workers until midnight on Saturday to agree to new terms, which include unpaid breaks, changes to night shift payments and being called to work at shorter notice.\n\nThe supermarket said 120,000 workers had agreed to the deal, and that fewer than 300 had yet to sign up to the new contract.\n\nBut Mr Carson, who has worked for Asda for 13 years, said the new contract was \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"I have an appointment with my union officer on Thursday to start the process,\" he said.\n\nHe usually works from 06:00 until noon as a baker, which he says suits him as he is used to working mornings. The new contract means he can be asked to work any hours from 05:00 until midnight.\n\nThe move will destroy trust in the business, he says. While the new terms stipulate that Asda must give four weeks' notice of new shift patterns, \"what will stop them changing it again?\" he asks.\n\nAsda has extended its deadline to accept the new term by a week, meaning workers who return can do so on the new terms. Those who do not will remain sacked, however.\n\n\"We have been clear that we do not want anyone to leave us as a result of this necessary change and so we have written to the fewer than 300 colleagues who have not signed the contract to offer a little more time to sign up and continue to work with us, should they wish,\" the company said.\n\nIt added that it had always been clear that it understood people had responsibilities outside of work and would \"always help them to balance these with their work life\".\n\nNeil Derrick, GMB regional officer for Yorkshire and North Derbyshire, said his union would offer advice on what legal challenges his members can mount.\n\n\"We are working with every individual member with a view to lodging a claim,\" he said, which might be based on unfair dismissal, sex discrimination or potentially disability discrimination.\n\nMany Asda workers are women who are on part-time contracts to fit in with looking after family members, he added.\n\n\"This new contract completely turns that on its head,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Sarah Crowther, a barrister at Outer Temple Chambers, noted that other retailers had made similar contract changes and that they were perfectly legal.\n\nShe said employees that refused to accept the changes had two potential ways to make a claim: unfair dismissal or indirect discrimination.\n\n\"Those with two years of qualifying employment could bring a claim for unfair dismissal. In that situation it would depend on whether the tribunal was satisfied that there was a good business reason and that procedurally everything had been done with adequate consultation,\" she told the BBC's Today Programme.\n\nMs Crowther added that people \"disproportionately affected\" by the change such as \"those less able to accommodate the flexibility... might have a case, but then it would be open to an employer to justify that\".\n\nLast week, Leeds-based Asda said it was increasing its hourly pay rates.\n\nThe supermarket said it would raise its basic rate for its hourly-paid retail employees to £9.18 an hour from 1 April next year, following an increase to £9 from 3 November.\n\nIn London, which has an additional allowance to reflect the higher cost of living, basic pay will increase to £10.31 an hour.\n\nThe retailer, owned by Walmart, acknowledged that the announcement for April pay rises had come earlier that usual.", "Artwork: The Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977\n\nData sent back by the two Voyager spacecraft have shed new light on the structure of the Solar System.\n\nForty-two years after they were launched, the spacecraft are still going strong and exploring the outer reaches of our cosmic neighbourhood.\n\nBy analysing data sent back by the probes, scientists have worked out the shape of the vast magnetic bubble that surrounds the Sun.\n\nThe two spacecraft are now more than 10 billion miles from Earth.\n\nResearchers detail their findings in six separate studies published in the journal Nature Astronomy.\n\n\"We had no good quantitative idea how big this bubble is that the Sun creates around itself with its solar wind - ionised plasma that's speeding away from the Sun radially in all directions,\" said Ed Stone, the longstanding project scientist for the missions.\n\n\"We certainly didn't know that the spacecraft could live long enough to reach the edge and leave the bubble to enter interstellar space.\"\n\nThe plasma consists of charged particles and gas that permeate space on both sides of the magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere.\n\nMeasurements show that the identical probes have exited the heliosphere and entered interstellar space - the region between stars. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, Voyager 2 crossed over late last year. The key sign in both cases was a jump in the density of plasma.\n\nThis showed that the spacecraft were passing from an environment with hot, lower density plasma characteristic of the solar wind and entering a region with the cool, higher density plasma thought to be found in interstellar space.\n\nThe boundary between the two regions is known as the heliopause.\n\nArtwork showing the heliosphere, along with the interstellar medium\n\n\"We saw the plasma density at the heliopause jump by a very large amount - a factor of 20, at this rather sharp boundary out there,\" said Prof Don Gurnett, from the University of Iowa.\n\n\"Actually, with Voyager One we saw an even bigger jump.\"\n\nThe findings suggest that the heliosphere is symmetrical, at least at the two points that the Voyager spacecraft crossed. The researchers say these points are almost at the same distance from the Sun, indicating a spherical front to the bubble - \"like a blunt bullet\", according to Prof Gurnett.\n\nThe results also provide clues to the the thickness of the \"heliosheath\", the outer region of the magnetic bubble. This is the point where the solar wind piles up against the approaching wind of particles in interstellar space, which Prof Gurnett likens to the effect of a snow plow on a city street.\n\nThe heliosheath appears to vary in its thickness. This is based on data showing that Voyager 1 had to travel further than its twin to reach the heliopause, where the solar wind and the interstellar wind are in balance.\n\nSome had thought Voyager 2 would make that crossing into interstellar space first, based on models of the magnetic bubble.\n\n\"In a historical sense, the old idea that the solar wind will just be gradually whittled away as you go further into interstellar space is simply not true,\" says Don Gurnett.\n\n\"We show with Voyager 2 - and previously with Voyager 1 - that there's a distinct boundary out there. It's just astonishing how fluids, including plasmas, form boundaries.\"", "At the time of Ross England's (R) selection to stand as an assembly member, Alun Cairns (L) endorsed Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\"\n\nA rape victim has called on a UK cabinet minister to quit after his former aide - a Tory Welsh assembly candidate - \"sabotaged\" her trial.\n\nRoss England made claims about the victim's sexual history in an April 2018 trial which led to its collapse.\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns denied knowing about this, but BBC Wales has seen an email sent to him in August 2018 mentioning the matter.\n\nMr England was picked as the assembly election candidate in December 2018.\n\nMr Cairns has been asked to comment.\n\nAsked if the minister should resign, the victim - who worked for the Conservative Party - said: \"Absolutely. If he'd come out and condemned Ross [England] in the first instance, he wouldn't be in this position.\n\n\"I would like an apology from the party and Alun Cairns for selecting him in the first place. I can't believe that not one senior Welsh Conservative has said that what he did was wrong.\"\n\nThe email on 2 August 2018 was sent to Mr Cairns by Geraint Evans, his special adviser. It was also copied to Richard Minshull - the director of the Welsh Conservatives - and another member of staff.\n\nIt said: \"I have spoken to Ross and he is confident no action will be taken by the court.\"\n\nMr Cairns said he only became aware of Ross England's role in the trial's collapse when the story broke last week\n\nMr England, who was selected as the candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan, said he had given an \"honest answer\" while giving evidence at the rape trial of his friend James Hackett.\n\nMr England told the court he had a casual sexual relationship with the complainant - which she denied - despite the judge in the case making it clear that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nThe judge, Stephen John Hopkins QC, said to him: \"Why did you say that? Are you completely stupid?\n\n\"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nHackett was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.\n\nMr England was suspended as a candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan and as an employee last week after details of the court case emerged and the party said a \"full investigation will be conducted\".\n\nMr England was selected to stand for the Welsh Conservatives for the 2021 assembly election\n\nAt the time of his selection to stand as an assembly member, Mr Cairns endorsed Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\" with whom \"it will be a pleasure to campaign\".\n\nA Welsh Conservatives source told the BBC: \"I can't really see how he [Mr Cairns] can possibly carry on - the toxic nature of these revelations could bring down the whole Conservative campaign in Wales.\n\n\"If he did have any decency he'd put the party and country first and resign.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Welsh Conservatives said: \"There is no new information from this leaked document confirming an informal conversation which took place a considerable time after the trial collapsed and is consistent with statements made.\n\n\"The full details of this case are still not known and we have taken action in writing to the court. All forthcoming information will be taken into account as the party conducts a thorough investigation.\"\n\nChristina Rees, Labour's shadow secretary of state for Wales, said the decision to select Mr England as a candidate was \"an error of judgement\" and called on Mr Cairns to resign.\n\nEchoing the call, Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts said: \"At worst, Mr Cairns is complicit in the attempted cover up of his former staff member's actions which collapsed a rape trial.\n\n\"At best, he has displayed gross incompetence in judgement.\"\n\nIn the first of two statements issued on Thursday, Welsh Tory party chairman Lord Davies of Gower said the party only became aware of the \"full extent of the proceedings\" when Hackett's appeal process ended in October.\n\nHe said: \"We were fully aware that Ross England was involved as a witness in a sensitive case. We are also aware of the responsibility we have as employers.\n\n\"Since the end of the Appeal Court case, we have now been made aware of the full extent of the proceedings.\"\n\nMr England gave a speech at the Welsh Conservative conference in 2016\n\nIn a second statement, he said he could \"categorically state\" he and Mr Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public this week\".\n\nMr England used to work for Mr Cairns in the Vale of Glamorgan and was selected as the party's candidate to fight for the constituency seat at the 2021 Welsh assembly elections.\n\nMr Cairns previously told BBC Wales he only became aware of Mr England's role in the trial's collapse when the story broke last week.\n\nIn a statement, he said he only became aware of the collapse of the trial \"some considerable time afterwards and had no knowledge of the role of Ross England\".\n\nMr England said he acted honestly during the collapsed trial and did not know that any evidence had been ruled inadmissible.\n\nThe victim said Mr England's Conservative selection \"shows how little respect they have for me\".\n\nShe added: \"It is completely shocking to me that Ross England would stand up in court and say these things given that they are untrue.\n\n\"He was asked if we worked together, and the answer to that is yes.\n\n\"Nobody asked him if we were in a sexual relationship or not. For him to just blurt that out proves to me that it was a formulated plan that he and whoever else conjured to try and derail the trial.\n\n\"I think it was an absolutely deliberate attempt to sabotage the trial.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr England said: \"I gave an honest answer, honouring the oath I took to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.\n\n\"I complied fully with the conditions of the court before and after the trial.\"\n\nOne Conservative Party source told BBC Wales they called the party's Cardiff headquarters on the day the trial collapsed to inform management Mr England's actions led to that happening.\n\nJudge Hopkins went on to say he would be writing to Mr England's political allies in the hope they would take \"appropriate action\".\n\nLord Davies has said \"at no time\" had any party officials received any correspondence in relation to the matter.\n\nMr Evans and Lord Davies have also been asked to comment.", "Speaking to the BBC's South America correspondent, Katy Watson, President Sebastián Piñera has said he will not resign despite the mass anti-government protests.\n\nThe demonstrations were originally triggered by a now-suspended rise in the price of metro fares in Santiago.\n\nProtesters are now marching to express their discontent over a wide variety of problems.", "There’s a distinct smell of Brexit in the air as the Lib Dems hit the campaign trail.", "The day before the election campaign starts in earnest, a bucket of cold, hard reality has been chucked over any Tories around the place who thought they might be able to set the terms of the debate, or control exactly what will happen in the next six weeks.\n\nThe man in the pinstripes who charms some Brexiteers stumbled into the first hideous mistake of this election campaign.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg may have apologised for his insensitive remarks about what happened at Grenfell Tower.\n\nBut it is toxic for the Tories, playing straight into familiar accusations about the party that they can't understand, and therefore cannot seek to represent, ordinary people for whom life is sometimes a struggle.\n\nBoris Johnson and his team are often accused of being simply a bunch of grown-up public school boys, who know little of the world beyond their gilded ascent to power.\n\nStereotypes of any type are often overcooked in politics, but wise Conservatives are very well aware they have an image problem on this front that is hard to shed.\n\nToday's mistake just gave Labour all of the ammunition it needed to make the charge again and again, and then ensuing upset from some of their backers like Stormzy, the rapper and singer, which will have its own long-lasting half life on social media.\n\nThere aren't always very many moments of that elusive \"cut through\" in campaigns. This might just be the first moment this time round - although it is impossible to know yet if the upset over these remarks will shift any votes away from the Tories, or just enrage those who plan to choose other parties already.\n\nAnd elections bring with them weeks, and tides and tides of news that can wash away early horrors or successes for any political party.\n\nSo far, so predictable - the parties all know well the view of the Conservative prime minister decades ago, Harold Macmillan, who warned what knocked parties off course was \"the opposition of events\". (Yes, apparently he never said, \"events, dear boy, events\", if you want to feel like a clever clogs).\n\nBut surprises can work in their favour too - and the Liberal Democrats are hoping the election will be just as unpredictable as the last few crazy years.\n\nIf you had heard a Liberal Democrat leader proclaim they were standing to be a candidate for prime minister not so long ago, you'd have wanted to check their temperature.\n\nAnd yet every time Jo Swinson gets anywhere near a microphone, it's what she says.\n\nHave things really become so strange that a party that got 12 MPs in 2017 is knocking on the door of No 10? Never, quite, say never.\n\nAlthough in our first-past-the-post system, you may love or hate, it is vanishingly unlikely that a party could go from 12 MPs to the magic 326 that gives a party a majority, the power to govern, and to get things done.\n\nJo Swinson says the election could be a \"moment for seismic change\".\n\nSo what are they on about?\n\nWell, just as Jacob Rees-Mogg's dreadful gaffe will create terrible headlines for the Conservatives online and in the press, so too, the Lib Dems hope, the bold claim from Jo Swinson that she could genuinely end up in Downing Street creates noise and headlines, a sense of what might, just about, be possible.\n\nThe more familiar the message, the less far-fetched it might seem, so the theory goes, even though chat from some activists at the party's launch this morning was that getting back up to 50 or 60 seats or would be a pretty good night.\n\nExpect the party leader, though, who believes she has a massive opportunity at her fingertips, to repeat her claim about No 10 again and again and again.\n\nIt may not be the most outlandish campaign we hear in the next few weeks.\n\nWelcome to the predictably unpredictable campaign of 2019, and the prime minister hasn't even yet been to the Palace.\n• None Election poll tracker: How do the parties compare?", "Sadly, this case of a doctored video shows that what matters for an effective social media strategy is not accuracy, but noise.\n\nThe Conservatives’ video will have induced in many viewers a false impression of what Sir Keir Starmer said. Their defence, that it was edited for time and effect, and the jaunty music shows it to be clearly satirical in nature, rubs up against the fact that it was in a basic sense misleading.\n\nBut the fact the Conservative Party’s press office, having received enquiries, then released a further attack on Sir Keir, shows why this minor saga will be chalked up as a success.\n\nBy highlighting the original misrepresentation, journalists merely draw attention to it. In an age of media consumption when our attention is finite, and fought over by the world’s most powerful companies, what matters is briefly capturing enough voters’ minds for long enough to convey the impression that Labour is in a pickle over Brexit.\n\nOf course, everything about this minor affair shows a world in which campaigning isn’t about civilised debate, nuance, policy or argument. It’s about the digital blitzkrieg, and who has the most brutal weaponry. In social media elections, might is right.", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe general election could be \"a moment for seismic change\", when \"a new and different politics\" emerges, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said.\n\nIn a speech at the party's campaign launch, she said she could do \"a better job\" than either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister.\n\nIn response, the Conservatives said a vote for the Lib Dems \"risks putting\" Mr Corbyn into Downing Street.\n\nThe UK will go to the polls on 12 December.\n\nElsewhere in the election campaign:\n\nThe political parties are ramping up their campaigning, ahead of the official start to the five-week election period at just after midnight on Wednesday.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Lib Dems said they would take legal action against ITV over its plans for a head-to-head election debate including only Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, saying the decision to exclude its leader was \"outrageous\".\n\nThe party's lawyers have written to the broadcaster to give it \"the opportunity to correct this serious mistake\".\n\nITV has said it intends to offer viewers balanced election coverage.\n\nSpeaking in London, Ms Swinson said: \"Our country needs us to be more ambitious right now - and we are rising to that challenge.\n\n\"It is not about the red team or the blue team, because on this issue they merge into one - both Labour and the Conservatives want to negotiate and deliver Brexit.\n\n\"I never thought that I would stand here and say that I'm a candidate to be prime minister, but when I look at Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, I am absolutely certain I could do a better job than either of them.\"\n\nMs Swinson said Mr Johnson had \"lied to the Queen, lied to Parliament and lied to the country\" and \"was not fit to to be prime minister\".\n\nAnd she accused the Labour leader of failing to \"give a straight answer on the biggest issues facing this country\".\n\nThe Lib Dems currently have 20 MPs - out of a possible 650 - and they are especially hopeful of gaining seats in London and south-west England, but they would need a dramatic shift in the electoral landscape if they were to win a majority.\n\nHowever, responding to questions from journalists, Ms Swinson said \"stranger things have happened\" and pointed to the SNP's success in the 2015 general election.\n\nJo Swinson says she wants to be prime minister - but how credible is that?\n\nThe Lib Dems are not at the moment even the third largest party in the UK.\n\nMs Swinson cites the example of the SNP surge in 2015, when the party won almost every seat in Scotland - and she personally lost her seat to the SNP candidate.\n\nShe argues that politics is volatile, it is in flux, and things have changed because of Brexit - people are voting for very different reasons. Therefore, there is no reason why the party can't be incredibly ambitious, she argues.\n\nBut the problem for the Liberal Democrats is that the way their votes are distributed around the country, it is much harder for them to win seats than for other parties.\n\nIn 2010, they won seven million votes but got fewer than 60 seats.\n\nThe Lib Dem leader was introduced by one of the party's newer MPs, Luciana Berger, who used to be in the Labour Party but quit over the issue of anti-Semitism - something Ms Swinson accused Mr Corbyn of failing to \"root out\".\n\nAsked whether her party could support a Labour government in the event of a hung Parliament, Ms Swinson said: \"I am absolutely, categorically ruling out Lib Dem votes putting Jeremy Corbyn in No 10.\"\n\nThe Lib Dem leader said her party was \"the only party standing up to stop Brexit and build a brighter future for the UK\".\n\nShe argued that stopping Brexit would deliver a £50bn \"Remain bonus\" for public services over the next five years\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit altogether if they win power at the next general election.\n\nIf they do not win a majority at the election they would support another referendum.\n\nLabour's shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, told the BBC many Remain supporters were \"uncomfortable\" with the Lib Dems' plan to effectively \"rub out\" the 2016 referendum result and believed EU membership had to be \"argued for and won\" in another public vote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: \"We are the only party that will stop Brexit\"\n\nThe party said the £50bn figure - the amount that it has calculated will be saved over the next five years by staying in the EU - is based on the UK economy being 1.9% larger in 2024-25.\n\nIt reflects the extra tax income over the next five years and is based on a 0.4% average annual boost to GDP if the UK stays in the EU.\n\nDeputy leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Lib Dems \"actually think these are quite cautious figures\", adding that all the independent forecasters \"were clear that there will be a big boost if we stay\".\n\nPaul Johnson, from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, said it was a reasonable calculation in line with their own forecasts, adding: \"We could expect the economy to be bigger if we were to remain and this assumes a relatively modest effect if anything, although obviously subject to a huge amount of uncertainty\".\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris said the vast majority of forecasts do expect the economy would be bigger if the UK were to stay in the EU.\n\nBut he said the size of that \"bonus\" cannot be predicted with any certainty, and £50bn was not a hugely significant amount in terms of overall government expenditure.", "Civil service head Sir Mark Sedwill has dramatically blocked a Conservative plan to use civil servants to cost the Labour Party's fiscal plans.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell had complained vociferously to Treasury Permanent Secretary Tom Scholar in a meeting on Tuesday over the Conservative plan.\n\nOne government insider described the situation as a \"Whitehall farce\".\n\nBut Labour argued it was interfering in the upcoming general election.\n\nThe opposition had been infuriated by the government's plan to use the civil service to calculate the cost of Labour's announced policies, and release it as an official document.\n\nBBC News understands these concerns were forcefully reiterated to the Treasury at a meeting with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell this morning.\n\nAt the end of that meeting, described as a \"courtesy call\" by the Treasury's top official, Labour sources had assumed the document would be published.\n\nLabour's legal team had also written to complain about the \"ethics and propriety\" of the decision to involve the civil service in the costings so close to an election.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, the Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, after a phone call with the Treasury, told the opposition the document would not, after all, be published.\n\nOne government insider called it a \"Whitehall farce\" occurring after the Chancellor had announced the document at Cabinet on Tuesday morning. They said it was an \"established process\" for a government to cost opposition policies in this way.\n\nAnd previous Conservative and Labour Governments have indeed done this ahead of general elections and referendums, although there was not time to do this in 2017.\n\nIt has not in recent years been done days before the \"purdah\" period where civil servants are strictly restricted in their actions.\n\nThe opposition said it was a \"scandal\" and that the government had been caught \"red handed\" using civil servants in this way so close to an election, and at a time when the government has chosen not to do an economic assessment of its own landmark policy - the new Brexit deal.", "Dua Lipa and Calvin Harris took this year's Brit Award for best British single, for their summer banger One Kiss\n\nThe Brit Awards have announced a major revamp for 2020, with fewer awards and an end to fan votes.\n\nOrganisers promise \"more music\" as a result, with artists being given full creative control of their performances.\n\nPrizes like best British video and best international group have been cut, while the outstanding contribution award has been retired for 2020.\n\nDespite press reports earlier this year, gendered awards for best male and best female will remain.\n\nThe changes come after several years of falling ratings. This year's ceremony, which saw performances from Pink, Dua Lipa and George Ezra, was watched by 4.1m people, down 400,000 from 2018.\n\nThe decision to scrap some of the awards makes for a more streamlined show, but fans of BTS are already angry about the loss of best international group.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by fawz #jjk1 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe full list of categories is as follows (all British unless noted otherwise].\n\nThe biggest change, however, will be in the performances.\n\nThe Brits say they will \"hand the stage to the artists booked to perform on the night without imposing any creative limitations\".\n\nThe idea is to create more viral moments - like Kanye West's performance of All Night on a stage crammed with British rap talent, or Adele's simple but effective rendition of Someone Like You.\n\nOf course, the most surefire way to go viral is to fall off stage like Madonna in 2015, or one of Katy Perry's dancers (visually impaired by having a house for a head) two years later.\n\nEarlier this year, Brits organisers stopped The 1975 from performing Love It If We Made It after they won best British group, due to lyrics about drug abuse.\n\n\"There were a number of complications,\" said the band's manager Jamie Oborne, \"which included us not wanting to have the words changed and ITV not wanting Matthew shouting [swear words].\"\n\nUnder the new system, the performance would presumably be allowed to go ahead.\n\nMadonna's perilous tumble is one of the most memorable Brit moments of recent years\n\nKaty Perry's dancer plummeted off the side of the stage in 2017\n\nWinners on the night will receive the classic Lady Britannia Brit statuette, which returns after nearly a decade's rest. Recent years had seen a bespoke \"remix\" of the design, by artists such as Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor.\n\nAnd fan votes have been scrapped altogether - meaning an end to boy and girl-bands dominating categories like best single.\n\nThis year, all awards will be decided by a 1,200-strong \"official voting academy\", made up of experts from all areas of the music industry.\n\nThat's not necessarily a positive move, however, as fan votes were often the only way for phenomenally successful acts like One Direction, Girls Aloud and Little Mix to gain recognition.\n\nBrits chairman David Joseph explained the changes, saying: \"We will be putting creativity, British culture and exceptional performances at the heart of the show to make Brits night a world class celebration.\n\n\"The awards should be a global platform for the artists of the year to create moments that live beyond the night itself. We are looking at everything to put on the best possible show.\"\n\nThe Brits launched in 1977 to mark the Queen's silver jubilee, but didn't return until 1982 - which means 2020 will be the 40th ceremony.\n\nOrganisers say the event, at London's O2 arena next February, will mark the anniversary by paying \"tribute to to many unforgettable Brits moments that are now part of a rich and much loved heritage.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rules letting MI5 informants commit crimes are \"critical\" to national security, lawyers for the Security Service have told a court.\n\nMI5 is fighting an attempt to disclose secret guidance its officers can authorise informants to take part in crimes and not tell prosecutors.\n\nCampaign groups told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal the policy is unlawful and could be hiding serious abuses.\n\nMI5 said it does not authorise activity that would breach human rights.\n\nThe unique case, large parts of which will take place in secret, comes a year after the government confirmed the existence of a previously secret document, dubbed the \"Third Directive\".\n\nSigned by former Prime Minister David Cameron, the directive confirmed for the first time that MI5 officers could allow their recruited informants and agents to commit crimes in the national interest, without any duty to tell police and prosecutors what had happened.\n\nBut the accompanying detailed guidance on how the policy works in practice remains largely secret.\n\nThe disclosed elements stress that any authorisation must be in the interests of preventing a more serious offence, protecting an informant's cover or to protect national security.\n\nA redacted document shows some of the guidance governing how MI5 can authorise its agents to commit crimes\n\nFour campaign groups - two of which are from Northern Ireland - are now seeking to have the guidance disclosed and ruled illegal.\n\nIn submissions to the tribunal, they say that \"grave abuses\" in Northern Ireland showed the public had a right to know.\n\nThey include allegations that the state covered up its involvement in the 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane and a massive investigation into suspected crimes committed by the UK's most valuable agent at the heart of the IRA, codenamed \"Stakeknife\".\n\nBen Jaffey QC, for the four campaign groups, told the court \"the agents in question are not officers of the Security Service, but they are recruited and given directions by MI5\".\n\nHowever, he said those MI5 officers could become criminally liable as an accessory.\n\nMr Jaffey said MI5's policy amounted to the Security Service deciding for itself that it could brush aside criminal law.\n\n\"They are trying to do by the back door what Parliament won't give them by the front door,\" he said.\n\n\"The practical effect of the policy is to grant the immunity that they wanted but were not prepared to ask Parliament to give them.\"\n\nBut in legal papers disclosed on Tuesday morning, government lawyers for MI5 said: \"It would be impossible [for MI5 to fulfil its functions] effectively without covert human intelligence sources. They are indispensable.\n\n\"The Security Service does not, and does not purport to, confer immunity from criminal liability. It is not able to authorise activity which would breach... the European Convention on Human Rights. The case is that they do not do so.\"\n\n\"The Security Service has, since its inception, run agents; and agents have had to participate in conduct that might be or would be criminal as an integral part of their ability to operate,\" the lawyers said.\n\nThe tribunal was told MI5 had reviewed all available records of agents being involved in crimes since October 2000. The result of that secret audit has been given to the tribunal - but not disclosed to the public.\n\n\"This is not a 'nice to have power'... it is critical,\" the Security Service's lawyers said.\n\n\"The whole point of the agent involvement is to avoid loss of life and limb.\"\n\nThe tribunal is due to hear submissions over four days and is expected to reserve its judgment.", "Mr Hammond said he felt \"aggrieved\" at his treatment by the party\n\nFormer Chancellor Philip Hammond is to leave Parliament \"with great sadness\" after deciding against standing as an independent in his Surrey constituency.\n\nMr Hammond lost the Conservative whip in September after defying Boris Johnson over a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAs a result, he cannot stand as a Tory candidate in Runnymede and Weybridge, which he has represented since 1997.\n\nHe said he would not stand as an independent as that would be a \"direct challenge\" to the party he loved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hammond was among 21 Tory MPs thrown out of the parliamentary party in September for backing legislation designed to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal - the so-called Benn Act.\n\nUnlike a number of the group, he has not had the whip restored after rebelling again earlier this month to back Labour calls for more time to scrutinise Boris Johnson's deal.\n\nThe PM blamed him and other former Tory rebels for stopping the UK leaving the EU on the 31 October deadline.\n\nIn a letter to constituents, Mr Hammond said he continued to feel \"aggrieved\" at his punishment given he had been a member of the party for 45 years and had served as an MP for more than two decades.\n\n\"The Conservative Party that I have served has always had room for a wide range of opinions and has been tolerant of measured dissent.\n\nPhilip Hammond was a constant by Theresa May's side despite reported disagreements\n\n\"Many parliamentary colleagues have defied the party whip on occasions without any action taken against them.\"\n\nBut he said he would not follow the lead of a number of former colleagues, such as Dominic Grieve and Anne Milton, who are standing as independents in the 12 December election.\n\n\"I remain a Conservative and I cannot therefore embark on a course of action that would represent a direct challenge in a general election to the party I have supported all my adult life,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would continue to make the case for a Conservative Party that was \"broad-based, forward-looking, pro-business and pro-markets\".\n\n\"I will remain an active party member and will continue to make the case for doing whatever is necessary to deliver a close negotiated future economic and security partnership with the EU.\"\n\nMr Hammond served as chancellor for three years under Theresa May, during which he angered Tory Brexiteers for his opposition to a no-deal exit and desire to maintain the closest possible trading relations with the bloc.\n\nBefore that was foreign secretary, defence secretary and transport secretary under David Cameron.\n\nHe acquired the nicknames Spreadsheet Phil and Box Office Phil for his attention to detail and somewhat dry political style.\n\nElsewhere, ex-minister Nick Herbert has joined the growing list of Tory MPs from the One Nation wing of the party deciding not to contest the next election, saying he would step down as MP for Arundel and South Downs to focus on his new role as chairman of the Countryside Alliance.\n\nOther leading Conservative figures who are leaving Parliament include Amber Rudd, Nicky Morgan, Rory Stewart and Margaret James.\n\nBut announcing her intention to stand as an independent in Guildford, Mrs Milton said she wanted to \"represent her constituency without being bound by party politics\".\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British man was driving in Jakarta when he was abducted\n\nFour police officers have been arrested after a British man was kidnapped and ransomed for $900,000 (£697,000) in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.\n\nThe officers stopped the man at a road block last week on the pretext of an arrest, investigators allege.\n\nBut after being taken to a police station, he was moved to a hotel, where payment was demanded for his release.\n\nThe man, whom the BBC is not naming, is believed to have been freed after the ransom was paid.\n\nThe British Embassy confirmed they were aware of the incident but they told news agency AFP the investigation was being handled by local police.\n\nAccording to local media, the man was reported missing by his wife on 31 October.\n\nHe had been stopped on one of the city's highways and taken to the police station before ending up in the hotel in east Jakarta, where his alleged captors interrogated him all day.\n\nIt ended with them demanding he call his boss to ask for the ransom, to be paid in US dollars\n\nBut police swooped on the suspects as they attempted to convert the money into local currency.\n\nJakarta Police spokesman Argo Yuwono told CNN Philippines the kidnap attempt had involved \"unscrupulous\" members of the police force.\n\nTwo civilians are also under arrest for their alleged roles in the man's abduction.", "The government has denied claims it is suppressing a report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy until after the general election.\n\nSources said No 10 was stalling on releasing the report, which has gained the standard security clearance.\n\nA former head of MI5, Lord Evans of Weardale, is among those calling for the document to be published.\n\nForeign minister Christopher Pincher said the PM would release the report in \"due course\".\n\nHe added: \"We cannot rush this process at the risk of undermining our national security.\"\n\nThe report, by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, was finalised in March and referred to No 10 on 17 October.\n\nIt examines Russian activity - including allegations of espionage, subversion and interference in elections - and includes evidence from UK intelligence services such as GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 concerning covert Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nApproval for its publication has yet to be given - and is not due to be until after polling day.\n\nDominic Grieve, the chairman of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, said there was no legitimate reason for delaying the report and voters had a right to see it before going to the polls.\n\nDuring an urgent question in the Commons, the former attorney general said there was a \"longstanding agreement\" that the prime minister would endeavour to respond to the committee's reports within 10 days.\n\nMr Grieve also said the intelligence agencies had indicated that publication of the report would not prejudice the discharge of their functions.\n\nBut foreign office minister Mr Pincher said the turnaround time for the report was \"not unusual\" - and gave examples of reports that had taken six weeks to get Downing Street's approval.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Downing Street's decision not to clear the report for publication before the general election was \"clearly politically motivated\".\n\n\"This is nothing less than an attempt to suppress the truth from the public and from Parliament and it is an affront to our democracy,\" she told the Commons.\n\nMs Thornberry said No 10 realised the report would lead to \"other questions about the links between Russia and Brexit and with the current leadership of the Tory party, which risks derailing their election campaign\".\n\nShe went on: \"Publish this report and let us see for ourselves, otherwise there is only one question: what have you got to hide?\"\n\nMr Pincher denied the decision not to publish the report before the election was politically motivated.\n\nBBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban tweeted that the government's assertion the report was being held back because of a need to \"vet and balance\" it was \"unusual to say the least\".\n\n\"It's more normal for govt [sic] to respond after publication,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Lord Evans, MI5 director general until 2013, told the Today programme ministers should explain why they were not prepared to release the report.\n\n\"In principle, I think it should be released,\" he said.\n\n\"Part of the reason for having an Intelligence and Security Committee is that issues of public concern can be properly considered and the public can be informed through the publication of the reports once they have gone through the security process.\"\n\nHe added: \"If the government have a reason why this should not be published before the election, then I think they should make it very clear what that reason is.\"\n\nEx-terrorism watchdog Lord Anderson said on Monday further delay would \"invite suspicion\" of the government's motives ahead of the election.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg later said he \"profoundly apologised\"\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg has been criticised for saying it would have been \"common sense\" to flee the Grenfell Tower fire, ignoring fire brigade advice.\n\nThe Leader of the House of Commons was appearing on a radio phone-in on the findings of a Grenfell inquiry report when he made the comments.\n\nThe Grenfell United group called the MP's comments \"insulting\". Mr Rees-Mogg said he \"profoundly apologised\".\n\nSeventy-two people died in a fire at the tower block on 14 June 2017.\n\nSpeaking on LBC's Nick Ferrari Show on Monday, Mr Rees-Mogg said: \"The more one's read over the weekend about the report and about the chances of people surviving, if you just ignore what you're told and leave you are so much safer.\n\n\"And I think if either of us were in a fire, whatever the fire brigade said, we would leave the burning building. It just seems the common sense thing to do.\n\n\"And it is such a tragedy that that didn't happen.\"\n\nSeventy-two people died in the fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Rees-Mogg said: \"What I meant to say is that I would have also listened to the fire brigade's advice to stay and wait at the time.\n\n\"However, with what we know now and with hindsight I wouldn't and I don't think anyone else would. I would hate to upset the people of Grenfell if I was unclear in my comments.\"\n\nGrime artist Stormzy has called for Mr Rees-Mogg to resign. In a series of tweets, he said it was as if Mr Rees-Mogg was saying \"those who lost their lives weren't smart enough to escape\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Let's bare [sic] in mind for 2 secs how horrifying and terrifying the situation would of been for the victims.... and then imagine they're being instructed by firefighters - trusted government authorities - to stay put.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell survivor Marcio Gomes says he \"had to trust\" advice from firefighters\n\nIn a statement, survivors' group Grenfell United said: \"The Leader of the House of Commons suggesting that the 72 people who lost their lives at Grenfell lacked common sense is beyond disrespectful.\n\n\"It is extremely painful and insulting to bereaved families.\"\n\nReplying to Mr Rees-Mogg's comments, Grenfell survivor Marcio Gomes said: \"It's common sense not to build houses or flats with flammable material.\"\n\nHamid Al Jafari, who lost his father in the fire, said: \"My dad had common sense but when they have no option what should they do?\n\n\"Saying sorry doesn't make any difference to us. Any MP needs to think about what they're going to say before they comment so they don't have to apologise.\"\n\nThe blaze reached the top of Grenfell Tower within an hour of the first 999 call\n\nShadow Cabinet minister John Trickett said it was \"not for a minister of the crown to second guess how those people would have reacted\".\n\nTory MP Andrew Bridgen defended Mr Rees-Mogg's comments telling the BBC they were \"uncharacteristically clumsy.\"\n\n\"What he's actually saying is that he would have given a better decision than the authority figures who gave that advice.\"\n\nGrenfell inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said fewer people would have died if the London Fire Brigade (LFB) had taken certain actions earlier.\n\nSir Martin criticised the LFB for following a \"stay put\" strategy, where firefighters and 999 operators told residents to stay in their flats for nearly two hours after the blaze broke out.\n\nThe advice is designed to prevent hundreds of people descending stairs while firefighters are coming up during a contained fire.\n\nAs flames spread around Grenfell's external cladding, the advice may have prevented some families escaping, the report found.\n\nLFB Commissioner Dany Cotton told the London Assembly on Tuesday the brigade would respond differently to a Grenfell-like fire in the future.\n\nShe told the fire resilience and emergency planning committee: \"Knowing what we know now about Grenfell Tower and similar buildings with ACM cladding, our response would be very different.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 8.4 million people in England are living in an unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable home, according to the National Housing Federation.\n\nThe federation said analysis suggests the housing crisis was impacting all ages across every part of the country.\n\nIt includes people facing issues such as overcrowded housing or being unable to afford their rent or mortgage.\n\nThe government said housing was \"a priority\" and it had delivered 430,000 affordable homes since 2010.\n\nThe research, carried out by Heriot-Watt University on behalf of the federation, used data from the annual Understanding Society survey of 40,000 people by the University of Essex.\n\nThe figures were scaled up to reflect England's total population of nearly 56 million.\n\nSome people may have more than one of these housing problems, the federation said.\n\nPeople were considered to be living in overcrowded homes if a child had to share their bedroom with two or more children, sleep in the same room as their parents, or share with a teenager who was not the same sex as them.\n\nHomes where an adult had to share their bedroom with someone other than a partner were also considered overcrowded.\n\nAfter her relationship with her husband broke down, Anna spent five months trying to find somewhere to live with her four-year-old daughter in south-east London.\n\nAlthough she was working full-time in social care, she was shocked at how difficult it was to find someone who would rent to a single parent.\n\nEven when Anna found somewhere she felt she could afford, landlords would not consider her because her income was less than three-and-a-half times the monthly rent, while others refused to let to someone with a child.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible,\" the 36-year-old told the BBC.\n\n\"I remember seeing one house for £1,400 a month which was literally a corridor in a basement - it was so mouldy and humid.\n\n\"But they still said I didn't earn enough to be able to afford it.\"\n\n\"It made me feel really powerless and frustrated,\" she added.\n\nAnna said she was \"losing all hope\" when a friend offered to rent a house to her below market rate.\n\n\"I don't know what I would have done if a friend hadn't been able to help me out when I needed it,\" she said, adding that she still doesn't feel completely secure.\n\n\"I just have no idea what I'll do if my friend needs to rent her house out at full price in the future.\"\n\nThe report also estimated that around 3.6 million people could only afford to live decently if they were in social housing - almost double the number on the government's official social housing waiting list.\n\nSocial housing rents are on average 50% cheaper than from private landlords, contracts are more secure and many properties are designed specifically for older people with mobility issues, the federation said.\n\nIt said the country needed 340,000 new homes every year, including 145,000 social homes, to meet the housing demand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is social housing and why do we have it?\n\nKate Henderson, Chief Executive at the National Housing Federation, called for \"a return to proper funding for social housing\".\n\n\"From Cornwall to Cumbria, millions of people are being pushed into debt and poverty because rent is too expensive, children can't study because they have no space in their overcrowded homes, and many older or disabled people are struggling to move around their own home because it's unsuitable,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said in 2018 the government built more homes than in all but one of the last 31 years.\n\nIt has also cracked down on rogue landlords, banned unfair letting fees and capped deposits - saving renters at least £240m a year, he added.", "The outgoing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told the BBC he believes the UK will leave the EU by 31 January 2020, the end of the current extension period.\n\nHe told BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler that Brexit is \"a too-long story that has to be brought to an end\".\n\nOn Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim that he will negotiate a trade deal with the EU before the end of December 2020, Mr Juncker said some UK MPs think negotiating a deal will be easy, but discussions with Canada \"took years\".\n\nAnd he said he did not think Labour’s pledge to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement if it wins a majority in the general election was a realistic approach - although this would be an issue for his successor.", "A government plan to create 200,000 new homes in England for first-time buyers has resulted in no homes being built, the National Audit Office has found.\n\nAnnounced in 2014, \"starter homes\" were meant to be aimed at those under the age of 40 and sold at a 20% discount.\n\nBut legislation to take the project forward was never passed.\n\nLabour called the policy a total failure, but the government said it had a \"great track record\" for house building.\n\nFormer prime minister David Cameron committed to the scheme in the 2015 Conservative Party manifesto as a way of tackling the affordable housing crisis.\n\nThe project was also supposed to support the wider growth and regeneration of local areas, and some town centres.\n\nThe homes were meant to be built across the country by the end of the decade and more than £2bn was set aside for the first tranche of 60,000 dwellings.\n\nAccording to the National Audit Office (NAO), between 2015-16 and 2017-18, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) spent almost £174m on acquiring and preparing sites originally intended for building starter homes.\n\nThese were in places such as Plymouth, Bury, Basildon, Stockport, Bridgwater, Cinderford and Bristol.\n\nBut the spending watchdog said the sites were all now being used for housing more generally, only some of which was affordable.\n\nIt said the scheme had faltered because the necessary legislation and planning guidance had never been put through Parliament, despite expectations it would happen in 2019.\n\nAs a result, even new homes conforming to the intended specifications cannot be marketed as starter homes, which has made getting developers on board challenging.\n\nThe NAO said the government also no longer had a budget dedicated to the starter homes project.\n\nFormer Prime Minister David Cameron announced the starter homes scheme in 2014\n\nLabour MP Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee, said: \"Despite setting aside over £2bn to build 60,000 new starter homes, none were built.\n\n\"Since 2010 many housing programmes announced with much fanfare have fallen away with money then recycled into the next announcement.\n\n\"The MHCLG needs to focus on delivery and not raise, and then dash, people's expectations.\"\n\nJohn Healey, Labour's shadow housing secretary, said the Conservative Party had wasted four years and spent millions of pounds.\n\n\"After nearly 10 years of Conservative failure on housing, the country needs a Labour government to fix the housing crisis.\"\n\nBut a housing ministry spokeswoman said house building was at its highest level for all but one of the last 30 years.\n\n\"We have a great track record... with 222,000 homes delivered last year, and 1.3 million in total since 2010, including over 430,000 affordable homes.\"\n\nDavid O'Leary, policy director at Home Builders Federation, said that even though starter homes had not got off the ground, the scheme had not been a total failure.\n\nHe said the engagement it had generated between local government, builders, mortgage lenders and valuers was positive.\n\n\"The difficulty in creating a workable set of rules demonstrates the importance of ensuring that proper consideration is given to the practical implementation of interventions and their market impacts as early as possible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meet some of the people seeking alternative housing solutions", "Baby goods retailer Mothercare has said it plans to call in administrators to the troubled firm's UK business, putting 2,500 jobs at risk.\n\nMothercare said its 79 UK stores were \"not capable\" of achieving a sufficient level of profitability and that so far it had failed to find a buyer.\n\nIt said its stores would continue to trade as normal for the time being.\n\nAnalysts said Mothercare had been slow to adapt to competition from rivals and the switch to online retailing.\n\nMothercare has already gone through a rescue deal, known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA). This is an insolvency process that allows a business to reach an agreement with its creditors to pay off all or part of its debts. The process enabled the chain to shut 55 shops.\n\nThe firm said the decision to appoint administrators was \"a necessary step in the restructuring and refinancing\" of the group.\n\n\"Plans are well advanced and being finalised for execution imminently. A further announcement will be made in due course,\" it said.\n\nAisa Kara said Mothercare's online offering was not as strong as competitors\n\nAisa Kara's parenting journey started in Mothercare when she used its Babybond ultrasound scanning service.\n\n\"I was so anxious waiting for my 12-week scan, and I don't think either of us could believe it was actually happening, so we booked our private appointment,\" she said.\n\n\"Everything was OK and we viewed a heartbeat, so we left elated, and as it was in Mothercare we got to buy our first item of baby clothing at the same time.\n\n\"We bought all our nursery items and pushchair from there, and my daughter and son have been dressed in Mothercare almost exclusively.\n\n\"The baby clothing is beautiful and I love the vintage styles. My only complaint is that the online experience isn't as good as you would have expected from a company trying to keep up with the market.\"\n\nDave Gill, national officer at the shopworkers' union Usdaw, said: \"Usdaw is providing our members in Mothercare with the support, representation and advice they need at this difficult and uncertain time.\n\n\"We will urge the administrators to treat the staff with dignity and respect, keep them fully informed through the administration process, do everything possible to save jobs and keep as many stores open as possible and prioritise stabilising the business to provide a more certain future.\"\n\nIt is understood Mothercare is in advanced talks to move its pension schemes from its British operations over to its international parent company which remains profitable.\n\nAs first reported by Sky, the aim is to stop the schemes being placed in the Pension Protection Fund, which would likely result in cuts for members.\n\nThe company operates in more than 40 overseas territories, which are not subject to administration.\n\nIn the financial year to March 2019, Mothercare's international business generated profits of £28.3m, whereas the UK retail operations lost £36.3m.\n\nIn its heyday, Mothercare had hundreds of stores. It was the go-to place for new parents. But it failed to keep up with our changing shopping habits. Mothercare's UK arm has been loss-making for years. One big reason is there's so much more competition these days.\n\nFrom Zara and H&M to the major supermarkets, there are no shortages of places to buy children's clothing and often at cheaper prices. And then there's online, with the likes of Amazon who are able to deliver basic kit to your doorstep within hours of ordering. It has all eaten into Mothercare's market share.\n\nTruth is, this is a business that's been losing money for a very long time. Last year's CVA wasn't enough to turn things around. Mothercare ran out of time and money to try to revive its fortunes.\n\nMothercare's move comes as High Street retailers continue to face tough times amid a squeeze on consumers' income, the growth of online shopping and the rising costs of staff, rents and business rates.\n\nRetail analyst Steve Dresser told the BBC that like collapsed travel firm Thomas Cook, Mothercare had failed to adapt to the world of online retail.\n\n\"They got very used to fat margins and a way of trading that's store-based,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the firm had also lost its way on the High Street, with poor store environments that deterred customers. Ultimately, he said, people did not think of Mothercare first when it came to buying baby goods: \"I think you would be hard-pressed to know what the brand stands for.\"\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said Mothercare had become \"a byword for trouble on the High Street\", demonstrating \"the failure of well-established brands to stay afloat\".\n\nShe added: \"Other retailers, particularly those who have also previously filed for CVAs, will be concerned that these restructuring plans haven't succeeded and a more radical approach may be required in order to survive.\"\n\nRichard Lim, boss of independent research consultancy Retail Economics, said: \"This is perhaps one of the most highly anticipated collapses on the High Street... the cost-cutting operation and disposal of assets have not gone far enough to revive plummeting profits.\n\n\"Years of underinvestment in the online business and its inability to differentiate itself as a specialist for young families and expectant parents has been the root of its seemingly inevitable downfall. As competition has become fiercer they have been beaten on price, convenience and the overall customer experience.\"", "A driver witnessed Andrew Lee Jones kicking the gull before finding it dead\n\nA man has been jailed for kicking and killing a gull.\n\nA driver witnessed Andrew Lee Jones, 38, from Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, kicking the bird before finding it dead in the town on 1 May.\n\nAn RSPCA appeal resulted in CCTV showing the incident being provided by the council.\n\nJones pleaded guilty to one offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and was sentenced to 12 weeks at Merthyr Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nRSPCA inspector Simon Evans thanked the witness for coming forward, adding: \"This horrific incident was also caught on CCTV where the defendant was seen kicking the bird and using his foot to direct it into a corner of the car park.\n\n\"The bird had sustained other injuries before this attack - however, a post-mortem examination found that it would have been the blunt trauma injuries from the defendant's kick that would have been the most likely cause of death.\n\n\"There is no excuse for this kind of deliberate cruelty.\"\n\nJones was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £115.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea mounted a stirring fightback from 4-1 down to earn a crucial Champions League point as Ajax ended with nine men on a night of high drama at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe Dutch champions, semi-finalists last season, were in calm control and looked on course for victory when Donny van de Beek gave them a three-goal lead 10 minutes after the break - but in a chaotic closing period Chelsea completed a remarkable recovery as the visitors lost their discipline.\n\nHaving pulled one back through Cesar Azpilicueta's close-range finish to make it 4-2, the game turned on its head in 60 seconds of high drama in the 68th minute.\n\nDaley Blind fouled Blues striker Tammy Abraham, referee Gianluca Rocchi allowed play to continue and a shot then hit Joel Veltman's arm in the 18-yard box. Rocchi awarded a penalty, went back and showed Blind a second yellow card, with fellow centre-back Veltman also sent off seconds later for the handball.\n\nJorginho scored from the spot for the second time in the game to set up a frantic finale.\n\nSubstitute Reece James, 19, pulled Chelsea level and became the club's youngest Champions League goalscorer with a low strike from a rebound after Kurt Zouma had headed against the bar.\n\nWith the hosts pushing for a winner and backed by a buoyant crowd, Azpilicueta thought he had scored their fifth goal, only for the video assistant referee to intervene and detect a handball by Abraham.\n\nIt was an ending to match the game's opening, which featured two goals in the first four minutes, Abraham flicking Quincy Promes' free-kick into his own net before Jorginho equalised with his first penalty after Christian Pulisic was fouled.\n\nAjax retook the lead when Promes headed in a brilliant cross from Hakim Ziyech, whose free-kick from a tight angle led to the third goal as the ball came back off the post and went in after hitting home keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga in the face.\n\nVan de Beek looked to have settled matters, finishing off from 12 yards when unmarked, only for Chelsea to rally in stunning style.\n\nBoth sides had chances in the closing moments but in the end settled for a draw which leaves them both level on seven points with Valencia, who beat Lille 4-1 in this extremely tight Group H.\n• None 'I don't think I've seen a game like it - with this spirit we can go places'\n\nOne look at the Group H table shows how important this point might be to Chelsea before a potentially decisive visit to Valencia next, on 27 November.\n\nFor the first 55 minutes, Chelsea looked naive and exposed at this level as they were cut apart by Ajax's slick approach work and lethal delivery from out wide, which was instrumental in their first three goals.\n\nWhat this emerging Chelsea side under Frank Lampard does not lack is heart and fighting spirit. It was all on display in those final 30 minutes as Ajax wobbled and they took advantage.\n\nOnce Azpilicueta's close-range tap-in made it 4-2 and opened the door, Chelsea barged through it as Ajax found themselves pinned back and suffering a numerical disadvantage.\n\nWhen James levelled it up at 4-4 with 16 minutes left, all the smart money would have been on Chelsea completing the turnaround with victory.\n\nIt almost came as Azpilicueta saw his goal overruled by VAR, with the refreshing sight of Rocchi actually consulting a screen to decide for himself, and with two late chances for substitute Michy Batshuayi, one of which brought a superb save from Ajax keeper Andre Onana.\n\nIn the end, Chelsea had to settle for a share of the honours - something they would have readily accepted after 55 minutes but which they might have taken with slight disappointment at the end.\n\nThis was a thrilling spectacle in which both teams deserved some reward.\n\nErik ten Hag's young Ajax side graced the Champions League last season with a series of virtuoso performances before losing the semi-final to Tottenham in the dying moments of the second leg in front of their own supporters.\n\nThe campaign delivered a clear signal that this great old club was back among the elite and, despite losing two outstanding young players in Matthijs de Ligt to Juventus and Frenkie de Jong to Barcelona, they have moved on impressively.\n\nAjax were determined to make amends for their 1-0 loss to Chelsea in Amsterdam and were hugely impressive as their pace, movement and lethal delivery established a stranglehold in their first hour.\n\nYes, it fell apart for a 20-minute period but the closing phases demonstrated this is a team built and coached in the great traditions of the club, shrugging off the fact they were down to nine men to actually push forward in search of a winner.\n\nThey almost got it when Arrizabalaga had to save from Edson Alvarez, but the point pleased their small group of supporters inside Stamford Bridge.\n\nAjax may have lost the lead and might feel a sense of injustice about losing two players, but they earn full marks for entertainment value and their purist approach to the game.\n\nChelsea are the third English side in Champions League history to come from three goals behind to avoid defeat and the first since Liverpool in the 2005 final against AC Milan, which the Reds won in a penalty shootout.\n\n'Madness' - what they said\n\nChelsea boss Frank Lampard told BT Sport: \"I can't explain the game. For all the things we might analyse back, the madness of the game, we are here for entertainment I suppose and anyone who watched that has to say 'what a game of football'. Respect to Ajax, what a spectacle.\n\n\"I don't think I have been in a game like it. The two own goals were the story of the first half. I said at half-time it will be 3-3 or 4-4, we were so in the game.\n\n\"We looked dangerous and I felt we would build momentum. I'm not happy overall, this is the Champions League and we made too many mistakes.\n\n\"The biggest pleasure is the spirit the whole stadium showed. I can't give you much on the red cards, I didn't really see what they were for.\n\n\"At half-time I would have taken a draw, for sure. Let's take it as what it was. I was expecting somewhere towards 10 minutes of added time, not sure where four came from.\"\n\nAjax manager Erik ten Hag was asked on BT Sport about the two red cards within a minute of each other and said: \"False, it was handball, but what can he [Joel Veltman] do with his hand? It's no handball, no booking, but we have to accept it.\n\n\"I'm proud of this team, it was a magnificent development and we take it as a positive.\n\n\"Everyone will have the same opinion from the stands and from the television. We dictated and we are very bitter that one decision could change everything.\"\n• None Chelsea have conceded 4+ goals in a single Champions League game for only the third time in their history and the first time since drawing 4-4 at home to Liverpool in April 2009.\n• None Ajax have scored 4+ goals in a game against an English team in all European competition for only the second time (also 5-1 v Liverpool in December 1966 at home in the European Cup).\n• None Chelsea conceded three goals in the first half of a Champions League game for the first time. In fact, the Blues were the second side to concede two own goals in the first half of a Champions League game after CFR Cluj (v Bayern Munich, October 2010).\n• None Ajax's Hakim Ziyech has either scored or assisted in nine of his past 12 Champions League appearances (four goals, six assists).\n• None Ajax were shown two red cards in a Champions League game for the first time in their history.\n• None Ajax's opener against Chelsea (1:47) was the second earliest goal conceded by the Blues in the Champions League after Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma) in October 2017 (39 seconds).\n\nChelsea's next game in the Champions League is away to Valencia (17:55 GMT) on 27 November, before Lille take on Ajax at 20:00 GMT. The final round of matches happens on 10 December with Ajax at home to Valencia and Chelsea entertaining Lille.\n\nBefore then, Chelsea return to Premier League action on Saturday when they face Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge (12:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian.\n• None Attempt missed. Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Reece James with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jorginho.\n• None Attempt missed. Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Tammy Abraham.\n• None Attempt saved. Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Hudson-Odoi.\n• None Attempt saved. Noussair Mazraoui (Ajax) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Quincy Promes.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Reece James tries a through ball, but Michy Batshuayi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Edson Álvarez (Ajax) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. César Azpilicueta tries a through ball, but Callum Hudson-Odoi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Callum Hudson-Odoi with a cross.\n• None GOAL OVERTURNED BY VAR: César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) scores but the goal is ruled out after a VAR review. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Bloch asked his mum: \"Would someone like me?\"\n\nA US mother has told the BBC of the overwhelming response she has received after tweeting about her lonely 21-year-old autistic son.\n\nKerry Bloch's son David has been non-verbal for most of his life but amazed his parents by asking his first question: \"Would someone like me?\"\n\nShe posted the comment on Twitter and received a deluge of heart-warming responses.\n\nAmong them was basketball star Joe Ingles who invited David to a game.\n\nKerry told BBC OS that David's question had taken her completely by surprise at their home in Neptune Beach, Florida.\n\n\"I could tell he was thinking or processing something. He then just looks at me and goes: 'Would someone like me?'\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by kerry bloch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I was flabbergasted. That's the first question he has ever said to me. I left the room because I had to cry. I didn't want David to think I was upset.\"\n\nKerry says she told David she was sure there were \"thousands of people out there\" who would like him, adding: \"You're a wonderful boy.\"\n\nShe then logged on to Twitter and shared what had happened, with a picture of David.\n\n\"I sent it and didn't think anything about it. I'm not very computer-literate or internet-literate. My phone just kept making these constant ding ding ding noises. I checked and it was hundreds of notifications coming in.\"\n\nDavid has a rare immunodeficiency and only 20% of his immune system is working, Kerry explained.\n\nDavid Bloch, of Neptune Beach, Florida, suffers from an immunodeficiency disorder\n\nHe is home-schooled and his exposure to the outdoors is limited, she says.\n\n\"He's never been in school, he hasn't been allowed to be around children his age,\" said Kerry.\n\n\"He's never had a friend because of that so I know he's lonely, and we're doing the best we can to get him to have friends somehow. But he's smart enough to realise he wants a friend and he wants people to like him.\"\n\nThe thousands of responses include many from parents of other autistic children.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Cathleen Burke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAustralian NBA star Joe Ingles, who recently revealed he and his wife Renae have a child with autism, invited David to a Utah Jazz basketball game.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Joe Ingles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKerry said messages had also come from the military, fire and police departments and sports groups including David's favourite football team, the Jacksonville Jaguars.\n\n\"He's been running around the house just smiles. We've been trying to read every single message. We've been up to four or five in the morning,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm trying to reply to every single person. David does not want anybody to be left out, he loves everybody. I think he understands what it feels like to be left out so he wants to include everybody and just to tell everybody he loves them.\"", "Facebook has removed an advert from a tax campaign group for breaking its rules on political advertising.\n\nThe Fair Tax Campaign, run by a former Boris Johnson aide, has been running an ad with the message \"could you afford an extra £214 each month?\"\n\nIt claims that this is what Labour's tax plans would mean for everyone.\n\nLabour is yet to publish its tax plans or manifesto for the 12 December general election.\n\nBut Shadow chancellor John McDonnell this weekend said that if it won the election, the party only planned to increase income tax for the top 5% of earners to help fund increased public spending.\n\n\"In terms of income tax, we've said very clearly the top 5% will pay a bit more, 95% of the earners will be protected,\" he told the BBC.\n\nA Labour spokesman called the banned Facebook ad \"fake news\" and said it was right that it had been swiftly removed.\n\nThe Fair Tax Campaign is run by Alex Crowley, a former aide to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Mr Crowley left Downing Street in late September.\n\nHe told the BBC the ad made a \"legitimate charge\" that was based on a New Economic Foundation Report from August this year. He said the campaign had no links with the Conservative Party.\n\nThe message in the ad says \"sponsored\" but does not reveal who has paid for it. Under Facebook's rules, political advertisers have to register with the social media firm and every advert has to show who has paid for it.\n\nFacebook removed the ad after being contacted by the BBC.\n\nThe company said it should have carried a \"paid for by\" disclaimer and the advertiser has been contacted \"to provide clarity\" on its policies relating to ads about politics, elections and social issues.\n\nThe Fair Tax Campaign will be able to switch the ad back on if they register and insert the \"paid for by\" disclaimer.\n\nIn the meantime the advert can be seen in Facebook's Ad Library, with a message explaining why it has been removed.\n\nThe group says on Facebook that it believes Labour's tax plans must never be allowed to happen and calls on voters to oppose them in the 12 December general election.\n\nThree Facebook users contacted the BBC to say they had been shown the advert. They were responding to a crowd-sourcing initiative designed to reveal how the different parties are targeting paid adverts during the UK election campaign.\n\nFacebook has come under fire on both sides of the Atlantic over its policy of not policing misinformation in political adverts.\n\nBoss Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly defended the policy, insisting that free expression must be his company's priority.\n\nAs the UK general election campaign gets underway, the social media platform is bound to be a vital campaigning arena, indeed it is likely to be the principal focus for party spending.\n\nThat means it will be vital to know just who is being targeted with which ads - so if you receive any in your Facebook feed over the coming weeks, do let us know! Email election.ads@bbc.co.uk", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said the party is taking legal advice over its exclusion from an ITV election debate.\n\nThe head-to-head event will feature only Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, but Ms Swinson said it was wrong to exclude \"a voice of Remain\" and the only woman who could be the next prime minister.\n\nITV says it intends to offer viewers balanced election coverage.", "Pigeon's Cove is popular with both local residents and tourists\n\nA boy who was playing in a cove slipped from rocks and drowned despite efforts of his nine-year-old friend to rescue him, an inquest heard.\n\nDillan Brown, 13, from Llandudno was with his friend on 4 May at the town's Great Orme when he fell into the sea.\n\nHis friend, who cannot be named, managed to drag him from the sea and tried to give CPR up to 10 times before going for help.\n\nThe coroner said Dillan's death had been a \"very unusual incident\".\n\nThe inquest in Llandudno heard from the friend that Dillan had been on rocks near the water's edge in Pigeon's Cove in the early evening and was \"messing about dangling his feet off the edge\".\n\nHe slipped and fell into the water, and the boy heard several cries for help before a big wave came.\n\nThe boy managed to pull Dillan to the shore, although the court heard later it was possible Dillan was in the water for as long as 40 minutes before his friend could get him out.\n\nThe boy tried between five and 10 times to administer CPR before climbing back up to the road, Marine Drive, and stopping a cyclist, Scott Hughes.\n\nMr Hughes and Steve Hargreaves, another passer-by, made their way to the shore to help Dillan.\n\nMr Hargreaves said in a statement: \"It became quite apparent he was not breathing and I could not feel any pulse.\"\n\nThe men carried out resuscitation until a rescue team arrived. Dillan was airlifted to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor but was pronounced dead at 23:00 BST.\n\nPathologist Dr Brian Rogers gave a cause of death as drowning as well as cold water immersion.\n\nAssistant coroner David Pojor was told the area was popular with groups of young people but the volume of call outs to the area because of people getting into difficulties was \"very low\".\n\nRichard Thomas for Mostyn Estates, which owns the land around the cove, said they had never been approached about putting warning signs in the area.\n\nMr Pojor said he would not write a report calling for signs to be erected because he questioned how practical it would be.\n\nHe paid tribute to those who had tried to help Dillan, saying the nine-year-old boy had \"acted bravely and responsibly for such a young boy in trying to save his friend\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA builder and a shop worker have been named as the winners of a £105m EuroMillions jackpot.\n\nSteve Thomson, 42, and his wife Lenka, 41, from West Sussex, were the sixth jackpot prize winners in the UK this year, operator Camelot said.\n\nTheir ticket won £105,100,701.90 on 19 November, the 25th anniversary of the National Lottery's first draw.\n\nMr Thomson said when he realised he had won that he felt he was \"on the verge of having a heart attack\".\n\nThe winning numbers picked were 8, 10, 15, 30 and 42, with 4 and 6 selected for the Lucky Star numbers.\n\nThe couple said they went to work after finding out about their win\n\nAs he was handed the cheque at the official presentation of the couple's winnings, Mr Thomson said: \"I think that's mine.\"\n\nHe also said the couple had made no big purchases yet, although he admitted he had bought a new shirt and had a haircut.\n\nMr Thomson, from Selsey, said: \"I started shaking a lot. I knew it was a really big win but didn't know what to do. I think I was on the verge of having a heart attack.\"\n\nHe said he would not be giving up his job straight away.\n\n\"Once I am over the shock I will need to keep doing something,\" he said.\n\n\"I am not the type just to sit still. My business partner knows that if he needs a hand, I'll be there.\"\n\nHe added he will complete all of his outstanding jobs fitting windows and conservatories.\n\nMr Thomson said both he and his wife went to work after finding out they had won.\n\nHe said he ended up painting a ceiling.\n\nThe couple said they plan to stay in the Selsey area and will be sharing the money with friends and family, as well as \"doing things for the community\".\n\nMr Thomson added that his family will not be cooking their Christmas dinner this year.\n\nThe couple say they will be sharing their winnings with friends and family\n\nHe said he decided to go public so he did not have to hide.\n\n\"I am not going to flutter it away, at the end of the day I am still Steve,\" he said.\n\n\"I do not want to change, we are just financially better off.\"\n\nMr Thomson said his family were looking forward to a \"good Christmas\".\n\n\"I am not cooking. Mum is not cooking. Lenka is not cooking,\" he added.\n\n\"It's so much money, I still can't get my head around it.\"\n\nSteve Thomson says he will keep working and is \"not the type to sit still\"\n\nMrs Thomson, a shop worker originally from Slovakia, said: \"It's life-changing for the family. It's so emotional.\"\n\nBefore the £170m jackpot, the biggest UK winners were a couple from Largs in North Ayrshire, Scotland, who won £161m in July 2011.", "James died \"peacefully and at home, surrounded by his family\", his agents said\n\nClive James, the Australian writer and broadcaster known around the world for his dry wit, has died at the age of 80.\n\nDiagnosed with leukaemia in 2010, the author and critic had movingly written about his terminal illness during the final years of his life.\n\nBorn Vivian James in 1939, he moved to England in 1961 and rose to prominence as a literary critic and TV columnist.\n\nHe went on to deliver wry commentary on international programming in such shows as Clive James On Television.\n\nThe show saw him introduce amusing and off-beat TV clips from around the world, most famously from Japanese game show Endurance.\n\nAccording to a statement from his agents, he died at home in Cambridge on Sunday. A private funeral was held on Wednesday in the chapel at Pembroke College.\n\n\"Clive died almost 10 years after his first terminal diagnosis, and one month after he laid down his pen for the last time,\" the statement read.\n\nClive James pictured on the set of Saturday Night Clive in 1989\n\n\"He endured his ever-multiplying illnesses with patience and good humour, knowing until the last moment that he had experienced more than his fair share of this 'great, good world'.\n\n\"He was grateful to the staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital [in Cambridge] for their care and kindness, which unexpectedly allowed him so much extra time.\n\n\"His family would like to thank the nurses of the Arthur Rank Hospice at Home team for their help in his last days, which allowed him to die peacefully and at home, surrounded by his family and his books.\"\n\nSinger Alison Moyet was among many to pay tribute to a man she described as a \"bright, beaming boy\".\n\nEx-tabloid editor Piers Morgan remembered him as \"a brilliantly funny man\", while presenter Gaby Roslin said he had been \"incredibly kind\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clive James in 2016 on life, regrets and being lucky\n\n\"We were lucky to have him for so long after his diagnosis,\" wrote actor Samuel West. \"We were lucky to have him at all.\"\n\nMonty Python star Eric Idle expressed his sadness at losing \"dear Clive James my pal at Cambridge\".\n\nReverend Richard Coles said he was \"the best telly critic that ever there was\", while Margarita Pracatan - the Cuban singer James helped make a household name - paid tribute to his \"intelligence... talent and beautiful way of living\".\n\nJames was \"unquestionably the greatest Australian poet of his time\", said George Brandis, Australia's High Commissioner to the UK, adding to tributes in the writer's beloved homeland.\n\nTony Hall, the BBC's director general, said the \"irreplaceable\" James was \"a clever, witty and thought-provoking broadcaster\".\n\n\"He had a huge range of talents and everything he did was essential listening or viewing,\" Lord Hall continued.\n\nJames was renowned for his pithy turns of phrase. He once likened Arnold Schwarzenegger to \"a brown condom full of walnuts\" and said motor racing commentator Murray Walker sounded \"like a man whose trousers are on fire\".\n\nHe was equally waspish when describing Dame Barbara Cartland, whose eyes he said \"looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff\".\n\n\"Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds,\" was another of his famous quotes.\n\nHe also had advice for his future obituarists, telling them \"shorter is better, and that a single line is best\".\n\n\"Any encounter with James, either in print or in person, left you desperate to go and open a book, watch a film or a TV show, or hunt down a recording,\" said Don Paterson, poetry editor at James's publisher Picador.\n\n\"With Clive's passing we lose the wisest and funniest of writers, a loyal and kind friend, and the most finely-stocked mind we will ever have the fortune to encounter.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Detectives investigating the sudden death of a baby have been allowed another 24 hours to question a 31-year-old man.\n\nThe suspect was arrested following the death of an 11-month-old boy in Keady, County Armagh, on Tuesday.\n\nThe baby was named locally as Hunter Patrick McGleenon and a post-mortem examination is due to take place to determine how he died.\n\nThe man was arrested in Craigavon, County Armagh, on Tuesday.\n\nHe was taken to Banbridge Police Station in County Down for questioning.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers and forensic teams are still carrying out investigations at a flat on Market Street in Keady.\n\nSinn Féin's Newry and Armagh MLA Cathal Boylan said he spoke to a family member of the deceased child and they were in deep shock.\n\nPolice were granted more time to question the suspect by a court on Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vue chief executive Tim Richards says the chain is looking at \"beefing up security\" to bring the film back\n\nThe boss of a cinema chain that banned a London gang film after a mass brawl in Birmingham has told the BBC he plans to resume screenings by the weekend.\n\nVue banned Blue Story after saying there had been 25 serious incidents in 16 of its cinemas.\n\nBut its chief executive, Tim Richards, said it was now looking at \"beefing up security\" to restart screenings.\n\nIt comes after Blue Story's director, Rapman, questioned whether there were \"hidden reasons\" for the ban.\n\nRapman, whose real name is Andrew Onwubolu, previously told the BBC there was \"no connection\" between his movie and the brawl in Birmingham, which led to five arrests.\n\n\"And then you start thinking, is there hidden reasons there? What's the owner like? Has he got an issue with young urban youth? Is he prejudiced?\n\n\"Does he believe that this film brings a certain type? Is there a colour thing?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rapman says he feels cheated following Vue's decision\n\nVue has said the decision to pull Blue Story from its 91 cinemas nationwide was \"categorically not\" related to race.\n\nResponding to Rapman, Mr Richards said the chain wanted \"more movies like this on our screens, not less\".\n\n\"Right now we are looking at trying to get that movie back onto our screens by the weekend and possibly, if we can, to accelerate that,\" he said.\n\n\"Our plans right now are to look at the timings and look at who's buying the tickets, and we're going to be beefing up security where we've had problems.\n\n\"There will be one or two cinemas, like Birmingham, where it will be very difficult to justify screening it again there.\"\n\nRapman (centre) on the set of Blue Story\n\nBlue Story focuses on two friends from different south London postcodes on rival sides of a street war.\n\nIt is rated 15 for strong language, strong violence, threat, sex and drug misuse.\n\nAnother cinema chain, Showcase, had also initially stopped showing the film after the incident in Birmingham, but reinstated screenings on Monday night after \"careful consideration and discussions with the distributor\".\n\nIn a statement, Vue added: \"Following an ongoing review of security to protect the safety of our staff and customers, we hope to be showing the film from this weekend with additional security arrangements in our cinemas to ensure everyone can enjoy the film in comfort and safety.\"\n\nRapman, real name Andrew Onwubolu, welcomed Vue's decision and expressed gratitude to \"everyone who fought for this movie like it was their own\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rapman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Muslim Council of Britain’s Miqdaad Versi says Islamophobia is \"endemic, institutional within the Conservative Party”\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain has accused the Conservative Party of \"denial, dismissal and deceit\" over the issue of Islamophobia.\n\nThe MCB said the party had a \"blind spot for this type of racism\" and had failed to take steps to tackle it.\n\nThe group was responding to criticism of Labour's handling of anti-Semitism by the chief rabbi.\n\nConservative leader Boris Johnson said party members guilty of Islamophobia \"are out first bounce\".\n\nIn the Times, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said Labour had not done enough to tackle anti-Semitism and urged people to \"vote with their conscience\" in the general election.\n\nHe wrote that the \"overwhelming majority of British Jews are gripped by anxiety\" at the prospect of a Labour victory in the 12 December poll.\n\nIn response, the MCB said British Muslims would \"listen to the chief rabbi and agree on the importance of voting with their conscience\".\n\nA spokesperson added that the \"unacceptable presence of anti-Semitism in Britain\" was a source of \"real fear\" for British Jews.\n\nThey added the chief rabbi's comments \"highlighted the importance of speaking out on the racism we face, whilst maintaining our non-partisan stance.\"\n\n\"It is abundantly clear to many Muslims that the Conservative Party tolerate Islamophobia, allow it to fester in society\".\n\nThe spokesperson added that the issue was \"particularly acute\" within the party itself.\n\nThe MCB is an umbrella organisation of various UK Muslim bodies, including mosques, schools, and charitable associations.\n\nIt has previously called for allegations of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party to be investigated by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission - the body which is currently investigating allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, Mr Johnson said: \"If anybody is convicted, if anybody is done for Islamophobia, or any other prejudice or discrimination in the Conservative Party they are out first bounce.\"\n\nBut Mr Johnson has also faced accusations of Islamophobia himself, after he wrote in a newspaper column last year that Muslim women wearing burkas \"look like letter boxes\".\n\nAlso speaking on Tuesday, Chancellor Sajid Javid refused to criticise the prime minister for these remarks, added he had \"explained why he's used that language\".\n\nHe said the column from which the quote was taken had defended the rights of Muslim women to \"wear what they like\", adding: \"He's explained that, and I think he's given a perfectly valid explanation.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have pledged to start an investigation into Islamophobia and other forms of prejudice within the party before the end of the year.\n\nThe party suspended a number of members earlier this month after the Guardian supplied it with a dossier produced by an anonymous Twitter user containing examples of allegedly Islamophobic social media posts.\n\nA number of members were also suspended in September, after the BBC highlighted 20 cases to the party of members posting or endorsing Islamophobic material online.", "Jo Swinson asked the court to stop the Royal Mail distributing the leaflet\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson has succeeded in her bid to stop an SNP leaflet which accuses her of accepting a £14,000 donation from \"a fracking company\".\n\nMs Swinson asked the Court of Session in Edinburgh to stop the Royal Mail from distributing the leaflet in her East Dunbartonshire constituency.\n\nThe SNP's QC had argued there was no \"substantial untruth\" in the leaflet.\n\nBut Lord Pentland said a statement on the leaflet was false in substance, materially inaccurate and defamatory.\n\nHe said: \"I don't consider it would be right for an official election leaflet which contains a prima facie defamatory statement to be distributed by the Royal Mail.\"\n\nRuling in favour of Ms Swinson, Lord Pentland ordered the SNP and its candidate Amy Callaghan to pay Ms Swinson's costs.\n\nThe SNP's legal team is considering an appeal.\n\nMs Swinson's lawyers said the leaflet had accused her of hypocrisy because she had accepted a £14,000 donation \"from a fracking company.\"\"\n\nHowever, lawyers acting for Ms Swinson claimed the statement was defamatory.\n\nThey also sought an order from judge Lord Pentland which would stop the Royal Mail from distributing the leaflet.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC told the court earlier that a director of Warwick Energy, a renewable energy company which holds licences for fracking, had made the £14,000 donation in a personal capacity to Ms Swinson's constituency office.\n\nThe QC said the donation had not been made to Ms Swinson personally and had not come from a fracking company, and that 80% of the company's output came from renewable energy sources.\n\nHe said: \"It does have a fracking licence but it doesn't engage in shale gas fracking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop added: \"We are in the midst of a general election. It is unlawful for there to be made a false statement of fact in relation to the personal character or conduct of a character.\"\n\nThe leaflets were due to be distributed by the end of this week.\n\nThe court heard that a number of them had already been distributed.\n\nFor the SNP, Jonathan Mitchell QC said there was no \"substantial untruth\" in the leaflet. He said the money was from a \"fracking source.\"\n\nHe added: \"These are allegations, disgraceful allegations, made against her which have been out in the public domain since June.\n\n\"The criticism is of her voting record and her connection to frackers.\n\n\"There is no substantial falseness in any of this.\"\n\nThe claims contained in the leaflet did not meet the legal test for defamation, he added.\n\nHe said the hypocrite remark was justified given Ms Swinson's past public statements in which she said she supported pro-environment government policies.\n\nHe added: \"The allegation is not one regarding personal conduct or character. It is of her policies.\n\n\"The complaint is about her priorities; her record.\"\n\nFollowing Lord Pentland's decision, Mr Mitchell said his clients would consider launching an appeal as a matter of \"urgency\".\n\nHe said this was because voters in East Dunbartonshire casting postal votes would do so without receiving an electoral communication from the SNP.", "Harry Dunn died after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton in August\n\nThe family of Harry Dunn have begun their legal proceeding against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a crash in Northamptonshire in August which led to the suspect, Anne Sacoolas, leaving for the USA under diplomatic immunity.\n\nHis parents have filed a claim for judicial review in the High Court in London against Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said the FCO was \"wrong in law\".\n\nHe said: \"The parents have done everything physically within their power to avoid having to sue the FCO.\n\n\"There have been repeated public and private attempts on our part to engage with those in authority to resolve this dispute amicably.\"\n\nHarry Dunn's parents Charlotte Charles (left) and Tim Dunn (right), pictured with Radd Seiger (centre), said they were concerned Mr Raab had been \"pressured by the US\"\n\nMr Seiger said the family's legal team has advised them \"the FCO's interpretation of the diplomatic immunity laws and treaty is absurd in practice and wrong in law\".\n\nThe FCO said last month the family had not found \"any reasonably arguable ground of legal challenge\".\n\nIt said an allegation that Mr Raab had misused or abused his power was \"entirely without foundation\".\n\nThe family said that a letter sent to them from the foreign secretary confirmed that the FCO would \"seek full costs\" for the legal challenge.\n\nMr Raab had previously said this was to \"protect taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe family said the cost of the case could be \"upwards of £50,000\".\n\nDominic Raab was heckled by friends and family of Harry Dunn outside constituency hustings on Monday\n\nA spokesman for the FCO said: \"We have deep sympathy for Harry's family. We have done and will continue to do everything we properly can to ensure that justice is done.\n\n\"As the foreign secretary set out in Parliament, the individual involved had diplomatic immunity whilst in the country under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.\"\n\nMr Dunn was fatally injured on 27 August, when his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Anne Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton, where her husband Jonathan was an intelligence officer.\n\nOn Monday, Harry Dunn's father Tim Dunn attempted to speak to Mr Rabb at his constituency hustings in Surrey.\n\nA member of staff at the church where the hustings were held said he was kept outside due to fire safety.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambulances will take the victims' bodies to their homes\n\nThe bodies of 16 Vietnamese people who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in the UK have arrived back in Vietnam.\n\nThey were among 39 migrants - eight women and 31 males, including two boys aged 15 - found in Essex on 23 October.\n\nThe bodies were flown to Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport, and will be taken by ambulance to their family homes.\n\nInvestigations are under way in both the UK and Vietnam, and a lorry driver has admitted plotting to assist illegal immigration.\n\n\"We have been waiting for this moment for a very long time. We will organise the funeral as soon as he's returned,\" said Vo Van Binh, the father of one victim, Vo Van Linh.\n\nSpeaking to AFP from Ha Tinh province, he said the family were \"very sad, but happy as finally my son is back\".\n\nThe bodies of the remaining victims will be repatriated in the coming days, though a date has not been confirmed.\n\nThe remains arrived in Hanoi early on Wednesday\n\nRepatriation of each body will cost each of the victims' families more than 66.2m Vietnamese dong ($2,856; £2,204), according to the vice minister of foreign affairs.\n\nThe Vietnamese government had offered loans to relatives, though some have said this will only add to the debts they incurred by helping their relatives make the journey to the UK.\n\nSeveral Vietnamese organisations have helped to raise money for the families of the victims. More than $110,000 has now been crowdfunded to help support the families.\n\nPham Thi Tra My was identified as one of the victims\n\nOn 23 October, police found the bodies at the back of a refrigerated lorry in the town of Grays in Essex, eastern England.\n\nOne of the victims, Pham Thi Tra My, had sent distressing messages to her family on the evening of 22 October.\n\n\"I am really, really sorry, Mum and Dad, my trip to a foreign land has failed,\" it read.\n\n\"I am dying, I can't breathe. I love you very much Mum and Dad.\"\n• None Who are the victims in the Essex lorry tragedy?", "The initial scope of the inquiry was to examine 23 cases but this has now grown to hundreds\n\nMore than 200 new families have contacted an inquiry into mother and baby deaths at a hospital trust in Shropshire.\n\nInvestigators were already looking at more than 600 cases where newborns and mothers died or were left injured while in the care of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust.\n\nOne expert says the scandal, spanning decades, may be the tip of the iceberg.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup says it suggests failure might be more widespread in the NHS.\n\nThe surge in new cases follows the leak of an interim report last week.\n\nThe leaked report, compiled by the maternity expert Donna Ockenden for NHS Improvement, outlined a catalogue of maternity failings from 1979 to the present day that led to avoidable deaths of mothers and babies at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH).\n\nIt revealed that some children were left disabled, staff got the names of some dead babies wrong and, in one case, referred to a child as \"it\".\n\nSources say hundreds of new families have now come forward in the wake of the coverage of the leaked report.\n\nKay Kelly, head of clinical negligence at the law firm Lanyon Bowdler, is a solicitor acting for some of the families involved.\n\nShe says that since the leaked report was made public, her firm alone has had more than 80 new inquiries.\n\nShrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust was placed in special measures\n\n\"A lot of them aren't brand new stories.\n\n\"They're things that have happened many years ago and these people have been prompted to telephone us because of the story.\n\n\"Many of them are people who lost babies at the hospital and that worries me because I understood that the hospital had passed on the information to the Donna Ockenden inquiry.\"\n\nOne of those being represented by Kay Kelly is Chrissie, whose son, a twin, was left with cerebral palsy after birth.\n\nChrissie's case against SaTH is continuing and she didn't want to be identified.\n\nBut she told me she was furious that so many families have also had to go through the terrible events she experienced.\n\n\"Nobody learned any lessons from what happened to me.\n\n\"And to know now that there've been hundreds of cases, I'm angry.\n\n\"I am really angry. Angry at them for lying to me.\n\n\"I'm angry for all the poor families, the hundreds of families and that's thousands of people because they've got the grandparents, the aunts, the uncles.\n\n\"I just feel overwhelmed at the moment with anger, anger and just, I don't understand it.\"\n\nThere are concerns too that the failings seen at SaTH echo closely those at another maternity unit run by the Morecambe Bay Trust.\n\nThe man who headed the inquiry into that scandal where 11 babies and one mother died is Dr Bill Kirkup, a respected expert on maternity care.\n\n\"These are not two separate one-offs, these point to underlying systemic failure that might be widespread.\n\n\"The notion that it could never happen here is one of the most dangerous ones an NHS Trust can have.\n\n\"The truth is, there are points of learning from all of these things that everybody should be looking at and learning from.\"\n\nThe investigation team is not expected to report until late next year.\n\nBut with families still coming forward, its work may last much longer.\n\nDonna Ockenden, chair of independent review, said: \"I would like to thank the brave families who have come forward and shared their experiences - my team are now contacting families on a daily basis. If families would like to raise a concern I am asking them to please get in touch.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who tried to kill three people, including a police officer, in a frenzied knife attack at a railway station has been detained for life.\n\nMahdi Mohamud, 26, stabbed a couple and then attacked Sgt Lee Valentine at Manchester Victoria on New Year's Eve.\n\nHe was told he would serve a minimum of 11 years after admitting three counts of attempted murder and a terror offence at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Stuart-Smith told Mohamud of Cheetham Hill, Manchester, he had \"walked calmly and purposefully to Manchester Victoria station\" where he spotted the couple.\n\n\"You followed them took out one of your knives and attacked them. You attacked them intending to kill them,\" the judge said.\n\nMohamud stabbed the man repeatedly in the back, shoulders and head and slashed his partner across the face before attacking Sgt Valentine, who was trying to apprehend him.\n\nMahdi Mohamud will be detained in Ashworth Secure Hospital and transferred to prison to when he is deemed well enough\n\nMr Justice Stuart-Smith acknowledged Mohamud suffered from paranoid schizophrenia which led him to believe the government was controlling his body using ultra-high frequency waves.\n\nBut he said although mental illness was a significant contribution to his interest in jihad, Mohamud retained substantial responsibility and culpability for the attacks.\n\nMohamud will be detained in Ashworth Secure Hospital and transferred to prison to serve the rest of sentence when he is deemed well enough.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the moment Mohamud struck at Manchester Victoria\n\nThe court previously heard Mohamud walked up behind the couple in their 50s at the station shortly before 21:00 GMT on 31 December.\n\nHe shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" and \"Long live the caliphate\" and then lunged at them with a knife.\n\nThe man's 13 injuries included a fractured skull while the woman's right lung was punctured and she had a slash to her forehead.\n\nSgt Valentine, 31, shot Mohamud with his Taser but the barbs got stuck in the knifeman's coat and failed to paralyse him.\n\nThe British Transport Police officer was stabbed in the shoulder before his attacker was wrestled to the ground and arrested.\n\nA second kitchen knife was found in Mohamud's waistband and Greater Manchester Police said officers recovered a large amount of \"counter-terrorism mindset material\", including images and a document about how to carry out knife attacks.\n\nFour officers, including Sgt Valentine (second left) and two tram staff, received commendations following the attack\n\nMohamud, a Dutch national from a Somali family, had arrived in the UK aged nine and became radicalised online, the force said.\n\nDet Supt Will Chatterton said: \"This was a terrifying attack on one of the busiest days of the year and I know it will stay with the victims for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"It doesn't bear thinking about what could have happened had Mohamud used the larger knife that he was carrying in his coat pocket.\"\n\nIn a letter to the judge, Mohamud's father said the family had prayed for the victims since the \"horrific\" attack and said he was eternally grateful for the swift response from emergency services.\n\nHe said the family was so \"shocked\" and \"deeply saddened\" knowing what his son had done but believed \"if it wasn't for Madhi's mental health illness he would not have done those awful acts\".\n\nMohamud's solicitor, Nasir Hafezi, called for an urgent change to the law on insanity as it did not provide the \"legal protection required\" for a person suffering from a very serious mental health condition facing serious charges.\n\n\"Despite Mahdi pleading guilty... it would be wrong simply to label Mahdi in the same way as someone who has chosen to use violence in full possession of his mental faculties,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Andrew has previously said he regretted this 2010 meeting with Epstein\n\nAn air ambulance service has become the latest charity to withdraw its connection to the Duke of York.\n\nYorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) said \"staff, volunteer and donor opinion\" had led to the move by its trustee board.\n\nIt follows Prince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight and the controversy over his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe duke opened the air ambulance base at Nostell in 2015.\n\nFor several months the duke had been facing questions over his ties to US financier Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, claimed she was forced to have sex with the prince three times. The duke has always denied any form of sexual contact or relationship with her.\n\nBT and Barclays have joined universities and other charities in distancing themselves from the duke.\n\nYAA, which has become the latest charity to withdraw its connection, said: \"As a charity funded generously by public donations, we must seriously consider the opinions of our donors and supporters, and this has been a significant factor in reaching this decision.\"\n\nPrince Andrew, 59, announced on Wednesday he would step back from royal duties and all organisations he is patron of because the Epstein scandal had become a \"major disruption\" to the Royal Family.\n\nBuckingham Palace had described it as \"a personal decision\" following discussions with the Queen and Prince Charles.\n\nPrince Andrew's resignation from all royal duties followed an interview on the BBC's Newsnight programme\n\nHe is no longer patron of the Outward Bound Trust, the English National Ballet, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Metropolitan University.\n\nThe University of Huddersfield has also said the prince would step down as chancellor.\n\nThe main role of a royal patron is to raise the profile and attract publicity for work done by charities.\n\nThe prince will no longer carry out public engagements but will still attend Royal Family events such as Trooping the Colour and Remembrance Sunday.\n\nStandard Chartered Bank and KPMG also announced they were withdrawing support for the duke's business mentoring initiative Pitch@Palace, though sources told the BBC the decisions were made before the interview.\n\nFour Australian universities also said they would not be continuing their involvement in Pitch@Palace Australia.\n\nPrince Andrew also cancelled a planned visit to flood-hit areas of Yorkshire on 19 November, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJose Mourinho made a dramatic entrance at his new home as Tottenham came from two goals down to beat Olympiakos and qualify for the Champions League knockout phase.\n\nMourinho made a low-key entrance for his first game as manager at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - but then it was drama all the way as he was subjected to all facets of the side he inherited from sacked Mauricio Pochettino.\n\nSpurs were dreadful at the back in the first half, going behind after only six minutes to Youssef El-Arabi's low drive and conceding a second 13 minutes later when Ruben Semedo scored from close range at a corner.\n\nMourinho acted quickly, sending on Christian Eriksen for Eric Dier, but it still took a horrendous error from Yassine Meriah to gift Dele Alli a goal in first-half stoppage time to throw Spurs a lifeline they accepted with relish.\n\nHarry Kane levelled from Lucas Moura's cross five minutes after the break, Mourinho hugging an alert ball boy who helped Serge Aurier take a quick throw-in that caught Olympiakos flat-footed, and the recovery was complete 17 minutes from time when the defender powered home a finish at the far post from Alli's cross.\n\nMourinho fist-pumped furiously in delight and he was ecstatic again when Kane wrapped things up with a header from Eriksen's inviting free-kick.\n\nThe England captain broke Alessandro del Piero's record as the player to score 20 Champions League goals in the fewest games - 24, compared to the Italian's 26 games with Juventus.\n• None 'I was a brilliant ball boy and so was this kid - Mourinho\n• None The Humble One - Mourinho's new persona in evidence in Spurs comeback\n\nThere was no fanfare when Mourinho took his seat in the technical area before kick-off, although inevitably banks of photographers were there to welcome him.\n\nHe had a distinctly uncomfortable start as this lively Olympiakos side exposed so many of the flaws that led to Pochettino's sacking and Mourinho's arrival when Spurs were run ragged early on.\n\nIt was then that Mourinho made his impact with a positive - and necessary - substitution, introducing the creativity of Eriksen for the stability of pivot Dier to try to edge Spurs back into the contest.\n\nThis was not a cautious Mourinho but one who knew something had to change, even though only 26 minutes had gone.\n\nYes, Spurs and Mourinho needed a huge slice of luck, but once they emerged for the second half the mood had changed after Alli's goal, which deflated Olympiakos and revitalised the home side and their supporters.\n\nIt allowed Mourinho to join in the celebrations with the Spurs fans, and even hug that ball boy, as a night that started by threatening a serious anti-climax had the perfect conclusion.\n\nMourinho stayed on the pitch at the final whistle to congratulate his Spurs players before politely applauding fans behind the technical area and making his way down the tunnel.\n\nThis was a good night for Mourinho in the context of the result and Spurs' performance once they had the encouragement of a goal right on half-time.\n\nThey were galvanised and the usual suspects came to the party as Kane struck twice and Alli showed superb footwork to set up the third goal for Aurier.\n\nMourinho, however, will not get carried away because he will note how Spurs were so easily cut open early on and how defensive uncertainty, and moments of poor communication between goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga and his backline, threatened more problems.\n\nHe knew he had problems to solve when he succeeded Pochettino and two wins from two will not blind him to the fact they still need addressing.\n• None Tottenham striker Harry Kane is the fastest player to score 20 Champions League goals, reaching the tally in just 24 appearances and breaking the record held by Alessandro del Piero since 1998 (26 appearances).\n• None Kane has scored 23 goals in 23 appearances for Tottenham and England this season.\n• None This was the first time a team managed by Jose Mourinho has come from two goals down to win a Champions League game - he had lost on the previous 13 occasions.\n• None Mourinho took charge of his sixth different club in the Champions League (Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Spurs). Only Carlo Ancelotti has managed more teams in the competition (eight).\n• None Olympiakos have not won in their past 13 Champions League matches (D3 L10), conceding 34 goals.\n• None Dele Alli ended a run of 16 Champions League games without a goal, scoring for the first time since November 2017 against Real Madrid. All four of Alli's goals in the competition have come at home.\n\nTottenham host Bournemouth on Saturday (15:00 GMT) in the Premier League as they look to make it three wins from three under Mourinho.\n• None Attempt missed. Rúben Semedo (Olympiakos) header from very close range is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Mathieu Valbuena with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 4, Olympiakos 2. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Broadcaster, critic, poet, TV presenter and prolific author - Clive James cheerfully criss-crossed the boundaries between high and lowbrow.\n\nHe was as much at home hosting a Shakespeare documentary as he was at fronting a programme showing people suffering indignities on Japanese TV.\n\nHis sardonic tones graced a host of TV documentaries in which he brought his own acute observations to bear on a wide variety of subjects.\n\nA journalist on The Sydney Morning Herald once wrote: \"His gift and lasting contribution has been to recognise that mass appeal does not translate into lack of substance.\"\n\nHe was born Vivian James in Kogarah, south of Sydney, on 7 Oct 1939. He was later allowed to change his name when, according to his autobiography, Vivien Leigh's appearance in Gone With the Wind meant the name would forever be seen as female, no matter what the spelling.\n\nHis father was captured by the Japanese during World War Two and forced to work as a slave labourer. He managed to survive internment but was killed when the plane returning him to Australia crashed in Taiwan.\n\nThe young James studied psychology at the University of Sydney, where he also edited the student magazine and directed a number of revues. After graduating, he went to work as a journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald.\n\nIn 1961 he set off for England, where for three years he led what he described as a \"would-be bohemian existence\" in London, working at a variety of jobs before gaining a place at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where Germaine Greer was among his contemporaries.\n\nHe later confessed that he read very little of the course material, but did busy himself by writing for various periodicals, including The Listener and the Cambridge Review. He became president of the Cambridge Footlights, and represented Pembroke on University Challenge.\n\nIn 1972 he was commissioned by the Times Literary Supplement to write an appreciation of the noted writer and critic Edmund Wilson. His piece, published without a byline as was traditional at the TLS at the time, triggered a wave of speculation as to who had actually written it, and cemented James's reputation.\n\nHe began a 10-year spell as a TV critic on The Observer, delivering a column that his fellow critic, Mark Lawson, once described as so funny it was dangerous to read while holding a hot drink.\n\nJames with Michael Parkinson and Janet Street Porter in 1982\n\nHis strength was to write about the most banal television programmes in a high literary style, and he would often mix a critique of a serious documentary with comments on something more downmarket. His style would be widely copied by subsequent columnists.\n\nHis job as a TV critic led to him being asked to make guest appearances on various programmes. One notable episode was on the Granada pop music programme So It Goes, when he found himself trying to keep a new band, The Sex Pistols, under control.\n\n\"One had grown used to pop performers dressing up in silly clothes and pretending to be horrible,\" he wrote in his column. \"But here were performers dressing up in silly clothes who really were horrible.\"\n\nIn 1982, ITV hired him to front a new show called Clive James on Television, which showed a series of amusing and offbeat TV clips from around the world.\n\nHe was a prolific poet and author\n\nExcerpts from the Japanese programme, Endurance, became a regular feature. Contestants had to withstand unpleasant experiences such as being lowered into a tank full of insects, or being buried up to their necks in sand.\n\nJames denied suggestions that he was being racist for highlighting a Japanese programme, explaining that he felt it was better that, if people were going to torment each other, they did it within the confines of a game show.\n\nHe also fronted a travel programme, which transferred to the BBC in 1989 under the title Clive James's Postcard From.\n\nIn 1993 the BBC broadcast his eight-part documentary series, Fame In The Twentieth Century, which used archive material to explore the nature of fame through each of the previous eight decades. The programme was also aired by ABC in Australia and PBS in the US.\n\nHe was a regular voice on BBC Radio 4, and in 2008 he performed two one-man shows at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.\n\nHe also worked with songwriter and producer Pete Atkin on six musical albums during the 1970s, which were re-released on CD 20 years later, when the pair made a number of live performances.\n\nHis television work did not distract him from writing. As well as publishing collections of poetry, he wrote four novels and five volumes of autobiography - the first of which, Unreliable Memoirs, was reprinted more than 60 times. He also published collections of his numerous essays and newspaper articles.\n\nIn 1997 he penned a poignant piece for the New Yorker titled I Wish I'd Never Met Her, describing his reactions to the death of his friend, Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nHis illness failed to dampen his natural good humour\n\nHe made a number of appearances on the BBC's Question Time and also appeared alongside Paul Merton on the satirical quiz Have I Got News For You.\n\nA lifetime of smoking and drinking culminated in a diagnosis of emphysema and kidney failure in 2010, and a year later he announced he had leukaemia.\n\nIn a 2012 interview, he told BBC radio he was \"near the end\", saying: \"I don't want to cast a gloom, an air of doom, over the programme but I'm a man who is approaching his terminus.\"\n\nThree years later, in an interview with the Guardian, he spoke of his \"embarrassment\" at still being alive, saying a new drug had kept the end at bay.\n\nThis February, he had a long and ultimately unsuccessful operation to remove a cancer on his cheek, which left him frail and almost blind.\n\nAn atheist by conviction, James famously described religion as \"an advertising agency for a product that does not exist.\"\n\nHe was sanguine about his own end, maintaining a short biography on his website, which he hoped would be used as the basis for any appreciation of his life that might be written.\n\nJournalists writing an obituary should \"keep in mind that shorter is better, and that a single line is best\", it said.\n\nHis life was much too full to fulfil that final wish.\n• None Clive James in his own words\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The door of the carriage was open for 23 minutes\n\nLoose screws were to blame for a door being open on a passenger train going at 80mph (128km/h), a report found.\n\nThe train travelled 16 miles through Essex once the screws fell out, before a passenger alerted the driver.\n\nA Rail Accident Investigation Board (RAIB) report said operator Greater Anglia had since found loose screws on \"at least 60 doorways\" in its fleet of refurbished class 321 carriages.\n\nThe company said it had improved safety procedures and brought in extra checks.\n\nThe screws fixing the door bracket to the closing mechanism showed no signs of having been tightened properly during refurbishment, said the report.\n\nThe missing screws meant that the door mechanism, unattached to the door, was able to return to the closed position - giving the driver the incorrect signal that all doors were shut.\n\nThis graphic shows how the missing screws allowed the door to stay open while telling the driver that it was closed\n\nThe door was open for 23 minutes until it was reported at Hockley station, Essex, at 07:20 BST on 22 August, and the screws and washers were found by the driver.\n\nThe RAIB said the screws in the refurbished units should have been tightened and a yellow line drawn across the screw head and bracket, so that any loosening would be recognised - but no marks were found.\n\nThis meant \"one of the visual indications of a loose screw was absent, reducing the likelihood of checks identifying any loosening\", said the RAIB.\n\nGreater Anglia has since retightened all door screws on its refurbished carriages to the correct torque after discussions with the parts manufacturer.\n\nA spokesperson for Greater Anglia apologised to passengers, and said it took safety \"extremely seriously\".\n\n\"We have co-operated fully with RAIB in their investigations as well as carrying out our own investigation,\" she said.\n\n\"We have introduced new more stringent safety procedures and are committed to carrying out additional checks on our trains' doors from now on.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played.", "The man said he walked for 10 days to escape his controllers\n\nA worker who came to Britain has said he was bartered between criminals and then used to work on doorstep scams.\n\nThe man said he was beaten, threatened and forced into work in return for tobacco, alcohol and bread and butter.\n\nNational Trading Standards (NTS), the frontline UK consumer protection body, said this was an example of modern slavery behind traditional scams.\n\nIt urged consumers to be aware of home improvement scams, as well as alert to the individuals who may be involved.\n\nThe slavery victim, who has not been named, told NTS he was never paid but was \"totally powerless\" as the criminals took his passport, ID and money.\n\n\"We would fix up houses, do gardening, everything, house to house,\" he said. \"I had to work from the early morning until very, very late, seven days a week.\n\n\"I was sold, from person to person - bartered for right in front of my face. I heard one man say I wasn't even worth £300. I felt worthless.\"\n\nEventually, he said he walked for 10 days to get away from the slavemasters, and was helped by charity Hope for Justice.\n\nNTS, which was set up by the government in 2012, said gangs targeted vulnerable young men from deprived areas. Many were alcohol or drug dependent.\n\nLord Toby Harris, who chairs NTS, said: \"The doorstep scammer is not a lovable rogue. Often behind the person who turns up at your door offering cut-price services is a serious criminal.\n\n\"Not only are they happy to rip off older people, those living on their own, and indeed anyone who is taken in by their patter, but they may also be exploiting and even enslaving vulnerable people to help them carry out their crimes.\"\n\nHe said that consumers needed to be aware that many of the scams that occurred were modern versions of traditional scams.\n\nSome of the biggest emerging threats include:\n\nDoor-to-door scams related to solar panels and home insulation are also proving popular for rogue traders, trading standards officers said.", "\"The great auk will always hold a place in my heart,\" Dr Jessica Thomas says.\n\nThe Swansea-based scientist spent years piecing together an ancient DNA puzzle that suggests hunting by humans caused this giant seabird's demise.\n\nDr Thomas studied bone and tissue samples from 41 museum specimens during a PhD at both Bangor and Copenhagen University.\n\nThe findings paint a picture of how vulnerable even the most common species are to human exploitation.\n\nAbout 80cm (2ft 7in) tall, the stubby-winged and bulbous-billed great auks used to be found all across the north Atlantic - from North America through Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia and the UK.\n\n\"Being flightless, they were always targeted by local people for food and for their feathers,\" says Dr Thomas.\n\n\"But around 1500, when European seamen discovered the rich fishing grounds off Newfoundland, hunting intensified.\"\n\nBy about 1850, the great auk was extinct; the last two known specimens were hunted down by fishermen on Eldey Island, off the coast of Iceland.\n\nPuffins are living relatives of great auks and are still hunted for their meat\n\n\"We looked for signatures of population decline [before 1500],\" Dr Thomas said.\n\nOne of these signatures might be a lack of genetic diversity, suggesting individuals were inbreeding and the species, as a whole, was becoming vulnerable to disease or environmental change.\n\n\"But their genetic diversity was very high - all but two sequences we found were very different,\" Dr Thomas said.\n\nIn fact, the genetic timeline Dr Thomas and her colleagues were able to create - published in the journal eLife - showed that, at the time the intensive great auk hunting began, the species was doing \"really well\".\n\n\"They weren't at risk of extinction at all,\" said Dr Thomas.\n\n\"It emphasises how vulnerable even the widespread and abundant species are to this intensive, localised pressure.\"", "Labour says leaked government documents show that the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nHowever, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the claim was \"nonsense\" and the NHS would not be part of formal talks.\n\nThe 451-page document, leaked from the Department for International Trade, contains a record of discussions that have taken place between UK and US officials over a possible future trade deal.\n\nHere are five things we've learned from the document.\n\nUS trade negotiators had already set out that they wanted \"full market access\" for US drugs as part of a future UK/US trade deal after Brexit.\n\nThe leaked document does reiterate concern in the US over drug prices. One of the trade representatives is quoted as saying: \"there is a lot of conversation on drug prices and looking at what other countries pay and this is causing angst\".\n\nA big part of the document, however, focuses on patents.\n\nPharmaceutical companies can obtain patents which grant exclusive rights to sell and market drugs for 20 years in their country of origin. While the patent exists, other companies cannot manufacture cheaper copies of the drug - often called generics - in the same country.\n\nThis applies in most countries around the world, but different countries have their own rules within that.\n\nThere are already a lot of similarities between the patent system in the US and the UK, including on the length of patents.\n\nThe leaked document compares the two systems in place for extending patents when they are delayed from entering the market.\n\nThe US negotiators also suggest some other technical changes to the UK's patent regime, which could affect the relationship with European patent regimes.\n\nOne of the main reasons for cheaper drug prices in the UK is the negotiating power of the NHS, as the near monopoly purchaser in the UK, whether the drugs are patented or generic.\n\nAt the meeting on 10 July 2018, under the heading \"key points to note\", the document states: \"The US are very concerned at the contents of the Chequers statement.\"\n\nThis refers to the first draft of Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal with the European Union (EU) earlier that month.\n\nIt proposed a \"common rulebook\" on goods with the EU.\n\nThe document reveals that the US trade representatives were left \"deflated\" at the UK's plan to stick close to EU rules on food safety and animal health.\n\nThey saw this as a \"worst-case scenario\" for a UK-US trade deal.\n\nThe Chequers agreement led to several ministerial resignations - including then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. His revised deal does not include any reference to a \"common rulebook\".\n\nIn November 2017, the US told UK officials that it considered its food safety system to be \"the gold standard\", but acknowledged that its approach is different to the EU's.\n\nFor example, while the EU is trying to reduce the amount of chemicals in food, the US continues to use them, including chlorine, as \"a final double check to remove any traces of pathogens\" - ie disease-causing viruses or bacteria.\n\nChicken is often treated with a chlorine wash in the US to kill pathogens\n\nOne US official suggested that the UK should not stick with the EU's food regulatory standards after Brexit. Instead, the US \"recommended that the UK maintains regulatory autonomy\".\n\nThe same official suggested that the UK had used chemical washes to treat food in the past \"and wondered if there would be an interest in bringing them back post-EU Exit\".\n\nThe document says the US would \"share their public lines on chlorine-washed chicken to help inform the media narrative around the issue\".\n\nIn the document from the November 2017 meeting, the US talked about its concerns over some food labelling.\n\nThe US side said it was \"concerned that labelling food with high sugar content (as has been done with tobacco) is not particularly useful in changing consumer behaviour\".\n\nThis goes against the UK's current public health strategy, which includes raising awareness of food labels through campaigns like Change4Life in England and Wales and Eat Better Feel Better in Scotland.\n\nIn 2013, the UK government launched a voluntary front of pack labelling scheme, encouraging manufacturers to indicate the nutritional content of products, for example whether they are high in sugar or fat, using a traffic light scheme.\n\nThe issue of climate change was raised at the meeting of the UK-US Trade and Investment Working Group, on 13-14 November 2017.\n\nA UK representative \"inquired about the possibility of including reference to climate change in a future UK-US trade agreement\".\n\nA US representative \"responded emphatically that climate change is the most political (sensitive) question for the US, stating it is a 'lightning rod issue'\".\n\nThey went on to explain that they were bound by Congress not to include mention of greenhouse gas emission reductions in trade agreements. They stated this ban would not be lifted anytime soon.\n\nThe UK has signed up to the Paris agreement on climate change and has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The US, under President Trump, has said it intends to withdraw from the treaty.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it would not comment on the leaked documents.", "Twitter faced criticism for how the accounts of dead people would be handled\n\nTwitter has said it will \"pause\" plans to disable inactive accounts following user backlash, a day after announcing plans for a huge cull of such accounts.\n\nThe social network said it now would not remove accounts until it had a process for \"memorialising\" dead users on the network.\n\nIt admitted not having a policy in place was a \"miss on our part”.\n\nThe firm said it was taking action on inactive accounts due to regulatory concerns.\n\nIt said once it had a full process in place, account deactivations would occur in the EU first. This was in order, Twitter said, to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\n\n\"We apologise for the confusion and will keep you all posted,\" the company said in a series of tweets posted on Wednesday.\n\nOn Monday Twitter had begun contacting users who hadn't logged in in the past six months, warning them that they would have their accounts deleted unless they signed in and agreed to the firm's latest privacy policy.\n\nAfter reporting from the BBC and others, the company admitted it had not considered the issue of the potential upset that would be caused by the removal of accounts belonging to users who had died.\n\nWriting on TechCrunch, Drew Olanoff, a communications officer at investment firm Scaleworks, said his \"heart sank\" when he learned of Twitter's plans, as he often checked in on his father's account, several years after his death.\n\n\"It’s my way, odd or not, of remembering him. Keeping his spirit alive. His tweets are timestamped moments that he shared with the world,\" Mr Olanoff wrote. \"And Twitter is sweeping them up like crumpled-up paper and junk in a dustbin.”\n\nOther networks, such as Facebook, offer a process called \"memorialisation\", whereby verified family members or other loved ones can request a deceased user's account is kept on the network, but frozen in time. Interactions with the account are limited in order to help prevent trolling and other abuse.\n\nTwitter said it would create such a tool.\n\nIt added: \"Beyond complying with GDPR, we may broaden the enforcement of our inactivity policy in the future to comply with other regulations around the world and to ensure the integrity of the service.\n\n\"We will communicate with all of you if we do.\"\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Jaden Moodie was stabbed to death in London on 8 January\n\nA 14-year-old boy was knocked off a moped and then stabbed to death by a rival gang in a \"violent and frenzied\" attack, a court has heard.\n\nJaden Moodie was allegedly dealing drugs for a gang when he was targeted by a group of five men on 8 January.\n\nAyoub Majdouline was in a stolen Mercedes which was driven at Jaden, causing him to be \"catapulted\" over the bonnet, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMr Majdouline, 19 and of London, denies murder and possession of a knife.\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC told jurors the five men in the car had armed themselves with knives and had gone to \"great lengths\" to hide their faces.\n\n\"On finding Jaden Moodie, the Mercedes drove straight towards the moped, swerving onto the same side of the road so that it struck Jaden Moodie head on,\" he said.\n\nThe 14-year-old was allegedly dealing drugs for a gang when he was targeted by a group of five men\n\nHe told the court the victim \"did not stand a chance\" and his crash helmet had come off when he was struck.\n\nThree men then got out of the car and \"repeatedly\" stabbed the 14-year-old in a \"violent and frenzied attack\", as he lay \"defenceless and seriously injured\" on the ground, the court was told.\n\n\"Fourteen seconds was all it took,\" Mr Glasgow added.\n\nJaden was found with nine stab wounds and bled to death in the road, the jury heard.\n\nMembers of the victim's family gasped and cried out as CCTV footage of the attack was played to the jury.\n\nThe prosecutor said the images showed the killers had \"no qualms about playing out their petty rivalries using the blade of a knife\".\n\nThe Mercedes was abandoned in a quiet cul-de-sac, while a knife and a pair of yellow rubber gloves were thrown away and recovered from a nearby drain the next day, the court was told.\n\nMr Glasgow said the 14-year-old's blood and traces of the defendant's DNA were found on both.\n\nBurnt clothing belonging to Jaden's attackers was also found in a churchyard, the court was told.\n\nMr Majdouline disputes playing any part in the attack.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police want to trace this man who was seen running from the area after the assault\n\nA CCTV image of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a young boy in his bedroom has been issued by detectives.\n\nThe Met Police was called to a home in The Greenway in Ickenham, west London, early on Saturday morning to reports an intruder had been inside the property.\n\nOfficers said there was no sign of a break-in at the property but the man made his way into the boy's room and sexually assaulted him.\n\nThe man fled when the child told him he would phone the police.\n\nDetectives described the suspect as white, slim, with short hair and a beard. He was wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt.\n\nThe child, whose age has not been given in order to protect his identity, is being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nPolice have released the image of a man they want to trace and asked for anyone who recognises the man, or who was in the area after midnight on Saturday, to contact the Met.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nDet Con Claire Field said: \"This matter has clearly caused a great deal of anguish to the boy's family.\n\n\"Police are very concerned and we are carrying out an extensive and well-resourced investigation.\n\n\"We are appealing for the public's help to identify a man who was seen running from the area shortly after the assault. It is vital that we speak to him to establish why he was in the vicinity.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British ground forces would be \"comprehensively outgunned\" in a conflict with Russia in Eastern Europe, according to a defence think-tank.\n\nResearch by the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) found that the Army, as well as Nato allies, has a \"critical shortage\" of artillery and ammunition.\n\nIt concluded that it could not maintain a credible defence position.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the UK works closely with Nato and is \"well equipped to take on a leading role\".\n\nThe research comes ahead of a meeting of Nato leaders in London next week to mark the 70th anniversary of the alliance.\n\nThe UK, along with other Nato members, has positioned military forces in Eastern Europe to deter any potential Russian aggression in the wake of Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014.\n\nAround 800 British troops are currently stationed in Estonia. The first were sent in 2017.\n\nBut the study by Rusi found that the UK armed forces lack critical firepower compared to Russia's military.\n\nIt analysed military capabilities in the \"unlikely\" context of \"a high-intensity conflict between Nato and Russia, in which the UK has promised to deliver a warfighting division\".\n\n\"At present, there is a risk that the UK - unable to credibly fight - can be dominated lower down the escalation ladder by powers threatening escalation,\" the report said.\n\nIt said Britain is \"comprehensively outgunned and outranged\", leaving enemy artillery free to defeat UK units.\n\nRussian artillery and rocket batteries have already proved to be potent, destroying two Ukrainian battalions in 2014 within minutes.\n\nUK and other Nato forces not only have a limited number of artillery pieces, but also a shortage of munitions stockpiles and transportation.\n\nThe report said the \"rejuvenation and modernisation\" of Britain's ground-based artillery is an \"urgent and critical priority\".\n\nIn response, the MoD said: \"The UK does not stand alone but alongside its Nato Allies, who work closely together across air, sea, land, nuclear and cyber to deter threats and respond to crises.\"\n\nIt added: \"As the largest Nato defence spender in Europe, the UK's armed forces are well equipped to take a leading role in countering threats and ensuring the safety and security of British people at home and abroad.\"\n\nThe statement comes less than three weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron described Nato as \"brain dead\" - stressing what he sees as waning commitment to the transatlantic alliance by its main guarantor, the US.\n\nMoD figures released in August found that the size of Britain's armed forces had fallen for a ninth consecutive year.\n\nThe finding came just six months after the Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, claimed the MoD had a funding black hole of at least £7bn in its 10-year plan to equip the UK's armed forces.\n\nA delegation of Russian military personnel visited Scotland last year to observe one of Europe's largest Nato exercises.\n\nThe visit was in line with the UK's obligations to the Vienna Document which aims to promote mutual trust and transparency among states signed to it.\n\nIt came as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres claimed the Cold War was \"back with a vengeance\" as he warned abut the dangers of escalating tensions over Syria.\n\nOn Sunday, Boris Johnson promised he would not cut the armed forces \"in any form\" after it was pointed out the Conservative Party's manifesto for next month's election did not commit to maintaining troop levels.\n\nThe Conservatives, Labour, and the Lib Dems have all committed to meeting Nato's target of spending 2% of GDP on defence. The SNP said it would \"press for investment in conventional defence\".", "Obama was served sushi at the restaurant in 2014\n\nA world-renowned sushi restaurant where Barack Obama dined has been dropped from the Michelin gourmet guide.\n\nSukiyabashi Jiro, focus of the 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams Of Sushi, has earned three Michelin stars every year since 2007.\n\nBut the Tokyo restaurant has been dropped from the 2020 guide because it no longer accepts public reservations.\n\nTo get a table you need to be a regular, have special connections, or go through a top hotel.\n\nIt is run by sushi maestro Jiro Ono, who is in his 90s, and his eldest son, Yoshikazu.\n\nThe restaurant can only take 10 guests at a time, with prices starting at around 40,000 yen (£285) for the chef's selection.\n\nIt made headlines in 2014 when the then-US president and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dined there, with Mr Obama reportedly saying it was the best sushi he had ever tasted.\n\n\"We recognise Sukiyabashi Jiro does not accept reservations from the general public, which makes it out of our scope,\" a spokeswoman from the Japanese branch of Michelin told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"Michelin's policy is to introduce restaurants where everybody can go to eat,\" she said.\n\nAllan Jenkins, editor of Observer Food Monthly, said the move would probably not faze the owners.\n\n\"Not sure they are bothered, though presume some tourists might be,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Truth is since the film and Obama he is the most famous Japanese sushi chef alive and he will be fine. He is ancient and only has to fill 10 spots anyway.\"\n\nAndy Hayler, a restaurant critic for Elite Traveler magazine, pointed out that despite \"fascination\" within the press over the restaurant, it is only rated 66th best in Tokyo for sushi by the main local guide Tabelog.\n\n\"From 2008, when Michelin started covering Tokyo, it did not cover places like Mibu or Kyoaji, which are famous but are essentially private members clubs,\" he added.\n\nThe dropping of Sukiyabashi Jiro comes after The Araki, a sushi restaurant in London's Mayfair, was stripped of all three of its Michelin stars this year after its chef went back to Tokyo.\n\nIn 2017, French chef Sebastien Bras asked to be stripped of his three stars as it put him under \"huge pressure\".", "All services running north of Preston have been cancelled until Thursday\n\nHundreds of passengers on the West Coast Mainline were stranded for hours after an electric overhead cable snapped.\n\nThe cable broke on the route between Lancaster and Preston at about 08:35 GMT, blocking both lines in both directions, Network Rail said.\n\nOne person tweeted they were on a train for seven-and-a-half hours, another called it \"an absolute horror show\".\n\nStations along the route became crowded as the delays continued.\n\nNetwork Rail said that section of the line would be closed for the rest of the day.\n\n\"Our immediate focus is to fix the cables in time for start of service tomorrow,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nPassengers have been queuing at stations for rail replacement buses\n\nVirgin Trains said a rescue locomotive retrieved two trains and a third was involved in a train-to-train evacuation.\n\nNorthern and Trans Pennine Express services in the area were also affected.\n\nAll Caledonian Sleeper services were also cancelled.\n\nPassengers expecting to use the route were advised not to travel, and were earlier warned journey times would be at least three hours longer than usual.\n\nCrowds gathered at Preston station while the delays to services continued\n\nSimon Mabon was travelling from Macclesfield to Lancaster and said his journey - which would normally take about 90 minutes - took about eight hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Mabon said there was no air conditioning and the toilets stopped working quickly on his stuck train\n\nAnother passenger, Russ Dank, said there was a \"bit of a mutiny\" on a train he was stranded on in between Preston and Lancaster.\n\n\"There were quite a few people shouting because there have been no toilets and it is quite cold... and no lighting for about four hours,\" he said.\n\nHe added some people were \"kicking off\" as there was nowhere to go to the toilet, but those who were desperate were allowed to go on the \"line side\" which wasn't \"great circumstances\".\n\nAll services between Preston and Lancaster have been cancelled until tomorrow\n\nPhil James, director for Network Rail's North West route, apologised for the issues.\n\n\"Our specialist electrical teams are working to repair the damaged cables. It means the railway is blocked with no trains running at present.\"\n\nNetwork Rail added because of the lack of electrical power in the area it had made towing back difficult.\n\nQueues formed at Preston station while passengers waited for rail replacement services.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CFO Justin Johnston This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were also queues at Oxenholme in the Lake District.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by psm1900 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Trains said the disruption would continue until Thursday.\n\n\"We're very sorry for the experience of customers affected by today's disruption. We're working closely with our partners to get customers from the affected trains to the nearest station so they can continue their journeys,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIt is not yet known what caused the damage to the 440 yards (400m) of cable.\n\nVirgin passengers can use their tickets on Thursday, the company said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Virgin Trains This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHave your travel plans been affected? 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You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jesus College's bronze cockerel - similar to this one - will now be repatriated to Nigeria\n\nA bronze cockerel at Cambridge University that had been looted in a British raid on what is now Nigeria will be repatriated.\n\nThe Benin bronze, known as an \"okukor\", was bequeathed to Jesus College in 1930 by a former British Army officer.\n\nIn 2016 it was removed from display and the Legacy of Slavery Working Party (LSWP) has recommended it be returned.\n\nMaster of Jesus College Sonita Alleyne said they were not trying to \"erase history\".\n\nShe said the decision came after \"diligent and careful\" work of the LSWP into the legacy of slavery at Jesus College.\n\n\"We are an honest community, and after thorough investigation into the provenance of the Benin bronze, our job is to seek the best way forward,\" she added.\n\nThe LSWP, which includes academics and students, was set up earlier this year by the college to to investigate historic links it may have to the slave trade.\n\nSonita Alleyne was elected Master of Jesus College, a role which she took up in October\n\nAlmost 1,000 bronzes were taken after Benin City, in present-day Nigeria, was occupied by imperial troops in 1897, according to the British Museum.\n\nAbout 900 of those artefacts are housed in museums and collections around the world, including the British Museum.\n\nJesus College's bronze cockerel, donated by Captain George William Neville, whose son had been a student there, took pride of place in the college dining hall.\n\nThe Benin bronze statue was prominently displayed in the college dining hall\n\nEarlier this month Aboriginal artefacts taken from Australia more than 100 years ago were handed back by Manchester Museum.\n\nIndigenous leaders came to the UK collect 12 items, including sacred ceremonial artefacts and a garment made with emu feathers.\n\nNo specific date has been given for the return of the statue, nor any details of how it will be done.\n• None Jesus College in the University of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Jeremy Corbyn is pressed over his handling of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party\n\nJeremy Corbyn has declined to apologise to the UK Jewish community after the chief rabbi criticised how the party deals with anti-Semitism claims.\n\nIn a BBC interview with Andrew Neil, the Labour leader was asked four times whether he would like to apologise.\n\nMr Corbyn said his government will protect \"every community against the abuse they receive\".\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis claimed \"a new poison - sanctioned from the very top - has taken root\" in Labour.\n\nFollowing the interview, Labour's Shadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith said Mr Corbyn should apologise, adding: \"We need to apologise to our colleagues in my own party who have been very upset and to the whole of the Jewish community.\"\n\nLabour has been beset by allegations of anti-Semitism for more than three years, leading to the suspension of a number of high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson, and an unprecedented investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Neil on BBC One, Mr Corbyn was asked four times whether he was going to apologise to the British Jewish community following the chief rabbi's claim that Labour was not doing enough to root out anti-Jewish racism.\n\nMr Corbyn replied: \"What I'll say is this I am determined that our society is safe for people of all faiths.\n\n\"I don't want anyone to be feeling insecure, in our society and our government will protect every community against the abuse they receive on the streets, on the trains, or in any other form of life.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said racism \"is a total poison\", adding: \"I want to work with every community, to make sure it's eliminated. That is what my whole life has been about.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says restoring Waspi pensions would be be paid for from government reserves and long-term borrowing.\n\nRabbi Mirvis described Mr Corbyn's claim that Labour had \"investigated every single case\" of alleged anti-Semitism as a \"mendacious fiction\".\n\nChallenged about the rabbi's comment, Mr Corbyn said: \"No, he's not right. Because he would have to produce the evidence to say that's mendacious.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said he was \"looking forward to having a discussion with him because I want to hear why he would say such a thing\".\n\nMr Corbyn also insisted he had \"developed a much stronger process\" for dealing with allegations and had sanctioned and removed members who were judged to have made anti-Semitic statements.\n\nHe added that anti-Semitism allegations \"didn't rise after I became leader\".\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is there in society, there are a very, very small number of people in the Labour Party that have been sanctioned as a result about their anti-Semitic behaviour,\" he told Andrew Neil.\n\nSpeaking in the BBC Wales election TV debate, Ms Griffith, a senior member of Mr Corbyn's team, said the party's handling of anti-Semitism claims was \"a shame on us\" and \"we must absolutely put right\".\n\nShe added: \"We have not been as effective as we should have been in dealing with this problem.\"\n\nMr Corbyn was also quizzed about his plan to get a \"credible\" Brexit deal with the EU and then be neutral in the referendum on the deal he has promised to hold within six months of taking power.\n\nAsked what he would do during the referendum campaign, he said: \"I will be the honest broker that will make sure the referendum is fair and make sure that the Leave deal is a credible one.\n\n\"That seems to me actually an adult and sensible way to go forward.\"\n\nMr Corbyn was also quizzed about Labour's plan to increase income tax on those earning more £85,000 a year to pay for better public services.\n\nHe denied many of these people would leave the country under a Labour government, destroying the tax base the party would rely on to fund its plans.\n\nBut he said they \"could and should\" pay more.\n\n\"They can see all around them the crumbling of public services and the terrible levels of child poverty that exist across Britain.\n\n\"There is no reason why they would have to leave the country and they shouldn't.\"\n\nMr Corbyn also said a Labour government would not borrow money \"willy-nilly\".\n\n\"What we are going to do is deal with the worst aspects of what's happened in austerity, the worst aspects of poverty in Britain,\" he said.\n\nOn Labour's policy to compensate some of the women who lost out as a result of changes to the pension age, Mr Corbyn said the women were \"short-changed\" and a \"moral debt\" was owed.\n\nThe campaign for compensation has been led by the group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi).\n\nLabour says the policy would cost about £58bn, paid in instalments over five years.\n\nWhen pressed on where this money would come from, Mr Corbyn said it will be paid from government reserves and, if necessary, borrowing, \"over some years\".\n\nHe conceded that there were not sufficient funds in the government's reserves to cover the bill, but insisted the women deserved to be repaid.\n\n\"We will make sure they are compensated,\" he said.\n\nAndrew Neil will be speaking to other party leaders during the election campaign.", "James has written several books of poetry, including Poem of the Year and the satirical Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage Through the London Literary World\n\nTerminally ill author and critic Clive James says he has \"started saying goodbye\" through his poetry.\n\nThe 74-year-old, who has leukaemia and emphysema, has written of having \"lungs of dust\" in his most recent work, Sentenced To Life.\n\n\"Inevitably, you start saying goodbye,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"I like to think that I hit a sort of plangent tone. A sort of last post, a recessional tone. But the trick is not to overdo it.\"\n\nHe continued: \"As my friend PJ O'Rourke told me, 'you're going to have to soft pedal this death door stuff, Clive, because people are going to get impatient.'\"\n\nBorn in Australia, James moved to England in 1961, and rose to prominence as a literary critic and television columnist.\n\nHe later became well-known for his TV work, including Clive James On Television, in which he delivered sardonic commentary on international programming, such as the Japanese gameshow Endurance.\n\nThe writer and broadcaster interviewed Frank Sinatra for a BBC special in 1988\n\nA successful author and poet, he was nominated for last year's Costa prize for his translation of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy.\n\nHe was diagnosed with leukaemia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2010 and has been close to death on several occasions.\n\nBut, he told presenter James Naughtie, he maintains a positive outlook.\n\n\"It's important not to be morbid,\" he said.\n\n\"The secret there is to keep a sense of proportion. I'm at the hospital two or three times a week usually and... if you hang around a hospital long enough, you'll see things that'll remind you that you've had a lucky life. If you can see at all, you've had a lucky life.\n\nHe added: \"I'm getting near to what my friend [film director] Bruce Beresford calls the departure lounge - but I've got a version of it that doesn't hurt, so I may as well enjoy myself as long as I can.\"\n\nJames has continued to write, and said he was putting the finishing touches to a book of essays about poetry, and why it has exerted such a pull on him throughout his life.\n\nHe joked that if he was to \"drop off the twig\", the book could be published posthumously, \"which is good for the family finances\".\n\nAlthough his energy levels have dropped and his voice is more hesitant than before, James will make a rare stage appearance on Saturday 31 May at London's Australian and New Zealand literature festival.\n\nHe intends to recite passages from The Divine Comedy and a poem he wrote for Anzac Day. \"But,\" he added, \"I'll probably spend most of the time talking about Game Of Thrones\".\n\nJames said he missed Australia, and regretted he would never see Sydney again\n\nJames also admitted he was mourning for Australia, which he will never see again, as his lung condition means he cannot travel by air.\n\nHowever, he said: \"I have my memories of growing up in Australia, and those memories become clearer all the time. In fact, I'm writing about them all the time in my poetry.\n\n\"The mind is quite a wonderful thing. It can translate past experience into immediate experience. I practically hallucinate the sheer beauty of Sydney Harbour. It couldn't be more vivid in actuality than it is in my recollection.\n\n\"So, no, I don't despair although I do miss it.\"\n\nAs the wide-ranging interview concluded, James said he was \"content\", despite his recent setbacks.\n\n\"My disasters haven't been that bad, even the personal ones,\" he said. \"My family is still together.\n\n\"Even with my health, things could have been worse. It could have hurt, for example, and it didn't. So I haven't got all that much to be miserable about.\n\n\"I like to think I have a sunny nature, but a sunny nature doesn't last long if you're in real pain. I've just been lucky.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhodes opened his first restaurant in 1997\n\nGary Rhodes, the celebrity chef known for his spiky hair and passion for British cuisine, has died aged 59.\n\nAccording to a family statement, he died on Tuesday \"with his beloved wife Jennie by his side\".\n\n\"The Rhodes family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of beloved husband, father and brother, Gary Rhodes OBE,\" the statement read.\n\n\"The family would like to thank everyone for their support and ask for privacy during this time.\"\n\nBorn in south London in 1960, Rhodes grew up in Kent and trained at Thanet Technical College.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis first professional job was at the Amsterdam Hilton, where he began to experiment with nouvelle cuisine.\n\nHe opened his first restaurant in 1997 and was made an OBE in 2006.\n\nHis TV work included appearances on MasterChef, Hell's Kitchen and his own series Rhodes Around Britain.\n\nHe was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2008, in which he was partnered by professional dancer Karen Hardy.\n\nIn a message posted by her dance studio, Hardy said she was \"truly speechless and lost for words\".\n\nSpeaking on Strictly spin-off show, It Takes Two, presenter Zoe Ball paid tribute to the late star, saying \"our love and thoughts go out to Gary's family and friends\".\n\nThe chef had been living and working in the United Arab Emirates\n\nRhodes died in Dubai, where he ran two restaurants - Rhodes W1 and Rhodes Twenty10.\n\nJaideep Bhatia, PR director of the Grosvenor House Dubai, which housed Rhodes W1, said Rhodes was working \"until the day he died\".\n\nAccording to TV company Rock Oyster Media, Rhodes had been filming a new ITV series when he was \"taken ill very suddenly at home\".\n\n\"All at Rock Oyster Media and Goldfinch are devastated by this tragic news,\" it said in a statement.\n\nGordon Ramsay led the tributes to Rhodes, writing on Twitter: \"We lost a fantastic chef today in Gary Rhodes. He was a chef who put British Cuisine on the map. Sending all the love and prayers to your wife and kids. You'll be missed.\"\n\nWriting on Instagram, Jamie Oliver added: \"Gary was a fantastic chef and incredible ambassador for British cooking, he was a massive inspiration to me as a young chef. He re-imagined modern British cuisine with elegance and fun. rest in peace Chef.\"\n\nRhodes competed with Karen Hardy on Strictly Come Dancing in 2008\n\nGreat British Bake Off judge Prue Leith said: \"Gary was the first rock star of cooking, making it cool for boys to cook. Spiky haircut, tight trousers, full of energy. And a great chef.\"\n\nFellow chef James Martin wrote: \"Hugely influential in my life and the life of the British food scene. Gent and genius... RIP Gary, I can't believe you're gone.\"\n\nAinsley Harriott added: \"So sad to hear the news about Gary Rhodes. A true culinary icon and a lovely man. Sending my love and thoughts to his wife Jennie and their boys. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, Grosvenor House Dubai and Le Royal Meridien Beach Resort and Spa, where Rhodes worked, said: \"The team are devastated to hear of the tragic passing of Chef Gary Rhodes OBE.\n\n\"Not only has the industry lost a true culinary legend, we have also lost an inspirational human being and a very dear friend.\n\n\"No words can express our sadness at Gary's death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Rhodes family.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Chris Rhodes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Supt Novlett Robyn Williams (right) was on trial with her sister Jennifer Hodge and Dido Massivi (left)\n\nA senior police officer convicted of possessing a child abuse video on her phone has been told she faces \"immense\" career consequences.\n\nA court heard Novlett Robyn Williams failed to report her sister for sending the \"disturbing\" clip last year.\n\nWhile jurors at the Old Bailey accepted Williams did not view the material, they rejected her claim she was unaware of its presence on her phone.\n\nShe was ordered to carry out 200 hours' community service.\n\nWilliams had denied the charge, saying she \"zoned out\" when she received the video.\n\nThe jury was told she was one of 17 people to receive the 54-second clip via WhatsApp, and prosecutors had argued there was no way she could have missed its arrival in her inbox.\n\nThey said a response sent to her older sister Jennifer Hodge, saying \"please call\", was evidence that she wanted to discuss the content.\n\nJudge Richard Marks QC, sentencing, told the Old Bailey her \"grave error of judgement\" was likely to have \"immense\" career consequences.\n\nSupt Williams, pictured with London mayor Sadiq Khan, was highly commended for her work helping families affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster\n\nThe court heard Williams, who was commended for her work after the Grenfell Tower disaster, had an exemplary disciplinary record, was highly regarded for her work and was awarded the Queen's Policing Medal for distinguished service in 2003.\n\nJudge Marks told her it was \"completely tragic you found yourself in the position you now do\" considering her \"stellar career in the police force over 30 years\".\n\nShe was cleared of a charge of corrupt or improper exercise of police powers in failing to report the distribution of an image.\n\nAs the prosecuting barrister, Richard Wright QC, noted, this is a \"sad\" case for all those involved, particularly for Robyn Williams who could well lose the job she cherishes.\n\nShe was the only one to be prosecuted of the 17 people who received the child abuse video.\n\nTwo individuals reported it, but no action was taken against the other 14, raising concerns among her supporters that she's been unfairly targeted.\n\nDid it have to end up in a trial at the Old Bailey? Or could the superintendent have been dealt with through internal misconduct procedures, given her 36 years' distinguished service?\n\nThere is also a wider question for all of us about our legal responsibilities when we're sent material on social media that we haven't asked for.\n\nThis case has demonstrated the risks of not reporting and deleting footage that contains illegal content.\n\nWilliams' sister Jennifer Hodge, 56, of Brent, was ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service having been found guilty of distributing an indecent image of a child.\n\nThe social worker had denied sending the video, which she received from her partner and allegedly depicted a young girl performing a sex act on a man.\n\nHer barrister Andrea Brown also told the court the conviction had \"destroyed her relationship\" with her police officer sister, who is her only immediate family member.\n\nSupt Novlett Robyn Williams had denied all the charges\n\nHodge's partner Dido Massivi, 61, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment suspended for two years as well as 200 hours of community service.\n\nThe bus driver had denied two counts of distributing indecent photos and one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image portraying a person having sex with a horse.\n\nProsecutors said there was no suggestion the defendants derived any sexual gratification from the images but all three will be placed on the sex offenders' register - Hodge and Williams for five years, and Massivi for 10.\n\nBoth Hodge and Massivi were also sacked from their jobs following their arrest, the court heard.\n\nScotland Yard said Williams remains on restricted duties but that would be \"reviewed now criminal matters are complete\".\n\nMet Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matthew Horne said: \"The Independent Office for Police Conduct is carrying out an independent misconduct investigation into the actions of Supt Williams and we await the outcome.\"\n\nThe National Black Police Association said it was \"stunned and shocked\" by the 54-year-old's sentence, calling it \"institutional racism\".\n\n\"She receives this perverse outcome despite being the only one of 17 recipients of this vile video who did not view it\", it said.\n\nBut Internet Watch Foundation, a UK charity responsible for finding and removing online child sexual abuse, described the officer's conviction as \"a salutary reminder of what people should do in these situations if they stumble across images or videos of child sexual abuse\".\n\nThe Police Superintendents' Association said it had \"supported Supt Williams throughout this process and will continue to do so as her legal team considers an appeal\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US couple is offering to camp out all night and hold places in the shopping queue for those who want to splurge on Black Friday deals.\n\n\"My husband has great ways of thinking when it comes to money,\" says Alexis Granados, of her partner Steven Velasquez.\n\nHe recently lost his job as a scale operator for a recycling company.\n\nThe pair are charging $50 (£38) each to wait outside any store in Upland, California, the night before the Black Friday sales.\n\nBeing paid to queue is not new - but part of a growing phenomenon within what is commonly known as the gig economy.\n\nOn Task Rabbit and Bidvine, UK sites that advertise services from the self-employed, people can earn between £15 and £20 a time.\n\nMeanwhile, Placer, an app available in the US has been created solely to cater for people who are too busy to queue and willing to pay others to do it for them.\n\nAn estimated 165.3 million people are expected to hit the shops in the US between Friday and Monday, the National Retail Federation says.\n\nThe shopping bonanza, which originated in America, falls on the Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday - when workers in the US usually have the day off.\n\nAnd the California-based Granados couple say the work will help them to make ends meet. They are looking for more traditional jobs, but in the meantime say they're happy to pick up odd jobs where they can.\n\nNeither have done anything like this before, but she says \"I'm pretty sure it won't be our last time. It's actually easy money when you think about it\".\n\nThe couple have a car, where they can warm up during their queuing time.\n\nThey are advertising their queuing service on social media and several people have expressed an interest. The duo guarantee a good place in the queue and if their customer is not satisfied they say they will not charge for the service.\n\n\"We used to be homeless, so it is not really a pain for us,\" says Ms Granados, saying the money means a lot to them.\n\nCurrently the young couple, who are in their 20s, have a housing voucher that helped them get off the street. \"It was actually a stepping stone for us and helped us grow as adults,\" says Ms Granados.\n\nHousing assistance in the US is offered to people with incomes under a certain threshold who need help finding a place to live.\n\nWith a housing voucher, people can secure a place in social housing.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "David Last's family described him as an \"experienced pilot\"\n\nOfficers from a specialist underwater search team are looking for a missing pilot after the plane he was flying disappeared off the Welsh coast.\n\nProf David Last, 79, has not been seen since the light aircraft he was flying from Caernarfon Airport to the Great Orme, Llandudno, disappeared on Monday.\n\nAn HM Coastguard search has been suspended but a specialist North Wales Police team is searching underwater off Puffin Island, Anglesey.\n\nNo passengers were onboard the plane.\n\nJohn Pottle, director of the Royal Institute of Navigation, said: \"Really, if I was to put it into one sentence, he was a globally respected and much loved educator and navigator.\n\n\"He really was such a lovely person to be around.\"\n\nCoastguard volunteers have been searching the coast at Penmon\n\nOn Tuesday, Prof Last's family released a statement describing him as an \"experienced pilot and a respected figure in the worldwide navigation community\".\n\nThey added: \"We are all heartbroken\".\n\nProf Last, a consultant engineer and expert witness in radio navigation and communications systems, and a professor emeritus at Bangor University, joined the Royal Institute of Navigation in 1972.\n\nDavid Last was flying this Cessna Skyhawk when he disappeared\n\nHM Coastguard received a call for assistance shortly before 12:50 GMT on Monday.\n\nA spokesman said a search was launched after a report an aircraft had disappeared from radar contact, two miles north-east of Penmon, Anglesey.\n\nRescue teams from Llandudno, Bangor, Penmon, Moelfre and Cemaes, as well as the HM Coastguard aircraft searched the area, along with North Wales Police.\n\nThe search resumed on Tuesday morning near Puffin Island, off Anglesey, but was called off on Tuesday afternoon due to poor weather and on Wednesday was \"suspended pending new information\".\n\nThe search has focused on an area around Puffin Island, off the east coast of Anglesey", "Clive James says he is now \"a recluse\" after several years of serious illness.\n\nThe Australian writer and broadcaster was diagnosed with leukaemia, kidney failure and lung disease in 2010.\n\n\"I've been really ill for two-and-a-half years,\" said the 72-year-old. \"I'm getting near the end. I'm a man who is approaching his terminus.\"\n\nYet James's comments to BBC Radio 4's Meeting Myself Coming Back have since been played down by his spokeswoman, who said he was \"in reasonable shape\".\n\nIn the interview, to be broadcast in full on Saturday, James spoke at length about his health problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clive James: 'I'm getting near the end'\n\n\"I was diagnosed with leukaemia then I had COPD - which is a fancy name for emphysema - and my immune system packed up,\" he said. \"And that's just the start.\n\n\"I almost died four times and I swore to myself if I can just get through this winter, I'd feel better.\n\n\"And I got through the winter and here it is a lovely sunny day and guess what, I don't feel better.\"\n\nClive James moved to England in 1961, and rose to prominence as a literary critic and television columnist.\n\nHe later became well-known for his TV work, including Clive James On Television and his commentary on programmes such as the Japanese gameshow Endurance.\n\n\"My tragedy now is that I'm so ill I can't get out so I'm a bit of a recluse,\" he said.\n\n\"I keep thinking of things I might have done better and remember the good times of course.\n\n\"But mainly I remember the errors. It's my nature, it makes me almost ­impossible to live and work with.\"\n\nJames is married to academic Prue Shaw, with whom he has two children.\n\nThe broadcaster says he is now worried he may never get to see his home country again.\n\n\"I've been so sick I'm not allowed to fly.\n\n\"You couldn't get enough oxygen aboard a plane to get me to Sydney. I used to be in Australia for five or six times a year but now I can't go.\n\n\"The wistfulness is really building up and I'm facing the possibility I might never see Sydney again.\"\n\nFollowing the release of material from the programme, James's representative said the interview had \"sounded much less doom-laden than it does when transcribed\".\n\n\"Clive is in fact in reasonable shape and is looking forward to years of working, writing his books and his column for the [Daily] Telegraph.\"\n\nMeeting Myself Coming Back , in which Clive James looks back across his entire career, will be broadcast on Saturday 23 June at 20:00 BST on BBC Radio 4.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For any prime minister, handling a president like Donald Trump is like trying to hold on to a Ming vase walking across a recently polished, slippery parquet floor.\n\nHe's a leader who glories in the unpredictable, who seems to wake up every morning wondering what controversy he can provoke, what headlines he can create.\n\nHis reason for being is therefore from the start in contrast with the stiff choreography of a state visit.\n\nBut No 10 will be relieved that the formalities with the PM today were free of mishap. And, as Theresa May readies herself for the exit, Donald Trump, who has definitely embarrassed her in the past, didn't repeat that habit today.\n\nInstead, he spoke warmly of her, suggesting that history may judge her much more kindly than the manner of her departure suggests.\n\nBut some of the most notable remarks were not related to the prime minister in any case, but to what's next.\n\nWhether you are overjoyed about Theresa May leaving or not, it is telling that the three names Donald Trump mentioned immediately when asked about the next leader were Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, and Michael Gove, categorising them deliberately or not as the three most likely candidates to win the keys to No 10.\n\nAll three have been invited to meet Donald Trump. You wouldn't expect the US president to invite the football team of candidates for the job to spend time with him on this visit. But it's notable that neither Sajid Javid nor Matt Hancock - both cabinet contenders - received invites to talk or to meet. Nor did one of the other Brexiteer frontrunners, Dominic Raab.\n\nOf course, smart candidates could even turn the lack of invitation to their advantage. Donald Trump won't of course have a say in this race and he is such a Marmite politician that chumming up to him is not necessarily an advantage for any of the wannabes.\n\nBut the invite list does tell us something about the state of the race right now. And in the next 24 hours we'll see whom, beyond Nigel Farage, the president actually meets one-on-one.\n\nThe other striking note was not about Theresa May either, even though, as her last big appearance alongside a foreign leader it was, in a way, a very grand leaving do. Instead, it was the Labour leader who featured.\n\nIt's not exactly surprising that the two men would not be bosom buddies. Politically they have a greater distance between them than the width of the Atlantic.\n\nMr Trump revealed not just (no real surprise) that he doesn't think much of Jeremy Corbyn, apt when Jeremy Corbyn doesn't think much of him either. He also revealed that Mr Corbyn had asked him to meet and that he, after considering his request, had decided not to do so.\n\nThe Labour leader has always said that he is interested in dialogue. But his position does appear rather curious.\n\nMr Corbyn chose very publicly not to attend the dinner for Mr Trump last night at the Queen's invitiation. He then led - very publicly - the protests against the president today. Yet we now know that he had actually asked for a meeting of his own, but was then rebuffed.\n\nDiplomacy, or the lack of it, can be a complicated business. We've learnt that from observing Donald Trump and Theresa May over the last few years.\n\nBut those pitfalls won't disappear when the prime minister does. Now Jeremy Corbyn and the contenders for the Tory crown are all too aware of that.", "There have been calls for politicians to dial down the rhetoric in the health debate and to avoid \"weaponising\" the NHS.\n\nThe subject has been prominent in the election campaign and there is a widespread interest in understanding what is actually happening across the health service.\n\nPolitical claims, counter-claims and rows over statistics don't always help that understanding. Some voters might feel they would like to hear from clinicians and other frontline staff.\n\nBut that won't be possible until after polling day because of a Cabinet Office policy known as \"purdah\"\n\nIt prevents civil servants from making any form of statement during general election campaigns which might be construed as political or likely to influence public debate.\n\nThe principle is to ensure that their impartiality is not called into question.\n\nAs usual, that applies to the health service. NHS England put out guidance to local health leaders in early November.\n\nIt includes a reminder that \"democratic debate between candidates and parties should not be overshadowed by public controversy originating from NHS bodies themselves\".\n\nBecause health is a devolved issue and there are no elections for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, there are no purdah rules affecting the NHS there. Northern Ireland follows similar guidelines to England.\n\nThe purdah policy has led to certain policy papers and publications being delayed till after the election.\n\nThis includes an annual review of maternity care by independent experts for NHS England (known as the MBRRACE report).\n\nThe charity Birthrights said the report was vitally important to learn lessons on preventing future maternal deaths.\n\nBut Prof Stephen Powis, NHS medical director, said: \"Actually, the findings of this report were presented to clinicians earlier this month to ensure that any lessons are learned. Rules on NHS political impartiality are unchanged and have always applied to all public bodies at election time.\"\n\nPurdah has in practice meant that, with only a tiny number of exceptions, no health leader or member of clinical staff in England has given any interview or made any public comment since the start of the campaign.\n\nThat might not seem unreasonable, but when the latest performance figures (covering September and October) were published by NHS England in mid-November, the absence of health service reaction was painfully obvious.\n\nPerformance across the key targets, which were missed yet again, was the worst since modern records began.\n\nPoliticians used the air time to trade blows on what or who was to blame but there was no analysis from staff and management in the NHS. Media access to hospitals was not possible.\n\nNHS sources indicated that individuals were free to speak, though not on behalf of their NHS employers or trusts.\n\nVoters in England can at least use those recent figures to scrutinise the performance of their local hospital trust against key targets for cancer care, A&E waiting times and waits for routine surgery.\n\nBut they might well want to know how, both locally and nationally, the NHS has been faring as winter has begun to set in during November.\n\nThe next opportunity would have been on Thursday 12 December, when the next set of official NHS England statistics were due.\n\nIt was also the day when the more detailed weekly winter updates were set to begin.\n\nBut 12 December is polling day - and those two data publications have now been postponed until the 13th.\n\nAt the time of the last general election, the guidance from the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) was that \"statistical bulletins of significant public interest\" should not be published on national polling days.\n\nBut it was permissible for these statistics to be brought forward 24 hours or postponed till the day after polling day.\n\nPerceiving some confusion over how this should be interpreted, the UKSA then consulted on whether the policy should be clarified and last year published new guidelines requiring a \"blanket approach\".\n\nHenceforth, all official statistics pre- announced for a date which was then designated as polling day should be delayed until the next day.\n\nWaiting times at A&E are one of the key NHS targets\n\nThe BBC's code of practice ensuring fairness between candidates requires no campaign coverage on polling day, including subjects which have been at issue in preceding weeks and other controversial matters.\n\nThe broadcast regulator Ofcom states that there should be no \"discussion and analysis of election issues\" while polling stations are open.\n\nThis would imply no coverage of NHS performance figures after a campaign when health has been a hotly debated topic.\n\nBut just because the broadcasters have to steer clear of contentious issues while the UK goes to the polls, does the public have to be barred access to official statistics?\n\nIf there are updated performance figures available for the NHS at a time of great stress in the service why should voters not have the right to look at them and reach their own conclusions?\n\nThe Times newspaper has reported that more than two dozen marginal constituencies have A&E departments which are amongst the worst performing in England.\n\nPerhaps the public in those seats might like to check the latest situation on December 12th rather than waiting till after the polls have closed.\n\nThe UKSA itself is not holding back because of purdah and has let it be known it will challenge contentious claims made by politicians and in manifestos. It has already intervened over statements made on education in England and youth unemployment in Scotland.\n\nThe UKSA has shown itself to be open-minded and prepared to review guidelines. Around 25 sets of official statistics have been postponed from polling day. There may be a case for revisiting the issue after this campaign.\n\nThe need to avoid controversy and political debate on polling day has to be set against the public's right to know. That is indeed a tricky balancing act.", "Allegations of anti-Semitism have rarely been far from the Labour Party since Jeremy Corbyn has been in charge.\n\nThose close to him say again and again that it is a source of pain and frustration to him, a man who has prided himself on campaigning against racism his whole political life.\n\nFigures within the party are adamant that while they were too slow initially to realise the scale of what was brewing, they have now speeded up the system of complaints and are doing as much as is humanly possible to rid the party of the problem.\n\nThey point, too, to the many complaints that have been made about the Tories' attitude to Islamophobia, and the calls from the Muslim Council to hold a full investigation into what is going on there, just as the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is undertaking a formal inquiry into the Labour Party.\n\nThe prime minister is also under pressure to launch his party's own inquiry into racism against Muslims, which he promised to do during his leadership bid, but has now reneged on, committing only to a general inquiry into all forms of abuse and prejudice.\n\nBut Labour may struggle to change the subject. That is not just because of the strength of the criticisms from the Chief Rabbi.\n\nThere are, of course, Jews who back the Labour leader and the party too. But Jeremy Corbyn's refusal to apologise for what has happened may underline the fear that some in his own party hold that he is somehow blind to some of the criticism.\n\nThere was anger today that one of the candidates who sat on the platform alongside him had shared material online that talked of \"Zionist masters\", and is now standing to be a Labour MP, although she had apologised for what happened.\n\nAnother candidate on the stage defended Ken Livingstone years ago and questioned the gravity of the party's issue with anti-Semitism last year.\n\nLord Falconer, the Labour peer who was helping the party get to the bottom of what has been happening, said it was \"terrible\" and \"showed the most appalling insensitivity\".\n\nOne of his shadow team, Nia Griffith, said on Tuesday night that the party should say sorry to Jewish Labour colleagues and to the wider community, and that she was \"very ashamed\" of what had happened.\n\nBut in the interview with Andrew Neil, the Labour leader stuck resolutely to his formula that he abhors all forms of racism. He visibly means that.\n\nYet many people watching may have felt it uncomfortable that a simple apology seemed to stick in his throat. You can watch the interview on the BBC iPlayer here.\n\nThe other problem for the Labour Party is that the action it says that it has taken firmly, and now speedily, has not brought a resolution.\n\nLabour has been struggling with this for more than three years. That is despite repeated and serious promises to sort it out.\n\nInevitably, that raises questions, as we are about to enter the final fortnight of this campaign, about how capable the leadership is of getting to grips with tricky and sensitive issues.", "The 10-year-old deer was found dead with various items inside its stomach\n\nA wild deer which died at a national park in northern Thailand was found to have 7kg (15 lbs) of rubbish inside its stomach, say officials.\n\nMen's underwear, plastic bags, instant coffee sachets and parts of plastic rope were among the things found inside the male deer's stomach.\n\nA Khun Sathan National Park official said the deer had been eating plastic for a \"long time\" before it died.\n\nEarlier this year, a baby dugong in Thailand died after eating plastic.\n\nMariam the dugong won hearts in Thailand after photos of her rescue went viral. But she died just months after, with an autopsy showing that plastic had caused obstructions in her stomach.\n\nOn 25 November, an officer who was on patrol found the 10-year-old male deer in the Khun Sathan National Park in the northern district of Na Noi.\n\nAlso found in its stomach were rubber gloves, instant noodles and a small towel.\n\n\"We believed it had been eating those plastics for a long time before it died,\" Kriangsak Thanompun, a director at the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department told BBC News Thai.\n\n\"Officials [believe] the plastics had blocked up its alimentary canal [but a] further investigation [will be] launched.\"\n\nSome 7kg of rubbish was found inside the deer\n\nPlastic bags and food waste were among the items found\n\nOn social media, many criticised park-goers who had littered.\n\n\"When you go into a national park, take your rubbish back. Have some responsibility,\" one comment on Facebook said.\n\nAnother said it would be hard to get people to pick up after themselves.\n\n\"This is something that has to be taught and implemented since a young age. By the time they are adults, it is hard [to change],\" another said.\n\nAccording to Mr Kriangsak, a \"three-phase plan\" would be put in place, aimed at getting local people to collect plastics and other rubbish in the national park area.\n\nThe plan will also look into setting up a committee to deal with waste management and eventually, aim to educate the public on litter prevention.\n\nEnvironmental group Greenpeace says that some 75 billion pieces of plastic bags are thrown away each year in Thailand.\n\nThe country's environment minister had in September said that major retailers in Thailand would stop providing single-use plastic bags from January 2020 on.", "If you had a bad dream last night, it might have a positive benefit - because research suggests being scared while asleep helps to control fear during the waking hours.\n\nUniversity researchers in Switzerland and the United States examined how the brain responded to types of dream.\n\nThey found bad dreams improved the effectiveness of the brain in reacting to frightening experiences when awake.\n\nBut really terrifying nightmares were found to have a negative impact.\n\nThe neuroscientists, from the University of Geneva, the University Hospitals of Geneva in Switzerland and the University of Wisconsin in the US, have suggested that dreams could be used as a form of therapy for anxiety disorders.\n\nThe study looked at whether bad dreams - which are moderately frightening rather than excessively traumatic - might serve a useful purpose.\n\nWith more than 250 electrodes attached to 18 subjects - and with another 89 people keeping diaries of their sleeping and dreaming - the researchers examined how the emotions experienced during dreams were connected with feelings when awake.\n\nThe findings, published in Human Brain Mapping, showed that bad dreams helped people to \"react better to frightening situations\".\n\nWhen someone woke after a bad dream, the area of the brain that controlled their response to fear was found to be more effective.\n\nThis suggested that bad dreams were a way of preparing people for fear in their waking lives.\n\nThe greater the frequency of frightening dreams, the researchers found a higher level of activity in the area of the brain that manages fear.\n\n\"We were particularly interested in fear. What areas of our brain are activated when we're having bad dreams?\" said Lampros Perogamvros, a researcher in the Sleep and Cognition Laboratory at the University of Geneva.\n\nThe researchers said they found a \"very strong link between the emotions we feel in both sleep and wakefulness\", with bad dreams being a way of simulating frightening situations as a rehearsal for such experiences when awake.\n\n\"Dreams may be considered as a real training for our future reactions and may potentially prepare us to face real life dangers,\" said Mr Perogamvros.\n\nBut there was a limit to how frightening a dream could be - because once a dream became a very upsetting nightmare the benefits were lost and instead it was likely to mean disrupted sleep and a \"negative impact\" that continued after waking.\n\n\"If a certain threshold of fear is exceeded in a dream, it loses its beneficial role as an emotional regulator,\" said Mr Perogamvros.\n• None Having more sleep before holiday 'stops arguments'", "An urgent need to go to the loo prompts most visits to a motorway service station, rather than any particular desire to stop and shop.\n\nBut the price drivers and their families pay if they then choose to stock up on snacks has been laid bare by mystery shoppers.\n\nA bottle of water costs four times more than in a supermarket, the snapshot of prices by insurer Admiral suggests.\n\nNo wonder value for money at services scored poorly in a recent driver poll.\n\nOnly 59% of visitors rated food and drink as good value for money, compared with a general satisfaction rate of the service station experience in England of 90%, according to lobby group Transport Focus.\n\nOperators point out that these sites can be expensive to run, and visitors can park and use the facilities for free, without any obligation to buy anything.\n\nYet, many drivers complain that they have little choice but to pay high prices, as service stations are generally the only option on the country's motorways.\n\nThe mystery shop by Admiral researchers is only a snapshot of 21 of the UK's service stations during October, out of more than 100 in the UK. Prices can change and promotions can easily bring down prices.\n\nFamilies will be planning motorway trips to visit relatives this Christmas, and may be more conscious of prices at this already-expensive time of the year.\n\nSo they may choose to fill water bottles for free, rather than pay up to £2.29 for a 500ml bottle of water, as was found by the mystery shoppers at Beaconsfield Services on the M40. The operator, Extra Motorway Services, has not responded to a request for comment.\n\nWater bottles can be refilled at Beaconsfield, but shoppers found a £2.29 bottle\n\nAcross all 21 service stations the average price for water was £1.32 more expensive than a 44p bottle that could be found in a supermarket - so four times the cost.\n\nClare Egan, head of motor product at Admiral, said: \"We all expect to pay a little more for convenience, [but] grabbing the essentials from home or at least a supermarket before setting off could result in some big savings on the overall cost of your journey.\n\n\"Given the availability of free water refills at all of the service stations and the push to be plastic-free, motorists don't need to spend anything on bottled water.\"\n\nThe operator of the services at Durham said higher prices could be explained\n\nThe full basket of drinks and snacks price-tested by researchers also included a cheese sandwich, a cold sausage roll, a packet of ready salted crisps, a packet of wine gums, a bar of chocolate, and a bottle of Coke.\n\nRoadchef's Durham services on the A1(M) came out most expensive of the 21 tested. The total cost was nearly £10 more expensive than a supermarket best price, researchers said.\n\nA spokesman for Roadchef said that, unlike the vast majority of its outlets, Durham had to buy in sandwiches rather than making them on site. He said most other items were uniformly priced across sites, competitive against others, and there was a range of choices for customers.\n\n\"Like all our sites Durham resembles a mini high street, and offers premium and value options depending on our customers' preferences,\" he said.\n\nHe added that there were greater overheads in running service stations, which were required to be open for 24 hours every day, unlike many town and city centre retailers. They also faced costs to maintain land and, at times, water treatment works.\n\nThe mystery shop also revealed big differences between service stations on the cost of petrol, with unleaded prices varying by 20p a litre.\n\nThe tired motorist might also be surprised to discover that the price of a regular latte varied by £2 depending on which service station they stopped at. Such price differentials for the nation's favourite bought hot drink can also be found on the High Street, so it is an issue not only found on the motorway.\n\nIn July, Transport Focus published the results of its customer survey covering all of England's service stations. It found a generally high level of satisfaction, with Roadchef's Norton Canes services on the M6 toll coming out on top. Yet, it too raised the issue of prices.\n\n\"Motorway users tell us they have a good experience when visiting service areas, but it's clear that many do not feel the experience is good value for money,\" said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.", "Paul Smith was on the phone to his mother when he was targeted\n\nA mother was on the phone to her son when he was attacked by a stranger who stabbed him to death with a pair of scissors, a court has heard.\n\nIT analyst Paul Smith, 28, was attacked by George McAdam near Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh in May.\n\nA court heard McAdam had only been freed from prison two weeks earlier.\n\nProsecutors accepted his not guilty plea on the basis he \"lacked criminal responsibility\" at the time of the attack due to a mental disorder.\n\nMcAdam was formally acquitted at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nThe court heard Mr Smith had been returning to work at Edinburgh University when he was attacked by McAdam and stabbed 32 times.\n\nProsecutor Ashley Edwards QC said: \"He was still chatting to his mother by telephone.\n\n\"She then describes hearing 'a horrific scream'. She heard her son saying: 'Help me... need police, need police.\"\n\nMargaret immediately yelled to her husband Ian to dial 999.\n\nBut Mr Smith did not survive the attack, which happened close to Edinburgh Castle.\n\nPolice sealed off the scene in Johnston Terrace after the attack in May\n\nThe court heard McAdam, 40, initially fled the scene but was rugby tackled by a passer-by in a nearby car park.\n\nMcAdam, who had faced a murder charge, will remain at the State Hospital at Carstairs.\n\nThe court heard he had been sleeping rough in Edinburgh at the time.\n\nMcAdam had a lengthy list of convictions in Scotland and England, including for possession of a knife and assault.\n\nHe had been freed from HMP Edinburgh on 15 May, just over a fortnight before the fatal attack.\n\nMr Smith, of Balerno, was attacked at about 13:45 on 30 May, after visiting a KFC restaurant for lunch.\n\nPaul Smith was returning to his work in Edinburgh at the time of the attack\n\nProsecutor, Ms Edwards told the court: \"His mum immediately told her husband to call police as their son needed help.\n\n\"She stayed on the phone to her son.\"\n\nThe court heard McAdam had grabbed Mr Smith, who tried to defend himself.\n\nMs Edwards said: \"McAdam repeatedly stabbed him in the chest area.\n\n\"Paul Smith shouted 'he's stabbed me' and fell to the ground.\"\n\nMcAdam then dragged Mr Smith down a steep embankment while continuing the attack.\n\nThe court heard he knelt beside his victim and struck him multiple times on the body and neck.\n\nMembers of the public heard Mr Smith's cries for help but the court was told McAdam appeared \"oblivious\" to a crowd that was gathering.\n\nMcAdam eventually ran off but was tracked to a nearby NCP car park.\n\nPolice and paramedics spent more than 30 minutes trying to save Mr Smith, but Ms Edwards added: \"His injuries would not have been survivable even with medical intervention.\"\n\nThe court heard McAdam was later seen by psychiatrists and was found to be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.\n\nLord Turnbull ordered him to remain at Carstairs on an interim compulsion order.\n\nThe case will call again in February.", "Twitter said the accounts would start being deactivated from 11 December\n\nTwitter will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for more than six months, unless they log in before an 11 December deadline.\n\nThe cull will include users who stopped posting to the site because they died - unless someone with that person's account details is able to log-in.\n\nIt is the first time Twitter has removed inactive accounts on such a large scale.\n\nThe site said it was because users who do not log-in were unable to agree to its updated privacy policies.\n\nA spokeswoman also said it would improve credibility by removing dormant accounts from people's follower counts, something which may give a user an undue sense of importance. The first batch of deleted accounts will involve those registered outside of the US.\n\nThe firm bases inactivity on whether or not a person has logged in at least once in the past six months. Twitter said the effort is not, as had been suggested by some users on the network, an attempt to free up usernames.\n\nThat said, previously unavailable usernames will start coming up for grabs after the 11 December cut-off - though Twitter said it would be a gradual process, beginning with users outside of the US.\n\nIn future, the firm said it would also look at accounts where people have logged in but don't \"do anything\" on the platform. A spokeswoman would not elaborate, other to say that the firm uses many signals to determine genuine human users - not just whether they interact with, or post, tweets.\n\nThe site has sent out emails to users of accounts that will be affected by the deletions. The firm would not say how many current accounts fit the criteria, although it is expected to be in the many millions. It will send out more notice closures closer to the deadline.\n\nThe cull will not affect Twitter's reported user numbers, as the firm bases its usage level only on users who log-in at least once a day. According to its latest earnings report, from September, Twitter has 145m \"monetisable\" daily active users (users who come into contact with Twitter's advertising on a daily basis).\n\n\"As part of our commitment to serve the public conversation, we’re working to clean up inactive accounts to present more accurate, credible information people can trust across Twitter,\" the firm said about the upcoming account removals.\n\n\"Part of this effort is encouraging people to actively log-in and use Twitter when they register an account, as stated in our inactive accounts policy.”\n\nIt means users who have died will have their accounts removed unless a loved one or other person is already in possession of their log-in details, and is able to sign in and accept Twitter's latest privacy policy.\n\nTwitter's current policy offers only deactivation of a dead person's account once a trusted third-party - a parent, for example - has proven their identity. However, the policy states that in no circumstances would Twitter grant access to the account, which would prevent deletion.\n\nThe firm does not, unlike Facebook, offer a \"memorialisation\" option that freezes the account in place and disallows new interactions - a measure to prevent abuse.\n\nSince inactivity is based on logging in, not posting, bot accounts - such as those which automatically tweet news or alerts - would also come under the cull if the account owners do not log-in before the December deadline. So too would accounts set up specifically as an archive, such as @POTUS44, a collection of all the tweets made by President Barack Obama while in office.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Miller was knighted in 2002 for services to music and the arts\n\nSir Jonathan Miller, the distinguished theatre and opera director who famously starred in the Beyond the Fringe satirical revue, has died aged 85.\n\nIn a statement, his family said he had died \"peacefully at home... following a long battle with Alzheimer's\".\n\nA man of many parts, Miller was also an author, a photographer, a sculptor, a broadcaster and a qualified doctor.\n\nBorn in London in 1934, Miller studied medicine at Cambridge before embarking on a career in the arts.\n\nThe catalyst was Beyond the Fringe, in which he appeared with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.\n\nThe groundbreaking revue premiered at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival before transferring to the West End and Broadway.\n\nMiller (far right) appeared in Beyond the Fringe with Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore\n\nIts success led to Miller becoming editor and presenter of BBC arts programme Monitor and a director of plays at the National Theatre.\n\nHis productions included a modern-dress staging of The Merchant of Venice, with Laurence Olivier as Shylock.\n\nHe went on to direct six of the BBC's 1980s Shakespeare productions, among them The Taming of the Shrew with John Cleese and Othello with Anthony Hopkins.\n\nHe served as artistic director of London's Old Vic theatre from 1987-90. Despite being unable to read music, he also directed operas for the ENO, Glyndebourne and the Met in New York. Who's Who listed his only recreation as \"deep sleep\".\n\nIn a tribute, the Royal Opera House's director of opera Oliver Mears said Miller was \"one of the most important figures in British theatre and opera of the past half century\".\n\nHe continued: \"Combining a supreme intellect with a consistently irreverent perspective, formed from his experiences in both comedy and medicine, Miller shone a unique light on our art form.\n\n\"His intolerance of inauthenticity and laziness on stage was matched by the urgency and rigour of his search for the composer's vision, historical accuracy and psychological truth - resulting in so many productions which have stood the test of time.\"\n\nThe English National Opera added on Twitter: \"His contribution to comedy, theatre and ENO in particular was immeasurable. For over four decades Jonathan created some of ENO's most celebrated and popular opera productions.\"\n\nAnd the National Theatre described him as \"a legendary figure across theatre and opera\".\n\nMiller, who was knighted in 2002 for services to music and the arts, was witty and erudite but could be cantankerous.\n\n\"I've got this, I think, unjustified reputation for being grumpy,\" he once said, insisting he only objected to \"people who are 30 years younger than I am and know 100% less than I do\".\n\nTony Hall, the BBC's director general, said Miller was \"a creative genius whose imagination knew no bounds... he brought arts and culture to millions on the BBC\".\n\nMonty Python star Eric Idle paid tribute to \"the beloved hilarious genius Jonathan Miller\", adding that Miller had \"dramatically changed my life three times\".\n\nHe was also remembered by BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Petroc Trelawny as \"a polymath and cultural giant\" whose \"contribution to British cultural life was as varied as it was vast\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Russia has paid tribute to a former Soviet intelligence officer it credits with uncovering a Nazi plot to kill the Allied leaders Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt during World War Two.\n\nGoar Vartanyan died on Monday at the age of 93. She was married to Soviet spy Gevork Vartanian, who died in 2012.\n\nWithout the pair \"the history of our world could have been different\", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.\n\n\"These are people who left their mark on the history of mankind.\"\n\nBorn in what was then Soviet Armenia in 1926, Vartanyan moved to Iran in the 1930s. At 16 she joined an anti-fascist group led by her future husband, who was already working as a spy. They allegedly exposed hundreds of Nazi agents in the country.\n\nThe group was given responsibility for securing a 1943 conference in the Iranian capital, Tehran, where the British, Soviet and American leaders met to discuss their strategy for fighting the war.\n\nJosef Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Tehran conference\n\nThe group are said to have uncovered a plot - known as Operation Long Jump - to kill the \"Big Three\" Allied leaders and arrested the would-be Nazi assassins.\n\nThe plot was allegedly commanded by the infamous Austrian-born Nazi commando Otto Skorzeny but was foiled after transmissions were intercepted by Soviet operatives.\n\nHowever, Skorzeny later wrote in his memoirs that the plot never existed.\n\nGoar and Gevork Vartanyan moved to the Soviet Union in 1951 and later worked together as spies posted overseas under deep cover - as part of the so-called \"illegals\" programme - from 1956 to 1986, Russia's SVR foreign intelligence agency said. Her code name was Anita and his Anri.\n\nMr Peskov, spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, said Russia's leader - a former intelligence agent - knew the pair well.\n\n\"He is a Hero of the Soviet Union! She is the heroine of all his achievements! He passed away first. She passed away today,\" the SVR said in a statement.", "The Metro leads on the YouGov poll which claims the Conservatives will win a majority of 68 seats in the general election Image caption: The Metro leads on the YouGov poll which claims the Conservatives will win a majority of 68 seats in the general election\n\nThe Times says Mr Johnson is on course for a comfortable majority as a result of making gains at Labour's expense - based on the YouGov poll Image caption: The Times says Mr Johnson is on course for a comfortable majority as a result of making gains at Labour's expense - based on the YouGov poll\n\nThe FT reports a warning from the Resolution Foundation - that a new Conservative or Labour government would be likely to break its budgetary rules. Image caption: The FT reports a warning from the Resolution Foundation - that a new Conservative or Labour government would be likely to break its budgetary rules.\n\nThe Guardian leads on the story we've been bringing you reaction to all day - a dossier released by the Labour Party which, it claims, is \"proof\" the Tories want to \"sell\" the NHS in a US-UK trade deal. Image caption: The Guardian leads on the story we've been bringing you reaction to all day - a dossier released by the Labour Party which, it claims, is \"proof\" the Tories want to \"sell\" the NHS in a US-UK trade deal.\n\nAlthough different in style, the Mirror's front page isn't too different from the Guardian's in sentiment Image caption: Although different in style, the Mirror's front page isn't too different from the Guardian's in sentiment\n\nRefraining from a focus on the YouGov poll, the Telegraph's main story is Dominic Cummings' warning that the election is too close to call Image caption: Refraining from a focus on the YouGov poll, the Telegraph's main story is Dominic Cummings' warning that the election is too close to call", "The hosts of The Receipts podcast have offered Electioncast listeners advice on how to handle a \"divorce after 40 years\".\n\nTolly T, Audrey and Milena Sanchez were talking to the BBC's Adam Fleming and Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nListen to the full Electioncast episode now on BBC Sounds.", "(l-r) Gavin Barwell, Esther McVey and Nick Clegg have lost their seats in past general elections. Esther McVey regained her seat in 2017.\n\nNo matter how many opinion polls you run ahead of a general election, you can never know the result until those ballot papers are counted.\n\nAnd it is candidates in the marginal seats who will be facing the biggest pressure on polling night.\n\nPerhaps even more stress will be piled on the big names who don't want to hit the headlines for losing their place in the Commons.\n\nNo-one wants a \"moment\" named after them, but which big guns are facing possible defeat on 12 December?\n\nThe traditional definition of a marginal seat is a constituency where the sitting MP won by a margin of 10% or less at the last election.\n\nUsing this logic, there are 169 marginal seats across the UK, but in the increasingly volatile world of British politics even those with a bigger cushion are sometimes far from safe.\n\nBoris Johnson giving his victory speech after winning Uxbridge in 2015\n\nBoris Johnson won the seat of Uxbridge and Ruislip South in West London by a majority of just 10.8% of the vote in the 2017 general election.\n\nCompare this to the last majorities of former PMs - 50.2% for Gordon Brown, 45.5% for Theresa May, 44.5% for Tony Blair and 43% for David Cameron - and you can see why this could lead to the biggest upset of the night.\n\nThere was a 13% swing to Labour in Uxbridge in 2017 and the opposition parties - including Labour campaign group Momentum - are pushing hard to unseat the PM.\n\nThe opposition dream result goes like this: it's the morning after polling day and Boris Johnson isn't even an MP.\n\nActivists trying to oust him claim their supporters have turned out in their hundreds to help. They hope young and ethnic minority voters in Uxbridge could tip the balance.\n\nIs there more to this than hope?\n\nOne recent estimate based on nationwide data suggested that while some of his high-profile colleagues could struggle, Boris Johnson would see an increased majority. Another, similar estimate is due shortly.\n\nBut stress that word \"estimate\". Most in the business of forecasting the political future are cautious these days.\n\nIf he did lose his seat, and the Conservatives win the general election, what then?\n\nThere is a precedent for a prime minister who is neither a member of the House of Commons or House of Lords.\n\nIn a soon-to-be-published blog Robert Hazell from University College London points out that Conservative Alec Douglas-Home continued as PM between giving up his seat as a Lord and winning a by-election.\n\nShould Boris Johnson lose he could - Prof Hazell suggests - persuade a colleague in a safe seat to quit, prompt a by-election of his own and have another go.\n\nEven his opponents' dream result might not spell the end of the prime minister's political career.\n\nHere's a full list of the 12 candidates vying for the Uxbridge seat.\n\nQuite a number of Mr Johnson's Cabinet are also heading for a close contest.\n\nZac Goldsmith has the biggest battle on his hands. The candidate for Richmond Park in West London - and a minister at the Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs - won his seat by just 45 votes in 2017 (or a 0.1% majority).\n\nHere is the full slate of candidates in Richmond Park.\n\nTheresa Villiers, who heads up that department, is not far behind, having won Chipping Barnet by just 353 votes (0.6%). Here is the full list of candidates.\n\nFour more cabinet members find themselves in marginal seats too:\n\nAnd former Welsh secretary Alun Cairns - who resigned his cabinet position at the start of the election over claims he knew about a former aide's role in the \"sabotage\" of a rape trial - is still running despite the scandal, with a majority of just 2,190 (4.1%) in the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nA few other notable Tory seats from 2017 will also come under the spotlight on 12 December.\n\nProminent Brexiteer and former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith will be fighting to keep his seat of Chingford and Woodford Green on the North East London/Essex border, having won with just a 2,438 (5.2%) majority two years ago.\n\nAnd while Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire saw a Tory candidate squeeze through to win with a majority of just 863 (1.6%), Anna Soubry is now the leader of the anti-Brexit Independent Group for Change, making the Leave-supporting area very much in play.\n\nTheresa Villiers (left) hopes to remain a Tory MP, while Anna Soubry (right) will be fighting against them\n\nSo, what about the Labour frontbench?\n\nIt seems a little more certain for the big names in the party - although anything can happen on polling night.\n\nTake Jeremy Corbyn's majority in his north London seat of Islington North last time. He came in with a whopping 60.5% majority - working out at over 33,000 votes.\n\nAnd shadow chancellor John McDonnell came in with a 37.9% majority in his west London seat of Hayes and Harlington - over 18,000 votes.\n\nBut a couple of significant names fall into the marginal category.\n\nWill Dennis Skinner still be Labour's longest-serving MP?\n\nLesley Laird is the deputy leader of Scottish Labour and the shadow secretary for Scotland, but she only secured her Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath seat by a majority of 259 (0.6%).\n\nShadow environment secretary Sue Hayman also held one of these close call seats - Workington in Cumbria - by 3,925 votes (a 9.4% majority).\n\nThere is talk of veteran Labour firebrand Dennis Skinner, known as the Beast of Bolsover, being a key target for the Tories, as the MP only just sneaked over the marginal line with a majority of 5,288 (11.4%).\n\nBut other smaller majorities, such as Emma Dent Coad in Kensington, west London - who won by just 20 votes (a 0.1% majority) - and Rosie Duffield in Canterbury - who won by just 187 votes (a 0.3% majority) - there may be lots of lesser known MPs facing the same stress.\n\nBoth Lesley Laird (left) and Sue Hayman (right) are fighting in marginal seats for Labour\n\nWhat about the other parties?\n\nFor the Lib Dems, there are two well-known faces who may be crossing their fingers at the count.\n\nFormer leader of the party Tim Farron held his Westmorland and Lonsdale seat in Cumbria by a majority of 777 (1.5%) in 2017.\n\nDeputy leader (and former leadership candidate) Sir Ed Davey also only secured his place in Kingston and Surbiton, west London, with a 4,124 (6.6%) majority.\n\nBut, while she sneaks over the 10% threshold, it could be a stressful night for leader Jo Swinson. She only won in Dunbartonshire East with a majority of 5,339 (10.3%).\n\nThere are two well-known SNP figures to watch out for.\n\nJoanna Cherry, the party's spokesman for justice - who has come to prominence heading a court case against Mr Johnson's unlawful prorogation - won Edinburgh South West by 1,097 (a 2.2% majority).\n\nAnd Mhairi Black - the so-called \"baby of the House\" as the youngest member - who is the SNP's spokeswoman on a number of issues, including disability and equalities, won Paisley and Renfrewshire South by a 2,541 majority (6.1%).\n\nThe final one to look out for is Nigel Dodds. He leads the DUP in Westminster and has been key in negotiations between his party and both Mr Johnson's and Theresa May's governments.\n\nBut with a majority of just 2,081 (4.5%) in Belfast North, there could be shockwaves across Northern Ireland at his departure.", "Geoffrey Bran is on trial at Swansea Crown Court\n\nA fish and chip shop owner killed his wife by \"throwing boiling oil\" over her, a court has heard.\n\nMrs Bran died in Swansea's Morriston Hospital, six days after suffering burns at The Chipoteria.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard Mrs Bran rang a friend after having scalding oil thrown at her, pleading with her to come and help.\n\nMr and Mrs Bran, who had been married for 30 years, opened the chip shop in a wooden cabin in January 2018 - one of a number of small businesses they owned.\n\nMavis Bran died six days after sustaining severe burns at the chip shop she ran\n\nIn the months leading up to her death, Mrs Bran's friend Caroline Morgan noticed the couple's relationship was seemingly deteriorating, the court heard, with Mr Bran appearing withdrawn and his wife expressing concerns about his health.\n\nShe had told Ms Morgan she was \"frightened of the defendant and afraid he was going to kill her\".\n\nIn a phone call at about 13:15 BST on 23 October last year, Mrs Bran told Ms Morgan: \"Caroline, please help me, please, emergency, emergency, please get here. Geoff has thrown boiling oil over me,\" the jury was told.\n\nMs Morgan drove to the shop and told a lodger at the nearby house, Gareth Davies, to phone an ambulance.\n\nMr Bran told Mr Davies and Ms Morgan there had been an accident and Mrs Bran had slipped and pulled the fryer over herself.\n\nMr Davies told Mr Bran his wife's \"skin was coming off her\", but Mr Bran did not follow him to a neighbour's house where Mrs Bran had fled for help.\n\nHe asked Ms Morgan to cook some fish for new customers, but she told him to shut the shop.\n\nProsecutor Paul Lewis QC told the court: \"It appears that financial pressures of their various businesses would at times put a strain on their relationship and they would sometimes argue about money.\n\n\"They are described by people who knew them as a couple who both had short tempers, and who have 'always argued, swearing and shouting at each other'.\n\n\"It is the prosecution case that the terrible burns that Mrs Bran suffered were not the result of an accident, but were caused by her husband deliberately pushing or throwing over her a deep fat fryer which contained scalding oil.\"\n\nMrs Bran was taken by air ambulance to the burns unit at Morriston Hospital in Swansea, where doctors found she had suffered burns to 46% of her body.\n\nAfter being ventilated, she was unable to tell police what happened, the court heard.\n\nParamedic Alison Williams said that when they asked Mrs Bran what happened, she told them: \"My husband threw the hot fat over me\".\n\nThe couple ran The Chipoteria in Carmarthenshire, one of a number of businesses they owned\n\nMs Williams said she heard Mrs Bran say: \"Go and get him so that he can see the state of me and see what he has done.\"\n\nShe later developed sepsis and hypothermia and underwent surgery to remove some of her burned skin but died from multi-organ failure at the hospital six days after the alleged attack.\n\nMr Bran was initially arrested on suspicion of assault and denied attacking his wife, telling police: \"She got burned with the chip fryer. She slipped and it came off the top and went over her. Don't ask.\"\n\nA nurse found he had a superficial cut to the front of his head and to the front of his neck, as well as a scuff abrasion to his right forearm.\n\nHe later said in an interview his wife had become \"upset and agitated\" because a fryer in their van was dirty and she became angry at him because four fish had been spoiled, before adding: \"She can lose all reason.\"\n\nThe accused said his wife threw the spoiled fish in a temper, causing hot fat to fly through the air which led to her pulling the fryer unit down on top of herself.\n\nMr Bran was re-arrested on suspicion of murder on 22 November last year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe parents of Harry Dunn have been told by the UK government their claims of abuse of power by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab are \"without foundation\".\n\nThe 19-year-old died in hospital after a crash in Northamptonshire in August. US suspect Anne Sacoolas left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe teenager's parents allege the granting of immunity by Mr Raab was \"wrong in law\".\n\nThe Foreign Office (FCO) has written to the family rejecting the allegations.\n\nIt told the BBC it had sent a letter - seen by the BBC - to Mr Dunn's parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, but would not comment on its content. It expressed its \"deepest sympathy\" to the family.\n\nCharlotte Charles and Tim Dunn have met US president Donald Trump at the White House about the crash\n\nIn the letter, the FCO said it would \"seek costs\" for any judicial review brought and argues the family has not found \"any reasonably arguable ground of legal challenge\".\n\nIt said the allegation that the foreign secretary had \"misused and/or abused his power\" was \"entirely without foundation\".\n\nMr Dunn's motorbike crashed with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas, the 42-year-old wife of US intelligence officer Jonathan Sacoolas, outside RAF Croughton, near Brackley, on 27 August.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police has handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service after interviewing Mrs Sacoolas in the US.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"The FCO relies on two private agreements between the USA and UK dated in 1995 and 2001 to assert that Anne Sacoolas did have diplomatic immunity.\"\n\nHe added the family had taken legal advice and its \"position is clear that these arrangements have no basis in law\".\n\nHe continued: \"As if it were not enough for the family to have to endure the loss of Harry, the British government now appear[s] intent on putting them through a needless and protracted legal battle culminating in court. So be it. They will not rest until justice is done. But shame on the government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China's Jingye Group has emerged as the frontrunner to buy British Steel out of insolvency, according to reports.\n\nA possible deal has emerged after a preliminary offer from Turkish company Ataer faltered in late October, leaving the company in limbo.\n\nSince May, British Steel has been kept running by the government as it seeks a buyer for the business.\n\nThe Official Receiver, which is handling the insolvency process, declined to comment.\n\nSome 5,000 jobs hang in the balance at British Steel's Scunthorpe plant, and another 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\nJingye Group, which also makes steel, is reportedly looking to reach an agreement in principle by next Monday.\n\nA spokesperson for Jingye confirmed talks are ongoing but would not provide detail on the timing of any potential bid.\n\nIts chairman, Li Ganpo, visited British Steel sites last week and met with Scunthorpe MP Nic Dakin and Andrew Percy, representative for the Brigg and Goole constituency.\n\nMr Percy said he had been assured that if Jingye succeeds in buying British Steel, it would protect the company.\n\n\"They have assured us that if they do progress with this acquisition, they have every intention of investing to expand production to serve the UK and European market,\" he told the Grimsby Telegraph.\n\n\"That's really important and what they wanted from us was assurance from the government and the council about support we could give and we said we are committed to work together for that.\"\n\nBritish Steel was put into compulsory liquidation in May after rescue talks with the government broke down.\n\nAtaer - which is a subsidiary of Turkey's state military retirement scheme Oyak and owns 50% of the country' biggest steel producer - signed a preliminary agreement to buy British Steel in August.\n\nBut hopes faded in October when the Official Receiver said the parties had failed to agree terms.\n\nThere is no guarantee an agreement will be struck with Jingye, which has returned to the bidding process after having previously pulled out.\n\nIf an offer is formally tabled it would also take weeks of legal work and administration to finalise.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, the Chinese firm would aim to increase production at Scunthorpe from 2.5 million tonnes each year to more than 3 million.\n\nIt also wants to upgrade the plant and improve efficiency, although it reportedly views cutting costs as crucial as well.\n\nJingye was founded in 1994 and has 23,500 employees. Along with steel it also owns interests in hotels, chemicals and real estate.It is not the only bidder left in the race for British Steel. UK-based industrial metals conglomerate Liberty House is considered to be an outside contender.\n\nTalks with Ataer are also continuing, the Official Receiver said in late October.", "Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has photographed more than 75,000 Year 3 children across London's schools for his latest exhibition.\n\nThe project aims to be a visual snapshot of people in the city and was inspired after the Turner Prize-winning artist looked at his own 1977 class photo.\n\nThe photos are also being showcased on billboards by roads, railways and train stations across the capital.\n\nThe exhibition will run from Tuesday until 3 May 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen watched the ceremony from a balcony alongside the Duchess of Cornwall, left, and the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nPoliticians, Royal Family members and veterans have commemorated those who lost their lives in conflict as the UK marks Remembrance Sunday.\n\nAt 11:00 GMT, a two-minute silence was held across the country.\n\nBoris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson broke away from the election campaign to attend the annual ceremony at the Cenotaph in London.\n\nPrince Charles laid a wreath of poppies during the service on behalf of the Queen, who was watching from a balcony.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and Duke of Sussex followed their father in laying wreaths.\n\nThe Queen, dressed in black, stood beside the Duchess of Cambridge and Duchess of Cornwall as she viewed the commemorations.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex looked on from another balcony with the Countess of Wessex and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nThe beginning and end of the two minutes' silence were marked by the firing of a gun by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery.\n\nUp to 10,000 war veterans marched during the remembrance service at the Cenotaph\n\nHundreds of members of the armed forces attended the commemoration\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex observed the two-minute silence\n\nWilliam and Harry followed Prince Charles in laying wreaths\n\nThe commemorations at the Cenotaph honoured the armed forces community, British and Commonwealth veterans, the allies who fought alongside the UK and the civilian servicemen and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts.\n\nCabinet ministers, religious leaders and representatives of Commonwealth nations attended alongside more than 800 members of the armed forces.\n\nA royal aide laid a wreath on behalf of the Duke of Edinburgh, who retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, the ambassador of Nepal placed a wreath to honour the contribution Gurkha regiments have made to the UK's military campaigns over two centuries.\n\nIn another first, the intelligence services were honoured during the ceremony, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Home Secretary Priti Patel laying wreathes on their behalf.\n\nPrince Charles laid two wreaths - one of his own and one on behalf of The Queen\n\nFormer Prime Ministers Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Sir John Major attended the event\n\nBoris Johnson laid his wreath on the Cenotaph\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon laid a wreath at the Stone of Remembrance in Edinburgh\n\nFive former prime ministers Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and Theresa May, were all present.\n\nAfter wreaths were laid, Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally led a service that ended with the Royal Air Force sounding the bugle call, Rouse.\n\nFollowing the service, crowds lined the streets in the winter sun to watch as up to 10,000 war veterans marched in a slow procession past the war memorial.\n\nRegiments and societies walked past the Cenotaph in groups, their pace matching the drum beat of a brass band.\n\nSome wheelchair-using veterans left their chairs behind and walked the distance instead, their medals sparkling on their lapels.\n\nWorld War Two veteran Ron Freer, 104, who is blind, is thought to be the oldest person to have marched at the Cenotaph this year.\n\nThe Remembrance Sunday commemorations always hold \"special significance\" for him because his father was killed in 1918 and is buried at Dernancourt Communal Cemetery in the Somme, France, according to Blind Veterans UK.\n\nRon Freer from Kent was the oldest person marching at the Cenotaph\n\nSpeaking ahead of the ceremony, Mr Johnson said he would be \"proud\" to lay his first wreath at the Cenotaph as prime minister, and vowed to continue to \"champion those who serve today with such bravery in our military\".\n\nHe later posted on Twitter: \"We will remember them.\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said: \"It was an honour meeting and hearing the stories of veterans, and all those who came to pay their respects.\"\n\nHe earlier said in a video message that many serving personnel, veterans and their families were \"not getting the support they deserve\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn wrote a note on his wreath saying \"let us strive for a world of peace\"\n\nCarrie Symonds and Boris Johnson made the short journey from Downing Street to Whitehall\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat leader Ms Swinson said people should pause to reflect and remember how \"fragile\" peace can be.\n\nThe trio were joined at the commemorations by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford and the DUP's Nigel Dodds.\n\nElsewhere, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon laid a wreath at the Stone of Remembrance at Edinburgh City Chambers before giving a reading at the service at St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar laid a green laurel wreath at the war memorial in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, on behalf of his government.\n\nCeremonies also took place across Wales, including at the Welsh National War Memorial in Cardiff.\n\nThis year marks 100 years since the first two-minute silence was observed to mark Armistice Day on 11 November 1919.\n\nThe UK's Chief of Defence Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, told BBC One's Andrew Marr show it was important to remember that Remembrance Sunday was not only about older people and previous generations.\n\nGen Carter - Britain's most senior military officer - said many who participated in the commemorations were young men and women who fought in places such as Afghanistan.\n\n\"We have to remember the living veterans as well who have a huge amount to offer to society,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Remembrance Day: D-Day veteran and schoolboy on what it means to them\n\nThe ceremony at the Cenotaph came after Prince Harry, Meghan, Prince William and Kate joined the Queen at London's Royal Albert Hall on Saturday for the Festival of Remembrance.\n\nIt was their first appearance as a group since Harry and Meghan said they were struggling with public life.", "The Lib Dems' Sam Gyimah promoted his party's policy during a visit to a tech start-up firm in north London\n\nThe Lib Dems are proposing a £10,000 grant for every adult in England to put towards education and training.\n\nThe money would go into a \"skills wallet\" over a period of 30 years, to help with the cost of approved courses.\n\nThe party says it would pay for the policy by reversing government cuts to corporation tax - returning the business levy to its 2016 rate of 20%.\n\nThe pledge comes at the start of a second week of campaigning ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nLabour and the Conservatives are also expected to announce policies to boost lifelong learning.\n\nLabour has proposed a National Education Service, which would be \"free at the point of use\" and \"open to all regardless of age, background or circumstance\".\n\nThe Conservatives have a range of initiatives, including a recently-launched National Retraining Scheme, which is aimed at helping adults whose jobs are at risk from automation.\n\nThe Lib Dem plan - which would only apply to England as education is devolved to the other nations - would:\n\nThe current cost of tuition fees in England for a university course is up to £9,250 per year.\n\nThe party hopes people will then be encouraged to add to the pot, and save more towards the cost of education and training.\n\nEmployers and local government will also be able to contribute to the wallets, and free careers advice will be given to people to decide how best to use the funding.\n\nHowever, the courses will have to be regulated and monitored by the Office for Students.\n\nLib Dem business spokesman Sam Gyimah said: \"In an ever changing workplace people often need to develop new skills, but the cost of courses and qualifications shuts too many people out.\"\n\nHe said his party would \"create a new era of learning\" for adults through the plan, and \"empower people to develop new skills so that they can thrive in the technologies and industries that are key to the UK's economic future and prosperity\".\n\nThe policy would have to first go through a consultation process and would not come into force until 2021-22.\n\nParticipation in government-funded adult further education fell by 3.5% in the first two quarters of 2018-19 on last year's equivalent figures.", "This year's winner - Imara in her Winter Coat by Charlie Schaffer\n\nThe Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh has said it will no longer show the BP Portrait Award exhibition.\n\n\"We recognise the need to do all we can to address the climate emergency,\" National Galleries Scotland said.\n\nThe prize is run by London's National Portrait Gallery and has been sponsored by the oil giant for 30 years.\n\nAn annual exhibition of the entries has toured to Edinburgh for a decade, but this year's show, which opens there on 7 December, will be the last to do so.\n\nBP has faced growing criticism over environmental issues in recent years. National Galleries Scotland acknowledged that \"for many people, the association of this competition with BP is seen as being at odds\" with its aim to help tackle climate change.\n\n\"Therefore, after due consideration, the trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland have decided that this will be the last time that the galleries will host this exhibition in its present form,\" it continued.\n\n\"The exhibition has been extremely popular with new and existing visitors over the years. We are grateful to the National Portrait Gallery in London and to BP for the opportunity that the competition and exhibition has provided to inspire young talent and to promote portrait artists from around the world.\"\n\nThis year's exhibition was on show at the National Portrait Gallery in London until last month and is also due to visit the Ulster Museum in Belfast.\n\nBrighton-based artist Charlie Schaffer won this year's £35,000 first prize for his portrait Imara In Her Winter Coat, of his close friend wearing a fake fur coat.\n\nBut the award was overshadowed somewhat by the row over BP's continued sponsorship. Before the ceremony, judge Gary Hume said the company's involvement \"was now a problem\".\n\nIn response, the National Portrait Gallery said BP's support \"enables free admission for the public\".\n\nThe London venue said: \"We respect the National Galleries of Scotland's decision and we are grateful for all the support they've given to the award over the years.\"\n\nThe gallery also said it was considering options for its annual competitions when it closes for a three-year refurbishment next summer.\n\nA BP spokesperson said: \"The increasing polarisation of debate and attempts to exclude companies committed to being a part of the energy transition is exactly what is not needed.\"\n\nLast month, the Royal Shakespeare Company decided to end its partnership with BP after school students threatened a boycott.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Woody Allen had filed a $68m (£52m) lawsuit over the termination of his contract with Amazon\n\nWoody Allen has reached a legal settlement with Amazon Studios after it abandoned a four-film deal.\n\nAllen initially filed a $68m (£52m) lawsuit in February amid resurfaced allegations that he molested his adopted daughter.\n\nAmazon argued that his comments about the #MeToo movement \"sabotaged\" its attempts to promote his new movies.\n\nThe film director denies sexually assaulting Dylan Farrow, who lost a court case against him in 1992.\n\nUnder the movie deal, signed in 2016, Allen received a $10m advance payment. But two years later, the release of his first film, A Rainy Day in New York, was shelved and plans for three other movies were cancelled.\n\nShortly before Amazon withdraw from the agreement, Allen reportedly expressed sympathy for movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who was accused of sexually assaulting dozens of women.\n\nMr Weinstein denied the accusations against him, but has since reached a $44m settlement with some of the alleged victims.\n\nMonths after these initial comments, Allen accused Dylan Farrow of \"cynically using the #MeToo movement\" after she repeated allegations that he assaulted her when she was seven years old.\n\nIn an interview with Argentinean broadcaster Eltrece, Allen said he \"should be the poster boy for the Me Too movement\" since he had worked with \"hundreds of actresses\" and was \"only accused by one woman in a child custody case\".\n\nAmazon Studios said its decision to terminate the deal was justified because Allen's comments undermined its financial security.\n\nDylan Farrow claims her father sexually abused her in 1992\n\nIt also pointed out that \"scores of actors and actresses expressed profound regret for having worked with Allen in the past, and many declared publicly that they would never work with him in the future\".\n\nIn response, Allen said Amazon was fully aware of Dylan Farrow's accusation when the deal was signed.\n\nHis company, Gravier Productions, secured an international release for A Rainy Day in New York this year, but US distribution has not been secured.\n\nTimothee Chalamet and Rebecca Hall, who star in the film, said last year that they would donate their wages to charity.", "The man who oversees complaints about politicians in Wales has resigned after he was secretly recorded by an assembly member.\n\nStandards commissioner Sir Roderick Evans said \"highly confidential conversations\" with his staff had been taped.\n\nThe former Plaid Cymru AM Neil McEvoy has confirmed he made the recordings.\n\nPolice are being asked to investigate and the assembly has arranged a sweep of the organisation's estate.\n\nThe South Wales Central AM, who now sits as an independent, alleged he had found evidence that he claimed had brought Sir Roderick's office into disrepute.\n\nHe said he had acted lawfully and in the public interest. He had been facing three separate investigations by the standards commissioner at the time, before Sir Roderick resigned.\n\nSir Roderick, a former high court judge and pro-chancellor of Swansea University, said Mr McEvoy's actions were \"wholly unacceptable\" as he stood down on Monday.\n\n\"It has come to my attention that conversations with my staff about a variety of highly confidential and sensitive matters have been secretly, and possibly illegally, recorded over a period of what seems to be several months and in what seems to be a number of different locations by an assembly member,\" said Sir Roderick, who had served as the assembly's standards commissioner since 2017.\n\n\"These have included highly confidential conversations with my staff including references to cases brought by members of the public.\n\n\"That a member of our national assembly could behave in this way is wholly unacceptable. It undermines the integrity of the complaints procedure and brings our democratic process into disrepute.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to continue in my role as standards commissioner.\"\n\nNeil McEvoy said he had acted lawfully in the public interest\n\nWelsh Assembly presiding officer Elin Jones said she had accepted Sir Roderick's resignation, and the process to find a successor will now begin.\n\nShe said: \"Covert recording of private conversations is a serious matter and we will be asking South Wales Police to investigate how such recordings were obtained.\n\n\"Arrangements have been made for a sweep of the Senedd estate to locate any unauthorised electronic surveillance devices.\"\n\nIn response to Mr McEvoy, the standards commissioner's office said: \"The appropriateness of covert recordings of private and confidential conversations will be considered by the relevant authorities in due course.\"\n\nSir Roderick was embroiled in a row last year after he said a video featuring a Labour AM's face superimposed on a woman in a low-cut top was not sexist.\n\nEarlier in 2019 he was accused of double standards after he recommended a Plaid Cymru AM Leanne Wood be reprimanded for a swear word in a tweet.", "Evha Jannath fell out of a circular boat on the Splash Canyon attraction\n\nA girl who drowned when she fell from a theme park ride while on a school trip died accidentally, an inquest jury has concluded.\n\nEvha Jannath was unsupervised on the Splash Canyon ride at Drayton Manor in Tamworth, Staffordshire, when she died on 9 May 2017.\n\nThe 11-year-old from Leicester, who could not swim, fell from a boat when it hit a barrier.\n\nThe ride has been closed since, Stafford Coroner's Court heard.\n\nEvha, who was on an end-of-year school trip with Jameah Girls Academy, was pronounced dead in hospital later the same day.\n\nThe inquest was told she had been standing up and \"reaching into the water\", breaching the park's rules, before she was \"propelled\" from the boat.\n\nCCTV footage played to jurors, showed her wading back towards her friends before climbing an \"algae-covered travelator\" and then falling off into a \"much deeper\" section of water.\n\nShe was spotted face down by staff about 11 minutes later before her lifeless body was retrieved.\n\nJurors were told the emergency stop button for the rapids ride was not pressed for 10 minutes after staff were informed a child was in the water.\n\nThe inquest had heard Evha fell during her second turn on the ride - on her first she had been accompanied by teachers.\n\nThe Splash Canyon ride has remained closed since Evha's death\n\nPolice told the hearing a member of school staff, who had been assigned to accompany pupils, waited by the exit with another child who had not wanted to board the ride.\n\nHead teacher Erfana Bora said the teacher acted in line with the school's health and safety policy on the day.\n\nRide operator Samuel Read said half the ride was not covered by CCTV cameras. Changes to add more had not yet been brought in.\n\nThe theme park told assistant coroner Margaret Jones the ride would not reopen \"in the current format\" and until it had the consent of the Health and Safety Executive.\n\nReturning their conclusion, the jury panel said monitoring of CCTV \"did not identify any misbehaviour\" and there was \"no opportunity\" to rewind the footage.\n\n\"The sign at the entrance for the ride does not tell passengers to sit.\" they said, but the sign did say the ride was \"bumpy\" and there were \"11 worded signs which instructed guests to remain seated and hold the centre ring.\"\n\nThe coroner said she will write to all UK theme parks urging them to conduct CCTV training.\n\nIn a statement, Evha's famly said: \"We have been very upset to learn that Drayton Manor had no life-saving equipment on the ride and no one knew how to rescue Evha.\n\n\"We would like to thank the coroner for the recommendations she is making as to the safety of this and similar rides in the hope that no other family will have to go through what we have had to endure.\n\n\"Evha was a bright and happy young girl who had great hopes for the future. Sadly, we will not be able to see her realise her dreams.\"\n\nIn a statement, the theme park said: \"We would like to express our deep, deep regret for the loss of Evha in what was a tragic accident.\n\n\"Our thoughts have remained with her family, friends and everyone affected since that day.\"\n\nThe Jameah Girls Academy said the inquest had \"given us some insight into the circumstances by which she so sadly lost her life.\"\n\nIts statement added: \"Our hearts go out to Evha's family, and we hope that this inquest has given them some closure.\n\n\"As a school we will continue to honour Evha's memory.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Election pact with Brexit Party 'risks putting Corbyn into No 10'\n\nBoris Johnson has rejected the suggestion from Nigel Farage and Donald Trump that he should work with the Brexit Party during the election.\n\nThe Tory leader told the BBC he was \"always grateful for advice\" but he would not enter into election pacts.\n\nHis comments come after the US president said Mr Farage and Mr Johnson would be \"an unstoppable force\".\n\nDowning Street sources say there are no circumstances in which the Tories would work with the Brexit Party.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said the \"difficulty\" of doing deals with \"any other party\" was that it \"simply risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10\".\n\n\"The problem with that is that his [Mr Corbyn's] plan for Brexit is basically yet more dither and delay,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson also said there was \"no question of negotiating on the NHS\" as part of any future trade deal with the US, but he did not rule out expanding the amount of private provision in the health service in the future.\n\nBut Labour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said the public \"can't trust the Tories on the NHS\", saying they would \"increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump\".\n\nWhen pushed on whether he would rule out a deal with Mr Farage, Mr Johnson replied: \"I want to be very, very clear that voting for any other party than this government, this Conservative government… is basically tantamount to putting Jeremy Corbyn in.\"\n\nThe UK is going to the polls on 12 December following a further delay to the UK's departure from the EU, to 31 January 2020.\n\nThe BBC will be talking to other party leaders during the course of the campaign.\n\nUS president Donald Trump told Nigel Farage's LBC show on Thursday that the Brexit Party leader should team up with Mr Johnson to do \"something terrific\" and he also criticised the prime minister's EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Farage has called on the prime minister to drop his Brexit deal, unite in a \"Leave alliance\" or face a Brexit Party candidate in every seat in the election.\n\nMr Johnson said there were \"lots of reasons\" why he thought a Labour government would be a \"disaster\".\n\nHe said he Labour government would lead to a renegotiation with Brussels on a Brexit deal, then another referendum.\n\n\"Why go through that nightmare again?\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister also suggested that the US president was wrong to believe a trade deal would be impossible with the UK after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"proper Brexit\" deal \"enables us to do proper all-singing, all-dancing free-trade deals\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It delivers exactly what we wanted, what I wanted, when I campaigned in 2016 to come out the European Union,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhen asked about the criticism from Mr Trump, Mr Johnson said: \"I am always grateful for advice from wherever it comes and we have great relations as you know with the US and many many other countries.\n\n\"But on the technicalities of the deal anybody who looks at it can see that the UK has full control.\"\n\nThe prime minister is never short of a word or two, never short of a colourful phrase or a metaphor.\n\nWhen we sat down this afternoon there was no suggestion of him being the Hulk, but Remain-tending MPs were accused of \"rope-a-doping\" the government, planning eventually to batter the prime minister and his Brexit deal into submission until he would have had to give up.\n\nBut in Downing Street there is a serious awareness that trademark Johnson verbal gymnastics are no guarantee of success at the ballot box in six weeks' time, no guarantee at all.\n\nThat's not just because there are even friends, like Donald Trump, and of course foes, like Jeremy Corbyn, whose words and actions will hamper his attempt to secure a majority to call his own.\n\nBut also because this is a snap election, not a routine poll, and the public is hardly in a forgiving mood of our politicians right now.\n\nMr Johnson said he hoped the government could get Brexit \"over the line\" by the middle of January if he won a majority, claiming the current Parliament would never have passed his deal.\n\nHe said he'd had \"no choice\" but to call a general election, saying: \"Nobody wants an election but we've got to do it now.\n\n\"This is a Parliament that is basically full of MPs who voted Remain.\n\n\"They voted Remain and they will continue to block Brexit if they're given the chance - we need a new mandate, we need to refresh our Parliament.\"\n\nMr Johnson said his government was determined to increase taxpayer funding of the NHS but said: \"Of course there are dentists and optometrists and so on who are providers to the NHS, of course, that's how it works,\" he said.\n\n\"But... I believe passionately in an NHS free at the point of use for everybody in this country.\"\n\nLabour's Mr Ashworth said: \"Forced NHS privatisation has doubled under the Conservatives and Boris Johnson has refused to rule out expanding this further.\n\n\"You can't trust the Tories on the NHS. They will increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump that will see as much as £500m more a week sent to US corporations.\"", "Thousands of UK workers will enjoy a pre-Christmas pay bump if their employer is a member of the \"real living wage\" campaign.\n\nBusinesses who have signed up to the voluntary scheme will lift their UK hourly rate by 30p to £9.30.\n\nPeople living in London will see their hourly pay rise by 20p to £10.75.\n\nThe scheme is separate to the statutory National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above which currently stands at £8.21 an hour.\n\nThe Living Wage Foundation said its \"real\" pay rate - which applies to all employees over 18 - is calculated independently and is based on costs such as food, clothing and household bills.\n\nSome 6,000 organisations are now signed up to the scheme, including new members Crystal Palace Football Club, insurer Hiscox, Welsh Water and London City Airport.\n\nThey join existing members such as Burberry, the luxury fashion company, and West Ham United Football Club.\n\nThe Living Wage Foundation said around 210,000 workers will benefit from the increase.\n\nCrystal Palace Football Club is one of the latest organisations promising to pay the \"real living wage\"\n\nNew research by accountancy firm KPMG suggests that the number of UK jobs paying less than the \"real living wage\" has fallen over the past year from 22% to 19%.\n\nHowever, it said 5.2 million jobs pay below the \"real\" living rate.\n\nThe National Living Wage is a key campaign issue as the UK heads towards the general election on 12 December.\n\nAn independent report, commissioned by the former Chancellor Philip Hammond, concluded that raising the National Living Wage would have little impact on jobs.\n\nThe Conservative Party has promised to increase the National Living Wage to £10.40 by 2024 and to lower the minimum age to 21.\n\nLabour said it will immediately lift the hourly rate to £10 for everyone aged 16 and over if they win the election.\n\nUnder the current arrangement, workers under 18 are paid £4.35 an hour.\n\nAt the weekend, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon accused the Tories of short-changing young people with a \"discriminatory\" minimum wage policy.\n\nShe said the SNP will demand an end to the \"rip-off\" of workers aged under 25.\n\nKatherine Chapman, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said while it is \"fantastic\" there is so much focus on wages: \"We have always been working with businesses to take action now rather than waiting for legislation.\"\n\nPam Batty, vice president of corporate responsibility at Burberry, said: \"We are calling on all companies to join the pledge, as we know it will meaningfully improve the lives of their people, who are their most valuable asset.\"", "PM Boris Johnson, pictured in 2016 and again on Sunday, at separate Remembrance Day services\n\nThe BBC has apologised for mistakenly running an out-of-date clip of Boris Johnson laying a wreath.\n\nIt said a production error led to BBC Breakfast showing images purporting to be the prime minister attending a Remembrance Day service on Sunday, when in fact the clip was from 2016.\n\n\"This was a production mistake and we apologise for the error,\" the corporation said in a statement.\n\nSome members of the public questioned the BBC's impartiality on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Breakfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe clip showed a younger Johnson when he was Foreign Secretary, as well as former Prime Minister David Cameron and ex-Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron.\n\nOne Twitter user responded: \"That begs the question, why was the production team looking into archive rather than the footage released yesterday? Was it a damage limitation expertise? Shame on you BBC, I have always defended you, loved you, am so disappointed.\"\n\nBut BBC Breakfast editor Richard Frediani explained that the 2016 footage from the archive had been restored in the system early yesterday morning in order to preview the Remembrance Sunday service.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Richard Frediani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLBC and former BBC presenter Shelagh Fogarty also leapt to the BBC's defence, replying that there was nothing sinister about the mistake, which she suggested can happen in the cut and thrust of a busy news programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Shelagh Fogarty This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, some online newspapers pointed out that Johnson placed the wreath with the note facing the wrong way up at the Cenotaph, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also came under criticism from some who felt he did not bow deeply enough.\n\nA spokesman for the British Legion told the BBC: \"As far as we're concerned, there is no right or wrong way to lay a wreath.\"\n\nSome Twitter users have asked BBC Breakfast for an on-air apology on Tuesday's programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Crispian Wheldon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grass fires: a Long hot summer is blamed for rise in blazes\n\n\"Unprecedented and prolonged\" hot weather have been blamed for the number of grass, woodland and crop fires doubling in Wales last year.\n\nWales' three fire authorities tackled 4,015 blazes from April 2018 to March 2019, compared with 2,090 in 2017-18.\n\nThe head of a Wales-wide fire education initiative said \"unique weather\" meant more people were outside, with issues including discarded barbecues.\n\nNewly-released Welsh Government figures shed light on challenges faced by Wales' fire and police authorities last year.\n\nThe number of arson-related fires was 2,612 in 2015-16 before Operation Dawns Glaw - aimed at reducing incidents - was set up.\n\nThe Llantysilio fires could be seen for miles\n\nIt is a collaboration between Wales' three fire services and four police forces.\n\nChairman Mydrian Harries said through engaging with communities and schools, it helped cut the numbers to 1,627 in 2017-18.\n\nBut for 2018-19, the number went back up to 2,850.\n\n\"These figures clearly show that with all the will, determination and a hugely successful collaborative task force in place, sometimes uncontrollable factors such as the weather can have a significant impact on our success,\" said Mr Harries.\n\nLooking at 2018-19 compared with the year before, forces attended 230% more incidents of deliberate grass fires in June, 739% more in July, 198% more in August, 167% more in September and 114% more in October.\n\nSix properties were evacuated as flames threatened houses in Swansea\n\n\"When faced with unprecedented and prolonged dry and hot weather conditions, grassland and vegetation becomes susceptible to ignition and often spreads quickly to create even larger fires that present significant challenges to the fire and rescue services,\" he said.\n\n\"Our experience also shows that more people spend time outside during this weather, which also increases the risk of fires starting from discarded barbecues and smoking materials, for example.\"\n\nWhile he described the figures as \"disappointing\", he said the weather was the \"biggest contributing factor\" and it did not detract from the project's work.\n\nHowever, it has continued to increase its efforts to educate people and spread the message as widely as possible.\n\nMr Harries said: \"History shows that engaging with young people through targeted interventions, high visibility patrols in vulnerable areas, and education and marketing of safety advice, works.\n\n\"Building on this, we have actively focused on the farming community to further educate and inform those responsible for carrying out controlled burns to manage land vegetation in a more controlled and safe manner.\"\n\nCrews and a helicopter battled a fire on Twmbarlwm mountain for five days\n\nIn all, 70% of blazes were deliberately set, with 46% of these occurring in July 2018 - when there were nine times as many as in July 2017.\n\nMet Office weather data showed July 2018 experienced about 40% more hours of sunshine and about half the rainfall compared with July 2017.\n\nIncidents included 15 homes being evacuated as crews fought a mile-long mountain fire at Mynydd Cilgwyn in Carmel, near Caernarfon.\n\nOne of the biggest fires seen across Wales was at Twmbarlwn mountain, which burned for more than two weeks, while a single fire at Llantysilio in Denbighshire burned for 40 days.\n\nMore than half of the grassland fires in 2018-19 occurred in south Wales (52%), 32% were in mid and west Wales, and 16% were in north Wales.\n\nThere were two non-fatal casualties - the last fatality resulting from a grassland fire was in 2007-08.", "The party has signed a pact with Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats, meaning those parties will not field candidates in the Vale of Glamorgan and will support the Greens\n\nWales does not need an airport, the leader of the Wales Green Party has said.\n\nAnthony Slaughter said the Greens in government would halt Cardiff Airport expansion and tax aviation fuel.\n\nMr Slaughter said he had not gone as far as calling for the airport's closure, but said contemplating expansion was a \"crime against future generations\".\n\nThe party launched its election campaign in Barry on Monday.\n\nMr Slaughter is standing for the party in the Vale of Glamorgan, where the Rhoose airport is located.\n\nThe party pledges to \"restore and revive devastated communities\" with \"bold, radical policies\".\n\nAsked if a Green-led Wales would have an airport, Mr Slaughter told BBC Wales: \"I don't think there's a need for one, personally, so no.\"\n\nUnder the party \"we definitely wouldn't see any more expansion\" at Cardiff Airport, he said.\n\n\"It's a crime against future generations to be contemplating that.\n\n\"We would immediately put a halt to all expansion, start charging tax and aviation fuel and slowly make a just transition to a time we do not need Cardiff Airport.\"\n\nCardiff Airport was bought by the Welsh Government in 2013\n\nEarlier he told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he had not gone as far as calling for it to be scrapped.\n\nMr Slaughter said: \"We are against all airport expansion. It is one of the biggest increasing contributors to carbon emissions.\n\n\"We have to look at aviation, and we have to also remember that this is also an equality issue,\" he said. \"The vast majority of flights are taken by a very small number of people.\n\n\"The aviation industry is heavily, unfairly subsidised - no tax, no VAT on aviation fuel.\n\n\"We cannot carry on with business as usual, and we've seen figures, I think, last week - an increase in the sale of private jets in the UK.\"\n\nMr Slaughter said he believed the Greens would cut through with voters.\n\n\"We are seeing more and more extreme weather events. Climate emergency is very real, people are aware of it. This has to be the climate election,\" he added.\n\n\"Every issue in this election has to be looked at through the lens of the climate emergency.\n\n\"That's why we are offering this green, bold vision - our green vision for Wales: an all-encompassing overall view, radical policies which will not only help us meet our decarbonisation targets but transform our lives.\"\n\nAnthony Slaughter launched his party's campaign in Barry on Monday\n\nThe party's Brexit policy backs a second referendum - offering either the existing deal or remaining in the EU. Mr Slaughter said was confident remain would \"very strongly\" win a second vote.\n\nMeanwhile it is pitching to revive \"devastated communities\" that have \"long suffered\" the effects of an \"unjust industrial transition\" and austerity agenda.\n\nMr Slaughter said the Greens' plans would \"pay for the transformation we need\".\n\n\"It's all been costed. I can't give details until we see the manifesto. But it'll be progressive taxation,\" he said.\n\n\"And there's also the buy-back you get from these things - these things bring money in. You reduce air pollution, you increase health, you reduce the burden on the NHS. So over the years there is an investment that comes back.\"\n\nMr Slaughter is standing for the Greens in the Vale of Glamorgan - the party has agreed a pro-EU electoral pact with Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats.\n\nCandidates will stand aside for each other in 11 of the 40 constituencies in Wales to increase the chances of a remain-supporting MP being elected.\n\nUnder the deal, the Greens will stand aside in the 10 other seats but will be the only one of the three parties standing in the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nOther candidates standing in the Vale of Glamorgan for the 12 December general election include Alun Cairns for the Conservatives and Belinda Loveluck-Edwards for Labour.\n\nThe close of nominations is 14 November.\n\nRussell George, Welsh Conservative economy spokesman, said: \"To say that Wales does not need an airport is both short-sighted and narrow minded.\n\n\"Not only is Cardiff Airport a national airport and now a major regional hub - including direct flights across Europe, and to the Middle East - but it is also a major employer for south Wales and beyond, and attracts passengers from this region, across Mid-and West Wales, and England.\"\n\nLabour was also asked for comment.", "Mercury appears in silhouette against the bright surface of the Sun\n\nMercury has made a rare transit, where the planet passes across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth.\n\nDuring the transit, Mercury appeared as a dark silhouetted disc against the bright surface of our star.\n\nThere are 14 transits in this century; the last before this was in 2016, but the next event will not occur until 2032.\n\nThe transit began at 12:35 GMT, when the edge of Mercury appeared to touch the curvature of the Sun.\n\nTransits of Mercury are relatively rare (this image shows a previous, complete transit)\n\nIt ended at 18:04 GMT when the edge of the silhouetted planet appeared to leave the Sun's disc.\n\nProfessor Mike Cruise, president of the UK's Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), said: \"This is a rare event, and we'll have to wait 13 years until it happens again. Transits are a visible demonstration of how the planets move around the Sun.\"\n\nThe entire event was visible from the eastern US and Canada, the south-western tip of Greenland, most of the Caribbean, Central America, the whole of South America and some of West Africa.\n\nIn Europe (including the UK), the Middle East, and most of Africa, the Sun set before the transit ended, and so the latter part of the event was not visible.\n\nIn most of the US and Canada, and New Zealand, the transit was in progress as the Sun rose. Observers in eastern Asia, southern and south-eastern Asia, and Australia were not able to see the transit.\n\nMercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System\n\nMercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.\n\nIt completes each orbit around the Sun every 88 days, and passes between the Earth and Sun every 116 days. As the orbit of Mercury around the Sun is tilted compared with the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, the planet normally appears to pass above or below our nearest star.\n\nA transit can only take place when the Earth, Mercury and the Sun are exactly in line in three dimensions.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool struck a potentially decisive blow in the Premier League title race as victory over reigning champions Manchester City at Anfield opened up an eight-point lead at the top of the table.\n\nThe confrontation between the two domestic superpowers had been billed as a defining moment in Liverpool's 30-year quest to land the title - and this outcome leaves them with a commanding advantage over Leicester City in second place.\n\nLiverpool took the lead after only six minutes when Fabinho flashed a 25-yard drive past keeper Claudio Bravo, deputising for injured Ederson, the goal given after a video assistant referee check for handball against Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nManchester City were threatening in possession but Jürgen Klopp's team are ruthless in attack, as proved when Mohamed Salah doubled their lead six minutes later, heading in at the far post from Andrew Robertson's superb cross.\n\nRaheem Sterling missed a headed chance and Sergio Agüero saw a shot deflected on to the post as City tried to find a foothold but it was all over six minutes after the break when Jordan Henderson's pinpoint delivery lured Bravo into a critical moment of hesitation and Sadio Mané headed in.\n\nBernardo Silva pulled one back with 12 minutes left but it was too late for City, who will rue not making the most of their plentiful possession and opportunities as they now lie nine points off the top in fourth place.\n\nGuardiola was fuming at the final whistle, appearing to thank referee Michael Oliver sarcastically before leaving the pitch, shortly after being enraged when another penalty claim against Alexander-Arnold was waved away.\n\nLiverpool, meanwhile, celebrated a victory that gives them a real hold at the Premier League summit.\n• None 'They keep telling me it's not over' - Peter Crouch analysis\n• None Was this the 21 seconds that swung the title?\n• None I don't know if we can catch Liverpool, says Guardiola\n\nThe manner in which Klopp and Anfield celebrated this victory said everything about its magnitude - if self-belief was not surging through them before, then it surely is now after last season's champions were overcome.\n\nA huge roar went up from the Kop as Liverpool's players gathered in front of it after the final whistle. Such is their form this season, with 11 wins from 12 league games, that it is surely their title to lose now. This is a team who have lost one of their past 51 league games - where will the numerous slips needed for them to lose this lead come from?\n\nLiverpool's defence was actually seriously troubled by City, but Klopp's side can score from anywhere at any time makes them so dangerous - as it proved here.\n\nCity opened well but were stunned by Fabinho's superb strike and once Robertson provided that terrific arcing cross for Salah, Liverpool were in control of what may well come to be seen as a pivotal moment in the season.\n\nLiverpool were relieved when City missed what opportunities they had and the scoreline was flattering - but Klopp and his players will not care.\n\nThey have game-changers in all areas of the pitch and carry an ominous threat even when under pressure.\n\nThere is a growing sense of destiny about Liverpool's season, although they will still look in the direction of Brendan Rodgers' excellent Leicester City side and Chelsea after seeing off Manchester City at an exultant Anfield.\n\nPep Guardiola's touchline rage late in the game, after referee Michael Oliver had ignored another claim for handball against Alexander-Arnold, was a mirror into his mood.\n\nGuardiola will know this may well be the moment when a third successive Premier League title was pushed out of reach.\n\nYet he will also feel City had the chance to take something from this match, with chances created and missed, especially by Sterling and Agüero.\n\nThis was not a poor performance but City's defence is vulnerable without Aymeric Laporte and the loss of Ederson to injury not only robbed them of his outstanding goalkeeping ability but also his important contribution to their overall possession game.\n\nBravo was not at fault for Liverpool's first two goals but he was suspect for the third. He simply does not give off the assurance and confidence of City's Brazilian first choice.\n\nDavid Silva's midfield influence was also missed but the bottom line is that over the season so far Liverpool have looked the more driven and less flawed team, a fact reflected in the league table.\n\nManchester City and Guardiola will not give up the fight, as it is only November after all, but it looks a long way back now to catch a Liverpool team that will feel the force is with them.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, speaking on BBC 5 Live: \"What a game. If you want to win against City you have to do something special and we had to be intense.\n\n\"When City started to control it more in the last 15 minutes, it was tense, but then you saw the quality and what the boys can do it. The boys did 75 minutes of unbelievable stuff.\"\n\nOn the early VAR incident, when a handball claim against Trent Alexander-Arnold was rejected: \"I feel sympathy for Pep but I did not see the situation, what I heard is that the ball hit first David Silva's arm and then Trent Alexander-Arnold.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking on BBC 5 Live: \"We lost - we'd liked to win but now we have to rest and prepare for Chelsea next.\n\n\"We played an incredible performance, I don't know how many teams can come to this stadium and play the way we did. They scored with the first shot on target, but we played incredibly well.\n\n\"There are three teams that have more chances to win the Premier League than us. We're in November so let's see what happens.\"\n\nAnfield continues its hold over Man City - the stats\n• None Liverpool have won 11 of their first 12 Premier League games this season and lead the table by eight points - only Manchester United in 1993-94 have had a bigger lead after 12 games of a Premier League season (nine points).\n• None Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has lost eight matches in all competitions against Jurgen Klopp - three more than he has against any other manager.\n• None Guardiola has lost more away games at Anfield against Liverpool than he has at any other ground in all competitions (four defeats).\n• None This is the fewest points Guardiola has won through his first 12 top-flight league matches of a season (25), and the first time he has been more than three points behind the top of the table at this stage of the season (nine points currently).\n• None This was the second time this season that City have conceded three goals in a Premier League game (also 3-2 against Norwich) - they only did so once last season, losing 3-2 to Crystal Palace in December 2018.\n• None Liverpool are unbeaten in their past 17 home Premier League games against Manchester City (W12 D5 L0) since losing 2-1 in May 2003.\n• None Mohamed Salah has been involved in 69 goals in 60 appearances at Anfield for Liverpool in all competitions (51 goals, 18 assists), scoring in three of his four home appearances against Manchester City in that time.\n• None Fabinho's goal was Liverpool's ninth from outside the box in all competitions this season - more than any other Premier League side.\n• None Since August 2018, Sadio Mané has scored 22 Premier League goals at Anfield for Liverpool - more than any other player has scored at a single venue in that time.\n• None Manchester City conceded twice in the opening 15 minutes of a Premier League game for the first time since December 2016 against Leicester City.\n• None Since the start of last season, only Bournemouth's Ryan Fraser (16) has provided more Premier League assists than Liverpool full-back Andrew Robertson (15).\n• None This was Sergio Agüero's ninth match at Anfield against Liverpool in all competitions for Manchester City - he has never scored there for City, attempting 14 shots without success across those nine games.\n\nLiverpool travel to south London to play Crystal Palace on Saturday, 23 November at 15:00 GMT, while City are at home to Chelsea at 17:30 later that afternoon.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Fernandinho tries a through ball, but Kyle Walker is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Alisson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Kevin De Bruyne tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Angeliño with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Angeliño.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 3, Manchester City 1. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A US financial regulator has opened an investigation into claims Apple's credit card offered different credit limits for men and women.\n\nIt follows complaints - including from Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak - that algorithms used to set limits might be inherently biased against women.\n\nNew York's Department of Financial Services (DFS) has contacted Goldman Sachs, which runs the Apple Card.\n\nAny discrimination, intentional or not, \"violates New York law\", the DFS said.\n\nThe Bloomberg news agency reported on Saturday that tech entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson had complained that the Apple Card gave him 20 times the credit limit that his wife got.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hansson said the disparity was despite his wife having a better credit score.\n\nLater, Mr Wozniak, who founded Apple with Steve Jobs, tweeted that the same thing happened to him and his wife despite their having no separate bank accounts or separate assets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBanks and other lenders are increasingly using machine-learning technology to cut costs and boost loan applications.\n\nBut Mr Hansson, creator of the programming tool Ruby on Rails, said it highlights how algorithms, not just people, can discriminate.\n\nUS healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group is being investigated over claims an algorithm favoured white patients over black patients.\n\nMr Hansson said in a tweet: \"Apple Card is a sexist program. It does not matter what the intent of individual Apple reps are, it matters what THE ALGORITHM they've placed their complete faith in does. And what it does is discriminate.\"\n\nHe said that as soon as he raised the issue his wife's credit limit was increased.\n\nThe DFS said in a statement that it \"will be conducting an investigation to determine whether New York law was violated and ensure all consumers are treated equally regardless of sex\".\n\n\"Any algorithm that intentionally or not results in discriminatory treatment of women or any other protected class violates New York law.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Goldman Sachs for comment.\n\nOn Saturday, the investment bank told Bloomberg: \"Our credit decisions are based on a customer's creditworthiness and not on factors like gender, race, age, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law.\"\n\nThe Apple Card, launched in August, is Goldman's first credit card. The Wall Street investment bank has been offering more products to consumers, including personal loans and savings accounts through its Marcus online bank.\n\nThe iPhone maker markets Apple Card on its website as a \"new kind of credit card, created by Apple, not a bank\".\n\nWithout access to the Goldman Sachs computers, it's impossible to be certain of what is going on. The fact there appears to be a correlation between gender and credit doesn't necessarily mean one is causing the other. Even so, the suspicion is that unintentional bias has crept into the system.\n\nThat could be because when the algorithms involved were developed, they were trained on a data set in which women indeed posed a greater financial risk than the men. This could cause the software to spit out lower credit limits for women in general, even if the assumption it is based on is not true for the population at large.\n\nAlternatively, the problem might lie in the data the algorithms are now being fed. For example, within married couples, men might be more likely to take out big loans solely using their name rather than having done so jointly, and the data may not have been adjusted to take this into account.\n\nA further complication is that the software involved can act as a \"black box\", coming up with judgements without providing a way to unravel how each was determined.\n\n\"There have been a lot of strides taken in the last five to six years to improve the explainability of decisions taken based on machine learning techniques,\" commented Jonathan Williams of Mk2 Consulting. \"But in some cases, it's still not as good as it could be.\"\n\nIn any case, for now Apple would prefer Goldman Sachs take the heat, despite the fact its marketing materials state that its card was \"created by Apple, not a bank\". But that's a tricky position to maintain.\n\nApple's brand is the only one to feature on the minimalist styling of its card's face, and many of its consumers have higher expectations of its behaviour than they would do for other payment card providers.\n\nThat means that even if issues of gender bias prove to be common across lenders, Apple faces becoming the focal point for demands that they are addressed.", "Stuart Potts claimed he set off the fireworks to emulate the volley of shots fired at some Remembrance Day events\n\nA man who admitted ruining a Remembrance Sunday event by setting off fireworks during a two-minute silence has been jailed for 16 weeks.\n\nStuart Potts, 38, let off two fireworks as hundreds of people observed the silence at 11:00 GMT at the cenotaph in Eccles, Salford, on Sunday.\n\nPotts set off the fireworks while sitting on a ledge of a first-floor window in a nearby disused pub.\n\nHe admitted throwing a firework in public, and a public order offence.\n\nPotts of Borough Road, Salford, who has 21 previous convictions, claimed he was given the fireworks by someone else and lit them \"as a mark of respect\" to emulate the volley of shots fired at some Remembrance Day events.\n\nSentencing him at Manchester Magistrates' Court, District Judge Mark Hadfield said he did not believe Potts' story.\n\nHe added: \"I rather doubt that anybody in their right mind would think letting them off in the middle of that ceremony was a mark of respect.\n\n\"It shows a staggering lack of respect for those attending and those being remembered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angry veterans shouted \"Get him out!\" before officers took a man away in a police car\n\nThe fireworks exploded above the cenotaph as the Last Post ended.\n\nBeth Pilling, prosecuting, told the court the first resulted in loud bangs, and the second - a rocket - flew above the heads of the crowd gathered at the service.\n\nThe court heard a crowd of angry veterans gathered outside the pub window in Church Street shouting, \"Get him out!\" and tried to break the door of the pub down, while others attempted to climb up to the window.\n\nWhen Potts appeared at the window to remonstrate with the crowd, a number of traffic cones were thrown at him before he was arrested.\n\nFireworks exploded as the Last Post ended and hundreds of people were observing a two-minute silence\n\nThe court heard a statement from an ex-Royal Marine who was at the event to place a cross on the cenotaph for a fallen comrade.\n\nHe said the loud bangs reminded him of combat and it had affected his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\nIt was the most disrespectful thing he had witnessed at such an event, he added. No injuries were reported.\n\nAbigail Henry, mitigating, said Potts had shown \"sincere and genuine remorse for his actions\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Lawler died following treatment at the Chiropractic 1st clinic in York\n\nA man whose neck broke as he was treated by a chiropractor shouted \"You are hurting me,\" his widow told an inquest.\n\nJohn Lawler, 80, was attending Chiropractic 1st in York in August 2017 when he said he could not feel his arms and became like a \"ragdoll\".\n\nMr Lawler was taken to York Hospital and later transferred to Leeds General Infirmary where he died the next day.\n\nA police investigation into his death ruled out any criminal charges.\n\nGiving evidence, Joan Lawler, said her husband had been a fit and healthy man.\n\nThey had booked a series of chiropractic treatments after an initial assessment with Arleen Scholten.\n\n\"She said his shoulders and back were out of line and by gentle manipulation she could make his life much happier,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\nThe first two appointments went well and they returned for a third appointment on Friday 11 August, , Mrs Lawler added.\n\nParamedics were called to Chiropractic 1st in York when Mr Lawler became unwell\n\n\"She started on the shoulders and went round his body.... Then the table dropped and he shouted 'You're hurting me. You are hurting me. I can't feel my arms,'\" Mrs Lawler told the inquest.\n\nShe said Mrs Scholten carried on treating her husband for a moment but then realised he was unresponsive and asked him to turn over.\n\nHe did not respond and the chiropractor manoeuvred him into a chair.\n\n\"She got John on to the chair but he was like a ragdoll,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\n\"He wasn't moving and he wasn't speaking.\"\n\nShe said when paramedics arrived Mrs Scholten did not inform them of the table drop element during the treatment only that she had been applying \"gentle manipulation\".\n\nHe was initially taken to York Hospital where the family was told he had a broken neck.\n\n\"They said unfortunately John was a paraplegic and needed to be moved to a special unit,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\nThe following day, at Leeds General Infirmary, she was told Mr Lawler had a broken neck and would need a 14-hour operation to install a neck brace.\n\nIt would be a traumatic operation and they were told it \"might kill him anyway\", she said.\n\nShe said during this discussion her husband made some mumbling noises.\n\n\"We decided he was saying no [to the operation],\" she said.\n\n\"There was nothing they could do. He lay there and just faded away,\" she added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "STOCK PICTURE: Many shop workers suffer threats and even assaults from customers, says Usdaw\n\nJackie McKenzie, 56, has worked at a supermarket petrol station in Bathgate, Scotland for the last 20 years.\n\nDuring that time, the amount of abuse she has faced while doing her job has been rising.\n\n\"I've been verbally abused on a daily basis,\" she said. \"It's getting a bit out of hand to be honest.\"\n\nShe is not alone, according to a new survey, which has found that retail staff are abused, threatened or assaulted on average 21 times a year.\n\nA survey of over 4,000 retail staff by shop workers' union Usdaw, found that around two-thirds have experienced verbal abuse, while 41% were threatened by a customer and nearly 5% were assaulted.\n\nThe trade union has been campaigning to stop abusive behaviour towards retail staff for a number of years and in June called on the government to tackle the problem.\n\n\"People think that just because we work behind a till there's no reason to respect us,\" said Michelle Whitehead, 46, a convenience store worker in Wolverhampton.\n\n\"It's terrible to say but you get used to being threatened. When someone comes and shouts at you it does affect you. Sometimes you have to walk away from the counter and count till 10 so you don't burst into tears.\"\n\nMs Whitehead, who has been a retail worker for almost three decades, says that incidents used to occur once in a while but now she receives abuse from customers on a weekly basis.\n\nShe said she often encounters difficulties when dealing with young people who are underage but seeking to purchase alcohol or cigarettes.\n\nShe has also been spat at for refusing to hand over parcels from the post office counter without proof of ID.\n\nRetail worker Michelle Whitehead says that no one intervenes when customers shout at her\n\nAlthough neither Ms Whitehead or Ms McKenzie have been assaulted, they have witnessed violent attacks.\n\nMs McKenzie said one night, while managing the shop on her own, she witnessed a young man run into the convenience store begging for help and a minute later, another boy had run in and started beating him up.\n\n\"I shouted to him to stop from behind the counter and pressed the panic button, and the police did come. But by that time the guy had a broken arm and a broken jaw, and the shop was trashed,\" she said.\n\nThe two workers are campaigning for retailers and the government to make changes so retail staff can feel safe while they are at work.\n\nThey want signs up in stores telling customers to respect staff, more police on patrol and for retailers to impose a life-time ban on customers who persistently abuse shop workers.\n\nAbusive customers should also have to face criminal charges, they said.\n\n\"If that's the only corner shop you can go to, it might make you think if you could have a life-time ban,\" said Ms Whitehead.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour parties will mark Armistice Day with pledges to improve the lives of UK service personnel and their families.\n\nThe Tories say they would change the law to protect veterans from \"vexatious\" legal action, if they win 12 December's general election.\n\nThey are also promising extra childcare for military families and a new railcard for veterans.\n\nLabour is promising improved support for forces children and better wages.\n\nAnd the Liberal Democrats want to waive leave to remain fees for armed forces personnel who were born outside the UK.\n\nIt is the first time since 1923 that Armistice Day - commemorating the end of World War One - has fallen during a general election campaign.\n\nSpeaking ahead of a trip to the Midlands to meet forces personnel, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"As we remember the ultimate sacrifice made by our brave men and women for their country just over a century ago, it is right that we renew our commitment to the soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and veterans of today.\"\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to change the law to protect forces veterans from \"vexatious\" legal action, if the Conservatives win a majority at the election.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"After a decade of government cuts and outsourcing, Labour offers our armed forces real change with the pay, conditions and respect they deserve.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the party will introduce legislation to ensure the Law of Armed Conflict has primacy and that peacetime laws are not applied to service personnel on military operations.\n\nUnder the proposals, the Tories would amend the Human Rights Act so it does not apply to issues - including deaths during the Troubles in Northern Ireland - that took place before it came into force in 2000.\n\nThe pledge comes as six former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are facing prosecution.\n\nThe cases relate to the killings of two people on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in January 1972; as well as the deaths in separate incidents of Daniel Hegarty, John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann and Aidan McAnespie. Not all of the charges are for murder.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland has said that of 32 so-called Troubles legacy cases it has taken decisions on since 2011, 17 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five are connected to the Army.\n\nBoris Johnson met veterans on Monday during a visit to Wolverhampton\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace told BBC Radio 4's Today programme any changes would not affect current criminal prosecutions brought against service personnel, but in future, those who wanted to pursue complaints against the forces would have to go to the European Court of Human Rights rather than UK courts.\n\n\"At the moment, because of the Human Rights Act, people can go via our courts and use our systems to constantly reopen this and we don't think that is right or fair,\" he said.\n\nBut members of both the Ulster Unionist Party and Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland have criticised the pledge.\n\nThe UUP's Doug Beattie - a retired Army captain - said it would allow for \"terrorists... to get away scot-free\", while Sinn Féin's Linda Dillon said it was \"unacceptable\" to give soldiers, past and present, \"immunity\".\n\nIrish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney also said the proposal was \"very concerning\", tweeting: \"The law must apply to all, without exception, to achieve reconciliation.\"\n\nConservative plans to exempt British troops from human rights laws during combat were first announced in 2016 by Mr Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May, but they have yet to be put into law.\n\nThe Tories are also promising to extend the school day for forces children aged 4 to 11, and a guaranteed job interview for any public sector role veterans apply for.\n\nThe party has also announced plans for a new Veterans' Railcard offering a third off rail fares. A HM Forces Railcard can already be bought by serving personnel for £21 a year.\n\nThis isn't the first time the Conservatives have promised to end what they've called \"vexatious legal claims and prosecutions against British soldiers accused of wrongdoing on the battlefield\" - such as allegations of abuse or unlawful killing.\n\nThe past four Tory defence secretaries have all pledged to introduce legislation to protect serving personnel and veterans, but have so far failed to deliver.\n\nThe thorniest issue has been what to do with killings and deaths that took place during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Tories now believe they might have a solution by amending the Human Rights Act so it does not apply to incidents before 2000.\n\nBut recent history has shown any change will be easier said than done.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, is restating pledges it made in June for Armed Forces Day to improve support for forces children with better access to schools and dedicated local authority admissions strategies to help with frequent school moves.\n\nThe party says its plan to scrap the public sector pay cap will boost the income of the lowest paid members of the forces.\n\nAccording to Labour analysis, the starting salary of a private is £1,159 lower in real terms than in 2010.\n\nArmed forces pay was frozen to an increase of 1% between 2013 and 2017 by Conservative-led governments. The independent Armed Forces Pay Review Board recommended a 2.9% rise for 2018/19, which the government chose to implement as a 2% increase with a 0.9% one-off payment.\n\nLabour is also promising to provide \"decent housing\" for forces personnel and their families by ending the reliance on the private rented sector.\n\nJeremy Corbyn took part in the silence in his Islington constituency\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, said it was time to pay service personnel a \"proper wage\", adding: \"We ask them to make the ultimate sacrifice. The least we can do is offer them decent pay.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are going to make sure that our armed forces are looked after properly because we don't think that they have been until now.\n\n\"And on a day a like today, I think it is very important to emphasise the priority that we will be giving to our Armed Forces, our veterans and their families.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has been talking about the starting pay for an army private, which has fallen after taking account of rising prices since 2010.\n\nThat's the salary you get after you've been assigned to a unit and completed training.\n\nMr Corbyn was using figures calculated before the government introduced a larger-than-usual increase in April 2019.\n\nThe starting salary in 2010 was £17,015, which in 2019 money would be £20,650. The starting salary since April has been £20,000, so it has clearly fallen in real terms, but not by the £1,200 he cited.\n\nThe Lib Dems said leave to remain fees - the payment made when someone born outside the UK wants to stay in the country - had been \"increased to exorbitant levels\" and \"prevented many brave veterans from taking up their right to settle in the UK with their families\".\n\nThe cost is currently £2,389 per person, and the party has pledged to scrap that for veterans.\n\nThe Lib Dem's defence spokesman, Jamie Stone, said: \"These men and women risk their lives in the service of our country, and the fact they are treated this way by the Conservative Party is yet another horrible example of the hostile environment.\n\n\"A Liberal Democrat government will waive the outrageous application fees for members of the armed forces on discharge and their families.\"", "A young woman accused of witchcraft by Puritan ministers appeals to Satan to save her\n\nWould you have stood up to a witch-hunt? In 1597, a Glasgow woman called Marion Walker did just that, taking on the most powerful and vengeful men in the land.\n\nMarion Walker used the methods of the modern day whistleblower. She obtained, copied and leaked documents. She wanted the guilty held to account for the horrors of the Glasgow witch-hunt, a shocking miscarriage of justice even by the standards of the day.\n\nWe know more about her thanks to Dr Daniel MacLeod of the University of Manitoba. He came across Marion as he researched the networks of resistance of the city's Catholics.\n\n\"She's a clear and active resister of the new Protestant religion over three decades,\" Dr MacLeod says.\n\n\"She's a widow, she's not wealthy but she's got an ability to be heard.\"\n\nMarion was not afraid to take on any foolhardy minister who dared to upbraid her.\n\nAn illustration depicts a woman being burned at the stake for the crime of engaging in witchcraft\n\nHer Glasgow wasn't like Glasgow today. For one thing, says Dr MacLeod, it was tiny, \"maybe even half the size of modern day Fort William\".\n\nYet it became the stage for one of the worst excesses of the Scottish witch-hunt.\n\nInnocent people were being falsely accused by an utterly bogus witch-finder and put to death.\n\nThe witch-finder was also a woman - the so-called \"Great Witch of Balwearie\", Margaret Aitken.\n\nShe'd been arrested for witchcraft in Fife and tried to save her skin by claiming she could identify other witches just by looking in their eyes.\n\nThe authorities, including King James VI, saw her as a new super-weapon in the war on Satan, and soon terrified Glaswegians were being led out in front of this desperate individual. People were being strangled and burned at the stake because of her evidence.\n\nA group of supposed witches being beaten in front of King James\n\nThen as the witch-hunt went on, someone had a bright idea. Take the people Margaret condemned one day and bring them back the next in different clothes and a different order. The great witch turned witch-finder failed to recognise them, condemning and exonerating a different selection.\n\nIt dawned on the ministers and magistrates that what they really had was a horrifying fraud. They'd killed people for nothing. They ran for cover.\n\nAnd this is where Marion stepped up. She wasn't going to let the ministers get away with this, particularly not John Cowper, the Great Witch's most zealous promoter. Cowper was a thin-skinned vengeful individual.\n\n\"He was not very popular\" says Dr MacLeod. \"But I think he did a lot of it to himself.\"\n\nMarion wanted to take him down. Through her networks of resistance she managed to get her hands on the most incriminating document of all, the final confession of the Great Witch herself where she pointed her finger at Cowper and blamed him for all that he had done. The church wanted to hush it up - so Marion circulated it.\n\nCowper was livid. Thanks to Marion, the confession was passing hand-to-hand, making sure Glaswegians knew exactly who to blame for the deaths of their innocent friends and relatives. To strike back at her, he mobilised his fellow ministers to back him up.\n\nAccording to Dr MacLeod: \"The presbytery passed this act threatening the branks for any who blamed the ministry of the city for putting to death the persons lately executed for witchcraft.\"\n\nThe use of branks torture devices was first recorded in Scotland in 1567\n\nThe branks were literally a gag - the scold's bridle - with a metal cage for the head and often with a prong to stop the mouth. But in the end they backed off. They didn't dare gag Marion.\n\n\"It would go on almost a cycle,\" said Dr MacLeod. \"Marion would 'slander' Cowper, he would call her before the presbytery and it would go on like that, but the root of it was this confession and her role in passing it around.\"\n\nBut wasn't Marion putting herself in danger of being prosecuted as a witch?\n\nDr MacLeod thinks people were a bit more sophisticated than that.\n\n\"They knew she wasn't a witch but a defender of wrongfully-accused women,\" he said.\n\nMarion lived to fight another day against the Protestant ministry. She became a prominent supporter of the Jesuit, John Ogilvy, who was eventually martyred, but despite being linked to him by multiple witnesses she survived that too.\n\nIn the fevered religious environment of the time, it took courage to harbour a hunted man.\n\nDr MacLeod said: \"A lot of times when we think about women in the early modern religious context we think of this quiet, meek kind of devotion but that is not Marion Walker.\"\n\nFind out more about Marion Walker and how King James himself got caught up in the scandal in Episode 2 of our BBC Radio Scotland podcast 'Witch Hunt' now available on BBC Sounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farage: \"The Brexit Party will not contest 317 seats\"\n\nNigel Farage has ditched plans to take on the Tories in more than 300 seats, after what he said was Boris Johnson's \"shift of position\" on Brexit.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had planned to run candidates in 600 seats after Mr Johnson rejected his offer of a \"Leave alliance\" to deliver Brexit.\n\nBut he has been under pressure not to split the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nThe party will not now stand in 317 seats won by the Tories in 2017, but will continue to stand elsewhere.\n\nMr Farage said his party would focus its efforts on trying to take seats held by Labour, whom he accused of \"betraying\" its Leave-supporting voters.\n\nThe BBC's Alex Forsyth said some Brexit Party candidates had expressed concern about Mr Farage's plan to stand against the Tories in 600 constituencies, fearing it could hand an election victory to Labour and lead to another EU referendum.\n\nThe Brexit Party is less than a year old and does not have any MPs - but it was the clear winner in the UK's European elections in May, with more than 30% of the vote.\n\nMr Johnson welcomed Mr Farage's move, calling it \"a recognition that there's only one way to get Brexit done, and that's to vote for the Conservatives\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Donald Trump \"got his wish\" when Mr Farage announced his electoral strategy.\n\nHe said the Brexit Party leader was offering a \"Trump alliance\" that would lead to \"Thatcherism on steroids\" and threaten the future of the NHS.\n\nThe US president had previously urged Mr Farage to team up with Boris Johnson, saying they would be \"an unstoppable force\".\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Farage's decision \"shows the Conservatives and the Brexit Party are now one and the same\".\n\nMr Farage made the announcement in Labour-held Hartlepool - a top target for his party\n\nExplaining his U-turn to supporters in Hartlepool, Mr Farage said Boris Johnson had recently signalled a \"big shift of position\" in his approach to Brexit.\n\nHe cited a pledge by the PM not to extend the transition period that would follow the UK's departure from the EU under the terms of his Brexit deal.\n\nThe period would see the UK stick to the EU rules on issues such as freedom of movement until December 2020.\n\nMr Farage also said he was encouraged by recent commitments from Mr Johnson to seek further divergence from EU rules in a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nHe added that this was a \"huge change\" from the kind of trade pact that had been planned under former PM Theresa May.\n\nMr Farage's decision prompted dismay among some Brexit Party candidates who had been hoping to stand in Tory-held seats next month.\n\nNeil Greaves, who had been due to stand for the party in the Essex seat of Harlow, told the PA news agency that Mr Farage had \"let Brexiteers down\".\n\nHe said he planned to continue to stand in the constituency as an independent pro-Brexit candidate, and urged fellow former candidates to do the same.\n\nThe party's candidate in Mansfield tweeted that the move meant the \"opportunity to stand up for democracy\" had been \"snatched away\" from candidates.\n\nMr Farage had previously offered to not stand candidates against the Tories in certain seats if the prime minister changed aspects of his Brexit deal.\n\nBut the proposal was rejected by Boris Johnson, who said deals with \"any other party\" would \"risk putting Jeremy Corbyn into No 10\".\n\nMr Farage said he had \"genuinely tried\" to forge a so-called \"Leave alliance\" with the Tories, but his efforts had gone nowhere.\n\n\"In a sense we now have a Leave alliance, it's just that we've done it unilaterally,\" he added.\n\nMr Farage has already confirmed he will not be standing himself in the election, saying he wanted to concentrate on helping his party's candidates.\n\nHypothetically, the decision by the Brexit Party leader makes it notionally easier for the Tories to keep seats they hold already.\n\nBut it's a million miles away from giving them a clear run.\n\nMr Farage says he will still stand candidates in Labour areas.\n\nAnd for the prime minister to get the majority he craves, the Tories have to take seats that are currently held by Labour, not just hold on their existing MPs.\n\nScottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon said the Conservatives have \"effectively become the Brexit Party\".\n\nShe added that defeating the Tories in Scotland \"will help deprive Boris Johnson's increasingly extreme and right-wing party of the majority they crave\".\n\nAnti-Brexit parties Plaid Cymru, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats have agreed not to stand against each other in 60 seats across England and Wales.\n\nTheir pact means that, in Wales, two of the parties will agree not to field a candidate, boosting the third candidate's chances of picking up the Remain vote.\n\nIn England, it will simply be a two-way agreement between the Lib Dems and the Greens.", "Sheku Bayoh died in 2015 after being restrained by police in Kirkcaldy\n\nThe family of a Fife man who died in police custody said they felt \"betrayed\" after being told that no-one will be prosecuted over his death.\n\nSheku Bayoh never regained consciousness after being restrained by officers in a Kirkcaldy street in 2015.\n\nThe 31-year-old, who had taken the drugs MDMA and Flakka, was found to have suffered 23 separate injuries.\n\nHis family said CCTV and phone footage cast doubt on claims made by officers about events leading up to his death.\n\nThey have described the decision not to prosecute the officers as a \"betrayal of justice\" and are now calling for a public inquiry.\n\nThe Crown Office said the decision not to prosecute had been taken after a \"thorough review\" of all the available evidence.\n\nThe officers involved have always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nMr Bayoh's family had initially been told in October 2018 that no criminal charges would be brought over his death.\n\nHowever, two months later evidence uncovered by BBC Scotland raised fresh questions about the way he had been treated by police officers before he died in their custody.\n\nCCTV, other footage and documents obtained by the BBC previously casts doubt on some of the officers' accounts of the events that led to Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nThe Disclosure investigation included evidence that the first officers on scene escalated the situation instead of trying to defuse it, and other evidence that Mr Bayoh's actions were exaggerated in official police documents.\n\nA review of the decision not to prosecute the officers has been carried out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Bayoh's family met Crown Office officials on Monday, when they were told that prosecutors would not be pursuing criminal charges in the case.\n\nAamer Anwar, the family's lawyer, said they felt \"totally betrayed\" by Lord Advocate James Wolffe.\n\nMr Anwar said the decision was a \"betrayal of justice\" and a \"failure to act in the public interest\".\n\nHe said: \"Neither the family or the legal team accept the Crown's reasoning for no criminal charges.\n\n\"The Lord Advocate has presided over a four-and-a-half year investigation which was deeply flawed from the moment Sheku lost his life.\"\n\nAamer Anwar and the Bayoh family met Crown Office officials on Monday\n\nEither a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) or a public inquiry will now be held into Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Anwar said the family was formally requesting that the Scottish government consider holding a public inquiry, and would accept \"nothing less\".\n\nHe added: \"The family do not have the trust or belief that a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) under the control of the Lord Advocate would have the remit or the courage to deal with serious public concerns, the wider issues of deaths in custody, use of restraint techniques, allegations of racism, lack of police accountability and the insufficient powers of the PIRC, nor will the findings of an FAI be binding on Police Scotland.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"I note the independent decision of the Lord Advocate in relation to this case and my thoughts remain with the family and friends of Mr Bayoh.\n\n\"As I have said previously, I am not ruling out the possibility of a public inquiry and that remains an option. I also made clear that I would first meet Mr Bayoh's family. I, and the First Minister, will do this tomorrow and I will update Parliament following that.\"\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"Following careful consideration and thorough review of all the available evidence, including submissions made on behalf of the family of the deceased, independent Crown Counsel has concluded there should not be a prosecution in this case.\n\n\"Although the evidence currently available would not justify criminal proceedings, the Crown reserves the right to prosecute should evidence in support of that become available.\"\n\nDavid Kennedy, the deputy general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, said: \"We continue to support the officers involved in this incident and hope that any public or fatal accident inquiry follows as soon as possible for all the parties involved.\"", "Labour's Keith Vaz, who was suspended from the Commons after he was found to have \"expressed willingness\" to purchase cocaine for others, will not be standing for re-election.\n\nMr Vaz, who has been MP for Leicester East for 32 years, said in a statement he was retiring from Parliament.\n\nHe said it had been \"an honour and a privilege\" to serve his constituency.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he had \"made a substantial and significant contribution to public life\".\n\nMr Vaz was suspended for six months after a scathing report by the Commons standards commission, which found he \"disregarded\" the law by \"expressing a willingness\" to help buy cocaine for male prostitutes.\n\nHe had been re-selected as Labour's candidate in Leicester East a few weeks before the publication of the standards report.\n\nIf he had been re-elected in 12 December's general election he could have taken up his seat, with the suspension requiring a new vote in the next Parliament.\n\nLabour's ruling National Executive Committee failed to reach a decision on Mr Vaz's future last week - but he has faced calls from Labour allies to stand down.\n\nLabour must now choose a new candidate in the constituency before Thursday's deadline.\n\nThe standards committee said in its report that there was \"compelling evidence\" Mr Vaz offered to pay for a class A drug and had paid-for sex in August 2016.\n\nThe revelations, first reported by the Sunday Mirror, led to him standing down as chairman of the Home Affairs committee - which at the time was conducting an inquiry into drug policy.\n\nMr Vaz, a former Europe minister, rejected the standards committee's claim that he had been \"evasive or unhelpful\" during the investigation into his conduct.\n\nA statement on his website said he was admitted to hospital on the day the committee's report was published.\n\nIt said he had been receiving treatment for a \"serious mental health condition\" since details of the encounter were published in 2016.\n\nIn a statement, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"Keith Vaz was among the pioneering group of black and Asian Labour MPs elected in 1987. I was proud to support his selection and incredibly proud when he won, taking the seat from the Tories.\n\n\"Keith has made a substantial and significant contribution to public life, both as a constituency MP for the people of Leicester and for the Asian community across the country. He has helped to pave the way for more BAME people to become involved in politics.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said Mr Vaz's work in Parliament had been \"exemplary\".\n\nMr Vaz said in a statement: \"I have decided to retire after completing 32 years as the Member of Parliament for Leicester East.\n\n\"In that time I have won eight general elections. It has been an honour and a privilege to serve my constituency since I came to the city in 1985.\n\n\"I want to thank the people of Leicester East for their absolute loyalty and support.\"", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nRaheem Sterling admitted \"emotions got the better of me\" after being dropped for England's Euro 2020 qualifier against Montenegro following a clash with team-mate Joe Gomez.\n\nThe Football Association said Sterling had been dropped \"as a result of a disturbance in a private team area\".\n\nThe Manchester City forward, 24, then took to social media to confirm \"a five to 10 second thing\" with Liverpool's Joe Gomez, 22, in the England camp.\n\nBut he added the pair were now \"good\".\n\nSterling and Gomez had an on-field argument during the Reds' 3-1 Premier League victory at Anfield on Sunday.\n\n\"Both Joe and I have had words and figured things out and moved on,\" Sterling said via his Instagram account on Tuesday.\n\n\"We are in a sport where emotions run high and I am man enough to admit when emotions got the better of me.\n\n\"This is why we play this sport because of our love for it - me and Joe Gomez are good, we both understand it was a five to 10 second thing... it's done, we move forward and not make this bigger than it is.\n\n\"Let's get focus on our game on Thursday,\" Sterling added.\n\nIt is understood Sterling turned on Gomez in the canteen, and other players pulled them apart.\n\nThe Liverpool defender was unhappy about what happened, but Sterling apologised and both now consider the matter to be over.\n\nEngland boss Gareth Southgate consulted with senior players and they agreed with the plan to drop Sterling.\n\n\"Unfortunately the emotions of yesterday's game were still raw,\" said Southgate on Monday.\n\n\"One of the great challenges and strengths for us is that we've been able to separate club rivalries from the national team.\n\n\"We have taken the decision to not consider Raheem for the match against Montenegro on Thursday. My feeling is that the right thing for the team is the action we have taken.\n\n\"Now that the decision has been made with the agreement of the entire squad, it's important that we support the players and focus on Thursday night.\"\n• None England must 'lose the arrogance', says Southgate\n• None Players to wear 'legacy numbers' as part of 1,000th match celebrations\n\nEngland play their 1,000th senior men's international on Thursday and a point at Wembley would book a spot at Euro 2020 with one qualifying game to spare.\n\nThe Three Lions are top of Euro 2020 Qualifying Group A, three points clear of the Czech Republic and four ahead of Kosovo with the top two nations advancing.\n\nA win or a draw for Southgate's side will see them qualify.\n\nEngland then play their final group match away in Kosovo on Sunday.\n\nSterling, who joined Manchester City from Liverpool in 2015, has made 55 appearances for England, scoring 12 times, and netted in the 5-1 away win in Podgorica in March, while Gomez has featured seven times for the national side.\n\nHowever, Gomez has struggled for first-team action for Liverpool this season, starting only one Premier League match.\n\nSterling has started 11 of City's league matches in 2019-20 and has scored 14 times in 17 appearances in all competitions for his club, as well as scoring four times for England.\n\nFormer England and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said the incident could have been \"handled better\".\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Ferdinand suggests Southgate \"would no doubt have seen worse many times during his time as a player and manager\".\n\n\"I just feel this could and should have been handled better to support the player and not hang him out to dry,\" he continued.\n\n\"One of our world-class players who has conducted himself wonderfully through racism and unwarranted criticism in an England shirt will now come under more scrutiny and be vilified in the media no doubt - when this could have been dealt with internally. Hindsight is a great thing though.\"\n\nToday is a media day with England and I'm sure the long lenses will be focused on Sterling and Gomez. The big point in all of this is that during the time Gareth Southgate has been the England manager, team harmony has been one of the key things.\n\nHe has often told us how they have worked on defusing club rivalries, because it has been a problem with England in the past. Sterling will remain with the squad and one of the things Southgate said was that the emotions from Sunday's match were still raw and the decision to leave Sterling out has been made with the agreement of the entire squad.\n\nSterling has come on a storm in the last year or so, while his development has continued with Manchester City and England. He has scored 10 goals in his past 10 internationals and he did captain England when he won his 50th cap against the Netherlands in June.\n\nTime will move on and we will always refer to this, but he is such an important player for England, I would go as far to say he is the first name on the team sheet. So I would not rule him out of captaining his country in the future.", "Cutting the speed of ships has huge benefits for humans, nature and the climate, according to a new report.\n\nA 20% reduction would cut greenhouse gases but also curb pollutants that damage human health such as black carbon and nitrogen oxides.\n\nThis speed limit would cut underwater noise by 66% and reduce the chances of whale collisions by 78%.\n\nUN negotiators will meet in London this week to consider proposals to curb maritime speeds.\n\nShips, of all sorts and sizes, transport around 80% of the world's goods by volume. However they are also responsible for a significant portion of global greenhouse emissions thanks to the burning of fuel.\n\nShipping generates roughly 3% of the global total of warming gases - that's roughly the same quantity as emitted by Germany.\n\nWhile shipping wasn't covered by the Paris climate agreement, last year the industry agreed to cut emissions by 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels.\n\nThis new study, carried out for campaign groups Seas at Risk and Transport & Environment builds on existing research that suggests that slowing down ships is a good idea if you want to curb greenhouse gases.\n\nThe report though also considers a range of other impacts of a speed cut such as on air pollution and marine noise.\n\nAs ships travel more slowly they burn less fuel, which means there are also savings in black carbon, sulphur and nitrogen oxides. The last two in particular have serious impacts on human health, particularly in cities and coastal areas close to shipping lanes.\n\nThe report found that cutting ship speed by 20% would cut sulphur and nitrogen oxides by around 24%. There are also significant reductions in black carbon, which are tiny black particles contained in the smoke from ship exhausts.\n\nSlowing ships down would cut the amount of fuel burned\n\nCutting black carbon helps limit climate warming in the Arctic region because when ships burn fuel in the icy northern waters, the particles often fall on snow, and restrict its ability to reflect back sunlight, which accelerates heating in the Arctic region.\n\nThe study also says that a 20% cut in speed would reduce noise pollution by two thirds - while the same speed limitation would reduce the chances of a ship colliding with a whale by 78%.\n\n\"It's a massive win, win, win, win,\" said John Maggs from Seas at Risk.\n\n\"We've got a win from a climate point of view, we've got a win from a human health point of view, we've got a win for marine nature, we've got a potential safety gain, and up to a certain point we are saving the shipping industry money.\n\n\"It is also of course by far the simplest of the regulatory options. Thanks to satellites and transponders on commercial vessels it really is quite easy to track their movements and the speed they are travelling.\"\n\nProposals to reduce the speed of ships are among the ideas that will be considered at this week's meeting of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in London.\n\nExperts believe that in the medium to long term, the industry will move to alternative fuels. But there is considerable pressure, including from many countries and shipping companies, for effective short term measures to curb emissions.\n\nOne proposal from France would focus on oil tankers and bulk carriers but not container or cruise ships. Denmark is proposing that the industry has a goal-based standard, where it is up to the individual shipping companies as to how they meet it.\n\nMany shipping companies are in favour of slowing down.\n\n\"Slow steaming not only reduces the fuel costs but its application does not require time-consuming procedures as it can be implemented instantly, it requires no investment from ship owners, can be easily monitored and is the most efficient means of slashing CO2 emissions,\" said Ioanna Procopiou, a Greek shipping company owner.\n\nBut the idea is not supported by some of the biggest names in the trade.\n\n\"Maersk remains opposed to speed limits,\" said Simon Christopher Bergulf, who is Regulatory Affairs Director with the giant Danish shipping conglomerate.\n\n\"We rather support the principle of applying power limitation measures. Focusing on power instead of speed limits will help deliver on the CO2 reduction targets set by the IMO, whilst rewarding the most efficient ships.\"\n\nWhat gives campaigners hope is that shipping has already tried out the concept of going slow - back in 2008, during the global financial crisis, cargo ships slowed down to cut costs. With average speeds dropping by 12% this helped cut daily fuel consumption by 27%, which equated to a significant drop in emissions.\n\nCampaigners believe that whatever decision the IMO eventually comes to will involve slower steaming.\n\n\"The short term measure, whatever it is, is going to reduce ship speed,\" said John Maggs.\n\n\"We think the best way to do this most effectively is with a direct speed limit, whether we get that or not is unknown, but ships will have to slow down in the future.\"", "The Buckley family are concerned about the future of Scunthorpe\n\n\"I think it will just go downhill. It'll be left almost barren.\"\n\nJulian Buckley paints a gloomy picture of his hometown of Scunthorpe if the British Steel plant closes down.\n\nSitting around the family dining room table over a fish-and-chip supper, Julian, aged 21, tells me he hopes to come back home to live after graduating from Liverpool University.\n\n\"I actually want to work in health and safety, which the steelworks would be such a good employer for.\n\n\"But if it's not there, I'll have to look somewhere else. And that's the problem really, isn't it?\"\n\nJulian's father Matthew has been working at British Steel's on-site power station in Scunthorpe for 19 years, but now fears losing his job.\n\n\"The last few months have been quite awful really,\" he admits, reflecting on months of rumour and fear about the future of the plant.\n\nMatthew, who is 50, has faced this situation before. He used to work at British Steel in Stoke-on-Trent and left just before it closed in 2000.\n\n\"We started to reduce shift patterns,\" he recalls.\n\n\"You felt that the writing was on the wall, and it was only a matter of time before that closed, so we decided to take the plunge and we transferred up here.\"\n\nThe family settled in the pretty village of Winterton, six miles north of the town centre. But in 2016, Matthew faced another job crisis when Tata, the owners of the Scunthorpe plant, decided to sell up.\n\n\"We were at a really sticky place there,\" Matthew says.\n\n\"It took a long time to get the ball rolling and get some interest from the central government.\n\n\"We had marches in Scunthorpe and London to keep steelmaking alive and well in the town.\"\n\nThe campaign worked. London-based Greybull Capital moved in to save the company, but it was only a temporary reprieve.\n\nIn May, they too conceded defeat and British Steel was forced into liquidation.\n\nMatthew's wife Joy, 48, says: \"If the worst comes to worst, and the steelworks does actually shut, it will be devastating for so many people here.\n\n\"People will probably have to move away.\"\n\nJulian reflects on the youngsters who he grew up with, who didn't go to university, but instead secured much-prized British Steel apprenticeships.\n\n\"Without the steelworks, they won't get those apprenticeships,\" he says.\n\n\"They'll either be stuck in Scunthorpe because they haven't got those skills, or they will have to look elsewhere, and you'll have this exodus of young people.\n\n\"It sounds cheesy, but they are the future of society.\n\n\"Without all those young people, what's going to happen to Scunthorpe?\"\n\nFile on 4 investigates the collapse of British Steel on Radio 4 on Tuesday 2 July at 20:00.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have agreed not to stand against each other.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have formed an electoral pact, agreeing not to stand against each other in dozens of seats.\n\nThe deal between the three anti-Brexit parties will cover 60 constituencies across England and Wales.\n\nChair of the Unite to Remain group Heidi Allen said it was \"an opportunity to tip the balance of power\".\n\nThe three parties all support another Brexit referendum and want the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nTheir pact means that, in Wales, two of the parties will agree not to field a candidate, boosting the third candidate's chances of picking up the Remain vote.\n\nIn England, it will simply be a two-way agreement between the Lib Dems and the Greens.\n\nLib Dem candidate Layla Moran said the Unite to Remain group had approached Labour about pacts, but \"they said no [and] they didn't even enter into those conversations\".\n\nIn a speech in Liverpool earlier, Labour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said: \"We will never enter pacts, coalitions, or deals like that - ever.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Stephen Gethins said: \"If other parties want to deliver a Remain message in Scotland, they know they have to get behind the SNP.\"\n\nThursday marks exactly five weeks until the UK general election on 12 December.\n\n\"We are delighted that an agreement has been reached,\" said Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson. \"This is a significant moment for all people who want to support Remain candidates across the country.\"\n\nThe pact follows a similar deal earlier this year in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, when Plaid Cymru and the Greens agreed not to put forward a candidate but instead gave way to the Lib Dems' Jane Dodds. She went on to defeat the Conservative incumbent, Chris Davies.\n\nLib Dem MP Jane Dodds (third from left) celebrates her by-election win\n\nIt's impossible to know in advance whether this will affect who wins any of the constituencies.\n\nNone of them would have had a different result in 2017 if Liberal Democrat, Plaid Cymru and Green votes had been added together.\n\nIt's also likely that Brexit will have a bigger influence on how people vote at this election, so the idea of having a united candidate for Remain could give them a boost.\n\nThere are some seats already held by one of the parties where their majorities will be bolstered, such as Arfon and Bath.\n\nAnd there are other places where it makes it a bit easier to win, such as Cheltenham, Montgomeryshire and Winchester - all places the Lib Dems are gunning for - and Ynys Mon, a target for Plaid.\n\nIn England, the Greens will stand aside for the Lib Dems in 40 seats including Totnes, York Outer, Winchester and Twickenham.\n\nAnd the Green Party will run unchallenged by the Lib Dems in nine seats including the Isle of Wight, Bristol West, Exeter and Brighton Pavilion - where Caroline Lucas is the Greens' only MP.\n\nThe pact comes after Plaid Cymru's leader Adam Price wrote to several pro-Remain parties earlier this year, calling on them to work together in a snap general election.\n\nIn Wales, the plan will involve the Lib Dems and Greens standing their candidates aside for Plaid Cymru in seven seats including Pontypridd.\n\nThe deal does not involve the Ceredigion seat - which is currently held by Plaid Cymru but is a top election target for the Lib Dems.\n\nHowever Mike Powell, who had been the Lib Dem candidate in Pontypridd, said he would run as an independent against Plaid Cymru.\n\nHe told Radio 4's World at One: \"I think the people deserve to have an opportunity to vote for someone who is going to represent the people of Pontypridd, rather than standing to represent a cause to remove Wales from the United Kingdom.\n\n\"I know there is an awful lot of members in the Welsh Liberal Democrats who are extremely unhappy with the way these negotiations have been dealt with.\"\n\nThe prospective parliamentary candidates for Pontypridd chosen by their parties so far include Alex Davies-Jones (Labour), Steve Bayliss (the Brexit Party) and Fflur Elin (Plaid Cymru).\n\nIn Northern Ireland the Green Party has said it will not stand candidates in East, West or North Belfast.\n\nGreen Party NI leader Clare Bailey said she was \"prepared to put the need to have pro-Remain MPs returned ahead of party interest\".\n\nSinn Fein leader Michelle O'Neill welcomed the move, which she said would maximise \"the representation of pro-Remain and progressive candidates facing down DUP Brexiteers across Belfast\".\n\nLast week, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage called on Boris Johnson to form a similar election pact. He wanted the PM to drop his Brexit deal and then agree to stand aside candidates for each other.\n\nMr Johnson rejected the offer and said he would not enter election pacts.", "The destroyed remains of the automatic air freshener\n\nA west Belfast man has spoken of his family's lucky escape, after an automatic air freshener exploded on top of a wood-burning stove.\n\nThe explosion happened in the living room of a house in the Lagmore area at about 23:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nA number of family members were in the house, including two children.\n\n\"I came home on Saturday evening, came in and lit the fire, it was very very cold,\" said the father, who didn't want to be named.\n\n\"Myself, my brothers and the wife were in the kitchen. Literally maybe 20, 30 minutes even, we just heard this almighty explosion.\n\n\"The kitchen window went in. I came into the living room and the whole, front window had been blew out.\"\n\nThe father said that they were sitting behind the door at the time and if somebody was beside the door they could have been blown \"out the window with it\".\n\nThe plastic casing scarred the top of the wood burner as it melted, then exploded\n\nThe two children, along with their mother, were upstairs when the explosion happened. They had left the living room minutes beforehand.\n\nAs they all ran downstairs to see what had happened, the mother fell down the stairs, suffering a pelvic injury.\n\n\"It blew open the door, but this is the amazing thing - there's not a pick of damage in the living room,\" said the father.\n\n\"There's mirrors, there's pictures, there's lamps, TV - not one bit of damage. Just the windows have been blown out. I just can't get my head around it.\"\n\nThe front window was blown out during the explosion\n\nHe added: \"My gas box is in the living room.\n\n\"How that didn't explode - we just have to thank our lucky stars.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has urged people to be vigilant and always store any aerosol canisters away from any naked flames or heat.\n\n\"When I lit the fire, I hadn't even realised it was even sitting on top of the fireplace,\" said the householder.\n\n\"It's been sitting throughout summer, that's the first time the fire has been lit in months.\n\n\"Hopefully, someone will learn something from us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A two-minute silence was observed around the country\n\nThe UK has fallen silent for the 101st Armistice Day since World War One to commemorate those who died in conflict.\n\nIt is the centenary of the first two-minute silence, held on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.\n\nThe Royal British Legion called on the nation to put busy lives on pause, set aside differences and remember those who risked their lives.\n\nPoliticians marked the day by offering pledges to improve the lives of UK service personnel and their families.\n\nThe tradition of a two-minute silence to remember the dead began exactly a year after the end of World War One.\n\nAhead of this year's commemoration, the Royal British Legion called on the nation to put down digital devices to pay their respects to service personnel.\n\nVeterans and members of the public observed the silence at Edinburgh Garden of Remembrance\n\nThe Last Post was played at the National Memorial Arboretum\n\nTravellers and railway workers stopped to observe the silence at London's King's Cross station\n\nIn a video message, the legion said the commemoration was non-political and non-partisan. It featured 21-year-old actress Eno Mfon saying: \"You don't have to agree with the politicians, you don't have to like their decisions.\"\n\n\"The two-minute silence unites us all and is as relevant today as it was 100 years ago,\" said Catherine Davies, the legion's head of remembrance.\n\nA silent crowd in Liverpool was showered with poppy petals\n\nThey also covered Liverpool's statue of the unknown soldier\n\nMusic teacher John Hare played the Last Post at St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School in Bristol\n\nOn Sunday, the Queen led tributes to the fallen at the annual ceremony at the Cenotaph in London.\n\nThe Royal Family also attended the Royal British Legion's annual Festival of Remembrance on Saturday. It was the first time the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had been seen with other family members since they revealed they were struggling with life in the public eye.", "A fifth of young people in the UK have been bullied in the past 12 months, an annual report has found.\n\nThree out of four people who were bullied said it affected their mental health and nearly half became depressed as a result, according to the study by charity Ditch the Label.\n\nThese figures were almost identical to those from last year's survey.\n\nChildren's commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, said \"more needs to be done\" in light of the \"worrying\" data.\n\nMore than 2,000 young people aged between 12 and 20 provided responses for the survey about their experiences of bullying and the impact it has had on their lives in the past year.\n\nIt also assessed prejudice-based views including racism, sexism, homophobia, disablism and transphobia in an effort to better understand bullying behaviour.\n\nDitch the Label is an international charity supporting young people aged 12 to 25 to help tackle the \"root issues\" around bullying. Its annual survey has become its \"flagship\" piece of research, chief executive officer Dr Liam Hackett said.\n\nMs Longfield said the impact bullying has on children can be \"enormous\", affecting their confidence, self-esteem and mental health.\n\n\"More needs to be done at home and in schools to help those who are the victims of bullying and also, crucially, to prevent children from bullying in the first place,\" she added.\n\nSome children who were bullied described cyberbullying as a major part of the problem, with one 14-year-old boy adding: \"I go to school and get bullied. Go home and online and still get bullied. I can't ever escape it.\"\n\nOthers cited teachers' unhelpful reaction to bullies, with one 15-year-old boy saying his teacher was homophobic: \"Whenever anyone in class makes comments, they just laugh and do nothing about it.\"\n\nThe report comes as analysis of NHS figures suggests the health service cancelled 175,000 mental health appointments for children and young people in the past year.\n\nMental health charity Mind has published data indicating a 25% increase in the number of cancelled or postponed appointments for young people accessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.\n\nIt suggests 175,094 appointments were cancelled or postponed by the NHS service between August 2018 and July 2019 compared with 140,327 in the same period the year before.\n\nMind said the figures were taken from the NHS Digital Mental Health Services Data Set.", "First of all, this does clearly gives Boris Johnson an easier time in some of the seats that the Tories need to hold - there's no question about that.\n\nBut second of all, if he wants to get the majority that he craves, the Tories have to be taking seats from the other parties and particularly in this context, from Brexit voters who normally vote Labour.\n\nNow in a really tightly-fought seat - somewhere where it's really close between Labour and the Conservaive Party - if those natural Labour voters who were Brexiteers decide to go for the Brexit Party then the Tory Party would be very likely to come up short in their competition to get the majority that they crave.\n\nBut the third thing to say about all of this. It was not so long ago that in the European elections in the spring that Nigel Farage's Brexit Party looked like they had the chance of sweeping through the political establishment.\n\nThat was his dream. And today he has been shown to have fallen well short of that. Of course his party is still likely to have an impact on this election.\n\nBut in the words of one insider in Westminster tonight, it's like the finish line has been moved a little bit, but it's basically still the same race.", "Greetings card chain Clintons is considering shop closures and rent cuts as part of a survival plan.\n\nThe retailer, which has about 2,500 staff, is in restructuring talks with landlords in another sign of the High Street crisis.\n\nA spokeswoman told the BBC no decisions have yet been made.\n\nClintons was responding to reports on Sunday that it wanted to close 66 out of 332 shops, with landlords slashing rents on most of the other stores.\n\nThe restructuring would involve a controversial scheme known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), an insolvency process that allows companies to continue trading while pushing through closures and rent cuts.\n\nA Clintons spokeswoman said \"discussions are continuing with our landlords but no decisions have been made\".\n\nBut she declined to comment on a Sunday Telegraph report that the company told landlords 90 of its shops were loss-making and that sales were expected to continue to decline.\n\nOne landlord told the BBC that although there was a meeting with Clintons last week, very few details of the restructuring plan were given. More talks are expected this week.\n\nThe Sunday Times said landlords would have until 20 December to air their objections to a CVA. However, landlords have taken an increasingly tough stance on the growing use of CVAs and are more prepared to fight demands for rent cuts.\n\nThe retailer, formed in 1968, is owned by the Weiss family, which previously controlled the American Greetings retail chain in the US.\n\nClintons, previously known as Clinton Cards, had appointed advisers from consultancy KPMG to explore a potential sale, but it is thought no acceptable offers were received.\n\nNews of Clintons' restructuring comes days after baby goods retailer Mothercare announced its UK operation was going into administration, putting 2,500 jobs at risk.\n\nMothercare is part of a long list of High Street names to go under, including Maplin and Poundworld. Others, including Homebase, Debenhams and Carpetright, have been forced into restructuring.\n\nA string of restaurant chains have also closed amid a squeeze on consumer spending.\n\nRetail experts expect more pain, however, as firms approach the make-or-break Christmas trading period. It is common for banks to wait until they have a clearer picture of Christmas and New Year sales before pulling the plug on retailers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA four-storey tenement building in Glasgow's southside has collapsed after a fire spread from a ground floor shop.\n\nThe fire caused widespread disruption in the area with road cordons, school closures, power cuts and water supply problems.\n\nFire crews worked through the night to tackle the blaze in the building on Albert Cross in Pollokshields.\n\nResidents were evacuated and one person has been treated for the effects of breathin in smoke.\n\nThe fire in the 143-year-old B-listed building is now under control but it has destroyed the shop and the homes above it.\n\nIt is thought to have started in the minimarket Strawberry and Spice Garden late on Sunday evening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glasgow East Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlbert Drive has been closed to traffic between Shields Road and St Andrews Road and is expected to remain closed for several hours. The area around Albert Cross is also closed to pedestrians.\n\nGlasgow City Council said Pollokshields Primary School on Albert Drive had been closed. School staff have moved to the Tramway arts centre to offer support to pupils and their families.\n\nPollokshields Early Years Centre on Melville Street, Pollokshields Library and businesses in the immediate area are also shut.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted a photo of the aftermath of the \"devastating\" fire\n\nScottish Water said use of fire hydrants had caused low water pressure and discoloured water in the surrounding streets.\n\nPower supplies were cut off from some properties in the G41 area at 04:00 at the request of the emergency services, but were expected to be restored by midnight, Scottish Power Energy Networks reported.\n\nOffers of help for members of the emergency services and people affected by the fire came from Glasgow Gurdwara on Albert Drive, local churches, staff at the Bank of Scotland and a nearby school, St Albert's Primary.\n\nFirefighters are dampening down the remains of the property\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said they had 60 firefighters, nine fire appliances and two height appliances tackling the fire during the night.\n\nTwenty firefighters remain at the scene for an \"extensive dampening down operation\".\n\n\"The fire had initially taken hold within a commercial premise and thereafter affected a number of dwelling flats above,\" she said.\n\n\"Crews worked through the night to surround and contain the fire which, due to its severity, caused a partial collapse of the building.\"\n\nIncident Commander James McNeil added: \"This has undoubtedly been a challenging and protracted incident that required considerable resources to meet.\"\n\nInsp Mags Brennan, who is leading the police response, said: \"While we appreciate the disruption to the local community, road closures are in place for safety reasons and will remain there for the foreseeable.\n\n\"While our partners are confident that there are no casualties, a joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way with the fire service and further updates will be provided when available.\"\n\nActor Tom Urie, who plays Gordie Gemmel in the BBC drama Guilt, witnessed the blaze and described the firefighters' actions as \"astonishing bravery\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who represents the area in the Scottish Parliament, described it as \"dreadful news\" for affected residents and businesses and urged constituents who need help to email or call her office.\n\nAfter visiting the scene she offered her \"heartfelt\" thanks to emergency service workers.\n\n\"This is a dark day for Pollokshields and everyone affected is in my thoughts,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"While the first priority is help for those directly affected, the location of this fire makes it a blow to the whole community. But Pollokshields is a strong community and I know everyone will rally round.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon visited the scene of the fire\n\nHumza Yousaf, Scotland's justice minister, also tweeted his thanks to the fire service for dealing with the \"very dangerous\" incident in the \"heart of the community\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Boles quit the Tories over their position on Brexit in March\n\nA former Tory MP has condemned the \"appalling choice\" voters face between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIn a scathing attack in the Evening Standard, Nick Boles accused Mr Johnson of being a \"compulsive liar\" and called Mr Corbyn a \"totalitarian\".\n\nMr Boles - who quit the Tories over their stance on Brexit - also revealed he would vote Liberal Democrat.\n\nHe said it would \"not entail the kind of moral compromise\" of voting Tory or Labour in 12 December's election.\n\nBBC News has contacted the Conservatives and Labour for a response.\n\nMr Boles urged people to vote for \"whichever party is best-placed to challenge\" the two largest parties in Westminster.\n\nLast week, former Labour MP Ian Austin said he would be voting Conservative as Mr Corbyn was \"completely unfit to lead our country\".\n\nIn his article, Mr Boles said the 12 December poll would be \"the only election in modern times in which you wouldn't trust either of the prime ministerial candidates to mind your children for an hour, let alone run the country\".\n\nThe former MP, who used to work for Mr Johnson when he was Mayor of London, made a number of personal attacks about his old boss' honesty.\n\nHe also accused the PM of \"turning the party of Disraeli and Churchill into a vehicle for shrill English nationalism\", and said Mr Johnson had \"purged its ranks of anyone who favours a close relationship with our European partners\".\n\nTurning his fire on Mr Corbyn, Mr Boles said: \"Like all leaders of a totalitarian mindset, he is entirely uninterested in the lives of individual human beings.\n\n\"He cares only for classes and factions, and the struggle between abstract political forces.\"\n\nMr Boles said voters \"will not remake Britain's political system in one day\", but could make a start by voting for his former political rivals, the Liberal Democrats.\n\n\"I will vote for Jo Swinson's candidate because it will not entail the kind of moral compromise that voting Conservative or Labour would,\" he added.\n\n\"I trust her to pursue the closest possible relationship with the European Union after Brexit.\n\n\"And, most of all, because the Liberal Democrats will insist on electoral reform and the introduction of a proportional voting system, which is essential if we are ever to break free of the tyranny of the two big parties and open up British politics to new forces, new faces and new ideas.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nick Boles dramatically quit his party during a speech in the Commons in March 2019\n\nMr Boles was part of a cross-party group of MPs who tried to find a compromise in Parliament back in March around a Brexit proposal that would retain access to the single market.\n\nAfter his \"Common Market 2.0\" plan was rejected by MPs for the second time, he accused his party of \"failing to compromise\", saying he could no longer represent them in the Commons and would sit as an independent.\n\nHe has decided not to stand at the upcoming election.", "Rescuers used boats to reach people trapped in Rotherham\n\nAlmost 50 flood warnings are in place across England after days of persistent rain.\n\nFive severe warnings - deemed a threat to life - remain on South Yorkshire's River Don, with flooding in that area likely to continue until Wednesday.\n\nTowns and cities across Yorkshire and the Midlands have faced disruption and in some cases emergency evacuations.\n\nFormer High Sherriff of Derbyshire Annie Hall was swept to her death by the flooded River Derwent near Matlock.\n\nIn addition to the severe warnings, the Environment Agency earlier issued a further 43 warnings - meaning flooding is expected - and 103 alerts.\n\nIt said water levels were still very high on stretches of the River Don and expected flooding in that area until midweek.\n\nA military helicopter would be used on Sunday evening to drop sandbags at Bentley Ings by the river.\n\nA flooded field 100 metres from the River Don on the outskirts of Kirk Bramwith in South Yorkshire\n\nRoads to Fishlake have been closed, cutting off the South Yorkshire village\n\nOn Sunday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who visited flood-hit Derbyshire on Friday, said he was \"in awe of the community's spirit and resilience in the face of this awful ongoing event\".\n\nHe said he was receiving regular briefings on the situation and added the government's emergency Bellwin scheme had been activated to reimburse eligible councils for certain costs they incur.\n\nBoris Johnson visited Matlock on Friday where he met emergency workers\n\nA military helicopter has been delivering sandbags to flood-hit Doncaster\n\nDoncaster Council reiterated its call to evacuate Fishlake and has set up a rest centre in nearby Stainforth \"for as long as is needed\".\n\nAccording to the Salvation Army, some people had been rescued from their homes by boat since the early hours of Saturday morning but others remained in their properties.\n\nDamian Allen, chief executive of Doncaster Council, said: \"We are concerned over reports that some residents remain in the Fishlake area.\n\n\"South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue crews are on hand to evacuate any Fishlake residents who may be stuck in their homes, and we would urge everybody to take advantage of this.\n\n\"The council are unable to offer on-the-ground support to residents who are in severe flood warning areas, based on advice from the Environment Agency.\"\n\nThe authority said it expected it would be \"at least 48 hours until you can return to your homes, if not longer\" and was told by the Environment Agency that flood waters in the village would \"not start to go down for at least the next 24 hours\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHelen Batt, from the agency, said 4,000 properties had been protected by flood defences in the village, but added 300 had been flooded, with more than 1,200 evacuated.\n\nBBC reporter Richard Cadey said some roads around Fishlake had been closed and the village was \"effectively cut off because of flooding\".\n\nMany parts of the area remain under 3ft (1m) of water and only tractors are able to get in by some roads.\n\nHe said people on the ground had told him 90% of the homes there had been flooded.\n\nPam Webb, who owns a spa in Fishlake, said: \"We've got blue skies, it looks picturesque until you actually get in to the village and you see the devastation that's been caused to homes and businesses.\n\n\"Devastating is an easy word to use but it's completely devastating and it's heartbreaking.\"\n\nPam Webb's business in Fishlake is among the many that have been flooded in the village\n\nMany parts of Fishlake remain under 3ft (1m) of water\n\nTrying to get to Fishlake seemed like an impossible task. The village has suffered severe flooding and I was constantly met by road and bridge closures.\n\nIn nearby Stainforth people had collected food in the local pub and taken it to those stranded in Fishlake by tractor. But now even this has become impractical.\n\nThe 63-year-old told me he had never seen flooding as bad as this in his lifetime. He put it down to a number of different factors, including torrential rainfall and the lack of dredging on the River Don.\n\nThis was a recurring concern from a number of residents and they all echoed Mr Pashley's call for dredging to begin again on this section of the river.\n\nThe fields surrounding these villages were like lakes and Mr Pashley's field of potatoes was submerged by up to five feet of water, just two weeks before he was due to harvest them.\n\nKirk Bramwith has also seen flooding\n\nNational Rail said a number of routes were affected by flooding and advised those travelling by train to check before setting out.\n\nSome train routes between Doncaster and Sheffield were closed and Northern Rail has warned commuters they are likely to remain shut until further notice.\n\nIn Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 12 properties remained evacuated after a landslide at an old quarry site saw debris and soil fall onto Band End Close.\n\nBassetlaw District Council said it was being removed and \"temporary safety measures\" had been put in place.\n\nNatalie and Jonathan Palmer were evacuated from their home in Mansfield, along with their children, and are staying in a hotel.\n\nThey said they had been told they would not be able to return to their property for at least a fortnight, adding they were \"disgusted and angry\" at the prospect.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Newark, people living in mobile homes were evacuated on Saturday evening as river levels peaked in the town.\n\n\"Major incidents\" were declared on Friday in Worksop after the River Ryton burst its banks and in South Yorkshire as a result of wide-spread flooding.\n\nBoats were used in Worksop town centre to help evacuate flooded premises\n\nParts of Worksop were without power on Saturday.\n\nFirefighters evacuated 25 homes, and a community information point has been set up for those affected by the floods.\n\nIn Derby city centre, officials considered a city-wide evacuation as authorities saw the River Derwent swell to record levels of 3.35m (11ft).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommunities around Matlock, Derbyshire, where flood victim Annie Hall was swept away, are cleaning up after the flooding.\n\nRowsley Church of England Primary School is trying to raise £5,000 after its classrooms were heavily damaged.\n\nGovernor Marianne Quick said: \"The school will remain closed until it has been expertly assessed but the likelihood of our children getting back into their much loved classrooms anytime soon is unlikely.\"\n\nResident Sarah Sutcliffe said: \"Parents, teachers and especially the children are all distraught about the damage which has been caused.\"\n\nRowsley Church of England School, which sits on the confluence of the River Wye and the River Derwent, was extensively damaged\n\nOne of the most severely hit areas has been Bentley in Doncaster, where flooding affected many homes 12 years ago.\n\nOne resident told BBC Radio Sheffield: \"The worry is our insurance policies are expensive as it is because of the 2007 floods, so now we're all worried whether we're going to get reinsured.\"\n\nSome residents were \"angry and frustrated\" at Doncaster Council - claiming it had not provided sandbags early enough to prevent properties from flooding, the station reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage filmed from Matlock shows the extent of the floodwater\n\nHomes in Stainforth, Thorpe in Balne and Trumfleet have also been evacuated.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said it had extra officers out on patrol to \"protect the evacuated areas and support those affected by the floods\".\n\n\"There is no suggestion of any criminality resulting from the floods but we hope our extra patrols can offer at least a little reassurance to those worst affected.\"\n\nAnnie Hall's family said they were “in great shock\"\n\nHave you been affected by the floods? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A poster from the time of Shona Stevens' murder\n\nThe killer of a woman who was murdered 25 years ago has been urged to \"search your conscience\" by police.\n\nShona Stevens was savagely attacked in broad daylight 200 yards (180m) from her home in Irvine, North Ayrshire, in November 1994.\n\nMs Stevens, 31, suffered \"horrific injuries\" and died three days later.\n\nHer mother and her daughter, who was only seven at the time, joined police in marking the anniversary with a fresh appeal for information.\n\nAsked if he had a message for the killer, Det Supt Paul Livingstone said: \"It has been 25 years. It is a huge burden. Shona's family have endured this for too long now. Do the right thing and come forward.\"\n\nDet Supt Paul Livingstone issued a direct appeal to the killer to mark the 25th anniversary of Ms Stevens' murder\n\nOn Thursday 10 November, 1994, Ms Stevens left the Co-op at Bourtreehill Shopping Centre and was last seen alone on Towerlands Road at 13:10.\n\nTen minutes later her body was found in bushes near a footpath, close to the rear of her home in Alder Green in the Bourtreehill Park area.\n\nDet Supt Livingstone described the attack as \"vicious and frenzied\".\n\nHe said: \"Her family have had to endure this for too long now. That's why we are having this appeal 25 years on, because I firmly believe that the answer lies in the local community.\"\n\nOfficers believe a weapon was involved but it was never recovered.\n\nDet Supt Livingstone also said the inquiry team were keeping an open mind as to a motive for the crime.\n\nHe would not disclose whether officers had a DNA profile of the suspect but said technology was constantly creating new forensic opportunities.\n\nDuring the Elaine Doyle murder trial in 2014 a court heard that convicted killer Gavin McGuire was interviewed in connection with Ms Stevens' murder.\n\nThe then Strathclyde Police staged a reconstruction of Ms Stevens' final movements\n\nDespite extensive media coverage, including a reconstruction of Ms Stevens' final movements, no one has been brought to justice.\n\nThe senior detective also encouraged anyone who knew the identity of Ms Stevens' attacker to consider the devastating impact the crime has had on her family, especially her daughter.\n\nHe said: \"Shona was a young mother who was subject to an unprovoked attack that has left her family devastated and we want to trace those responsible.\n\n\"I think everyone can assume for themselves what it must have been like for any child to grow up without a parent.\n\n\"That to me is all the catalyst that anyone should need that, if they have any information, to come forward and tell us about that.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is very much an open case and we will keep working away until we find who is responsible and bring them to justice.\"\n\nHe said the footpath where Ms Stevens was found was regularly used by the public to access Bourtreehill Shopping Centre.\n\nShona's mother, Mhairi Smith, issued an emotional appeal to the media a week after the murder in November 1994\n\nAs part of the new appeal Ms Stevens' family issued brief statements through Police Scotland.\n\nDaughter Candice, who is now one year older than her late mother, said: \"I was only seven at the time of my mum's murder but that does not make it any easier to deal with.\n\n\"I spent a large part of my childhood years growing up without my mum and I would please ask anyone who knows anything about the incident to please come forward.\"\n\nThe victim's mother Mhairi Smith said: \"It has been 25 years since Shona was taken from us and we are still as hopeful as ever that those responsible for her murder can be brought to justice.\n\n\"I cannot emphasise enough how important even the smallest piece of information could be in being able to give me and my family closure.\n\n\"I want to know who was responsible for this attack and why they did it. If you have any information about Shona and her murder please contact the police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma the dog is now recovering\n\nA pet Chihuahua had a \"very lucky\" escape when a bird of prey tried to snatch it, according to its owners.\n\nSheila Gillanders, 72, said 18-month-old Emma was only saved thanks to the quick actions of her husband Robert.\n\nThe buzzard-like bird tried to take the pet from their garden in Aberdeen's Stoneywood on Friday.\n\nBut Mr Gillanders, 65, managed to get to the predator and release the dog from its talons. Emma is now recovering at home after being treated by a vet.\n\nMrs Gillanders said: \"We heard a bell and it was a bird of prey coming down - it must have escaped from its handler.\"\n\nShe explained: \"It pinned her against the fence. It only got so far up, but my husband was able to get the bird off her.\n\n\"It then just looked at us. It was a really big bird, like a buzzard. It was definitely trained, as it was wearing a bell.\"\n\nEmma was taken to the vet, and is receiving medication.\n\nMrs Gillanders hopes the appeal will lead to the bird's handler to come forward.\n\nHer owner added: \"She is a bit bruised but otherwise she was not physically injured.\n\n\"Her stress is sky-high and we are struggling to get her back out in the garden.\n\n\"It was very lucky. If it had not been for my husband getting to her so quickly I dread to think what could have happened.\"\n• None Seagull 'flew off with Gizmo the Chihuahua'", "British Airways has launched a review into a money-saving practice which increases its greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nIt follows a BBC investigation exposing \"fuel tankering\" by airlines - in which planes are filled with extra fuel, usually to avoid paying higher prices for refuelling at destination airports.\n\nThe industry-wide practice could mean extra annual emissions equivalent to those of a large European town.\n\nBA now says that using tankering to cut costs \"may be the wrong thing to do\".\n\nHowever, the airline added that it also uses the practice for safety and operational reasons, including helping planes to turn around quickly.\n\nBBC Panorama has discovered the airline's planes generated an extra 18,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide last year through fuel tankering.\n\nCost savings made on a single flight can be as small as just over £10 - though savings can run to hundreds of pounds.\n\nResearchers have estimated that one in five of all European airlines' flights involves some element of fuel tankering.\n\nThe practice on European routes could result in additional annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to that produced by a town of 100,000 people.\n\nCritics say the widespread use of the practice undermines the aviation industry's claims that it is committed to reducing its carbon emissions.\n\nJohn Sauven, Greenpeace UK's executive director, told the BBC that fuel tankering was a \"classic example of a company putting profit before planet\".\n\nResponding to BA's decision to carry out a review, Mr Sauven, said it showed how the airline industry had been treating climate change \"like a PR problem\".\n\n\"This is why we need government-enforced reduction targets to ensure airlines take responsibility for the damage their emissions are causing,\" he said.\n\nJohn Sauven called for rules and regulations to be \"tougher\"\n\nInternational Airlines Group (IAG), the company that owns BA, says it wants to be the world's leading airline group on sustainability.\n\nBA boasts it even prints its in-flight magazine on lighter paper to save weight.\n\nYet BBC Panorama has seen dozens of internal BA documents that show up to six tonnes of extra fuel have been loaded onto planes in this way. It has also seen evidence that Easyjet carries extra fuel in this way.\n\nAirlines can save money from the fact that the price of aviation fuel differs between European destinations.\n\nBA insiders say the company - like many airlines running short haul routes in Europe - has computer software that calculates whether costs can be saved by fuel tankering.\n\nThe software will calculate whether there is a cost saving to be made. If there is, crews load up the extra fuel.\n\nAn example of documents seen by Panorama show that a recent BA flight to Italy carried nearly three tonnes of extra fuel.\n\nThe extra weight meant the plane emitted more than 600kg of additional carbon dioxide - the same emissions one person is responsible for on a return flight to New York.\n\nThe cost saving on that trip was less than £40, but the documents Panorama has seen show that it can be even lower than that.\n\nIAG made an annual profit of €2.9bn (£2.6bn) in 2018, about 80% of which came from BA.\n\nA BA insider described the practice as \"hypocritical\".\n\n\"For such a big company to be trying to save such small amounts while emitting so much extra CO2 seems unjustifiable in the current climate,\" he said.\n\nIn response to the claims, the chief executive of BA's parent company, IAG, announced the airline would carry out a review of the practice.\n\nOn Friday, Willie Walsh told investors that the airline wanted to ensure it was not \"incentivising the wrong behaviour\" from managers.\n\n\"Because clearly the financial saving would have incentivised us to do fuel tankering,\" he said.\n\n\"But maybe... this the wrong thing to do and the wrong thing to incentive. So we want to make sure we have our incentives aligned to the right activities so ensure financial sustainability but also environmental sustainability.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to reduce your carbon footprint when you fly\n\nBA said it was common practice for the airline industry to carry additional fuel on some flights.\n\nThe airline said for BA this applies mainly to short-haul destinations \"where there are considerable price differences between European airports\".\n\nIt said the additional emissions from the airline represented approximately 2% of the total extra emissions generated by all airlines tankering fuel in Europe, based on research by Eurocontrol.\n\nBA pointed out that since 2012 all flights within Europe had been covered by the EU Emissions Trading System.\n\nIt added that from 2020 the company would offset all CO2 emissions from its UK domestic flights.\n\nEasyjet said it had reduced the level of tankering in recent years and that it only took place on a tiny proportion of flights for operational and commercial reasons.\n\nEurocontrol, the body which coordinates air traffic control for Europe, has calculated that tankering in Europe resulted in 286,000 tonnes of extra fuel being burnt every year, and the emission of an additional 901,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.\n\nIt calculates that the practice saved airlines a total of €265m (£228m) a year.\n\nEurocontrol described the practice as \"questionable\" at a time when aviation is being challenged for its contribution to climate change.\n\nPanorama: Can Flying Go Green? is on BBC1 at 20:30 GMT on 11 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeane Freeman has said she did not make details of the child's death public due to patient confidentiality\n\nThe health secretary says she knew in September a child had died after contracting an infection possibly linked to water at Glasgow's largest hospital, but did not make it public.\n\nJeane Freeman learned in September that the patient had died after contracting an infection in a cancer ward in 2017.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she acted on the information but chose to maintain patient confidentiality.\n\nLabour MSP Anas Sarwar has described the situation as a \"cover-up\".\n\nMs Freeman said she felt for the child's parents.\n\nShe said: \"I deeply regret not only the death of their child. In any circumstance that has to cause a pain that I can't possibly imagine, but I also deeply regret that they feel they haven't been given the information that they have a perfect right to receive and are entitled to.\n\n\"They have my commitment to act to ensure that situation does not happen to parents in the future.\n\n\"I don't regret honouring patient confidentiality. But upholding patient confidentiality does not mean I don't act on the information I am given.\"\n\nMr Sarwar had raised the issue - which was brought to light by an NHS whistleblower - during First Minister's Questions on Thursday.\n\nThe whistleblower raised concerns about the findings of a review into infections in child cancer patients.\n\nThe MSP said he had seen information which showed that senior managers were repeatedly alerted to the fact a previous review failed to include cases of infection related to the water supply in 2017. He said the parents of the child had never been told the true cause of their child's death.\n\nGreater Glasgow Health Board say a link between the infection and the hospital cannot be proven because regulations at the time did not require water testing.\n\nMr Sarwar said: \"This is a remarkable confession from the health secretary.\n\n\"There are now incredibly serious questions for the government and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to answer, and a huge challenge to rebuild trust.\"\n\nLabour MSP Anas Sarwar described the allegations as a 'scandal'\n\nHe added: \"This devastating death has been covered up since September. Jeane Freeman says she acted, but the most important act would be to inform the parents.\n\n\"At the centre of this scandal is a tragic loss of life, and the priority must be seeking answers for the parents who lost a child.\"\n\nLast September, two wards at the Royal Hospital for Children were closed and patients moved to the adjoining Queen Elizabeth University Hospital as Health Protection Scotland (HPS) investigated water contamination incidents.\n\nAn HPS investigation found 23 cases of blood stream infections with organisms potentially linked to water contamination were identified between 29 January and 26 September, 2018.\n\nThe Daily Record reported a clinician-led team at NHSGGC investigated further back than 2018.\n\nThe whistleblower who contacted Mr Sarwar claimed this investigation found up to 26 cases of water supply infections in children in the cancer wards in 2017, and that one child with cancer died after contracting an infection.\n\nIn March a report found some areas of the hospital could not be cleaned properly because they were awaiting repair work.\n\nThe inspection was ordered by Ms Freeman after patients became infected with a fungus linked to pigeon faeces.\n\nMr Sarwar said he has had difficult information shared with him before but this case \"felt different\".\n\nHe added: \"I immediately imagined how I would feel if that was my child, if I was that parent. I would want to know - I would expect answers.\"\n\nAn NHSGGC spokesman said: \"When a patient dies in our care, our clinical teams discuss with family members the cause of death and the factors that have contributed to this, where they are known.\n\n\"Patients who are very sick are prone to infections and we closely monitor all infections to ensure patients are appropriately cared for. \"\n\nHe said that two individual cases of Stenotrophomonas were investigated in 2017 which were not linked and those were reported to Health Protection Scotland and the NHSGGC Board.\n\nThe cases were reviewed again in July 2019 when the clinical view was taken that no further action was required.\n\nHe added: \"At the time of the initial investigation into these cases, national guidance did not include a requirement for health boards to test for Stenotrophomonas in the water supply.\n\n\"As no tests were carried out at the time, it is not possible to conclude that these infections were connected to the water supply. It is extremely disappointing therefore that a whistleblower has made this claim causing additional distress to families and to other families of cancer patients.\"", "US President Donald Trump has confirmed he will travel to London 10 days before the UK general election.\n\nHe will be in the capital with the first lady for the Nato summit between 2 and 4 December.\n\nMr Trump will also attend a reception at Buckingham Palace, which will be hosted by the Queen.\n\nThe president has previously been criticised for voicing his opinions of British political leaders, including Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe White House said in a statement that the president \"looks forward to meeting\" the other Nato leaders and would \"emphasize the need for the Nato alliance to ensure its readiness for the threats of tomorrow\".\n\nThese threats include \"those emanating from cyberspace, those affecting our critical infrastructure and telecommunications networks, and those posed by terrorism,\" the statement said.\n\nIt said the leaders would \"review the alliance's unprecedented progress on burden-sharing, including adding more than $100bn (£76bn) in new defence spending since 2016.\"\n\nIn October the president criticised Mr Johnson's Brexit deal with the EU, saying it restricted the US's ability to do future trade with the UK.\n\nSpeaking to the Brexit Party leader, Nigel Farage, on LBC, he said that without the deal the two countries could \"do many times the numbers\" than now.\n\nThe US president also took aim at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying he would be \"so bad\" as prime minister.\n\nMr Corbyn accused him of \"trying to interfere\" in the UK general election to boost \"his friend Boris Johnson\".\n• None In pictures: Trump's state visit to the UK", "Alibaba chief executive Daniel Zhang has praised Hong Kong's \"bright\" future as the Chinese e-commerce giant prepares to list in the embattled financial hub.\n\nThe firm, which is already traded in the US, hopes to raise up to $13.4bn (£10.4bn) in its secondary listing.\n\nThat would make it the biggest share sale this year, according to Dealogic.\n\nThe move is seen as a boost for Hong Kong, diluting fears that protests have tarnished its financial reputation.\n\nThe city has grappled with anti-government protests for nearly five months and violent clashes escalated this week .\n\n\"During this time of ongoing change, we continue to believe that the future of Hong Kong remains bright,\" Alibaba Chairman Daniel Zhang said.\n\nHe described the city as \"one of the world's most important financial centres\".\n\nMr Zhang - who succeeded Jack Ma to take Alibaba's top job earlier this year - said the company hoped to \"contribute\" to the future of Hong Kong.\n\nThe company will offer 500 million shares, priced at up to HK$188 ($24) each for retail investors. Shares are due to start trading on 26 November.\n\nThe sale could knock Uber off the top spot as this year's biggest IPO, according to Dealogic data. The ride-sharing firm raised $8.1bn in its New York float in May.\n\nOver the years, Alibaba has grown from an online marketplace into an e-commerce giant with interests ranging from financial services to artificial intelligence.\n\nThe company said the new listing will allow investors across Asia to \"participate in Alibaba's growth,\" as it seeks to tap \"substantial new capital pools\" in the region.\n\nThe Hangzhou-based firm had originally considered a Hong Kong IPO in 2013, but opted for New York after failing to secure regulatory approval in the Asian territory.\n\nThe move to go ahead with the share sale in Hong Kong comes after Alibaba reportedly delayed plans to list there earlier this year, amid ongoing unrest and the US-China trade war.\n\nThe protests started in June against plans to allow extradition to the mainland - which many feared would erode the city's freedoms.\n\nHong Kong is part of China, but as a former British colony it has some autonomy and people have more rights.\n\nWhile the extradition plans were withdrawn in September, the demonstrations have continued, with protesters calling for an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality, and democratic reform.", "The Conservatives have pledged to reduce business rates for small firms in a bid to help \"left-behind\" towns, if they win the general election.\n\nUnder their plans, they would also extend discounts on business rates to smaller cinemas and music venues.\n\nThey are also offering to make it easier for local groups to buy community buildings such as post offices.\n\nBut Labour said the Tories had destroyed High Streets and towns.\n\nThe Conservatives have also promised £500m to reverse cuts to the railway network made in the 1960s by Dr Richard Beeching, which affected smaller towns and villages, and a £350m fund for improving cycling infrastructure.\n\nBoris Johnson promised measures to help \"overlooked and left-behind\" towns, and help people \"put the heart back into the places they call home\".\n\nThe Conservatives are battling with opposition parties for votes in marginal constituencies ahead of the 12 December general election.\n\nThe party said that, if re-elected, it would increase the business rate discount available to smaller firms from 33% to 50% in 2020/21.\n\nIt is also planning to introduce a new £1,000 business rates relief scheme for pubs, which it says amounts to an £18m tax cut next year.\n\nThe changes to business rates would only apply to England. Business rate regimes are set separately in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIf you want to make a retailer's blood boil, just say the words \"business rates\" and it usually does the trick.\n\nMany see the tax as an extra burden on them based on the size and value of their properties, no matter how well their businesses are doing.\n\nThat feels tough when so many are already struggling to compete against competitors online.\n\nBut if retailers were hoping to see some big changes or radical overhauls, they'll be disappointed.\n\nThese promises from the Conservative party will be welcomed by those who would benefit - the smallest retailers, independent cinemas, and little local pubs.\n\nBut they are relatively cheap give-aways, skirting round the edges of a tax which raised £31bn last year.\n\nJust two weeks ago the Treasury select committee released a report into what they described as the \"broken\" and \"unfair\" rates system.\n\nThey challenged the government to take a serious look at alternative systems, which it seems the Conservatives are quietly side-stepping in this election.\n\nThe Conservatives are also pledging to give community groups up to nine months - up from the current six - to buy buildings listed as 'assets of community value'.\n\nThe groups will also be able to apply for cash from a £150m fund for helping with making bids for the designated buildings, such as post offices and pubs.\n\nMaking the announcements, Mr Johnson said: \"For too long, too many towns and villages across Britain have been overlooked and left behind.\n\n\"When the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016, many communities felt their voices had been heard for the first time in decades and their lives would improve.\n\n\"We will invest in these communities and help people put the heart back into the places they call home.\n\n\"We need to get Brexit done so that we can unleash the potential of all our towns, cities and villages.\n\n\"We will be able to save our High Streets, keep pubs and post offices open and re-connect places to the rail network half a century after they were cut off.\"\n\nBut Labour highlighted cuts to local councils, which the party said had hit the most deprived areas particularly hard.\n\nShadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne said: \"A decade of vicious cuts to the services that people in our communities rely on has taken 60p in every £1 from council budgets.\"\n\n\"There is a clear choice in this election on 12 December: more of the same with Boris Johnson's Tories or real change and investment under Labour.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Ed said Labour and the Tories are \"competing to bankrupt Britain\".\n\nA Liberal Democrat government would spend £100bn tackling the effects of climate change and protecting the environment, the party's deputy leader has announced.\n\nSir Ed Davey said the five-year investment would \"jump-start\" efforts to combat the \"climate emergency\".\n\nThe pledge would be funded through borrowing and tax changes, to be set out in detail in the party's manifesto.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour both have targets to reduce carbon emissions.\n\nSir Ed, who served as secretary of state for energy and climate change in the coalition government, said his party would \"decarbonise capitalism\" if elected.\n\nHe said a Lib Dem administration would be a \"government of business\" by stopping Brexit, increasing investment in infrastructure, and promoting new green jobs.\n\nSpeaking in Leeds, he also pledged his party would build a new tram or metro system in the West Yorkshire city.\n\nSir Ed, who is also the party's finance spokesman, said the climate investment would include a new £10bn \"renewable power fund\" to leverage more than £100bn of extra private climate investment.\n\nEnvironmental campaigners recently floated a replica of a British home in the River Thames to highlight rising sea levels\n\n\"This will fast track deployment of clean energy, to make Britain not just the world leader in offshore wind, but also the global number one in tidal power too.\n\n\"And we will invest £15bn more to make every building in the country greener, with an emergency ten-year programme to save energy, end fuel poverty and cut heating bills.\"\n\nThe party said the policy would be funded through £85bn of borrowing and £15bn raised through tax changes, which will be detailed in its manifesto.\n\nSir Ed also attacked the \"fantasy economics\" of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, claiming that the spending plans unveiled by the two parties represent a \"debate between fantasies\".\n\n\"Fantasies born of nostalgia for a British Imperial past. Competing with fantasies from a failed 1970s ideology.\"\n\nHe said his party would not do any kind of deal with Mr Johnson or Mr Corbyn if no party wins a majority on 12 December.\n\nBut he said they would vote \"issue by issue\" with a minority Conservative or Labour government, in an effort to make them more \"moderate\".\n\n\"What we will not do is have a coalition or have a supply and confidence relationship, because we think these parties have become too extreme,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could your vote save the planet? This Matters looks into what's really going on in this election\n\nHe also repeated his claim that stopping Brexit would deliver a £50bn \"Remain bonus\" for public services, due to better economic growth.\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris said the vast majority of forecasts do expect the economy would be bigger if the UK were to stay in the EU.\n\nBut he added the size of that \"bonus\" cannot be predicted with any certainty, and £50bn was not a hugely significant amount in terms of overall government expenditure.\n\nThe Lib Dem climate pledge follows the Green Party's promise to appoint a \"carbon chancellor\" to allocate £100bn per year towards climate change.\n\nLabour has announced it would make all new-build homes \"zero carbon\" by 2022, as well as reducing the UK's carbon emissions by 10% through a huge home improvement programme.\n\nThe Conservatives have announced a halt to fracking, the controversial process of extracting gas from shale rock, and, in government, the party set a target of \"net-zero\" carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems, the Scottish National Party and the Green Party have called for a live TV debate on climate change before the 12 December election.", "The Green Party has pledged to introduce a universal basic income by 2025, which would see every adult receiving a minimum of £89 per week.\n\nAdditional payments would go to those facing barriers to work, including disabled people and single parents.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the party's co-leader Sian Berry said the proposal would cost an additional £76bn which would be funded through taxation.\n\nShe said the policy would create \"more jobs than ever before\".\n\nUnder the Green Party's plans, the income would replace universal credit - the benefit for working-age people which covers six benefits including housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nAll benefits except housing benefit and carer's allowance would be incorporated into the new payments, which would be phased in over five years.\n\nThe party argues that under its plan someone working full time on the the minimum wage would see their income rise by 32%.\n\nMs Berry said: \"Only the Green Party has the policies and ambition to eliminate the cruelty of the benefits system and tackle poverty head-on.\n\n\"Financial security is the key to a good society... people receiving a universal income will have more choices, and more people will be able to cut working hours to retrain, start new green businesses, take part in community action or simply improve their wellbeing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A pilot scheme in Finland is giving 2,000 unemployed people an income, instead of benefits\n\nThe idea of a universal basic income has already been trialled in other countries, including western Kenya, the Netherlands and Italy.\n\nResearchers looking at a pilot scheme in Finland said that while employment levels did not improve, participants said they felt happier and less stressed.\n\nAnd Labour's John McDonnell has previously said Labour could include a plan for a universal basic income in its manifesto.\n\nIn May, the shadow chancellor welcomed a report into universal basic incomes as \"an important contribution to the debate around inequality, austerity, poverty and how we establish a fair and just economic system\".\n\n\"Whatever mechanism we use, whether 'basic income' or another, we have to lead in developing a radical mechanism aimed at eradicating poverty, but also means testing.\"\n\nOpponents of a basic income say cuts would have to be made elsewhere. The Department for Work and Pensions has previously said the scheme would \"not work for those who need more support\".", "Bringing high-speed broadband to remote areas will be challenging\n\nThree months ago, Boris Johnson set a hugely ambitious target - giving every home in the UK full-fibre broadband by 2025. Now, at the Conservative Party conference, the Chancellor, Sajid Javid, has promised the funds to make that happen.\n\nIn the press release previewing a speech promising as much as £50bn in new infrastructure spending, there is this section about broadband.\n\n\"We are setting out plans to invest £5bn to support the rollout of full-fibre, 5G and other gigabit-capable networks to the hardest-to-reach 20% of the country,\" it says.\n\n\"This doubles the previous commitment to support rollout to the hardest 10%.\"\n\nLast year's Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review, commissioned by Theresa May's government, set an \"ambitious target\" of full fibre - a pure fibre-optic cable running directly into the building rather than to a roadside cabinet - reaching 15 million premises by 2025.\n\nThe whole country - including about 30 million homes as well as millions more businesses and public buildings - would be covered by 2033, it added.\n\nAnd a government statement at the time said this would \"require require additional funding of around £3bn to £5bn to support commercial investment in the final 10% of areas\".\n\nBut in June, as he stood for the leadership of the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson described that strategy as \"laughably unambitious\".\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said: \"We should commit now to delivering full fibre to every home in the land not in the mid-2030s - but in five years at the outside.\"\n\nThat 2025 target was reaffirmed - albeit somewhat less explicitly - in speeches after Mr Johnson won the Conservative leadership contest and as he entered No 10. There was talk of \"fantastic full-fibre broadband sprouting in every household\".\n\n5G mobile technology is available in only a few UK cities\n\nNow, the chancellor is promising £5bn to make that sprouting happen - but fulfilling that pledge to move the target eight years earlier should mean the cost goes up. After all, this is a massive building project. Scarce workers will have to be recruited and trained and materials bought.\n\nTell your builder your extension has to be built by Christmas, not next summer and you'll find the bill spirals.\n\nAnd it's not just about having a tighter deadline.\n\nThe 2033 target envisaged the government providing funds to cover the 10% of the country that would not be reached by private-sector investment.\n\nMoving the goal forward means it now expects 20% of the UK won't have been covered by the commercial sector in time.\n\nSo, the chancellor appears to be expecting to get a lot out of the £5bn, assuming he really is sticking to the promise of full-fibre for all - a much faster more extensive programme to bring the best possible broadband to everyone, without dipping deeper into public funds.\n\nI was given a glimpse of some of the issues last month, when I visited the remote island community on Grimsay, in the Hebrides, which had recently been given full-fibre broadband.\n\nIt had proved pretty expensive, something like £4,000 to hook up each household, with much of the funding coming from the Scottish government.\n\nAnd while the inhabitants were naturally enthusiastic about the project, their neighbours on other islands had immediately begun asking: \"What about us?\"\n\nThere is one more puzzling thing about the chancellor's speech - does it contain a watering down of the prime minister's full-fibre pledge?\n\nIt talks of investment not just in fibre but in \"5G and other gigabit-capable networks\".\n\nNow, some in the telecoms industry have suggested laying a fibre connection up every remote farm track or mountainside may not be sensible when other technologies such as 5G or even low earth-orbit satellites could supply similar speeds.\n\nBut fibre purists - and that seems to include the prime minister - insist it is the only reliable option if we are not to have a two-speed country with rural areas left in the slow lane.\n\nAnd Mr Javid's team is not providing much more clarity, except to say \"gigabit-capable\" broadband networks will be provided to everyone and further details will be set out later this year in the National Infrastructure Strategy.", "The Duchess of Sussex has accused the Mail on Sunday and its parent company of a campaign of \"untrue\" stories, according to new details of her legal action against the newspaper group.\n\nCourt papers filed against the group set out a list of \"false\" articles about Meghan, the website Byline says.\n\nHer lawyers claim the Mail on Sunday removed passages of a private letter to her father to portray her \"negatively\".\n\nThe Mail on Sunday repeated its intent to defend the case \"with vigour\".\n\n\"There is nothing in this document which changes that position,\" a spokesman said.\n\nIn October, law firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, filed a High Court claim against the Mail on Sunday and its parent company over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe claim came after the Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter from Meghan to her father, Thomas Markle, sent shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nIt is claimed the newspaper did not publish parts of the letter because it would undermine its \"negative\" portrayal of the duchess.\n\nThe court papers claim that Meghan's father was exploited by journalists and say that reporters also invented a series of claims about her relationship with her mother.\n\nThe duchess' lawyers will also accuse Associated Newspapers, the parent entity of the Mail newspapers, of printing \"completely untrue\" stories about renovations to Meghan and Prince Harry's home.\n\nThey say that claims by the paper - also published on the Mail Online website - that a £5,000 copper bath and £500,000-worth of soundproofing were charged to the taxpayer were lies.\n\nIn a statement last month, the Duke of Sussex said he and Meghan were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\" and a \"ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year\".\n\nPrince Harry said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven the couple to take action.\n\nThe duke has launched separate legal action against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.", "The Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in a BBC interview.\n\nHe spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in an interview recorded at Buckingham Palace.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "Mr Muir said plastic pollution on Jura had been getting worse over the last few years\n\nA stag died after becoming entangled in plastic tape on a Scottish island.\n\nIt is feared the animal was trapped in the discarded strapping for a week before he was discovered on Jura in the Inner Hebrides.\n\nGamekeeper Scott Muir, 32, found him struggling on an island hillside on Wednesday.\n\nHe believes the stag went without food for about a week as his mouth was jammed closed by the debris. The animal had to be put down.\n\nMr Muir said the stag was likely to have got his antler caught in the plastic while grazing on seaweed on the coastline.\n\nHe believed the stag then walked for about a mile on to the hillside before reaching his final resting point.\n\nMr Muir said: \"I was walking over the estate when I saw the plastic waste and realised there was a stag caught.\n\n\"I thought it was dead at first but as I approached it I could see his head start to move.\n\n\"These can be 18st animals and I know how powerful they can be, but he looked tired and stressed and he couldn't see because the plastic was right around his antlers\".\n\nMr Muir is a volunteer for Wild Side of Jura, a group which aims to protect the west coast of the island.\n\nHe said the plastic pollution on the island had been getting worse over the last six years and believed commercial fishing was probably responsible.\n\nThe picture was posted on social media and local residents expressed their anger.\n\nOne resident said: \"That's shocking, poor animal, the thought of him struggling with that for hours makes me so angry.\n\n\"So much plastic out there, it makes it much more of a reality when you see the damage it does so close to home\".", "The couple face four child cruelty charges relating to the four-week-old and another of the couple's children\n\nThe parents of a four-week-old baby who suffered a fractured skull, brain injuries and broken ribs have been charged with child cruelty offences.\n\nAmanda Fulton, 31, and her husband Christopher Fulton, 30, are charged over alleged offences on 7 November.\n\nThe court heard the baby is thought to have long-term brain injuries and be blind in both eyes.\n\nThe couple, from Rockfield Gardens, Mosside, County Antrim, face the same four charges.\n\nThey are accused of grievous bodily harm with intent, two counts of child cruelty involving two different children and causing or allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm.\n\nThe couple appeared at Coleraine Magistrates' Court on Monday to face the charges but a press ban prevented proceedings from being reported.\n\nThe ban was lifted at the court on Friday by a district judge.\n\nA police officer told the court the baby was taken to a GP on 7 November before being rushed to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe infant was found to have a fractured skull, a bleed on the brain, a laceration to its liver and broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard the baby had now been taken off life support and was able to breathe for itself, but was thought to have long-term brain injuries.\n\nOn further investigation, another of the couple's children was found to have discolouration on the back of their skull and ear.\n\nThe case was heard at Coleraine Magistrate's Court\n\nA police officer told the court the couple could not explain the injuries to their children, but accepted they had not been in the care of anyone else.\n\nThe officer said a medical expert believed the injuries to the baby were \"non-accidental\" and had not been caused during birth.\n\nThe officer said the fact some of the infant's rib fractures were healing led the medical expert to believe this was \"not one isolated incident\".\n\nThe police officer also told the court that a death threat, believed to be from a loyalist paramilitary group, has been issued against the couple threatening them if they leave prison.\n\nThe officer said there were \"high tensions\" in the Mosside area because of the case.\n\nA defence barrister said the Fultons were \"living every parent's worst nightmare\".\n\nHe told the court threats had been made against the couple in Hydebank and Maghaberry prisons, where they are currently on remand.\n\nThe barrister also showed the court threats that had been made on social media against his clients.\n\nOn Monday, in court, the barrister said his clients had been \"vilified\" due to press coverage of the case and added they were entitled to the presumption of innocence.\n\nHe told the court the alleged baby victim had been born prematurely and weighed five pounds at birth.\n\nPolice objected to a bail application on the grounds of the risk of further offending, interference with witnesses and tensions in the Mosside area.\n\nBail was refused and the couple were remanded in custody.", "The Strictly Come Dancing judges in charitable mood\n\nStars from Strictly, Star Wars, Doctor Who and EastEnders are lending a hand to Children In Need to help raise funds in this year's charity BBC TV appeal.\n\nThe five-hour telethon also features England football players, a celebrity edition of music quiz The Hit List and songs by Louis Tomlinson and Westlife.\n\nThey are all hoping viewers will donate to Children In Need, which supports 3,000 local charities and projects.\n\nLast year, £50.6m was raised on the appeal night.\n\nThe hosts: Marvin and Rochelle Humes, Mel Giedroyc, Tom Allen, Graham Norton, Ade Adepitan and Tess Daly\n\nChildren in Need is the BBC's official UK charity and raises money for disadvantaged young people around the country, such as those experiencing poverty, with disabilities, or victims of abuse or neglect.\n\nThis year, comedian Tom Allen joins a presenting line-up that also includes Graham Norton, Tess Daly, Mel Giedroyc, Ade Adepitan and Marvin and Rochelle Humes.\n\nEastEnders actors Ricky Champ (who plays Stuart Highway), Louisa Lytton (Ruby Allen), Maisie Smith (Tiffany Butcher) and Rudolph Walker (Patrick Trueman) swap Albert Square for the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom for the night.\n\nStrictly judge Craig Revel Horwood appears in a sketch with EastEnders' Ricky Champ and Rudolph Walker\n\nThe EastEnders teamed up with Strictly professionals\n\nStar Wars actors Daisy Ridley and John Boyega challenge YouTuber Colin Furze to build a real working landspeeder [vehicle that hovers], helped by young people from Children In Need projects.\n\nDoctor Who's Jodie Whittaker also makes an appearance, and Norton gives three children the chance to be on his chat show sofa - and the power to tip joke-telling celebrities out of his famous big red chair.\n\nGraham Norton gives Julio, Iara and Emma control over his famous lever\n\nWill Julio like the jokes told by Anneka Rice in the big red chair?\n\nMeanwhile, there are special versions of Mock The Week, Crackerjack and Dragon's Den, along with performances from Michael Ball and Alfie Boe, plus the casts of Big, The Tina Turner Musical and Circus 1903.\n\nEngland footballers Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling have been filmed surprising children from the England Amputee Football Association.\n\nEngland stars Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling with children from the England Amputee Football Association and presenter Mark Wright\n\nA special edition of BBC One's The Hit List features pop stars including rapper Wretch 32, ex-JLS singer JB Gill, Heidi Range from the Sugababes, Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle, Liberty X star Michelle Heaton and Blue's Antony Costa.\n\nJB Gill and Wretch 32 on the special Hit List\n\nTV personality Rylan Clark-Neal has already raised more than £1m for the cause with his 24-hour karaoke marathon on BBC Radio 2.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren in Need is on BBC One at 19:30 GMT on 15 November\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Regulars at the Wellington Inn in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, bought Nigel Farage a pint of bitter Image caption: Regulars at the Wellington Inn in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, bought Nigel Farage a pint of bitter\n\nThat's all for today's live coverage of the general election campaign, ahead of the country going to the polls on 12 December.\n\n- The PM took questions from the public on everything from floods to family. Mr Johnson also denied claims Brexit Party election candidates were offered peerages to persuade them not to stand against Conservative candidates\n\n- Labour promised to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030, if it won the election\n\n- The Liberal Democrats pledged a £100bn climate fund over the next five years, if the party won\n\n- The Green Party pledged to introduce a universal basic income by 2025, which would see every adult receiving a minimum of £89 per week\n\n- SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon wasn't campaigning today - but she was kept busy at a meeting of the British-Irish council in Dublin\n\n- A man who threatened Change UK leader Anna Soubry, referencing the murdered MP Jo Cox, was jailed for a year\n\n- And US President Donald Trump confirmed he will travel to London 10 days before the UK goes to the polls\n\nWe'll be back tomorrow - have a great evening.\n\nBoris Johnson unveiled his campaign bus in Manchester Image caption: Boris Johnson unveiled his campaign bus in Manchester", "Hospital performance in England is at its worst level on record, data shows.\n\nKey targets for cancer, hospital care and A&E have been missed for over three years - with delays for hospital care and in A&E hitting their highest levels since both targets were introduced.\n\nThe monthly figures - the last before the election - prompted Labour and the Liberal Democrats to attack the Tories' record on the NHS.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson said \"huge demand\" was to blame.\n\nHe said only the Tories could be trusted to have a \"strong, dynamic economy\" to ensure the rises in the NHS budget being planned could be made.\n\n\"I'm afraid when I look at the rival proposals and the economic disaster that Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party would cause, that will make it impossible for us in the long term to fund the NHS.\"\n\nBut Labour leader Mr Corbyn said the performance figures were \"disgusting\" and a lack of staff and funding was to blame.\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat health spokeswoman Luciana Berger said the Tories had a \"shameful\" record.\n\nAll the parties are proposing to increase the NHS budget. The government announced a five-year funding plan last year, which would see the front-line budget rise by 3.4% a year up to 2023.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour said it would spend more - 3.9% extra a year.\n\nThe Lib Dems are proposing to use a penny rise in income tax to invest extra in social care, mental health and public health.\n\nDemand for all services is rising and the NHS is still managing to see the over-whelming majority in time.\n\nBut performance has been deteriorating for a number of years - and is now well below what it should be.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are also missing their targets, although health is devolved so NHS decisions are taken by the administrations in those parts of the UK.\n\nFrances Reid, 55, is one of many patients to have faced a long wait.\n\nShe said she was left in \"excruciating\" pain waiting for a hip replacement.\n\nMs Reid, from South Cambridgeshire, was referred for surgery in January 2018, after struggling for the previous two years with hip pain.\n\nShe should have been seen in April 2018, but waited until July for her surgery.\n\nThe NHS ended up paying for her to be treated at a private unit because of the wait.\n\n\"The final weeks were really difficult,\" she says.\n\n\"I was waking up six, seven times a night and had to use walking sticks to get around.\n\n\"Daily tasks like shopping became very difficult.\"\n\nDr Nick Scriven, of the Society of Acute Medicine, said: \"These figures are truly worrying as we haven't even reached the 'traditional' winter period yet.\"\n\nHe said urgent action was needed, warning the system was \"imploding\".\n\nBritish Medical Association leader Dr Chaand Nagpaul said the NHS was facing a \"catastrophe\".\n\n\"This is completely unfair for patients and staff.\"\n\nBut Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents health managers, tweeted senior staff should be more careful with the language they used, criticising the use of imploding in particular.\n\nHowever, he admitted he was worried about the \"huge pressure\" on the system at this point before the full onset of winter.\n\nNHS England conceded hospitals were under pressure, seeing \"more older and sicker patients\".\n\nA spokesman said, with winter coming, hospitals would be opening extra beds.\n\nBut he urged the public to play their part by getting the flu jab and using the 111 phone line and NHS online services \"as first port of call for non-emergencies\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to shows Prince Andrew inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York residence in 2010\n\nPrince Andrew has given an unprecedented interview to the BBC about his relationship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe friendship between the 59-year-old member of the Royal Family and Epstein has come under close scrutiny since the American killed himself in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew said it was wrong of him to visit and stay at Epstein's house in 2010 after the financier's conviction but that he did not regret their entire friendship.\n\nHe also categorically denied having sex with Virginia Roberts, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old.\n\nHere's what we know about the links between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew said he first met Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager, in 1999 through Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's British girlfriend and a woman the prince said he had known since she was at university. That year was the first time the prince and the businessman were linked in press reports in the UK and US.\n\nPrince Andrew reportedly flew with Epstein on his private Gulfstream jet in February 1999, according to a log book seen by the Daily Mirror in 2015.\n\nThe destination was said to have been Epstein's private island, Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Daily Mail also reported that 10 months earlier Epstein's logbook showed he had flown to the same location to meet the prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. The couple had divorced in 1996.\n\nEpstein and Ms Maxwell were among a star-studded guest list at a party hosted by the Queen in June 2000.\n\nThe Dance of the Decades event, which saw more than 600 guests descend on Windsor Castle, marked four royal birthdays including Prince Andrew's 40th. Prince Andrew, the Queen's third child, told the BBC that Epstein was there at his invitation, not the Royal Family's, but was to some extent Ms Maxwell's \"plus one\".\n\nThe duke at the time appeared to be part of the social circle of Ms Maxwell, whom Epstein later described as his best friend.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured accompanying Ms Maxwell - daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell - at private parties and celebrity functions both in the UK and in the US that year.\n\nThey were photographed together at the wedding of the prince's former girlfriend, Aurelia Cecil, near Salisbury in Wiltshire in September 2000.\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell leaving the wedding of his former girlfriend Aurelia Cecil in September 2000\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell were pictured at the event in Wiltshire\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell were again photographed together at a Halloween party thrown by model Heidi Klum in Manhattan.\n\nMs Maxwell was pictured dressed in gold lame and wearing a blonde wig for the Hookers and Pimps-themed party.\n\nJust over a month later, in December 2000, the then 40-year-old prince threw Ms Maxwell a surprise birthday party at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, with Epstein among the guests.\n\nHe described it in the BBC interview as a \"straightforward shooting weekend\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham in December 2000\n\nMs Maxwell and Epstein were photographed on a pheasant shoot at the estate around that time.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell went on a number of trips together including to Florida and Thailand, according to an Evening Standard report from January 2001, which claimed Epstein had joined them on five such occasions over the previous 12 months.\n\nPrince Andrew told the BBC that he used to see Epstein a maximum of three times a year but confirmed he had been on his private plane, stayed at his private island, and stayed at his homes in Palm Beach, Florida and New York.\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial next year.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges but was facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted.\n\nIn July 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was invited to a masked ball at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 18th birthday of Princess Beatrice, Prince Andrew's elder daughter.\n\nThe theme of the evening was 1888, and the 500 guests donned period costumes.\n\nThe previous month, Epstein was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution.\n\nPrince Andrew said Epstein had been invited via Ms Maxwell but that he wasn't aware at the time the invitation was sent out \"what was going on in the United States\".\n\nHe said Epstein never mentioned that he was under investigation.\n\nThe duke was photographed with Epstein in New York's Central Park in December 2010 - after the tycoon had served his sentence.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had travelled across the Atlantic to end his friendship with Epstein and was having that conversation with him when they were photographed in the park.\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nThe prince told the BBC: \"I said, 'Look, because of what has happened, I don't think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact.'\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he attended a small dinner party while he was there but denied it was to celebrate Epstein's release.\n\nFootage released by the Mail on Sunday in August showed Prince Andrew inside the financier's Manhattan mansion around the same time.\n\nThe prince told the BBC that he regretted staying at Epstein's house during the visit, saying he \"let the side down\" by doing so. Pressed on reports that many young girls were coming and going from the house at the time, he said: \"I never saw them.\"\n\nEpstein's house was like a \"railway station\" with \"people coming in and out of that house all the time\", he added.\n\nPrince Andrew's connection to the convicted sex offender did attract criticism at the time.\n\nAfter several days of newspaper reports on the Epstein connection in spring of 2011, Prince Andrew was hit with a further blow when Sarah Ferguson admitted having accepted £15,000 from Epstein, to help pay off her debts.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in 2011 - she is said to have accepted £15,000 from Epstein that year\n\nThe fallout saw him quit his role as a UK trade envoy in July 2011. Prince Andrew later acknowledged his friendship with Epstein had been a mistake.\n\nIn 2015 the duke was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew was not party to the proceedings but was identified when a motion was filed in the court, as part of the evidence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was ordered to give the prince \"whatever he required\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Virginia Roberts in early 2001, said to have been taken at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is standing behind the pair\n\nMs Giuffre claimed in court papers in Florida she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions - in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein - between 2001 and 2002, including when she was underage under Florida law.\n\nThe details were later officially struck from the court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 was contained in documents from a defamation case. These documents were made public when they were released by a judge in August 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre had brought the defamation case against Ms Maxwell. She was alleged to have procured underage girls for Epstein and his friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had \"no recollection\" of ever meeting Ms Giuffre. He said he was looking after his children on the day in March 2001 that she alleges they went to a nightclub in London and later had sex in Ms Maxwell's house in the Belgravia area.\n\nThe prince said he had taken his daughter Beatrice to a Pizza Express restaurant in the town of Woking that afternoon for a party.\n\nHe said he remembered it \"because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I would like to reiterate and reaffirm the statements that have been issued on my behalf by the palace\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he had no recollection of a photo being taken, reportedly by Jeffrey Epstein, of him and Virginia Giuffre together in Ms Maxwell's house where his arm is around her waist.\n\n\"Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken,\" he said, adding that \"hug[s] and public displays of affection are not something that I do\".\n\nAsked whether he had sex with her in a bedroom in that house, he said: \"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued outright denials of all allegations against Prince Andrew.", "Labour is promising free full fibre broadband to every UK home by 2030 – if it wins the election – by bringing part of BT back into public ownership.\n\nJohn McDonnell told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that the roll-out would cost £20bn, and that maintenance of the network would be paid for by a tax on multinational tech companies.\n\nThe shadow chancellor said with an investment of public money on that scale \"people would expect us to get something in return\".\n\nBoris Johnson has promised £5bn to bring full-fibre to every home by 2025.", "Towns such as Fishlake near Doncaster were hit hard by recent flooding\n\nAlmost 10,000 new homes could be built on some of the most flood-prone areas of England, a Greenpeace investigation has found.\n\nThey include hundreds of new-builds in Sheffield and Doncaster, the towns hit hardest by the latest floods.\n\nThe Environment Agency told the BBC that virtually all planning applications last year followed its advice on flood risk.\n\nBut it predicts the flooding risk will increase because of climate change.\n\nThe Greenpeace study comes as hundreds of flood-hit homes in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire are still evacuated.\n\nIt identifies plans to build a total of 9,688 new homes in high-risk areas.\n\nMore than 5,000 homes have been proposed in high-risk zones of Lincolnshire, where roads and thousands of acres of farmland have been flooded in the last few days.\n\nThe research also highlighted a 3,100-home \"new town\" near Stainforth, less than two miles from Fishlake, the village where hundreds of people have been forced from their homes because of flooding.\n\nThe project includes what has been described by developers as a \"marina\".\n\nThese properties have not yet received full planning permission but have been ear-marked by the local authority for development.\n\nThe Greenpeace study selected the 10 English councils with the highest percentage of land covered by high-risk areas using the Environment Agency's map.\n\nIt then plotted these against sites that the councils listed in their five-year plans for housing supply.\n\nSheffield and Doncaster were added after the recent flooding in those areas.\n\nThe work found that, as well as hundreds of new homes in high-risk areas of these towns, thousands of homes are planned for medium-risk zones.\n\nGreenpeace's chief scientist Doug Parr said the decision was \"planning for disaster\"\n\nThe Environment Agency defines a high-risk flood zone as one where there is a one in 100 chance of flooding in any given year.\n\nMedium-risk zones are areas where there is a one in 1,000 risk of flooding in any year.\n\nGreenpeace's chief scientist, Doug Parr, described the plans to build homes in areas at high risk of flooding as \"literally planning for disaster\".\n\n\"Flooding has been flashing on the radar as one of the major impacts of the climate emergency in the UK for years,\" he said, \"yet our planning system keeps failing to properly recognise it\".\n\nThe Environment Agency told the BBC that local planning authorities are responsible for approving proposals for new development in their areas.\n\nHowever, it said the National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that inappropriate development in areas at risk of flooding should be avoided.\n\n\"In some places it will be challenging to avoid these areas,\" the Environment Agency statement said, \"due to limited land outside the flood plain or because of other sustainable development objectives.\"\n\nNevertheless, the agency claimed that, between 2017 and 2018, 99.4% of planning applications involving new homes were decided in line with its advice on flood risk.\n\nThe Local Government Association told the BBC that the figure for 2018-19 was a bit lower, at around 97.3% .", "In a day of big election promises, the Conservatives said they would reduce unskilled migration, while Labour said they would provide free full-fibre broadband by 2030.\n\nParties also responded to data showing the worst-ever hospital performance in England.\n\nThe BBC's Helen Catt looks at the main events of Thursday's election campaign.", "Firefighters are tackling the blaze at The Cube in Bolton\n\nFirefighters have been tackling a huge blaze at a university student accommodation block.\n\nCrowds of students were evacuated from The Cube in Bolton when the fire broke out at about 20:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nAt its height about 200 firefighters from 40 fire engines were tackling the blaze which was affecting every floor.\n\nA witness said the fire was \"climbing up\" the six-storey building. One person was rescued by crews using an aerial platform.\n\nGreater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said two people were treated by paramedics at the scene.\n\nIt said six fire engines remained at the scene at 05:30 as firefighters \"tackle the last few pockets of fire\".\n\nArea manager Jim Hutton said \"hardworking firefighters\" had prevented the fire from spreading to an adjacent building.\n\n\"Our crews have done a fantastic job bringing this fire under control, in what have been very challenging circumstances,\" added Assistant Chief Fire Officer Tony Hunter.\n\nOne witness said the fire was \"climbing up\" the building\n\nUniversity of Bolton student Shannon Parker, who lives in the building, said she was in her room when the fire started.\n\n\"I heard the fire alarm going off but it kept on going off so I just thought it was a drill at first until one of my flatmates shouted down the corridor that it was a real fire,\" the 22-year-old said.\n\n\"So I ran out the flat as quickly as I could and I saw that it was one of the flats below mine and we went out by the fire exit.\"\n\nShe said she was being relocated to either a nearby hotel or another student accommodation building.\n\nPolice have closed a number of roads in the area\n\nGMFRS has asked residents of The Cube to register at Orlando Village Student Accommodation and contact family members to let them know they are safe.\n\nThe University of Bolton said it was supporting students who had been evacuated and had given people temporary accommodation at the Orlando student halls and in some hotels.\n\nProf George E Holmes DL, president and vice-chancellor of the university, said: \"University colleagues have worked through the night to make sure support is in place for students over the weekend.\n\n\"We have also arranged to provide necessities such as toiletries for all students affected and are opening the university over the weekend so students can be supported. We will also provide food for them.\"\n\nHe said The Cube was not owned by the University of Bolton and that it was owned and managed by a private landlord.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Colette Wiseman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWitness Ace Love, 35, said the fire \"kept getting more intense, climbing up and to the right because the wind was blowing so hard\".\n\n\"We could see it bubbling from the outside and then being engulfed from the outside,\" he added.\n\n\"A lot of students got out very fast, someone was very distressed, the rest were on phones calling for help.\n\n\"The fire got worse and worse, to the point where you could see through the beams, it was just bare frame.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓸𝓷 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓮𝓻🍑 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVideos posted on social media show debris falling from the building and firefighters tackling flames coming out of the windows on the top floors.\n\nOne student tweeted to say she had to leave her belongings and added: \"But the main thing is I'm out and I'm safe.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police said a number of road closures were in place.\n\nFirefighters are using aerial appliances to tackle the blaze\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has claimed the Conservatives offered his candidates jobs and peerages to try to get them to stand down.\n\nMr Farage also said his candidates received \"thousands of phone calls and emails\" trying to get them to withdraw ahead of next month's election.\n\nHe made the claims shortly after candidate nominations closed before the 12 December poll.\n\nMr Farage has confirmed his candidates will not contest seats won by the Tories at the 2017 general election, but will stand candidates against the party elsewhere.\n\nConservative figures have urged his party not to run in Labour-held marginal constituencies, fearing his candidates could divide the Brexit-backing vote.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter, Mr Farage said that he, along with eight \"senior figures\" in his party, had been offered peerages to stand down.\n\nHe said the offer had been made by people \"deep inside Number 10 Downing Street\" - although he did not think Prime Minister Boris Johnson was involved.\n\n\"As you can imagine, I said I do not want, and I will never have, anything to do with this kind of behaviour,\" he said.\n\nA Tory source has told the BBC the Brexit Party candidate in Peterborough was offered an unpaid role in education in the hope it would convince him to stand aside.\n\nMike Greene is standing for the party in the Cambridgeshire constituency, which Labour held narrowly at a by-election in June.\n\nIt is understood friends of Mr Greene had indicated that the role could be enough of an inducement.\n\nMr Greene's team confirmed the offer of a role had been made to him, but said their candidate would definitely be running.\n\nMr Farage also later said his candidates had been \"subjected to thousands of phone calls, and emails and threats all over the country\" to get them to stand aside.\n\nHe said candidates had been offered jobs \"in the negotiating team, jobs in government departments and hints at peerages too\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Conservative Party said: \"We don't do electoral pacts - our pact is with the British people.\"\n\n\"The only way to get Brexit done and unleash Britain's potential is to vote for your local Conservative candidate\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Question Time, Conservative party chairman James Cleverly said allegations that his party has offered peerages were \"completely unfounded\".\n\n\"There are a number of people who went to the Brexit Party, who had been up until very, very recently Conservatives,\" he said.\n\n\"I have no doubt that Conservatives will have spoken to people they know locally and said 'if you genuinely want to deliver Brexit, the only way of doing that is with a Conservative majority government'.\n\n\"I have no doubt conversations like that have been happening up and down the country.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I'm telling you that I have no truck with a pact or agreements. Nigel Farage has asked for one for months. We said no.\"\n\nLabour party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"It looks like Boris Johnson is trying to stitch-up this election by offering jobs to Brexit party candidates to get them to stand down.\n\n\"This gives a whiff of the corrupt way the establishment works. We can't allow the Tories to run the country a minute longer. It's time for real change.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey said the Conservative Party had seen a \"hard-right takeover\" that \"has now been endorsed by both Trump and Farage\".\n\n\"As Nigel Farage has admitted, the Liberal Democrats are the only party at this election that can take seats from the Conservatives, stop Brexit and build a brighter future,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I let the side down, simple as that\"\n\nThe Duke of York has said he \"let the side down\" by staying at the home of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, adding it was the \"wrong thing to do\".\n\nAnswering questions about his links to Epstein for the first time, Prince Andrew said his stay was not \"becoming of a member of the Royal Family\".\n\nThe prince spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in an interview recorded at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.\n\nIt will be broadcast on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nPrince Andrew, who is the Queen's third child, has been facing questions for several months over his ties to Epstein, a 66-year-old American financier who took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nIn 2010, the prince was photographed walking with Epstein in New York's Central Park - two years after Epstein's conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nFootage published by the Mail on Sunday showed the prince in Epstein's Manhattan mansion at about the same time.\n\nAddressing his decision to stay with Epstein following the American's first conviction, Prince Andrew said: \"That's the bit that… as it were, I kick myself for on a daily basis because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the Royal Family and we try and uphold the highest standards and practices and I let the side down, simple as that.\"\n\nChallenged on his decision to stay at the home of a convicted sex offender, the prince said: \"It was a convenient place to stay.\n\n\"I mean I've gone through this in my mind so many times. At the end of the day, with a benefit of all the hindsight that one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do.\n\n\"But at the time I felt it was the honourable and right thing to do and I admit fully that my judgement was probably coloured by my tendency to be too honourable but that's just the way it is.\"\n\nPrince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein go for a stroll together through New York's Central Park\n\nIn 2015, Prince Andrew was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nOne of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was forced to have sex with the prince three times between 2001 - when she was 17 - and 2002, in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre: Prince Andrew \"knows exactly what he's done\"\n\nIn the BBC interview, Emily Maitlis asks the prince about Ms Giuffre's claims that in 2001, she had dined with him, danced with him at a nightclub, and went on to have sex with him at the house of a friend of the prince in Belgravia, central London.\n\nThe prince replied: \"It didn't happen. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"\n\nWhen asked once more whether he remembered meeting Ms Giuffre, the prince said: \"No.\"\n\nMs Giuffre says she was abused by the prince in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home, where she was pictured in 2001\n\nDetails of Ms Giuffre's claims against the prince were later officially struck from court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, a woman called Johanna Sjoberg alleged that the prince touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 in documents from a defamation case.\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued strong denials of all allegations against the prince.\n\nAnd Prince Andrew's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, wrote on Friday that the prince was a \"true [and] real gentleman and is stoically steadfast not only [in] his duty but also his kindness\".\n\nIn 2015, a statement from the palace said that \"any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors\" by the prince was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nThe prince first met Epstein in 1999 and they saw each other on several occasions after that.\n\nIn 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nProsecutors forged a deal with Epstein in 2008, which saw him avoid federal charges.\n\nHe instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on \"work release\" to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn a statement released by Buckingham Palace in August, the prince said he was \"appalled\" by the sex abuse claims surrounding his former friend.\n\nThe statement added: \"His royal highness deplores the exploitation of any human being and the suggestion he would condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour is abhorrent.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein: What we know and what we don't\n\nDiscussing how the BBC's interview was secured, Emily Maitlis told Newsnight on Friday that talks with the palace had been ongoing for \"many months\" and had intensified following Epstein's death.\n\nShe said the prince had to seek the approval of the Queen and that \"she gave sign off either late on Monday or very early on Tuesday\".", "Zipporah Kuria: \"They've robbed us of our closure\"\n\nEight months after the Boeing 737 Max crash that killed Ms Kuria's father, Joseph Waithaka, the site of impact was covered on Thursday and unidentified remains of the victims were buried in rows of identical coffins. But Ms Kuria wasn't there.\n\nOfficials from Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines are believed to have attended a ceremony at the site, but because of the short notice Ms Kuria and other relatives of the dead were unable to attend.\n\nFamily members of three separate victims told the BBC they were only notified of the ceremony days ago. As a result, only relatives of two of the 157 victims attended.\n\n\"It is absurd. It makes me shudder that Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines are at my father's funeral and I'm not,\" Ms Kuria said.\n\nThe crash happened in a rural area to the south-east of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. It left behind a deep crater which until this week still contained accident debris and some human remains.\n\nFamilies of those killed say they were left horrified after they visited the site last month and found that recent rains had uncovered bones and other items. Some, they said, were floating in flood water in the crater.\n\nRows of coffins were placed neatly in the crater\n\nEthiopian Airlines flight ET302 was lost minutes after take-off on what should have been a routine flight from Addis Ababa to the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 10 March.\n\nIt came down in farmland, in a deeply rural area. In the immediate aftermath, those human remains that could be found were removed, along with the plane's flight recorders and large items of wreckage.\n\nThe crash is believed to have occurred after a flight control system known as MCAS deployed at the wrong time, forcing the nose of the aircraft down when the pilots were trying to gain height.\n\nA similar malfunction has been blamed for the loss of a near-identical 737 Max in Indonesia a year ago. The aircraft has been grounded for the past nine months, banned from flying by aviation authorities around the world.\n\nThe violence of the impact of the Ethiopian Airlines flight meant that when my colleagues and I visited the site in May, there was still a great deal of smaller debris lying in the fields.\n\nThe deep impact crater itself remained, alongside huge mounds of earth from the recovery operation, with a rough wooden fence the only barrier to access. Animals were able to roam freely across the site. There were no guards and no official presence.\n\nAfter that, the victims' relatives say, the situation worsened as a result of seasonal rains. They have been demanding action.\n\nSamya Rose Stumo was 24 years old and was on board ET302\n\nNadia Millieron, whose daughter Samya Rose Stumo died in the crash, recently told the BBC: \"There were bones being revealed all the time and local people are coming to the site and covering them. We want Ethiopian Airlines to move the piles of earth into the crater, take the unidentifiable remains into the crater and to cover everything\".\n\nEthiopian Airlines, which is managing the site, told victims' families it was aware of the issue, but claimed insurance issues had prevented it from taking action. But after coming under pressure from the relatives, and following an investigation by the BBC, it appears those difficulties have now been overcome.\n\nOn Thursday, rows of coffins were placed neatly in the crater. These contained remains that had previously been removed for forensic analysis, but which could not be identified due to contamination. Then they were covered over and the crater itself was filled, the dark earth matching the surrounding fields.\n\nThe site is now a permanent grave.\n\nRelatives of the victims believe Ethiopian Airlines had a duty to keep them informed about the burial and should have given them more notice. The BBC has approached the carrier for a comment.\n\nBoeing has refused to comment on reports that one of its senior executives, Jennifer Lowe, was among those present.\n\nThe company said in a statement: \"We continue to offer our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610 and we are committed to helping those affected by these tragedies.\"\n\nLast month, Ms Kuria travelled with her family to Ethiopia to collect and bring home some of her father's remains. She said it was \"heartbreaking\" that she was unable to get to the site in time for the covering of the site.\n\n\"My dad is being buried, well most of him, as we only received a small amount of him back,\" she said.\n\nShe said she would have jumped on a flight if it had been possible.\n\n\"They've robbed us of our closure,\" she said.", "A family saved an angler who had fallen into the sea, by throwing him a lifebelt.\n\nSam Luntley fell into the waves at Porthcothan, Cornwall.\n\nThe lifebelt was thrown by a Woking couple so accurately it landed within his grasp.\n\nThe lifebelt enabled Mr Luntley to stay afloat, despite the rough conditions, until a rescue helicopter arrived.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has said claims that Brexit Party election candidates have been offered peerages to encourage them to stand down are \"nonsense\".\n\nLeader Nigel Farage has said senior figures have been offered inducements, such as government jobs, in return for not running against Conservatives.\n\nAnn Widdecombe, a Brexit Party candidate, said she would swear on the Bible she had been approached.\n\nThe PM told the BBC that \"certainly no-one's been offered a peerage\".\n\nTaking part in a question-and-answer session on Radio 5 Live, he responded to Mr Farage's comments, telling host Rachel Burden: \"What is this nonsense? I am sure there are conversations that take place between politicians of all parties but certainly nobody's been offered a peerage.\"\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly said claims that places in the House of Lords had been dangled in front of their political opponents were \"completely unfounded\".\n\nMeanwhile, former lord chancellor and Labour peer Lord Falconer has written to the Metropolitan Police and the Director of Public Prosecutions asking them to investigate Mr Farage's claims.\n\nLord Falconer said he believed that the alleged offers could, if proven, amount to a \"significant\" attempt to influence the election and that authorities should \"investigate now\".\n\nThe Met Police said it had received two allegations of electoral fraud and malpractice, which are both currently being assessed. It added it would not comment about individual cases.\n\nThe Brexit Party is not contesting seats won by the Conservatives at the 2017 general election, but will put up candidates against the party elsewhere, including in many Labour-held marginal constituencies that Mr Johnson hopes to win to secure a parliamentary majority.\n\nConservatives have urged Mr Farage to reconsider, saying he risks splitting the pro-Brexit vote and allowing Labour - which wants another Brexit referendum - to retain dozens of seats.\n\nSome Brexit Party candidates in marginal Labour seats, such as Rupert Lowe in Dudley North, have decided to withdraw of their own accord.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter on Thursday, Mr Farage said that he, along with eight \"senior figures\" in his party, had been offered jobs \"in the (Brexit) negotiating team and in government departments\" while there had been \"hints at peerages too\".\n\nAnn Widdecombe said she had had two conversations with \"someone\" in Downing Street\n\nHe said the offer had been made by people \"deep inside Number 10 Downing Street\" - although he did not think Mr Johnson was involved.\n\nMs Widdecombe, a former Tory minister who is standing for the Brexit Party in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, said she had initially been approached by \"someone at Downing Street\" who told her she had a \"moral obligation\" to stand down.\n\nIn a subsequent conversation, the MEP said, she had been offered \"a role\" in the next phase of Brexit negotiations over the UK's future relationship with the EU.\n\n\"I have no idea what that means,\" she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show. \"I immediately said that I had played no role in the Tory party for a large number of years and that I couldn't now be flattered, buttered up or promised things.\"\n\nAs a practising Catholic, she said was \"prepared to put her hand on the book (Bible) over this\".\n\nA Conservative source has told the BBC the Brexit Party candidate in Peterborough was offered an unpaid role in education in the hope it would convince him to stand aside.\n\nMike Greene is standing for the party in the Cambridgeshire constituency, which Labour held narrowly at a by-election in June.\n\nMr Greene's team said the offer of a role had been made to him, but added that their candidate would definitely be running.\n\nThe Brexit Party, founded earlier this year, won 29 seats in May's European elections, the most of any UK party.", "The Lib Dems are set to field 188 female candidates\n\nRecord numbers of women look set to stand for Parliament next month, making up about a third of the candidates.\n\nBBC analysis of Press Association figures found 1,124 of 3,322 registered candidates were women.\n\nThis figure is slightly higher than the 1,120 reported based on PA figures on Friday.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour are set to field candidates in every constituency in Britain, except Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle's seat in Chorley in Lancashire.\n\nSee who is standing in your constituency with our look-up.\n\nThe Brexit Party has put forward 275 candidates, having stood aside in the 317 seats won by the Tories in 2017 in an effort to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nThe party has also opted not to contest handfuls of other seats being defended by other parties, particularly in Scotland.\n\nThe party, which topped the polls in May's European elections, is only standing in 15 of the 46 non-Tory constituencies in Scotland.\n\nThey are not contesting Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson's East Dunbartonshire seat.\n\nThe BBC's analysis of candidate lists in each of the UK's 650 constituencies shows that there will be a healthy increase in the number of women standing.\n\nThis year there are 1,124 female candidates, up from 2015's record of 1,033. In 2017, just 973 female candidates took part in that year's snap election, according to research by the House of Commons library.\n\nMore than half of Labour's candidates are women - 335 of 631, while 192 - or 30% - of the Conservatives' 635 candidates are female.\n\nThe Greens and Lib Dems are fielding 205 and 188 female candidates respectively.\n\nThere have been concerns that levels of abuse on social media might deter women from standing, with a number of high-profile former female ministers citing this as their main reason for quitting frontline politics.\n\nThe Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru are fielding fewer candidates than in 2017, the parties having agreed to stand down in some seats in order to maximise the pro-Remain vote,\n\nHowever, UKIP is set to see the biggest drop in representation. It is standing 44 candidates, down from 467 two years ago.\n\nNote: This page was updated on Sunday 17 November after some provisional PA figures were updated following BBC research. The parties in the graphics are selected because they either had representation in the last two Westminster Parliaments, are standing in most seats in one of the four nations of the UK, or are standing more than 25 candidates overall. An earlier version of the graphic had this limit set at 30.", "The child was born at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff\n\nA \"remarkable\" child starved of oxygen and born severely disabled has been awarded £18m compensation.\n\nThe mother suffered a ruptured uterus during the birth and the family's lawyers claimed her eventual caesarean delivery was negligently delayed.\n\nThe child needs 24-hour care for life, London's High Court heard.\n\nCwm Taf health board admitted liability for injuries sustained in the 2012 birth at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant.\n\nThe seven-year-old child, who cannot be named, has spastic diplegic cerebral palsy which affects muscles in their legs, developmental delay, learning disabilities, behavioural and sensory issues.\n\nA total settlement of £17.9m was agreed, which includes a £7.75m lump sum, and £92,000 annual payments, rising to £155,000 in 2031, to cover their care for life.\n\nThe child's mother called it a \"long seven year battle\" saying the hospital initially conducted a review and gave them \"a scrap piece of paper concluding that no lessons needed to be learned\".\n\n\"We simply could not believe that its senior medical staff, tasked with reviewing incidents involving serious, lifelong and preventable injuries, failed to identify error, after error, after error,\" she said.\n\n\"When you have a child with cerebral palsy, the entire family is significantly impacted. The plans and lifestyle we had, and should have had, have simply gone.\n\n\"We cannot do the things that other families take for granted with ease like going on bike rides or going to the beach. Every day is a challenge.\"\n\nShe said her child would never be able to work and may never be able to live independently.\n\nThe hearing took place at London's High Court\n\nBirth injuries specialist lawyer Diane Rostron called it a \"very serious, and entirely preventable, brain injury\".\n\nShe said failings started when the mother had her first child, with medical staff making a \"critical error\" in recording the wrong type of caesarean section incision.\n\n\"Had this essential piece of information been accurately recorded, the hospital should have known that there was a high risk of a uterine rupture in a second pregnancy prompting an early medical intervention in the lead up to our client's birth,\" she said.\n\nWhen the mother was admitted to hospital with \"significant abdominal pain\", Ms Rostron said this should have prompted an \"urgent review\".\n\nInstead, an impending uterus rupture was not diagnosed and instead she was left in \"excruciating pain\" for a few hours.\n\nThe baby's heart rate was slowing and Ms Rostron added: \"The hospital continued to fail in its duties and more than seven hours after being admitted with red flag symptoms, the plan remained to simply observe mother and baby.\"\n\nAn emergency c-section was finally carried out eight hours after admission, with the baby suffering \"27 minutes of significantly slowed heart rate before their birth\".\n\nShe said it was \"very concerning\" the health board initially failed to recognise the emergency and failed to uphold a complaint from the family.\n\nThe family said there was \"error after error\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital\n\nRepresenting the family at the High Court, William Featherby said the child had almost no sense of danger.\n\nHe said the child was at \"high risk\" when crossing the road and was slow to react to pain, once suffering serious burns when they touched a hot metal plate.\n\nThe child could ride a tricycle if their feet were strapped to the pedals, but needed a buggy or electric wheelchair over distances of more than 100 yards, he added.\n\nFor the health board, Richard Booth acknowledged \"no amount of money\" could ever fully compensate the child for their birth injuries.\n\nBut he added: \"On behalf of the board I would like to apologise wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the regrettable failings in care in this case.\n\n\"I would also like to pay tribute to the parents for the outstanding care that they have given [their child].\"\n\nHe added the child was \"remarkable\".\n\nApproving the settlement, Judge Sarah Richardson said she was \"more than satisfied\" it was in the child's best interests.\n• None 'Long way to go' before maternity services safe\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Berman: \"If you believe you are a victim of this man... we want to hear from you.\"\n\n\"I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,'\" Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011. \"It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.\"\n\nEpstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August as he awaited, without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nIt came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he was registered as a sex offender.\n\nThis time, he was accused of running a \"vast network\" of underage girls for sex. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe 66-year-old in the past socialised with Prince Andrew and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.\n\nBut who was Jeffrey Epstein?\n\nBorn and raised in New York, Epstein taught maths and physics in the city at the private Dalton School in the mid 1970s. He had studied physics and maths himself at university, although he never graduated.\n\nA father of one of his students is said to have been so impressed that he put Epstein in touch with a senior partner at the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.\n\nHe was a partner there within four years. By 1982, he had created his own firm - J Epstein and Co.\n\nThe company managed assets of clients worth more than $1bn (£800m) and was an instant success. Epstein soon began spending his fortune - including on a mansion in Florida, a ranch in New Mexico, and reputedly the largest private home in New York - and socialising with celebrities, artists and politicians.\n\n\"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,\" Donald Trump told New York magazine for a profile on Epstein in 2002. \"He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\n\n\"No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\"\n\nJeffrey Epstein, left, with Donald Trump at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 1997\n\nIn 2002, Epstein flew former President Bill Clinton and the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on a customised private jet. He made an unsuccessful bid to buy New York magazine with then film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2003 - the same year he made a $30m donation to Harvard University.\n\nBut he also strove to keep his life private, reportedly shunning society events and dinners in restaurants.\n\nHe dated women like Miss Sweden winner Eva Andersson Dubin and Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of publisher Robert Maxwell, although he never married.\n\nRosa Monckton, the former CEO of Tiffany & Co, told Vanity Fair for a 2003 article that Epstein was \"very enigmatic\" and \"a classic iceberg\".\n\n\"You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath,\" she said. \"What you see is not what you get.\"\n\nIn 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. A police search of the property found photos of girls throughout the house.\n\nThe Miami Herald reports that his abuse of underage girls dated back years.\n\n\"This was not a 'he said, she said' situation,\" Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter told the newspaper. \"This was 50-something 'shes' and one 'he' - and the 'shes' all basically told the same story.\"\n\n\"He has never been secretive about the girls,\" columnist Michael Wolff told New York magazine for a 2007 profile piece, as the case against Epstein moved through the courts.\n\n\"At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, 'Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.'\"\n\nHowever, prosecutors forged a deal with the hedge fund manager in 2008.\n\nHe avoided federal charges - which could have seen him face life in prison - and instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on \"work release\" to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nPrince Andrew, left, has been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nThe Miami Herald says that the federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta - who was Secretary of Labour in the Trump administration - struck a plea agreement hiding the extent of his crimes and ending an FBI investigation into whether there were more victims or more powerful people who took part. The paper described it as the \"deal of the century\".\n\nMr Acosta resigned in July 2019 over the scandal, though he defended his actions as guaranteeing at last some jail time for Epstein.\n\nSince 2008 Epstein had been listed as a level three on the New York sex offenders register. It is a lifelong designation meaning he was at a high risk of reoffending.\n\nBut Epstein maintained his properties and his assets after his conviction.\n\nIn December 2010, Prince Andrew, the third child of the Queen, was pictured in New York's Central Park with Epstein, drawing controversy.\n\nIn a BBC interview in November 2019, the prince, who had known Epstein since 1999, said he had gone to New York to break off their friendship. He said he regretted staying at the financier's house while he was there, and that he had \"let the side down\" by doing so.\n\nAn Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - would later allege that she was made to have sex with Prince Andrew in the early 2000s when she was 17.\n\nPrince Andrew categorically denied having sex with her and said he has no recollection of a photo of the pair being taken together in London.\n\nEpstein was arrested in New York on 6 July 2019 after flying back from Paris on his private jet.\n\nProsecutors were reportedly seeking the forfeiture of his New York mansion, where some of his alleged crimes occurred.\n\nEpstein always denied any wrongdoing, and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.\n\nAfter being denied bail by the court, he was being held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center. He was taken to hospital briefly in July for what was widely reported to be injuries to his neck - which neither prison officials or his lawyers would officially comment on.\n\nAt his last court appearance on 31 July, it became clear that he would spend a year in prison, with a trial no earlier than summer 2020. Prosecutors said they wanted no delay, and bringing the trial quickly was in the public interest.\n\nNow, Epstein will never face the trial at all.\n\nAfter Epstein's death, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, came into the spotlight.\n\nShe was arrested in July 2020 at her secluded mansion in the US state of New Hampshire on suspicion of having assisted Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage.\n\nIn December 2021, a jury in New York City found her guilty on five out of six counts, including the most serious charge - that of sex trafficking of a minor.\n\nThis carries a possible 40-year sentence, which means the 60-year-old could spend the rest of her life behind bars.\n\nThe Oxford-educated Ms Maxwell is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York.\n\nFriends said that although Ms Maxwell and Epstein's romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with him long afterward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The secret lives of Maxwell and Epstein\n\nIn court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach describe her as the house manager, who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social co-ordinator.\n\nIn a Vanity Fair profile published in 2003, Epstein said Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee, but rather his \"best friend\".\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors alleged Ms Maxwell preyed on and groomed young girls for Epstein to abuse. Her defence claimed she is being used as a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes following his death.", "Meetings at work should be seen as a form of \"therapy\" rather than about decision-making, say researchers.\n\nAcademics from the University of Malmo in Sweden say meetings provide an outlet for people at work to show off their status or to express frustration.\n\nProfessor Patrik Hall says they are becoming increasingly frequent - as more managerial and \"strategy\" jobs generate more meetings.\n\nBut he says despite there being more meetings \"few decisions are made\".\n\nProf Hall has investigated an apparent contradiction in how people can have a low opinion of work meetings, yet their numbers keep increasing.\n\nThe political scientist says the rise in meetings reflects changes in the workforce - with fewer people doing and making things and an increase in those involved in \"meetings-intense\" roles such as strategists, advisers, consultants and managers.\n\n\"People don't do concrete things any more,\" he says.\n\nInstead he says there has been a rise of managerial roles, which are often not very well defined, and where \"the hierarchy is not that clear\".\n\n\"Many managers don't know what to do,\" he says, and when they are \"unsure of their role\", they respond by generating more meetings.\n\n\"People like to talk and it helps them find a role,\" says the professor.\n\nMany of these people can spend half of their working hours in meetings, he says.\n\nManagers uncertain about their purpose will generate more meetings\n\nThese can spill over into pre- and post-meetings, to such an extent that people might begin to \"disguise\" how much time they spend attending them.\n\nProf Hall, who has co-authored a book on meetings, gives the example of the Swedish border police, who describe their overseas meetings as \"power weeks\".\n\nMeetings can \"arouse feelings of meaninglessness\", he says. But he argues that is often missing their point.\n\nOnce in a meeting - particularly long ones - their function can become \"almost therapeutic\".\n\nMeetings - a chance to catch up on messages on the mobile\n\nRegardless of what they are meant to be discussing, they serve a purpose as an \"opportunity to complain and be acknowledged by colleagues\".\n\nBut people going to many meetings can lose patience - and can spend much of the time playing with their mobile phones, say the researchers.\n\nProf Hall says as a result, meetings can become \"maligned somewhat unnecessarily\".\n\n\"Some people find this frustrating and question why they must endure them.\"\n\nBut he argues that negativity towards meetings can be because their real purposes are misunderstood.\n\nMany regular, internal meetings might seem entirely \"pointless\" to those taking part, says Prof Hall.\n\nBut he says the real purpose of such meetings might be to assert the authority of an organisation, so that employees are reminded that they are part of it.\n\nSuch meetings are not really about making any decisions, he says.\n\nProf Hall suggests booking rooms for shorter periods, as he says meetings will expand to fill whatever time is given to them.\n\nHe also says that \"equality\" of participants is important.\n\n\"When you have meetings with colleagues at the same level, as a professional, you get to discuss different issues that interest you,\" he says.\n\nWhen the meetings are dominated by different levels of status, they become a \"power struggle\" and leave participants feeling frustrated.\n\nHe also says that meetings can unfairly become the focus of other dissatisfactions.\n\n\"People often feel marginalised. They feel that they have no influence or position. In these cases, the perception is that meetings do not improve anything, but actually cause even more frustration.\"\n• None Emails on commute 'should count as work'", "A row has broken out over the publication of an intelligence report into Russian covert actions in the UK, with critics saying Downing Street is stalling on its release until after the election.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid said the timescale for the publication of the report from Parliament's Intelligence Security Committee (ISC) was \"perfectly normal\".\n\nBut pressure is mounting on No 10 after the Sunday Times claimed nine Russian business people who have donated money to the Conservative Party were named in the document.\n\nSo what is in the Intelligence and Security Committee report?\n\nThe answer is that only a small circle of people know for sure and none of them are saying. But it is possible to get a sense of what might be in it.\n\nWe know the report looks at a wide range of Russian activity - ranging from traditional espionage to subversion - and not just in the UK.\n\nBut the greatest interest has been in what it might say on political interference in the UK. The Mueller inquiry in the US laid out a broad pattern of interference in the US 2016 presidential election, particularly using social media and leaking of documents.\n\nSo far, no evidence of a cyber campaign on the same scale has been produced in the UK. While it is possible there is evidence of attempts in the report, government ministers have already said there is no evidence of \"successful\" interference in elections, including the Brexit referendum (although defining what \"successful\" means is hard and may be disputable).\n\nHowever, last week former deputy national security adviser Paddy McGuinness told the BBC not enough had been done to deal with vulnerabilities that the Russians and others could exploit. Mr McGuinness, who sat on the Oxford Technology and Elections Commission, said reforms were needed, including more transparency from political parties on how they collect and use data.\n\nThe ISC report is likely to focus more on broader aspects of Russian influence in politics and public life.\n\nThe committee took evidence from a number of independent experts and also from the secret intelligence agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.\n\nSome of those external experts are well known figures. Bill Browder is a former investor in Russia who became an arch-critic of the Kremlin and campaigns for sanctions on Russian individuals in the form of the Magnitsky Act (named after his former lawyer who died in jail in Moscow).\n\nAnother witness is understood to be Chris Steele, the former MI6 officer behind the famous dossier on US President Donald Trump. Another is journalist Edward Lucas.\n\nThese and other observers are understood to have been highly critical of the UK's openness to Russian influence - in particular the way in which Russian money had compromised first the financial system in London and then bled over into politics.\n\nThere have been questions about some donors to political parties and the Sunday Times suggests that nine who gave to the Conservative Party could be named in the report (although this may be more likely in a classified annex rather than the public report).\n\nThere may also have been evidence about specific relationships with Russians. For instance Boris Johnson as foreign secretary went to a party at an Italian villa hosted by Evgeny Lebedev, who runs the Evening Standard and whose father is a former KGB officer.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Chancellor Sajid Javid said: \"When it comes to party donors, whether it is to the Conservative Party or any other party, there are very strict rules that need to be followed and of course we will always follow those rules.\"\n\nAsked whether he was sure no Russian money was pulling the strings in December's general election, he said: \"I am as sure as I can be. I'm absolutely sure in terms of our own party and I am very confident about how we are funded and we are very transparent about that.\"\n\nMr Javid says the Tory Party follows strict rules on party donors\n\nThe BBC understands that witnesses have given evidence to the ISC that the UK government itself is partly to blame because it has not done enough to deter Russian subversion and interference - for instance in successive governments' weak response to events like the killing of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.\n\nThe UK, it was argued, is uniquely placed to be able to push back precisely because of the amount of Russian money in London and the importance of the city to Russia's elite. The failure to push back and instead to protect the financial centre in London has been, it is argued, a choice - but one with consequences.\n\nIt is easier to know what evidence from well-known critics of the Kremlin will have been. What is harder to know is how much of this the committee accepted and included in the final report.\n\nThe committee will likely have given most weight to evidence produced by the intelligence agencies themselves. What they said is less clear but it is unlikely they will have wanted details of specific individuals included in the report and any names will probably have been redacted and blacked out.\n\nThe report has gone through the formal security clearance process and sources have told the BBC there was no objection from any other government agency or department to its publication.\n\nThat left the decision entirely with Downing Street. It has been adamant that a normal process needs to be followed which explains why it could not be released ahead of the election.\n\nBut critics have been unconvinced. They believe that the embarrassing details - perhaps of party funding - were something that the government did not want out ahead of the election.\n\nAnother source suggested it could also have been references to evidence of interference in the US which might have added to the concerns since Donald Trump is due to come to the UK for a Nato summit just days before the election.\n\nOne official told the BBC there were details of Russian interference in the report but they also thought the government could have rebutted many of the allegations.\n\nThey suggested these were not as explosive as some people thought and that Downing Street had made a mistake by not releasing the report since by failing to do so, the questions of what is in the report and why it has not been released will now dog them throughout the campaign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Our immigration strategy is based on fairness, justice and the economic needs of our society.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn has refused to say if he wants the number of immigrants coming to the UK to rise or fall.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the Labour leader said people should be \"realistic\" about needing to fill jobs so the economy's needs can be met.\n\nHe said: \"Putting arbitrary figures on it as successive governments have done simply doesn't work.\"\n\nThe Tories say they would aim to cut overall immigration but will not set targets, if they win the election.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton said immigration was \"not the electoral issue it once was\", with pollsters saying it is at its lowest level of concern for almost two decades.\n\nBut he added: \"Some communities remain concerned that foreign arrivals put extra pressure on public services and jobs, and those voters are often in the Labour seats that the Tories are looking to take.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg on a campaign visit to Scotland, Mr Corbyn hinted that Labour would make it easier for families to bring relatives to live in the UK from overseas and for foreign workers to come to the UK .\n\nHe said Labour's immigration policy was \"based on fairness and justice, and on the economic needs of our society, and they are considerable\".\n\nMr Corbyn added: \"We have to be realistic that in this country we have 40,000 nurse vacancies, we have a great shortage of doctors, we have shortages of many skills, and they cannot be met very quickly because we're not training enough people, so there's going to be immigration in the future.\"\n\nBut asked again whether he wanted the figure to be higher or lower, the Labour leader just said: \"I want our system to be decent, to be fair, and our services to be properly run and properly staffed.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said a motion passed at his party's conference, calling for \"freedom of movement\" - the right of EU citizens to live and work in any other EU country - to be maintained and extended after Brexit \"doesn't necessarily form part of the manifesto\".\n\nThis is despite his shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, tweeting earlier about Labour's \"commitment\" to the pledge.\n\nMr Corbyn said her remarks were specifically about those EU citizens with settled status - people who have lived in the UK for five years, applied to the Home Office, and have been given the right to stay in the country for as long as they like - and to aid the reunion of families.\n\nBut he added: \"I have made my case very clear about the value of migration to our society, about the stability of people living in our society, about the horrors of the hostile environment created deliberately by Theresa May, and others, and the uncertainty that so many EU nationals have been put through.\n\n\"I think that uncertainty should finish, they should have guaranteed rights to remain in Britain.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour's eventual policy on immigration would also depend on the outcome of Brexit - with his party promising to renegotiate a deal with the EU within three months after winning an election and putting it to the public against Remain in a further referendum.\n\nHe called the plan \"a sensible approach\", adding: \"I recognise why people voted Remain and why people voted Leave in different parts of the country and for different reasons - in my own communities where I represent and also all across the country.\n\n\"[But] I think that is actually a sensible approach that a very large number of people [have] come to think, well, at least somebody has been grown-up about this.\"\n\nLen McCluskey, the leader of the biggest Labour-supporting union, Unite, and a key ally of Mr Corbyn, has called for new employment policies to address concerns about freedom of movement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr McCluskey told the BBC: \"Labour's policy will be to protect all workers - migrant workers as well as British workers. It will be done with labour market regulations.\n\n\"It won't stop the free movement of labour. \"It will effectively make certain that greedy bosses, agency companies, are not abusing working people.\"\n\nMr McCluskey denied a newspaper report that he had told Jeremy Corbyn to take a tough line on free movement of workers.\n\nMore than 130 Labour candidates have signed a pledge to campaign to Remain in the EU - which would mean accepting the continuing right of EU citizens to seek work in the UK.\n\nBut Mr McCluskey stressed that Labour \"is not a Remain\" party and a referendum with a Leave option - \"a fair deal\" - would be offered to voters if Labour wins the election.\n\nThe Conservatives have said they will end free movement from the EU on 1 January 2021, if they win the election and get their Brexit deal through Parliament by 31 January.\n\nThe party made its promise to reduce \"immigration overall\" in a press release on Thursday, quoting Home Secretary Priti Patel, and reiterating its plan for a \"points-based\" immigration system, which would apply to EU and non-EU migrants.\n\nHowever, in an interview later in the day, Mrs Patel was asked several times before saying the party would \"look to reduce the numbers\" through better immigration controls.\n\nThe Conservatives also are expected to ditch their long-standing commitment to cut net migration - the difference between the number of people entering and leaving the country - to below 100,000, after repeatedly failing to meet it.", "Terri Sewell, an Alabama Democrat, wants to get personal. How is Yovanovitch feeling?\n\n\"It's been a difficult time. I mean I'm a private person, I don't want to put all that out there, but it's been a very, very difficult time. Because the president does have the right to have his own or her own ambassador in every country,\" Yovanovitch says.\n\nSewell asks whether the president has the right to malign someone's character.\n\n\"There's a question as to why the kind of campaign to get me out of Ukraine happened. Because all the president has to do is say he wants a different ambassador. And in my line of work - perhaps in yours as well - all we have is our reputation, so this has been a very painful period,\" the ex-ambassador responds.\n\nBut Yovanovitch declines a question about how this has all affected her family.\n\nAs for her fellow colleagues at the state department? It's had a \"chilling effect\", Yovanovitch says.", "Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater, which once hosted a body of liquid water\n\nThe oxygen in Martian air is changing in a way that can't currently be explained by known chemical processes.\n\nThat's the claim of scientists working on the Curiosity rover mission, who have been taking measurements of the gas.\n\nThey discovered that the amount of oxygen in Martian \"air\" rose by 30% in spring and summer.\n\nThe pattern remains a mystery, but researchers are beginning to narrow the possibilities.\n\nWhile the changes are most likely to be geological in nature, planetary scientists can't completely rule out an explanation involving microbial life.\n\nThe results come from nearly six Earth years' (three Martian years') worth of data from the Sample Analysis at Mars (Sam) instrument, a portable chemistry lab in the belly of the Curiosity rover.\n\nThe scientists measured seasonal changes in gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars, where Curiosity landed. They have published their findings in the journal JGR-Planets.\n\nThe Martian atmosphere is overwhelmingly composed of carbon dioxide (CO2), with smaller amounts of other gases such as molecular nitrogen (N2), argon (Ar), molecular oxygen (O2) and methane (CH4).\n\nNitrogen and argon followed a predictable seasonal pattern, changing according to how much CO2 was in the air (which is in turn linked to changes in air pressure). They expected oxygen to follow this pattern too, but it didn't.\n\nOxygen rose during each northern hemisphere spring and then fell in the autumn.\n\nThey considered the possibility that CO2 or water (H2O) molecules released oxygen when they broke apart in the atmosphere, leading to a short-lived rise. But it would take five times more water than there actually is to produce the additional oxygen, and CO2 breaks up too slowly to generate it over such a short time.\n\n\"We know oxygen is created and destroyed on Mars through the energy provided by sunlight breaking down CO2 and H2O, both of which are observed in the atmosphere of Mars. The thing that doesn't make sense is the size of the variation - it doesn't match what we expect to see,\" Dr Manish Patel, from the Open University - who was not involved with the study, told BBC News.\n\n\"Given that Curiosity makes measurements at the surface of Mars, it is tempting to think that this is coming from the surface - but we have no evidence for that. Geologically-speaking, it seems unlikely - I can't think of a process that would fit.\"\n\nThe results may point to a reservoir of oxygen close to the Martian surface\n\nDr Timothy McConnochie, from the University of Maryland in College Park, who is one of the authors on the JGR-Planets paper, told the BBC: \"You can measure the water vapour molecules in the Martian atmosphere and you can measure the change in oxygen... There just aren't enough water molecules.\n\n\"Mars in general has a pretty small amount of water vapour, and there's several times more oxygen atoms that mysteriously appear than there is in the water vapour on the entire planet.\"\n\nThey also considered why the oxygen dropped back to levels predicted by known chemistry in the autumn. One idea was that solar radiation could break up oxygen molecules into two atoms, which then escaped into space. But after running the numbers, scientists concluded it would take at least 10 years for the oxygen to disappear in this way.\n\nIn addition, the seasonal rises aren't perfectly repeatable; the amount of oxygen varies between years. The results imply that something is producing the gas and then taking it away.\n\nDr McConnochie thinks the evidence suggests a source of oxygen in the near-surface. \"I think it points to a reservoir (of oxygen) in the soil that interchanges with the atmosphere,\" he said.\n\n\"To exchange (with the atmosphere) fairly rapidly on a seasonal timescale it has to be close to the surface. If it's deeper, any process is going to be slower,\" he told BBC News.\n\nAn experiment carried out by the Viking landers in the 1970s provides tantalising clues in the oxygen mystery\n\nSome supporting evidence for this comes from Nasa's Viking landers, which touched down on the Red Planet in the 1970s. Results from the Viking Gas Exchange Experiment (GEX) showed that when the humidity was increased in a chamber containing a sample of Martian soil, it led to a release of oxygen.\n\nHowever, says Dr McConnochie, the temperature in the Viking spacecraft chamber was much warmer than it would be outside, even during spring and summer. This complicates any attempt to apply the results to the Martian environment: \"It's a tantalising clue, but it's not helping us solve the problem directly,\" he explained.\n\nMars does become more humid during spring and summer. Water-ice gets deposited on the poles during the winter. Then, throughout the summer, there is a release of water vapour in the polar regions.\n\nThere could be a link between the humidification of the entire planet at this time and the release of oxygen.\n\nIntriguingly, the changes in oxygen are similar to those seen for methane, which increases in abundance by about 60% in summer for inexplicable reasons. It's unclear whether there's any connection though.\n\nThe methane mystery has attracted much attention over the years because most of Earth's methane is produced by living organisms. Though there are several ways that methane could be released by geological processes on Mars, the production of this gas by microbes living deep beneath the surface remains a tantalising possibility.\n\nOxygen, too, can be produced by microorganisms. The possibility that biology is behind the changing levels of the gas in the Martian atmosphere can't be ruled out. But the scientific bar on such claims is set very high indeed.\n\nIt's a very remote possibility, but we still don't understand enough about the behaviour of oxygen to use it as an indicator for life.\n\nIn addition, the near sub-surface of Mars is a very difficult place to live because of the high levels of radiation that leak through the Martian atmosphere, large variations in temperature and limited availability of water.\n\n\"With current instruments on Mars spacecraft, we have no way of knowing whether biology is producing the springtime rise in oxygen. Abiotic processes look very promising, so we'll need to firmly rule them out first before pursuing microbial contribution,\" Prof Sushil Atreya, from the University of Michigan, who is a co-author on the study, told BBC News.\n\nBut he added that future missions would make interrelated measurements that could shed light on Martian habitability.\n\nDr Manish Patel says that oxygen can last for years in the Martian atmosphere\n\nDr Patel said: \"Whilst I believe biological activity in the Martian sub-surface at some point in Mars' history is a real possibility, there is no way to explain this through oxygen-producing microbes - we are missing the copious other indicators that would come along with that.\n\n\"Maybe it's all hidden, but as a scientist, I can only comment on what we observe - and an extraordinary claim requires an extraordinary observation.\"\n\nThe notion of oxygen being locked up in some chemical form in the Martian soil remains much more likely.\n\n\"One phenomenon that applies to most gas molecules is they stick to surfaces... especially anything with a lot of surface area. That sticking, that adsorption, changes on the basis of temperature,\" Tim McConnochie explained.\n\n\"Oxygen is a very active molecule, so it changes to some other form and then sticks and then changes back. The tricky thing is the forms of oxygen we know about in the Martian soil are the ones that are pretty stable.\"\n\nOne of these stable molecules is a compound called perchlorate, which is widespread in Martian soil. It doesn't give up its oxygen easily, but it's possible that exposure to high energy radiation - cosmic rays, for example - could make some of it break down, leaving by-products.\n\nOne potential by-product is hypochlorite - found in bleach - which is less stable and thus more prone to releasing its oxygen.\n\n\"I feel we're closer to an idea of how to release it from the soil than we are to an idea of how to sequester it back into the soil,\" said Tim McConnochie. But he explained: \"Presumably there is some cycle that sequesters it.\"\n\nProf Atreya explained: \"There are at least three potential abiotic reservoirs of oxygen in the surface/subsurface of Mars - oxidant, in the form of perchlorates; oxidant in the form of hydrogen peroxide; and oxidised rocks or hydrated minerals.\n\n\"Water-rock reactions in the past, or even today if liquid water exists beneath the surface or as brines, were most likely responsible for the third reservoir.\"\n\nDr Patel believes it may not be possible to apply the result from Gale Crater to the whole of Mars. \"This has been highlighted by the recent methane measurement, where Curiosity measured a huge amount of methane, but it wasn't detectable by the NOMAD and ACS instruments on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which makes measurements of these things at a global-scale and at higher sensitivity.\"\n\nThe authors of the study in JGR-Planets say they are throwing out the problem to scientists in the field, in a bid to harness expertise from across the community.\n\nWe've learned huge amounts about the Red Planet over the last few decades, but it's clear from this there are still lots of puzzles to crack.", "The letter was sent to Anna Soubry at her constituency office in Nottingham\n\nA man who threatened Change UK leader Anna Soubry, referencing the murdered MP Jo Cox, has been jailed for a year.\n\nAlden Bryce Barlow, 55, of Milton Walk, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, sent a letter to Ms Soubry in her constituency in Nottingham.\n\nThe message read: \"Cox was first, you are next\" and referred to Ms Soubry as \"treacherous\" and \"worthless\".\n\nHe was jailed at Sheffield Crown Court and given a 10-year order preventing him from contacting Ms Soubry.\n\nHe was also ordered not to go near Ms Soubry's constituency address in Nottingham.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the letter was addressed to her constituency office, and was opened by her constituency manager who called police.\n\nJo Cox was murdered in 2016 in Birstall, West Yorkshire\n\nBarlow was traced by his fingerprints on the letter and from CCTV at the post office counter in the Doncaster branch of WH Smith, where he posted it.\n\nHe was then charged with sending a letter conveying a threatening message, which he admitted.\n\nChief Crown Prosecutor Gerry Wareham said: \"This letter contained a sickening and ominous threat to Ms Soubry, with an explicit reference to the murder of Jo Cox MP in 2016.\n\n\"Ms Soubry and her staff in the constituency office understandably found the message deeply disturbing and highly offensive.\n\n\"What is more, attacks such as this on our elected representatives are attacks on democracy and perpetrators will be prosecuted.\"\n\nJo Cox died in 2016 after she was shot and stabbed while on her way to meet constituents in Birstall, West Yorkshire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An \"audacious\" attempt to steal two valuable paintings by Rembrandt from a south London gallery has been thwarted, police say.\n\nAn intruder broke into Dulwich Picture Gallery on Wednesday night but the paintings were \"secured at the scene\", it was confirmed on Thursday.\n\nNeither of the art works, by the Dutch golden age painter, left the grounds.\n\nThe gallery praised their \"robust security\" and \"the swift response of the Metropolitan Police.\"\n\nThe Rembrandt's Light exhibition and gallery will remain closed for now, while a \"full investigation\" takes place.\n\nThe police said an intruder used a canister to spray an officer in the face with an unknown substance, and as a result was able to get away. The officer did not suffer serious injuries and quickly recovered both paintings, with the help of security staff,\n\n\"This was an audacious attempted burglary and was clearly planned in advance,\" said detective inspector Jason Barber from the Flying Squad.\n\n\"Two paintings in the exhibition were targeted and it was only down to the prompt response of gallery security staff and the courage and swift intervention of officers that these two works of art were not stolen. Thankfully both the paintings were quickly recovered and secured.\"\n\nThe exhibition on \"one of the greatest painters who ever lived\" opened last month and focused on 35 of his paintings, etchings and drawings, including those owned by the gallery and others on loan from The Louvre and Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some 181 apps will no longer be available on iPhones\n\nApple is removing all vaping apps from its online store.\n\nIt said it had taken the decision because of growing official concerns about the impact vaping can have on health.\n\nIn the US, 42 deaths and more than 2,100 cases of lung injury have been linked to a respiratory illness tied to vaping.\n\nApple's decision means a total of 181 apps will not be available on iPhones, reports tech news site Axios.\n\nIn a statement given to Axios, Apple said it agreed with official warnings about the negative health impacts of vaping and the potential problem presented by the appeal of e-cigarettes to the young.\n\nIt said it took \"great care\" to ensure that the app store was a place people could trust to get programs for their iPhone.\n\nThe vaping apps available via Apple's store let people exercise control of some features of e-cigarettes and others simply kept people up to date with news about vaping or offered themed games.\n\nApple said anyone who already had a vaping app on their iPhone would be able to continue using it and transfer it to any new Apple device.\n\nThe move to eliminate vaping apps began in June when Apple decided to stop accepting any new apps related to e-cigarettes.\n\nResearch by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) into the causes of the respiratory disease that caused the deaths suggests one ingredient is to blame.\n\nThe CDC said it had found vitamin E acetate - a thickening agent used in many illegal vaping products - in lung samples from 29 patients hit by the disease.", "Boris Johnson has claimed there will be no border in the Irish Sea as a result of his Brexit deal.\n\nUnder the deal NI will continue to follow many EU rules on food and manufactured goods, while the rest of the UK will not.\n\nNI will also continue to follow EU customs rules but will remain part of the UK's customs territory.\n\nA government risk assessment says that will lead to new administration and checks on goods entering NI from GB.\n\nThose new processes and checks are widely interpreted as amounting to \"an Irish Sea border.\"\n\nMr Johnson was taking part in a BBC phone in and was questioned by a caller from Belfast.\n\nHe told her there would be no checks on any goods from NI to the rest of the UK.\n\nHe was asked if he could commit that NI businesses would not encounter additional paperwork or fees when dealing with GB.\n\nHe said: \"I absolutely can. This is a matter for the UK government and we will make sure that businesses face no extra costs and no checks for stuff being exported from NI to GB.\"\n\nHowever Mr Johnson gave no commitments on what would happen with GB to NI trade.\n\nUnder his deal means Northern Ireland will remain part of a \"single regulatory zone\" with the Republic of Ireland, a zone that will apply EU rules.\n\nThe EU has particularly strict rules on the importation of \"products of animal origin\" - meat, fish and dairy products.\n\nThose products must enter the EU through a border inspection post where all shipments are subject to document checks and a high proportion are physically checked.\n\nProducts of animal origin from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland would be subject to these checks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There will not be checks on goods going from NI to GB,\" Boris Johnson tells Conservative supporters\n\nA few countries, such as New Zealand, have a deal with the EU where only 1% of consignments are checked.\n\nIt is possible that the UK could negotiate a similar deal but it would not be able to eliminate checks entirely unless the whole of the UK was going to stay in the single market.\n\nThe current political declaration, which sets out the broad shape of the future EU-UK relationship, suggests that is unlikely.\n\nMr Johnson said that if the deal was found not to be working for the people of Northern Ireland then the Stormont Assembly can vote to leave that regulatory zone.\n\nThe caller pointed out that Stormont has not sat for over 1,000 days - Mr Johnson said this was 'a great shame.'\n\nThe Prime Minister also said he was \"1,000,000% committed\" to maintaining the union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.", "The latest Scottish Health Survey attempts to measure the wellbeing of people living in Scotland. So, what does it reveal about the nation's drinking, smoking and exercise habits?\n\nMental health is the first item on the survey this year, marking its rise up the health policy agenda.\n\nThe survey uses the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) and the General Health Questionnaire 12 (GHQ 12) to monitor \"mental wellbeing\".\n\nIn 2018, the mean score for adults on the WEMWBS was 49.4, which was not significantly lower than 2017 (49.8) but it was the lowest since 2008 when this question began being asked.\n\nThe GHQ-12 questionnaire showed that 19% of adults exhibited signs of a possible psychiatric disorder (GHQ-12 score of four or more), the highest in the time series since 2003.\n\nDespite World Health Organisation guidelines recommending five portions of fruit and vegetables per day, most Scots are falling well below the target.\n\nIn 2018, 22% of adults met the 5-a-day recommendation, which is fairly consistent with results since 2003.\n\nThe survey said 10% did not consume any fruit or vegetables on previous day.\n\nThe survey showed that the average adult managed just 3.2 portions.\n\nJust 15% of children met the 5-a-day recommendation.\n\nAccording to the survey, consumption of sugary soft drinks had fallen considerably for both adults and children.\n\nIn 2018, 10% of adults consumed sugary drinks every day, down from 20% in 2016.\n\nAbout 16% of children aged 2-15 consumed non-diet soft drinks daily, down from 35% in 2015/2016.\n\nA survey question about food security found that 16% of adults in the most deprived areas reported being worried about running out of food, compared with 4% in the least deprived areas.\n\nTwo-thirds (65%) of adults in Scotland are overweight, the survey says.\n\nThis includes 28% who are obese.\n\nThese trends have remained stable since 2008.\n\nAbout a third of adults have a \"healthy weight\" - a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 18.5 to 25 kg/m2.\n\nThe average BMI of Scots has shown a small upward trend from 27.1 in 2003 to 27.7 in 2018.\n\nPrevalence of children at risk of obesity has remained relatively stable in 2018 at 16%.\n\nDespite a decrease over the years in the number of adults drinking at hazardous or harmful levels, the figure is not going down very quickly.\n\nThe 24% figure for 2018 was the same as the previous year but down from 34% in 2003.\n\nMen continued to be twice as likely as women to drink at hazardous or harmful levels.\n\nAmong men, the highest prevalence of harmful drinking was among those aged 55-64.\n\nOn average, it said men drank 16.1 units and women 8.9.\n\nGuidelines say men and women should consume no more than 14 units a week - equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine.\n\nThe prevalence of smoking among adults in 2018 was 19%, according to the survey,\n\nThat figure was actually slightly up on the 2017 figure but is well down from 2003 (28%).\n\nIn the most-deprived areas 33% of adults smoked, the survey said, as opposed to just 10% in the least deprived areas.\n\nThere has been a steady decline over time in the average number of cigarettes smoked per day from 15.3 in 2003 to 11.8 last year.\n\nThe percentage of adults who had never smoked regularly or at all was at its highest level in 2018 at 59%.\n\nIn 2018, two-thirds of adults (66%) met the guidelines for moderate or vigorous physical activity (MVPA), the highest level in the time series, though it has not changed significantly since 2013.\n\nMen (70%) continued to be more likely than women (62%) to meet the MVPA guidelines.\n\nThe survey said that in 2018 about 8% of all children aged 0 to 15 were reported to be diagnosed with asthma by a doctor -the lowest level to date.\n\nThe prevalence of self-reported asthma diagnoses among adults increased from 13% in 2003 to 16% in 2012 and has remained stable since.\n\nAmong adults aged 16 and over, 16% had some form of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and 7% reported doctor-diagnosed diabetes (primarily type 2).\n\nThe survey said 5% had IHD (ischaemic heart disease) and 3% reported having a stroke.\n\nIt said 71% of adults, in 2018, described their health as 'good' or 'very good', the lowest recorded since 2008.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland celebrated their 1,000th game in style as they secured qualification for Euro 2020 and won Group A with an emphatic demolition of Montenegro at Wembley.\n\nCaptain Harry Kane moved to sixth in England's list of leading scorers as a first-half hat-trick took his tally to 31 - overhauling Frank Lampard, Alan Shearer, Nat Lofthouse and Tom Finney.\n\nAlex Oxlade-Chamberlain opened the scoring on his first start for 18 months while Marcus Rashford was also on the scoresheet in that 45-minute barrage.\n\nAs England and the Football Association enjoyed this landmark occasion, with a parade of legends and 1966 World Cup winners in attendance, Montenegro proved the most amenable of opponents, particularly in the opening half when Kane and company ran riot and the visitors' defending was shambolic.\n\nOxlade-Chamberlain finished superbly to begin the rout while Kane quickly added two headers, with all three goals created by Leicester City defender Ben Chilwell. England's captain and Rashford were also the beneficiaries of Montenegro generosity before the interval.\n\nIt was also in evidence in the second half when Aleksandar Sofranac diverted Mason Mount's shot into his own net for England's sixth.\n\nTo complete a perfect night for Gareth Southgate and England- who by qualifying automatically ensured they will play all three Euro 2020 group matches at Wembley - the manager was able to give a debut to Leicester City's James Maddison, while substitute Tammy Abraham scored his first full international goal.\n\nThe introduction of Liverpool's Joe Gomez appeared to be bizarrely greeted by some jeers from England fans after the clash with Raheem Sterling that saw the Manchester City forward dropped as a disciplinary measure, but otherwise Southgate's side marked this gala occasion and qualification with a flourish before Sunday's final game in Kosovo.\n• None England at Euro 2020: What do we know?\n\nIt has been a testing week for Southgate as he had to handle the fallout from the altercation between Sterling and Gomez at St George's Park on Monday, 24 hours after Liverpool beat Manchester City in the Premier League.\n\nSouthgate dropped Sterling but he could sit back and relax as England answered any remaining questions with a first-half performance that ended this game as a contest in short order. Sterling is a world-class player but was not missed as the team Southgate picked dissected hapless Montenegro.\n\nIf results have been comfortable in this group - defeat in the Czech Republic apart - Southgate has had difficulties off the field following the racial abuse aimed at England's players in Montenegro and Bulgaria, and the disturbance involving Sterling and Gomez.\n\nIt was a moment that tested the unity of an England squad so carefully crafted by Southgate, but all seemed well as Sterling applauded defender Gomez's appearance as a second-half substitute.\n\nHowever, the booing from some sections of the Wembley crowd was mystifying, whoever was the target. It was the only sour note of the night and totally unnecessary.\n\nEngland's players provided the best medicine with a victory that once again demonstrated their ability to destroy vulnerable opponents with a potent attack, as they have done throughout this qualifying campaign.\n\nNow they must finish the job with victory in Kosovo as they try to ensure they are seeded for Euro 2020. Greater tests then lie ahead.\n\nEngland's youth comes through with panache\n\nThis was England's youngest starting line-up for 60 years, with an average age of 23 years and 255 days - and while the opposition was poor, this was a very promising glimpse into the future.\n\nLeicester City's Chilwell demonstrated his growth as a player of international stature and his rounded game as he created those first three goals, while Wembley cheered the arrival of his Foxes team-mate Maddison as the gifted midfielder finally got his debut.\n\nAbraham's development into a striker and poacher of growing quality was emphasised by his clinical near-post finish for England's seventh, and his young Chelsea team-mate Mount was unlucky not to get on the scoresheet.\n• None Three Lions: One World Cup, 147 years and 1,000 games\n\nMount is 20, while Chilwell, Abraham and Maddison are all still only 22, so they can be part of England's plans for years to come.\n\nLiverpool's Oxlade-Chamberlain may be one of the older brigade these days even though he is still only 26 - but he has endured a lengthy absence from the England scene because of injury. He has been in rich goalscoring form this season, as proved by his powerful, low finish that set England on their way. Southgate will be delighted to have him back at his disposal.\n\nAll in all, this was pretty much the ideal night for Southgate and his players as they prepare to travel to Kosovo to conclude another successful qualifying campaign.\n\n'We wanted to put on a show'\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We played so well in the first half. I know France have taken a long time tonight to get a victory against Moldova.\n\n\"We have won a group that we should win but we have won it comfortably and we have found a way of playing against those lower-ranked teams that defend in numbers. We have found a way to break them down, which maybe in the past we haven't.\"\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane to ITV: \"We have had one slip-up in the group and responded really well. We got the job done and wanted to put on a show in our 1,000th game. With five goals in the first half, I think we did that.\n\n\"We want to win that game away from home [against Kosovo]. We will enjoy this with one eye on Sunday.\"\n\nScoring big - the best of the stats\n• None In what was England's 1,000th match (W569, D241, L190), the Three Lions earned their biggest home win since October 1987 (8-0 against Turkey).\n• None England were 5-0 up after just 37 minutes, which is the earliest they have scored five goals in a game since November 1946 (35 minutes against the Netherlands).\n• None England have scored 34 goals in nine games in 2019, their highest tally in a calendar year since 1982 (34 in 15 games). They last scored more in a single year in 1966 (38).\n• None England (33) have overtaken Belgium (30) as the highest scorers in Euro 2020 qualifying so far.\n• None England have benefited from 54 own goals in their 1,000 matches - one more than their all-time highest goalscorer Wayne Rooney netted.\n• None Abraham got his first senior international goal for England, becoming the 430th player to score for the Three Lions.\n\nEngland travel to Pristina to take on Kosovo in their final Euro 2020 qualifier on Sunday, 17 November (17:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, England. Trent Alexander-Arnold tries a through ball, but Jadon Sancho is caught offside.\n• None Goal! England 7, Montenegro 0. Tammy Abraham (England) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jadon Sancho.\n• None Marko Jankovic (Montenegro) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Trent Alexander-Arnold (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (England) right footed shot from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Jadon Sancho. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Josephine Frimpong recalled the moment she was told her son was dead\n\nThe family of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death after getting off a bus said he was a talented footballer with plans for his life.\n\nBaptista Adjei was found critically injured near Stratford Shopping Centre in east London on 11 October.\n\nHis mother Josephine Frimpong said she was waiting for him to come home from school when she received a frantic call saying \"Baptista is dead\".\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder.\n\nHe also faces a charge of causing grievous bodily harm and two counts of possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nThe schoolboy died after getting off a bus near Stratford Shopping Centre\n\nA second boy, also 15, has been charged with conspiracy to murder Baptista.\n\nBaptista, from North Woolwich, will be laid to rest in an east London cemetery later.\n\nSpeaking about the moment she received the phone call, his mother said: \"They said 'Baptista is dead'. I said 'no, Baptista is not dead' and I'm running.\n\n\"I go outside and I'm crying a lot and later on I saw police cars coming.\"\n\nJosephine Frimpong with her two sons Baptista (left) and David\n\nMs Frimpong, who also has a 12-year-old son called David, said she was \"always missing Baptista in this house\".\n\n\"It's too much for me. I can't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"When in the morning I wake up Dave, I go to wake up Baptista and I didn't see Baptista. I'm not happy at all, I feel... pains.\"\n\nMourners gathered at the location where Baptista was stabbed\n\nBaptista's aunt Elizabeth Ntiedu said he was a \"very loving boy\" and a talented footballer with plans for his life.\n\n\"He was a clever boy and he said 'I wanna be a footballer but I also want to educate myself'. He had potential,\" she added.\n\nBaptista's brother David said the siblings \"used to basically do everything together\".\n\nHe said he took comfort by lying on his brother's bed where he would \"just say what I'm thinking\".\n\nDavid added: \"And I would say it to him when I'm alone. I feel like he's there. Sometimes it can be really hard, but I just know that he's in a better place.\"", "There are 650 constituencies in the UK but most of the campaigning for the general election will take place in a smaller number.\n\nAs ever, much of the focus will be on marginal constituencies - places where the winning majority in 2017 was small.\n\nHowever, at this election the parties will also be targeting a large number of constituencies beyond the marginal seats.\n\nThere will be a lot of focus on areas that voted strongly to Leave or strongly to Remain in the EU referendum - even where the majorities are large. Big swings cannot be ruled out.\n\nA striking aspect of the 2017 general election was that the result in lots of constituencies was very close.\n\nThe normal working definition for a marginal seat is one where the majority is under 10%, which usually means under about 5,000 votes - although that does depend on turnout and the size of the constituency.\n\nThen, within that group of seats, there are the ultra-marginals: places where the majority is under 2% - about 1,000 votes.\n\nIn 2017 there were 51 of these ultra-marginals - considerably more than in previous elections. In fact there were eight seats with a majority under 50.\n\nAll those will be hotly contested. The Conservatives will be hoping to win back some of the seats they lost last time - like Canterbury, Keighley and Kensington - while Labour will try to take seats where it got within a whisker - such as Arfon, Pudsey and Southampton Itchen.\n\nAnd the Lib Dems will hope to win seats they've previously held like Richmond Park, St Ives and Sheffield Hallam.\n\nIn Scotland there are 46 marginal seats, using the 10% definition, out of a total of 59. So almost all the constituencies are potentially in play.\n\nOf particular interest will be the 21 seats lost by the SNP in 2017. Nearly all voted Remain in the EU referendum so the SNP hopes its anti-Brexit stance will help it to recapture as many of them as possible.\n\nIn many cases it would only take a small shift - places like Stirling and Gordon, held by the Conservatives, and Rutherglen & Hamilton West and Midlothian, both held by Labour.\n\nAnother seat to keep an eye on is Fife North East. It's the most marginal constituency in the whole country with an SNP majority over the Liberal Democrats of just two votes. In fact, that's the smallest majority in any seat this century.\n\nIt's not just Scotland where Brexit will influence which seats are targeted. Strongly Leave and strongly Remain areas are likely to be crucial.\n\nThe Conservatives are hoping to capture longstanding Labour constituencies that voted heavily to Leave - even those outside the normal marginal range.\n\nThe map shows that these are concentrated in the Midlands and parts of the north of England - seats like West Bromwich West, Bolsover, and Hyndburn.\n\nHowever, the Brexit Party has a similar goal. It describes Hartlepool as its number one target.\n\nOn the other hand, the Liberal Democrats are targeting heavily-Remain seats, mostly in the south of England, even though some have quite big majorities. Places like St Albans, Winchester, and Cambridge.\n\nAnother feature of the Brexit battle at this election is the agreement made by the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and Green Party to stand aside for one another in 60 seats across England and Wales.\n\nIt's impossible to know whether this will affect who wins any of the constituencies but it should give a boost to Plaid in places like Llanelli and Ynys Mon and to the Lib Dems in seats including Hazel Grove and Thornbury & Yate.\n\nWhere parties choose to put up candidates could have a bigger impact in Northern Ireland than anywhere else.\n\nIn Belfast South, for example, Sinn Fein is standing aside in favour of the SDLP to increase its chances of ousting the DUP. The SDLP will return the favour in Belfast North.\n\nMeanwhile in Fermanagh & South Tyrone the DUP will stand aside to assist the UUP, as it did in 2017.\n\nAnother seat to keep an eye on is Foyle where it's a different story. It's the most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland and was a Sinn Fein gain from the SDLP last time.\n\nOne of the features of recent general elections has been Labour's increasing dominance in London.\n\nAs a region it used to be fairly representative of the whole country, politically speaking, but over time that has changed. In 2017 Labour won 49 of the 73 seats across the city.\n\nThere's also evidence that the effect has started to spill out from central London to the outskirts and to constituencies in the surrounding areas.\n\nThat seems to be linked to an increase in the number of people leaving London - especially those in their 30s and 40s.\n\nLabour will be hoping that this demographic change could help it in seats like Chingford & Woodford Green, Crawley, and Milton Keynes South - all popular destinations for people leaving London.", "Adam Price: \"We had an extractive economy with a political power centre outside of our nation\"\n\nA Welsh Labour minister has accused Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price of using \"deliberately offensive terminology\" comparing the experience of Wales with colonialism.\n\nVaughan Gething's comments follow an interview in which Mr Price said Wales had suffered a \"century of neglect\".\n\nMr Price had argued that Wales had an \"extractive economy\" and \"political power centre outside of our nation\".\n\nThis was \"analogous if not identical\" to the colonial experience, he said.\n\nMr Price said it was a \"deliberate attempt to distract from the real issues\" by \"smearing\" him, and described it as \"ugly politics\".\n\nHe said: \"We're suggesting some solutions to Wales' problems, what the Labour Party is trying to do is distract away from its responsibility as the party that's been in government in Wales for 20 years.\"\n\nIn the interview, with the think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs, Mr Price said Plaid Cymru wanted \"reparation for a century of neglect that has left a country, rich in its resources, a bitter legacy of poverty, sickness, blighted lives and broken dreams\".\n\nHe said: \"I feel very strongly that it's not possible to understand the predicament we're in without acknowledging the centrality of the fact that we had an extractive economy with a political power centre outside of our nation.\n\n\"For most people that is analogous if not identical to the experience of colonialism.\"\n\nMr Price continued: \"The term internal colonialism was invented to describe the experience of African Americans in the United States.\n\n\"In fact, there is a quote from the 19th Century where they were referencing our experience - the Welsh inside the British Isles - in order to explain their own experience of internal colonialism.\n\n\"I don't think you can understand the predicament we've been left in without those two salient facts and the inter-relationship between the two.\"\n\nVaughan Gething said Mr Price should apologise for \"outrageous\" comments\n\nThe minister told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he was \"pretty staggered that he's chosen to use such deliberately offensive terminology that directly references the experience of Wales and colonialism, and further back slavery\".\n\n\"You just cannot compare the experience of Wales in the 19th and 20th Centuries with the experience of the emancipation campaign from slavery or indeed the state-backed racism that was visited upon African Americans in America,\" he said.\n\nMr Gething said Wales itself had a direct role in the history of slavery.\n\n\"There's no surprise that some of the most popular African American surnames are Welsh ones,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's because, when they were finally given their freedom, they were given the names of their slave owners.\"\n\n\"To try to say that the experience of Wales as a country and as a people is analogous to colonialism, is analogous to slavery, that is just outrageous,\" he said.\n\nMr Gething also referred to his mother, who was born in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia, that became Zambia.\n\n\"Her experience growing up, and her family's experience growing up, was not like the experience of Wales in the 19th and 20th Century,\" he said.\n\nMr Price said he found it insensitive to suggest or create the impression that he was a racist, and \"we need to park these personal insults and let's talk about the issues\".\n\nA Plaid spokesperson added that the Labour Party in Wales had been \"failing to deliver on the economy, healthcare and education - all things under their control\" .\n\n\"Labour should really be spending more time trying to fix the position Wales finds itself in,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"The fact that a third of our children living in poverty is a direct result of the kind of economy we have which has extracted from Wales without allowing our nation to benefit, with power centralised outside our own country.\"", "A British woman convicted of killing a US patient by giving her botched buttock-enhancement injections has been sentenced to a year in New York jail.\n\nDonna Francis had pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide for the 2015 death of Kelly Mayhew after she was extradited from the UK in August.\n\nFrancis was given the maximum sentence allowed in the extradition agreement.\n\n\"The phrase 'getting away with murder' certainly applies to you,\" New York Judge Kenneth Holder said on Thursday.\n\n\"If you have a conscience, this is going to haunt you much longer than the one-year sentence you're going to serve.\"\n\nFrancis, 39, who is originally from Loughton, Essex, was sentenced in the Queens Supreme Court in New York for causing the death of Mayhew in May 2015.\n\nAt her sentencing, Francis was in tears, and said she regretted the incident.\n\n\"It wasn't my intention to hurt anyone,\" she said. \"I'm sorry for all the years this has been going on. I'm just sorry.\"\n\nMayhew and her mother had travelled to New York from Maryland to pay Francis - who has no medical licence - $1,600 (£1,200) for a buttock enhancement procedure.\n\nMayhew went into cardiac arrest after the botched silicone injections were administered in the basement of a house.\n\nHer brother, who read a statement on behalf of their mother in court, said Francis had refused to call 911 or provide an address to give first responders, the New York Post reported.\n\nMayhew eventually died from systemic silicone emboli, when the unencapsulated silicone entered her bloodstream and caused an embolism, the medical examiner found.\n\nProsecutors said Francis had left the dying woman and her mother and fled to London, where she remained until the extradition deal was reached this summer.", "US President Donald Trump is in the middle of an impeachment inquiry.\n\nThree BBC reporters based in North America, Ritu Prasad, Laura Trevelyan and Chris Buckler, break down the key points as the inquiry goes public.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nitrous oxide is sold in metal canisters often discarded in the street\n\nA trading standards expert has warned online stores need to \"take responsibility\" to prevent the illicit sale of nitrous oxide.\n\nThe gas - dubbed \"laughing gas\" or \"nos\" - is being sold with equipment needed to take it as a high on sites like Amazon and eBay, BBC Wales found.\n\nIt is the second most commonly used recreational drug in England and Wales after cannabis.\n\nSales are tricky to police as it has legal uses in catering and pain relief.\n\nNitrous oxide is sold on Amazon and eBay alongside the \"crackers\" and balloons used to take it.\n\nOn social media sellers were happy to deliver around the clock.\n\nSamantha - not her real name - used nos when she was younger after a housemate bought it on Amazon.\n\nThe 22-year-old from Cardiff said: \"When you're that age and everyone around you is doing it, and you're not really seeing any bad, negative impacts from it, you think, 'Oh it's fine, it's something that young people do'.\"\n\nBut she experienced fizzing in her nose, nausea and a tight chest after taking a substance friends bought online.\n\nIt was discovered being sold on eBay and Amazon\n\nThey thought it was nos. It was CO2.\n\nCarbon dioxide is not used recreationally but inhaling it carries similar risks.\n\n\"The next day I felt really, really terrible, and I think it was a lot of anxiety about what I'd done the night before,\" Samantha said.\n\n\"It was something that turned me off doing anything like that because it was so scary.\"\n\nNitrous oxide has been linked to 17 deaths in the last three years, according to official statistics. Among 16 to 24-year-olds about one in 11 used it last year.\n\nLegislation introduced in 2016 made it illegal to sell as a high.\n\nProsecutors say the law is not working because its legal uses make enforcement tricky.\n\nBBC Wales found boxes of nos canisters being sold on Amazon in a special deal including the balloons used to take it.\n\nOn eBay, some \"crackers\" were sold alongside balloons. There were money-saving deals on bulk purchases and nos canisters advertised in the \"similar sponsored items\" section.\n\nWhen BBC Wales searched for nitrous oxide canisters on both sites, crackers and balloons also came up in searches and were suggested by the sites' algorithms as products that could be bought with nos.\n\nThe gas is often inhaled using balloons\n\nAmazon has since removed the product being sold as a package of nos canisters and balloons.\n\nThe company said sellers must follow their guidelines.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Those who do not will be subject to action including potential removal of their account.\"\n\nAn eBay spokesman said: \"Listings encouraging illegal activity are banned from eBay's platform.\n\n\"We have removed the items and are taking enforcement action against the sellers.\"\n\nNitrous oxide is also sold through social media accounts.\n\nMany carry warnings against recreational use, but when a BBC Wales investigator called five sellers in Wales and south-west England, all were happy to deliver nos that night - despite the reporter saying it was for recreational use.\n\nCaerphilly council's Tim Keohane secured one of Wales' first prosecutions of a shop for illegally selling it in August.\n\nCaerphilly and Gwent Police prosecuted Khehra Store Ltd after it was found to have sold nos at the 7-11 shop in Bedwas Road, Caerphilly, in 2018.\n\nThe firm and its boss were hit with fines and charges of about £2,000.\n\nAnyone found guilty of selling or giving away nitrous oxide for illegal purposes can face up to seven years in prison, an unlimited fine, or both.\n\nNitrous oxide has been used recreationally since the early 1800s\n\nMr Keohane said the offence was harder to prove with online vendors. They can flout the law by selling items separately or posting disclaimers against misuse.\n\nHe said the drug's widespread use among the young and online sales were a \"huge concern\".\n\nBut its legitimate uses - such as for producing whipped cream - made legislating against web distribution difficult.\n\nMr Keohane said: \"Companies like Amazon and eBay need to take responsibility because it is so difficult to police the internet and sellers.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said many are unaware of the risks.\n\nMental health nurse Jeremy Davis, of RCN Wales, said: \"For every young person who has a balloon at a party and has five minutes that are the best of their evening, there is another one who wakes up in A&E.\n\n\"There are four or five more [each year] who don't wake up.\"\n\nIn May, several 4ft cylinders were stolen from Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Natasha Ednan-Laperouse died in 2016 after eating a baguette containing hidden sesame\n\nThe number of children being admitted to hospital in England with a severe allergic reaction has risen every year for the past five years.\n\nNHS figures show 1,746 children were treated for anaphylactic shock in 2018-19, up from 1,015 in 2013-14.\n\nThe parents of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who died in 2016 after eating a baguette containing sesame, called the increase \"deeply alarming\".\n\nScientists say environmental factors could be to blame for more allergies.\n\nChildren under 10 were most likely to be affected by anaphylaxis, with 1,018 admitted to hospital last year - compared with 601 in 2013-14.\n\nWhen adults with severe allergic reactions treated in hospital were also included, the figures rose from 4,107 cases to 5,497 over five years.\n\nAnaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction which can be life-threatening.\n\nThe most common causes of severe allergic reactions are foods such as nuts, fish and shellfish but they can also be triggered by wasp and bee stings, drugs and dairy products, among others.\n\nEven the tiniest exposure to one of these allergens can be enough to set off an anaphylactic reaction and bring on breathing difficulties, rapid heartbeat and loss of consciousness.\n\nSesame is one of 14 allergens consumers must be made aware of in food products\n\nThe increase in allergies is not simply due to society becoming more aware of them and better at diagnosing them.\n\nInstead, scientists believe factors such as dietary changes, exposure to microbes and pollution may play a role in the rise - particularly for Western lifestyles.\n\nAn allergy expert has previously suggested that teenagers taking risks when managing their food allergies was likely to be a factor in the increase in severe allergic reactions in that age group.\n\nNatasha's mother, Tanya Ednan-Laperouse, said: \"These terrifying figures show we are facing an allergy emergency.\n\n\"The number of children with allergies and suffering severe allergic reactions is rising year-on-year at a deeply alarming rate.\"\n\nHasan Arshad, professor of allergy and clinical immunology at the University of Southampton, said the figures confirmed \"a worrying increase in severe food allergy\".\n\n\"We should not forget that behind each of these numbers is a child or adult who has suffered the most severe consequences of an anaphylactic shock,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New ingredient proposals: \"This will help so many allergy sufferers,\" say Nadim and Tanya Ednan-Laperouse\n\nFifteen-year-old Natasha had a severe and fatal allergic reaction to an artichoke, olive and tapenade baguette bought from Pret a Manger.\n\nShe was allergic to sesame seed but this was not listed on the product label.\n\nDespite her father, Nadim, administering two EpiPen injections, Natasha died in a hospital within hours.\n\nNatasha's parents have campaigned for a change in the law to require producers of pre-packed foods to list all their ingredients. This law will come into force in 2021.\n\nUp until now, takeaways and restaurants have had to let customers know only if any of the 14 most dangerous allergens - including peanuts, eggs and milk - are contained in their dishes.\n\nNatasha's parents have also set up the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, with the ultimate aim of finding a cure for allergies.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlooded Venice has been hit by a new high tide of 154cm (5ft), giving residents no respite from a crisis costing Italy millions of euros.\n\nWorld-famous St Mark's Square, a magnet for tourists, has been closed, and schools are shut for a third day.\n\nThe canal city's famous waterbuses - the vaporetti - are not running.\n\nThe 187cm peak on Tuesday was the highest level in more than 50 years, damaging monuments, shops and homes. More than 80% of the city was flooded.\n\nThe government declared a state of emergency in the Unesco world heritage site.\n\nResidents with flood-damaged homes will get up to €5,000 (£4,300; $5,500), and businesses up to €20,000 in compensation.\n\nThe first flood sirens went off at dawn, an eerie sound rising over the ancient bridges and waterways of the city.\n\nWithin a couple of hours, the murky green water of the Grand Canal had risen level with its bank, slapping over the paving stones as boats went past.\n\nNearby streets quickly flooded. Tourists, shoes covered in plastic bags, carried their luggage along raised narrow trestle walkways, which the authorities have put up to keep the pedestrian traffic moving.\n\nOn either side, dirty water continued to rise. At ground level, in their rubber wellies, business owners were already starting to operate small pumps. Many had raised the flood barriers across their doorways - apparently to little effect. Water was already seeping up to ankle height in the souvenir shops and cafes.\n\nThe Grand Canal's water is now level with the pavement\n\n\"It hurts to see the city so damaged, its artistic heritage compromised, its commercial activities on its knees,\" Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who visited Venice on Wednesday, wrote in a Facebook post (in Italian).\n\nThe city has about 50,000 residents, but about 20m tourists visit every year.\n\nHotels were forced to cancel reservations, some reportedly as far ahead as December, as photos of Venice underwater spread across the world.\n\nThe tides have been worsened by sirocco winds blowing from Africa, and there are fears that global warming is increasing the frequency and severity of such floods.\n\nWaters are expected to recede over the weekend.\n\nWellington boots are now essential footwear in Venice\n\nThe government says Venice's elaborate flood defence system will not be operational until 2021 - yet work began on it back in 2003.\n\nFondamenta Zattere - a long, much-loved waterfront area where tourists enjoy strolling - is also under water.\n\nThe city is made up of more than 100 islands inside a lagoon off the north-east coast of Italy. It suffers flooding on a yearly basis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has pledged to release €20m in aid for Venice.\n\nCulture Minister Dario Franceschini said the task of repairing the city would be huge, adding that more than 50 churches had been damaged.\n\nOnly once since official records began in 1923 has the tide been higher than it reached this week - hitting 194cm in 1966.\n\nA flooded bookshop: Workers are trying to dry out damp prints\n\nThe mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, blamed climate change for the flood, saying the impact was \"huge\" and would leave \"a permanent mark\". Strong winds lashing the area are contributing to the crisis.\n\nMr Conte said the government would accelerate the Mose project - construction of a hydraulic barrier system to protect the lagoon from rising sea levels and winter storms.\n\nSt Mark's Basilica - dating back to the 11th Century - was hit by the flood\n\nShops appear marooned by the floodwaters\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "The minister who heckled Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Glasgow has been suspended while an investigation into controversial tweets is carried out.\n\nRev Richard Cameron shouted at Mr Corbyn as he entered a community centre on Wednesday.\n\nIt later emerged that he had made Islamophobic and homophobic comments on social media.\n\nThe Church of Scotland has confirmed he will not be allowed to work as a minister while inquiries continue.\n\nA spokeswoman for the church said: \"In accordance with our procedures Rev Richard Cameron has been administratively suspended.\n\n\"This is to allow us to carry out an inquiry in relation to the incident which took place earlier this week and the subsequent complaints about his social media use.\"\n\nIn one tweet Rev Cameron, the minister at Scotstoun Parish Church in Glasgow, compared homosexuality to incest, describing them as \"unnatural\".\n\n\"Both cause harm by breaking sensibly held taboos,\" he added.\n\nIn September, he tweeted: \"Christ has the power to help and change anyone. Obviously many gays hate this because want to carry on their perversion.\"\n\nHe also shared a series of controversial views on Islam, describing terrorism as \"a problem Islam needs to deal with\", a full face veil as \"oppressive and unBritish\" and the Prophet Muhammad as \"a violent man\".\n\nIn another post, he said: \"The best way to defeat Islam is to preach Christ\".\n\nWhen initially alerted to the tweets, the church said it \"deplored comments which were Islamophobic or homophobic\".\n\nRev Cameron, who worked in pharmaceutical sales before joining the church, has been minister at Scotstoun since 2000.\n\nThe 60-year-old heckled Mr Corbyn during a two-day trip to Scotland, branding him a \"terrorist sympathiser\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs Mr Corbyn was telling reporters about a scarf given to him by the Who Cares? Scotland charity, Rev Cameron shouted that he thought the Labour leader would be wearing an \"Islamic jihad scarf\".\n\n\"Do you think the man that's going to be prime minister of this country should be a terrorist sympathiser, Mr Corbyn?\" he added.\n\n\"Who's going to be the first terrorist invited to the House of Commons when you're prime minister?\"\n\nThe Labour leader did not react and he was ushered into the community centre by Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard.", "The minibus overturned after a collision with a car near St Ives in Cambridgeshire\n\nTwenty people are being treated in hospital after a minibus overturned in rural Cambridgeshire.\n\nThe two-vehicle collision happened on the B1040 Somersham Road near the villages of Woodhurst and Bluntisham, at 16:51 GMT.\n\n\"Multiple people are involved and some are seriously injured,\" police said.\n\nMore than 20 firefighters are at the scene, the fire service said. A police cordon is also in place.\n\nThe crash happened near the villages of Woodhurst and Bluntisham\n\nBelongings have been strewn around the carriageway after the accident\n\nCasualties are being taken to Addenbrooke's and Hinchingbrooke hospitals in Cambridge and Huntingdon, a spokeswoman for the East of England Ambulance Service said.\n\nA spokesman from Cambridgeshire Constabulary said they had \"varying levels of injury\".\n\nRoads in both directions near Wheatsheaf Road are closed and diversions are in place through Pidley.\n\nThe East Anglian Air Ambulance and a hazard response team are also at the scene.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene of the crash in rural Cambridgeshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protesters said violence against women must stop\n\nMarches have been held in dozens of French cities to condemn femicide and other forms of gender-based violence.\n\nUsing the hashtag #NousToutes (All of Us), protesters accuse the authorities of turning a blind eye to the problem.\n\nMeasures to tackle domestic violence are expected to be unveiled on Monday.\n\nFrance has one of the highest rates of murders linked to domestic violence in Western Europe, with at least 115 women killed by their partners or ex-partners this year alone, local media say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 30 street marches were organised by a number of groups and unions throughout France.\n\nParis was a sea of purple - the colour of thousands of banners carried by protesters\n\nSome groups say 137 women in France have been killed by their partners this year\n\nThe state is guilty, said these demonstrators in Paris\n\nIn Marseille, protesters held placards with the names of some of the victims of domestic violence\n\nIn Paris, the rally began near the Opéra in the capital's centre.\n\nThe city soon became a sea of purple - the colour of thousands of banners carried by protesters.\n\n\"We think this will be a historic march,\" Caroline De Haas, one of the organisers, was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.\n\nShe said \"the level of awareness [about the problem] is moving at breakneck speed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. French women talk about their experiences of sexual harassment in public\n\nRallies are also being held in other major cities.\n\nIn the southern port of Marseille, demonstrators held placards with the names of some of the victims of domestic violence.\n\nOne woman is killed in France every three days by their current or former partner, according to the AFP.\n\nEurostat, the European Union's statistics agency, says there were 123 murders committed by a partner in France in 2017.\n\nThe marches come at the end of nearly three months of consultations launched by the French government.\n\nCampaigners hope the talks will result in a set of specific measures against domestic violence.\n\nIn September, the government announced a number of emergency measures, including the creation of 1,000 shelter places and emergency accommodation from next year, and an audit of 400 police stations to see how women's complaints are handled.\n\nPrime Minister Edouard Philippe also said €5m (£4.5m) would be released in the fight against femicide, and that the complaints procedure would be simplified, that the protection of women under threat would be improved, and that their partners would be removed more quickly.\n\nThe PM also floated the idea that those convicted of domestic violence or under a restraining order would have to wear an electronic bracelet to protect women from further violence.", "US Attorney General William Barr has called the death of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein \"a perfect storm of screw-ups\".\n\nIn an interview with AP News, Mr Barr said the jailhouse suicide, which came as Epstein awaited trial, was due to a \"series\" of mistakes.\n\nHis comments come after two guards who were responsible for Epstein were charged with falsifying prison records.\n\nLawyers for Epstein's victims are urging Prince Andrew, a longtime friend of Epstein, to speak to US police.\n\nThe US attorney general said he had personally reviewed CCTV footage that confirmed nobody entered the area where Epstein was detained on the night he died.\n\n\"I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups,\" Mr Barr said in an interview as he flew to the US state of Montana for an event on Thursday.\n\nEpstein, a wealthy financier who partied with the rich and famous, died in Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial on charges of sexually abusing girls as young as 14.\n\nEarlier this week, two guards tasked with watching over Epstein's jail unit were charged with sleeping and browsing the internet during their shift as Epstein died.\n\nOfficers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were supposed to check on Epstein every 30 minutes. According to an indictment, the guards had not done their 03:00 or 05:00 checks.\n\nEpstein was placed on suicide watch after he was found on 23 July on his cell floor with bruises on his neck.\n\nHe was taken off suicide watch about a week before his death, though kept on a heightened watch that required him to have a cellmate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut his cellmate was transferred on 9 August to another prison a day before Epstein's death, which a medical examiner ruled to be suicide by hanging.\n\nMr Barr, who leads the US Department of Justice, said: \"I think it was important to have a roommate in there with him and we're looking into why that wasn't done, and I think every indication is that was a screw-up.\n\n\"The systems to assure that was done were not followed.\"\n\nHe added that New York prosecutors who are continuing to investigate Epstein's crimes \"say there is good progress being made\" in the case.\n\n\"And I'm hopeful in a relatively short time there will be tangible results,\" he continued.\n\nExecutors of Epstein's estimated $577m (£450m) estate are seeking a judge's approval to create a fund to settle claims by his victims in civil cases.\n\nJeffrey Epstein was charged with sexually abusing dozens of girls\n\nMeanwhile, victims of Epstein are calling for Prince Andrew, a former friend of Epstein, to submit to an FBI interview.\n\nThe Duke of York announced on Wednesday he was stepping back from royal duties amid the fallout from his recent BBC Newsnight interview.\n\nOne of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre, has claimed she was forced to have sex with the duke three times.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK. The full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "Jeremy Corbyn has told a Question Time audience that if he becomes prime minister he will remain neutral on Brexit.\n\nHe said that would allow him to \"credibly carry out the result\" of any future referendum.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra from Wednesday, 20 November; Live text coverage on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nDan Evans dug deep to send Great Britain into the semi-finals of the inaugural Davis Cup finals in Madrid with a thrilling win over Germany.\n\nBritish number one Evans, who had lost his previous two matches, beat Jan-Lennard Struff 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 7-6 (7-2) to give GB an unassailable 2-0 lead.\n\nEarlier, Kyle Edmund beat Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets as Andy Murray sat out again.\n\nBritain face hosts Spain, led by world number one Rafael Nadal, on Saturday.\n\nEvans' relief at pushing Britain over the line without needing Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski to win the doubles, and finally earning a vital victory himself, was clear as he threw his racquet high towards the roof of the indoor arena when Struff pushed a forehand wide on the first match point.\n\nSprinting over to his team, Evans then leapt into the arms of his jubilant captain Leon Smith before being mobbed by his delighted team-mates and their support staff.\n\n\"The last two days I came up short and the other guys got it done,\" Evans, 29, said. \"But it's not about me - it is about everyone.\"\n\nBritain's semi-final will take place on the same 12,500-seater Manolo Santana arena at 16:30 GMT on Saturday, with live text and radio coverage across the BBC Sport website and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.\n\nBy reaching the last four, Britain also assured themselves of a spot in next year's season-ending finals, which are the brainchild of Barcelona footballer Gerard Pique and have features 18 nations competing at the inaugural 'World Cup of tennis' in the Spanish capital.\n\nIt is the third time in five years that 2015 champions Britain have reached the semi-finals.\n• None Djokovic's Serbia lose to Russia despite having three match points\n\n'Boy, did he step up' - Evans puts defeats behind him\n\nAlthough British captain Smith had said whether to recall Andy Murray was likely to be one of his \"most difficult\" decisions, the absence of the three-time Grand Slam champion was still a major surprise when the team was announced an hour before the quarter-final tie.\n\nMurray, 32, produced a laboured performance in his victory over Dutch world number 179 Tallon Griekspoor in the opening group match on Wednesday, admitting afterwards he was still a couple of kilograms heavier than he would like to be.\n\nWhether down to a lack of sharpness or something else, his absence again meant Britain were relying on Edmund and Evans to deliver against the Germans.\n\nBoth men repaid the faith shown in them by Smith.\n\nEvans' place had come under particular scrutiny after the British number one lost both of his group-stage matches, despite leading by a set against tricky opponents who upped their levels considerably to overpower him.\n\nAfter edging the first-set tie-break against a powerful Struff, who is ranked 35th in the world, Evans could not sustain his level as the German won the final four games of the second to force a decider.\n\nFor the British fans, it was another sense of deja vu.\n\nBut, despite a stark physical disadvantage of seven inches in height and 17 kilograms in weight, Evans refused to be bullied off the court.\n\nHe showed remarkable mental strength to stave off two break points at 2-1, then reassert himself as he faced scoreboard pressure by serving when behind before dominating Struff in a one-sided tie-break.\n\n\"Dan felt down the past couple of days, but boy did he step up,\" Smith told Eurosport.\n\n\"He loves playing Davis Cup. We'll savour this one.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nEdmund steps in to deliver again\n\nEdmund, like he did against Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin in Thursday's must-win group tie, fulfilled his role spectacularly, producing one his finest matches of a year where he has struggled for victories on the ATP Tour.\n\nDespite slipping to 69th in the world, Edmund has rediscovered his most potent weapon - blistering clean forehands - and improved his weaker backhand side at exactly the right time for his country.\n\nThe Yorkshireman hit 10 winners, compared to just six unforced errors, in a first set wrapped up in 32 minutes thanks to two breaks of serve and without facing a break point himself.\n\nWhen 36-year-old Kohlschreiber did take his first chance at the third attempt in the fourth game of the second set, Edmund responded instantly to stop any momentum the German hoped to garner.\n\nShowing a resilience and confidence often lacking this year, Edmund broke back with a forehand winner down the line, seconds after he chose the wrong side with a backhand which allowed the German to return at the net.\n\nTwo backhand winners down the line laid the platform for Edmund to break again for 6-5 and the opportunity to serve for the match, a chance he took with a hold to love sealed by a long Kohlschreiber return.\n\nEdmund, usually so placid, revealed the emotions stirred by representing his nation in the Davis Cup by swinging a forearm high into the air after sealing a dominant win, embracing both Smith and Murray courtside before returning to the middle again to soak up the acclaim of the British fans.\n\nWhile there appeared to be fewer Britons on a half-full court than at the two group ties against the Netherlands and Kazakhstan, those still in the Spanish capital provided sterling vocal support as they outnumbered their German counterparts.\n\n\"We have the best away fans here 100%, it feels like a home tie playing here,\" Edmund said.\n\n\"We appreciate the efforts and we really feel it.\"\n\nThis was the finest performance of Dan Evans' Davis Cup career.\n\nHe was conceding seven inches in height, and a few weight divisions, to Jan-Lennard Struff, and knew only too well that he had lost his first two matches of the week having won the first set.\n\nEvans had to absorb a lot of pressure early in the deciding set, but gradually subdued the previously free-wheeling Struff, and was by far the stronger in the tie-break.\n\nEvans has now played nine sets of tennis over three days, but assuming there is no adverse reaction, he and Kyle Edmund are set to feature in the semi-final.\n\nThat would mean no Andy Murray for a third tie running. But as captain Leon Smith pointed out, Evans and Edmund are making a stronger claim right now.", "The Sumatran rhino is down to fewer than 100 animals\n\nThe Sumatran rhino is now officially extinct in Malaysia, with the death of the last known specimen.\n\nThe 25-year-old female named Iman died on Saturday on the island of Borneo, officials say. She had cancer.\n\nMalaysia's last male Sumatran rhino died in May this year.\n\nThe Sumatran rhino once roamed across Asia, but has now almost disappeared from the wild, with fewer than 100 animals believed to exist. The species is now critically endangered.\n\nIman died at 17:35 local time (09:35 GMT) on Saturday, Malaysia's officials said.\n\n\"Its death was a natural one, and the immediate cause has been categorised as shock,\" Sabah State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Christine Liew is quoted as saying.\n\n\"Iman was given the very best care and attention since her capture in March 2014 right up to the moment she passed,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BERNAMA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSumatran rhinos have been hard hit by poaching and habitat loss, but the biggest threat facing the species today is the fragmented nature of their populations.\n\nEfforts to breed the species in Malaysia have so far failed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the UK can \"lead the way\" in the fight against dementia\n\nThe Conservatives have pledged to put an extra £83m a year into dementia research over the next decade if they form the next government.\n\nThe investment, which would double current funding, was described by the party as the \"largest boost to dementia research ever\" in the UK.\n\nAround 850,000 people in the UK currently have dementia.\n\nThe Alzheimer's Society said it welcomed any \"serious plan\" to invest in research.\n\nThe number of people with dementia is set to rise to more than a million by the middle of the next decade, and is predicted to double in the next 30 years.\n\nThe extra money promised by the Tories would be spent on increasing the number of clinical research academics and researchers studying the disease.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said had been \"so sad\" to see his grandmother battle the disease in the final years of her life and said that the UK could \"make the difference\" in developing a cure.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that as well as increasing the spending the Conservatives would \"double\" government research and work to \"galvanise\" scientists and research companies.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said dementia was the \"next great frontier\" in medicine and that the UK should be \"leading\" in the fight to tackle it.\n\nLabour has pledged that that under its government the NHS would be \"at the forefront\" in developing new treatments for dementia.\n\nIn its manifesto, Labour says it will also cap the cost of care in old age at £100,000 - as part of its plan to build a National Care Service.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK, which has been lobbying for greater funding, welcomed the Conservatives' announcement, saying dementia must be a national priority, whoever forms the next government.\n\nIts chief executive Ian Wilson said: \"Unless we find new preventions and treatments, one in three people born today will develop dementia in their lifetime and our health system faces collapse under the pressure.\"\n\nThe Alzheimer's Society estimates the total cost of care for people with the condition in the UK is £34.7bn. That is set to rise to £94.1bn by 2040.\n\nFiona Carragher, the society's chief policy and research officer, said the funding pledge was a \"big step in the right direction\".\n\n\"We welcome any party that comes forward at the election with a serious plan to invest in dementia research.\n\n\"This positive funding announcement would approximately double what is spent now and could make a huge difference.\"\n\nBut both Alzheimer's Research UK and the Alzheimer's Society are urging political parties to commit to increase funding so they are spending 1% of the annual cost of dementia on research.\n\n\"Dementia research lags behind other disease areas and we urgently need research to fund new drugs but we also need to fund research into care - accompanying this with radical reform of the broken social care system,\" Miss Carragher said.\n\nThe Conservatives also pledged to create a new £500m fund for new medicines for cancer and other diseases was also promised.\n\nThe Innovative Medicines Fund would follow-on from the work of the Cancer Drugs Fund, with the aim of providing access to new medicines for patients with conditions such as Huntington's disease.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asma Shuweikh was praised for confronting the abusive commuter\n\nA man has been arrested after a video showed a Tube passenger directing \"horrific\" anti-Semitic abuse at Jewish children.\n\nThe clip showed a man reading Bible passages to two boys in skullcaps and acting aggressively.\n\nBritish Transport Police launched an appeal over the footage, recorded by a commuter on the London Underground.\n\nThe force said it had arrested a man in Birmingham on suspicion of a racially-aggravated offence.\n\nAsma Shuweikh, who was widely praised for confronting the man in the video, said she \"wouldn't hesitate to do it again\" and wished more people had intervened in the altercation on Friday.\n\nThe video was recorded on a Northern Line service on Friday\n\n\"If everyone did, I do not think it would have escalated in the way that it did,\" she said.\n\n\"Being a mother of two, I know what it's like to be in that situation and I would want someone to help if I was in that situation.\n\n\"When he started talking to the child I thought, 'no, I have to say something'. As a mother of two it's appalling, I can't sit back and watch that happen.\n\n\"To be honest I thought it is my duty as a mother, as a practising Muslim, as a citizen of this country, to have to say something.\n\n\"You can't just sit back and watch that because I felt that it was just getting out of hand. It was really getting too much.\"\n\nAsma Shuweikh, right, was widely praised for intervening and trying to stop the abuse\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5Live Ms Shuweikh said the response to her actions on social media had been \"heart-warming\".\n\n\"I can't take all the credit... I would not hesitate to do it again,\" she added.\n\n\"All my friends and family have been so supportive. But they're also worried about my safety because I have children back home.\n\n\"But when you're put in that situation you don't really think about yourself. You just think, 'look this is the right thing to do. I need to say something'.\"\n\nCommuter Chris Atkins recorded the altercation on the Northern Line service before moving to swap seats with the young boy next to the man in the video.\n\n\"It was the children that really got me and everyone else, he was just screaming at these children. It was horrific in every sense,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Investigators in the west German town of Grevenbroich have started DNA tests on hundreds of men in the hope of solving a 23-year-old murder cold case.\n\nClaudia Ruf, 11, was found sexually assaulted and murdered 70km (43 miles) south of the town in 1996. No-one has been charged with her death.\n\nPolice sent invitations to at least 900 men in an effort to match DNA samples recovered from the scene.\n\nThe first day of testing started at 10:00 (09:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nThose who agreed had saliva swabs taken at a local primary school, where the samples were being collected.\n\nClaudia Ruf was kidnapped in May 1996 while walking a neighbour's dog in Grevenbroich, which is about 40km north-west of Cologne.\n\nHer body was found two days later having been strangled, doused in petrol and partially burned.\n\nClaudia's father, Friedhelm Ruf, made an emotional appeal in a video message last week.\n\n\"After more than 23 years, there's a big possibility to solve the sad fate of my daughter,\" he was quoted by AP as saying. \"The perpetrator has been able for too long to hide behind all of us.\"\n\nA police spokesman told Bild newspaper that there had been a lot of interest in their renewed effort to solve the case, including dozens of tips.\n\nMen aged over 14 at the time of her death have been invited to take part in the DNA testing.\n\nOne volunteer who turned up on Saturday, 46-year-old Stefan Oberlies, told Bild that he \"immediately\" knew he would accept the invite.\n\n\"Hopefully the culprit will be found. Of course I have read a lot about the bad case,\" he was quoted by the newspaper as saying.\n\nReinhold Jordan, the lead investigator on the case, told German media that analysis of the collections would take four to eight weeks.\n\nPolice tested 350 local DNA samples in 2010, but made no breakthrough.\n\nAccording to German media, investigators hope they can utilise a recent change which allows closely-related samples, from relatives, to be flagged in results.", "Boris Johnson has been challenged as to why a report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy has not been published.\n\nDuring a BBC Question Time leaders' special, he said: \"There is absolutely no evidence that I know of to show any interference in any British electoral event\".", "A group of orphaned British children caught up in the war in Syria have returned to the UK.\n\nThe children, who are all from one family, are the first to be repatriated from the area of Syria once controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nThe Foreign Office was asked by the High Court to help them return.\n\nThe court heard they arrived in London on Friday and were in good spirits, having met with members of their family who they had breakfast with.\n\nThey were brought back to the UK at the request of relatives after they were made wards of court - meaning they were placed under supervision and protection of the High Court.\n\nThe judge said it had been a complex and difficult operation.\n\nMr Justice Keehan said the children had now gone to their family homes where they appeared settled and as happy as possible in difficult circumstances.\n\nTheir return comes after pressure on the government - and with calls from aid agencies for all British children who survived the fall of IS to be returned to the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the \"innocent\" children should \"never have been subjected to the horrors of war\".\n\nMr Raab added: \"We have facilitated their return home because it was the right thing to do.\n\n\"Now they must be allowed the privacy and given the support to return to a normal life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the end for Islamic State?\n\nThe fate of foreign IS fighters and other foreigners caught up in the conflict has been a key issue since the defeat of the extremist group was declared in March 2019.\n\nIS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq.\n\nThe UK had been reluctant to take back citizens from the area.\n\nOther countries including France, Denmark, Norway and Kazakhstan have brought children home.\n\nThe United Nations has said countries should take responsibility for their own citizens unless they are to be prosecuted in Syria in accordance with international standards.\n\nSave The Children said the repatriation was a \"triumph of compassion in the face of cruelty,\" and that it would allow the youngsters to live full, happy lives.\n\nBut Alison Griffin, head of humanitarian campaigns at the children's charity, said more work was needed.\n\nShe added: \"There are still as many as 60 British children that remain stranded in appalling conditions and Syria's harsh winter will soon begin to bite.\n\n\"All are as innocent as those rescued today and our very real fear is that they won't all survive to see the spring.\n\n\"They must all be brought home before it is too late.\"", "The warning covers most of south Wales and some areas of southern Powys\n\nForecasters have warned of flooding and disruption in south Wales with heavy downpours on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nThe Met Office yellow warning is in place until 15:00GMT on Wednesday and covers most of the south of the country, and parts of southern Powys.\n\nSome properties are likely to flood and travel could be disrupted, it said.\n\nThere are four flood warnings in place on Tuesday evening in Kidwelly and Pendine in Carmarthenshire and Newgale and Dale in Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twenty-three teenagers - aged between 14 and 19 - have been stabbed to death in London this year\n\nThe number of teenagers stabbed to death in London has reached its highest level since 2008, the BBC has found.\n\nMohammed Usman Mirza, 19, was killed in Ilford on Tuesday night and became the 23rd teenager to be fatally stabbed in the capital this year.\n\nThe figure so far for 2019 exceeds the 22 teenagers who were fatally stabbed in the whole of 2008.\n\nThe family of Jodie Chesney - one of the 23 victims - described the statistic as \"seriously alarming\".\n\nIn a BBC England documentary, her father Peter Chesney spoke about the ripple effects of knife crime.\n\nHe said: \"Over 20 teenagers have been fatally stabbed this year and that is shocking to me.\n\n\"You read about it and you go 'oh that sucks' but when it is really close to your heart you wonder why are people doing this?\"\n\nJodie's uncle Terry Chesney said: \"The 25 teenage murders this year alone, of which Jodie is the only female, is alarming.\n\n\"It is proof this knife epidemic is spiralling out of control.\"\n\nTwo other teenagers have been killed this year in cases not involving stabbings.\n\nEniola Aluko, 19, was shot dead in Plumstead, south east London, on 14 June and on 20 August 18-year-old Amrou Greenidge died of head injuries in Fulham, south west London.\n\nAccording to BBC research, Jaden Moodie, the first teenager to be stabbed to death in London in 2019, remains the youngest teenage fatal stab victim in the whole of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baptista Adjei's mother recalls the moment she found out her 15-year-old son was dead.\n\nSince the start of January, 129 murder investigations have been launched in the capital - 126 by the Met Police and three being led by the British Transport Police (BTP).\n\nWhile most murder investigations have seen someone charged, only two cases involving teenage murder victims have resulted in convictions.\n\nEarlier this week two teenagers were jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Jodie when she was in attacked in a park in Harold Hill, east London.\n\nThe other conviction came in September where a 16-year-old boy was jailed for stabbing Ayub Hassan, 17, in the heart in Kensington, west London.\n\nCommissioner Cressida Dick has previously said detectives were operating in a \"very challenging\" environment and were met with a \"wall of silence\" in some cases.\n\nLast year 136 homicides were recorded in London - the highest in a decade.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Warning: This article contains descriptions some readers may find upsetting\n\nThe pencil drawing of the long-haired, striking woman had been in their home for some time. But Sarah thought nothing of it. Her daughter Casey had been a talented artist and spent many hours absorbed in her art work.\n\nIt was only later that Sarah started to wonder about its significance and felt compelled to investigate. She soon found that Casey had posted it online. The caption next to it simply read: \"The gorgeous woman is Teal Swan, a beloved spectacular spiritual guru.\"\n\nCasey had taken her own life just a couple of months before. Sarah, devastated by the loss of her only daughter, wanted to try and understand more about her final weeks.\n\nWho was this woman who had been such a subject of fascination for the 18-year-old?\n\nTeal Swan is a self-declared spiritual teacher who calls herself a \"personal transformation revolutionary\" and \"spiritual catalyst\".\n\nBorn in Utah as Mary Teal Bosworth, she runs retreats in the US and Central America. She has hundreds of thousands of followers across social media - her YouTube channel has more than 79 million views.\n\nHer brand centres on giving mental health advice, much of which is aimed at people who feel depressed, or suicidal. Swan, whose beliefs include reincarnation and the power of crystal healing, says her experience as a survivor of several suicide attempts gives her particular insight that she claims mental health professionals lack.\n\nSwan says her intention is to help people who are in crisis and many people say her teachings have helped them when they were suicidal.\n\nBut Swan's critics accuse her of risking the glorification of death, and mental health experts that I spoke to called some of her approaches \"irresponsible\" and \"dangerous\".\n\nSarah sits in her living room in north-west US, Christian music playing softly in the background as sunlight streams through the windows.\n\nShe and her husband tell me about the call that shattered their world - the one in which they found out their daughter had taken her life.\n\nWhile Sarah knew Casey had been dealing with the pain of a recent break-up, she had no idea just how bad she had been feeling, or what she had been considering doing.\n\nShe spotted that Casey had shared her pencil portrait on Facebook with the caption identifying it as Teal Swan, and soon realised her daughter had joined the \"Teal Tribe\" - a private Facebook group, which means only members can see what is in it.\n\nSarah joined the group and was horrified at what she discovered. She read a post by her daughter saying that she had tried to take her own life. The picture with the post was a stock image of a woman holding two fingers to her head like a gun.\n\nIn response, two people, including one of the volunteers that help moderate content in the group, replied with Swan's video entitled \"I want to kill myself (What to do if you're suicidal)\".\n\nIn the video Swan urges those who are feeling suicidal to seek medical help, but goes on to say that in her experience, for some people, this may not help long-term. She instead suggests that suicide be seen as \"our safety net or our re-set button that's always available to us\". She argues that viewing it in this way enables people to set the idea aside, and instead concentrate on what they can do to make themselves feel better in the present.\n\nShe also suggests an exercise in which viewers are told to lie down on the floor and imagine their deaths in \"grisly detail\". Swan argues in the video that by doing so viewers will realise that there is \"nowhere to go but back to life… so why leave?\"\n\nShe stresses in the video that killing oneself would \"create a devastating ripple\" for loved ones, and \"it does matter if you are here or not here… You don't want to die. What you want is an end to your pain.\"\n\nThe video was among the top results in a Google search on terms related to suicide when we viewed it in early November.\n\nWe do not know if Casey watched that video, and if she did do so, we cannot know how, if at all, it would have influenced her final fatal decision. But her posts shortly before she died do reflect some of the language that Swan herself uses, including references to rebirth.\n\nHer mother Sarah is furious that posting the video was the only response from the Teal Tribe group to Casey's message, and that no-one called the police, or made any attempt to contact the family.\n\nJust two weeks after Casey posted about her initial suicide attempt, she shot herself and died.\n\n\"What a huge missed opportunity and an incredible mistake,\" Sarah says.\n\n\"While I believe that there [was] more than one undercurrent happening in the life of our daughter, you would have to convince me otherwise that Teal's teachings did not play a significant role in the mind of our daughter when she took her life.\n\n\"It's almost like a rehearsal,\" Sarah says of the advice in the video.\n\nTo find out more, I joined the closed Teal Tribe Facebook group of more than 27,000 members and saw many posts that I found disturbing. There were repeated discussions of suicide, with people saying they wanted to end their lives, and group members offering advice.\n\nSometimes suicide prevention lines were given in response to posts. But many times, only Swan's video on what to do if you feel suicidal was posted, along with advice from other members.\n\nDuring the weeks that I tracked the group, I found out that another young member of the forum had also taken their own life within days of posting about feeling suicidal.\n\nAs well as teaching online, Swan hosts workshops in person across the US and Europe. Tickets cost up to $200. I went to one in Chicago, and met fans who clearly feel an intense connection with her.\n\nOne told me Swan is \"changing the world\". Another called her a \"genius of human relationship connection and insight\".\n\nThe event lasted for about six hours, with audience members being called up on stage, where Swan would give them advice. They talked about deeply personal issues, from abuse, to suicidal feelings. One man said he watched her videos for five hours every night.\n\nI met Swan after the workshop, and asked how she would respond to those who accuse her of encouraging suicide.\n\nAt first she laughed at that idea, saying: \"That's pretty funny. It's really funny to me.\"\n\nThen she took a more serious tone.\n\nShe said to call her a proponent of suicide was \"ridiculous\" and said that anyone who does so obviously hasn't watched her videos.\n\nWhen I put it to her that two young people who were members of her group had taken their lives, the atmosphere grew tense.\n\n\"I am not aware of them,\" she answered.\n\nShe then grew visibly angry, saying that she was the reason more people hadn't killed themselves.\n\n\"If you look at the demographic of people who are interested in my type of material - you're working with an unstable group of people.\n\n\"[To suggest I am] responsible for suicide in people who came to me suicidal, that's pretty insane.\"\n\nWhen it came to her Facebook group Swan admitted that she does feel a lot of anxiety.\n\n\"This is the worst part of my career,\" she told me.\n\n\"You start a Facebook group hoping that it's going to be a place for all these individuals to come to. Then let's say somebody does decide to kill themselves out of this large group of people who are already suffering before they get to you.\n\n\"I'm trying to get moderators who are on different time zones but let's say one of us doesn't see it [a suicidal post]. And now somebody says you should have seen it. Now it's your fault they committed suicide.\n\n\"We think about this all the time. You've got people who are vulnerable. What are you supposed to do when you can't catch all of it?\"\n\nBut she also admitted that the volunteers who help run the page receive no training and few instructions on what to do if they do see posts in which someone says they feel suicidal.\n\n\"Sometimes it feels like you have a psych ward, with nobody tending the building and you can't afford to pay them to attend the building. And who's going to sign on for that type of a job anyways?\"\n\nI put it to her that perhaps social media is not the right forum for such sensitive discussions.\n\n\"That's actually my question I ask myself a lot [and] I think about my 15-year-old self,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm thinking about what I would have wanted when it was three o'clock in the morning and everybody else in my household was asleep.\n\n\"If there had been somebody on a YouTube video telling me how to feel differently I would have wanted that.\"\n\nWe will never know whether anyone who took their life was influenced by Swan's teachings. Indeed Swan maintains that people tell her all the time that she has helped them.\n\nIn a statement Swan told us that: \"Suicide is never the answer. My teachings are designed to help people choose life. Any suicide is a tragedy, and we send our deepest condolences to this young woman's family.\"\n\nShe also added that \"many mental health professionals support my teachings\".\n\nSince our interview Swan has released another video, making it \"crystal clear\" that she's against suicide, and that her intention is to help people, and certainly not to encourage the act. She says she is trying to de-stigmatise discussions around suicide.\n\nAnd destigmatising the issue is something every mental health expert I spoke to during my investigation told me was needed.\n\nBut they all raised concerns about aspects of Swan's teachings.\n\nOne of those experts is Dr Jonathan Singer, the president of the American Association of Suicidology.\n\n\"When I heard Teal say that suicide can be a 're-set button' I was disturbed,\" he tells me.\n\n\"It suggests you can kill yourself and that things will start over again and be better, and that is not true.\"\n\n\"She's got these ideas that in her mind are only helpful. But for others could be really dangerous.\"\n\n\"What you're doing when you tell somebody to visualise how they're going to kill themselves, is you're telling them to practise in their mind,\" he says.\n\nHe explains that research shows this type of imagery rehearsal is \"a very effective way of improving your actual ability to do something\". For example, it is something that Olympic-level athletes use, he says.\n\n\"And so to tell somebody to think through how they're going to kill themselves, that's not safe.\"\n\nI also spoke to Ged Flynn, the CEO of the UK suicide prevention charity Papyrus, and showed him Swan's video which advises viewers to imagine their deaths.\n\n\"It is not helpful in any circumstances to encourage anyone who has thoughts of suicide to imagine their being dead and further to glorify that state,\" he said. \"This exercise can only lead to the risk of harm and even death. Such exercises are irresponsible. She is risking the glorification of suicide.\"\n\nSwan argues this technique is about taking subconscious suicidal ideations, and consciously going to a different place with them - resulting in a more positive outcome.\n\nDr Singer is also concerned about where and how Swan's content is being shared.\n\nHe argues that while it can be helpful for people in similar situations to offer each other support, forums like Facebook can become \"like an echo chamber\".\n\n\"If you're suicidal and you go on a forum and everybody's posting about being suicidal, then it normalises being suicidal.\"\n\nIn Dr Singer's view, social media companies should do more to regulate content, and to help people reach out to people who may want to harm themselves.\n\nHe argues that their technology should be sufficiently developed at this stage to enable them to take action.\n\n\"I think they absolutely should intervene when people are suicidal.\"\n\nIn response to our investigation, Facebook has closed down the Teal Tribe closed forum, telling us that: \"In consultation with suicide and self-harm prevention experts, our policies allow some content which expresses an intention towards suicide or self-harm as an opportunity for someone to respond to what may be a cry for help. However, we do not allow content which directly promotes or encourages suicide or self-harm.\"\n\nHowever some of the members have set up a new Facebook group called \"Phoenix Tribe.\" While it is not administered by Teal Swan, at least one senior person from her management team is a member, and already I have seen people talking about feeling suicidal, with no helplines offered from other members.\n\nYouTube told us that they \"strive to strike a balance between prohibiting videos that encourage dangerous acts, while also offering a place where people can talk openly and honestly about their thoughts and experiences\".\n\nThey said the video in which Swan suggests that the viewer imagines their own death has now been removed for violating their policies. But it is still up on at least one other person's channel, and has been shared within the new Facebook group.\n\nIn their quiet suburban home in north-west US, a mother and a father are still struggling to come to terms with the death of their daughter.\n\nMy conversation with Sarah and her husband has stretched from afternoon to the evening, as they share how their family has been changed forever.\n\nThey no longer have a home phone, so strong was its association with the devastating call that changed their lives.\n\nSarah says she hopes that in sharing their story, they can help someone else.\n\n\"Life is precious. Life is a gift. Life doesn't come with a reset button.\n\n\"And if you're feeling vulnerable, [a] video is not the authority on a topic of this nature.\n\n\"Go talk to your pastor, [or] someone who loves you, someone who cares about you. That's your authority on a topic of this nature.\"\n\nSome names have been changed\n\nFrom Canada or US: If you're in an emergency, please call 911\n\nIn the US, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255 (TALK), or the Crisis Test Line by texting HOME to 741741, or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.\n\nYoung people in need of help can call Kids Help Phone on 1-800-668-6868\n\nIf you are in the UK, you can call the Samaritans on 116123\n\nBBC Action Line has support and more information on emotional distress", "Sir Stephen Cleobury, who directed the choir at King's College Cambridge for nearly four decades, has died aged 70.\n\nThe British conductor, organist and composer presided over the world-famous Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols broadcast live on BBC radio on Christmas Eve.\n\nHe also conducted a number of other ensembles including the BBC Singers.\n\nThe Provost at King's College, Professor Michael Proctor, said it was a \"truly sad day\".\n\n\"The college community, and indeed many around the world, are mourning his passing with a profound feeling of loss,\" he added.\n\nSir Stephen died in his hometown, York, on Friday after a long illness, King's said.\n\nThe college will host a memorial service for him later in the academic year.\n\nSir Stephen retired as director of music at King's just two months ago after 37 years in the role.\n\nThe choir of King's College Cambridge, pictured rehearsing in 2010, perform a newly commissioned carol at the Christmas Eve service annually\n\nThe musical director helped to build the world-renowned Christmas Eve carol service held in King's College Chapel, founding the tradition of an annual new commissioned carol.\n\nSince 1984, this has made an invaluable contribution to contemporary carol writing, according to the college.\n\nThe service is broadcast live on Radio 4 and the World Service on 24 December. A separate pre-recorded service Carols from King's is broadcast at Christmas on BBC television.\n\nSir Stephen also introduced the annual festival Easter at King's, and a series of performances throughout the year, Concerts at King's.\n\nHe was influential in the musical world beyond the choir, conducting a number of ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music and the BBC Singers, and through his association with the Cambridge University Musical Society.\n\nPrior to Sir Stephen's tenure at King's, he held key posts at Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral.\n\nIn 2019, he was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to choral music.\n\nKing's College choir was founded by King Henry VI in 1441 and is regarded as one of the world's finest choral groups.\n\nIt comprises the conductor and 16 boy choristers, who are educated on scholarships at King's College School, as well as 14 choral scholars and two organ scholars, who study a variety of subjects in the college.\n\nThe choir's Christmas Eve performance was introduced in 1918 and has been broadcast also every year since 1928.", "GPs have voted to reduce visits to patients' homes, saying they \"no longer have the capacity\" to offer them.\n\nDoctors supported the proposal at a meeting of English local medical committees in London on Friday.\n\nIt means British Medical Association (BMA) representatives will lobby NHS England to stop home visits being a contractual obligation.\n\nHowever, the plans face opposition from Health Secretary Matt Hancock and the Royal College of GPs (RCGP).\n\nMr Hancock said taking home visits out of GPs' contracts is a \"complete non-starter\".\n\nRCGP chair Professor Martin Marshall said home visits should be used wisely but insisted they are a \"core part\" of general practice.\n\nAn NHS spokeswoman said GPs would still visit patients at home where there was a clinical need to do so.\n\nAccording to NHS Digital, in one month in 2018, GPs in England made 238,579 home visits out of a total of 27,084,027 appointments.\n\nA local committee of doctors from Kent brought the motion to the conference, arguing GPs \"no longer have the capacity to offer home visits\".\n\nIt said representatives from the BMA should renegotiate with the NHS to \"remove the anachronism of home visits from core contract work, negotiate a separate acute service for urgent visits, and demand any change in service is widely advertised to patients\".\n\nThe group added it did not want to completely scrap home visits, as \"more complex, vulnerable and palliative patients\" were \"best served\" by GP home visits.\n\nDr Richard Vautrey, chair of the BMA's GP Committee, said: \"GPs are telling us that it would be much better if there was a dedicated home visiting service.\"\n\nPractices could focus on the needs of patients in the surgery while a specialist team of people - made up of nurses, paramedics and GPs - visited those who were housebound, he said.\n\nAs a result of the motion being passed, the part of the BMA which represents English GPs - GPC England - will be instructed to negotiate the new policy with NHS England.\n\nNikita Kanani, the NHS's national medical director for primary care, said GPs and healthcare professionals such as nurses and advanced paramedics would continue to make home visits when patients needed them.\n\nThe London GP said an extra £4.5bn was being invested for local doctors and community services to help fund 20,000 more staff to support GP practices and \"offer high quality care for patients\".\n\nThe health secretary insisted there was \"no prospect\" of GPs removing their contractual obligations to making home visits.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"right\" that most home visits were made by nurses \"but sometimes you need a GP\".\n\nProfessor Marshall said: \"It is vital that patients who need the skills and expertise of a GP are able to access them if they are unable to make arrangements to get to their local surgery.\n\n\"General practice is under enormous pressure at present and we have a severe shortage of GPs, so we are very supportive of proposals to train other members of the GP team such as physician associates and advanced paramedics to carry out home visits as appropriate - but they are not a substitute for GPs.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Test, Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui, day three of five:\n\nEngland toiled on day three of the first Test as BJ Watling's unbeaten century put New Zealand in control.\n\nOnly two wickets fell all day as the Black Caps closed 41 runs ahead on 394-6, having begun 209 behind.\n\nJoe Root dismissed Henry Nicholls lbw in the morning session but afterwards Watling and Colin de Grandhomme put on 119 in an excellent 39-over stand.\n\nDe Grandhomme was brilliantly caught by Dom Sibley for 65 off Ben Stokes but Watling batted all day for 119 not out.\n\nHe was dropped on 31 by Stokes but batted patiently and in the evening session was supported by Mitchell Santner, who made 31 in an unbroken partnership of 78.\n\nEngland began the day eyeing a sizeable first-innings lead but their lack of potency leaves New Zealand more likely to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series, although the docile pitch at Mount Maunganui showed a surprising lack of deterioration.\n• None How day three unfolded at the Bay Oval\n• None 'Flat England get tactics wrong with new toy Archer'\n• None Listen: Highlights of day three on BBC Sounds\n\nEngland's lack of threat with the ball was an all too familiar sight for Root's side in Test matches overseas.\n\nAs they did in the 2017-18 Ashes series, England failed to create chances on a flat pitch with little movement in the air or off the pitch.\n\nIt was hoped Jofra Archer would bring extra thrust to England's attack with his pace but on this occasion he was well below his best and remains wicketless - his speeds lower than he managed during this summer's Ashes, one quick spell aside.\n\nRoot opted to begin the day with Stuart Broad and Sam Curran, rather than the Sussex fast bowler, and used the same pair with the second new ball, but neither struck as the pitch showed no further examples of the uneven bounce that saw Curran dismiss New Zealand captain Kane Williamson late on day two.\n\nThe second new ball brought no increase in threat and England soon turned to defensive fields in the afternoon session, while they also seemed to lack energy with a number of misfields and a second difficult drop by Rory Burns off De Grandhomme.\n\nThey bowled wide of off stump and failed to take a wicket in a session when bowling 20 overs or more for the 29th time since 2017. Only Sri Lanka (32) have done so more often in that time.\n\nDe Grandhomme hit a long hop from Stokes to Sibley, who dived brilliantly low to his right to take the catch, on the first ball after tea but Root's side failed to take advantage of that opening.\n\nNumber eight Santner was peppered with short balls early on but after uneasily battling through that period he made it to the close with relative ease.\n\nLate on Watling was given out lbw to Archer but he successfully overturned the decision on review as replays showed an inside edge.\n\nThe day will feel more painful for England given the fact centurion Watling should have been dismissed when New Zealand were still 157 runs behind their first innings score.\n\nStokes put down a regulation catch at slip off Root but afterwards Watling batted beautifully for his eighth Test century.\n\nHe took his time and did not offer another chance, nudging the ball around the ground with some pleasing drives through extra cover.\n\nThe 34-year-old took a backseat as De Grandhomme upped the scoring after lunch but, where England's batsmen fell after making a start, he went on to make a century, batting just short of seven hours.\n\nNew Zealand will now look to bat England out of the game on day four.\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew, on Test Match Special: \"England will not look back on this day with any affection at all - that was their hardest day for a while.\"\n\nFormer England batsman Mark Ramprakash: \"It's a placid, benign pitch but England got their tactics wrong - they overdid the short ball and put men back when New Zealand's batsmen were not looking to hook or pull.\"\n\nNew Zealand wicketkeeper BJ Watling: \"It was very special, I love scoring runs for New Zealand and it was good to get us into a position of parity and hopefully we can take it forward.\n\n\"We have to eke out as many runs as possible because it's going to be really tough batting on day five here.\"\n\nEngland head coach Chris Silverwood: \"I wouldn't say we are out of the game yet. They have a small lead. If we show the same attitude there is no reason we can't pick some wickets up.\"", "The lower pound has been luring foreign buyers to the London residential market\n\nLabour has pledged to put an extra tax on foreign companies and trusts buying property in the UK.\n\nIt is part of the party's wider tax plans and would charge offshore firms 20% for property purchases, on top of existing stamp duties and surcharges.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the levy was needed to \"raise essential revenue for our public services\".\n\nThe Conservatives said Labour was \"lashing out\" at firms because it \"has no credible plan to get Brexit done\".\n\nEarlier this week, the Conservatives said companies and individuals who buy property in the UK, but are not tax resident here, will have to pay a 3% surcharge, raising an estimated £120m a year.\n\nFormer Liberal Democrats leader Tim Farron said his party's manifesto also contains a pledge to increase stamp duty for foreign buyers of residential property.\n\nJeremy Corbyn will officially announce the plan outside an Amazon warehouse\n\nThe Labour pledge states: \"A company purchasing residential property benefits from the UK's infrastructure and legal framework, and ought to pay a small levy to acknowledge that\".\n\nThe party said the extra tax would help cool the housing market, \"prevent illicit flows\" and raise revenue for Treasury coffers.\n\nThe party said the extra levy on overseas firms will raise £3.3bn a year.\n\nHowever Melanie Williams, a real estate partner at law firm DWF, said all three housing tax plans raise questions about whether they will deter foreign buyers and stimulate house building.\n\n\"Overseas property investors have become an easy target in recent years for the British government, as well as the two main opposition parties, as the latest proposals from all three in this election show\".\n\nMs Williams said the Conservative and Liberal Democrat policies were fairly similar, but Labour's plan to tax foreign firms buying housing \"appears confused at best, given the number of tax reforms introduced in the past six years, which have included measures designed to prevent overseas buyers investing in property through company structures\".", "The four party leaders are quizzed on Brexit in a Question Time special in Sheffield.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several arrests have been made and officers remain at the scene after the fight (Courtesy Rachael Allison)\n\nA fight involving people armed with machetes broke out at a cinema in what one witness described as \"one of the scariest moments of her life\".\n\nA number of police officers were assaulted as they attempted to clear about 100 people from the Star City complex in Birmingham.\n\nThey were responding to reports a group with machetes had arrived at the multiplex.\n\nSeveral arrests for assaulting officers and failing to disperse were made.\n\nThe injured officers sustained only minor injuries, West Midlands Police said.\n\nOne witness described it as \"one of the scariest moments of [her] life\", as she queued to watch the new Frozen film with her daughter.\n\nCholeigh McGuire said: \"Armed police come, Tasers come, all of the people that were fighting ran off into the cinema, hiding. I am shaking.\"\n\nOfficers were called to the scene at about 17:35 on Saturday after reports of people carrying machetes\n\nOne witness said \"a young boy was crying on the floor with his mother\" as a number of people started fighting.\n\n\"The police told everyone to leave the cinema as they held Taser guns in their hands and started to bring in guard dogs,\" said Rachael Allison.\n\nMotorists have been advised to avoid the area - near the M6 - due to a build-up of traffic.\n\nA dispersal order has been put in place giving police the power to move on groups of people and arrest those who fail to leave.\n\nStar City is a family leisure and entertainment complex in the Nechells area of Birmingham.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Transport Police said they are looking to identify a man harassing families with anti-Semitic abuse\n\nA man is being sought by police for directing \"horrific\" anti-Semitic abuse towards Jewish children on the London Underground.\n\nHe was filmed reading Bible passages to two boys in skullcaps travelling with family on the Northern Line at about midday on Friday.\n\n\"He was just screaming at these children,\" said Chris Atkins, who filmed the incident.\n\nBritish Transport Police is looking for the man and appealing for witnesses.\n\nMr Atkins recorded the altercation for about two minutes \"on instinct\" before moving to swap seats with the young boy next to the man.\n\n\"It was the children that really got me and everyone else, he was just screaming at these children. It was horrific in every sense,\" he said.\n\n\"He... said in the Bible [that] Jews killed Jesus and they are all slave masters. I've lived in London for 20 years and you're used to people ranting on the Tube - it was only after a minute I realised, 'hang on this is really, really anti-Semitic'.\"\n\nA woman has been praised online for intervening and trying to stop the abuse\n\nThe man was seen in the video threatening a man off-camera after he tried to intervene. A woman in a hijab also confronted him.\n\n\"The Muslim woman... really, really took him to task, very firmly and persistently,\" Mr Atkins said.\n\n\"In this day and age we are told how intolerant everyone is and all religions hate each other and there you had a Muslim woman sticking up for some Jewish children.\"\n\nMr Atkins said the family got off the train a few stops later at Leicester Square and the father of the two boys gave him consent to share the video on Twitter.\n\nBritish Transport Police said: \"A video circulating online showed passengers being harassed and being targeted with anti-Semitic abuse.\n\n\"Anyone who knows the identity of the man in the image is asked to contact BTP.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has come forward to claim a £105m EuroMillions jackpot prize won on Tuesday, operator Camelot has said.\n\nThe identity of the ticket-holder, and whether they are an individual or a syndicate, will not be revealed unless they decide to go public.\n\nThe winning numbers picked were 8, 10, 15, 30 and 42, with 4 and 6 selected for the Lucky Star numbers.\n\nIt is the sixth EuroMillions jackpot won by a UK ticket-holder this year.\n\nBefore October's jackpot, the biggest UK winners were a couple from from Largs in North Ayrshire, Scotland, who won £161m in July 2011.", "The group were sailing past Indonesia towards their planned destination of Thailand\n\nFour people - including two Britons - escaped after their yacht sank more than 50 miles off the coast of an Indonesian island.\n\nThe skipper raised the alarm after the boat, named Asia, hit an object in the water at about 21:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe UK coastguard, which helped co-ordinate the response, said the crew sailed a lifeboat to land, where they were found more than eight hours later.\n\nMalaysian officials were alerted by the UK after Australia picked up the SOS.\n\nAustralian authorities contacted their British counterparts because the yacht appeared to be registered in the UK.\n\nThe UK Coastguard found no-trace of the ship on its records but did notice an alert on a US alarm system in approximately the same area.\n\nThey were then able to trace the skipper's wife, who was able to tell them where the ship had been heading.\n\nThis helped Malaysian authorities to finally make contact with the skipper at about 05:00 GMT.\n\nA short while later, the crew were met by local police near the town of Bima, in the West Nusa Tenggara province.\n\nController David Jones led the UK response from the National Maritime Operations Centre in Fareham, Hampshire.\n\nHe said he was \"relieved\" to know the crew were safe and that the operation \"demonstrated good international working\".", "Coca-Cola says a video made by Labour-backing group Momentum using the company's footage was done without their permission or endorsement.\n\nThe video posted to the campaigners' social media feeds used edited footage from the iconic Coca-Cola \"holidays are coming\" advert from the 1990s.\n\nIt superimposed Labour slogans onto the side of lorries and ended with an image of Jeremy Corbyn as Santa Claus.\n\nCoca-Cola said it was \"taking steps\" to ensure it was permanently removed.\n\nThe BBC understands the US soft drinks giant is seeking legal advice on the matter.\n\nThe video was viewed more than 70,000 times and shared widely on Twitter before the site blocked it for copyright reasons. The original post was removed by Momentum about 30 minutes after Coca-Cola issued a statement warning of action.\n\nA Coca-Cola spokeswoman said: \"We have been made aware of a social post from Momentum which uses footage from the Coca-Cola Christmas advert. The film is in no way endorsed by the Coca-Cola Company and we have not given permission for any footage to be used in this way. We are taking steps to ensure this is removed.\"\n\nOne leading copyright lawyer said Momentum could be in danger of facing a substantial damages claim from the company.\n\n\"I imagine a cease-and-desist letter has already been submitted to Momentum,\" Helen Griffin, senior associate solicitor at Harrison Drury, told the BBC.\n\n\"Companies need to act quickly in these situations to keep as many legal remedies open as possible. The letter is the first step and will probably include any details of trademarks and copyright ownership that Coca-Cola has.\"\n\nMomentum is likely to have a short deadline in which to comply, she added. Alternatively, the firm has the option of seeking a court injunction.\n\nIt comes after another iconic advert was also used for political purposes on social media.\n\nOn Thursday, The Sun newspaper posted a video filmed in the style of BT's famous 1980s \"Beattie\" advert - featuring the ad's original actress Maureen Lipman but not using any of BT's footage. The spoof ad attacked Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party's policies.\n\nBT has not yet commented.", "Twenty-two people were killed in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) has been accused of jeopardising the start of the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bomb attack.\n\nThe force was criticised for missing a deadline to provide statements from officers in command on the night of the May 2017 blast in which 22 people died.\n\n\"It has been a huge undertaking for GMP involving an enormous amount of material,\" said the force's barrister.\n\nThe inquiry is due to begin on 6 April 2020.\n\nTwenty two people were killed and hundreds injured when a device was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May, 2017.\n\nThe victims' inquests were turned into a public inquiry in October so that secret evidence could be heard behind closed doors.\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, told the hearing there was a second problem with \"gaps\" in the 550 hours of radio transmission recordings from the night of the bombing provided by GMP.\n\nTwelve organisations have been asked to provide written statements to the inquiry's legal team.\n\nGMP was said to be the only one not to have met the deadline.\n\nPeter Weatherby QC, who is representing some of the bereaved families, said that they desperately wanted to have confidence in GMP but \"the sorry tale is frankly not good enough\".\n\nThe chairman of the inquiry, Sir John Saunders, warned the police that if there was a delay to the inquiry there would be \"extremely extensive public criticism made of GMP\".\n\nHe said it was \"simply not fair to the families or to Manchester in general\" but added \"no comments should be made about lack of candour until we see the statements.\"\n\nFiona Barton QC, representing GMP, apologised to families in court for the delay.\n\nOne relative was heard to say that he did not accept the apology.\n\n\"This is not a piece of work GMP has sat on,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been a huge undertaking for GMP involving an enormous amount of material. GMP has done its best.\"\n\nMs Barton explained the statements had been delayed because the force had hundreds of officers on duty at the attack, and it had taken time to identify which ones should provide the evidence.\n\nShe said they were now in the process of being provided.\n\nIn relation to the missing radio recordings she explained that the force was undergoing a system update at the time of the bombing, and work was under way to find the audio.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A \"celebratory\" photograph of Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison has been unveiled in Edinburgh.\n\nMr Hutchison took his own life in May 2018, aged 36.\n\nThe black-and-white image of the smiling singer on stage with his guitar is now on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.\n\nPhotographer Ryan McGoverne said the photo captured something important in Mr Hutchison's character.\n\n\"He was a raconteur on stage, his legendary banter in between songs was just as great and enriching as his songs,\" he said.\n\n\"He looks happy here, wide-eyed and talking to the audience. At home.\"\n\nFrightened Rabbit was formed by Mr Hutchison and his brother, Grant, in their home town of Selkirk.\n\nThe singer-songwriter spoke of joy of creating music, saying there was \"no greater feeling than bringing a new piece of music into the world, almost out of thin air\".\n\nMr Hutchison's family, including his brother, Grant, and his mother, Marion, were at a private unveiling of the portrait on Friday\n\nHis family said he spoke openly of his struggles as an anxious child, even naming the band after a nickname given to him by his mother.\n\nAs an adult he was open about his fears of social situations.\n\nHe died after the weight of his mental ill health became too great for him, his family has said.\n\nEarlier this year they set up a charity in his memory - Tiny Changes - to support efforts to improve mental health in children and young people.\n\nThe portrait, which was taken in 2014, was acquired by the gallery earlier this year and it has gone on display in the gallery's modern portrait exhibition.", "Two of the UK's biggest stars, Robbie Williams and David Walliams, are behind the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new musical, The Boy in the Dress.\n\nThe show has been adapted from the novel by Mr Walliams, with songs co-written and co-composed by Mr Williams. It tells the story of the issues that arise for a 12-year-old boy called Dennis, who is his school football team’s best striker and wants to wear a dress.\n\nBBC arts editor Will Gompertz spoke to them and to the RSC's artistic director Gregory Doran.", "We are still waiting for the Conservative manifesto which is being launched tomorrow.\n\nBut there has already been angry reaction from union bosses over reports they plan to introduce a ban on all-out rail strikes.\n\nAccording to the Times, the plans would force rail staff to provide a minimum service during strikes.\n\nRail operators and unions would have to sign “minimum service agreements” that would set out in advance the numbers of staff who would continue to work during a strike.\n\nAny strikes held by unions who had not signed such an agreement would be declared illegal.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said: \"Banning strikes is the hallmark of the right wing junta, not a democratically elected British government.\"\n\nMick Whelan, general secretary of the train drivers' union Aslef, said: \"The right to strike - to withdraw your labour - is a fundamental human right. We are not slaves.\"", "A man has been stabbed to death and three others injured during an attack in east London.\n\nA man in his 20s died in Buckle Street, Whitechapel, at about 08.45 GMT on Saturday morning, despite being treated at the scene.\n\nThree other men were treated for stabbing injuries by paramedics before being taken to hospital.\n\nPolice arrested two people on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests in Lebanon continue against corruption, the political class and the state of their country.\n\nIn a TV interview Lebanese President Michel Aoun told demonstrators that \"if they see no honest people in this state, let them emigrate\", angering not only the protesters who have taken to the streets for more than a month, but also expats.\n\nA number of Lebanese people living abroad organised a symbolic return to take part in Independence Day demonstrations.\n\nThe returning diaspora members gathered at Beirut airport and travelled in a convoy to Martyrs' Square.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Environmental activist, Greta Thunberg is to appear as one of the Christmas guest editors of Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe 16-year-old campaigner will be one of five high-profile people who will take over the programme during the festive period, as is tradition.\n\nThe others include Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry and Supreme Court president Baroness Hale of Richmond.\n\nGeorge the Poet and journalist Charles Moore will also take the reins.\n\n(L-R) Baroness Hale of Richmond, Grayson Perry, George the Poet and Charles Moore\n\nThey will each guest edit an edition of the Radio 4 programme between Boxing Day and New Year's Eve.\n\nThunberg was nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, after spearheading a global movement demanding world leaders take action over climate change. It led to co-ordinated school strikes across the globe.\n\nThe Swedish activist's name is synonymous with the fight to save the planet. Thunberg's voice appears on the opening track of the forthcoming album by the popular UK rock band, The 1975.\n\n\"We are right now at the beginning of a climate and ecological crisis. And we need to call it what it is: an emergency,\" Thunberg is heard saying on the track.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by The 1975 - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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End of youtube video by The 1975 - Topic\n\nThunberg will speak to the world's leading climate change figures and hear from frontline activists, the BBC said.\n\nShe has also commissioned reports from the Antarctic and Zambia, as well as a Mishal Husain interview with the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney.\n\nGreta Thunberg speaking at the Climate Action Summit in New York City in September.\n\nElsewhere, Baroness Hale will give Today a tour of the Supreme Court and explore the concept of coercive control. while Perry will help to examine stereotypes and conventional thinking.\n\nMoore will focus on freedom of expression, and spoken word artist-turned-podcaster George will report from Uganda and explore issues around identity.\n\nPrevious guest editors of the show have included the Duke of Sussex, Angelina Jolie, former House of Commons speaker John Bercow and David Dimbleby, as well as Sir Lenny Henry, Nicola Adams, Tracey Emin, Professor Stephen Hawking and Sir Richard Branson.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Three people have suffered serious injuries after the car they were travelling in crashed into a house and caught fire.\n\nThe incident on the Isle of Lewis happened on the A857, after the junction with the A858, known as Barvas Corner, at about 01:30.\n\nThree men in the car, aged 22, 32 and 36, and a 61-year-old woman who was in the house were rescued by police.\n\nA 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with road traffic offences.\n\nThe car ended up standing upright on its bonnet, leaning against the house.\n\nThe driver and two passengers of the blue Vauxhall Zafira were taken to Western Isles Hospital for treatment to serious injuries.\n\nSgt Donald Sinclair, of Police Scotland, said: \"Our inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing and I am appealing for anyone who saw the crash or who saw a blue Vauxhall Zafira being driven on the A857 before 1.30am to come forward.\n\n\"I'm particularly keen to speak to anyone who may have dashcam footage which could help with our inquiries.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fire quickly spread through the hotel\n\nFire crews remain at the scene of a Victorian seafront hotel destroyed by a huge blaze amid concerns over the stability of the building.\n\nEastbourne's Grade II* listed Claremont Hotel became engulfed in flames after a fire began in its basement on Friday.\n\nEast Sussex Fire and Rescue said it had been very badly damaged and measures were in place \"should it collapse\".\n\nThe gas supply was also being closely monitored as efforts continued to isolate it, the fire service said.\n\nFirefighter Simon Neill said one of the main chimneys had collapsed, along with structures in the centre of the building.\n\n\"In the process of that falling it has taken a wall out with it as well, and our attention is drawn towards two further chimney breasts, one at an angle,\" he said.\n\nThe fire broke out in the hotel basement\n\nAbout 60 firefighters and 12 engines were sent to the scene at the height of the blaze, which broke out at about 08:50 GMT as most guests were having breakfast.\n\nAll those in the Claremont, which was evacuated along with neighbouring hotels, were accounted for.\n\nSix people were treated for minor injuries, with one taken to hospital suffering from breathing difficulties.\n\nThe charred facade of the hotel remained standing on Saturday\n\nThe flames quickly spread from the basement of the Claremont to the upper floors, and could be seen coming out of windows and the roof.\n\nWater was taken from the sea to help tackle the blaze, which was brought under control within five hours.\n\nCrews used seawater to deal with the fire\n\nThe owners of the hotel, Daish's Holidays, said the \"significant damage\" to the hotel, which dates back to the 1850s, was \"devastating\".\n\nThe company said 130 guests and staff members had been in the building when the fire broke out.\n\nReturn travel home was arranged for all the guests, while Eastbourne Borough Council provided accommodation for people from neighbouring properties who needed somewhere to stay.\n\nGeorge Brown, group managing director of the holiday firm, said practical advice and support would be offered to customers on matters such as lost personal items.\n\nHe added that staff would continue to be paid in the short term, and ways to redeploy them in other roles within the group were being looked at.\n\nOne fire engine and a control unit remained at the scene on Saturday afternoon and cordons were still in place.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Conibeer spent six weeks in an induced coma after he was the victim of a hit and run\n\nA man injured so badly in a suspected hit-and-run that he was given a 2% chance to live, said he has been denied justice \"on a technicality\".\n\nJohn Conibeer spent six weeks in a coma and needed multiple life-saving operations after he was hit by a van on the A48 near Chepstow last year.\n\nThe man charged with the hit and run walked free because of a clerical error, he said.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it would be \"inappropriate\" to comment.\n\nGwent Police said it had \"followed the standard procedures\" while investigating and had sought advice early from the CPS.\n\nJohn Conibeer's partner Emma Ross was with John when he was struck by the van\n\nIn the early hours of 17 February 2018, Mr Conibeer, then 32, was one of three passengers in a car being driven by his partner Emma Ross on the way home from a meal together in Chepstow.\n\nMs Ross lost control of the car and crashed into a wall. There were no injuries and Mr Conibeer got out of the car to check for damage.\n\nAs he was attempting to push the car back on to the road, he was hit from behind by a Ford Transit van.\n\nMr Conibeer became trapped between the van's wheel and the wheel arch and was dragged around the wheel twice before being thrown to the side of the road.\n\nHe was left with 24 broken bones, including a fractured pelvis, hip, shoulder and four vertebrae.\n\nHe also suffered a punctured lung, a lacerated kidney and liver and injuries to his bowel, urethra and bladder.\n\nMr Conibeer was taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital, but needed transferring to specialists at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff.\n\nHe had to be resuscitated twice during his first operation, which lasted 24 hours as surgeons worked in shifts, and Ms Ross estimates her partner was operated on for about 80 hours.\n\nMr Conibeer had to be resuscitated five times during about 80 hours of surgery\n\nAfter a lengthy appeal to catch the suspect, police made an arrest in March, but no charges were brought until September.\n\nThe BBC has learned the suspect was facing three charges - causing serious injury through careless driving, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and failing to report an accident.\n\nMr Conibeer said police had told him the suspect had admitted he was driving the van.\n\nThe defendant was due to appear at Newport Magistrates' Court on 14 November but the case, which was being prosecuted by the police, was withdrawn after the district judge ruled the case had \"timed out\".\n\nWith certain motoring offences, prosecutors have six months to charge someone, at which point the offence becomes \"timed out\" unless the prosecutor issues a certificate of extension.\n\nThe ambition to get back to his job as a roofer motivated Mr Conibeer during his surgery\n\nMs Ross said the certificate was not present in the case file, which allowed the defence to call on the judge to throw it out.\n\nOne of the charges - causing serious injury through careless driving - was also missing from the charges on the court sheet, Ms Ross said.\n\nThe couple claim police and the CPS have \"blamed each other\" and Ms Ross has complained to the CPS and is considering complaining to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\n\"I have lost out on justice because of a technicality,\" Mr Conibeer said.\n\nThe physical and mental recovery has been an arduous one for Mr Conibeer.\n\n\"It's set him back years. He's had to develop again - for him it has been like being a child again physically and mentally,\" Ms Ross explained.\n\nMr Conibeer said: \"It makes me really angry when people say 'you're so lucky to be alive'. Part of me wishes I had died that night because I don't feel lucky.\n\n\"I have battled with suicidal thoughts - the pain was in every part of my body.\"\n\nDespite the struggle to overcome the lasting consequences of that night, Mr Conibeer said he was genuinely grateful, particularly to his family, friends and the medical staff who saved his life.\n\nDespite appearing physically well, Mr Conibeer is unlikely to ever fully recover from his injuries\n\nMs Ross was asked what the couple would like to see happen.\n\n\"I would like to see him admit what he did in front of a judge, and then face us and hear how it has affected him,\" she said.\n\n\"If you look at him, he looks brilliant now. But his life will never be the same.\"\n\nA spokesman for the CPS said: \"We have received a complaint in relation to this case. It would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nGwent Police said: \"We note the legal arguments raised by the defence. It would be inappropriate to comment further.\"", "The landslides were sparked by heavy rain\n\nAt least 29 people have died in landslides caused by severe weather in West Pokot county, Kenya.\n\nThe landslides, affecting the villages of Nyarkulian and Parua, were reportedly caused by heavy rains.\n\nOfficials say the villages have been cut off by flooded roads and at least one bridge was reportedly swept away.\n\nPresident Uhuru Kenyatta said in a statement that his \"heartfelt condolences\" were with the relatives and friends of the victims.\n\nMr Kenyatta said there had been \"massive destruction\" of property and infrastructure, and that he has ordered armed forces and rescue services to the area to help.\n\nSeven children were among the dead recovered so far, officials said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Taylor explains the causes of the severe weather in Kenya\n\nInterior Minister Fred Matiang'i confirmed that rescue operations were \"ongoing\", adding that \"harsh weather conditions\" were hampering a full assessment of the damage.\n\nImages on social media showed trees, mud and other debris scattered across roads.\n\nThe Red Cross has confirmed it is responding to reports of the \"massive\" landslides.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kenya Red Cross This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKenya's meteorological department issued a warning of heavy rains on 18 November, telling people in \"landslide-prone\" areas to be on \"high alert\".\n\nCountries throughout east Africa have been affected by the downpours in recent weeks.\n\nLandslides and flash floods have killed people in Ethiopia and Tanzania while hundreds of thousands have been displaced in Somalia by heavy rains.\n\nScientists warn that a weather system called the Indian Ocean Dipole is making flooding worse in the area.\n\nKnown as the Indian Ocean \"El Niño\", it occurs when the western part of the Indian Ocean becomes significantly warmer than the eastern part.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch footage of the mummified big cats on display at the exhibition\n\nA large cache of mummified animals found in an ancient Egyptian necropolis have been displayed for the first time near the capital Cairo.\n\nArchaeologists discovered the trove last year near the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, south of the capital.\n\nThey uncovered hundreds of artefacts, including masks, statues and mummified cats, crocodiles, cobras and birds.\n\nEgyptian authorities unveiled the artefacts at an exhibition near the Saqqara necropolis on Saturday.\n\nTests are being carried out to verify whether two of the mummified animals are lion cubs, Egypt's ministry of antiques said.\n\nThe animal mummies were found at Saqqara, an ancient burial ground south of Egypt's capital Cairo\n\nTourists showed up in large numbers to see the artefacts on display\n\nUnlike mummified cats, which are frequently found by archaeologists, the discovery of intact lions is considered rare.\n\nAt a news conference on Saturday, one Egyptian official touted a large scarab statue as one of the most significant discoveries.\n\nA large scarab statue was among the hundreds of artefacts discovered\n\n\"The most lovely discovery out of those hundreds: that scarab,\" said Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.\n\n\"It is the biggest and [largest] scarab all over the world.\"\n\nArchaeologists suspect two of the mummified animals are lion cubs\n\nSaqqara is an ancient burial ground that served as the necropolis for Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt for more than two millennia.\n\nLocated around 30km (18 miles) south of Cairo, Saqqara was an active burial ground for more than 3,000 years and has been designated a Unesco World Heritage Site.\n\nIn recent years, Egypt has ramped up its promotion of its archaeological finds in a bid to revive its vital but flagging tourism industry.", "Barclays has become the latest big company to pull its support for Prince Andrew's business mentoring initiative.\n\nThe bank joined firms including Standard Chartered and KPMG in cutting ties with Pitch@Palace, which provides start-ups with advice and contacts.\n\nThere has been a growing backlash over a BBC Newsnight interview about the royal's friendship with convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe prince is stepping down from royal duties for the \"foreseeable future\".\n\nFollowing Wednesday's statement confirming this, a variety of organisations have continued to announce the end of their association with the prince.\n\nThe Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was among those on Friday to confirm he would no longer be its patron.\n\nAnnouncing its decision to cut ties with the Pitch@Palace, Barclays, which had been an official partner of the scheme, said: \"In light of the current situation, we have informed Pitch@Palace that going forward we will, regretfully, no longer be participating in the programme.\n\n\"Pitch@Palace has been historically highly successful in supporting entrepreneurs and job creation and we hope a way forward can be found that means they can continue this important work.\"\n\nPrince Andrew with his former private secretary, Amanda Thirsk\n\nEarlier, it emerged the woman who organised the Duke of York's interview with the BBC about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been moved from her role as the prince's private secretary following his withdrawal from royal duties.\n\nAmanda Thirsk, who has worked for the duke since 2012, will become chief executive of Pitch@Palace.\n\nIt remains unclear what role the duke will have at Pitch@Palace, which he founded in 2014, moving forwards.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman would not comment on reports the duke had stepped down from leading Pitch.\n\nShe said: \"The duke will continue to work on Pitch and will look at how he takes this forward outside of his public duties, and outside of Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"We recognise there will be a period of time while this transition takes place.\"\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the decision to move Ms Thirsk into her new role was part of a \"downscaling\" of the duke's office.\n\nThe BBC understands there are no plans to recruit a replacement.\n\nOur correspondent added it was a demonstration of the Queen and Prince Charles acting \"very assertively when they perceived a reputational risk to the monarchy itself\".\n\nNewsnight producer Sam McAlister, who has been credited with securing the interview for the BBC, said Ms Thirsk was the person she was \"mostly dealing with\" during the negotiation process.\n\nShe told GQ magazine she was \"extremely charming, well-informed, thorough and brilliant\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre, has claimed she was forced to have sex with the duke three times. Prince Andrew has \"categorically\" denied having any sexual contact with her.\n\nMs Giuffre will reveal further details about her time with Epstein in her first UK interview with BBC Panorama on Monday 2 December.\n\nOn Friday, the English National Ballet, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Metropolitan University all announced the prince would no longer be their patron, with immediate effect.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured horse riding with the Queen on Friday\n\nLawyers representing Epstein's accusers have also urged the prince to speak to US authorities about his former friendship with Epstein.\n\nIn his statement announcing that he would be stepping back from royal duties, the prince said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required\".", "One of the buses involved ended up on top of a garden wall\n\nA bus driver has died and 15 people have been injured in a crash involving two buses and a car.\n\nKenneth Matcham, 60, died at the scene after a car and two single-decker buses collided in Orpington, in south-east London, on Thursday night.\n\nThe 24-year-old driver of the car has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous and drug driving.\n\nThe Met Police said of those hurt, three people had serious injuries while the rest were minor.\n\nAccording to one witness, the crash happened at the bottom of The Avenue at the junction of Park Avenue and Sevenoaks Road.\n\nThe wreckage of the car involved in the crash was towed away from the scene\n\nThe London Fire Brigade (LFB) sent 60 firefighters to the scene of the collision, which happened at about 22:15 GMT.\n\n\"Firefighters rescued several casualties from the buses and immediately undertook first aid, being joined by colleagues from London Ambulance Service,\" its assistant commissioner Graham Ellis said.\n\nClaire Mann, TfL's director of bus operations, offered the firm's condolences and sympathies to Mr Matcham's family and confirmed they were working with the bus operator GoAhead and the Met Police to \"ensure we find out what happened\".\n\nCounselling has also been made available to those affected by the crash, she said.\n\nGoAhead tweeted that it was raising money on a crowdfunding website to support Mr Matcham's family.\n\nThe crash happened in Orpington at about 22:15 GMT\n\nOne witness, who did not wish to be named, said he was in his living room when \"we literally heard a loud bang\".\n\n\"It didn't sound like a car crash, it was a really weird noise,\" he said.\n\n\"I went out to take a look and saw the carnage. My son is 11 and he was really upset. We didn't really want to stay outside as it was too upsetting really.\"\n\nHe said one of the buses had gone into a front garden.\n\n\"My heart goes out to those involved. Very distressing,\" he added.\n\nThe GoAhead single-decker bus was lifted by crane on to a tow truck\n\nAnother resident, Tariq Sheik, said he heard \"an awful lot of ambulance and fire engine noises last night\" and thought it might have been connected to Halloween.\n\n\"Horrific scenes, it's not very pleasant,\" he added.\n\nRoad closures are in place around the area and police have advised motorists to use alternative routes.\n\nSix bus routes have also been diverted.\n\nDetectives have appealed for any witnesses or anyone with dashcam, mobile phone or CCTV footage of the collision to contact them.\n\nOfficers removed evidence from the crash scene on Friday morning\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has dismissed suggestions from Nigel Farage and US President Donald Trump that he should work with the Brexit Party, saying he is \"always grateful for advice from wherever it comes\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the Conservative Party leader promoted the withdrawal agreement he had negotiated with the European Union, saying that he wanted to get Brexit \"over the line as fast as possible\".\n\nMr Johnson was also asked about Mr Trump's statement that his Brexit deal meant the US couldn't do a trade deal with the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Election pact with Brexit Party 'risks putting Corbyn into No 10'\n\nBoris Johnson has rejected the suggestion from Nigel Farage and Donald Trump that he should work with the Brexit Party during the election.\n\nThe Tory leader told the BBC he was \"always grateful for advice\" but he would not enter into election pacts.\n\nHis comments come after the US president said Mr Farage and Mr Johnson would be \"an unstoppable force\".\n\nDowning Street sources say there are no circumstances in which the Tories would work with the Brexit Party.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said the \"difficulty\" of doing deals with \"any other party\" was that it \"simply risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10\".\n\n\"The problem with that is that his [Mr Corbyn's] plan for Brexit is basically yet more dither and delay,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson also said there was \"no question of negotiating on the NHS\" as part of any future trade deal with the US, but he did not rule out expanding the amount of private provision in the health service in the future.\n\nBut Labour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said the public \"can't trust the Tories on the NHS\", saying they would \"increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump\".\n\nWhen pushed on whether he would rule out a deal with Mr Farage, Mr Johnson replied: \"I want to be very, very clear that voting for any other party than this government, this Conservative government… is basically tantamount to putting Jeremy Corbyn in.\"\n\nThe UK is going to the polls on 12 December following a further delay to the UK's departure from the EU, to 31 January 2020.\n\nThe BBC will be talking to other party leaders during the course of the campaign.\n\nUS president Donald Trump told Nigel Farage's LBC show on Thursday that the Brexit Party leader should team up with Mr Johnson to do \"something terrific\" and he also criticised the prime minister's EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Farage has called on the prime minister to drop his Brexit deal, unite in a \"Leave alliance\" or face a Brexit Party candidate in every seat in the election.\n\nMr Johnson said there were \"lots of reasons\" why he thought a Labour government would be a \"disaster\".\n\nHe said he Labour government would lead to a renegotiation with Brussels on a Brexit deal, then another referendum.\n\n\"Why go through that nightmare again?\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister also suggested that the US president was wrong to believe a trade deal would be impossible with the UK after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"proper Brexit\" deal \"enables us to do proper all-singing, all-dancing free-trade deals\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It delivers exactly what we wanted, what I wanted, when I campaigned in 2016 to come out the European Union,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhen asked about the criticism from Mr Trump, Mr Johnson said: \"I am always grateful for advice from wherever it comes and we have great relations as you know with the US and many many other countries.\n\n\"But on the technicalities of the deal anybody who looks at it can see that the UK has full control.\"\n\nThe prime minister is never short of a word or two, never short of a colourful phrase or a metaphor.\n\nWhen we sat down this afternoon there was no suggestion of him being the Hulk, but Remain-tending MPs were accused of \"rope-a-doping\" the government, planning eventually to batter the prime minister and his Brexit deal into submission until he would have had to give up.\n\nBut in Downing Street there is a serious awareness that trademark Johnson verbal gymnastics are no guarantee of success at the ballot box in six weeks' time, no guarantee at all.\n\nThat's not just because there are even friends, like Donald Trump, and of course foes, like Jeremy Corbyn, whose words and actions will hamper his attempt to secure a majority to call his own.\n\nBut also because this is a snap election, not a routine poll, and the public is hardly in a forgiving mood of our politicians right now.\n\nMr Johnson said he hoped the government could get Brexit \"over the line\" by the middle of January if he won a majority, claiming the current Parliament would never have passed his deal.\n\nHe said he'd had \"no choice\" but to call a general election, saying: \"Nobody wants an election but we've got to do it now.\n\n\"This is a Parliament that is basically full of MPs who voted Remain.\n\n\"They voted Remain and they will continue to block Brexit if they're given the chance - we need a new mandate, we need to refresh our Parliament.\"\n\nMr Johnson said his government was determined to increase taxpayer funding of the NHS but said: \"Of course there are dentists and optometrists and so on who are providers to the NHS, of course, that's how it works,\" he said.\n\n\"But... I believe passionately in an NHS free at the point of use for everybody in this country.\"\n\nLabour's Mr Ashworth said: \"Forced NHS privatisation has doubled under the Conservatives and Boris Johnson has refused to rule out expanding this further.\n\n\"You can't trust the Tories on the NHS. They will increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump that will see as much as £500m more a week sent to US corporations.\"", "Suzi Taylor appeared on Australian reality show The Block in 2015\n\nAn Australian reality TV show contestant has been arrested for allegedly assaulting her Tinder date and extorting money from him.\n\nSuzi Taylor, 49, demanded money after arranging through the dating app to meet the man at a Brisbane house on Wednesday, police said.\n\nWhen he refused to pay, another man allegedly entered the room and assaulted the 33-year-old victim.\n\nMs Taylor appeared on a hit home renovations show, The Block, in 2015.\n\nOn Thursday, she and a 22-year-old man were arrested and charged with extortion, assault, deprivation of liberty and other offences.\n\nAccording to Queensland Police, the pair had held the victim against his will and forced him to transfer money into a bank account.\n\nThey also allegedly stole his bank card and made a cash withdrawal. Neither amount was made public by police.\n\nAuthorities also did not detail whether the victim had suffered injuries or whether Ms Taylor had met him previously.\n\nMs Taylor was refused bail by a court on Friday and will face another hearing on 25 November.\n\nShe and a friend won A$349,000 (£185,000; $240,000) on The Block, a long-running show on the local Nine Network.", "Facebook says it has taken down government advertising that was accused of targeting voters in marginal election constituencies.\n\nThe social media firm said the ads \"were not correctly labelled\" and did not include the obligatory disclaimer.\n\nEach of the ads in the campaign, first reported by HuffPost UK, said the government was investing \"up to £25m\" in a named town.\n\nThe government said it was always planned to end the promotion on Friday.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government maintains the advertisements were not \"pulled\" by Facebook.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"While the posts are still present on Facebook, they are no longer being promoted as the paid-for campaign has ended.\"\n\nOne Labour MP said it was an \"outrageous\" use of public money.\n\nThe adverts were about \"social issues, elections or politics\", according to Facebook's Ad Library\n\nFacebook's Ad Library says the adverts were run without a disclaimer and were taken down.\n\nThe \"MyTown\" campaign promoted the government's £3.6bn Towns Fund in several key general election battlegrounds, such as Northampton, Milton Keynes and Mansfield.\n\nEach of these contain a marginal constituency, one where there were fewer than 2,000 votes separating the top two candidates in the last general election or parliamentary by-election.\n\nParliament has not yet been dissolved and the civil service has not yet entered the pre-election period, known as \"purdah\", where it is barred from making major announcements that might influence the outcome of the vote.\n\nBut the ads went live on Tuesday, the same day Boris Johnson secured support for an early general election on 12 December.\n\nFacebook said the taxpayer-funded ads \"were not correctly labelled\" as being about \"social issues, elections or politics\", in line with its self-enacted system to make social and political advertising more transparent.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Ads about social issues, elections or politics that appear on our platforms should include a disclaimer provided by advertisers.\"\n\nIt comes as Facebook comes under pressure over its policies on fact-checking political advertising and as rival social media giant Twitter banned political adverts altogether.\n\nLabour MP Ian Lucas wrote to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove objecting to the campaign, saying the targeted areas appeared to be selected for political reasons.\n\n\"It would be an insult to our intelligence to say that this isn't public money being used for political purposes. It clearly is,\" he told HuffPost UK, calling the campaign \"outrageous\".\n\nA government spokesman told the BBC that the posts were published before the election was announced.\n\n\"All towns selected were chosen according to the same selection methodology, including analysis of deprivation, exposure to Brexit, productivity, economy resilience and investment opportunities,\" he said.", "The Bank of England may see its first female governor in over 300 years if the current government remains in power after the general election in December.\n\nThe BBC understands that Egyptian-born Dame Minouche Shafik is the current government's favoured candidate to succeed Mark Carney when his term ends in January of next year.\n\nHowever, the government feels it would be inappropriate to name a successor to one of the most important economic posts in the UK before the results of the election on 12 December.\n\nA change of government in December would see a change in chancellor - the person who recommends the choice of governor.\n\nThe role of governor of the Bank of England is one of the most powerful positions in the UK. The bank is responsible for setting interest rates and policing the stability and behaviour of the UK's financial sector.\n\nAlthough the governor is only one of a committee of nine people who set interest rates, he or she wields enormous influence over the way the UK's financial system is run.\n\nGiven the UK's position as arguably the world's most important financial centre, the job comes with global influence.\n\nDame Nemat Talaat Shafik, who is 57 and more commonly referred to as Minouche, has already served as a deputy governor of the bank and is currently director of the London School of Economics.\n\nOther candidates for the role include Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority; Shriti Vadera, chair of Santander UK; and Ben Broadbent, Jon Cunliffe and Paul Tucker - all former or current deputy governors at the Bank.\n\nOne former Bank of England insider told the BBC \"she would be a very popular appointment internally. She has very good people skills which not all the other candidates do.\"\n\nThe most important question perhaps is whether this potential new governor is seen as a \"hawk\" or a \"dove\".\n\nA hawk is someone who would rather raise interest rates early to head off inflation by increasing the cost of loans to discourage borrowing and spending.\n\nA dove is someone who would rather wait and see whether cheap borrowing really leads to debt-fuelled spending before raising the rates at which consumers and home buyers can borrow.\n\nDame Minouche - who received her damehood in 2015 - has described herself in the past as an \"owl\" who would be \"wise\" when setting the rates at which we all borrow.\n\nThe incumbent government may have chosen its preferred governor. But it would perhaps be unwise to assume whether it gets to make that call.", "The starting gun has been fired, the election campaign is under way and the future of the NHS has dominated the opening lap of the contest. If the early exchanges are anything to go by, health will feature prominently in the campaign.\n\nLabour has for some time argued that the NHS is vulnerable to privatisation under the Conservatives. The party has developed a new attack line, that any post-Brexit trade deal with the United States will open the door to big American health corporations. It has also picked up on suggestions that the US authorities will demand that the NHS pays more for drugs supplied by American companies.\n\nIn essence, Labour is alleging that the NHS is not safe after a Brexit presided over by the Tories.\n\nThe Conservatives have strongly denied that the NHS is in any way \"up for sale\". They argue that there will be red lines with the British position in any trade talks, which protect the current status of the health service and the drug purchasing regime.\n\nFuelling this row was a documentary by Channel 4 Dispatches which asserted that the price the NHS pays for US medicines could rise steeply in any future trade deal with the United States. The programme reported that \"drug pricing\" had been discussed in six initial meetings between trade officials from the UK and the US and that there had been \"secret meetings\" between the pharmaceutical companies and British civil servants.\n\nIn response to the programme, the government said: \"We could not agree to any proposals on medicines pricing or access that would put NHS finances at risk or reduce clinician and patient choice.\"\n\nPresident Trump has made no secret of his frustration that US drug corporations can in many cases charge American health providers more for their products than what the NHS pays.\n\nThis is because the US health system is market-based, and insurers are more ready to pay the asking price.\n\nThe NHS in England relies on the advice of the medical cost watchdog NICE, on what offers the best benefits for patients balanced against value for money.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland tend to follow NICE rulings, while Scotland has its own equivalent, the SMC.\n\nThe NICE regime, introduced 20 years ago, is seen as a great success in helping the NHS strike realistic pricing deals. A recent deal for the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi was hailed by health leaders in England as a big win for the system, with the American manufacturer Vertex, having initially refused to bring down its price, eventually signing up. The Scottish Government had already done its own deal.\n\nThe NHS has immense bargaining power because of its size and its centralised control over drug availability is always attractive to pharmaceutical companies who are keen to be part of that market.\n\nSo the suggestion in some quarters is that the American negotiators will demand that higher prices are paid to US pharmaceutical companies, potentially adding damaging extra costs to the already stretched NHS budget. The response by the Conservatives is that no British government would knowingly agree to something which added billions of pounds to public spending.\n\nSo what about private provision in the NHS? There is evidence that the number of contracts awarded to private organisations by NHS commissioners has increased. But these have tended to be for smaller service deals, and a more rounded picture is gained by looking at the overall spending numbers.\n\nThe proportion of government health spending in England going to private providers has risen by more than three-quarters in the last decade and now stands at 7.3%, according to official figures for 2018/19.\n\nBut that rate has remained little changed for the last few years.\n\nLabour says this is evidence of creeping gains made by the private sector winning NHS contracts. The Conservative response is that private provision also rose rapidly under the last Labour government, which outsourced some routine surgery to private hospitals.\n\nCurrent rules allow American and other foreign firms to bid for NHS contracts if they have a European subsidiary. The US company United Health owns Optum, for example, which provides IT and research services to some NHS organisations.\n\nIt is conceivable that in any trade talks, US negotiators would demand a more streamlined bidding process to open up access. It should be noted, however, that the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, has called for an end to any competitive tendering.\n\nWhen asked in his radio interview with LBC, whether the NHS would feature in trade talks, President Trump said: \"We wouldn't even be involved in that, no. It's not for us to have anything to do with your health care system.\"\n\nThe Conservatives argue that it simply would not be on the table. But it is impossible to be certain at this stage what precisely would or would not be in the mix when the negotiators get to work after Brexit.", "England fans arrived in Yokohama ahead of the final\n\nEngland fans are glued to television screens up and down the country as 15 men in white line up to face South Africa in the Rugby World Cup final.\n\nThe game, which kicked off at 09:00 GMT, is being played in Japan but almost 6,000 miles away back home excitement reached fever pitch.\n\nEngland were last in the final 12 years ago and last won it 16 years ago.\n\nFans are understandably excited at the prospect of captain Owen Farrell lifting the Webb Ellis Cup.\n\nThe Queen has sent a letter of support via Prince Harry to England's head coach Eddie Jones calling for a \"memorable and successful\" final.\n\nTens of thousands of Red Rose supporters have travelled to Japan with the hope of securing a ticket for the eagerly-anticipated clash.\n\nMillions more will were expected to watch back home, hoping Jones's side can emulate the 2003 vintage led by Sir Clive Woodward.\n\nThese England fans in Japan dressed up as Beefeaters for the much-anticipated final\n\nA group of England fans wait for their train on the way to the Yokohama International Stadium\n\nAs you would expect, a large number of rugby clubs were planning to show the match, which is taking place at the 72,000-capacity Yokohama International Stadium.\n\nThere was extra excitement at Crewe and Nantwich Rugby Club as their former player Tom Curry was lining up for England.\n\n\"We are really excited and are hoping Tom has a great game,\" said coach John Farr earlier.\n\n\"He's had a great tournament so far.\"\n\nTom Curry has played every minute of England's World Cup campaign\n\nMr Farr said there would be \"bacon butties and beer\" and forecast some \"sore heads on Sunday\".\n\n\"We are really, really proud that a player who has taken to the field in a Crewe and Nantwich shirt is gong to go out and hopefully lift the Webb Ellis trophy,\" he said.\n\nA crowded clubhouse was also expected at Manchester Rugby Club in Cheadle Hulme where England's Ben Spencer used to play.\n\nBridgnorth Rugby Club in Shropshire was planning to show the game despite having its marquee wrecked and pitches submerged by flood water in recent days.\n\nPrince Harry met wheelchair rugby players in Tokyo before the World Cup final\n\nThe town that gave its name to the game - Rugby in Warwickshire - was also gearing up for the World Cup.\n\nJames Reeve, the landlord of the Merchant Inn, opened up early and said even Springbok supporters were welcome.\n\n\"I've got some good friends that are South Africans who live in Rugby so I'm really looking forward to that rivalry and banter we'll have,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile in Birmingham, newlyweds Rosie and Ken Marshall were facing an early test of their marriage as they cheered for competing sides, having spent their honeymoon in Japan following the World Cup.\n\n\"Rosie and I will be happy for the other whatever the result - even if bragging rights will be decided for the next four years,\" said Mr Marshall, 37, originally from Johannesburg.\n\n\"It will be a great match and I just hope England win,\" said 31-year-old Mrs Marshall.\n\nNewlyweds Ken and Rosie Marshall will be cheering for opposing sides\n\nBoth agreed that Mrs Marshall would be the loudest of the two during the big match but, as Mr Marshall confided, \"it's her dad and brother that will be unbearable for the next four years\".\n\nEngland Rugby has been getting into the swing of things - much like a sweet chariot maybe - by tweeting videos of the team's previous victories over South Africa.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNot that there's that many at the World Cup, the Springboks having won three of their four World Cup encounters with the English.\n\nBut don't be disheartened, New Zealand had won all three of their previous World Cup games against England before this year's semi-final, which Jones's side won 19-7.\n\nPupils at Moreton Hall Prep School in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, have also voiced their support for England ahead of the game (be warned, they are loud!)\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Moreton Hall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe final also promises to be a particularly memorable occasion in the Van Wellen household.\n\nThe future sporting allegiance of 11-month-old Finley depends upon the outcome of the match - as his parents Kris and Mel support the Springboks and England respectively.\n\nMr and Mrs Van Wellen, who live in Nottinghamshire, have decided Finley will be raised a fan of whoever wins the final.\n\nThe final is a big day for the Van Wellen family\n\nJack Crawford, 21, is planning to get up at 06:00 to start his preparations for watching the game at home in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, with his father Scott, who will have just finished a supermarket night shift.\n\n\"He won't be getting any sleep until after the match has finished,\" Jack said.\n\nNot every fan will be watching though, as some can't bear the pressure.\n\n\"I recorded the semi-final and watched it only once I knew the result,\" said Mandi Allen from Darlington.\n\n\"I just couldn't stand the pressure. Because I did that at the semis, I'm worried about jinxing the final now if I watch it live.\n\n\"I'm so excited though, I reckon England will win 34-24.\"\n\nThe Evening Standard estimates some 2,000 pubs and bars will open early in London to show the game, while Boxparks in the capital will also be showing coverage from 08:00.\n\nThousands of pubs are opening across the rest of the country, from Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle in the north to Gloucester and Cheltenham in the south west.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Whose side are you on?\"\n\nAt first glance, Labour's campaign launch appeared like a replay of its 2017 election launch.\n\nBack then, Jeremy Corbyn attacked vested interests - and pledged that his party would be battling for the many not the few.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley has had the honour - if that's the word - of featuring in Labour's rogues' gallery of \"bad bosses\" in both the 2017 general election campaign launch and again today.\n\nBut the tone, if anything, is more strident now.\n\nChannelling the left-wing folk singer Pete Seeger, the Labour leader repeatedly - and rhetorically - asked his audience whose side they were on.\n\nHe made it clear his party was against \"dodgy landlords\", big polluters, tax dodgers, rich media magnates.\n\nIt looks like this will be something of an insurrectionary campaign.\n\nPartly, this is to inoculate the party against the Conservative charge that it is siding with the political class against the people on Brexit - causing \"dither and delay\".\n\nSo Jeremy Corbyn is trying to get his retaliation in first - by arguing it is Boris Johnson and Tories' financial backers who are really part of a privileged elite.\n\nBut Labour's tone is a form of attack as well as defence.\n\nAs in 2017, Labour is aiming to win over younger voters and those who rarely vote - and who need to be convinced that politics can make a difference.\n\nHence the clear blue - or red - water between Labour and their opponents.\n\nLabour is hoping to focus voters' minds on non-Brexit issues\n\nAnd it's part of a wider strategy to try to appeal to potential Labour voters beyond the Brexit debate.\n\nJeremy Corbyn for some time has argued that while working class voters may be divided on the EU, they can be united in support of better working conditions, fairer taxes, and more investment in public services.\n\nThe strategy is to try almost to divorce Brexit from the other issues, arguing that can be settled further down the line in a referendum with a \"credible\" Leave option and Remain on the ballot.\n\nIn Leave areas - where Labour is seriously worried about suffering losses - the hope is that however much the party's voters or ex-voters want Brexit done, they will prioritise other issues directly affecting their lives.\n\nSo, Labour strategists believe it is essential on the wider non Brexit agenda to have as distinctive a message as possible.\n\nNow, some Labour MPs argue that - with circumstances rather different now than in 2017 - Labour could have played this election differently.\n\nWith an exodus of former Remainers from the Conservative ranks, technically the party could have blurred its more radical edge - don't forget, in 2017, the leadership claimed their manifesto's policies were in the tradition of mainstream European social democracy - and made a pitch for the centre ground,\n\nBut that is unlikely to have passed the authenticity test with Jeremy Corbyn at the helm.\n\nLabour did better than many expected in 2017\n\nAnd some in Labour's ranks have been saying privately that the uncompromising messaging and the forthcoming radical manifesto are designed to shore up, rather than greatly expand, the Labour contingent in Parliament.\n\nAfter all, the campaign launch was in Battersea - a marginal they hope to hold, rather than a seat they aspire to win.\n\nPolicies that will motivate the party's foot soldiers will help in the defence of some seats won by very slim majorities last time round.\n\nAnd there are sophisticated methods being deployed by the left-wing group Momentum to move activists around to where they are most needed.\n\nThere are, of course, different measures of what winning looks like.\n\nFor Boris Johnson an overall majority is essential.\n\nIf Labour, though, can become not outright winners but the largest party in a hung Parliament, it could very likely form a minority government with tacit support from the SNP and, possibly, the Liberal Democrats in order to deliver a new EU referendum.\n\nBut, of course, Jeremy Corbyn insists he is fighting to win and that most opinion polls are probably as misleading now as they were two and a half years ago.\n\nAnd that even more now than then, middle as well as working-class voters do not feel, in their day-to-day lives, that austerity is over - whatever spending pledges are being made by the prime minister.\n\nSo the potential reservoir of support could be greater than the current state of the polls suggest.\n\nBut some challenges lie ahead for Labour - including how far the Brexit issue really can be contained within a \"cordon sanitaire\".\n\nAnd there remains a question - whatever the rhetoric - about just how radical Labour will be.\n\nWill a conference policy on abolishing private schools, and another on extending the free movement, really make it in to the manifesto?\n\nThis is an election many Labour MPs didn't appear to want, with widespread abstentions in Tuesday evening's vote.\n\nBut some of those closest to Jeremy Corbyn were champing at the bit for an election.\n\nThey believe if Labour are currently being seen as also-rans, opponents will become complacent and in the end - however radical the party's message - progressive centre-left voters will be forced to back them if they want to stop Boris Johnson.\n\nIn this election, though, there is no such thing as a sure thing.", "A man convicted of raping and killing a British embassy worker in Lebanon has been sentenced to death, the country's state news agency, NNA, reports.\n\nUber driver Tariq Houshieh confessed to murdering Rebecca Dykes, whose body was found by the roadside in December 2017.\n\nThe 30-year-old had been strangled with a rope.\n\nLebanese judges routinely call for death sentences in murder cases, but no executions have been carried out since 2004.\n\nThe British embassy in Beirut said Ms Dykes was \"much loved and is deeply missed\", describing her as \"a talented, devoted humanitarian, whose skill, expertise and passion improved the lives of many people\".\n\nThe embassy said it hoped the court's decision would provide \"a degree of closure\" for those close to Ms Dykes, but added that the UK government continued to oppose the death penalty \"in all circumstances\".\n\nMs Dykes had been working for the Department for International Development since January 2017, helping Lebanon to cope with the influx of refugees from the war in neighbouring Syria.\n\nShe had reportedly been due to fly home to the UK for Christmas.\n\nBut she was abducted after leaving a bar in the popular Gemmayzeh district of Beirut where she went for a colleague's leaving party.\n\nHer body was found close to a motorway on the outskirts of the city.\n\nPolice traced Houshieh's car on traffic management CCTV and he was arrested days after the killing.\n\nHe had previously served several prison sentences, a senior Lebanese security source told the BBC at the time of his arrest.\n\nA candlelit vigil was held for Ms Dykes outside Beirut's National Museum\n\nHer family set up the Rebecca Dykes Foundation, which aims to continue her work to improve the lives of refugees in Lebanon. In a statement after her death, they said she was \"irreplaceable\".\n\nThe University of Manchester also posthumously awarded her an Outstanding Alumni award in July 2019, saying that her work led to Syrian and Palestinian refugee communities \"becoming more peaceful\".\n\nBefore her posting in Beirut, Ms Dykes worked for the Foreign Office as a policy manager for its Libya team and as an Iraq research analyst.\n\nShe graduated with a degree in social anthropology at the University of Manchester in 2005, and also had a master's in international security and global governance from Birkbeck, University of London.\n\nA former pupil of Malvern Girls' College and Rugby School, she had also taught English at a Chinese international school. On social media, she said she was originally from London.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWarren Gatland's 12-year reign in charge of Wales ended with a 40-17 defeat against New Zealand in the World Cup bronze match in Tokyo.\n\nSteve Hansen ensured he left the All Blacks on a winning note as his side clinched third place in Japan with a six-try display.\n\nWing Ben Smith scored two tries and Joe Moody, Beauden Barrett, Ryan Crotty and Richie Mo'unga also crossed.\n\nHallam Amos and Josh Adams scored tries for Wales.\n• None Welsh rugby must not return to doldrums - Gatland\n• None Reaction as Wales end their World Cup campaign\n\nNew Zealand demonstrated a more ruthless edge, with Wales not capitalising on territory and possession superiority.\n\nDefence coach Shaun Edwards will also be unhappy at Wales missing more than 30 tackles.\n\nWales' defeat ensured a second fourth-place World Cup overall finish to emulate their position in 2011, with their third place in 1987 remaining the finest effort.\n\nTheir losing streak against the All Blacks remains at 66 years, with New Zealand celebrating a 31st successive win in this fixture.\n\nWales and New Zealand would both have preferred to have been involved in the final but those dreams were dashed after semi-final defeats against South Africa and England.\n\nSo it was more sentiment than silverware at stake in Tokyo.\n\nGatland bowed out after 12 years in charge, a period in which Wales have won four Six Nations titles - including three Grand Slams - and reached two World Cup semi-finals.\n\nHansen stepped up from his assistant role to take over from Graham Henry after the 2011 World Cup success and guided the All Blacks to retain their title four years later.\n\nFollowing the five-day turnaround, Wales only had 26 fit players to pick from and made nine changes from the South Africa defeat.\n\nSome were enforced through injuries, with George North, Leigh Halfpenny, Aaron Wainwright, Tomas Francis joining Liam Williams, Josh Navidi and Cory Hill on the sidelines.\n\nGareth Anscombe, Taulupe Faletau and Ellis Jenkins had already been ruled out before the tournament started.\n\nReplacement Cardiff Blues wing Owen Lane was handed the 14 shirt, while half-backs Rhys Patchell and Tomos Williams started.\n\nNew Zealand made seven personnel alterations and were led by number eight Kieran Read who was making his 127th and last international appearance.\n\nThey could still name an experienced and star-studded backline that included Sonny Bill Williams, Crotty, Beauden Barrett and Ben Smith.\n\nWales did not follow England's lead with any quirky reaction to the New Zealand haka, respecting it from the comfort of their own 10-metre line.\n\nA frantic opening included a huge hit from Shannon Frizell on Ross Moriarty, a searing Adams break and a penalty turnover from Sam Cane.\n\nMo'unga hit the posts with a penalty but inspired the opening score with a half-break before releasing Read, who found Brodie Retallick to send prop Moody over for the opening score. Mo'unga converted.\n\nScrum-half Aaron Smith turned creator as his scissors move with Beauden Barrett allowed the full-back to coast through the Welsh defence under the posts.\n\nWales almost responded immediately as prop Dillon Lewis was held up over the New Zealand line.\n\nBut it was not long until full-back Amos crossed following a patient build-up and a raking Patchell pass.\n\nPatchell also converted before adding a penalty to reduce the deficit to 14-10 as Wales threatened to bounce back.\n\nNew Zealand retaliated and showed Wales how to be clinical with two tries for wing Smith just before half-time.\n\nFirst a strong counter-ruck allowed Smith to power through some weak tackling.\n\nScrum-half Aaron Smith then released namesake Ben down the right-hand touchline to give New Zealand a 28-10 interval lead.\n\nFour attacks, four tries, ruthless stuff from the All Blacks as Wales missed 21 tackles in the first half, defensive lapses proving a symptom of their World Cup campaign.\n\nNew Zealand continued the onslaught immediately after the break with Sonny Bill Williams releasing centre partner Crotty for the fifth try.\n\nSmith was denied a hat-trick because of a forward pass before Wales again responded with galloping runs from back-rowers Justin Tipuric and Aaron Shingler.\n\nA raft of replacements saw Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones leave the field for probably his last World Cup appearance, while Sonny Bill Williams and Crotty finished their New Zealand careers.\n\nWales took advantage with top try scorer Adams burrowing over for his seventh score of the tournament, breaking the previous Welsh best of six at a single World Cup set by Shane Williams in 2007.\n\nMo'unga crossed for New Zealand's sixth try to complete the scoring and cement a comfortable All Blacks win.\n• None New Zealand have won their last 31 matches against Wales, the longest winning run any side has ever held over a tier one nation in Test history, only Argentina (39 v Uruguay & 36 v Chile) have enjoyed longer winning runs against any nation.\n• None Josh Adams scored his seventh try of this year's Rugby World Cup, the most by a Wales player at a single tournament, surpassing Shane Williams' tally of six in 2007; Jonah Lomu, Bryan Habana and Julian Savea jointly hold the overall record with eight.\n• None Adams' seven tries are two more than any other player so far; he would be the first Wales player to finish as top try scorer at a Rugby World Cup. South Africa wing Makazole Mapimpi is the next closest on five.\n• None The 57 points scored in this match is the most in a World Cup third place play-off, surpassing the 53 points scored in 2003 (New Zealand 40-13 France).\n• None New Zealand and Wales made 17 offloads each in this match, their combined total of 34 offloads was the most in a match at this year's World Cup.\n• None Ben Smith crossed for two tries in this game but was denied a hat-trick with a disallowed try, meaning this year's World Cup is the first edition of the tournament without an All Blacks hat-trick.\n• None New Zealand have finished this year's Rugby World Cup with a 100% scrum success rate, winning 39/39 scrums on their own feed.\n• None Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones won his 143rd Test cap (including the British and Irish Lions), moving past Sergio Parisse to become the outright second most capped player in Test history behind Richie McCaw (148).\n\nWhat they said\n\nWales coach Warren Gatland: \"It's a bit disappointing. Just before half-time if it was 21-10 it wouldn't have been too bad - for them to score before half-time was disappointing.\n\n\"For three or four players it was a game too far, they were a bit tired. We played a lot better with some fresh legs in the second half against a very good attacking All Blacks team.\n\n\"I'm very proud of them, they scored a couple of good tries and could have scored a few more.\n\n\"To finish fourth in this World Cup, and with a five-day turnaround, I am really proud of the guys and the way they performed in this tournament.\n\n\"We will reflect and be honest. The better team won - we have just got to take defeat on the chin.\"\n\nNew Zealand coach Steve Hansen: \"It was important we came back and honoured the jersey and the fans and get over the disappointment of last week. It was a tough old game for both sides so I just want to congratulate Wales too.\n\n\"All tournament we have had good defence and we have played pretty good footy all the way through, but you have one bad day and you get knocked out. That is what knockout footy is all about.\"", "Pham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong's families are concerned they may be among the victims\n\nAll 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex were Vietnamese, police have said.\n\nThe victims were found in a container on an industrial estate last week and were initially thought to be Chinese.\n\nBut Essex Police said it was now in \"direct contact with a number of families in Vietnam and the UK\" and the Vietnamese government.\n\nA number of Vietnamese families have previously come forward fearing their loved ones are among the dead.\n\nPham Thi Tra My, 26, sent her family a message on the night of 22 October - the day before the 39 people were found dead - saying her \"trip to a foreign land has failed\".\n\nPost-mortem examinations are being carried out on the 31 men and eight women to establish the cause of death.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Smith said: \"At this time, we believe the victims are Vietnamese nationals, and we are in contact with the Vietnamese Government.\"\n\nHe said police were not in a position to identify any of the victims.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the lorry trailer in the early hours of 23 October\n\nThe Vietnamese Embassy in London said it was \"deeply saddened\" and sent its \"heartfelt condolences\" to the families of the victims.\n\n\"Specific identities of the victims still need to be identified and confirmed by the relevant authorities of Vietnam and UK,\" it said.\n\nIt said it would \"closely co-ordinate with the relevant authorities of Vietnam and UK to support the families of the Vietnamese victims, if any, to bring their loved ones home\".\n\nThe father of 30-year-old Le Van Ha, who comes from an agricultural part of Vietnam, previously told the BBC he was convinced his son was among the dead.\n\nVietHome, a popular Vietnamese community forum in the UK, said it had passed on the pictures of almost 20 people who have been reported missing to detectives.\n\nEarlier, police in Vietnam's Ha Tinh province said they had charged two unnamed people with \"organising or brokering illegal immigration\".\n\nLe Minh Tuan, pictured here, fears his son Le Van Ha was among the dead in Essex\n\nThe driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson, from Northern Ireland, appeared in court on Monday charged with a string of offences, including 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nExtradition proceedings have also begun against 22-year-old Eamonn Harrison, who was arrested in Dubin on a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nPolice are also seeking two brothers from Northern Ireland, Ronan and Christopher Hughes, who are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mar-a-Lago is a private members club as well as the Trump family's winter getaway.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has announced he will make Florida his permanent home instead of Trump Tower in New York.\n\nHe said he had been badly treated by New York's political leaders, despite having paid millions of dollars in tax.\n\nMr Trump was born in New York but has increasingly spent more time at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.\n\nThe president, a Republican, has been at odds with New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio - both Democrats.\n\nThey both welcomed the news that the president was Florida-bound.\n\n\"Don't let the door hit you on the way out or whatever,\" tweeted Mr De Blasio.\n\nMr Cuomo challenged Mr Trump's assertion that he had paid his taxes, adding: \"He's all yours, Florida.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Cuomo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump has never released his tax returns and refuses to disclose personal tax information.\n\nHe has owned the Mar-a-Lago resort since 1985 and travels frequently between there and the White House.\n\nPresident Trump is running for a second term in next year's election and made clear on Thursday that he hoped to be in the White House for another five years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said he would always cherish New York but added: \"Unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse\".\n\nThe New York Times reported that President Trump and his wife Melania filed for residency in Florida in September.\n\nAccording to documents obtained by the Times, Mr Trump's \"other places of abode\" are listed as 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (the White House) and his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New York councillor says increased security costs around Trump Tower is unsustainable.\n\nAn apartment in Trump Tower, Manhattan, has been Mr Trump's primary residence since 1983. It is not clear if he will retain it.\n\nAccording to NBC News, President Trump has spent 99 days at Mar-a-Lago compared with 20 days at Trump Tower since taking office.\n\nThe White House has not commented on the president's reasons for changing his permanent address but the New York Times quoted a person close to the president as saying that the reasons were mainly for tax purposes.\n\nFlorida does not have a state income tax or inheritance tax.\n\nEarlier this month a judge ordered Mr Trump to hand over eight years of his tax returns to New York investigators.\n\nThe ruling helps an investigation into alleged hush money paid to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr Trump.", "Ross England has been suspended from his job with the Conservatives\n\nA former Tory candidate has said it is \"highly improbable\" key figures in the party did not know about Ross England's role in a collapsed rape trial.\n\nLuke Evetts, who is no longer a member, said damage to the party's reputation over the case was \"significant\".\n\nMr England was selected to stand for the Conservatives in the next assembly election months after he was accused of sabotaging the trial.\n\nTop party figures deny knowledge of his involvement before this week.\n\nRoss England, who also worked for the party, was suspended by the Conservatives from his employment and his candidacy this week after reports of the trial emerged in the press.\n\nIn witness evidence in April 2018 Mr England made claims about the victim's sexual history, which she denies.\n\nThe judge in the trial, Stephen Hopkins, said he had \"no doubt it was deliberate on [his] part, to sabotage this trial\". The defendant, James Hackett, was convicted following a retrial.\n\n\"In my experience of the management of the party, I find it highly improbable that the key triumvirate of Byron (Davies), Craig (Williams) and Alun (Cairns) didn't know about Ross's actions,\" Mr Evetts said.\n\nThe former party activist, who stood for the Conservatives twice in Ceredigion and was chairman of the Ceredigion Conservative Association, added: \"If they didn't, they are incompetent. If they did know, they must face the music.\"\n\nLord Davies of Gower, chairman of the Welsh Conservatives, has said that neither he nor Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns knew about the way the trial collapsed.\n\nLuke Evetts stood for the Conservatives twice in Ceredigion and was chairman of the Ceredigion Conservative Association\n\nOn BBC One's Wales Live programme on Wednesday, former Conservative MP Craig Williams, who has worked in the party's HQ in Cardiff, said he had not known about what had happened until it was reported in the media this week.\n\nSources have told BBC Wales that Mr Cairns was informed about what happened at the trial before Ross England was chosen as a candidate in December last year.\n\nLeaflets in support of Mr Cairns, and bearing Mr England's name in small print, were sent to homes in the Vale of Glamorgan on Thursday.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives said: \"The leaflets were printed and produced prior to the details of the case coming into the public domain. Those leaflets have now been withdrawn.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told that Mr England was Mr Cairns' campaign manager until he was suspended this week.\n\nThe victim in the trial was also a former member of staff at the constituency office of Mr Cairns.\n\nOn Thursday, three days after BBC Wales reported the story, Lord Davies said he could \"categorically state\" that he and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public this week\".", "Ross England was selected to stand for the Welsh Conservatives for the 2021 assembly election\n\nThe Conservative Party has denied knowledge of Ross England's involvement in a rape trial collapse before he was selected as a candidate.\n\nMr England was accused by a Crown Court judge of deliberately sabotaging the trial in April 2018, by making claims about the victim's sexual history.\n\nThe defendant, James Hackett, was convicted following a retrial.\n\nSources had told BBC Wales the party knew about his involvement, but the Welsh party chairman denied this.\n\nIn the first of two statements issued on Thursday evening, Lord Davies of Gower said the party only became aware of the \"full extent of the proceedings\" when Hackett's appeal process ended earlier this month.\n\nHe said: \"We were fully aware that Ross England was involved as a witness in a sensitive case. We are also aware of the responsibility we have as employers.\n\n\"Since the end of the Appeal Court case, we have now been made aware of the full extent of the proceedings.\"\n\nIn a second statement, he said he could \"categorically state\" that he and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public this week\".\n\nMr England used to work for Mr Cairns in the Vale of Glamorgan, and was selected as the party's candidate to fight for the constituency seat at the 2021 Welsh assembly elections.\n\nMr Cairns also told BBC Wales he only became aware of Mr England's role in the trial's collapse when the story broke earlier this week.\n\nThe party has suspended Mr England as a candidate and an employee and a full investigation will be conducted.\n\nHe has said he acted honestly during the aborted trial, and was not aware that any evidence had been ruled inadmissible.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales on Thursday, one Conservative Party source said they called the party's Cardiff headquarters on the day the trial collapsed to inform management that Mr England's actions had led to that happening.\n\nHe had been giving evidence at the trial of his friend, when he claimed to have had a casual sexual relationship with the victim, which she denies.\n\nThe judge Stephen Hopkins QC stopped the trial, asking Mr England: \"Why did you say that, are you completely stupid?\"\n\nThe judge continued: \"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nThe judge added he would be writing to Mr England's political allies in the hope they would take \"appropriate action\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A rape victim says Ross England had a \"formulated plan\" to wreck the trial of her attacker\n\nA separate source told BBC Wales: \"Richard Minshull [Director, Welsh Conservatives] got a letter around this timeframe about Ross because the party were his employer.\n\n\"Whether this letter was from the judge or not, I'm not sure, but he was certainly speaking with both Alun [Cairns - Welsh Secretary] and Byron [Lord Davies, chairman of the Welsh Conservatives] regularly regarding 'what to do about Ross.'\"\n\nThe victim has told BBC Wales that \"people in Conservative HQ know... I know that Alun Cairns knows what he did in court and they knew by that evening.\n\n\"Therefore for them to make him a candidate in their target seat for the Welsh assembly proves to me how little respect they have for me, how little respect they have for the criminal justice system.\"\n\nAfter three days of virtual silence, two statements from the Welsh Conservatives in two hours.\n\nThe last emphatic in its denial that neither Lord Davies, the party chair, nor Alun Cairns, the Welsh Secretary had any knowledge of the details of the collapsed rape trial until they were reported in the media this week.\n\nThe party will hope this draws a line under a hugely damaging row, just as they're about to embark on a general election campaign.\n\nIn April 2018, Ross England was working for the party when a Crown Court judge accused him of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial, precipitating a retrial.\n\nThe party say they were \"fully aware\" he was a witness in a sensitive trial and of their responsibility as an employer.\n\nIf, despite that full awareness, his employers did not realise for 18 months he'd caused the collapse of a criminal trial and been thrown out of court by the judge, it raises fundamental questions about supervision, vetting and candidate selection processes.\n\nMr Cairns has previously endorsed Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\" with whom \"it will be a pleasure to campaign\".\n\nOn Thursday, he said he only became aware of the collapse of the trial \"some considerable time afterwards and had no knowledge of the role of Ross England\".\n\nLord Davies said \"continued speculation from an unspecified source\" about what party officials or elected representatives knew was \"unhelpful\".\n\nHe also said \"at no time\" had any party officials received any correspondence in relation to the matter.\n\n\"As soon as it came to my attention, we acted immediately,\" he added.\n\n\"As chairman of the Welsh Conservative Party, I take all allegations concerning members, officials and elected representatives extremely seriously.\"", "The wetlands are one of the most biodiverse regions in the world\n\nThe governor's office in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul said the fire was \"bigger than anything seen before\" in the region.\n\nAt least 50,000 hectares of vegetation have already been destroyed.\n\nThe area, located in the southern part of the country, is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world and a popular tourist destination.\n\nThe fire began on 25 October and is said to be advancing rapidly due to the combination of high temperatures and high winds.\n\nThe governor's office said in a statement that the situation was \"critical\". It also warned that visibility in the area is poor.\n\nThe governor has announced a 30-day moratorium on using fire for land clearance.\n\nFirefighters are also using planes to tackle the fire from above.\n\nOver 8,000 fires have been recorded in the Pantanal\n\nAt least 50,000 hectares of vegetation has already been destroyed\n\nOver 8,000 fires have been recorded in the Pantanal until 30 October, up 462% on the same period last year.\n\nBrazil has had a large number of forest fires this year. Official figures show more than 167,000 forest fires were recorded from January until 30 October this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A £100,000 grant given to a company owned by a US businesswoman - who is at the centre of conflict of interest claims against the PM - is \"appropriate\", the government says.\n\nThe grant given to Jennifer Arcuri's firm Hacker House was reviewed after the claims were reported last month.\n\nCulture Secretary Nicky Morgan said the review found \"no impropriety in the awarding of the grant\".\n\nThe PM insists he followed proper procedures and did nothing wrong.\n\nMs Arcuri has said she had never discussed sponsorship or grants with Boris Johnson and he had nothing to do with the awarding of the £100,000 grant from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in February this year.\n\nThe government review followed a report in the Sunday Times that Ms Arcuri - who knew Mr Johnson when he was London mayor - joined trade missions he led and received thousands of pounds in sponsorship grants.\n\nIt said that among cash Ms Arcuri received was a grant from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport intended for \"English-based\" businesses.\n\nIt was awarded earlier this year, but Ms Arcuri had moved back to the US in June 2018.\n\nThe newspaper said it had found the registered address on the grant application form was a rented house in the UK and no longer connected to Ms Arcuri.\n\nThe newspaper's report also prompted an investigation by the police watchdog, which is ongoing.\n\nThe Independent Office of Police Conduct is deciding whether to investigate the prime minister for a potential criminal offence of misconduct in public office while he was London mayor, between 2008 and 2016, when he also had oversight of the Metropolitan Police.\n\nA separate inquiry by the London Assembly into alleged conflicts of interest has been paused until the watchdog's probe is concluded.\n\nThe Government Internal Audit Agency review found that Hacker House had not met one of the initial requirements that the amount of funding sought should \"not exceed 50% of the lead applicant organisation's annual collective income\".\n\nThe review also found that criminal record checks had not been carried out.\n\nBut because of the low number of applications, these initial requirements were waived.\n\nThe review concluded that \"the assessment of eligibility and subsequent reduced grant award to Hacker House Ltd was appropriate\".\n\nIn an accompanying letter to DCMS select committee chairman Damian Collins, Ms Morgan pointed out that the grant decision did not involve ministers, and was made at a time when Mr Johnson was a backbench MP.\n\n\"I would like to emphasise again that any notion that the prime minister or his advisers influenced - whether directly or indirectly - any aspect of the due diligence, assessment or award of any grant funding made through the CSIIF (Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund) is simply not true,\" she wrote.\n\n\"The grant application in October 2018 and grant decision in February 2019 were, of course, at a time when the current prime minister was neither a member of the government nor the Mayor of London.\"\n\nOn the question of Hacker House's address, Ms Morgan said the company was UK registered, but that this was \"not a requirement of the grant\".", "The government has been accused of using public funds to target voters in key general election constituencies with Facebook ads.\n\nThe ads say: \"the Government is investing up to £25m\" in the town where the message appears on Facebook feeds.\n\nThey went live on Tuesday - the same day Boris Johnson secured support for an early general election.\n\nLabour MP Ian Lucas called it an \"outrageous\" misuse of public funds, according to The Huffington Post.\n\nThe seventeen adverts are part of the government's \"MyTown\" campaign on Facebook.\n\nSeveral of the towns, such as Northampton, Milton Keynes and Mansfield, are home to constituencies that will be key battlegrounds in the general election, with majorities of less than 2,000.\n\nThe campaign promotes the government's £3.6bn Towns Fund, which aims to increase investment in neglected parts of the country.\n\nThe Facebook ads used for the government's MyTown campaign\n\nThe ads, paid for by taxpayers, are not marked as being about \"social issues, elections or politics\". This is the system that Facebook has put in place to help with the transparency of social and political ads on its platforms.\n\nOther adverts by the UK government, such as the \"Get Ready for Brexit\" campaign, are flagged in this way.\n\nNot flagging them also means they disappear from the Facebook Ad Library once they are no longer active - and that it is not possible to find out how much the government has spent on them.\n\nTwo of the ads have now been taken down after Facebook determined they were \"about social issues, elections or politics\" and required the disclaimer.\n\nFacebook has about 40 million users in the UK and most of the content people see on site is from their friends or pages they have liked.\n\nAnyone can also pay to have content shown to people who haven't liked their page - and they can chose who sees this paid-for content by targeting things like gender, age, location, or interests.\n\nPolitical parties also use this paid-for content to reach new people. The difference is Facebook ask that any content about \"about social issues, elections or politics\" is labelled by the organisation posting it.\n\nThis political content is archived and can be searched for in the Facebook Ad Library. Meaning for every political advert it's possible to check who paid for it and get a rough idea of who has been shown the ad and how many times it has been seen.\n\nHowever, the system of labelling political adverts is voluntary. If an organisation fails to label their paid-for content, the adverts are only searchable while they are active on the site.\n\nThis loophole could allow political organisations to hide old adverts or at least make them much harder to find.\n\nMr Lucas has written a letter to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove demanding to know how data for the campaign was gathered and accusing the government using public money for political purposes.\n\n\"It is quite clear that those constituencies are, largely, politically contentious.\n\n\"These marginal constituencies appear to have been selected on a political basis,\" his letter said.\n\nHe told the Huffington Post: \"It is an example of how the government is merging political activity with the arms of government in its own political interest.\"\n\nLabour's Shadow Communities Secretary Andrew Gwynne said the proposed cash injection was a \"drop in the ocean compared to the billions the Conservatives have cut from local communities\".\n\nA government spokesman told the BBC that ministers would respond to Mr Lucas' letter, but added: \"These posts were published before the election was called and Parliament has not yet been dissolved.\n\n\"All towns selected were chosen according to the same selection methodology, including analysis of deprivation, exposure to Brexit, productivity, economy resilience and investment opportunities.\"\n\nThe government has been the biggest UK spender on Facebook political adverts in the last month.\n\nThe most recent figures available on Facebook's ad library site cover spending between 22 and 28 October and show that the government spent £192,753 in that period. All of the spending was on ads promoting the Get Ready for Brexit campaign.\n\nIn second place was the People's Vote campaign for another EU referendum with spending of £52,234.", "The boy was taken to hospital from the scene in High Road, Tottenham, but he died from his injuries\n\nA toddler has died after falling from a block of flats in Tottenham, north London.\n\nThe child, aged about 18 months, fell from Stellar House, just off Tottenham High Road, on Thursday morning.\n\nHe was taken to hospital by paramedics where he was pronounced dead an hour later.\n\nHaringey Council, which manages the block of flats, said a \"full investigation\" would be carried out.\n\nMeral Dervik, a neighbour in Stellar House, claimed the toddler's mother had been complaining to the council about a faulty handle, although the authority has not commented on the claim.\n\nShe said: \"The window, it was faulty. Nearly two months, that was what [the mother] was saying.\n\n\"She was calling the council to come to fix it. The handle was not secure.\"\n\nMs Dervik said the boy's mother was \"shocked and upset\", and added: \"She was looking after the kids brilliantly, she cared about the children.\"\n\nStellar House is located near to Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium\n\nFormal identification and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation and is treating the death as unexplained.\n\nDeclining to comment on the issue of faulty windows at the block, the council issued a statement from its chief executive Zina Etheridge that said their \"deepest sympathies\" were with the family.\n\n\"We can confirm that the block is managed by Homes for Haringey, who are carrying out a full investigation into the circumstances,\" she said.\n\n\"The police are currently investigating and it would be inappropriate for us to comment further, or speculate, until more is known about this very sad incident.\"\n\nThe London Ambulance Service said it was called at 10:46 GMT and \"sent a number of resources\" to the scene near Langhedge Lane.\n\nA spokeswoman for the ambulance service said: \"We treated an infant at the scene and took them to hospital as a priority.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All those affected by the contaminated blood scandal should receive the same financial support, no matter where they live in the UK, says the judge in charge of the inquiry.\n\nSir Brian Langstaff said there was \"no proper justification\" for the \"grinding hardship of many\".\n\nNearly 3,000 people died in the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history.\n\nThe government told the BBC it was committed to guaranteeing equal support for all those affected across the UK.\n\nThe judge's comments come on the last day of evidence from infected victims and their families.\n\nThe long-awaited UK-wide public inquiry, which has heard personal stories from more than 180 people and thousands more in written evidence, will hear from clinicians and experts from February.\n\nIt was set up to look at the scandal of up to 30,000 people being infected with contaminated blood and blood products in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nMost had haemophilia or other blood disorders, but people who had blood transfusions are also thought to have been exposed.\n\nSir Brian Langstaff, inquiry judge, said: \"The grinding hardship of many is not put on hold whilst the inquiry continues.\n\n\"If, as a number of witnesses have argued, there is in truth no proper justification for significant variations in financial support as between the nations of the UK, then there can be no proper reason for those variations to be perpetuated to await the outcome of the Inquiry.\"\n\nThere are different financial assistance schemes in the four countries of the UK, with Scotland's being the most generous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Contaminated Blood Inquiry: \"It's all been covered up\"\n\nThe judge said increased payments in April to those affected in England had helped, but there were still \"continuing variations between the home nations\".\n\nHe highlighted the evidence from a widow who became homeless after her husband's death from infected blood. She had to spend time caring for him instead of working for a wage.\n\nThe government said lessons must be learnt so that a tragedy of this scale could never happen again.\n\n\"Recognising that there are legitimate concerns about unequal financial support across the UK, we are working with the devolved administrations so that we can meet our commitment to guarantee equal support for all those infected and affected across the UK,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We plan to consult on this and understand that this is an important issue for those affected.\"\n\nA campaign group representing those affected by the blood scandal has written to the prime minister asking for a meeting about securing short-term financial support.\n\nLong-term compensation for those affected is to be determined following the recommendations made at the end of the inquiry.", "Fitness device marker Fitbit is being bought by Google for $2.1bn (£1.6bn).\n\nThe move allows Google to expand into the market for fitness trackers and smart watches. It comes at a time when loss-making Fitbit has been looking to expand into other areas.\n\n\"Google is an ideal partner to advance our mission,\" said James Park, co-founder and chief executive of Fitbit.\n\nThe bid values Fitbit at $7.35 a share, a premium of about 19% to the stock's closing price on Thursday.\n\n\"With Google's resources and global platform, Fitbit will be able to accelerate innovation in the wearables category, scale faster and make health even more accessible to everyone,\" said Mr Park, who founded Fitbit 12 years ago.\n\nThe company, one of the first sellers of tech-enabled fitness trackers, was valued at more than $4bn at the time of its flotation in 2015.\n\nIt has sold more than 100 million devices, but has struggled with waning demand for its products as other companies enter the market. It put itself up for sale last month.\n\nIts shares have jumped 40% since Monday, when Reuters reported the interest from Google.\n\nThe transaction is expected to be completed in 2020, pending approval by the board and regulators.\n\nRegulators in the US and abroad have been taking a closer look at acquisitions by the tech giants, amid growing concerns about monopoly power.\n\nFitbit said its \"health and wellness\" data would not be used for Google adverts and pledged to maintain strong privacy protections.\n\nBut analysts said the health data was key the deal.\n\n\"The deep health and fitness data, coupled with the 28 million active users on the Fitbit platform, offer a tremendous value,\" Craig Hallum analysts wrote in a note cited by Reuters.\n\nHere's a deal that makes perfect sense for Google. While $2.1bn is a pretty hefty premium given Fitbit's market value was around the $1.4bn-mark last week, it's small change when considered against the bigger picture of gaining a huge amount of health data.\n\nFor Fitbit, it's a noble exit after putting up a decent fight in the years since the launch of Apple's smartwatch. A Fitbit-Google product could mean Wear OS - Google's wearable operating system - will get a much-needed boost.\n\nI do wonder, though, how Fitbit's 28 million users will feel about this.\n\nAnecdotally, I know several people who have told me that Fitbit's relative autonomy from the tech giants was an incentive to buy their products (though Fitbit has used Google's cloud to support its service since 2018).\n\nBy next year, the health data Fitbit has on its users today will become Google's data - a valuable acquisition for Google, undoubtedly, but one that I predict could make consumers uncomfortable.", "Conor McGregor punched the man at a pub on 6 April\n\nMixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has pleaded guilty to one charge of assault after an altercation in a Dublin pub in April.\n\nFootage of the incident released in August showed McGregor punching Desmond Keogh in the head at the Marble Arch pub in Drimnagh, south of the centre.\n\nOn Friday, the 31-year-old was convicted and fined 1,000 euros (£861).\n\nThe court heard Mr Keogh did not want to give a victim statement and that he had accepted an apology from McGregor.\n\nMcGregor was promoting his own brand of whiskey at the pub when the altercation took place on 6 April.\n\n\"It doesn't matter what happened there - I was in the wrong,\" he told ESPN in August. \"That man deserved to enjoy his time in the pub without having it end the way it did.\"\n\nThe Irishman announced his retirement from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in March, but has since said he plans to make his return to the sport in January 2020.\n\nHe has not competed since his loss to Russia's Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 in October 2018.\n\nThis is not the first time McGregor has had trouble with the law. In July 2018 he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a US court after an altercation with other fighters.\n\nThe incident in the Dublin pub came a month after the alleged smashing of a fan's phone in Miami.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Miami incident was captured on CCTV", "Plastic sheeting was found in the stomach of the whale\n\nA sperm whale washed up on a beach died with plastic sheeting in its stomach, a post-mortem examination has found.\n\nThe animal was first spotted at Hell's Mouth, near Abersoch, Gwynedd, on Tuesday evening and later died.\n\nIt was the first sperm whale to be washed up in Wales since records began in 1913 - though a related pygmy sperm whale was found in June.\n\nThe plastic was not the only piece of marine rubbish the 6.7-metre (22ft) long mammal had eaten.\n\nRob Deaville, project manager for the Zoological Society of London's cetacean strandings investigation programme, said several pieces of marine debris were found in the animal's stomach.\n\n\"It is not possible to accurately assess whether the ingestion of debris was a result of the whale's presence in the abnormal habitat of shallow waters around the UK, or if other underlying issues may have played a role in their ingestion,\" he said.\n\n\"However, it may have had some impact on the animal's ability to digest any ingested prey.\n\n\"A large piece of blue plastic sheeting was found in the stomach and a relatively large mass of ropes.\"\n\nThere was also fishing line \"and other plastic fragments, seaweed and minor nematode parasites\".\n\nTests are being conducted to shed further light on the unusual stranding\n\nThe debris had not become impacted and blocked the stomach.\n\nTests are now being conducted to shed light on this \"markedly unusual\" out-of-habitat stranding.\n\nThe male calf was the second smallest sperm whale ever recorded in the UK.\n\nBecause the whale was so small it is thought it may have come from a matriarchal pod rather than rather than a bachelor pod.\n\nThe former are found in temperate and tropical waters south of the UK while the latter are found in colder waters north of the UK.", "Aceh Ulema Council (MPU) member Mukhlis reacts as he is punished in public\n\nAn Indonesian man - who worked for an organisation that helped draft strict adultery laws - has been publicly whipped after being caught having an affair with a married woman.\n\nMukhlis bin Muhammad of the Aceh Ulema Council (MPU) was flogged 28 times.\n\nThe woman he had the affair with was caned 23 times.\n\nMukhlis is from the deeply conservative Aceh region, the only place in Indonesia which practises the strict Islamic law, Sharia.\n\nGay sex and gambling are also punishable by public caning in Aceh.\n\n\"This is God's law. Anyone must be flogged if proven guilty, even if he is a member of the MPU,\" Husaini Wahab, the deputy mayor of Aceh Besar district, where Mukhlis lives, told BBC News Indonesia.\n\nThe couple were caught by officials in September, apparently in a car parked near a tourist beach.\n\nThe caning happened on Thursday. Mr Husaini added that Mukhlis would be expelled from the MPU.\n\nThe 46-year-old is also an Islamic religious leader. He is the first religious leader to be publicly caned in Aceh since Sharia law came into force in 2005.\n\nThe MPU advises the local government and legislature on drafting and implementing Sharia law in Aceh.\n\nAceh was granted special rights to introduce its own stricter Islamic laws more than a decade ago.\n\nLaws against homosexuality were passed in 2014 and came into effect the following year.\n\nExtra-marital sex, gambling, and the consumption, production and distribution of alcohol are all illegal under Sharia law.\n\nIn 2017, two men were caned 83 times each in Aceh after they were caught having sex.\n\nCanes are typically made from rattan. Those carrying out the caning have all their body parts, except their eyes, covered to stop them from being identified.\n\nThe caning must take place publicly on an open-air platform, though children are barred from watching.\n\nSharia law applies to Muslims and non-Muslims alike in Aceh.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nIt was expected to be odd, and it didn't fail to deliver.\n\nTyson Fury's first wrestling match had costume, soul music, trash talk, powerslams and one knockout punch.\n\nAfter all was said and done, the undefeated former heavyweight boxing champion is now an undefeated WWE Superstar, after one match.\n\nFour weeks of build-up to Fury's fight against the 6ft 8in 'Monster Among Men' Braun Strowman culminated at the Crown Jewel event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday - with the Briton landing a right hand on his opponent and winning by virtue of Strowman failing to get back into the ring before a count of 10.\n\nThis won't go down as one of Fury's greatest sporting achievements - because, spoiler alert, wrestling isn't a sport. But Fury has enthusiastically thrown himself into the world of scripted fighting and has been a showman from start to finish in a venture that has reportedly earned him £12m.\n\nHere's how it went down.\n\nA batman costume, jazzy shirts and plain old boxing shorts - Fury's wardrobe has been varied down the years. So what clobber would he bust out for his WWE debut?\n\nAlways one to try to ingratiate himself to the locals, Fury emerged in full Arab thobe, including headdress, and stepped out from the curtain to the soothing soul sound of the Isley Brothers' It's Your Thing, with pyrotechnics blazing.\n\nWas it subtle? No. Was it very Tyson? Yes.\n\n\"Forty-five years after the Rumble in the Jungle, we can call this the Showdown in Saudi!\" cried commentator Michael Cole as the match started, rather optimistically referencing Muhammad Ali's win over George Foreman in DR Congo in 1974.\n\nThis wasn't a classic of the spandex genre - or any genre come to think of it - but Fury showed off a few tricks he's learned along the way, pulling off a headlock, a kip-up and even a drop toe hold.\n\nFury even threw in an Undertaker-style, back-from-the-dead sit up.\n\n\"This is my ring, you piece of trash,\" yelled Strowman at one point. Charming.\n\nFury took a few blows but eventually prevailed by clocking Strowman with a right hand as he was getting back into the ring.\n\nStrowman may have been embarrassingly beaten but was he going to take this lying down? Of course not. This is the predetermined, soap opera world of wrestling where attacking your opponent after the match is almost obligatory. And Strowman let nobody down by planting Fury with his signature move, the running powerslam.\n\nBut Fury's commitment to consistency in his character can't be questioned as, almost a year since he inexplicably got up from a knockdown against Deontay Wilder, he was at it again, dancing around the ring just a few moments after being thrown to the floor by a man mountain.\n\nAfter the match he refused to rule out a return to WWE, but said he wants to focus on his rematch with WBC world heavyweight champion Wilder, which is set for 22 February.\n\n\"I've got a big fella called Deontay Wilder to see to, and then we see where we go from there,\" he said.\n\nAnd what did those on social media make of the fight?\n\n@DommMcG: They've gone all out for this Tyson Fury entrance. It's cracking me up. The WWE Saudi budget is insane.\n\n@Dan25021997: If you didn't already know that WWE is fake, Tyson Fury just got a one-punch KO win\n\n@TheHughezy: Tyson Fury's wrestling skill was as realistic as Tyson Fury saying that he's not afraid of Anthony Joshua.\n\n@Luketuc57920589: Growing up I used to believe WWE fights, cage matches, even burials! But Fury knocking someone out has just gone a step too far, now I know it's fake.", "A total of 208 women MPs were elected in the last election\n\nWith another election just over a month away, parties are busy selecting their candidates for seats up and down the country.\n\nMost sides have made pledges to make their candidates more representative, including bringing more women into the race.\n\nHowever, with the deadline for selections less than a week away on 14 November, the parties' record in selecting women is mixed - with Labour picking more women, while the Conservatives choose more men.\n\nFor many decades after women were first legally allowed to stand for election, female MPs made up less than 5% of the total.\n\nThis reached double digits for the first time under Margaret Thatcher in 1987, but shot up to 18% after Tony Blair's 1997 landslide, with 120 women elected.\n\nOne in three MPs in the 2017 vote were women - 208 in total, up from 191 in 2015.\n\nBut there were significant variation between parties, with 45% of Labour MPs being women compared with just 21% for the Conservatives.\n\nSince the last general election, Parliament has seen five by-elections after two women and three men resigned from Parliament.\n\nBut all five winning candidates were female - bringing the total in the House to 211.\n\nEach political party has a different process for selecting or adopting candidates.\n\nBut preliminary research by the BBC suggests the parties have had varying success in selecting sufficient female candidates to reflect the population of the country.\n\nSo far, the Conservatives have selected proportionally fewer women candidates in the seats they are most likely to win than the other parties, while Labour has selected the most women.\n\nThe pattern holds both in seats where MPs are retiring and in target seats - the constituencies that require the smallest swings to change hands.\n\nThere are still some seats where the candidates haven't yet been chosen, but the parties have completed the selection process in most of the top targets.\n\nSo far, 72 MPs have said publicly they will not stand at the forthcoming election and 20 are women - approximately the proportion of the total number of female MPs.\n\nTraditionally, political parties have attempted to fill vacancies created through retiring MPs by shoehorning in their favourite sons. But times have changed.\n\nPoliticians understand by encouraging the adoption of women candidates in these \"retirement\" seats - many of whom will inherit strong majorities and are seen as relatively safe - the parties can boost their number of female MPs and edge towards gender balance.\n\nThe selections in such prized \"safe\" seats remains ongoing, but at the time of writing, significantly more female candidates had been selected than the number of incumbent female MPs who are leaving the Commons.\n\nAll this means that if the swingometer remained frozen on election night and no seats changed hands there would be 16 additional women MPs.\n\nThe BBC has also looked at the top 50 target seats - listed by swing required - for the three main UK parties, and the 24 target seats for the SNP in Scotland.\n\nOnce again, the selections process is still ongoing, but from the data analysed so far, there are similar variations:\n\nWhatever the outcome of the election though, don't expect equal numbers of men and women in the next Parliament.", "The Thomas Cook brand has been saved from obscurity after the Chinese owner of Club Med said it would buy the name for £11m.\n\nFosun Tourism, which was seen as a potential saviour of Thomas Cook before it went bust, is also acquiring the Casa Cook and Cook's Club hotel brands.\n\nThe hotels are aimed at individual travellers and young holidaymakers.\n\nFosun's chairman Qian Jiannong, said the company \"always believed in the brand value of Thomas Cook\".\n\nHe said: \"The acquisition of the Thomas Cook brand will enable the group to expand its tourism business building on the extensive brand awareness of Thomas Cook and the robust growth momentum of Chinese outbound tourism.\"\n\nFosun was the largest shareholder in Thomas Cook and had pledged to inject £450m into the company as part of a £900m rescue deal with bondholders and banks.\n\nHowever, the plan collapsed after banks demanded an extra £200m. That triggered Thomas Cook's liquidation, which put thousands of jobs in jeopardy and led to the biggest peacetime repatriation of UK citizens as holidaymakers were brought home.\n\nIt later emerged that the shops had been sold to Hays for just £6m.", "To celebrate Halloween, dozens of students spent their night trick or treating in Newcastle, but they did not ask for sweets.\n\nDressed in their spooky costumes, about 50 people hit the streets of Jesmond and Heaton knocking on doors asking for tinned goods that people could spare for Newcastle East Foodbank.\n\nOrganised by students from Newcastle University, they said they wanted to highlight the amount of waste that comes from celebrating Halloween and turn it into something positive that could really help those who need it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There's no quick route in this industry\"\n\nYoung people are being put off jobs in hairdressing due to \"dumb\" stereotypes, stylists have warned.\n\nFigures show the number of hairdressing apprentices in Wales has fallen by 40% since 2012-13.\n\nCelebrity stylist Ken Picton said colleges, careers advisers and politicians needed to stop treating beauty as an \"unintelligent\" industry.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working with businesses to align skills with the needs of the economy.\n\nThe health and beauty sector contributes an estimated £6.6bn a year to the UK economy, of which up to £237m is in Wales, according to data in an industry report this year.\n\nBut, according to the report, some working in the sector feel \"side-lined\" by policy makers and want teachers and careers advisors to be better informed.\n• None About 15,000people are employed in Wales in the sector\n• None 6%of business owners are under 25, double the UK average\n\nTechnically, anyone can cut or colour hair in the UK as the industry is not regulated but the vast majority will get a National Vocation Qualification (NVQ), either via college or an apprenticeship.\n\nFoundation level hairdressing apprentices - the most basic training level - fell in Wales from 625 in 2012-13, to 375 in 2017-18.\n\nKen Picton said if you worked hard and had the right training the industry could have endless opportunities\n\nMr Picton, president of the Fellowship for British Hairdressing, has worked with stars including Kate Moss and Tina Turner.\n\nBut he worries some people think of it as an \"easy job\" or a fast way to become a celebrity.\n\n\"There's a real art to hairdressing - it's not just about cutting hair - and that takes time and a lot of education,\" he said.\n\nMr Picton said some thought the industry was \"unintelligent\" and attitudes towards creative industries needed to change.\n\n\"Sadly these days [children's] intelligence is judged on academic results, at no point are they judged on their social skills or their creativity.\"\n\nRayJay says her training never ends as she is always learning about new techniques and products\n\nApprentice Holly Jenkins, 17, from Cardiff, did well in her GCSEs and planned to go to sixth form to study maths, psychology and English before going to university.\n\nShe applied for a place in Mr Picton's salon after falling in love with hairdressing during a summer job.\n\n\"[Teachers] only talk about your maths jobs, English jobs, they don't talk about creative jobs or where you could end up,\" she said.\n\nMegan Thomas has been training for three years and said it was hard work but very rewarding\n\nMegan Thomas, 19, was \"persuaded\" by teachers and friends to go to college - but after three months she realised she could learn on the job and left.\n\n\"I just went to school and then went to college afterwards, because that's what all my friends were doing. It just wasn't for me,\" she said.\n\nNow qualified, Megan said people had a misconception hairdressing was \"easy\", but said she worked long hours and it was challenging.\n\n\"I'm still training, I'm doing a science course next week, which is totally up my street as I'm a bit of a nerd.\n\nArtistic senior stylist at Yume salon, Rachel Emanuel, known as RayJay, said she never stops learning, but had clients who said they would not want their children to be a hairdresser.\n\n\"I've had people say 'It's just cutting hair, how hard can it be?' or 'is that what you have chosen or something you've had to do, because you didn't get the grades?'\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We work with businesses across all sectors to align skills and training opportunities with the needs of the Welsh economy.\"", "Seven dispersal zones will be operating in Edinburgh over the weekend in an attempt to combat anti-social behaviour and disorder over the bonfire period.\n\nThe zones will run between 14:00 and midnight until Tuesday 5 November.\n\nIt means police can instruct groups of two or more people who are congregating and behaving in an anti-social manner to disperse.\n\nThey will be arrested if they return within 24 hours if they do not live there.\n\nIt is the second that year dispersal zones will be used in the city over bonfire weekend.\n\nPolice at the dispersal zone in Pilton last year\n\nCh Insp Murray Starkey, of Police Scotland, said: \"As we witnessed last year, the use of dispersal zones enabled police to robustly tackle anti-social behaviour and general disorder in key areas of the city, allowing us to move on people who are causing a nuisance.\n\n\"Anyone who is banned will receive a copy of a map so that it is clear where they should not be and that they will be arrested and put before the courts if they are found to have returned to continue the same behaviour.\"", "Adam Reechard Crespo has been charged in the murder of his girlfriend, Silvia Galva\n\nFlorida police investigating the bizarre death of a woman during a domestic row have obtained audio from two Amazon Echo devices.\n\nSilvia Galva, 32, was impaled by a spear-tipped bed post in a struggle with her boyfriend, Adam Reechard Crespo, at their Hallandale Beach home.\n\nMr Crespo, 43, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. He says her death was a tragic accident.\n\nPolice want to establish if the smart-speaker, Alexa, recorded the dispute.\n\nAccording to the police report, Mr Crespo said he was trying to pull Ms Galvo off their bed during an argument in the bedroom of their Hallandale Beach apartment in July when he heard a snap.\n\nThe police report says: \"[Mr Crespo] pulled the blade out of the victim's chest 'hoping it was not too bad.'\"\n\nBut Ms Galva died with a 12in (30cm) double-sided blade through her chest following the altercation at the flat in a seaside city 20 miles (32km) north of Miami.\n\nA lawyer for Mr Crespo, Christopher O'Toole, told the BBC that Ms Galva's death was unintentional.\n\nMr Crespo was sleeping when \"Silvia came into the bedroom, knocked the door down\".\n\nMs Galva broke off one of the pointy bedposts and \"it ended up inside of her\", Mr O'Toole said.\n\nHallandale Police did not return a request for comment.\n\nAccording to the police report, when Mr Crespo saw Ms Galva had been stabbed he called for a female friend who was in the apartment to call emergency services.\n\n\"He tried to save Silvia's life,\" Mr O'Toole said, \"this was the woman he loved.\"\n\nA police warrant obtained by US media says \"audio recordings capturing the attack on victim Silvia Crespo... may be found on the server[s] maintained by or for Amazon.com\".\n\nAuthorities said Amazon provided multiple recordings, but did not disclose their contents.\n\nMr O'Toole said he supports the use of the audio in court.\n\n\"Ordinarily, I'd be jumping up and down objecting, but we believe the recordings could help us,\" he said. \"If the truth comes out, it could help us.\"\n\nMr Crespo was bailed from custody on a $65,000 (£50,000) bond.\n\nFlorida police believe two Amazon Alexa devices may have recorded the dispute\n\nWhile smart speakers do always \"hear\", they do not typically \"listen\" to conversations.\n\nThe major brands record and analyse snippets of audio internally to detect words like \"Alexa\", \"Ok Google\" or \"Hey Siri\", but if those words are not detected, the audio is discarded.\n\nIf the wake word is said, however, then the audio is recorded and sent to the voice recognition service at the company.\n\nThe big smart speaker companies - Amazon, Apple and Google - all employ staff who listen in to customer voice recordings.\n\nBut security researchers have found no evidence that speakers continuously send entire conversations back to a remote server.", "Asda staff have spoken of being \"terrified\" of losing their jobs after the supermarket giant put pressure on them to sign new contracts.\n\nRuncorn store employee Cath Sutton, who has yet to sign, said Asda should be ashamed of the stress it is causing.\n\nThe contracts mean unpaid breaks, changes to night shift payments and being called to work at shorter notice.\n\nBut as the Saturday deadline neared, Asda softened its stance, saying it did not want staff to leave and regret it.\n\n\"Once the closing date has passed, we will write to them again, offering them the opportunity to sign up,\" said the letter from chief executive Roger Burnley.\n\nThe letter added: \"We do not want anyone to leave because of the new contract.\"\n\nFewer than 1,000 staff have yet to sign the new contract and its terms bring the company into line with rivals, Asda says.\n\nMost of the 100,000 staff affected will be better off, the letter added.\n\nThe GMB union said many staff felt they could not sign the \"inflexible\" terms because of disruption to domestic life, while the impact would fall heavily on female employees.\n\n\"If I sign it, it will affect me because they can move me into any department,\" Ms Sutton, 76, who has worked for Asda for 45 years, told the Today programme.\n\n\"They can move me on to the shop floor, carrying heavy boxes, filling the shelves.\"\n\nCath Sutton cut the ribbon to re-open Runcorn's Asda store in June after an overhaul\n\n\"They could change my hours any time from five in the morning to 12 at night.\"\n\n\"I think at my age, why would I be able to start going to different departments and doing different jobs?\"\n\nThere are plenty of Asda workers who are similarly worried, she says, but are feeling pressured into agreeing the new terms.\n\n\"I think the company should be thoroughly, thoroughly ashamed of themselves. It's caused a hell of a lot of stress for people.\"\n\n\"They are having to sign out of desperation because they are terrified of losing their jobs.\"\n\nUnder the changes, paid breaks will be scrapped, working bank holidays will become compulsory - although festive holidays will be voluntary and paid at double time - and there will be changes to night shift payments.\n\nNeil Derrick, GMB regional officer for Yorkshire and North Derbyshire, said staff would also be forced to attend work at shorter notice, disrupting the life of carers or people doing the school run.\n\nLeeds-based Asda is increasing hourly pay rates. However, Mr Derrick said it was not the money that mattered for many staff, but the inflexibility of the new working patterns.\n\n\"Many staff cannot sign because of upheaval to their domestic life. Others have signed just to get them through Christmas or until they can find new jobs,\" he said.\n\n\"I've not met anyone who thinks they will be better off in terms of working life. There will be a disproportionate impact on women.\"\n\nMr Derrick said the union would support sacked employees in any legal battle against Asda. Labour's leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he \"stands in solidarity\" with Asda workers.\n\nThis week, Asda announced it would increase employees' basic hourly pay from April, a move that the GMB said shows the supermarket is desperate to woo over disgruntled staff before the deadline.\n\nThe supermarket said it would raise its basic rate for its hourly-paid retail employees to £9.18 from 1 April next year, following an increase to £9 from 3 November.\n\nIn London, which has an additional allowance to reflect the higher cost of living, basic pay will increase to £10.31 per hour.\n\nThe retailer, owned by Walmart, acknowledged this week's annual pay announcement for April rises had come earlier that usual.\n\nAn Asda spokesman said the new contract \"represents an investment of over £80m and an increase in real pay for over 100,000 of our hourly paid colleagues\".\n\nHe added: \"We have been clear that we don't want any of our colleagues to leave us and whilst the vast majority of colleagues have chosen to sign the new contract, we continue to have conversations with those who have chosen not to, to try and understand their concerns.\"\n\nWhile Asda accepted that change was \"never easy\", it was important that the company adapted to changes in the market and competition, he said.\n\nThe company has won backing from former Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King, who used to work at Asda.\n\nHe told the BBC that the new retail environment, where the working practices of some online retailers were \"almost Victorian\", had made life extremely competitive for traditional firms.\n\n\"All legacy retailers - and Asda are one - have some legacy arrangements with their workforce which simply don't reflect the modern world that we're in.\n\n\"Many online retailers don't pay their workers anywhere near as well as the mainstream retailers,\" he said.\n\nTo compete, it was necessary to take tough decisions. \"Sometimes you have to do the right thing for the whole business.\"", "The girl was hit by a VW Golf on Sceptre Road, Croxteth\n\nA girl who was out trick or treating has been hit by a car which had been shot at on Merseyside.\n\nThe 12-year-old sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries when she was struck by a VW Golf on Sceptre Road, Croxteth, at 19:50 GMT.\n\nA man thought to have been driving the car later arrived at hospital having been \"shot in the face\", Merseyside Police said.\n\nHis injury is not believed to be life threatening. No arrests have been made.\n\nAsst Ch Con Ian Critchley said: \"We are dealing today with an appalling, cowardly attack.\"\n\nHe said the driver of the car reversed into the girl after being shot at.\n\n\"That 12-year-old girl was out for Halloween, playing out with her friends, her family, having fun.\n\n\"She suffered significant injuries as a result of being hit by that car.\n\n\"Fortunately her friends and family courageously helped her,\" Mr Critchley said.\n\nHe appealed for the public's help in tracing the gunman and the gun.\n\nAsst Ch Con Ian Critchley said police were speaking to witnesses and supporting the girl's family\n\nReferring to the shooting of Rhys Jones in Croxteth in 2007, Mr Critchely said the area had suffered the \"innocent death\" of a child previously and added: \"I know that the community will not tolerate it.\"\n\n\"This is an extremely worrying incident, where the offenders have shown no thought for the general public and has resulted in an innocent young girl, who was out enjoying herself, experiencing this traumatic ordeal,\" he said.\n\nPosting on Twitter, Liverpool city region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I am deeply to saddened to hear of this senseless crime.\n\n\"Our city region's streets should be a safe place for everybody, not least for our children on Halloween.\"\n\nLabour councillor for Croxteth ward Anthony Lavelle said it was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"It was shocking to hear the news last night and it's completely reckless what's happened on Sceptre Road,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously there is a lot more young people on the streets on Halloween because of trick or treat and I'm glad no-one's lives have been lost.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses, including anyone with dash-cam footage, to contact them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women were being sold on apps including Instagram\n\nKuwaiti authorities say they have officially summoned the owners of several social media accounts used to sell domestic workers as slaves.\n\nA BBC News Arabic investigation found online slave markets on apps provided and made available by Google and Apple, including Facebook-owned Instagram.\n\nWomen were offered for sale as workers via hashtags such as \"maids for transfer\" or \"maids for sale\".\n\nAuthorities say those involved have been ordered to take down their ads.\n\nThey have also been compelled to sign a legal commitment, promising no longer to participate in this activity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes the buying and selling of domestic workers in the Gulf\n\nInstagram said it had also taken action since it was contacted by the BBC. It said it had removed further content across Facebook and Instagram, and would prevent the creation of new accounts designed to be used for the online slave market.\n\nMany of the most widely used accounts for buying and selling domestic workers appear to have stopped their activity.\n\nDr Mubarak Al-Azimi, head of Kuwait's Public Authority for Manpower, said it was investigating the woman featured in the BBC report who sold a 16-year-old girl from Guinea - whom we are calling \"Fatou\" - via an app.\n\nA police officer who also featured in the report is under investigation by the authorities.\n\nHe said arrests and compensation for the victims were possible outcomes of the action.\n\nKimberley Motley, an American international lawyer who has taken on Fatou's case, said: \"I believe the app developers should definitely provide compensation for Fatou. As well as possibly Apple and Google.\n\n\"On Apple Store they proclaim that they are responsible for everything that's put on their store. And so our question is, what does that responsibility mean?\"\n\nMs Motley also called for criminal charges against those involved in trafficking Fatou to Kuwait.\n\nGoogle and Apple said they were working with app developers to prevent illegal activity on their platforms.\n\nOn Thursday, BBC News Arabic published its undercover investigation which found domestic workers were being illegally bought and sold online in a booming black market.\n• None Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps", "Trade in some species, including some types of crocodiles, is banned outright\n\nPeople buying animal \"souvenirs\" have been warned they must check they are legal after police seized a number of crocodile skulls imported from China.\n\nPolice are investigating the finds after searching two properties in Machynlleth, Powys, on Wednesday.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police and North Wales Police said they had found \"numerous\" skulls across the searches.\n\nAnimal trade charity Traffic said importers and buyers must make sure they had the correct permits.\n\nRichard Thomas, from Traffic, said some people would buy things such as skulls as a \"talking point\".\n\nTrade in some species, including some types of crocodiles, is banned outright, but others can be bought and sold as long as the exporting country issues permits.\n\nEarlier this month, police seized a skull of a critically endangered Siamese crocodile from a man in Chippenham, Wiltshire, after he paid about £30 to a buyer in China.\n\nWiltshire Police said the man bought it as an \"unusual\" house ornament and had no idea that it was protected.\n\nNo further action was taken against him when police decided he had made an honest mistake.\n\nThe Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is the main worldwide agreement controlling trade in wild animals and plants, and is signed by more than 180 countries.\n\nIn 2016, the UN estimated that the annual value of illegal wildlife trade was between $7bn-$23bn (£5.4bn-£17.8bn).\n\nTraffic said demand for such items as horns, ivory, bones and skins was \"driving unprecedented wildlife population declines\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPart of a street in Birmingham city centre was cordoned off after an underground fire reached above the surface in big flashes of flame.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the flames seen on New Street shortly before 17:00 GMT were caused by an electrical fault below.\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service said it had been liaising with power suppliers to deal with the problem.\n\nThere were no reports of injuries, police said.\n\nShoppers and workers who were about to make their way home shared images of the scene, where tram travel was disrupted.\n\nThe fire service said it would tackle the blaze from within a service hatch, once the electrics were isolated by engineers.\n\nA Western Power Distribution spokesman said 103 properties had been affected by a power outage as a result of a fault with a junction box.\n\nHe added that power had been restored to 60 properties by 19:00 GMT, and the remaining properties should have their power restored by 01:30 on Saturday.\n\nPolice officers supported the fire service as it tackled the flames\n\nThe area around New Street was cordoned off by police\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MP Antoinette Sandbach, who was expelled from the parliamentary Conservative Party last month, has joined the Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe Remain-voting Cheshire MP was among 21 rebels who lost the Tory whip after rebelling against Boris Johnson in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit.\n\nShe will stand as a Liberal Democrat candidate in her Eddisbury constituency in December's general election.\n\nExplaining her decision, she said the Tory Party had \"moved their values\".\n\nHer move makes her the eighth MP to have joined the Lib Dems this year.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, she said she had considered not standing for re-election.\n\n\"Like many of the MPs that have stood down, I have been subjected to abuse.\"\n\n\"It has been incredibly difficult for my family and for me. But this is a critical time in our nation's history,\" she said.\n\nAnnouncing her decision earlier, as campaigning got under way ahead of the 12 December election, Ms Sandbach said: \"People have a very clear choice.\n\n\"The Conservative Party offers years of uncertainty, whilst the Liberal Democrats will stop Brexit.\n\n\"I will stand on my strong local record, helping to secure local investment, fighting for fair funding for our schools and to secure additional funding in local health services.\n\n\"Our country deserves so much better than Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMs Sandbach was not among the 10 rebels readmitted to the party last month, shortly before the Commons backed the legislation to approve the 12 December election.\n\nEarlier this month, she lost a confidence vote among her local party members - she described it as \"symbolic\" but added that \"it most likely means that I am not going to be the Conservative candidate in the next election\".\n\nContesting her Eddisbury seat as a Conservative candidate in 2017, Ms Sandbach won a near-12,000 majority over Labour, with the Lib Dem candidate third with 2,804 votes.\n\nShe was among 19 former Tories who backed the prime minister's Brexit deal legislation last week but voted against his proposed three-day timetable for it to be considered in the Commons ahead of the original Brexit deadline of 31 October.\n\nSpeaking after joining the Lib Dems, she said she was concerned Mr Johnson's deal was \"a trap door to a no-deal Brexit\".\n\nShe follows MPs Sarah Wollaston, Philip Lee and Sam Gyimah to become the fifth ex-Tory to join the Lib Dems in recent months.\n\nEx-Conservative Heidi Allen also joined the party earlier this month, after quitting the fledgling Change UK party she joined after leaving the Tories.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said Ms Sandbach was a \"passionate campaigner\" and would be a \"fantastic candidate\" in the election.\n\n\"Her defection clearly shows that the Liberal Democrats are the strongest party of Remain and attracting support from right across the political spectrum,\" she added.", "The body of Amelia Bambridge was found at sea eight days after she was last seen on the island of Koh Rong\n\nBritish backpacker Amelia Bambridge, who went missing in Cambodia, died from accidental drowning, a post-mortem examination has concluded.\n\nThe body of the 21-year-old was found about 30 miles from the island of Koh Rong, where she was last seen at a beach party eight days earlier.\n\nMs Bambridge, from Worthing, West Sussex, was reported missing when she failed to check out of her hostel.\n\nOfficials said her death was \"not related with any other crime at all\".\n\nHer body was taken to Sihanoukville on the mainland after it was recovered on Thursday.\n\nThe post-mortem results were confirmed by Sihanoukville Information Department and local police.\n\nOfficials said her body had been released to the family who would be able to return her to the UK immediately.\n\nAmelia Bambridge's father (second left) and brother (right) arrived in Koh Rong on Sunday to join the search\n\nMs Bambridge was last seen at about 03:00 on 23 October.\n\nHer purple rucksack with her purse, phone and bank cards inside were found the following morning at a private party venue on the island,\n\nAbout 150 volunteers - including divers, navy personnel, local people and tourists - joined Cambodian police in land and sea searches.\n\nMs Bambridge's father and brother flew out to join the search parties on Sunday and her mother arrived on the island the next day.\n\nKoh Rong is situated off the west coast of Cambodia\n\nFollowing the discovery of Ms Bambridge's body, her sister Sharon Schultes, wrote an emotional Facebook post in which she said: \"It breaks my heart to let all my close family and friends know the horrendous outcome that we didn't want.\n\n\"Now we have to get our Amelia back home to England so we can lay her beautiful soul to rest and to remember the wonderful life she lived.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "The officer was taken to hospital after he was hit by the car at about 11:30 GMT\n\nA man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was hit by a vehicle in north London.\n\nThe officer was struck in White Hart Lane in Tottenham on Tuesday morning during a vehicle stop. He was taken to hospital but has since been discharged.\n\nAydin Altun, 25, of, Suffolk Road, Tottenham, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and possession of a firearm and was charged on Thursday.\n\nHe will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNigel Farage has called on Boris Johnson to drop his Brexit deal or face his party's candidates in every seat.\n\nSpeaking at the Brexit Party's election campaign launch, he called on the PM to \"build a Leave alliance\" and seek a free trade agreement with the EU.\n\nIf Mr Johnson refuses, Mr Farage said he already had 500 candidates he could field against the Tories in seats across England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives have consistently ruled out a formal pact with the party.\n\nA Tory source told the BBC: \"A vote for Farage risks letting Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street via the back door. It will not get Brexit done and it will create another gridlocked Parliament that doesn't work.\"\n\nIt comes after President Donald Trump said Mr Farage and Boris Johnson should team up as \"an unstoppable force\".\n\nRecent opinion polls have shown the Conservatives with a double-digit lead over Labour.\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice said Boris Johnson had received a boost after he negotiated a deal with the EU and brought the deal back to Parliament before 31 October deadline.\n\nHowever, MPs turned down his plan to pass the deal in three days, leading to a three month extension to the deadline - something vocal Brexiteers, including Mr Farage, have criticised the PM for.\n\nHaving not got Brexit through by Halloween, some Tories fear that Mr Farage's candidates could split the pro-Brexit vote and prevent their party from winning a majority in 12 December poll.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ten moments that led to an(other) election\n\nMr Farage used the launch to condemn the PM's deal, urging him to \"drop [it] because it is not Brexit\".\n\nInstead, Mr Farage urged him to pursue a free trade agreement with the EU - similar to the deal the bloc has with Canada - and to impose a new deadline of 1 July 2020 to get it signed off.\n\nIf an agreement was not done by then, the UK should leave the EU without a deal and move to World Trade Organisation trading rules.\n\n\"I would view that as totally reasonable,\" he said. \"That really would be Brexit.\"\n\nBut Mr Farage said if Mr Johnson did not pursue the route, the Brexit Party would contest every seat in the country - with 500 candidates ready to sign the forms to stand on Monday.\n\n\"The Brexit Party would be the only party standing at these elections that actually represents Brexit,\" he said.\n\nBut Tory Brexiteer Mark Francois said Mr Farage's pitch for an alliance had \"screwed it up\".\n\n\"If you genuinely want to work with another party, you don't go on live national television and call them liars,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nHe said the PM's agreement with the EU was not a \"perfect deal\", adding: \"We are not in Valhalla here. But the deal takes us out of the European Union.\n\n\"Nigel is a very talented politician but anyone who works with him will tell you he is his own worst enemy and his ego has got the better of him.\"\n\nNigel Farage has, in effect, given Boris Johnson an ultimatum - abandon your central Brexit policy or the Brexit Party will challenge your deal at every opportunity across the country.\n\nWith the prime minister highly likely to refuse, it seems Mr Farage will have to live up to his promise of fielding 500 or more candidates in this election by Monday - and his claim that he has the resources to do so.\n\nThat's a tall order for a party that only launched in April.\n\nHe's no doubt buoyed by the Brexit Party's success in the European elections earlier this year.\n\nBut in the past, when at the helm of UKIP, Mr Farage has struggled to turn popular support into Westminster seats.\n\nHe has been targeting Labour leave areas in Wales, the Midlands and the North of England - the very seats Mr Johnson has in his sights.\n\nBut the risk for both parties is by splitting the Leave vote they give Jeremy Corbyn an unintended boost.\n\nMr Farage also attacked Labour for a \"complete and utter betrayal on Brexit\" - and said his party would target Labour seats in the Midlands and North of England.\n\nHe said Labour's plan to renegotiate a deal then put it to a referendum was offering a choice of \"remain or effectively remain\".\n\nMr Farage said there were five million Labour voters who had supported Leave in the 2016 EU referendum - although that is likely to be an overestimate - meaning his party \"posed a very major problem\" for Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"So many Labour Leave seats are represented by Remain members of Parliament,\" he said. \"We view those constituencies around the country among our top targets.\"\n\nHe ridiculed the reported Conservative plan to target \"Workington man\" - Leave-supporting traditional Labour voters in northern towns - saying Tories needed to get out of London more.\n\nNigel Farage claimed in his speech that when UKIP did well under his leadership, it was doing more damage to Labour than the Conservatives.\n\nYet, he seems to think the threat of standing everywhere is going to have an impact on the Tories' Brexit stance by making them afraid they are going to lose out.\n\nAt the end of the day, what Nigel Farage is promising is to fight this election across the piece and on a stance which the Brexit Party has been very clear about for a while.\n\nThe interesting question there is how successful he is going to be persuading the Leave voters of this argument.\n\nBoris Johnson and the Conservative Party have a lead as they have been gradually squeezing the Brexit Party vote, with Leave voters coming to them.\n\nRelatively few Leave voters seem to blame Mr Johnson for the fact that he failed to meet the 31 October deadline.\n\nBut on the other hand, it is also clear from the polling there is a substantial body of Leave voters who would prefer to exit without a deal rather than supporting the PM's plan.\n\nSo, you can see how Mr Farage may be able to push some people back in his direction.\n\nOn the other side of the Brexit debate, Remain-supporting parties have been negotiating electoral pacts in certain constituencies.\n\nThe potential agreements would see the Liberal Democrats, Greens and Plaid Cymru stand aside for each other to ensure the election of as many MPs who back a second Brexit referendum as possible.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley said it was \"no secret\" that the his party was \"talking to the Lib Dems and Plaid\" but \"nothing has been finalised\".\n\nElsewhere on the election trail:", "The UK's two main political parties are further apart in terms of policy than they have been for aeons.\n\nLabour and the Conservatives have entirely different priorities, and completely contrasting solutions for the country's problems, particularly on how to resolve the political deadlock and frustration of Brexit.\n\nThis will not be an election where even the most fed up voter could credibly make the charge \"they're all the same\".\n\nBut here's something strange, even though it would make them and their supporters splutter and rage, they actually have rather a lot in common.\n\nBut hold on, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn do seem to be bound together by some similar traits - they are the political odd couple of 2019.\n\nThey've both been rebels in their own party, unwilling to toe the line, both with a habit of saying what they think.\n\nThat sounds pretty straightforward but, trust me, it's not always that common in politics.\n\nAnd part of that habit of being direct has included very public criticisms of their party bosses before they made it to that perch themselves.\n\nThe Labour leader is adored by his supporters\n\nWhether that was Mr Corbyn's campaigning against the Iraq War and much of Tony Blair's government, or Boris Johnson's years of provoking David Cameron when he was king across the water in London's City Hall, long before he was lurking behind Theresa May's shoulder.\n\nBoth men have also been written off by their Westminster colleagues on plenty of occasions.\n\nThe long guerrilla war between Jeremy Corbyn and his backbenchers has been one of the central features of his time in the job, but he has survived in the role for four and a half years despite multiple moments when it was predicted he would be off.\n\nBoris Johnson too was judged, not that long ago, by many of his Westminster colleagues to be a busted flush.\n\nBut he built a campaign machine in the Commons that vaulted him into Number 10.\n\nThe Conservative leader is also a big hit with his party faithful\n\nThe two party leaders also share the kind of adulation from activists that is deeply rare in politics.\n\nIn the room in south London where Mr Corbyn launched his campaign this morning you could almost touch and feel the personal devotion to him that some Labour members feel.\n\nIt's the same feeling that you sense when the prime minister is in front of a crowd of Conservatives.\n\nThat does not mean for a second that either of them can translate that to the wider public.\n\nPeople who take part in politics in a big way are very much in the minority in this country.\n\nYou need only take a look at the men's personal ratings to see that.\n\nAnd it is worth looking taking a look at how the polls are moving here, with excellent analysis from my fantastic colleague Peter Barnes who'll be tracking it all for the next few weeks.\n\nBut again, unlike many of their MP colleagues, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are both happy campaigners who simply soak up the attention and affection of their home crowd.\n\nAnd lastly, it looks like both men are willing to run pretty divisive campaigns.\n\nAt Mr Corbyn's launch I lost count of the number of times that he asked his audience from the stage: \"Whose side are you on?\"\n\nAnd I've already lost track of the number of times I've heard Mr Johnson present this election as contest between \"the people\" (whoever they really are) and Parliament.\n\nThey are both following a totally different grain to the more managerial politics we had become used.\n\nLast, in this crazily volatile climate neither Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn can be sure at all where they will end up.\n\nTwo extremely different politicians, with more in common than they might care to admit.", "You would think that after the operation had been blown, with so many arrested and imprisoned, that the tunnellers would give up. They didn’t. They knew the Stasi had no details about their original tunnel and so they decided to try again.\n\nThis time, they would keep the details tighter and the group of diggers smaller. It was now September 1962, and the original tunnel had dried out enough to allow work to re-start. But before long, it sprang another leak.\n\nThis time, they were too far into the East for the West German water authorities to fix it. The diggers would either have to abandon the tunnel or break through into a random basement.\n\nUsing their maps, the tunnellers worked out they were now under Schönholzer Strasse, a street in the East that was so close to the wall it was patrolled by border guards.\n\nTunnelling up there would be a huge risk - it would be noisy, and what's more, any escapees would have to walk past the border guards to enter the cellar.\n\nIt was hard to imagine how it could work, but these diggers had proved they were brave and they were determined to give it another go.\n\nTunnel 29, after the leak had dried out. Tunnel 29, after the leak had dried out.\n\nThe date was set for 14 September. Some students volunteered to go into the East and tell the escapees the new plan. But like last time, they would need a messenger to cross the border on the escape day itself and give signals, so that the East Berliners would know when to go to the tunnel.\n\nUnsurprisingly, after what happened to Wolfdieter, no-one was keen to step forward. But then one of the tunnellers, Mimmo, had an idea - what about his 21-year-old girlfriend, Ellen Schau? Like Wolfdieter, she had a West German passport so she could go in and out of the East, and as a woman, perhaps she would arouse less suspicion? Ellen agreed to do it.\n\nThe escapees had been told to go to three different pubs and wait. Once the tunnellers had broken through into the cellar, Ellen was to go to each of these pubs and give a secret signal.\n\nEllen was filmed as she boarded a train into the East. Wearing a dress, headscarf and sunglasses, she looks like a 60s movie star. You see her check her watch. It’s midday. She turns towards the station and runs up the stairs.\n\nA road block at the border to East-Berlin A road block at the border to East-Berlin\n\nMeanwhile, Joachim and Hasso began hacking into the cellar of an apartment on Schönholzer Strasse. Joachim eventually climbed up into the cellar and unlocked the door to the apartment lobby using a set of skeleton keys.\n\nHe needed the number of the apartment they'd dug into. First, he went into the hall. No number there. And he realised the only way to find out was to go outside into the street - the street that was patrolled by border guards.\n\nHe opened the front door to the building and saw a group of guards sitting in a hut. They were distracted, so he slipped out into the street. “There was a big number seven just above the door,” he says.\n\nThey used their trusty WW2 telephone to get a message to the rest of the team, who were in a West Berlin flat overlooking the wall. A white sheet was draped from the window - Ellen’s signal that the escape was on. From the East, Ellen saw the sheet and went to the first pub to start giving the signals.\n\n“It was really loud,” Ellen remembers. “And when I walked in, the men all turned round and looked at me. The signal was for me to buy a box of matches. So I walked up to the bar, and that’s when I noticed these people staring at me.”\n\nIt was a family, sitting at a table. The mother was wearing a dress and high heels, holding her toddler on her lap. Ellen ordered the matches and left. In the next pub she ordered some water - that was the next signal.\n\nWhen she arrived at the final pub, things didn't go quite to plan. The signal there was for her to order a coffee, but the waiter said they had run out. “It was a terrible moment,” she says. “How could I give the signal if the pub didn’t have any coffee?”\n\nInstead, she started complaining loudly about the coffee, and ordered a cognac. She drank it, turned around, saw two families waiting and hoped they understood the signal. She left the pub. Her job was done.\n\nAs she made her way back to West Berlin, small groups of people started walking towards Shonholzer Strasse. They were doing their best not to stand out, just a few at a time.\n\nJoachim and Hasso were waiting in the cellar, guns in their hands. Just after 18:00, they heard footsteps. “We stood there, hardly breathing, gripping our guns tightly,” says Joachim.\n\nThe door opened. The mother from the first pub, Eveline Schmidt, stood there, with her husband and two-year-old daughter. They were helped down into the tunnel. “It was dark,” says Eveline. “There was just one lamp by the entrance. One of the tunnellers took my baby and then I started crawling.”\n\nEveline Rudolph with her daughter Annett, whose shoes Joachim finds in the tunnel Eveline Rudolph with her daughter Annett, whose shoes Joachim finds in the tunnel\n\nAt the other end, in the West, the two-man NBC film crew were standing at the top of the tunnel shaft. In the footage of this moment, for a long time nothing happens, and then suddenly a white handbag appears. Then there’s a hand, and then, finally, Eveline.\n\nShe’s covered in mud, her tights are torn and her feet are bare. She’s lost her shoes somewhere in the tunnel. It’s taken her 12 minutes to crawl through it. She looks up towards the camera, blinking into the light. And then she starts climbing the ladder up into the cellar. Just as she reaches the top, she collapses.\n\nOne of the NBC cameramen catches her and helps her to a bench. She sits there, shaking, and then one of the tunnellers brings her baby to her. She bundles her into her arms, nuzzling the nape of her neck.\n\nOver the next hour, more people came. There was Hasso’s sister, Anita, and others - eight-year-olds, 18-year-olds, 80-year-olds. By 23:00, almost everyone on their list had made it through.\n\nThe tunnel was filling with water, but one digger was still waiting. His name was Claus, and he was hoping his wife, Inge, might come.\n\nInge had been sent to a communist prison camp after she was caught trying to escape with him. She’d been pregnant at the time and he hadn’t seen her since.\n\nIn the NBC footage, the camera is focused on the tunnel. Suddenly, a woman emerges. Claus pulls her towards him, but she carries on going - she doesn’t recognise her husband in the dark. He looks up after her, then hears another noise coming from the tunnel.\n\nIt’s a baby, dressed in white, carried by one of the tunnellers. He’s tiny - only five months old. Claus bends down and gently takes the child, delivering it from the tunnel. It’s a boy, his son, born in a communist prison.\n\nBack at the other end, in the East, Joachim was still in the cellar. Twenty-nine people have made it through. With the water up to his knees, he knew it was time to go. “So many things went through my head,” he says.\n\n“All the things we’d gone through digging it. The leaks, the electric shocks, all the mud, so much mud, the blisters on our hands. Seeing all those refugees come through, I felt the most incredible happiness.”\n\nWolfdieter and Renate on their wedding day in 1966 Wolfdieter and Renate on their wedding day in 1966\n\nA few months later, NBC broadcast the film, despite an attempt by President Kennedy’s White House to block it, fearing a diplomatic incident with the Soviet Union.\n\nIt was described as without parallel in the history of television. The tunnellers heard that President Kennedy himself watched it and that he had been moved to tears.", "Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by providing and approving apps used for the buying and selling of domestic workers in the Gulf.\n\nBBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes app users in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale.\n\nThe discovery of 'Fatou' in Kuwait City, her rescue and journey back home to Guinea, West Africa, is at the heart of this investigation into Silicon Valley’s online slave market.\n\nAfter being alerted to the issue, Facebook said it had banned one of the hashtags involved and taken down 703 accounts from Instagram.\n\nGoogle and Apple said they were working with app developers to prevent illegal activity.", "Nigel Farage says there needs to be \"some kind of alliance\" between the Tories and the Brexit Party for the upcoming election.\n\nReports have suggested Mr Farage's party would stand down hundreds of election candidates for December's poll to stop a split in the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nThe Conservatives have consistently ruled out a formal pact with the party.\n\nIt comes after President Donald Trump said Mr Farage and Boris Johnson should team up as \"an unstoppable force\".\n\nThe Brexit Party's launch for its official election campaign has just begun and Mr Farage is expected to announce the party's strategy.\n\nChairman of the party, Richard Tice, said: \"We have a major role to play in the outcome of this general election.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party's MEP for the North West of England, Claire Fox, said she was \"really excited by this election because voters can take centre stage again\".\n\nIn August, Mr Farage tweeted the party had \"635 men and women from all walks of life who are prepared to fight a general election\".\n\nAnd in September, the party issued a list of 409 candidates standing in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nMr Farage has been critical of Mr Johnson's failure to deliver on his promise that the UK would leave the EU on 31 October.\n\nBut earlier this week, the Telegraph reported the Brexit Party was considering removing candidates to help the Conservatives win a majority of seats in 12 December's election to ensure the UK leaves the EU.\n\nInstead, it said, they would focus their energies on Labour-held seats which voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBut speaking about his party's launch on Friday morning, he told LBC radio: \"Most of what I will be saying will be about Boris' deal and the need, in my view, for some kind of alliance.\"\n\nHe refused to comment on whether the Brexit Party would be fielding \"20 or 200 candidates\".\n\nOn the other side of the Brexit debate, Remain-supporting parties have been negotiating electoral pacts in certain constituencies.\n\nThe potential agreements would see the Liberal Democrats, Greens and Plaid Cymru stand aside for each other to ensure the election of as many MPs who back a second Brexit referendum as possible.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley said it was \"no secret\" that the his party was \"talking to the Lib Dems and Plaid\" but \"nothing has been finalised\".", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are among the candidates competing to be prime minister\n\nThe first head-to-head election debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn will take place on 19 November.\n\nIt will be shown on ITV and hosted by news presenter Julie Etchingham.\n\nThe channel said it also plans to hold a multi-party debate in the run-up to the 12 December poll.\n\nOn Thursday, Labour leader Mr Corbyn challenged the PM to a one-on-one debate, while Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said she should take part in a three-headed encounter with the two leaders.\n\nMr Corbyn welcomed ITV's announcement on Twitter, claiming Mr Johnson had \"accepted our challenge\" for the \"once in a generation election\".\n\nBut pro-Remain parties are not happy, with the Lib Dems criticising the line-up as a \"cosy establishment stitch-up\" and the SNP saying it would be \"deeply misleading for viewers\".\n\nAfter the main event, ITV said it would hold a live interview-based programme to allow other parties to comment on the debate.\n\nThe Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Brexit Party, Scottish National Party and the Green Party will all be represented.\n\nIn a later multi-party debate, the Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, SNP, Brexit Party and Plaid Cymru will take part, represented by either their leader or \"another senior figure\".\n\nITV said Northern Ireland and Wales would have their own debates specifically for the nations, while STV - which broadcasts to parts of Scotland - plans to hold its own debate with Scottish candidates.\n\nThe SNP said it should be included in the principal debate since it could very well hold the balance of power in a Hung Parliament.\n\n\"This debate ignores the half of the population who voted remain and want to see the UK stay in the EU and the majority in Scotland who support independence,\" said the party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford.\n\n\"UK politics has long stopped being a choice between two tired old parties.\"\n\nAnd Lib Dem MP Chuka Umunna said the format was \"undemocratic and wrong\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolitical leaders' TV debates have featured in the last three general elections in 2010, 2015 and 2017.\n\nBut in 2017, the then-Conservative Party leader and PM Theresa May declined to take part, saying she preferred \"to get out and about and meet voters\".\n\nThe then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd stood in for her during a BBC debate.", "John Bercow is demanding an apology from the Daily Mirror over claims he asked for £1m to appear on \"I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!\"\n\nThe outgoing Commons Speaker has accused the paper of \"publishing lies despite being advised of the truth\" and has complained to the press watchdog.\n\nThe Mirror claimed talks between Mr Bercow and ITV broke down over the size of his appearance fee.\n\nIt said it stood by its story, which was based on \"authoritative sources\".\n\nHowever, the newspaper also said it was \"happy to accept\" that Mr Bercow had \"no serious desire to appear\" on the programme.\n\nMr Bercow, who retired on Thursday after 10 years in the Speaker's chair, is understood to be furious about the story.\n\nIn a letter to the Mirror's showbiz editor, he said: \"I must make it clear to you in the most uncompromising terms that I have not had the slightest interest now or at any time or an any basis to go on that programme.\"\n\nHe adds that he \"did not at any time to anybody ask for £1m to go on the show, which I consider to be utterly trashy\".\n\nHe demands an apology from the paper and threatens legal action, if the \"false allegations\" are repeated.\n\nJohn Bercow is waving goodbye to Westminster after 22 years as an MP and 10 as Speaker\n\nThe Mirror suggested representatives for Mr Bercow had been in talks with ITV about him appearing on the next series of the reality show, in which celebrities take part in a series of eye-watering challenges, such as eating insects or being trapped underground with snakes.\n\nIt said Mr Bercow had \"allegedly demanded a £1m fee\" for appearing in the next series, due to start in December.\n\nThis was £400,000 more than any previous contestant had received, the newspaper reported.\n\nIt suggested ITV had confirmed discussions had broken down over the question of Mr Bercow's fee, quoting an unnamed source saying \"he has priced himself out of the market\".\n\nMr Bercow has written to the Independent Press Standards Organisation to claim it is factually untrue and a breach of the editor's code.\n\nIn its response, the watchdog said: \"We are looking at the points you raise, and will be in touch shortly.\"\n\nIn a text message to TV agent Nicki Clarke, who originally approached Mr Bercow with the idea of appearing, ITV talent producer Micky Van Praagh suggested the story was \"obviously nonsense and I have no idea where it has come from\".\n\nShe added: \"ITV has not confirmed that talks broke down because of money. Please can you apologise to John for me for the story.\"\n\nIn an e-mail to Mr Bercow, Ms Clarke, who works for Shine Talent Management, said the story was \"incredibly frustrating\" and she had expressed her \"grave concern\" to ITV about it.\n\nThe Mirror said the story was \"based on information from authoritative sources\".\n\n\"We are confident that conversations took place between ITV and a representative for John Bercow about appearing on I'm a Celebrity and that these talks broke down over money,\" a spokesman said.\n\nA host of politicians have appeared on I'm A Celebrity over the years, including Conservative MP Nadine Dorries and Boris Johnson's father, Stanley.\n\nLast month, Boris Johnson joked that he would like to see Mr Bercow perform the infamous Bushtucker Trial and eat a kangaroo's testicle.", "If you've not had a chance to follow our live blog today, here's a quick round-up of what has happened:\n\nPolitical leaders continued setting out the key messages of their election campaigns ahead of the formal closure of Parliament next Wednesday.\n\nAmong them was Nigel Farage, who launched the Brexit Party's campaign in Westminster.\n\nIn his speech, the party leader called for the Conservatives to build a \"leave alliance\" with his party with the aim of achieving a majority in Parliament.\n\nHe called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to drop his Brexit deal or face Brexit Party candidates in every seat.\n\nBut a Tory source later dismissed the possibility of the party working with him, saying voting for Mr Farage \"risks letting Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street\".\n\nAlso on the campaign trail was Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister and leader of the SNP, who visited Edinburgh North and Leith, a three-way marginal seat.\n\nAfter President Donald Trump's radio interview with Mr Farage yesterday, the issue of whether US firms could have access to the NHS under a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal has been a key feature of today's campaigning.\n\nYou can read BBC health editor Hugh Pym's piece on \"Could the NHS be up for sale?\" here.\n\nElsewhere, the government was accused of using public funds to target voters in key general election constituencies in with Facebook ads.\n\nThat's it for our live page today, but you can continue to follow our political coverage on the BBC News channel, and read the main stories of the day on the BBC News website.", "Jason Farrell went on the run after repeatedly stabbing Sammy-Lee Lodwig\n\nA man has been jailed for life after stabbing his girlfriend to death at his home in a \"savage attack\".\n\nSammy-Lee Lodwig, 22, was found with cuts to her throat and wounds to her chest at Jason Farrell's flat on Carlton Terrace in Swansea on 23 April.\n\nFarrell, 49, was found guilty of murder at Swansea Crown Court on Wednesday and will serve a minimum of 26 years.\n\nMr Justice Lewis told Farrell he had no doubt he \"intended\" to kill Ms Lodwig.\n\nHe went on the run after repeatedly stabbing Ms Lodwig and leaving her to bleed to death on his bed.\n\nThe pair had been taking heroin and crack cocaine that night and Farrell claimed he did not remember attacking his girlfriend with a kitchen knife.\n\nSammy-Lee Lodwig was killed in a \"savage attack\", the court heard\n\nAfter being arrested, Farrell wrote a \"chilling\" five-page confession, detailing how he stabbed Ms Lodwig in the face and throat.\n\n\"You gagged her. This was a savage attack,\" Mr Justice Lewis told the court.\n\n\"She must have been aware of and suffered from her injuries before she died.\"\n\n\"You had tired of the relationship, you wanted to get rid of Sammy-Lee Lodwig and you did, by killing her.\"\n\nMs Lodwig was found by paramedics lying on a bed at Farrell's flat on 23 April after he had alerted neighbours.\n\nShe was fully clothed, with cuts across her throat and forehead, and \"severe bleeding\" was found on the bedding. It was estimated she died 20 or 30 minutes before emergency services arrived.\n\nMichael Jones, prosecuting, said knotted and bloodstained dressing gown belts with traces of Ms Lodwig's saliva were found nearby, suggesting they may have been in or around her mouth.\n\nThere were wounds on her chest deep enough to enter both lungs.\n\nJason Farrell must serve at least 26 years in prison for murdering Sammy-Lee Lodwig\n\nDet Ch Insp Darren George described the attack as \"sustained, brutal and violent\".\n\n\"She was tied up by Farrell and was told by him that he was going to kill her, which he sadly did by stabbing her multiple times,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement read outside court by a police officer, Ms Lodwig's family said: \"Sammy-Lee's life was cut way too short and she will be sorely missed by all her family and friends.\"\n\nFarrell, who had also dated his victim's mother Sarah, was also convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Christopher Maher, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison to be served concurrently.\n\nThe jury was told he had suspected Mr Maher of being Sarah Lodwig's new lover, before attacking him in the street.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They placed her in a seclusion cell and they left her there for two years, alone, 24/7, horrific.\"\n\nJeremy says he could only touch his 15-year-old daughter Bethany by kneeling down and reaching into her isolation room through a tiny hatch.\n\nBethany is severely autistic but had no therapeutic care while detained in hospital, Jeremy told the BBC.\n\nNow MPs and peers say such treatment of young people with learning disabilities or autism breaches their human rights.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Human Rights says mental health hospitals can inflict \"terrible suffering on those detained... causing anguish to their distraught families\".\n\nIts report urges an overhaul of mental health law and hospital inspections in England.\n\n\"It must not be allowed to continue,\" said Harriet Harman, who chairs the committee.\n\nAfter a campaign by her parents, Bethany was briefly sent to an adolescent unit in Staffordshire which did \"brilliant work\", according to her dad.\n\n\"She was out in the community. She wasn't locked away. We could take the pet dogs, go for a walk in the grounds. It was brilliant.\"\n\nBut once she turned 18, she could no longer stay in an adolescent unit so she was transferred but not to a similar unit with similar support, says her dad.\n\n\"They placed her in an adult medium secure unit that doesn't even specialise in autism.\"\n\nBethany's form of autism means she experiences extreme anxiety and, without proper care, can be hard to manage, he told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nHe says she has \"deteriorated massively. It's horrendous, She's in a cell again\".\n\n\"I had a hatch before that I could hold her hand through. I don't even have that now. I can't hold my daughter.\"\n\nBy law, young people with learning disabilities or autism detained in mental health hospitals must have treatment that is necessary, appropriate and available.\n\nBut the inquiry, launched in January, heard evidence of \"a significant increase in distress and a worsening of symptoms for those detained, particularly where segregation and restraint have been used\".\n\n\"We are concerned that a very broad approach has been taken to the 'appropriate medical treatment' requirement... and the approach appears to be that the most basic provision of care satisfies this test,\" the committee says.\n\n\"We consider the human rights of many of those with a learning disability and/or autism are being breached in mental health hospitals.\"\n\nOne young man told the inquiry: \"I did not know what was happening.\n\n\"Looking back at it now, it does not feel real. It feels like some sort of nightmare.\n\n\"It was not a safe place. It was not a treatment room. I got no assessment or treatment done.\n\n\"There was no care. I was just put in this room and I lay there and went to sleep.\"\n\nAnother had his arm broken in a restraint, according to his mother. \"His arm was wrenched up behind his back until the bone snapped. He was not then taken to accident and emergency for 24 hours even though his arm was completely swollen,\" she said.\n\nAnother mother said her son had been kept in isolation for up to nine hours at a time.\n\n\"The rule was that he could not leave until he was quiet,\" she told the inquiry.\n\n\"With his anxiety and sensory presentation, there was no way this was possible.\n\n\"He started to bang his head against the wall and would bite the wood in the doorframe out of desperation.\"\n\nToo often, families are excluded from decision-making and when they try to intervene are viewed as hostile and a problem, which is unacceptable, the report says.\n\nFamilies must be recognised as \"human-rights defenders\", it says.\n\nThe committee says it has \"lost confidence that the system is doing what it says it is doing\", while the regulator, which should be a \"bulwark\" against abuses, is failing and in urgent need of reform.\n\n\"Too often it is left to the media to be human rights defenders,\" the report says, highlighting work by the BBC's Panorama programme in uncovering abuse of patients by staff at Whorlton Hall mental-health hospital.\n\nThe MPs and peers also say they have no confidence government targets to reduce the number of people with learning disabilities or autism in mental-health hospitals will be met.\n\n\"This inquiry has shown with stark clarity the urgent change that is needed and we've set out simple proposals for exactly that,\" Ms Harman said.\n\n\"They must be driven forward urgently.\"\n\nIan Trenholm, chief executive of the Care Quality Commission, which regulates health and social care services in England, said many of the report's recommendations relating to the watchdog were already under way, \"although we are clear there is much still to be done\".\n\nMr Trenholm said an independent review of the CQC's regulation of mental health hospitals had been commissioned and the findings would be used to strengthen this work.\n\n\"We know we need to improve how we regulate mental health, learning disability and/or autism services so we can get better at spotting poor care and at using the information people give us,\" he said.\n\n\"We are working hard to improve and we want to involve people, families, carers and stakeholder organisations to ensure we get it right.\"", "Cairney and Jones spent 20 years pretending that Ms Fleming was still alive\n\nThe couple jailed for the murder of Margaret Fleming have been urged to reveal what they did with her body.\n\nPolice issued a direct appeal to Edward Cairney and Avril Jones on what would have been Margaret's 39th birthday.\n\nThe vulnerable teenager was under their care in Inverkip, on the Clyde coast, when she vanished in 1999.\n\nBut Jones continued to claim £182,000 in benefits until it finally emerged Margaret was missing in October 2016.\n\nCairney, 77, and Jones, 59, were ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years after they were convicted at the High Court in Glasgow earlier this year.\n\nFour months on Det Supt Paul Livingstone, the officer who led the investigation, has issued a fresh appeal to the killers.\n\nHe said: \"I would like to appeal directly to Edward Cairney and Avril Jones, on what would have been Margaret's 39th birthday.\n\n\"If you have a shred of decency, you will answer the questions Margaret's family have to allow them to put her to rest.\"\n\nMargaret Fleming's body has never been found\n\nDet Supt Livingstone has lodged formal requests with Cairney and Jones' lawyers asking for information and has reiterated a previous offer for a face-to-face meeting.\n\nHe added: \"Margaret was a very vulnerable young woman when she was abused, neglected, manipulated and murdered. It's only right that her family and friends get the opportunity to pay their final respects.\"\n\nThe senior officer also stressed the fact there has been convictions does not mean police would not act on any new information.\n\nDet Supt Livingstone said: \" It's very important that she is given the funeral she deserves and for her family to be able to pay their respects to her.\n\n\"I would say again to Eddie Cairney and Avril Jones - your lies have caught up with you, so now do the decent thing and let Margaret's family know what has happened to her.\"\n\nMargaret had been living with the couple for about two years when she disappeared.\n\nDuring this time detectives said they subjected her to a \"living hell\".\n\nBut despite a painstaking search of their dilapidated property and its garden and an exhaustive proof of life investigation no trace of her has ever been found.\n\nTestimony from Avril's brother, Richard Jones, was used to pinpoint the last independent sighting of the teenager on 17 December, 1999.\n\nThree weeks later, on 5 January, 2000, Avril told her mother, Florence Jones, Margaret had run off with a traveller.\n\nA major search of the Seacroft cottage in Inverkip, Inverkip was carried out by police\n\nCairney and Jones, who had no previous convictions, then embarked on a cover up which involved bogus letters and erasing all trace of Margaret from their home.\n\nPolice Scotland launched a missing persons' investigation after social work raised the alarm in October 2016.\n\nThe couple were both convicted of murder but only Jones was found guilty of benefit fraud as the teenager's money was paid directly into her account.\n\nDespite no evidence to the contrary they maintained Margaret was still alive and often returned to visit them.\n\nSentencing the pair the judge, Lord Matthews, told them: \"Only you two know the truth. Only you know where her remains are.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Eight people were killed during the London Bridge attack in June 2017\n\nThe government should review how public spaces are assessed as possible terrorism targets in the wake of the London Bridge attack, the chief coroner for England and Wales has said.\n\nEight people were killed in 2017 when three men drove into pedestrians on the bridge before stabbing others nearby.\n\nJudge Mark Lucraft said the system for triggering extra security measures was \"too rigid\".\n\nFamilies of the victims welcomed his \"extensive\" report.\n\nThe chief coroner's report into preventing future deaths also called on the government to consider criminalising \"possession of the most serious material glorifying or encouraging terrorism\".\n\nHe said the current law meant it might be impossible for police or MI5 to act even when \"the material is of the most offensive and shocking character\".\n\nThe attack began when Khuram Butt and two other men drove a rented van across London Bridge, striking pedestrians and killing the first two victims, Xavier Thomas and Christine Archibald.\n\nThere were no barriers on the bridge preventing the van from mounting the pavement, despite some concerns among experts that it could become a target.\n\nAfter the attack, barriers were installed.\n\nIn his formal report, Judge Lucraft said: \"The national criteria for identifying sites which would receive proactive advice were apparently too rigid.\"\n\nHe also said the home secretary needed some form of regular review of the list of vulnerable sites.\n\nPublic authorities such as councils may also need to be put under a legal duty to review open and crowded spaces to minimise the risks of a fatal attack.\n\nThe hypothetical new law that would criminalise possession of terrorism material could make it illegal to have a copy of the video that was live-streamed by the far-right killer who shot dead 51 worshippers at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand.\n\nBut other examples may be more difficult to explicitly list - not least because the government has struggled and failed to come up with a clear legal definition of extremism.\n\nWould a law be able to outlaw the mere watching of a sermon from a terror group leader, even if the lecture does not in itself encourage violence?\n\nThe chief coroner says the answer may lie in how Parliament has successfully banned the possession of extreme pornography that depicts violence and abuse.\n\nIn that case, the law carefully sets out the harm MPs want to prevent. The question is whether a similar exercise could target supporters of terrorism without undermining legitimate free speech and inquiry.\n\nThe chief coroner also concluded that there was a significant gap in the law - highlighted by the fact that the ringleader Butt had a vast amount of extremist material on his phone but had not been charged with a crime.\n\n\"While there are offences of possessing a document likely to be useful to a person in committing an act of terrorism, and of disseminating terrorist publications, there is no offence of possessing terrorist or extremist propaganda material,\" he said.\n\nThe Old Bailey inquest heard that, in the months and years before the attack, Butt had viewed propaganda for the Islamic State group, violent images and sermons from extremist preachers.\n\nJudge Lucraft suggested new laws could be introduced to tackle the prevalence of extremist material in the same way legislation has criminalised the most offensive pornography.\n\nThe inquests heard that Butt had been investigated by MI5 as a \"subject of interest\" - meaning he was one of the 3,000 suspects the security service was most concerned about.\n\nThe security service had been investigating Butt since 2015, but suspended its investigation on two occasions because of more pressing priorities. The latter suspension, for six weeks, concluded just a month before the attack.\n\n\"Although MI5 must be able to prioritise and divert resources at times of greatest demand, the suspension of priority investigations is a matter of legitimate public concern,\" concluded Judge Lucraft.\n\nHe recommended that security services should consider whether to scale back rather than suspend work.\n\nHe said the emergency services should be more flexible during a marauding terrorist attack about how they allow paramedics and ambulance staff into zones considered to be dangerous - and that some police officers should receive advanced medical training analogous to \"battlefield medicine\".\n\nHe also called on ministers and industry to consider a means of instantly reporting the rental of a vehicle to the security services so that it can be checked against known suspects.\n\nIt's 10.07pm and the sun has gone down on a warm summer's night in London.\n\nHelen Boniface, from solicitors firm Hogan Lovells, who represented six families in the inquest, said: \"We are pleased the chief coroner has recognised the risks presented by hateful extremism and terrorist propaganda, possession of which must be taken seriously, and the ease by which large vehicles may be hired by terrorist suspects.\n\n\"The response on the night by many was commendable, especially members of the public who stayed to assist.\n\n\"But failings and delays were also seen and the coroner identifies this through his report.\n\n\"The emergency medical response to those who died in the Boro Bistro area remains disappointing to our clients, with no London Ambulance Service personnel entering this area until many hours after the attack.\"\n\nThe home secretary must respond to the report by 10 January 2020, setting out details of action taken or proposed, or why no action will be taken.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump has criticised Boris Johnson's Brexit deal with the EU, saying it restricts the US's ability to do future trade with the UK.\n\nSpeaking to LBC, he said that, without the deal, the two countries could \"do many times the numbers\" than now.\n\nThe US president also took a swipe at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying he would be \"so bad\" as prime minister.\n\nMr Corbyn accused him of \"trying to interfere\" in the UK general election to boost \"his friend Boris Johnson\".\n\nThe UK is officially going to the polls on 12 December after the early election bill became law when it was given royal assent on Thursday.\n\nIt follows a further delay to the UK's departure from the EU, to 31 January 2020.\n\nIn August, Mr Trump promised a \"very big trade deal\" with the UK and predicted that leaving the EU would be like losing \"an anchor round the ankle\".\n\nBut speaking to friend and supporter Nigel Farage on LBC, Mr Trump was critical of the withdrawal agreement Mr Johnson recently reached with EU leaders.\n\nMr Trump told LBC: \"We want to do trade with UK and they want to do trade with us.\n\n\"To be honest with you... this deal... under certain aspects of the (Brexit) deal... you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't trade.\n\n\"We can't make a trade deal with the UK because I think we can do many times the numbers that we're doing right now and certainly much bigger numbers than you are doing under the European Union.\"\n\nDiplomatic norms dictate that leaders don't wade into the electoral events of other countries.\n\nBut of course this isn't the first time that an American president has decided to cross that particular transatlantic channel.\n\nDuring the 2016 referendum, Barack Obama said that Brexit would put the UK at the \"back of the queue\" for trade deals.\n\nIn June, Donald Trump offered his views on the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nNow, in this fairly wide-ranging discussion, he's talked about both Boris Johnson's Brexit deal and Jeremy Corbyn's suitability for the role of PM.\n\nBut the Labour leader doesn't appear too put out - even retweeting the relevant part of the interview.\n\nThe truth is that Mr Corbyn is more than OK with putting some distance between himself and Donald Trump; the US President isn't exactly a poster boy for socialism.\n\nAnd while his comments on the implications of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal on US-UK trade may cause Downing Street some discomfort, some mystery surrounds exactly where Mr Trump believes difficulties may arise as he didn't elaborate.\n\nThe prime minister aims to get his deal through Parliament if he wins the general election.\n\nHowever, Mr Trump also praised Mr Johnson as \"the exact right guy for the times\".\n\nIn response, a Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson's Brexit deal with the EU \"ensures that we take back control of our laws, trade, borders and money\".\n\n\"Under this new deal, the whole of the UK will leave the EU customs union, which means we can strike our own free trade deals around the world from which every part of the UK will benefit.\"\n\nDonald Trump has often praised Boris Johnson in recent months\n\nMr Trump also said Mr Farage, who leads the Brexit Party and is planning to stand in the general election, and Mr Johnson should \"get together\" to create \"an unstoppable force\" in UK politics.\n\nThe president, who has previously expressed his backing for Brexit, added: \"And Corbyn would be so bad for your country, so bad. He'd take you in such a bad way. He'd take you into such bad places.\n\n\"But your country has tremendous potential. It's a great country.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Corbyn and Mr Johnson are battling it out for the keys to 10 Downing Street, with the Conservative leader promising to get the UK out of the EU as soon as possible, and the Labour leader promising another referendum.\n\nKicking off Labour's general election campaign, Mr Corbyn earlier warned a post-Brexit trade deal with Mr Trump's administration would give US companies greater access to the NHS, and allow them to profit from it at UK taxpayers' expense.\n\nThe prime minister's planned agreement, he said, would \"mean yet more NHS money taken away from patients and handed to shareholders.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Trump dismissed the Labour leader's claim, saying: \"Not at all. We wouldn't even be involved in that, no.\n\n\"It's not for us to have anything to do with your health care system. No, we're just talking about trade.\"\n\nThe UK government has said that, under any future trade deal with the US, it wants protections for the NHS.\n\nElsewhere, Mr Johnson blamed Mr Corbyn for the delay to Brexit.\n\nHe said he was \"incredibly frustrated\" that the 31 October deadline had to be extended, but a Conservative election win would remove the \"logjam\".\n\nBoth leaders, and those of other parties, are beginning six weeks of campaigning.\n\nIt comes as John Bercow's 10-year reign as Speaker of the House of Commons came to an end.\n\nHe presided over business in the chamber for the final time before his successor is chosen on Monday.", "Diphtheria vaccination programmes protect most people in the UK\n\nTwo people are being treated in Scotland for the potentially deadly diphtheria infection.\n\nNHS Lothian has confirmed the two cases are related and both patients are thought to be in hospital in Edinburgh.\n\nThe health board said those involved had recently returned from overseas.\n\nPublic health experts said the likelihood of any additional cases was very small, as most people were protected by immunisation given in childhood.\n\nIn Lothian, 98% of children are vaccinated against diphtheria by the age of 24 months.\n\nAlison McCallum, director of public health for NHS Lothian, said: \"All close contacts of these patients have been identified, contacted and followed up in line with nationally agreed guidelines.\n\n\"We encourage people travelling abroad to visit Fit for Travel where they can access information on how to stay safe and healthy abroad, as well as destination specific health advice.\"\n\nThe diphtheria infection is spread by coughs and sneezes and can prove potentially fatal\n\nDiphtheria is a highly contagious and potentially fatal infection that can affect the nose and throat, and sometimes the skin.\n\nIt can lead to difficulty breathing, heart failure and paralysis.\n\nThe infection is spread by coughs and sneezes, or by sharing items such as cups, cutlery, clothes or bedding with an infected person.\n\nIt is rare in the UK, because babies and children are routinely vaccinated against it.\n\nThere is a small risk of catching the disease while travelling in some parts of the world.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protestors gathered on the steps of the assembly building in Cardiff Bay\n\nAbout 100 people have joined a protest calling for the Welsh Assembly to be renamed Senedd.\n\nLast month assembly members voted to replace the title with a bilingual name, calling it both Senedd Cymru and the Welsh Parliament.\n\nThe idea of the Welsh-only title Senedd was rejected, but there will be another vote next week.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the \"unique\" name had already \"captured people's imagination\".\n\nThe protest was held after more than 30 famous names - including actor Michael Sheen, singer Cerys Matthews and rugby referee Nigel Owens - signed a letter to AMs calling on them to back the name Senedd.\n\n\"We have cwtch and cariad - great [Welsh-language] words,\" said Mr Price, who joined the rally on the steps of the assembly building - also known as the Senedd - in Cardiff Bay.\n\n\"If you get in a taxi in Cardiff, the driver will know where the Senedd is.\n\n\"It's captured people's imagination, and like the Dáil [in Ireland] and Bundestag [in Germany], it can put us on the map internationally.\"\n\nThe Plaid Cymru leader said he wanted democracy in Wales to be \"original\", not following \"bad habits\" from Westminster, but \"creating something unique with our own word\".\n\nSeveral speakers addressed the gathering organised by Welsh language campaigners\n\nThe protest was organised by Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the Welsh Language Society.\n\nChairwoman Bethan Ruth said campaigners wanted to send a clear message to politicians that they want a monolingual name.\n\n\"I think it's quite patronising to say people who don't speak Welsh don't understand what the Senedd is,\" she said.\n\n\"We see so many ways the language brings us together - the national anthem is in the medium of Welsh.\"\n\nAssembly members will vote again on the proposal on Wednesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The wife of an ex-Conservative MP has been chosen to contest his former seat at the general election.\n\nNatalie Elphicke was selected by Tory members to be the party's candidate in Dover and Deal.\n\nHer husband Charlie Elphicke said he was standing down to fight three charges of sexual assault. He denies any wrongdoing.\n\nMr Elphicke said he regretted having to make way but was determined to clear his name and ensure a fair trial.\n\nMr Elphicke, who has held the Kent seat since 2010, lost the Conservative whip this summer after being charged with three counts of sexual assault against two women.\n\nWhile he continued to sit in Parliament as an independent, as he no longer had the party whip he was not eligible to fight the seat again as a Conservative.\n\nHe won the constituency for a third time in 2017 with a majority of 6,437\n\nA lawyer by training and housing expert, Natalie Elphicke is chief executive of the Housing and Finance Institute, set up by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government in 2013.\n\nShe has sat on the board of the Principality Building Society and Student Loans Company. She is also a former director of the Conservative Party's national policy forum.\n\nShe received an OBE in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to housing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Natalie Elphicke OBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKeith Single, chairman of the local Conservative association, said he was saddened by Mr Elphicke's decision to stand down but respected his reasons for doing so and remained fully supportive of him.\n\n\"We have always supported him because we believe in the principle of innocence unless proven otherwise,\" he said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, these protracted events have unfolded in a way that meant Charlie did not get the chance to clear his name before this election.\"\n\nHe said the association thought \"carefully\" before selecting Natalie Elphicke to succeed her husband but he believed she was an \"outstanding\" candidate who would make a first-class MP.\n\nMrs Elphicke said she was looking forward, if elected, to building on her husband's achievements.\n\n\"I will fight tirelessly to deliver better healthcare, more jobs and money, better schools, high quality affordable housing, more police on our streets - and stronger, more secure borders,\" she said.\n\nMr Elphicke said he was incredibly proud of what he had achieved for his constituency but his focus was now on proving his innocence.\n\n\"I have been subjected to daily falsehoods and vile abuse - from the malfeasance of cabinet ministers to the malice of Twitter trolls,\" he said.\n\n\"This has had the cumulative effect of jeopardising my right to a fair trial on charges I know to be baseless.\"\n\n\"I would like to thank our Conservative association, my dedicated team of staff, the people of Dover and Deal and my family for their unwavering kindness throughout this difficult time.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reunited for the Royal British Legion's annual Festival of Remembrance.\n\nThey joined the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at the Royal Albert Hall to commemorate those who lost their lives in conflicts.\n\nIt is their first appearance as a group since Harry and Meghan said they were struggling with public life.\n\nThe annual event is also being attended by servicemen and women.\n\nIt comes ahead of the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in central London on Sunday, which will also be attended by senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined Prince Harry and Meghan in the royal box\n\nSaturday's event marks 75 years since notable battles of 1944, including Monte Cassino, Kohima and Imphal, D-Day and the collaboration of Commonwealth and Allied forces.\n\nIt also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and pays tribute to the RFA Mounts Bay, which delivered supplies and aid to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian this year.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds joined other members of the Royal Family in the royal box.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan sat behind the prime minister and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds (foreground)\n\nThose in the royal box included (L-R) the Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward, the Countess of Wessex, the Queen, the Duchess of Gloucester, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, Prince Charles, Princess Anne and the Duchess of Cornwall\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall was also present, after she was forced to pull out of engagements earlier in the week due to ill health.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall made an appearance\n\nThe service at the Royal Albert Hall was also attended by the Duke of York, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.\n\nPrince Andrew chatted to Boris Johnson during the ceremony\n\nIn interviews in October, the Sussexes both said they were struggling with the intense scrutiny from elements of the British tabloid press.\n\nPrince Harry, 35, described his mental health and the way he deals with the pressures of his life as a matter of \"constant management\".\n\nAnd Meghan, 38, said in an ITV documentary that adjusting to royal life had been \"hard\".\n\nPrince Harry also responded to reports of a rift between him and his brother William by saying they were on \"different paths\" and have \"good days\" and \"bad days\".\n\nFollowing the documentary, a Kensington Palace source played down suggestions that the Duke of Cambridge was \"furious\" with his brother about the interview, saying he was \"worried\" and hoped the couple \"are all right\".\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "Born Slippy, which famously featured on the Trainspotting soundtrack, was a huge hit for techno act Underworld in 1995\n\nA noisy neighbour who blasted out dance anthem Born Slippy on a loop has been warned he could face jail if he fails to keep the noise down.\n\nClyde Taylor, 54, ignored official warnings to stop playing the Underworld track in the early hours.\n\nHi-fi equipment, speakers and an electric guitar were seized from his home in Eccles after repeated breaches of a noise abatement notice.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay a £1,500 fine, and a £30 victim surcharge.\n\nA court order obtained by Salford Council prevents him from playing music or \"permitting music to be played at a level that can be heard outside the property\".\n\nThe authority said the action could have been avoided had Mr Taylor obeyed the first \"polite request to keep the noise down\".\n\nCouncillor David Lancaster said a little \"neighbourly consideration\" would have prevented action being taken.\n\n\"If people refuse to be reasonable and considerate then we will use our full powers,\" he said.\n\nThe council confiscated two sets of equipment\n\nMr Taylor did not attend court in October, and was found guilty in his absence of eight breaches of failing to comply with a noise abatement notice.\n\nThe council said it was the first criminal behaviour order made in relation to noise pollution made in Greater Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parliament has officially been dissolved and the fight for No 10 is on, but what exactly went down in the first week of campaigning?\n\nPacts and promises were made, campaigns were launched and battle lines drawn - here's the lowdown.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man who said he was attacked by a UFO\n\nWhen forestry worker Robert Taylor reported seeing an alien spaceship in woods near Livingston 40 years ago it made headlines around the world.\n\nThe Dechmont Woods incident is unusual among reported UFO sightings in that it was investigated by the police.\n\nThey treated the rips to Mr Taylor's trousers as evidence of an assault but could never quite work out what had happened to him.\n\nIn his testimony to the police, the 61-year-old described how he saw a 30ft-high \"dome-shaped\" object in a clearing in the forest near the West Lothian new town on 9 November 1979.\n\nHe told how two-spiked spheres then rolled out towards him and, as he passed out, he was aware of being grabbed on either side of his legs. Mr Taylor woke up in a dishevelled state 20 minutes later.\n\nAn artist's impression was drawn of the craft Mr Taylor described\n\nMr Taylor, who died in 2007, was a respected war hero and teetotal churchgoer. No-one doubted that he was sincere in what he believed he had seen and throughout the rest of his life he never deviated from his story.\n\nHe told the police he had been working alone checking fences and gates at Dechmont Woods at 10:30 when he came across the spaceship in a clearing.\n\nRobert Taylor gives a talk to members of the British UFO Society in Dechmont Woods\n\nAfter the spiked objects rushed out and tried to grab hold of him, all he could remember was a strong smell of burning.\n\nWhen he came to, the clearing was empty, apart from a pattern of deep regular marks on the ground. He went to his van but was so shaken he drove it into a ditch and had to stagger home in \"a dazed condition\".\n\nWhen he got to his house he told his wife Mary he had been attacked by a \"spaceship thing\". Because Mr Taylor was in such a state, the police were called and officers found themselves inquiring into an assault on a forester by alien beings.\n\nDet Con Ian Wark, the scene of crime investigator, arrived at the clearing to find a large gathering of police officers were already there.\n\nHe told the BBC he saw strange marks on the ground. There were about 32 holes, which were about 3.5 inches in diameter, as well as marks similar to those made by the type of caterpillar tracks often fitted on bulldozers.\n\nThe officer went to Mr Taylor's employer, Livingston Development Corporation, to see if the machinery they had could solve the mystery.\n\n\"After examining every piece of machinery they had up there, we did not find anything to match,\" he said.\n\nThe police officer said that the unusual marks on the ground were only to be found in the clearing where Mr Taylor had experienced his reported close encounter.\n\n\"These marks just arrived,\" Det Con Wark said. \"They did not come from anywhere or go anywhere. They just arrived as though a helicopter or something had landed from the sky.\"\n\nThe police report from the time said the marks on the ground indicated an \"object of several tons had stood there but there was nothing to show that it had been driven or towed away\".\n\nPC William Douglas wrote: \"There appeared to be no rational explanation for these marks.\"\n\nThere is now a UFO trail to the site of the Dechmont incident\n\nAs part of the police investigation, Mr Taylor's ripped trousers were sent for forensic examination but this was many years before modern DNA techniques so analysis concentrated on how the damage had been done.\n\nPolice forensics said the trousers seemed to have been damaged by something hooking them and moving up.\n\nThe trousers are now in the possession of Malcolm Robinson, a Ufologist who has been investigating such cases since the Dechmont incident.\n\nHe said they were police-issue blue serge trousers and the type of rips in them did not happen by getting snagged as Mr Taylor crawled away on the ground.\n\nMr Robinson, who has given lectures on the incident across the UK, Holland, France and the USA and written a book on the subject, said it was one of the most incredible cases in the world.\n\nHe said it was one of very few hardcore cases that defied any explanation.\n\nThere are many theories about what actually happened to Mr Taylor. These include everything from hallucinatory berries to blackball lightning and a mirage of the planet Venus.\n\nA medical explanation could lie in an epileptic seizure being suffered by Mr Taylor but there was no evidence of this gathered at the time.\n\nIn her police statement, his wife Mary said Mr Taylor had no history of mental illness but had contracted meningitis 14 years earlier.\n\nMr Taylor continued to stick to his story throughout his life\n\nShe said the treatment was successful although in July of that year he had suffered a series of headaches and was admitted to the City Hospital in Edinburgh.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Taylor said that after the UFO incident he was examined by the local doctor who called at his house. The doctor suggested he should go to nearby Bangour Hospital for a check-up and x-ray.\n\nAfter waiting for two hours at the hospital he got fed up and left without being examined.\n\nDet Con Wark said he could go along with the theory about the epileptic fit. \"But what about the marks on the ground?\" he said.\n\nThe former police officer cannot bring himself to say he believes Mr Taylor saw an alien spaceship.\n\n\"I'd have to see it myself to believe it,\" he said.\n\nBut he said he interviewed Mr Taylor three times and he never changed his story.\n\n\"He believed what he saw and there was no way he would make that up,\" Det Con Wark said.\n\nForty years on the Dechmont incident has passed into legend.\n\nLast year a UFO trail opened which takes people to the spot where a new town forestry foreman claims he saw an alien spaceship.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lula walked free to an adoring welcome\n\nFormer Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been freed after more than 18 months in prison.\n\nThe left-wing former leader, known as Lula, was greeted with rapturous applause from crowds of supporters as he walked out of the jail on Friday.\n\nHe was held in a prison in the city of Curitiba on corruption charges.\n\nA judge ordered his release after a Supreme Court ruling that defendants should only be imprisoned if they have exhausted their appeal options.\n\nThe 74-year-old ex-president, who led Brazil between 2003 and 2010, is seen as a leftist icon in the country. As he left the prison, he pumped his fist in the air as a victory sign.\n\n\"I didn't think that today I could be here talking to men and women that during 580 days shouted good morning, good afternoon or goodnight, no matter if it was raining or 40 degrees [Celsius],\" he told the crowds.\n\nLula, pictured next to his girlfriend Rosangela da Silva, told the crowd he would establish his innocence\n\nHe also promised to prove his innocence, before hitting out at the \"rotten side of the judicial system\", which he accused of \"working to criminalise the left\".\n\nLula was favourite to win last year's presidential election but was imprisoned after being implicated in a major corruption scandal. The race was won instead by far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro.\n\nCriticising Mr Bolsonaro's economic policies, Lula vowed to keep fighting for impoverished Brazilians.\n\n\"People are hungrier, they have no jobs, people work for Uber or delivering pizzas on a bike,\" he added, specifically criticising insecure work and the gig economy.\n\nAfter Lula's release, President Bolsonaro said the ex-president was \"momentarily free, but guilty\".\n\nHe asked supporters on Twitter \"not to give ammunition to the scoundrel\".\n\nLula will be barred from standing for office because of his criminal record.\n\nHe has consistently denied all the accusations against him and claims they are politically motivated.\n\n\"Our judicial battle continues, our focus is to get the legal case nullified,\" his lawyer Cristiano Zanin said.\n\nFor Lula's supporters, this feels like vindication - he's a politician who stirs emotions and those who back him feel that this has been a political witch-hunt from the very beginning.\n\nThere's no guarantee Lula will remain free forever - he may not win the appeals that are left - and he's also been accused of corruption in other cases which he will have to face justice for.\n\nBut with Lula now free, it will strengthen the left in Brazil - and harden the right. President Bolsonaro doesn't hide his disdain for Lula and millions of people agree - the anger towards Lula and the Workers Party is what propelled Mr Bolsonaro to power in the first place.\n\nJustices voted to reinterpret the country's penal code in a decision issued on Thursday.\n\nIt overturns a three-year-old rule which mandated immediate prison time for convicted criminals after they lost their first appeal.\n\nBrazil's corruption scandal, known as Operation Car Wash, initially centred on the state-run oil company Petrobras, but subsequently billions of dollars of bribes were uncovered - and dozens of high-profile business leaders and politicians were jailed.\n\nThe mandatory imprisonment rule was seen as helping prosecutors secure convictions and unravel the scandal by encouraging suspects to negotiate plea deals.\n\nBut critics claimed it violated Brazil's constitution, which states that no one can be deprived of their liberty without due process of law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lula spoke to the BBC from prison earlier this year\n\nLula was jailed in 2018 after being sentenced to more than 12 years in prison, later reduced to eight years and 10 months, for receiving a beachside apartment from an engineering company implicated in the Car Wash investigation.\n\nEarlier this year, he was sentenced to another 12 years after being found guilty of accepting bribes in the form of renovation work at a country house from construction companies.", "A relative lights an incense stick in front of a portrait of Bui Thi Nhung\n\nThe names of 39 Vietnamese nationals who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex have been released by police.\n\nMany of their families had feared the worst ever since the bodies were discovered in the early hours of 23 October.\n\nThe BBC has been speaking to friends and relatives of those who died about how they came to be the victims of the tragedy.\n\nThis article will be updated as further information about the victims comes to light.\n\nThe family of Pham Thi Tra My said they paid £30,000 to people smugglers to get her to the UK.\n\nMiss Tra My, who was from Vietnam's Ha Tinh province, flew to China before travelling via France and Belgium, according to her brother.\n\nHe told the BBC she first attempted to cross the border to the UK on 19 October but was caught and turned back.\n\nThe last message the family received from her was at 22:30 BST on 22 October - two hours before the trailer arrived at the Purfleet terminal from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nThe texts, sent to her parents, read: \"I am really, really sorry, Mum and Dad, my trip to a foreign land has failed.\n\n\"I am dying, I can't breathe. I love you very much Mum and Dad. I am sorry, Mother.\"\n\nNguyen Dinh Luong, also from Ha Tinh, had been living in France but hoped to work in a nail salon in the UK.\n\nThe last his father heard from him was in mid-October, explaining that the journey would cost £11,000.\n\nAmong the youngest of the victims, Mr Hung was also from Ha Tinh. He wanted to join his parents who live in the UK, his brother told local media.\n\nHis sister asked for help to find him in a Facebook post after the lorry was discovered. She wrote that he flew from Hanoi to Russia on 26 August, then to France on 6 October, but that the family lost contact when he went to the UK on 21 October.\n\nA friend who lives in Glasgow did not want to be identified, but told the BBC he had been due to meet up with Miss Tho - who was from Nghe An province - when she arrived in the UK.\n\nHer eyes are blurred in this image at the request of her family.\n\nBui Thi Nhung left her job in a clothes shop in Nghe An province to travel to the UK using money that her friends had helped her raise.\n\nOnce there Miss Nhung, who was also known as Anna, hoped to meet up with friends and family, and to work to pay off debt owed by her late father.\n\nShe was the youngest of four siblings - and the most educated - her sister Bui Thi Loan told the BBC.\n\nThe sisters had exchanged messages on Facebook on 21 October, when Miss Nhung said she was fine and \"in storage\".\n\nOriginally from Nghe An province, Mr Nam had been working in Romania and planned to travel to the UK. His family did not want to be interviewed.\n\nNguyen Dinh Tu, 26, borrowed thousands of pounds when he was discharged from the military in order to get married and build a house.\n\nBut with no work available in his hometown in Nghe An province, he went abroad to seek employment and repay his debts, leaving behind his wife and 18-month-old baby.\n\nMr Tu paid smugglers the equivalent of around £4,960 in the hope of making it to the UK, according to AFP news agency.\n\nLe Van Ha left his heavily pregnant wife and young son behind in Nghe An province when he began his journey to the UK in June.\n\nHe went in search of better-paid work to repay money that his family had borrowed to build their house.\n\nHis father, Le Minh Tuan, mortgaged two plots of land to fund the £20,000 journey.\n\n\"I don't know when we can ever pay it back. I'm an old man now, my health is poor, and I have to help bring up his children,\" he said.\n\nLess than two weeks before his body was found in Essex, Nguyen Van Hung was photographed with his cousin, Hoang Van Tiep, at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.\n\nThe music graduate had tricked his parents when he left Nghe An to join his cousin in France last year, leaving his passport at home and travelling on a different one.\n\nHe found work in a kitchen but had spoken about how it was hard, and said he wanted to grow marijuana in the UK.\n\nHoang Van Tiep, Nguyen Van Hung's cousin, left Nghe An province for France in 2017, funded by his mother, who borrowed money from banks and relatives to fund the trip.\n\nOnce there, he worked illegally at a restaurant, his mother said. He was arrested multiple times and his passport was taken.\n\nOn being threatened with deportation, he told his mother he wanted to travel to the UK.\n\nHaving worked in his family's timber business, Mr Thai had often talked about leaving Nghe An province and going abroad.\n\nHe told his family he was going to Germany for business, his mother told the BBC. But after several phone calls in the first few days, they stopped hearing from him.\n\nMr Hung, who was from Thua Thien - Hue province, had been speaking to his family about trying to get to the UK in mid-October, according to his brother-in-law, Tom Wright, who is a US citizen but lives with his wife in Vietnam.\n\nBelieving that he would have a better life in the UK, Mr Hung's mother agreed to pay the estimated $15,000 (£11,800).\n\nHe was in regular contact with his family while travelling through Europe, sending a photo of himself and a friend in front of the Eiffel Tower. He told his mother that he would be boarding a truck and would contact her in a few days, once he had reached the UK - but he never did.\n\nMr Du left his home in Ha Tinh province in June, staying in Germany for 15 days and France for three months, his father told Vietnamese media.\n\nThe last his father heard from him was on 22 October, when he called to say he was about to leave for the UK.", "Hotels at the centre of a collapsed \"Ponzi-type\" investment scheme are being put on the market in the hope of finding buyers before Christmas.\n\nOver a thousand people are thought to have invested about £80m in companies owned by Gavin Woodhouse.\n\nHotels in Llandudno and Pembrokeshire are among those put up for sale by administrators who took over Northern Powerhouse Developments (NPD) in July.\n\nMr Woodhouse's solicitors said he would comment after legal proceedings ended.\n\nAdministrators Duff and Phelps have removed him as a director of NPD.\n\nInvestors have been told by the administrators that Land Registry documents relating to their purchases are effectively worthless and that the hotels owned by NPD are being marketed on a \"vacant possession\" basis.\n\nThose taking part in the investment schemes handed over cash for hotel rooms, \"off plan\" care home rooms and yet-to-be-built lodges on the proposed Afan Valley Adventure Resort in south Wales.\n\nThey expected an annual return of 10% on their investment and the opportunity to sell it back at a 25% profit after a decade.\n\nAdministrator Phil Duffy told the BBC that investors' interests in the hotels were being set aside by a judge in order to market the hotels.\n\nThey are inviting bids from potential buyers, to be received by 15 November.\n\nAny money raised from the sales will be distributed among investors according to how much they had invested.\n\nInvestors said that they were told that their money was ring-fenced or protected against problems the company might have faced with its other investment schemes.\n\nBut the administrator said it appears that it was run as a collective investment scheme - where hotel investors' cash was pooled with cash from other investment schemes under the NPD banner.\n\nCollective Investment schemes are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), but the regulator said it did not authorise the NPD firms to run such a scheme.\n\nMr Duffy told the BBC: \"The definition of a Ponzi-scheme is larger than expected returns… new investors' monies obtained to pay out old investors, and those two flags are evident in this.\n\n\"Of the £80m of investor money, they probably brought about £25m worth of hotels, but then they've spent £40m-£50m on lawyers, agents, money outside the group which we've now started to pull back in.\"\n\nAbout £7m worth of payments were so far unaccounted for and administrators were investigating where this had gone, added Mr Duffy.\n\nThe £200m Afan Valley Adventure Resort was one of the investment schemes on offer\n\nThe FCA said offering investments in property is not regulated by them.\n\nHowever, if property investments were then being structured as collective investment schemes, the operating firm did need FCA authorisation, and \"certain minimum disclosure obligations\".\n\n\"It is a criminal offence to operate a collective investment scheme without FCA authorisation,\" said an FCA official.\n\n\"We are unable to comment on Northern Powerhouse Developments other than to say that it was not authorised by the FCA.\"\n\nDuff and Phelps are also investigating the high rates of commission paid to property agents involved in marketing the schemes.\n\nIt comes as law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper has launched a class action case against a number of the solicitors' firms which did conveyancing work for investors.\n\nMany were recommended by Northern Powerhouse Developments and fees waived if investors used them.\n\nDavid Niven, a partner in Pennington's leading the class action, said it was one of the biggest collapsed property schemes of its type that they had come across.\n\n\"To date we've been approached by over 300 investors who have lost money in the NPD schemes - with claims totalling around £30m and more coming in every day,\" said Mr Niven.\n\n\"Some of the legal work I've seen is very, very poor, probably because of the volume of cases being churned through these companies.\n\n\"They gave lip service to warning their clients, but these weren't designed to scare people off and huge numbers of people proceeded with the investments.\"\n\nThe Solicitors Regulation Authority has issued several warnings to solicitors' firms in the past about these type of investment schemes and the need to adequately warn clients of the risks involved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGary Thomas, from Flintshire in north east Wales, bought two rooms at the Queen's Hotel in the Welsh seaside resort of Llandudno - investing in a second room after being assured that his initial investment was protected by ring-fencing.\n\nHe did receive a return on his investments for a couple of years, but these dried up in late 2018 and he said he was £73,500 out of pocket.\n\n\"It was all very plausible… very sophisticated… a lot of highly-educated people were taken in.\n\n\"It's a life-changing sum of money to lose, you work a long time to build that up.\n\n\"It's just gut-wrenching to think that somebody's taken that money from us, and our family in the future are going to miss out on it.\"\n\nAdministrator Phil Duffy said it has estimated that about £6bn in funds had gone into similar investment schemes in the UK - some of which have already gone into insolvency.\n\n\"There are lots of overseas investors and these type of schemes are damaging the UK brand for investment,\" he said.\n\n\"The perception outside the UK is that investing in the UK is very safe, especially in property, and that's been damaged.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage filmed from Matlock shows the extent of the floodwater\n\nA woman has died after becoming submerged in floodwater as parts of England were deluged with a month's worth of rain in a day.\n\nHer body was found hours after she was swept into Derbyshire's River Derwent.\n\nElsewhere, people have been evacuated from their homes as rivers reached record levels in some areas.\n\nDuring a visit to the area, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We need to prepare and we need to be investing in defences.\"\n\nThe Derwent is expected to peak in Derby city centre at 22:00 GMT, while police have ordered the closure of a main route into the city.\n\nThe woman was reported to have been swept away by floodwater in Rowsley, near Matlock, in the early hours of Friday and the body was found about two miles away in Darley Dale.\n\nDerbyshire Police said her family had been informed and formal identification was yet to take place.\n\nMark Hopkinson, who witnessed the emergency operation to find the woman, said he saw police officers and mountain rescuers searching in the area.\n\n\"We saw a little drone go up and the coastguard helicopter came, and that was then circling, hovering over some trees,\" he said.\n\nThere has been severe flooding in Darley Dale where the woman's body was found\n\nThe heaviest rainfall on Thursday night was at Swineshaw in the Peak District, which had 112mm (4.4in) in 24 hours.\n\nParts of Sheffield experienced 85mm - just 3mm (0.1in) less than the area's monthly average.\n\nMore than 100 flood warnings are in place across England.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued six severe flood warnings for locations on the River Don.\n\nFran Lowe, from the Environment Agency (EA), urged people to take them seriously \"as they represent a threat to life\".\n\n\"Respond immediately and get out of any place affected by a severe flood warning,\" he said.\n\nThe River Don, which flows through Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster, has hit its highest recorded level, at just over 6.3m, higher than it was in 2007 when it also flooded.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said in the past 28 hours crews rescued more than 120 people, with about 1,200 calls to its control room.\n\nPeople were taken to safety in boats in Rotherham\n\nWhile visiting Matlock in Derbyshire, Boris Johnson thanked emergency workers and said he was impressed at how people \"had pulled together\".\n\nHe said: \"It's businesses particularly who deserve our sympathies and they've had a really tough time.\n\n\"You cannot underestimate the psychological effect of flooding on people - it is a big, big blow.\n\n\"People have been moved out of their homes and probably hundreds of businesses have seen damage to their properties - we stand ready to help in any way that we can.\"\n\nSome residents of Yarborough Terrace in Doncaster criticised the official response\n\nThe town's mayor, Liberal Democrat David Hughes, said: \"Is this an election stunt or is the government concerned for the people of Matlock?\n\n\"It's very difficult to determine.\"\n\nIn Derby, flood defences were built on Exeter Bridge as the River Derwent continued to rise.\n\nThe A52, the main route into the city from the M1 was one of several roads partly closed due to flooding and many bus services were suspended.\n\nIt reached its highest-ever recorded level and is expected to peak at 22:00. Some premises in the city have been evacuated and Derby Theatre has cancelled performances for the night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElsewhere in the East Midlands:\n\nEvery time there's serious flooding, questions are asked about why it was allowed to happen.\n\nOne simple answer is governments of all parties have been accused of not spending enough on protection.\n\nYou can build walls along river banks and many places have been guarded this way but such 'hard defences' are expensive and obtrusive.\n\nAn alternative is to employ what are known as soft defences. These include encouraging farmers to manage their land in ways that let fields hold back floodwater.\n\nDriveways and car parks can be surfaced with materials that allow it to reach the soil underneath.\n\nAnother option is to make homes more resilient - fitting exterior doors with waterproof plastic panels, sealing the ground floor and raising fuse boxes.\n\nIn some ways the country has become better prepared for flooding but lessons are not always learned and the misery for many keeps being repeated.\n\nA Morrisons van was trapped in the Rufford Ford in Nottinghamshire\n\nSerious disruption continues to affect the transport network, with Northern warning of severe delays and cancellations across its network.\n\nThe rail operator issued \"do not travel\" advice for passengers using several lines hit by floods.\n\nThe line between Hebden Bridge and Manchester reopened in the early afternoon.\n\nEast Midlands Railway said flooding had affected the line close to Derby with trains on the London/Sheffield route being diverted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EMR This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said although the rain was easing, the \"impact of that will continue to be felt\".\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Hakim Sillah was attacked at Hillingdon Civic Centre on Thursday\n\nA teenager has been charged with murdering a man stabbed at a knife awareness course in London.\n\nHakim Sillah, 18, was attacked in the youth offending service department of the Hillingdon Civic Centre in Uxbridge on Thursday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a group had gathered at the venue when a fight broke out. Mr Sillah was taken to hospital but died an hour later.\n\nA 17-year-old boy will appear before Uxbridge magistrates on Saturday.\n\nA teenage boy who sustained a knife wound to his ear was praised by detectives for \"bravely\" trying to break up the fight.\n\nThe youth offending service was holding a knife awareness course\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sillah's family described him as \"a lovely lad who cared about his family\".\n\n\"He loved looking after his little brother, who had been ill,\" they said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh said: \"A young man with his whole life ahead of him has been fatally attacked and his family are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGermany struck late to put a dampener on a historic day for England as a boisterous, record-breaking crowd for a Lionesses home international of 77,768 saw the hosts beaten.\n\nPlaying at the home of English football for the first time since a 3-0 defeat by the Germans in 2014 - attended by their previous home record crowd of 45,619 - the Lionesses were roared on magnificently throughout.\n\nBut Klara Bühl's low clinical finish past Mary Earps in the 90th minute inflicted a fifth loss in seven matches on Phil Neville's side.\n\nManchester City striker Ellen White had poked the World Cup semi-finalists level after a nervy and sloppy start from England saw Germany captain Alexandra Popp head in an eighth-minute opener.\n\nEngland winger Nikita Parris saw her first-half penalty saved before White's equaliser, and the match looked set for a draw during a quieter second half, until Bühl's dramatic late strike.\n\nThe two-time world champions were worthy of their victory as there had been an element of controversy about the Lionesses' equaliser, with replays showing that White was in an offside position when Keira Walsh delivered her dangerous cross. There was no video assistant referee system in operation for the friendly.\n\nHowever, the visitors' Kathrin Hendrich was fortunate to be shown only a yellow card for a dangerous challenge on England's Beth Mead early on.\n\nThe result extended England's wait for a first win on home soil against the Germans, who have won 21 of the 26 meetings between the sides.\n\nSaturday's friendly at Wembley was a sell-out, with 86,619 tickets issued, but the attendance of 77,768 narrowly missed out on setting a new record for a women's football fixture in the United Kingdom.\n\nThat remains the 80,203 who were at the same venue for the Olympic final between the United States and Japan in 2012.\n\nBut Saturday's crowd became the largest to see a British women's international team on home soil, surpassing the 70,584 that saw Great Britain beat Brazil 1-0 at Wembley in those London Olympics.\n\nAnd it far exceeded the previous record for an England Women home match in their only previous appearance at the new Wembley five years ago.\n\nOn that occasion, almost 10,000 spectators did not turn up after about 55,000 tickets were initially allocated, and a similar number failed to attend on Saturday, with the torrential rain across large parts of the country possibly one of the factors, although the atmosphere was still outstanding.\n\nParris' first-half miss was her third from the past four penalties she has taken for England, and the Lionesses' fourth failure from five.\n\nThe Lyon winger saw back-to-back spot-kicks against Argentina and Norway saved during World Cup victories, before Steph Houghton's late penalty against the United States was also stopped in July's semi-final.\n\nParris netted from the spot in a 3-3 draw in Belgium in August, but Merle Frohms denied England's number seven with her feet at Wembley, after the Freiburg goalkeeper had brought down Mead in the area.\n\nIn addition to their penalty problems, the hosts will be concerned about their defending from aerial balls. Before this game, eight of the previous 11 goals against England had come from a cross or a corner. Popp's early opener made it nine from 12.\n\nThe Lionesses have a long history of struggle in this fixture. Germany won the first 15 meetings between the two sides from 1984 onwards; England did not manage a draw until a goalless 2007 friendly, and took 21 attempts to record a first win, in the third-place play-off at the 2015 World Cup in Canada.\n\nGermany, ranked second in the world, were good value for their victory at Wembley. They would love another win there in less than two years' time - and a ninth European title - when the stadium hosts the Euro 2021 final.\n\n'Playing at Wembley for England a dream come true'\n\nEngland manager Phil Neville speaking to BBC Two: \"It a was killer blow later on; I thought we competed well in the game. We conceded late because we did not use our experience in game management. The players are devastated as they wanted to get a good result.\n\n\"We spoke at half-time about being more courageous. I can't fault the players' endeavour but some mistakes are costing us.\n\n\"The results are not good enough - there's no hiding away but there's a long-term plan that we have. We have to take the criticisms that come our way and stick together.\n\n\"I have been in football long enough and I know I need to take responsibilities, I need to make sure I improve as a manager and the players improve too.\"\n\nEngland striker Ellen White speaking to BBC Two: \"It's unbelievable - the support, the noise, the atmosphere - we are really sorry we couldn't get the result.\n\n\"It's a dream come true to play at Wembley for your country and score.\"\n\nEngland are away to the Czech Republic for a friendly in Ceske Budejovice on Tuesday, 12 November at 19:15 GMT.\n• None Attempt saved. Jodie Taylor (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jill Scott.\n• None Goal! England 1, Germany 2. Klara Bühl (Germany) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dzsenifer Marozsán.\n• None Attempt missed. Sophia Kleinherne (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lena Lattwein (Germany) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Turid Knaak with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Klara Bühl (Germany) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Melanie Leupolz (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Marina Hegering (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jimmy Johnstone, left, had an emotional meeting with Sandy Petrie\n\nA former soldier aged 98 who survived World War Two and five years as a prisoner has met the son of one of his former comrades after making an appeal.\n\nJimmy Johnstone, who lives in Aberdeen, was 16 when he enlisted in 1937.\n\nHe was captured by German troops in northern France after the battle for Saint-Valery-en-Caux in 1940.\n\nAfter a successful public appeal in August, Mr Johnstone has now met the 73-year-old son of one of the men he tried to escape with.\n\nSandy Petrie spoke of his father Bert Petrie, who died 10 years ago aged 86.\n\nMr Johnstone worked with the Scottish War Blinded charity in the hope any of his fellow prisoners or their families could get in touch.\n\nThe surrendered 51st Highland Division soldiers had to travel hundreds of miles to camps in Germany, via Belgium and the Netherlands.\n\nMr Johnstone described meeting his comrade's son as \"very emotional\".\n\nHe said: \"We talked about Bert and life in the PoW camps. I spoke about when we met. This was while we were waiting to go into the cooler (solitary) after one of my escapes.\n\n\"I told Sandy what a brave man his dad was. He stood up to the German guards and refused to work until they got more food.\n\n\"The German guard held him at gunpoint but he didn't give in and they got more food. I admired Bert for that.\"\n\nMr Petrie, also of Aberdeen, said: \"When I heard about the appeal on the radio, I quickly recognised it was my father being referred to and I was very, very interested to hear the story.\n\n\"They were some of the same stories my father had told me. I felt I would like to meet this chap, and to meet him for my father's sake too as I know he would have wanted to meet Jimmy.\"\n\nHe said his father would have been \"delighted\" about the meeting.\n\nMr Petrie said: \"It was very touching to hear him refer to my father. He mentioned him quite emotionally.\n\n\"I have the greatest respect for Jimmy and the men and women of his generation, sadly a dwindling group. They saved our civilisation and way of life. It was a privilege to have met him.\"\n\nVeteran Mr Johnstone added: \"It is really important that as we approach Remembrance Day we remember all men who fought in all battles, those that survived and those who died.\"\n\nAny survivors of the events Mr Johnstone experienced, or other relatives willing to speak to him, are asked to contact the charity on 0800 035 6409.\n• None Survivor of World War Two seeking other veterans\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A5 in Capel Curig, Snowdonia, is one of the routes affected\n\nSnowfall caused travel disruption across parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nIn Powys, the A458 was closed, with heavy traffic between the A490 in Welshpool and B4395 in Llangadfan. It reopened later on Saturday afternoon.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of \"hazardous\" conditions on the A470 Bwlch Oerddrws in Gwynedd. The A542 Horseshoe Pass near Llangollen was also shut.\n\nSnowdonia, Wrexham, and Mold were among areas affected by the snow.\n\nMeanwhile, in England, severe flood warnings and rail cancellations remain in many areas after a month's worth of rain fell in a single day.\n\nTwo football matches in the Cymru Premier were called off due to the weather - Cefn Druids versus Cardiff Met and The New Saints versus Carmarthen Town.\n\nCefn Druids v Cardiff Met was the first game to fall victim to snow this season in the Cymru Premier\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steffan David This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA mountain bike centre at Llandegla, Denbighshire, was forced to close due to deteriorating conditions on nearby roads, according to One Planet Adventure which runs the facilities.\n\nBBC Wales forecaster Derek Brockway said some parts of Wales were now dry but more rain was on the way.\n\nBrecon Mountain Rescue Team advised walkers to take the right equipment if going out to enjoy the snow, as pictures showed a light covering of snow in the Brecon Beacons.\n\nNetwork Rail said it had fixed signalling problems between Deganwy and Penmaenmawr which had been affecting trains in north Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teresa Townsley was attacked as she answered the door in Captain's Road in Edinburgh\n\nThe victim of a doorstep acid attack said she has been scarred for life and rarely steps out of the house as she appealed for information one year on.\n\nTeresa Townsley, 38, had corrosive liquid thrown at her when she opened the door of her Edinburgh home to a hooded man on 9 November 2018.\n\nHe is described as being in his early 20s and fled the scene in a stolen car.\n\nMs Townsley said her burns meant it was hard to look in the mirror and urged anyone with information to call police.\n\nThe attack happened on Captains Road in the south east of the city at about 20:40 while Ms Townsley was at home with her young children.\n\nPolice said the attacker fled the scene in a grey Ford Fiesta\n\nShe has since moved away from Edinburgh, but said in a statement on the anniversary of the attack: \"It was the worst day of my life and today is the second worst as it brings it all back.\n\n\"Fortunately I have a new partner who is being tremendously supportive and I have my kids to keep me going.\n\n\"But, day to day it is still hard, it is hard just to go out of the house, to look in the mirror. Most of the time I am confined to the house.\"\n\nMs Townsley pleaded for anyone who knows anything to come forward.\n\nShe added: \"I am scarred for life and coming forward with information could prevent someone else suffering as I have.\n\n\"It may even prevent someone losing their life.\"\n\nThe suspect is described as being about 5ft 11in, slim and was wearing a dark tracksuit, a grey top with the hood pulled up.\n\nHe was also wearing dark gloves and trainers with light reflective sections.\n\nThe Fiesta had false number plates showing the registration number BN65 LFV\n\nThe man left the scene in a stolen grey Ford Fiesta with false number plates showing the registration number BN65 LFV.\n\nThe car was seen at about 21:45 travelling north in Drum Street with its lights off.\n\nIt then went down Gilmerton Road, into Glenallan Drive and was driven into Inch Park where it was set on fire.\n\nTwo men were seen to run off towards Glenallan Drive.\n\nDet Insp Jonathan Pleasance said: \"The attacker targeted Teresa at her front door while her young children were just a few feet away.\n\n\"This serious assault resulted in life-changing injuries and also shocked the local community.\n\n\"If you recognise the man described or saw the car, before or after the attack, please contact police immediately.\n\n\"I am confident that there are people in the Gilmerton area who have information that can assist the inquiry and I would urge them to come forward.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tazeen Ahmad on the set of BBC Three's The News Show in 2003\n\nTributes have been paid to journalist and news presenter Tazeen Ahmad, who has died at the age of 48.\n\nAhmad worked for BBC News, Channel 4 Dispatches and as a foreign correspondent for NBC News.\n\nThe Asian Media Awards said she was \"one of the most gifted journalists of her generation\".\n\nHer brothers, Faheem and Nadeem, said \"she left a lasting impression on everyone she met\", both personally and professionally.\n\n\"We remain immensely proud of all she achieved - as a mother, journalist, writer and for her coaching work,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"So many people have been in touch remarking on her powerful ability to turn around people's lives for the better.\n\n\"Her groundbreaking and award-winning television reporting work took her across the world into some of its most troubled areas and, at home in the UK, Tazeen tackled difficult but crucial subjects which resulted in real change.\"\n\nAhmad's brothers added that she died surrounded by her close friends and family.\n\nHer agents, Knight Ayton Management, said the Bafta-nominated Ahmad \"shone a light on important stories but did so with care, sympathy and integrity\".\n\nBroadcaster Adil Ray remembered her as \"extraordinary\", adding that she was \"committed to real, authentic issues & [had] an amazing ability to tell the stories to a wider audience\".\n\nShe co-presented The Truth About Child Sex Abuse on BBC Two with Professor Tanya Byron in 2015\n\nAhmad was a reporter on BBC Three's Liquid News and a presenter for the channel's 60 Seconds bulletins and News Show.\n\nShe later carried out and presented investigations for Dispatches on subjects ranging from sex gangs, female jihadis, beauty creams and cruise ships.\n\nShe won an RTS Journalism award for the documentary The Hunt For Britain's Sex Gangs, earning a Bafta current affairs nomination for the same programme.\n\nShe co-presented The Truth About Child Sex Abuse on BBC Two in 2015, and wrote a book about six months she spent undercover working on supermarket checkouts.\n\nBBC London's Riz Lateef paid tribute to the \"fearless, passionate and kind\" Ahmad, and Radio 4's Aasmah Mir described her as \"a great journalist and a lovely person\".\n\nBBC South Asian correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan wrote: \"Graceful, kind and inspirational, she became a mentor and friend. It meant so much to see a brilliant Asian woman excel. She was a dogged journalist and a role model.\"\n\nOutside journalism, Ahmad was the founder and director of emotional intelligence consultancy EQ Matters.\n\nWorld Service chief Mary Hockaday was head of the Newsroom when Tazeen was on 60 seconds. She said: \"Tazeen was always an engaging and professional broadcaster who brought the news to audiences on BBC Three in a fresh way before becoming an excellent and determined investigative journalist. Our condolences to her family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hakim Sillah was attacked at Hillingdon Civic Centre on Thursday\n\nA teenager who was fatally stabbed in a council headquarters in west London was attending a knife awareness course.\n\nHakim Sillah was attacked in the youth offending service department at the Hillingdon Civic Centre in Uxbridge on Thursday.\n\nThe Met said a group had gathered at the venue when a fight broke out. The 18-year-old was taken to hospital but died an hour later.\n\nA 17-year-old boy who was arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody.\n\nA teenage boy who tried to stop the fight also sustained a knife wound to his ear.\n\nHe was praised by detectives for \"bravely\" trying to break up the fight.\n\nAnother teenager suffered a knife injury to his ear during the attack\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sillah's family described him as \"a lovely lad who cared about his family\".\n\n\"He loved looking after his little brother, who had been ill,\" they said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh described the attack as \"an absolute tragedy\" and praised the teenager who tried to stop the fight.\n\n\"A young man with his whole life ahead of him has been fatally attacked and his family are absolutely devastated,\" he said.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to find those involved.\n\n\"What we know so far is that a fight broke out between males at the location and as a result this young man received fatal injuries.\n\n\"A second independent male, bravely tried to intervene to break up the fight and as a result was also stabbed.\"\n\nHillingdon Civic Centre was cordoned off while forensic officers investigated\n\nHillingdon Council said it was \"offering support and counselling\" to any of its employees affected.\n\nIt is the second murder investigation to be launched in Hillingdon this year - after Tashan Daniel was stabbed to death at Hillingdon Tube Station on 24 September.\n\nMr Daniel's family plans to organise a march in central London on 7 December to raise awareness of the impact of knife crime.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Benjamin Schreiber, not pictured, is serving a life sentence for bludgeoning a man to death in 1996.\n\nA court in the US has refused to release a convict who argued that he had completed his life sentence when he briefly \"died\".\n\nBenjamin Schreiber, 66, was sentenced to life without parole in Iowa for bludgeoning a man to death in 1996.\n\nHe said his sentence ended when his heart stopped during a medical emergency four years ago, even though he was revived.\n\nBut judges said Schreiber's bid - while original - was \"unpersuasive\".\n\nThey said that he was \"unlikely\" to be dead, as he had signed his own legal documents in the case.\n\nIn 2015, Schreiber developed septic poisoning as a result of kidney stones. He had to be resuscitated by doctors in hospital, but fully recovered and was returned to prison.\n\nIn Schreiber's claim, filed last year, he said that he had been resuscitated against his will, and that his brief \"death\" meant that his life sentence had technically ended.\n\nThe district court ruled against Schreiber - a decision his lawyer took to the state's court of appeal.\n\nOn Wednesday, the appeals court upheld the lower court's ruling. It added that his sentence would not end until a medical examiner formally declared him dead.", "The Tories say they will deliver 6,000 more doctors in general practice in England by 2024-25 to increase patient appointments, if they win the election.\n\nThey claim they will reach that target through additional doctors working and training in surgeries, international recruitment and better retention.\n\nHowever, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said a previous Tory pledge to recruit 5,000 GPs by 2020 had not been met.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"You can't trust the Tories on the NHS.\"\n\nHe said despite the Conservatives' previous promise of more general practitioners made in 2015, GP numbers have declined.\n\nLabour has said it wants to expand GP training places from 3,500 to 5,000 a year to ease the burden on GPs.\n\nThe Conservatives say their plan would see the current tally of 3,538 GPs in training every year rise by about 500 each year over the next four years.\n\nAnd recruiting more GPs from overseas while improving efforts to retain current staff would lead to a total of 6,000 more doctors than there are now, they claim.\n\nBut it is not yet clear how this will be achieved.\n\nIn 2015, the then health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, pledged to have 5,000 more GPs working in the NHS in England by 2020.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock acknowledged GP numbers had in fact decreased since 2015.\n\nHe said: \"It's true the number of GPs was falling when I became health secretary [in July 2018].\n\n\"The numbers are now rising but I want them to go much further.\"\n\nPreviously the Department of Health said one of the challenges it faces in growing GP numbers is a irise in those taking early retirement and part-time working.\n\nRichard Murray, chief executive of health think tank the Kings Fund, said the announcement only goes part of the way to solving this \"vicious cycle\" of hiring and retention.\n\n\"The outflow from General Practice is the problem the government's facing.\n\n\"They're not succeeding in retaining, particularly older GPs, and younger GPs wanting to work part-time.\"\n\nThe party has also promised to recruit 6,000 more NHS nurses, physiotherapists and pharmacists to work in surgeries.\n\nAnd it plans to modernise systems for booking appointments and ensure all patients have the choice of a consultation on the phone, on Skype or online.\n\nWith more than 300 million appointments every year in England, the Conservatives forecast 15% more being created as a result of these plans.\n\nThe party said it plans to invest £2.5bn in the project over four years in addition to the £20.5bn of extra NHS funding pledged by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nDr Richard Vautrey, from the British Medical Association, said: \"We wait with some trepidation to see if this latest promise can deliver.\n\n\"The lack of detail as to exactly how all these promises will be made good, particularly with no firm commitment for full reform of the ridiculous pension taxation system, means it remains to be seen whether these long overdue and very necessary improvements will be achieved.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You can't get an appointment\" - patients and staff at one GPs' practice\n\nWaiting times for a GP appointment have become the national conversation - the words of the chair of the Royal College of GPs.\n\nDoctors say they are working flat out but are struggling to keep up with rising patient demand and filling vacant posts in general practice is increasingly difficult.\n\nSo how much difference will the Conservative plans make if they are re-elected? Funding extra training places will result in more doctors going into general practice.\n\nBut half the 6,000 additional doctors promised by 2024 are assumed to come from international recruitment and better retention of existing staff, neither of which has been easy in recent years.\n\nSome GPs have retired early because of tax bills associated with their pensions, an issue which has not yet been fully resolved.\n\nAchieving that 6,000 total looks a big ask. As the government discovered, setting a target of 5,000 by 2020 was one thing, but achieving it another matter altogether.\n\nThe announcement comes after the party promised to make it easier for doctors and nurses from abroad to work in the UK after Brexit, by creating an NHS visa.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the government recognised GPs were under increasing pressure and require funding \"to help everyone get the care they need\".\n\nHe said extra appointments in GP surgeries would be created \"with the sort of easy online booking that we expect in other areas of our lives\".\n\nSpeaking at the Labour party conference, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said: \"You can't trust the Tories with our NHS.\n\n\"They always make election promises which they fail to deliver on.\n\n\"Tory ministers promised us 5,000 extra GPs but in fact we have lost 1,600 GPs under the Tories.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, said GPs were working flat out to try to keep up with rising demand while there was a shortage of doctors and other staff.\n\nShe said urgent action was needed to support GPs \"grappling with unmanageable workloads\", adding that they go above and beyond for patients, often to the detriment of their own health and wellbeing.", "Annie Hall's family said: “We are in great shock and grieving\"\n\nA woman swept to her death by a flooded river was Derbyshire's former High Sheriff Annie Hall, police have said.\n\nHer body was pulled from the River Derwent near Matlock on Friday, as persistent rain caused floods across Yorkshire and the Midlands.\n\nDerbyshire Chief Constable Peter Goodman said he was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the death of his friend.\n\nSeven severe flood warnings - deemed a threat to life - remain in place on the River Don in South Yorkshire.\n\nFlooding has caused evacuations and travel disruption, with trains still not running in parts of the East Midlands.\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Hall's family said: \"We are in great shock and grieving.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage filmed from Matlock shows the extent of the floodwater\n\nServices are cancelled on the Matlock-Derby-Nottingham route and diversions are in place between Derby and Chesterfield, adding about 30 minutes to journeys.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said it had declared a major incident on Friday night, and said it had carried out more than 160 rescues over 24 hours.\n\nDeputy chief fire officer Alex Johnson advised people to \"keep themselves safe, help each other and don't drive into floodwater\".\n\nResidents from 12 homes in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, are still unable to return home after a mudslide on Thursday led to 35 properties being evacuated.\n\nThe River Derwent burst its banks in Derby city centre\n\nIn Derby city centre, officials considered a city-wide evacuation as authorities saw the River Derwent swell to record levels of 3.35m (11ft).\n\nThe bus station was temporarily evacuated on Friday evening, and some major roads remain flooded.\n\nIn Worksop, Nottinghamshire, water levels are receding after 200 homes and businesses were evacuated on Thursday evening.\n\nBassetlaw District Council said it had closed its emergency rest centre as everyone who had left their homes were with friends and relatives.\n\nThe River Don, which flows through Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster, hit its highest recorded level at just over 6.3m (21ft), higher than it was in 2007 when it also flooded.\n\nRescuers used boats to reach people trapped in Rotherham\n\nPeople continued to be rescued from flood-hit towns and cities on Friday.\n\nOne man told the BBC he carried children from his gym in Rotherham through flooded streets.\n\n\"The whole of the gym was completely flooded in water,\" said Neil Wilson.\n\n\"We had to wade through water to get children to the cars so they could get home with their parents.\"\n\nOne of the most severely hit areas was Bentley, Doncaster, where flooding affected many homes 12 years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This home in Fishlake, near Doncaster, has been left nearly submerged in floodwater\n\nOne resident told BBC Radio Sheffield: \"The worry is our insurance policies are expensive as it is because of the 2007 floods, so now we're all worried whether we're going to get reinsured.\"\n\nReporter Richard Cadey said some residents were \"angry and frustrated\" at Doncaster Council - claiming it had not been providing sandbags early enough to prevent properties from flooding.\n\nA rest facility has been set up by the council at the Salvation Army centre in the town.\n\nFlooding has caused disruption in the region since Thursday evening, when dozens of shoppers were left stranded in the Meadowhall Shopping Centre after torrential downpours.\n\nSheffield has had 84mm of rain over the past 36 hours, which is the near the average monthly rainfall for Yorkshire.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson helping with the clean up in Matlock on Friday evening\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Matlock, close to where Mrs Hall died.\n\nHe said the town could expect \"extra help from the government\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited flood-hit Conisbrough, near Doncaster, on Saturday and warned the UK could expect more extreme weather due to climate change.\n\n\"Obviously we need much better flood management and prevention schemes,\" he said.\n\n\"It also means properly funding our fire and rescue services and properly funding our Environment Agency to deal with this.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nHave you been affected by the floods? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage filmed from Matlock shows the extent of the floodwater\n\nSevere flood warnings and rail cancellations remain in areas of England flooded after a month's worth of rain fell in a single day.\n\nDerbyshire and South Yorkshire have been worst hit by the floods, which claimed the life of one woman swept away in a river near Matlock.\n\nSeven severe flood warnings - deemed a threat to life - remain on the River Don in South Yorkshire.\n\nMeanwhile, trains are not running in parts of the East Midlands.\n\nServices are cancelled on the Matlock-Derby-Nottingham route and diversions are in place between Derby and Chesterfield, adding about 30 minutes to journeys.\n\nThe River Derwent burst its banks in Derby city centre\n\nSouth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said it had declared a major incident on Friday night and firefighters had rescued more than 40 people from the Fishlake area, near Doncaster.\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Alex Johnson advised people to \"keep themselves safe, help each other and don't drive into flood water\".\n\nWater sports enthusiast and teacher Mark Ibbotson, from Doncaster, said he, along with his 13-year-old son Logan, had rescued more than 30 people - including two babies - from a number of streets in Bentley where homes have been hit by flooding.\n\n\"They keep shouting 'come and help me' and shouting from the windows, asking for help,\" said Mr Ibbotson.\n\nLogan said: \"Just to see them all suffering like this, it's been awful.\"\n\nMr Ibbotson continued: \"There was an old couple... when we opened the door, the water was centimetres from pouring in.\n\n\"I lifted them in to the boat and later on the water had risen, and I just dread to think what they're going back to.\"\n\nThe teacher said he took his red inflatable boat to help with the rescue efforts in Bentley after his experiences of flooding in 2007.\n\nMore than 40 people were rescued by firefighters in the Bentley area of Doncaster\n\nChris Hart, from Thorne, near Doncaster, rescued his grandparents from Conyers Road in Bentley and said the flood water was \"pretty deep\", describing the scene as \"chaos\".\n\nIn Derby city centre, a number of properties were evacuated on Friday night after the River Derwent burst its banks and officials said a city-wide evacuation had been considered.\n\nMatt Lee, from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: \"All the partner agencies were in contact and had regular meetings to discuss the threat to Derby city that was a very real threat.\n\n\"We were very concerned we might have a city centre evacuation.\n\n\"Fortunately it [the River Derwent] didn't burst its banks to the extent we thought it would and disaster was averted.\"\n\nThe A52 - the main road route into Derby - remains closed westbound between the city and the M1 along with a handful of smaller roads in the county.\n\nVolunteers are helping with the clear-up at Belper Town Football Club\n\nA clear-up is under way at Belper Town Football Club after it was flooded on Friday afternoon.\n\nDirector of football Andy Carter said he was confident things would be back to normal by the club's next home game in a week.\n\nIn Worksop, Nottinghamshire, water levels are receding after 200 homes and businesses were evacuated on Thursday evening.\n\nBassetlaw District Council said it had closed its emergency rest centre as everyone who had left their homes were with friends and relatives.\n\nAn evacuation was ordered when part of a cliff gave way on Thursday\n\nResidents from 12 homes in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, are still unable to return home after a mudslide on Thursday led to 35 properties being evacuated.\n\nEmergency work to secure a cliff at the former Berry Hill Quarry site is due to start later.\n\nThe River Don, which flows through Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster, hit its highest recorded level at just over 6.3m (21ft), higher than it was in 2007 when it also flooded.\n\nRescuers used boats to reach people trapped in Rotherham\n\nPeople continued to be rescued from flood-hit towns and cities on Friday.\n\nOne man told the BBC he carried children from his gym in Rotherham, wading through water that had submerged the streets outside.\n\n\"The whole of the gym was completely flooded in water,\" said Neil Wilson.\n\n\"We had to wade through water to get children to the cars so they could get home with their parents.\n\n\"The way the car park is it's a bit deeper, so when we were carrying kids to the car it was coming up above our knees.\"\n\nBut there was better news overnight into Saturday as the torrential downpours abated.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Steven Keates said: \"I think the most important thing is that the areas which have been affected by floods should avoid rain and get some respite.\"\n\nChildren and pets were carried to safety as people evacuated their homes in Doncaster\n\nMatlock clothes shop owner Kirsty Gilbert said flooding had ruined a significant amount of her stock.\n\n\"We've lost everything that was on the floor - shoes and handbags,\" she said.\n\n\"Nearly every business in Matlock has been affected in some way.\"\n\nKirsty Gilbert said she arrived at her shop to find shoes floating around\n\nOn Friday, the floods claimed the life of a woman who was swept into the River Derwent at Rowsley in Derbyshire.\n\nHer body was found about two miles away in Darley Dale.\n\nShe was named earlier as Derbyshire's former High Sherriff Annie Hall.\n\nEvery time there's serious flooding, questions are asked about why it was allowed to happen.\n\nOne simple answer is governments of all parties have been accused of not spending enough on protection.\n\nYou can build walls along river banks and many places have been guarded this way but such 'hard defences' are expensive and obtrusive.\n\nAn alternative is to employ what are known as soft defences. These include encouraging farmers to manage their land in ways that let fields hold back floodwater.\n\nDriveways and car parks can be surfaced with materials that allow it to reach the soil underneath.\n\nAnother option is to make homes more resilient - fitting exterior doors with waterproof plastic panels, sealing the ground floor and raising fuse boxes.\n\nIn some ways the country has become better prepared for flooding but lessons are not always learned and the misery for many keeps being repeated.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson visited Matlock on Friday and said: \"People have been moved out of their homes and probably hundreds of businesses have seen damage to their properties.\n\n\"We stand ready to help in any way that we can.\"\n\nOn the cause of the flooding, he added: \"We are seeing more and more serious flooding - perhaps because of building, almost certainly because of climate change.\n\n\"We need to prepare and we need to be investing in those defences.\"\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A month's worth of rain has fallen in some parts of the north of England.\n\nThis home in Fishlake, near Doncaster, has been left nearly submerged by floodwater.", "A member of Labour's shadow cabinet has denied singing \"Hey Jews\" to The Beatles' song Hey Jude on a coach trip last year.\n\nShadow international development secretary Dan Carden was accused of singing an altered version of the song on a journey back from Cheltenham Festival, BuzzFeed News reported.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said: \"If it's true, it is utterly and totally unacceptable.\"\n\nMr Carden said he stood by his record as an anti-racist campaigner.\n\nBuzzFeed News journalist Alex Wickham claimed he was sitting behind Mr Carden on a \"private bus\" in March 2018, along with other Labour MPs and MPs from other parties.\n\nHe said Mr Carden, who is seeking to be re-elected as MP for Liverpool Walton, \"repeatedly sang the chorus of 'Hey Jude', replacing the word 'Jude' with 'Jews'.\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said he was \"looking into\" the allegation.\n\nIn a Twitter thread, Mr Carden said: \"I have been categorical in my denial about allegations relating to a coach trip some 20 months ago.\n\n\"This was a coach full of journalists and MPs. If anyone genuinely believed any anti-Semitic behaviour had taken place, they would've had a moral responsibility to report it immediately.\n\n\"Yet this allegation is only made now when a general election is imminent.\n\n\"I stand by my record as an anti-racist campaigner. I would never be part of any behaviour that undermines my commitment to fighting racism in all its forms.\"\n\nThe news website said it was \"choosing to publish\" the story now after \"fresh anti-Semitism allegations against Labour candidates over the last 48 hours\".\n\nA Labour candidate in Aberdeenshire quit on Thursday after the Jewish Chronicle reported that she compared Israel to an abused child who becomes an abusive adult.\n\nAnd another Labour candidate pulled out of the election race on Friday over the use of an anti-Semitic remark.\n\nOn Thursday, the Labour leader told the BBC \"anti-Semitism is a poison and an evil\" and insisted his party had confronted anti-Semitism and taken action.\n\nMr Corbyn said members had been suspended or expelled and an education programme had been set up.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of \"whitesplaining\" by Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi after he said others in the party took a \"more balanced approach\" on Islamophobia than her.\n\nBaroness Warsi has repeatedly criticised the party's response to Islamophobia in its own ranks.\n\nOn Friday, Boris Johnson appeared to rule out an independent inquiry specifically into Islamophobia.\n\nHe said the party would hold a \"general investigation into prejudice\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday, Mr Hancock said the Tories needed to hold an inquiry on Islamophobia within the party.\n\nBut he added: \"Well look, I like Sayeeda [Warsi], she has a particular view on this. There are others who take a more balanced approach,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he was saying she was \"unbalanced\", Mr Hancock replied: \"No, I'm certainly not saying that. I have an enormous amount of respect for Sayeeda but she does take a particular view.\"\n\nBaroness Warsi was the first Muslim woman to sit round the cabinet table\n\nHe added: \"There needs to be an inquiry of course but, of course, you should look into all kinds of prejudice.\n\n\"I think that this is something that any responsible party always needs to be on the look-out for.\"\n\nBaroness Warsi, the UK's first female Muslim cabinet minister, responded with a tweet saying she was \"glad\" to have colleagues like the health secretary to educate her on the issue after working in race relations for 30 years.\n\nThe Conservative Party has come under pressure to open itself up to an independent inquiry into Islamophobia following incidents highlighted to the party and in the media.\n\nIn September, a number of party members were suspended after the BBC highlighted more than 20 cases of Islamophobic material being posted or endorsed online.\n\nThe incidents ranged from individuals \"liking\" anti-Muslim pictures or statements on one or two occasions, to regular Islamophobic posts by people who said they were members of the Conservative Party.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn one occasion, a Conservative councillor responded to a tweet in March, writing: \"Islam and slavery are partners in crime.\"\n\nSpeaking to Channel 4 News on Saturday evening, Baroness Warsi said Mr Johnson's comments suggesting a broader investigation showed the party was still not taking the issue of Islamophobia seriously.\n\nShe called for him to be an \"anti-racist\" and \"take all forms of racism seriously\".\n\n\"We've quite rightly been calling out the Labour Party for the allegations of racism within their ranks... we seem to be able to take our opponents to task, and yet we singularly fail to deal with the Islamophobia and racism in our own backyard,\" she said.\n\nAsked whether she could urge her fellow British Muslims to vote Conservative, Baroness Warsi said: \"I would say that the climate for British Muslims within the Conservative Party is hostile.\n\n\"I think that the climate that has been created in the country because of the Conservative leadership is hostile for British Muslims.\"\n\nIn June, during a BBC debate as part of the Tory leadership contest, candidate Sajid Javid, now the chancellor, asked other candidates to agree to open up the Conservatives to an external investigation into Islamophobia within its ranks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Tuesday, cabinet minister Michael Gove told the Today programme the party would \"absolutely\" hold an independent inquiry into Islamophobia before the end of the year.\n\nBut in an interview with BBC Radio Nottingham on Friday, the prime minister said the party would investigate \"prejudice of all kinds\".\n\nIn response, Baroness Warsi tweeted: \"Today #BorisJohnson has confirmed that there will NOT be an inquiry into #Islamophobia. Yes disappointing. Yes predictable.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Part of the ceiling collapsed on Wednesday\n\nA localised water leak caused the ceiling of a West End theatre in London to collapse, an investigation has found.\n\nSeveral people were injured when part of the ceiling fell during a performance of Death of a Salesman at the Piccadilly Theatre on Wednesday.\n\nThe theatre's owners said Westminster City Council had \"deemed the venue safe for use\" and it could now reopen.\n\nFull performances are set to resume on Monday.\n\nAll shows at the theatre had been cancelled for the week, with three special \"scratch\" performances of the play being held at the Young Vic theatre instead.\n\nRescue units were sent to the theatre by London Fire Brigade after the collapse\n\nMore than 1,000 people had to be evacuated from the venue at the time of the collapse.\n\nFour were taken to hospital after three men and two women were treated at the scene by paramedics.\n\nThe Ambassador Theatre Group said permission to return to the theatre had been granted \"provided the affected area is covered and off-limits until repairs are completed\".\n\nIn a statement, it added an annual safety check had taken place at the theatre in February and the venue was also \"undergoing a multi-million pound modernisation and improvement programme\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Miranda Richardson and Toby Jones will read parts of the 237,000-word script\n\nA non-stop 24-hour performance will see actors including Toby Jones and Miranda Richardson speak the words of 100 peace workers for Remembrance Sunday.\n\n24 Hours of Peace has been created from interviews with community and charity workers, ex-Armed Forces personnel, religious leaders and former neo-Nazis.\n\nIt will be staged at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester from 11:02 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe 24 professional actors also include Julie Hesmondhalgh and Liz Carr.\n\nHesmondhalgh is known for Broadchurch and Coronation Street, while Carr stars in Silent Witness. Don Warrington (Death In Paradise), Mina Anwar (The Thin Blue Line), Maggie Steed (EastEnders), Adjoa Andoh (Casualty) and Steffan Rhodri (Gavin & Stacey) will also take part, joined by a 24-strong community ensemble.\n\nThe marathon show has been put together by Neil Bartlett, former artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith theatre, who has spent three years interviewing people involved in working towards peace.\n\n\"I asked them all the simple question - what does this day, when we're supposed to be reflecting on war and peace, what does this day mean to you?\n\n\"And out of those 100 completely different answers, I've created the text of this show.\"\n\nBartlett travelled the UK interviewing figures including Nigel Bromage, who joined the far right at 15 and now helps people who want to leave; three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Scilla Elworthy; Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief negotiator in Northern Ireland; and \"honour\" abuse campaigner Jasvinder Sanghera.\n\nHe spoke to 16 former members of the Armed Forces; ex-IRA member Patrick Magee and Jo Berry, the daughter of one of his victims; an imam in Rochdale and a priest in Salford; an aid worker with experience in Somalia, South Sudan and Syria; and a community safety officer in Blackpool.\n\nHis 100 interviewees represent the 100 years since the first Armistice Day.\n\nNeil Bartlett has volunteered to do the 03:30 shift himself\n\n\"I've come out of it with hope,\" he says. \"If we want to choose peace - by which I mean reconciliation, de-escalation, negotiation - we already have all the tools and all the expertise in this country.\n\n\"If we want to know how to start solving the problems we face - whether that's catastrophic rises in hate crime figures to foreign policy questions to disarmament questions - we have the thinking, we have the thinkers, we have a century of experience. There is every reason for hope, if only we would ask the right people.\"\n\nThe performance will begin after Sunday's two minutes' silence. It will be free to watch live, with people invited to pop in during their shopping, on the way back from a night out or on their way to work on Monday. It will also be broadcast live on the radio on Resonance FM.\n\nMost of the performers will make a few appearances throughout the 24 hours. Hesmondhalgh, for example, is scheduled for two stints on Sunday evening before doing the 05:30 slot and then returning at 10:00.\n\nBartlett has put himself in for 03:30-04:30. \"I felt if I was going to call on both some of my very distinguished friends in the business, I had to be able to say to them, I'm doing the graveyard shift,\" he says.\n\nWhile his 237,000-word script is all about peace, he says he is not trying to shift the focus of Remembrance Day and the two minutes' silence from the commemoration of those who have died in conflicts.\n\nHe says he wants to ask whether it is \"meant to be like Groundhog Day, that we always return to the same point\". The silence was \"always conceived of as a hinge moment\", he believes.\n\n\"Some people say that's why it's two minutes - one minute to look back and one minute to look forward.\n\n\"Life stops. We reflect. Do we then go back to where we were and pretend those two minutes never happened, or do those two minutes change us in some way? Do they charge us to do something different?\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian authorities say an \"unprecedented\" number of emergency-level bushfires are threatening the state of New South Wales.\n\nMore than 90 blazes were raging across the state on Friday, some of which turned the sky orange.\n\nThere are reports of people trapped in their homes in several places, with crew unable to reach them due to the strength of the fires.\n\nRead more: Record number of emergencies in New South Wales", "The UK's credit rating could be downgraded, according to ratings agency Moody's, which says Brexit has caused \"paralysis in policy-making\".\n\nIt has changed the outlook on the UK's current rating - which is a marker of how likely it is to pay back its debts - from \"stable\" to \"negative\".\n\nMoody's also criticised the general election promises to raise spending with \"no clear plan\" to finance it.\n\nThe UK is currently rated Aa2 - the third highest grade.\n\nCredit ratings agencies grade countries and institutions by their credit-worthiness. That in turn can affect the amount that it costs countries to borrow money.\n\nAll the major political parties have committed to ramping up borrowing as part of their general election campaigning.\n\nThey have said this is to take advantage of low interest rates. Moody's change in outlook suggests this could alter in the future.\n\nJane Sydenham, from Rathbone Investment Management, said: \"The vast spending plans announced this week make the UK look a higher risk prospect from an international debt investors point of view.\"\n\nMoody's said its concern was that the UK's debt level could rise as a result. \"In the current political climate, Moody's sees no meaningful pressure for debt-reducing fiscal policies,\" it said.\n\nJane Foley, from Rabobank, said to borrow more - without increasing debt levels - you need to see economic growth which is \"a big ask when global growth is slowing and when UK investment has been chased away by political uncertainty\".\n\nFollowing the financial crisis the credit ratings agencies were discredited for giving gold-plated ratings to companies that later collapsed.\n\nThe last time that the UK's rating was downgraded, in 2017, there was little impact on borrowing costs. We are still in the \"A\" band of countries, even if no longer on a par with Germany.\n\nSo for some in the City, these reports can be easily dismissed. \"It just tells us stuff we already know,\" one investor told me.\n\nBut the language and timing of this (long-scheduled) report are sobering, coming as it has when politicians are looking to splash out, making big promises about the future of the UK's public services.\n\nIt ends by saying a downgrade would happen if policy-makers don't have a credible strategy to cut debt. And cutting debt doesn't seem to be on anyone's manifesto.\n\nThe Moody's report said \"deep divisions within society and the political landscape\" underpin its decision because they are reducing the UK's ability to make policy decisions.\n\nIt said even if a deal was struck with the European Union over Brexit, that uncertainty over the future of trade is unlikely to diminish.\n\nHowever, the agency said it has decided to hold the UK's current rating because it still saw positives in the economy such as a broad range of economic activity, a sound monetary policy framework and a highly flexible labour market.\n\nThe Conservative Party said: \"This election is about ending paralysis in Parliament and delivering certainty on Brexit, and our commitment to produce a robust, costed manifesto.\"\n\nThe Labour Party said the biggest dangers to the UK economy were the Conservative Party's \"Brexit deal and stubborn refusal to prepare for the climate emergency\".", "Parts of northern England have endured a month's worth of rain in 24 hours, forcing many to leave their homes.\n\nMore than 100 flood warnings are in place across England. The Environment Agency (EA) has urged people to take them seriously.\n\nFive severe warnings - meaning a danger to life - are in place along the River Don in Doncaster.\n\nHere are pictures of some of the affected areas.\n\nIn Worksop, residents from 25 homes were told to leave after parts of the town centre flooded.\n\nResidents in Rotherham have been told to stay at home and not leave unless asked to do so by emergency services. Some have been taken to safety by boats.\n\nFlood water covered the rail tracks at Rotherham Central train station (below).\n\nSome shops in Rotherham have been flooded.\n\nRail lines around the New York Stadium in Rotherham are blocked due to flooding.\n\nIn Derbyshire, the River Derwent at Chatsworth has reached its highest recorded level and council workers have been putting up sandbags around Matlock and Matlock Bath, where the river is \"dangerously high\".\n\nThe River Derwent in Belper (above and below) burst its banks.\n\nShortly after midnight, Sheffield City Council declared a major incident, saying there was \"some water\" coming over the top of the River Don's defences.\n\nDozens of people spent the night in a shopping centre in Sheffield after torrential downpours flooded the city's streets.\n\nPeople bedded down on benches and chairs in the Meadowhall centre, while others tried throughout the night to get home in cars or taxis.\n\nThe River Don (seen below in Kirk Sandall) has hit its highest recorded level, currently at just over 6.3m, higher than it was in 2007 when it also flooded.\n\nThe River Don was close to bursting its banks in Barnby Dun, near Doncaster (below).", "The court heard Ellie Gould was a keen horse rider who talked of joining the mounted police\n\nA teenager stabbed his ex-girlfriend repeatedly in the neck in a \"frenzied attack\" before trying to make it appear her wounds were self-inflicted.\n\nThomas Griffiths admitted murdering Ellie Gould, 17, at her home in Calne, Wiltshire, in May, after she ended their relationship.\n\nGriffiths, now aged 18, went to the schoolgirl's home, killed her and then left her hand on the knife handle.\n\nHe was jailed for a minimum of 12 and a half years at Bristol Crown Court.\n\nCarole Gould said there was nothing in Griffiths' behaviour before her daughter's death that \"would ring alarm bells\".\n\n\"We welcomed him into our home. We ate dinner with him,\" she said.\n\nThe packed courtroom heard the night before Griffiths murdered her, Ellie had told friends they had broken up and he had \"not taken it well\".\n\nThe pair were A-level students at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham, had known each other since Year 7, and been in a relationship for three months.\n\nThomas Griffiths was 17 when he killed Ellie in her family home\n\nGriffiths walked out of school on the morning of 3 May and drove to Ellie's home in Springfield Drive.\n\nThere he attempted to strangle her, before stabbing her 13 times in the neck with a knife taken from the kitchen.\n\n\"Griffiths became angry, perhaps by Ellie's continued rejection of him, and he attacked her,\" prosecutor Richard Smith QC said.\n\nA statement was read out in court from Ellie's father, Matt Gould, who found her lying on the kitchen floor with the knife still in her neck.\n\nHe said it was \"the most frightening, horrific and saddest scene I have ever experienced\" and it \"fills my thoughts all day\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEvidence suggested Griffiths had put Ellie's hand on the weapon to make it look like she had done it to herself.\n\nThe court heard Griffiths spent an hour at the house before he drove home, changed his clothes and dumped a bag of items taken from Ellie's house in a wood.\n\nLater that day he sent a series of \"fake\" messages to friends and to Ellie's mobile phone asking if she wanted to meet.\n\nGriffiths also told friend marks on his neck were caused by self-harm but the court heard they most likely caused by his \"young victim fighting for her life\".\n\nEllie Gould told friends Griffiths had \"not taken their break-up well\"\n\nSentencing him, Judge Mr Justice Garnham told Griffiths his actions had been a \"frenzied knife attack\" and \"the most appalling act\" on a \"vulnerable young woman in her own home where she should have been safe\".\n\nHe said Ellie had \"tried desperately to fight back, scratching frantically at your neck\" and \"most chilling is that you left her on the kitchen floor with the knife still in her neck and with her left hand on the knife\".\n\nThe judge told Griffiths it was one of several steps he had taken to \"cover your tracks\".\n\n\"There can be no more dreadful scene for any parent to contemplate than that which confronted Ellie's father when he came home that day from work,\" Mr Justice Garnham said.\n\nThe court had previously heard Ellie was a keen horse rider who competed in local shows and cross-country events, and talked of joining the mounted police.\n\nThe judge told Griffiths: \"The effects of your actions have not only snuffed out the life of this talented girl... but loaded pain on her friends and family.\"\n\nThe court was told that following his guilty plea in August, Griffiths, of Derry Hill, Wiltshire, had written a letter outlining his \"heartfelt remorse\".\n\nIn it, he said: \"I feel confused and angry at myself that I was able to hurt someone so special to me.\"\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive, Calne\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Taylor of Wiltshire Police said Griffiths ended Ellie's life \"in the cruellest way imaginable\" and \"destroyed the lives of those who were close to her\".\n\n\"While I know that this prison sentence will not bring Ellie back, and 12 and a half years no doubt seems insignificant given the severity of this crime and the colossal loss for this family, I hope that in some way it provides them with some form of closure,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The boss of the National Gallery is a tall, physically imposing man with big bushy eyebrows and an easy charm, who, like all good museum directors, has an academic's mind and an impresario's spirit. His name is Gabriele Finaldi.\n\nDr Finaldi is a moderniser whose mantra appears to be not so much out with the old and in with the new, but more, stick with the old and think anew.\n\nLike a chef serving up yesterday's fish dish as a fresh-n-spicy kedgeree, he is keen to re-contextualise his Old Masters in zesty combinations.\n\nAnd so, the 20th Century British painter David Bomberg will soon be seen alongside Botticelli and Michelangelo, and, as from this weekend, the gallery's Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, The Virgin of the Rocks, is to be found below stairs as the only painting in a four-room \"immersive\" exhibition.\n\nThe National Gallery's painting of Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin of the Rocks (1506-8) is second version of the picture\n\nIt is a bold move: a £1m punt to test the public's appetite for an art \"experience\" at the National Gallery, in which the celebrated artwork on view is one you can normally see for free but now have to pay between £16 - £20 for the privilege.\n\nThe idea of an experiential art presentation full of digital embellishments has worked elsewhere. There's a popular Van Gogh \"immersive experience\" currently doing the rounds, in which huge projections of the Dutchman's iconic images are slapped over interior walls and ceilings like emulsion paint.\n\nEven the normally straight-laced Louvre in Paris has jumped on the digital bandwagon with Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass, a seven-minute virtual reality trip in and around the world's most famous painting. One art critic told me that it was so effective in making you feel like you were standing on a rocky precipice that she felt like she was clinging on for dear life.\n\nMona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is the Louvre's first virtual reality experience, and is part of the Paris museum's Leonardo da Vinci exhibition\n\nThere's nothing so dramatic in the National Gallery's Leonardo Experience.\n\nIn fact, the first room is so bland I thought it was the exhibition shop awaiting a delivery.\n\nThe lighting is bog standard, the sound of water on rocks no more convincing than the leaky tap in the gents, and the two curving walls of metal boxes containing Leonardo quotes (mirrored, of course) are about as inviting as a dip in the North Sea in December.\n\nThe opening room creates a landscape with metal boxes of the artist's images and quotes\n\nIt leads to a central space from which the three remaining rooms are accessed.\n\nThe first is an atmospheric recreation of the gallery's conservation studios (any misconception that it's a mock-up of Leonardo's workplace is banished by the angle-poise lamps), in which we are to learn something new about the old master.\n\nThe central slideshow projection reveals what the curators discovered after using the latest technology to find out what lay beneath the surface of the painting. An audio commentary relayed through speakers supplements the photos, explaining each stage, and how the National Gallery's The Virgin of the Rocks differs from the earlier version Leonardo produced, which now hangs in the Louvre.\n\nA recreation of one of the National Gallery's conservation studios, where research was done on the painting\n\nLeonardo da Vinci's first version of The Virgin of the Rocks (1483-1486) is in the Louvre in Paris\n\nAs layer-after-layer of the painting is peeled back, ceiling projections and art studio ephemera add to the sense of theatre in the darkened room.\n\nAnd then comes the big moment: hidden under the finished picture lies a markedly different composition. The subject is the same, The Virgin and Christ Child in a rocky landscape, but the cast of supporting characters and their positioning is not.\n\nThe gallery has only recently found this out, and is now presenting its research for all to see in this themed room, which is unquestionably immersive and impressive, although at the expense of narrative detail. You are left with more questions than answers.\n\nI'm all for being entertained, but I want to be educated as well.\n\nScientific research at the National Gallery led to the discovery of this drawing underneath The Virgin of the Rocks\n\nThe same imbalance is evident in the room dedicated to exploring Leonardo's approach to light and shadow. Three off-white objects are placed in separate small black boxes with lighting you can manipulate in order to play with the chiaroscuro (starkly contrasted light and shade) effects for which Leonardo was famous.\n\nThey are fine but underwhelming, more so if you've queued a long time to have a go. And once again, there's precious little information to deepen knowledge.\n\nThe final room suffers from the same problem.\n\nWe don't get to hear the full story of the church in Milan for which the painting was commissioned. Nor how the building came to be destroyed along with the altarpiece containing Leonardo's painting. Instead, there are evocative projections and mood-enhancing music drawing you towards the star attraction of the show: a digital recreation of the altar with the gallery's The Virgin of the Rocks centre stage.\n\n59 Productions, which created the show, has set the painting in a digitally produced altarpiece\n\nThis is the ultimate test of the exhibition. Is the experience of seeing this masterpiece enhanced or diminished by having graphics animating continuously on either side of it?\n\nThe answer is, it is ruined.\n\nYou can't possibly give it the attention it deserves with so much to distract your gaze. Nor can you see it very well unless you are standing in one spot directly in front of the painting. Look at it from any other angle and the light reflection from the digital projectors glint on its surface like a full moon.\n\nThey would be better off replacing it with a digital version, which it looks like anyway in this installation, and leave the real thing upstairs in the main collection galleries for visitors to enjoy for free.\n\nThe Leonardo Experience is a miss, but it's not a million miles away from being a hit.\n\nI don't think it's a cynical ploy to woo the Instagram crowd or to make a quick buck (although both would be welcome I'd imagine), but a sincere attempt by all involved to use contemporary technology to increase understanding and appreciation of art.\n\nThis show is a step along the way, a wholehearted experiment of sorts for which Dr Finaldi and his team should be congratulated.\n\nThere is bound to be an element of trial and error, there always is when breaking new ground.\n\nYou only have to look beneath the surface of a Leonardo da Vinci painting to know that.\n• None Nonsense? What Turner would've made of the Turner Prize ★★★★☆", "A chip shop owner accused of killing his wife by throwing boiling oil over her has been cleared of her murder.\n\nGeoffrey Bran, 71, who ran The Chipoteria in Hermon, Carmarthenshire, had told police his wife Mavis slipped and pulled a deep fat fryer over herself.\n\nMrs Bran, 69, died in hospital six days after receiving burns to 46% of her body on 23 October 2018.\n\nHe was cleared after five hours of jury deliberations at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nMrs Bran had told friends in the weeks before her death that she feared her husband would kill her, the jury had heard.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Bran's family ask to be left to 'grieve properly'\n\nA statement read by Mr Bran's granddaughter outside court thanked people for their support, adding: \"Family, friends, and our legal team who have shown great compassion, professionalism and positivity over this trying time.\n\n\"The loss of Mavis has left the family devastated and we ask that we are left now to get on with our lives and grieve properly without further intrusion.\"\n\nMrs Bran's family said: \"We as a family would like to say a big thank you to everyone for all the support we have received after the loss of our beautiful, loving sister Mavis, who lost her life in such a tragic way doing the job she loved.\n\n\"She was the matriarch of the family and is missed every day.\n\n\"Now that the court case is over and we finally have closure, we can rebuild our lives as a family, remembering Mavis as the fun-loving person that she was.\"\n\nMavis Bran died six days after hot oil went over her at her chip shop\n\nThe trial was told the couple, who had been married for more than 30 years, had a volatile relationship with arguments and swearing and it deteriorated over the last few months of Mrs Bran's life.\n\nThe prosecution argued Mr Bran had thrown the oil at his wife after an argument over some burnt fish, but he told the jury she accidentally pulled it over herself after she slipped and fell.\n\nThe week-long trial heard Mrs Bran was a heavy drinker and was over the legal drink-drive limit for alcohol on the day of the incident.\n\nAfter Mrs Bran was injured, the court was told she went into their house, which is next to the chip shop cabin, but Mr Bran did not assist her or call an ambulance and continued to serve customers.\n\nThe couple ran The Chipoteria in Carmarthenshire, one of a number of businesses they owned\n\nMrs Bran called a friend, Caroline Morgan, telling her: \"Geoff has thrown boiling oil over me, help me, help me, get here now. I am burnt to hell.\"\n\nIt was Mrs Morgan who called for an ambulance when she arrived 40 minutes later to find Mrs Bran \"rocking back and forth like a little old lady\".\n\nMr Bran said in evidence his wife had accidentally slipped and pulled a fat fryer over herself, saying: \"One of the legs [of the fryer] got to the edge [of the table] and the weight of the oil must have moved things fast and it was like a waterfall and it landed on her chest.\"\n\nSteven Jeffrey, a consultant burns and plastic surgeon, agreed her burns could have been sustained by her falling to the floor and pulling the fryer down over herself, saying: \"This version of events is consistent with her injuries.\"\n\nGeoffrey Bran had been married to Mavis since 1984\n\nMrs Bran was taken to Morriston Hospital in Swansea after the accident where she had surgery to remove some of her burned skin.\n\nShe developed sepsis and hypothermia and died from multi-organ failure.\n\nThe couple met in 1980 and married in 1984. They did not have children together.\n\nMr Bran, who was initially arrested on suspicion of assault, had told police of his relationship with his wife: \"It's a miracle we lasted that long. But we used to get on OK. We've had our ups and downs.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has branded Prime Minister Boris Johnson a \"scaredy-cat\" after he said he would never face her on a televised debate.\n\nMs Sturgeon, the SNP leader, has been excluded from Tuesday evening's ITV debate between Mr Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nMr Johnson said ahead of the debate that he would only debate with \"serious candidates\" to become prime minister.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was willing to face the PM \"any time, any place\".\n\nA joint legal challenge by the SNP and Liberal Democrats to be included in the ITV debate was rejected by the High Court on Monday.\n\nSpeaking to newspaper reporters after the decision, Mr Johnson accepted that the SNP could be \"very influential\" in British politics.\n\nBut he said he would only agree to debate Ms Sturgeon if she \"takes leadership of her party in Parliament and is a serious contender to be prime minister of the UK\".\n\nMr Johnson added: \"The candidate to be prime minister who Nicola Sturgeon would support is Jeremy Corbyn and that is why he is the appropriate person (to debate)\".\n\nMs Sturgeon, who is Scotland's first minister and is not standing to become an MP, argued that a debate between the Labour and Tory leaders does not reflect the choice Scottish voters facer at the general election on 12 December.\n\nShe said: \"The SNP is the biggest party in Scotland, the third-biggest party at Westminster, we could hold the balance of power after this election.\n\n\"Our views should be heard, and indeed scrutinised, in this debate and it's deeply regrettable that won't happen.\"\n\nThe prime minister visited a boxing gym ahead of the ITV debate\n\nAsked about Mr Johnson's comments that he would not debate her, Ms Sturgeon said: \"He seems to be a big scaredy-cat.\n\n\"I remember when he came to Bute House in the summer and was getting into a debate about independence with me - privately I suggested to him then that we should take it to the public sphere and have a debate in public about that.\n\n\"He seemed to be up for that at the time, so I can't really throw any light on what has changed his mind.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it \"spoke volumes\" that Mr Johnson was only willing to go head-to-head with Mr Corbyn, adding: \"I'll put down a challenge to him right now: I'll debate him any time, any place.\n\n\"So come on Boris, stop being so scared.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking during a campaign visit to a trampoline activity centre in Stirling, where she repeated her call for Scotland to be given more powers over immigration policy in order to help grow its economy.\n\nMr Corbyn was greeted by supporters as he arrived for the TV debate in Salford\n\nAs he arrived ahead of the debate, Mr Corbyn said he hoped it would be \"respectful and informative\", and that he would use it to outline how Labour's policies could \"transform this country\".\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats have said it is \"outrageous that the Remain voice is missing\" from the debate.\n\nThe BBC will also host a live head-to-head debate between the Conservative and Labour leaders in Southampton on 6 December, plus a seven-way podium debate between senior figures from the UK's major political parties on 29 November, live from Cardiff.\n\nThe Lib Dems have sent a legal letter to the BBC over its decision not to include Ms Swinson in the head-to-head.\n\nBBC Scotland will stage a televised debate between the SNP, Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats on 10 December, although the Scottish Greens have criticised the decision not to include them.", "Jeremy Corbyn has accused Boris Johnson of using the NHS as a trade negotiation tool with the US.\n\nThe prime minister strenuously denied the accusation, calling the claim \"an invention\".\n\nThe Tory and Labour leaders have been taking part in a live televised debate on ITV.", "People in Sydney woke up to a city shrouded in smoke on Tuesday, as scores of bushfires rage across the region.\n\nStrong winds overnight brought smoke from fires inland, pushing the air quality in Australia's largest city to beyond \"hazardous\" levels at times.\n\nOn social media, locals have described hazy skies and the stench of smoke in their homes.\n\nAbout five million people live in the state capital of New South Wales, which has been affected for weeks by fires.\n\nSix people have died in bushfires in the state's north since October.\n\nRead more: Sydney blanketed by smoke from massive bushfires", "Hallie Rubenhold has worked as a curator for the National Portrait Gallery and as a university lecturer.\n\nA book that tells the \"untold\" stories of the women killed by Jack the Ripper has won a literary prize.\n\nHallie Rubenhold's The Five took this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, it was announced on Tuesday.\n\nThe author and historian bagged £50,000 for the book, which attempts to give a voice to the women murdered mysteriously in Victorian east London.\n\n\"These were ordinary people, like you and I, who happened to fall upon hard times,\" said Rubenhold.\n\nThe book reconstructs the lives of the five women - Mary Ann \"Polly\" Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly - killed by the unidentified serial killer in the Whitechapel area of the city, often using little more than the DNA of a single hair.\n\n\"There's so much in their stories that we can take away that tells us about how we live today: everything from homelessness to addiction to domestic violence,\" she went on.\n\n\"And people become victims because society doesn't care about them.\"\n\nImage taken from the cover of The Five by Hallie Rubenhold\n\nStig Abell, chair of the judges for the award, said the \"beautifully written and impressively researched\" book \"spoke with an urgency and passion to our own times\".\n\nEarlier in the year, around its publication, the Guardian noted how \"a landmark study calls time on the misogyny that fed the Jack the Ripper myth\". The paper's critic, Frances Wilson, however, begged the question: \"Why has it taken 130 years for a book telling the stories of the women to appear?\"\n\nRebecca Armstrong from iNews wrote that Rubenhold was \"giving Jack the Ripper's victims back their voices\".\n\n\"Throughout the book, Rubenhold uses the particulars of her subjects' lives as a springboard to depict social circumstances that shaped millions of lives,\" added Wendy Smith in The Washington Post.\n\nJad Adams from the Literary Review acknowledged how the book did not include any gory accounts of how each victim met her death.\n\n\"This is because she wants to look not at how they died but at how they lived,\" he wrote.\n\nOther titles shortlisted for the award included Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep, and On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming. William Feaver's The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth, Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell, and Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni were also recognised.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Standard Chartered has become the second corporate partner to sever ties with the Duke of York's business mentoring initiative, Pitch@Palace.\n\nThe bank joined accountancy firm KPMG in pulling support for the scheme.\n\nIt said it was not renewing its sponsorship for \"commercial reasons\".\n\nSeveral businesses and universities are reviewing their association with Prince Andrew following a BBC interview about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nSources have told the BBC the decisions by Standard Chartered and KPMG were made before the Newsnight interview.\n\nPrince Andrew cancelled a planned visit to flood-hit areas of Yorkshire on Tuesday, three days after the interview aired, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nIt is understood the visit was deemed inappropriate in the midst of an election campaign.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn were asked about whether the duke was \"fit for purpose\" during their head-to-head debate on ITV on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe Labour leader said there were \"very, very serious questions that must be answered and nobody should be above the law\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think all our sympathies should be, obviously, with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the law must certainly take its course.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his Newsnight interview, the Queen's third child said he still did not regret his friendship with US financier Epstein - who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in the US.\n\nThe interview has provoked a backlash, with businesses, charities and other institutions announcing that they were reviewing their association with the prince.\n\nIn addition to Standard Chartered and KPMG ending their support for Pitch@Palace:\n\nOn Monday, the Huddersfield students' union panel passed a motion to lobby the prince to resign as their chancellor.\n\nThe university has since said that it listens to its students' views and will \"now be consulting with them over the coming weeks\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nThe duke has stood by his decision to speak out, after critics labelled the interview a \"car crash\".\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Tuesday, Huddersfield student Tristan Smith criticised the prince over his friendship with Epstein.\n\nHe accused Prince Andrew of \"trying to dismiss\" the row and failing to recognise Epstein's victims.\n\nMeanwhile, a woman who has accused Epstein of sexually abusing her as a 15-year-old has urged Prince Andrew to share information about his former friend.\n\nThe accuser, identified as \"Jane Doe 15\", did not accuse Prince Andrew of any wrongdoing but called on him and others to come forward and give a statement under oath.\n\nElsewhere, former home secretary Jacqui Smith alleged that Prince Andrew made racist comments to her during a state dinner.\n\n\"I have to say the conversation left us slack-jawed with the things that he felt it was appropriate to say,\" she told the LBC election podcast.\n\nAnd Rohan Silva, who was an adviser to former prime minister David Cameron, also accused the prince of using a racial slur in his presence.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman strenuously denied the claims, adding that Prince Andrew \"does not tolerate racism in any form\".\n\nThere is no wholesale repudiation of Prince Andrew's public role.\n\nBut whether as a result of the interview he gave, or because of the continuing swirl of allegations, there is a falling away of support for the prince, both corporate and political.\n\nThe former Labour lord chancellor and justice secretary, Lord Falconer, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that he thought the time had come for Prince Andrew to step away from public duties.\n\nThose close to Prince Andrew say that a withdrawal from public life is not under consideration.\n\nBut if support continues to seep from him, it will undermine his public position.\n\nThere was also further reaction to the prince's BBC appearance.\n\nActress Rose McGowan - one of the most prominent figures of the #MeToo movement - told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she thought it was not a truthful interview.\n\n\"It's also certainly not the mark of someone who is an empathetic character who cares about victims in any way,\" she added.\n\nThe actress also said she wished more questions had been asked about Epstein's alleged victims.\n\n\"We can't forget there is human tragedy behind this... This has serious repercussions, serious ramifications and serious pain that is involved in this story.\"\n\nHowever, Alastair Campbell - Tony Blair's ex-communications chief - said that although he thought the interview was a \"mistake\", it was not \"as bad as it is now being defined\".\n\nMr Campbell, who was another high-profile Briton to be named in Epstein's 97-page \"black book\" of contacts, also told the Today programme that he met the financier on a visit to the US for a funeral and found him to be \"a bit creepy\".\n\nPrince Andrew's BBC interview followed allegations by Virginia Giuffre, known at the time as Virginia Roberts, who claims the prince had sex with her on three occasions - the first when she was aged 17.\n\nPrince Andrew \"categorically\" denied having had sexual contact with her.\n\nIn an extraordinary interview, which you can watch in full on BBC iPlayer in the UK or YouTube elsewhere in the world, the duke said:", "Adults who murder children will face life in prison without parole if the Conservatives are elected in December.\n\nThe party said it would bring in a new law to make \"whole life orders\" the starting point when sentencing over 21-year-olds for the premeditated murder of a child under 16.\n\nHowever, the final sentencing decision would remain with judges.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the policy would tackle \"genuine concern\" about sentencing.\n\nSimilar plans were reported by the Sunday Telegraph in September and were expected to form part of the Queen's Speech after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered an urgent review into sentencing policy in August - but the policy was not announced.\n\nThe Conservatives' plan would see changes to Schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which provides the starting point for judges considering whole life orders for murderers in exceptionally grave cases.\n\nThis happened in the case of Mark Bridger, who was given a whole life sentence in 2013 when he was convicted of abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones in a sexually motivated attack.\n\nCurrently, for a judge to grant such an order, the rules require the murder to be of multiple children, to be sexually or sadistically motivated or to involve a child's abduction.\n\nIf there is not evidence of these conditions, the offender must still be given a life sentence, but that differs from a whole life order, as a judge can specify the minimum term they must spend in prison before becoming eligible to apply for parole.\n\nThis happened in the case of Louise Porton, who killed her daughters - aged three and 17 months - and was sentenced to life with a minimum of 32 years.\n\nThe Tories want to extend Schedule 21 to cover any premeditated murder of a child by an adult.\n\nHowever, judicial discretion will come into play - meaning a judge can decide not to enforce a whole life order when they see fit.\n\nThe message from Boris Johnson, since he became prime minister, is that the Conservatives are \"the party of law and order\".\n\nMore police, new prisons, tougher sentences. The latest proposed measures continue that theme.\n\nThey're largely symbolic - designed to boost confidence in the criminal justice system - and would affect only a dozen or so of the 50 to 60 child homicide cases every year.\n\nArguably, what's more significant is the Tories' plan to improve education and training across prisons to increase employment levels on release.\n\nJustice secretaries have tried and failed to do this before, so expectation levels will be low - but the prize for success, in terms of reduced reoffending rates and fewer victims, is huge.\n\nMr Buckland acknowledged that the new rules would only affect a limited number of cases, but child murders can \"send a real shockwave, either through the local community or the wider public\".\n\n\"That's why I think it's important we send a clear message,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Amending the law to make the starting point a whole life order means that there would have to be particular reasons, spelt out clearly, for a judge to depart from that.\"\n\nThere is already a mandatory life sentence for murder, but that does not mean murderers necessarily spend their whole life in prison.\n\nIt does mean after release that they remain on licence for the rest of their life, having to meet certain conditions or else be recalled to prison.\n\nBut some crimes can carry a \"whole life\" sentence meaning a criminal will never be eligible for parole.\n\nThe Conservatives' proposals would change the sentencing \"starting point\" for all child murderers to a whole life tariff.\n\nWhen it comes to sentencing, each crime has a \"starting point\" - a presumed minimum term from which the judge subtracts, or to which they add based on any mitigating or aggravating circumstances.\n\nFor example, a murder involving a knife committed by someone over the age of 18 carries a starting point of 25 years.\n\nBut a judge may choose a harsher or more lenient sentence than 25 years depending on the individual case.\n\nAs it stands, a judge can already choose to hand down a whole life sentence for the murder of a child - this would just mean it is the automatic starting point.\n\nAnd this will apply to a small number of cases - there are typically fewer than 50 homicides of under-16s per year, of which a far smaller number will be premeditated murders where there was an intent to kill.\n\nThe Conservatives have also announced plans to try to get more former prisoners into work after they complete their sentences.\n\nThe goal is to double the number of those in employment six weeks after their release, with measures including a \"prison education service\" to oversee learning across all jails, more workshops to employ prisoners during their sentences, and a dedicated work coach in every prison to link inmates with job centres ahead of their release.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has pledged to reverse cuts to prison staff and prisons, as well as improve pay and conditions.\n\nThe party has also promised to scrap shorter prison sentences, which it argues will reduce reoffending.\n\nThe Lib Dems also want to increase the use of non-custodial punishments - such as curfews, community service and GPS tagging - rather than short prison sentences.", "Rhiannon Davies campaigned for an independent inquiry after her baby, Kate, died in 2009\n\nBabies and mothers died amid a \"toxic\" culture at a hospital trust stretching back 40 years, a report has said.\n\nThe catalogue of maternity care failings at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust are contained in a report leaked to The Independent.\n\nIt reveals that some children were left disabled, staff got the names of some dead babies wrong and, in one case, referred to a child as \"it\".\n\nThe trust apologised and said \"a lot\" had been done to address concerns.\n\nIn 2017, then Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced an investigation into avoidable baby deaths at the trust, which runs Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Telford's Princess Royal.\n\nIt is being led by maternity expert Donna Ockenden, who authored the report for NHS Improvement.\n\nThe trust runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital in Telford\n\nIts initial scope was to examine 23 cases but this has now grown to more than 270, covering the period from 1979 to the present day.\n\nThe cases include 22 stillbirths, three deaths during pregnancy, 17 deaths of babies after birth, three deaths of mothers, 47 cases of substandard care and 51 cases of cerebral palsy or brain damage.\n\nThe interim report said the number of cases it is now being asked to review \"seems to represent a longstanding culture at this trust that is toxic to improvement effort\".\n\nThe report details the issues experienced by affected families, including:\n\nIt also points to an inadequate review carried out by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in 2017 and the \"misplaced\" optimism of the regulator in charge in 2007.\n\nDonna Ockenden said the leaked document appeared to be an internal status update as of February 2019\n\nRhiannon Davies and Richard Stanton, whose baby Kate died in 2009, were among the families who first pushed for the independent inquiry.\n\nMs Davies said she was already aware of many of the issues raised by the report but said she was \"shocked\" by the length of time covered by the report.\n\n\"The devastating reality of Kate's avoidable death, that I have to live with, is that she was condemned to her painful death by the culture at SaTH that wilfully refused to learn from earlier cases dating back decades,\" she said.\n\n\"That is why I have fought every body and every institution in Kate's name because no other baby will suffer the same harm while I have breath in my body.\n\n\"The only way I believe it will stop is if the police or Crown Prosecution Service bring corporate manslaughter charges against the trust.\"\n\nThis report will unfortunately only confirm what dozens of families have been telling me since we first highlighted the problems at the trust in 2017.\n\nA staggering attitude towards any number of families - dismissing their questions, telling young women who'd just lost a healthy baby not to worry as they'll be pregnant again within the year - showed a wilful disregard to improving healthcare and learning from mistakes.\n\nBut it would be wrong to simply blame SaTH, culpable as it is. NHS regulators as far back as 2007 drew attention to problems in the maternity unit and then failed to follow-up with any meaningful improvements.\n\nThe trust has recently appointed a new chief executive - developing a new culture will take an awful lot longer.\n\nDet Supt Carl Moore, of West Mercia Police, said the force was liaising with the independent inquiry and awaiting its findings before any criminal proceedings would be considered - in line with protocol in health care settings.\n\nMr Stanton said: \"My feelings are one of huge sorrow, huge sorrow for all the families who have had their lives ripped apart by this trust, by the avoidable death of their child, an avoidable death of a mother or the harm to their child.\n\n\"A death at the hands of a trust that has a toxic culture of lying and cover up.\"\n\nSharon Morris, whose daughter Olivia suffered a brain injury 14 years ago, said she was \"not shocked\" by the findings.\n\nIn a statement released by Lanyon Bowdler solicitors, she said: \"Every day for the last 14 years we are constantly reminded of the failure by SaTH to help me give birth to healthy twins.\n\n\"No amount of money can change things and all we can now hope for is that changes are made to ensure other families don't suffer like we do.\"\n\nOlivia Morris (centre), pictured with her identical twin Beth and their mother Sharon, suffered a brain injury 14 years ago\n\nShrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) said it had \"not been made aware of any interim report\" and awaited the findings of the full report.\n\nShe added: \"A lot has already been done to address the issues raised by previous cases.\"\n\nHowever, the report warned lessons were not being learned and staff at the trust were uncommunicative with families.\n\nMs Ockenden said the leaked document appeared to be an internal status update as of February 2019.\n\n\"This was produced at the request of NHS Improvement and was not meant for publication,\" she said.\n\nShe said the independent review team was working to meet the family's request for \"one, single, comprehensive\" report covering all cases of serious concern within maternity services at the trust.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hazhar Jabbary worked as an interpreter on asylum cases\n\nOne of Scotland's biggest immigration law firms has suspended three interpreters amid a police investigation into reports of fraud in the asylum system in Glasgow.\n\nThe BBC has learned that Latta & Co has taken action against freelance interpreters working on Kurdish asylum seeker claims.\n\nThere is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of the law firm.\n\nIt is understood police are investigating one interpreter.\n\nThey received allegations that Hazhar Jabbary had been telling asylum seekers he could guarantee their claim to stay in the UK would be successful in return for payment.\n\nLast month, the BBC received information the interpreter was asking for money, and the amount charged ranged from about £4,000 to £25,000.\n\nIt is understood Mr Jabbary, who is a freelance interpreter, has worked in the past for a number of public authorities, including the police. More recently he has worked as a self-employed interpreter for Latta & Co in Glasgow.\n\nA spokesman for Latta & Co described the three interpreters as \"rivals\" and said it had suspended them when they became aware of the allegation.\n\nHe said: \"They will never work for the firm again. We carried out a thorough investigation and took detailed legal advice but there was an obvious lack of clear evidence to back up claims of wrongdoing. As part of the process, we encouraged anyone with concerns to report the matter to the police.\n\n\"The work of interpreters is vital in this field of law and we are now working with a number of alternative interpreters to ensure our clients get the legal help they need.\"\n\nInterpreters are employed to provide support to asylum seekers involved in making applications.\n\nThey receive an hourly rate for their services.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Police in Glasgow are currently investigating reports of fraud relating to immigration and asylum applications in the city. Inquiries are at an early stage.\"\n\nA lawyer for Mr Jabbary told the BBC: \"On our advice he has nothing to say regarding this matter.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bethany Bell visits the house where Adolf Hitler was born\n\nThe building where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born in Austria will be turned into a police station, officials have announced.\n\nInterior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said it would be an \"unmistakable signal\" that the property did not commemorate Nazism.\n\nHitler spent the first few weeks of his life in a flat in the 17th-Century building in the town of Braunau am Inn.\n\nThe fate of the property has been the subject of a lengthy dispute.\n\nFor decades, the government rented it from its former owner in an attempt to stop far-right tourism.\n\nIt was once a day-care centre for disabled people, but this ended when owner Gerlinde Pommer objected to plans to make it more wheelchair-friendly and then refused all government offers to buy it or carry out renovations.\n\nA plan to turn it into a centre for refugees in 2014 also came to nothing.\n\nThe government took possession of the house in 2016 under a compulsory purchase order, for a price of 810,000 euros ($897,000; £694,000).\n\nThere has been widespread debate and disagreement in Austria over the fate of the building.\n\nSome have called for it to be torn down, while others argued it should be used for charity work or as a house of reconciliation.\n\nIn his statement on Tuesday, Mr Peschorn said the house's \"future use by the police should send an unmistakable signal that this building will never again evoke the memory of National Socialism\".\n\nHitler was born in Braunau am Inn, where his father had been posted for work, on 20 April 1889. The family stayed in an apartment in the building for a few weeks after his birth before moving to another address in the area.\n\nThey left the town for good when Hitler was three years old.\n\nHe returned briefly in 1938, on his way to Vienna, after he annexed Austria to Nazi Germany.\n\nUnder Hitler's rule (1933-45), Nazi Germany began World War Two, pursuing a genocidal policy that resulted in the deaths of some six million Jews, and tens of millions of other civilians and combatants.", "Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the US\n\nTo his supporters, Julian Assange is a valiant campaigner for truth. To his critics, he is a publicity seeker who has endangered lives by putting a mass of sensitive information into the public domain.\n\nAssange is described by those who have worked with him as intense, driven and highly intelligent, with an exceptional ability to crack computer codes.\n\nHe set up Wikileaks, which publishes confidential documents and images, in 2006, making headlines around the world in April 2010 when it released footage showing US soldiers shooting dead 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq.\n\nBut later that year he was detained in the UK - and later bailed - after Sweden issued an international arrest warrant over allegations of sexual assault.\n\nSwedish authorities wanted to question him over claims that he had raped one woman and sexually molested and coerced another in August 2010, while on a visit to Stockholm to give a lecture.\n\nHe says both encounters were entirely consensual, and a long legal battle ensued which saw him seek asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition.\n\nAfter spending almost seven years inside the embassy, Assange was arrested by British police on 11 April 2019. It came after Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno tweeted that his country had taken \"a sovereign decision\" to withdraw his asylum status.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London\n\nThe Wikileaks founder had always argued that he could not leave the embassy because he feared being extradited from Sweden to the US and put on trial for releasing secret US documents.\n\nOfficers removed him from the embassy's premises and took him into custody at a central London police station.\n\nOn 1 May 2019, Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nWeeks later, an investigation into the 2010 rape allegation against Assange was reopened by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nAssange gestures with a thumbs up after he was arrested by Met Police officers at Ecuador's embassy in London\n\nLater that month, the US filed 17 new charges against Assange for violating the Espionage Act, related to the publication of classified documents in 2010.\n\nWikileaks said the announcement was \"madness\" and \"the end of national security journalism\".\n\nAs Assange prepared to fight against extradition to the US, Swedish prosecutors announced that the investigation into the 2010 rape allegation had been dropped.\n\nProsecutors said the evidence against Assange was \"not strong enough to form the basis for filing an indictment\", ending a case that spanned a decade.\n\nIn April 2020 it emerged that Assange had fathered two children while living inside the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nStella Morris, a South African-born lawyer, said she had been in a relationship with the Wikileaks founder since 2015 and was raising their two young sons on her own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange’s fiancée says she dreaded going public with their relationship\n\nCurrently jailed in London's Belmarsh Prison, Assange's legal fight against extradition to the US continues.\n\nDuring one extradition hearing in September 2020, a psychiatrist said Assange complained of hearing imaginary voices and music.\n\nMichael Kopelman, who had interviewed Assange about 20 times, told the court he would be a \"very high\" suicide risk if he were extradited to the US.\n\nAssange has been generally reluctant to talk about his background, but media interest since the emergence of Wikileaks has thrown up some insight into his influences.\n\nHe was born in Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland in 1971, and led a rootless childhood while his parents ran a touring theatre. He became a father at 18 and custody battles soon followed.\n\nThe development of the internet gave him a chance to use his early promise at maths, though this too led to difficulties.\n\nAfter pleading guilty to \"hacking\", Assange escaped prison on the condition he did not reoffend\n\nIn 1995 Assange was accused, with a friend, of dozens of hacking activities. Though the group of hackers was skilled enough to track detectives tracking them, Assange was eventually caught and pleaded guilty.\n\nHe was fined several thousand Australian dollars - only escaping a prison term on the condition that he did not reoffend.\n\nHe then spent three years working with an academic, Suelette Dreyfus - who was researching the emerging, subversive side of the internet - writing a book with her, Underground, that became a bestseller in the computing fraternity.\n\nMs Dreyfus described Assange as a \"very skilled researcher\" who was \"quite interested in the concept of ethics, concepts of justice, what governments should and shouldn't do\".\n\nThis was followed by a course in physics and maths at Melbourne University, where he became a prominent member of a mathematics society, inventing an elaborate puzzle that contemporaries said he excelled at.\n\nHe began Wikileaks in 2006 with a group of like-minded people from across the web, creating a web-based \"dead-letterbox\" for would-be leakers.\n\n\"[To] keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions,\" Assange told the BBC in 2011.\n\n\"We've become good at it, and never lost a case, or a source, but we can't expect everyone to go through the extraordinary efforts that we do.\"\n\nHe could go for long stretches without eating and focus on work with very little sleep, according to Raffi Khatchadourian, a reporter for the New Yorker magazine who spent several weeks travelling with him.\n\n\"He creates this atmosphere around him where the people who are close to him want to care for him, to help keep him going. I would say that probably has something to do with his charisma.\"\n\nWikileaks and Assange came to prominence with the release of the footage of the US helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq.\n\nHe promoted and defended the video, as well as the massive release of classified US military documents on the Afghan and Iraq wars in July and October 2010.\n\nThe whistleblowing website went on to release new tranches of documents, including five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence company Stratfor.\n\nBut it also found itself fighting for survival in 2010, when a number of US financial institutions began to block donations.\n\nAssange told the BBC that in order to protect sources he would \"encrypt everything\"\n\nCoverage of Assange was then dominated by Sweden's efforts to question him over the 2010 sexual allegations. He said such efforts were politically motivated and part of a smear campaign.\n\nAssange turned to then Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa for help, the two men having expressed similar views on freedom in the past.\n\nHis stay at the Ecuadorean embassy was punctuated by occasional press statements and interviews. He made a submission to the UK's Leveson Inquiry into press standards, saying he had faced \"widespread inaccurate and negative media coverage\".\n\nConcerns over his health also surfaced but in August 2014, but Assange dismissed reports that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment.\n\nAssange later complained to the UN that he was being unlawfully detained as he could not leave the embassy without being arrested.\n\nIn February 2016, a UN panel ruled in his favour, stating that he had been \"arbitrarily detained\" and should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nAssange dismissed reports in 2014 that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment\n\nAssange hailed it a \"significant victory\" and called the decision \"binding\", leading his lawyers to call for the Swedish extradition request to be dropped immediately.\n\nThe ruling was not legally binding on the UK, however, and the UK Foreign Office responded by saying it \"changes nothing\".\n\nIn 2016, Sweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travelled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to question Assange over the 2010 rape allegation. Prosecutors had already dropped their investigation into the sexual assault allegations after running out of time to question him and bring charges.\n\nSince Sweden dropped its investigation into Assange, the European Arrest Warrant for him no longer stands.\n\nBut the Metropolitan Police said Assange still faced the lesser charge of failing to surrender to a court in June 2012, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd it was a warrant based on this charge which led to his arrest in 2019. Citing the warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates' Court on 29 June 2012, the Metropolitan Police said Assange had been \"taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible\".\n\nMet Police officers dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had stayed since 2012\n\nThe police said they had been invited into the embassy by the Ecuadorean ambassador.\n\nEcuador's position vis-à-vis Assange changed after President Correa, a strong advocate of Wikileaks, was succeeded in office by Lenín Moreno.\n\nMr Moreno and his government had grown increasingly frustrated with Assange and his refusal to follow the rules they had imposed for his continued stay in the embassy.\n\nIn his video statement, President Moreno said he had \"inherited this situation\" and that Assange had ignored Ecuador's requests to \"respect and abide by these rules\".\n\nFrom the embassy's balcony in 2012, Assange urged the US to end its \"witchhunt\" against Wikileaks\n\nHis decision, Mr Moreno said, followed \"repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols\" by Assange.\n\nHe said that in particular, Assange had \"violated the norm of not intervening in the internal affairs of other states\", most recently in January 2019 when Wikileaks had released documents from the Vatican.\n\nIn a video statement, President Moreno also said that he had requested that Great Britain guarantee that Assange would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Twitter account of Arron Banks, the founder of the pro-Brexit campaign Leave.EU, has been hacked.\n\nThe perpetrator has leaked thousands of his private messages to and from dozens of other people spanning several years.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Banks accused Twitter of taking too long to tackle the issue and said the social network had \"deliberately chosen\" to leave his personal information online.\n\nTwitter said it had \"taken steps to secure the compromised account\".\n\n\"We will continue to take firm enforcement action in line with our policy which strictly prohibits the distribution on our service of materials obtained through hacking,\" Twitter said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leave.EU This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known who carried out the attack.\n\nThe data was made available by the hackers in the form of a link to a download. The original file is no longer online.\n\nOne expert said the hacker, if caught, could be prosecuted under the Computer Misuse Act, and that others who made use of the material would be walking into a legal minefield.\n\n\"Even if Arron Banks was using Twitter in a private capacity rather than as Leave.EU, the data was misappropriated from Twitter and that likely engages the Data Protection Act,\" commented Tim Turner, a data protection consultant.\n\n\"There are public interest defences for using unlawfully obtained data, but that requires a journalist or other person to gamble that they can successfully argue that the public interest supports whatever use they make of it.\n\n\"You cannot know for certain that the public interest will back up any particular course of action; a person would have to act first, and see what follows.\"\n\nAvon and Somerset Police has confirmed that it is investigating the matter.\n\n\"We're investigating whether any offences have been committed under the Computer Misuse Act after we received a report a Twitter account was compromised,\" said a spokesman.\n\nIn February 2019, Leave.EU and an insurance company owned by Mr Banks were fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for breaching data protection laws.\n\n\"Arron Banks has shown extraordinary contempt for the ICO and British data laws and so this is a moment for him to reflect on the need for those laws and a regulator to enforce them,\" said the journalist Carole Cadwalladr.\n\nMs Cadwalladr and Mr Banks have had many battles over her investigations into his affairs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Carole Cadwalladr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said in a tweet that she had been sent some direct messages, said to be from the hacked account.\n\nThey were \"pretty explosive\" she tweeted.\n\nMs Cadwalladr told the BBC she had not downloaded any data.\n\nMr Banks' Twitter account was suspended following the breach but is now working again.\n• None Twitter's Jack Dorsey has his own account hacked", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Detective Inspector Perry Benton explains how the Met Police pieced together evidence to catch Jodie's killers\n\nTwo teenagers have been jailed for life for murdering a 17-year-old girl in an east London park.\n\nJodie Chesney was stabbed in the back as she sat with friends in Harold Hill on 1 March.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, and Arron Isaacs, 17, of Barking, were both convicted earlier this month after a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nOng-a-Kwie, of Romford, will serve a minimum of 26 years while Isaacs was detained for at least 18 years.\n\nExplaining the sentences, Judge Wendy Joseph QC told the court she was \"satisfied\" Ong-a-Kwie had stabbed Jodie while Isaacs was a \"willing supporter\".\n\n\"When that knife was driven into Jodie, that intention was to kill,\" she said.\n\nShe added that her death \"was part of a series of tit-for-tat attacks\" which had been \"increasing in ferocity\", and \"although the target was not Jodie... there was a degree of planning\".\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie (l) and Arron Isaacs (r) were both found guilty of Jodie's murder\n\nDuring the trial, each of the defendants blamed each other for the attack but a jury took less than six hours to find them both guilty of murder.\n\nIn an impact statement read before sentencing, Jodie's father Peter Chesney said the death of his daughter \"has destroyed my life\".\n\nThe 39-year-old, who was not in court, described how a year ago he had started a new job as a salesman in the City \"and I was about to take over the world in a promising career.\n\n\"Now I sit here in the cabin in my garden writing this statement. I have left that job, the relationship with my wife has fallen apart and we are now getting divorced. I must sell my house, and above all, I have lost the most precious human being I will ever know,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police body-worn video captured Svenson Ong-a-Kwie falling through a conservatory roof as officers tried to arrest him\n\nFollowing the stabbing, Jodie collapsed into the arms of her boyfriend Eddie Coyle who told the court he had been \"completely changed\" by the events of that night.\n\n\"I find it hard to sleep most of the time. I've been diagnosed with PTSD from this, and it keeps me up most nights so I don't sleep,\" he said.\n\nThe court had heard drug dealer Ong-a-Kwie and his runner Isaacs had been looking to take revenge on rivals but had killed Jodie by mistake.\n\nShe had been socialising with friends that evening when two figures emerged out of the dark and one plunged a knife in her back.\n\nThe two defendants fled in another drug dealer's car but were arrested together days later as they fled from a house linked to Isaacs, the jury were told.\n\nThe 17-year-old was stabbed once in the back while she was socialising with friends in Amy's Park\n\nOng-a-Kwie had convictions for possessing and supplying drugs and had admitted being in breach of a six-week suspended sentence for handling stolen jewellery.\n\nTwo other people - Manuel Petrovic, 20, of Romford, and a 16-year-old boy - were both cleared of murder and manslaughter.\n\nMet Police officer Det Insp Perry Benton described the investigation as \"one of the hardest I've ever dealt with\", adding that the defendants \"have shown no remorse from day one\".\n\nJodie Chesney was an active Scout member who was described as \"one of our brightest and best\" by chief scout Bear Grylls\n\nSpeaking following the sentencing, Jodie's uncle Terry Chesney said the family were \"happy\" with the jail terms and would now \"try\" to get on with their lives.\n\n\"Today was justice. We'll never get her back, but we've got justice,\" he said.\n\nJustice for Jodie: Searching for the Killers can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and can also be seen on YouTube.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales secured qualification for Euro 2020 as Aaron Ramsey marked his return to the team with two goals to inspire a joyous 2-0 win over Hungary.\n\nRamsey, starting for the first time in this campaign, headed in from Gareth Bale's first-half cross to fuel a carnival atmosphere at a heaving Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nA superb double save from Wayne Hennessey kept Hungary at bay and then, 90 seconds into the second half, Ramsey calmly controlled the ball in the penalty area before stroking it into the top corner.\n\nBale came close to adding a third with a fierce free-kick which fizzed narrowly over, while Ramsey was denied a hat-trick by Hungary goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi.\n\nBut nothing could detract from the euphoria in the stands as Wales rejoiced at the prospect of playing at only a third major tournament in their history.\n\nNext summer's European Championship will be Wales' second in succession, a remarkable transformation for a country which had to endure 58 barren years between its first appearance at a major tournament, the 1958 World Cup, and its second at Euro 2016.\n• None 'Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order' - Bale risks further rift with Real\n• None Wales 'want to have time of lives' at Euros\n• None Has Giggs won over fans with Euro 2020 qualification?\n\nQualification also represented an extraordinary turnaround in this campaign alone.\n\nWhen Wales lost in Hungary in June, they were left with only three points from their first three matches and with their hopes of qualifying hanging by a thread.\n\nBut having avoided defeat since then, Ryan Giggs' side were gathering momentum at just the right moment.\n\nNobody epitomised that sense of timing better than Ramsey, who had returned from a series of injuries to make his first appearance of the campaign as a substitute during Saturday's 2-0 win in Azerbaijan.\n\nThe Juventus midfielder came on for Bale on that occasion but both started against Hungary, Wales able to name the integral duo in the same team for the first time since November 2018.\n\nRamsey and Bale's influence on the national team is enormous, illustrated by the fact they had not lost a qualifier while playing together since a 2-0 defeat in Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 2015, which was academic as Wales qualified for Euro 2016 that night anyway.\n\nThey demonstrated their value to Wales once more on this occasion with a wonderfully worked first goal, Bale curling in a perfectly-weighted left-footed cross from the right and Ramsey heading in to get the party started in Cardiff.\n\nBale almost created a second goal when he crossed beautifully again, this time with his right foot, for Kieffer Moore, but the striker's header was wide.\n\nMoore atoned for that miss by playing his part in Wales' second goal, hooking a free-kick towards Ramsey, who was composure personified as he controlled the ball and finished with a flourish.\n\nWales had several chances to extend their lead, with Bale, Daniel James and Ramsey all going close.\n\nBut it did not matter. Despite a fleeting sign of Hungary's threat in the first half, the visitors posed no danger in the second.\n\nWales' players enjoyed themselves as they closed out the game, and then when the final whistle blew the celebrations could start in earnest.\n\nBefore qualifying for Euro 2016, Wales had come to be defined by their failures, a footballing nation weighed down by its past littered with near misses.\n\nFinal hurdles had proved Wales' undoing too many times: Scotland in 1977, Romania in 1993, Russia in 2003 and the Republic of Ireland in 2017 all etched on the national consciousness.\n\nBut although this side to face Hungary contained five of the line-up which lost to the Republic in the Welsh capital two years ago, this was also a Welsh squad comprised largely of young players unaffected by history's scars.\n\nFor the new generation, it is expected that Wales qualify - or that they are at least in contention until the very end.\n\nThis was a third qualifying campaign in succession where Wales entered their final fixture with their hopes of reaching the finals of a major tournament still alive.\n\nThey rose to the occasion here with a performance of supreme confidence and maturity, the old guard of Ramsey and Bale combining with the emerging talents of James, Connor Roberts, Ethan Ampadu and others.\n\nBale said on the eve of this match that Wales were using the \"euphoria\" of Euro 2016 as well as the pain of missing out on last year's 2018 World Cup as inspiration against Hungary.\n\nWales have learnt how to positively harness their history - rather than be burdened by it - and now they can look forward to writing a new chapter at Euro 2020.\n• None Offside, Hungary. István Kovács tries a through ball, but Filip Holender is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Wilson (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieffer Moore.\n• None Kieffer Moore (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Hungary. Zsolt Nagy tries a through ball, but Filip Holender is caught offside.\n• None Daniel James (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Dominik Szoboszlai (Hungary) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Máté Pátkai (Hungary) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dominik Szoboszlai.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Chris Mepham (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Davies with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Q: What do you do personally to help the environment?\n\nA: I drive all over the country, I catch a lot of aeroplane flights, I am not a leading example. But I think the UK should start a global initiative on planting trees on a massive scale.\n\nQ: Is the political debate now toxic?\n\nYes it is, and there very simple reason why. All through our history, if you lose an election you accept the result. For the first time in our history, senior figures have refused to accept the result, insulting and abusing those who dare to vote for Brexit, and this is what led to this.\n\nQ: Will we leave the EU this year?\n\nA: We are leaving the EU, and I think we will leave in 2020, but it must not just be Brexit in name only.", "Hundreds of koalas are feared dead as bushfires spread across Australia's east coast, ravaging their main habitat.\n\nBut some people are doing what they can to save the vulnerable marsupials.", "A Conservative party election candidate has been suspended over alleged anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and homophobic comments he made seven years ago.\n\nRyan Houghton - a candidate in the Aberdeen North constituency - confirmed his suspension on Monday after The National published the allegations.\n\nHe has apologised for any hurt caused but insisted the comments were taken out of context.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the blog comments were \"unacceptable\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ryan Houghton for Aberdeen North This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Ryan Houghton for Aberdeen North\n\nMr Houghton remains a candidate but the Conservatives have withdrawn their support for his campaign while an investigation takes place.\n\nThe National listed a number of posts, including one where he argued that while there was \"no credible evidence to suggest the Holocaust did not happen\" he went on to say: \"I do find some of the events fabricated.\"\n\nMr Houghton was also quoted as saying he did not see how homosexuality was good for the human race.\n\nIn other alleged comments he said Islam's core teachings had the goal of \"world domination\" and that some Muslims had big families with the aim of creating \"Eurabia\".\n\nHe released a statement on his Twitter feed, saying the comments were taken \"out of context\" and insisted he had never held anti-Semitic, racist or homophobic views.\n\nMr Houghton said: \"At the age of 20 on an online forum, I took part in a range of political discussions. These included terrorism, LGBT rights and anti-Semitism.\"\n\nHe said that in one of the threads he had discussed freedom of speech and he had discussed comments made by Holocaust denier David Irving.\n\nHe said he made clear in subsequent posts that he was not defending the views and strongly opposed Holocaust denial.\n\nThe candidate added: \"I apologise unreservedly for any hurt now caused by these comments and have been in contact with members of the Jewish community in Aberdeen.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said: \"The comments contained in these blogs are unacceptable and Mr Houghton has been suspended as a member of the Scottish Conservative party as a result.\n\n\"The party has also withdrawn its support for his candidacy in Aberdeen North.\n\n\"The Scottish Conservatives deplore all forms of Islamophobia, homophobia and anti-Semitism.\"\n\nIt comes just a week Labour candidate Kate Ramsden quit in Aberdeenshire following a row over anti-Semitism.\n\nShe stood down in the Gordon constituency after the Jewish Chronicle highlighted a blog in which she compared Israel to an abused child who becomes an abusive adult.\n\nAnother Scottish Labour candidate, Frances Hoole, was also been dropped over a social media post attacking her SNP opponent.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I didn't feel like I did anything wrong,\" Mr Deen told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme\n\nAn ex-Royal Marine who was accused of the murder of a wounded Taliban fighter has told the BBC he tried to kill himself after hitting \"rock bottom\".\n\nSam Deen, known until now as Marine E, admitted that in Afghanistan in 2011 he offered to shoot the insurgent, who was then killed by Sgt Alexander Blackman - also known as Marine A.\n\nCharges against Mr Deen were later dropped.\n\nHe believes not killing him would have risked British casualties.\n\n\"I didn't feel like I did anything wrong,\" Mr Deen said. \"He was going to die anyway. He was probably already dead,\" he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nMr Deen is speaking out for the first time, after a military court lifted an anonymity order.\n\nCharges against Mr Deen were dropped in February. He left the Marines in 2015\n\nThe insurgent who was killed had been seriously injured in an attack by an Apache helicopter. He was shot by Blackman in the chest at close range with a 9mm pistol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.\n\nMr Deen admitted he had told comrades: \"Let's just put one in his head, let's just do it.\"\n\nHe added: \"I said, 'I'll shoot him'.\"\n\nThe ex-Marine said that at the time the group had felt \"exposed\", having stormed a Taliban compound.\n\n\"We were like, 'What are we doing here? Let's just get out of here',\" he said.\n\n\"I was trying to influence it in a way to try and hurry up and get things done - and fit in as well.\"\n\nOnce the Taliban fighter had been shot, he said, \"It was like, 'Right that's done, let's just go'.\n\n\"It had to be that way. He was going to die anyway.\"\n\nMr Deen says he has struggled with his mental health\n\nMr Deen said he was in Gibraltar - in October 2012 - when he first heard he was to be charged by British police.\n\n\"I was like... 'How can you charge me with full-on murder when I didn't kill anyone?'\n\n\"The whole situation was used as a scapegoat for the military. They had to be seen to be doing something.\n\n\"If they were going to do that, they should bring up thousands of cases in every single war.\"\n\nFour months later charges against Mr Deen were dropped. He left the Royal Marines in 2015.\n\nIt was then, he said, that his mental health suffered.\n\n\"I left the blanket of the military, the cover of protection, and then you're just a civilian now.\n\n\"I just totally went off the rails... hit rock bottom in my mind, in my brain.\"\n\nLast year, he attempted to end his life.\n\n\"I was having panic attacks. I just thought, 'I don't want to live like this anymore'. I tried to take an overdose.\n\n\"You go from being a Royal Marine in control, knowing what he's doing in life, to then leaving and losing control.\"\n\nSgt Alexander Blackman - also known as Marine A - was released from prison in 2017\n\nBlackman, Mr Deen's former comrade, was initially convicted of the insurgent's murder.\n\nThis was reduced to manslaughter on appeal and he was released from prison in April 2017, having served more than three years.\n\nHe told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that after a \"difficult\" time he was now moving on from the incident, ensuring it did not \"define who I am\".\n\n\"I look back and there's a lot to be proud of [from my time in the Royal Marines], I did a lot of things,\" he said.\n\nBlackman has now started a new role with not-for-profit community organisation ExFor+, supporting veterans returning to civilian life.\n\n\"The Royal Marines family as a whole have been very welcoming, very supportive when I've needed it. So for me it's not been too bad at all,\" he explained.\n\nSgt Blackman had more than 13 years of service in the Armed Forces\n\nWhen Blackman was released from prison in 2017, judges were told he had a recognised mental illness at the time of the killing, in September 2011.\n\nHe said this had been \"situation and location-specific\", and he was no longer suffering the same effects.\n\nBut he said more needed to be done to help those who were struggling and \"perhaps slip throughout the cracks\".\n\n\"I've had colleagues I've worked with who, unfortunately, have taken their lives recently since they've left service, because they were struggling with mental health issues and they've kept it bottled up,\" he said.\n\nMr Deen is now aiming to climb the highest mountain on each continent\n\nOne of those being helped by ExFor+ is Mr Deen, who has challenged himself to climb the \"seven summits\" - the highest mountains across the seven continents of the world.\n\n\"Week by week, day by day, I'm changing,\" he said.\n\n\"When I started climbing it gave me the boost I needed, like I'm achieving something.\"\n\nUpdate 19 November: An earlier version of this story said Mr Deen had been acquitted of murder. This has been changed to say that charges were dropped.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "\n• Term for an MP who is not a minister. They sit behind the front benches in the House of commons.\n• A sealed box with a slit in the lid. Voters place their ballot papers through the slit into the box. When polls close the boxes are opened and counting begins.\n• Paper containing a list of all candidates standing in a constituency. Voters mark their choice with a cross.\n• An election held between general elections, usually because the sitting MP has died or resigned.\n• Someone putting themselves up for election. Once Parliament has been dissolved, there are no MPs, only candidates.\n• During a campaign, active supporters of a party ask voters who they will vote for and try to drum up support for their own candidates.\n• The deadline for candidates standing to send in the officials forms confirming their place in the election. This is usually __ days before polling day.\n• When two or more parties govern together, when neither has an overall majority. After the 2010 election, the Conservatives and Lib Dems formed a coalition, which lasted for five years.\n• A agreement between two political parties where the smaller party agrees to support a larger one without enough MPs to have a majority in parliament.\n• The geographical unit which elects a single MP. There are 650 in the UK.\n• In politics, a 'dead cat' strategy is when a dramatic or sensational story is disclosed to divert attention away from something more damaging. The term comes from the concept of an imaginary dead cat being flung onto a dining table, causing the diners to become distracted by it.\n• The announcement of the election result in each constituency.\n• A sum of £500 paid by candidates or their parties to be allowed to stand. It is returned if the candidate wins 5% or more of the votes cast.\n• The delegation of powers to other parliaments within the UK, specifically the Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies.\n• The Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland assemblies are elected by voters in those nations of the UK. They make laws on policy areas controlled by those nations such as health, environment and education.\n• The act of ending a Parliament before an election. When parliament is dissolved there are no MPs, but the prime minister and other senior ministers remain in their roles.\n• A list of everyone in a constituency entitled to vote. Also known as electoral roll.\n• An exit poll is a poll of voters leaving a voting station. They are asked how they have voted, and the results are used to forecast what the overall result of the election may be.\n• Term used to describe the UK's parliamentary election system. It means a candidate only needs to win the most votes in their constituency to win the seat.\n• When a party wins a constituency from another party, it is said to have \"gained\" it from the other.\n• Election at which all seats in the House of Commons are contested.\n• If after an election no party has an overall majority, then parliament is said to be \"hung\". The main parties will then try to form a coalition with one or more of the minor parties. Opinion polls have suggested that a hung parliament is a strong possibility after the 2015 general election.\n• A meeting a which candidates address potential voters. The word comes from an old Norse word meaning \"house of assembly\".\n• A candidate who is not a member of any political party and is standing on their own personal platform. To qualify as an official political party, a party must be registered with the Electoral Commission, the organisation which administers elections in the UK.\n• The name given to an election which one party wins by a very large margin. Famous landslides in UK elections include Labour's victory in 1945, the Conservative win in 1983 and the election which brought Tony Blair to power in 1997.\n• A person or party with strong socialist policies or beliefs.\n• The name of the party occupying the centre ground of British politics. They were formed from the former Liberal party and Social Democrats, a Labour splinter group, and combine support for traditional liberalism such as religious tolerance and individual freedom, with support for social justice.\n• A majority in Parliament means one side has at least one more vote than all the other parties combined and is therefore more likely to be able to push through any legislative plans.\n• When one party wins more than half of the seats in the Commons, they can rule alone in a majority government\n• Politicians say they have a mandate, or authority, to carry out a policy when they have the backing of the electorate.\n• A public declaration of a party's ideas and policies, usually printed during the campaign. Once in power, a government is often judged by how many of its manifesto promises it manages to deliver.\n• Seats where the gap between the two or more leading parties is relatively small. Often regarded as less than a 10% margin or requiring a swing (see below) of 5% or less, though very dependent on prevailing political conditions.\n• A minority government is one that does not have a majority of the seats in Parliament. It means the government is less likely to be able to push through any legislative programme. Boris Johnson has suffered a number of defeats in Parliament over a no-deal Brexit because he does not have a majority.\n• Strictly this includes members of the House of Lords, but in practice means only members of the House of Commons. When an election is called Parliament is dissolved and there are no more MPs until it assembles again.\n• A candidate must be nominated on these documents by 10 voters living in the constituency.\n• A survey asking people's opinion on one or more issues. In an election campaign, the key question is usually about which party people will vote for.\n• The largest party not in government is known as the official opposition. It receives extra parliamentary funding in recognition of its status.\n• Broadcasts made by the parties and transmitted on TV or radio. By agreement with the broadcasters, each party is allowed a certain number according to its election strength and number of candidates fielded.\n• The swing shows how far voter support for a party has changed between elections. It is calculated by comparing the percentage of the vote won in a particular election to the figure obtained in the previous election.\n• Place where people go to cast their votes\n• People unable to get to a polling station are allowed to vote by post if they apply in advance.\n• Any voting system where the share of seats represents the share of votes is described as proportional representation. The UK currently has a first past the post system.\n• Parliament is usually prorogued, or suspended, ahead of an election or Queen's Speech to allow for preparations. In September 2019 Boris Johnson attempted to prorogue Parliament for five weeks, but the Supreme Court later ruled the prorogation unlawful and MPs returned to Parliament.\n• This is the time between the announcement of an election and the final election results. During this period media organisations have to ensure any political reporting is balanced and is not likely to influence the outcome of the election.\n• If a result is close, any candidate may ask for a recount. The process can be repeated several times if necessary until the candidates are satisfied. The returning officer has the final say on whether a recount takes place.\n• The official in charge of elections in each of the constituencies. On election night they read out the results for each candidate in alphabetical order by surname.\n• Someone who is right wing in politics usually supports tradition and authority, as well as capitalism. The Conservative party is regarded as the main centre-right party in the UK.\n• A safe seat is a constituency where an MP has a sufficiently large majority to be considered unwinnable by the opposition.\n• The attempt to place a favourable interpretation on an event so that people or the media will interpret it in that way. Those performing this act are known as spin doctors.\n• Any ballot paper that is not marked clearly, eg with more than one box ticked or with writing scrawled across it, is described as a spoiled ballot and does not count towards the result.\n• This is when people vote not for the party they really support, but for another party in order to keep out a more disliked rival.\n• In theory, any seat that a party contests and held by a rival is one of its targets. In practice, a target seat is one that a party believes it can win and puts a lot of effort into doing so.\n• Turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot on polling day.\n• It is usually the leader of the opposition, currently Jeremy Corby, who calls for a vote of no confidence, in an attempt to topple the government. If more MPs vote for the motion than against it, then the government has 14 days to try to win back the confidence of MPs through another vote – while the opposition parties try to form an alternative government. If nothing is resolved, then a general election is triggered.\n• The UK Parliament is located in the Palace of Westminster in the centre of London and the term is often used as an alternative to Parliament.\n• A working majority in Parliament is what a government needs to carry out its legislative programme without risk of defeat. It means the government can rely on at least one more vote than the opposition parties. However, in the current Parliament, the government no longer has a majority and MPs from a range of opposition parties have joined forces to form a parliamentary majority big enough to defeat the government over plans for a no-deal Brexit.", "American Airlines flight 729 bound for Philadelphia was diverted to Dublin\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC cast doubt on a claim by American Airlines that an \"odour\" on a flight, which led to two cabin crew falling unconscious, was due to \"a spilled cleaning solution\".\n\nThe incident led to the diversion of a Heathrow to Philadelphia flight, and a passenger being sent to hospital.\n\nRecords show part of the aircraft had been leaking oil prior to the flight.\n\nBBC sources say it is likely the leak caused toxic fumes to enter the cabin. However, American Airlines denies that.\n\nOne assertion made in an internal American Airlines report on the incident on 21 October does stick out.\n\nIt states that \"dish soap in a bottle caused two flight attendants to get medical attention and one passenger\". Dish soap is the American term for washing-up liquid.\n\nAn American Airlines insider, who is not authorised to speak to the media, said it was \"inconceivable\" that dish soap, or any other cleaning product approved for use on aircraft, could cause two people to pass out.\n\nSo far, American Airlines has not responded to the BBC's query on this specific point.\n\nIn public statements the company has not used the term \"dish soap\", instead describing it as a \"cleaning solution\".\n\nIt says the aircraft involved was \"thoroughly inspected\" after the incident by its \"highly-skilled\" maintenance team who conduct \"an in-depth investigation… whenever a cabin odour event is reported.\"\n\nAmerican Airlines says: \"Cabin odours are a priority for American's leadership team at the highest level of the organisation\", and insists the incident was caused by a cleaning agent which spilled mid-flight.\n\nHowever, BBC News has seen and heard evidence that casts doubt on that claim.\n\nFirstly, we've been told that a strange \"metallic\" odour was detected on the same aircraft before the cleaning solution spilled.\n\nThe \"overpowering\" smell was detected on the previous flight, when the plane was travelling in the opposite direction from Philadelphia to Heathrow.\n\nWe've also discovered that there was an oil leak on part of the aircraft days before the incident, which could have been the cause.\n\nThe part of the plane that was leaking oil is called the Auxiliary Power Unit, or APU.\n\nThe APU provides power to start up the engines and to run the electrics on the aircraft when the main engines are not running.\n\nThree days before the aircraft was diverted to Dublin, an engineering maintenance report stated that its APU showed a \"high oil consumption\".\n\nThe leak meant it had guzzled an unusually large amount of oil, 31.75 pints, in the previous two weeks.\n\nAnother American Airlines maintenance document stated that the APU was inoperable, and determined that it should be repaired in the coming days.\n\nA \"noxious odour\" which resulted in \"eye and throat irritation\" was also recorded on the same plane on 23 October, two days after the flight from Heathrow was diverted to Dublin.\n\nIn another report from the same day, the APU on the plane is then described as \"wet with oil\".\n\nAmerican Airlines claims the odour, which caused two cabin crew to pass out, \"was not related to the APU\" because the Auxiliary Power Unit was \"not operational during this time period and did not operate during this flight.\"\n\nHowever, a document written by aircraft manufacturer Airbus clearly states that an APU, which has leaked oil, can contaminate the air supply in the cabin, even when the unit is switched off.\n\nThe Airbus document, entitled \"APU bleed air oil contamination\", states that \"oil smell or smoke in the cabin resulting from APU oil contamination can occur at almost any time and not necessarily when the APU is running\".\n\nThat's because if oil leaks from the APU it can spill into the ducting of the plane's air conditioning system.\n\n\"If an APU leaks oil then it goes into the ducting\", said Captain Tristan Loraine, a former British Airways pilot.\n\n\"So these guys have an APU leaking oil. They can fix the APU but they can't fix the contamination of the ducting.\"\n\nCaptain Loraine has spent years raising awareness about so-called \"fume events\", where oil or other fluids leak and potentially contaminate the air supply in the cabin mid-flight.\n\nThe airline industry is generally reluctant to talk about the problem, and it is by no means an issue which is specific to American Airlines.\n\nThe two cabin crew members who passed out on the flight from Heathrow are not authorised to speak to the BBC.\n\nHowever, we understand that nearly a month on from the incident, one of them is experiencing heavy migraines. Previously that person did not experience regular headaches.\n\nAmerican Airlines said: \"It cannot be emphasised enough that the health and welfare of our crews and customers continues to be our top priority.\n\n\"However, in the case of this aircraft and the diversion to Dublin, there is no connection to the APU or bleed air from the APU.\"", "Japanese tidying guru Marie Kondo, who made her name preaching against clutter, is launching an online store selling homeware and fashion.\n\nThe author and media star has added a collection of more than 100 items that \"spark joy\" to her KonMari website.\n\nThe range includes, among other things, an $86 (£66.3) scented candle and a $42 (£32.4) flower bouquet tote bag.\n\nIn a letter posted on the site, Ms Kondo said her tidying method \"isn't about getting rid of things\".\n\nInstead, she wrote: \"It's about heightening your sensitivity to what brings you joy.\n\n\"Once you've completed your tidying, there is room to welcome meaningful objects, people and experiences into your life.\"\n\nMs Kondo's books on organising have sold millions of copies and led to a spin-off series for Netflix.\n\nHer online store, which also sells storage containers and trays, opened on Monday. Its debut comes a few months after Ms Kondo announced a partnership with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten.\n\nThe launch was greeted with a few eye rolls on social media.\n\n\"So now #mariekondo wants you to buy as much of her stuff as possible #ironic\", wrote one person on Twitter.\n\nIn an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Ms Kondo said the idea for a store came out of reader questions about what items she likes to use. But she said she is not trying to encourage consumerism.\n\n\"What's most important to me is that you surround yourself with items that spark joy,\" she said. \"If the bowl that you're using currently sparks joy for you, I don't encourage replacing it at all.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gareth Delbridge's son-in-law calls for changes to rail line working conditions\n\nFamilies of two rail workers who died after being hit by a train have said every day is \"a living nightmare\".\n\nThey want changes in rail line working conditions after Gareth Delbridge, 64, and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis, 58, were killed by a passenger train on 3 July near Margam in Port Talbot.\n\nMr Delbridge's son-in-law Adrian Grant said the families were awaiting the conclusions of three inquiries.\n\nAn initial report said there was \"no safe system in place\".\n\nEarly investigations found Mr Delbridge, from Kenfig Hill, Bridgend, and Mr Lewis, from nearby North Cornelly, had been using a tool with a petrol engine and wearing ear defenders, meaning they did not hear the train, which was travelling from Swansea to London Paddington.\n\nA third worker was treated for shock but was not injured.\n\nGareth Delbridge (L) and Michael Lewis (R) were hit by a train in July\n\nNetwork Rail and Great Western Railway's initial report said six staff were working on the line and separated of their own accord into groups of three and this meant there was no official lookout.\n\nMr Grant, 54, from Porthcawl, said the bereaved families believed the men would have never jeopardised their safety and called on Network Rail to change working conditions for staff on the railway lines.\n\nNetwork Rail safety director Martin Frobisher said it was continuing its investigations and \"nothing will lessen the pain, but understanding what went wrong and learning from that will\".\n\nMr Grant said the deaths had \"devastated both families\".\n\n\"Every day is a living nightmare at the moment and a challenge,\" he added.\n\nMichael Lewis and wife Dawn had been married for 35 years\n\nMr Grant said: \"I understand that something went tragically wrong that day and I'm in a firm frame of mind that when you send people off to work, especially two people with all that experience of the rail, you expect them to come home.\n\n\"Both of these guys had worked on the rail for over 40 years with fantastic exemplary records of safety and - for them not to come home - something has gone tragically wrong.\n\n\"We will campaign hard to make sure this doesn't go away until things are changed.\"\n\nThree official investigations have been launched by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and British Transport Police.\n\nMr Delbridge had been married to wife Carol for 44 years and they had three children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren\n\nThe Network Rail and Great Western Railway report said the men had been instructed to work on freeing, oiling and retightening bolts by the unofficial person in charge, who was also to act as a lookout.\n\nThere was a problem with a bolt, meaning the lookout became involved in the rail work and suggested putting further oil on the bolt, despite being instructed to remain in a position of safety.\n\nIt also said groups should be about 20 yards (18m) apart during work, but the workers split and were 150 yards (137m) apart.\n\nMr Grant said: \"This was work they would always do. It was tools they would always use.\n\n\"The only thing we know [is] the work had changed and moved around quite a bit that day and, obviously, that's what the independent investigations at this time are looking into whether that had an impact on what happened or not.\"\n\nMr Grant said: \"Network Rail say they are carrying out a £70m campaign to stop accidents happening like this.\n\n\"But they've tried this before but I'm hoping this time - from the findings of these three investigations - changes will happen... and we will see results from this investment rather than just words on paper.\"\n\nMr Frobisher said: \"The whole railway family shares the loss of Gareth Delbridge and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis.\n\n\"We have shared our initial investigation into what happened and are continuing our investigation into the root causes before we make recommendations for our organisation and all of our people for the future.\"\n\nThe company said the majority of its work was carried out on \"closed track\", where no trains run.\n\n\"Whether the train lines are open or closed, clear plans, roles and responsibilities are essential and no work should be done on the railway without a safe system of work plan, which is briefed to everyone in the team before they go on to the track to work,\" it said.", "Charities in Glasgow are calling on the city council to open its winter shelter early after an unexpected cold snap saw temperatures plummet below freezing.\n\nConcern was raised after the death of a man who was found in a city centre car park on Sunday although the council has now established he was not homeless.\n\nTemperatures in Scotland fell to -8.1C (17.4F) on Sunday, while it was -8C (17.6F) in Glasgow on Monday night.\n\nThe city's winter night shelter is not due to open its doors until 1 December.\n\nGlasgow City Mission which runs the shelter, said it was monitoring the situation to see if action needed to be taken earlier.\n\nGlasgow's Health and Social Care partnership said that while the death of the man found in the car park was a \"tragedy\", it was not directly related to provision of the temporary shelter service.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The man who died tragically after becoming unwell in a car park on Sunday was not homeless. Sadly, his death is believed to be drug-related.\n\n\"However, concerns about adverse weather and rough sleepers are completely understandable and as happens every year, homelessness services have already worked with partners, including Glasgow City Mission, on winter contingency plans which will be activated in exceptional circumstances.\"\n\nStreet charities have claimed Glasgow City Council is \"failing\" homeless people after almost £3m of budget cuts to services came into force on 1 October.\n\nThese cuts affected 970 temporary properties managed by service providers for the council across the city, and equate to the loss of 99 beds.\n\nSimon Community Scotland, one of the organisations GCC employs to provide services to homeless people sleeping on the streets in Glasgow, said its supplies were running dangerously low.\n\nThe charity plans for the coldest weather to come in February in March, so the past week's low temperatures have been a challenge.\n\nDirector of services Hugh Hill told the BBC: \"We are rapidly going through our stocks of winter supplies - thermals, sleeping bags etc. We are flying through them and we are not due to launch our appeal until December.\"\n\nShelter staged a protest outside the city chambers in Glasgow last summer\n\nThe Glasgow Winter Night Shelter opens on 1 December until 31 March.\n\nIt is run by Glasgow City Mission on behalf of the council and several other partner charities and agencies to provide overnight emergency accommodation.\n\nThe charity said it was monitoring overnight temperatures \"in case there's a requirement for an emergency shelter in the run up to 1 December\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"If this is necessary, we will call upon previously trained staff and volunteers to staff these nights. It is essential that any night shelter, emergency or planned, is a safe place for our guests. We will ensure the proper procedures and fully trained staff are in place.\"\n\nSean Clerkin, campaigns co-ordinator for the Scottish Tenants Organisation, says more buildings need to be made available for emergency accommodation.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for Glasgow City Council to open up some public buildings to house the homeless overnight.\n\n\"They need to provide a warm, secure environment with food, sleeping bags and medical advice.\"\n\nIn October the homelessness charity Shelter Scotland announced it was mounting a legal action against the council, claiming it was failing in its legal duty to provide temporary accommodation.\n\nIt followed concerns over \"gatekeeping\", where a homeless person is denied access to services and the charity claimed people have been illegally denied a place in temporary accommodation.\n\nBut the council said its services face \"significant, perhaps unique\" pressures compared to other parts of Scotland.\n\nThe Winter night shelter will not open until 1 December\n\nThe homelessness charity Crisis said there was a wider failure by society to address the issues that lead to homelessness.\n\nCrisis Scotland director Grant Campbell told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland it was likely \"society didn't fail this individual last night or the night before but just over the past 10 years, 15 years, 20 years.\"\n\nHe added: \"Statistically we find out that often people who are stuck on the streets have been through sometimes a life of care, have been in and out of prison, often struggle with mental health issues.\n\n\"Society has had a touch point with an individual for many, many years and occasions - so this failure wasn't just at one point but was for a prolonged period of time.\"\n\nMr Campbell, however, said he believed temporary shelters were \"not the solution\".\n\n\"There is great compassion in society to say we want to do the right thing for people and that often leads us to build shelters,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the real challenge, if we really want to find solutions, is actually to look at housing. Each year we say 'we don't have enough housing, let's put a shelter in place', the temptation to grow shelters means we will fill more of them and they go on for longer.\n\n\"Next year we could have two or three and not move away from that. We have got to keep challenging Scottish government and local government to do more regarding housing and look for other solutions, which there are.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hong Kong's protests have become increasingly violent as they continue into their sixth month.\n\nThe fabric of the place is unravelling - attitudes are hardening between the demonstrators and the police, between mainlanders and Hongkongers and even down the middle of families.\n\nThe BBC's Paul Adams explores what's really at stake for this troubled city.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "University of Lincoln graduate Grace Millane had been travelling alone in New Zealand\n\nA British backpacker died when consensual sexual activity \"went wrong\", a court has heard.\n\nGrace Millane died on 1 December, the night before her 22nd birthday, while travelling in Auckland, New Zealand.\n\nA 27-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies her murder.\n\nHis defence told Auckland High Court Ms Millane, from Wickford, Essex, died accidentally after being consensually choked during sex. The defendant has chosen not to give evidence himself.\n\nProsecutors allege he strangled Ms Millane before disposing of her body.\n\nThe court heard the pair had met through dating app Tinder and after drinking cocktails for several hours had returned to his hotel room at CityLife in Auckland's city centre.\n\nRon Mansfield, defending the man, told the jury: \"If the couple engaged in consensual sexual activity and that went wrong, and no-one intended for it to go wrong, then that is not murder.\n\n\"And that is what [the defendant] has said took place, and that is what at the end you will be told the evidence reveals.\"\n\nHe said that while death from consensual choking was \"rare\", it was dangerous \"if two people are inebriated, relatively inexperienced and don't know each other too well\".\n\nGrace Millane was found buried in the Waitakere Ranges, near Auckland\n\nThe man has admitted putting Ms Millane's body in a suitcase and burying it in the Waitākere Ranges, a mountainous woodland area outside Auckland.\n\nHe told police he had \"freaked out\" after finding her dead in the morning after their date.\n\n\"He may not have done the right thing afterwards for fear no-one would believe him,\" Mr Mansfield told the jury.\n\nThe defence claims Ms Millane had not suffered any injuries other than those the man said had occurred during sex, and neighbours had not heard anything which would suggest an argument had taken place.\n\nMr Mansfield added he was not seeking to attach any blame or shame to Ms Millane for any sexual interests she may have had.\n\nMiss Millane died on the night before her 22nd birthday\n\nThe court heard in statements from friends that she had discussed an interest in BDSM sexual conduct and had profiles on BDSM dating apps.\n\nForensic pathologist and toxicologist Dr Fintan Garavan told jurors Ms Millane's injuries would \"favour consensual\" acts as there were no signs of a struggle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Attenborough says the response to plastic pollution has been encouraging\n\nThe world is beginning to tackle the threat of plastic waste, according to the renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.\n\n\"I think we're all shifting our behaviour, I really do,\" Sir David said in an interview with the BBC.\n\nDescribing plastic pollution as \"vile\" and \"horrid\", he said there was growing awareness of the damage it can do.\n\n\"I think we are changing our habits, and the world is waking up to what we've done to the planet,\" he said.\n\nSir David was speaking as he and the BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU) were announced as the winners of the prestigious Chatham House Prize for their Blue Planet II series of documentaries.\n\nChatham House, a foreign affairs think-tank based in London, awards the prize to people or organisations making a significant contribution to improving international relations.\n\nIts director, Dr Robin Niblett, described plastic pollution as \"one of the gravest challenges facing the world's oceans\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said Sir David and the BBC Studios Natural History Unit played \"an instrumental role in helping to put this issue at the forefront of the public agenda\".\n\nThe series revealed how plastic items - estimated to total more than 150 million tonnes - are drifting in the world's oceans and causing the deaths of one million birds and 100,000 sea mammals each year.\n\nIn one of the most moving scenes, albatrosses were seen feeding their chicks a diet of plastic which would doom them to die.\n\nThe head of the NHU, Julian Hector, said he believed the programmes had \"struck a chord\" with the public because they showed \"the interaction of plastic and the natural world\".\n\n\"We're emotionally engaging the audience, giving them a connection with life histories, the behaviours, the plans that these animals have got, and how plastic in that case is getting in their way, reducing their chicks' survival.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Shukman explains how plastic moves around the oceans\n\nFor Sir David, these sights are \"very powerful - they speak to parental instinct\"; and they seem to have helped motivate people to take action.\n\n\"It's the beginning, and people in all parts of society are aware of what's happening, and it's vile, it's horrid and it's something we are clearly seeing inflicted on the natural world and having a dreadful effect and there's something they can do about it.\n\n\"So in a way it's a bit of a litmus test to see if the population care about it and people do.\"\n\nSir David said that techniques needed to be devised for handling plastic waste.\n\n\"We still need to know how to dispose of the wretched material, surely if we can invent it, somebody somewhere is going to be able to deal with it, to deal with these mountains of this appalling material.\"\n\nAlso nominated for the Chatham House Prize were Abiy Ahmed, prime minister of Ethiopia, who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize; and Katr��n Jakobsdóttir, prime minister of Iceland for her commitment to gender equality.\n\nSir David's current series with the BBC NHU - Seven Worlds, One Planet - is broadcast on BBC One on Sunday nights.", "As we wait for the afternoon session to start, let's take a look at a central figure in this saga.\n\nOn the now infamous 25 July call, Trump asked Ukraine’s leader to co-ordinate with his personal lawyer Giuliani on any inquiry into the Bidens.\n\nThe former New York City mayor has already admitted to pushing Ukrainian officials to investigate unsubstantiated corruption allegations against Joe Biden.\n\nHe was to travel to Ukraine in May, but eventually decided against it. Earlier this year, two of his associates who helped connect Giuliani with Ukrainian officials were arrested on unrelated campaign finance charges.\n\nGiuliani has also been accused of trying to discredit former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, who gave compelling testimony on Friday, while running his shadow foreign policy in Ukraine.\n\nHe has been subpoenaed for documents by impeachment investigators, though he’s previously said he won’t co-operate with Democrats.", "Jeremy Corbyn has told business leaders he \"understands\" their concerns, but refused to apologise for his plans to nationalise some key services.\n\nSpeaking at a conference in London, the Labour leader told the conference it wasn't an \"attack\" on businesses, but essential to making energy supply and public transport better.", "New cases are understood to include still births and deaths of babies in the final stages of labour\n\nThe number of cases uncovered by a maternity review at hospitals in Shropshire has more than doubled.\n\nIn 2017, then Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced an investigation into avoidable baby deaths at SaTH, which runs Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Telford's Princess Royal.\n\nNHS Improvement has now asked for the total of deaths, still births and babies with brain damage since 1998.\n\nIt said they were not necessarily the result of sub-standard care.\n\nBBC Social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan said 300 new cases of concern had come to light since NHSI asked SaTh for details on all cases of potential errors.\n\nThe independent review, being led by midwife Donna Ockenden, was already investigating 250 cases.\n\nIt initially focused on 23 cases in which maternity failings were alleged.\n\nBut by March, 250 families had come forward, although it is understood not all the cases related to death or serious harm.\n\nThe trust, which was put into special measures in November, was also made subject to \"further urgent action\" in May amid safety concerns over emergency and maternity services, following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).\n\nRhiannon Davies pictured with her daughter Kate, who was born at Ludlow Community Hospital\n\nRhiannon Davies, whose baby Kate died in 2009, said she was \"shocked but not surprised\" by an increase in numbers.\n\n\"The Ockenden Review team continues to have my full support and needs to be given full and public support from the Department of Health down,\" she said.\n\n\"Whilst any increase in numbers will likely result in another delay to the official findings of the review, I am prepared to wait - because this has to be done once and done properly for the sake of everyone affected.\"\n\nAn NHSI spokesman said: \"As part of the independent Ockenden Review, the trust was requested to share all potentially relevant information relating to maternity to establish if any more cases should be included in this investigation so that all families are given the answers they need and lessons are learned.\"\n\nNHS regulators have had to be dragged to acknowledge the potential scale of failings at this trust.\n\nThe original inquiry was instigated by two sets of parents going through newspaper clippings, and forcing the then health secretary to recognise their concerns and set up what has become known as the Ockenden Review.\n\nThese new cases were uncovered after NHSI finally put pressure on the trust last autumn to open up its books, rather than relying on families to highlight their own cases.\n\nHowever, they didn't turn the screw until more than 18 months after Jeremy Hunt asked regulators to investigate the problems.\n\nNot everyone whose case is being highlighted will have been failed.\n\nBut there was clearly a cultural problem at this trust, spanning more than a decade, that allowed far too many errors to be committed, allowed healthy babies to die or to be harmed unnecessarily.\n\nThe potential scale of those mistakes is now, perhaps finally, being revealed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson says her party would scrap business rates if elected, in order to support small businesses.\n\nBusiness rates are a tax based on rental values of the property that businesses occupy. Business lobby groups often complain that rates have gone up faster than inflation since the current regime was introduced in 1990.\n\nSpeaking to business leaders in London, Ms Swinson said her government would provide \"clear action\" to breathe new life into high streets.", "The board of TSB has been accused of a lack of \"common sense\" in the run-up to IT failures that left up to 1.9 million customers unable to bank online, some for several weeks, in April 2018.\n\nAn independent report into the incident by law firm Slaughter and May blamed both TSB and IT provider Sabis.\n\nCustomers were moved on to a new system, but the report said it had not been tested properly before going live.\n\nIt found that the tests only took place offline and not in a live environment.\n\nIt said that TSB accepted that had tests been run across both systems, it might have been able to identify the issues which affected customers before they happened.\n\n\"We have concluded that the new platform was not ready to support TSB's full customer base and Sabis was not ready to operate the new platform,\" the report said.\n\n\"While the TSB board asked a number of pertinent questions... there were certain additional common sense challenges that the TSB board did not put to the executive.\n\n\"These included why it was reasonable to expect that TSB would be 'migration ready' only four months later than originally planned, when certain workstreams were as much as seven months behind schedule.\"\n\nThe report also said that there were more than 2,000 defects relating to testing at the time the system went live, but the board were only told about 800.\n\nOther failings by TSB that it identified included setting \"unnecessary\" time constraints, which did not understand the complexity of the project, and being dishonest about the reasons for delays.\n\nTSB is part of the Spanish banking group Sabadell and its in-house IT provider Sabis built the system.\n\nThe IT failure has cost TSB a total of £330m for customer compensation, fraud losses and other expenses.\n\nThe IT fiasco at TSB left many thousands of customers in difficulty, calls were unanswered for 90 minutes and fraud attacks were 70 times higher than usual levels at their peak, the report reveals.\n\nAmong those affected was photographer Paul Clarke, who could not use his accounts and was defrauded in the confusion. He says he left the bank as soon as was reasonably possible.\n\n\"After the fraud, there was a complete demolition of trust,\" he says. \"I was left for two weeks without being able to function financially.\"\n\nHe was annoyed about the fraud, although the money was later refunded, but more so about the response from TSB to the situation.\n\nHe described the failures of the IT switchover as \"basic stuff\".\n\nThe timing of the IT mess could not have been worse for Sally and Chris Jones - TSB mortgage holders - whose house move turned into 24 hours of chaos.\n\n\"It was terrible timing for us, that they were not ready [with the IT switchover],\" says Mrs Jones.\n\nChris and Sally Jones spent 24 hours fearing they could be left stranded\n\nProblems at TSB meant funds were not released so they were stuck in limbo, waiting outside their new home in a removals van, facing the prospect of staying overnight in a hotel.\n\n\"It was all very chaotic,\" she says.\n\nEventually they got inside, but there were still problems with completing the purchase and early in the mortgage term. They were compensated and have not had problems since, so have remained as customers.\n\nTSB executive chairman Richard Meddings said: \"Slaughter and May's report sets out a number of findings on aspects of the planning and preparation for migration which they believe could have been done differently.\n\n\"In light of the disruption customers experienced, TSB has made important changes to enable the bank to rebuild - including to leadership and management structures, as well as the decision to take direct control of its IT operations.\n\n\"Importantly, TSB has long since compensated every eligible customer who was impacted by the disruption.\"\n\nTSB's former chief executive Paul Pester, who quit his job a few months after the incident, said: \"If these findings are right, Sabis rolled the dice by running tests on only one of TSB's two new data centres and this decision was kept from me and the rest of the TSB board.\n\n\"The report explains that this made it impossible for the TSB board to anticipate the serious problems experienced by many customers who could not access their accounts.\n\n\"Obviously, if we had been aware of Sabis's shortcuts in the testing programme, the TSB board and I would never have pressed ahead with switching to the new system at that time.\"\n\nThe Slaughter and May report was commissioned by TSB. Another joint report by two regulators, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority, will be published at a later date. Those regulators have the power to fine and reprimand businesses and individuals.", "Some see him as a reckless 'hacktivist' – others, a campaigner for truth.\n\nJulian Assange lived in the Ecuadorian embassy for seven years and is the man behind whistleblowing site Wikileaks.\n\nAfter being removed from the embassy and arrested, Assange is serving a jail sentence in the UK for jumping bail.\n\nBut why was he there in the first place?", "Anita Nicholson and her children Alex, 14, and Annabel, 11, died in the Shangri-La hotel bombing\n\nA mother and her two children were among six British nationals killed in the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, an inquest heard.\n\nAnita Nicholson, 42, and her children, Alexander, 14 and Annabel, 11, died instantly in an explosion at the Shangri-la Hotel in Colombo.\n\nLorraine Campbell, Bill Harrop and Sally Bradley also died in the blast at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel.\n\nAll six were unlawfully killed, the coroner recorded.\n\nMr Harrop, a retired firefighter and his wife, Dr Bradley, had been on holiday from their home in Australia when they were killed in an explosion at the restaurant of their hotel on 21 April.\n\nThe couple, originally from Manchester, had been described as soulmates.\n\nMs Campbell, an IT director who was originally from Manchester but had relocated to Dubai, was in Sri Lanka on a business trip. Her family has spoken of the \"enormous void\" created by her death.\n\nHer partner, Neil Evans, told the inquest he knew something was wrong when she stopped replying to Whatsapp messages. He said he had lost his best friend, confidante and soulmate.\n\nBen Nicholson survived the blast which killed his wife and children.\n\nThe family had been visiting Sri Lanka from their home in Singapore having previously lived in Upminster, East London.\n\nMrs Nicholson, a lawyer for mining firm Anglo American, went to college in Thurrock, Essex and had been living in Singapore with her family since 2010.\n\nSenior coroner for Essex Caroline Beasley-Murray recorded that all six were unlawfully killed as she concluded inquest hearings in Chelmsford.\n\nShe told the families: \"You've lost loved ones in these most appalling of circumstances. I would like to express sincere condolences to you upon your tragic loss.\"\n\nThe damaged Shangri-La hotel in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo\n\nMr Nicholson described his wife as \"a wonderful, perfect wife\" and a \"brilliant mother to Alex and Annabel\".\n\nThe six British Nationals were among 310 victims of a wave of bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.\n\nTwo other Britons, brother and sister Daniel and Amelie Linsey, 19 and 15, were killed in the blasts.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said workers and consumers would \"take back control\" under a new business model if Labour wins the election.\n\nIn a speech in Westminster, he said company boards would include workers and elected members, giving them greater influence over pay structure.\n\nAnd public sector chief executives would not be allowed to earn more than 20 times someone on the living wage.\n\nThat would mean a maximum salary of about £350,000.\n\nThe plans were part of an overall vision to create a business model that was not based on the \"unfettered pursuit of profit maximisation\".\n\nBut, responding to Mr McDonnell's speech, the British Chambers of Commerce said it would be \"misguided to impose a rigid, one-size-fits-all approach\".\n\nThe shadow chancellor said the relentless pursuit of shareholder value and \"corporate greed\" had been to the detriment of the workers who create that wealth.\n\n\"Labour's reforms to how our large businesses and public utilities are governed, owned and regulated and how both workers and consumers are represented will genuinely enable them to take back control,\" he said.\n\nMr McDonnell said Labour would \"rewrite the rules\" of the business model and \"treat people fairly and with respect\". In the past, he said, workers had \"often been treated as virtual chattels\".\n\nHe also outlined plans to overhaul the business audit sector to make it more independent because, he said, it was too dominated by the \"big four\" audit companies.\n\n\"Under Labour, the big four will not be allowed to operate like a cartel,\" he said.\n\n\"At the heart, we believe that every business should be a partnership - between employees, customers, managers and shareholders - for the long-term success of the enterprise.\n\n\"Many European countries have more robust systems to secure long-term decision-making than the UK.\n\nHe adds that, if Labour gains power, it will rewrite the Companies Act \"so that directors have a duty to promote the long-term interests of employees, customers, the environment and the wider public\".\n\nEarlier, Mr McDonnell confirmed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Labour was retaining its policy to scrap student tuition fees as a start to overhauling the system of financing tertiary education, including student loans.\n\nThe government \"must realise that the system is falling apart\", he said, adding: \"Large amounts of that debt is not being paid off and the government is having to write it off.\"\n\nHe added that there \"is an approach that has to be taken that looks at existing debt\".\n\nWhen pressed on whether Labour will cancel student debt, Mr McDonnell added: \"What I'm saying is, it has to be addressed in some form by whoever is in government, because the system - exactly as we predicted - is not working.\"\n\nResponding, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"We can't trust Jeremy Corbyn with our economy and his plan for two more referendums (on Brexit and Scottish independence) would cause havoc next year.\n\n\"Only the Conservatives will get Brexit done and keep our economy strong.\"\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce said in a statement: \"It's one thing to support employee ownership, stronger corporate governance and a transition to a greener economy, which have had positive impacts on many firms. But it would be misguided to impose a rigid, one-size-fits all approach.\n\n\"Getting our economy moving requires serious investment in skills, infrastructure and a reduction in business costs. But extensive government interference in ownership and governance could deter investors and damage confidence.\"\n\nIt said the next government must work more closely with businesses, with success depending on \"partnership, not diktat\".\n\nLabour's plans to \"rewrite the rules\" for corporate Britain and refocus big employers on climate change and gender parity on their boards certainly reflect its belief in a more muscular state.\n\nBut the plans are also quite a departure for British corporations used to dealing with social issues voluntarily, and on the basis of consensus.\n\nThreatening to delist companies from the stock exchange on the basis of an insufficient plan to address climate change is a stark new direction.\n\nBut Labour has also rowed back on one of the most radical policies announced by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell last year.\n\nThe Inclusive Ownership Fund still involves taking 1% year of the share value of listed UK companies and putting that into a pot to distribute to workers, up to 10% after a decade.\n\nBut a number of refinements have now been made to the plan.\n\nFirstly, the shares and the profits distributed to UK workers would now only be based on UK profits alone, not on worldwide profits. Secondly, the amount of money distributed to the Exchequer over and above what goes to workers will be limited to 25%.\n\nThat partially deals with some of the most acute concerns expressed by the private sector about the \"£300bn expropriation\" of shares.\n\nDan Neidle, the City lawyer who calculated that figure, now says that limiting it to UK profits, roughly halves that number.\n\nIn addition, the share of the funds that could go to the Exchequer is now limited to 25%, rather than 90% calculated for the original policy.\n\nAll the Exchequer funding would go to apprenticeships in skills to help alleviate climate change.\n\nThe net result is that Labour now calculate the policy as raising £2bn a year for workers and £700m a year for apprenticeships by 2024.\n\nWhile these are significant sums, in context they are equivalent to raising corporation tax by 0.5%.\n\nThe CBI said Labour's shift showed it had \"started to listen\" but the effect \"remained severe\" for those companies affected.\n\nLabour itself denied it had reined in the policy but acknowledged it had \"listened to concerns\".", "Two of the people found on the ferry were taken to hospital for treatment\n\nPolice in the Netherlands have arrested a Romanian lorry driver after 25 stowaways were found in a refrigerated container on a ferry bound for the UK.\n\nThey were found at around 19:00 (18:00 GMT), forcing the ship to return to the port of Vlaardingen near Rotterdam.\n\nThe Danish-registered ferry had been en route to Felixstowe.\n\nThe incident comes just weeks after the bodies of 39 people were found in a refrigerated lorry container in Essex in eastern England.\n\nThe stowaways found on Tuesday received medical attention at the port of Vlaardingen, where police were waiting for the ship's arrival.\n\nTwo were taken to hospital to receive extra medical care, while the other 23 people were transferred to a police facility after a medical check-up, authorities said.\n\nThe stowaways, whose nationalities have not yet been confirmed, were found in a refrigerated container on a lorry on board the ferry, authorities said. The driver of the lorry was detained and was being questioned over possible involvement, police told the Dutch broadcaster NOS.\n\nPolice told the broadcast that crew members found the stowaways and alerted authorities after hearing \"sounds coming from the cooling container\". A search of the ferry involving police dogs was carried out but no-one else was found.\n\nSeafarers' charity Stella Maris said it was important to recognise the \"hugely stressful\" nature of these types of incidents for crew.\n\nThe bodies found in the Essex container last month were those of Vietnamese nationals who had arrived on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nTwo lorry drivers have since been charged with manslaughter, and several other men have been arrested in connection with the case.\n\nThe Britannia Seaways (pictured in 2012) is a roll on, roll off ferry\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is currently jailed in the UK, and is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges.\n\nThe 48-year-old Australian was arrested in April 2019 at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he had been staying since 2012.\n\nHe sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied.\n\nAfter his arrest, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions and is currently being held at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nAn investigation into the 2010 rape allegation has now been dropped by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nBelow is more information on how events have unfolded:\n\nJulian Assange arrives in Sweden on a speaking trip partly arranged by \"Miss A\", a member of the Christian Association of Social Democrats. He has not met \"Miss A\" before but reports suggest they have arranged in advance that he can stay at her apartment while she is out of town for a few days.\n\n\"Miss A\" and Mr Assange attend a seminar by the Social Democrats' Brotherhood Movement on \"War and the role of media\", at which the Wikileaks founder is the key speaker. The two reportedly have sex that night.\n\nMr Assange reportedly has sex with a woman he met at the seminar on 14 August, identified as \"Miss W\".\n\nSome time between 17 and 20 August, \"Miss W\" and \"Miss A\" are in contact and apparently share with a journalist the concerns they have about aspects of their sexual encounters with Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange applies for a residence permit to live and work in Sweden. He hopes to create a base for Wikileaks there, because of the country's laws protecting whistleblowers.\n\nThe Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant for Mr Assange based on allegations of rape and molestation.\n\nBoth women reportedly say that what started as consensual sex became non-consensual.\n\nWikileaks quotes Mr Assange as saying the accusations are \"without basis\" and that their appearance \"at this moment is deeply disturbing\".\n\nA later message on the Wikileaks Twitter feed says the group has been warned to expect \"dirty tricks\".\n\n\"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape,\" says one of Stockholm's chief prosecutors, Eva Finne.\n\nProsecutors say the investigation into the molestation allegation will continue, but it is not a serious enough crime for an arrest warrant.\n\nThe lawyer for the two women, Claes Borgstrom, lodges an appeal against this decision to a special department in the public prosecutions office.\n\nMr Assange is questioned by police in Stockholm and formally told of the allegations against him, according to his lawyer at the time, Leif Silbersky. The activist denies the allegations.\n\nSweden's Director of Prosecution Marianne Ny says she is reopening the rape investigation against Mr Assange.\n\n\"Considering information available at present, my judgement is that the classification of the crime is rape,\" she says.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder (an Australian citizen) is denied residency in Sweden. No reason is given, although an official on Sweden's Migration Board tells the AFP news agency \"he did not fulfil the requirements\".\n\nStockholm District Court approves a request to detain Mr Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Ms Ny says he has not been available for questioning.\n\nBy this time Mr Assange has travelled to London. His British lawyer, Mark Stephens, says his client offered to be interviewed at the Swedish embassy in London or Scotland Yard or via videolink. He accuses Ms Ny of \"abusing her powers\" in insisting that Mr Assange return to Sweden.\n\nSwedish police issue an international arrest warrant for Mr Assange via Interpol.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder gives himself up to British police and is taken to an extradition hearing. He is remanded in custody pending another hearing.\n\nMr Assange is granted bail by the High Court and is freed after his supporters pay £240,000 in cash and sureties.\n\nMr Assange held up a court document to the media after he was released on bail\n\nA British court rules that Mr Assange should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nLawyers lodge papers at the High Court for an appeal against extradition.\n\nThe High Court upholds the decision to extradite Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange wins the right to petition the UK Supreme Court directly after judges rule that his case raised \"a question of general public importance\".\n\nThe Supreme Court rules that he should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister says Mr Assange has applied for political asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister claims the UK has issued a \"threat\" to enter the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Mr Assange. The Foreign Office says it reminded Ecuador that it has the power to revoke the diplomatic immunity of an embassy on UK soil and says Britain has a legal obligation to extradite him.\n\nEcuador grants asylum to Mr Assange, saying there are fears his human rights might be violated if he is extradited. Mr Assange describes it as a \"significant victory\", but the UK government expresses its disappointment.\n\nMr Assange spoke to the media and his supporters from the Ecuadorean embassy in August 2012\n\nThe UK insists it will not grant Mr Assange \"safe passage\" to Ecuador as it seeks a diplomatic solution. Downing Street says the government is legally obliged to extradite him to Sweden.\n\nNine people who put up bail sureties for Mr Assange are ordered by a judge to pay thousands of pounds each after his failure to appear in court.\n\nEcuador's ambassador says Mr Assange has a chronic lung infection \"which could get worse at any moment\". The embassy says it has sought assurances Mr Assange will not be arrested if he is taken to hospital.\n\nMr Assange says he will leave London's Ecuadorean embassy \"soon\" after two years of refuge. He does not clarify when he will depart but says it is \"probably not\" for the reasons reported in the UK press. Stories had suggested he required medical treatment.\n\nSwedish prosecutors drop their investigation into one accusation of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion against Mr Assange because they have run out of time to question him. The more serious allegation of rape is not due to expire until 2020.\n\nScotland Yard announces it will no longer be sending officers to stand guard outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Officers had been there since 2012, at an estimated cost of more than £12m.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the effort is \"no longer believed proportionate\" but it will be deploying \"a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest\" Mr Assange.\n\nA United Nations panel rules that Mr Assange should be allowed to walk free and be compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nThe UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says the Wikileaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by UK and Swedish authorities since his arrest in 2010, and the detention violates his human, civil and political rights.\n\nMr Assange hails it a \"significant victory\" and calls the decision \"binding\" - but UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond brands the ruling \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office says the report \"changes nothing\" and it will \"formally contest the working group's opinion\".\n\nBefore the ruling, police said he would still be arrested if he left the embassy.\n\nSweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travels to London to question Mr Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nMs Isgren listened as the questions were put to him by an Ecuadorean prosecutor, under an agreement worked out with Ecuador.\n\nOutgoing US President Barack Obama commutes the prison sentence given to US army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks.\n\nMr Assange says he stands by his offer to agree to be extradited to the US if Mr Obama granted clemency to Manning.\n\nUS Attorney General Jeff Sessions says arresting Mr Assange is a priority. No charges have been filed against him in the US, but American media outlets report that federal prosecutors are considering charges.\n\nChelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas.\n\nSweden's director of public prosecutions announces that the rape investigation into Mr Assange is being dropped.\n\nThe Ecuadorean government confirms Mr Assange was granted Ecuadorean citizenship in December and asks the UK to recognise him as a diplomatic agent - a move that would give him immunity. The UK refuses.\n\nLawyers for Mr Assange ask for a UK warrant for his arrest to be dropped.\n\nAn arrest warrant for Mr Assange is upheld by Westminster Magistrate's Court.\n\nEcuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of Mr Assange from its London embassy have failed.\n\nEcuador removes extra security at its London embassy following claims that $5m (£3.7m) has been spent to protect Mr Assange.\n\nThe UK and Ecuador confirm they are holding talks over the fate of Mr Assange. Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno says he was never \"in favour\" of Mr Assange's activities.\n\nMr Assange is given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy - which include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat.\n\nThe cat could often be seen peering out of the embassy's windows\n\nHe is warned that his feline companion could be confiscated and is also told to look after its \"wellbeing, food and hygiene\".\n\nEcuador also says it will partially restore Mr Assange's internet connection.\n\nWikileaks lawyers say its co-founder is going to launch legal action against the government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his \"fundamental rights and freedoms\".\n\nIt claims the government of Ecuador has refused Mr Assange a visit by Human Rights Watch general counsel Dinah PoKempner, and has not allowed several meetings with his lawyers.\n\nIn a statement, Wikileaks said: \"Ecuador's measures against Julian Assange have been widely condemned by the human rights community.\"\n\nMr Assange's lawyer, Barry Pollack, says his client will not be accepting a deal between the UK and Ecuador to allow him to be released.\n\nThe agreement was rejected over fears it could be used as a pretext to extradite him to the US.\n\n\"The suggestion that as long as the death penalty is off the table, Mr Assange need not fear persecution is obviously wrong,\" Mr Pollack says.\n\nThe passport would allow Mr Assange, who was born in Townsville, Australia, in 1971, to return to the country.\n\nThe Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed that the government had approved a passport application filed by Mr Assange in 2018.\n\nWikiLeaks tweets that a \"high level source within the Ecuadorean state\" has told them Mr Assange is to be expelled from the embassy within \"hours or days\".\n\nA senior Ecuadorean official says no decision has been made to remove him from the London building.\n\nMr Assange is arrested at London's Ecuadorean embassy by Metropolitan Police officers for \"failing to surrender to the court\".\n\nEcuador's President Lenin Moreno says Mr Assange's asylum was withdrawn after his repeated violations of international conventions.\n\nBut WikiLeaks tweets that Ecuador has acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum \"in violation of international law\".\n\nMr Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act.\n\nSweden reopens an investigation into a rape allegation made against Mr Assange in 2010, which he denies.\n\nThe case was dropped two years before as Swedish prosecutors said they could not progress the case while Mr Assange was still inside the embassy.\n\nEva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, said it would reopen because there was still \"probable cause to suspect\" that Mr Assange had committed the alleged rape.\n\nThe US justice department files 17 new charges against Mr Assange, accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing classified military and diplomatic documents.\n\nThe indictment said Mr Assange had \"repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal and provide it to Wikileaks to disclose\".\n\nWikileaks tweets that the announcement is \"madness\" and the \"end of national security journalism and the first amendment\".\n\nA Swedish prosecutor says an investigation into an allegation of rape against Mr Assange in 2010 has been discontinued.\n\nDeputy chief prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson says that because so much time has passed since the allegation was made, the evidence has weakened considerably.\n\nMr Assange fled to the UK when the allegation of rape, which he denies, was made in 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kylie Jenner will sell the majority of her cosmetics company for $600 million (£463 million).\n\nThe 22-year-old's brand, including Kylie Cosmetics and Kylie Skin, will be controlled by beauty giant Coty.\n\nKylie says she is building the brand into an \"international beauty powerhouse\".\n\nForbes reported that she made $360 million in sales in 2018, making her the youngest self-made billionaire ever.\n\nThe chairman of Coty's board called Kylie a \"modern-day icon, with an incredible sense of the beauty consumer\".\n\nHer online influence is so powerful that she reduced Snapchat's stock market value by $1.3bn (£1bn) when she tweeted that she does not use the app anymore.\n\nKylie Cosmetics products are available in 1,163 Ulta Beauty stores throughout the US\n\nThe reality TV star launched her brand in 2015 with a line of lipsticks, and has since then branched out into face make-up and skincare.\n\nAlthough she's the youngest, Kylie is the highest earner in the Kardashian family.\n\nShe faced backlash after being named a \"self-made\" billionaire, but defended herself saying that none of her money has come from inheritance.\n\nShe has more than 151 million followers on her personal Instagram account, as well as 22 million on her Kylie cosmetics account.\n\nCoty, which owns brands like Max Factor and Hugo Boss, will have a 51% stake in the company.\n\nIt said the deal will be completed in 2020.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Tory press office was rebranded as \"factcheckUK\" for Tuesday's live TV debate\n\nSocial networking site Twitter has said the Conservative Party misled the public when it rebranded one of its Twitter accounts.\n\nThe @CCHQPress account - the Tory press office - was renamed \"factcheckUK\" for Tuesday's live TV debate involving Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAfter the debate, the account reverted to its original branding.\n\nTwitter said it would take \"decisive corrective action\" if a similar stunt was attempted again.\n\nBut the firm does not appear to have taken any action over this particular incident.\n\n\"Twitter is committed to facilitating healthy debate throughout the UK general election,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We have global rules in place that prohibit behaviour that can mislead people, including those with verified accounts. Any further attempts to mislead people by editing verified profile information - in a manner seen during the UK Election Debate - will result in decisive corrective action.\"\n\nThe Tories were earlier criticised by genuine fact-checking agency Full Fact, which said in a statement: \"It is inappropriate and misleading for the Conservative press office to rename their twitter account 'factcheckUK' during this debate.\n\n\"Please do not mistake it for an independent fact checking service such as FullFact, FactCheck or FactCheckNI.\"\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"The Twitter handle of the CCHQ press office remained CCHQPress, so it's clear the nature of the site.\"\n\nMr Cleverly added the decision to rebrand the account would have been made by the party's digital team, which he said operated within his remit.\n\nHe said he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with the party \"calling out when the Labour Party put what they know to be complete fabrications in the public domain\".\n\nReacting to the decision, the Labour Party tweeted: \"The Conservatives' laughable attempt to dupe those watching the #ITVDebate by renaming their twitter account shows you can't trust a word they say.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, said the ploy was \"straight out of Donald Trump or Putin's playbook\", adding the Tories were \"deliberately misleading the public\".\n\nTwitter is a minority interest. Journalists are over-represented on this platform compared to other social media, creating a profound danger that they misinterpret what happens on Twitter as representative of the wider world.\n\nNevertheless, an important threshold has now been repeatedly breached by Britain's party of government, and Twitter is the site where it happened.\n\nIt is perhaps arguable that, like the doctored video of Sir Keir Starmer a fortnight ago, the re-branding of CCHQ as a fact-checking service falls into the broad category known as satire.\n\nBut that is a stretch. The effect will have been to dupe many unknowing members of the public, who genuinely thought it was a fact-checking service when it gave opinions on Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThis is not to patronise voters, who are wise; rather, it is to recognise that in a world of information overload, what cuts through are stunts.\n\nWhich is why, ironically, in CCHQ this morning there will be younger staff who chalk this up as a victory.\n\nJournalists thus face a dilemma: call out disinformation, and you play to the worst of social media, distracting from questions of policy; but ignore it, and the truth recedes ever further from view.\n\nTwitter has policies regarding deceptive behaviour on the platform. The company said it can remove an account’s “verified” status if the account owner is said to be “intentionally misleading people on Twitter by changing one's display name or bio”.\n\nOther users on the platform subsequently changed their display names to mock the move. Among them, writer Charlie Brooker, who tweeted: “We have always been at war with Eastasia”, a reference to George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.\n\nThis latest controversial move on social media comes less than a month after the Conservative Party was criticised for posting a \"doctored\" video involving Labour's Sir Keir Starmer, in which the shadow Brexit secretary was made to look as if he met a question, posed by ITV's Piers Morgan, with silence.\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly said the video, since taken down, was meant to be \"light-hearted\". The party later posted an extended version of the interview.\n\nFull Fact, which is a charity supported by donations from the likes of Google, described the incident as \"irresponsible\".", "A lot of huffing and puffing. A lot of over eager attempts to land and repeat their stock lines.\n\nBut the first head-to-head clash between the two men who could be the next prime minister did not transform the landscape of this election.\n\nThere were clashes, predictably, on Brexit and the NHS.\n\nAnd Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson both stepped carefully through the minefield of commenting on the monarchy and Prince Andrew's recent jaw-dropping interview.\n\nBut neither man seem to have made a meaningful mistake. Nor did either of them appear to have a breakthrough moment.\n\nIt is still early in this election campaign and likely that swathes of the public have quite understandably only started to think vaguely about the choice in front of them.\n\nBut at this stage, with Labour behind in the polls, tonight the danger was for Boris Johnson, to throw away his lead, and that didn't happen.\n\nAnd the opportunity was for Jeremy Corbyn to start closing the gap and he didn't manage to take it.\n\nThe decision the country faces is between two fundamentally different paths.\n\nBut what was striking too in Salford, where the debate was held, was the readiness among the audience to laugh at both men's statements.\n\nThat seemed a taste of how many people may well feel in this election, that they are being asked to choose a national leader from a less than tempting pair.\n• None A really simple guide to the election", "A number of protesters have been arrested while trying to run from a Hong Kong university campus surrounded by police.\n\nGroups of demonstrators have made several attempts to flee following a violent and fiery overnight stand-off at Polytechnic University.\n\nThe BBC's Robin Brant was at the university and described the scene as one group made its move.", "Sai Aletaha was described as \"a lovely character with a beautiful soul\"\n\nAn amateur kickboxer has died after suffering a brain injury during a match.\n\nSaeideh Aletaha, 26, was critically injured at a Fast and Furious Fight Series event in Central Hall in Southampton on Saturday night.\n\nShe was taken to Southampton General Hospital shortly before 21:00 GMT, but died later, police said.\n\nHampshire Police said it had launched an investigation into exactly what happened.\n\nFFS posted a statement on Facebook confirming Ms Aletaha had not recovered from her injury, and urged any family and friends needing support to get in touch.\n\nIt said: \"All competitors get in prepared that they may be injured, and this is something not expected to happen 99.9% of the time.\n\n\"But, it can, and in this we make the environment as safe as possible with pre and post medicals from a doctor, and full medical cover throughout.\"\n\nIt said it had a doctor, paramedic and an ambulance on site alongside its own team at the event organised by Lookborai and Exile Gym.\n\n\"Safety is not something ever skimped on in any of our 19 shows and all matches are made equal,\" it added.\n\nFellow martial artists and friends have paid tribute to Ms Aletaha, known as Sai.\n\nOne posted on Exile Gym's Facebook page: \"Saeideh Aletaha was a lovely character with a beautiful soul.\n\n\"Her dedication to the sport was 110% travelling miles every day just to train.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham have sacked manager Mauricio Pochettino after five years in charge of the Premier League club.\n\nSpurs have made a disappointing start to the current campaign and are 14th in the Premier League.\n\nBBC sports editor Dan Roan believes Jose Mourinho is a strong contender to replace the 47-year-old.\n\n\"We were extremely reluctant to make this change. It is not a decision the board has taken lightly, nor in haste,\" said Spurs chairman Daniel Levy.\n\n\"Regrettably domestic results at the end of last season and beginning of this season have been extremely disappointing.\n\n\"It falls on the board to make the difficult decisions - this one made more so given the many memorable moments we have had with Mauricio and his coaching staff - but we do so in the club's best interests.\"\n\nPochettino was appointed in May 2014 and led the club to the Champions League final last season, where they lost to Liverpool in Madrid.\n\nThe Argentine's assistant Jesus Perez, and coaches Miguel d'Agostino and Antoni Jimenez have also left the club.\n\nTottenham said in a statement that they would provide an update on new coaching staff \"in due course\".\n\nFormer Southampton boss Pochettino guided Tottenham to the League Cup final in his first full season while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2017.\n\nAs well as leading Spurs to a runners-up finish in last season's Champions League he also took them to fourth in the league, although they did only manage to win three of their final 12 league games.\n\nHe also had to contend with playing home games at Wembley for 18 months while the club's new ground was built and his impressive results despite this led to links with Real Madrid and Manchester United.\n\nHowever, Spurs have failed to build on the promise of recent seasons this term. As well as their disappointing league form, they were knocked out of the League Cup by League Two side Colchester and hammered 7-2 at home by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.\n• None An 'extraordinary' sacking - but the right decision?\n• None Guillem Balague column: 'Sacking may be liberating for Pochettino'\n\n\"Mauricio and his coaching staff will always be part of our history,\" added Levy.\n\n\"I have the utmost admiration for the manner in which he dealt with the difficult times away from a home ground whilst we built the new stadium and for the warmth and positivity he brought to us. I should like to thank him and his coaching staff for all they have contributed. They will always be welcome here.\n\n\"We have a talented squad. We need to re-energise and look to deliver a positive season for our supporters.\"\n\nThere will be some supporters who are not surprised. They are without an away win in the league since January and they're on their worst run since George Graham was in charge in 2000-01. That is shocking form.\n\nBut what is a surprise will be the timing - why was the decision not made at the start of the international break? That, for me, is the interesting aspect.\n\nI have always been of the belief that with the quality in this Tottenham side they, under Pochettino, would get back to the top four.\n\nI know there are Tottenham fans who think this is the right decision, and there are some who think it is not the right decision, but I think we can all agree that it is the timing that is a surprise.\n• None Pochettino was named Tottenham boss on 28 May, 2014 after taking Southampton to their best ever finish in the Premier League.\n• None After a fifth-placed finish in his first season at the club, he led them to third in 2015-16 - their highest final position in the Premier League.\n• None He became the first opposition manager to beat Pep Guardiola in England when Tottenham defeated Manchester City 2-0 in October 2016.\n• None Spurs continued to progress, finishing second and third respectively in the next two seasons.\n• None Led Tottenham to the last 16 of the Champions League in 2017-18 and was rewarded with a five-year contract in May 2018.\n• None Lost FA Cup semi-final to Manchester United in April 2018 - Tottenham's eighth successive defeat at that stage of the competition.\n• None However, Spurs reached the Champions League final for the first time the following season after a memorable comeback against Ajax.\n• None Lost 7-2 to Bayern Munich in the group stage of this season's Champions League.\n• None Departed Spurs on 19 November 2019 after just three Premier League wins all season.\n\n'Should've backed him not sacked him' - reaction", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nKPMG has not renewed its sponsorship of the Duke of York's entrepreneurship initiative, Pitch@Palace.\n\nThe accountancy firm is thought to have made the decision at the end of October.\n\nThe controversy over the prince's ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is understood to have been one reason behind the decision.\n\nThe revelation follows Prince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight in what critics called a \"car-crash\" interview.\n\nIn the interview, the Queen's third child said he still did not regret his friendship with US financier Epstein - who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in the US.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Buckingham Palace for comment regarding KPMG's decision.\n\nThe accountancy and auditing firm - which is not the only company associated with Pitch@Palace - declined to comment.\n\nThe scheme was founded by the prince in 2014 and involves entrepreneurs competing for the chance to pitch their business ideas to influential business figures.\n\nThe project operates in 64 countries and claims to have created more than 6,300 jobs.\n\nMeanwhile, University of Huddersfield students passed a motion on Monday evening to lobby the prince to resign as the university's chancellor.\n\nThe university itself said Prince Andrew's \"enthusiasm for innovation and entrepreneurship\" was a \"natural fit\" with its work.\n\nThe Outward Bound Trust, of which the prince is patron, said it would hold a special board meeting over the next few days for members to discuss \"the issues raised\" by the interview.\n\nAmid the backlash from the BBC's interview on Saturday, Prince Andrew is facing renewed calls to tell US authorities about his friendship with Epstein.\n\nThe prince said he would testify under oath \"if push came to shove\" and his lawyers advised him to.\n\nLawyer Gloria Allred - who has called on the Duke of York to make a statement - said an anonymous client had filed a civil lawsuit against Epstein's estate.\n\nThe alleged victim said: \"I would also like to say I agree with Gloria that Prince Andrew, and any others that are close to Epstein, should come forward and give a statement under oath on what information they have.\"\n\nPrince Andrew defended meeting Epstein after the financier was registered as a sex offender\n\nIn his BBC interview, Prince Andrew also \"categorically\" denied having any sexual contact with an American woman, who says she was forced to have sex with him aged 17.\n\nVirginia Giuffre - one of Epstein's accusers, previously known as Virginia Roberts - claimed she was forced to have sex with the prince three times.\n\nResponding to the allegation, the prince said: \"I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"\n\nHe added Ms Giuffre's account of him \"profusely sweating\" and \"pouring with perspiration\" when they danced at the club on the night in 2001 when she says they first had sex was impossible, because he had a medical condition preventing him from perspiring.\n\nPeople close to Prince Andrew said he wanted to address the issues head-on and did so with \"honesty and humility\" in speaking to Newsnight.\n\nJonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, said it was \"likely\" the prince would receive a legal summons if he went to the US and lawyers representing alleged victims managed to access him.\n\n\"There are a lot of these lawyers who would love to hand Prince Andrew a subpoena [an order to give evidence],\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut Prof Turley added the duke would have diplomatic immunity if he was in the US as part of a royal - rather than personal - engagement.\n\n\"This interview [has] put him in a rather precarious position if he plans to visit the United States any time soon,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: 'Going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do'\n\nThe prince has stood by his decision to speak out, but former Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter described the interview as \"excruciating\".\n\nAnd BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the prince was \"very damaged\" by the interview, adding the attempt to clear his name had \"failed, badly\".\n\nA lawyer for several of Epstein's accusers described the interview as \"sad\" and \"depressing\".\n\nSpencer Kuvin, who represents several unnamed alleged victims, said \"royalty has failed them\".\n\n\"The mere fact that he was friends with a convicted sex offender and chose to continue his relationship with him - it just shows a lack of acknowledgement of the breadth of what this man [Epstein] did to these girls,\" Mr Kuvin said.\n\nThe prince said he visited Epstein in 2010, after he was released from jail, to tell him their friendship was over. He said that was the last contact he ever had with him.\n• None The official website of HRH The Duke of York, KG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Conservative Party donor has called for the publication of a report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy.\n\nAlexander Temerko said the paper by the Intelligence Security Committee (ISC) should be published \"for democracy reasons\".\n\nThe report has formal security clearance, but it will not be released until after the 12 December election.\n\nDowning Street has denied claims it is suppressing the document.\n\nFormer Russian official Mr Temerko has donated more than £1m to the Tory Party and its candidates in recent years.\n\n\"I think for democracy reasons, this report should be released, because if there is real Russian influence, people and country should know about that,\" he told BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera.\n\nThe Sunday Times said nine Russian business people who had donated money to the Conservatives were named in the report.\n\nMr Temerko, a Ukrainian-born businessman who became a British citizen in 2011, said it was \"ridiculous\" to suggest he had worked with Russia.\n\nHe added he had \"never\" been considered a \"friend\" of the Kremlin or of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"I'm against [the] Kremlin,\" he said.\n\nAlexander Temerko is adamant he is not an agent of the Kremlin but a critic.\n\nAnd he wants people to know it.\n\nThe failure to release the Intelligence and Security Committee Russia report has led the vacuum to be filled with speculation about what might be in it and for questions to be raised about how Russia might be trying to exercise influence on public life.\n\nMr Temerko argues his own story - of fleeing Russia a decade and a half ago - shows he cannot be working on the Kremlin's behalf.\n\nBut without seeing the details of the report, questions will remain about what it really says in terms of what other routes Moscow might have used.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the move will deter people from getting back to \"the life of crime\"\n\nThe police will be given \"greater freedoms\" to use stop and search on those known to have carried knives in the past, Boris Johnson has pledged.\n\nStop and search powers have proved controversial - and there is evidence that black people are disproportionately targeted.\n\nBut the government has previously said they work and \"empower\" the police.\n\nMr Johnson plans to speed up charging and prosecuting knife offenders as well, if the Tories win the election.\n\nResponding to the Tory leader's announcement, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: \"Tinkering with police powers cannot disguise Tory failure for almost a decade.\n\n\"Johnson supported Tory cuts to the police and has no plans to restore the frontline officers that successive Tory governments have axed - just as he never did make good on his promise to recruit 'thousands of extra police' as London Mayor.\"\n\nShe said the Conservatives did not \"intend to do anything about the youth services they cut, or the funding for drug prevention or the increase in school exclusions that have all contributed to rising crime\".\n\nKnife crime remains at historically high levels across England and Wales and crime, more broadly, is a key concern among voters so the Conservatives' plans come as little surprise.\n\nSpeeding up court proceedings in knife possession cases is a largely uncontroversial idea but will take a huge effort across all parts of the criminal justice system to make it happen.\n\nMore contentious is the proposal to further increase stop and search powers at a time when police stops are on the rise after years of decline.\n\nAlthough police chiefs are convinced stop and search is effective, the research is inconclusive and the disproportionate use of the tactic against young black men has been blamed for fuelling tensions.\n\nThe Tories' proposal to allow officers to search anyone previously cautioned or convicted for carrying a knife, without the need to have grounds to do so, is likely to be hotly contested.\n\nSpeaking at a boxing ring in Manchester, Mr Johnson said he wanted to \"come down hard\" on the \"scourge\" of knife crime.\n\nTalking about his plans to extend stop and search to those with a previous conviction for carrying a knife, he said: \"We think that that will deter young people who have been convicted of carrying from getting back involved in that kind of life again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stop and search is a tactic used by police to crack down on crime\n\nCurrently police officers are allowed to stop and search individuals if they have reason to suspect serious violence may take place.\n\nSpeaking in August, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"Stop and search works - we hear again and again from police that [they] need to be empowered.\"\n\nBut Ms Abbott said the powers did not reduce violent crime.\n\nMr Johnson also said his government would be \"speeding up prosecutions to make sure the threat of being caught is always an effective deterrent\".\n\nUnder his proposals, someone caught unlawfully with a knife would be arrested and charged within 24 hours - and appear in court within a week.\n\nThe Conservatives say this would be three times faster than the current average.\n\nBBC home affairs journalist Gaetan Portal says although the current average time from offence to charge is 40 days, the median time - arguably a more representative measure - is just one day.\n\nThe current median time between someone being charged with an offence and appearing in court is 17 days.\n\nOur Reality Check team says decreasing this time will require investment in the criminal justice system.\n\nMr Johnson also said the solution lay in \"wrapping your arms around the kids and putting them on the right tracks in their lives\".\n\nHe reiterated a previous pledge to boost funding for violence reduction units by £35m in 2020.\n\nThese units tackle knife crime by involving multiple public service providers on early intervention projects.\n\nThis method of reducing knife crime was first tried in Scotland in 2005.", "Groups of protesters have been trying to leave the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong (PolyU), but have been met with tear gas and rubber bullets fired by police surrounding the campus.\n\nSome protesters fought back with petrol bombs and bricks before retreating.\n\nUniversity officials had said earlier on Monday that police would not use force and let protesters leave peacefully, if protesters themselves did not use force.\n\nPolice later said they fired tear gas as they were faced with \"rioters suddenly charging at them\".\n\nRead more: HK protesters use rope ladders to flee siege", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Lib Dems and SNP have lost their legal challenge to be included in an ITV head-to-head debate ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nThe channel is due to air a face-off between Tory leader Boris Johnson and Labour's Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday.\n\nThe Lib Dems said they wanted their pro-Remain stance to be represented, while the SNP also wanted the issue of Scottish independence to be raised.\n\nBut judges ruled there was \"no arguable breach of the Broadcasting Code\".\n\nIn the High Court in London, Lord Justice Davis and Mr Justice Warby said the case was not suitable for judicial review as ITV was not carrying out a \"public function\" in law by holding the debate.\n\nHowever, the parties had the right to complain to Ofcom about the programme after it had been broadcast, they said.\n\nLord Justice Davis said: \"The clear conclusion of both members of this court is that, viewed overall, these claims are not realistically arguable.\"\n\nBut Lib Dem education spokeswoman Layla Moran tweeted \"the fight must continue\", adding: \"It is outrageous that the Remain voice is missing from the ITV debate.\n\n\"It's simply wrong of broadcasters to present a binary choice and pre-empt the decision of the people in a general election.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, also condemned the decision, saying it \"discriminated against Scottish voters\" and \"treated them as second-class citizens\".\n\nHe added: \"That is, quite simply, a democratic disgrace, and the fact that election law and broadcasting codes allow such gross unfairness is unacceptable.\"\n\nAnd he called for Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn to commit to take part in an all-party debate on 1 December, rather than sending other senior figures from their respective parties.\n\nIt took the two judges just a matter of 10 or 15 minutes to reach a decision about the claim that the Lib Dems and SNP should be allowed access to the head-to-head debate.\n\nThe judges came back and said they would not agree to that and effectively refused to even hear the judicial review.\n\nTheir legal argument was that ITV was not exercising a public function as it is a private broadcaster - albeit regulated - therefore could not be subject to judicial review.\n\nThey also said if the two parties had a complaint about the programme, they had a way of complaining and that was to the regulator Ofcom - but that can only be done after the programme is broadcast\n\nHowever, the judges said an important part of their decision was the editorial judgment made by ITV was not irrational and perverse.\n\nThey did not want as judges to get in the way of an editorial matter for a major broadcaster.\n\nSo the application from the parties is rejected and the debate goes ahead.\n\nBut the Lib Dems still have big problems with this court decision, and say they they are going to take a closer look before deciding what to do next.\n\nThe BBC will also host a live head-to-head debate between the Conservative and Labour leaders in Southampton on 6 December, plus a seven-way podium debate between senior figures from the UK's major political parties on 29 November, live from Cardiff.\n\nThe Lib Dems have sent a legal letter to the BBC over its decision not to include Ms Swinson in the head-to-head.\n\nBBC Scotland will stage a televised debate between the SNP, Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats on 10 December, although the Scottish Greens have criticised the decision not to include them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson laid out his plans as he addressed the CBI conference\n\nPlanned cuts to corporation tax next April are to be put on hold, Boris Johnson has said, with the money being spent on the NHS and other services.\n\nThe rate paid by firms on their profits was due to fall from 19% to 17%.\n\nBut the PM told business leaders it may cost the Treasury £6bn and this was better spent on \"national priorities\", including the health service.\n\nLabour said business \"handouts\" had done real damage and the Tories would \"revert to type\" after the election.\n\nThe announcement does not mean any new money for the NHS, on top of the £20bn extra a year the Conservatives are promising to give it up to 2023. The BBC understands the cash will be used, in part, to fund existing pledges on GP training.\n\nWith just over three weeks to go before the 12 December election, the leaders of the three largest parties in England have been parading their business credentials at the CBI conference.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said business had \"so much to gain\" from a Labour victory in terms of investment while Jo Swinson said the Liberal Democrats were the \"natural party of business\" because they wanted to cancel Brexit.\n\nAddressing the audience of top executives and entrepreneurs, Mr Johnson said they had \"created the wealth that actually pays for the NHS\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStressing his party's \"emphatic belief in fiscal prudence\", he said he had decided against going ahead with a further cut in corporation tax, a step first proposed by Chancellor George Osborne in 2016 to boost business in the wake of the Brexit referendum.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK already had the lowest rate of corporation tax of \"any major economy\" and further cuts would be \"postponed\".\n\n\"Before you storm the stage, let me remind you that this saves £6bn that we can put into the priorities of the British people including the NHS,\" he told the audience.\n\nCorporation tax is an important revenue-raiser, making up approximately 9% of the UK government's total tax take. The amount raised by the tax has risen by two-thirds in the past decade, as the rate has fallen from 28% to 19% and economic conditions have improved.\n\nBut many economists said the latest cut would be potentially counter-productive in terms of tax yields, with a study based on HMRC data last year suggesting it could mean £6bn a year in lost government revenues.\n\nIn response, CBI director Carolyn Fairbairn said the move could \"work for the country if it is backed by further efforts to the costs of doing business and promote growth\".\n\nBlink and you might have missed it, but the PM has just announced the single biggest tax-raising measure of the campaign so far.\n\nThe overnight headlines about Boris Johnson's CBI speech were about a £1bn cut to business taxes. It pays to read the small print.\n\nAll together, this leaves an extra £5bn a year for the Conservative manifesto to deploy in extra spending or, as seems likely, some crowd-pleasing pre-election personal tax cuts.\n\nI'm told the corporation tax move was Chancellor Sajid Javid's idea, and was discussed during plans for his aborted Budget earlier this month. The PM also confirmed Mr Javid would remain in post if he wins the election next month.\n\nCancelling the cut still leaves the UK with the lowest corporation tax rate in the G20, although not as low as Switzerland or Singapore.\n\nGiven the government's argument has long been that cuts to corporation tax raise revenue, it is interesting to see the PM now say that cancelling cuts will also raise revenue.\n\nIt is meant to show clear blue water between the Conservatives and Labour on fiscal credibility. In the event, there was barely a squeak out of the CBI audience about a significant multi-billion pound tax change.\n\nShadow Chancellor John McDonnell said Monday's freeze marked a \"temporary pause in the Tories' race to the bottom\" on business taxes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John McDonnell MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's plan has been to raise corporation tax to 26% - the 2011 level - which it says will generate billions to be spent on its priorities, including health and education.\n\nTurning to Brexit, the Conservative leader told the conference that while big business did not want the UK to leave the EU, his withdrawal deal would provide the certainty \"that you want now and have wanted for some time\".\n\nIf elected with a Commons majority, Mr Johnson is hoping to get the agreement on the terms of the UK's exit into law by 31 January, and begin talks with Brussels on a permanent trading relationship.\n\nHe also announced a review of business rates in England, with the aim of reducing the overall burden of the tax, as well as a cut in National Insurance contributions for employers, which already benefit from a reduction known as the employment allowance.\n\nIn his address, Mr Corbyn said business had nothing to fear from a Labour government, arguing that while the richest would pay more, there would also be \"more investment than you have ever dreamt of\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I understand your concern over some of our plans\"\n\nHe said he would \"make no apologies\" for the party's plan to take rail, mail, water and broadband delivery into public ownership, saying it was \"not an attack\" on the free market and would bring the UK in line with the continent.\n\n\"It is sometimes claimed I am anti-business,\" he said. \"This is nonsense. It is not nonsense to be against poverty pay. It is not nonsense to say the largest corporations should pay their taxes, just as small companies do.\n\n\"It is not anti-business to want prosperity in every part of the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Labour leader also set out plans to train about 320,000 apprentices in jobs such as construction, manufacturing and design within the renewable energy, transport and forestry sectors.\n\nMs Fairbairn said the business community shared Labour's desire to increased investment but warned the opposition's \"massive instincts towards state intervention and ownership\" put that at risk.\n\nIn her first address to the CBI as leader of her party, Ms Swinson said no-one claiming to want to \"get Brexit sorted\" was on the side of business, due to the negative impact she said it would have on investment and access to labour.\n\n\"With Boris Johnson in the pocket of Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn stuck in the 1970s, we are the only one standing up for you,\" she said.\n\nShe said her party would go further than the others and replace \"crippling\" business rates with a levy paid by commercial landlords based on land value, which she suggested would help \"rescue the High Street\".\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who is not attending the CBI event, said politicians' focus should be on helping small business and promoting what he claimed were the advantages of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nigel Farage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDo you have any questions about the forthcoming election?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nDefender Kyle Walker had to play in goal for the closing stages as Manchester City held on to draw with Atalanta in the Champions League.\n\nWalker replaced substitute goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, who was sent off for a sliding tackle on Josip Ilicic outside the box, having replaced first-choice keeper Ederson at half-time.\n\nRaheem Sterling had given the visitors a 1-0 lead in the first half of their group-stage game before Chelsea loannee Mario Pasalic equalised four minutes after the restart.\n\nCity striker Gabriel Jesus also missed a first-half penalty in a bizarre game at the San Siro.\n• None 'One of the most fun things in football' - Walker dons the gloves and everyone loves it\n• None Champions League permutations: Who is through and who can still progress?\n• None Football Daily podcast: A clean sheet for Kyle Walker and Son doubles up for Spurs\n\nA victory would have sent City through to the last 16 but they remain five points clear at the top of Group C despite failing to win for the first time in the group stages this season.\n\nThings went to plan after seven minutes when Sterling coolly slotted into the bottom corner following a brilliant backheel flick from Jesus.\n\nBut the Brazilian forward's penalty miss and Pasalic's thumping header early in the second half rocked the boat - City were no longer in control and Atalanta were posing a threat.\n\nWith Ederson substituted at half-time for a suspected injury, there was nervousness at the back and Bravo's rash tackle meant an outfield player was forced to go in goal.\n\nUp stepped Walker, after a six-minute delay while Bravo's red card was checked by the video assistant referee, and his first action was to make a smart save from Ruslan Malinovskyi's free-kick.\n\nWalker, only the third outfield player to go in goal during a Champions League match, actually made more saves than both of Manchester City's recognised keepers during the game.\n\nThe moment Bravo came on, City looked nervous at the back.\n\nThe Chile international played with fire on several occasions, coming out of his box to make a diving header and taking his time with clearances while being pressed by Atalanta's forwards.\n\nHe conceded within four minutes of coming on - though he could do nothing about Pasalic's terrific header, which came at him with pace from an unmarked position in the box.\n\nAnd when Bravo came charging out of his area sliding, bringing down Ilicic and consequently being shown a red card, it caused chaos for City, who had no other keepers on the bench to turn to.\n\nWalker was given instructions on the sidelines while the big screen in the stadium showed 'VAR check' but it took six minutes for his substitution to be made.\n\nHe high-fived Riyad Mahrez, who was sacrificed on his behalf, before running straight over to the goalposts and organising the defence into a wall to prepare for the free-kick.\n\nMalinovskyi, who had come on for Atalanta during the six-minute wait, hit it low and straight down the middle but Walker got his body behind it and gobbled up the rebound, to great cheers from the travelling City fans.\n\nManchester City should have had the game wrapped up in the first half but instead, spent the final seven minutes of stoppage time keeping the ball in the corner to prevent Atalanta from having a shot at Walker.\n\nIn the first half, City had eight shots, including six inside the box and had Jesus scored his spot kick, they would have been 2-0 up after 43 minutes.\n\nJesus, who has missed three of his seven penalties in all competitions for City, had a chance early on too when he was played in by Kevin de Bruyne, but his first touch let him down.\n\nAnd when asked whether Jesus' penalty miss affected the game, Guardiola told BT Sport: \"Definitely. Football is emotion.\"\n\nSterling also came close - missing Mahrez's cross by inches at the back post before the ball was taken away from him as he was about to shoot from a few yards out.\n\nThey were ultimately punished for their lack of ruthlessness and sloppiness at the back - something Liverpool will hope to take advantage of when the two Premier League rivals go head-to-head in Sunday's game at Anfield.\n\nAtalanta had lost their previous three group games and this was their first point in the Champions League this season.\n\n'In the second half we suffered'\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola on BT Sport: \"In this competition you know you have your chances and moments and you have to take it. But with the problems we have, we made a good first half. First half, we were outstanding and second, we suffered. In the last 15 minutes we had the issue with the new keeper.\n\n\"The second half we didn't do exactly what we should do. It was few chances conceded against one of the teams who create more. It was a perfect result away and we need one more point to go though.\n\n\"When we land in Manchester we will think about the next game in the Premier League.\"\n\nA first for Bravo - best of the stats\n• None Manchester City failed to win a Champions League group stage game they were winning at half-time for just the second time, also doing so against CSKA Moscow in October 2014 (2-2)\n• None City have been shown more red cards in their 18 games in all competitions this season (3) than they were in 61 games last term (2)\n• None This was Guardiola's 600th game in charge of a top-flight club in all competitions (W440, D95, L65)\n• None Six of Sterling's 19 Champions League goals have been against Italian sides, more than he's scored against opponents from any other country in the competition.\n• None Bravo became the first substitute goalkeeper to be sent off in Champions League history\n• None Gabriel Jesus has missed three of his seven penalties taken in all competitions for Manchester City, with this his first failure in the Champions League\n\nManchester City travel to Anfield for a crucial Premier League fixture against leaders Liverpool on Sunday (16:30 GMT), hoping to close their six-point gap at the top. City are back in European action on Tuesday, 26 November when they host Shakhtar Donetsk at Etihad Stadium.\n• None Benjamin Mendy (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Ruslan Malinovskiy (Atalanta) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Timothy Castagne (Atalanta) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Looking back on the political career of Alun Cairns\n\nUntil Wednesday Alun Cairns could be described as something of a survivor.\n\nAppointed as Welsh secretary by the then prime minister David Cameron in March 2016, he survived both Mr Cameron's resignation and that of his successor Theresa May.\n\nHe is the only cabinet minister to have stayed in the same job.\n\nBut a row about what he knew and when about his aide's involvement in the collapse of a rape trial has led to his resignation.\n\nMr Cairns had claimed not to know anything about Ross England's role before the story broke, but quit after BBC Wales revealed he was emailed about it last August.\n\nBrought up in Clydach, near Swansea, his father was a Port Talbot steelworker and his mother a shopkeeper. He was a pupil at the Welsh-speaking comprehensive school Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera, and worked as a petrol pump attendant before joining Lloyds Bank.\n\nHe first entered the political spotlight in the Welsh Assembly, where he was elected as a regional AM for South Wales West at the age of 28 in 1999.\n\nIn 2008 he resigned as the party's economy spokesman after using a slur about Italians. He apologised for the remarks as soon as he made them on BBC Radio Cymru.\n\nThe incident did not derail his career, and two years later Mr Cairns was elected to serve as the Conservative MP for the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nOver three and a half years as the UK government's senior minister for Wales Mr Cairns, 49, saw the faces around the cabinet table change beyond all recognition, as politics twisted and turned since the EU referendum.\n\nHe voted to remain in the European Union at that referendum, but became a dedicated convert to the leave cause under Mrs May and Mr Johnson and was always seen as highly loyal to each prime minister he served.\n\nAlun Cairns has served under three prime ministers\n\nNo doubt he would like to be remembered as the secretary of state who abolished tolls on the Severn bridges late last year, describing the charge for driving into Wales as \"something that has irritated us for 50 years\".\n\nBut he spent a lot of time on the back foot, explaining why two schemes announced or encouraged by David Cameron - Cardiff to Swansea rail electrification and the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon - were now not happening.\n\nMr Cairns focused much of his efforts on growth deals for the regions of Wales, in which UK government money is combined with cash from other public agencies and the private sector to expand the local economy.\n\nThere was a suspicion amongst Labour Welsh Government ministers that he and his Tory colleagues wanted to use Brexit as a chance to claw back powers that had been devolved to Whitehall, such as economic aid and agriculture, claims which were, of course, strenuously denied.\n\nThe Vale of Glamorgan politician thoroughly much enjoyed being secretary of state for Wales and said he was confident he would be cleared of any wrong doing in the Cabinet Office investigation into his conduct.", "Rihanna has asked people to sign a petition to stop Rodney Reed from being executed\n\nThe brother of a man who's due to be executed in Texas says the family is working \"non-stop\" to halt it.\n\nRodney Reed has spent 21 years on death row for the murder of Stacey Stites. His execution date is 20 November.\n\nHe says he's innocent and his lawyers claim that fresh evidence proves that he did not kill the 19-year-old.\n\nKim Kardashian West, Rihanna and Gigi Hadid have all spoken out supporting him.\n\nHis brother Rodrick told Radio 1 Newsbeat that he hopes this kind of celebrity backing will make a difference.\n\nThe case has got more attention since stars started tweeting about it.\n\nKim K has tweeted several times about Rodney Reed's case.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kim Kardashian West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut this story goes back to 1996.\n\nRodney Reed says he was having a secret relationship with Stacey Stites\n\nThe 19-year-old was due at work early in the morning of 23 April.\n\nShe never turned up to the grocery store in Bastrop, Texas.\n\nWithin a few hours, the truck she drove was found abandoned.\n\nBy that afternoon her body was discovered. She had been strangled with her own belt.\n\nInvestigators found a very small amount of sperm cells - three in total - in her vagina.\n\nThe semen came from a young black man, Rodney Reed.\n\nPolice had his DNA on file because he had been investigated - but found not guilty - over a different sexual assault case.\n\nHe claimed that he was having a secret relationship with Stacey.\n\nShe was engaged to another man, but Rodney's brother Rodrick says the affair went on for months and that the \"whole neighbourhood, the whole family\" knew about it.\n\nHe says: \"I seen them at my mom's house, they came out to my house one time.\"\n\nThe murder weapon was never tested for DNA. None of Rodney Reed's fingerprints were found on the truck Stacey was driving.\n\nThe case against him was mainly built around his semen.\n\nHe said he'd had consensual sex with Stacey the day before she was killed.\n\nExpert witnesses told the murder trial that could not be true.\n\nThey argued that sperm could not possibly have survived in Stacey's body for so long.\n\nInstead, they believed that she must have been raped shortly before being murdered.\n\nThis was enough for an all-white jury to convict Rodney Reed.\n\nHe was sentenced to death.\n\nRodrick Reed says he has never doubted his brother's innocence.\n\nHis voice is steady as he explains: \"I am 100% certain my brother didn't do this. My brother is like my best friend.\"\n\nThere's just a year age difference between them. Rodney is 51.\n\nRodrick says he's lost count of how many times he's visited him in jail, but security is tight.\n\n\"I have not touched my brother in 22 and a half years. Neither have our parents, it's no contact visits,\" he explains.\n\nAway from prison, it's been an ongoing legal battle.\n\nHe says: \"I've been fighting this for all those years, you know?\n\n\"You wouldn't imagine how hard this is. This is something that, you know, you really can't put into words.\"\n\nA date has been set for Rodney Reed's death. He is due to be executed on 20 November.\n\nRodrick Reed says this is a \"nightmare that you can't wake up from\".\n\nHe says his brother is \"standing on the truth and has faith\".\n\nBut at the same time, he says: \"He's scared. Scared as hell. Because this date is real.\n\n\"The idea that they would even entertain taking his life when he has done nothing wrong - nothing but have a consensual relationship with a white girl.\"\n\nRodney Reed's lawyers are fighting to change this and have submitted new evidence.\n\nThe evidence focuses partly on the claims by forensic witnesses in the original trial that sperm could not survive for more than a day after sex.\n\nOne of those medical experts, Dr Roberto Bayardo, has put out a sworn statement explaining that he is now aware that sperm can stay intact for days after death.\n\nAnd so, he says, there is no evidence that Stacey Stites and Rodney Reed had anything other than consensual sex.\n\nThe Innocence Project is representing Rodney and says this all means that the main evidence linking Rodney Reed to Stacey Stite's death was totally wrong.\n\nStacey was engaged - due to marry a white former policeman called Jimmy Fennell.\n\nBut now witnesses have come forward with statements about the couple's relationship.\n\nOne woman talks about him saying that if his girlfriend ever cheated on him, he would strangle her.\n\nAn insurance salesperson remembers Jimmy Fennell threatening to kill Stacey Stites if he ever caught her \"messing around\" on him.\n\nAnother statement comes from a former policeman.\n\nHe says he remembers Jimmy Fennell looking at Stacey Stite's body at her funeral and saying something about her getting what she deserved.\n\nJimmy Fennell went on to serve years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting another woman. He was released in 2018.\n\nOne of the new witnesses is a man who was in jail with him.\n\nArthur Snow was the leader of a white supremacist prison gang.\n\nHe claims that Jimmy Fennell told him that his fiancée had been sleeping with a black man behind his back.\n\nIn a sworn statement he says: \"Toward the end of the conversation, Jimmy said confidently, 'I had to kill my n-word-loving fiancée'.\"\n\nWhat does Jimmy Fennell say?\n\nHis lawyer, Bob Phillips, says there is \"absolutely not a scintilla of merit\" in this claim.\n\nHe told CBS Austin that Arthur Snow is a \"career criminal\" who is \"trying to save his own scalp\".\n\nHe also calls the other new witnesses \"laughable\" and questions why they waited so long to come forward.\n\nHe maintains that it's \"absolutely untrue\" that Stacey Stites was having an affair with Rodney Reed.\n\nHe asks: \"Where are the love notes? Where are the photographs?\n\n\"Where is one piece of corroborating evidence other than people coming out of the woodwork 20 years after the fact?\"\n\nKim Kardashian West, who wants to be a lawyer, has tweeted several times about this case.\n\nMany other celebrities have spoken out too.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rihanna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Gigi Hadid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeek Mill linked to more information on the case.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Meek Mill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBusta Rhymes and LL Cool J also got involved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by LLCOOLJ. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRodrick Reed says he's \"praying that it makes a difference\" by drawing attention to the case.\n\nHe explains: \"The more celebrity reports that we get, the more the world is looking at this.\n\n\"And we're trying to get the world to look at my brother's case, so these people here in Bastrop will be scared to take his life.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has announced he is stepping down from his role after the general election, and will not be standing as an MP.\n\nMr Watson said it was for \"personal not political\" reasons and was the the right time for a change.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alun Cairns resigned the same day the Conservatives' election campaign began\n\nThe resignation of Alun Cairns as Welsh Secretary has big implications for the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nIt raises many questions to which we do not know the answers.\n\nIt leaves their general election campaign in disarray, because as Welsh secretary Mr Cairns was supposed to be leading that campaign.\n\nAs things stand, it is not clear who that person will be.\n\nWho from the current cohort of Welsh Tory politicians could be called up? Could it be Paul Davies, the low-profile leader of the party in the Welsh assembly?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Looking back on the political career of Alun Cairns\n\nMeanwhile, the party is hoping to make gains in leave voting seats in the north east of Wales.\n\nThey have been targets for the party for a long time and efforts were made to move onto Labour's turf in the region in 2017.\n\nWe will have to see what impact this row will have on their chances.\n\nAnother question is whether Mr Cairns' resignation from government will draw a line under the questions of who in the party knew about Ross England's role in the collapse of the rape trial before they selected him as a candidate.\n\nThe leaked email that prompted Mr Cairns' resignation was also sent to the party's director, Richard Minshull.\n\nAnd the chairman, Byron Davies, has yet to clarify his statement that he could \"categorically\" state that neither he nor Mr Cairns knew about the details of the collapse of the trial until last week.\n\nWill Paul Davies lead the Welsh Conservative campaign?\n\nAnd what of Mr Cairns' hopes of re-election?\n\nHis constituency - the Vale of Glamorgan - is seen as a marginal and he had a majority of 2,190 in 2017.\n\nLabour have had high hopes of a gain here. They have the seat in the Welsh assembly and held it through the Blair years.\n\nAnd will a new secretary of state be appointed? Who could that be - when there is no obvious deputy ready to take over?\n\nAnd what about the rape survivor's observation yesterday - that not a single senior Welsh Conservative has apologised for party selecting a man accused by a judge of deliberately sabotaging her rape trial, as a candidate?", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nExeter chief executive Tony Rowe says Premiership champions Saracens should be relegated for breaching salary cap rules.\n\nSaracens face a 35-point deduction and £5.36m fine after an investigation into business partnerships between chairman Nigel Wray and some of their players.\n\nRowe's Exeter lost to Saracens in each of the past two Premiership finals.\n\n\"We, for a number of years, have suspected they've been infringing the salary cap,\" he told BBC Radio Devon.\n\n\"But I don't think the penalty is severe enough. You take away 35 points this year - they could still be in the semi-finals and could still end up at Twickenham [in the Premiership final].\"\n\nAsked what would be a fair punishment, Rowe said: \"Relegation - in professional sport in America, if you're in breach of the salary cap you get thrown out completely.\"\n\nEuropean champions Saracens described the sanctions as \"heavy-handed\" and will appeal against the penalty, with the punishments suspended until the outcome.\n\nFormer Saracens skipper Kyran Bracken called the punishments \"very unfair\", saying the club had \"nurtured\" their own players rather than \"buying success\".\n\n\"I was shocked, dismayed, disappointed as an ex-Saracen.\"\n\nThe former England scrum-half, 44, told BBC Sport: \"It seems very, very harsh when you compare it to say, out and out cheating that may, or has, been done.\n\n\"With Harlequins and bloodgate - where players went on the pitch with capsules - they got a £260,000 fine and no points deduction, yet for Saracens it's 35 points and over £5m fine, it just feels disproportionate.\"\n\nRob Baxter's Exeter side won their first Premiership title in 2016-17 - beating Saracens in the semi-finals - but have subsequently been beaten by the London club in each of the past two Twickenham finals, including a 37-34 defeat in June.\n\nRowe called the £7m cap \"a juggle\", saying the club have had to make unpopular decisions on player departures to stay under the limit.\n\n\"It's the management that have totally flouted the rules and regulations, which has enabled them to put a squad on the pitch that we couldn't match,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel a bit bitter about it because we were only just beaten. I'm not blaming the [Saracens] players, you can't blame the players.\n\n\"It leaves a bit of a nasty taste in my mouth - if you're in sport and you get beaten fair and square that's fine, but then to find out that your opponents have actually cheated, it's not good.\"\n\nFellow Premiership side Worcester Warriors - who say they are \"proud\" to adhere to the salary cap - backed the league for taking action against Saracens.\n\nSarries previously claimed they \"readily comply\" with salary cap rules and were able to spend above the cap because of the high proportion - almost 60% - of home-grown players in their squad.\n\n\"The salary cap regulations are there for good reasons. They ensure the financial sustainability of clubs and control inflationary pressures as well as maintaining a competitive Premiership,\" Warriors said a statement.\n\n\"The salary cap regulations were unanimously agreed by all clubs so everyone is aware of their obligations to comply with them and of the potential consequences should they breach them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passengers faced disruption as parts of the building were closed\n\nA pilot on a plane has accidentally set off a hijack alarm and sparked a major security alert at Schiphol airport in the Dutch city of Amsterdam.\n\nDutch military police tweeted at about 19:30 (18:30 GMT) to say they were investigating a \"suspicious situation\".\n\nPart of the airport - one of Europe's busiest - was then closed off as police responded to the reported threat.\n\nBut about an hour later, Air Europa announced that a pilot had accidentally triggered the alarm.\n\n\"False alarm. In the flight Amsterdam-Madrid this afternoon was activated, by mistake, a warning that triggers protocols on hijackings at the airport,\" the airline tweeted.\n\n\"Nothing has happened, all passengers are safe and sound waiting to fly soon. We deeply apologise.\"\n\nShortly before their announcement, Dutch military police confirmed all passengers and staff had been safely evacuated from the Madrid-bound flight.\n\nImages posted on social media showed parts of the airport's D-pier cordoned off to the public, with passengers waiting around for information.\n\nThe alert caused parts of the airport to be closed off to passengers\n\nFlights still landed at other parts of the airport during the disruption, but emergency services scrambled and some flights were held on the tarmac.\n\nRoberto Carrera, 38, landed at the airport in the midst of the alert at about 19:45 local time.\n\n\"The pilot let us know an incident may have happened,\" he told the BBC in a phone interview.\n\nMr Carrera said he and other passengers on his flight from Dublin were then held on the tarmac for about an hour before they were allowed to disembark.\n\nHe saw police in the terminal but described the atmosphere in the airport as calm overall, despite the disruption.\n\nThe incident was described as a GRIP-3 situation, Dutch officials said, meaning an incident or serious event with major consequences to a local population.\n\nRegulation documents published by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) explain that pilots can use a special transponder beacon code, typing 7500, to raise an alert for unlawful interference in the case of a hijacking.\n\nIt remains unclear if this is what happened during the false alarm on Wednesday.\n\nAmsterdam's airport is one of the busiest transport hubs in Europe, handling more than 70 million passengers a year.\n• None 'The longest and most spectacular plane hijack'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daughter calls for change in laws on assisted dying\n\nThe daughter of a woman cleared of murdering her terminally ill husband in a \"mercy killing\" has said the laws on assisted dying must change so \"no family has to go through what we did\".\n\nA jury cleared Mavis Eccleston, 80, of the murder and manslaughter of her husband Dennis, 81, in September.\n\nThe couple's daughter Joy Munns said her mother \"should never have been charged with murder\".\n\nOpponents say the case \"does not justify a change in the law\".\n\nMrs Eccleston, formerly of Huntington, near Cannock in Staffordshire, was accused of giving her husband a potentially lethal dose of prescription medicine without his knowledge.\n\nShe told Stafford Crown Court they both intended to take their own lives and jurors heard she also took an overdose but survived.\n\nMavis and Dennis Eccleston pictured with their children (L-R) Kevin, Joy and Lynne\n\nAfter the couple were taken to hospital, Mrs Munns took a photograph of her parents side by side in hospital beds.\n\nHer father died 20 minutes after it was taken.\n\nThe family, which is being supported by campaign group Dignity in Dying, said they had taken the decision to release the picture as they want to \"raise awareness\" of their campaign.\n\nMavis and Dennis Eccleston were rushed to hospital after being found at their home in February 2018\n\nMrs Munns, who lives in Drakelow, Derbyshire, said: \"There's no way in this day and age we should be working with this outdated law.\n\n\"My dad wanted to die at home with his family around him. He wanted to go and not suffer the pain that he did.\"\n\nMrs Munns previously said she wanted a change in the law \"so that dying people aren't forced to suffer, make plans in secret or ask loved ones to risk prosecution by helping them\".\n\n\"More families will suffer in silence like ours because of our broken laws,\" she added.\n\n\"I have to believe that everything we went through (for 19 months) was for the law to be changed.\"\n\nShe wants politicians to debate in Parliament the issue of assisted dying and hopes her father's case \"will not be ignored\".\n\nMavis and Dennis Eccleston had been married for almost 60 years\n\nAssisted dying is legal in a number of countries.\n\nThe Suicide Act 1961 makes it illegal to encourage or assist a death in England and Wales. It is an offence punishable with a sentence of up to 14 years.\n\nDignity in Dying chief executive Sarah Wootton said the law on assisted dying \"is not working\" and said it \"forced [Dennis] to resort to drastic measures to end his life and then criminalised Mavis for acting out of love in helping him\".\n\nDr Gordon Macdonald, chief executive of Care Not Killing, said: \"This is a deeply sad and troubling case, but it does not justify a change in the law to allow assisted suicide.\"", "George Kent, Marie Yovanovitch and Bill Taylor have all testified in the ongoing impeachment inquiry\n\nCongressional Democrats have announced the first public hearings next week in an inquiry that may seek to remove President Donald Trump from office.\n\nThree state department officials will testify first. So far lawmakers from three key House committees have heard from witnesses behind closed doors.\n\nThe impeachment inquiry centres on claims that Mr Trump pressured Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into political rival Joe Biden.\n\nHouse Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, who is overseeing the inquiry, told reporters on Wednesday that an impeachment case was building against the president.\n\nHe said: \"We are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year - and the degree to which the president enlisted whole departments of government in the illicit aim to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent.\"\n\nMr Trump has been making discredited corruption claims about former US vice-president Joe Biden, whose son Hunter Biden once worked for a Ukrainian gas company.\n\nThe Capitol Hill hearings will now be broadcast live, with both Democratic and Republican lawmakers questioning witnesses.\n\nOne of the first to appear will be Bill Taylor, acting US ambassador to Ukraine, who delivered some of the most explosive private testimony last month.\n\nOn Wednesday - a week ahead of his scheduled public hearing - House Democrats released a transcript of his evidence.\n\nIt shows Mr Taylor told lawmakers it was his \"clear understanding\" that the president had withheld nearly $400m (£310m) in US military aid because he wanted Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.\n\nJoe Biden is a Democratic front-runner for the presidential election a year from now.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it take to impeach a president?\n\nAlso scheduled to testify publicly next Wednesday is career state department official George Kent.\n\nMr Kent reportedly told lawmakers that department officials had been sidelined as the White House put political appointees in charge of Ukraine policy.\n\nHe testified that he had been warned to \"lay low\" by a superior after expressing concern about Mr Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was lobbying Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Mr Giuliani has denied wrongdoing.\n\nFormer US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was recalled in May after falling from favour with the White House, is due to testify on Friday next week.\n\nShe told the hearing last month that she had felt threatened by Mr Trump's remark to Ukraine's president that was \"going to go through some things\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What we know about Biden-Ukraine corruption claims\n\nThe military aid to Ukraine was released in September, after a whistleblower raised the alarm about a 25 July phone call in which Mr Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate the Bidens.\n\nThe whistleblower's complaint prompted House Democrats to launch the impeachment inquiry.\n\nImpeachment is the first part - the charges - of a two-stage political process by which Congress can remove a president from office.\n\nIf, following the hearings, the House of Representatives votes to pass articles of impeachment, the Senate is forced to hold a trial.\n\nA Senate vote requires a two-thirds majority to convict and remove the president - unlikely in this case, given that Mr Trump's party controls the chamber.\n\nOnly two US presidents in history - Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson - have been impeached, but neither was convicted.\n\nPresident Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.", "Marks and Spencer profits dropped in the first half of its financial year following a sharp fall in demand for its clothes and home goods.\n\nThe High Street retailer said that while its food business was \"outperforming the market\", there had been issues in clothing and home.\n\nMarks and Spencer is undergoing a transformation plan led by chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nHe said after a \"challenging\" first half, it is now seeing improvements.\n\nOverall, pre-tax profits tumbled by 17% to £176.5m on total sales down 2.1% to £4.86bn.\n\nLike-for-like sales in clothing and home fell by 5.5% during the six months to 30 September, worse than an expected 4.3% drop.\n\nIn Wednesday's FTSE 250 trading, the company's shares fell 0.2% to 182 pence.\n\nM&S said there had been \"availability challenges\" as a result of \"supply chain issues and a shape of buy that remained too broad\".\n\nThe company is facing competition from fashion giants such as Primark on the High Street and Asos on the internet.\n\nIt said its clothing business \"has historically been too slow to market\" and had \"too many slow-moving lines\".\n\nM&S also said it was going to ensure that they had enough product in all sizes, and would be quicker to restock popular and fast-selling items in stores.\n\nIn addition it said it would look to introduce slimmer cuts in clothing designs, which would be increasingly aimed at a \"family market\".\n\nM&S said it was seeing a positive response to its current winter season clothing, which it says is a \"better value product\".\n\nBut retail expert Richard Hyman told BBC Radio Four's Today programme: \"I think Marks and Spencer customers are not interested in price, as much as relevance. Making clothes cheaper is not the answer.\n\n\"When they talk about this season's offering, they are talking about a matter of weeks. The general outlook for Christmas trading is not looking very good across the trade.\"\n\nIn contrast, like-for-like sales in food grew by 0.9%, ahead of a forecast 0.3% rise.\n\nTo stem the decline in food, M&S forged a joint venture with Ocado in February, agreeing to buy 50% of its retail business for £750m.\n\nBut Mr Hyman said: \"I can't see the central logic of the Ocado deal. I don't think they have to be online in food at all. Online [food retailing] in the UK is 7% of the market, suggesting people are not clamouring to buy food online.\"\n\nAnd Neil Wilson, chief analyst at markets.com said that overall, change had been far too slow at the company.\n\nBut M&S boss Mr Rowe said the firm was now starting to see the benefits of its transformation plan. \"For the first time we are beginning to see the potential from the far reaching changes we are making,\" he said.\n\nHowever, while it forecast some improvement in trading in the second half of the year, market conditions remain challenging.\n\nIn September, M&S was relegated from the FTSE 100 index of Britain's biggest listed companies.\n\nIt marked the first time the retailer had not been a FTSE 100 member since the index was launched in 1984.", "Tom Watson has told the Creative Industries Federation that the Labour Party should \"unambiguously and unequivocally back Remain\" in a future Brexit referendum.\n\nThe party's deputy leader said it was not a matter of \"electoral tactics\" but because it was \"the right thing to do\".", "Ross England has been suspended by the Welsh Conservatives\n\nA Tory assembly candidate who was accused by a crown court judge of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial has been suspended by his party.\n\nRoss England was selected eight months after the trial collapsed.\n\nWhile giving evidence, he claimed he had a casual sexual relationship with the victim, which she denied.\n\nWelsh Conservative chairman Byron Davies said: \"Ross England has been suspended pending this matter being presented to the candidates committee.\"\n\nBoris Johnson refused to say whether or not he would sack the Vale of Glamorgan candidate at prime minister's questions on Wednesday.\n\nGiving evidence in the April 2018 trial, Mr England made claims about the sexual relationship after the judge Stephen John Hopkins QC, had made it clear that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nMr Hopkins said to Mr England: \"Why did you say that? Are you completely stupid\", later telling him to: \"Get out of my court.\"\n\nThe defendant, James Hackett, was later convicted following a retrial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said he could not comment because of ongoing legal proceedings - although proceedings have concluded in the case\n\nIt is not clear from Lord Davies' statement whether Mr England is suspended from his candidacy, as a party member, or both.\n\nParty officials have also not answered questions about whether they had knowledge of the incident when he was selected.\n\nLeanne Wood, who earlier called for Mr England to be deselected, said on Twitter: \"Good. This should have happened before now, but at least action [has] finally been taken on this.\"\n\nMr England has worked for Alun Cairns, the Welsh Secretary and Conservative Vale of Glamorgan MP.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday Preseli Pembrokeshire Conservative MP Stephen Crabb said he was not aware of the details but added: \"There needs to be some kind of process to look at these allegations and make a decision about it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A rape victim says Ross England had a \"formulated plan\" to wreck the trial of her attacker\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns endorsed Mr England as the Assembly election candidate following his selection in December 2018.\n\nHe described him as a \"friend and colleague\" who it would be \"a pleasure to campaign with\".\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday, Mr England said: \"I was not told that anything had been ruled inadmissible prior to my testimony.\n\n\"I gave an honest answer, honouring the oath I took to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.\n\n\"I complied fully with the conditions of the court before and after the trial.\"\n\nWill that be the end of the matter? It will not, because many questions remain unanswered by the party.\n\nThe Conservatives have failed to answer questions about whether they had knowledge of this case when they selected him.\n\nMr England denies wrongdoing but his actions had very serious consequences.\n\nThe trial had to be abandoned, a rape victim endured the added trauma of having to go through a retrial and the delivery of justice to a rapist was delayed.\n\nEven though he was not a candidate in the forthcoming campaign, I think the party realised this row could overshadow it. It is not clear they've done enough to stop that.\n\nIt also raises questions about the rigour of the party's selection process.", "\"If it sticks we'll be fine\" - hammer the core message, again and again, and plot a path to victory.\n\nThat's how one cabinet minister reckons the Tories can win.\n\nAfter the last couple of extremely bumpy days for their party, they are hoping this will be a campaign where surprises are not a regular feature.\n\nInstead, they and many of their colleagues reckon the plea for a majority to sort out the Brexit-induced mess of the last few years super fast will find resonance on the doors, saying they are already hearing voters quote back the '\"get Brexit done\" slogan.\n\nAnother cabinet minister says \"it's not Parliament versus the people, it's more positive than the pitchfork, but it feels good on the ground - we are hearing from a lot of people they do reckon it's Parliament that's out of touch\".\n\nEvents of the last 48 hours have shown already, as I wrote on Tuesday night, that events come crashing into parties' hopes and fears pretty fast and knock them off course.\n\nThere is another fear among some Conservatives though. The strategy coming out of Tory HQ is crystal clear - end the political agony of Brexit, attract extra Leave voters who are fed up, while hanging on to as many of their existing seats as they can.\n\nBut, with such a Brexit-heavy message, will they - can they - do both at the same time?\n\nOne former minister (one of a tiny number who predicted a hung Parliament last time round!) fears \"this campaign is for the 52%, and the problem is that it is not the same electorate\".\n\nIn their area, the highest turnout in the 2016 referendum was in a Labour part of the constituency, where people chose overwhelmingly to Leave. But in general elections in that same ward, the turnout is lowest.\n\nAnd it's not just the question that's been much discussed - would Leave voters who wouldn't normally dream of voting Tory vote for Boris Johnson because of Brexit - that matters. It's how motivated that group will be.\n\nThe same senior Tory worries there just won't be enough voters and many of their normal voters are so cross about Brexit that, \"we have lost the professional classes\".\n\nNo-one would deny that Brexit has changed the political arithmetic, but the sums may not add up for the Conservatives at all.\n\nOther senior figures argue that it won't be as one dimensional. One cabinet minister says \"the pool is larger than during the referendum. There will be a strong economy argument that will work in Lib Dem-facing seats\" - broadly hoping there will be a reason for those Remain-tending Tories to stick with the party.\n\nThere's a big speech from the chancellor tomorrow morning that might start to build that too. One No 10 insider says \"we have to appeal to a bunch of richer, better-educated Tory Remainers who might be tempted by the Lib Dems\".\n\nThat is why another minister is so relieved their party is going into the election with a Brexit deal. \"It's changed everything,\" they say.\n\nIn other words, they don't have to knock on doors and argue for leaving the EU in eight weeks' time with potential economic turmoil.\n\nAround the country in the next few weeks, Boris Johnson and his team of Vote Leavers will make arguments as bold and likely as brash as they did in 2016. But it's not the same year, not the same political atmosphere, and potentially, not the same voters who'll make the difference.", "Andrew Bridgen is the former Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire\n\nA Conservative candidate has apologised for defending Jacob Rees-Mogg's comments that it would have been \"common sense\" to flee the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nAndrew Bridgen said Mr Rees-Mogg would have made a \"better decision\" than authority figures who gave people advice on the night of the fire.\n\nHe has now apologised \"unreservedly\" for his choice of words.\n\nThe Conservative Party chairman said both were \"wrong\" in what they said.\n\nJames Cleverly said Mr Rees-Mogg and Mr Bridgen had realised they caused \"distress and hurt\" to those affected by the tower block fire which killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said Mr Rees-Mogg and Mr Bridgen \"were wrong in what they've said\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg made his remarks during an LBC radio phone-in on Monday.\n\nThe Leader of the House of Commons was speaking on the findings of a Grenfell inquiry report when he said: \"The more one's read over the weekend about the report and about the chances of people surviving, if you just ignore what you're told and leave you are so much safer.\n\n\"And I think if either of us were in a fire, whatever the fire brigade said, we would leave the burning building. It just seems the common sense thing to do.\"\n\nSeventy-two people died in the fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017\n\nMr Bridgen, who was the North West Leicestershire MP before the election was called, said Mr Rees-Mogg's comments \"were uncharacteristically clumsy\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's PM show on Tuesday, Mr Bridgen said: \"What he's actually saying is that he would have made a better decision than the authority figures who gave that advice.\"\n\nAsked by presenter Evan Davis if Mr Rees-Mogg was implying that he was cleverer than most people, Mr Bridgen replied: \"But we want very clever people running the country, don't we, Evan?\n\n\"That is a by-product of what Jacob is and that is why he is in a position of authority.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Bridgen later tweeted an apology for the remarks, saying: \"I realise that what I said was wrong and caused a great deal of distress and offence.\"\n\nBefore the apology, Labour's national campaign co-ordinator Andrew Gwynne said Mr Bridgen's comments were \"contemptible\" and that he should be removed as a parliamentary candidate.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg \"profoundly apologised\" for his comments on Tuesday, saying: \"What I meant to say is that I would have also listened to the fire brigade's advice to stay and wait at the time.\n\n\"However, with what we know now and with hindsight I wouldn't and I don't think anyone else would.\"\n\nHe had been criticised by survivors' group Grenfell United who said his remarks were \"beyond disrespectful\" and were \"extremely painful and insulting to bereaved families\".\n\nGrenfell inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said fewer people would have died if the London Fire Brigade (LFB) had taken certain actions earlier.\n\nHe criticised the LFB for following a \"stay put\" strategy, where firefighters and 999 operators told residents to stay in their flats for nearly two hours after the blaze broke out.\n\nLFB Commissioner Dany Cotton told the London Assembly on Tuesday the brigade would respond differently to a Grenfell-like fire in the future.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The deal is \"a commitment that is blind to gender\", a players' union says\n\nAustralia's women's football team, the Matildas, have struck a historic deal which will see them earn equal pay and entitlements on many key measures.\n\nFootball Federation Australia (FFA) said it means the top male and female players will be on the same pay scale.\n\nBut the men are likely to keep earning more due to the greater prize money typically on offer at their matches.\n\nThe Matildas are currently ranked 8th in the world while Australia's men's team, the Socceroos, come in 44th.\n\n\"This is a massive step taken to close the gender pay gap between the Socceroos and the Matildas,\" said FFA chief executive David Gallop.\n\nProfessional Footballers Australia, a union which represent both teams, said it was a \"a commitment that is blind to gender\".\n\nUnder the deal, both sides will receive the same cut of commercial revenue - such as advertising - and players will be valued equally.\n\nTop female players will also see a significant boost to their salary - now A$100,000 (£53,000; $69,000).\n\nThe Matildas will also receive identical training conditions and other entitlements - such as business class air travel - which are currently afforded to the Socceroos.\n\nAlthough both teams will now receive a 40% cut of prize money at tournaments, the men's team will typically receive more overall - because their prize money tends to be higher.\n\nThe gender pay gap in football was widely discussed following the Women's World Cup in July.\n\nThe US women's team also highlighted the issue in March when it launched a lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation over pay and conditions, alleging discrimination.\n\nThe Matildas had also been a leading voice on the issue, pressuring Fifa before the tournament to treat male and female players equally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustralia now joins New Zealand and Norway in placing male and female players on the same pay scale.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said he could not comment because of ongoing legal proceedings - although proceedings have concluded in the case.\n\nThe prime minister has refused to be drawn on whether he should sack Tory assembly candidate Ross England.\n\nMr England was selected by the Conservatives eight months after he was accused by a crown court judge of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial which collapsed.\n\nBoris Johnson said it would be \"inappropriate for me to comment on ongoing legal proceedings\".\n\nLegal proceedings have concluded in the case.\n\nThe defendant, James Hackett, was later convicted following a retrial. Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens said Mr England's selection was \"unbelievable\".\n\nStephen Crabb, a Welsh Tory MP said: \"Clearly someone needs to look into it.\"\n\nRoss England was giving evidence in a rape trial in April 2018 when he made claims about the victim's sexual history, which the complainant denies.\n\nIn December 2018 he was selected for the Conservatives in the Vale of Glamorgan seat.\n\nRoss England is standing for the Welsh Conservatives in the 2021 assembly election\n\nMr England has worked for Alun Cairns, the Welsh Secretary and Conservative Vale of Glamorgan MP.\n\nAt prime minister's questions in the Commons Ms Stevens said: \"Yesterday it was reported that a former staff member of the secretary of state for Wales, Ross England, had in the words of a trial judge single-handedly and deliberately sabotaged a rape trial by referring to the victim's sexual history against the judge's instructions.\n\n\"The trial had to be stopped, and started again from scratch and the defendant was convicted.\n\n\"Unbelievably the party then selected Mr England as a Welsh Assembly candidate with the Secretary of State's endorsement. Is the prime minister going to sack Mr England?\"\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said: \"It would be inappropriate for me to comment on ongoing legal proceedings.\"\n\nRoss England has worked for Alun Cairns in his constituency office\n\nThe Conservative party has been repeatedly asked for comment by BBC Wales.\n\nWelsh Conservative chairman Byron Davies and Welsh Conservative director Richard Minshull have been approached and BBC Wales has contacted Conservative Party press officers about the story.\n\nThey are yet to provide a reply.\n\nPreseli Pembrokeshire MP Mr Crabb said: \"I don't know all the details of it but clearly there needs to be some kind of process to look at these allegations and make a decision about it.\n\n\"It's with cases like this that it's really important for the party in London and in Cardiff to show that it's got a clear process for handling complaints.\n\n\"If a complaint does get made about Mr England it is important that we show there's a fair process for adjudicating on that.\"\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said Mr England should be deselected.\n\n\"This whole case and the actions of the Tories in this absolutely stinks,\" she said.\n\n\"Ross England should be sacked as a candidate now and it would do no harm for the Tories to understand our strength of feeling.\"\n\nFormer Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said the action of the Tories \"stinks\"\n\nGiving evidence in the April 2018 trial Mr England made claims that he had had a casual sexual relationship with the complainant, which she denies.\n\nThe trial judge in the case, Stephen John Hopkins QC, had earlier made clear that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nHe went on to say to Mr England: \"Why did you say that? Are you completely stupid?\"\n\nMr England said that he thought the question was about his relationship with the woman. Replying, His Honour Judge Hopkins said it was not: \"It was quite clear what the question was.\"\n\nThe judge then said: \"You have managed singlehanded, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial\".", "Police stopped the BMW convertible and spoke to the driver about her \"insecure load\"\n\nA BMW convertible was stopped by police after it was spotted being used to transport a double bed.\n\nA picture posted online by Essex Police shows the roof down and a mattress and bed frame upright on the back seat.\n\nOfficers on patrol stopped the vehicle at Great Bentley near Colchester and wrote about the \"insecure load\" on Twitter.\n\nUsing the face palm emoji, they said the female driver had told them \"it's wedged in the seat so it's okay\".\n\nOther Twitter users responded in disbelief, calling it \"beyond a joke\" and \"absolutely baffling\".\n\nThe Essex Police Operational Support post did not say what action was taken against the driver, but causing a danger from distribution of load in a car can attract a fine of £100.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Peter Hutchinson stopped teaching after an internal investigation in 2015\n\nA Cambridge academic accused of sexually harassing 10 students has resigned, two weeks after his college confirmed that he remained in his post.\n\nDr Peter Hutchinson stopped teaching at Trinity Hall in 2015, following an internal inquiry into the allegations.\n\nBut a row erupted after he attended a lecture in 2017, after which Trinity Hall said, as an emeritus fellow, he could still attend college events.\n\nDr Hutchinson said he had now resigned in the \"best interests of the college\".\n\nThe former lecturer in modern and medieval languages said the resignation was also in the interests of his \"health and family\".\n\nTrinity Hall says it will now \"review its decision-making processes\" and how cases of \"harassment and other disciplinary issues\" are handled.\n\nIn 2015, following complaints of sexual harassment from 10 Trinity Hall students, Dr Hutchinson agreed to stop teaching and from attending \"any social events at which students might be present\".\n\nHowever, in November 2017 he went to a lecture at the college to which he had been invited.\n\nThe following month Trinity Hall said Dr Hutchinson was \"withdrawing permanently from the college\" as a result.\n\nHowever, legal documents obtained by the BBC show that was not agreed by Dr Hutchinson and he had threatened to sue Trinity Hall.\n\nAfter the BBC contacted Trinity Hall, it later confirmed this was because he had been invited \"in error\" to the lecture at the time.\n\nLast month the college sought to further clarify the situation, saying that because the former lecturer had become an emeritus fellow upon his retirement, he would continue to attend certain college events and to exercise his dining rights.\n\nHe was entitled to emeritus status, which includes special privileges such as the right to have free meals in college, because he had taught there for more than 25 years.\n\nThe decision saw more than 1,300 students, alumni and academics at Trinity Hall and Cambridge University sign an open letter calling for Dr Hutchinson to be banned.\n\nThe BBC understands former students had also asked to be removed from alumni-databases, withdrawn donations, lobbied sponsors and sent in torn-up degree certificates.\n\nCleodie Rickard was one of the complainants against Dr Hutchinson\n\nCleodie Rickard, 23, a complainant who graduated in Arabic and Middle Eastern studies in 2018, called the college's handling of the case \"wholly insufficient, offensive and negligent\".\n\nBBC News has spoken to three staff members who said they left the college with \"serious concerns\" over the decision to allow Dr Hutchinson to keep his post.\n\nThe BBC understands one resigned, one chose not to remain affiliated with Trinity Hall and another cited the handling of Dr Hutchinson's case for not renewing their job.\n\n\"We sent the message that appeasing one retired male insider was worth more than keeping our word to the student body who had trusted us,\" one academic said.\n\nIn a statement, the Master of Trinity Hall, Dr Jeremy Morris, said: \"Dr Peter Hutchinson has resigned from his post as emeritus fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge with immediate effect. The college has accepted his resignation.\n\n\"We have listened carefully to concerns raised about how the situation with Dr Hutchinson was handled procedurally and how decisions made by the governing body were communicated.\"\n\nHe said \"the safety and welfare of everyone at Trinity Hall is, and has always been, of paramount importance\".", "The Archbishop of Westminster says the Church has struggled to cope with abuse by its members\n\nThe leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has told an inquiry the Church was \"shocked to the core\" by child sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the clergy.\n\nThe Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said the community had struggled to cope with \"the presence of evil embodied in its members\".\n\nHe said the Church's culture had improved \"radically\" in recent years, but there was still \"more to achieve\".\n\nVictims said changes had been \"slow\".\n\nGiving evidence for the second time to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), Archbishop Nichols said he had learned lessons about tackling abuse at a summit called by the Pope at the Vatican for senior bishops.\n\nA letter the cardinal wrote to bishops in England and Wales following the meeting was shown to the inquiry.\n\nHe wrote that, during the meeting, \"in me, something deeper changed\".\n\n\"A change of perspective. I began to see everything from the perspective of the victim/survivor,\" he added. \"That is a sobering perspective for us to take.\"\n\nArchbishop Nichols told the inquiry the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales had already implemented some of the measures discussed at the summit.\n\nThe cardinal said he did \"get\" the issue of abuse but that \"getting it is always a spectrum\" and he was still learning.\n\n\"I think we should do more in the general life of our parishes to set the task of safeguarding in a more positive context,\" he added.\n\n\"The experience in the Catholic community in this country over the last 20 years has been one of struggling to cope with the presence of evil embodied in its members, which has shocked it to the core.\"\n\nAn earlier report into abuse in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, which the cardinal led, found that the Church sometimes put its reputation above that of the needs of victims. He said that characterisation did not apply to him.\n\nLead counsel for the inquiry, Brian Altman QC, asked if the cardinal believed there was still much to improve, despite major inquiries held in 2001 and 2007.\n\nThe cardinal said: \"The culture of the Catholic Church today is radically different from 2001 or even 2007, but I do think there's much, much more to achieve.\"\n\nRichard Scorer, specialist abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon, who acts for 27 abuse victims in the inquiry, said: \"Cardinal Nichols's evidence will cut little ice with victims.\n\n\"The Catholic Church has spent the last two decades promising to get safeguarding right, but the evidence in this inquiry has exposed these promises as so much hot air.\"\n\nMr Scorer said improvements had been \"lamentably slow\", treatment of survivors was \"consistently poor\" and the Catholic Church's structure and culture meant it was \"incapable of delivering the changes survivors need\".\n\nArchbishop Nichols was also asked why another archbishop - the Vatican's ambassador to Britain Monsignor Edward Adams - had refused to give the inquiry a statement about abuse at Ealing Abbey and St Benedict's School and specifically why it had taken so long for the Vatican to remove a particularly abusive priest from the Church.\n\nThe cardinal said he had stressed the importance of the inquiry to the other members of the clergy but added he was \"not a diplomat\" and did not understand \"the niceties of international law in these things\".\n\nHe also defended the Vatican police force for providing information that helped to locate and apprehend an abusive priest who had fled the country.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Uber self-driving test vehicle that hit and killed a woman in 2018 had software problems, according to US safety investigators.\n\nElaine Herzberg, 49, was hit by the car as she was crossing a road in Tempe, Arizona.\n\nThe US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found the car failed to identify her properly as a pedestrian.\n\nThe detailed findings raised a series of safety issues but did not determine the probable cause of the accident.\n\nThe safety board is expected to make that finding when it meets on 19 November.\n\nThe findings, released on Tuesday, may also be used to help shape recommendations for the developing autonomous driving industry. The sector has come under sharp scrutiny in the wake of the accident.\n\nThe fatal crash occurred in March 2018, and involved a Volvo XC90 that Uber had been using to test its self-driving technology.\n\nJust before the crash, Ms Herzberg had been walking with a bicycle across a poorly lit stretch of a multi-lane road.\n\nAccording to the NTSB, Uber's test vehicle failed to correctly identify the bicycle as an imminent collision until just before impact.\n\nBy that time, it was too late for the vehicle to avoid the crash.\n\n\"The system design did not include a consideration for jaywalking pedestrians,\" the NTSB said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe report also said there were 37 crashes of Uber vehicles in self-driving mode between September 2016 and March 2018.\n\nIn a statement, Uber said: \"We deeply value the thoroughness of the NTSB's investigation into the crash and look forward to reviewing their recommendations\".\n\nEarlier this year, prosecutors ruled that the company is not criminally liable for the death of Ms Herzberg.\n\nHowever, the car's back-up driver could still face criminal charges.\n\nDash-cam footage released by police after the incident appeared to show the vehicle's back-up driver, Rafaela Vasquez, taking her eyes off the road moments before the accident.\n\nFurther records from the streaming service Hulu suggested that Ms Vasquez had been streaming a television talent show on a phone at the time of the crash.\n\nFollowing the crash, authorities in Arizona suspended Uber's ability to test self-driving cars on the state's public roads.\n\nThe company subsequently pulled the plug on its autonomous car operation in Arizona, although the company later resumed tests in Pennsylvania", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The actress and activist tells the BBC's Luke Jones about why she's being arrested every week, but doesn't want to go to prison.\n\nThe actress and activist Jane Fonda says she \"worries\" about climate activist Greta Thunberg.\n\n\"She understands that if she's attacked it's because she's making a difference and that scares people,\" says Fonda.\n\nThe 81-year-old has vowed to protest every Friday until January to demand for action to be taken to address climate change.\n\nThunberg, 16, found fame after her youth climate strike protests spread to schools around the world.\n\n\"They handcuff you with plastic things, not the old good metal ones. They hurt more,\" Fonda says of her most recent arrest.\n\nBut she says: \"I don't want to go to prison.\n\n\"I don't think that Jane Fonda the martyr is exactly what the movement needs right now.\"\n\n\"The police are figuring out what to do. I was told if I keep getting arrested every week I may be put in the slammer. I may not get arrested every week because I have to start filming Grace and Frankie (her series for Netflix).\"\n\nFonda has been an active campaigner for years, being involved in Native American rights campaigns, civil rights campaigns and protesting against the Vietnam War.\n\n\"I haven't been very well in my skin because I knew I wasn't doing what I can do. I was not a super happy person until I started to do this.\"\n\nShe says she asked an \"ocean scientist\" taking part in her recent protest, \"How do you stop from getting depressed?\n\n\"He said, 'I become active. The minute you start doing something about it, the depression goes away'.\"\n\nJane Fonda arrested for protesting inside the Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.\n\nHer latest action, she says, was inspired by the student protests led by Thunberg.\n\nThey are \"more politically savvy than we ever were at that age. They're much more sensitive of diversity. This can't be a white, elite climate action.\n\nYou can hear the full interview with Jane Fonda on BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House.", "A Boeing whistleblower has claimed that passengers on its 787 Dreamliner could be left without oxygen if the cabin were to suffer a sudden decompression.\n\nJohn Barnett says tests suggest up to a quarter of the oxygen systems could be faulty and might not work when needed.\n\nHe also claimed faulty parts were deliberately fitted to planes on the production line at one Boeing factory.\n\nBoeing denies his accusations and says all its aircraft are built to the highest levels of safety and quality.\n\nThe firm has come under intense scrutiny in the wake of two catastrophic accidents involving another one of its planes, the 737 Max - the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March and Lion Air disaster in Indonesia last year.\n\nMr Barnett, a former quality control engineer, worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement on health grounds in March 2017.\n\nFrom 2010 he was employed as a quality manager at Boeing's factory in North Charleston, South Carolina.\n\nJohn Barnett is a former quality control manager at Boeing\n\nThis plant is one of two that are involved in building the 787 Dreamliner, a state-of-the-art modern airliner used widely on long-haul routes around the world. Despite early teething problems following its entry into service the aircraft has proved a hit with airlines, and a useful source of profits for the company.\n\nBut according to Mr Barnett, 57, the rush to get new aircraft off the production line meant that the assembly process was rushed and safety was compromised. The company denies this and insists that \"safety, quality and integrity are at the core of Boeing's values\".\n\nIn 2016, he tells the BBC, he uncovered problems with emergency oxygen systems. These are supposed to keep passengers and crew alive if the cabin pressurisation fails for any reason at altitude. Breathing masks are meant to drop down from the ceiling, which then supply oxygen from a gas cylinder.\n\nWithout such systems, the occupants of a plane would rapidly be incapacitated. At 35,000ft, (10,600m) they would be unconscious in less than a minute. At 40,000ft, it could happen within 20 seconds. Brain damage and even death could follow.\n\nAlthough sudden decompression events are rare, they do happen. In April 2018, for example, a window blew out of a Southwest Airlines aircraft, after being hit by debris from a damaged engine. One passenger sitting beside the window suffered serious injuries and later died as a result - but others were able to draw on the emergency oxygen supplies and survived unharmed.\n\nA window blew out of this Southwest Airlines aircraft after being hit by debris from a damaged engine - causing a loss of cabin pressure\n\nMr Barnett says that when he was decommissioning systems which had suffered minor cosmetic damage, he found that some of the oxygen bottles were not discharging when they were meant to. He subsequently arranged for a controlled test to be carried out by Boeing's own research and development unit.\n\nThis test, which used oxygen systems that were \"straight out of stock\" and undamaged, was designed to mimic the way in which they would be deployed aboard an aircraft, using exactly the same electric current as a trigger. He says 300 systems were tested - and 75 of them did not deploy properly, a failure rate of 25%.\n\nMr Barnett says his attempts to have the matter looked at further were stonewalled by Boeing managers. In 2017, he complained to the US regulator, the FAA, that no action had been taken to address the problem. The FAA, however, said it could not substantiate that claim, because Boeing had indicated it was working on the issue at the time.\n\nIt does concede that in 2017 it \"identified some oxygen bottles received from the supplier that were not deploying properly. We removed those bottles from production so that no defective bottles were placed on airplanes, and we addressed the matter with our supplier\".\n\nBoeing's Dreamliner made its maiden flight in 2009 and over 800 are in service with airlines around the world\n\nBut it also states that \"every passenger oxygen system installed on our airplanes is tested multiple times before delivery to ensure it is functioning properly, and must pass those tests to remain on the airplane.\"\n\n\"The system is also tested at regular intervals once the airplane enters service,\" it says.\n\nThis is not the only allegation levelled at Boeing regarding the South Carolina plant, however. Mr Barnett also says that Boeing failed to follow its own procedures, intended to track parts through the assembly process, allowing a number of defective items to be \"lost\".\n\nHe claims that under-pressure workers even fitted sub-standard parts from scrap bins to aircraft on the production line, in at least one case with the knowledge of a senior manager. He says this was done to save time, because \"Boeing South Carolina is strictly driven by schedule and cost\".\n\nOn the matter of parts being lost, in early 2017 a review by the Federal Aviation Administration upheld Mr Barnett's concerns, establishing that the location of at least 53 \"non-conforming\" parts was unknown, and that they were considered lost. Boeing was ordered to take remedial action.\n\nSince then, the company says, it has \"fully resolved the FAA's findings with regard to part traceability, and implemented corrective actions to prevent recurrence\". It has made no further comment about the possibility of non-conforming parts making it on to completed aircraft - although insiders at the North Charleston plant insist it could not happen.\n\nIn 2017, a review by the Federal Aviation Administration ordered Boeing to take remedial action\n\nMr Barnett is currently taking legal action against Boeing, which he accuses of denigrating his character and hampering his career because of the issues he pointed out, ultimately leading to his retirement. The company's response is that he had long-standing plans to retire, and did so voluntarily. It says \"Boeing has in no way negatively impacted Mr Barnett's ability to continue in whatever chosen profession he so wishes\".\n\nThe company says it offers its employees a number of channels for raising concerns and complaints, and has rigorous processes in place to protect them and make sure the issues they draw attention to are considered. It says: \"We encourage and expect our employees to raise concerns and when they do, we thoroughly investigate and fully resolve them.\"\n\nBut Mr Barnett is not the only Boeing employee to have raised concerns about Boeing's manufacturing processes. Earlier this year, for example, it emerged that following the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash, four current or former employees contacted an FAA hotline to report potential issues.\n\nMr Barnett believes that the concerns he has highlighted reflect a corporate culture that is \"all about speed, cost-cutting and bean count (jobs sold)\". He claims managers are \"not concerned about safety, just meeting schedule\".\n\nThat's a view which has support from another former engineer, Adam Dickson, who was involved with the development of the 737 Max at Boeing's Renton factory in Washington state.\n\nHe tells the BBC there was \"a drive to keep the aeroplanes moving through the factory. There were often pressures to keep production levels up.\n\n\"My team constantly fought the factory on processes and quality. And our senior managers were no help.\"\n\nIn October, Democratic congressman Albio Sires asked Boeing's CEO Dennis Muilenburg about production pressures with the 737 Max\n\nIn congressional hearings in October, Democratic congressman Albio Sires quoted from an email sent by a senior manager on the 737 Max production line.\n\nIn it, the manager complained about workers being \"exhausted\" from having to work at a very high pace for an extended period.\n\nHe said that schedule pressure was \"creating a culture where employees are either deliberately or unconsciously circumventing established processes\", adversely affecting quality.\n\nFor the first time in his life, the email's author said, he was hesitant about allowing his family aboard a Boeing aircraft.\n\nBoeing says that together with the FAA, it implements a \"rigorous inspection process\" to ensure its aircraft are safe, and that all of them go through \"multiple safety and test flights\" as well as extensive inspections before they are allowed to leave the factory.\n\nBoeing recently commissioned an independent review of its safety processes, which it says \"found rigorous enforcement of, and compliance with, both the FAA's aircraft certification standards and Boeing's aircraft design and engineering requirements.\" It said that the review had \"established that the design and development of the [737] Max was done in line with the procedures and processes that have consistently produced safe airplanes.\"\n\nBoeing's North Charleston factory in South Carolina is one of two involved in building the 787 Dreamliner\n\nNevertheless, as a result of that review, in late September the company announced a number of changes to its safety structures. They include the creation of a new \"product and services safety organization\".\n\nIt will be charged with reviewing all aspects of product safety \"including investigating cases of undue pressure and anonymous product and safety concerns raised by employees\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I lost my only son in the Lion Air plane crash'\n\nMr Barnett, meanwhile, remains deeply concerned about the safety of the aircraft he helped to build.\n\n\"Based on my years of experience and past history of plane accidents, I believe it's just a matter of time before something big happens with a 787,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC film crews saw dozens of officers dressed in riot gear at the scene\n\nSix police officers have been injured after they were targeted on Bonfire Night by groups of people throwing fireworks and setting bins alight.\n\nDozens of officers in riot gear were deployed in the Harehills area of Leeds when the chaos broke out at 20:20 GMT.\n\nFifteen \"local males\", aged between 11 and 23, have been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe force said offenders were \"naive to think there will not be consequences\".\n\nTwo of the injured officers were treated in hospital but were not seriously hurt. The others suffered minor injuries.\n\nHigh visibility patrols were deployed in the area as police worked to quell the disturbances\n\nA helicopter was deployed as the mayhem unfolded on Tuesday.\n\nOfficers came under attack as they were dealing with a wheelie bin that had been set on fire. Passing motorists were also targeted.\n\nOther bins were then moved into the road and set alight as the number of young people involved increased, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nOfficers used \"public order tactics\" to disperse the groups and make arrests, the force added.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, firefighters responding to an out-of-control bonfire in Hyde were attacked by a gang of 40 young people throwing fireworks.\n\nCrews were also targeted in Oldham.\n\nPolice are reviewing CCTV of the incidents in the Harehills are of Leeds on Bonfire Night\n\nOne Leeds resident, who did not want to be named, said bricks were thrown at shop windows and police cars.\n\n\"They were all coming up the road, they had rockets in their hands and police were backing off,\" he said.\n\nHe added his door was open and young children \"were coming in here to get away from it\".\n\nPolice said a \"full post-incident investigation\" had begun and detectives were checking CCTV footage and scanning helicopter pictures and images captured from body-worn cameras.\n\nCh Supt Steve Cotter said the behaviour was \"completely unacceptable\" but added there was \"no suggestion this was a result of tension in the community or animosity towards the police\".\n\nHe added: \"This appears to have been about a hooligan element of local youths seeing an opportunity on Bonfire Night to engage in firework-related disorder on a large scale.\n\n\"They are naive if they think their actions won't have consequences and we will be sending a very clear message to them over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ross England was selected to stand for the Welsh Conservatives for the 2021 assembly election\n\nThe Conservative Party has denied knowledge of Ross England's involvement in a rape trial collapse before he was selected as a candidate.\n\nMr England was accused by a Crown Court judge of deliberately sabotaging the trial in April 2018, by making claims about the victim's sexual history.\n\nThe defendant, James Hackett, was convicted following a retrial.\n\nSources had told BBC Wales the party knew about his involvement, but the Welsh party chairman denied this.\n\nIn the first of two statements issued on Thursday evening, Lord Davies of Gower said the party only became aware of the \"full extent of the proceedings\" when Hackett's appeal process ended earlier this month.\n\nHe said: \"We were fully aware that Ross England was involved as a witness in a sensitive case. We are also aware of the responsibility we have as employers.\n\n\"Since the end of the Appeal Court case, we have now been made aware of the full extent of the proceedings.\"\n\nIn a second statement, he said he could \"categorically state\" that he and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public this week\".\n\nMr England used to work for Mr Cairns in the Vale of Glamorgan, and was selected as the party's candidate to fight for the constituency seat at the 2021 Welsh assembly elections.\n\nMr Cairns also told BBC Wales he only became aware of Mr England's role in the trial's collapse when the story broke earlier this week.\n\nThe party has suspended Mr England as a candidate and an employee and a full investigation will be conducted.\n\nHe has said he acted honestly during the aborted trial, and was not aware that any evidence had been ruled inadmissible.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales on Thursday, one Conservative Party source said they called the party's Cardiff headquarters on the day the trial collapsed to inform management that Mr England's actions had led to that happening.\n\nHe had been giving evidence at the trial of his friend, when he claimed to have had a casual sexual relationship with the victim, which she denies.\n\nThe judge Stephen Hopkins QC stopped the trial, asking Mr England: \"Why did you say that, are you completely stupid?\"\n\nThe judge continued: \"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nThe judge added he would be writing to Mr England's political allies in the hope they would take \"appropriate action\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A rape victim says Ross England had a \"formulated plan\" to wreck the trial of her attacker\n\nA separate source told BBC Wales: \"Richard Minshull [Director, Welsh Conservatives] got a letter around this timeframe about Ross because the party were his employer.\n\n\"Whether this letter was from the judge or not, I'm not sure, but he was certainly speaking with both Alun [Cairns - Welsh Secretary] and Byron [Lord Davies, chairman of the Welsh Conservatives] regularly regarding 'what to do about Ross.'\"\n\nThe victim has told BBC Wales that \"people in Conservative HQ know... I know that Alun Cairns knows what he did in court and they knew by that evening.\n\n\"Therefore for them to make him a candidate in their target seat for the Welsh assembly proves to me how little respect they have for me, how little respect they have for the criminal justice system.\"\n\nAfter three days of virtual silence, two statements from the Welsh Conservatives in two hours.\n\nThe last emphatic in its denial that neither Lord Davies, the party chair, nor Alun Cairns, the Welsh Secretary had any knowledge of the details of the collapsed rape trial until they were reported in the media this week.\n\nThe party will hope this draws a line under a hugely damaging row, just as they're about to embark on a general election campaign.\n\nIn April 2018, Ross England was working for the party when a Crown Court judge accused him of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial, precipitating a retrial.\n\nThe party say they were \"fully aware\" he was a witness in a sensitive trial and of their responsibility as an employer.\n\nIf, despite that full awareness, his employers did not realise for 18 months he'd caused the collapse of a criminal trial and been thrown out of court by the judge, it raises fundamental questions about supervision, vetting and candidate selection processes.\n\nMr Cairns has previously endorsed Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\" with whom \"it will be a pleasure to campaign\".\n\nOn Thursday, he said he only became aware of the collapse of the trial \"some considerable time afterwards and had no knowledge of the role of Ross England\".\n\nLord Davies said \"continued speculation from an unspecified source\" about what party officials or elected representatives knew was \"unhelpful\".\n\nHe also said \"at no time\" had any party officials received any correspondence in relation to the matter.\n\n\"As soon as it came to my attention, we acted immediately,\" he added.\n\n\"As chairman of the Welsh Conservative Party, I take all allegations concerning members, officials and elected representatives extremely seriously.\"", "The new Commons Speaker shows off his wild menagerie - complete with Boris the parrot and Maggie the tortoise.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle, 62, of Chorley, Lancashire showed off his six pets with their unusual names inspired by politicians.\n\nHis tortoise is called Maggie as \"she's got a hard shell and isn't for turning\", said Sir Lindsay.\n\nHe also has Betty named after Baroness Boothroyd, the first woman speaker; a cat called Dennis - inspired by Labour veteran MP Dennis Skinner; Gordon the Rottweiler - after former Labour PM Gordon Brown.\n\nSir Lindsay has revealed that Boris the parrot can already squawk: \"Order, order\".", "Striker Emiliano Sala signed for Cardiff just two days before the plane crash\n\nThe family of Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala has questioned why initial toxicology tests carried out on his body did not include checking for carbon monoxide.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) revealed in August that potentially fatal levels of carbon monoxide had been found in his blood.\n\nSala was found dead after the plane he was travelling in crashed in January.\n\nHis family's lawyer was speaking at a pre-inquest review in Bournemouth.\n\nBarrister Matthew Reeve asked for blood samples to be kept until the inquest has been concluded.\n\nMr Reeve told the senior coroner for Dorset, Rachael Griffin, there was an \"unexplained question\" as to why the blood tests detecting carbon monoxide were not carried out until June.\n\n\"Why was it not felt necessary to test for carbon monoxide in February but it was at some... later time?\" asked Mr Reeve.\n\nMs Griffin said she would ask the AAIB for an additional report on this matter and ordered that the blood samples should be preserved until the conclusion of the inquest process.\n\nSala was travelling from Nantes to Cardiff when the plane he was in crashed\n\nArgentinian Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, crashed on 21 January while travelling from Nantes in France to Cardiff.\n\nSala was en route to join Cardiff City, transferring from Nantes FC for £15m.\n\nHis body was recovered from the wreckage of the plane on the seabed in early February.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane in which Sala died has moved from the location in the Channel where it was found in February, the hearing was told.\n\nShipwreck hunter David Mearns, who helped locate the wreckage of the aircraft on the seabed, had returned to the site in October on behalf of the Sala family and found that the plane was no longer intact.\n\nMs Griffin asked the AAIB representative at the hearing, Geraint Herbert, why they had decided not to recover the wreckage as the family had requested after the finding of carbon monoxide emerged.\n\nMr Herbert said the Piper Malibu was a \"quite simple\" aircraft with only a few ways in which the gas could enter the cabin.\n\n\"We felt we could get to the bottom of the relevant safety issues without recovering the aircraft, especially after we had the information from the first visit to the wreckage,\" said Mr Herbert.\n\nMr Reeve said his clients disagreed with this decision.\n\nMr Herbert told the coroner that the AAIB expected to publish their final report into the crash early next year.\n\nDet Insp Huxter, of Dorset Police, said their investigation was continuing.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority's investigation into regulatory issues arising from the crash is not expected to conclude before the latter part of next year, their barrister said.\n\nMs Griffin adjourned the inquest for a further pre-inquest review to be held on 16 March.\n\nShe also expressed her sympathies to both the Ibbotson and Sala families.\n\nAfter the hearing Daniel Machover, a lawyer for the Sala family, said their \"primary concern now is for the full inquest to take place as soon as possible, so that they can finally learn the truth about what happened and ensure that no family has to suffer a similar preventable loss of a loved one\".\n\nHe said the family believed the decision \"not to recover the wreck of the Piper Malibu was a mistake\".\n\n\"This being the case, the Sala family are keen the AAIB does everything in its power to make good on its promise, made in court today, to determine how Emiliano was poisoned by carbon monoxide without being able to examine any parts of the aircraft,\" he said.", "Meet the panel who chose the titles\n\nA list of the most inspiring novels chosen by a panel of experts has been revealed by BBC Arts.\n\nModern works such as Bridget Jones's Diary and His Dark Materials made the cut along with classics like Pride & Prejudice and Middlemarch.\n\nWriters, curators and critics, including Mariella Frostrup, selected the 100 English language Novels That Shaped Our World.\n\nThe list also includes Jilly Cooper's Riders and Zadie Smith's White Teeth.\n\nBBC Arts director Jonty Claypole said he wants the list to be \"provocative, spark debate and inspire curiosity.\"\n\nThe reveal kickstarts the BBC's year-long celebration of literature.\n\nRowling is among the children's authors who makes the list\n\nSome of the other novels chosen include A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin - the first book of the series that inspired the smash hit TV show - Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.\n\nToni Morrison's Beloved, Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials, JK Rowling's Harry Potter series and Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole also feature.\n\nThe works have been organised into themed categories, such as identity, adventure and love, sex and romance.\n\nAuthors Juno Dawson, Kit de Waal and Alexander McCall Smith, along with Bradford Festival literary director Syima Aslam and Radio 4 presenter Stig Abell, are also on the panel.\n\nA BBC Two three-part series, Novels That Shaped Our World, begins on Saturday at 21:00GMT.\n\n\"It took months of enthusiastic debate and they have not disappointed,\" added Claypole.\n\n\"There are neglected masterpieces, irresistible romps as well as much-loved classics.\"\n\nThe director described the list as \"a more diverse list than any I have seen before\" and that it recognised \"the extent to which the English language novel is an art form embraced way beyond British shores\".\n\n\"Best of all,\" he continued, \"it is just the start of a year of documentaries, author profiles, podcasts and outreach events all designed to do one thing and inspire everyone, whoever they are, to read more novels because of the proven life-enhancing benefits it brings.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Novels That Shaped Our World", "The Green Party has pledged to invest £100bn a year to fund its climate policy over the next decade, if it wins the election.\n\nWhere would the money come from and how would it be spent?\n\nThe Greens believe a large public investment, worth £1tn over 10 years, is essential to fight climate change and make Britain fossil fuel free by 2030.\n\nThe party says the money would go on building 100,000 energy-efficient homes each year, revolutionising transport infrastructure and creating hundreds of thousands of low-carbon jobs.\n\nThe bulk (£91.2bn a year) would come from borrowing, with the rest from tax changes.\n\nThis would represent a huge hike on current borrowing levels. The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), for example, says government borrowing could be about £55bn this year.\n\nBorrowing happens when a country's tax revenues are not sufficient to fund its public spending commitments. When this happens, a government must borrow to make up the difference - this is known as a budget deficit.\n\nGovernments borrow by selling their debt in the form of bonds to investors, and paying them interest.\n\nThe Green Party justifies its pledge by saying that borrowing rates are at \"unprecedented historical lows\" and the money is needed to transform society.\n\nAt the moment, an investor purchasing UK debt would only expect to receive a 0.75% annual return over 10 years.\n\nHowever, if a government planned to massively increase borrowing, there's a risk that investors could demand higher interest rates if they believed the UK could default on future repayments.\n\nThe IFS calculates the Greens' proposal would take borrowing to £140bn. This would be more than 6% of national income and the highest level since 2012-2013, when borrowing rocketed following the global financial crisis.\n\nThe Green Party is in favour of remaining in the European Union, but running a budget deficit of 6% would be double the limit set out in the EU's growth and stability pact.\n\nSpending £100bn a year tackling climate change would be about the same amount of money the government currently spends on education.\n\nAs well as additional borrowing, the Greens say they will raise £9bn a year from tax changes - including a rise in corporation tax to 24%.\n\nThis would put corporation tax back to the level it was in 2013. It would still be lower than pre-2008 levels, or elsewhere in the G7 (an organisation made up of the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies).", "The creators of rock \"mockumentary\" This Is Spinal Tap say they have resolved a legal dispute with Universal Music over the film's soundtrack.\n\nHarry Shearer, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Rob Reiner, who starred in the 1984 film, said they had reached a settlement with Universal's parent company Vivendi.\n\nThe actors claimed the entertainment group had denied them payments.\n\nAnother part of the dispute over the film rights and merchandise is ongoing.\n\nDirected by Reiner, This Is Spinal Tap followed the misfortunes of a fictional British rock band as they promoted their new record.\n\nUnder the new agreement, the band's music will continue to be distributed through Universal Music Group and the rights will eventually be given to the creators.\n\nA mediator had been working to resolve the dispute since last November. The final settlement amount was not disclosed.\n\nLegal action against Vivendi's film arm Studiocanal and its executive Ron Halpern over the rights in This is Spinal Tap and related intellectual property has not been resolved.\n\nShearer, who later appeared in The Simpsons, launched the case in 2016, claiming \"fraudulent accounting\" and \"anti-competitive behaviour\".\n\nHis legal action claimed that, \"according to Vivendi\", the four creators' share of merchandising income between 1984 and 2006 was just $81 (£63). He initially sought $125m (£97m) in damages, but the claim was increased to $400m (£310m) after Shearer was joined by the others.\n\nThe comedy film, which contained such songs as the fittingly-titled Gimme Some Money, Stonehenge and Big Bottom, has been credited by the likes of Ricky Gervais as a major influence.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Watson: \"This is a very personal decision for me, I've got lots of other things I want to do in life\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson is stepping down from his role and will not run as an MP in the December election.\n\nHe says he will continue to campaign for the party, and the decision was \"personal, not political\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn thanked Mr Watson for his service, adding: \"This is not the end of our work together.\"\n\nMr Watson has often been at odds with the leadership and faced an attempt to oust him at Labour's conference.\n\nAs an ardent Remainer, Mr Watson was also at odds with his own constituency, which voted 66% in favour of Leave at the 2016 referendum.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Corbyn, the former MP for West Bromwich East thanked the leader \"for the decency and courtesy you have shown me over the last four years, even in difficult times\".\n\nHe added: \"Our many shared interests are less well known than our political differences, but I will continue to devote myself to the things we often talk about\" - including gambling regulation, stopping press intrusion and campaigns on public health.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also said that after the election, he \"won't be leaving politics altogether\" - with plans to work on public health campaigns and release a book about his own struggle with type 2 diabetes.\n\nHe told the BBC that after 35 years in front-line politics, he wanted to \"take a leap and do something new\", but he said he would be out campaigning for the Labour Party to make sure a Labour government is elected.\n\n\"In politics you have got to know when to step away and for me this is a personal decision. There's lots I have got going on in the future. I just think I need a complete change after a long period of frontline politics and I am rather looking forward to it,\" he said.\n\nTom Watson and Jeremy Corbyn seem keen to part on good terms but their supporters were often at loggerheads.\n\nMr Watson was at the head of a group of around 100 moderate or centrist Labour MPs which called itself the Future Britain group.\n\nLabour's deputy set the group up in March and it was widely assumed it was a means of keeping critics of Jeremy Corbyn inside the party following the inauguration of the ill-fated Independent Group of MPs.\n\nIt was more than a mutual support group - it also intended to develop social democratic policies rather than simply cede the agenda to the left.\n\nBut it has lost its well-known figurehead tonight and the question now is whether some of its members will follow Tom Watson out of Westminster, convinced that dragging Labour back to the pre-Corbyn era is a lost cause.\n\nThat answer may come in the election of Mr Watson's successor - or successors as Jeremy Corbyn apparently favours two gender-balanced deputies.\n\nA Blairite or Brownite candidate is unlikely to succeed.\n\nBut whether an MP on the soft left - beyond Mr Corbyn's circle - succeeds him, could determine whether the party remains a broad church.\n\nIn his reply, Mr Corbyn said: \"Few people have given as much to the Labour movement as you have and I know that many thousands of members and trade unionists you have inspired and worked with over the years will be very sorry to see you go.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Watson was elected deputy leader in 2015 on the same day that Mr Corbyn won his own ballot to run the party.\n\nBut the pair come from different political wings of Labour.\n\nMr Watson was a close ally of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and worked in the top team of previous party leader Ed Miliband.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn was on the backbenches during this period and further left on the political spectrum than his deputy.\n\nSince the pair have been running Labour, there have been a number of public disagreements, including most recently over the party's Brexit position.\n\nWhile Mr Corbyn has refused to say how he would campaign in a further referendum - as promised by the leader if Labour wins the election - Mr Watson has called for the party to \"unequivocally back Remain\".\n\nThe day before the party's conference in September, there was also an attempt to kick Mr Watson out of his post by the chief of the left wing campaign group Momentum, Jon Lansman.\n\nHowever, the motion Mr Lansman tabled at a meeting of the National Executive Committee was dropped after Mr Corbyn intervened.\n\nIn recent months, Mr Watson has also faced criticism for meeting Carl Beech, the paedophile fantasist who falsely accused VIPs of sexually abusing him.\n\nHe was accused of giving \"oxygen\" to Beech's claims, but Mr Watson said he met Beech to offer him reassurance on behalf of the police.\n\nDaniel Janner, the son of the late MP Lord Janner who was falsely accused by Beech, said Mr Watson's position had become \"untenable\" and he \"has stood down because he would have been defeated\".\n\nA number of former Labour MPs have paid tribute to Mr Watson.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said his \"energy, passion for politics and commitment to campaigning - whether fighting against Tory austerity or for better regulation of the gambling industry - will be much missed\".\n\nJess Phillips, who also represented a seat in the West Midlands before Parliament dissolved for the election, told the BBC: \"It's so very, very sad. I feel genuinely sad.\n\n\"I think the Labour Party needs to fight the election hard and then do some serious work to make sure we are the best we can be.\"\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement also called the decision \"shocking and saddening\", saying he had been a \"strong ally in the fight against anti-Semitism in the Labour Party\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new European arrest warrant has been issued for a St Andrews University professor over her role in the 2017 push for independence in Catalonia.\n\nClara Ponsatí, who was education minister in the Catalan government, is wanted in Spain on a charge of sedition.\n\nProf Ponsati, 62, denies wrongdoing and says she will resist extradition.\n\nA previous warrant was withdrawn last summer, but the academic again faces being sent to Spain to stand trial.\n\nThe move comes after nine Catalan leaders were convicted of sedition over their role in an unsanctioned referendum on independence in 2017.\n\nProtests erupted in Barcelona last month after they were sentenced to between nine and 13 years in prison by Spain's Supreme Court.\n\nProsecutors argued that the unilateral declaration of independence was an attack on the Spanish state and accused some of those involved of a serious act of rebellion.\n\nThey also said separatist leaders had misused public funds while organising the 2017 referendum.\n\nRiot police in Barcelona tried to disperse protesters who set up burning barricades last month\n\nSpeaking to BBC Political Correspondent Niall O'Gallagher, Prof Ponsati said: \"I feel a very intense feeling of outrage and injustice.\n\n\"A guilty verdict on the Catalan leaders is a guilty verdict on the Catalan people that went to the polls on the referendum day. So everyone will feel the verdict in their own souls.\"\n\nProf Ponsati said she did not regret returning to her post at St Andrews University early last year, having fled the Catalan capital.\n\nShe added: \"I think I can be more useful as a free person.\"\n\nProf Ponsatí considers herself an exile, unable to go home for fear of arrest.\n\nAsked if there were moments when she wondered if it was worth it, she replied: \"Of course - but at this point all I can do is keep up the fight, and submit to Scottish justice if I have to.\n\n\"This is much greater than myself, I'm just one small grain of sand.\"\n\nProf Ponsati was given a standing ovation after addressing the SNP conference in Aberdeen last year\n\nProf Ponsati's lawyer Aamer Anwar confirmed she will report to St Leonard's Police Office in Edinburgh at 10:30 on Thursday where she will be detained and arrested.\n\nThe academic will then be transferred to Edinburgh Sheriff Court for a hearing where her legal team will apply for bail.\n\nMr Anwar confirmed Prof Ponsati faces a single charge of sedition and, if extradited and convicted, could face a sentence of up to 15 years.\n\nHe said: \"It will be argued by Clara's legal team that there is no guarantee of a right to a fair trial in Spain, where most members of the Catalan government are already in prison or in exile.\n\n\"Clara believes the charge to be part of 'a political motivated prosecution' and submits her extradition would be unjust and incompatible with her human rights.\"\n\nMr Anwar vowed the extradition will be \"opposed robustly\" and said the academic is \"deeply grateful\" for the support she has received.\n\nHe added: \"Once again she is taking on the might of the Spanish state and Clara is resolute and determined to fight and believes that Spain will never be able to crush the spirit of the Catalan People.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We can confirm we are in possession of a European Arrest Warrant for Clara Ponsati.\n\n\"We have now been in contact with her solicitor, who is making arrangements for her to hand herself in to police.\"\n\nSpain withdrew the previous European arrest warrant for Prof Ponsati last July, four months after she was arrested by Scottish police.\n\nAt the time Prof Ponsati argued that the charges against her were politically-motivated, and claimed she would not receive a fair trial if she returned to Spain.\n\nThe independence movement in Catalonia has close links with its Scottish counterpart, and Prof Ponsati was given a standing ovation at the SNP conference in Aberdeen last year.\n\nProf Ponsati had been working as the director of the School of Economics and Finance at St Andrews University since January 2016, before being appointed as the Catalan government's education minister in July 2017.\n\nShe returned to work at St Andrews last year, having been in Belgium since fleeing Spain with deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and three other former cabinet members following an unsuccessful bid to declare independence from Spain in October 2017.\n\nCatalan nationalists have long complained that their region, which has a distinct history dating back almost 1,000 years, sends too much money to poorer parts of Spain, as taxes are controlled by Madrid.\n\nThe wealthy region is home to about 7.5 million people, with their own language, parliament, flag and anthem.\n\nDuring the Supreme Court case last month prosecutors argued the leaders had carried out a \"perfectly planned strategy... to break the constitutional order and obtain the independence of Catalonia\" illegally.\n\nCarme Forcadell, the former parliament speaker who read out the independence result on 27 October 2017, was also accused of allowing parliamentary debates on independence despite warnings from Spain's Constitutional Court.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nTwo-time Olympic champion Nicola Adams has retired from boxing over fears she could lose her sight.\n\nThe Briton, 37, became the first female Olympic champion when she won gold at London 2012, retaining her flyweight title at Rio 2016.\n\nShe turned professional in 2017 and is the WBO world flyweight champion.\n\n\"I've been advised that any further impact to my eye would most likely lead to irreparable damage and permanent vision loss,\" said Adams.\n\nIn an announcement to the Yorkshire Evening Post, she added: \"I'm immensely honoured to have represented our country - to win double Olympic gold medals and then the WBO championship belt is a dream come true… But it's not without taking its toll on my body.\"\n\nThe Leeds boxer's last fight was on 28 September when she retained her WBO title following a split-decision draw with Mexico's Maria Salinas.\n\nShe finishes with a professional record of five wins and a draw.\n\nIn July, Adams became a world champion for the first time in her professional career when Arely Mucino was unable to defend her title and the Briton, having been the mandatory challenger, was awarded the belt.\n\nAdams won Commonwealth, European and world titles as an amateur and her 2016 gold medal saw her become the first British boxer for 92 years to retain an Olympic title.\n\nShe had hinted that she could defend her Olympic title at next year's Tokyo Games - in July she retweeted a video of the 2020 medal design with the caption: \"I wonder how this medal would look on my mantelpiece.\"\n\nIn an open letter to the newspaper, Adams added: \"Having people in my life who are a fountain of support, kindness and love, has been the sole reason I've been able to represent my country in the way I have.\n\n\"It has been an honour to compete on the global stage, and it has been a privilege to fight against such remarkable athletes. Whilst I am proud of my achievements, the unwavering belief from everyone in my corner is something I will appreciate for the rest of my life.\n\n\"Hanging up my gloves was always going to be hard, but I have never felt luckier. And I'm so immensely proud of how far the sport has come.\"\n\nAdams' promoter Frank Warren said the boxer's accomplishments would \"go down in history\", calling her an \"icon\" of British sport.\n\n\"Nicola has that star quality in abundance that very few possess,\" said Warren.\n\n\"Her accomplishments will go down in history and she will always be an icon of British sport.\n\n\"She will be much missed in the sport of boxing, but will remain an inspiration to others for many generations to come.\"", "Jerash is famous for its Roman remains\n\nA knifeman has injured four foreign tourists and four locals in an attack in the Jordanian city of Jerash.\n\nThree Mexicans and a Swiss national were among the wounded. One of the Mexicans and a Jordanian tour guide were hurt seriously, the health minister said.\n\nThe suspected attacker was arrested nearby by police.\n\nJerash, home to a well-preserved ancient Roman site, draws thousands of foreign visitors every year.\n\nVideos on social media show one woman lying bleeding on the ground and another woman in a blood-stained shirt.\n\nJordan's health minister, Saed Jaber, told reporters that all the injured were taken to a local hospital within 15 minutes. The Mexican tourist and Jordanian tour guide injured seriously were then taken to a separate hospital by helicopter and underwent surgery.\n\n\"The bleeding was stopped, the situation has been controlled, and both cases are stable,\" Mr Jaber said.\n\nAn American tourist, Marco Junipero Serra, told the BBC the person who had carried out the attack was dressed all in black and had his face covered with a mask.\n\nThe attacker jumped a fence at the site at around 11:00 (09:00 GMT) and began stabbing people indiscriminately, Mr Serra said.\n\nAccording to him, police did not lock down the site during the incident, and people were still free to walk in and out.\n\nOne of those injured was Ali El Agrabawi, the driver of a tourist bus. At Jerash hospital he told reporters he had been stabbed while trying to stop the assailant from entering a cafeteria full of tourists.\n\nJordan, viewed as a relatively safe destination, heavily depends on its tourism industry.\n\nAccording to country's tourism board, the country is home to 21,000 archaeological and historical sites.", "Airbnb says it will verify every single property on its platform after a news website found a series of scams.\n\nIn October, Vice News uncovered a pattern of false or misleading property listings posted on the rentals site.\n\nAirbnb said it would review every property by December 2020, and also promised to refund customers if they were misled by inaccurate listings.\n\nIt is the first time Airbnb, which launched in 2008, has pledged to verify every home promoted on its platform.\n\nDuring its investigation, Vice News spoke to several people who had booked accommodation on Airbnb and been scammed.\n\nWhen the guests arrived for their holiday, they typically received a last-minute phone call from the landlord saying the property was no longer available, due to an emergency or double-booking.\n\nThey would then be moved to another property, often in a different area and without the amenities promised in the original booking.\n\nIn many cases the guests felt they had no option but to stay at least one night, after arriving late at night in a city far from home.\n\nBut they say Airbnb then refused to give them a full refund despite the misleading bookings.\n\nIn a series of tweets, Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky said: \"Airbnb is in the business of trust. We are making the most significant steps in designing trust on our platform since our original design in 2008.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brian Chesky This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAdam French, a consumer rights expert from Which?, told the BBC: \"Holiday booking fraud is on the rise, with people losing millions every year to fraudsters tricking them out of their money with holiday lettings that do not actually exist.\n\n\"Steps from Airbnb to finally verify all of its listings are positive, but the industry must do more to ensure people are no longer being stripped of their money and having their holiday plans left in tatters.\"\n\nOn 2 November, Airbnb said it would ban \"party houses\" after a mass shooting at a California home rented through the company left five people dead.\n\nAnd in 2017, it changed its security policy, after a BBC investigation found criminals were hijacking accounts and burgling homes.", "Alun Cairns became Wales' representative in the cabinet in March 2016\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns has resigned following claims he knew about a former aide's role in the \"sabotage\" of a rape trial.\n\nHere is his resignation letter and the prime minister's response in full.\n\nYou will be aware of allegations relating to the actions of a party employee and candidate for the Welsh assembly elections in the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nThis is a very sensitive matter, and in light of continued speculation, I write to tender my resignation as secretary of state for Wales.\n\nI will cooperate in full with the investigation under the Ministerial Code which will now take place and I am confident I will be cleared of any breach or wrong doing.\n\nIt has been an honour to serve in your government and a privilege to see the positive steps you have made in such a short time. Your work to secure a deal to leave the European Union has been extraordinary and the opportunities it brings are exciting for all parts of the country. I thank you for your commitment to the Union and the way in which you have made it central to all areas of government policy.\n\nMy experience of seeing your work first hand with Cabinet colleagues gives me confidence for the future. Your vision and drive to move the country forward to meet the opportunities of Brexit and to protect and enhance public services is exemplary.\n\nI will continue to work to support your vision and ambitions for the country and am grateful for the honour of serving in your Cabinet.\n\nThank you for your letter resigning as secretary of state of Wales. I am pleased to hear that you will co-operate fully with the Cabinet Office during this process.\n\nI am extremely grateful for all the work you have done in the role as secretary of state since March 2016. In particular, I would like to put on record my gratitude for all the support you have given to this government in ensuring we honour the commitment to the people that we leave the European Union. Given your long service as secretary of state, you can be proud of your record of delivery for the people of Wales, in particular in ensuring the abolition of tolls on the Severn bridges.\n\nThis an unstinting record of service to the party in Wales with over a decade as assembly member for South Wales West where you were a vocal critic of the Labour government.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said media reports had highlighted issues over the use of unregulated accommodation for children in care\n\nThe education secretary has written to council leaders in England to express \"concern\" over the use of unregulated accommodation to house under-16s.\n\nGavin Williamson said these placements for children in care should be \"eliminated\".\n\nThis type of accommodation is not registered to deliver care.\n\nBut in October, Newsnight found that more than 100 children under 16 in England and Wales were living in such places, on any given night.\n\nMr Williamson said he could not \"imagine a circumstance under which a child under the age of 16 should be living in an independent or semi-independent setting\".\n\nUnregulated accommodation is often flats and houses with support workers on site or visiting, but can also be hostels and lodgings or even hotels and holiday parks.\n\nRunning an unregistered home that provides support but not care for children under 16 is not illegal.\n\nBut it is potentially a criminal offence to run a children's home that provides care without registering with the regulator Ofsted or the Welsh Care Inspectorate.\n\n\"I am concerned about the number of children under 16 placed in settings that are not registered with Ofsted, so should not be delivering care, and I am certain that you will want to pay immediate and close attention to those placements,\" Mr Williamson wrote to local authority chief executives.\n\n\"I look forward to working together to make sure these types of placements are eliminated,\" he added.\n\n\"Such settings must only be used for older children who are ready to live with the level of independence afforded by these settings.\"\n\nTeenagers in semi-independent care are treated as young adults and expected to do things like open bank accounts, wash clothes and buy food.\n\n'Amy', who lived in an unregulated home when she was 17, said the minister's concern was \"completely right\".\n\n\"It's just neglect to put under 16s in these places,\" she told Newsnight.\n\n\"They need to be finding better places to put kids. They're creating more problems for society in the future. \"\n\n'Emma', who was placed in an unregulated placement last year at the age of 15, also welcomed the intervention.\n\n\"It is not the right environment for someone so young,\" she said.\n\nThe mother of a boy, 15, placed in an unregulated home, told Newsnight she was horrified when she realised the placement was not registered with Ofsted.\n\n\"Ofsted is important to me because it is telling me that a place is fit for purpose and has been checked.\"\n\nThe placement was more than 100 miles from the family home.\n\n\"I was told it would be for twelve weeks only. But my son was there for nearly a year. He received no structured education for most of the time he was there and often stayed in bed until 4 pm.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Wild tells Newsnight 'there's something wrong' with the care system\n\nLocal authorities can pay to place children in unregulated accommodation if they deem it to be in a child's best interests, a place in registered accommodation cannot be found or a court approves the placement.\n\nThe BBC previously learned children as young as 11 years old are being placed in these homes.\n\nA freedom of information request carried out by Newsnight revealed that at least 63 local authorities placed under-16s in unregulated accommodation in the past three years.\n\nChris Wild, who manages a home for teenagers aged 16 and above, said he has refused to take children under 16 because it was \"unsafe\".\n\n\"At 15 you might be in care with an 18-year-old, who's been arrested for something sinister, or is affiliated with county lines drugs,\" he told Newsnight.\n\nNewsnight has been investigating this part of the care sector, as part of its Britain's Hidden Children's Homes series.\n\nPreviously, the programme revealed that, according to figures from the Department for Education, about 5,500 looked after children in England were living in unregulated accommodation, up 70% from 2,900 10 years ago.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "John Bercow stood down as Commons Speaker on Thursday 31 October\n\nFormer Commons Speaker John Bercow has called Brexit \"the biggest foreign policy mistake in the post-war period\".\n\nGiving his opinion to the Foreign Press Association in London, he told journalists he no longer had to \"remain impartial\" after stepping down from the chair after 10 years.\n\nMr Bercow was accused by some Brexit-backing MPs of siding with Remainers during his time as Speaker.\n\nBut he told the event he believed he was \"always fair\" to MPs on all sides.\n\nMr Bercow announced his intention to stand down in September, with his exit due to coincide with 31 October Brexit deadline - now delayed until 31 January.\n\nHis deputy, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, was elected to take over his post on Monday.\n\nWith his new-found freedom to express his opinion, journalists questioned him about his time as Speaker.\n\nAnd asked whether Brexit would be good for the UK's global standing, Mr Bercow told the event: \"The honest answer is no.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think that Brexit is the biggest foreign policy mistake in the post-war period, and that is my honest view.\"\n\nMr Bercow also said, \"with total certainty\", Parliament would be debating Brexit for at least the next five years - if not the next 15 - and that was \"blindingly obvious\".\n\nDuring his decade in the role, Mr Bercow gave unprecedented powers to backbenchers to hold ministers to account and made controversial and far-reaching procedural decisions at key stages of the Brexit process.\n\nAnswering his critics, Mr Bercow told the event he had \"always treated the Brexiteers in a fair way\" and \"always treated the Remainers in a fair way\".\n\nHe added: \"I will assert to anybody that will listen until my dying day that I have been impartial in the chair, pro-Parliament and impartial in the chair.\"\n\nBut Brexit Party MEP Rupert Lowe said it was \"disgraceful\" someone with Mr Bercow's views was \"allowed to referee our Parliament for so long\", adding: \"The whole establishment is geared against Brexit.\"", "Ross England has been suspended as a candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nRoss England has \"fallen short\" of the standards required of a Tory Welsh Assembly candidate, the party's leader in the Senedd Paul Davies had said.\n\nMr England was suspended after it emerged that his conduct as a witness in a rape trial led to its collapse.\n\nTwo Tory AMs have criticised Mr England's candidacy for the Vale of Glamorgan, almost a week after the news first emerged.\n\nHis former employer Alun Cairns quit as Welsh Secretary on Wednesday.\n\nHe resigned after it came out that he had been emailed about the case months before Mr England was selected - Mr Cairns had denied knowing about it.\n\nGiving evidence in the April 2018 trial, Mr England made claims about having a sexual relationship with the victim, which she denied, after judge Stephen John Hopkins QC had made it clear evidence about her sexual history was inadmissible.\n\nMr Hopkins said to Mr England: \"Why did you say that? Are you completely stupid\", later telling him to: \"Get out of my court.\"\n\nThe defendant James Hackett was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.\n\nAfter the news broke last week Mr England, who was working for the party as a campaign manager, was suspended from his job and his candidacy.\n\nThe latter is due to go to the party's candidates committee for consideration.\n\nPaul Davies said the case was shocking\n\nPaul Davies, AM for Preseli Pembrokeshire, said the case has been \"shocking and disturbing\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to this individual and to all victims of rape and sexual assault,\" he said.\n\n\"I expect the highest standards from Welsh Conservative assembly candidates; this court case suggests that Ross England has fallen short of those standards.\"\n\nAnother Tory AM suggested Mr England should step aside.\n\nAngela Burns, who represents Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted: \"I would urge the individual involved in causing the mistrial of the rape case and so much heartache for the victim to consider his position.\"", "Virgin Media is ditching telecoms group BT and switching its three million mobile phone customers to the network run by Vodafone.\n\nCustomers are being promised a host of new services and will not have to change Sim cards, Virgin Media said.\n\nThe cable group's current contract with BT, which owns the EE network, expires in 2021, although Virgin will launch 5G services with Vodafone before then.\n\nThe contract is reportedly worth about £200m to BT, whose shares fell 4.7%.\n\nVirgin Media chief executive Lutz Schuler said: \"This agreement with Vodafone will bring a host of fantastic benefits and experiences to our customers, including 5G services in the near future.\n\n\"Twenty years ago, Virgin Mobile became the world's first virtual operator and this new agreement builds on that heritage.\n\n\"It will open up a whole new world of opportunity for Virgin Media as we focus on becoming the most recommended brand for customers and bring our mobile and broadband connectivity closer together in one package for one price.\n\n\"We want our customers to have a limitless experience - it's now the right time to take a leap forward with Vodafone to grow further and faster.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Vodafone UK chief executive Nick Jeffery said the deal combines \"two great British brands... combining our strong heritage in innovation\".\n\nAnalyst Paolo Pescatore, from PP Foresight, said: \"For Vodafone, this is a great coup as it continues to turn around its fortunes in the highly competitive UK market.\"\n\nVirgin Media is owned by US telecoms giant Liberty Global, which is also rumoured to be in talks with Sky to invest in a full-fibre network.\n\nWednesday's Vodafone deal, along with any tie-up between Liberty and Sky, raises the competitive pressure on BT, which is investing heavily in upgrading its own network.\n\nA BT spokesperson said: \"The successful relationship between BT and Virgin Media spans nearly 20 years and they remain a highly valued customer.\n\n\"Our EE network is consistently ranked number one for speed and coverage in independent benchmarking tests, providing our EE customers... with the UK's best mobile experience.\"", "Artwork: The Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977\n\nData sent back by the two Voyager spacecraft have shed new light on the structure of the Solar System.\n\nForty-two years after they were launched, the spacecraft are still going strong and exploring the outer reaches of our cosmic neighbourhood.\n\nBy analysing data sent back by the probes, scientists have worked out the shape of the vast magnetic bubble that surrounds the Sun.\n\nThe two spacecraft are now more than 10 billion miles from Earth.\n\nResearchers detail their findings in six separate studies published in the journal Nature Astronomy.\n\n\"We had no good quantitative idea how big this bubble is that the Sun creates around itself with its solar wind - ionised plasma that's speeding away from the Sun radially in all directions,\" said Ed Stone, the longstanding project scientist for the missions.\n\n\"We certainly didn't know that the spacecraft could live long enough to reach the edge and leave the bubble to enter interstellar space.\"\n\nThe plasma consists of charged particles and gas that permeate space on both sides of the magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere.\n\nMeasurements show that the identical probes have exited the heliosphere and entered interstellar space - the region between stars. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, Voyager 2 crossed over late last year. The key sign in both cases was a jump in the density of plasma.\n\nThis showed that the spacecraft were passing from an environment with hot, lower density plasma characteristic of the solar wind and entering a region with the cool, higher density plasma thought to be found in interstellar space.\n\nThe boundary between the two regions is known as the heliopause.\n\nArtwork showing the heliosphere, along with the interstellar medium\n\n\"We saw the plasma density at the heliopause jump by a very large amount - a factor of 20, at this rather sharp boundary out there,\" said Prof Don Gurnett, from the University of Iowa.\n\n\"Actually, with Voyager One we saw an even bigger jump.\"\n\nThe findings suggest that the heliosphere is symmetrical, at least at the two points that the Voyager spacecraft crossed. The researchers say these points are almost at the same distance from the Sun, indicating a spherical front to the bubble - \"like a blunt bullet\", according to Prof Gurnett.\n\nThe results also provide clues to the the thickness of the \"heliosheath\", the outer region of the magnetic bubble. This is the point where the solar wind piles up against the approaching wind of particles in interstellar space, which Prof Gurnett likens to the effect of a snow plow on a city street.\n\nThe heliosheath appears to vary in its thickness. This is based on data showing that Voyager 1 had to travel further than its twin to reach the heliopause, where the solar wind and the interstellar wind are in balance.\n\nSome had thought Voyager 2 would make that crossing into interstellar space first, based on models of the magnetic bubble.\n\n\"In a historical sense, the old idea that the solar wind will just be gradually whittled away as you go further into interstellar space is simply not true,\" says Don Gurnett.\n\n\"We show with Voyager 2 - and previously with Voyager 1 - that there's a distinct boundary out there. It's just astonishing how fluids, including plasmas, form boundaries.\"", "At the time of Ross England's (R) selection to stand as an assembly member, Alun Cairns (L) endorsed Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\"\n\nA rape victim has called on a UK cabinet minister to quit after his former aide - a Tory Welsh assembly candidate - \"sabotaged\" her trial.\n\nRoss England made claims about the victim's sexual history in an April 2018 trial which led to its collapse.\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns denied knowing about this, but BBC Wales has seen an email sent to him in August 2018 mentioning the matter.\n\nMr England was picked as the assembly election candidate in December 2018.\n\nMr Cairns has been asked to comment.\n\nAsked if the minister should resign, the victim - who worked for the Conservative Party - said: \"Absolutely. If he'd come out and condemned Ross [England] in the first instance, he wouldn't be in this position.\n\n\"I would like an apology from the party and Alun Cairns for selecting him in the first place. I can't believe that not one senior Welsh Conservative has said that what he did was wrong.\"\n\nThe email on 2 August 2018 was sent to Mr Cairns by Geraint Evans, his special adviser. It was also copied to Richard Minshull - the director of the Welsh Conservatives - and another member of staff.\n\nIt said: \"I have spoken to Ross and he is confident no action will be taken by the court.\"\n\nMr Cairns said he only became aware of Ross England's role in the trial's collapse when the story broke last week\n\nMr England, who was selected as the candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan, said he had given an \"honest answer\" while giving evidence at the rape trial of his friend James Hackett.\n\nMr England told the court he had a casual sexual relationship with the complainant - which she denied - despite the judge in the case making it clear that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nThe judge, Stephen John Hopkins QC, said to him: \"Why did you say that? Are you completely stupid?\n\n\"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nHackett was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.\n\nMr England was suspended as a candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan and as an employee last week after details of the court case emerged and the party said a \"full investigation will be conducted\".\n\nMr England was selected to stand for the Welsh Conservatives for the 2021 assembly election\n\nAt the time of his selection to stand as an assembly member, Mr Cairns endorsed Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\" with whom \"it will be a pleasure to campaign\".\n\nA Welsh Conservatives source told the BBC: \"I can't really see how he [Mr Cairns] can possibly carry on - the toxic nature of these revelations could bring down the whole Conservative campaign in Wales.\n\n\"If he did have any decency he'd put the party and country first and resign.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Welsh Conservatives said: \"There is no new information from this leaked document confirming an informal conversation which took place a considerable time after the trial collapsed and is consistent with statements made.\n\n\"The full details of this case are still not known and we have taken action in writing to the court. All forthcoming information will be taken into account as the party conducts a thorough investigation.\"\n\nChristina Rees, Labour's shadow secretary of state for Wales, said the decision to select Mr England as a candidate was \"an error of judgement\" and called on Mr Cairns to resign.\n\nEchoing the call, Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts said: \"At worst, Mr Cairns is complicit in the attempted cover up of his former staff member's actions which collapsed a rape trial.\n\n\"At best, he has displayed gross incompetence in judgement.\"\n\nIn the first of two statements issued on Thursday, Welsh Tory party chairman Lord Davies of Gower said the party only became aware of the \"full extent of the proceedings\" when Hackett's appeal process ended in October.\n\nHe said: \"We were fully aware that Ross England was involved as a witness in a sensitive case. We are also aware of the responsibility we have as employers.\n\n\"Since the end of the Appeal Court case, we have now been made aware of the full extent of the proceedings.\"\n\nMr England gave a speech at the Welsh Conservative conference in 2016\n\nIn a second statement, he said he could \"categorically state\" he and Mr Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public this week\".\n\nMr England used to work for Mr Cairns in the Vale of Glamorgan and was selected as the party's candidate to fight for the constituency seat at the 2021 Welsh assembly elections.\n\nMr Cairns previously told BBC Wales he only became aware of Mr England's role in the trial's collapse when the story broke last week.\n\nIn a statement, he said he only became aware of the collapse of the trial \"some considerable time afterwards and had no knowledge of the role of Ross England\".\n\nMr England said he acted honestly during the collapsed trial and did not know that any evidence had been ruled inadmissible.\n\nThe victim said Mr England's Conservative selection \"shows how little respect they have for me\".\n\nShe added: \"It is completely shocking to me that Ross England would stand up in court and say these things given that they are untrue.\n\n\"He was asked if we worked together, and the answer to that is yes.\n\n\"Nobody asked him if we were in a sexual relationship or not. For him to just blurt that out proves to me that it was a formulated plan that he and whoever else conjured to try and derail the trial.\n\n\"I think it was an absolutely deliberate attempt to sabotage the trial.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr England said: \"I gave an honest answer, honouring the oath I took to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.\n\n\"I complied fully with the conditions of the court before and after the trial.\"\n\nOne Conservative Party source told BBC Wales they called the party's Cardiff headquarters on the day the trial collapsed to inform management Mr England's actions led to that happening.\n\nJudge Hopkins went on to say he would be writing to Mr England's political allies in the hope they would take \"appropriate action\".\n\nLord Davies has said \"at no time\" had any party officials received any correspondence in relation to the matter.\n\nMr Evans and Lord Davies have also been asked to comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: 'Come with us to get Brexit done'\n\nBoris Johnson has launched the Conservative Party's election campaign, saying his Brexit deal \"delivers everything I campaigned for\".\n\nSurrounded by supporters holding signs with messages including \"Get Brexit Done\", he told activists he had \"no choice\" but to hold an election.\n\nParliament is \"paralysed\" and \"blocked\", he said in Birmingham.\n\nHe said once Brexit was done, a Tory government could get on with \"better education\" and \"better infrastructure\".\n\nEarlier, the prime minister met the Queen at Buckingham Palace, marking the official start of the election period in the run-up to the 12 December poll.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's plans to grab the headlines for his party's campaign launch were blown off course by the resignation of a cabinet minister - an unusual event during an election campaign.\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns has quit the cabinet after claims he knew about a former aide's role in the \"sabotage\" of a rape trial.\n\nIt comes after two Conservative candidates were forced to apologise for comments about victims of the Grenfell tragedy.\n\nOpening the party's campaign launch, the Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street said the party's success in the area showed \"when Conservatives work together at all levels we can do tremendous things\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel followed, telling a crowd of supporters: \"This election is a choice between real change or simply more uncertainty, more dither and more delay.\"\n\nAnd Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said: \"We need to break the Brexit deadlock and get on with delivering on voters priorities - something the last Parliament proved incapable of doing.\"\n\nMr Johnson told the audience the deadlock over Brexit had been like a \"bendy bus jack-knifed on a yellow box junction [which] no-one can get round it and it is blocking in every direction\".\n\n\"We can't go on like this,\" he added.\n\nHe said the thing he was \"most proud of\" during his 100 days in office was his Brexit deal.\n\nTurning his fire on his election opponents, Mr Johnson accused the Labour Party of \"always running out of other people's money\" and despite making a raft of his own spending promises, the party leader said Labour \"know themselves that their policies for the economy are ruinous\".\n\nInstead, he says voters should \"come with us\" and support Tory measures on education, the police and immigration.\n\nIn contrast, he said a Labour victory would result in another referendum and a second vote on Scottish independence.\n\n\"If I come back with a working majority, I will get Parliament working again.\"\n\nElsewhere, as the starting pistol is fired on five weeks of official campaigning:\n\n\"If it sticks we'll be fine\" - hammer the core message, again and again, and plot a path to victory. That's how one cabinet minister reckons the Tories can win.\n\nAfter the last couple of extremely bumpy days for their party, they are hoping this will be a campaign where surprises are not a regular feature.\n\nInstead, they and many of their colleagues reckon the plea for a majority to sort out the Brexit-induced mess of the last few years super fast will find resonance on the doorsteps, saying they are already hearing voters quote back the '\"get Brexit done\" slogan.\n\nAnother cabinet minister says \"it's not Parliament versus the people, it's more positive than the pitchfork, but it feels good on the ground - we are hearing from a lot of people they do reckon it's Parliament that's out of touch\".\n\nEvents of the last 48 hours have shown already, as I wrote on Tuesday night, that events come crashing into parties' hopes and fears pretty fast and knock them off course.\n\nThere is another fear among some Conservatives though. The strategy coming out of Tory HQ is crystal clear - end the political agony of Brexit, attract extra Leave voters who are fed up, while hanging on to as many of their existing seats as they can.\n\nBut, with such a Brexit-heavy message, will they - can they - do both at the same time?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I've been wanting to chew my own tie in frustration\"\n\nParliament was dissolved - or formally shut down - at just after midnight, meaning all MPs revert to being members of the public. Government ministers keep their posts.\n\nThe PM's audience with the Queen lasted about 20 minutes. While the election has already been approved by MPs, the monarch still needed to sign a royal proclamation confirming the end of the last Parliament.\n\nAt his own campaign event, Mr Corbyn said he would be a \"very different kind of prime minister\" who \"only seeks power in order to share power\".\n\nHe said Labour is \"well prepared and utterly determined\" to win power to \"transform\" the country and said recent comments by Tory candidates about the Grenfell tragedy were \"shameful\" and suggested his opponents felt there were \"above us all\".\n\nHe said the election was a once-in-a-generation chance to \"tear down the barriers that are holding people back\" and to \"rebuild\" the NHS, schools and the police force.\n\nThe Labour leader said his Brexit strategy was to unite people, with a second referendum on a \"sensible set of proposals\" rather than the \"disaster\" of a US trade deal with Donald Trump.\n\nMr Corbyn has previously said a new Scottish independence referendum was not \"desirable or necessary\" - but the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon said she believed Labour would give the go-ahead for one if in government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 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Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question or get in touch using #BBCYourQuestions:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Five-year-old Mylo was one of hundreds of dogs who took part in the event\n\nHundreds of dogs attended a special \"Nae Fireworks\" party at a wind farm outside Glasgow to get respite from the stress and anxiety of Bonfire Night.\n\nThe event at Whitelee, near Eaglesham, has grown in popularity since it began in 2017.\n\nIt aims to provide a sanctuary where dogs and their owners can escape from the impact of fireworks.\n\nLynda Mcconnell described the event as \"an absolute godsend\" for her five-year-old Labrador, Mylo.\n\nShe said she had \"tried everything\" in recent years to help her pet, including thunder shirts, herbal tablets and soothing music.\n\nAbout 1,000 people attended with their dogs on Bonfire night\n\n\"The vet prescribed diazepam and sedation gel, but once his adrenalin kicked in he would bark for hours non-stop, running at the front and back door and jumping at it trying to get outside,\" she said.\n\n\"This event is an absolute godsend for us.\"\n\nShe was one of about 1,000 people who brought their dogs along to this year's firework-free event on Bonfire Night.\n\nThe loud bangs from fireworks can cause dogs and other pets to become anxious and stressed.\n\nDuring the event, the Whitelee Ranger Service patrols the surrounding area to make sure that no fireworks are being let off.\n\nA torchlit, guided walk with between 100 and 200 owners took place through the wind farm, safe from any bangs that could unsettle the dogs.\n\nThe visitor centre stayed open until midnight and dog Reiki sessions were on offer to calm, relax and soothe the animals during the night.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ranger service said that fireworks could disturb wildlife and livestock as well as pose a threat to wind farm infrastructure.\n\nRangers initially started to patrol the farm looking for fireworks because of the risk that they can start peat bog fires, which can burn for years.\n\nThe idea for the Nae Fireworks event developed after they realised how many dog walkers sought refuge at Whitelee over the bonfire period.\n\nRennie Mason, one of the rangers and organisers of the event, said it had been \"a roaring success\".\n\n\"You only need to see the state of the dogs when they arrive and see how happy they are when they leave to realise the value for their health and welfare.\n\n\"It is also for the owners too. They often feel so powerless.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The day before the election campaign starts in earnest, a bucket of cold, hard reality has been chucked over any Tories around the place who thought they might be able to set the terms of the debate, or control exactly what will happen in the next six weeks.\n\nThe man in the pinstripes who charms some Brexiteers stumbled into the first hideous mistake of this election campaign.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg may have apologised for his insensitive remarks about what happened at Grenfell Tower.\n\nBut it is toxic for the Tories, playing straight into familiar accusations about the party that they can't understand, and therefore cannot seek to represent, ordinary people for whom life is sometimes a struggle.\n\nBoris Johnson and his team are often accused of being simply a bunch of grown-up public school boys, who know little of the world beyond their gilded ascent to power.\n\nStereotypes of any type are often overcooked in politics, but wise Conservatives are very well aware they have an image problem on this front that is hard to shed.\n\nToday's mistake just gave Labour all of the ammunition it needed to make the charge again and again, and then ensuing upset from some of their backers like Stormzy, the rapper and singer, which will have its own long-lasting half life on social media.\n\nThere aren't always very many moments of that elusive \"cut through\" in campaigns. This might just be the first moment this time round - although it is impossible to know yet if the upset over these remarks will shift any votes away from the Tories, or just enrage those who plan to choose other parties already.\n\nAnd elections bring with them weeks, and tides and tides of news that can wash away early horrors or successes for any political party.\n\nSo far, so predictable - the parties all know well the view of the Conservative prime minister decades ago, Harold Macmillan, who warned what knocked parties off course was \"the opposition of events\". (Yes, apparently he never said, \"events, dear boy, events\", if you want to feel like a clever clogs).\n\nBut surprises can work in their favour too - and the Liberal Democrats are hoping the election will be just as unpredictable as the last few crazy years.\n\nIf you had heard a Liberal Democrat leader proclaim they were standing to be a candidate for prime minister not so long ago, you'd have wanted to check their temperature.\n\nAnd yet every time Jo Swinson gets anywhere near a microphone, it's what she says.\n\nHave things really become so strange that a party that got 12 MPs in 2017 is knocking on the door of No 10? Never, quite, say never.\n\nAlthough in our first-past-the-post system, you may love or hate, it is vanishingly unlikely that a party could go from 12 MPs to the magic 326 that gives a party a majority, the power to govern, and to get things done.\n\nJo Swinson says the election could be a \"moment for seismic change\".\n\nSo what are they on about?\n\nWell, just as Jacob Rees-Mogg's dreadful gaffe will create terrible headlines for the Conservatives online and in the press, so too, the Lib Dems hope, the bold claim from Jo Swinson that she could genuinely end up in Downing Street creates noise and headlines, a sense of what might, just about, be possible.\n\nThe more familiar the message, the less far-fetched it might seem, so the theory goes, even though chat from some activists at the party's launch this morning was that getting back up to 50 or 60 seats or would be a pretty good night.\n\nExpect the party leader, though, who believes she has a massive opportunity at her fingertips, to repeat her claim about No 10 again and again and again.\n\nIt may not be the most outlandish campaign we hear in the next few weeks.\n\nWelcome to the predictably unpredictable campaign of 2019, and the prime minister hasn't even yet been to the Palace.\n• None Election poll tracker: How do the parties compare?", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "The Thar region is one of Pakistan's poorest areas\n\nPolice in Pakistan are investigating the apparent joint suicide of two young women in one of the poorest areas of the country's south.\n\nThe bodies of Nathu Bai and Veeru Bai, who had a baby son, were found on the farm where they lived.\n\nThey were married to two brothers who worked as farmhands for a local landowner near the town of Islamkot.\n\nIt is unclear why the women took their lives. Campaigners say there have been a spate of suicides in the area.\n\nThe southern Thar desert area of Pakistan is resource-rich, but also one of the country's poorest regions.\n\nPolice say they don't have a motive for why the women took their lives in the village of Kehri.\n\n\"I personally went to the site. It was apparently a suicide, though we are still looking into it,\" local police station chief Inspector Kabeer Khan told the BBC.\n\n\"It's really hard for me to say why they did it. It's the harvest season so we can't say hunger could be a reason. But you can't rule out domestic tensions caused by overwork or negligence.\"\n\nLittle has been reported about the lives of Nathu Bai and Veeru Bai. The women were in their early twenties and married to two brothers, Chaman Kohli and Pehlaj Kohli.\n\nVeeru Bai's son was a year old, a local resident who knew the family told the BBC.\n\nFor the last six months the couples had been living on the farm some distance away from the village to help harvest the maize crops, another resident said.\n\nWhen locals spotted the women's bodies on Sunday morning, they informed the police.\n\nDr Pushpa Ramesh, who examined the bodies in hospital in Islamkot late that night, told the BBC \"there were no other injuries or signs of trauma on the bodies\" to suggest any other cause of death.\n\n\"Their mothers, brothers and the in-laws were all here. They were devastated by grief,\" he said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Almost 140 children have died of starvation in the Thar desert region\n\nAllah Jodio, who lives in the same neighbourhoods as the Kohlis, said he asked the women's husbands and their father-in-law what could have caused them to take their own lives.\n\n\"But they said there was no apparent reason. Nothing extraordinary had happened,\" he said.\n\nMr Jodio believes domestic tensions may be behind the tragedy.\n\n\"You see, our people are very poor and often live from meal to meal. And they had been working on the farms for the last several months. There's a lot that keeps going wrong and needs to be righted, so there must have been angry arguments. Both were young, and must have taken the disastrous step in their youthful rage.\"\n\nAt least 59 people have killed themselves in the Thar region so far this year, including 38 women and two children, while about 198 suicides were reported in 2018, according to civil society group, Aware.Org.\n\nThe reasons cited are increasing poverty, and population displacements caused by coal mining projects.\n\nCampaigners say these and other factors mean domestic tensions are commonplace.\n\nThe situation is made worse by the absence of any government safety net to help the vulnerable.\n\nThe region is populated predominantly by low-caste Hindus, who are a minority in overwhelmingly Muslim Pakistan.\n\nThey are generally looked down upon by local landowners, who include some upper-caste Hindus, and the wider Muslim population.\n\nIf you've been affected by a mental health issue, help and support is available. Visit Befrienders International for more information about support services.", "South Africa fans gathered at OR Tambo International Airport to greet the victorious squad.\n\nCaptain Siya Kolisi became the first black South African captain to lift the William Webb Ellis Trophy when the Springboks beat England 32-12 on Saturday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe general election could be \"a moment for seismic change\", when \"a new and different politics\" emerges, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said.\n\nIn a speech at the party's campaign launch, she said she could do \"a better job\" than either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister.\n\nIn response, the Conservatives said a vote for the Lib Dems \"risks putting\" Mr Corbyn into Downing Street.\n\nThe UK will go to the polls on 12 December.\n\nElsewhere in the election campaign:\n\nThe political parties are ramping up their campaigning, ahead of the official start to the five-week election period at just after midnight on Wednesday.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Lib Dems said they would take legal action against ITV over its plans for a head-to-head election debate including only Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, saying the decision to exclude its leader was \"outrageous\".\n\nThe party's lawyers have written to the broadcaster to give it \"the opportunity to correct this serious mistake\".\n\nITV has said it intends to offer viewers balanced election coverage.\n\nSpeaking in London, Ms Swinson said: \"Our country needs us to be more ambitious right now - and we are rising to that challenge.\n\n\"It is not about the red team or the blue team, because on this issue they merge into one - both Labour and the Conservatives want to negotiate and deliver Brexit.\n\n\"I never thought that I would stand here and say that I'm a candidate to be prime minister, but when I look at Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, I am absolutely certain I could do a better job than either of them.\"\n\nMs Swinson said Mr Johnson had \"lied to the Queen, lied to Parliament and lied to the country\" and \"was not fit to to be prime minister\".\n\nAnd she accused the Labour leader of failing to \"give a straight answer on the biggest issues facing this country\".\n\nThe Lib Dems currently have 20 MPs - out of a possible 650 - and they are especially hopeful of gaining seats in London and south-west England, but they would need a dramatic shift in the electoral landscape if they were to win a majority.\n\nHowever, responding to questions from journalists, Ms Swinson said \"stranger things have happened\" and pointed to the SNP's success in the 2015 general election.\n\nJo Swinson says she wants to be prime minister - but how credible is that?\n\nThe Lib Dems are not at the moment even the third largest party in the UK.\n\nMs Swinson cites the example of the SNP surge in 2015, when the party won almost every seat in Scotland - and she personally lost her seat to the SNP candidate.\n\nShe argues that politics is volatile, it is in flux, and things have changed because of Brexit - people are voting for very different reasons. Therefore, there is no reason why the party can't be incredibly ambitious, she argues.\n\nBut the problem for the Liberal Democrats is that the way their votes are distributed around the country, it is much harder for them to win seats than for other parties.\n\nIn 2010, they won seven million votes but got fewer than 60 seats.\n\nThe Lib Dem leader was introduced by one of the party's newer MPs, Luciana Berger, who used to be in the Labour Party but quit over the issue of anti-Semitism - something Ms Swinson accused Mr Corbyn of failing to \"root out\".\n\nAsked whether her party could support a Labour government in the event of a hung Parliament, Ms Swinson said: \"I am absolutely, categorically ruling out Lib Dem votes putting Jeremy Corbyn in No 10.\"\n\nThe Lib Dem leader said her party was \"the only party standing up to stop Brexit and build a brighter future for the UK\".\n\nShe argued that stopping Brexit would deliver a £50bn \"Remain bonus\" for public services over the next five years\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit altogether if they win power at the next general election.\n\nIf they do not win a majority at the election they would support another referendum.\n\nLabour's shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, told the BBC many Remain supporters were \"uncomfortable\" with the Lib Dems' plan to effectively \"rub out\" the 2016 referendum result and believed EU membership had to be \"argued for and won\" in another public vote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: \"We are the only party that will stop Brexit\"\n\nThe party said the £50bn figure - the amount that it has calculated will be saved over the next five years by staying in the EU - is based on the UK economy being 1.9% larger in 2024-25.\n\nIt reflects the extra tax income over the next five years and is based on a 0.4% average annual boost to GDP if the UK stays in the EU.\n\nDeputy leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Lib Dems \"actually think these are quite cautious figures\", adding that all the independent forecasters \"were clear that there will be a big boost if we stay\".\n\nPaul Johnson, from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, said it was a reasonable calculation in line with their own forecasts, adding: \"We could expect the economy to be bigger if we were to remain and this assumes a relatively modest effect if anything, although obviously subject to a huge amount of uncertainty\".\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris said the vast majority of forecasts do expect the economy would be bigger if the UK were to stay in the EU.\n\nBut he said the size of that \"bonus\" cannot be predicted with any certainty, and £50bn was not a hugely significant amount in terms of overall government expenditure.", "Civil service head Sir Mark Sedwill has dramatically blocked a Conservative plan to use civil servants to cost the Labour Party's fiscal plans.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell had complained vociferously to Treasury Permanent Secretary Tom Scholar in a meeting on Tuesday over the Conservative plan.\n\nOne government insider described the situation as a \"Whitehall farce\".\n\nBut Labour argued it was interfering in the upcoming general election.\n\nThe opposition had been infuriated by the government's plan to use the civil service to calculate the cost of Labour's announced policies, and release it as an official document.\n\nBBC News understands these concerns were forcefully reiterated to the Treasury at a meeting with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell this morning.\n\nAt the end of that meeting, described as a \"courtesy call\" by the Treasury's top official, Labour sources had assumed the document would be published.\n\nLabour's legal team had also written to complain about the \"ethics and propriety\" of the decision to involve the civil service in the costings so close to an election.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, the Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, after a phone call with the Treasury, told the opposition the document would not, after all, be published.\n\nOne government insider called it a \"Whitehall farce\" occurring after the Chancellor had announced the document at Cabinet on Tuesday morning. They said it was an \"established process\" for a government to cost opposition policies in this way.\n\nAnd previous Conservative and Labour Governments have indeed done this ahead of general elections and referendums, although there was not time to do this in 2017.\n\nIt has not in recent years been done days before the \"purdah\" period where civil servants are strictly restricted in their actions.\n\nThe opposition said it was a \"scandal\" and that the government had been caught \"red handed\" using civil servants in this way so close to an election, and at a time when the government has chosen not to do an economic assessment of its own landmark policy - the new Brexit deal.", "A man running to be an MP in Reading has been criticised after his website mistook part of Scotland for the town.\n\nCraig Morley, Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for Reading East, had a picture of Melrose Abbey in Scotland rather than Reading Abbey ruins on his homepage.\n\nLabour councillor Richard Davies, who spotted the error, said he was amazed by the mistake.\n\nMr Morley said the mistake was made by his web designer.\n\nThe abbey ruins in Reading reopened to the public in 2018\n\nReading borough councillor Mr Davies said: \"It's amazing that he wasn't able to identify our most important heritage asset and one that the council worked hard with local people to restore and re-open to the public.\n\n\"It would be obvious to anyone who had visited Reading Abbey ruins that that picture was of a totally different place.\"\n\nMr Morley has now corrected the error, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nThe Reading-born PPC, who said he lived in the constituency, said: \"The abbey is an important landmark of the town - I grew up with its imprint on the Reading landscape.\n\n\"My website designer added the wrong image in my website banner header.\n\n\"It was an easy mistake for an external agency to make.\"\n\nHe added he had been too busy meeting residents to check his website header.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kevin Eves was jailed for nine years in 2006 for assaulting a toddler\n\nA man convicted of murdering his eight-week-old daughter, 13 years after he seriously injured another child, has been jailed for life.\n\nKevin Eves, of Wixams, near Bedford, smothered Harper Denton and left her with numerous fractures, including one to her skull, in June 2018.\n\nThe 37-year-old was jailed in 2006 for assaulting a toddler in his care, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nHe has been ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years.\n\nDuring his trial, Eves, of Nightingale Court, told the jury he awoke to find Harper purple and cold to the touch, claiming her injuries - 34 rib fractures and a fractured skull - were caused by his attempts to resuscitate her.\n\nHowever, jurors heard the fractures were inflicted during at least three separate assaults in the weeks before her death.\n\nEves was jailed for nine years in 2006 - when known as Forbes - for causing grievous bodily harm with intent and wilfully assaulting a toddler in his care when living in Bournemouth. He was released in 2010.\n\nThe boy suffered life-threatening head injuries and fractures to his elbow.\n\nProsecutor Sally Howes QC said the assault was \"so similar\" to the one that killed Harper.\n\nThe prosecution said Harper's mother, Cherinea Denton, who was acquitted of her daughter's murder, was aware Eves had a previous conviction but believed his account that it was connected to a fight at a house party.\n\nSentencing Eves, Mrs Justice O'Farrell said the \"protracted and escalating violent attacks\" he carried out on Harper were \"cruel, brutal and vicious\".\n\n\"Unfortunately you did not have the instincts to protect and nurture that most parents have,\" she added.\n\n\"You were insensitive to the fragility of your baby and you were unable or unwilling to put her needs before your own comfort. You had uncontrolled rage.\"\n\nMs Denton, who suffers from chronic fatigue, was not present in court but said in a victim statement: \"My beautiful girl had her future stolen from her by somebody that she should have been able to trust and count on for the whole duration of her life - a life that should have lasted longer than eight weeks.\"\n\nHarper's grandmother, Debbie Denton, said the loss of the \"loved and adored\" child \"shook this family to its core\".\n\n\"Mr Eves serves no purpose within a tight-knit family and certainly not amongst children. Had we known this, he would have never been welcomed into ours.\"\n\nAfter the sentencing, Colin Foster, director of children's services at Bedford Borough Council, said a serious case review was being carried out.\n\n\"The Eves family were not known to social services in Bedford Borough and the authority was not made aware of the previous convictions,\" a statement said.\n\nDet Insp Dani Bailey, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: \"Baby Harper suffered immensely in her short life at the hands of the person who should have been protecting and looking after her.\n\n\"The injuries she sustained were horrific and the fact they were deliberate is even more shocking.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alun Cairns told BBC Wales he only became aware of Mr England's role in the trial's collapse when the story broke last week\n\nA senior Welsh Conservative says it looks \"very difficult\" for Alun Cairns to lead the party's general election campaign in Wales after his former aide \"sabotaged\" a rape trial.\n\nRoss England made claims about the victim's sexual history in an April 2018 trial which led to its collapse.\n\nWelsh Secretary Mr Cairns denied knowing about this, but BBC Wales has seen an email sent to him in August 2018 mentioning the matter.\n\nMr Cairns has been asked to comment.\n\nMeanwhile Tory Monmouth candidate David TC Davies has said Mr England should step down as a candidate for the 2021 Welsh Assembly election if he had been responsible for \"bringing down\" the trial.\n\nMr England said he had given an \"honest answer\" while giving evidence at the rape trial of his friend James Hackett.\n\nWith Prime Minister Boris Johnson set to launch the Conservatives' UK election campaign later on Wednesday, a senior Welsh Conservative said there was \"increasing anger and alarm\" among the party's general election candidates about Mr Cairns's knowledge of the collapsed rape trial.\n\nThe source added: \"It looks very difficult to see how Alun Cairns can lead the campaign in Wales without fully explaining the circumstances surrounding this case.\"\n\nAnother source said: \"Our three priorities in the national campaign outside of Brexit are law and order, NHS and schools. He is undermining one of those.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford called for Mr Cairns's resignation and said it was \"difficult to see how he can carry on\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Cymru that the Conservatives were \"out of touch with people and Mr Cairns's predicament is an illustration of that\".\n\nOn the matter of Mr England, Mr Davies told BBC Radio Wales he did not know the details of the case, but said: \"It does need to be thoroughly investigated, absolutely.\n\n\"If he [Ross England] is responsible for bringing down a rape trial then clearly he wouldn't be a fit person to be a candidate.\"\n\nAsked if Mr England should step down if that was true, Mr Davies said: \"Well, if that's true, of course, yes.\"\n\nMr England gave a speech at the Welsh Conservative conference in 2016\n\nAt the trial, Mr England told the court he had had a casual sexual relationship with the complainant - which she denied - despite the judge in the case making it clear that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nThe judge, Stephen John Hopkins QC, said to him: \"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nJames Hackett was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.\n\nIn December 2018, Mr England, who used to work for Mr Cairns in the Vale of Glamorgan, was selected as the Conservative candidate for the seat at the 2021 Welsh Assembly elections.\n\nLast week, he was suspended as a candidate and as an employee after details of the court case emerged as the party said a \"full investigation will be conducted\".\n\nFollowing the suspension, Welsh Conservative party chairman Lord Davies of Gower said the party only became aware of the \"full extent of the proceedings\" when Hackett's appeal process ended in October.\n\nLord Davies said he could \"categorically state\" he and Alun Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public this week\".\n\nThe Welsh secretary told BBC Wales in a statement when the story broke that he only became aware of the collapse of the trial \"some considerable time afterwards and had no knowledge of the role of Ross England\".\n\nBut BBC Wales has seen an email sent on 2 August 2018 to Mr Cairns by Geraint Evans, his special adviser, which said: \"I have spoken to Ross and he is confident no action will be taken by the court.\"\n\nMr England was selected to stand for the Welsh Conservatives for the 2021 assembly election\n\nA spokeswoman for the Welsh Conservatives said: \"There is no new information from this leaked document confirming an informal conversation which took place a considerable time after the trial collapsed and is consistent with statements made.\n\n\"The full details of this case are still not known and we have taken action in writing to the court. All forthcoming information will be taken into account as the party conducts a thorough investigation,\" the statement read.\n\nThe rape victim has called for Mr Cairns to resign.\n\nShe said: \"If he'd come out and condemned Ross [England] in the first instance, he wouldn't be in this position.\n\n\"I would like an apology from the party and Alun Cairns for selecting him in the first place. I can't believe that not one senior Welsh Conservative has said that what he did was wrong.\"\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Newsnight programme on Tuesday night, the former Conservative minister and chief of staff to Theresa May, Lord Barwell, said it was a \"highly sensitive issue and the Welsh Conservatives have launched an investigation\".\n\nHe added: \"I don't know the detail of that and I don't want to comment further other than to say to you that I know Alun Cairns well and he's someone I would regard of being of the highest integrity.\n\n\"So, I'm surprised to find him caught up in this and I hope that investigation would demonstrate that he hasn't done anything wrong.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's parliamentary leader Liz Saville Roberts has written a letter to Boris Johnson calling on him to remove Mr Cairns from his cabinet and as a Conservative candidate.\n\nIn the letter, the Dwyfor Meirionydd MP said: \"At best Mr Cairns has displayed gross incompetence in judgement showing himself completely unfit for public office.\"\n\nShe said that if the prime minister would not listen to her, she urged him to \"please listen\" to the victim.\n\n\"Show some leadership on this deeply distressing issue,\" she added.\n\nBBC Wales has asked the prime minister for a response to Ms Saville Roberts's letter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS Democrats have made gains in state elections, in what is being seen as a blow to President Donald Trump.\n\nDemocrat Andy Beshear claimed victory in Kentucky's governor vote, after a tight race in the conservative-leaning state.\n\nMeanwhile, Democrats seized full control of the legislature in Virginia for the first time in over 20 years.\n\nThe results are a gauge of the political mood ahead of next year's presidential election.\n\nRepublicans held on to power in the Mississippi governor vote, following a closely-fought race in the traditional Republican stronghold.\n\nUS state governors head the executive branch in state governments.\n\nIn Kentucky, Mr Beshear claimed victory over incumbent Republican governor Matt Bevin after final results gave him a lead of 0.4%.\n\nMr Bevin, 52, says he will not concede, citing unspecified \"irregularities\".\n\nHowever, Mr Beshear, a 41-year-old attorney general whose father is a former governor of the state, said: \"We will be ready for that first day in office and I look forward to it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe loss will be seen as a setback for Mr Trump, who attempted to galvanise support for Mr Bevin at a campaign rally in Kentucky on Monday night.\n\nIn a speech to thousands of supporters, Mr Trump said a loss for Mr Bevin would be characterised as \"the greatest defeat in the history of the world\" by his critics.\n\nMr Beshear, he said, was \"too extreme and too dangerous\" to govern the state.\n\nHowever, polls showed Mr Bevin was one of the least popular governors in the country, following high-profile battles with unions and teachers.\n\nMatt Bevin was elected governor of Kentucky in 2015\n\nDespite losing the governor's race, Republican candidates claimed victory in five other votes in Kentucky, including a poll for the state's attorney general, won by Daniel Cameron. Mr Cameron will be the first African-American attorney general in Kentucky's history, and the first Republican to do so in more than 70 years.\n\nThe southern state voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, giving him a nearly 30% margin over Hillary Clinton - the highest winning margin of any Republican presidential candidate in Kentucky in over 40 years.\n\nIn Pennsylvania, for the fist time since the American Civil War, Democrats took control of the five-member council in Delaware County, just outside Philadelphia.\n\nMeanwhile, in Virginia, the Democrats overturned Republican majorities in both chambers of the state legislature.\n\nThe elections of Danica Roem, the first openly transgender person to serve in the House, and Ghazala Hashmi, who will be the first Muslim woman in the Senate, were among the Democrats' notable victories in the state.\n\nVirginia also saw Juli Briskman - who gained US media attention in 2017 after she lost her job for making an obscene gesture at Mr Trump's motorcade - elected as a district representative in Loudoun County.\n\nAhead of the vote, Democratic presidential hopefuls - including frontrunners Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren - had campaigned with local candidates.\n\nWith full control of the state legislature, Virginia Democrats are expected to push for tighter gun-control, health insurance reform and other policies opposed by Republicans.\n\nVirginia's blue wave also marks a remarkable turnabout in political fortunes for Democratic Governor Ralph Northam.\n\nHe was beset by demands to quit back in February after admitting he had worn blackface while in medical school in the 1980s.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Northam said the election results showed Virginia's voters \"want us to defend the rights of women, LGBTQ Virginians, immigrant communities, and communities of colour\".\n\nThe Democrats benefited from massive spending by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The billionaire's gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety pumped $2.5m (£1.94) into the state's race, far outspending the $300,000 from the National Rifle Association (NRA) - the formidable US gun lobby, which is based in Virginia.\n\nEverytown focused advertisements in suburban swing districts, targeting Republican incumbents and pushing to make gun control a key issue at the ballot box.\n\nIn July, one month after a mass shooting in Virginia Beach killed 12 people, the state's Republicans abruptly ended a special legislative session focused on gun control after 90 minutes - without considering a single bill.\n\nRepublican Matt Bevin was a Donald Trump-style candidate a year before Donald Trump won the presidency.\n\nOnce in office, Bevin governed a lot like Trump, as well. Despite sinking popularity in opinion polls, he contended that he would win comfortable re-election.\n\nHe didn't. Bevin's strength in the rural parts of the state weren't enough to overcome Beshear's margins in the cities and - of particular concern to Republicans - the kind of suburban areas that also were key to many Democratic wins in 2018.\n\nTrump himself threw his support behind Bevin in the campaign's closing days, holding a rally in Lexington on Monday and warning that a Bevin loss could bolster the forces pushing for his impeachment.\n\nRepublicans did well in other Kentucky races and Bevin's loss may be by the narrowest of margins, but it will be cited as evidence of Trump's weakened political muscle.\n\nAlthough the presidential election is a year away, Tuesday's results are being touted as a reflection of Mr Trump's popularity among voters as he faces an impeachment inquiry.\n\nReacting to the results on Twitter, Mr Trump hailed the performance of Republicans in Kentucky and Mississippi.\n\nHe congratulated Tate Reeves, who defeated Democrat Jim Hood to extend the Republican Party's two-decade hold on the governor's office in Mississippi.\n\nOn Mr Bevin's defeat, Mr Trump's 2020 campaign manager suggested the president's presence at a rally in the state boosted his vote-share.\n\n\"The president just about dragged Gov. Matt Bevin across the finish line, helping him run stronger than expected in what turned into a very close race at the end,\" Brad Parscale said.", "Mr Hammond said he felt \"aggrieved\" at his treatment by the party\n\nFormer Chancellor Philip Hammond is to leave Parliament \"with great sadness\" after deciding against standing as an independent in his Surrey constituency.\n\nMr Hammond lost the Conservative whip in September after defying Boris Johnson over a no-deal Brexit.\n\nAs a result, he cannot stand as a Tory candidate in Runnymede and Weybridge, which he has represented since 1997.\n\nHe said he would not stand as an independent as that would be a \"direct challenge\" to the party he loved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hammond was among 21 Tory MPs thrown out of the parliamentary party in September for backing legislation designed to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal - the so-called Benn Act.\n\nUnlike a number of the group, he has not had the whip restored after rebelling again earlier this month to back Labour calls for more time to scrutinise Boris Johnson's deal.\n\nThe PM blamed him and other former Tory rebels for stopping the UK leaving the EU on the 31 October deadline.\n\nIn a letter to constituents, Mr Hammond said he continued to feel \"aggrieved\" at his punishment given he had been a member of the party for 45 years and had served as an MP for more than two decades.\n\n\"The Conservative Party that I have served has always had room for a wide range of opinions and has been tolerant of measured dissent.\n\nPhilip Hammond was a constant by Theresa May's side despite reported disagreements\n\n\"Many parliamentary colleagues have defied the party whip on occasions without any action taken against them.\"\n\nBut he said he would not follow the lead of a number of former colleagues, such as Dominic Grieve and Anne Milton, who are standing as independents in the 12 December election.\n\n\"I remain a Conservative and I cannot therefore embark on a course of action that would represent a direct challenge in a general election to the party I have supported all my adult life,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would continue to make the case for a Conservative Party that was \"broad-based, forward-looking, pro-business and pro-markets\".\n\n\"I will remain an active party member and will continue to make the case for doing whatever is necessary to deliver a close negotiated future economic and security partnership with the EU.\"\n\nMr Hammond served as chancellor for three years under Theresa May, during which he angered Tory Brexiteers for his opposition to a no-deal exit and desire to maintain the closest possible trading relations with the bloc.\n\nBefore that was foreign secretary, defence secretary and transport secretary under David Cameron.\n\nHe acquired the nicknames Spreadsheet Phil and Box Office Phil for his attention to detail and somewhat dry political style.\n\nElsewhere, ex-minister Nick Herbert has joined the growing list of Tory MPs from the One Nation wing of the party deciding not to contest the next election, saying he would step down as MP for Arundel and South Downs to focus on his new role as chairman of the Countryside Alliance.\n\nOther leading Conservative figures who are leaving Parliament include Amber Rudd, Nicky Morgan, Rory Stewart and Margaret James.\n\nBut announcing her intention to stand as an independent in Guildford, Mrs Milton said she wanted to \"represent her constituency without being bound by party politics\".\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A series of government advertisements claiming to debunk myths about universal credit has been banned for misleading the public.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Agency received 44 complaints about six newspaper adverts and a web page.\n\nThe adverts included claims people moved into work faster on universal credit, which \"did not accurately reflect the evidence\", the ASA said.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said it was disappointed by the ban.\n\nThe ASA investigated four issues arising from complaints about the adverts, which took the form of advertising features to \"set the record straight\" and appeared in May and June in the Metro newspaper and on a web page hosted on the Mail Online and Metro sites.\n\nThe claims included in the Universal Credit Uncovered advert series included:\n\nThe ASA said this was misleading as it omitted significant restrictions placed on the right to alternative payment arrangements, which are in fact available to about one in 10 claimants.\n\nThe ASA said: \"We considered that readers would understand the claim to mean that under UC the option to have rent paid directly to landlords was generally available without restriction to all claimants who wanted it.\"\n\nThe ASA highlighted three claims made in the adverts as being misleading\n\nThis again, the ASA concluded, was misleading, saying it was not always made clear enough in the adverts the advance was a loan to be repaid within 12 months, or that the advance payments were not necessarily available immediately.\n\nThe ASA said it considered that readers would interpret the wording \"move into work faster\" to refer to secure ongoing employment, but in fact the 2017 study the claim was based on had included \"people who had worked for only a few hours on one occasion during the relevant period\".\n\nIt banned four of the newspaper ads and the web page from appearing again in the form complained about, and said it had told the DWP to ensure it had \"adequate evidence to substantiate the claims in its advertising\" as well as presenting \"significant conditions\" to its claims clearly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people struggling with universal credit in Hartlepool\n\nThe organisations that submitted complaints included the Disability Benefits Consortium, the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the anti-poverty charity Zacchaeus 2000 Trust (Z2K).\n\nZ2K chief executive Raji Hunjan said the ruling showed the DWP's attitude was \"not acceptable in public service, especially in the department charged with protecting people from living in poverty\".\n\n\"The next government must engage with the compelling evidence that points to the harm universal credit is causing, leaving many people reliant on food banks, and others destitute,\" she said.\n\nJonathan Blades, of the Disability Benefits Consortium, urged the DWP to apologise for its actions and \"concentrate on fixing universal credit\".\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"We are disappointed with this decision and have responded to the Advertising Standards Authority.\n\n\"We consulted at length with the ASA as we created the adverts, which have explained to hundreds of thousands of people how universal credit is helping more than 2.5 million people across the country.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeveral people were injured when parts of a ceiling collapsed during a Piccadilly Theatre show in London's West End.\n\nThe venue in Denman Street was packed on Wednesday for a performance of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman, starring US actor Wendell Pierce.\n\nAudience members \"heard dripping sounds indicating water was coming through the ceiling,\" according to the theatre production company.\n\nMore than 1,000 people were evacuated.\n\nFour people were taken to hospital after three men and two women were treated at the scene by paramedics.\n\n\"We are ascertaining the extent of the situation, and will be providing an update on future performances as soon as possible,\" the Ambassador Theatre Group said.\n\nThe production team said three special performances of the play would take place at the Young Vic theatre on Friday night, as well as a matinee and evening performance on Saturday.\n\nThe performances at the Piccadilly Theatre for the rest of the week have been cancelled.\n\nRescue units were sent to the theatre by London Fire Brigade after the collapse\n\nWendell Pierce, who plays Willy Loman in the show which opened on Monday, said: \"First, I hope those injured last night are recovered and healing.\n\n\"Their well-being is the most important thing. I am also so grateful that the Death of a Salesman company is able to continue performances of Arthur Miller's great play.\n\n\"The nightly audience response has been overwhelming, and I would like to thank the Young Vic for enabling us to continue on this special journey.\n\n\"In the time-honoured tradition of the theatre, the show must go on.\"\n\nHe apologised for having to stop the performance and evacuate the theatre.\n\nA video shared on social media shows the US actor outside the venue asking the crowd to come back and see the play another time.\n\n\"We're so honoured that you came tonight. We are so sorry that this happened,\" he said.\n\nTicket holders for the cancelled performances will be contacted to make arrangements for the performances at the Young Vic.\n\nWendell Pierce with Dominic West (left), his co-star from acclaimed crime drama The Wire, at the play's opening night on Monday\n\nBBC journalist Iain Haddow, who was in the audience, said the collapse happened about 20 minutes into the show.\n\nHe said that before the ceiling caved in there had been a steady drop of water \"which turned progressively into a stream\" - although it was not raining at the time - and said there was some panic when the ceiling fell in.\n\nHe said that outside the theatre there was scaffolding and building work going on.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn December 2013, 76 people were injured, seven seriously, when part of a ceiling at London's Apollo Theatre collapsed during a show, while 1,200 people had to leave the Queen's Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, following a small fire during a matinee performance of Les Miserables.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg later said he \"profoundly apologised\"\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg has been criticised for saying it would have been \"common sense\" to flee the Grenfell Tower fire, ignoring fire brigade advice.\n\nThe Leader of the House of Commons was appearing on a radio phone-in on the findings of a Grenfell inquiry report when he made the comments.\n\nThe Grenfell United group called the MP's comments \"insulting\". Mr Rees-Mogg said he \"profoundly apologised\".\n\nSeventy-two people died in a fire at the tower block on 14 June 2017.\n\nSpeaking on LBC's Nick Ferrari Show on Monday, Mr Rees-Mogg said: \"The more one's read over the weekend about the report and about the chances of people surviving, if you just ignore what you're told and leave you are so much safer.\n\n\"And I think if either of us were in a fire, whatever the fire brigade said, we would leave the burning building. It just seems the common sense thing to do.\n\n\"And it is such a tragedy that that didn't happen.\"\n\nSeventy-two people died in the fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Rees-Mogg said: \"What I meant to say is that I would have also listened to the fire brigade's advice to stay and wait at the time.\n\n\"However, with what we know now and with hindsight I wouldn't and I don't think anyone else would. I would hate to upset the people of Grenfell if I was unclear in my comments.\"\n\nGrime artist Stormzy has called for Mr Rees-Mogg to resign. In a series of tweets, he said it was as if Mr Rees-Mogg was saying \"those who lost their lives weren't smart enough to escape\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Let's bare [sic] in mind for 2 secs how horrifying and terrifying the situation would of been for the victims.... and then imagine they're being instructed by firefighters - trusted government authorities - to stay put.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell survivor Marcio Gomes says he \"had to trust\" advice from firefighters\n\nIn a statement, survivors' group Grenfell United said: \"The Leader of the House of Commons suggesting that the 72 people who lost their lives at Grenfell lacked common sense is beyond disrespectful.\n\n\"It is extremely painful and insulting to bereaved families.\"\n\nReplying to Mr Rees-Mogg's comments, Grenfell survivor Marcio Gomes said: \"It's common sense not to build houses or flats with flammable material.\"\n\nHamid Al Jafari, who lost his father in the fire, said: \"My dad had common sense but when they have no option what should they do?\n\n\"Saying sorry doesn't make any difference to us. Any MP needs to think about what they're going to say before they comment so they don't have to apologise.\"\n\nThe blaze reached the top of Grenfell Tower within an hour of the first 999 call\n\nShadow Cabinet minister John Trickett said it was \"not for a minister of the crown to second guess how those people would have reacted\".\n\nTory MP Andrew Bridgen defended Mr Rees-Mogg's comments telling the BBC they were \"uncharacteristically clumsy.\"\n\n\"What he's actually saying is that he would have given a better decision than the authority figures who gave that advice.\"\n\nGrenfell inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said fewer people would have died if the London Fire Brigade (LFB) had taken certain actions earlier.\n\nSir Martin criticised the LFB for following a \"stay put\" strategy, where firefighters and 999 operators told residents to stay in their flats for nearly two hours after the blaze broke out.\n\nThe advice is designed to prevent hundreds of people descending stairs while firefighters are coming up during a contained fire.\n\nAs flames spread around Grenfell's external cladding, the advice may have prevented some families escaping, the report found.\n\nLFB Commissioner Dany Cotton told the London Assembly on Tuesday the brigade would respond differently to a Grenfell-like fire in the future.\n\nShe told the fire resilience and emergency planning committee: \"Knowing what we know now about Grenfell Tower and similar buildings with ACM cladding, our response would be very different.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pigeon's Cove is popular with both local residents and tourists\n\nA boy who was playing in a cove slipped from rocks and drowned despite efforts of his nine-year-old friend to rescue him, an inquest heard.\n\nDillan Brown, 13, from Llandudno was with his friend on 4 May at the town's Great Orme when he fell into the sea.\n\nHis friend, who cannot be named, managed to drag him from the sea and tried to give CPR up to 10 times before going for help.\n\nThe coroner said Dillan's death had been a \"very unusual incident\".\n\nThe inquest in Llandudno heard from the friend that Dillan had been on rocks near the water's edge in Pigeon's Cove in the early evening and was \"messing about dangling his feet off the edge\".\n\nHe slipped and fell into the water, and the boy heard several cries for help before a big wave came.\n\nThe boy managed to pull Dillan to the shore, although the court heard later it was possible Dillan was in the water for as long as 40 minutes before his friend could get him out.\n\nThe boy tried between five and 10 times to administer CPR before climbing back up to the road, Marine Drive, and stopping a cyclist, Scott Hughes.\n\nMr Hughes and Steve Hargreaves, another passer-by, made their way to the shore to help Dillan.\n\nMr Hargreaves said in a statement: \"It became quite apparent he was not breathing and I could not feel any pulse.\"\n\nThe men carried out resuscitation until a rescue team arrived. Dillan was airlifted to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor but was pronounced dead at 23:00 BST.\n\nPathologist Dr Brian Rogers gave a cause of death as drowning as well as cold water immersion.\n\nAssistant coroner David Pojor was told the area was popular with groups of young people but the volume of call outs to the area because of people getting into difficulties was \"very low\".\n\nRichard Thomas for Mostyn Estates, which owns the land around the cove, said they had never been approached about putting warning signs in the area.\n\nMr Pojor said he would not write a report calling for signs to be erected because he questioned how practical it would be.\n\nHe paid tribute to those who had tried to help Dillan, saying the nine-year-old boy had \"acted bravely and responsibly for such a young boy in trying to save his friend\".", "The outgoing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told the BBC he believes the UK will leave the EU by 31 January 2020, the end of the current extension period.\n\nHe told BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler that Brexit is \"a too-long story that has to be brought to an end\".\n\nOn Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim that he will negotiate a trade deal with the EU before the end of December 2020, Mr Juncker said some UK MPs think negotiating a deal will be easy, but discussions with Canada \"took years\".\n\nAnd he said he did not think Labour’s pledge to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement if it wins a majority in the general election was a realistic approach - although this would be an issue for his successor.", "What restrictions are there on candidates standing for election?\n\nConfused? Got a question for us? Send it to BBC News via the form on this page and we'll do our best to give you the answers. We've answered this one from Pete Jinks in Runcorn: Q - What restrictions are there on candidates standing for election? A - According to the Electoral Commission, all candidates must be at least 18 years old on the day they are nominated, and must be a British, Irish or eligible Commonwealth citizen. A wide range of people are not allowed to stand because their job or role is seen as being incompatible with being an MP. These include members of the House of Lords, civil servants, military personnel and judges. Members of the European Parliament cannot stand for the Westminster Parliament and no-one can stand in more than one constituency. Prisoners serving a custodial sentence after conviction and some people who are subject to bankruptcy orders or proceedings cannot vote in any elections, although bankruptcy in itself is not a disqualification. You can read answers to more of your questions here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA second man has admitted trying to rob Arsenal footballers Mesut Özil and Sead Kolasinac in a moped ambush.\n\nJordan Northover, 26, pleaded guilty at Harrow Crown Court to attempting to steal watches from the pair in Hampstead, north-west London.\n\nHis co-accused Ashley Smith, 30, of Archway in North London, admitted his role in the crime in October.\n\nCCTV footage showed Bosnian defender Kolasinac chasing off the two masked attackers on 25 July.\n\nIn the video that circulated on social media, 26-year-old Kolasinac is seen fighting off two men who are wielding knives.\n\nHe can be seen jumping out of a vehicle to confront the masked men who had pulled alongside the car on mopeds.\n\nWorld Cup winner Özil can also be seen in his black Mercedes G class jeep before he reportedly took refuge in a Turkish restaurant.\n\nNew CCTV footage released by police shows full-back Kolasinac being prodded with a pointed weapon by one of the men.\n\nAshley Smith (left) and Jordan Northover both admitted trying to rob the Arsenal stars\n\nThe Met Police said a key breakthrough came when a moped without number plates was spotted by a member of the public in a cul-de-sac in Borehamwood, south Hertfordshire.\n\nInquiries revealed it was the same bike used in the raid, the force said.\n\nCCTV from a local pub showed Northover and Smith visiting a short time after the offence, with their clothes and a motorcycle helmet found on grassland near the bar.\n\nCh Insp Jim Corbett said the men \"attempted this brazen robbery after travelling around streets nearby, looking for people to rob\".\n\n\"Northover didn't hesitate to draw a weapon when making demands, but he didn't bargain on being challenged and the pair went away empty-handed,\" he said.\n\nArsenal said both Sead Kolasinac and Mesut Özil were fine after the incident\n\nKolasinac and Germany midfielder Özil were left out of the Arsenal side ahead of the opening weekend of the Premier League campaign after the incident.\n\nÖzil told the Athletic sports site he was scared for his wife Amine as the attackers pursued his car.\n\n\"Sead's reaction was really, really brave because he attacked one of the attackers,\" he said.\n\n\"I tried to move the car, block them, escape, but each time they would be there. My wife was extremely scared.\"\n\nSmith will be sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Friday, and Northover will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brittany Kaiser drew a huge crowd at a press conference after her talk at Web Summit\n\nFormer Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser, recognisable to many as the unlikely star of the Netflix documentary The Great Hack, has appeared at Web Summit in Lisbon.\n\nThe documentary followed the self-styled whistleblower as she testified to the UK parliament about what she knew when she worked at the firm as a business development manager.\n\nNow with a book out, she has reinvented herself as a data privacy guru aiming to educate youngsters about disinformation, and planning to put data back into the hands of users via blockchain technology.\n\nThe Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in 2016 when it emerged that the data of up to 87 million Facebook users had been harvested via a personality quiz - and it's never been exactly clear how it was used.\n\nThe consultancy aided Donald Trump's election campaign. And Ms Kaiser appeared on the firm's behalf at a Leave.EU Brexit press briefing - the two organisations say they never signed a contract to work together but Ms Kaiser has alleged that \"chargeable work was done\".\n\nMs Kaiser appeared at a Leave.EU event in November 2015 in London\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Ms Kaiser said she wanted to see political advertising on Facebook banned.\n\nShe said she feared little had changed. Hundreds of companies around the world are still crunching through personal data and throwing it back at people in the form of political ads, she said.\n\n\"It is sad that we have to ban all forms of political advertising to stop people being manipulated. But it has to be done,\" she added.\n\n\"Our electoral laws are not fit for purpose. Facebook functions pretty much the same and now it is not going to ban any politicians who are sending disinformation our way.\"\n\nWhile Twitter has moved to ban political advertising, Facebook has not, and she thinks it will need government regulation to force it to.\n\nIt's important, she said, because of the way data is being \"weaponised\" in political campaigning.\n\n\"Data-driven campaigning gives you the edge that you need to convince swing votes one way or the other, and also to get certain people to show up to the polls,\" she said.\n\n\"It can also be used to turn off your opponents and get people not to show up to the polls.\"\n\nIn her book Targeted, she provides new details about the methods she claims were used by Cambridge Analytica in the US presidential election, in particular how it gathered information on different personality types and sent them adverts most likely to resonate with them. The use of so-called psychographics in the Trump campaign had been denied by the firm before its collapse.\n\n\"What I saw when I was at Cambridge Analytica was that individuals were deemed persuadable, I don't mean persuadable to vote for Donald Trump, but persuadable to not vote for Hillary Clinton,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"So it was to deter them from going to the polls. And that is the type of tactics where you can use this information in order to persuade certain people to disengage from the political process.\"\n\nShe gave specific examples of her claims: \"We saw an old quote from Michelle Obama being turned into an advertisement that made it look like she was criticising Hillary for staying with her husband, who cheated on her, and that was being targeted at conservative women to get them to not support her.\"\n\nAn old 1996 speech by Hillary Clinton in which she talks about young black men joining gangs was targeted at African Americans, she said, to dissuade them from voting for the Democrat.\n\nMs Kaiser said the personality profiling done by Cambridge Analytica was good at targeting \"people who are neurotic, and sending them fear-based messaging\".\n\n\"Sending messages to people who were extroverted and open-minded wasn't very effective,\" she added.\n\nBrittany Kaiser at event to promote The Great Hack\n\nSome regard Ms Kaiser as an unreliable witness, and question whether her whistleblowing was done more to save herself than to expose the company she worked for.\n\nProf David Carroll, a data privacy expert who also played a pivotal role in The Great Hack, told the BBC that he thought she was \"an important witness to history\".\n\nBut he believes that in her book she \"obfuscates and omits key aspects, to protect her reputation and her friends\".\n\nIn her BBC interview, Ms Kaiser addressed her critics: \"Most of those people have no idea how hard it is to be a whistleblower.\"\n\n\"I spent the past year and a half being unpaid, doing pro-bono work for governments around the world by being an expert witness... never knowing if I'd ever get a job again, never knowing if I was going to be persecuted or if I would be threatened with physical violence.\n\n\"You really start to wonder who's going to come after you.\"\n\nIt is all a long way from when she entered the world of politics and data, in the Obama campaign, to \"figure out what got people excited about politics\".\n\n\"I never expected when I joined a company that was going to teach me more advanced forms of data science, that there was going to be anything malicious about it,\" she said. \"It's never too late to decide to do the right thing.\"\n\nCritics question what she did during her time at Cambridge Analytica. She has been accused of deploying Israeli hackers to influence the presidential election in Nigeria in 2015, something she denies.\n\n\"In Nigeria I met with clients who are actually private businessmen, not the campaign itself, who wanted to fund an external campaign. And so I helped, put together a team and sent people out there. They were only there for three weeks, so nothing that they did was really that big or that effective,\" she told the BBC.\n\nMs Kaiser said that her old boss Alexander Nix was still working in political consultancy\n\nAnd what of Alexander Nix, her former employer with whom she is portrayed as having an affectionate friendship in the Great Hack?\n\nShe told the BBC she was no longer in contact with him - in fact a text message wishing her luck in her testimony to the UK parliament in 2016 was the last time she heard from him, she said.\n\nBut she said she believes he is still involved in political consultancy work.\n\n\"I hope he has learned from his mistakes and is working more ethically.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea mounted a stirring fightback from 4-1 down to earn a crucial Champions League point as Ajax ended with nine men on a night of high drama at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe Dutch champions, semi-finalists last season, were in calm control and looked on course for victory when Donny van de Beek gave them a three-goal lead 10 minutes after the break - but in a chaotic closing period Chelsea completed a remarkable recovery as the visitors lost their discipline.\n\nHaving pulled one back through Cesar Azpilicueta's close-range finish to make it 4-2, the game turned on its head in 60 seconds of high drama in the 68th minute.\n\nDaley Blind fouled Blues striker Tammy Abraham, referee Gianluca Rocchi allowed play to continue and a shot then hit Joel Veltman's arm in the 18-yard box. Rocchi awarded a penalty, went back and showed Blind a second yellow card, with fellow centre-back Veltman also sent off seconds later for the handball.\n\nJorginho scored from the spot for the second time in the game to set up a frantic finale.\n\nSubstitute Reece James, 19, pulled Chelsea level and became the club's youngest Champions League goalscorer with a low strike from a rebound after Kurt Zouma had headed against the bar.\n\nWith the hosts pushing for a winner and backed by a buoyant crowd, Azpilicueta thought he had scored their fifth goal, only for the video assistant referee to intervene and detect a handball by Abraham.\n\nIt was an ending to match the game's opening, which featured two goals in the first four minutes, Abraham flicking Quincy Promes' free-kick into his own net before Jorginho equalised with his first penalty after Christian Pulisic was fouled.\n\nAjax retook the lead when Promes headed in a brilliant cross from Hakim Ziyech, whose free-kick from a tight angle led to the third goal as the ball came back off the post and went in after hitting home keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga in the face.\n\nVan de Beek looked to have settled matters, finishing off from 12 yards when unmarked, only for Chelsea to rally in stunning style.\n\nBoth sides had chances in the closing moments but in the end settled for a draw which leaves them both level on seven points with Valencia, who beat Lille 4-1 in this extremely tight Group H.\n• None 'I don't think I've seen a game like it - with this spirit we can go places'\n\nOne look at the Group H table shows how important this point might be to Chelsea before a potentially decisive visit to Valencia next, on 27 November.\n\nFor the first 55 minutes, Chelsea looked naive and exposed at this level as they were cut apart by Ajax's slick approach work and lethal delivery from out wide, which was instrumental in their first three goals.\n\nWhat this emerging Chelsea side under Frank Lampard does not lack is heart and fighting spirit. It was all on display in those final 30 minutes as Ajax wobbled and they took advantage.\n\nOnce Azpilicueta's close-range tap-in made it 4-2 and opened the door, Chelsea barged through it as Ajax found themselves pinned back and suffering a numerical disadvantage.\n\nWhen James levelled it up at 4-4 with 16 minutes left, all the smart money would have been on Chelsea completing the turnaround with victory.\n\nIt almost came as Azpilicueta saw his goal overruled by VAR, with the refreshing sight of Rocchi actually consulting a screen to decide for himself, and with two late chances for substitute Michy Batshuayi, one of which brought a superb save from Ajax keeper Andre Onana.\n\nIn the end, Chelsea had to settle for a share of the honours - something they would have readily accepted after 55 minutes but which they might have taken with slight disappointment at the end.\n\nThis was a thrilling spectacle in which both teams deserved some reward.\n\nErik ten Hag's young Ajax side graced the Champions League last season with a series of virtuoso performances before losing the semi-final to Tottenham in the dying moments of the second leg in front of their own supporters.\n\nThe campaign delivered a clear signal that this great old club was back among the elite and, despite losing two outstanding young players in Matthijs de Ligt to Juventus and Frenkie de Jong to Barcelona, they have moved on impressively.\n\nAjax were determined to make amends for their 1-0 loss to Chelsea in Amsterdam and were hugely impressive as their pace, movement and lethal delivery established a stranglehold in their first hour.\n\nYes, it fell apart for a 20-minute period but the closing phases demonstrated this is a team built and coached in the great traditions of the club, shrugging off the fact they were down to nine men to actually push forward in search of a winner.\n\nThey almost got it when Arrizabalaga had to save from Edson Alvarez, but the point pleased their small group of supporters inside Stamford Bridge.\n\nAjax may have lost the lead and might feel a sense of injustice about losing two players, but they earn full marks for entertainment value and their purist approach to the game.\n\nChelsea are the third English side in Champions League history to come from three goals behind to avoid defeat and the first since Liverpool in the 2005 final against AC Milan, which the Reds won in a penalty shootout.\n\n'Madness' - what they said\n\nChelsea boss Frank Lampard told BT Sport: \"I can't explain the game. For all the things we might analyse back, the madness of the game, we are here for entertainment I suppose and anyone who watched that has to say 'what a game of football'. Respect to Ajax, what a spectacle.\n\n\"I don't think I have been in a game like it. The two own goals were the story of the first half. I said at half-time it will be 3-3 or 4-4, we were so in the game.\n\n\"We looked dangerous and I felt we would build momentum. I'm not happy overall, this is the Champions League and we made too many mistakes.\n\n\"The biggest pleasure is the spirit the whole stadium showed. I can't give you much on the red cards, I didn't really see what they were for.\n\n\"At half-time I would have taken a draw, for sure. Let's take it as what it was. I was expecting somewhere towards 10 minutes of added time, not sure where four came from.\"\n\nAjax manager Erik ten Hag was asked on BT Sport about the two red cards within a minute of each other and said: \"False, it was handball, but what can he [Joel Veltman] do with his hand? It's no handball, no booking, but we have to accept it.\n\n\"I'm proud of this team, it was a magnificent development and we take it as a positive.\n\n\"Everyone will have the same opinion from the stands and from the television. We dictated and we are very bitter that one decision could change everything.\"\n• None Chelsea have conceded 4+ goals in a single Champions League game for only the third time in their history and the first time since drawing 4-4 at home to Liverpool in April 2009.\n• None Ajax have scored 4+ goals in a game against an English team in all European competition for only the second time (also 5-1 v Liverpool in December 1966 at home in the European Cup).\n• None Chelsea conceded three goals in the first half of a Champions League game for the first time. In fact, the Blues were the second side to concede two own goals in the first half of a Champions League game after CFR Cluj (v Bayern Munich, October 2010).\n• None Ajax's Hakim Ziyech has either scored or assisted in nine of his past 12 Champions League appearances (four goals, six assists).\n• None Ajax were shown two red cards in a Champions League game for the first time in their history.\n• None Ajax's opener against Chelsea (1:47) was the second earliest goal conceded by the Blues in the Champions League after Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma) in October 2017 (39 seconds).\n\nChelsea's next game in the Champions League is away to Valencia (17:55 GMT) on 27 November, before Lille take on Ajax at 20:00 GMT. The final round of matches happens on 10 December with Ajax at home to Valencia and Chelsea entertaining Lille.\n\nBefore then, Chelsea return to Premier League action on Saturday when they face Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge (12:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian.\n• None Attempt missed. Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Reece James with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jorginho.\n• None Attempt missed. Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Tammy Abraham.\n• None Attempt saved. Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Hudson-Odoi.\n• None Attempt saved. Noussair Mazraoui (Ajax) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Quincy Promes.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Reece James tries a through ball, but Michy Batshuayi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Edson Álvarez (Ajax) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. César Azpilicueta tries a through ball, but Callum Hudson-Odoi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Callum Hudson-Odoi with a cross.\n• None GOAL OVERTURNED BY VAR: César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) scores but the goal is ruled out after a VAR review. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jordan (left) and partner Ben were falsely accused by a vigilante paedophile hunter group\n\nA couple have been falsely accused of trying to meet a child, during a sting that was filmed by so-called paedophile hunters and live-streamed to an audience of thousands on Facebook.\n\nJordan and Ben, from West Sussex, had been visiting Jordan's sister in Hull when they were confronted by a number of people outside her home.\n\nThe pair received homophobic abuse, before police came to arrest them.\n\nYorkshire Child Protectors has since apologised for what happened.\n\nJordan and Ben, who did not want to give their surnames for fear of reprisals, said they set off for Hull on Monday.\n\nBen, 31, said: \"When we parked up a car blocked us in and people got out. We thought we were being robbed.\n\n\"They took us to the end of the road and cornered us so we couldn't escape and put the cameras in our faces.\"\n\nThe police were called and Jordan and Ben were arrested and their phones were taken.\n\nIt was during this time their innocence was proven, as the decoy was still receiving messages from the actual suspect.\n\nBen said: \"We were eventually released and they had put up a post to say they were sorry and got it wrong.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are fearful of our lives.\"\n\nBen also said he and Jordan were looking to sue Yorkshire Child Protectors.\n\nThe group's apology read: \"We at YCP take responsibility for our part played in these innocent men being arrested but we won't be taking all the blame.\"\n\nThe group, which said it was \"heartbroken\" for the two innocent men, explained that it had received false information from other vigilante organisations.\n\nYCP added that it was \"truly sorry\" and that the men would be receiving a personal message of apology.\n\nHumberside Police declined to comment on Monday's arrests but the force has previously warned against vigilante groups carrying out stings, saying they can create more problems than they solve.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Schools should not be used as polling stations in the general election, to avoid disrupting nativity plays and Christmas concerts, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe has written to returning officers, saying there is funding available for councils to find alternative venues for places to vote on 12 December.\n\nMr Williamson says he wants to keep disruption \"to an absolute minimum\".\n\nHead teachers have backed the calls to avoid using schools for voting.\n\nThe timing of a general election means it risks clashing with long-arranged plans for Christmas events in schools, such as carol concerts and nativity plays.\n\nMr Williamson has written to returning officers, who are responsible for overseeing elections, urging them to avoid using schools.\n\n\"In every community there will be alternatives and I would ask that, wherever possible, these are used instead,\" he told them.\n\nLocal authorities, which are responsible for finding venues, have been told that central government will reimburse the costs of using other places as polling stations.\n\nThe education secretary says he wants to make sure that \"long-planned and important events\" are not disrupted.\n\nChristmas events are \"important highlights in the school calendar and the result of a huge amount of hard work,\" he says.\n\n\"Schools will already have in place a schedule of events for the term, including Christmas activities,\" said Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union.\n\n\"It would clearly be much better for children, parents and staff if they were able to go ahead with these events without the disruption of the school being used as a polling station.\"\n\nMr Barton said there needed to be a longer-term consideration about whether schools were really \"suitable venues\" for polling stations.\n\n\"This is the third election this year, following on from local and European elections, and it is the third general election in four years,\" he said.\n• None A really simple guide to the election", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Bloch asked his mum: \"Would someone like me?\"\n\nA US mother has told the BBC of the overwhelming response she has received after tweeting about her lonely 21-year-old autistic son.\n\nKerry Bloch's son David has been non-verbal for most of his life but amazed his parents by asking his first question: \"Would someone like me?\"\n\nShe posted the comment on Twitter and received a deluge of heart-warming responses.\n\nAmong them was basketball star Joe Ingles who invited David to a game.\n\nKerry told BBC OS that David's question had taken her completely by surprise at their home in Neptune Beach, Florida.\n\n\"I could tell he was thinking or processing something. He then just looks at me and goes: 'Would someone like me?'\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by kerry bloch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I was flabbergasted. That's the first question he has ever said to me. I left the room because I had to cry. I didn't want David to think I was upset.\"\n\nKerry says she told David she was sure there were \"thousands of people out there\" who would like him, adding: \"You're a wonderful boy.\"\n\nShe then logged on to Twitter and shared what had happened, with a picture of David.\n\n\"I sent it and didn't think anything about it. I'm not very computer-literate or internet-literate. My phone just kept making these constant ding ding ding noises. I checked and it was hundreds of notifications coming in.\"\n\nDavid has a rare immunodeficiency and only 20% of his immune system is working, Kerry explained.\n\nDavid Bloch, of Neptune Beach, Florida, suffers from an immunodeficiency disorder\n\nHe is home-schooled and his exposure to the outdoors is limited, she says.\n\n\"He's never been in school, he hasn't been allowed to be around children his age,\" said Kerry.\n\n\"He's never had a friend because of that so I know he's lonely, and we're doing the best we can to get him to have friends somehow. But he's smart enough to realise he wants a friend and he wants people to like him.\"\n\nThe thousands of responses include many from parents of other autistic children.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Cathleen Burke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAustralian NBA star Joe Ingles, who recently revealed he and his wife Renae have a child with autism, invited David to a Utah Jazz basketball game.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Joe Ingles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKerry said messages had also come from the military, fire and police departments and sports groups including David's favourite football team, the Jacksonville Jaguars.\n\n\"He's been running around the house just smiles. We've been trying to read every single message. We've been up to four or five in the morning,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm trying to reply to every single person. David does not want anybody to be left out, he loves everybody. I think he understands what it feels like to be left out so he wants to include everybody and just to tell everybody he loves them.\"", "Chris Williamson, Stephen Hepburn, Roger Godsiff (l-r) have been excluded by Labour\n\nFour Labour Parliamentary candidates have been banned from standing by the party's National Executive Committee.\n\nThree are former Labour MPs - including Jeremy Corbyn ally Chris Williamson - and the fourth is Sally Gimson who was selected less than two weeks ago.\n\nMr Williamson was suspended in an anti-Semitism row and Mrs Gimson is facing claims she says are a \"smear campaign\" against her.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has confirmed it is reviewing another candidate.\n\nZarah Sultana, who apologised for saying she would \"celebrate\" the deaths of world leaders in 2015 on social media, is being \"re-interviewed\" by a panel, the party said.\n\nNew candidates will be chosen in place of former Derby North MP Mr Williamson, ex-MP for Jarrow Stephen Hepburn, and Roger Godsiff, who was facing a reselection battle in Birmingham Hall Green.\n\nMr Williamson said on Twitter that he was resigning from the Labour Party \"with a heavy heart\" after 44 years and will be standing as an independent candidate in Derby North.\n\nIt comes as Conservative Alun Cairns resigned from the cabinet over claims he knew about a former aide's role in the \"sabotage\" of a rape trial.\n\nMr Cairns still intends to stand as a Tory candidate in the general election.\n\nLabour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) has not made a final decision on whether Keith Vaz can stand for the party, the BBC understands.\n\nThe former Leicester East MP was last week suspended from the House of Commons for six months by a standards watchdog.\n\nMr Vaz \"disregarded\" the law by \"expressing a willingness\" to help buy cocaine for male prostitutes, the Commons standards commission said in a scathing report.\n\nMr Vaz was re-selected as Labour's candidate in Leicester East, a seat he has represented for 32 years, a few weeks before the publication of the standards report.\n\nIf he was re-elected on 12 December, he would take up his seat until parliament voted again on a potential suspension, which ended with the conclusion of the previous parliament- and he could face a recall petition, giving voters a chance to remove him.\n\nMr Vaz did not make any comment on his suspension, but a spokesman said he was receiving treatment for a serious mental health condition.\n\nLabour's ruling NEC ditched Chris Williamson because the disciplinary case against him hadn't concluded. That meant he was still suspended and therefore ineligible to be a candidate.\n\nBut this apparently bureaucratic formulation somewhat understates the political sensitivities, some on the left want him reinstated because they argue that while he said the party had given too much ground on anti-Semitism, what he said wasn't in itself anti-Semitic.\n\nBut others - including some of his fellow left-wingers - wanted him out as they knew opponents would suggest any reinstatement showed a lack of seriousness in addressing anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nPlus I am told many in the Labour leader's office lost patience with Chris Williamson's loose tongue - and tendency to shoot from the hip.\n\nKeith Vaz's fate is less certain. Labour's NEC didn't throw him out - apparently as he is in hospital. Well-placed sources say they hope he stands down voluntarily.\n\nBut a rather stranger row might yet overshadow all this.\n\nSometimes candidates are \"parachuted in\" by the leadership. Sometimes they are deselected. But it's rare to be selected then deselected in the space of a week\n\nSally Gimson contested the selection in Bassetlaw where John Mann is standing down - unexpectedly beating a candidate favoured by some in the leadership and by the powerful Unite union.\n\nBut the decision of local members was overturned by a panel of Labour's ruling NEC.\n\nSources cite complaints about Sally Gimson - but from party members in her home constituency in London, not Bassetlaw where the local executive is right behind her.\n\nShe has denounced the NEC as a \"kangaroo court\" acting on \"trumped-up charges\" and the row could now be settled in the actual courts.\n\nChris Williamson was suspended by Labour in February after claiming the party had \"been too apologetic\" in its response to criticism of handling anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nHe was reinstated in June but was suspended again after a backlash from MPs, peers and Jewish groups.\n\nLast month, he lost a High Court bid to be reinstated by the party - but the judge also ruled Labour acted unlawfully when it re-opened the disciplinary case against him.\n\nMarie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, called on Labour to go further after the NEC made what she called the \"correct\" decision to stop him standing again.\n\nShe said: \"Labour's leadership must now stop dragging their feet and act immediately to expel from the party this disgraced politician who has baited the Jewish community for far too long.\"\n\nStephen Hepburn was suspended by the Labour Party last month, as it launched an investigation into claims he sexually harassed a female party member in her 20s at a curry house 14 years ago.\n\nMr Hepburn said he \"completely refutes\" the allegation.\n\nRoger Godsiff, meanwhile, had been facing a vote of constituency party members over whether he should be allowed to stand again before the NEC stepped in.\n\nThe former MP has been at the centre of a row over his support for protesters against LGBT teaching and was formally reprimanded by Labour after he was seen in a video agreeing with the demonstrators.\n\nCorrection 7th November 2019: This article originally referred to how, if re-elected, Keith Vaz would not be able to take up his seat until his suspension ends. This has been amended to make clear that he could take up his seat, with the suspension requiring a new vote in the next parliament.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"An electric baton to the back of the head\" - a former inmate described conditions at a secret camp to the BBC\n\nLeaked documents detail for the first time China's systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps.\n\nThe Chinese government has consistently claimed the camps in the far western Xinjiang region offer voluntary education and training.\n\nBut official documents, seen by BBC Panorama, show how inmates are locked up, indoctrinated and punished.\n\nThe leak was made to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which has worked with 17 media partners, including BBC Panorama and The Guardian newspaper in the UK.\n\nThe investigation has found new evidence which undermines Beijing's claim that the detention camps, which have been built across Xinjiang in the past three years, are for voluntary re-education purposes to counter extremism.\n\nAbout a million people - mostly from the Muslim Uighur community - are thought to have been detained without trial.\n\nThe leaked Chinese government documents, which the ICIJ have labelled \"The China Cables\", include a nine-page memo sent out in 2017 by Zhu Hailun, then deputy-secretary of Xinjiang's Communist Party and the region's top security official, to those who run the camps.\n\nThe instructions make it clear that the camps should be run as high security prisons, with strict discipline, punishments and no escapes.\n\nThe Chinese government says the camps are for voluntary re-education\n\nThe documents reveal how every aspect of a detainee's life is monitored and controlled: \"The students should have a fixed bed position, fixed queue position, fixed classroom seat, and fixed station during skills work, and it is strictly forbidden for this to be changed.\n\n\"Implement behavioural norms and discipline requirements for getting up, roll call, washing, going to the toilet, organising and housekeeping, eating, studying, sleeping, closing the door and so forth.\"\n\nOther documents confirm the extraordinary scale of the detentions. One reveals that 15,000 people from southern Xinjiang were sent to the camps over the course of just one week in 2017.\n\nSophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch, said the leaked memo should be used by prosecutors.\n\n\"This is an actionable piece of evidence, documenting a gross human rights violation,\" she said. \"I think it's fair to describe everyone being detained as being subject at least to psychological torture, because they literally don't know how long they're going to be there.\n\nThe memo details how detainees will only be released when they can demonstrate they have transformed their behaviour, beliefs and language.\n\n\"Promote the repentance and confession of the students for them to understand deeply the illegal, criminal and dangerous nature of their past activity,\" it says.\n\n\"For those who harbour vague understandings, negative attitudes or even feelings of resistance… carry out education transformation to ensure that results are achieved.\"\n\nBen Emmerson QC, a leading human rights lawyer and an adviser to the World Uighur Congress, said the camps were trying to change people's identity.\n\n\"It is very difficult to view that as anything other than a mass brainwashing scheme designed and directed at an entire ethnic community.\n\n\"It's a total transformation that is designed specifically to wipe the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang as a separate cultural group off the face of the Earth.\"\n\nDetainees are awarded points for their \"ideological transformation, study and training, and compliance with discipline\", the memo says.\n\nThe punishment-and-reward system helps determine whether inmates are allowed contact with family and when they are released. They are only considered for release once four Communist Party committees have seen evidence they have been transformed.\n\nThe leaked documents also reveal how the Chinese government uses mass surveillance and a predictive-policing programme that analyses personal data.\n\nOne document shows how the system flagged 1.8m people simply because they had a data sharing app called Zapya on their phone.\n\nThe authorities then ordered the investigation of 40,557 of them \"one by one\". The document says \"if it is not possible to eliminate suspicion\" they should be sent for \"concentrated training\".\n\nThe documents include explicit directives to arrest Uighurs with foreign citizenship and to track Uighurs living abroad. They suggest that China's embassies and consulates are involved in the global dragnet.\n\nChinese ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming said the measures had safeguarded local people and there had not been a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang in the past three years.\n\n\"The region now enjoys social stability and unity among ethnic groups. People there are living a happy life with a much stronger sense of fulfilment and security.\n\n\"In total disregard of the facts, some people in the West have been fiercely slandering and smearing China over Xinjiang in an attempt to create an excuse to interfere in China's internal affairs, disrupt China's counter-terrorism efforts in Xinjiang and thwart China's steady development.\"", "From sleeping in a phone box to founding a six-figure business teaching martial arts, it's been an eventful two years for Gavin Eastham.\n\nIn February last year, he found himself being pelted with hailstones on his first night on the streets.\n\nThe 36 year-old's marriage had broken down and, having suffered a back injury, he wasn't able to work.\n\n\"Because I'm not originally from north Wales, it meant I had no contacts. I had nowhere else to go,\" he said.\n\nHis ex-wife thought he had somewhere else to stay but he didn't.\n\nHe decided to go to the local library, initially to stay warm, but he felt time-pressured to turn things around.\n\n\"I thought the minute I was homeless, I'd look homeless and if I look homeless people are going to look at me in a certain way,\" he told the BBC's Wake Up to Money.\n\nAfter spending a few days there, the local librarian became suspicious. He told her he had plans to set up his own business.\n\n\"I thought I need to make a positive change, I need to do something,\" he said.\n\nHe was also using the library for something more pressing: \"I was actually researching how to survive being homeless. I'm a bit of a city boy so I did a bit of research reading blogs and forums about how to survive on the streets.\"\n\nWhile at night he'd focus on finding shelter, by day he was reading books on business strategy.\n\n\"This sounds crazy but the only thing I've ever been good or half decent at was martial arts. How could I turn that into an opportunity to secure my future?\"\n\nCllr Pam Attridge, Mr Eastham, Mark Tami MP and three students at the studio's opening night in May 2018\n\nHe started researching and came up with a company name and logo, wrote a syllabus and bought a domain name for £1.58.\n\n\"I thought - if I've got a domain name I've got to keep going.\"\n\n\"This dream I thought that I might one day fulfil was giving me the energy I needed to survive.\"\n\nAfter three weeks on the streets, he managed to secure temporary housing and then, in May last year, launched his martial arts school Cobra Life in Flintshire, Wales.\n\nNow he says he has a \"thriving business, turning over six figures.\"\n\nWith plans to franchise, he's looking to hire a full-time instructor: \"That is going to give me chance to get off the dance floor and onto the balcony, to strategise and expand,\" he said.\n\nHe said the teachings of martial arts gave him the strength to continue: \"Those essential skills have been instilled since a child so even though times were tough I knew I had to persevere and focus on my goals which were simply dreams written down!\"", "A map is created as a vehicle travels - using green, amber and red to show the road's condition\n\nTaxis, buses and even delivery vans could soon join the fight against potholes.\n\nThey are the scourge of roads and motorists, with Flintshire council alone left with 4,000 and a £4m repair bill last year.\n\nBut special monitoring technology being developed at the University of South Wales (USW) could help to find potholes before they get worse.\n\nIt works through a dashboard device that collects real-time data.\n\nWhile sat-navs give the driver a profile of the road ahead, the small device records the profile of the road surface.\n\nThe system collects details of the smallest change in road vibrations, particularly potholes, feeding them into a real-time map.\n\nIf a vehicle is travelling the same route every day, data it gathers can highlight potential problem areas.\n\nTrials have already been carried out with taxis and buses operated by Transport for London, highway maintenance vehicles in Northern Ireland and delivery cars working for Bristol Community Meals.\n\nThe device is fitted to a vehicle's dashboard\n\nData sent back shows the state of the roads, highlighted in red, amber and green to show their condition.\n\n\"The key problem councils have is knowing exactly where new problems form on the roads,\" said the man behind the device, Kevin Lee.\n\n\"There is ongoing planned maintenance. However that might not necessarily be where the roads are suffering the worst problems right now.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do we have so many potholes?\n\n\"So, if you don't know where the problem is, how are you supposed to fix it? The benefit of our system is that it records what the problem is, when it is actually happening.\"\n\nMr Lee is the managing director of Cardiff-based Mobilized Construction and is being supported to develop the system by USW's Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Emerging Technologies (CEMET).\n\nKevin Lee said councils have problems knowing where potholes are on their roads\n\nHe said the system solved the three main problems caused by failing roads: the fall in safety standards for motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians, the extra financial impact of road repairs and the environmental and time cost that road closures cause.\n\n\"The system gives local authorities time-relevant, vital data to ensure the roads that are in the most urgent need of repairs are dealt with faster,\" he added.\n\nThe RAC's Pothole Index found that in the first three months of 2018, the proportion of breakdowns caused by road surface problems almost doubled compared to 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as Elon Musk laughs off the embarrassing incident\n\nTesla has received almost 150,000 orders for its new pickup truck, boss Elon Musk has said, despite an embarrassing hiccup at its launch.\n\nMr Musk was caught out on stage when the windows of the Cybertruck shattered during a demonstration supposed to show their durability.\n\nTesla shares dived 6.1% after the event on Thursday and several bad reviews.\n\nWith its distinct angular design, the electric truck was greeted with cheers but also bemusement.\n\nBut on Saturday Mr Musk tweeted: \"146k Cybertruck orders so far, with 42% choosing dual, 41% tri & 17% single motor\".\n\nThe demand had come despite \"no advertising & no paid endorsement\" for the truck, he said.\n\nNo date has been given for the Cybertruck's release, but analysts said it would not be ready before the end of 2021 at the earliest.\n\nThe industrial-looking vehicle is covered in stainless steel alloy and will be able to go from 0 to 100km/h (62 mph) in about three seconds, Mr Musk said in his presentation in Hawthorne, California.\n\nHowever, some analysts are concerned about the futuristic design, with Jessica Caldwell of Edmunds' vehicle marketplace saying: \"It looks like a truck version of the DeLorean from Back To The Future.\"\n\nSome analysts are concerned about the futuristic design\n\nThe launch event's \"fail\" happened during a segment displaying how the truck's stainless steel exterior, and metal windows, could withstand bullets and sledgehammers.\n\nTesla's head of design, Franz von Holzhausen, proceeded to throw a metal ball at the front left window, causing it to smash.\n\nHe repeated the move on the rear left window and the same thing happened. Mr Musk was heard to swear before joking: \"Room for improvement.\"\n\nOn Friday Tesla's share price dived by 6%, slashing Mr Musk's personal net worth by $768m (£598m) in a single day, according to Forbes.\n\nThe pickup market represents a significant opportunity for Tesla as it improves its battery technology, meaning carrying heavier loads over long distances is now practical.\n\nAccording to vehicle marketplace Edmunds, large trucks have accounted for 14.4% of new vehicle sales in the US up until October, compared to 12.6% in 2015.", "Protesters said violence against women must stop\n\nMarches have been held in dozens of French cities to condemn femicide and other forms of gender-based violence.\n\nUsing the hashtag #NousToutes (All of Us), protesters accuse the authorities of turning a blind eye to the problem.\n\nMeasures to tackle domestic violence are expected to be unveiled on Monday.\n\nFrance has one of the highest rates of murders linked to domestic violence in Western Europe, with at least 115 women killed by their partners or ex-partners this year alone, local media say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 30 street marches were organised by a number of groups and unions throughout France.\n\nParis was a sea of purple - the colour of thousands of banners carried by protesters\n\nSome groups say 137 women in France have been killed by their partners this year\n\nThe state is guilty, said these demonstrators in Paris\n\nIn Marseille, protesters held placards with the names of some of the victims of domestic violence\n\nIn Paris, the rally began near the Opéra in the capital's centre.\n\nThe city soon became a sea of purple - the colour of thousands of banners carried by protesters.\n\n\"We think this will be a historic march,\" Caroline De Haas, one of the organisers, was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.\n\nShe said \"the level of awareness [about the problem] is moving at breakneck speed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. French women talk about their experiences of sexual harassment in public\n\nRallies are also being held in other major cities.\n\nIn the southern port of Marseille, demonstrators held placards with the names of some of the victims of domestic violence.\n\nOne woman is killed in France every three days by their current or former partner, according to the AFP.\n\nEurostat, the European Union's statistics agency, says there were 123 murders committed by a partner in France in 2017.\n\nThe marches come at the end of nearly three months of consultations launched by the French government.\n\nCampaigners hope the talks will result in a set of specific measures against domestic violence.\n\nIn September, the government announced a number of emergency measures, including the creation of 1,000 shelter places and emergency accommodation from next year, and an audit of 400 police stations to see how women's complaints are handled.\n\nPrime Minister Edouard Philippe also said €5m (£4.5m) would be released in the fight against femicide, and that the complaints procedure would be simplified, that the protection of women under threat would be improved, and that their partners would be removed more quickly.\n\nThe PM also floated the idea that those convicted of domestic violence or under a restraining order would have to wear an electronic bracelet to protect women from further violence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Rachael Allison was at the Birmingham Star City complex when the brawl broke out\n\nFive teenagers, including a 13-year-old girl, have been arrested after a mass brawl involving machetes broke out at a cinema.\n\nSeven West Midlands Police officers were hurt while attempting to disperse the fighting at the Star City complex in Birmingham on Saturday evening.\n\nThe force said for those responding to the disorder \"it may be the worst thing they have ever seen\".\n\nPolice drew Tasers and used a dispersal order to clear about 100 youths.\n\nFootage from inside the venue appears to show disorder breaking out and people on the floor screaming.\n\nA girl aged 13, a girl and boy both aged 14, and a 19-year-old man were all held on suspicion of assaulting police. In addition, a boy aged 14 was held on suspicion of obstructing police.\n\nAll five were later arrested on suspicion of violent disorder but have now been released on bail with conditions which ban them leaving home at night and ban them from Star City and any cinema in the UK, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy had also been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder after an image circulated on social media showing a number of youths, with one carrying a machete.\n\nAsked if he was concerned about the ages of those involved, Ch Supt Steve Graham said: \"It is concerning, there's no point pretending otherwise.\n\n\"That's why we've got plans in place, starting from first thing on Monday morning, where we'll be sending neighbourhood policing officers into schools around Birmingham to try and find out why.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several arrests have been made following the fighting (Courtesy Rachael Allison)\n\nMr Graham added: \"It's always hard to gauge these sorts of things - but what I will say is incidents like last night are rare.\n\n\"As for some officers who were there last night, it may be the worst thing they have ever seen.\"\n\nThe trouble \"seemed to be focussed at the cinema\" but \"pockets of disorder\" broke out around the whole complex for between 90 minutes and two hours, the force said.\n\nTwo machetes were seized and a knife was recovered from a roundabout nearby.\n\nSince the disorder, the Vue cinema chain has pulled the gang film Blue Story from its 91 outlets in the UK and Ireland, a decision its director Rapman described as \"truly unfortunate\".\n\nHe said he sent his love to all those caught up in the trouble, adding: \"It's truly unfortunate that a small group of people can ruin things for everybody. Blue Story is a film about love, not violence.\"\n\nA Vue spokesman said: \"We can confirm a decision was made to remove the film. The safety and welfare of our customers and staff is always our first priority.\"\n\nMr Graham said: \"I understand there is a lot of speculation on social media and people are citing that film. At this stage we are not jumping to any conclusions. That will form part of our investigations as it carries on.\"\n\nWitness Choleigh McGuire described the brawl as \"one of the scariest moments of [her] life\", as she queued to watch the new Frozen film with her daughter.\n\n\"Armed police come, Tasers come, all of the people that were fighting ran off into the cinema, hiding. I am shaking,\" she said.\n\nAnother witness, Rachael Allison, said \"a young boy was crying on the floor with his mother\" as a number of people started fighting.\n\n\"The police told everyone to leave the cinema as they held Taser guns in their hands and started to bring in guard dogs.\"\n\nThe force was called to the complex, in Nechells, at about 17:30 GMT and cleared the area by 21:00. The officers hurt during the disorder suffered minor facial injuries.\n\nPolice used Tasers and dogs to break up the disorder\n\nSupt Ian Green said: \"This was a major outbreak of trouble which left families who were just trying to enjoy a night out at the cinema understandably frightened.\n\n\"We worked quickly to move the crowds on, but were met with a very hostile response and officers had to draw Tasers to restore order.\n\n\"It's clear that some of those who went to Star City last night were intent on causing trouble.\"\n\nHe said the force's response was necessary to restore order as quickly as possible.\n\n\"We understand that families with young children will have been left upset by what they saw last night, but we urge people to appreciate that our aim last night was to protect the public and restore order, and that's what we achieved,\" he added.\n\nAdditional security is in place at the complex and police will be there on Sunday night.\n\nMr Graham added: \"We know that Birmingham isn't unusual in this. Let's not pretend that knife crime or violence in the under 25s is rare or is just isolated around Birmingham.\n\n\"There are no short-term fixes to this, so we're prepared and we're in this for the long run and we're going to work with schools and other partners to prevent youth violence becoming an increasing problem.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Compared to the Labour manifesto, Boris Johnson's plan for the country is a shopping list of promises, not an encyclopaedia of ambitions.\n\nThere are new vows - no tax rises, a target of 50,000 more nurses to be working in the NHS by the end of the Parliament, scrapping many hospital parking charges, more money to fix potholes, an end to the Fixed Term Parliament Act and a mysterious-sounding \"Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission\".\n\nAn historic document, however, this is not - for three political reasons.\n\nFirst, the Conservatives are haunted by their manifesto calamity of 2017, when Theresa May presented the country with a list of hard choices in the expectation that a big majority would give her the political space to drive through controversial reforms.\n\nNo-one in the Tory campaign this time wanted to put forward ideas that could unravel into painful choices for the electorate.\n\nSecond, this is still a new government, and Boris Johnson has already made major commitments during his short time in Downing Street - big new spending on infrastructure, for example, under a new, more relaxed, set of spending rules; more cash for the health service and the beginnings of a plan to bring police numbers back up by 20,000.\n\nRemember too, his tax cut from raising the National Insurance threshold was blurted out just last week.\n\nLast and most importantly, the big contrasts in this election have been there since day one.\n\nThe manifestos have served to underline, rather than reveal that reality.\n\nThe Conservatives and the Labour Party have totally different approaches to the size of the state and their willingness to intervene in the market.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson called this election because he wants to leave the EU at speed.\n\nWhereas Jeremy Corbyn is, after months of Labour evolving its position, offering another referendum.\n\nThat is the clear difference between the two big parties this time.\n\nVote to leave the EU at speed, and enact the 2016 referendum, or choose Labour to push for another big national ballot, and plump for the chance to stay.\n\nIt's worth adding, of course, that often in the small print there are surprises, or sometimes mistakes, in these documents that trip up the parties in time.\n\nIt is too early to say with confidence, only a number of hours after the manifesto has emerged, that there is nothing that will cause problems in the days to come.", "Aslan King went missing early on Saturday after suffering a suspected seizure\n\nA search has failed to find any trace of a British man missing in the Australian state of Victoria.\n\nAslan King, 25, went missing early on Saturday morning after suffering a suspected seizure during a camping trip.\n\nVictoria Police said officers searched for Mr King on Sunday using a helicopter, boats, horses, motorcycles and sniffer dogs.\n\nMr King, an illustrator from Brighton, relocated to Australia two weeks ago.\n\nHis friends and family had described his disappearance as \"completely out of character\".\n\nMr King is said to have hit his head on the ground before getting up quickly and rushing into thick bushland surrounding the campsite where he and four friends had been staying.\n\nThe site is near the town of Princeton, beside cliffs on the Victorian coast near the tourist site known as the Twelve Apostles.\n\nOfficers told local media they were concentrating on a radius of 300m around the campsite, but said the search was difficult because of the thick vegetation, rocky clifftops and deep coastal waters in the region.\n\nOfficers searched for Mr King on Sunday using a helicopter, horses, boats, motorcycles and sniffer dogs\n\nMr King had been on a coastal camping trip when he disappeared\n\nThe area is also known to contain a large population of deadly tiger snakes.\n\nSgt Danny Brown, of Victoria Police, said thermal imaging sensors had detected no trace of Mr King, but they might be used again as the search continued.\n\nAn air and sea search has failed to find any sign of Mr King\n\n\"You're using every sense, whether that be eyes, ears and touch as well,\" he told Nine newspapers, adding the heat sensors would make \"a massive difference, because we're going to find things in areas that the eye can't see\".\n\n\"Some of this scrub, you have to get on hands and knees to move through it,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said: \"Our staff are seeking further information following the disappearance of a British man near Princeton, Australia, and are in contact with the Australian police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra from Wednesday, 20 November; Live text coverage on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nGreat Britain missed out on a place in the Davis Cup final after Spain's Rafael Nadal and Feliciano Lopez edged out Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski in a heartbreaking doubles defeat.\n\nThe British pair lost 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (10-8) in the deciding rubber.\n\nThe teams had been level at 1-1 after the singles, when Nadal beat Dan Evans, and Kyle Edmund won against Lopez.\n\nThe Spanish pair then sparked joyous scenes in Madrid as they made it 2-1 and set up a final against Canada.\n\n\"It was a very special moment for us, a very unique opportunity,\" said the 38-year-old Lopez, who was close to tears at the end. \"We have a great opportunity to win this tournament here at home.\"\n\nBritain, who were bidding to reach the final for the first time since their 2015 triumph, will take some consolation from knowing they are guaranteed a place in next year's 18-nation finals by virtue of reaching the last four.\n\nSpain could win the Davis Cup for the first time since 2011 if they manage to overcome Canada in what is bound to be another raucous atmosphere in the 12,500-capacity indoor Caja Magica arena (15:00 GMT).\n\nCanada beat Russia in Saturday's opening semi-final to reach the showpiece tie for the first time in their history.\n\nWith an unfit Andy Murray again left out by British captain Leon Smith, Edmund delivered for the third day running with another straight-sets win before Evans fell to world number one Nadal.\n\nThat left Britain's fate in the hands of Jamie Murray and Davis Cup debutant Skupski - a partnership that had won both of the deciding rubbers they had needed to play earlier in the week.\n\nThe pair, who are regular partners on the ATP Tour, more than matched the two Spanish left-handers throughout a tight decider, which ended in the cruellest of fashions.\n\nMurray and Skupski were unable to take any of four set points before the Spaniards converted their second match point as the Caja Magica erupted in celebration.\n\nNadal immediately jumped on top of Lopez, who had been the weaker of the two players but ultimately delivered the killer blow with a punchy serve.\n\nAfter the team-mates composed themselves to embrace Murray and Skupski, Nadal showed his class by marching over to the British bench to shake every hand before returning to the court and soaking up the acclaim of an adoring crowd.\n\nMurray and Skupski, meanwhile, sat crestfallen in their seats as they wondered how they had not managed to take the second set.\n\n\"It's really, really special,\" said Nadal. \"Thank you to Feli [Lopez] and to the crowd who were amazing as well.\"\n\nWith Nadal receiving little help from Lopez's returning game, the British pair only dropped five points on serve in an evenly-matched second set.\n\nBut they could not transfer that dominance into the receiving games, apart from missed break points at 2-1 and 6-5, as the Spaniards often produced accurate serves at crucial points to alleviate danger.\n\nThe tension inside the arena was illustrated perfectly by the demeanour of Andy Murray, who was fidgeting nervously and often looked barely able to watch his older brother.\n\nA wild smash by Lopez suddenly brought up a set point for the Britons, only for the inspired Nadal to land an accurate forehand winner down the line.\n\nThe second set point - at 6-4 in the tie-break - went begging when Lopez's serve was put into the net by Murray, leaving Skupski to try to serve it out.\n\nNadal somehow reached a short ball with a lob which had the Brits scrambling, to the incredulity of everyone inside the Caja Magica, allowing the world number one to then put a smash between them.\n\nNadal's joy was shown by his high leap off the court, with the flag-waving Spanish fans leaping off their seats too.\n\nBritain earned another set point, this time on Nadal's serve, when Murray stunned a volley at the net, Nadal saving his country again with another perfectly placed crosscourt winner.\n\nNadal then landed a first serve down the middle which Murray hit into the net to give Spain their first match point at 8-7, only for the 19-time Grand Slam champion to steer a backhand well wide.\n\nMurray put a volley long for 9-8 and a second match point on Lopez's serve, leaving the home supporters bouncing and chanting 'Ole, ole, ole!', before Lopez sealed a memorable victory.\n\n\"I thought Jamie and I played a good match. Their guys served really well. We did have our chances, but they came up with big shots at the right time,\" Skupski said.\n\nOne of the major talking points in the British camp this week has been the fitness of Andy Murray, who has not played since a rusty performance in a three-set win over Dutch world number 179 Tallon Griekspoor on Wednesday.\n\nYet it is credit to Edmund that Murray's absence did not hamper British hopes in the tournament like it once would have done.\n\nWorld number 69 Edmund followed up straight-set wins against Kazakhstan and Germany with a fairly comfortable 6-3 7-6 (7-3) victory against an undercooked Lopez, who had not played in the singles all week and struggled to cope with the Briton's groundstrokes.\n\nLopez, 38, who memorably won the Queen's singles title as well as the doubles alongside Andy Murray this year, was drafted into the Spanish team at late notice after original pick Pablo Carreno Busta withdrew with a leg injury.\n\nEvans then had the opportunity - however unlikely it seemed - to beat Nadal and put Britain into the final.\n\nThe British number one acquitted himself well before his resistance eventually broke in the final game of the first set, which Nadal took 6-4.\n\nThe Spaniard broke at the first opportunity in a contrasting second set and from that point it spiralled out of control for Evans.\n\nThe Briton won just nine points as Nadal wrapped up the set in half an hour for a 6-4 6-0 win.\n\nThe British pair won more points overall, and had four set points to take the match into a deciding set, but the genius of world number one Nadal shone through.\n\nNadal has already won four singles and three doubles this week, and it will take some effort by Canada to deny him and Spain a first Davis Cup title for eight years.\n\nAs for Britain, they came very close to reaching a second final in five years with Andy Murray only playing one match. Edmund produced his best form of the season, and Skupski thrived on his first experience of Davis Cup.\n\nAnd they will definitely be back in Madrid next November, as all four semi-finalists qualify automatically for the 2020 Finals.\n\nBritain were backed by almost 1,000 fans at the Caja Magica after the Lawn Tennis Association sourced an additional 975 tickets to give out free to supporters.\n\nAndy Murray announced the plan on Instagram shortly after Friday's quarter-final win over Germany and LTA chief executive Scott Lloyd said the governing body - which spent about £60,000 - had received an \"overwhelming\" response.\n\nLloyd added LTA staff had \"worked through the night\" to ensure fans who were successful were notified and able to collect their tickets in plenty of time.\n\n\"We had thousands of messages and emails off people wanting to come here and support. They came in from far and wide,\" Lloyd told BBC Sport.\n\nMurray had also instructed the British fans to make \"plenty of noise\" in the 12,500-capacity indoor arena - and they did exactly that.", "First Test, Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui, day four of five:\n\nEngland face a tough battle to save the first Test against New Zealand after BJ Watling scored a superb double century on day four in Mount Maunganui.\n\nWatling made 205 and Mitchell Santner hit 126 for his maiden Test century in a stand of 261 for the seventh wicket.\n\nNew Zealand declared just after tea on 615-9 - their highest score against England in Tests - leading by 262.\n\nEngland were 55-3 at the close and will have to bat an entire day with just seven wickets in hand to force a draw.\n\nSantner took all three wickets for just six runs, removing England openers Dom Sibley and Rory Burns before dismissing nightwatchman Jack Leach with the last ball of the day.\n\nReplays suggested Leach had not nicked the ball to short leg, but he and Joe Denly had opted against a review, summing up a chastening day for the tourists.\n\nWith left-arm spinner Santner extracting turn on an otherwise docile pitch and England jaded after being kept in the field for 201 overs, New Zealand will be confident of securing a 1-0 lead in the two-match series on day five.\n• None New Zealand showed us how to bat big - Buttler\n• None Listen: TMS podcsat: 'Always a tough ask for England given fatigue factor'\n\nFacing 28 tricky overs until the close, Burns and Sibley negotiated the first hour with relative ease, seeing off opening bowlers Trent Boult and Tim Southee and not falling for Neil Wagner's short-ball trap.\n\nBut just as England seemed on course to get through unscathed, Santner produced a canny spell that could prove decisive in securing a New Zealand win.\n\nTesting the batsmen with drift and bounce, he saw Sibley dropped via an inside edge by Watling and a diving Southee put down Burns but neither England opener could add to their total before they were dismissed.\n\nSibley pushed at a wide one to be caught behind for 12 before a bogged down Burns miscued a sweep shot trying to rotate the strike and was caught by Colin de Grandhomme for 31.\n\nTom Latham then took a one-handed diving catch as Leach prodded uncertainly and was given out despite the ball appearing to only deflect off the pad, leaving England to rue not using a review.\n\nThat England's concentration faltered late on was perhaps not surprising given they had been worn down in the field.\n\nDespite an improved bowling performance, the damage had been done on day three as a tired attack could only muster one wicket in the first two sessions, with this now the sixth time in England's last 24 overseas Tests that they have conceded 600 or more.\n\nEngland have struggled to make imposing totals on overseas tours in recent years and here Watling and Santner showed them exactly how to, with an immaculate approach to batting on a flat, slow pitch.\n\nBoth continued to eschew flamboyant shots in the morning session as they ground out singles to establish a healthy lead of 99 at lunch and only then did they start to attack.\n\nWhere England thought they had earned the right to play more expansively at 277-4 and slipped to a disappointing 353 all out, Watling and Santner showed the virtue of doing so when the bowlers have been totally ground down as they added another 138 runs by tea.\n\nWatling tapped his way to 150 before ramping a Jofra Archer short ball over third man for six, while Santner targeted fellow slow left-armer Jack Leach, using his feet superbly to loft several sixes down the ground.\n\nSantner scampered two to fine leg to bring up a fine century off 252 balls - his restrained celebration reflecting his admirable discipline after struggling early in his innings.\n\nHe finally miscued a lofted drive to long-on but Watling carried on, reaching his double century off 460 balls before nicking Archer behind shortly after the tea break, ending a masterful knock that took New Zealand from a tricky position to one of complete control.\n\nKane Williamson allowed his tailenders to tee off and punish England a while longer before calling them in on 615-9, far surpassing their previous highest score against England, the 551-9 at Lord's in 1973.\n\n'We need to show a lot of character' - reaction\n\nEx-England batsman Mark Ramprakash on Test Match Special: \"It was always going to be a tough ask for England, given the fatigue factor. The two openers seemed to negotiate the opening burst pretty well, they looked very calm.\n\n\"But it was the introduction of Mitchell Santner that made the difference. He's not a big spinner of the ball but he's tall and gets extra bounce. I think that bounce troubled Rory Burns and led to his dismissal.\n\n\"England have to be able to rotate the strike but also back their defence for long periods of time. Burns was trying to rotate the strike but he got a top edge.\"\n\nFormer England bowler Steven Finn: \"This is an opportunity for England's batsmen to keep their side in the series tomorrow [Monday].\"\n\nEngland batsman Jos Buttler: \"The pitch is starting to create rough. There's a few cracks but I still think it's a pretty good wicket. If you can get through the odd ball that does something, it's still a decent wicket.\n\n\"I'm sure the Kiwi seamers will try to get extra bounce out of the wicket. We need high skill levels and a lot of character and this side has got that in abundance.\"", "The Sumatran rhino is down to fewer than 100 animals\n\nThe Sumatran rhino is now officially extinct in Malaysia, with the death of the last known specimen.\n\nThe 25-year-old female named Iman died on Saturday on the island of Borneo, officials say. She had cancer.\n\nMalaysia's last male Sumatran rhino died in May this year.\n\nThe Sumatran rhino once roamed across Asia, but has now almost disappeared from the wild, with fewer than 100 animals believed to exist. The species is now critically endangered.\n\nIman died at 17:35 local time (09:35 GMT) on Saturday, Malaysia's officials said.\n\n\"Its death was a natural one, and the immediate cause has been categorised as shock,\" Sabah State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Christine Liew is quoted as saying.\n\n\"Iman was given the very best care and attention since her capture in March 2014 right up to the moment she passed,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BERNAMA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSumatran rhinos have been hard hit by poaching and habitat loss, but the biggest threat facing the species today is the fragmented nature of their populations.\n\nEfforts to breed the species in Malaysia have so far failed.", "In the least surprising promise in this manifesto, Boris Johnson makes a personal guarantee that he will \"get Brexit done\" and leave the EU in January if he wins a majority.\n\nHe says that will end the political divisions in the country - but that seems unlikely.\n\nThe Conservatives also promise to negotiate a trade deal with the EU next year, and have confirmed as a written manifesto pledge that they will not extend the post-Brexit transition period beyond December 2020.\n\nThat is an incredibly short amount of time to finalise a trade deal of any significant ambition, and it means the EU knows in advance what the UK’s negotiating deadlines are.\n\nThe Conservatives say the UK will be outside the EU single market, and any form of customs union.\n\nThere will be no political alignment with the EU, the manifesto says, and it promises that the UK will be in full control of its fishing waters.\n\nBut until we know the terms of a new relationship with the EU, business uncertainty will continue.\n\nAnd it will be hard to argue that Brexit has really been done.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The protest delayed the game by about half an hour\n\nHundreds of students have disrupted the annual Harvard-Yale football game in a climate change protest.\n\nThey invaded the field in New Haven, Connecticut, at half-time, demanding that the two elite US universities stop investing in fossil fuels.\n\nAs officials appealed for them to leave, spectators and some players also joined the protest, US media report.\n\nAbout 50 people were escorted from the field by police, while others left voluntarily.\n\nThe protest began when dozens of students and alumni stormed the field, linking arms and holding signs reading Yale and Harvard United for Climate Justice, the Harvard Crimson newspaper reported.\n\nDivestment refers to the shedding of stocks, bonds or other investments as a way to tackle climate change.\n\nProtesters who refused to leave were escorted off the field by police\n\nThe protest delayed the game by about half an hour.\n\nIn a video released by the group Divest Harvard, university football team captain Wesley Osgbury said both universities were investing in industries that are \"destroying our futures\".\n\n\"When it comes to the climate crisis, no-one wins,\" he said.\n\n\"Harvard and Yale can't claim to truly promote knowledge while at the same time supporting the companies engaged in misleading the public, smearing academics and denying the truth. That's why we are joining together with our friends at Yale to call for change.\"\n\nThe first group of protesters was quickly joined by spectators and some players\n\nA Yale spokeswoman said that while the university supported the right to freedom of expression it did not approve of the protesters' tactics, or the disruption of university events.\n\nHarvard said it did not believe that divestment was the best way to tackle the climate crisis.\n\nIn a statement published by the Harvard Crimson, spokeswoman Rachael Dane said: \"Universities like Harvard have a crucial role to play in tackling climate change and Harvard is fully committed to leadership in this area through research, education, community engagement, dramatically reducing its own carbon footprint, and using our campus as a test bed for piloting and proving solutions.\"\n\nSome political figures took to Twitter to support the protest.\n\nAmong them was Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who told the students: \"We are with you in this fight.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernie Sanders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe football game - the 136th between the two universities - resumed after the protest and was won by Yale 50-43.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bloomberg to BBC in 2018: 'I'd like to make a difference'\n\nBillionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has officially announced he is standing to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee.\n\nIn a statement, the 77-year-old said he was standing \"to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America\".\n\n\"The stakes could not be higher. We must win this election,\" Mr Bloomberg wrote.\n\nHe joins 17 other candidates vying for the Democratic nomination to take on Mr Trump in 2020.\n\nAs things stand, former Vice-President Joe Biden, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are the party's front-runners.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mike Bloomberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Bloomberg is said to be concerned the current field is not strong enough to challenge the president.\n\nHe enters the race after months of debate over wealth inequality in the US, with Mr Sanders and Ms Warren announcing plans for steep tax rises for billionaires. Unveiling his tax proposals in September, Mr Sanders said: \"Billionaires should not exist.\"\n\nPresident Trump taunted Mr Bloomberg earlier in November, saying there was \"nobody I'd rather run against than little Michael\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe same day, Mr Bloomberg filed paperwork for the Democratic primary election in Alabama.\n\nMichael Bloomberg is the eighth richest American with a net-worth of $54.4bn (£42bn), according to Forbes.\n\nBorn in Massachusetts, he started out in business as a Wall Street banker before going on to create the financial publishing empire that bears his name.\n\nOver the years he has given millions of dollars to educational, medical and other causes - including political ones.\n\nHe staged a successful campaign to become New York mayor in 2001 and remained in office for three consecutive terms until 2013.\n\nRumours of presidential ambitions have surrounded him for more than a decade.\n\nMr Bloomberg is a very data-driven businessman. But it doesn't take an advanced degree in quantitative analysis to realise that the Democratic field, even at this (relatively) late date is still in flux.\n\nThere are four candidates at or near the top of early state and national primary polls - all with their strengths, of course, but also obvious weaknesses. His strategy appears to be to let the other candidates fight it out in the early voting states, then take on a diminished field later in the process, where his near unlimited resources will allow him to compete in the dozens of states that vote in March.\n\nIt's a risky play that only someone of Mr Bloomberg's vast wealth can afford to make.\n\nEven so, it takes quite a leap of faith to imagine that Democrats these days are ready to jump over to a New York City plutocrat ex-Republican with a smorgasbord of a record that's business friendly, fiscally conservative and includes opposition to government-run health insurance and legalised marijuana, and past support for aggressive policing measures.\n\nAt the very least, however, his entry will provide him a means to push a party that he sees drifting dangerous leftward back to the pro-business centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asma Shuweikh was praised for confronting the abusive commuter\n\nA man has been arrested after a video showed a Tube passenger directing \"horrific\" anti-Semitic abuse at Jewish children.\n\nThe clip showed a man reading Bible passages to two boys in skullcaps and acting aggressively.\n\nBritish Transport Police launched an appeal over the footage, recorded by a commuter on the London Underground.\n\nThe force said it had arrested a man in Birmingham on suspicion of a racially-aggravated offence.\n\nAsma Shuweikh, who was widely praised for confronting the man in the video, said she \"wouldn't hesitate to do it again\" and wished more people had intervened in the altercation on Friday.\n\nThe video was recorded on a Northern Line service on Friday\n\n\"If everyone did, I do not think it would have escalated in the way that it did,\" she said.\n\n\"Being a mother of two, I know what it's like to be in that situation and I would want someone to help if I was in that situation.\n\n\"When he started talking to the child I thought, 'no, I have to say something'. As a mother of two it's appalling, I can't sit back and watch that happen.\n\n\"To be honest I thought it is my duty as a mother, as a practising Muslim, as a citizen of this country, to have to say something.\n\n\"You can't just sit back and watch that because I felt that it was just getting out of hand. It was really getting too much.\"\n\nAsma Shuweikh, right, was widely praised for intervening and trying to stop the abuse\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5Live Ms Shuweikh said the response to her actions on social media had been \"heart-warming\".\n\n\"I can't take all the credit... I would not hesitate to do it again,\" she added.\n\n\"All my friends and family have been so supportive. But they're also worried about my safety because I have children back home.\n\n\"But when you're put in that situation you don't really think about yourself. You just think, 'look this is the right thing to do. I need to say something'.\"\n\nCommuter Chris Atkins recorded the altercation on the Northern Line service before moving to swap seats with the young boy next to the man in the video.\n\n\"It was the children that really got me and everyone else, he was just screaming at these children. It was horrific in every sense,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Investigators in the west German town of Grevenbroich have started DNA tests on hundreds of men in the hope of solving a 23-year-old murder cold case.\n\nClaudia Ruf, 11, was found sexually assaulted and murdered 70km (43 miles) south of the town in 1996. No-one has been charged with her death.\n\nPolice sent invitations to at least 900 men in an effort to match DNA samples recovered from the scene.\n\nThe first day of testing started at 10:00 (09:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nThose who agreed had saliva swabs taken at a local primary school, where the samples were being collected.\n\nClaudia Ruf was kidnapped in May 1996 while walking a neighbour's dog in Grevenbroich, which is about 40km north-west of Cologne.\n\nHer body was found two days later having been strangled, doused in petrol and partially burned.\n\nClaudia's father, Friedhelm Ruf, made an emotional appeal in a video message last week.\n\n\"After more than 23 years, there's a big possibility to solve the sad fate of my daughter,\" he was quoted by AP as saying. \"The perpetrator has been able for too long to hide behind all of us.\"\n\nA police spokesman told Bild newspaper that there had been a lot of interest in their renewed effort to solve the case, including dozens of tips.\n\nMen aged over 14 at the time of her death have been invited to take part in the DNA testing.\n\nOne volunteer who turned up on Saturday, 46-year-old Stefan Oberlies, told Bild that he \"immediately\" knew he would accept the invite.\n\n\"Hopefully the culprit will be found. Of course I have read a lot about the bad case,\" he was quoted by the newspaper as saying.\n\nReinhold Jordan, the lead investigator on the case, told German media that analysis of the collections would take four to eight weeks.\n\nPolice tested 350 local DNA samples in 2010, but made no breakthrough.\n\nAccording to German media, investigators hope they can utilise a recent change which allows closely-related samples, from relatives, to be flagged in results.", "Sir Stephen Cleobury, who directed the choir at King's College Cambridge for nearly four decades, has died aged 70.\n\nThe British conductor, organist and composer presided over the world-famous Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols broadcast live on BBC radio on Christmas Eve.\n\nHe also conducted a number of other ensembles including the BBC Singers.\n\nThe Provost at King's College, Professor Michael Proctor, said it was a \"truly sad day\".\n\n\"The college community, and indeed many around the world, are mourning his passing with a profound feeling of loss,\" he added.\n\nSir Stephen died in his hometown, York, on Friday after a long illness, King's said.\n\nThe college will host a memorial service for him later in the academic year.\n\nSir Stephen retired as director of music at King's just two months ago after 37 years in the role.\n\nThe choir of King's College Cambridge, pictured rehearsing in 2010, perform a newly commissioned carol at the Christmas Eve service annually\n\nThe musical director helped to build the world-renowned Christmas Eve carol service held in King's College Chapel, founding the tradition of an annual new commissioned carol.\n\nSince 1984, this has made an invaluable contribution to contemporary carol writing, according to the college.\n\nThe service is broadcast live on Radio 4 and the World Service on 24 December. A separate pre-recorded service Carols from King's is broadcast at Christmas on BBC television.\n\nSir Stephen also introduced the annual festival Easter at King's, and a series of performances throughout the year, Concerts at King's.\n\nHe was influential in the musical world beyond the choir, conducting a number of ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music and the BBC Singers, and through his association with the Cambridge University Musical Society.\n\nPrior to Sir Stephen's tenure at King's, he held key posts at Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral.\n\nIn 2019, he was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to choral music.\n\nKing's College choir was founded by King Henry VI in 1441 and is regarded as one of the world's finest choral groups.\n\nIt comprises the conductor and 16 boy choristers, who are educated on scholarships at King's College School, as well as 14 choral scholars and two organ scholars, who study a variety of subjects in the college.\n\nThe choir's Christmas Eve performance was introduced in 1918 and has been broadcast also every year since 1928.", "Spanish police brought the submarine, which was 20 metres (65 feet) long, to port in Aldán\n\nA submarine loaded with more than 2,000kg (4,409lb) of cocaine has been seized in Spain, police sources say.\n\nThey say two people were held after the vessel ran aground off Galicia's coast in the north-west. A third person fled. They all are said to be from Ecuador.\n\nSpanish media report that the submarine was from Colombia and police are trying to work out whether it sailed all the way from South America with the drugs.\n\nNarco-subs have been used to smuggle drugs from Latin America into the US.\n\nThe submarine was refloated and investigated after police seized it\n\nThe semi-submersible was seized on Sunday off the coast of Aldán, south-west of the city of Pontevedra.\n\nIn July, dramatic footage emerged of the US Coast Guard boarding a self-propelled semi-submersible suspected to be smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nDespite the discovery in 2006 of a suspected \"drugs\" submarine off Galicia's coast, such tactics are seen as relatively new for Europe.", "The percentage of waste reused, recycled or composted from July 2018 to July 2019 was 63%, the same as the year previously\n\nThe amount of residual household waste produced per person in Wales has reduced by 17% in six years.\n\nThis is the type of waste which goes into black bin bags and is not recycled, reused or composted.\n\nFrom 2012-2013, 217kg was produced per person, dropping to 180kg in 2018-2019.\n\nThe percentage of waste reused, recycled or composted from July 2018 to June 2019 was 63%, the same amount as the year previously, a Welsh Government report found.\n\nThe Welsh Government said its aim is \"to continue our progress towards zero waste as we move towards a more circular economy\".\n\nThere are types of plastics that can be more difficult to recycle, including black plastics.\n\nThis can be because the lasers tasked with sorting plastics cannot detect it, meaning the black plastic can end up in landfill.\n\nSainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose and Asda have said they will stop using black plastic in their products by the end of the year.\n\nDr Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, a consumer psychologist at Anglia Ruskin University, said \"consumers are increasingly environmentally aware\".\n\n\"Many supermarkets are now aware of the fact that consumers feel strongly against the use of black plastic in particular,\" she added.\n\nDr Jansson-Boyd said there is \"absolutely\" a market for reducing single-use plastic waste or making packaging plastic-free.\n\nThe amount of residual household waste produced per person in Wales has reduced by 17% in seven years\n\nA spokesperson for Delyn, a packaging manufacturer in Ystrad Mynach, Caerphilly, said the percentage of black plastic packaging it produces is now in the single figures.\n\nIt said black was cheaper than the clear version, as \"black can contain more recyclate of varying quality as it doesn't need to be clear\".\n\n\"Plastic has a pivotal role to play in extending shelf life, protecting the contents, especially in food and medical environments,\" the company added.\n\n\"The mantra 'reduce, recycle and reuse' sums up where we believe the direction needs to go.\"\n\nAnother Welsh company hoping to profit from this shift is Transcend Packaging, also based in Ystrad Mynach, which has been trading for six months and has 170 employees.\n\nIt produces paper straws for McDonalds and has set its sights on the market for replacing black heat-resistant \"CPET\" trays, commonly used for ready meals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How recyclable is your food shop?\n\nSales director Mark Varney said the \"widely recycled\" trays are made of cardboard with a heat-resistant coating - and no plastics.\n\nHe said the firm was talking to seven large potential food business clients around the country. The product is more expensive than traditional CPET trays, but as \"the volume goes up the price will come down\".\n\n\"Sustainable packaging has been around for years, but the difference is now the consumers' want and need for it so the price of the tray isn't the be all and end all,\" he said.\n\n\"Consumers are the ones really pushing behind it.\"\n\n\"We have to make a change,\" says paddleboarder Sian Sykes who spearheaded a campaign to cut plastic waste across Anglesey\n\nSian Sykes, Anglesey's regional representative for Surfers Against Sewage, said when she moved back to Wales she found \"every time I was walking on the beach I saw the tide bring in new plastic\".\n\nShe paddleboarded around Wales in 2018 to raise awareness of plastic pollution.\n\nMs Sykes advised those who want to make changes to get reusable items such as cups, bottles and cutlery, and urged people to \"make a pledge\" and replace one single-use plastic item with something reusable.\n\n\"We are making a difference, we need to keep the momentum on,\" she said.\n\n\"Convenience of today will be at the expense of the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several arrests have been made and officers remain at the scene after the fight (Courtesy Rachael Allison)\n\nA fight involving people armed with machetes broke out at a cinema in what one witness described as \"one of the scariest moments of her life\".\n\nA number of police officers were assaulted as they attempted to clear about 100 people from the Star City complex in Birmingham.\n\nThey were responding to reports a group with machetes had arrived at the multiplex.\n\nSeveral arrests for assaulting officers and failing to disperse were made.\n\nThe injured officers sustained only minor injuries, West Midlands Police said.\n\nOne witness described it as \"one of the scariest moments of [her] life\", as she queued to watch the new Frozen film with her daughter.\n\nCholeigh McGuire said: \"Armed police come, Tasers come, all of the people that were fighting ran off into the cinema, hiding. I am shaking.\"\n\nOfficers were called to the scene at about 17:35 on Saturday after reports of people carrying machetes\n\nOne witness said \"a young boy was crying on the floor with his mother\" as a number of people started fighting.\n\n\"The police told everyone to leave the cinema as they held Taser guns in their hands and started to bring in guard dogs,\" said Rachael Allison.\n\nMotorists have been advised to avoid the area - near the M6 - due to a build-up of traffic.\n\nA dispersal order has been put in place giving police the power to move on groups of people and arrest those who fail to leave.\n\nStar City is a family leisure and entertainment complex in the Nechells area of Birmingham.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deputy chief constable Rachel Swann said she came off social media for several weeks after \"sexist and homophobic\" online comments\n\nA police officer said \"sexist and homophobic\" abuse sparked by her hairstyle led her to leave social media.\n\nDeputy chief constable Rachel Swann made several media appearances while leading the evacuation of Whaley Bridge in August.\n\nSome viewers mocked her on Twitter.\n\nMs Swann said the reaction reflected wider problems with social media and she was shocked her \"mere existence could cause such a depth of feeling\".\n\nAbout 1,500 people were evacuated from Whaley Bridge when a dam wall at the nearby Toddbrook Reservoir was damaged in August.\n\nMs Swann, the senior officer in the operation, noticed comments about her on social media after she appeared before cameras at a press conference.\n\n\"Yes, I am a woman. Yes, I might have a slightly different hairstyle. Yes, I am quite small,\" she said.\n\n\"The bit that astounded me was I could not believe that my mere existence could cause such a depth of feeling.\"\n\nToddbrook Reservoir was at risk of flooding Whaley Bridge when part of the dam collapsed\n\nShe told BBC Radio Derby: \"I can take a bit of banter but then it became sexist and homophobic, and really, really insulting.\n\n\"The bit that really hurt was when people said I had no standards and I was letting policing down.\"\n\n\"They were saying, 'she's not wearing a hat'. Often we would get advised not to wear hats - you can see our eyes, so you can gain trust.\"\n\nOne comment said: \"Is that what a senior police officer looks likely [sic] these days??\"\n\nBut others - including the leader of Derbyshire County Council, Barry Lewis - jumped to her defence, saying \"Be under no doubt, she saved a valley....that's what's important\".\n\nMs Swann said it reached its nadir when a press agency \"wanted to run a story on my hair\" and so she took a break from Twitter.\n\nShe said: \"My personal experience of the trolling and negative comments on social media are reflective of those that some people receive every day.\n\n\"Some of the comments were misogynistic and homophobic and the abuse I received has been recorded as a hate incident, in the same way it would be for the public or my officers and staff.\n\n\"In recent years, we have seen children feeling bullied by their peers through personal attacks on social media; with youngsters in some cases so desperate it has resulted in suicide due to the pressures of the abuse.\"\n\nMessages on social media became \"sexist and homophobic\", Ms Swann said\n\nWhile believing more can be done by police on the issue, Ms Swann hoped her appearance in the national media showed the growing diversity in the police force - and she has returned to Twitter.\n\n\"In a funny sort of way I made my stand without meaning to. If some good comes out of that that's fine, it doesn't mean that it didn't hurt, it doesn't mean that it didn't upset me,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former member of Kara had recently staged a music comeback\n\nSouth Korean singer and actress Goo Hara has been found dead at her home in Seoul, police say.\n\nThe 28-year-old is best known as a former member of the K-Pop group Kara, which she joined in 2008.\n\nGoo had also appeared on television and released music by herself.\n\nPolice say the cause of death is still under investigation. She appeared at a series of comeback performances last week after being hospitalised in May following an alleged suicide attempt.\n\nThe singer later apologised for causing \"concerns and a commotion\" among her fans over the incident. Reports said her manager had, at the time, found her unconscious.\n\nGoo was found dead about 18:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Sunday in her home, the Gangnam Police Department was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying.\n\nHer last post on Instagram, shared with her 1.5m followers on Saturday, was a photograph of herself in bed with the caption: \"Good night\".\n\nKara, her former band, were one of the first K-Pop groups to break through on the international stage.\n\nGoo's first solo EP, released in 2015, peaked at number four in the Korean music charts.\n\nShe had signed with a talent management agency in Japan earlier this year and released a song named Midnight Queen earlier this month.\n\nOver the last year her career was overshadowed by events in her life off the stage. In September 2018 Goo filed a lawsuit against an ex-boyfriend after he threatened to damage her career by exposing an illicit video of her.\n\nGoo Hara (second from right) was with the group until they disbanded in 2016\n\nHer former partner was given a suspended jail term in August for physically assaulting and blackmailing the star.\n\nGoo's death comes just over a month since another former K-Pop girl band member, Sulli, was also found dead in a suspected suicide after struggling with online bullying.\n\nThe two celebrities were close friends and after Sulli's death, Goo described their relationship as being \"like sisters\".\n\nFans have been taking to social media to express their shock at news of Goo's death and many have shared photographs of the late friends together.\n\nSouth Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, according to World Health Organisation data.\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, BBC Action Line has more information.\n\nIn the UK you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information 0800 066 066.In addition, you can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 (UK and Ireland). Mind also has a confidential telephone helpline- 0300 123 339 (Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm).", "Gwyneth Jones has been contacted by the family of Pte Robert Deans\n\nA soldier who died in World War One has been \"reunited\" with his family thanks to a curious stranger.\n\nGwyneth Jones travelled to France to visit the grave of the soldier who lived in her Cardiff home more than a century ago.\n\nGrangetown Local History Society sent postcards to the last known addresses of more than 400 men who died.\n\nA relative of Pte Robert Silvester Deans said it was nice to know someone else cared about him.\n\nDetails of his life were sent to Ms Jones' home on Clive Street to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the war.\n\nThe 25-year-old died near the town of Albert, on the Somme, in 1916.\n\nNow Ms Jones has been contacted by three members of his family who read how she had been moved to visit his grave in Bapaume Post Military Cemetery.\n\nThe postcards sent to Grangetown residents last year that started Ms Jones' search\n\n\"When I returned home from a Remembrance Day service, a note had been posted from someone who had read the story and was Robert's relative,\" she said.\n\n\"They were thrilled that I had been to the grave as they hadn't been able to.\n\n\"I'd felt so sorry for this young man that I wanted to reconnect him with his home. Now I feel that I've reconnected him with his family. It's wonderful.\"\n\nAnother to contact Ms Jones was the soldier's second cousin Pamela Campbell, 69, born in Cardiff but now living in Lincolnshire.\n\n\"It was so lovely to think someone had been to the grave to lay flowers because we haven't had the opportunity to go there,\" she said.\n\n\"Gwyneth's curiosity has added to our knowledge. We knew he had died but it was nice to think someone else cared about him.\"\n\nPte Francis Leonard Bell died less than two weeks before the end of World War One\n\nIn a final twist, Ms Jones has since discovered her great uncle is buried nearby.\n\nPte Francis Leonard Bell, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, died in France from gas poisoning on 29 October 1918 - just 13 days before the armistice.\n\nShe said: \"I had almost adopted this other family's soldier but I had no idea I had a relative of my own who had fallen in the war.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two top energy firms say they have moved ownership of their UK operations overseas to protect themselves from Labour's nationalisation plans.\n\nIn recent months, National Grid has opened offshore holding companies in Hong Kong and Luxembourg, while SSE has incorporated in Switzerland.\n\nAs first reported in the Sunday Times, it would not stop them being taken over but could protect investors.\n\nLabour said the \"rip-off\" move showed the grid needed to be in public hands.\n\nIn its election manifesto, the party promised a radical plan to renationalise Britain's rail, mail, water and energy networks, along with broadband.\n\nBut energy companies have criticised the plan, with SSE and National Grid among those running ads on Facebook warning of the potential costs.\n\nLabour has previously said its plans would be cost neutral, help decarbonise the economy faster and create jobs.\n\nBut there are fears that it would try to renationalise the companies at a discount, compared to their current market value.\n\nCritics warn this would hit shareholders, including pension funds, who would be compensated with government bonds.\n\nNational Grid runs the electricity transmission network in England and Wales, as well as the main gas transmission pipelines. It has a market value of £31bn.\n\n\"Labour's proposals for state ownership of National Grid would be highly detrimental to millions of ordinary people who either hold shares in the company or through their pension funds - which include several local authority pension funds,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"To protect their holdings, and in line with our legal fiduciary duty to our shareholders, we have established holding companies in Luxembourg and Hong Kong. This has no financial benefit to the company and does not affect its day-to-day operations,\" she added.\n\nSSE said it had moved its electricity distribution business - which supplies 3.7 million homes in Scotland and England - to a Swiss holding company. It has also moved its Scottish transmission network business.\n\nThe firm, which has a market value of £13.6bn, said Switzerland was party to the Energy Charter Treaty which offered better shareholder protection.\n\n\"[This is] an additional safeguard, which SSE does not believe would be required in practice, should SSE's electricity networks businesses and interests... become the subject of proposed legislation for nationalisation,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"In practice, SSE expects that precedent, the principle of fairness and the need to secure future investor confidence in the UK economy means it should be possible to secure fair value from nationalisation.\"\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, water company Anglian has also set up an offshore holding company. Severn Trent is said to be considering a similar move.\n\nIn a statement Labour said: \"The UK's energy networks are vital strategic infrastructure on which we all rely. You cannot boil a kettle, heat your home or run a business without the grid.\n\n\"The idea that private owners, who have been ripping off the public, would move offshore in an attempt to prolong the rip-off illustrates just why we need the grid back in public hands.\"", "Protests in Lebanon continue against corruption, the political class and the state of their country.\n\nIn a TV interview Lebanese President Michel Aoun told demonstrators that \"if they see no honest people in this state, let them emigrate\", angering not only the protesters who have taken to the streets for more than a month, but also expats.\n\nA number of Lebanese people living abroad organised a symbolic return to take part in Independence Day demonstrations.\n\nThe returning diaspora members gathered at Beirut airport and travelled in a convoy to Martyrs' Square.", "Three people have suffered serious injuries after the car they were travelling in crashed into a house and caught fire.\n\nThe incident on the Isle of Lewis happened on the A857, after the junction with the A858, known as Barvas Corner, at about 01:30.\n\nThree men in the car, aged 22, 32 and 36, and a 61-year-old woman who was in the house were rescued by police.\n\nA 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with road traffic offences.\n\nThe car ended up standing upright on its bonnet, leaning against the house.\n\nThe driver and two passengers of the blue Vauxhall Zafira were taken to Western Isles Hospital for treatment to serious injuries.\n\nSgt Donald Sinclair, of Police Scotland, said: \"Our inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing and I am appealing for anyone who saw the crash or who saw a blue Vauxhall Zafira being driven on the A857 before 1.30am to come forward.\n\n\"I'm particularly keen to speak to anyone who may have dashcam footage which could help with our inquiries.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The winners of the Radio 1 Teen Awards have been announced - with Stormzy, Ariana Grande, Little Mix and Lewis Capaldi all taking home prizes.\n\nStranger Things and Avengers: Endgame took the best TV and film awards.\n\nThe awards do was hosted by Radio 1's Greg James, Mollie King and Maya Jama and featured performances from Yungblud, AJ Tracey and Jax Jones.\n\nRadio 1's teen heroes were also recognised and the BBC young sports personality of the year was unveiled.\n\nMaya Jama, Mollie King and Greg James were this year's hosts\n\nThe awards - voted for by the public - were unveiled at a star-studded ceremony in front of 500 Radio 1 listeners.\n\nLittle Mix won in the best group category - a new award which combines the previous best British group and international group categories.\n\nThe girlband had won the best British group title in 2017 and 2018.\n\nLewis Capaldi got two awards - winning best British singer and best single for Someone You Loved.\n\nStormzy was crowned best British rapper and Ariana Grande won for best international solo artist.\n\nAJ Tracey, Jax Jones and Yungblud all performed at the show\n\nBBC young sports personality of the year was revealed to be 18-year-old boxer Caroline Dubois, who hopes to compete at the Olympics in Tokyo next year.\n\nThe Radio 1 teen heroes were recognised too - from the ten finalists, the top three were Rachel, 17, Scarlett, 14 and Hazel, 12.\n\nThey were surprised on Saturday with a special performance from Bastille in the Radio 1 Live Lounge.\n\nPreviously, they'd gone with the other finalists to Kensington Palace with Camila Cabello to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nRachel is a volunteer for her local youth council and a member of the UK Youth Parliament, and has won a Diana Award for her work towards tackling cyberbullying.\n\nShe also chairs the UK Youth Select Committee, which this year has focussed on knife crime.\n\n\"When I found out [I was a teen hero] I was very, very surprised,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"I was also really happy as well, when I found out that we would be going to the palace and we would be meeting Will and Kate.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I spoke to them about how I got a Diana award for being an anti-bullying champion. And obviously, that was something that William was really passionate about.\"\n\nRachel, Scarlett and Hazel the this year's teen heroes\n\nScarlett is a young carer to her mum, older sister and granny.\n\nBoth Scarlett and her mum have an incurable nerve condition called HNPP, which can make everyday activities like carrying shopping bags extremely painful.\n\n\"It was overwhelming and you kind of question why people would think it was a heroic act,\" she says about finding out that she'd been named a teen hero.\n\n\"Those are just things that you'd normally do for your family. So it's not really something you expect to be awarded for.\"\n\nLove Island's Amber and Ovie were at the Teen Awards\n\nHazel lives with a rare genetic disorder called Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) which limits the body's ability to repair damage caused by UV light.\n\nShe's since learnt how to manage the condition safely in her daily life, and raises awareness through campaigns such as climbing the 900m Ben Lomond mountain in Scotland and giving talks to schools.\n\n\"I didn't really think that I was actually going to win,\" she says.\n\n\"But when I found out I was jumping about. I was really excited.\"\n\nPerrie and Jade were there representing Little Mix\n\nBest single - Someone You Loved (Lewis Capaldi)\n\nThe Radio 1 teen awards show will be broadcast on Saturday 30 November on Radio 1 (12-1pm) and BBC Two (4-5pm).\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The bodies were discovered early on 23 October in an industrial estate in Thurrock\n\nA man has been charged in connection with the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a lorry in Essex.\n\nThe bodies were found in a refrigerated container in Thurrock on 23 October.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 23, of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has been charged with human trafficking offences.\n\nHe was arrested in the early hours of Friday on the M40 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and will appear before Chelmsford magistrates on Monday.\n\nThe bodies of the 39 Vietnamese nationals were found on the Waterglade Industrial Estate in a container which had been shipped to nearby Purfleet from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nTen teenagers, including two 15-year-old boys, were among the eight women and 31 men.\n\nMr Kennedy, of Corkley Road in Darkley, has been charged with conspiracy to arrange or facilitate the travel of people with a view to exploitation, and conspiracy to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law.\n\nLorry driver Maurice Robinson, 25, of Laurel Drive, Craigavon, has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and will appear at the Old Bailey in London on Monday.\n\nThree other people who were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people have been released on bail.\n• None Essex lorry deaths: What we know\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The victim was found injured in a car outside West Ealing station on Drayton Green Road\n\nA man has died after being found fatally stabbed in a car outside a railway station in west London.\n\nMurder detectives believe the 26-year-old victim was injured in a fight near to West Ealing railway station and was then involved in a car crash on Drayton Green Road shortly before 01:20 GMT.\n\nPolice have also quashed rumours the man was killed in a \"road rage\" attack.\n\nSo far there have been no arrests as detectives continue to investigate the man's murder.\n\nThe victim's family is aware and a post-mortem examination will be held later.\n\nDet Insp Neil John said: \"We believe the victim was involved in an altercation 100m from the railway station on The Avenue.\n\n\"This is a busy street with a number of shops and restaurants and if anybody was in the area and saw something, no matter how small, I would urge them to contact police.\"\n\nWest Ealing train station was closed for most of Sunday and only reopened at 13:45 GMT\n\nRuth Holmstock, 72, whose flat overlooks the scene of the crash, said she heard a single \"thump\" in the early hours.\n\nShe described it as \"the sort of noise you make when you reverse into a gate, but it was loud enough to make me go and see what it was.\"\n\n\"There were a lot of people hanging around. It looked like any other crash, like they were swapping insurance details,\" she added.\n\nKiran Ramachandraiah, who lives in the same block of flats, said he woke up at about 02:00 to see paramedics trying to revive the victim.\n\n\"I couldn't see the person,\" he said. \"He was completely surrounded by police and paramedics.\"\n\nThe attack follows a fatal stabbing in Whitechapel on Saturday, in which another man in his 20s was killed.\n\nSix men were arrested on the suspicion of murdering a 27-year-old at a flat party in Buckle Street.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justice Ginsburg is the most senior liberal judge on the US Supreme Court\n\nUS Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from hospital after suffering chills and a fever, the court says.\n\nThe 86-year-old is \"doing well\" after returning home on Sunday, a court spokeswoman said.\n\nThe court said Ms Ginsburg was evaluated at the Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington on Friday.\n\nShe was then transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital for \"treatment of any possible infection\", the court said.\n\nHer symptoms improved after she was given intravenous antibiotics and fluids, the court said.\n\nAs the court's most senior liberal justice, her health is closely watched.\n\nThe hospital visit came days after Ms Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court's bench after missing a session the previous week due to a stomach bug.\n\nMs Ginsburg is the oldest sitting justice on the Supreme Court, and has received hospital treatment a number of times in recent years.\n\nIn August, she was treated for a cancerous tumour on her pancreas. She received treatment for colon cancer in 1999, and pancreatic cancer in 2009.\n\nIn December 2018 she had surgery to remove two cancerous nodules from her lung.\n\nShe has also suffered fractured ribs from falls.\n\nUS Supreme Court justices serve for life or until they choose to retire, and supporters have expressed concern that if anything were to happen to Ms Ginsburg then a more conservative justice could replace her.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has appointed two judges since taking office, and the current court is seen to have a 5-4 conservative majority in most cases.\n• None Why half of America panics when this woman falls ill", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "Nicola Sturgeon said she had a \"moral objection to weapons of mass destruction\"\n\nScrapping Trident would be one of the SNP's key demands to gain its support in the event of a minority Labour government, says Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nThe SNP is willing to support a Labour government if no party wins an overall majority - but the SNP leader has ruled out a formal coalition.\n\nMs Sturgeon also wants Labour to stop Brexit and commit to an independence referendum next year.\n\nThe Labour manifesto includes a pledge to renew the Trident nuclear programme.\n\nMs Sturgeon was asked by Sky's Sophie Ridge if scrapping Trident would be a red line for the SNP to support Labour. She replied \"Yes\", adding that the SNP would be \"absolutely firm\" on that.\n\nThe SNP leader continued: \"I have a moral objection to weapons of mass destruction... I wouldn't be prepared to press a nuclear button that would kill potentially millions, tens of millions, of people.\n\n\"But there's also the opportunity costs of Trident - the billions, tens of billions, that are required to renew Trident in my view are better spent on stronger, conventional defence that is more effective to protect our country but also hospitals and schools and better social security provision.\n\n\"And these are the choices that we should be thinking very carefully about.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said that in the event of a hung parliament, where no party had an overall majority and the SNP held the balance of power, Scotland would have \"maximum influence\", adding: \"That would be a pretty good outcome I think in terms of making sure Scotland's voice is heard.\"\n\nShe reiterated that there would be no coalition with Labour, saying instead SNP support would be \"less formal\" - such as a confidence and supply arrangement, where the SNP would support a Labour government on explicit votes in return for government support of specific policies.\n\n\"Other matters\" that she would want to progress would include holding an independence referendum next year, stopping Brexit, devolving control of migration, employment and drugs classification laws to Holyrood and a \"real end to austerity\" and \"to the misery of Universal Credit and welfare cuts\".\n\nShe insisted these issues would \"resonate strongly with many people across the UK\", as well as her supporters in Scotland.\n\nShe added that she would \"never, ever\" put Boris Johnson into power.\n\nLabour say they will not agree to a Scottish independence referendum in the \"early years\" of government.\n\nAnd during Friday's Question Time leaders' special, Jeremy Corbyn said he did not plan to rely on other parties for support after the election.\n\nHe said: \"We're not doing any deals with any other parties. I'm not trying to form a coalition government.\n\n\"I'm fighting this election to win it for Labour.\"\n\nHMS Vigilant is one of four submarines which carry the UK's Trident nuclear programme\n\nSince 1969, according to government documents, a British submarine carrying nuclear weapons has always been on patrol, gliding silently beneath the waves, somewhere in the world's oceans.\n\nThe logic is to deter a nuclear attack on the UK because, even if the nation's conventional defence capabilities were destroyed, the silent submarine would still be able to launch a catastrophic retaliatory strike on the aggressor - a concept known as mutually assured destruction.\n\nThe UK has four Vanguard-class submarines, which each carry Trident missiles. While not on patrol, the submarines are located at Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde - commonly known as Faslane.\n\nFaslane was chosen to host the UK's Polaris nuclear-armed submarine fleet at the height of the Cold War in the 1960s because of its relatively secluded position next to the deep waters of the Gare Loch and Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland.\n\nAlthough Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been a longstanding critic of nuclear weapons, his party's manifesto for the 12 December election did include a pledge to renew the Trident nuclear programme and spend at least 2% of GDP on defence.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said on Tuesday in an interview with ITV that she would be prepared to press the nuclear button if she was prime minister.\n\nA spokesman for the Conservatives, who launched their manifesto on Sunday, said: \"Trident is good for Britain's security, and good for Scottish jobs. Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon want to do a deal that would wreck both.\"\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "A draft copy of a review into the HS2 high-speed railway linking London and the North of England says it should be built, despite its rising cost.\n\nThe government-commissioned review, launched in August, will not be published until after the election.\n\nIt says the project might cost even more than its current price of £88bn.\n\nMembers of the panel which produced the review have told the BBC that the draft recommends that HS2 should be built with only relatively minor alterations.\n\nThese include reducing the number of trains per hour from 18 to 14, which is in line with other high-speed networks around the world.\n\nThe document says that even the most controversial stretch of the railway - linking west London to central London - should go ahead.\n\nBusiness leaders and politicians in the North of England have welcomed the review's preliminary findings.\n\nBut the draft does not have the support of the review's deputy chair, Lord Berkeley.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, he criticised the review's \"lack of balance\" and said the cost of the scheme had not been properly scrutinised.\n\nIn the letter, sent to Doug Oakervee, the chairman of the review panel, Lord Berkeley said about the review: \"I cannot support its conclusions or recommendations.\n\n\"My concerns are about the process of the report's preparation and its outcome.\n\n\"We had to complete the work in a very short time. I also detected a trend in may of the discussions within the review to accept that HS2 will go ahead.... rather than look at the pros and cons of alternative options.\n\n\"I reserve the right to publish my own alternative report in due course.\"\n\nMr Oakervee said he regretted that Lord Berkeley \"feels unable to give his support.\"\n\n\"He participated fully in panel discussions that have seen all other members converge their views, based on the extensive evidence considered,\" Mr Oakervee added.\n\nA report in The Times says that the review found that without HS2, \"large ticket price rises\" would be needed to discourage people from travelling at peak times.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said: \"The Northern Powerhouse Independent Review on HS2 said that there were no identified credible alternatives to HS2 in order to deliver the same capacity, and that it has the potential to unlock greater growth in the North and Midlands.\n\n\"It is welcome that their recommendations are mirrored by the government's own Oakervee Review.\"\n\nHowever, Penny Gaines, chairwoman of the Stop HS2 campaign, said: \"HS2 was a bad project when it was originally announced and was supposed to cost £33bn, it was a bad project when it was supposed to cost £55bn and it is a bad project now the cost is expected to be more than £88bn.\n\n\"It should be cancelled as soon as possible, so the government can focus on the real transport priorities.\"", "A public inquiry is to be held into the circumstances surrounding the death of Sheku Bayoh in police custody.\n\nThe 32-year-old never regained consciousness after being restrained by police in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 2015.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the questions to be examined by the inquiry would include whether race played a part in Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nOn Monday, it was confirmed that no police officers would face prosecution over the case.\n\nMr Bayoh's family said they felt \"betrayed\" by the decision not to prosecute the officers involved, who have always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nMr Yousaf and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met the family on Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf met with the family of Sheku Bayoh\n\nAfterwards, Ms Sturgeon tweeted: \"I made clear the Scottish government's determination to get the answers to the questions they have about his death and its aftermath. I believe a full public inquiry is the best way to do that.\"\n\nThe justice secretary announced the inquiry in a statement to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nMr Yousaf said all deaths in police custody were subject to a mandatory fatal accident inquiry (FAI), but that the Lord Advocate believed this would not allow all the issues to be addressed in this case.\n\nFAIs can examine circumstances and factors leading up to a death, but not what follows later.\n\nMr Yousaf said the Lord Advocate had identified questions about the early stages of the post-incident management of the investigation which could not be examined in a fatal accident inquiry.\n\nHe said: \"That being the case, it is imperative that the circumstances leading up to Mr Bayoh's death and the events that followed, including whether race played a part, are examined in full and in public.\"\n\nHe told the parliament that the primary purpose of the public inquiry would be to investigate the circumstances of the case.\n\nBut he said he had also instructed HM Inspectorate of Prisons to review deaths in prisons.\n\nMr Yousaf said the process of appointing the inquiry's chairperson would begin shortly.\n\nAamer Anwar, the family's lawyer, said: \"It follows that the inquiry must identify each and every individual and organisation who must bear responsibility and accountability for this tragedy and the mishandling of the aftermath.\n\nDebrah Cole, the director of Inquest, and lawyer Aamer Anwar joined the Bayoh family for the meeting at Holyrood\n\n\"We also believe that the inquiry must focus on whether institutional racism, discrimination, inequality and cultural attitudes were responsible for what occurred. To what extent did the life of Sheku Bayoh not count, or could have counted more?\n\n\"These concerns are inescapable as far as many of the core participants are concerned.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's family had initially been told in October 2018 that no criminal charges would be brought over his death.\n\nHowever, two months later evidence uncovered by BBC Scotland raised fresh questions about the way he had been treated by police officers before he died in their custody.\n\nThe Disclosure investigation included evidence that the first officers on scene escalated the situation instead of trying to defuse it, and other evidence that Mr Bayoh's actions were exaggerated in official police documents.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Lawler died following treatment at the Chiropractic 1st clinic in York\n\nA chiropractor whose patient's neck broke during treatment has told an inquest she had \"never experienced anything\" like it.\n\nArleen Scholten was treating 80-year-old John Lawler at Chiropractic 1st in York in August 2017 when he became unresponsive.\n\nHis family were later told in hospital his neck was fractured. He died the next day.\n\nA criminal investigation into his death ruled out any charges.\n\nGiving evidence on the second day of the inquest, Mrs Scholten, said she had trained in Canada and had been practising for 16 years and moved to the UK in 2005.\n\nMr Lawler had come to her at the end of July for an initial assessment complaining of aches in his legs.\n\nShe was told Mr Lawler had back surgery a decade ago for spinal stenosis and had metal rods inserted in his lower back.\n\nMrs Scholten said despite this she believed she could relieve some of his pain by what she described as \"gentle manipulation\".\n\n\"I did think I could help. I would never start care unless I thought I could help,\" she said.\n\nMrs Scholten said treatment involved a hand-held activator, which applies a light pressure to the patient, and dropping a section of the treatment table to \"stretch\" the joint tissues.\n\nOn 11 August she began treatment in the usual way.\n\n\"I used a drop and he let out a groan and said 'my arms don't feel right'.\n\n\"I waited a couple of seconds and asked him if he was okay and he said again 'my arms don't feel right'.\"\n\nShe said it was something she had never experienced in her 16 years of adjusting people.\n\nMr Lawler's widow told the inquest on Monday he had shouted \"you are hurting me\" at this point, however Mrs Scholten said she did not hear him say that.\n\nMrs Scholten said she managed to get him to a chair before asking her receptionist to call an ambulance.\n\nShe told paramedics she had been applying \"gentle manipulation\" but did not tell them about using the drop treatment.\n\nShe said she was in a \"complete and utter state of panic\" and could not explain why she had not mentioned that element of treatment.\n\nFor the family, Mr Richard Copnall, said given the rods in his lower back he was surely not a \"suitable\" patient for chiropractic treatment.\n\nMrs Scholten said she had treated other patients who had had back surgery before.\n\n\"I felt I could help him, I wanted to help him,\" she said.\n\nShe said what happened on the 11 August was \"rare and unusual\".\n\n\"I've never experienced anything like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Conservative Party has suspended party members named in new allegations of Islamophobic social media posts, allegedly made by 25 current and former Conservative councillors.\n\nThe Guardian says it has seen a so-called \"dossier\" compiled by an anonymous Twitter user who says they campaign against racism.\n\nThe dossier contains alleged details of Islamophobia and racist social media content posted, shared or endorsed by 25 sitting and former Conservative councillors. Not all the names provided are understood to be party members.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said: “All those found to be party members have been suspended immediately, pending investigation.\n\n\"The swift action we take on not just anti-Muslim discrimination, but discrimination of any kind, is testament to the seriousness with which we take such issues.\n\n“The Conservative Party will never stand by when it comes to prejudice and discrimination of any kind.\n\n\"That’s why we are already establishing the terms of an investigation to make sure that such instances are isolated and robust processes are in place to stamp them out as and when they occur.”", "The Financial Times has named its first female editor since it was founded in 1888.\n\nRoula Khalaf will take over from Lionel Barber, who announced on Tuesday that he would leave in January after 34 years at the pink-coloured financial newspaper.\n\nMs Khalaf, his deputy, said she was \"thrilled\" to be running \"the greatest news organisation in the world\".\n\nThe FT was sold to Japanese media firm Nikkei in 2015 by publisher Pearson.\n\nTsuneo Kita, chairman of Nikkei, said: \"I have full confidence that she will continue the FT's mission to deliver quality journalism without fear and without favour.\"\n\nLionel Barber: \"The best job in journalism\"\n\nMs Khalaf has been with the FT for 24 years. Her roles have included running its Middle East coverage during the Iraq war and the 2011 Arab Spring.\n\nShe has been the deputy editor since 2016, overseeing strategic planning and the launch of \"Trade Secrets\", which covers global trade.\n\nMr Barber said he was leaving \"the best job in journalism\" after a 14-year tenure and 34 years at the paper.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lionel Barber This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe is the longest-serving UK national newspaper editor and led a push into online subscription that is regarded as having helped the business during a period when traditional newspaper sales have been falling.\n\n\"When I took over as editor, I pledged to restore the gold standard in the FT's reporting and commentary and to help the board build a sustainably profitable business,\" Mr Barber said.\n\nMr Kita said he had \"strong personal trust\" in Mr Barber. \"It's very sad to see him leave the FT. However, both of us agree it is time to open a new chapter,\" he said.\n\nThe FT's print circulation is about 166,000 a day. In April, it said it had achieved one million paying readers, including digital subscribers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"A cyber attack against a political party in an election is suspicious\"\n\nLabour is reportedly suffering a second cyber-attack after saying it successfully thwarted one on Monday.\n\nThe party says it has \"ongoing security processes in place\" so users \"may be experiencing some differences\", which it is dealing with \"quickly\".\n\nThe Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack floods a computer server with traffic to try to take it offline.\n\nThe BBC's Gordon Corera has been told Monday's attack was not linked to a state.\n\nEarlier, a Labour source said that attacks came from computers in Russia and Brazil.\n\nOur security correspondent said he had been told the first attack was a low-level incident - not a large-scale and sophisticated attack.\n\nA National Cyber Security Centre spokesman said the Labour Party followed the correct procedure and notified them swiftly of Monday's cyber-attack, adding: \"The attack was not successful and the incident is now closed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has denied that there has been a data breach or a security flaw in its systems after the Times reported the party's website had exposed the names of online donors.\n\nFollowing reports of a second cyber-attack, a Labour Party spokesperson said: \"We have ongoing security processes in place to protect our platforms, so users may be experiencing some differences. We are dealing with this quickly and efficiently.\"\n\nDDoS attacks direct huge amounts of internet traffic at a target in an effort to overwhelm computer servers, causing their software to crash.\n\nThey are often carried out via a network of hijacked computers and other internet-connected devices known as a botnet.\n\nThe owners of which may be unaware their equipment is involved.\n\nDDoS attacks are not normally recognised as being a hack as they do not involve breaking into a target's systems to insert malware.\n\nThey can vary in sophistication and size, and are sometimes used as a diversionary tactic to carry out a more damaging attack under the radar.\n\nSeveral companies provide services to repel DDoS attacks, but they can be costly.\n\nThe BBC has confirmed that Labour is using software by the technology company Cloudflare to protect its systems.\n\nThe US-based company boasts it has 15 times the network capacity of the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded, meaning it should be able to absorb any deluge of data directed at one of its clients.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jessica Parker said \"Labour Connects\", a tool for campaigners to design and print materials was disrupted on Monday and was \"closed for maintenance\" on Tuesday morning.\n\nA message on the site on Monday said it was experiencing issues \"due to the large volume of users\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday's cyber-attack was \"very serious\" and also \"suspicious\" because it took place during an election campaign.\n\n\"If this is a sign of things to come, I feel very nervous about it,\" he said.\n\nIn a letter sent to Labour campaigners, Niall Sookoo, the party's executive director of elections and campaigns, said: \"Yesterday afternoon our security systems identified that, in a very short period of time, there were large-scale and sophisticated attacks on Labour Party platforms which had the intention of taking our systems entirely offline.\n\n\"Every single one of these attempts failed due to our robust security systems and the integrity of all our platforms and data was maintained.\"\n\nLabour's general secretary Jennie Formby said on Twitter the attack was a \"real concern\" but she added she was proud of the party's staff who \"took immediate action to ensure our systems and data are all safe \".\n\nEmily Orton, from Darktrace, an AI company for cyber-security, told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"Really this is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the types of threats that, not just the Labour Party, but all political parties are going to be without a doubt experiencing on a daily basis.\"\n\n\"I think anyone involved in politics and in government need to be preparing themselves for a lot more stealthy, sophisticated attacks than this,\" she added.\n\nThe Times has revealed that Labour exposed the names of people who had donated money via an online tool.\n\nThe details could be found via an RSS web feed generated by the site's code, which most browsers provide a way to inspect.\n\nIn most cases the information was limited to the donors' first names and the sums given.\n\nBut because some people had mistakenly added their surname to the first name input box, this too was disclosed.\n\nLabour denies this represented a security flaw or that a reportable data breach had occurred. It also believes that only a small number of full names were exposed.\n\nHowever, it made changes to shut down the RSS feed last night.\n\n\"The Labour Party takes its responsibilities for data protection extremely seriously,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"If any concerns are raised, we assess them in line with our responsibilities under GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation ] and the Data Protection Act.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office told the BBC: \"We will not be commenting publicly on every issue raised during the general election.\n\n\"We will, however, be closely monitoring how personal data is being used during political campaigning and making sure that all parties and campaigns are aware of their responsibilities.\"\n\nOver the next five weeks, we want to help you understand the issues behind the headlines.\n\nKeep up to date with the big questions in our newsletter, Outside The Box.\n\nSign up to our 2019 election newsletter here.", "Joseph McCann is accused of 37 offences against 11 alleged victims\n\nA man embarked on a series of \"depraved\" sex attacks on women and children, one as young as 11, a court has heard.\n\nJoseph McCann is accused of 37 offences against 11 alleged victims, including rapes, kidnap and false imprisonment, over two weeks in April and May.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard the 34-year-old snatched two women off London streets and told one he would \"never release her\" as he raped her multiple times.\n\nThe jury was told the defendant's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford before continuing in London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire.\n\nOne 21-year-old woman was grabbed at knifepoint and bundled into a car as she walked home from a Watford nightclub on 21 April.\n\nProsecutor John Price QC said she was released later that morning in a \"state of great distress\".\n\nA 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight on 25 April.\n\nMr Price said the defendant told her \"to stop screaming or he would stab her\" then dragged her into a car \"and drove off\".\n\nThe court heard the woman was raped \"many times\" by Mr McCann in various locations over the next 14 hours and subjected to acts of \"shocking depravity and violence\".\n\n\"He made her call him 'daddy' and say that she was a child. At one point the man parked the car near to a school, saying that he wanted to make her rape a child,\" Mr Price said.\n\nLater the same day, and while still holding the woman prisoner, the defendant abducted a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister, the court heard.\n\nCCTV of the woman being bundled into a silver people carrier just after midday was played to the jury.\n\nMr Price said she \"suffered a similar fate\" to the 25-year-old woman before the pair managed to escape while in Watford where Mr McCann had booked a hotel room for two nights.\n\nHe told the jury they would have come to \"further harm\" but one of the women hit their captor over the head with a vodka bottle and some builders \"bravely\" intervened to prevent them being recaptured.\n\nThe attacks resumed 10 days later in the North West of England where, over 12 hours on 5 May, three women, three young girls and a boy of 11 were assaulted, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMr McCann allegedly conned his way into a mother's Greater Manchester home where he tied her to the bed and raped her 17-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son.\n\nThe court heard he then abducted a 71-year-old woman who was in her car at a Morrisons car park.\n\nHe raped her and also sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl before both managed to escape at Knutsford Service Station on the M6, the court heard.\n\nThe 34-year-old is accused of then snatching two 14-year-old girls in Cheshire.\n\nMr McCann, who was not in court, is charged with:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sajid Javid says Labour would \"massively increase borrowing and debt\", and \"hike up taxes\"\n\nThe Conservatives have launched a fresh attack on what they say are Labour's \"reckless\" spending plans.\n\nLabour has yet to publish its election manifesto but the Tories have claimed that there is a \"black hole\" in its economic policies.\n\nThe Tories have tried to calculate the additional taxes they believe a Labour government would have to introduce if they win power on 12 December.\n\nLabour has dismissed the figures as \"more fake news\" from Tory HQ.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell insisted an incoming Labour government would not raise VAT or national insurance, while 95% of people would not pay any more in income tax.\n\nPersonal tax rises would be confined to the top 5% of earners, he said - a policy carried over from its 2017 manifesto.\n\nBoth main parties are planning to borrow money to spend on infrastructure projects if they win the general election, while Labour has said it will pay for some of its spending pledges by reversing Conservative reductions in corporation tax.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid claimed that Labour would also \"hike up taxes\" to pay for its programme, estimating that this would amount to an extra £2,400 per year for every taxpayer.\n\n\"The British people have made huge progress over the last decade in repairing the damage left to us by the last Labour government,\" he said. \"If Jeremy Corbyn gets into power he would throw all that hard work away.\"\n\nThe Conservatives are repeating their previous claim that Labour plans to spend £1.2tn over the next five years, which forms the basis of this new claim.\n\nBut this is problematic because it makes a number of assumptions about what Labour intends to spend before it has published a manifesto.\n\nNot only have those same assumptions been repeated in this analysis, but additional ones have been made about Labour's tax-raising plans.\n\nFor example, the Conservatives say Labour is considering a \"homes tax\" which would cost households up to £375 more than the current Council Tax system, raising an extra £10.2bn.\n\nHowever, this seems to be based on a policy-proposal document put forward by Guardian columnist George Monbiot and commissioned for the Labour Party.\n\nThe summary of the paper even states: \"The following are proposals to the Labour Party, which will consider these as part of its policy development process in advance of the next general election.\"\n\nTo get to the £2,400 figure, the Conservatives have assumed Labour intends to spend £651bn on day-to-day spending (which comes from their original £1.2tn calculation) over five years.\n\nFrom there, the Conservatives say that Labour only plans to raise £277bn over the same period, leaving a shortfall of £374bn.\n\nSo, if you then divide the shortfall by 31.2m UK taxpayers, you arrive at £2,400 a year each (or £12,000 per taxpayer over five years) to plug the gap.\n\nIn summary, this analysis is based on assumptions about money Labour intends to spend but also how much revenue the party intends to raise.\n\nUntil the manifestos are published, it is impossible to accurately identify any spending gaps.\n\nBBC political correspondent Chris Mason said the Conservatives' attack was part of a clear attempt to build an argument about what they call the \"cost of Corbyn\".\n\nBut asked how much another Conservative government would cost taxpayers during a BBC interview, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak did not provide a figure.\n\n\"The forecasts that there are from the OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) show that there is a £30bn surplus on the current balance over the next few years - so we take in £30bn more than is spent on day-to-day spending,\" he told Radio 4's Today.\n\n\"We've said we will invest about £13.5bn of that on people's priorities like the NHS, like schools, like policing. We will not tax people extra for those day to day priorities.\"\n\nMr McDonnell said the Tories were unable to say how they would pay for their spending commitments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John McDonnell MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of passengers had a lucky escape after two trains collided head-on in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.\n\nTwelve passengers suffered minor injuries and are being treated at a local hospital.\n\nAn inquiry has been ordered into the incident.\n\nIndia has one of the largest train networks in the world but accidents are fairly common because much of the railway equipment is out of date.\n\nThe government has promised to modernise the network but the pace of the change has been slow.", "Chris Davies had been an MP since 2015 but was unseated by a petition after admitting submitting two false expenses invoices\n\nA former MP who lost his seat following a conviction for a false expenses claim has quit the general election after briefly becoming the Conservative candidate for Ynys Mon.\n\nChris Davies pulled out after other Welsh Tories criticised his selection.\n\n\"I will not want to put my wife and family through any more distress,\" the former Brecon and Radnorshire MP said.\n\nA senior Welsh Conservative source told the BBC the campaign had been \"shaky to say the least\".\n\n\"The candidate selection has been seriously flawed and chaotic,\" the source added.\n\nAnother claimed a Conservative AM had been approached to stand in Ynys Mon on Wednesday - the approach was rejected.\n\nAnnouncing his decision to withdraw from the election, Mr Davies said: \"Given the reaction in the media to the idea of me being a candidate, I have decided to pull out of the selection process.\"\n\nConservative AM Nick Ramsay said Mr Davies had \"done the right thing\".\n\n\"As John Major once said, when the curtain falls, it's time to leave the stage,\" he tweeted.\n\nIt leaves Ynys Mon without a Tory candidate, with the deadline for candidate selection on Thursday.\n\nMr Davies lost a by-election in Brecon and Radnorshire triggered by a recall petition earlier this year.\n\nHe admitted two charges of a false expenses claim in March at Westminster Magistrates' Court after trying to split the cost of £700 worth of pictures between two office budgets by creating fake invoices, when he could have claimed the amount by other means.\n\nMr Davies made an \"unreserved apology\" and was ordered to complete 50 hours of unpaid work and was fined £1,500.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNews of his selection for Ynys Mon broke on Tuesday night, prompting incredulity from Angela Burns, Welsh Conservative AM for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire.\n\nClaiming Mr Davies had been imposed by the party, she said: \"You couldn't make it up.\"\n\n\"It is inexplicable,\" another Welsh Conservative source said.\n\nMr Davies had tried and failed to win selection as the general election candidate in Brecon and Radnorshire again before the Ynys Mon selection was made.\n\nBut Mr Davies withdrew after he realised he would not be able to command support on Anglesey, the source claimed.\n\nOne Conservative told BBC Wales there was a \"feeling within the party that Chris Davies had paid the penalty and deserved another try\".\n\nHowever there had been \"huge resistance\" from within the party locally and that is why Mr Davies had withdrawn, the source added, realising he would not be able to command support in Anglesey.\n\nThe local party were only made aware of his selection on Tuesday, the source said.\n\nLord Davies of Gower, Welsh Conservative chairman, had defended the selection before Mr Davies quit, saying: \"Chris made a mistake and has paid the price. He must now be allowed to move on.\"\n\nThe constituency of Ynys Mon includes the island of Anglesey and the smaller Holy Island.\n\nThe Conservatives held the seat - previously known as Anglesey - between 1979 and 1987, followed by Plaid Cymru until 2001, and since then by Labour.\n\nLabour has selected Mary Roberts for the 12 December poll, while Plaid Cymru has picked Aled ap Dafydd.\n\nMs Roberts said: \"Chris Davies has rightly withdrawn. The Welsh Conservatives are in complete disarray.\"\n\nPlaid's candidate said: \"For the Tories to consider that he was suitable in the first place shows how out of touch they are.\"\n\nDeputy leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Baroness Christine Humphreys said the Conservatives had \"demonstrated their utter contempt\" for Ynys Mon voters.\n\nThe summer by-election cut the Conservative working majority to just one when Jane Dodds overturned Mr Davies's 8,038 majority to beat Conservative Chris Davies by 1,425 votes.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBy Jack Skelton BBC Sport at the tribunal in Manchester\n\nEx-British Cycling technical director and Team Sky head coach Shane Sutton furiously denied claims he is a \"doper\" before storming out of Dr Richard Freeman's medical tribunal.\n\nDr Freeman alleges the testosterone he ordered to British Cycling headquarters in 2011 was on behalf of Sutton.\n\nIn staggering, confrontational exchanges between Sutton and Dr Freeman's lawyer, Mary O'Rourke QC, Sutton repeatedly denied this and her claim he doped during his racing career.\n\nA livid Sutton then left the tribunal in Manchester after calling Dr Freeman \"spineless\".\n\nAn official could not persuade Sutton to return and he is set to decide on Wednesday whether he will resume giving evidence, as planned, on Thursday.\n\nThe tribunal is set to resume at 11:30 GMT on Thursday, with Wednesday a planned day off.\n\nFormer British Cycling and Team Sky medic Dr Freeman is facing an allegation he ordered 30 Testogel sachets to the National Cycling Centre in May 2011 knowing or believing it was intended for an athlete to enhance performance, which he denies.\n\nSutton's highly anticipated first appearance at the tribunal started at 14:00 after a day-and-a-half delay because of private legal argument.\n\nDr Freeman has admitted to 18 of the 22 allegations against him, including that he asked supplier Fit4Sport to falsely claim the Testogel had been sent in error.\n\nIn a public session before Sutton gave evidence, Miss O'Rourke said the defence's case is that Sutton is a \"habitual and serial liar\" as well as \"a doper, with a doping history\".\n• None Miss O'Rourke said she had evidence from an anonymous witness who saw Sutton inject himself with testosterone at his home in Rowley Regis in the late 1990s\n• None Sutton strenuously denied the claim, calling it \"laughable\" and that he had never tested positive in around 100 tests during his career\n• None Miss O'Rourke claimed several witnesses had come forward in the last two weeks to say Sutton is \"a liar, a doper and a bully\"\n• None He told Miss O'Rourke he would \"do you for defamation\" and that he wanted her to \"retract\" that claim because she had \"no evidence\"\n• None Sutton repeatedly told Dr Freeman to \"take down the screen\", \"man up\" and \"look me in the eye\"\n• None Miss O'Rourke said that Sutton had sent Dr Freeman a text at the end of last year that read: \"Be careful what you say, don't drag me in, you won't be the only person I can hurt\"\n• None Referring to Dr Freeman's claim that the testosterone was to treat Sutton's alleged erectile dysfunction, the Australian said: \"My wife wants to come here and testify you're a liar\"\n• None Sutton swore on the life of his three-year-old daughter he did not order the delivery of Testogel in 2011 and said he was willing to take a lie detector test if needed\n• None Sutton said he had \"no idea\" why Dr Freeman had ordered the Testogel but that he \"would've helped him work out a way through it\" if Freeman had come to him at the time\n• None He called Miss O'Rourke a \"bully\" and criticised her for what \"you've put my family through\"\n\nAfter around two hours of increasingly hostile exchanges during Miss O'Rourke's cross-examination on Tuesday, Sutton announced he was leaving the hearing and departed with an extraordinary outburst.\n\nDespite calling Dr Freeman a \"good friend\", Sutton made a series of claims about his former colleague and called him \"spineless\" for sitting behind a screen as Sutton gave evidence.\n\n\"I'm going to leave the hearing now, I don't need to be dragged through this,\" said Sutton.\n\n\"I'm going to go back to my little hole in Spain, enjoy my retirement, sleep at night knowing full well I didn't order any [testosterone] patches.\n\n\"The person lying to you is behind the screen, hopefully one day he will come clean and tell you why. He's a good bloke, a good friend, I've no argument with him.\n\n\"I'm happy with what I achieved in my career, I wish Richard Freeman all the best going forward, no one is better bedside than him.\n\n\"Dr Freeman went through a messy divorce, he turned up to work drunk on several occasions - he was like the Scarlet Pimpernel.\n\n\"I covered for him when we couldn't get hold of him.\n\n\"I'm not lying, I've told the truth, don't ask me any more questions.\n\n\"I'm not getting dragged by this mindless little individual [O'Rourke] living in her sad world, who is defending someone who has admitted to telling a million lies to you and the rest of the world but can't come out and tell the truth.\n\n\"He is hiding behind a screen, which is spineless, Richard, you're a spineless individual.\"\n\n'Am I the one on trial here?'\n\nMiss O'Rourke said on 7 November she would attempt to question the \"integrity and credibility\" of Sutton and earlier on Tuesday said she had 100 questions planned for him.\n\nOnly three questions in, Sutton became impatient, stating his former career as a rider was \"irrelevant\", as were other questions about his level of knowledge of doping practices in cycling history.\n\nSutton directed his ire at Miss O'Rourke, asking for \"an apology\" for her claims and at one point asking, \"Am I the one on trial here? I feel like I'm the criminal.\"\n\nWhen Miss O'Rourke put it to Sutton that his claim he did not know what Testogel was until asked about it by UK Anti-Doping in 2016 was either him \"having a laugh\" or a \"blatant lie\", Sutton replied: \"There is only one joke in this room and that's you.\"\n\nHe also turned to the press gallery at one stage and said: \"I hope you are getting all this.\"\n\nSutton added there was \"nothing sinister\" in him telling the General Medical Council's legal team that he and former British Cycling chief Sir Dave Brailsford were worried about being involved in this case and it was only because \"the buck stops with you\" as the head of an organisation.\n\nBefore Sutton's appearance, the independent medical practitioners tribunal ruled that the general topic of erectile dysfunction could be the subject of questions to him in public.\n\nYet Sutton brought up the subject before Miss O'Rourke could ask, shortly before he stormed out, adding: \"I would have no problem telling the GMC it was for me, but I never ordered it.\"\n\nIf Sutton chooses not to return to the hearing on Thursday, Miss O'Rourke is hoping to call former British Cycling head of medicine Dr Steve Peters for cross-examination.\n\nSutton said Dr Peters had \"phoned me the other night\" and will \"verify everything I've had to say\".\n\nThe testosterone delivery was brought to Dr Peters after former physio Phil Burt, who is due to give evidence on Friday, discovered it.\n\nDr Peters has claimed Dr Freeman contacted supplier Fit4Sport the same day the order arrived to confirm it was sent in error and Dr Peters said he then asked Freeman to return it.\n\nDr Peters said he was satisfied after being shown an email from the supplier \"confirming\" that the Testogel had been returned and destroyed, which Dr Freeman now admits was false.\n\nThe hearing, which is to determine Dr Freeman's fitness to practise medicine, continues.", "The man who oversees complaints about politicians in Wales has resigned after he was secretly recorded by an assembly member.\n\nStandards commissioner Sir Roderick Evans said \"highly confidential conversations\" with his staff had been taped.\n\nThe former Plaid Cymru AM Neil McEvoy has confirmed he made the recordings.\n\nPolice are being asked to investigate and the assembly has arranged a sweep of the organisation's estate.\n\nThe South Wales Central AM, who now sits as an independent, alleged he had found evidence that he claimed had brought Sir Roderick's office into disrepute.\n\nHe said he had acted lawfully and in the public interest. He had been facing three separate investigations by the standards commissioner at the time, before Sir Roderick resigned.\n\nSir Roderick, a former high court judge and pro-chancellor of Swansea University, said Mr McEvoy's actions were \"wholly unacceptable\" as he stood down on Monday.\n\n\"It has come to my attention that conversations with my staff about a variety of highly confidential and sensitive matters have been secretly, and possibly illegally, recorded over a period of what seems to be several months and in what seems to be a number of different locations by an assembly member,\" said Sir Roderick, who had served as the assembly's standards commissioner since 2017.\n\n\"These have included highly confidential conversations with my staff including references to cases brought by members of the public.\n\n\"That a member of our national assembly could behave in this way is wholly unacceptable. It undermines the integrity of the complaints procedure and brings our democratic process into disrepute.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to continue in my role as standards commissioner.\"\n\nNeil McEvoy said he had acted lawfully in the public interest\n\nWelsh Assembly presiding officer Elin Jones said she had accepted Sir Roderick's resignation, and the process to find a successor will now begin.\n\nShe said: \"Covert recording of private conversations is a serious matter and we will be asking South Wales Police to investigate how such recordings were obtained.\n\n\"Arrangements have been made for a sweep of the Senedd estate to locate any unauthorised electronic surveillance devices.\"\n\nIn response to Mr McEvoy, the standards commissioner's office said: \"The appropriateness of covert recordings of private and confidential conversations will be considered by the relevant authorities in due course.\"\n\nSir Roderick was embroiled in a row last year after he said a video featuring a Labour AM's face superimposed on a woman in a low-cut top was not sexist.\n\nEarlier in 2019 he was accused of double standards after he recommended a Plaid Cymru AM Leanne Wood be reprimanded for a swear word in a tweet.", "An Israeli air strike has killed a senior commander of the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza.\n\nBaha Abu al-Ata died along with his wife when a missile hit their home, the group said. Four of their children and a neighbour were reportedly injured.\n\nIsrael's prime minister said Abu al-Ata was a \"ticking bomb\" who was planning to carry out attacks on the country.\n\nAt least 150 rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza since the killing, which PIJ has vowed to avenge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip land in on a highway in Israel\n\nSeventeen Israelis have been lightly wounded in rocket attacks across the south, according to the Barzilai Medical Center in the city of Ashkelon.\n\nMedics said an eight-year-old girl was also in a serious condition after collapsing as her family rushed towards a bomb shelter when an air raid siren sounded in Holon, south of Tel Aviv.\n\nAround the same time as the attack on Abu al-Ata, two people were killed and 10 injured in an Israeli air strike on the home of another Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria's state news agency Sana said.\n\nSyrian media said another Israeli air strike targeted the home of a PIJ leader in Damascus\n\nSana cited a military source as saying the PIJ leader, Akram al-Ajouri, was not harmed, but that his son was among the dead. Israel's military did not comment.\n\nPIJ, which is backed by Iran, has its headquarters in Damascus and is one of the strongest militant groups in Gaza.\n\nAn Israeli warplane fired a missile at a residential building in the eastern Shejaiya area of Gaza before dawn on Tuesday, causing an explosion that could be heard from kilometres away. The missile hit the third floor, killing Abu al-Ata and his wife.\n\nThe Israeli military said it carried out a \"surgical strike\" on Baha Abu al-Ata's home\n\nA PIJ statement confirming Abu al-Ata's death said he was its commander in Gaza's northern region and that he was undertaking \"a heroic jihadist action\".\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Abu al-Ata an \"arch-terrorist\" and said he was \"the main instigator of terrorism from the Gaza Strip\".\n\n\"He initiated, planned and carried out many terrorist attacks. He fired hundreds of rockets at communities in the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip, whose suffering we have seen,\" he told a news conference in Tel Aviv. \"He was in the midst of planning additional attacks in the immediate short term. He was a ticking bomb.\"\n\nThe Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Lt Gen Aviv Kochavi, said Abu al-Ata had undermined recent efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and the militant group Hamas, which runs Gaza and is considered a rival to PIJ.\n\nMr Netanyahu warned there could be a protracted period of tension with militants in Gaza.\n\n\"Israel is not interested in escalation, but will do everything necessary to defend ourselves,\" he said. \"And I say in advance: This could take time. Patience and composure are required.\"\n\nBaha Abu al-Ata came to prominence in Gaza this year, commanding fighters of Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Brigade in the north and east of the strip.\n\nBut he acted increasingly outside of the control of the dominant militant faction Hamas, ordering rocket attacks seemingly without approval after Israeli soldiers shot and injured dozens of Palestinians during regular protests at the perimeter fence earlier this month.\n\nA Palestinian TV presenter even warned on-air recently that his actions might see the Israelis trying to kill him.\n\nA serious escalation in hostilities is now likely, despite Israel's efforts to signal to Hamas that it has not returned to a wider strategy of so-called targeted killings.\n\nAt Abu al-Ata's funeral, senior PIJ official Khaled al-Batsh said Israel had \"executed two coordinated attacks - in Syria and in Gaza - in a declaration of war\".\n\nPIJ vowed that its retaliation would \"rock the Zionist entity\".\n\nHamas said Israel bore \"full responsibility for the consequences of this escalation\". It warned that the killing of Abu al-Ata would \"not pass without punishment\".\n\nFollowing the air strike, rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israeli territory. Some were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system, the IDF said.\n\nAir raid sirens sounded across parts of southern and central Israel, including Holon and Modiin, which are more than 50km (30 miles) from the border with Gaza.\n\nA factory in Sderot was hit, sparking a large blaze, along with two houses in Netivot and Eshkol Regional Council, Israeli media reported.\n\nIn the wake of his killing, rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza\n\nAfter several hours, the IDF said it had begun retaliatory strikes on PIJ targets in Gaza, hitting a training compound and underground sites used for the manufacturing and storage of ammunition.\n\nIsraeli aircraft also targeted PIJ rocket-launching units in two separate strikes, according to the IDF. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry reported that three Palestinian men were killed in northern Gaza.\n\nThe European Union called for an immediate end to the firing of rockets on civilian populations which it said was totally unacceptable, and said it supported Egyptian efforts to broker \"a rapid and complete de-escalation\".", "The Labour Party is attempting to defuse a row that has seen British Hindus urged not to vote for them at the general election.\n\nThere has been much anger from Hindu communities over Labour passing a motion criticising India's actions in Kashmir at its annual conference.\n\nIt has led to claims the party is \"anti-Indian\" and \"anti-Hindu\".\n\nLabour has now distanced itself from the conference motion after criticism from a major Hindu charity.\n\nFor decades, Kashmir has been a point of contention between India and Pakistan - both believe it should be part of their country.\n\nOver the summer, India withdrew the special status of Jammu and Kashmir that had enabled this region to make its own laws and have its own flag.\n\nFollowing this, Labour members passed a motion at the party's conference in September saying there was a humanitarian crisis in the disputed territory and that the people of Kashmir should be given the right of self-determination.\n\nThis provoked much anger from Indians - most of whom are of Hindu faith - in the UK and abroad.\n\nUmesh Chander Sharma, chairman of Hindu Council UK, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme most Hindus were \"very upset and very angry\" about Labour's position and the charity, which is meant to be politically impartial, was \"against\" it.\n\nHe said his organisation had to \"defend the Hindu cause\".\n\nAnd he added that some people who usually vote Labour will be voting for the Conservatives because of the issue.\n\n\"They are, they are (voting Tory), they are very clear, they are very evident, there is no ifs or buts, they are very openly saying that,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nThe Times of India recently reported that the overseas friends of India's ruling party - the BJP - will be encouraging Hindus not to vote for Labour in marginal seats, which could make all the difference at 12 December's UK general election.\n\nThe Today programme has seen WhatsApp messages sent to Hindus across the country urging them to vote Conservatives.\n\nOne message reads, \"The Labour Party has blindly supported Pakistan's propaganda against the issue of Article 370 in Kashmir. Labour Party is against India - the Conservative party isn't\". These messages have come from members of Hindu organisations as well as individuals of Hindu and Indian heritage.\n\nTanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Labour's candidate in Slough, recently urged people of Hindu and Sikh faith not to \"fall for the divisive tactics of religious hardliners, trying to wedge apart our cohesive community, circulating lies on WhatsApp\".\n\nNow Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery has stepped in to reassure Hindus that the party is \"fully aware of the sensitivities that exist over the situation in Kashmir\".\n\n\"We recognise that the language used in the emergency motion has caused offence in some sections of the Indian diaspora, and in India itself,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We are adamant that the deeply felt and genuinely held differences on the issue of Kashmir must not be allowed to divide communities against each other here in the UK.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery has stepped in to reassure Hindus\n\nHe said the party's official position was that \"Kashmir is a bilateral matter for India and Pakistan to resolve together by means of a peaceful solution which protects the human rights of the Kashmiri people and respects their right to have a say in their own future\".\n\nHe added that Labour was \"opposed to external interference in the political affairs of any other country\" - and would \"not adopt any anti-India or anti-Pakistan position over Kashmir\".\n\nAccording to official figures, there are more than a million Hindus in Great Britain, while there are more than three million Muslims.\n\nResearch by the Runnymede Trust shows that in 2015 and 2017, Labour remained the most popular party among ethnic minority voters (77% of them voted Labour in 2017).\n\nThe report says ethnic minority voters made up one in 5 of Labour voters but only one in 20 of Conservative voters.", "The government has denied claims it is suppressing a report on alleged Russian interference in UK democracy until after the general election.\n\nSources said No 10 was stalling on releasing the report, which has gained the standard security clearance.\n\nA former head of MI5, Lord Evans of Weardale, is among those calling for the document to be published.\n\nForeign minister Christopher Pincher said the PM would release the report in \"due course\".\n\nHe added: \"We cannot rush this process at the risk of undermining our national security.\"\n\nThe report, by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, was finalised in March and referred to No 10 on 17 October.\n\nIt examines Russian activity - including allegations of espionage, subversion and interference in elections - and includes evidence from UK intelligence services such as GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 concerning covert Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nApproval for its publication has yet to be given - and is not due to be until after polling day.\n\nDominic Grieve, the chairman of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, said there was no legitimate reason for delaying the report and voters had a right to see it before going to the polls.\n\nDuring an urgent question in the Commons, the former attorney general said there was a \"longstanding agreement\" that the prime minister would endeavour to respond to the committee's reports within 10 days.\n\nMr Grieve also said the intelligence agencies had indicated that publication of the report would not prejudice the discharge of their functions.\n\nBut foreign office minister Mr Pincher said the turnaround time for the report was \"not unusual\" - and gave examples of reports that had taken six weeks to get Downing Street's approval.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Downing Street's decision not to clear the report for publication before the general election was \"clearly politically motivated\".\n\n\"This is nothing less than an attempt to suppress the truth from the public and from Parliament and it is an affront to our democracy,\" she told the Commons.\n\nMs Thornberry said No 10 realised the report would lead to \"other questions about the links between Russia and Brexit and with the current leadership of the Tory party, which risks derailing their election campaign\".\n\nShe went on: \"Publish this report and let us see for ourselves, otherwise there is only one question: what have you got to hide?\"\n\nMr Pincher denied the decision not to publish the report before the election was politically motivated.\n\nBBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban tweeted that the government's assertion the report was being held back because of a need to \"vet and balance\" it was \"unusual to say the least\".\n\n\"It's more normal for govt [sic] to respond after publication,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Lord Evans, MI5 director general until 2013, told the Today programme ministers should explain why they were not prepared to release the report.\n\n\"In principle, I think it should be released,\" he said.\n\n\"Part of the reason for having an Intelligence and Security Committee is that issues of public concern can be properly considered and the public can be informed through the publication of the reports once they have gone through the security process.\"\n\nHe added: \"If the government have a reason why this should not be published before the election, then I think they should make it very clear what that reason is.\"\n\nEx-terrorism watchdog Lord Anderson said on Monday further delay would \"invite suspicion\" of the government's motives ahead of the election.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Election pact with Brexit Party 'risks putting Corbyn into No 10'\n\nBoris Johnson has rejected the suggestion from Nigel Farage and Donald Trump that he should work with the Brexit Party during the election.\n\nThe Tory leader told the BBC he was \"always grateful for advice\" but he would not enter into election pacts.\n\nHis comments come after the US president said Mr Farage and Mr Johnson would be \"an unstoppable force\".\n\nDowning Street sources say there are no circumstances in which the Tories would work with the Brexit Party.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said the \"difficulty\" of doing deals with \"any other party\" was that it \"simply risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10\".\n\n\"The problem with that is that his [Mr Corbyn's] plan for Brexit is basically yet more dither and delay,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson also said there was \"no question of negotiating on the NHS\" as part of any future trade deal with the US, but he did not rule out expanding the amount of private provision in the health service in the future.\n\nBut Labour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said the public \"can't trust the Tories on the NHS\", saying they would \"increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump\".\n\nWhen pushed on whether he would rule out a deal with Mr Farage, Mr Johnson replied: \"I want to be very, very clear that voting for any other party than this government, this Conservative government… is basically tantamount to putting Jeremy Corbyn in.\"\n\nThe UK is going to the polls on 12 December following a further delay to the UK's departure from the EU, to 31 January 2020.\n\nThe BBC will be talking to other party leaders during the course of the campaign.\n\nUS president Donald Trump told Nigel Farage's LBC show on Thursday that the Brexit Party leader should team up with Mr Johnson to do \"something terrific\" and he also criticised the prime minister's EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Farage has called on the prime minister to drop his Brexit deal, unite in a \"Leave alliance\" or face a Brexit Party candidate in every seat in the election.\n\nMr Johnson said there were \"lots of reasons\" why he thought a Labour government would be a \"disaster\".\n\nHe said he Labour government would lead to a renegotiation with Brussels on a Brexit deal, then another referendum.\n\n\"Why go through that nightmare again?\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister also suggested that the US president was wrong to believe a trade deal would be impossible with the UK after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"proper Brexit\" deal \"enables us to do proper all-singing, all-dancing free-trade deals\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It delivers exactly what we wanted, what I wanted, when I campaigned in 2016 to come out the European Union,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhen asked about the criticism from Mr Trump, Mr Johnson said: \"I am always grateful for advice from wherever it comes and we have great relations as you know with the US and many many other countries.\n\n\"But on the technicalities of the deal anybody who looks at it can see that the UK has full control.\"\n\nThe prime minister is never short of a word or two, never short of a colourful phrase or a metaphor.\n\nWhen we sat down this afternoon there was no suggestion of him being the Hulk, but Remain-tending MPs were accused of \"rope-a-doping\" the government, planning eventually to batter the prime minister and his Brexit deal into submission until he would have had to give up.\n\nBut in Downing Street there is a serious awareness that trademark Johnson verbal gymnastics are no guarantee of success at the ballot box in six weeks' time, no guarantee at all.\n\nThat's not just because there are even friends, like Donald Trump, and of course foes, like Jeremy Corbyn, whose words and actions will hamper his attempt to secure a majority to call his own.\n\nBut also because this is a snap election, not a routine poll, and the public is hardly in a forgiving mood of our politicians right now.\n\nMr Johnson said he hoped the government could get Brexit \"over the line\" by the middle of January if he won a majority, claiming the current Parliament would never have passed his deal.\n\nHe said he'd had \"no choice\" but to call a general election, saying: \"Nobody wants an election but we've got to do it now.\n\n\"This is a Parliament that is basically full of MPs who voted Remain.\n\n\"They voted Remain and they will continue to block Brexit if they're given the chance - we need a new mandate, we need to refresh our Parliament.\"\n\nMr Johnson said his government was determined to increase taxpayer funding of the NHS but said: \"Of course there are dentists and optometrists and so on who are providers to the NHS, of course, that's how it works,\" he said.\n\n\"But... I believe passionately in an NHS free at the point of use for everybody in this country.\"\n\nLabour's Mr Ashworth said: \"Forced NHS privatisation has doubled under the Conservatives and Boris Johnson has refused to rule out expanding this further.\n\n\"You can't trust the Tories on the NHS. They will increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump that will see as much as £500m more a week sent to US corporations.\"", "Zia Uddin kept condoms in the control room where he sexually assaulted the girls\n\nA Primark security guard has been found guilty of sexually assaulting teenage girls he accused of shoplifting.\n\nZia Uddin, 27, from east London, attacked four 15-year-old girls while working at the Kingston store in 2017.\n\nUddin threatened the teenagers with calling the police and their parents if they did not perform sexual acts on him in the control room of the store.\n\nHe was convicted of one count of rape and four counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.\n\nKingston Crown Court heard Uddin's colleagues had noticed his strange behaviour, which included making requests to delete CCTV, and not properly completing paperwork on shoplifting.\n\nHe was also known to keep condoms in the control room, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOnce detained, some victims offered to pay for the items they had stolen, suggested they could work in the store to make amends, or even never enter the shop again.\n\nZia Uddin knew where the \"blind spots\" were on the Kingston branch's CCTV\n\nHowever, once alone in the back office, Uddin, from Manor Park in Newham, made clear he was only interested in sexual acts in exchange for letting them go.\n\nProsecutors said one girl only did as he asked because \"there was no other choice\" and it was the only way out of the situation.\n\nGraham Partridge, from the CPS, said Uddin \"preyed on young girls in a vulnerable situation\".\n\n\"He abused his authority by telling them to perform sexual acts for him on the promise they would then be released without their parents or the police being informed about what they had done.\n\n\"Having worked in security, Uddin was also well aware of the CCTV camera 'blind spots' and took advantage of these in order to carry out his offending.\"\n\nHe added that Uddin claimed all the victims were liars and refused to take responsibility for his actions.\n\nUddin will be sentenced next Tuesday.\n\nA spokeswoman for Primark said: \"This has been a horrendous ordeal for the victims and their families and we are truly sorry for what they have suffered. Our thoughts are very much with them.\n\n\"The nature of these offences is shocking and distressing.\n\n\"Zia Uddin abused the trust that was placed in him by his employer, Brooknight Security, and by us, by taking advantage of his victims, who were young and vulnerable.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former minister David Gauke: \"A Conservative majority... will take us in the direction of a very hard Brexit\"\n\nFormer justice secretary David Gauke says a Conservative majority at the upcoming election would be a \"bad outcome for the country\".\n\nMr Gauke - who confirmed he will run as an independent in 12 December poll - was among the MPs expelled from the Tories by Boris Johnson after he voted against a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said a majority led by Mr Johnson would mean a \"very hard Brexit\".\n\nBut Tory Minister Michael Gove said his former colleague was \"precisely wrong\".\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast the Conservatives were pursuing \"a good Brexit deal which works for whole UK [and] which will enable us to have a relationship with the EU based on free trade and friendly co-operation.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Gauke's comments, Mr Johnson said: \"We are fighting for every vote we can get. I regret we haven't got his support, but we will do our best in the campaign ahead.\"\n\nMr Gauke confirmed his decision to stand in South West Hertfordshire - where he has been the MP since 2005 - at a political awards ceremony on Tuesday.\n\nBut he has urged voters in some constituencies to vote for the Liberal Democrats\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Gauke attacked the policy of the Conservatives to not extend the implementation period for Brexit past December 2020.\n\nDuring these months, the UK would stick to the EU rules on issues such as freedom of movement.\n\nThe Tories plan to negotiate a free trade agreement with the European Union during that time, but have pledged to leave without one if no deal is reached by the deadline.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage cited the pledge as one of the reasons for his decision not to stand candidates in the 317 seats won by the Tories at the last general election, in 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory Minister Michael Gove says the UK \"can secure a free trade deal by the end of 2020\"\n\nMr Gauke said \"one simply cannot renegotiate a trade deal in that time period\", and leaving without a deal would be \"disastrous for the prosperity of our country… [making] whole sectors unviable\".\n\nBut he said Mr Johnson was so \"boxed in\" to the plan that he couldn't change his mind even if he wanted to - and he showed no sign of that.\n\n\"He would have letters flooding in to the chairman of the 1922 committee [trying to oust him] and Nigel Farage would be out making a lot of noise,\" said Mr Gauke.\n\n\"I don't think that either the parliamentary party or the wider Conservative membership would allow him to do that. He is boxed in unless Parliament is in a position to force him to extend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Gauke said his comments were not a personal attack on Mr Johnson, although he said the PM \"lacks qualities some would ideally want in prime minister\".\n\nBut he urged voters to support \"the centre ground\" in the election so they could stop a hard Brexit, even lending their support to the Liberal Democrats if needs be.\n\n\"I have to say I am impressed by [Lib Dem leader] Jo Swinson and if I was living in a lot of constituencies I would lend my vote,\" he told Today.\n\n\"I have reluctantly come to that view,\" he said. \"I thought the best outcome for our country was for us to unite behind some kind of soft Brexit [but] that option isn't there any more. The country is too polarised and there isn't the support for it.\n\n\"[Mr Johnson's plan] is a harder Brexit than what was promised to the British people in 2016.\n\n\"Because the consequences of the Johnson deal are so significant, we do need to check back in with the people, and it is perfectly possible to get a parliamentary majority for that after the election.\"\n\nJust four months ago David Gauke was a cabinet minister and regarded as one of the safest pair of hands in the Tory Party.\n\nHe is now urging voters to stop Boris Johnson from winning a majority.\n\nHis decision to stand as an independent candidate is prompted by his fear that Mr Johnson is \"boxed in\" to a no-deal Brexit by his refusal to consider any extension of the transition period beyond December 2020.\n\nAn impossible timetable, Mr Gauke believes, in which to secure a trade deal - and a view shared by many hard line Brexiteers.\n\nMr Gauke is one of only a small band of former Tory rebels who've chosen to fight on, rather than to quit politics altogether.\n\nBut Lib Dem sources said they were unlikely to stand aside in his Hertfordshire seat.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street has shrugged off his decision and later Mr Johnson will repeat his Brexit message - that his deal is the only way to get Britain out of the rut and end the \"groundhoggery\".\n\nChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr Gove, said his former colleague was \"a good friend, but I think on this issue he's got it precisely wrong\".\n\nHe told Breakfast: \"The only way that we can Brexit done is by making sure we do have a functioning majority government.\n\n\"We're going to get a good deal with the EU and we're going to get it by the end of 2020.\"\n\nMr Gove added: \"One of the problems that we've had is that Parliament has engaged in endless dither and delay on this, and that's because we haven't had a strong majority.\"\n\nEarlier, Gagan Mohindra was chosen as the Conservative candidate for Mr Gauke's constituency.\n\nMr Mohindra is a member of Essex County Council and Epping Forest District Council.\n\nSome parties are yet to choose their candidates for South West Hertfordshire, but Tom Pashby has been selected for the Green Party and Sally Symington will represent the Liberal Democrats.\n\nMr Gauke is not the first politician to call on the public to back a rival party in the December election.\n\nOn Monday, his fellow former Tory MP Nick Boles launched a scathing attack on both Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn in the Evening Standard, and said people should vote Lib Dem.\n\nThis came after two former Labour MPs - Ian Austin and John Woodcock - said the electorate should back Mr Johnson as Mr Corbyn was \"completely unfit\" to be PM.\n• None Tories choose candidate to take place of Gauke", "Mr Bray is popular with anti-Brexit activists but less so with broadcasters - whose interviews he frequently interrupts\n\nAnti-Brexit campaigner Steve Bray is to stand for Parliament for the Lib Dems.\n\nThe activist is a familiar figure in Westminster where he regularly bellows his 'Stop Brexit' message through a megaphone outside the House of Commons.\n\nHe has been selected to fight the seat of Cynon Valley in south Wales. It has been held by Labour for more than 30 years but its longstanding MP Ann Clwyd has retired and is not standing again.\n\nThe Lib Dems have vowed to cancel Brexit if they win power.\n\nThe party's leader Jo Swinson dismissed suggestions Mr Bray's candidacy was a stunt, saying the Lib Dems needed people prepared to put themselves on the line to stop the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"He cannot be accused of not being committed to his cause,\" she said. \"To have candidates who care so passionately about that is a positive.\"\n\nMr Bray, a rare coins dealer from Port Talbot, has spent every day since September 2017 protesting opposite Parliament, where his anti-Brexit antics having become a tourist attraction in their own right.\n\nHe and fellow protesters who he met through an anti-Brexit Facebook group also stage a daily evening vigil outside nearby Downing Street.\n\nThe 50-year-old says Brexit is a \"wrong turn\" for the country and must be stopped.\n\nMr Bray has come face-to-face with the likes of Jeremy Corbyn\n\nMr Bray would appear to have little chance in Cynon Valley, where the Lib Dems polled only 585 votes in 2017, finishing fifth behind UKIP.\n\nWales, as a whole, voted to leave the EU in 2016 but the Lib Dems have made gains there in recent times, winning the seat of Brecon and Radnorshire in a by-election in August.\n\nThe Lib Dems have formed a loose electoral pact with other anti-Brexit parties, including Plaid Cymru, which will see the parties not fielding candidates in some of their respective target seats to try and maximise the pro-Remain vote,\n\nPlaid Cymru has already selected a candidate in Cynon Valley, where it came third in 2017.\n\nMs Clwyd retained Cynon Valley with a majority of more than 13,000 in 2017, having represented the seat since winning a by-election in 1984. Labour has selected Bethan Winter to fight the seat.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hillary Clinton called on the UK to publish an intelligence report on Russian covert actions\n\nIt is \"inexplicable and shameful\" that the UK government has not yet published a report on alleged Russian interference in British politics, Hillary Clinton has told the BBC.\n\nThe report has formal security clearance, but it will not be released until after the 12 December election.\n\n\"Every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens,\" the former US presidential candidate said.\n\nNo 10 denies it is suppressing it.\n\nThe report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee examines Russian activity in UK democracy.\n\nIt includes allegations of espionage, subversion and interference in elections.\n\nIt contains evidence from UK intelligence services such as GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 concerning covert Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nThe report was finalised in March and referred to No 10 on 17 October.\n\nBut approval for its publication has yet to be given - and is not due to happen until after polling day.\n\nMPs on the intelligence committee have been highly critical of that outcome, but the government has said the timing is not unusual.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme while in the UK on a book tour, Mrs Clinton said she was \"dumbfounded\" that the government would not release the report.\n\n\"That should be an absolute condition,\" she said.\n\n\"Because there is no doubt - we know it in our country, we have seen it in Europe, we have seen it here - that Russia in particular is determined to try to shape the politics of western democracies.\n\n\"Not to our benefit, but to theirs.\"\n\nShe also told BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett: \"I find it inexplicable that your government will not release a government report about Russian influence. Inexplicable and shameful.\"\n\nBut Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak said the report had to be \"properly processed\" before being made public.\n\n\"The standard process for reports like this is that they have to go through an appropriate period of vetting, due to the sensitive nature of the information they contain,\" he said.\n\nHe said the report was received at the end of October and the vetting process could take several weeks.\n\n\"It's right that [reports like this are] properly processed to ensure our security and I think those processes are being followed,\" he added.\n\nMrs Clinton said the US had a similar problem in the 2016 election, when she was defeated as the Democrat's candidate for president by Republican Donald Trump.\n\nMr Trump and his campaign, she said, were under investigation for their connections with Russia, Russian agents, and others promoting Russian interests. But the American public did not know before the election.\n\nThe Mueller Inquiry laid out a broad pattern of Russian interference in the US 2016 presidential election\n\nThe Russians were still \"in\" her country's electoral system and \"pumping out propaganda\", Mrs Clinton said.\n\n\"So there's no doubt of the role that Russia played in our 2016 election and is continuing to play.\n\n\"I would hate to see that happen here. Whatever the outcome. I don't know what's in it, (the report) any more than anybody else does.\n\n\"But certainly, people who are about to vote in a month or so deserve to know what is in a report that one has to speculate, must have something of concern, otherwise why wouldn't it be publicly disclosed?\"\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid has told the BBC the timescale for the publication of the report was \"perfectly normal\" because of the sensitive nature of the content.\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has said the decision not to clear the report for publication before Parliament closed ahead of the general election was \"clearly politically motivated\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons last week, she suggested the report could lead to questions about links between Russia, Brexit and the Tory leadership, which could derail the Conservative election campaign.\n\nSources have told the BBC there was no objection from any other government agency or department to the report's publication - leaving the decision to release it with Downing Street.\n\nIn the US, the Mueller Inquiry laid out a broad pattern of interference in the US 2016 presidential election - particularly using social media and leaking of documents.\n\nHowever it did not establish any criminal conspiracy between Moscow and the Trump campaign.\n\nSo far no evidence of a cyber campaign on a similar scale has been produced in the UK and government ministers have said there is no evidence of \"successful\" Russian interference in UK elections.\n\nMrs Clinton's comments came hours before the Labour Party reported a \"sophisticated and large-scale cyber-attack\" on its digital platforms.\n\nA Labour source told the BBC \"tens of millions of attacks - mostly originating from Russia and Brazil\" had been detected.\n• None The mystery of the Russia report", "Sir Richard Branson has apologised for a photo he used to mark the launch his new Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa.\n\nThe entrepreneur tweeted a photo which was criticised for failing to reflect the diversity of South Africa.\n\nOne of the critics is South African fashion designer Thula Sindi, who says: \"Where did you find so many white people in South Africa?\"\n\nSir Richard tweeted an apology, saying it \"clearly lacked diversity\".\n\nA Virgin Group spokesperson added the image in Sir Richard's tweet did not reflect \"the diverse make-up of attendees\" at the launch event.\n\nIn the intial tweet, Sir Richard said: \"Wonderful to be in South Africa to help launch the new Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship. We aim to become the heart of entrepreneurship for Southern Africa.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Branson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt sparked a series of responses, including from Mr Sindi - whose designs were worn by South Africa's minister of communications and telecommunications, Stella Ndabeni-Abraham on the day she was sworn in.\n\nHe remarks that it must have \"Really taken an honest effort for exclude the majority of the population which is just as skilled and talented\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Thula Sindi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSir Richard later tweeted: \"Apologies. I hope you will take a look at my blog which does far better justice to the amazing work of the Centre and its team.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Richard Branson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the link to his blog, Sir Richard writes: \"We will play a more meaningful role in entrepreneurs' lives than your average accelerator, supporting companies to not just survive, but thrive, and make business a real force for good in society, for the environment and the economy.\"\n\nOne individual had told critics they were wrong. \"This is one of many pictures, most of which are diverse,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Sicelo Nkosi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSouth Africa's population of almost 58 million is 80% black African, and Sir Richard writes in his blog that the \"economy is dependent on entrepreneurial activity for creating future economic growth and jobs\".\n\n\"But the economic contribution to South Africa's entrepreneurial sector is below the developing country norm. I believe that increasing entrepreneurship in this country is the golden highway to economic democracy,\" he adds.\n\nSir Richard's Virgin Group has a wide range of interests from gyms to planes and the entrepreneur's space company, Virgin Galactic, listed on the New York Stock Exchange last month.\n\nA spokesperson for Virgin said: \"The tweet linked to a blog about the launch of the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship South Africa, which assists aspiring entrepreneurs of all backgrounds with the skills, opportunities and inspiration they need to succeed.\n\n\"We apologise for the poorly chosen image, but would like to emphasise that this does not reflect the diverse make-up of attendees.\n\n\"As the video, other social posts and other images of the event show, many of the diverse group of Branson Centre entrepreneurs, trustees and team were present and the image attached to that particular tweet should have reflected this too.\"", "Cynthia Tuck was married to her husband George for 39 years\n\n\"I felt devastated, absolutely devastated and so guilty. My life collapsed really\".\n\nCynthia Tuck remembers the moment she realised she had been conned out of her life savings, and those of her late husband, George.\n\nShe'd become one of dozens of victims of a sophisticated, organised scam offering hugely over-valued coloured diamonds as \"investments\".\n\nBut realising she'd been conned wasn't the end of Cynthia's misery. A three-year fight for justice - involving five different police forces and multiple investigations - would ultimately lead nowhere.\n\nCynthia and her family have been feeling nothing but anger, resentment and frustration towards the justice system because the people who were involved in the scam got off scot-free.\n\nNo charges. No trial. No justice.\n\nCynthia Tuck began her career as a nurse and then worked as a health visitor\n\nElderly, often vulnerable, people were targeted, sometimes over the course of many years.\n\nVictims were persuaded, through a variety of different tactics, to buy poor quality diamonds at hugely inflated prices.\n\nIn Cynthia's case, she was cold-called by a man called Colin Moore and persuaded to pay around £5,000 for a diamond in 2013 as an \"investment\".\n\nOfficial-looking websites, glossy brochures, lunch meetings and, crucially, seemingly genuine certificates promising good returns all helped legitimise the con.\n\nThen, over the course of three years, Colin Moore, while working for two different companies, ruthlessly exploited Cynthia's vulnerabilities and persuaded her into handing over nearly £400,000 - every penny she and her husband had saved over a lifetime of work - for 21 diamonds.\n\nThe diamonds her family eventually managed to track down (they suspect some of them never even existed) were sold for less than 10% of the amount Cynthia paid for them.\n\nTwo of the certificates that played such a crucial role in helping persuade Cynthia Tuck her \"investments\" were genuine\n\n\"Fraudsters are very good at what they do,\" he says.\n\n\"They use tactics to socially engineer their victims, they know what to say, they know how to approach people.\n\n\"[They are] cunning. They may build that trust and abuse that trust over several weeks or months with someone.\"\n\n\"It was a date etched in my memory forever: 1 February, 2016,\" says Cynthia's daughter Rachel.\n\n\"We knew that mum was buying some diamonds but we didn't know that she had bought so many diamonds, at what cost, and who she was dealing with.\"\n\nBut when Cynthia finally told her daughter about the scale of the fraud and what had happened to her, Rachel was stunned.\n\n\"I found out on the same day how much money mum had and how much had been stolen from her. And I experienced that like a sort of shock, like a physical shock really. I felt physically sick.\"\n\nSo began the family's three-year struggle to see the people behind the scam held to account.\n\nAt one time or another five police forces were involved and multiple investigations were launched.\n\nThe Insolvency Service did shut down several of the companies involved in the scam, including the two Colin Moore worked for, as well as banning two people from being directors.\n\nBut, ultimately, no charges were ever brought and no-one ever faced trial.\n\nGeorge Tuck was left for dead during the battle of Monte Cassino in World War Two, but recovered to have a successful career as a civil engineer\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Anthony Stansfeld speaks for the Association of PCCs on fraud.\n\nHe says victims such as Cynthia are being \"failed\" by the police; \"I think [Cynthia's case] is typical of what's going on throughout the country.\n\n\"Fraud is not being investigated. I doubt if 1% of fraud is ever brought to a conclusion in the courts.\n\n\"It is very difficult for the police to investigate. Very often police will say it's a civil matter or pass it to Action Fraud - and so things simply do not get investigated.\"\n\nAccording to the crime survey for England and Wales, there were 3.9 million reports of fraud in the year to June 2019, a 15% increase from the previous year.\n\nMr Stansfeld says police are not being given enough resources to properly tackle the problem and suggests money from fines issued by the Financial Conduct Authority, sometimes hundreds of millions of pounds each year, should be spent doing just that.\n\n\"That money [from the fines] goes to the Treasury. It should not. At least half of it should be ring-fenced for fighting fraud and if we couldn't bring down fraud by about 10% I would be amazed.\"\n\nThe Home Office says the government is committed to \"cracking down on scammers and fraudsters\" and has just launched a review into the issue.\n\nHaving given up hope long ago of getting any of her mum's money back, Rachel says her big worry now is that the people who conned her mum are still out on the streets.\n\n\"[The victims] were targeted. They were groomed. And then the authorities blame the victims.\"\n\nNaturally, File on 4 wanted to find Colin Moore. After weeks of calls, emails and letters, it becomes clear just how hard he is to track down. Like a ghost, he's disappeared - we're told possibly to the other side of the world.\n\n\"They just let them carry on,\" Rachel says, \"and my real fear and worry is that this is still happening. That the same people are... probably doing exactly the same thing to other old people. And that makes it very hard to live with. And it's been one of the things that has made it hard to put behind us.\"\n\nYou can hear more about Cynthia and Rachel's story on \"Anatomy of a Fraud\" on Radio 4 at 8pm, Tuesday 12 November. Or you can listen again here.", "Stuart Potts claimed he set off the fireworks to emulate the volley of shots fired at some Remembrance Day events\n\nA man who admitted ruining a Remembrance Sunday event by setting off fireworks during a two-minute silence has been jailed for 16 weeks.\n\nStuart Potts, 38, let off two fireworks as hundreds of people observed the silence at 11:00 GMT at the cenotaph in Eccles, Salford, on Sunday.\n\nPotts set off the fireworks while sitting on a ledge of a first-floor window in a nearby disused pub.\n\nHe admitted throwing a firework in public, and a public order offence.\n\nPotts of Borough Road, Salford, who has 21 previous convictions, claimed he was given the fireworks by someone else and lit them \"as a mark of respect\" to emulate the volley of shots fired at some Remembrance Day events.\n\nSentencing him at Manchester Magistrates' Court, District Judge Mark Hadfield said he did not believe Potts' story.\n\nHe added: \"I rather doubt that anybody in their right mind would think letting them off in the middle of that ceremony was a mark of respect.\n\n\"It shows a staggering lack of respect for those attending and those being remembered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angry veterans shouted \"Get him out!\" before officers took a man away in a police car\n\nThe fireworks exploded above the cenotaph as the Last Post ended.\n\nBeth Pilling, prosecuting, told the court the first resulted in loud bangs, and the second - a rocket - flew above the heads of the crowd gathered at the service.\n\nThe court heard a crowd of angry veterans gathered outside the pub window in Church Street shouting, \"Get him out!\" and tried to break the door of the pub down, while others attempted to climb up to the window.\n\nWhen Potts appeared at the window to remonstrate with the crowd, a number of traffic cones were thrown at him before he was arrested.\n\nFireworks exploded as the Last Post ended and hundreds of people were observing a two-minute silence\n\nThe court heard a statement from an ex-Royal Marine who was at the event to place a cross on the cenotaph for a fallen comrade.\n\nHe said the loud bangs reminded him of combat and it had affected his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\nIt was the most disrespectful thing he had witnessed at such an event, he added. No injuries were reported.\n\nAbigail Henry, mitigating, said Potts had shown \"sincere and genuine remorse for his actions\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A row has broken out over the publication of an intelligence report into Russian covert actions in the UK, with critics saying Downing Street is stalling on its release until after the election.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid said the timescale for the publication of the report from Parliament's Intelligence Security Committee (ISC) was \"perfectly normal\".\n\nBut pressure is mounting on No 10 after the Sunday Times claimed nine Russian business people who have donated money to the Conservative Party were named in the document.\n\nSo what is in the Intelligence and Security Committee report?\n\nThe answer is that only a small circle of people know for sure and none of them are saying. But it is possible to get a sense of what might be in it.\n\nWe know the report looks at a wide range of Russian activity - ranging from traditional espionage to subversion - and not just in the UK.\n\nBut the greatest interest has been in what it might say on political interference in the UK. The Mueller inquiry in the US laid out a broad pattern of interference in the US 2016 presidential election, particularly using social media and leaking of documents.\n\nSo far, no evidence of a cyber campaign on the same scale has been produced in the UK. While it is possible there is evidence of attempts in the report, government ministers have already said there is no evidence of \"successful\" interference in elections, including the Brexit referendum (although defining what \"successful\" means is hard and may be disputable).\n\nHowever, last week former deputy national security adviser Paddy McGuinness told the BBC not enough had been done to deal with vulnerabilities that the Russians and others could exploit. Mr McGuinness, who sat on the Oxford Technology and Elections Commission, said reforms were needed, including more transparency from political parties on how they collect and use data.\n\nThe ISC report is likely to focus more on broader aspects of Russian influence in politics and public life.\n\nThe committee took evidence from a number of independent experts and also from the secret intelligence agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.\n\nSome of those external experts are well known figures. Bill Browder is a former investor in Russia who became an arch-critic of the Kremlin and campaigns for sanctions on Russian individuals in the form of the Magnitsky Act (named after his former lawyer who died in jail in Moscow).\n\nAnother witness is understood to be Chris Steele, the former MI6 officer behind the famous dossier on US President Donald Trump. Another is journalist Edward Lucas.\n\nThese and other observers are understood to have been highly critical of the UK's openness to Russian influence - in particular the way in which Russian money had compromised first the financial system in London and then bled over into politics.\n\nThere have been questions about some donors to political parties and the Sunday Times suggests that nine who gave to the Conservative Party could be named in the report (although this may be more likely in a classified annex rather than the public report).\n\nThere may also have been evidence about specific relationships with Russians. For instance Boris Johnson as foreign secretary went to a party at an Italian villa hosted by Evgeny Lebedev, who runs the Evening Standard and whose father is a former KGB officer.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Chancellor Sajid Javid said: \"When it comes to party donors, whether it is to the Conservative Party or any other party, there are very strict rules that need to be followed and of course we will always follow those rules.\"\n\nAsked whether he was sure no Russian money was pulling the strings in December's general election, he said: \"I am as sure as I can be. I'm absolutely sure in terms of our own party and I am very confident about how we are funded and we are very transparent about that.\"\n\nMr Javid says the Tory Party follows strict rules on party donors\n\nThe BBC understands that witnesses have given evidence to the ISC that the UK government itself is partly to blame because it has not done enough to deter Russian subversion and interference - for instance in successive governments' weak response to events like the killing of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.\n\nThe UK, it was argued, is uniquely placed to be able to push back precisely because of the amount of Russian money in London and the importance of the city to Russia's elite. The failure to push back and instead to protect the financial centre in London has been, it is argued, a choice - but one with consequences.\n\nIt is easier to know what evidence from well-known critics of the Kremlin will have been. What is harder to know is how much of this the committee accepted and included in the final report.\n\nThe committee will likely have given most weight to evidence produced by the intelligence agencies themselves. What they said is less clear but it is unlikely they will have wanted details of specific individuals included in the report and any names will probably have been redacted and blacked out.\n\nThe report has gone through the formal security clearance process and sources have told the BBC there was no objection from any other government agency or department to its publication.\n\nThat left the decision entirely with Downing Street. It has been adamant that a normal process needs to be followed which explains why it could not be released ahead of the election.\n\nBut critics have been unconvinced. They believe that the embarrassing details - perhaps of party funding - were something that the government did not want out ahead of the election.\n\nAnother source suggested it could also have been references to evidence of interference in the US which might have added to the concerns since Donald Trump is due to come to the UK for a Nato summit just days before the election.\n\nOne official told the BBC there were details of Russian interference in the report but they also thought the government could have rebutted many of the allegations.\n\nThey suggested these were not as explosive as some people thought and that Downing Street had made a mistake by not releasing the report since by failing to do so, the questions of what is in the report and why it has not been released will now dog them throughout the campaign.", "John Lawler died following treatment at the Chiropractic 1st clinic in York\n\nA man whose neck broke as he was treated by a chiropractor shouted \"You are hurting me,\" his widow told an inquest.\n\nJohn Lawler, 80, was attending Chiropractic 1st in York in August 2017 when he said he could not feel his arms and became like a \"ragdoll\".\n\nMr Lawler was taken to York Hospital and later transferred to Leeds General Infirmary where he died the next day.\n\nA police investigation into his death ruled out any criminal charges.\n\nGiving evidence, Joan Lawler, said her husband had been a fit and healthy man.\n\nThey had booked a series of chiropractic treatments after an initial assessment with Arleen Scholten.\n\n\"She said his shoulders and back were out of line and by gentle manipulation she could make his life much happier,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\nThe first two appointments went well and they returned for a third appointment on Friday 11 August, , Mrs Lawler added.\n\nParamedics were called to Chiropractic 1st in York when Mr Lawler became unwell\n\n\"She started on the shoulders and went round his body.... Then the table dropped and he shouted 'You're hurting me. You are hurting me. I can't feel my arms,'\" Mrs Lawler told the inquest.\n\nShe said Mrs Scholten carried on treating her husband for a moment but then realised he was unresponsive and asked him to turn over.\n\nHe did not respond and the chiropractor manoeuvred him into a chair.\n\n\"She got John on to the chair but he was like a ragdoll,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\n\"He wasn't moving and he wasn't speaking.\"\n\nShe said when paramedics arrived Mrs Scholten did not inform them of the table drop element during the treatment only that she had been applying \"gentle manipulation\".\n\nHe was initially taken to York Hospital where the family was told he had a broken neck.\n\n\"They said unfortunately John was a paraplegic and needed to be moved to a special unit,\" Mrs Lawler said.\n\nThe following day, at Leeds General Infirmary, she was told Mr Lawler had a broken neck and would need a 14-hour operation to install a neck brace.\n\nIt would be a traumatic operation and they were told it \"might kill him anyway\", she said.\n\nShe said during this discussion her husband made some mumbling noises.\n\n\"We decided he was saying no [to the operation],\" she said.\n\n\"There was nothing they could do. He lay there and just faded away,\" she added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hillary Clinton says the treatment of Meghan has been “heart-breaking and wrong”.\n\nHillary Clinton has said she wants to hug the Duchess of Sussex and \"tell her to hang in there\" over \"racist\" treatment.\n\nThe former US presidential candidate said the way Meghan has been treated over the past three years has been \"heartbreaking and wrong\".\n\nMeghan and the Duke of Sussex have spoken out about the pressures they have felt from media scrutiny.\n\nMrs Clinton said the duchess \"deserves a lot better\".\n\nThe former first lady and her daughter Chelsea spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett on a visit to London to promote their new book about women they find inspiring.\n\nBarnett asked the pair to comment on Meghan's \"embattled\" time in the public eye - citing two legal cases the duke and duchess have launched against newspapers.\n\nThe duchess is suing the Mail on Sunday after alleging the paper unlawfully published a private letter to her father, while the prince is suing the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.\n\nThe cases were launched shortly before the royal couple described the pressure of intense media scrutiny in an ITV documentary.\n\nChelsea Clinton said: \"We each have to do what we think is the right thing for ourselves and in her case I would imagine for her son. If taking action against the Mail on Sunday is that [...] that's what she has to do.\"\n\n\"I think absolutely there's a racist and a sexist element to what's going on here,\" she added.\n\nHillary Clinton said \"race was clearly an element\" in some of the social media backlash Meghan had faced since her relationship with the prince began in 2016.\n\nMeghan has spoken out about the pressure of intense media scrutiny\n\n\"To think that some of your - what we would call mainstream - media actually allowed that to be printed in their pages, or amplified, was heartbreaking and wrong,\" Mrs Clinton said.\n\n\"She is an amazing young woman, she has an incredible life story. She has stood up for herself, she has made her own way in the world. And then she falls in love, and he falls in love with her, and everybody should be celebrating that because it is a true love story,\" she added.\n\n\"I feel as a mother I just want to put my arms around her. Oh my God, I want to hug her. I want to tell her to hang in there, don't let those bad guys get you down.\"\n\nMrs Clinton said the duchess might find it easier to cope with the pressure if she learned \"techniques\" such as \"some humour, some deflection\".\n\n\"But it is tough what she is going through and I think she deserves a lot better,\" she added.\n\nIn the same interview Mrs Clinton criticised the UK government for not publishing a report on alleged Russian interference in British politics, ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nChelsea Clinton, the only child of Hillary Clinton and former US President Bill Clinton, is a writer and gender equality campaigner. She is also vice-chair of the non-profit organisation, the Clinton Foundation.", "The image showed Mel B performing at the Brit Awards in 1997\n\nMelanie Brown has clarified that a \"miscommunication\" with Tesco over the use of an image of her led to her complaining to the supermarket giant.\n\nTesco pulled an advert for Clubcard Plus which featured her as Scary Spice after she voiced objections on Monday.\n\nThe ad read: \"Stop right now. You get 10% off two big shops a month for £7.99,\" a play on the hit single Stop.\n\n\"I did this campaign for Women's Aid to raise awareness and to raise funds,\" Brown wrote in a new Instagram post.\n\n\"There was NEVER any issue about me being unhappy with my image being used and there was NEVER any issue about Tesco being given permission to use the image.\"\n\nIt's understood Brown had expected the charity, which supports women and children who have experienced domestic violence, to feature more prominently in the advertising campaign.\n\nIn a comment on the original post, Brown's mother said the advert \"should have had the Women's Aid charity on it\".\n\nBut she said she could \"hardly see the writing at the bottom\" where it featured on the finished product.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by officialmelb This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBrown said: \"There was a miscommunication between some of the parties dealing with it but luckily Tesco has been amazing. Women's Aid sadly lost funding a few weeks ago which was why I decided to do this campaign.\n\n\"I'm really pleased that Tesco understands how important Women's Aid is to me, and has agreed to match my fee in donation to the charity.\"\n\nBrown originally used her Instagram account to ask Tesco's CEO to contact her \"urgently\". Tesco said the image was cleared for use but pulled it as Brown was \"unhappy\".\n\nA Tesco spokesman said: \"Here at Tesco we are really big fans of Mel B and were excited to feature her photo in our campaign.\n\n\"We had authorisation to use this image, but we're sorry Mel B is unhappy so we've stopped using it.\"\n\nThe image was purchased by Tesco through Getty Images and a contract was signed with Getty and Brown's agent.\n\nThe advert was part of Tesco's latest campaign, featuring cultural references from the past century for its 100th anniversary with the tagline: \"Prices that take you back.\"\n\nThe photo of Brown in a leopard print catsuit was taken at the Brit Awards in 1997, during the Spice Girls' heyday.\n\nOther celebrities, including Morecambe and Wise, have also been used in the campaign.\n\nThe comedy duo replaced Mel B on Tesco's Twitter banner on Monday evening.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Carter is said to be \"resting comfortably\" with his wife, Rosalynn, by his side\n\nFormer US President Jimmy Carter, 95, is recovering in an Atlanta hospital following a procedure to relieve brain pressure.\n\nThe pressure comes from bleeding caused by recent falls, the Carter Center said in a statement.\n\nThe procedure was completed without complications at the Emory University Hospital on Tuesday morning local time.\n\nMr Carter \"will remain in the hospital as long as advisable for further observation,\" the statement said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Carter Center This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Carter Center\n\nAn earlier statement by the Carter Center said the former president was \"resting comfortably\" and his wife, Rosalynn, was with him.\n\nThe Democrat was the 39th president, serving one term from 1977 to 1981. He was defeated in his re-election bid by Ronald Reagan.\n\nOnly one other president - George HW Bush - reached the age of 94. At 95-year-old Mr Carter is America's longest-lived president. Mr Carter, who left the White House in 1981, also has the distinction of being a former-US president longer than anyone else.\n\nSince leaving the White House, he has remained active, carrying out humanitarian work with his Carter Center in recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn 2002, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.\n\nIn May, Mr Carter underwent surgery for a broken hip after falling at his home in Georgia.\n\nAfter a separate fall at his home, he made a public appearance at a charity event in October with a black eye.", "Jo Swinson said the election might be people's last chance to stop Brexit\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats have launched their general election campaign with a promise to stop Brexit.\n\nLeader Jane Dodds and UK Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson promised they could \"build a brighter future for Wales\".\n\nThe plans include stopping Brexit, investing in public services and tackling the climate crisis.\n\nMs Swinson said: \"This is an opportunity for people to say they want to stop Brexit and it might be the last chance they have to do that.\"\n\nThe party currently holds one seat in Wales having won Brecon and Radnorshire in a by-election in August 2019.\n\nAlthough Ms Swinson would not put a figure on how many Welsh MPs the party hoped send to Westminster next month, Ms Dodds was more forthcoming.\n\n\"We're really ambitious, of course, we're certainly saying we're going to be winning at least four, and we may be winning more,\" she told BBC Wales.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have entered into a \"Remain Alliance\" with Plaid Cymru and the Green Party and will not stand candidates in eight seats in Wales.\n\nJane Dodds says she expects the Liberal Democrats to have four or more Welsh MPs elected\n\nMs Swinson was also upbeat about her party's prospects in the winter election.\n\n\"Our targeting strategy is well informed by the data, which is showing that not only are we ahead of where we were last time in the polls by a significant amount, it's showing that there are many more people considering voting Liberal Democrat in these elections because of what we offer,\" she said.\n\n\"This is an opportunity for people to say they want to stop Brexit and it might be the last chance they have to do that,\" she said.\n\n\"That's why as Liberal Democrats we are being crystal clear - we are the party to stop Brexit and why are fighting a more ambitious campaign than we have ever done before in a general election, because of what's at stake.\"\n\nMs Swinson said she did not think anyone was surprised that the Liberal Democrats were still fighting Plaid Cymru in Ceredigion, a seat narrowly snatched by Plaid in 2017.\n\n\"Ceredigion is a very close seat and ourselves and Plaid Cymru are having a lively campaign there, it's one that we obviously held in the recent past,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farage: \"The Brexit Party will not contest 317 seats\"\n\nNigel Farage has ditched plans to take on the Tories in more than 300 seats, after what he said was Boris Johnson's \"shift of position\" on Brexit.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had planned to run candidates in 600 seats after Mr Johnson rejected his offer of a \"Leave alliance\" to deliver Brexit.\n\nBut he has been under pressure not to split the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nThe party will not now stand in 317 seats won by the Tories in 2017, but will continue to stand elsewhere.\n\nMr Farage said his party would focus its efforts on trying to take seats held by Labour, whom he accused of \"betraying\" its Leave-supporting voters.\n\nThe BBC's Alex Forsyth said some Brexit Party candidates had expressed concern about Mr Farage's plan to stand against the Tories in 600 constituencies, fearing it could hand an election victory to Labour and lead to another EU referendum.\n\nThe Brexit Party is less than a year old and does not have any MPs - but it was the clear winner in the UK's European elections in May, with more than 30% of the vote.\n\nMr Johnson welcomed Mr Farage's move, calling it \"a recognition that there's only one way to get Brexit done, and that's to vote for the Conservatives\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Donald Trump \"got his wish\" when Mr Farage announced his electoral strategy.\n\nHe said the Brexit Party leader was offering a \"Trump alliance\" that would lead to \"Thatcherism on steroids\" and threaten the future of the NHS.\n\nThe US president had previously urged Mr Farage to team up with Boris Johnson, saying they would be \"an unstoppable force\".\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Farage's decision \"shows the Conservatives and the Brexit Party are now one and the same\".\n\nMr Farage made the announcement in Labour-held Hartlepool - a top target for his party\n\nExplaining his U-turn to supporters in Hartlepool, Mr Farage said Boris Johnson had recently signalled a \"big shift of position\" in his approach to Brexit.\n\nHe cited a pledge by the PM not to extend the transition period that would follow the UK's departure from the EU under the terms of his Brexit deal.\n\nThe period would see the UK stick to the EU rules on issues such as freedom of movement until December 2020.\n\nMr Farage also said he was encouraged by recent commitments from Mr Johnson to seek further divergence from EU rules in a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nHe added that this was a \"huge change\" from the kind of trade pact that had been planned under former PM Theresa May.\n\nMr Farage's decision prompted dismay among some Brexit Party candidates who had been hoping to stand in Tory-held seats next month.\n\nNeil Greaves, who had been due to stand for the party in the Essex seat of Harlow, told the PA news agency that Mr Farage had \"let Brexiteers down\".\n\nHe said he planned to continue to stand in the constituency as an independent pro-Brexit candidate, and urged fellow former candidates to do the same.\n\nThe party's candidate in Mansfield tweeted that the move meant the \"opportunity to stand up for democracy\" had been \"snatched away\" from candidates.\n\nMr Farage had previously offered to not stand candidates against the Tories in certain seats if the prime minister changed aspects of his Brexit deal.\n\nBut the proposal was rejected by Boris Johnson, who said deals with \"any other party\" would \"risk putting Jeremy Corbyn into No 10\".\n\nMr Farage said he had \"genuinely tried\" to forge a so-called \"Leave alliance\" with the Tories, but his efforts had gone nowhere.\n\n\"In a sense we now have a Leave alliance, it's just that we've done it unilaterally,\" he added.\n\nMr Farage has already confirmed he will not be standing himself in the election, saying he wanted to concentrate on helping his party's candidates.\n\nHypothetically, the decision by the Brexit Party leader makes it notionally easier for the Tories to keep seats they hold already.\n\nBut it's a million miles away from giving them a clear run.\n\nMr Farage says he will still stand candidates in Labour areas.\n\nAnd for the prime minister to get the majority he craves, the Tories have to take seats that are currently held by Labour, not just hold on their existing MPs.\n\nScottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon said the Conservatives have \"effectively become the Brexit Party\".\n\nShe added that defeating the Tories in Scotland \"will help deprive Boris Johnson's increasingly extreme and right-wing party of the majority they crave\".\n\nAnti-Brexit parties Plaid Cymru, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats have agreed not to stand against each other in 60 seats across England and Wales.\n\nTheir pact means that, in Wales, two of the parties will agree not to field a candidate, boosting the third candidate's chances of picking up the Remain vote.\n\nIn England, it will simply be a two-way agreement between the Lib Dems and the Greens.", "Rare footage of a grey seal birth has been filmed by BBC East on a beach that has an established colony.\n\nThe pup will spend the next six weeks on the sands at Horsey in Norfolk before heading out to sea.\n\nMore than 2,000 were born at the colony in 2018 and 80,000 people visited the site to catch a glimpse of them.\n\nThe beach is open to the public, but wildlife groups say it is important to keep your distance from the seals and keep dogs on leads to prevent mothers from abandoning their pups.", "England manager Gareth Southgate has compared his squad to \"a family\" in the aftermath of Raheem Sterling's confrontation with Joe Gomez, saying arguments are inevitable.\n\n\"I love all of my players. We are like a family. The important thing is for a family to communicate and work through problems,\" said Southgate.\n\n\"I don't expect as a manager to not have to deal with issues.\"\n\nSterling admitted \"emotions got the better of me\" during the incident.\n\n\"Me and Joe Gomez are good, we both understand it was a five to 10 second thing...it's done, we move forward,\" he added in a statement on social media earlier on Tuesday.\n\nThe Manchester City forward, who was involved in a previous altercation with Liverpool's Gomez in his side's 3-1 Premier League defeat on Sunday, has been dropped for England's Euro 2020 qualifier against Montenegro on Thursday.\n\nPictures from England's training ground on Tuesday appeared to show Gomez with a scratch running from his right eye down his cheek, although Southgate refused to say if it was related to the altercation with Sterling.\n\nSouthgate did, however, confirm that Sterling was the aggressor in the incident at the team hotel.\n• None 'The biggest test yet for Gareth Southgate'\n\n\"Raheem in his [social media] post last night explained for a very brief moment his emotions ran over. It would be correct to say that's not the same for Joe,\" he added.\n\nAt a team meeting on Monday night, Southgate, Sterling and Gomez all spoke as the manager decided on the appropriate action to take.\n\n\"In the end I have to find the right solution for the group,\" added Southgate.\n\n\"That's a difficult line, you try to be fair when dealing with all players. I won't always get that right but I am the manager.\n\n\"Raheem is very important for us but I felt it was the right thing.\"\n\nEngland are already assured of at least a play-off spot to make Euro 2020 after five wins from their opening six matches in their qualification campaign. They need just a point to qualify for the finals automatically.\n• None England must 'lose the arrogance', says Southgate\n• None Players to wear 'legacy numbers' as part of 1,000th match celebrations\n\nLeicester defender Ben Chilwell said that Sterling and Gomez spoke at a team meeting on Monday, as well as Southgate.\n\n\"Gareth spoke about the situation and spoke about what he thought, and he also wanted to know what we thought about it,\" said Chilwell.\n\n\"Joe and Raheem got the chance to talk, which they both wanted to do. For Raheem, he wanted to apologise and Joe wanted to get stuff off his chest as well. That was it done then.\n\n\"[Sterling] was apologetic. He said it's not in his nature, which it's not. We all know as footballers that emotions can run high. There's no-one trying to make excuses for him, including himself.\n\n\"Gareth didn't want to make a decision himself, he was keen we came to the right decision with the leadership group. It got spoken about between the leadership group and Gareth. The decision has been made and we're all very on board with that.\n\n\"Since then it's not been spoken of. It got squashed yesterday [Monday]. We've moved on and trained as normal this morning.\"\n\nGareth Southgate has often told us how they have worked on defusing club rivalries, because it has been a problem with England in the past. Sterling will remain with the squad and one of the things Southgate said was that the emotions from Sunday's match were still raw and the decision to leave Sterling out has been made with the agreement of the entire squad.\n\nSterling has come on a storm in the last year or so, while his development has continued with Manchester City and England. He has scored 10 goals in his past 10 internationals and he did captain England when he won his 50th cap against the Netherlands in June.\n\nTime will move on and we will always refer to this, but he is such an important player for England, I would go as far to say he is the first name on the team sheet. So I would not rule him out of captaining his country in the future.", "The Liberal Democrat candidate in Canterbury has stood down because he feared dividing the Remain vote.\n\nTim Walker said he was concerned standing would allow the Conservative candidate to take the seat from Labour.\n\nMr Walker said the Lib Dems had tried to do a deal with Labour over the seat, and when that failed he made the decision himself to stand down.\n\nThe Lib Dems told the BBC they will be selecting a new candidate to contest the Kent constituency.\n\nLabour's Rosie Duffield took the seat from the Tories at the 2017 general election with a majority of only 187 votes.\n\nThe constituency voted 51% to leave the EU in the Brexit referendum in 2016.\n\nWriting in the Guardian, Mr Walker said: \"Politics does not always have to be grubby and small-minded; sometimes it's possible to acknowledge that what's at stake is more important than party politics - and personal ambition - and we can do what's right.\n\n\"In this invidious situation, both standing and not standing could be interpreted as weakness.\n\n\"But the nightmare that kept me awake was posing awkwardly at the count beside a vanquished Duffield as the Tory Brexiter raised her hands in triumph. I wanted no part in that.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier on Tuesday evening, before the news emerged, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson was asked about whether her party could still do an electoral deal with Labour,\n\nShe told the BBC Labour had failed to engage in previous talks with Remain-supporting parties and said Labour \"aren't really qualified to be a part of a Remain alliance\".\n\nLast week, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party announced an electoral pact, agreeing not to stand against each other in 60 seats in England and Wales.\n\nOn Monday, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage announced his candidates would not be standing in the 317 seats won by the Conservatives in the 2017 election.\n\nThe candidates standing in the Canterbury constituency announced so far are:", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nRaheem Sterling admitted \"emotions got the better of me\" after being dropped for England's Euro 2020 qualifier against Montenegro following a clash with team-mate Joe Gomez.\n\nThe Football Association said Sterling had been dropped \"as a result of a disturbance in a private team area\".\n\nThe Manchester City forward, 24, then took to social media to confirm \"a five to 10 second thing\" with Liverpool's Joe Gomez, 22, in the England camp.\n\nBut he added the pair were now \"good\".\n\nSterling and Gomez had an on-field argument during the Reds' 3-1 Premier League victory at Anfield on Sunday.\n\n\"Both Joe and I have had words and figured things out and moved on,\" Sterling said via his Instagram account on Tuesday.\n\n\"We are in a sport where emotions run high and I am man enough to admit when emotions got the better of me.\n\n\"This is why we play this sport because of our love for it - me and Joe Gomez are good, we both understand it was a five to 10 second thing... it's done, we move forward and not make this bigger than it is.\n\n\"Let's get focus on our game on Thursday,\" Sterling added.\n\nIt is understood Sterling turned on Gomez in the canteen, and other players pulled them apart.\n\nThe Liverpool defender was unhappy about what happened, but Sterling apologised and both now consider the matter to be over.\n\nEngland boss Gareth Southgate consulted with senior players and they agreed with the plan to drop Sterling.\n\n\"Unfortunately the emotions of yesterday's game were still raw,\" said Southgate on Monday.\n\n\"One of the great challenges and strengths for us is that we've been able to separate club rivalries from the national team.\n\n\"We have taken the decision to not consider Raheem for the match against Montenegro on Thursday. My feeling is that the right thing for the team is the action we have taken.\n\n\"Now that the decision has been made with the agreement of the entire squad, it's important that we support the players and focus on Thursday night.\"\n• None England must 'lose the arrogance', says Southgate\n• None Players to wear 'legacy numbers' as part of 1,000th match celebrations\n\nEngland play their 1,000th senior men's international on Thursday and a point at Wembley would book a spot at Euro 2020 with one qualifying game to spare.\n\nThe Three Lions are top of Euro 2020 Qualifying Group A, three points clear of the Czech Republic and four ahead of Kosovo with the top two nations advancing.\n\nA win or a draw for Southgate's side will see them qualify.\n\nEngland then play their final group match away in Kosovo on Sunday.\n\nSterling, who joined Manchester City from Liverpool in 2015, has made 55 appearances for England, scoring 12 times, and netted in the 5-1 away win in Podgorica in March, while Gomez has featured seven times for the national side.\n\nHowever, Gomez has struggled for first-team action for Liverpool this season, starting only one Premier League match.\n\nSterling has started 11 of City's league matches in 2019-20 and has scored 14 times in 17 appearances in all competitions for his club, as well as scoring four times for England.\n\nFormer England and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said the incident could have been \"handled better\".\n\nIn a post on Facebook, Ferdinand suggests Southgate \"would no doubt have seen worse many times during his time as a player and manager\".\n\n\"I just feel this could and should have been handled better to support the player and not hang him out to dry,\" he continued.\n\n\"One of our world-class players who has conducted himself wonderfully through racism and unwarranted criticism in an England shirt will now come under more scrutiny and be vilified in the media no doubt - when this could have been dealt with internally. Hindsight is a great thing though.\"\n\nToday is a media day with England and I'm sure the long lenses will be focused on Sterling and Gomez. The big point in all of this is that during the time Gareth Southgate has been the England manager, team harmony has been one of the key things.\n\nHe has often told us how they have worked on defusing club rivalries, because it has been a problem with England in the past. Sterling will remain with the squad and one of the things Southgate said was that the emotions from Sunday's match were still raw and the decision to leave Sterling out has been made with the agreement of the entire squad.\n\nSterling has come on a storm in the last year or so, while his development has continued with Manchester City and England. He has scored 10 goals in his past 10 internationals and he did captain England when he won his 50th cap against the Netherlands in June.\n\nTime will move on and we will always refer to this, but he is such an important player for England, I would go as far to say he is the first name on the team sheet. So I would not rule him out of captaining his country in the future.", "Neil McEvoy said he used a mobile phone to make the recordings\n\nPolice have launched an inquiry after a politician made secret recordings of the man who was in charge of overseeing three complaints about him.\n\nWelsh Assembly Member Neil McEvoy claimed his recordings of standards commissioner Sir Roderick Evans revealed sexism and bias.\n\nSir Roderick, who resigned on Monday, said much of what had been shared was out of context and misleading.\n\nIndependent AM Mr McEvoy said he had acted lawfully.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it had \"commenced an investigation following a referral from the National Assembly for Wales concerning allegations of covert recordings\".\n\nOpening assembly business on Tuesday, presiding officer Elin Jones said police had been asked to look into how the recordings were made and investigate their legality.\n\n\"The covert recording of private conversations on the assembly estate is a serious breach of trust,\" she said.\n\nShe alleged the recordings included confidential evidence by a witness during an investigation into Mr McEvoy's conduct.\n\nAssembly authorities have begun the process of finding an acting commissioner and Ms Jones told the assembly no complaints would be dropped as a result of Sir Roderick's resignation.\n\nMr McEvoy recorded hearings held by the commissioner as he conducted his investigation into the former Plaid Cymru AM, using a mobile phone he said was either in his jacket, bag or on a table.\n\nThey recorded conversations held while the South Wales Central AM was out of the room and others on the recordings were unaware he had made them.\n\nSir Roderick Evans had been standards commissioner since 2017\n\nMr McEvoy defended his secret recordings of Sir Roderick and his staff in a press conference on Tuesday.\n\nAccusing Sir Roderick of presiding over a \"locker room culture\", he claimed the commissioner aired \"really sexist views\" about \"female lawyers who - of course because they're female - they're emotional\".\n\nHe added: \"There was a provocative and politically incorrect culture in the commissioner's office that came across through the recordings.\"\n\nMr McEvoy alleged he heard a joke made about women politicians and a comment that former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood should \"wind her neck in\".\n\nSir Roderick, a former high court judge and pro-chancellor of Swansea University, previously said Mr McEvoy's conduct was \"wholly unacceptable\" and \"undermines the integrity of the complaints procedure\".\n\nThe office of the standards commissioner had no further comment to make about Mr McEvoy's press conference.\n\nThe controversy erupted in the assembly chamber on Tuesday, when Brexit Party Senedd leader Mark Reckless was told by Ms Jones to stop quoting from a transcript of the recordings.\n\nShe also demanded he withdraw an accusation that she was biased, to which he replied: \"The truth or otherwise of the allegation, I withdraw it.\"\n\nElin Jones said no complaints would be dropped as a result of Sir Roderick's resignation\n\nHe faces three investigations - one relating to £5,000 of building work on his constituency office.\n\nIn a transcript of the recordings released to the media by Mr McEvoy's office, Sir Roderick is reported saying the authenticity of two quotes \"couldn't be demonstrated\".\n\n\"We have to consider if they are forgeries or whatever, [and] whether he should be reported to the police,\" he added.\n\nMr McEvoy said he had taken the cheapest quote available: \"The quotes were nothing to do with me. I took them in good faith.\"\n\nHe said the builder was \"just somebody that I knew.\"\n\nThe second matter was about him losing his temper with Labour AM Mick Antoniw - he admitted being \"aggressive to him,\" but felt Mr Antoniw was arrogant.\n\n\"If the individual was really offended by my behaviour, and he was upset by it, then I apologise to Mick,\" he added.\n\nHe also faced an allegation he misused assembly funds for political campaigning.\n\nDismissing this, Mr McEvoy said: \"Strange that, isn't it, a Plaid Cymru member using his office for the benefit of Plaid Cymru.\"\n\nHe was a Plaid Cymru member until 2018, when he was expelled.", "Plastic in the Pacific Ocean off California\n\nPlastic is building up in the areas of the ocean where fish feed and grow, according to research.\n\nA study found bits of plastic outnumber baby fish by seven to one in nursery waters off Hawaii.\n\nIt appears that the same ocean processes that concentrate prey for juvenile fish also accumulate floating plastics.\n\nThere is growing evidence that plastic is being ingested by marine life, but the health implications are unclear.\n\n\"We don't have the data to say whether or not this has a negative effect on fish populations,\" Dr Gareth Williams of Bangor University, UK, told BBC News.\n\n\"But the fact that they're eating these non-nutritious particles at the point when eating is so critical for their survival in those first few days, it can only be a bad thing.\"\n\nThe researchers set out to investigate the roles of \"slicks\" as nursery habitats for tiny larval fish.\n\nSlicks are naturally occurring, ribbon-like, smooth water features of the oceans, which are full of plankton, an important food resource.\n\nWhen the researchers started surveys for plankton off the coast of Hawaii, they were surprised to find lots of plastic in the nets.\n\n\"It was completely unexpected,\" said Dr Williams. \"The fact that the plastics outnumber the larval fish was astonishing.\"\n\nLarval flying fish (top) and triggerfish (bottom) with ingested plastics zoomed in. Dime shown for scale.\n\nPlastic densities in surface slicks off Hawaii were, on average, eight times higher than the plastic densities recently found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Inside the slicks there were seven times more plastics than there were larval fish.\n\n\"We were shocked to find that so many of our samples were dominated by plastics,\" said Dr Jonathan Whitney, a marine ecologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).\n\nAfter dissecting hundreds of larval fish, the researchers discovered that many fish species ingested plastic particles.\n\n\"We found tiny plastic pieces in the stomachs of commercially targeted pelagic (open sea) species, including swordfish and mahi-mahi, as well as in coral reef species like triggerfish,\" said Dr Whitney.\n\nPlastics were also found in flying fish, which are eaten by top predators such as tunas and most Hawaiian seabirds.\n\n\"Biodiversity and fisheries production are currently threatened by a variety of human-induced stressors such as climate change, habitat loss, and overfishing,\" said Dr Jamison Gove, of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in Honolulu.\n\n\"Unfortunately, our research suggests we can likely now add plastic ingestion by larval fish to that list of threats,\"\n\nThe study is published in the journal PNAS.", "Sarah Barrass, 35, and Brandon Machin, 39, were half-siblings in a secret sexual relationship, police said\n\nThe parents of six children murdered their two teenage sons the day after a bid to poison them failed.\n\nSarah Barrass and Brandon Machin, who is her half-brother, strangled Tristan and Blake Barrass, aged 13 and 14, in Shiregreen, Sheffield, in May.\n\nThe court heard how Barrass, 35, would regularly tell her children: \"I gave you life, I can take it away.\"\n\nBarrass and Machin, 39, were both sentenced to a minimum of 35 years in prison at Sheffield Crown Court.\n\nThey have both previously admitted murder, conspiracy to murder all six of their children, including Blake and Tristan, and five counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe court heard how Barrass strangled Tristan with her dressing gown cord, before Machin strangled Blake with his hands.\n\nThey then put plastic bags over the boys' heads, suffocating them.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said Barrass, of Gregg House Road, Shiregreen, and Machin, of Burngreave Road, had been in a secret sexual relationship for years.\n\nBlake (left) was strangled by Machin, and Tristan was strangled by Barrass\n\nFearing they would be found out by the authorities and their children taken into care, they hatched a plot to kill them. Police said the plan was for Machin to discover what had happened and raise the alarm.\n\nOn the evening of 23 May, Barrass tried to poison the four eldest children, by collecting tablets prescribed to one of the children for ADHD and forcing them to swallow them.\n\nKama Melly QC, prosecuting, said: \"None of the children wanted to take the tablets but were forced to do so.\n\n\"The defendants expected the tablets to kill the children overnight.\"\n\nWhen it became apparent the plan had failed, Barrass began to search online for other ways of killing her children, including suffocation, strangulation and drowning.\n\nShe contacted Machin to tell him they were still alive and the pair then strangled the boys and placed bin bags over their heads \"to ensure their certain death\", Ms Melly said.\n\nThe defendants then ran a bath and repeatedly tried to drown one of the younger children.\n\nWhen that too failed, Barrass took the surviving children - two of whom are under the age of 13, and two under three - to the bedroom and phoned the police.\n\nBikers provided an escort for the funeral of Tristan and Blake in August\n\nThe court heard Barrass had previously approached the local authority to ask for help with her children.\n\nMs Melly said the mother sent a message to a friend which said: \"I've thought of every possible solution to this mess.\n\n\"I love my kids too much to kill them, I can't put them into care for the same reason.\"\n\nBryan Cox QC, mitigating for Barrass, said she was \"profoundly damaged by her childhood\".\n\nHe said: \"The defendant was desperate to prevent her children being taken into care.\n\n\"She couldn't cope with the prospect of them being removed.\"\n\nThe court heard she told police she planned to kill the younger two children and herself, after the older four had died.\n\nMr Justice Goss, sentencing, said to Barrass: \"You considered your love for them and fear of being parted from them entitled you to take their lives as well as your own.\"\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Edmund Hulbert from the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"This was an appalling crime in which two young lives were lost, and a family torn apart, leaving a community in shock.\n\n\"Two of the surviving children witnessed their older siblings being attacked and the trauma that all the children have experienced, and will continue to experience, is unimaginable.\n\n\"It is paramount now that the surviving children are allowed to rebuild their lives in peace.\"\n\nMatthew Saunders, a friend of the murdered boys, said outside court: \"A piece of all our hearts died on 24 May 2019, which we will never get back.\n\n\"Blake and Tristan leave a huge empty void in our lives, and we did not get chance to say goodbye.\n\n\"We are relieved justice has been served, but it should never have come to this.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have agreed not to stand against each other.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have formed an electoral pact, agreeing not to stand against each other in dozens of seats.\n\nThe deal between the three anti-Brexit parties will cover 60 constituencies across England and Wales.\n\nChair of the Unite to Remain group Heidi Allen said it was \"an opportunity to tip the balance of power\".\n\nThe three parties all support another Brexit referendum and want the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nTheir pact means that, in Wales, two of the parties will agree not to field a candidate, boosting the third candidate's chances of picking up the Remain vote.\n\nIn England, it will simply be a two-way agreement between the Lib Dems and the Greens.\n\nLib Dem candidate Layla Moran said the Unite to Remain group had approached Labour about pacts, but \"they said no [and] they didn't even enter into those conversations\".\n\nIn a speech in Liverpool earlier, Labour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said: \"We will never enter pacts, coalitions, or deals like that - ever.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Stephen Gethins said: \"If other parties want to deliver a Remain message in Scotland, they know they have to get behind the SNP.\"\n\nThursday marks exactly five weeks until the UK general election on 12 December.\n\n\"We are delighted that an agreement has been reached,\" said Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson. \"This is a significant moment for all people who want to support Remain candidates across the country.\"\n\nThe pact follows a similar deal earlier this year in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, when Plaid Cymru and the Greens agreed not to put forward a candidate but instead gave way to the Lib Dems' Jane Dodds. She went on to defeat the Conservative incumbent, Chris Davies.\n\nLib Dem MP Jane Dodds (third from left) celebrates her by-election win\n\nIt's impossible to know in advance whether this will affect who wins any of the constituencies.\n\nNone of them would have had a different result in 2017 if Liberal Democrat, Plaid Cymru and Green votes had been added together.\n\nIt's also likely that Brexit will have a bigger influence on how people vote at this election, so the idea of having a united candidate for Remain could give them a boost.\n\nThere are some seats already held by one of the parties where their majorities will be bolstered, such as Arfon and Bath.\n\nAnd there are other places where it makes it a bit easier to win, such as Cheltenham, Montgomeryshire and Winchester - all places the Lib Dems are gunning for - and Ynys Mon, a target for Plaid.\n\nIn England, the Greens will stand aside for the Lib Dems in 40 seats including Totnes, York Outer, Winchester and Twickenham.\n\nAnd the Green Party will run unchallenged by the Lib Dems in nine seats including the Isle of Wight, Bristol West, Exeter and Brighton Pavilion - where Caroline Lucas is the Greens' only MP.\n\nThe pact comes after Plaid Cymru's leader Adam Price wrote to several pro-Remain parties earlier this year, calling on them to work together in a snap general election.\n\nIn Wales, the plan will involve the Lib Dems and Greens standing their candidates aside for Plaid Cymru in seven seats including Pontypridd.\n\nThe deal does not involve the Ceredigion seat - which is currently held by Plaid Cymru but is a top election target for the Lib Dems.\n\nHowever Mike Powell, who had been the Lib Dem candidate in Pontypridd, said he would run as an independent against Plaid Cymru.\n\nHe told Radio 4's World at One: \"I think the people deserve to have an opportunity to vote for someone who is going to represent the people of Pontypridd, rather than standing to represent a cause to remove Wales from the United Kingdom.\n\n\"I know there is an awful lot of members in the Welsh Liberal Democrats who are extremely unhappy with the way these negotiations have been dealt with.\"\n\nThe prospective parliamentary candidates for Pontypridd chosen by their parties so far include Alex Davies-Jones (Labour), Steve Bayliss (the Brexit Party) and Fflur Elin (Plaid Cymru).\n\nIn Northern Ireland the Green Party has said it will not stand candidates in East, West or North Belfast.\n\nGreen Party NI leader Clare Bailey said she was \"prepared to put the need to have pro-Remain MPs returned ahead of party interest\".\n\nSinn Fein leader Michelle O'Neill welcomed the move, which she said would maximise \"the representation of pro-Remain and progressive candidates facing down DUP Brexiteers across Belfast\".\n\nLast week, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage called on Boris Johnson to form a similar election pact. He wanted the PM to drop his Brexit deal and then agree to stand aside candidates for each other.\n\nMr Johnson rejected the offer and said he would not enter election pacts.", "The destroyed remains of the automatic air freshener\n\nA west Belfast man has spoken of his family's lucky escape, after an automatic air freshener exploded on top of a wood-burning stove.\n\nThe explosion happened in the living room of a house in the Lagmore area at about 23:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nA number of family members were in the house, including two children.\n\n\"I came home on Saturday evening, came in and lit the fire, it was very very cold,\" said the father, who didn't want to be named.\n\n\"Myself, my brothers and the wife were in the kitchen. Literally maybe 20, 30 minutes even, we just heard this almighty explosion.\n\n\"The kitchen window went in. I came into the living room and the whole, front window had been blew out.\"\n\nThe father said that they were sitting behind the door at the time and if somebody was beside the door they could have been blown \"out the window with it\".\n\nThe plastic casing scarred the top of the wood burner as it melted, then exploded\n\nThe two children, along with their mother, were upstairs when the explosion happened. They had left the living room minutes beforehand.\n\nAs they all ran downstairs to see what had happened, the mother fell down the stairs, suffering a pelvic injury.\n\n\"It blew open the door, but this is the amazing thing - there's not a pick of damage in the living room,\" said the father.\n\n\"There's mirrors, there's pictures, there's lamps, TV - not one bit of damage. Just the windows have been blown out. I just can't get my head around it.\"\n\nThe front window was blown out during the explosion\n\nHe added: \"My gas box is in the living room.\n\n\"How that didn't explode - we just have to thank our lucky stars.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has urged people to be vigilant and always store any aerosol canisters away from any naked flames or heat.\n\n\"When I lit the fire, I hadn't even realised it was even sitting on top of the fireplace,\" said the householder.\n\n\"It's been sitting throughout summer, that's the first time the fire has been lit in months.\n\n\"Hopefully, someone will learn something from us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Shukman views the scale of the flooding in the Doncaster area from a helicopter\n\nSome residents in a flood-stricken village could be out of their homes for up to three weeks as efforts continue to make the area safe.\n\nDoncaster Council said 1,900 people had been taken to safety, with the village of Fishlake being one of the worst hit.\n\nAbout 200 Army workers are in South Yorkshire supporting the flood effort.\n\nThe prime minister visited flood-hit Stainforth to see the emergency response. But some onlookers shouted at him to say \"you took your time\".\n\nOne resident told Boris Johnson: \"I'm not very happy about talking to you so, if you don't mind, I'll just mope on with what I'm doing.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he understood the strength of feeling as \"you cannot underestimate the anguish that a flood causes\".\n\nShelley Beniston, who is organising supply runs in Fishlake, told Mr Johnson there had not been enough help from authorities.\n\nWhen the prime minister asked if there was anything he could do to help, she replied: \"I think it's more or less all coming in now, a little bit too late though.\"\n\nThe PM said the government was \"plainly going to have to do more\" to equip places with flood defences.\n\nSpeaking in Warwickshire on Wednesday evening Mr Johnson added: \"We as a country need to be investing in the long term in flood defences.\n\n\"We have already put £2.6bn in as a government and we've ensured that places that are particularly vulnerable get more per capita.\n\n\"That's why I stress importance of investment in infrastructure\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson got a frosty reception from some residents in South Yorkshire\n\nDoncaster Council said every effort was being made to increase pumping so people could return home sooner but more widespread rain is forecast, with warnings in place for large parts of the country.\n\nMet Office spokesman Grahame Madge said: \"Obviously the prospect of any more rainfall is troubling for people in areas where catchments are already full.\n\n\"Taking on more rainfall is only going to add to the problems that are already there.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was monitoring the weather \"closely\" and had \"resources on the ground and on standby if needed\".\n\nAssistant chief fire officer Steve Helps advised residents to \"watch the news, monitor the weather forecast and of course to take direction from the police, the emergency services or local authorities\".\n\nElectricity supplier Northern Powergrid said it had brought in additional staff and resources in case of problems.\n\nIt said it was putting in flood barriers around two electricity substations which power around 15,000 homes and businesses in the Doncaster area.\n\nPersonnel from the Light Dragoons have laid sandbags in Stainforth, near Doncaster, in a bid to shore up the village's bridge.\n\nAbout 500 homes have been flooded in Doncaster with 1,200 properties evacuated in areas hit by the floods.\n\nHundreds of people in Fishlake have fled their homes after the village was submerged and the fire service has been working to rescue people.\n\nThe council said the village was not safe and that \"a return to properties is discouraged in the strongest possible terms\".\n\nRoads into Fishlake remain closed and the Environment Agency said people should not attempt to enter the area.\n\nSoldiers have been helping move sandbags in areas affected by the flooding\n\nDoncaster Council said the Environment Agency, along with emergency services, were working hard to make the area safe but \"the latest estimates suggest a safe return could be up to three weeks away for some residents\".\n\nScott Godfrey, landlord of the Hare and Hounds, has been using the pub as a refuge, giving affected residents accommodation and hot food as well as delivering meals to people stranded in their homes.\n\nHe said they had been let down by the council \"big style\" because it had rowed back on its promise of helping with provisions to send out to villagers.\n\n\"We had 45 residents that were stranded who wanted meals. Luckily everyone pulled together and we managed to get some hot meals out,\" he said.\n\nThe authority said it would now be offering humanitarian aid to those who have remained in Fishlake but added this should not be attempted by residents.\n\nMeanwhile, the neighbouring village of Stainforth has been coming to the aid of those evacuated from their homes.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson announced more support for communities affected by flooding following a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee.\n\nIt came amid criticism from Labour and the Liberal Democrats who said he should declare a \"national emergency\".\n\nMr Johnson said authorities were working \"flat out\" and a request had been made for \"a little bit more help\" from the military in getting sandbags and other defences to some of the affected areas.\n\nJon Trickett, shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, said Mr Johnson's proposals were \"too little too late\".\n\n\"You can't trust Boris Johnson to look out for the North or the Midlands or protect our communities from flooding,\" he said.\n\nOther measures announced on Tuesday were:\n\nFlooding wiped out the stock of Re-Read, a social enterprise that gives free books to children\n\nReferring to the response for people affected by the flooding, Mr Johnson added: \"I know there will be people who feel that that isn't good enough.\n\n\"I know there will be people who are worrying about the damage to their homes, who will be worried about the insurance situation, worried about the losses they face.\n\n\"All I want to say to those people is that there are schemes to cover those losses.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband spoke to affected residents in the Bentley suburb of Doncaster\n\nMany homeowners in South Yorkshire are keeping sandbags at their homes in case the floods return\n\nThe five severe flood warnings along the River Don in South Yorkshire have been removed, but 20 flood warnings - meaning \"flooding is expected\" - remain in place.\n\nLast week extensive downpours meant several areas were struck by a month's worth of rain in a single day.\n\nBaby Indie was born to Dan Greenslade and Jade Croft on Friday\n\nA couple who became new parents on Friday and hours later were told their home in Fishlake was underwater, have described the support they have received from local people as \"invaluable\".\n\n\"Thank God for the people of Stainforth, and other people around for the support that they've shown,\" said Dan Greenslade.\n\nMeanwhile, a Doncaster salon offered free \"pamper\" sessions for local children affected by flooding, and dozens of swans were rescued from oil from an upturned barge in Rotherham and cars which had been trapped in flood water.\n\nChurches and community centres have collected toiletries, clothes, cleaning products and food for the hundreds of people displaced from their homes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A two-minute silence was observed around the country\n\nThe UK has fallen silent for the 101st Armistice Day since World War One to commemorate those who died in conflict.\n\nIt is the centenary of the first two-minute silence, held on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.\n\nThe Royal British Legion called on the nation to put busy lives on pause, set aside differences and remember those who risked their lives.\n\nPoliticians marked the day by offering pledges to improve the lives of UK service personnel and their families.\n\nThe tradition of a two-minute silence to remember the dead began exactly a year after the end of World War One.\n\nAhead of this year's commemoration, the Royal British Legion called on the nation to put down digital devices to pay their respects to service personnel.\n\nVeterans and members of the public observed the silence at Edinburgh Garden of Remembrance\n\nThe Last Post was played at the National Memorial Arboretum\n\nTravellers and railway workers stopped to observe the silence at London's King's Cross station\n\nIn a video message, the legion said the commemoration was non-political and non-partisan. It featured 21-year-old actress Eno Mfon saying: \"You don't have to agree with the politicians, you don't have to like their decisions.\"\n\n\"The two-minute silence unites us all and is as relevant today as it was 100 years ago,\" said Catherine Davies, the legion's head of remembrance.\n\nA silent crowd in Liverpool was showered with poppy petals\n\nThey also covered Liverpool's statue of the unknown soldier\n\nMusic teacher John Hare played the Last Post at St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School in Bristol\n\nOn Sunday, the Queen led tributes to the fallen at the annual ceremony at the Cenotaph in London.\n\nThe Royal Family also attended the Royal British Legion's annual Festival of Remembrance on Saturday. It was the first time the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had been seen with other family members since they revealed they were struggling with life in the public eye.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Labour’s 'national education service' will offer people free education as a right for all.\"\n\nLabour is promising a £3bn plan to offer adults in England free access to retraining to help their job chances and to tackle skills shortages.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner wants to \"throw open the door\" to adults wanting to learn new skills.\n\nThe Lib Dems are promising a £10,000 training grant for each adult, which it calls a \"skills wallet\".\n\nThe Conservatives have a National Retraining Scheme for adults needing to update their skills for work.\n\nWith concerns about automation threatening jobs and warnings from employers about a lack of skilled staff, the political parties are setting out their stalls for adult education and retraining.\n\nThe CBI business group welcomed making training a priority, saying: \"Adult participation in education is at its lowest for two decades.\"\n\nThe Edge vocational education charity warned the current skills shortage was costing UK businesses £4.4bn per year.\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour's election campaign set out plans to spend an extra £3bn per year to provide free access to vocational learning for adults - which it hopes will reach an extra 300,000 people per year.\n\nAngela Rayner and Jeremy Corbyn will promise more support for training for jobs\n\nMs Rayner says it will help people \"who want to change career, are made redundant or didn't get the qualifications they needed when they were younger\".\n\n\"For many, adult education is too expensive, too time-consuming or too difficult to get into,\" she says.\n\nLabour would offer adults up to six years of training, such as for vocational qualifications in the healthcare and engineering sectors or adults wanting to go back to college to get academic qualifications.\n\nEmployees would also have a right to paid time off for education and training and there are promises to improve careers advice for adults.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ms Rayner said she wanted to \"change the culture\" so that \"learning is part of everyday life, rather than something that is done to you at a particular point\".\n\nIt was a \"long overdue investment\", she said, improving the skills of young people and adults, rather relying on skilled workers from abroad.\n\nThe shadow education secretary said access to adult education would be open to all and would be \"free at the point of use\" without means testing, with funding to come from changes to taxes for high earners and businesses.\n\nMs Rayner also restated Labour's commitment to scrapping tuition fees for university students in England. \"We will abolish tuition fees, no ifs, no buts.\"\n\nShe rejected concerns from vice chancellors about whether university funding would be protected, accusing them of receiving \"wild amounts\" of pay, and saying they were paid much more than the prime minister.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn says education should be \"like an escalator running alongside you throughout life, that you can get on and off whenever you want\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have put forward their plans for adult education - based on the idea of individuals having a \"skills wallet\" to pay for training, with government funding being available to be drawn down at different stages of life.\n\nAt the age of 25, there would be £4,000 put into the skills wallet, £3,000 at the age of 40 and then £3,000 at the age of 55.\n\nThe Lib Dems say the policy will cost £1.6bn per year by 2024-25.\n\n\"In an ever changing workplace, people often need to develop new skills but the cost of courses and qualifications shuts too many people out,\" Lib Dem business spokesman Sam Gyimah says.\n\nSam Gyimah, of the Lib Dems, has promised adults individual funding for their learning needs\n\nThe Conservatives in government have begun to test plans for a National Retraining Scheme, supported by £100m announced in last year's Budget.\n\nThis is intended to help people train for changing jobs and alternative careers if their jobs are threatened by automation.\n\nThere are some local pilot tests for the retraining scheme, available to adults without degrees in low-income jobs.\n\nIt is scheduled to be rolled out more widely in 2020.\n\nThe Conservatives also highlighted their plans for new vocational qualifications, called T-levels.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said Labour was \"making promises that it simply won't be able to fulfil\".\n\nBut Jo Grady, leader of the UCU lecturers' union, warned of \"steep falls\" in numbers of adult students.\n\n\"For too many years, adult learning has been a sorely neglected part of our education system,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson says Labour is making promises they \"won't be able to fulfil\"\n\nNeil Bates, who chairs the Edge vocational educational charity, said employers would want to tackle the £4.4bn cost of skills shortages - and individuals needed to have the skills for \"secure, well paid, sustainable jobs\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Learning and Work Institute, Stephen Evans, who was a member of Labour's Lifelong Learning Commission, warned that currently \"the number of adults taking part in learning at its lowest levels on record\".\n\n\"Worse still, it is the adults who could most benefit from access to training opportunities who are least likely to participate,\" he said.\n\nEmployers have complained of skills shortages and Matthew Fell, the CBI's chief policy director, said it was important \"lifelong learning is rising to the top of the political agenda\".\n\nHe said businesses would also welcome support for technical education and giving it a status \"on par with academic learning\".\n\nAll the parties know their record on adult education is pretty poor, writes Sophie Hutchinson.\n\nAccording to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, in the past 15 years, overall spending on classroom-based courses has fallen by two-thirds, as have the number of adult learners.\n\nThe adult education budget fell by 32% between 2003-04 and 2009-10 under Labour and by a further 47% from 2009-10 to 2018-19 under the coalition and the Conservatives.\n\nLabour now says it would reverse that and more, coming close to doubling the current adult education budget, taking it back to levels similar to 2003.\n\nThe Lib Dems also want a boost to lifelong learning - with a \"skills wallet\" for money for adults to spend on learning.\n\nBut there will be a challenge ensuring this is spent on genuine courses - as a previous Individual Learning Account scheme faced widespread fraud.", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "Nick Boles quit the Tories over their position on Brexit in March\n\nA former Tory MP has condemned the \"appalling choice\" voters face between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIn a scathing attack in the Evening Standard, Nick Boles accused Mr Johnson of being a \"compulsive liar\" and called Mr Corbyn a \"totalitarian\".\n\nMr Boles - who quit the Tories over their stance on Brexit - also revealed he would vote Liberal Democrat.\n\nHe said it would \"not entail the kind of moral compromise\" of voting Tory or Labour in 12 December's election.\n\nBBC News has contacted the Conservatives and Labour for a response.\n\nMr Boles urged people to vote for \"whichever party is best-placed to challenge\" the two largest parties in Westminster.\n\nLast week, former Labour MP Ian Austin said he would be voting Conservative as Mr Corbyn was \"completely unfit to lead our country\".\n\nIn his article, Mr Boles said the 12 December poll would be \"the only election in modern times in which you wouldn't trust either of the prime ministerial candidates to mind your children for an hour, let alone run the country\".\n\nThe former MP, who used to work for Mr Johnson when he was Mayor of London, made a number of personal attacks about his old boss' honesty.\n\nHe also accused the PM of \"turning the party of Disraeli and Churchill into a vehicle for shrill English nationalism\", and said Mr Johnson had \"purged its ranks of anyone who favours a close relationship with our European partners\".\n\nTurning his fire on Mr Corbyn, Mr Boles said: \"Like all leaders of a totalitarian mindset, he is entirely uninterested in the lives of individual human beings.\n\n\"He cares only for classes and factions, and the struggle between abstract political forces.\"\n\nMr Boles said voters \"will not remake Britain's political system in one day\", but could make a start by voting for his former political rivals, the Liberal Democrats.\n\n\"I will vote for Jo Swinson's candidate because it will not entail the kind of moral compromise that voting Conservative or Labour would,\" he added.\n\n\"I trust her to pursue the closest possible relationship with the European Union after Brexit.\n\n\"And, most of all, because the Liberal Democrats will insist on electoral reform and the introduction of a proportional voting system, which is essential if we are ever to break free of the tyranny of the two big parties and open up British politics to new forces, new faces and new ideas.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nick Boles dramatically quit his party during a speech in the Commons in March 2019\n\nMr Boles was part of a cross-party group of MPs who tried to find a compromise in Parliament back in March around a Brexit proposal that would retain access to the single market.\n\nAfter his \"Common Market 2.0\" plan was rejected by MPs for the second time, he accused his party of \"failing to compromise\", saying he could no longer represent them in the Commons and would sit as an independent.\n\nHe has decided not to stand at the upcoming election.", "Former chief of the Armed Forces Lord Bramall has died at the age of 95.\n\nThe Normandy D-Day veteran, who oversaw the Falklands campaign, retired from the House of Lords in 2013.\n\nLord Bramall was awarded a military cross in 1945 for his bravery during World War Two.\n\nIn his later years, he was falsely accused in 2014 of child sexual abuse by the paedophile and fantasist Carl Beech.\n\nHe was too ill to attend the trial of Beech in person earlier this year. Beech was later jailed for making the false allegations.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died in 2015 before detectives announced they were not charging him.\n\nA field marshal and baron, Lord Bramall served during the Normandy landings and commanded UK land forces between 1976 and 1978.\n\nHe became chief of the general staff - the professional head of the Army - in 1979, and in 1982 he oversaw the Falklands campaign.\n\nLater that year he became chief of the defence staff - the most senior officer commanding the UK's armed forces - and served until 1985.\n\nHe went on to have a 26-year career in the House of Lords.\n\nLord Bramall - known to his family and friends as Dwin, from his first name Edwin - spoke out in the House of Lords against the involvement of the UK in the Iraq war.\n\nDuring a debate in 2004, he said: \"We really should know by now that, unlike naked aggression, terrorism cannot be defeated by massive military means, but by concentrating more on the twin pillars of competent protection and positive diplomacy.\"\n\nHe also spoke out against the UK's nuclear missiles, telling the Lords in 2007 that abandoning Trident \"could be seen as a bold and striking decision intended to show that the country is resolved to return to the position of moral and ethical standards for which it was once widely recognised\".\n\nThe Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament praised Lord Bramall over his comments.\n\nAlso paying tribute was former defence minister Tobias Ellwood, who tweeted that Lord Bramall had been an \"inspirational leader\".\n\nEx-defence secretary Lord Heseltine called him an \"outstanding soldier\", adding: \"From his earliest experiences in the liberation of Europe and the D-Day landings, to his distinguished tenure as chief of the defence staff, he was a man who inspired confidence.\n\n\"His public humiliation following the scandalous allegations was one of the most disgraceful episodes of my political life.\n\n\"The country has lost a great patriot who deserved better from us.\"\n\nFormer Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, who was also wrongly accused by Beech, paid tribute to Lord Bramall and said the country was \"poorer for his death\".\n\n\"He will be remembered as a military leader of enormous stature, courage and ability,\" Mr Proctor said.\n\nLord Bramall will be remembered as a war hero, despite the false claims towards the end of his life.\n\nHe joined the Army at the age of 18 and took part in the D-Day landings.\n\nIn Normandy, he was wounded twice but quickly returned to duty. For his bravery he was awarded the military cross.\n\nHe served in Borneo and then west Germany at the height of the Cold War as he rose through the ranks. By the time of the Falklands War he was the head of the Army. He retired in 1985 as a field marshal.\n\nHe was still respected as a strategic thinker - warning of the dangers of the Iraq invasion in 2003.\n\nHe also questioned the cost of renewing Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system.\n\nHis reputation still survived, despite what he called the ridiculous allegations made by a fantasist who wrongly claimed he was part of an establishment paedophile ring.\n\nPaying tribute to Lord Bramall, chief of the defence staff General Sir Nick Carter said his \"many admirers\" would be \"deeply saddened\" to hear of his death.\n\n\"He was a remarkable soldier who served our country with great bravery and dedication over many decades, inspiring his many subordinates, and overseeing significant change as a chief of staff that we still benefit from today,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative parliamentary candidate Nigel Evans focused on the impact of the false allegations, tweeting: \"I trust more than a few people will hang their heads in shame following this news. He deserved so much better from the police. RIP Lord Bramall.\"\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said Lord Bramall's last years were \"dominated\" by Operation Midland, the Metropolitan Police's probe into Beech's false claims.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said she was \"very sad\" to learn of his death.\n\n\"I met him recently to apologise personally for the great damage the Metropolitan Police investigation into Carl Beech's false allegations has had on him and his family,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"I was struck by his selflessness and generosity in the issues he wanted to discuss, focusing on a desire to ensure the lessons from Operation Midland had been learnt by the Met.\n\n\"It was very humbling to be in his company and hear first-hand his experience.\n\n\"He was a great man, a brilliant soldier and leader, and much-loved family man. He was a true gentleman and will be hugely missed.\"\n\nLord Bramall, a father-of-two, thumped the desk and called the allegations \"ridiculous\" when he was questioned by police in 2015.\n\nFootage of his police interview, which happened weeks after his home was raided, was played at Beech's trial.\n\n\"I am absolutely astonished, amazed and bemused,\" Lord Bramall said in that interview.\n\n\"I find it incredible that anybody should believe that someone of my career standing, integrity, should be capable of any of these things, including things like torture - unbelievable.\"", "Highways England urged drivers to be patient during stoppages\n\nDrivers have been warned not to break the law by going the wrong way on the M5 to avoid long queues.\n\nHighways England said it had seen \"traffic driving the wrong way into Avonmouth\" following an accident northbound between J18 and J17 earlier.\n\nIt said in a tweet: \"This is illegal. You are putting yourselves, our roadworkers and other road users at great risk.\"\n\nTraffic that was being held has now been released, a spokesperson said.", "Live insects will not be eaten in this year's I'm A Celebrity, in a \"permanent\" change to the reality TV show.\n\nI'm A Celebrity has previously been criticised for using live bugs in its 'bushtucker trials'.\n\nSome tasks on the ITV show have included insects being eaten alive or dumped onto contestants.\n\nThe stars could still be covered in bugs during filming in Australia but any eaten will already be dead.\n\n\"Producers have taken a look at the trials and decided that no live critters would be eaten in the trials this year,\" BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat has been told.\n\nAn ITV source said: \"They have been planning this for some time and actually last year beach worms were the only critters eaten live but this time around they've decided to implement the change fully and permanently.\"\n\nInsects like this witchetty grub have been eaten alive on previous series of I'm A Celebrity\n\nThis year's line-up includes former Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle, ex-footballer and broadcaster Ian Wright and Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts.\n\nThe move has been welcomed by wildlife presenter Chris Packham, who says he's \"very pleased\" at ITV's decision, but describes it as \"a first step.\"\n\n\"I hope this is the start of some significant change,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What's long concerned me about the programme is that is portrays animals in the wrong way.\n\n\"There was never any ambiguity that eating live invertebrates was abuse and also exploitation for entertainment.\"\n\nChris also criticised the show for stereotyping animals like rats and snakes as \"bad organism.\"\n\nHe also said he thought ITV's decision was part of a change in global thinking due to the current climate crisis.\n\n\"We're going to have to make changes,\" he added.\n\n\"That means you and I making changes in our lives, that means TV producers making changes in the way they make their programmes.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The Duchess of Sussex has accused the Mail on Sunday and its parent company of a campaign of \"untrue\" stories, according to new details of her legal action against the newspaper group.\n\nCourt papers filed against the group set out a list of \"false\" articles about Meghan, the website Byline says.\n\nHer lawyers claim the Mail on Sunday removed passages of a private letter to her father to portray her \"negatively\".\n\nThe Mail on Sunday repeated its intent to defend the case \"with vigour\".\n\n\"There is nothing in this document which changes that position,\" a spokesman said.\n\nIn October, law firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, filed a High Court claim against the Mail on Sunday and its parent company over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe claim came after the Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter from Meghan to her father, Thomas Markle, sent shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nIt is claimed the newspaper did not publish parts of the letter because it would undermine its \"negative\" portrayal of the duchess.\n\nThe court papers claim that Meghan's father was exploited by journalists and say that reporters also invented a series of claims about her relationship with her mother.\n\nThe duchess' lawyers will also accuse Associated Newspapers, the parent entity of the Mail newspapers, of printing \"completely untrue\" stories about renovations to Meghan and Prince Harry's home.\n\nThey say that claims by the paper - also published on the Mail Online website - that a £5,000 copper bath and £500,000-worth of soundproofing were charged to the taxpayer were lies.\n\nIn a statement last month, the Duke of Sussex said he and Meghan were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\" and a \"ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year\".\n\nPrince Harry said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven the couple to take action.\n\nThe duke has launched separate legal action against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.", "The Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in a BBC interview.\n\nHe spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in an interview recorded at Buckingham Palace.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "Chinese soldiers in Hong Kong have left their barracks to help dismantle barricades built by protesters.\n\nDressed in shorts and T-shirts, they also cleaned up debris left on the streets after a week of violent anti-government demonstrations.\n\nIt is thought to be the first time since the protests erupted that Chinese soldiers have taken to the streets.", "The Strictly Come Dancing judges in charitable mood\n\nStars from Strictly, Star Wars, Doctor Who and EastEnders are lending a hand to Children In Need to help raise funds in this year's charity BBC TV appeal.\n\nThe five-hour telethon also features England football players, a celebrity edition of music quiz The Hit List and songs by Louis Tomlinson and Westlife.\n\nThey are all hoping viewers will donate to Children In Need, which supports 3,000 local charities and projects.\n\nLast year, £50.6m was raised on the appeal night.\n\nThe hosts: Marvin and Rochelle Humes, Mel Giedroyc, Tom Allen, Graham Norton, Ade Adepitan and Tess Daly\n\nChildren in Need is the BBC's official UK charity and raises money for disadvantaged young people around the country, such as those experiencing poverty, with disabilities, or victims of abuse or neglect.\n\nThis year, comedian Tom Allen joins a presenting line-up that also includes Graham Norton, Tess Daly, Mel Giedroyc, Ade Adepitan and Marvin and Rochelle Humes.\n\nEastEnders actors Ricky Champ (who plays Stuart Highway), Louisa Lytton (Ruby Allen), Maisie Smith (Tiffany Butcher) and Rudolph Walker (Patrick Trueman) swap Albert Square for the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom for the night.\n\nStrictly judge Craig Revel Horwood appears in a sketch with EastEnders' Ricky Champ and Rudolph Walker\n\nThe EastEnders teamed up with Strictly professionals\n\nStar Wars actors Daisy Ridley and John Boyega challenge YouTuber Colin Furze to build a real working landspeeder [vehicle that hovers], helped by young people from Children In Need projects.\n\nDoctor Who's Jodie Whittaker also makes an appearance, and Norton gives three children the chance to be on his chat show sofa - and the power to tip joke-telling celebrities out of his famous big red chair.\n\nGraham Norton gives Julio, Iara and Emma control over his famous lever\n\nWill Julio like the jokes told by Anneka Rice in the big red chair?\n\nMeanwhile, there are special versions of Mock The Week, Crackerjack and Dragon's Den, along with performances from Michael Ball and Alfie Boe, plus the casts of Big, The Tina Turner Musical and Circus 1903.\n\nEngland footballers Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling have been filmed surprising children from the England Amputee Football Association.\n\nEngland stars Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling with children from the England Amputee Football Association and presenter Mark Wright\n\nA special edition of BBC One's The Hit List features pop stars including rapper Wretch 32, ex-JLS singer JB Gill, Heidi Range from the Sugababes, Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle, Liberty X star Michelle Heaton and Blue's Antony Costa.\n\nJB Gill and Wretch 32 on the special Hit List\n\nTV personality Rylan Clark-Neal has already raised more than £1m for the cause with his 24-hour karaoke marathon on BBC Radio 2.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren in Need is on BBC One at 19:30 GMT on 15 November\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emily Maitlis repeats the claim by Virginia Roberts’ legal team that “you could not spend time around Epstein and not know what was going on”.\n\nThe prince says that with the benefit of hindsight one might question: “Was that really the way that it was or was I looking at it the very wrong way?”\n\nHe compares Epstein’s house to Buckingham Palace in that both have lots of people walking around.\n\n“I live in an institution at Buckingham Palace which has members of staff walking around all the time and I don’t wish to appear grand but there were a lot of people who were walking around Jeffrey Epstein’s house.”\n\n“You’d notice if there were hundreds of underage girls in Buckingham Palace, wouldn’t you?” Emily Maitlis asks.\n\nThe prince says he would have noticed if that was the case at Epstein’s home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to shows Prince Andrew inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York residence in 2010\n\nPrince Andrew has given an unprecedented interview to the BBC about his relationship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe friendship between the 59-year-old member of the Royal Family and Epstein has come under close scrutiny since the American killed himself in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew said it was wrong of him to visit and stay at Epstein's house in 2010 after the financier's conviction but that he did not regret their entire friendship.\n\nHe also categorically denied having sex with Virginia Roberts, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old.\n\nHere's what we know about the links between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew said he first met Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager, in 1999 through Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's British girlfriend and a woman the prince said he had known since she was at university. That year was the first time the prince and the businessman were linked in press reports in the UK and US.\n\nPrince Andrew reportedly flew with Epstein on his private Gulfstream jet in February 1999, according to a log book seen by the Daily Mirror in 2015.\n\nThe destination was said to have been Epstein's private island, Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Daily Mail also reported that 10 months earlier Epstein's logbook showed he had flown to the same location to meet the prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. The couple had divorced in 1996.\n\nEpstein and Ms Maxwell were among a star-studded guest list at a party hosted by the Queen in June 2000.\n\nThe Dance of the Decades event, which saw more than 600 guests descend on Windsor Castle, marked four royal birthdays including Prince Andrew's 40th. Prince Andrew, the Queen's third child, told the BBC that Epstein was there at his invitation, not the Royal Family's, but was to some extent Ms Maxwell's \"plus one\".\n\nThe duke at the time appeared to be part of the social circle of Ms Maxwell, whom Epstein later described as his best friend.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured accompanying Ms Maxwell - daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell - at private parties and celebrity functions both in the UK and in the US that year.\n\nThey were photographed together at the wedding of the prince's former girlfriend, Aurelia Cecil, near Salisbury in Wiltshire in September 2000.\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell leaving the wedding of his former girlfriend Aurelia Cecil in September 2000\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell were pictured at the event in Wiltshire\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell were again photographed together at a Halloween party thrown by model Heidi Klum in Manhattan.\n\nMs Maxwell was pictured dressed in gold lame and wearing a blonde wig for the Hookers and Pimps-themed party.\n\nJust over a month later, in December 2000, the then 40-year-old prince threw Ms Maxwell a surprise birthday party at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, with Epstein among the guests.\n\nHe described it in the BBC interview as a \"straightforward shooting weekend\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham in December 2000\n\nMs Maxwell and Epstein were photographed on a pheasant shoot at the estate around that time.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell went on a number of trips together including to Florida and Thailand, according to an Evening Standard report from January 2001, which claimed Epstein had joined them on five such occasions over the previous 12 months.\n\nPrince Andrew told the BBC that he used to see Epstein a maximum of three times a year but confirmed he had been on his private plane, stayed at his private island, and stayed at his homes in Palm Beach, Florida and New York.\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial next year.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges but was facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted.\n\nIn July 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was invited to a masked ball at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 18th birthday of Princess Beatrice, Prince Andrew's elder daughter.\n\nThe theme of the evening was 1888, and the 500 guests donned period costumes.\n\nThe previous month, Epstein was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution.\n\nPrince Andrew said Epstein had been invited via Ms Maxwell but that he wasn't aware at the time the invitation was sent out \"what was going on in the United States\".\n\nHe said Epstein never mentioned that he was under investigation.\n\nThe duke was photographed with Epstein in New York's Central Park in December 2010 - after the tycoon had served his sentence.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had travelled across the Atlantic to end his friendship with Epstein and was having that conversation with him when they were photographed in the park.\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nThe prince told the BBC: \"I said, 'Look, because of what has happened, I don't think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact.'\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he attended a small dinner party while he was there but denied it was to celebrate Epstein's release.\n\nFootage released by the Mail on Sunday in August showed Prince Andrew inside the financier's Manhattan mansion around the same time.\n\nThe prince told the BBC that he regretted staying at Epstein's house during the visit, saying he \"let the side down\" by doing so. Pressed on reports that many young girls were coming and going from the house at the time, he said: \"I never saw them.\"\n\nEpstein's house was like a \"railway station\" with \"people coming in and out of that house all the time\", he added.\n\nPrince Andrew's connection to the convicted sex offender did attract criticism at the time.\n\nAfter several days of newspaper reports on the Epstein connection in spring of 2011, Prince Andrew was hit with a further blow when Sarah Ferguson admitted having accepted £15,000 from Epstein, to help pay off her debts.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in 2011 - she is said to have accepted £15,000 from Epstein that year\n\nThe fallout saw him quit his role as a UK trade envoy in July 2011. Prince Andrew later acknowledged his friendship with Epstein had been a mistake.\n\nIn 2015 the duke was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew was not party to the proceedings but was identified when a motion was filed in the court, as part of the evidence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was ordered to give the prince \"whatever he required\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Virginia Roberts in early 2001, said to have been taken at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is standing behind the pair\n\nMs Giuffre claimed in court papers in Florida she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions - in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein - between 2001 and 2002, including when she was underage under Florida law.\n\nThe details were later officially struck from the court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 was contained in documents from a defamation case. These documents were made public when they were released by a judge in August 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre had brought the defamation case against Ms Maxwell. She was alleged to have procured underage girls for Epstein and his friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had \"no recollection\" of ever meeting Ms Giuffre. He said he was looking after his children on the day in March 2001 that she alleges they went to a nightclub in London and later had sex in Ms Maxwell's house in the Belgravia area.\n\nThe prince said he had taken his daughter Beatrice to a Pizza Express restaurant in the town of Woking that afternoon for a party.\n\nHe said he remembered it \"because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I would like to reiterate and reaffirm the statements that have been issued on my behalf by the palace\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he had no recollection of a photo being taken, reportedly by Jeffrey Epstein, of him and Virginia Giuffre together in Ms Maxwell's house where his arm is around her waist.\n\n\"Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken,\" he said, adding that \"hug[s] and public displays of affection are not something that I do\".\n\nAsked whether he had sex with her in a bedroom in that house, he said: \"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued outright denials of all allegations against Prince Andrew.", "There were three big questions and a whole pile of smaller ones that needed answering in this interview.\n\nOn the big three, the Duke of York was pressed time and time again - did he have sex with Virginia Giuffre (then called Virginia Roberts), as she claims? Why did he go back to see (and stay with) Jeffrey Epstein two years after the businessman's conviction and imprisonment for child sex offences? And how did he explain the photograph of him with his arm round the waist of the 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre.\n\nAbout his visit to New York in 2010 when he stayed at Epstein's house, Prince Andrew was, if not remorseful, then clear that (with hindsight) he had done the wrong thing. He had gone there to tell Epstein that their friendship was over, he said.\n\nHe said he did not speak to Epstein once he knew about the 2006 Palm Beach Police investigation into possible child sex offences. Nor did he speak to him or contact him when he was in prison. Then in 2010 he flew to New York and stayed with him - it was more \"convenient\", he said - for the sole purpose of telling him they could no longer be friends. By this point they had not seen each other for four years.\n\nTo have done it by phone would have been \"chicken\" and he is \"too honourable\" at times, he said. So, he says, he did the wrong thing for the right reasons. It was pretty much the only time in the interview that he admitted having made any kind of mistake over his 11-year relationship with Epstein.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew says he has wracked his brains but cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nAbout the claim by Virginia Giuffre that she slept with the prince three times, there was a categorical denial, alongside a string of reasons why her story did not add up.\n\nShe says he bought her a drink in a nightclub; he said he doesn't know where the bar is in that club. She says he was sweating heavily as he danced with her; he says he didn't sweat at all back then because of an obscure medical condition that's now gone away. She says he slept with her; he said he was at home after taking one of his daughters to a party in a pizza restaurant.\n\nHe said he didn't remember her, he didn't recollect her and again he absolutely categorically denied sleeping with her.\n\nMs Giuffre says she was abused by the prince in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home, where she was pictured in 2001\n\nAnd the photo of the prince with his arm slipped around Virginia Giuffre's naked midriff? It has plagued Prince Andrew and the palace, undercutting their blunt denials. No recollection, said the prince. No explanation.\n\nOver the past few months, so-called \"friends\" of the prince have mounted a whispering campaign about the photo trying to undercut its authenticity.\n\nHe wouldn't go so far but instead suggested he never wore the kinds of clothes he was wearing in the photo - travelling clothes - when in London, preferring a suit and tie, and that he never went to the upper floor of the house where the photo was taken. He just couldn't remember the photo, he said, and was at a loss to explain where it came from.\n\nThere was notably little in the way of apology or remorse in the interview. Aside from that visit to Epstein's house in 2010, Prince Andrew does not think he has done anything wrong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nHe does not regret the friendship with Epstein, a man who by many accounts used and abused young girls for many years. It had, he said, \"some seriously beneficial outcomes\".\n\nIn one horrible moment he described Epstein as having behaved \"in a manner unbecoming\", as if the convicted sex offender had simply passed the port round the wrong way in the regimental mess. He was picked up on that quickly, and apologised. \"I'm being polite,\" Prince Andrew said.\n\nPrince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein pictured walking in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nNothing struck him as suspicious in the various Epstein households that he visited. The Miami Herald has painstakingly put together a picture in Palm Beach of a place where three or four young (14 and 15-year-old) girls might visit a day to give Epstein massages, during which he would sexually abuse many of them.\n\nBut the prince was at pains to point out that he didn't know Epstein that well really, he might drop in a few times a year, and he said that Epstein \"may have changed his behaviour patterns\" so as to cover up his behaviour.\n\nPrince Andrew met Epstein through the businessman's girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell back in 1999. He said he had seen Ms Maxwell in late spring this year.\n\nDid they talk about their one-time friend, Jeffrey Epstein, who had accompanied Ms Maxwell to Windsor Castle and to Sandringham, who had laid his personal jet and houses and holiday island at Prince Andrew's disposal?\n\nNo, the prince replied, there was nothing to discuss: \"He wasn't in the news. We'd moved on.\"\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "Firefighters are tackling the blaze at The Cube in Bolton\n\nFirefighters have been tackling a huge blaze at a university student accommodation block.\n\nCrowds of students were evacuated from The Cube in Bolton when the fire broke out at about 20:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nAt its height about 200 firefighters from 40 fire engines were tackling the blaze which was affecting every floor.\n\nA witness said the fire was \"climbing up\" the six-storey building. One person was rescued by crews using an aerial platform.\n\nGreater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said two people were treated by paramedics at the scene.\n\nIt said six fire engines remained at the scene at 05:30 as firefighters \"tackle the last few pockets of fire\".\n\nArea manager Jim Hutton said \"hardworking firefighters\" had prevented the fire from spreading to an adjacent building.\n\n\"Our crews have done a fantastic job bringing this fire under control, in what have been very challenging circumstances,\" added Assistant Chief Fire Officer Tony Hunter.\n\nOne witness said the fire was \"climbing up\" the building\n\nUniversity of Bolton student Shannon Parker, who lives in the building, said she was in her room when the fire started.\n\n\"I heard the fire alarm going off but it kept on going off so I just thought it was a drill at first until one of my flatmates shouted down the corridor that it was a real fire,\" the 22-year-old said.\n\n\"So I ran out the flat as quickly as I could and I saw that it was one of the flats below mine and we went out by the fire exit.\"\n\nShe said she was being relocated to either a nearby hotel or another student accommodation building.\n\nPolice have closed a number of roads in the area\n\nGMFRS has asked residents of The Cube to register at Orlando Village Student Accommodation and contact family members to let them know they are safe.\n\nThe University of Bolton said it was supporting students who had been evacuated and had given people temporary accommodation at the Orlando student halls and in some hotels.\n\nProf George E Holmes DL, president and vice-chancellor of the university, said: \"University colleagues have worked through the night to make sure support is in place for students over the weekend.\n\n\"We have also arranged to provide necessities such as toiletries for all students affected and are opening the university over the weekend so students can be supported. We will also provide food for them.\"\n\nHe said The Cube was not owned by the University of Bolton and that it was owned and managed by a private landlord.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Colette Wiseman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWitness Ace Love, 35, said the fire \"kept getting more intense, climbing up and to the right because the wind was blowing so hard\".\n\n\"We could see it bubbling from the outside and then being engulfed from the outside,\" he added.\n\n\"A lot of students got out very fast, someone was very distressed, the rest were on phones calling for help.\n\n\"The fire got worse and worse, to the point where you could see through the beams, it was just bare frame.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓸𝓷 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓮𝓻🍑 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVideos posted on social media show debris falling from the building and firefighters tackling flames coming out of the windows on the top floors.\n\nOne student tweeted to say she had to leave her belongings and added: \"But the main thing is I'm out and I'm safe.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police said a number of road closures were in place.\n\nFirefighters are using aerial appliances to tackle the blaze\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I let the side down, simple as that\"\n\nThe Duke of York has said he \"let the side down\" by staying at the home of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, adding it was the \"wrong thing to do\".\n\nAnswering questions about his links to Epstein for the first time, Prince Andrew said his stay was not \"becoming of a member of the Royal Family\".\n\nThe prince spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in an interview recorded at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.\n\nIt will be broadcast on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nPrince Andrew, who is the Queen's third child, has been facing questions for several months over his ties to Epstein, a 66-year-old American financier who took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nIn 2010, the prince was photographed walking with Epstein in New York's Central Park - two years after Epstein's conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nFootage published by the Mail on Sunday showed the prince in Epstein's Manhattan mansion at about the same time.\n\nAddressing his decision to stay with Epstein following the American's first conviction, Prince Andrew said: \"That's the bit that… as it were, I kick myself for on a daily basis because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the Royal Family and we try and uphold the highest standards and practices and I let the side down, simple as that.\"\n\nChallenged on his decision to stay at the home of a convicted sex offender, the prince said: \"It was a convenient place to stay.\n\n\"I mean I've gone through this in my mind so many times. At the end of the day, with a benefit of all the hindsight that one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do.\n\n\"But at the time I felt it was the honourable and right thing to do and I admit fully that my judgement was probably coloured by my tendency to be too honourable but that's just the way it is.\"\n\nPrince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein go for a stroll together through New York's Central Park\n\nIn 2015, Prince Andrew was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nOne of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was forced to have sex with the prince three times between 2001 - when she was 17 - and 2002, in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre: Prince Andrew \"knows exactly what he's done\"\n\nIn the BBC interview, Emily Maitlis asks the prince about Ms Giuffre's claims that in 2001, she had dined with him, danced with him at a nightclub, and went on to have sex with him at the house of a friend of the prince in Belgravia, central London.\n\nThe prince replied: \"It didn't happen. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"\n\nWhen asked once more whether he remembered meeting Ms Giuffre, the prince said: \"No.\"\n\nMs Giuffre says she was abused by the prince in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home, where she was pictured in 2001\n\nDetails of Ms Giuffre's claims against the prince were later officially struck from court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, a woman called Johanna Sjoberg alleged that the prince touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 in documents from a defamation case.\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued strong denials of all allegations against the prince.\n\nAnd Prince Andrew's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, wrote on Friday that the prince was a \"true [and] real gentleman and is stoically steadfast not only [in] his duty but also his kindness\".\n\nIn 2015, a statement from the palace said that \"any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors\" by the prince was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nThe prince first met Epstein in 1999 and they saw each other on several occasions after that.\n\nIn 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nProsecutors forged a deal with Epstein in 2008, which saw him avoid federal charges.\n\nHe instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on \"work release\" to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn a statement released by Buckingham Palace in August, the prince said he was \"appalled\" by the sex abuse claims surrounding his former friend.\n\nThe statement added: \"His royal highness deplores the exploitation of any human being and the suggestion he would condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour is abhorrent.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein: What we know and what we don't\n\nDiscussing how the BBC's interview was secured, Emily Maitlis told Newsnight on Friday that talks with the palace had been ongoing for \"many months\" and had intensified following Epstein's death.\n\nShe said the prince had to seek the approval of the Queen and that \"she gave sign off either late on Monday or very early on Tuesday\".", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson planted a tree in north London to mark her party's pledge\n\nThe Conservative Party has said it will plant 30 million trees a year by 2025 if it wins the general election - as the Liberal Democrats pledged to plant twice as many trees in the same period.\n\nThe Tories' £640m fund would be used to plant trees and restore peatland.\n\nLabour dismissed the scheme and said the prime minister had an \"atrocious environmental record\".\n\nThe Lib Dems would plant 60 million trees a year across the UK by 2025, leader Jo Swinson said.\n\nUnder the Conservatives' scheme, branded the Nature for Climate fund, the party said it would treble the tree-planting rate to cover 30,000 hectares - meaning approximately 30 million trees - every year by the end of the next Parliament in 2025.\n\nOne hectare is 100m x 100m in size.\n\nThe Conservatives' fund would cover England, but the party said it would work with devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to increase tree planting.\n\nIt means plans for the Northern Forest in north-west England and the Great Northumberland Forest would be expanded, while trees would also be planted in urban areas and in new forests, the Tories said.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change (CCC) - an advisory group of experts in science, economics, and business - recommends 30,000 hectares of woodland should be planted annually.\n\nLess than half that amount was planted in the UK in the year to March 2019.\n\nExperts in forestry say a huge programme of tree planting is needed if the UK is to have any chance of reducing its carbon emissions to effectively zero. They also say that the aim, though difficult, is feasible but will depend on careful planning - \"to get the right trees in the right places\", as one specialist put it to me.\n\nFinding enough land may be one of the toughest challenges. Farmers will want incentives to convert their fields to forests, not just to help with the cost of planting trees but also to compensate them for the long decades before they can earn an income from them.\n\nConservative leader Boris Johnson said there was \"nothing more conservative than protecting our environment\".\n\nHe said the measures would \"sit alongside our world-leading commitment\" to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\nThe Conservatives look set to use the \"Vote Blue, Go Green\" slogan in this election, which was first adopted by David Cameron in 2010, but which critics say he abandoned once he got into power.\n\nThe Lib Dems said their \"ambitious\" proposals to plant 40,000 hectares - or, they estimated, 60 million trees - every year would increase UK forest cover by one million hectares by 2045.\n\nThe \"largest tree-planting programme in UK history\" would be part of the party's plan to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the same year.\n\n\"Only the Liberal Democrats have a radical plan to make a real impact in the fight against climate change and build a brighter future for our planet,\" Ms Swinson said.\n\nLabour's shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman said the Conservative Party's failure to meet previous tree-planting targets showed they weren't serious about the matter.\n\n\"When Labour comes forward with its own ambitious proposals as part of our Plan For Nature, they will be informed by what the science says is necessary and possible - not by what Boris Johnson thinks he needs to do to greenwash his atrocious environmental record,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, former Conservative environment secretary Michael Gove said the failure to meet the targets was due to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which he called \"unfair, unjust and un-green\".\n\nCAP funding is one of the EU's biggest policies with a Europe-wide budget worth more than £50bn a year. The subsidies are designed to support the farming industry and help farmers and landowners maintain their land.\n\nAlthough the EU does offer grants for planting trees, farmers can lose some of their agricultural subsidy if they increase tree cover and the application processes are complex, conservation groups have said.\n\nThe European Commission recently proposed subsidising farmers to plant trees on one hectare per farm under the post-2020 CAP.\n\nMr Johnson's party also announced a £500m \"Blue Planet fund\" across the next five years to help support developing countries in protecting oceans.\n\nThe sum would be funded by the budget for international aid, the Conservative Party said.\n\nThe money would go towards, for example, UK satellites monitoring marine environments and ensuring protected areas were not subject to illegal fishing.", "The Strictly Come Dancing judges in charitable mood\n\nStars from Strictly Come Dancing, Star Wars, Doctor Who and EastEnders have helped this year's Children In Need TV appeal raise £47.9m.\n\nThe five-hour telethon also featured England football players, a celebrity edition of music quiz The Hit List and songs by Louis Tomlinson and Westlife.\n\nViewers also saw short films about some of the the 3,000 local projects supported by the charity.\n\nLast year, £50.6m was raised on the appeal night.\n\nThe hosts: Marvin and Rochelle Humes, Mel Giedroyc, Tom Allen, Graham Norton, Ade Adepitan and Tess Daly\n\nChildren in Need is the BBC's official UK charity and raises money for disadvantaged young people around the country, such as those experiencing poverty, with disabilities, or victims of abuse or neglect.\n\nThis year, comedian Tom Allen joined a presenting line-up that also includes Graham Norton, Tess Daly, Mel Giedroyc, Ade Adepitan and Marvin and Rochelle Humes.\n\nEastEnders actors Ricky Champ (who plays Stuart Highway), Louisa Lytton (Ruby Allen), Maisie Smith (Tiffany Butcher) and Rudolph Walker (Patrick Trueman) swapped Albert Square for the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom for the night.\n\nStrictly judge Craig Revel Horwood in a sketch with EastEnders' Ricky Champ and Rudolph Walker\n\nThe EastEnders teamed up with Strictly professionals\n\nStar Wars actors Daisy Ridley and John Boyega challenged YouTuber Colin Furze to build a real working landspeeder [vehicle that hovers], helped by young people from Children In Need projects.\n\nDoctor Who's Jodie Whittaker also made an appearance, and Norton gave three children the chance to be on his chat show sofa - and the power to tip joke-telling celebrities out of his famous big red chair.\n\nGraham Norton gives Julio, Iara and Emma control over his famous lever\n\nAnneka Rice tried to save herself from being tipped out of the big red chair\n\nMeanwhile, there were special versions of Mock The Week, Crackerjack and Dragon's Den, along with performances from Michael Ball and Alfie Boe, plus the casts of Big, The Tina Turner Musical and Circus 1903.\n\nEngland footballers Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling were filmed surprising children from the England Amputee Football Association.\n\nEngland stars Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling with children from the England Amputee Football Association and presenter Mark Wright\n\nA special edition of BBC One's The Hit List featured pop stars including rapper Wretch 32, ex-JLS singer JB Gill, Heidi Range from the Sugababes, Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle, Liberty X star Michelle Heaton and Blue's Antony Costa.\n\nJB Gill and Wretch 32 on the special Hit List\n\nTV personality Rylan Clark-Neal had already raised more than £1m for the cause with his 24-hour karaoke marathon on BBC Radio 2.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Lib Dems are set to field 188 female candidates\n\nRecord numbers of women look set to stand for Parliament next month, making up about a third of the candidates.\n\nBBC analysis of Press Association figures found 1,124 of 3,322 registered candidates were women.\n\nThis figure is slightly higher than the 1,120 reported based on PA figures on Friday.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour are set to field candidates in every constituency in Britain, except Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle's seat in Chorley in Lancashire.\n\nSee who is standing in your constituency with our look-up.\n\nThe Brexit Party has put forward 275 candidates, having stood aside in the 317 seats won by the Tories in 2017 in an effort to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nThe party has also opted not to contest handfuls of other seats being defended by other parties, particularly in Scotland.\n\nThe party, which topped the polls in May's European elections, is only standing in 15 of the 46 non-Tory constituencies in Scotland.\n\nThey are not contesting Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson's East Dunbartonshire seat.\n\nThe BBC's analysis of candidate lists in each of the UK's 650 constituencies shows that there will be a healthy increase in the number of women standing.\n\nThis year there are 1,124 female candidates, up from 2015's record of 1,033. In 2017, just 973 female candidates took part in that year's snap election, according to research by the House of Commons library.\n\nMore than half of Labour's candidates are women - 335 of 631, while 192 - or 30% - of the Conservatives' 635 candidates are female.\n\nThe Greens and Lib Dems are fielding 205 and 188 female candidates respectively.\n\nThere have been concerns that levels of abuse on social media might deter women from standing, with a number of high-profile former female ministers citing this as their main reason for quitting frontline politics.\n\nThe Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru are fielding fewer candidates than in 2017, the parties having agreed to stand down in some seats in order to maximise the pro-Remain vote,\n\nHowever, UKIP is set to see the biggest drop in representation. It is standing 44 candidates, down from 467 two years ago.\n\nNote: This page was updated on Sunday 17 November after some provisional PA figures were updated following BBC research. The parties in the graphics are selected because they either had representation in the last two Westminster Parliaments, are standing in most seats in one of the four nations of the UK, or are standing more than 25 candidates overall. An earlier version of the graphic had this limit set at 30.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoffrey Berman: \"If you believe you are a victim of this man... we want to hear from you.\"\n\n\"I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,'\" Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011. \"It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.\"\n\nEpstein died in a New York prison cell on 10 August as he awaited, without the chance of bail, his trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nIt came more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, for which he was registered as a sex offender.\n\nThis time, he was accused of running a \"vast network\" of underage girls for sex. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe 66-year-old in the past socialised with Prince Andrew and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.\n\nBut who was Jeffrey Epstein?\n\nBorn and raised in New York, Epstein taught maths and physics in the city at the private Dalton School in the mid 1970s. He had studied physics and maths himself at university, although he never graduated.\n\nA father of one of his students is said to have been so impressed that he put Epstein in touch with a senior partner at the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.\n\nHe was a partner there within four years. By 1982, he had created his own firm - J Epstein and Co.\n\nThe company managed assets of clients worth more than $1bn (£800m) and was an instant success. Epstein soon began spending his fortune - including on a mansion in Florida, a ranch in New Mexico, and reputedly the largest private home in New York - and socialising with celebrities, artists and politicians.\n\n\"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,\" Donald Trump told New York magazine for a profile on Epstein in 2002. \"He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\n\n\"No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\"\n\nJeffrey Epstein, left, with Donald Trump at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 1997\n\nIn 2002, Epstein flew former President Bill Clinton and the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on a customised private jet. He made an unsuccessful bid to buy New York magazine with then film producer Harvey Weinstein in 2003 - the same year he made a $30m donation to Harvard University.\n\nBut he also strove to keep his life private, reportedly shunning society events and dinners in restaurants.\n\nHe dated women like Miss Sweden winner Eva Andersson Dubin and Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of publisher Robert Maxwell, although he never married.\n\nRosa Monckton, the former CEO of Tiffany & Co, told Vanity Fair for a 2003 article that Epstein was \"very enigmatic\" and \"a classic iceberg\".\n\n\"You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath,\" she said. \"What you see is not what you get.\"\n\nIn 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. A police search of the property found photos of girls throughout the house.\n\nThe Miami Herald reports that his abuse of underage girls dated back years.\n\n\"This was not a 'he said, she said' situation,\" Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter told the newspaper. \"This was 50-something 'shes' and one 'he' - and the 'shes' all basically told the same story.\"\n\n\"He has never been secretive about the girls,\" columnist Michael Wolff told New York magazine for a 2007 profile piece, as the case against Epstein moved through the courts.\n\n\"At one point, when his troubles began, he was talking to me and said, 'What can I say, I like young girls.' I said, 'Maybe you should say, 'I like young women.'\"\n\nHowever, prosecutors forged a deal with the hedge fund manager in 2008.\n\nHe avoided federal charges - which could have seen him face life in prison - and instead received an 18-month prison sentence, during which he was able to go on \"work release\" to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nPrince Andrew, left, has been criticised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nThe Miami Herald says that the federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta - who was Secretary of Labour in the Trump administration - struck a plea agreement hiding the extent of his crimes and ending an FBI investigation into whether there were more victims or more powerful people who took part. The paper described it as the \"deal of the century\".\n\nMr Acosta resigned in July 2019 over the scandal, though he defended his actions as guaranteeing at last some jail time for Epstein.\n\nSince 2008 Epstein had been listed as a level three on the New York sex offenders register. It is a lifelong designation meaning he was at a high risk of reoffending.\n\nBut Epstein maintained his properties and his assets after his conviction.\n\nIn December 2010, Prince Andrew, the third child of the Queen, was pictured in New York's Central Park with Epstein, drawing controversy.\n\nIn a BBC interview in November 2019, the prince, who had known Epstein since 1999, said he had gone to New York to break off their friendship. He said he regretted staying at the financier's house while he was there, and that he had \"let the side down\" by doing so.\n\nAn Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - would later allege that she was made to have sex with Prince Andrew in the early 2000s when she was 17.\n\nPrince Andrew categorically denied having sex with her and said he has no recollection of a photo of the pair being taken together in London.\n\nEpstein was arrested in New York on 6 July 2019 after flying back from Paris on his private jet.\n\nProsecutors were reportedly seeking the forfeiture of his New York mansion, where some of his alleged crimes occurred.\n\nEpstein always denied any wrongdoing, and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.\n\nAfter being denied bail by the court, he was being held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center. He was taken to hospital briefly in July for what was widely reported to be injuries to his neck - which neither prison officials or his lawyers would officially comment on.\n\nAt his last court appearance on 31 July, it became clear that he would spend a year in prison, with a trial no earlier than summer 2020. Prosecutors said they wanted no delay, and bringing the trial quickly was in the public interest.\n\nNow, Epstein will never face the trial at all.\n\nAfter Epstein's death, his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, came into the spotlight.\n\nShe was arrested in July 2020 at her secluded mansion in the US state of New Hampshire on suspicion of having assisted Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage.\n\nIn December 2021, a jury in New York City found her guilty on five out of six counts, including the most serious charge - that of sex trafficking of a minor.\n\nThis carries a possible 40-year sentence, which means the 60-year-old could spend the rest of her life behind bars.\n\nThe Oxford-educated Ms Maxwell is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York.\n\nFriends said that although Ms Maxwell and Epstein's romantic relationship lasted only a few years, she continued to work with him long afterward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The secret lives of Maxwell and Epstein\n\nIn court documents, former employees at the Epstein mansion in Palm Beach describe her as the house manager, who oversaw the staff, handled finances and served as social co-ordinator.\n\nIn a Vanity Fair profile published in 2003, Epstein said Ms Maxwell was not a paid employee, but rather his \"best friend\".\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors alleged Ms Maxwell preyed on and groomed young girls for Epstein to abuse. Her defence claimed she is being used as a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes following his death.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nA strike by women footballers in Spain's top division because of a dispute over pay saw all eight fixtures postponed over the weekend.\n\nAlmost 200 players from 16 clubs voted to strike in October after more than a year of failed negotiations.\n\nThey are demanding a professional agreement that regulates minimum working conditions, rights to minimum wages and measures for maternity.\n\nBoth of Saturday's games and six matches on Sunday were called off.\n\nUDG Tenerife did not to travel to their game at Espanyol after their Friday flight was severely delayed by technical problems, but had planned to do so and strike on Saturday.\n\nIn a statement on their website, the club said they \"respect the position of the players to support the strike\", adding that they hope an agreement can be reached \"for the sake of women's football and generations to come\".\n\nLevante and Sporting de Huelva posted on social media to confirm their game would not go ahead after \"both clubs decided to join the strike action\".\n\nOn Sunday, the matches between Athletic Club and Tacon, Real Sociedad and Barcelona, Real Betis and Sevilla, Valencia and Atletico Madrid, Deportivo and Logrono and Madrid CFF and Rayo Vallecano were all postponed.\n\nA video featuring top players, including Athletic Bilbao goalkeeper Ainhoa Tirapu and fellow Spain international Silvia Meseguer of Atletico Madrid, was promoted on social media by players' union the Association of Spanish Footballers.\n\nIn the video they say they are fighting for former players, current players and \"for those who will one day be in our place\".\n\nThe action was supported by 93% of players employed by 16 clubs at a meeting in Madrid on 22 October.\n\nClubs are proposing a minimum wage of 16,000 euros (£13,700), but unions representing the players are asking for at least 20,000 euros (£17,000).", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nWales eased to a comfortable win in Azerbaijan to set up a winner-takes-all match with Hungary for automatic qualification for Euro 2020.\n\nKieffer Moore headed the dominant visitors into an early lead, which was doubled when Harry Wilson nodded into an empty net after Daniel James' fierce swerving shot rebounded off the crossbar and post.\n\nWales maintained their control in the second half and, although Moore and Wilson missed the best chances to extend their advantage, it mattered little as Ryan Giggs' side coasted to victory.\n\nCroatia secured top spot in Group E by beating Slovakia 3-1 on Saturday, meaning Wales can take the second qualifying place with a win over Hungary in Cardiff on Tuesday.\n\nA draw in that match could allow Slovakia to clinch second place with a win over Azerbaijan.\n\nRyan Giggs' side do have the back-up route of a guaranteed play-off place thanks to Sweden's win over Romania in Group F on Friday.\n\nBut having suffered so many agonising qualifying near misses in the past, Wales will be eager to take the lottery of a play-off out of the equation by beating Hungary to secure what would be only their third appearance at a major tournament.\n• None Who needs what in Euro 2020 qualifiers?\n\nHaving waited 58 years between their first and second appearances - the 1958 World Cup and the run to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 - Wales are anxious not to endure another long barren spell.\n\nThey travelled to Baku walking a qualification tightrope, knowing there was precious little room for error.\n\nAlthough they were still relying on results elsewhere, Giggs and his players were aware that to have any realistic hope of qualifying automatically they had to win here and then against Hungary in Cardiff on Tuesday.\n\nWales wanted to control their own destiny as best they could, and they seized control of this match with a purposeful start.\n\nWhereas Giggs' side were hesitant and disjointed against the same opponents in September, here they were confident and dominant in possession.\n\nThey built their attacks patiently and made an early breakthrough as Harry Wilson's looping corner to the back post was bundled in from close range by Moore.\n\nThe Wigan striker had a fine chance to score a second but his right foot was less effective than his head as his low shot was smothered by Emil Balayev in the Azerbaijan goal.\n\nThat was a rare misstep in an excellent display from Moore, who has already established himself as the focal point of Wales' attack despite only making his debut in September.\n\nThe miss did not matter as, three minutes later, Wales doubled their advantage when James cut inside from the left wing and unleashed a vicious shot towards the top far corner. The ball cannoned off the crossbar and post before sitting up invitingly for Wilson, who nodded it into the empty net.\n\nThe goal put Wales in total control at half-time, giving Giggs the luxury of already turning his attention to Tuesday's match against Hungary.\n\nGiggs said in the build-up to the match in Baku that he was planning for the fixture with one eye on the group finale in Cardiff.\n\nWales needed to win both matches so, although beating Azerbaijan was the initial priority, Giggs had to ensure his squad was poised to follow up this performance with a display of similar quality against tougher opposition in the form of Hungary.\n\nThat is why the former Wales and Manchester United captain left Aaron Ramsey on the bench at the Bakcell Arena.\n\nA series of injuries meant the Juventus midfielder had not yet featured in this qualifying campaign, and his return to full fitness was regarded as a major boost for these two matches.\n\nBut like Gareth Bale, who had not played since last month's draw with Croatia, Ramsey was lacking match fitness, which meant he would have to be managed carefully over the course of this double-header.\n\nWales' position of strength in Baku meant they were able to take Bale off after an hour, limiting his exertions and ensuring he avoided a third yellow card of the campaign which would have caused him to miss the Hungary match through suspension.\n\nRamsey took his place, a useful 30-minute workout for the former Arsenal playmaker, while keeping him fresh for Tuesday's crucial fixture.\n\nRamsey and Bale have not lost a qualifier while playing together since a 2-0 defeat in Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 2015, which was academic as Wales qualified for Euro 2016 that night anyway.\n\nAgainst Hungary on Tuesday, Wales will hope to have them back on the pitch together for the first time since November 2018, with fingers crossed they can maintain their proud record in what will be a match of huge significance.\n\nWales boss Ryan Giggs on Sky Sports: \"The performance like always could be better but the result was the main thing tonight. It's set up nicely for Tuesday.\n\n\"Kieffer is a threat and we recognised they might be a bit weak at set-pieces. We were pleased to get the big man on the scoresheet again.\n\n\"I thought the referee handled the game well and there were no silly fouls from us - going into Tuesday we wanted our best players available.\n\n\"We've played some good football at times which is pleasing. It could have been better but overall I was happy with the performance.\"\n• None Wales are unbeaten in eight meetings against Azerbaijan, winning seven games and drawing once; they have faced no other side as many times without losing\n• None Azerbaijan are winless in 12 European Championship qualifying matches (D4 L8), and have failed to keep in a clean sheet in their past 10 such games.\n• None Wales have won a European Championship qualifying match away from home for the first time this campaign, having not done so since September 2015 v Cyprus under Chris Coleman.\n• None Harry Wilson has both scored and assisted in the same game for Wales for the first time since March 2018 against China in the China Cup.\n• None Kieffer Moore has scored two goals in four appearances for Wales this season, one more goal than he has scored in 14 matches in 2019-20 for club side Wigan Athletic.\n• None Moore had 10 shots against Azerbaijan, five of which were on target; the last Wales player to have as many in a single match was Aaron Ramsey v Moldova in September 2017 (also 10).\n• None Tamkin Xalilzade (Azerbaijan) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Joe Morrell.\n• None Shahriyar Rahimov (Azerbaijan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Dimitrij Nazarov (Azerbaijan) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Joe Morrell (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The letter was sent to Anna Soubry at her constituency office in Nottingham\n\nA man who threatened Change UK leader Anna Soubry, referencing the murdered MP Jo Cox, has been jailed for a year.\n\nAlden Bryce Barlow, 55, of Milton Walk, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, sent a letter to Ms Soubry in her constituency in Nottingham.\n\nThe message read: \"Cox was first, you are next\" and referred to Ms Soubry as \"treacherous\" and \"worthless\".\n\nHe was jailed at Sheffield Crown Court and given a 10-year order preventing him from contacting Ms Soubry.\n\nHe was also ordered not to go near Ms Soubry's constituency address in Nottingham.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the letter was addressed to her constituency office, and was opened by her constituency manager who called police.\n\nJo Cox was murdered in 2016 in Birstall, West Yorkshire\n\nBarlow was traced by his fingerprints on the letter and from CCTV at the post office counter in the Doncaster branch of WH Smith, where he posted it.\n\nHe was then charged with sending a letter conveying a threatening message, which he admitted.\n\nChief Crown Prosecutor Gerry Wareham said: \"This letter contained a sickening and ominous threat to Ms Soubry, with an explicit reference to the murder of Jo Cox MP in 2016.\n\n\"Ms Soubry and her staff in the constituency office understandably found the message deeply disturbing and highly offensive.\n\n\"What is more, attacks such as this on our elected representatives are attacks on democracy and perpetrators will be prosecuted.\"\n\nJo Cox died in 2016 after she was shot and stabbed while on her way to meet constituents in Birstall, West Yorkshire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Smokers can improve the health of their hearts within weeks of switching to e-cigarettes, the largest trial of its kind shows.\n\nThe month-long study of 114 smokers suggests vaping has the potential to reduce heart attack and stroke risk.\n\nThe team, at the University of Dundee, stressed vaping was \"not safe\" - just less harmful than tobacco.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation said stopping smoking was the single best thing you could do for your heart.\n\nChemicals in cigarette smoke narrow arteries as they get furred up with fatty deposits increasing the risk of a deadly blockage. Ultimately smoking doubles your risk of having a heart attack.\n\nBut the researchers said the current evidence on vaping was \"very poor\" and often assessed the impact of a single e-cigarette on heart health.\n\nSo they monitored people's blood vessels a month after they were switched to e-cigarettes on the trial.\n\nThey focused on how blood vessels expand when a wave of blood rushes through, by measuring \"flow-mediated dilation\".\n\nThe more the blood vessels are able to expand the healthier they are. Flow-mediate dilation scores have been closely linked to the long-term risk of heart attacks and stroke.\n\nThe results, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, showed:\n\nSo, switching to vaping got those smokers about halfway back to a healthy score.\n\n\"They're not quite normal, but their vascular function improved quite significantly, just within a month,\" said one of the researchers, Professor Jacob George.\n\nThe study is too short to fully establish whether or not this improvement could be sustained in the long-term or if vaping would definitely save lives.\n\nIt is also worth noting that vapers did not have a normal score.\n\nProf George added: \"The key take-home is these devices are not completely safe and should not be tried by non-smokers or children.\n\n\"We now have clear evidence they're less harmful than tobacco cigarettes.\"\n\nThe potential dangers of vaping were highlighted this week when a British teenager told the BBC how e-cigarettes nearly killed him.\n\nThe devices set off a catastrophic immune reaction in his lungs that left him on life-support with his breathing replaced by an artificial lung.\n\nBut overall, the advice in the UK is that vaping is 95% safer than smoking and that smokers should switch and non-smokers should not take up vaping.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation said 50 people every day die as a result of heart problems caused by smoking.\n\n\"Stopping smoking is the single best thing you can do for your heart health,\" the charity said.\n\nProf John Britton, director of the UK centre for tobacco and alcohol studies at the University of Nottingham, said: \"This randomised trial provides clear evidence of a reduction in a marker of cardiovascular disease risk in people who switch from smoking to vaping.\n\n\"The finding of the study, that vaping is less harmful than smoking, is intuitively correct on the grounds of the lower range and levels of emissions known to be present in vapour relative to tobacco smoke.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of York has told the BBC he has wracked his brains but cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - who has said she was forced to have sex with him three times.\n\nWhen asked by BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis whether there was any way he could have had sex with Ms Roberts, or any woman trafficked by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew said \"no\".\n\nThe interview is the first time Prince Andrew has spoken publicly about his links with Jeffrey Epstein, a 66-year-old American financier who took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch the full programme on BBC iPlayer: Prince Andrew and the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview and YouTube", "Brexit Party candidate Ann Widdecombe and leader Nigel Farage both said they had been approached\n\nCalls are growing for an investigation into claims the Tories offered peerages to Brexit Party election candidates to persuade them to stand down.\n\nPolice say they are assessing two allegations of electoral fraud.\n\nLabour peer Lord Falconer has urged the Metropolitan Police and prosecution service to launch an investigation, saying the claims raised \"serious questions\" about the integrity of the 12 December election.\n\nThe PM says the claims are \"nonsense\".\n\n\"I am sure there are conversations that take place between politicians of all parties but certainly nobody's been offered a peerage,\" Boris Johnson said on Friday.\n\nThe claims - first made public by the Brexit Party's Nigel Farage - came after the Brexit Party announced it would not field candidates in any seats won by the Conservatives in 2017, to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nBut the party said it would contest all other seats, prompting pressure from Conservatives who urged Mr Farage to withdraw more candidates to help Mr Johnson win a majority in Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a video posted on Twitter earlier this week, Mr Farage claimed he and eight other Brexit Party figures had been offered jobs \"in the (Brexit) negotiating team and in government departments\" while there had been \"hints at peerages too\".\n\nAnn Widdecombe, a Brexit Party candidate, said she was prepared to swear on the Bible that she had been approached with an offer of \"a role\" in the next phase of Brexit negotiations.\n\nA Conservative source also told the BBC that the Brexit Party candidate in Peterborough, Mike Greene, had been offered an unpaid role in education in the hope it would convince him to stand aside.\n\nThe Brexit Party candidate's team said Mr Greene would definitely be running in the Cambridgeshire constituency, which Labour held narrowly at a by-election in June.\n\nIn a letter, Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor, said he wanted to raise the issue \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nHe wrote to Cressida Dick, the Met Police commissioner, and Max Hill, the director of public prosecutions, saying: \"I believe these allegations raise serious questions about the integrity of the upcoming general election, and in particular whether senior individuals at CCHQ (Conservative Campaign Headquarters) or No 10 have breached two sections of the Representation of the People Act 1983.\"\n\nLord Falconer added: \"These are exceptionally serious allegations which the DPP must, in accordance with his statutory duty, fully investigate as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"In addition, in order to maintain public confidence in the integrity of our electoral processes and this election, it is crucial that the Metropolitan Police also examine these accusations.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme, Lord Falconer said: \"The law is that if somebody corruptly induces or procures another person to withdraw from being a candidate at an election, that's both a crime and a corrupt practice in an election, which can lead an election to be set aside.\n\n\"From my point of view, it looks as if the Conservatives might be going well beyond electoral law in trying to win this election by persuading Brexit UK candidates not to stand.\"\n\nLabour party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"This could be political corruption of the highest order and, in addition to that, it could be seen as criminal activity.\"\n\nHe said there should \"undoubtedly\" be an investigation.\n\nResponding to the claims, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said: \"Nothing would surprise me about the Conservatives these days given what they've been prepared to do.\n\n\"If Boris Johnson's prepared to lie to the Queen, lie to the country, you know, I'm going to stop being shocked at where his lack of boundaries lies.\"\n\nThe SNP has also backed a probe into the allegations, insisting there should be an urgent inquiry by the Cabinet Office.\n\nTommy Sheppard, the SNP candidate for Edinburgh, called for a \"full and frank investigation\".\n\nThe Met Police said it was assessing two allegations of electoral fraud and malpractice in relation to the general election.\n\nThe lord chancellor is a role dating back many centuries, the holder of which is also head of the Ministry of Justice.", "As our political correspondent Iain Watson said a few minutes ago, the crunch meeting to finalise Labour's election manifesto could be far from over.\n\nThe so-called \"Clause Five\" party meeting offers an opportunity for senior figures to sign off the party's manifesto.\n\nIt is attended by Labour's ruling National Executive Committee, including the shadow cabinet and trade union representatives.\n\nParty staffers present a draft document, whose different policy areas are discussed in turn.\n\nA vote is taken at the end of the meeting on the whole document, rather than voting section-by-section.\n\nThere are usually some small amendments - but so far today there have been strong disagreements on the exact wording of several policies, our correspondent said.\n\nFor example, some within Labour are concerned that a more open policy on immigration could alienate voters in Leave-voting areas.\n\nKeep an eye out on our Election 2019 news index as that's where you'll be able to read about the outcome of the meeting when it ends.", "Only 41 of the 353 councils who returned figures to central government reported a loss on their parking operations\n\nCouncils in England made a total of £930m from parking activities in a year, figures show.\n\nThe record figure during the past financial year is a 7% increase on 2017-18, the RAC Foundation says.\n\nSeventeen of the 20 councils making the most money are in London, with Westminster Council accruing the largest amount, at £69m.\n\nBrighton and Hove, Birmingham and Milton Keynes were the only three in the top 20 not in the capital.\n\nKensington and Chelsea was second in London, with a total of £37m.\n\nAny money made from parking activities - which includes fines and tickets - must be spent on local transport projects.\n\nThe study was carried out by transport consultant David Leibling, who analysed Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government data.\n\nLocal authorities received an income of £1.746bn from their parking operations in 2018-19, which included £454m from penalties, which is up 6% year-on-year.\n\nThe amount councils spent on running their day-to-day parking operations was £816m, not including interest payments or depreciation of assets such as car parks.\n\nDavid Renard, the Local Government Association's transport spokesman, said London had the highest number of vehicles moving about looking for spaces to park.\n\n\"I would expect the higher volume of vehicles moving around London means there'll be a higher level of infringement and fines,\" he said.\n\n\"[Councils] seek to ensure they can keep the traffic moving as efficiently as possible and that means people who infringe the regulations will get fined,\" he said.", "Firefighters have extinguished the blaze at The Cube in Bolton\n\nCladding on a block of student flats that was hit by a major blaze is a cause for \"concern\", Greater Manchester's mayor has said.\n\nTwo people were hurt when about 100 residents fled The Cube in Bolton after a blaze on Friday.\n\nMayor Andy Burnham said its cladding was not the same as at Grenfell Tower, where 72 people died in 2017.\n\nBut cladding is a \"bigger issue... than we have so far faced up to,\" Mr Burnham admitted.\n\nResidents of The Cube were also confused as to whether there was actually a fire in the building on Friday because, as one said, fire alarms go off \"almost every day\".\n\nUrban Student Life (USL), which manages the property, said all residents were successfully evacuated after the blaze broke out at about 20:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, they said two students were treated for \"minor injuries\" on site, where up to 200 firefighters tackled the blaze.\n\nOne witness said the fire was \"climbing up\" the building\n\nAssistant chief fire officer Dave Keelan, of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: \"The fire... really did spread very quickly and that was evident to see on the footage that's on social media.\"\n\nHe said an investigation had been launched into the blaze.\n\nMr Burnham said: \"[The Cube] does not have the same ACM cladding [that was on Grenfell Tower] but nevertheless it does have a form of cladding that causes concern and raises issues that will have to be addressed.\"\n\nHe said he would talk to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who visited the Bolton site earlier, about whether \"we need to go further to remove cladding from these buildings and give families peace of mind\".\n\nSalford mayor Paul Dennett said he would be asking the government for more money to remove flammable cladding, adding there was \"an industrial crisis\" around the issue.\n\nRoy Wilsher, chief of the National Fire Chiefs Council, said the fire \"once again highlights how changes to building regulations need to be moved on at a much quicker pace\".\n\nThe fire has led to damage on all floors of the six-storey building\n\nOn the issue of the fire alarms, resident Afnan Gohar said she thought it was a \"false alarm\"\n\n\"We didn't take notice of it until a girl came running and screamed, telling us to get out and we didn't believe it at first,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMelissa McGarrigle said: \"The fire alarms in the corridor went off but they aren't particularly loud, especially if you're asleep.\n\n\"It just doesn't feel real, everyone thought it was just the fire alarms acting up as usual until we heard people screaming.\"\n\nThe fire started on the fourth floor, the property management firm said\n\nWitness Ace Love, 35, said the fire \"kept getting more intense, climbing up and to the right because the wind was blowing so hard\".\n\n\"We could see it bubbling from the outside and then being engulfed from the outside,\" he added.\n\n\"A lot of students got out very fast, someone was very distressed, the rest were on phones calling for help.\n\n\"The fire got worse and worse, to the point where you could see through the beams, it was just bare frame.\"\n\nEva Crossan Jory, vice president of welfare for the National Union of Students (NUS), said it had been \"calling for a number of improvements in fire-safety measures in student accommodation\" across the UK.\n\n\"It shouldn't take another fire to put the issue of building safety back on the agenda,\" she said.\n\n\"Student safety must always be the first priority for accommodation providers and the government.\"\n\nIn 2016, Urban Student Life (USL) was criticised in a tribunal ruling for not providing clear written guidelines on fire safety procedures or displaying fire safety notices in one of its student accommodation blocks in Leeds.\n\nLeeds City Council sent in fire authority officers to inspect the building, who declared at the time it was not fit for use.\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), said the latest fire was \"deeply troubling\".\n\n\"This is not how any building should react to a fire in the 21st century, let alone a building in which people live,\" he said.\n\n\"It's time for a complete overhaul of UK fire safety before it's too late.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson met people helping residents after the fire in Bolton\n\nLes Skarratts, of the FBU in the north-west, said there would be \"hard lessons to learn as the circumstances become clearer in the coming days\".\n\nForty fire engines were called to the scene of the blaze, which affected every floor.\n\nProf George E Holmes, vice-chancellor of the University of Bolton, whose students live at the block, said: \"I can't say enough about how pleased we were with the response - it's been amazing from all emergency services.\"\n\nFootball fans attending Bolton Wanderers' match were asked to donate items for evacuated residents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe university said it was supporting students, who are being offered temporary accommodation in other student halls and in some hotels.\n\nGMFRS has asked residents who are not yet accounted for to contact authorities to let them know they are safe.\n\nMr Keelan added a team has \"concentrated purely on the high-rises across Greater Manchester to make sure that we learn from Grenfell\".\n\n\"The evacuation procedure and subsequent training - and putting it into practice last night - has paid absolute dividends,\" he told a press conference.\n\n\"We are going to continue to be here throughout the day and working very closely with the building owner to move this forward in the coming days.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the fire? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlooded Venice has been hit by a new high tide of 154cm (5ft), giving residents no respite from a crisis costing Italy millions of euros.\n\nWorld-famous St Mark's Square, a magnet for tourists, has been closed, and schools are shut for a third day.\n\nThe canal city's famous waterbuses - the vaporetti - are not running.\n\nThe 187cm peak on Tuesday was the highest level in more than 50 years, damaging monuments, shops and homes. More than 80% of the city was flooded.\n\nThe government declared a state of emergency in the Unesco world heritage site.\n\nResidents with flood-damaged homes will get up to €5,000 (£4,300; $5,500), and businesses up to €20,000 in compensation.\n\nThe first flood sirens went off at dawn, an eerie sound rising over the ancient bridges and waterways of the city.\n\nWithin a couple of hours, the murky green water of the Grand Canal had risen level with its bank, slapping over the paving stones as boats went past.\n\nNearby streets quickly flooded. Tourists, shoes covered in plastic bags, carried their luggage along raised narrow trestle walkways, which the authorities have put up to keep the pedestrian traffic moving.\n\nOn either side, dirty water continued to rise. At ground level, in their rubber wellies, business owners were already starting to operate small pumps. Many had raised the flood barriers across their doorways - apparently to little effect. Water was already seeping up to ankle height in the souvenir shops and cafes.\n\nThe Grand Canal's water is now level with the pavement\n\n\"It hurts to see the city so damaged, its artistic heritage compromised, its commercial activities on its knees,\" Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who visited Venice on Wednesday, wrote in a Facebook post (in Italian).\n\nThe city has about 50,000 residents, but about 20m tourists visit every year.\n\nHotels were forced to cancel reservations, some reportedly as far ahead as December, as photos of Venice underwater spread across the world.\n\nThe tides have been worsened by sirocco winds blowing from Africa, and there are fears that global warming is increasing the frequency and severity of such floods.\n\nWaters are expected to recede over the weekend.\n\nWellington boots are now essential footwear in Venice\n\nThe government says Venice's elaborate flood defence system will not be operational until 2021 - yet work began on it back in 2003.\n\nFondamenta Zattere - a long, much-loved waterfront area where tourists enjoy strolling - is also under water.\n\nThe city is made up of more than 100 islands inside a lagoon off the north-east coast of Italy. It suffers flooding on a yearly basis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has pledged to release €20m in aid for Venice.\n\nCulture Minister Dario Franceschini said the task of repairing the city would be huge, adding that more than 50 churches had been damaged.\n\nOnly once since official records began in 1923 has the tide been higher than it reached this week - hitting 194cm in 1966.\n\nA flooded bookshop: Workers are trying to dry out damp prints\n\nThe mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, blamed climate change for the flood, saying the impact was \"huge\" and would leave \"a permanent mark\". Strong winds lashing the area are contributing to the crisis.\n\nMr Conte said the government would accelerate the Mose project - construction of a hydraulic barrier system to protect the lagoon from rising sea levels and winter storms.\n\nSt Mark's Basilica - dating back to the 11th Century - was hit by the flood\n\nShops appear marooned by the floodwaters\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "Jeremy Corbyn has hailed Labour's \"transformative\" manifesto after finalising the document in a meeting with senior party figures.\n\nThe Labour leader said a \"unanimous agreement\" was reached by key union backers and his shadow cabinet after six hours of talks in London.\n\nThe details in the manifesto for the general election on 12 December are expected to be released on Thursday.\n\nIt is billed as \"more radical\" than the document campaigned on in 2017.\n\nThe party has already announced a number of policies, including a part-nationalisation of BT and extra spending on infrastructure.\n\nBut members had to decide in the talks on Saturday whether to include some policies from its party conference, including on free movement of people from the EU to the UK.\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"very, very proud\" of the contents of the manifesto that gives the \"promise of a better Britain\".\n\nSpeaking on the steps of the Institute of Engineering and Technology after the meeting, he said: \"That manifesto is a transformative document that will change the lives of the people of this country for the better.\n\n\"It will be a once in a generation opportunity to vote for a more egalitarian society that cares for all.\"\n\nThe BBC's Iain Watson said the party is expected to pledge additional support for women affected when the government in 2011 sped up plans to raise the age at which women could claim the state pension from 60 to 66.\n\nAhead of the talks, party figures were expected to debate whether to include a commitment to \"maintain and extend\" free movement rights for migrants, as demanded by delegates at September's party conference.\n\nThe party's 2017 manifesto stated that free movement - giving EU citizens the right to work and seek employment in the UK and UK citizens the same right in other EU countries - would end with Brexit.\n\nA small number of protesters gathered outside the meeting, chanting in support of free movement.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats earlier called on Labour to make a \"cast-iron commitment\" to preserve free movement rights in its manifesto.\n\nThe party's home affairs spokeswoman Christine Jardine said failing to do so would be a \"betrayal of future generations\".\n\nThe Lib Dems are pledging a \"fair, effective\" immigration system if it is elected - with plans to resettle 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children a year.\n\nHowever, some within Labour are concerned that a more open policy on immigration could alienate voters in Leave-voting areas.\n\nLen McCluskey - the leader of the Unite, the biggest Labour-supporting union - has called for new employment policies to address concerns about freedom of movement.\n\nAs he headed into the manifesto meeting, Mr Corbyn said it would be \"transformative\"\n\nOn Thursday, he denied a newspaper report that he had told Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to take a tough line on free movement of workers.\n\nBut he said Labour would \"protect all workers\" through labour market regulations.\n\n\"It won't stop the free movement of labour. It will effectively make certain that greedy bosses, agency companies, are not abusing working people,\" he said.\n\nThere was a disagreement during the talks over whether to incorporate the conference policy of extending freedom of movement for workers in the manifesto.\n\nFreedom of movement will continue if voters back Remain in the new referendum which Labour is pledging.\n\nIf voters back Leave, Labour would introduce its own immigration policy but, as the party wants a close relationship with the single market, it recognises there would be high levels of labour mobility.\n\nBut this would be underpinned by stricter regulation of the employment market to prevent migrant workers \"undercutting\" employees here and to stop migrants being exploited.\n\nSome policies were agreed and not yet announced, for example, a process for compensating women adversely affected by a more rapid rise in the state pension age than they anticipated.\n\nPrescriptions and dental checks will also be free in England too.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Corbyn confirmed an existing pledge to abolish university tuition fees will be included in the party's manifesto for the 12 December poll.\n\nHe also said bringing Royal Mail, rail and water utilities under public ownership \"are clearly going to be in our manifesto next week\".\n\nOther parties have also begun announcing policies ahead of the official launch of their manifestos later in the campaign.\n\nOn Saturday, both the Lib Dems and the Conservatives made rival pledges on tree planting.\n\nThe Conservatives also announced £500m of funding over the next five years to help support developing countries in protecting oceans.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour are set to field candidates in every constituency in Britain, except Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle's seat in Chorley in Lancashire.\n\nThe Brexit Party has put forward 275 candidates, having stood aside in all the seats won by the Tories in 2017.\n\nFigures from PA suggest the party has also opted not to contest handfuls of other seats being defended by other parties, particularly in Scotland.\n\nThe so-called \"Clause Five\" party meeting offers an opportunity for senior figures to sign off on the party's manifesto.\n\nIt is attended by Labour's ruling National Executive Committee, including the shadow cabinet and trade union representatives.\n\nParty staffers present a draft document, whose different policy areas are discussed in turn.\n\nA vote is taken at the end of the meeting on the whole document, rather than voting section-by-section.\n\nThere are usually some small amendments. Party positions are unlikely to change - but will perhaps be clarified.", "The Humane Society boats patrol the River Clyde in Glasgow\n\nBurglars who broke into Glasgow Humane Society stole the fuel from its lifeboats.\n\nThe life-saving organisation, based at Glasgow Green has patrolled and protected people along the River Clyde since 1790.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed an incident had been reported.\n\nThe society tweeted about the break-in which took place on Tuesday night, saying: \"To our unwelcome visitors last night, please don't break in again.\"\n\nThe tweet continued: \"It's not very nice and stealing fuel from lifeboats is pretty scummy. Thanks for leaving the crowbar behind (hopefully with your fingerprints all over it), we're sure @policescotland will find that very useful!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glasgow Humane Society This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlasgow councillor Eva Bolander called the incident \"both sad and shocking\"\n\nShe said: \"You are a life-saving service for all users of the river and nearby areas. If anyone don't know how important, think how it would be to have a personal reason to thank you.\"\n\nA spokesman for Police Scotland said: \"We received a report of an attempted break-in premises at Glasgow Green which happened sometime overnight between Tuesday 19 November and the morning of Wednesday 20 November.\n\n\"Inquiries are ongoing and anyone with information should contact police.\"\n• None Clyde river hero changes course for retirement\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many Iranians rely on wi-fi to connect to the internet - but millions have been cut off since Saturday\n\nA country of 80 million people - and practically no way to get online. Iran's internet shutdown has lasted for four days now, sparking international concern.\n\nFollowing protests over a sharp increase in fuel prices in the country, internet connections began to go dark beginning late on Saturday night, local time.\n\nOn social media, Iranians living or travelling abroad have shared stories of being cut off from their families and friends back home.\n\nMany are still waiting for news of their welfare.\n\n\"We detected fluctuations in regional connectivity,\" he tells the BBC.\n\n\"This extended towards having national impact by later in the evening.\"\n\nSince then, internet traffic in the country has plummeted to 5% of normal levels, according to NetBlocks.\n\nNetBlocks tracks connectivity in countries around the world by scanning the internet for communications devices - routers, servers, mobile phone towers - and keeping a database of those known to be online in each territory.\n\nBy periodically sending brief messages over the internet to these devices, a practice called \"pinging\", NetBlocks and similar organisations can see when they go offline.\n\nNetblocks, a non-profit organisation, has been tracking the internet blackout\n\nMr Toker says he is taken aback by the extent of the blackout in Iran: \"This is on a different scale to other instances we've seen around the world.\"\n\nHe points out that the internet system in the country is not a single network that is easy to switch on or off.\n\nRather, a bit like in the UK, it is formed of a series of privately-owned networks that link together. Disrupting such a system is not straightforward.\n\nHowever, connections to the outside world in Iran are funnelled through just two entities: the state telecoms firm and the Institute for Physics and Mathematics, which means that authorities are more easily able to block communications in and out of the country.\n\n\"If you architect your country's internet access so you control the gateways, i.e. create choke points, you can censor at will,\" says Prof Alan Woodward, a cyber-security expert at the University of Surrey.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arash Azizi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNetBlocks has been able to detect the disconnection of internet devices with fixed line connections as well as the loss of service at mobile phone masts - which demonstrates that wireless mobile internet is also disrupted.\n\nOne Iranian journalist managed to tweet a message to the outside world via a proxy server - an internet device that links two separate networks together in order to transmit data between them. After dozens of attempts, he succeeded.\n\nIt might also be possible for individuals in Iran to use satellite internet or roaming SIM cards to access the wider internet.\n\nHowever, these methods are not guaranteed to work and may be monitored by authorities.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by محمد مساعد This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor most, the blackout is impenetrable.\n\nBehrang Tajdin, a correspondent with BBC Persian says that, like many of his colleagues, he has lost internet-based communications with contacts in the country.\n\n\"I can't remember the last time that we had a full blackout for four days,\" he says.\n\nTech firm Oracle's internet-monitoring service has described it as \"the largest internet shutdown ever observed in Iran\".\n\nMr Tajdin notes that Iran has spent years developing an internal \"intranet\" network so that certain branches of government and banks, for example, can stay online inside the country during shutdowns that cut Iran off from the outside world.\n\n\"People can still access domestic websites that are connected to this network, which means that Iranian apps can work, websites can work although there's no [international] internet access,\" he explains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters took to the streets across Iran as fuel price rises were introduced\n\nThe existence of this internal intranet has caused alarm among those who think Iran could use it to justify ever longer and more disruptive internet shutdowns.\n\nBesides social consequences, there may be serious economic ones too, says Mr Toker.\n\n\"We estimate that the economic impact to Iran is in the region of $60m (£46m) per day.\n\n\"It's a harmful strategy and sets a dangerous precedent,\" he adds.", "Joseph McCann is accused of tying up a mother with electrical cable and assaulting her children\n\nA mother was tied up while her children were abused by a knife-wielding sex attacker who threatened to slit her throat, a court has heard.\n\nJoseph McCann is accused of tricking his way into the woman's Lancashire home after a night out.\n\nHe used electrical cable to tie her up before assaulting her daughter, 17, and 11-year-old son, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nJurors have heard the mother tried to comfort her son after the three of them managed to escape, telling him: \"It's OK, son. We are alive.\"\n\nShe described her ordeal on 5 May in a police interview played during the trial.\n\n\"I have come back in a taxi where this fella has said 'I will come with you to make sure you get home OK',\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr McCann was allegedly captured on CCTV at a petrol station\n\nMr McCann later produced a knife as he ordered the woman to lie down in her son's bedroom, forcing the children into another bedroom, the jury was told.\n\n\"He tied my legs together and then he turned me back over again but he kept coming in saying 'you watch, or say anything, I will slit your throat,\" the woman continued.\n\n\"I said 'are you going to kill us all' and he said 'shut up'.\"\n\nShe described hearing Mr McCann tell her son to lie down on the floor and not to look at him.\n\n\"It was like I was in and out of consciousness,\" she said, adding: \"I don't know if it was fright.\n\n\"I was trying to get out but I thought if he sees me he would kill me. He had my children in the bedroom.\"\n\nCCTV images allegedly show Joseph McCann at the Phoenix Lodge Hotel in Watford on 25 April\n\nThe court was told Mr McCann checked on her three or four times during the ordeal.\n\nThe woman said her son later ran downstairs, grabbed their attacker's discarded knife and used it to cut her free, saying: \"Mummy, let's go out the back door.\"\n\nShe continued: \"I said 'hold onto me'. I said 'run like you never ran before and you get out'.\"\n\nDuring cross-examining, Jo Sidhu QC suggested the woman had been tied up because she tried to attack Mr McCann with a kitchen knife when he was in a bedroom with her daughter.\n\n\"It was obvious he was tying you up in order to stop you from being violent towards him because you were out of control,\" he said.\n\nThe witness replied: \"I disagree with all of that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hallie Rubenhold has worked as a curator for the National Portrait Gallery and as a university lecturer.\n\nA book that tells the \"untold\" stories of the women killed by Jack the Ripper has won a literary prize.\n\nHallie Rubenhold's The Five took this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, it was announced on Tuesday.\n\nThe author and historian bagged £50,000 for the book, which attempts to give a voice to the women murdered mysteriously in Victorian east London.\n\n\"These were ordinary people, like you and I, who happened to fall upon hard times,\" said Rubenhold.\n\nThe book reconstructs the lives of the five women - Mary Ann \"Polly\" Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly - killed by the unidentified serial killer in the Whitechapel area of the city, often using little more than the DNA of a single hair.\n\n\"There's so much in their stories that we can take away that tells us about how we live today: everything from homelessness to addiction to domestic violence,\" she went on.\n\n\"And people become victims because society doesn't care about them.\"\n\nImage taken from the cover of The Five by Hallie Rubenhold\n\nStig Abell, chair of the judges for the award, said the \"beautifully written and impressively researched\" book \"spoke with an urgency and passion to our own times\".\n\nEarlier in the year, around its publication, the Guardian noted how \"a landmark study calls time on the misogyny that fed the Jack the Ripper myth\". The paper's critic, Frances Wilson, however, begged the question: \"Why has it taken 130 years for a book telling the stories of the women to appear?\"\n\nRebecca Armstrong from iNews wrote that Rubenhold was \"giving Jack the Ripper's victims back their voices\".\n\n\"Throughout the book, Rubenhold uses the particulars of her subjects' lives as a springboard to depict social circumstances that shaped millions of lives,\" added Wendy Smith in The Washington Post.\n\nJad Adams from the Literary Review acknowledged how the book did not include any gory accounts of how each victim met her death.\n\n\"This is because she wants to look not at how they died but at how they lived,\" he wrote.\n\nOther titles shortlisted for the award included Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep, and On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming. William Feaver's The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth, Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell, and Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni were also recognised.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "That's all from Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland but the impeachment probe marches on.\n\nTrump's notes as he spoke to reporters (below) show the president's major takeaway: \"No quid pro quo.\"\n\nLater today, the congressional committee will reconvene to hear from Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense, and David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs.\n\nIn her closed-door testimony earlier this month, Cooper said Trump had directed the suspension of military aid to Ukraine over corruption concerns.\n\nIn his prior testimony, Hale said state department officials regarded the removal of ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yavonovitch as questionable. Yavonovitch testified last week.\n\nTomorrow, Trump's former Russia adviser Dr Fiona Hill will appear before the House panel.", "A vegan customer is suing Burger King for cooking its plant-based patties on the same grills it uses for meat.\n\nIn a proposed class action filed in the US, Philip Williams said the way the Impossible Whopper is grilled leaves it \"coated in meat by-products\".\n\nHe said the burger's tagline - \"100% Whopper, 0% Beef\" - was misleading.\n\nBurger King did not comment, but the small print on its website says people wanting a meat-free option can request \"a non-broiler method of preparation\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the supplier, Impossible Foods, also told Reuters news agency that vegetarians and vegans \"are welcome to ask\" for their Impossible Whopper to be cooked in a microwave.\n\nIn the lawsuit filed in a Miami federal court, Mr Williams says that the burger chain does not clearly advertise that the plant-based burgers are cooked with meat.\n\nHe said he visited a drive-through restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, and ordered the Impossible Whopper without mayonnaise.\n\nAt no point was he told the Whopper was cooked on the same grill as the meat burgers, he said - adding that, had he known, he would not have ordered it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In September, we looked at the rise of vegan fast food.\n\nMr Williams said he wanted damages for everyone in the US who bought the Impossible Whopper, as well as an injunction requiring Burger King to \"plainly disclose\" that the vegan burgers and meat burgers are cooked on the same grills.\n\nBurger King started selling the Impossible Whopper in Sweden in May, before rolling it out to US stores in August. It started selling the meatless burger in 25 other European countries earlier this month.\n\nAccording to Burger King's suggested pricing, the plant-based burger costs US customers about a dollar more than the beef version.", "Standard Chartered has become the second corporate partner to sever ties with the Duke of York's business mentoring initiative, Pitch@Palace.\n\nThe bank joined accountancy firm KPMG in pulling support for the scheme.\n\nIt said it was not renewing its sponsorship for \"commercial reasons\".\n\nSeveral businesses and universities are reviewing their association with Prince Andrew following a BBC interview about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nSources have told the BBC the decisions by Standard Chartered and KPMG were made before the Newsnight interview.\n\nPrince Andrew cancelled a planned visit to flood-hit areas of Yorkshire on Tuesday, three days after the interview aired, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nIt is understood the visit was deemed inappropriate in the midst of an election campaign.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn were asked about whether the duke was \"fit for purpose\" during their head-to-head debate on ITV on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe Labour leader said there were \"very, very serious questions that must be answered and nobody should be above the law\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think all our sympathies should be, obviously, with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the law must certainly take its course.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his Newsnight interview, the Queen's third child said he still did not regret his friendship with US financier Epstein - who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in the US.\n\nThe interview has provoked a backlash, with businesses, charities and other institutions announcing that they were reviewing their association with the prince.\n\nIn addition to Standard Chartered and KPMG ending their support for Pitch@Palace:\n\nOn Monday, the Huddersfield students' union panel passed a motion to lobby the prince to resign as their chancellor.\n\nThe university has since said that it listens to its students' views and will \"now be consulting with them over the coming weeks\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nThe duke has stood by his decision to speak out, after critics labelled the interview a \"car crash\".\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Tuesday, Huddersfield student Tristan Smith criticised the prince over his friendship with Epstein.\n\nHe accused Prince Andrew of \"trying to dismiss\" the row and failing to recognise Epstein's victims.\n\nMeanwhile, a woman who has accused Epstein of sexually abusing her as a 15-year-old has urged Prince Andrew to share information about his former friend.\n\nThe accuser, identified as \"Jane Doe 15\", did not accuse Prince Andrew of any wrongdoing but called on him and others to come forward and give a statement under oath.\n\nElsewhere, former home secretary Jacqui Smith alleged that Prince Andrew made racist comments to her during a state dinner.\n\n\"I have to say the conversation left us slack-jawed with the things that he felt it was appropriate to say,\" she told the LBC election podcast.\n\nAnd Rohan Silva, who was an adviser to former prime minister David Cameron, also accused the prince of using a racial slur in his presence.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman strenuously denied the claims, adding that Prince Andrew \"does not tolerate racism in any form\".\n\nThere is no wholesale repudiation of Prince Andrew's public role.\n\nBut whether as a result of the interview he gave, or because of the continuing swirl of allegations, there is a falling away of support for the prince, both corporate and political.\n\nThe former Labour lord chancellor and justice secretary, Lord Falconer, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that he thought the time had come for Prince Andrew to step away from public duties.\n\nThose close to Prince Andrew say that a withdrawal from public life is not under consideration.\n\nBut if support continues to seep from him, it will undermine his public position.\n\nThere was also further reaction to the prince's BBC appearance.\n\nActress Rose McGowan - one of the most prominent figures of the #MeToo movement - told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she thought it was not a truthful interview.\n\n\"It's also certainly not the mark of someone who is an empathetic character who cares about victims in any way,\" she added.\n\nThe actress also said she wished more questions had been asked about Epstein's alleged victims.\n\n\"We can't forget there is human tragedy behind this... This has serious repercussions, serious ramifications and serious pain that is involved in this story.\"\n\nHowever, Alastair Campbell - Tony Blair's ex-communications chief - said that although he thought the interview was a \"mistake\", it was not \"as bad as it is now being defined\".\n\nMr Campbell, who was another high-profile Briton to be named in Epstein's 97-page \"black book\" of contacts, also told the Today programme that he met the financier on a visit to the US for a funeral and found him to be \"a bit creepy\".\n\nPrince Andrew's BBC interview followed allegations by Virginia Giuffre, known at the time as Virginia Roberts, who claims the prince had sex with her on three occasions - the first when she was aged 17.\n\nPrince Andrew \"categorically\" denied having had sexual contact with her.\n\nIn an extraordinary interview, which you can watch in full on BBC iPlayer in the UK or YouTube elsewhere in the world, the duke said:", "A letter written to the Times newspaper by Buckingham Palace has cast doubt on when the Duke of York first met convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe 2011 letter says they met in the early 1990s, not in 1999 as Prince Andrew said in his BBC interview.\n\nIt comes as the duke faces a growing backlash after he said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the prince's words speak for themselves and he stands by his recollection of events.\n\nWriting to the Times in March 2011, the duke's then private secretary Alastair Watson aimed to address \"widespread comment\" about the relationship with the New York financier, who died in prison this year awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nHe said Prince Andrew had known Epstein \"since being introduced to him in the early 1990s\", but dismissed the \"insinuations and innuendos\" as \"without foundation\".\n\nBut in his interview with the BBC's Newsnight on Saturday, the duke said they \"met through his girlfriend back in 1999\" - a reference to Ghislaine Maxwell, who had been a friend of Prince Andrew since she was at university.\n\nThe 2011 letter was published after the Times reported on the existence of a photo of the prince with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre, then known as Roberts, who would later testify that she had been forced to have sex with him. The duke has always denied any form of sexual contact or relationship with her.\n\nThe duke was pictured with Ms Giuffre in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home in 2001\n\nBT has become the latest in a series of organisations to distance themselves from Prince Andrew since the interview was broadcast.\n\nIn a statement, BT said it had been working with iDEA - which helps people develop digital, business and employment skills - since 2017 but \"our dealings have been with its executive directors not its patron, the Duke of York\".\n\n\"In light of recent developments we are reviewing our relationship with the organisation and hope that we might be able to work further with them, in the event of a change in their patronage,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nAmong some close to the prince there was a belief that \"once the dust died down\" the Newsnight interview would have been worth it - because his core denials and admissions would be what was left in the public's mind.\n\nIt is hard to see the logic of that position now.\n\nThe letter to the Times from the prince's former private secretary undermines Prince Andrew's recollection of when his friendship with Epstein started.\n\nThe Daily Mail has highlighted at least one example, illustrated with photos, of when he and the Duchess of York broke what he called their \"simple rule\" that when one of them was away, the other was always with their children in the evening.\n\nThat \"simple rule\" was offered as a reason why the prince could not have been with Virginia Roberts in London on the night she claims he danced and had sex with her.\n\nThe loss of corporate support is particularly troubling for the palace: it is a \"real-world\" response to the interview, not just commentary and headlines.\n\nBT goes out of its way to say they'd reconsider if the organisation that they currently sponsor changed its patron - the prince.\n\nThis is not getting better for the prince, or for the palace. It is getting worse.\n\nStandard Chartered Bank and KPMG earlier announced they were withdrawing support for the duke's business mentoring initiative Pitch@Palace, but sources told the BBC the decisions were made before the interview.\n\nFour Australian universities have also said they would not be continuing their involvement in Pitch@Palace Australia.\n\nPrince Andrew cancelled a planned visit to flood-hit areas of Yorkshire on Tuesday, three days after the interview aired, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'\n\nIt is understood the visit was deemed inappropriate in the midst of an election campaign.\n\nIn his Newsnight interview, the duke answered questions for the first time about his friendship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in the US.\n\nHe \"categorically\" denied having any sexual contact with Virginia Giuffre, but the interview provoked a backlash.\n\nDespite the criticism, BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond reported that those close to the duke say a withdrawal from public life is not under consideration.\n\nThe prince said he regretted this 2010 meeting with Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew said in the interview that he could not recall ever meeting Virginia Giuffre and recalled that he went to Pizza Express in Woking and then returned home the night she claims they first met.\n\nHe sought to cast doubt on her testimony that he was \"profusely sweating\" in a nightclub, saying that a medical condition at the time meant he could not perspire.\n\nAnd the duke said meeting Epstein for a final time in 2010 was \"the wrong decision\", but said the \"opportunities I was given to learn\" about business meant he did not regret the friendship.", "An election candidate standing in the same seat as Anna Soubry has been found guilty of harassing her and banned from campaigning in the constituency.\n\nEnglish Democrat candidate Amy Dalla Mura is standing in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, which Ms Soubry has represented since 2010.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard the defendant repeatedly targeted the Independent Group for Change candidate and called her a traitor on television.\n\nShe will be sentenced on 16 December.\n\nThe court heard Dalla Mura, from Hove, attended an event in Parliament on 23 January where Ms Soubry was speaking, repeatedly interrupting her and live streaming the event on her phone. The meeting was eventually abandoned when she refused to stop.\n\nThe court was also told Dalla Mura approached Ms Soubry in Parliament's Central Lobby while she was appearing on BBC Newsnight on 14 March, calling her a \"traitor\" while again filming her.\n\nPassing the verdict, chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot described Dalla Mura's behaviour as \"oppressive and unacceptable\", with conduct \"driven by anger at Ms Soubry's political views on Brexit\". She said it had also \"caused harassment in the sense of alarm and distress\".\n\nThe 56-year-old will be sentenced four days after the election but will still be allowed to stand.\n\nHowever, as a condition of bail, she cannot enter Broxtowe and has been banned from contacting or mentioning Ms Soubry on social media.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhiannon Davies campaigned for an independent inquiry after her baby, Kate, died in 2009\n\nBabies and mothers died amid a \"toxic\" culture at a hospital trust stretching back 40 years, a report has said.\n\nThe catalogue of maternity care failings at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust are contained in a report leaked to The Independent.\n\nIt reveals that some children were left disabled, staff got the names of some dead babies wrong and, in one case, referred to a child as \"it\".\n\nThe trust apologised and said \"a lot\" had been done to address concerns.\n\nIn 2017, then Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced an investigation into avoidable baby deaths at the trust, which runs Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Telford's Princess Royal.\n\nIt is being led by maternity expert Donna Ockenden, who authored the report for NHS Improvement.\n\nThe trust runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital in Telford\n\nIts initial scope was to examine 23 cases but this has now grown to more than 270, covering the period from 1979 to the present day.\n\nThe cases include 22 stillbirths, three deaths during pregnancy, 17 deaths of babies after birth, three deaths of mothers, 47 cases of substandard care and 51 cases of cerebral palsy or brain damage.\n\nThe interim report said the number of cases it is now being asked to review \"seems to represent a longstanding culture at this trust that is toxic to improvement effort\".\n\nThe report details the issues experienced by affected families, including:\n\nIt also points to an inadequate review carried out by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in 2017 and the \"misplaced\" optimism of the regulator in charge in 2007.\n\nDonna Ockenden said the leaked document appeared to be an internal status update as of February 2019\n\nRhiannon Davies and Richard Stanton, whose baby Kate died in 2009, were among the families who first pushed for the independent inquiry.\n\nMs Davies said she was already aware of many of the issues raised by the report but said she was \"shocked\" by the length of time covered by the report.\n\n\"The devastating reality of Kate's avoidable death, that I have to live with, is that she was condemned to her painful death by the culture at SaTH that wilfully refused to learn from earlier cases dating back decades,\" she said.\n\n\"That is why I have fought every body and every institution in Kate's name because no other baby will suffer the same harm while I have breath in my body.\n\n\"The only way I believe it will stop is if the police or Crown Prosecution Service bring corporate manslaughter charges against the trust.\"\n\nThis report will unfortunately only confirm what dozens of families have been telling me since we first highlighted the problems at the trust in 2017.\n\nA staggering attitude towards any number of families - dismissing their questions, telling young women who'd just lost a healthy baby not to worry as they'll be pregnant again within the year - showed a wilful disregard to improving healthcare and learning from mistakes.\n\nBut it would be wrong to simply blame SaTH, culpable as it is. NHS regulators as far back as 2007 drew attention to problems in the maternity unit and then failed to follow-up with any meaningful improvements.\n\nThe trust has recently appointed a new chief executive - developing a new culture will take an awful lot longer.\n\nDet Supt Carl Moore, of West Mercia Police, said the force was liaising with the independent inquiry and awaiting its findings before any criminal proceedings would be considered - in line with protocol in health care settings.\n\nMr Stanton said: \"My feelings are one of huge sorrow, huge sorrow for all the families who have had their lives ripped apart by this trust, by the avoidable death of their child, an avoidable death of a mother or the harm to their child.\n\n\"A death at the hands of a trust that has a toxic culture of lying and cover up.\"\n\nSharon Morris, whose daughter Olivia suffered a brain injury 14 years ago, said she was \"not shocked\" by the findings.\n\nIn a statement released by Lanyon Bowdler solicitors, she said: \"Every day for the last 14 years we are constantly reminded of the failure by SaTH to help me give birth to healthy twins.\n\n\"No amount of money can change things and all we can now hope for is that changes are made to ensure other families don't suffer like we do.\"\n\nOlivia Morris (centre), pictured with her identical twin Beth and their mother Sharon, suffered a brain injury 14 years ago\n\nShrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) said it had \"not been made aware of any interim report\" and awaited the findings of the full report.\n\nShe added: \"A lot has already been done to address the issues raised by previous cases.\"\n\nHowever, the report warned lessons were not being learned and staff at the trust were uncommunicative with families.\n\nMs Ockenden said the leaked document appeared to be an internal status update as of February 2019.\n\n\"This was produced at the request of NHS Improvement and was not meant for publication,\" she said.\n\nShe said the independent review team was working to meet the family's request for \"one, single, comprehensive\" report covering all cases of serious concern within maternity services at the trust.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bethany Bell visits the house where Adolf Hitler was born\n\nThe building where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born in Austria will be turned into a police station, officials have announced.\n\nInterior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said it would be an \"unmistakable signal\" that the property did not commemorate Nazism.\n\nHitler spent the first few weeks of his life in a flat in the 17th-Century building in the town of Braunau am Inn.\n\nThe fate of the property has been the subject of a lengthy dispute.\n\nFor decades, the government rented it from its former owner in an attempt to stop far-right tourism.\n\nIt was once a day-care centre for disabled people, but this ended when owner Gerlinde Pommer objected to plans to make it more wheelchair-friendly and then refused all government offers to buy it or carry out renovations.\n\nA plan to turn it into a centre for refugees in 2014 also came to nothing.\n\nThe government took possession of the house in 2016 under a compulsory purchase order, for a price of 810,000 euros ($897,000; £694,000).\n\nThere has been widespread debate and disagreement in Austria over the fate of the building.\n\nSome have called for it to be torn down, while others argued it should be used for charity work or as a house of reconciliation.\n\nIn his statement on Tuesday, Mr Peschorn said the house's \"future use by the police should send an unmistakable signal that this building will never again evoke the memory of National Socialism\".\n\nHitler was born in Braunau am Inn, where his father had been posted for work, on 20 April 1889. The family stayed in an apartment in the building for a few weeks after his birth before moving to another address in the area.\n\nThey left the town for good when Hitler was three years old.\n\nHe returned briefly in 1938, on his way to Vienna, after he annexed Austria to Nazi Germany.\n\nUnder Hitler's rule (1933-45), Nazi Germany began World War Two, pursuing a genocidal policy that resulted in the deaths of some six million Jews, and tens of millions of other civilians and combatants.", "The Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in a BBC interview.\n\nHe spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in an interview recorded at Buckingham Palace.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "The Liberal Democrats are, on the face of it, planning the most austere form of fiscal policy of the major parties.\n\nUnlike both the Conservatives and the Labour Party, they have positioned their aim for the taxes raised annually over and above the day-to-day costs of public services to run a surplus of 1%.\n\nThis compares with aiming for balance - zero surplus or deficit - in three years for the Conservatives or five years for Labour.\n\nIt is stricter than both their fiscal targets and means more tax rises or spending cuts would be required.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats are the only party of sound finance,\" said their shadow chancellor, Sir Ed Davey, in a speech this week.\n\nIn practice, this would mean, set against Labour or Conservative plans, having to find some tax rises or spending cuts immediately.\n\nSir Ed has promised to put up both corporation tax and capital gains tax for that purpose.\n\nActually, the Lib Dems also assume what they call a \"remain bonus\" of extra tax income from a larger economy arising from not leaving the European Union.\n\nCapital spending on future investments, such as railways and hospitals, would be allowed outside of this limit, but only where vetted by an independent watchdog to generate more money for the taxpayer than the initial cost of borrowing.\n\nThis is a similar plan to that outlined by Labour's John McDonnell, targeting not the stock of debt, but the increase in the value of assets, too - what is known as a \"net worth\" target.\n\nIt should allow considerable capital investment, £100bn of which would be spread out over the lifetime of the next Parliament to deal with climate change.\n\nThere is an extra £7bn for schools and college buildings and £10bn on hospitals.\n\nThere is an option to abandon the target in a downturn and, instead, target a current deficit of 1%.\n\nBut if there is no such occurrence, these rules on day-to-day spending are tighter than the others.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lib Dems want to stop Boris Johnson winning a majority, says Davey\n\nThe Lib Dems' deputy leader says the party can stop Boris Johnson from winning the general election \"and through that we can stop Brexit\".\n\nSir Ed Davey told the BBC the most likely outcome on 12 December was a \"minority Tory government\".\n\nHe suggested the Lib Dems would support them, along with other parties, if they agreed to another EU referendum.\n\nThe party launched its election manifesto earlier with a pledge to stop Brexit which they say would save £50bn.\n\nIf the party wins the general election outright, it says it would revoke Article 50, halting Brexit and keeping the UK in the European Union.\n\nIf it does not win, it will continue campaigning for another EU referendum, or \"People's Vote\".\n\nSir Ed told the BBC's Andrew Neil Show the party wants to stop the Conservatives getting a majority at the election and then use whatever leverage they have to push for another referendum.\n\n\"The most likely result I think, looking at the figures, is probably a minority Tory government,\" said Sir Ed.\n\n\"If it's a minority Tory government, Boris Johnson says he wants to deliver Brexit… The only way he could do that is with a People's Vote and so we will challenge him and we will work with others to say 'if you want to do what you said, Mr Johnson… if you want to do what you said, work for a People's Vote.\"\n\nHe added: \"We can stop Boris Johnson getting a majority and through that we can stop Brexit.\"\n\nSources inside the party concede now that after the withdrawal of the Brexit Party in Conservative seats, what might have been a wildly unpredictable four-way race, has moved to a scrappy national two-way - with the SNP separately dominant in Scotland, and the third smaller UK-wide party eagerly trying to nibble at the margins to get in.\n\nWith Labour yet to make any big breakthrough in the campaign, the Lib Dems claim they are the ones who can nab seats from the Conservatives.\n\nSo Lib Dem votes in marginal seats are the ones that could prevent Johnson from a clear run at five years in office.\n\nThe party's private hopes a few weeks ago of a massive increase in the number of seats has slipped a lot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson is pressed on whether she'd block a Tory or Labour government\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson has repeatedly insisted that she is aiming to be the prime minister of a Liberal Democrat government after 12 December's election - but she admitted in a BBC interview that it would be a \"big step\", given the current opinion polls.\n\nShe told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg her MPs would not actively support a Labour or Tory programme of government as she believes neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Boris Johnson are fit to be prime minister.\n\nBut she did not rule out allowing either of them to take office - by abstaining in a vote on their first Queen's Speech - if they agreed to hold another EU referendum.\n\nShe also suggested there could be a \"government of national unity\" - made up of senior figures from different parties - if there was no overall winner at the polls.\n\n\"It's certainly something which I put forward and suggested a few months ago, it wasn't something which there was a majority for, ultimately, in the previous Parliament, but we don't know what the arithmetic of the next Parliament will look like.\n\n\"And I just don't think that we should be sort of trapped by convention into thinking our politics has to go down the tramlines that we've assumed it would in the past because this is a time of change in politics.\"\n\nShe said people needed to be \"more imaginative about what happens\" after an election, suggesting that there were MPs in other parties that the Lib Dems could work with.\n\nAt her party's manifesto launch, Ms Swinson said the economic boost the UK would get from staying in the EU was at the heart of her plan to build a \"brighter future for people\".\n\nThe so-called £50bn \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra cash for schools and support for the low-paid.\n\nShe said the UK \"deserved better\" than Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10.\n\nThe largest single spending commitment in the Lib Dems' 96-page manifesto, launched at an event in north London, is a major expansion of free childcare, to be paid for by an increase in corporation tax and changes to capital gains allowances on the sale of assets.\n\nThere are also eye-catching pledges to freeze the cost of many rail fares for five years, to legalise and tax cannabis sales to over-18s and to charge those taking frequent international flights more.\n\nThe Lib Dems are hoping to significantly boost their presence in Parliament on the back of their opposition to Brexit, as they target pro-Remain seats in the south of England and London held by the Conservatives and Labour.\n\nSpeaking at her manifesto launch, she accused Boris Johnson of \"lying\" when he said a Tory victory on 12 December would \"get Brexit done\".\n\nWhat lay ahead instead, she said, were \"years and years of endless trade negotiations\" with the EU and \"more time and energy wasted in getting something we know will not be as good as what we have now\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to shows Prince Andrew inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York residence in 2010\n\nPrince Andrew has given an unprecedented interview to the BBC about his relationship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe friendship between the 59-year-old member of the Royal Family and Epstein has come under close scrutiny since the American killed himself in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew said it was wrong of him to visit and stay at Epstein's house in 2010 after the financier's conviction but that he did not regret their entire friendship.\n\nHe also categorically denied having sex with Virginia Roberts, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old.\n\nHere's what we know about the links between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew said he first met Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager, in 1999 through Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's British girlfriend and a woman the prince said he had known since she was at university. That year was the first time the prince and the businessman were linked in press reports in the UK and US.\n\nPrince Andrew reportedly flew with Epstein on his private Gulfstream jet in February 1999, according to a log book seen by the Daily Mirror in 2015.\n\nThe destination was said to have been Epstein's private island, Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Daily Mail also reported that 10 months earlier Epstein's logbook showed he had flown to the same location to meet the prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. The couple had divorced in 1996.\n\nEpstein and Ms Maxwell were among a star-studded guest list at a party hosted by the Queen in June 2000.\n\nThe Dance of the Decades event, which saw more than 600 guests descend on Windsor Castle, marked four royal birthdays including Prince Andrew's 40th. Prince Andrew, the Queen's third child, told the BBC that Epstein was there at his invitation, not the Royal Family's, but was to some extent Ms Maxwell's \"plus one\".\n\nThe duke at the time appeared to be part of the social circle of Ms Maxwell, whom Epstein later described as his best friend.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured accompanying Ms Maxwell - daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell - at private parties and celebrity functions both in the UK and in the US that year.\n\nThey were photographed together at the wedding of the prince's former girlfriend, Aurelia Cecil, near Salisbury in Wiltshire in September 2000.\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell leaving the wedding of his former girlfriend Aurelia Cecil in September 2000\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell were pictured at the event in Wiltshire\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell were again photographed together at a Halloween party thrown by model Heidi Klum in Manhattan.\n\nMs Maxwell was pictured dressed in gold lame and wearing a blonde wig for the Hookers and Pimps-themed party.\n\nJust over a month later, in December 2000, the then 40-year-old prince threw Ms Maxwell a surprise birthday party at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, with Epstein among the guests.\n\nHe described it in the BBC interview as a \"straightforward shooting weekend\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham in December 2000\n\nMs Maxwell and Epstein were photographed on a pheasant shoot at the estate around that time.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell went on a number of trips together including to Florida and Thailand, according to an Evening Standard report from January 2001, which claimed Epstein had joined them on five such occasions over the previous 12 months.\n\nPrince Andrew told the BBC that he used to see Epstein a maximum of three times a year but confirmed he had been on his private plane, stayed at his private island, and stayed at his homes in Palm Beach, Florida and New York.\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial next year.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges but was facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted.\n\nIn July 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was invited to a masked ball at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 18th birthday of Princess Beatrice, Prince Andrew's elder daughter.\n\nThe theme of the evening was 1888, and the 500 guests donned period costumes.\n\nThe previous month, Epstein was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution.\n\nPrince Andrew said Epstein had been invited via Ms Maxwell but that he wasn't aware at the time the invitation was sent out \"what was going on in the United States\".\n\nHe said Epstein never mentioned that he was under investigation.\n\nThe duke was photographed with Epstein in New York's Central Park in December 2010 - after the tycoon had served his sentence.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had travelled across the Atlantic to end his friendship with Epstein and was having that conversation with him when they were photographed in the park.\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nThe prince told the BBC: \"I said, 'Look, because of what has happened, I don't think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact.'\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he attended a small dinner party while he was there but denied it was to celebrate Epstein's release.\n\nFootage released by the Mail on Sunday in August showed Prince Andrew inside the financier's Manhattan mansion around the same time.\n\nThe prince told the BBC that he regretted staying at Epstein's house during the visit, saying he \"let the side down\" by doing so. Pressed on reports that many young girls were coming and going from the house at the time, he said: \"I never saw them.\"\n\nEpstein's house was like a \"railway station\" with \"people coming in and out of that house all the time\", he added.\n\nPrince Andrew's connection to the convicted sex offender did attract criticism at the time.\n\nAfter several days of newspaper reports on the Epstein connection in spring of 2011, Prince Andrew was hit with a further blow when Sarah Ferguson admitted having accepted £15,000 from Epstein, to help pay off her debts.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in 2011 - she is said to have accepted £15,000 from Epstein that year\n\nThe fallout saw him quit his role as a UK trade envoy in July 2011. Prince Andrew later acknowledged his friendship with Epstein had been a mistake.\n\nIn 2015 the duke was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew was not party to the proceedings but was identified when a motion was filed in the court, as part of the evidence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was ordered to give the prince \"whatever he required\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Virginia Roberts in early 2001, said to have been taken at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is standing behind the pair\n\nMs Giuffre claimed in court papers in Florida she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions - in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein - between 2001 and 2002, including when she was underage under Florida law.\n\nThe details were later officially struck from the court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 was contained in documents from a defamation case. These documents were made public when they were released by a judge in August 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre had brought the defamation case against Ms Maxwell. She was alleged to have procured underage girls for Epstein and his friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had \"no recollection\" of ever meeting Ms Giuffre. He said he was looking after his children on the day in March 2001 that she alleges they went to a nightclub in London and later had sex in Ms Maxwell's house in the Belgravia area.\n\nThe prince said he had taken his daughter Beatrice to a Pizza Express restaurant in the town of Woking that afternoon for a party.\n\nHe said he remembered it \"because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I would like to reiterate and reaffirm the statements that have been issued on my behalf by the palace\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he had no recollection of a photo being taken, reportedly by Jeffrey Epstein, of him and Virginia Giuffre together in Ms Maxwell's house where his arm is around her waist.\n\n\"Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken,\" he said, adding that \"hug[s] and public displays of affection are not something that I do\".\n\nAsked whether he had sex with her in a bedroom in that house, he said: \"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued outright denials of all allegations against Prince Andrew.", "The Liberal Democrats are, on the face of it, planning the most austere attitude to borrowing of all the major parties.\n\nUnlike both the Conservatives and the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats have positioned their aim for the taxes raised annually over and above the day-to-day costs of public services to run a surplus of 1%.\n\nBut the message of their manifesto is that each tax rise has a purpose.\n\nThe most visible result of this is a potentially painful form of fiscal virtue for the Lib Dems. They are advocating an extra penny on all income tax rates - ie an extra 1p on the basic rate, the higher rate and the additional rate of income tax, raising nearly £8bn at the end of the Parliament.\n\nTheir hope is that the electorate see this as an honest message to the public about the funding pressures for health and social care from an ageing society.\n\nBut it does leave them as the only UK-wide party advocating basic-rate income tax rises.\n\nIn addition, corporation tax back up to 20p and capital gains tax allowances being scrapped raises £15bn.\n\nAnd then there is a huge £5bn rise in the Air Passenger Duty levy, which in fact will have to raise even more than that from the most frequent fliers, as the Lib Dems claim infrequent fliers will save money.\n\nFor reference, the entire APD system currently raises £3.7bn a year, the majority of receipts raised by economy flights, because 95% of the 110 million international flights are taken in this class.\n\nAnother eye-catching new tax - on the consumption, after legalisation, of cannabis - will raise £1.5bn a year, the Lib Dems claim.\n\nThe interesting thing about the manifesto is that many of the tax rises are specifically earmarked for spending commitments. This, known as hypothecation, is very much out of fashion at the Treasury, which prefers everything to go into a central pot, but helps sell tax hikes to the public.\n\nBut the manifesto says the proceeds of the Air Passenger Duty rise will go to the fight against climate change, while business taxes will pay for an increase in free childcare and the extension of free school meals.\n\nThe income tax rise goes to health and social care, and the \"Remain bonus\" - the fiscal boost predicted from a larger economy if Brexit is revoked - goes on 20,000 new teachers.\n\nFinally, welfare reform and the cannabis savings will fund the police and youth services.\n\nThe problem is that if any of these sources of funding falls short individually, will they really de-fund the spending promises associated with it?\n\nDo police get less if the country buys less cannabis? If the \"Remain bonus\" is not as bountiful as predicted, will there be fewer teachers?", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nJose Mourinho has been appointed Tottenham manager after the sacking of Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday.\n\nFormer Chelsea and Manchester United boss Mourinho has signed a contract until the end of the 2022-23 season.\n\n\"The quality in both the squad and the academy excites me,\" said the 56-year-old Portuguese. \"Working with these players is what has attracted me.\"\n\nSpurs chairman Daniel Levy said: \"In Jose we have one of the most successful managers in football.\"\n\nMourinho will hold his first news conference as Tottenham boss at 14:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nThe Portuguese's basic salary is £8m a year after tax.\n\nLille coaches Joao Sacramento and Nuno Santos will join his backroom team, the French club have confirmed, while he will also be reunited with fitness coach Carlos Lalin and tactical analyst Giovanni Cerra, who both worked under Mourinho at United.\n• None Pochettino out, Mourinho in at Spurs - all the reaction\n• None 'It will be pure theatre' - which Mourinho will Spurs get and is he the right man?\n• None Still the 'Special One' or a fading force?\n• None An 'extraordinary' sacking - but the right decision?\n• None Sacking may be liberating for Pochettino - Balague column\n\nTottenham reached the Champions League final last season under Pochettino, but lost 2-0 to Liverpool in Madrid.\n\nThe Argentine, who was appointed in May 2014, did not win a trophy in his time in charge of the north London club, with Spurs' last silverware being the League Cup in 2008.\n\nLevy said Mourinho has \"a wealth of experience, can inspire teams and is a great tactician\".\n\n\"He has won honours at every club he has coached,\" he added. \"We believe he will bring energy and belief to the dressing room.\"\n\nMourinho still has a home in London and won three Premier League titles - in 2005, 2006 and 2015 - as well as one FA Cup in two spells at Chelsea.\n\nHaving taken over at Manchester United in May 2016, he won the Europa League and Carabao Cup with them in 2017.\n\nMourinho was sacked by the Old Trafford club in December 2018, with the club 19 points behind league leaders Liverpool, and had not managed another side before joining Spurs.\n\nHe has also previously managed Portuguese side Porto, where he won the Champions League in 2004.\n\nAt Italian club Inter Milan, Mourinho won a league, cup and Champions League treble in 2010 and was named Fifa's world coach of the year, while he led Spanish team Real Madrid to the La Liga title in 2012.\n\nHe takes over a Spurs side that are without a win in their past five games and have slipped to 14th in the Premier League, 20 points behind leaders Liverpool after just 12 matches.\n\nTottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust had said \"many fans thought Poch had earned the right\" to try to turn around the side's form and that \"there are questions that must be asked of the board\".\n\nFollowing Mourinho's appointment, it said it had \"concerns about how Jose and our club's executive board will work together\".\n\nIt added: \"The club must ensure it does not find itself in the same position in two or three years' time, and we need to hear from the executive board what the long-term thinking behind this appointment is.\"\n\nMourinho's first match in charge is a trip to West Ham United on Saturday (12:30 GMT kick-off).\n\nSpurs go to Manchester United on 4 December, and host another of Mourinho's former teams - Chelsea - on 22 December.\n\nMourinho has turned down a number of managerial opportunities, including in China, Spain and Portugal, since leaving Old Trafford.\n\nSpurs have never hired a manager as expensive or demanding as Mourinho, nor spent the kind of money on players that he became accustomed to at clubs such as Real Madrid and Manchester United.\n\nBut Spurs have come a long way in recent years under Pochettino. They have a new £1bn stadium and training ground, and spent four successive seasons in the Champions League.\n\nThey now have a European pedigree, and a hugely talented squad.\n\nMourinho has been out of the game for almost a year but retained a home in London.\n\nHis tribulations at Manchester United saw him lose his 'Special One' status, but his many achievements in the game still command widespread respect.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales secured qualification for Euro 2020 as Aaron Ramsey marked his return to the team with two goals to inspire a joyous 2-0 win over Hungary.\n\nRamsey, starting for the first time in this campaign, headed in from Gareth Bale's first-half cross to fuel a carnival atmosphere at a heaving Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nA superb double save from Wayne Hennessey kept Hungary at bay and then, 90 seconds into the second half, Ramsey calmly controlled the ball in the penalty area before stroking it into the top corner.\n\nBale came close to adding a third with a fierce free-kick which fizzed narrowly over, while Ramsey was denied a hat-trick by Hungary goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi.\n\nBut nothing could detract from the euphoria in the stands as Wales rejoiced at the prospect of playing at only a third major tournament in their history.\n\nNext summer's European Championship will be Wales' second in succession, a remarkable transformation for a country which had to endure 58 barren years between its first appearance at a major tournament, the 1958 World Cup, and its second at Euro 2016.\n• None 'Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order' - Bale risks further rift with Real\n• None Wales 'want to have time of lives' at Euros\n• None Has Giggs won over fans with Euro 2020 qualification?\n\nQualification also represented an extraordinary turnaround in this campaign alone.\n\nWhen Wales lost in Hungary in June, they were left with only three points from their first three matches and with their hopes of qualifying hanging by a thread.\n\nBut having avoided defeat since then, Ryan Giggs' side were gathering momentum at just the right moment.\n\nNobody epitomised that sense of timing better than Ramsey, who had returned from a series of injuries to make his first appearance of the campaign as a substitute during Saturday's 2-0 win in Azerbaijan.\n\nThe Juventus midfielder came on for Bale on that occasion but both started against Hungary, Wales able to name the integral duo in the same team for the first time since November 2018.\n\nRamsey and Bale's influence on the national team is enormous, illustrated by the fact they had not lost a qualifier while playing together since a 2-0 defeat in Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 2015, which was academic as Wales qualified for Euro 2016 that night anyway.\n\nThey demonstrated their value to Wales once more on this occasion with a wonderfully worked first goal, Bale curling in a perfectly-weighted left-footed cross from the right and Ramsey heading in to get the party started in Cardiff.\n\nBale almost created a second goal when he crossed beautifully again, this time with his right foot, for Kieffer Moore, but the striker's header was wide.\n\nMoore atoned for that miss by playing his part in Wales' second goal, hooking a free-kick towards Ramsey, who was composure personified as he controlled the ball and finished with a flourish.\n\nWales had several chances to extend their lead, with Bale, Daniel James and Ramsey all going close.\n\nBut it did not matter. Despite a fleeting sign of Hungary's threat in the first half, the visitors posed no danger in the second.\n\nWales' players enjoyed themselves as they closed out the game, and then when the final whistle blew the celebrations could start in earnest.\n\nBefore qualifying for Euro 2016, Wales had come to be defined by their failures, a footballing nation weighed down by its past littered with near misses.\n\nFinal hurdles had proved Wales' undoing too many times: Scotland in 1977, Romania in 1993, Russia in 2003 and the Republic of Ireland in 2017 all etched on the national consciousness.\n\nBut although this side to face Hungary contained five of the line-up which lost to the Republic in the Welsh capital two years ago, this was also a Welsh squad comprised largely of young players unaffected by history's scars.\n\nFor the new generation, it is expected that Wales qualify - or that they are at least in contention until the very end.\n\nThis was a third qualifying campaign in succession where Wales entered their final fixture with their hopes of reaching the finals of a major tournament still alive.\n\nThey rose to the occasion here with a performance of supreme confidence and maturity, the old guard of Ramsey and Bale combining with the emerging talents of James, Connor Roberts, Ethan Ampadu and others.\n\nBale said on the eve of this match that Wales were using the \"euphoria\" of Euro 2016 as well as the pain of missing out on last year's 2018 World Cup as inspiration against Hungary.\n\nWales have learnt how to positively harness their history - rather than be burdened by it - and now they can look forward to writing a new chapter at Euro 2020.\n• None Offside, Hungary. István Kovács tries a through ball, but Filip Holender is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Wilson (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieffer Moore.\n• None Kieffer Moore (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Hungary. Zsolt Nagy tries a through ball, but Filip Holender is caught offside.\n• None Daniel James (Wales) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Dominik Szoboszlai (Hungary) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Máté Pátkai (Hungary) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dominik Szoboszlai.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gareth Bale (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Chris Mepham (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Davies with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Q: What do you do personally to help the environment?\n\nA: I drive all over the country, I catch a lot of aeroplane flights, I am not a leading example. But I think the UK should start a global initiative on planting trees on a massive scale.\n\nQ: Is the political debate now toxic?\n\nYes it is, and there very simple reason why. All through our history, if you lose an election you accept the result. For the first time in our history, senior figures have refused to accept the result, insulting and abusing those who dare to vote for Brexit, and this is what led to this.\n\nQ: Will we leave the EU this year?\n\nA: We are leaving the EU, and I think we will leave in 2020, but it must not just be Brexit in name only.", "Hundreds of koalas are feared dead as bushfires spread across Australia's east coast, ravaging their main habitat.\n\nBut some people are doing what they can to save the vulnerable marsupials.", "A word that is commonly used to describe the Scottish weather has been named the \"most iconic\" Scots word.\n\n\"Dreich\" - meaning dull or gloomy - topped a poll to mark Book Week Scotland, led by the Scottish Book Trust.\n\nIt beat off contenders including \"glaikit\", \"scunnered\" and \"shoogle\".\n\nThe charity said the first recorded use of the word \"dreich\" was in 1420, when it originally meant \"enduring\" or \"slow, tedious\".\n\nA total of 1,895 votes were cast in the annual poll.\n\nIf you ask someone to be quiet, you might say \"wheesht\".\n\nIt was the second time \"dreich\" had finished first in a poll after it also topped a YouGov poll in 2013 of favourite Scots words.\n\nMarc Lambert, CEO of Scottish Book Trust, said: \"We were overwhelmed by the many submissions for our iconic Scots words vote - it's certainly a subject close to people's hearts.\n\n\"Dreich is such an evocative word with the ability to sum up the Scottish weather, or mood, perfectly.\n\n\"It's also a word that is very well used here in Scotland and beyond.\"\n\nRhona Alcorn, CEO of the Scots Language Dictionary, said: \"Once again, dreich has been chosen as the most iconic Scots word, with glaikit taking the silver medal.\n\n\"Dreich has been part of the core vocabulary of Scots for hundreds of years so it is especially fitting that one of its primary meanings is 'enduring, persistent'.\"", "\n• Term for an MP who is not a minister. They sit behind the front benches in the House of commons.\n• A sealed box with a slit in the lid. Voters place their ballot papers through the slit into the box. When polls close the boxes are opened and counting begins.\n• Paper containing a list of all candidates standing in a constituency. Voters mark their choice with a cross.\n• An election held between general elections, usually because the sitting MP has died or resigned.\n• Someone putting themselves up for election. Once Parliament has been dissolved, there are no MPs, only candidates.\n• During a campaign, active supporters of a party ask voters who they will vote for and try to drum up support for their own candidates.\n• The deadline for candidates standing to send in the officials forms confirming their place in the election. This is usually __ days before polling day.\n• When two or more parties govern together, when neither has an overall majority. After the 2010 election, the Conservatives and Lib Dems formed a coalition, which lasted for five years.\n• A agreement between two political parties where the smaller party agrees to support a larger one without enough MPs to have a majority in parliament.\n• The geographical unit which elects a single MP. There are 650 in the UK.\n• In politics, a 'dead cat' strategy is when a dramatic or sensational story is disclosed to divert attention away from something more damaging. The term comes from the concept of an imaginary dead cat being flung onto a dining table, causing the diners to become distracted by it.\n• The announcement of the election result in each constituency.\n• A sum of £500 paid by candidates or their parties to be allowed to stand. It is returned if the candidate wins 5% or more of the votes cast.\n• The delegation of powers to other parliaments within the UK, specifically the Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies.\n• The Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland assemblies are elected by voters in those nations of the UK. They make laws on policy areas controlled by those nations such as health, environment and education.\n• The act of ending a Parliament before an election. When parliament is dissolved there are no MPs, but the prime minister and other senior ministers remain in their roles.\n• A list of everyone in a constituency entitled to vote. Also known as electoral roll.\n• An exit poll is a poll of voters leaving a voting station. They are asked how they have voted, and the results are used to forecast what the overall result of the election may be.\n• Term used to describe the UK's parliamentary election system. It means a candidate only needs to win the most votes in their constituency to win the seat.\n• When a party wins a constituency from another party, it is said to have \"gained\" it from the other.\n• Election at which all seats in the House of Commons are contested.\n• If after an election no party has an overall majority, then parliament is said to be \"hung\". The main parties will then try to form a coalition with one or more of the minor parties. Opinion polls have suggested that a hung parliament is a strong possibility after the 2015 general election.\n• A meeting a which candidates address potential voters. The word comes from an old Norse word meaning \"house of assembly\".\n• A candidate who is not a member of any political party and is standing on their own personal platform. To qualify as an official political party, a party must be registered with the Electoral Commission, the organisation which administers elections in the UK.\n• The name given to an election which one party wins by a very large margin. Famous landslides in UK elections include Labour's victory in 1945, the Conservative win in 1983 and the election which brought Tony Blair to power in 1997.\n• A person or party with strong socialist policies or beliefs.\n• The name of the party occupying the centre ground of British politics. They were formed from the former Liberal party and Social Democrats, a Labour splinter group, and combine support for traditional liberalism such as religious tolerance and individual freedom, with support for social justice.\n• A majority in Parliament means one side has at least one more vote than all the other parties combined and is therefore more likely to be able to push through any legislative plans.\n• When one party wins more than half of the seats in the Commons, they can rule alone in a majority government\n• Politicians say they have a mandate, or authority, to carry out a policy when they have the backing of the electorate.\n• A public declaration of a party's ideas and policies, usually printed during the campaign. Once in power, a government is often judged by how many of its manifesto promises it manages to deliver.\n• Seats where the gap between the two or more leading parties is relatively small. Often regarded as less than a 10% margin or requiring a swing (see below) of 5% or less, though very dependent on prevailing political conditions.\n• A minority government is one that does not have a majority of the seats in Parliament. It means the government is less likely to be able to push through any legislative programme. Boris Johnson has suffered a number of defeats in Parliament over a no-deal Brexit because he does not have a majority.\n• Strictly this includes members of the House of Lords, but in practice means only members of the House of Commons. When an election is called Parliament is dissolved and there are no more MPs until it assembles again.\n• A candidate must be nominated on these documents by 10 voters living in the constituency.\n• A survey asking people's opinion on one or more issues. In an election campaign, the key question is usually about which party people will vote for.\n• The largest party not in government is known as the official opposition. It receives extra parliamentary funding in recognition of its status.\n• Broadcasts made by the parties and transmitted on TV or radio. By agreement with the broadcasters, each party is allowed a certain number according to its election strength and number of candidates fielded.\n• The swing shows how far voter support for a party has changed between elections. It is calculated by comparing the percentage of the vote won in a particular election to the figure obtained in the previous election.\n• Place where people go to cast their votes\n• People unable to get to a polling station are allowed to vote by post if they apply in advance.\n• Any voting system where the share of seats represents the share of votes is described as proportional representation. The UK currently has a first past the post system.\n• Parliament is usually prorogued, or suspended, ahead of an election or Queen's Speech to allow for preparations. In September 2019 Boris Johnson attempted to prorogue Parliament for five weeks, but the Supreme Court later ruled the prorogation unlawful and MPs returned to Parliament.\n• This is the time between the announcement of an election and the final election results. During this period media organisations have to ensure any political reporting is balanced and is not likely to influence the outcome of the election.\n• If a result is close, any candidate may ask for a recount. The process can be repeated several times if necessary until the candidates are satisfied. The returning officer has the final say on whether a recount takes place.\n• The official in charge of elections in each of the constituencies. On election night they read out the results for each candidate in alphabetical order by surname.\n• Someone who is right wing in politics usually supports tradition and authority, as well as capitalism. The Conservative party is regarded as the main centre-right party in the UK.\n• A safe seat is a constituency where an MP has a sufficiently large majority to be considered unwinnable by the opposition.\n• The attempt to place a favourable interpretation on an event so that people or the media will interpret it in that way. Those performing this act are known as spin doctors.\n• Any ballot paper that is not marked clearly, eg with more than one box ticked or with writing scrawled across it, is described as a spoiled ballot and does not count towards the result.\n• This is when people vote not for the party they really support, but for another party in order to keep out a more disliked rival.\n• In theory, any seat that a party contests and held by a rival is one of its targets. In practice, a target seat is one that a party believes it can win and puts a lot of effort into doing so.\n• Turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot on polling day.\n• It is usually the leader of the opposition, currently Jeremy Corby, who calls for a vote of no confidence, in an attempt to topple the government. If more MPs vote for the motion than against it, then the government has 14 days to try to win back the confidence of MPs through another vote – while the opposition parties try to form an alternative government. If nothing is resolved, then a general election is triggered.\n• The UK Parliament is located in the Palace of Westminster in the centre of London and the term is often used as an alternative to Parliament.\n• A working majority in Parliament is what a government needs to carry out its legislative programme without risk of defeat. It means the government can rely on at least one more vote than the opposition parties. However, in the current Parliament, the government no longer has a majority and MPs from a range of opposition parties have joined forces to form a parliamentary majority big enough to defeat the government over plans for a no-deal Brexit.", "Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Ariana Grande all have multiple nominations\n\nTwo years after the head of the Grammys said women need to \"step up\" if they wanted to be recognised, female artists are dominating the 2020 nominations.\n\nFive of the eight album of the year nominees are women, Ariana Grande and Lana Del Rey among the front-runners.\n\nMeanwhile, Lizzo and Billie Eilish are shortlisted in all of the ceremony's \"big four\" categories: best new artist, best song, best record and best album.\n\nOnly one artist, Christopher Cross, has won all four awards in a single year.\n\nScottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi has also been recognised, with Someone You Loved picking up a nomination for song of the year; while English singer Yola picked up a surprise mention in the best new artist category.\n\nAnd Lil Nas X received multiple nominations for his country-rap crossover Old Town Road, which spent a record-breaking 19 weeks at number one in the US earlier this year.\n\nThe nominees for the main categories are:\n\nLewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved is nominated for song of the year\n\nBritish nominees include Ed Sheeran, whose No. 6 Collaborations Project is up for best pop album; Ella Mai, whose debut record is nominated for best R&B album; and violinist Nicola Bendetti, who is recognised for a new concerto, written especially for her by jazz musician Wynton Marsalis.\n\nThe Chemical Brothers receive three nominations in the dance categories; while Thom Yorke and James Blake go up against each other for best alternative album.\n\nThere are also posthumous nominations for The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan, and murdered rap star Nipsey Hussle.\n\nLizzo was understandably excited to cap off her breakthrough year with so many nominations.\n\nShe tweeted: \"This has been an incredible year for music and I'm just so thankful to even be part of it. \"We are all winners.\"\n\nLil Nas X posted a simple but explosive: \"NO WAY\" (with an expletive in between those two words).\n\nThe Grammys were mired in controversy in 2018, after only one woman, Alessia Cara, won an award during the televised ceremony.\n\nAsked to respond to the lack of female representation, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said women needed \"to step up because I think they would be welcome.\n\n\"I don't have personal experience of those kinds of brick walls that you face but I think it's upon us - us as an industry - to make the welcome mat very obvious.\"\n\nHis comments sparked outrage, and this year's ceremony rang the changes, with Kacey Musgraves' space-age country album Golden Hour taking home the main prize, presented by a new female host, Alicia Keys.\n\nBebe Rexha and Alicia Keys announced the nominations on Wednesday\n\nAs she picked up the best new artist trophy, British star Dua Lipa drove home the point, saying: \"I guess this year we really stepped up.\"\n\nTo be clear, the 2020 nominees all earned their place on merit. There's no quota system in place. Instead, artists like Billie Eilish and electro-flamenco star Rosalía, have written some of the most forward-thinking, head-turning records of the last 12 months.\n\nThe Recording Academy's new president, Deborah Dugan, commented on the phenomenon as she announced the shortlist for best pop solo performance in Los Angeles.\n\n\"Wow, that's a lot of women,\" she quipped. \"Just sayin.'\"\n\nWe'll discover who wins when the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards take place on Sunday, 26 January 2020, hosted again by Alicia Keys.\n\nThe event takes place a month earlier than normal, after the Oscars moved their ceremony forward, taking the Grammys traditional slot.\n\nThat means the 2020 honours are based on a shortened, 11-month eligibility period.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke says she found the nude scenes \"hard\".\n\nSpeaking on actor Dax Shepard's podcast, she says she would \"cry in the bathroom\" before certain scenes - but adds this would have happened \"whether there was nudity or not\".\n\nHer role as Daenerys Targaryen initially required her to take her clothes off quite a lot.\n\nShe thinks it was necessary for the story - but that the show would be \"very different\" if it was made today.\n\nEmilia says her attitude to nudity is \"very different\" now\n\nThe actress, who's from London, got the part when she was 23.\n\nIt was her first big break in the industry.\n\n\"I took the job and then they sent me the scripts and I was reading them, and I was like, 'Oh, there's the catch,'\" she told the podcast.\n\n\"But I'd come fresh from drama school and I approached it as a job.\n\n\"If it's in the script then it's clearly needed, this is what this is and I'm going to make sense of it. Everything's going to be cool.\"\n\nEmilia is now in romcom Last Christmas\n\nShe added: \"I'd been on a film set twice before then and I'm now on a film set completely naked with all of these people, and I don't know what I'm meant to do.\n\n\"I don't know what's expected of me, I don't know what you want and I don't know what I want.\n\n\"Regardless of there being nudity or not, I would have spent that first season thinking I'm not worthy of requiring anything. I'm not worthy of needing anything at all.\n\n\"Whatever I'm feeling is wrong, I'm going to go cry in the bathroom and then I'm going to come back and we're going to do the scene and it's going to be completely fine.\"\n\nEmilia and Jason at the season three premiere in 2013\n\nShe says co-star Jason Momoa, who played her abusive, warlord husband helped her through the first series.\n\nAnd, despite the fact she thinks we live in \"shifting times for nudity\", she wouldn't change how it was filmed between 2009 and 2010.\n\n\"I've had so many people say so many things to me about Khaleesi's nudity in the show. But people wouldn't care about her if you hadn't had seen her be abused. So you had to see it.\"\n\nEmilia's now starring in the festive romcom Last Christmas.\n\nShe says she now has \"fights on set\" about whether nudity is necessary.\n\n\"Things are very, very different. I'm a lot more savvy with what I'm comfortable with, and what I am okay with doing.\"\n\nHBO and the creators of Game Of Thrones have been contacted for comment.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Four witnesses testified before Congress on Tuesday as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.\n\nWhite House aide Lt Col Alexander Vindman and state department official Jennifer Williams appeared in the morning.\n\nSome Republicans questioned the integrity of Lt Col Vindman during the hearing. The veteran was applauded by the audience at one point.", "Music streaming generated £829m for the UK music industry last year\n\nSpotify, Apple and Amazon Music have revived the fortunes of the music industry, but fans aren't getting enough choice, a new report claims.\n\nIt says streaming services are too similar, offering the same collection of songs with little price variation.\n\nAppealing to older music fans and offering \"super-premium\" features could double the value of the market, from £829m this year to £1.6bn in 2023.\n\nThe findings came in a report for the Entertainment Retailers Association.\n\n\"There's a major prize at stake,\" said Pedro Sanches, of consultancy firm OC&C, who conducted the study.\n\nThe current \"all-you-can-eat\" streaming model had \"enjoyed enormous success, in part because of its simplicity,\" he said, \"but further innovation will drive more growth\".\n\nThe report identified several new avenues, including premium subscriptions that offer access to exclusive content and merchandise; and expanding popular family and student plans to other demographics.\n\nSubscription streaming services have become increasingly important to the music industry, at a time when CD sales and downloads are in sharp decline.\n\nA total of 91 billion songs were played on Spotify, Apple Music and their competitors last year - the equivalent of 1,300 songs per person in the UK - and streaming now accounts for nearly two thirds (63.6%) of all music consumption in the UK.\n\nThe ERA's research was commissioned amid concerns that the surge in subscriptions could stagnate.\n\n\"Streaming has been the biggest news in the industry for the last 10 years,\" the organisation's CEO, Kim Bayley, told the BBC.\n\n\"The younger generation are very firmly in the streaming environment, and saturation point is approaching for under-25s, so we wanted to see where future growth will come from\".\n\nThe report found that, left to its own devices, the UK streaming market would continue to expand by 5-7% every year, reaching £1.1bn in 2023. But finding ways to tempt non-subscribers could result in a £500m boost, generating revenues of £1.6bn.\n\n\"It's fair to say even we were surprised just how positive the results were,\" Bayley said. \"There's lots of potential.\"\n\nLessons could also be learned from other entertainment providers, she added.\n\n\"Think about the way Sky [television] bundles things together - with different tiers for sport and movies and entertainment. That's the sort of thing you could do with music - create more channels, break it up a bit, and pay for the bits you want.\"\n\nThe need for a more diverse music streaming experience was recently highlighted by Warner Music CEO Mark Cooper.\n\n\"The streaming offerings in music have not been as consumer-friendly as they could have been,\" he said in New York last week.\n\n\"Right now, there's a 50 million-track universe and it's either free or $10 [per month], plus or minus.\n\n\"My view is that if [streaming services were] organised to allow people to choose by genre, or by number of tracks per day, hi-res sound, global [or] local, whatever it is, the music industry and the tech companies would have been ahead [of where they are now] by way of revenue optimisation.\"\n\nThe ERA's research was released on the same day it was revealed that the UK Music industry had contributed £5.2bn to the UK economy in 2018.\n\nThe success of stars like Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa helped exports soar to £2.7bn; while the live music sector made £1.1bn - up 10% from £991 million in 2017, despite Glastonbury taking a fallow year.\n\nHowever, trade body UK Music warned that the new talent was being threatened by cuts to musical education and the continued closure of small music venues.\n\nIt added that, despite the huge financial rewards for A-list stars like Calvin Harris and Adele, the average musician earned £23,059 - well below the national average of £29,832.\n\nBrexit also poses a danger to the industry, and touring musicians in particular, warned UK Music CEO Michael Dugher.\n\n\"We urgently need to ensure that the impact of Brexit doesn't put in jeopardy the free movement of talent, just at a time when we should be looking outwards and backing the best of British talent right across the world.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The man was taken to a major trauma centre with serious leg injuries\n\nA commuter is fighting for his life after being struck by a London Tube train at rush-hour.\n\nThe man suffered a medical episode and fell in front of an incoming train at Oxford Circus at 17:30 GMT, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nHe was taken to hospital with serious leg injuries and is in a critical condition.\n\nVictoria Line trains were cancelled while the man was rescued and severe delays followed the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Georgi Smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommuter Sophie King told BBC London she was travelling south on the Victoria Line when the train began pulling into Oxford Circus.\n\n\"It was very crowded and then everyone started screaming and shouting and calling for a doctor,\" she said.\n\n\"It looked like the man was crushed at the side of the train.\"\n\nVictoria Line trains were cancelled while the victim was treated\n\nBBC cricket commentator Ebony Rainford-Brent was also among the witnesses to the incident.\n\nShe said she saw a man fall in front of a train as people filled the \"overcrowded\" platform.\n\n\"I just watched a man fall under the tube two metres in front of me,\" she said.\n\n\"As the train was coming in he was at the very front... it looked like he swivelled and lost his balance, it looked like a fall.\n\n\"He sort of fell on his back. The way it looked to me he could have almost froze.\n\n\"[It] was honestly the most horrific thing to witness.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ebony Rainford-Brent This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of York says he is stepping back from royal duties because the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has become a \"major disruption\" to the Royal Family.\n\nPrince Andrew, 59, said he had asked the Queen for permission to withdraw for the \"foreseeable future\".\n\nHe said he deeply sympathised with sex offender Epstein's victims and everyone who \"wants some form of closure\".\n\nThe duke has faced a growing backlash following a BBC interview about his friendship with the US financier.\n\nCompanies he has links with, such as BT and Barclays, have joined universities and charities in distancing themselves from him.\n\nFor several months the duke had been facing questions over his ties to Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, claimed she was forced to have sex with the prince three times. The duke has always denied any form of sexual contact or relationship with her.\n\nHis latest move, described by Buckingham Palace as \"a personal decision\", was taken following discussions with the Queen and Prince Charles.\n\nIn a statement, the duke said: \"I continue to unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein.\n\n\"His suicide has left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims, and I deeply sympathise with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure.\n\n\"I can only hope that, in time, they will be able to rebuild their lives.\"\n\nHe added that he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required\".\n\nBBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph said his latest statement was \"completely different in tone\" to his recent TV interview and had \"addressed all the issues that he'd been criticised for\", including offering sympathy to Epstein's victims.\n\nShe described his decision to step back as a \"drastic\" move but said \"the rumours that had been circulating had been really difficult for the Royal Family to manage\".\n\nThe duke was pictured with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home in 2001\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight on Saturday, the duke said the \"opportunities I was given to learn\" about business meant he did not regret the friendship with Epstein, although he said meeting him for a final time in 2010 was \"the wrong decision\".\n\nThe duke said he could not recall ever meeting Virginia Giuffre, then known as Roberts, and said that on the night she claims they first met that he went to Pizza Express in Woking and then returned home.\n\nHe sought to cast doubt on her testimony claiming that he was \"profusely sweating\" in a nightclub, saying that a medical condition at the time meant he could not perspire.\n\nHe said he had met Epstein \"through his girlfriend back in 1999\" - a reference to Ghislaine Maxwell, who had been a friend of Prince Andrew since she was at university.\n\nSince the interview, a letter written in 2011 to the Times newspaper by Buckingham Palace has emerged, saying they met in the early 1990s.\n\nThis is without precedent in modern times. Prince Andrew's public life is over for now. The statement says the withdrawal is \"for the foreseeable future\". But it's hard to see what will bring him back.\n\nThe interview is almost universally seen as a mistake. It was a disaster. But it may have seemed a good idea at the time.\n\nBBC Panorama has been digging into Virginia Roberts Giuffre's allegations and is going to air soon. That will have added to the pressure, alongside legal efforts in New York to have more Epstein-related papers released.\n\nThere's talk of a lack of grip at the Palace, but Buckingham Palace is not like a company or a government department, with reporting lines and a chain of command. For centuries princes have gone their own way.\n\nThere are lots of questions - about money, titles, military commands, patronages, about how this might speed reform, and of course about whether Prince Andrew still has a part to play in helping with investigations into Epstein, and helping Epstein's victims find answers.\n\nBut right now the humiliation is complete. Born into the public eye, Prince Andrew has had to retreat into a private life.\n\nAnd the monarchy is shaken.\n\nFormer Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter told the BBC News Channel that the prince's position had become \"untenable\" and the only surprise was that it took so long, adding \"there was no other direction he could go\".\n\nHowever, he said the prince was \"not out of the woods yet\" as the FBI and lawyers for some of Epstein's alleged victims wanted to talk to him under oath.\n\nLawyer Gloria Allred, who is representing several of Epstein's victims, told BBC Newsnight that she was \"very glad\" the prince had indicated he was willing to speak to law enforcement, but said she didn't know why he had added \"if required\" to his statement.\n\nShe said he should volunteer to cooperate \"without any condition and without any more delay\".\n\nThe prince said he regretted this 2010 meeting with Epstein\n\nThe duke's website says he carries out official duties for the Queen, focusing on promoting economic growth and skilled job creation.\n\nOver the past two months he has carried out overseas engagements in Australia, United Arab Emirates and Thailand.\n\nThe prince's announcement means he won't be carrying out public engagements, but he will still attend Royal Family events such as Trooping the Colour and Remembrance Sunday.\n\nBT became the latest in a series of organisations to distance themselves from Prince Andrew \"in light of recent developments\".\n\nIn a statement, the firm said it had been working with iDEA - which helps people develop digital, business and employment skills - since 2017 but \"our dealings have been with its executive directors not its patron, the Duke of York\".\n\n\"We are reviewing our relationship with the organisation and hope that we might be able to work further with them, in the event of a change in their patronage,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nStandard Chartered Bank and KPMG also announced they were withdrawing support for the duke's business mentoring initiative Pitch@Palace. Sources told the BBC the decisions were made before the interview.\n\nFour Australian universities also said they would not be continuing their involvement in Pitch@Palace Australia.\n\nPrince Andrew cancelled a planned visit to flood-hit areas of Yorkshire on Tuesday, the Sun newspaper reported.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK. The full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "A protester uses a torch light while crawling within a sewer tunnel to see how wide it is\n\nSome of the last protesters remaining at a besieged university in Hong Kong have tried to escape and evade police by crawling through sewers.\n\nHundreds of protesters have already left PolyU but dozens remain inside.\n\nThe campus - the scene of some of the most intense clashes witnessed during months of anti-government protests - is surrounded by police who are arresting for rioting any adults trying to leave.\n\nSix people were arrested on Wednesday for an attempted escape via the sewers.\n\nThe group included two men climbing out of an underground drain and four people - three men and a woman - who had removed a manhole cover and lowered a rope into the drain to assist them, police said.\n\n\"It was complicated and dark down there, I wanted to get home as soon as possible,\" one young man who unsuccessfully attempted a sewer escape told BBC Chinese. \"But how else could we leave the PolyU campus?\"\n\nThe four-day campus siege at PolyU - Hong Kong Polytechnic University - has been one of the most dramatic confrontations in the wider protest movement that has paralysed the city for more than five months\n\nThe protests started after the government planned to pass a bill that would allow suspects to be extradited to mainland China. The bill was eventually withdrawn, but the demonstrations continued, having evolved into a broader protest against alleged police brutality, and the way the former British colony is administered by Beijing.\n\nPolyU is the last of five Hong Kong universities that protesters had occupied in the last 10 days. Fewer than 100 hardcore demonstrators remain on the campus after days of violent clashes with security forces.\n\nMany have surrendered to police or emerged as part of medical evacuations. More than 1,000 people have been arrested. Those under 18 were allowed to go home but had their details registered.\n\nFire service divers searched the tunnels for any trapped protesters\n\nSeveral small groups of protesters seeking to avoid possibly years in prison if arrested on rioting charges have reportedly attempted a dangerous escape route through the sewers. They have descended into the tunnels armed with torches and gas masks.\n\nThe fire brigade have now blocked the main entrance into the sewers within the PolyU campus to thwart such escapes. On Tuesday and Wednesday divers searched the tunnels for any protesters who might have been trapped but found none.\n\nWhether any protesters have successfully escaped via the sewers remains unclear, despite rumours on campus to the contrary. The two arrested on Wednesday made it about half a kilometre from the university when they emerged and were arrested.\n\nBowie, a 21-year-old student who made an attempt, told Reuters news agency: \"The sewer was very smelly, with many cockroaches, many snakes. Every step was very, very painful. I'd never thought that one day I would need to hide in a sewer or escape through sewers to survive.\"\n\nHer group spent an hour swimming in the fetid water, but when they emerged, were crushed to realise they were still within the university grounds, she said.\n\nTunnelling out of campus is just the latest escape plan hatched by increasingly desperate protesters. On Monday, dozens slid down ropes from a bridge, fleeing on waiting motorcycles. Police said nearly 40 of them were later arrested.\n\nSome have tried to flee under cover of darkness while many others have tried to get through police lines, some being beaten before being arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes went behind the barricades at PolyU", "Stacey Andrew photographed the flare in the crowd before it was thrown\n\nA Liam Gallagher fan fears she has been \"scarred for life\" by a flare thrown at a gig.\n\nStacey Andrew, 27, from Boston in Lincolnshire, was at the Fly DSA Arena on Monday when she was set on fire, The Star reported.\n\n\"The flare hit my head and fell down my top, at first I didn't realise what had happened until people shouted,\" she said.\n\n\"It looks like someone let a firework off on my chest\".\n\nMs Andrew said it was her first gig.\n\nShe and her partner Callum Mutton were near the front and the people with flares were behind to the right.\n\n\"I didn't realise what had happened then people started patting me. My shirt was in flames and a man ripped it off,\" she said.\n\nStacey Andrew and her partner Callum Mutton were at the Fly DSA Arena to see Liam Gallagher\n\nShe said security staff did not go over, but she had to go through the crowd to them.\n\n\"It was so embarrassing, I was just in my bra.\n\n\"The Red Cross saw us but their tap wasn't running so they had to find water. The on-site nurse was good and covered my dignity as best as she could.\"\n\nBut Ms Andrew said there was \"no proper first aid\".\n\n\"I'm scared I'm going to be scarred for life,\" she said.\n\nFly DSA Arena said it was \"extremely sorry\" to hear about the \"irresponsible\" actions of a fellow concert-goer.\n\n\"The irresponsible behaviour of the concert goer who threw the flare along with any other people within their party who were aware of the possibility of their actions cannot be condoned and they should be held accountable for their actions,\" said Dominic Stokes, from the Fly DSA Arena.\n\nHe said Ms Andrew and Mr Mutton were both seen at the venue by an on-duty paramedic and advised to go to hospital.\n\nThe Arena said it had contacted them through social media to speak with them directly.\n\nArena staff offered a taxi but in the end Mr Mutton drove to hospital.\n\nStacey Andrew was burnt on her chest and arm after the flare fell down her top\n\nBags were checked on entry, but security staff did not personally check everyone, Ms Andrew said.\n\n\"Everyone who bought drinks from Arena had plastic cups but a lot of lads had their own cans,\" she added.\n\nMr Stokes said the use of smoke bombs and flares was a \"new but increasing challenge\" for all arenas.\n\nHe said security at the Fly DSA Arena was in line with National Arena Association guidelines, and added that its procedures will be reviewed.\n\nMr Stokes added: \"I am aware from comments on social media that our processes for dealing with this type of prohibited item is being linked with our counter terrorism strategies.\n\n\"I can assure all our customers that our work with the relevant partners and agencies in this particular area has been commended and the seen and unseen actions we take mean the wellbeing of our customers is front and centre of everything we do.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Flare let off at Liam Gallagher gig\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab defends the rebranding: \"No-one gives a toss about social media cut and thrust\"\n\nSenior Tories have dismissed criticism of the rebranding of one of their Twitter accounts as a \"fact-checking\" site during the leaders' debate amid claims it deceived the public.\n\nThe @CCHQPress account - the Tory press office - was renamed \"factcheckUK\" for the duration of the hour-long TV show.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said \"no-one will have been fooled\" and they had the right to rebut Labour's claims.\n\nBut the Lib Dems urged the Electoral Commission to intervene.\n\nIn response, the watchdog said it did not have the powers to do so but it urged the parties to act with transparency and integrity.\n\nTwitter rebuked the Conservatives, saying it would take \"decisive, corrective\" action if something similar happened again.\n\nDuring the ITV debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, the first ever televised head-to head encounter between Tory and Labour leaders, the party's press account changed its name and its appearance, telling people it was \"fact checking Labour from CCHQ\".\n\nIts Twitter handle remained the same and it retained the blue tick - signalling that it is a verified account.\n\nMr Raab defended the move, which has attracted widespread criticism from non-partisan fact-checking bodies, telling the BBC \"no one gives a toss about social media cut and thrust\" and were only concerned about the substance of the arguments.\n\n\"It was pegged to CCHQ,\" he told BBC's Breakfast. \"No-one looking at it for a split second will have been fooled - they can see it's from CCHQ.\"\n\nHe said there was \"huge scepticism\" among the public about what politicians were saying and the Conservatives had a right to set the record straight over \"nonsense\" claims the NHS would be \"up for sale\" if they won.\n\n\"It matters that we have an instant rebuttal mechanism,\" he said. \"We want to make it clear that we are holding Labour to account for the nonsense they systematically and serially put on the Conservatives.\n\n\"The reality is, voters will make of the competing claims what they will. What we're not going to do - we won't put up with nonsense that the NHS is up for sale being put up by Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly, who is responsible for the party's digital campaigning team, said he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with the move - saying the nature of the site was \"clear\".\n\nTwitter is a minority interest. Journalists are over-represented on this platform compared to other social media, creating a profound danger that they misinterpret what happens on Twitter as representative of the wider world.\n\nNevertheless, an important threshold has now been repeatedly breached by Britain's party of government, and Twitter is the site where it happened.\n\nIt is perhaps arguable that, like the doctored video of Sir Keir Starmer a fortnight ago, the re-branding of CCHQ as a fact-checking service falls into the broad category known as satire.\n\nBut that is a stretch. The effect will have been to dupe many unknowing members of the public, who genuinely thought it was a fact-checking service when it gave opinions on Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThis is not to patronise voters, who are wise; rather, it is to recognise that in a world of information overload, what cuts through are stunts.\n\nWhich is why, ironically, in CCHQ this morning there will be younger staff who chalk this up as a victory.\n\nJournalists thus face a dilemma: call out disinformation, and you play to the worst of social media, distracting from questions of policy; but ignore it, and the truth recedes ever further from view.\n\nA senior Labour politician said Twitter should have taken much stronger action.\n\n\"In order to try and deceive the public, the Conservative Party changed everything,\" Dawn Butler told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Twitter could have suspended the account and taken it down. To me that would have been the better punishment. The other thing would have been to remove the blue tick.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn locked horns over the NHS, Brexit and the Royal Family\n\nAnd Lib Dem education spokeswoman Layla Moran said in the \"fast-moving\" world of social media, many people would have been duped.\n\n\"I reported them and blocked them as soon as I saw it. Absolutely this needs to be reported to the Electoral Commission.\"\n\nBut the elections watchdog said its remit only extended to policing campaign finance rules, not information put out by the parties.\n\n\"While we do not have a role in regulating election campaign content, we repeat our call to all campaigners to undertake their vital role responsibly and to support campaigning transparency,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Voters are entitled to transparency and integrity from campaigners in the lead up to an election, so they have the information they need to decide for themselves how to vote.\"\n\nTwitter has policies regarding deceptive behaviour on the platform. It can remove an account’s “verified” status if the account owner is said to be “intentionally misleading people on Twitter by changing one's display name or bio”.\n\nIn a statement, the US company said: \"Any further attempts to mislead people by editing verified profile information - in a manner seen during the UK election debate - will result in decisive corrective action.\"\n\nFact-checking agency Full Fact said voters depended on social media for information and episodes like this risked compromising public trust.\n\n\"Polluting that information space by pretending to provide independent fact-checking information when what you are doing is providing party lines, many of which were not accurate, is doing voters a disservice,\" its chief executive Will Moy told the BBC.\n\nThe BBC has its own fact-checking team, Reality Check which looked at claims made by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn during the debate.\n\nDuring the programme, both leaders said they were committed to upholding the truth during the campaign.\n\nIn response to the move by the @CCHQPress account, a number of celebrities re-branded their verified accounts, including Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker who changed his account to mimic factcheckUK, as did The Thick Of It and Veep creator Armando Iannucci.\n\nBut Royal Family actor Ralf Little said he had been suspended from Twitter after changing his account to mimic the Conservative Party press office.\n\nHe changed his name to \"Conservative Party Press Orifice\" and the description to \"Not a fact checker. Or the Conservative Press Office\".\n\nHe told LBC's James O'Brien it was \"fine\" that he was suspended \"but only if the @CCHQPress account is suspended for the same thing\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James O'Brien This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis episode comes less than a month after the Conservative Party was criticised for posting a \"doctored\" video involving Labour's Sir Keir Starmer, in which the shadow Brexit secretary was made to look as if he met a question, posed by ITV's Piers Morgan, with silence.\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly said the video, since taken down, was meant to be \"light-hearted\". The party later posted an extended version of the interview.\n\nLabour has a Twitter account - @The_InsiderUK - which says it \"fact-checks\" claims made by the opposition.", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "Two of the people found on the ferry were taken to hospital for treatment\n\nPolice in the Netherlands have arrested a Romanian lorry driver after 25 stowaways were found in a refrigerated container on a ferry bound for the UK.\n\nThey were found at around 19:00 (18:00 GMT), forcing the ship to return to the port of Vlaardingen near Rotterdam.\n\nThe Danish-registered ferry had been en route to Felixstowe.\n\nThe incident comes just weeks after the bodies of 39 people were found in a refrigerated lorry container in Essex in eastern England.\n\nThe stowaways found on Tuesday received medical attention at the port of Vlaardingen, where police were waiting for the ship's arrival.\n\nTwo were taken to hospital to receive extra medical care, while the other 23 people were transferred to a police facility after a medical check-up, authorities said.\n\nThe stowaways, whose nationalities have not yet been confirmed, were found in a refrigerated container on a lorry on board the ferry, authorities said. The driver of the lorry was detained and was being questioned over possible involvement, police told the Dutch broadcaster NOS.\n\nPolice told the broadcast that crew members found the stowaways and alerted authorities after hearing \"sounds coming from the cooling container\". A search of the ferry involving police dogs was carried out but no-one else was found.\n\nSeafarers' charity Stella Maris said it was important to recognise the \"hugely stressful\" nature of these types of incidents for crew.\n\nThe bodies found in the Essex container last month were those of Vietnamese nationals who had arrived on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nTwo lorry drivers have since been charged with manslaughter, and several other men have been arrested in connection with the case.\n\nThe Britannia Seaways (pictured in 2012) is a roll on, roll off ferry\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The teenager drew up a \"hit list\" of areas he wanted to attack\n\nA teenage neo-Nazi who wrote about an \"inevitable race war\" in his diary and identified a series of possible targets has been convicted of preparing terrorist acts.\n\nThe 16-year-old boy listed the locations from his home city of Durham in his \"guerrilla warfare\" manual.\n\nHe also described himself as a \"natural sadist\", Manchester Crown Court heard.\n\nThe boy is the youngest person to be convicted of planning a terrorist attack in the UK.\n\nA jury found the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, guilty of preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March this year.\n\nHe was also convicted of disseminating a terrorist publication, possessing an article for a purpose connected to terrorism and three counts of possessing documents useful to someone preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 7 January.\n\nThe court heard the boy began drafting a \"manual for practical sensible guerrilla warfare against the Jewish system in Durham City area\".\n\nThe manual listed \"means of attack\" and \"areas to attack\", which listed local venues \"worth attacking\" such as post offices, pubs and schools.\n\nA \"things to do\" list from August 2018 included the words \"shed empathy\" alongside a hand-drawn symbol of the Order of Nine Angles, which the court heard was a \"self-consciously, explicitly malevolent\" Satanic organisation.\n\nThe boy denied being a neo-Nazi, saying his writings were an extremist \"alter ego\"\n\nThe boy also wrote of planning to conduct an arson spree with Molotov cocktails on local synagogues.\n\nJurors heard, in the course of his internet searches, he looked for a \"map of synagogues in the UK\" and \"Newcastle synagogue\".\n\nHe also visited websites on firearms and was in communication with a gun auctioneer.\n\nAfter his arrest in March, police found him in possession of instructions showing to make bombs and the poison ricin.\n\nThey also found he had distributed firearms manuals online by uploading them to a neo-Nazi website.\n\nGiving evidence, the boy denied being a neo-Nazi and said he had merely created an extremist \"persona\" online and in his journal.\n\nDet Chf Supt Martin Snowden, head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said: \"The extreme right wing views and hateful rhetoric displayed by this teenager are deeply concerning and we cannot account for those who may have been susceptible to his influence or how they may act in the future.\n\n\"His extensive repetitious internet searches, diary entries and escalating behaviour combined with his desire for notoriety highlight how dangerous he could have become had he not come to the attention of the authorities.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nFormer Manchester United and Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is in talks to replace Mauricio Pochettino as Tottenham manager.\n\nPochettino, 47, was sacked as Spurs boss on Tuesday after five years in charge of the north London club.\n\nThe Argentine led Spurs to the Champions League final last season, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nPortuguese Mourinho has been out of work since being sacked by United in December 2018.\n\nNo deal has yet been reached between Mourinho and Spurs.\n• None An 'extraordinary' sacking - but the right decision?\n\nThe ex-Chelsea, Porto, Real Madrid and Inter Milan manager has turned down a number of job opportunities, including in China, Spain and Portugal, since leaving Old Trafford.\n\nThere have been reports of a falling out between Pochettino and chairman Daniel Levy, but the decision was taken purely because of the poor results over a number of months, starting last February.\n\nBournemouth's Eddie Howe, RB Leipzig's Julian Nagelsmann and free agent Massimiliano Allegri, who left Juventus at the end of last season, have all been linked with the job.\n\nHowever, Mourinho is keen to take the helm at White Hart Lane, and if talks between the club and his representatives are successfully concluded, an announcement could be made as soon as Wednesday morning UK time.\n\nSome officials at the club are increasing confident Mourinho could be unveiled at a press conference on Thursday if negotiations go well.\n• None Guillem Balague column: 'Sacking may be liberating for Pochettino'\n\nSpurs have never hired a manager as expensive or demanding as Mourinho, nor spent the kind of money on players that he became accustomed to at clubs such as Real Madrid and Manchester United.\n\nMany fans will therefore be surprised that he is in contention, with RB Leipzig's young coach Julian Nagelsmann appearing a much more natural fit.\n\nBut Spurs have come a long way in recent years under Pochettino. They have a new £1bn stadium and training ground, and four successive seasons in the Champions League, (along with player sales) have helped them to become the most profitable club in world football.\n\nThey now have a European pedigree, and a hugely talented squad.\n\nMourinho has been out of the game for almost a year and having retained a home in London, the job appeals to him.\n\nHis tribulations at Manchester United saw him lose his 'Special One' status, but his many achievements in the game still command widespread respect.\n\nChairman Daniel Levy must now decide whether to gamble on Mourinho, who as he proved at Old Trafford, may be box office, but can also be high maintenance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeane Freeman: \"I refute absolutely that I am careless or irresponsible on these matters.\"\n\nScotland's health secretary has apologised to the parents of two patients who died in the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.\n\nJeane Freeman expressed her \"deepest sympathies\" to the families of Milly Main, 10, and a three-year-old boy.\n\nThe two children died three weeks apart in August 2017 at the hospital, which is part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.\n\nThey had been treated on a ward which was affected by water contamination.\n\nOn Monday, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) apologised for the distress caused to parents.\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Children share a campus in the south of Glasgow\n\nIn a statement to MSPs on Wednesday, Ms Freeman said: \"To lose a loved one in any circumstances is hard, but I cannot begin to imagine the pain of losing a child in these circumstances - or the suffering and grief that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"I also want to apologise to them that they feel they have not had their questions answered.\n\n\"They are absolutely right to ask and pursue their questions, and they are entitled to have them answered and to receive the support they need.\"\n\nThe children's deaths emerged after Labour MSP Anas Sarwar was contacted by a whistleblower, and the health secretary said NHS employees must have the confidence to speak up when something is wrong.\n\nMs Freeman told MSPs: \"There is no room in our health service for anyone to criticise whistleblowers, publicly or otherwise - or to put them in fear for the safety of their jobs.\n\n\"We need to recognise that whistleblowing is not something people who have dedicated their lives to health care, do lightly. It takes courage and they should be thanked.\"\n\nMSP Anas Sarwar has described the NHSGGC as \"not fit for purpose\"\n\nMs Freeman also told parliament she has asked the head of NHS Scotland to review whether any escalation of measures for the health board is required.\n\nThe five-stage NHS Board Performance Escalation Framework is the Scottish equivalent of special measures, which apply in England and Wales.\n\nLabour's Monica Lennon asked the health secretary who the parents of sick children should put their trust in.\n\nMs Freeman replied: \"They can place trust in me. I have compassion, I have empathy, and that is why I met with those families and have undertaken the work that I have done.\n\n\"I refute absolutely from Miss Lennon, or from anyone else, that I am careless or irresponsible on these matters - it could not be further from the truth. It may suit you [Ms Lennon] to make those points for other reasons but they are not true and I refute them absolutely.\"\n\nMs Lennon, Labour's health spokeswoman, later said: \"The tragic deaths and infection scandals at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have been cloaked in secrecy for too long.\n\n\"Families and the wider public need to have full confidence in the health board and the cabinet secretary. That's why vague answers from Jeane Freeman are sorely disappointing.\"\n\nScottish Conservatives health spokesman Miles Briggs called on Ms Freeman to resign or be sacked.\n\nHe said: \"At the heart of this scandal, we must never forget, are grieving families who are completely unsatisfied and think there has been a cover-up, and who can blame them?\n\n\"The SNP planned and built this hospital, and has presided over its first few years in operation - it can't just keep pointing the finger at everyone else. As the SNP health secretary, the buck stops with Jeane Freeman.\"\n\nMilly Main, ten, died at the hospital in August 2017\n\nAn independent review is examining water contamination and other problems at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.\n\nOn Tuesday Ms Freeman told MSPs on Holyrood's health committee it would publish its findings in the spring.\n\nThe health secretary said she expects a separate public inquiry, which will examine safety and wellbeing issues at the QEUH and the new children's hospital in Edinburgh, will also look at water contamination.\n\nMilly Main died on 31 August while recovering from leukaemia treatment. Her mother said she was \"100%\" convinced her death was linked to water contamination issues.\n\nNHSGGC has insisted it was impossible to determine the source of Milly's infection because there was no requirement to test the water supply at the time.\n\nOn Sunday police confirmed they had investigated the death of a three-year-old boy three weeks before Milly died. Police said they passed a report to the procurator fiscal.\n\nNHSGGC said they had fully investigated and shared their findings with the boy's family but the child's mother later described the board's media statement as \"highly inaccurate\".\n\nLast week a whistleblower revealed that a doctor-led review had identified 26 infections at RHC during 2017 which were potentially linked to contaminated water.\n\nThe £842m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital \"super hospital\" has faced a number of problems since it opened in 2015.\n\nTwo cancer wards at the adjoining children's hospital were closed last year amid concern about infections and investigation of water supply issues, with patients decanted to the adult hospital.\n\nIn January it emerged that two patients at the QEUH had died after contracting a fungal infection linked to pigeon droppings.\n• None Minister says 'trust me' over hospital concerns. Video, 00:01:09Minister says 'trust me' over hospital concerns", "A lot of huffing and puffing. A lot of over eager attempts to land and repeat their stock lines.\n\nBut the first head-to-head clash between the two men who could be the next prime minister did not transform the landscape of this election.\n\nThere were clashes, predictably, on Brexit and the NHS.\n\nAnd Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson both stepped carefully through the minefield of commenting on the monarchy and Prince Andrew's recent jaw-dropping interview.\n\nBut neither man seem to have made a meaningful mistake. Nor did either of them appear to have a breakthrough moment.\n\nIt is still early in this election campaign and likely that swathes of the public have quite understandably only started to think vaguely about the choice in front of them.\n\nBut at this stage, with Labour behind in the polls, tonight the danger was for Boris Johnson, to throw away his lead, and that didn't happen.\n\nAnd the opportunity was for Jeremy Corbyn to start closing the gap and he didn't manage to take it.\n\nThe decision the country faces is between two fundamentally different paths.\n\nBut what was striking too in Salford, where the debate was held, was the readiness among the audience to laugh at both men's statements.\n\nThat seemed a taste of how many people may well feel in this election, that they are being asked to choose a national leader from a less than tempting pair.\n• None A really simple guide to the election", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Tory press office was rebranded as \"factcheckUK\" for Tuesday's live TV debate\n\nSocial networking site Twitter has said the Conservative Party misled the public when it rebranded one of its Twitter accounts.\n\nThe @CCHQPress account - the Tory press office - was renamed \"factcheckUK\" for Tuesday's live TV debate involving Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAfter the debate, the account reverted to its original branding.\n\nTwitter said it would take \"decisive corrective action\" if a similar stunt was attempted again.\n\nBut the firm does not appear to have taken any action over this particular incident.\n\n\"Twitter is committed to facilitating healthy debate throughout the UK general election,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We have global rules in place that prohibit behaviour that can mislead people, including those with verified accounts. Any further attempts to mislead people by editing verified profile information - in a manner seen during the UK Election Debate - will result in decisive corrective action.\"\n\nThe Tories were earlier criticised by genuine fact-checking agency Full Fact, which said in a statement: \"It is inappropriate and misleading for the Conservative press office to rename their twitter account 'factcheckUK' during this debate.\n\n\"Please do not mistake it for an independent fact checking service such as FullFact, FactCheck or FactCheckNI.\"\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"The Twitter handle of the CCHQ press office remained CCHQPress, so it's clear the nature of the site.\"\n\nMr Cleverly added the decision to rebrand the account would have been made by the party's digital team, which he said operated within his remit.\n\nHe said he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with the party \"calling out when the Labour Party put what they know to be complete fabrications in the public domain\".\n\nReacting to the decision, the Labour Party tweeted: \"The Conservatives' laughable attempt to dupe those watching the #ITVDebate by renaming their twitter account shows you can't trust a word they say.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, said the ploy was \"straight out of Donald Trump or Putin's playbook\", adding the Tories were \"deliberately misleading the public\".\n\nTwitter is a minority interest. Journalists are over-represented on this platform compared to other social media, creating a profound danger that they misinterpret what happens on Twitter as representative of the wider world.\n\nNevertheless, an important threshold has now been repeatedly breached by Britain's party of government, and Twitter is the site where it happened.\n\nIt is perhaps arguable that, like the doctored video of Sir Keir Starmer a fortnight ago, the re-branding of CCHQ as a fact-checking service falls into the broad category known as satire.\n\nBut that is a stretch. The effect will have been to dupe many unknowing members of the public, who genuinely thought it was a fact-checking service when it gave opinions on Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThis is not to patronise voters, who are wise; rather, it is to recognise that in a world of information overload, what cuts through are stunts.\n\nWhich is why, ironically, in CCHQ this morning there will be younger staff who chalk this up as a victory.\n\nJournalists thus face a dilemma: call out disinformation, and you play to the worst of social media, distracting from questions of policy; but ignore it, and the truth recedes ever further from view.\n\nTwitter has policies regarding deceptive behaviour on the platform. The company said it can remove an account’s “verified” status if the account owner is said to be “intentionally misleading people on Twitter by changing one's display name or bio”.\n\nOther users on the platform subsequently changed their display names to mock the move. Among them, writer Charlie Brooker, who tweeted: “We have always been at war with Eastasia”, a reference to George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.\n\nThis latest controversial move on social media comes less than a month after the Conservative Party was criticised for posting a \"doctored\" video involving Labour's Sir Keir Starmer, in which the shadow Brexit secretary was made to look as if he met a question, posed by ITV's Piers Morgan, with silence.\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly said the video, since taken down, was meant to be \"light-hearted\". The party later posted an extended version of the interview.\n\nFull Fact, which is a charity supported by donations from the likes of Google, described the incident as \"irresponsible\".", "Police found the 19-year-old man after being called to reports of a fight in Ilford\n\nA man was stabbed to death in a fight outside a block of east London flats in a \"particularly vicious attack\".\n\nThe 19-year-old was found by police responding to reports of a disturbance outside Owen Waters House, in Fullwell Avenue, Ilford, on Tuesday night.\n\nThe victim died at the scene and his next of kin have been informed.\n\nNo arrests have been made but the Met said \"the possibility that the murder is gang-related is a very strong line of inquiry\".\n\nPolice are establishing if the stabbing is linked to a fire at some nearby garages where a car was found burnt out.\n\nThe Met said fire crews had been called to the blaze at about 22:20 GMT while traces of blood had also been found around the vehicle.\n\nDet Ch Insp Chris Soole described the killing as a \"particularly vicious attack\" and appealed for witnesses.\n\nA burnt-out car was found by some garages near to where the teenager was stabbed\n\nA Section 60 Order - giving police stop-and-search powers - was put in place for the whole of the Redbridge borough until 06:30.\n\nThere have been five murder investigations in the borough in 2019 - three of which have been as a result of fatal stabbings.\n\nSo far this year, almost 130 murder investigations have been launched in the capital.\n\nThree investigations have been carried out by British Transport Police and 124 have been investigated by the Met.\n\nA forensic tent is outside the tower block marking the spot where the teenager died.\n\nResidents have been telling me about rising tensions in the last few weeks. The block - just off a main road in Ilford - is known as a meeting point for drug dealers and people said the issue is \"rampant\".\n\nThey have also described a lot of \"youth disturbance and violence\" in the area and expressed their fear, anger and shock.\n\nOfficers have been coming in and out of the flats and they are trying to work out whether a burnt-out car is linked to the fatal stabbing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson faced off on ITV in the first head-to-head debate of the election campaign\n\nHead to head. Mano a mano. Without Jo Swinson or the other party leaders, this was Boris Johnson v Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAnd the battle online was just as raucous as the debate on screen.\n\nWhile much of UK political Twitter was busy sliding uninvited into Arron Banks' DMs, Labour's 280-character cheerleaders were propelling #WinForCorbyn towards the upper echelons of the list of top UK trends.\n\nNothing says \"for the many, not the few\" quite like furiously retweeting a hashtag which implicitly asks you to consider not so much what the country can do for you, but what it might do for Jezza (and, incidentally, the Labour leader's nickname also went briefly viral).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RD Hale 🌹 #VoteLabour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNot that the #BackBoris brigade were any less single-minded in supporting their glorious leader. The Prime Minister's party had organised some pictures in a boxing ring and prominent Conservatives were extremely eager to share them with supporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOverall, #WinForCorbyn was used more than twice as often as #BackBoris on Twitter during the debate, but that is perhaps to be expected.\n\nEvidence suggests that people who talk politics on Twitter are more likely to support Labour than the population at large, while Facebook users are thought to be more evenly distributed along the political spectrum.\n\nBy the time host Julie Etchingham was introducing the opening statements, Conservative Campaign Headquarters had rebranded its Twitter account \"factcheckUK\". It was a move criticized by an actual fact-checking organisation:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLater, Boris Johnson was asked if the truth mattered in this election.\n\n\"I think it does,\" he responded, to laughter from the audience.\n\nIt wasn't the only time pointed laughter was heard from the studio audience, with Mr Corbyn's failure to spell out his position on Brexit also eliciting snorts.\n\nOn the Facebook front, a second-screen battle was being waged, with official party pages quickly firing out posts to respond to key points in the debate.\n\n\"THE MOMENT OF THE DEBATE SO FAR,\" one Conservative post declared over a video of Johnson responding to questions on the NHS:\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMinutes later the Labour Party shared a video of its own, declaring: \"You can't trust the Tories with the NHS.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nAnd then, via an odd forced handshake and further sparring, the debate drew to a close - and the rush for supporters to declare their man the winner began.\n\n\"Boris Johnson... was the undisputed winner of that debate,\" trumpeted Robert Jenrick. The official Conservative Party account had even got a handy winners graphic ready and published before the debate was due to finish.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Conservatives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour figures were, naturally, equally clear in their own convictions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by John McDonnell MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor what it's worth, YouGov's snap poll made it all rather more of a close-run thing - and BBC News political editor Laura Kuenssberg agreed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by YouGov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham have sacked manager Mauricio Pochettino after five years in charge of the Premier League club.\n\nSpurs have made a disappointing start to the current campaign and are 14th in the Premier League.\n\nBBC sports editor Dan Roan believes Jose Mourinho is a strong contender to replace the 47-year-old.\n\n\"We were extremely reluctant to make this change. It is not a decision the board has taken lightly, nor in haste,\" said Spurs chairman Daniel Levy.\n\n\"Regrettably domestic results at the end of last season and beginning of this season have been extremely disappointing.\n\n\"It falls on the board to make the difficult decisions - this one made more so given the many memorable moments we have had with Mauricio and his coaching staff - but we do so in the club's best interests.\"\n\nPochettino was appointed in May 2014 and led the club to the Champions League final last season, where they lost to Liverpool in Madrid.\n\nThe Argentine's assistant Jesus Perez, and coaches Miguel d'Agostino and Antoni Jimenez have also left the club.\n\nTottenham said in a statement that they would provide an update on new coaching staff \"in due course\".\n\nFormer Southampton boss Pochettino guided Tottenham to the League Cup final in his first full season while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2017.\n\nAs well as leading Spurs to a runners-up finish in last season's Champions League he also took them to fourth in the league, although they did only manage to win three of their final 12 league games.\n\nHe also had to contend with playing home games at Wembley for 18 months while the club's new ground was built and his impressive results despite this led to links with Real Madrid and Manchester United.\n\nHowever, Spurs have failed to build on the promise of recent seasons this term. As well as their disappointing league form, they were knocked out of the League Cup by League Two side Colchester and hammered 7-2 at home by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.\n• None An 'extraordinary' sacking - but the right decision?\n• None Guillem Balague column: 'Sacking may be liberating for Pochettino'\n\n\"Mauricio and his coaching staff will always be part of our history,\" added Levy.\n\n\"I have the utmost admiration for the manner in which he dealt with the difficult times away from a home ground whilst we built the new stadium and for the warmth and positivity he brought to us. I should like to thank him and his coaching staff for all they have contributed. They will always be welcome here.\n\n\"We have a talented squad. We need to re-energise and look to deliver a positive season for our supporters.\"\n\nThere will be some supporters who are not surprised. They are without an away win in the league since January and they're on their worst run since George Graham was in charge in 2000-01. That is shocking form.\n\nBut what is a surprise will be the timing - why was the decision not made at the start of the international break? That, for me, is the interesting aspect.\n\nI have always been of the belief that with the quality in this Tottenham side they, under Pochettino, would get back to the top four.\n\nI know there are Tottenham fans who think this is the right decision, and there are some who think it is not the right decision, but I think we can all agree that it is the timing that is a surprise.\n• None Pochettino was named Tottenham boss on 28 May, 2014 after taking Southampton to their best ever finish in the Premier League.\n• None After a fifth-placed finish in his first season at the club, he led them to third in 2015-16 - their highest final position in the Premier League.\n• None He became the first opposition manager to beat Pep Guardiola in England when Tottenham defeated Manchester City 2-0 in October 2016.\n• None Spurs continued to progress, finishing second and third respectively in the next two seasons.\n• None Led Tottenham to the last 16 of the Champions League in 2017-18 and was rewarded with a five-year contract in May 2018.\n• None Lost FA Cup semi-final to Manchester United in April 2018 - Tottenham's eighth successive defeat at that stage of the competition.\n• None However, Spurs reached the Champions League final for the first time the following season after a memorable comeback against Ajax.\n• None Lost 7-2 to Bayern Munich in the group stage of this season's Champions League.\n• None Departed Spurs on 19 November 2019 after just three Premier League wins all season.\n\n'Should've backed him not sacked him' - reaction", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Angela Rayner on the party's plan to build 100,000 council houses a year by 2024\n\nLabour and the Conservatives have set out rival plans to tackle England's housing shortage.\n\nJeremy Corbyn promised the biggest affordable house building programme since the 1960s, including 100,000 new council houses a year by 2024.\n\nBoris Johnson announced measures to help first-time buyers and boost private house building, promising a million homes over the next five years.\n\nThe announcements came ahead of Labour's manifesto launch on Thursday.\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner said the state was going to take \"more direct control\" of housing adding that \"the market hasn't delivered\".\n\n\"Many families are in sub-standard accommodation, paying huge amounts of money for it,\" she said.\n\nPromising to protect the green belt, she said the houses would be built on brownfield sites and unused public sector land.\n\nAsked about his party's policy, Mr Johnson said those renting would be helped \"to get the high-value mortgage they may need to buy the home\".\n\n\"We believe in home ownership. We think it's the right way forward,\" he said.\n\nLabour says its £75bn plans will be paid for using half of its £150bn Social Transformation Fund - a pot it says it will use to \"repair the social fabric\" in the country if it wins a majority in 12 December's general election.\n\nHomes would be built and run by local authorities, and paid for out of the public purse - with rent returning to the councils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss seems unsure about how many starter homes had been built by her party\n\nLabour also promised 50,000 \"genuinely affordable homes\" a year to be offered through Housing Associations - scrapping the current definition of \"affordable\" and replacing it with one linked to local incomes.\n\nHousing Associations are not-for-profit organisations which put any money made through rent back into the maintenance and building of new houses, and can be subsidised by the government.\n\nHomes run by these groups fall under the umbrella term of \"social housing\", along with council homes.\n\nLabour says its plan will be the biggest council and social housing programme in decades - a repeat of the pledge it made at the 2017 general election.\n\nHousing charity Shelter welcomed the Labour proposals, with chief executive Polly Neate saying it \"would be transformational for housing in this country\".\n\nBut Paul Johnson from the Institute for Fiscal Studies said, if carried out quickly, Labour's policies might \"risk... cannibalising what's going in the private sector\".\n\nLabour is promising to be building a very large number of homes in England in five years.\n\nIn 2017, it promised 100,000 council or housing association homes a year. Now it's 150,000 between them.\n\nYou have to go back over 40 years to find more than 100,000 council homes being built in a year, while housing associations have never managed to build as many as 50,000 homes in a year.\n\nIt has been unusual recently to see 150,000 new homes being built in a year by anybody, let alone just by local authorities and housing associations.\n\nThere has already been talk of skills shortages in the construction sector, so there is going to have to be a great deal of training or a lot of construction workers being attracted from overseas if this target is going to be met.\n\nThe Conservatives have announced a number of policies alongside their million homes pledge, which includes an overhaul of the planning system.\n\nThe party says it would not use public money to build the houses, but pursue policies that it believes will encourage the private sector to build more.\n\nIt is promising to introduce a new mortgage with long-term fixed rates, requiring only a 5% deposit, to help renters buy their first homes.\n\nAnd it says it will create a scheme where first-time buyers will be able to get a 30% discount on new homes in their area.\n\n\"The Conservatives have always been the party of homeownership, but under a Conservative majority government in 2020 we can and will do even more to ensure everyone can get on and realise their dream of owning their home,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\n\"At the moment renting a property can also be an uncertain and unsettling business, and the costs of deposits make it harder to move. We are going to fix that.\"\n\nBBC economics correspondent Dharshini David said the relaxing of affordability rules for mortgage borrowers could be controversial.\n\nThe Bank of England considered when it might be appropriate to relax this recently and concluded it should only do so if first-time buyers were being deterred by prices rising faster than they are now.\n\nSo a strategy of less cautious lending could put the government on a collision course with the Bank of England, added our correspondent.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Liberal Democrats launched their manifesto, promising to build 300,000 homes a year by 2024, including 100,000 social homes.\n\nThe Green Party also announced in their manifesto that it wants to build an extra 100,000 council houses a year.\n\nDo you have any questions about the election?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn adoptive mum has spoken of her \"lonely and isolating\" journey to getting a diagnosis for her children's Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.\n\nIt was eventually discovered Catherine Griffiths' two children had the condition which can affect those whose mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy.\n\nJust one of Wales' seven health boards has specific guidelines for diagnosis.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was investing in new legislation for those with additional learning needs.\n\nMs Griffiths' adoptive children are half-siblings, born to the same alcoholic mother - there are five other adopted siblings who are with other families. Some of them have also been diagnosed with FASD.\n\n\"Someone somewhere should have said - 'we can see that you're struggling, can we help you in any way',\" she said.\n\nMs Griffiths, from Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, has lost her hair due to the stress and worries of raising children with FASD.\n\n\"We, as parents, are getting older and I'm scared for my children's future,\" she said.\n\n\"We need urgent action so that everyone has heard of FASD. Everyone needs to be kinder to people that are different.\"\n\nCatherine Griffiths lost her hair due to the stress and worries of raising children with FASD\n\nMs Griffiths said: \"We need a Wales-wide strategy to help people with FASD throughout their lives, not just as children.\n\n\"We need a centre in every health board where they can specialise in autism, ADHD and FASD.\"\n\nThe idea would be that such conditions could be assessed and diagnosed in one place.\n\n\"What we really need is training in schools and colleges so that teachers and support workers can learn strategies that can help,\" Ms Griffiths said.\n\n\"FASD means trying something different, not trying harder. Unfortunately, the current curriculum doesn't allow for that.\"\n\nKate Young, director of learning disabilities organisation All Wales Forum, said Ms Griffiths' story was not an \"isolated one\".\n\nShe said raising awareness was vital.\n\n\"Many children and adults who live with it are often faced with unintended discrimination due to a wider ignorance around the symptoms and a lack of understanding on how to offer support,\" she added.\n\nCampaigners say FASD is often misunderstood\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"Our Healthy Child Wales Programme sets out what support children and their families can expect from health boards to support early years health and development.\n\n\"We are also investing £20m to support new legislation for learners with additional learning needs to get the support they need, including where this has arisen as a result of FASD, autism and ADHD.\"\n\nA Freedom of Information Act request showed Powys Teaching Health Board was the only board to have specific guidelines for diagnosing FASD.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Over to the Andrew Neil show now, and he begins by challenging security minister Brandon Lewis on the prime minister's announcement on National Insurance today.\n\nBoris Johnson said it would mean an extra £500 in every pocket - but this is not true, Neil says.\n\nMr Lewis replies that they will move to the equivalent of about £100 per person saving - but Neil points out that the IFS has estimated that would actually be a £85 saving per worker.\n\nMr Lewis says the \"ambition\" is to get to a £12,500 threshold for paying National Insurance.\n\nHe says it is an \"aggressive way of cutting tax because it’s one that helps everybody\".\n\nMr Lewis is also asked about the criticism directed at the Tories for rebranding their press office Twitter account during the head-to-head debate last night between Mr Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe @CCHQ Twitter account changed their names to \"factcheckUK\".\n\nMr Lewis says it was \"always very clear it was CCHQ\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTravel has been affected by heavy rain and strong winds across parts of Wales on Saturday.\n\nA yellow warning for heavy rain covered 17 of Wales' 22 counties until 00:00 GMT, with Gwynedd the only area of north Wales partially affected.\n\nA separate wind warning covered the southern counties for much of the day but has now ended.\n\nIn south Wales, roads have been closed by floods and rail services were affected with trees on the line.\n\nAccess to Swansea's Morriston Hospital from M4 Junction 46 was affected earlier with Pant Lasau Road closed due to \"heavy flooding\", according to South Wales Police.\n\nThe Met Office warning for rain is place all day on Saturday for large parts of Wales\n\nA tree blocked the rail line between Rhoose and Llantwit Major affecting services to Cardiff Airport on Saturday morning but it has since been removed, said National Rail Enquiries.\n\nFlooding also led to train delays between Gowerton and Swansea.\n\nVehicles were stuck in flood waters near the Tesco petrol station on the A4067 at Pontardawe, while roads were closed in Gowerton, Llansamlet, and Ystalyfera.\n\nMeanwhile, North Wales Police said a lorry had crashed on the Vaynol roundabout on the A487 near near Y Felinheli, Gwynedd, leaving mud and debris on the road.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by North Wales Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMorriston leisure centre had to close on Saturday due to flooding\n\nPolice also reported major flooding on Croesnewydd Road in Wrexham, which serves Wrexham Maelor Hospital.\n\nThe Met Office had warned that road, sea and rail travel disruptions and power cuts were possible.\n\nNatural Resources Wales issued three flood warnings for the River Ritec at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the River Hoddnant at Boverton, Vale of Glamorgan and Nant Bran at Birchgrove, Swansea.\n\nStation Hill in Porthcawl saw some flooding", "The baby girl was found \"unresponsive\" by emergency services on Crompton Street in Farnworth\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 10-month-old girl died at a house.\n\nThe child was found unresponsive at a home in Crompton Street, Farnworth, near Bolton, at about 17:30 GMT on Friday, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nShe was taken to hospital, where she died shortly after.\n\nPolice said the 22-year-old man was being held in custody for questioning and tests to find out how the baby died were due to be carried out later.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stuart Wilkinson said: \"The investigation team is determined to understand how and why this little girl died.\n\n\"We will be continuing with inquiries throughout the days and weeks ahead and I would encourage anyone who has information to please contact police.\"\n\nFloral tributes to the little girl have been laid at the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSouth Africa broke English hearts with a ruthless display of power rugby to seize their third Rugby World Cup in devastating fashion.\n\nTwenty two points from the boot of nerveless fly-half Handre Pollard and second-half tries from wingers Makazole Mapimpi and Cheslin Kolbe ground England into the Yokohama dirt on a horrible night for Eddie Jones's men.\n\nEngland had trailed 12-6 at the interval after taking a hammering in the scrum and making a series of handling errors.\n\nAnd despite four penalties from captain Owen Farrell they never looked like closing that gap as the Springboks produced an outstanding display to match those of 1995 in Johannesburg and 2007 in Paris.\n\nThose were iconic moments for a nation besotted with rugby and when Siya Kolisi lifted the William Webb Ellis trophy aloft as the first black man to captain the Springboks they will have the final part of a triptych that will endure forever in the country's collective memory.\n\nFor England it was a chastening end to a campaign that had promised to end the 16-year wait for the World Cup glory.\n\nThey were out-muscled, out-run and out-thought by a team transformed by the leadership of skipper Kolisi and the coaching of Rassie Erasmus.\n\nNever before has a team beaten in the group stages gone on to win the trophy, but this is a triumph to match that of the teams of Francois Pienaar and John Smit with a wider story that perhaps surpasses both.\n• None 'South Africa's triumph will inspire far beyond the rugby pitch'\n• None I never dreamed of a day like this - Kolisi\n• None England have been beaten up - expert analysis\n• None Rugby Union Weekly podcast: Where did it go wrong for England?\n\nEngland, so quick out of the blocks in their semi-final win over the All Blacks, were rocked in the opening exchanges as prop Kyle Sinckler was knocked out in an accidental collision and forced to leave the field before touching the ball.\n\nSouth Africa took that momentum and through a Pollard Garryowen-and-gather went deep into the English 22 before Willie le Roux knocked on as he carved an outside line down the right.\n\nEngland were rattled, throwing loose passes, Farrell isolated as he tried to mop up one from Billy Vunipola and Pollard banging over the resulting penalty for 3-0.\n\nThe huge Springbok pack was making a mess of the English scrum and disrupting their line-out, but when the men in white made their first series of forays they won a breakdown penalty and Farrell levelled things up.\n\nNow it was the Springboks forced into changes, hooker Mbongeni Mbonambi off with concussion and lock Lood de Jager appearing to dislocate a shoulder.\n\nYet England knocked on at the restart, had their scrum splintered and were behind again as Pollard slotted the penalty from the angle.\n\nBack they came. The forwards hammered away at the South African line after driving a line-out on the 22, Courtney Lawes and replacement Dan Cole both going close until Duane Vermeulen infringed and Farrell kicked the penalty for 6-6.\n\nThe vast English support in the stands found their voice but the mistakes kept coming.\n\nBilly Vunipola was penalised for holding on and Pollard landed a beauty from 40m, and then Elliot Daly knocked on from Lukhanyo Am's kick ahead, the scrum was mangled again and Pollard struck again from in front of the posts.\n\nIt was a horrible half from Eddie Jones' men, that 12-6 half-time deficit the biggest they had faced in the entire tournament.\n\nSouth Africa coach Erasmus threw replacement props Steven Kitshoff and Vincent Koch on just after the break and at their very first scrum they mangled England again.\n\nPollard drilled over a beauty from just over halfway and at 15-6 England were staring into the abyss.\n\nThe South African power was stopping their big runners dead and killing England at the breakdown and Jones rolled the dice, throwing Joe Marler into the front row and Henry Slade in at outside centre as Farrell took Ford's place at fly-half.\n\nIt initially appeared to work. England blew the Springbok scrum apart, Farrell lined up the penalty and it was a six-point game.\n\nNow Curry got to work, snaffling a breakdown penalty to give Farrell another shot, this time from 45m out wide, only for the kick to drift just wide of the right-hand post.\n\nWhat could have been 15-12 was suddenly 18-9 as South Africa set up a maul in midfield and England were caught offside for a penalty that Pollard was never going to miss.\n\nEngland had 22 minutes to save their World Cup and grabbed a lifeline from Farrell's fourth penalty after Vermeulen held on from the restart.\n\nLuke Cowan-Dickie and Mark Wilson came on for Jamie George and Sam Underhill but with 14 minutes to go the killer blow came.\n\nSouth Africa went left down the blindside, Mapimpi kicked on and Am gathered before finding the winger on his outside shoulder for the first try the Springboks had scored in three World Cup finals.\n\nPollard's conversion from in front made it 25-12 and the stands were alive with green-shirted noise.\n\nAnd when the diminutive Kolbe stepped and accelerated through an exhausted rearguard in the final moments the Springboks could kick-start a Japanese party that will sweep through their homeland.\n• None The 'unique story' of South Africa's first black captain\n• None England prop Sinckler taken off with concussion\n\n'One day you're the best, the next a team knocks you off'\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We just couldn't get on the front foot. We were dominated in the scrum particularly in the first 50 minutes. When you're in a tight, penalty-driven game, it's difficult to get any sort of advantage.\n\n\"We needed to fix up the scrum, little things around the line-out, then get a bit more accurate in how we attacked. We did that for a while, got ourselves back into the game, but in the end we had to force the game and gave away a couple of tries.\n\n\"They were too good for us at the breakdown today. That's the great thing about rugby, one day you're the best team in the world and the next a team knocks you off.\"\n\nSouth Africa coach Rassie Erasmus: \"It's weird, I didn't think two years ago we could realistically do it, but six months ago began to and four weeks ago I really did. I am so proud of the players and my country. We stand together, we really believed it and I am proud to be South African.\n\n\"The country have gone through some bad times, and we have over the last two years but our challenge is to make South African rugby strong for the next six or seven years.\n\n\"I will make this my mission to make this a springboard to take it the right way.\"\n\nThe stats - Springboks score first tries in a final\n• None South Africa have lifted the Webb Ellis Cup on three occasions, no side has won the Rugby World Cup more often (level with New Zealand).\n• None South Africa are the only side to have a 100% win rate in World Cup finals, winning on each of their three appearances at this stage.\n• None South Africa's 20-point victory is the joint second biggest in a final, after Australia's 23-point win against France in 1999. New Zealand also won by 20 points in 1987.\n• None The Springboks scored two tries against England, the first time they'd ever crossed for a try in a final, they are yet to concede a try at this stage.\n• None England have lost the Rugby World Cup final on three occasions, no side has lost at this stage more often (level with France).\n• None Owen Farrell scored 12 points in this match, taking him past 100 points in the Rugby World Cup, the second player to reach that milestone for England in the tournament after Jonny Wilkinson (277).\n• None Billy Vunipola made 19 carries against South Africa, the most in the match and the most by any player in a World Cup final, surpassing Israel Folau's tally of 16 in 2015.\n• None Maro Itoje made 16 tackles against South Africa, the joint second most in a final behind Richie McCaw (18 in 2011) and level with Jonny Wilkinson (16 in 2003).\n• None Makazole Mapimpi scored his 14th try in 14 Tests for South Africa, including six tries in six games at this year's World Cup.", "Kirsty Maxwell was with a group of friends in Benidorm when she died in 2017\n\nThe family of a Scottish woman who fell to her death from a balcony in Spain have criticised a lack of support from UK authorities following her death.\n\nKirsty Maxwell died in mysterious circumstances in Benidorm in 2017 while on a hen party weekend with friends.\n\nHer father, Brian Curry, said the family felt \"abandoned\" by the Foreign Office (FCO) in the days that followed.\n\nIt comes as a report from MPs said the right to consular support for families should be enshrined in law.\n\nKirsty Maxwell, from Livingston in West Lothian, had only recently married when she travelled to Benidorm for a friend's hen party.\n\nThe 27-year-old fell from the 10th floor balcony of a room where five men were staying on 29 April 2017. The men were arrested but never charged.\n\nHer father said that in the hours following Kirsty's death, there was very little information from the authorities about what had happened.\n\nKirsty Maxwell fell to her death from a 10th floor balcony of an apartment block\n\nHe described how he and his wife took the first flight to Spain they could after a phone call to the family from a Spanish official in \"broken English\".\n\nHe said the pair arrived in the early hours of the morning with nowhere to stay and no-one to meet them off the plane.\n\nMr Curry said they ended up in a bus station hotel where they were eventually met by a Foreign Office official the following day.\n\nHe said: \"The girl from the FCO was really nice, but I don't think she had the proper training to deal with what was involved.\n\n\"There didn't seem to be a procedure, in fact there was no procedure. Everyone seemed to be winging things.\"\n\nBrian Curry said the family were given very little information about Kirsty's death\n\nMr Curry described the experience as \"harrowing\" and said the lack of consular support compounded the family's grief.\n\nHe added: \"I don't think they're prepared for something like this happening.\n\n\"We felt we were abandoned. We felt quite helpless. We were frustrated, we were angry.\"\n\nThe family's local MP, MP Hannah Bardell, set up a Westminster All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) to look into the consular assistance available to families whose loved-ones had died abroad.\n\nMs Bardell said she took action following the deaths of Kirsty Maxwell and another constituent Julie Pearson, both of whom died in suspicious circumstances.\n\nShe has called for the creation of the \"Pearson Maxwell Protocol\" - a joined-up, cross-agency process that \"held the hands\" of a bereaved family from the point of notification of death, through travelling to the country of death and repatriation.\n\nShe said MPs had listened to the testimony of 60 families from across the UK to produce their report.\n\nMs Bardell said: \"Listening to harrowing evidence through this report, it is clear that changes must be made at the earliest opportunity.\n\n\"Experts have told us that these families are at risk of re-traumatisation and secondary victimisation as a result of their experiences with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nIn a statement, the FCO said it was disappointed that the APPG had not engaged directly with them.\n\nThey said: \"Last year we helped more than 22,000 British people overseas and the feedback we received was overwhelmingly positive.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the APPG declined our offer to meet with them and explain the professional and empathetic support we already give. We carefully consider all feedback we receive to continuously improve our service.\"", "The body of Amelia Bambridge was found at sea eight days after she was last seen on the island of Koh Rong\n\nBritish backpacker Amelia Bambridge, who went missing in Cambodia, died from accidental drowning, a post-mortem examination has concluded.\n\nThe body of the 21-year-old was found about 30 miles from the island of Koh Rong, where she was last seen at a beach party eight days earlier.\n\nMs Bambridge, from Worthing, West Sussex, was reported missing when she failed to check out of her hostel.\n\nOfficials said her death was \"not related with any other crime at all\".\n\nHer body was taken to Sihanoukville on the mainland after it was recovered on Thursday.\n\nThe post-mortem results were confirmed by Sihanoukville Information Department and local police.\n\nOfficials said her body had been released to the family who would be able to return her to the UK immediately.\n\nAmelia Bambridge's father (second left) and brother (right) arrived in Koh Rong on Sunday to join the search\n\nMs Bambridge was last seen at about 03:00 on 23 October.\n\nHer purple rucksack with her purse, phone and bank cards inside were found the following morning at a private party venue on the island,\n\nAbout 150 volunteers - including divers, navy personnel, local people and tourists - joined Cambodian police in land and sea searches.\n\nMs Bambridge's father and brother flew out to join the search parties on Sunday and her mother arrived on the island the next day.\n\nKoh Rong is situated off the west coast of Cambodia\n\nFollowing the discovery of Ms Bambridge's body, her sister Sharon Schultes, wrote an emotional Facebook post in which she said: \"It breaks my heart to let all my close family and friends know the horrendous outcome that we didn't want.\n\n\"Now we have to get our Amelia back home to England so we can lay her beautiful soul to rest and to remember the wonderful life she lived.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "'Women in black' are demanding justice in Chile, following recent injuries and deaths of protesters.\n\nAt least 20 people have died during the nationwide protests demanding economic and political change.\n\nChile recently pulled out of hosting two major international summits because of the unrest.", "The government has published new league tables showing which regions of the UK have the most charging points for drivers of electric vehicles.\n\nThe most per 100,000 people are in London, followed by Scotland, while Yorkshire is the worst by that measure.\n\nOutside London, Orkney and Milton Keynes have the most. But Barrow-in-Furness and Scilly each have none.\n\nThe government is offering local authorities £5m in funding for new charging points.\n\nThe government wants the UK to have net zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nScottish Power estimates that in order to achieve this, the UK needs to have 25 million charging points for electric vehicles - the equivalent of installing 4,000 a day - and 23 million electric heat pumps to replace domestic gas boilers.\n\nAnd all at a cost of nearly £300bn.\n\nScottish Power's chief executive, Keith Anderson, told the BBC's Today programme last month that people needed to see there was a network in place in order for them to change, for example, to cleaner modes of transport.\n\nLast month, the government announced that drivers of electric cars across the UK could soon be using special green number plates under new plans.\n\nThe aim is to make it possible for local authorities to allow zero-emission vehicles to benefit from incentives such as cheaper parking.\n\nThe government hopes it will boost electric car sales, helping it achieve its 2050 target of net zero emissions.\n\nBut Friends of the Earth said that without better financial incentives and more charging points, little would change.\n\nDespite being on the rise, all-electric vehicles still represent only a fraction of total car sales and there are challenges to uptake, including a lack of charging points on roads and too few low-cost models.\n\nThe government said a similar licence plate scheme, introduced on a trial basis in the Canadian province of Ontario, had led to an increase in electric vehicle registrations.\n\nCritics say it could foster resentment and a scrappage scheme for fuel-burning cars would be better.\n\nWhile the cars can be expensive compared to petrol ones, they are also challenging to make commercially from scratch.\n\nIn October, Dyson, the technology company best known for its vacuum cleaners, scrapped a project to build electric cars.\n\nThe firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed a \"fantastic electric car\", but that it would not hit the roads because it was not \"commercially viable\".\n\nIn an email sent to all employees, Sir James said the company had unsuccessfully tried to find a buyer for the project. The division employed 500 UK workers.", "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was brought to a wider audience by the Fisk Jubilee Singers\n\nThe Rugby Football Union is trying to find out how a song rooted in slavery became an anthem for rugby fans.\n\nSwing Low, Sweet Chariot is a spiritual - a type of song created by African people enslaved in the US.\n\nEngland's supporters were rumoured to have adopted the song when a group of schoolboys began singing it at Twickenham in 1988.\n\nBut now, after four rugby club members claimed they started the trend, the RFU said it wanted to find out more.\n\nDave Hales, from Market Bosworth Rugby Club, told BBC Radio Leicester: \"We were in the North Stand having a bit of a good time, a good day. We started trying to get a few songs going. Various ones didn't really catch on.\n\n\"All of a sudden I started singing Swing Low and the next thing you know the crowd round us was singing it, then the whole North Stand seemed to be singing it, and then the whole ground seemed to be singing it.\n\n\"The atmosphere was just absolutely brilliant really. Absolutely fantastic.\"\n\nThe song has been adopted as an anthem by English rugby fans\n\nAn existing theory is that a group of boys from Douai School in Berkshire started singing the song at the same match, when England were playing Ireland in the Five Nations Championship.\n\nThe boys were alleged to have been serenading Chris Oti, a black player, making this theory more controversial because of the song's link with slavery.\n\nBut the Market Bosworth Rugby Club members at Twickenham that day - Dave Hales, John Ward, Bruce Coleman and Paul Spencer - all maintain they started singing the song first.\n\nA more controversial theory is that a group of school boys serenaded black player Chris Oti with the song\n\nMr Ward said: \"As far as we are concerned it started after, I believe, Rory Underwood scored the first try in the second half.\n\n\"It wasn't anything to do with Chris Oti particularly.\n\n\"People used to sing it in rugby club houses, but as far as we are concerned it had never been brought to Twickenham.\"\n\nSome rugby fans claim to have sung it as early as the 1960s, as part of a drinking game accompanied with an elaborate series of sexual hand gestures.\n\nThe RFU said in a statement: \"It is understood that the emergence of the song in a rugby context has often been credited to a group of school boys from Douai Abbey, who attended the Five Nations match in 1988, but never officially confirmed.\n\n\"It is interesting that new information is coming to light with regard to the emergence of the song and we look forward to finding out more.\"\n\nSince this story was written, the RFU have said the use of the song was linked to a player's nickname.\n\nThe song is thought to have been composed by a slave called Wallace Wallis - or Wallace together with his wife Minerva - in the mid-1800s.\n\nThere are several theories about its meaning, including that it conveyed a coded message to slaves, instructing them to escape.\n\nHowever Horace Clarence Boyer, a prominent scholar in African-American music, believed the song is about death.\n\nProfessor Boyer, who died in 2009, told a BBC documentary: \"This fits into that group of spirituals that say 'I would rather die than be here. Lord, just come and take me right now.'\n\n\"Instead they sing this, 'Swing low sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.' Where's home? That's heaven. Or at least not here.\n\n\"That's so interesting because everybody sings that, they say 'Oh that's such a pretty melody' not knowing that was a song about death.\n\n\"It's a sad song. It's almost like a language of double entendres. It has one meaning for you and another meaning for somebody else.\"\n\nHorace Clarence Boyer believed the song was about death\n\nThe song was brought to a wider audience by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who made the earliest known recording of it in 1909.\n\nThe group was formed in 1871 to raise money for Fisk University, and toured the US and Europe singing spirituals including Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.\n\nThe song has been covered countless times by artists including BB King, Sam Cooke, Etta James, Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, The Staple Singers and Beyonce.\n\nA version called Swing Low (Run With The Ball) was recorded by \"Union featuring the England World Cup Squad\" for the 1991 Rugby World Cup.\n\nOther versions have been recorded for subsequent Rugby World Cups, including by UB40 and Russell Watson.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Le Minh Tuan, pictured here, fears his son, Le Van Ha, was among the dead in Essex\n\nVietnam says it \"strongly condemns human trafficking,\" after UK police said they believed 39 people found dead in a lorry were all Vietnamese.\n\nThe Vietnamese ministry of foreign affairs called on countries around the world to \"step up cooperation\" to combat the crime.\n\nVietnamese and British authorities are working to identify the bodies, which were found in Essex on 23 October.\n\nSeveral arrests have been made in connection with the tragedy.\n\nThe driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson, 25, appeared in court on Monday on manslaughter charges.\n\nProsecutors alleged that Mr Robinson was part of a \"global ring\" of people smugglers.\n\nPolice are also seeking two brothers from Northern Ireland, Ronan, 40, and Christopher Hughes, 34, who are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christopher (left) and Ronan Hughes are wanted by police, says Det Ch Insp Daniel Stoten\n\nEamonn Harrison, 22, has been arrested in Dublin on a European Arrest Warrant to face charges of manslaughter in the UK.\n\nIn Vietnam police have arrested two people over people smuggling.\n\nLe Thi Thu Hang, a spokesperson from the ministry, said the incident in Essex was \"a serious humanitarian tragedy\".\n\nPham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong's families are concerned they may be among the victims\n\n\"Vietnam calls upon countries in the region and around the world to step up cooperation in combating human trafficking in order to prevent the recurrence of such tragedy,\" she said.\n\n\"We hope that the British side would soon complete the investigation to bring those responsible for this tragedy to justice, \" she added.\n\nA number of Vietnamese families have come forward fearing their loved ones are among the dead.\n\nOn the night before the bodies were discovered, Pham Thi Tra My, 26, sent her family a message saying her \"trip to a foreign land has failed\".\n\nVietnamese feature prominently among those identified as potential victims of trafficking in the UK, according to a report by Anti-Slavery International.\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.", "To celebrate Halloween, dozens of students spent their night trick or treating in Newcastle, but they did not ask for sweets.\n\nDressed in their spooky costumes, about 50 people hit the streets of Jesmond and Heaton knocking on doors asking for tinned goods that people could spare for Newcastle East Foodbank.\n\nOrganised by students from Newcastle University, they said they wanted to highlight the amount of waste that comes from celebrating Halloween and turn it into something positive that could really help those who need it.", "South Africans have been celebrating the country's third World Cup trophy win\n\nAcross South Africa, they've been blowing their vuvuzelas, hugging, crying, grinning until it hurts, honking their car horns, pouring and throwing and spraying beer in all directions.\n\nThey are celebrating a comprehensive victory that seems all the sweeter for being set against a backdrop of economic hardship, rising inequality, populist race-baiting, staggering official corruption and serious concerns about this young, boisterous nation's future.\n\n\"We can achieve anything if we work together as one,\" said Siya Kolisi, South Africa's now iconic black captain after the match in Japan.\n\nAnd in bars, homes, halls, and giant open-air public viewing areas, his words seemed - at least for a moment - to ring true.\n\n\"I have never seen, since I've been alive, I have never seen South Africa like this,\" Kolisi went on, and back home the crowds, black and white, nodded and cheered.\n\n\"I'm so happy!\" screamed a black schoolgirl jumping for joy with her friends at a sports centre in a suburb of Johannesburg.\n\n\"We've gone through so much as a country and this is something positive we can celebrate as a country,\" said a woman watching at a luxury resort outside the city.\n\n\"I feel this win will reunite us as a country. We've been segregated, with so much going on. So this win means so much,\" said her friend.\n\nToday's squad has twelve black players and is a truly national team\n\nSouth Africa has always cherished its reputation for pulling off miracles. After all, this was the nation that steered itself away from civil war and plotted a negotiated path out of racial apartheid towards democracy.\n\nA year later, in 1995, a smiling Nelson Mandela watched the national team win its first Rugby World Cup and used that moment to build on his dream of a \"rainbow nation\".\n\nBut the 1995 team had just one black player and many black South Africans struggled to share the enthusiasm of Mandela, and of their white compatriots so soon after the end of apartheid.\n\nToday's squad has twelve black players and has become a truly national team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We have come a long way from 1995 to where we are today. We are demonstrating to the world that we are a diverse and united nation,\" said President Cyril Ramaphosa, who had gone to Japan to be with the Springbok team.\n\nAnd there were other signs of South Africa's progress on display today. Not just a black captain and a diverse squad, but smaller details like the fact that so many more whites in the crowd now appear to have learned the words to their multi-lingual national anthem - bellowing out all the African verses in the minutes before the match began.\n\nFans have described the Springboks' win as something positive for the country\n\nBut can success in a rugby competition transform a nation's fortunes? Of course not. South Africans are all too aware that, come Monday, their economy will still be on the brink of being downgraded to junk status by international ratings agencies.\n\nYouth unemployment will remain around the 50% mark. The power utility Eskom will continue to deliver blackouts as it hovers dangerously close to collapse. And the racial polarisation that has become entrenched in the country's political scene will carry on.\n\n\"No we're not (united),\" said one of several voices on Twitter, responding to President Ramaphosa's message. \"Only our rugby team is a beacon of hope in the dark and dismal chaos that the ANC created and which you perpetuate.\"", "Getting fracking up and running in England has been slower than expected, an official report has found.\n\nIn 2016, the government forecast up to 20 wells would be fracked by mid-2020, but only three have been so far.\n\n\"Low public acceptance\" of the controversial oil and gas extraction technique is partly to blame, the National Audit Office (NAO) found.\n\nThe UK has spent at least £32.7m supporting fracking since 2011, the government spending watchdog found.\n\nIndustry trade body UK Onshore Oil and Gas said the industry was still in \"the early exploration stages\".\n\n\"It is not uncommon to see delays in the energy sector, as experienced in the development of the North Sea oilfields, onshore wind industry and new nuclear,\" said chief executive Ken Cronin.\n\nFracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture, including sand and chemicals, is directed at the rock to release the gas inside.\n\nThe report found fracking had placed financial pressures on local bodies, including local authorities and police forces, which had been brought in to manage protests and maintain security.\n\nLancashire Constabulary reported that between 25 and 100 officers were directly involved in the policing of fracking sites every day between January 2017 and June 2019, at a cost of £11.8m.\n\nOverall, Lancashire Constabulary, North Yorkshire Police and Nottinghamshire Police spent over £13m in two-and-a-half years providing security at shale gas sites, the report found.\n\nThere has been growing public disquiet about fracking. In 2013, 21% of government survey respondents were against shale oil and gas extraction. This rose to 40% of respondents in 2019, the NAO said.\n\nLocal authorities told the NAO the scale of opposition to fracking planning permission was \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"Lancashire County Council reported receiving about 36,000 representations from the public in relation to two fracking applications,\" it said.\n\nPeople are concerned about risks to the environment and public health, earthquakes, and the adequacy of safety rules, the NAO said.\n\nThe industry told the NAO that slow progress on fracking was partly due to \"stringent\" UK rules to protect against the risk of earthquakes, which were stricter than international ones.\n\nOperators need to halt fracking activity if there is a tremor greater than 0.5 on the Richter scale.\n\nIn August, a tremor with a magnitude of 2.9 was recorded near the UK's only active shale gas site in Lancashire. Operations at energy firm Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site have been suspended since then.\n\nIn 2013, there were heady promises that gas extracted from fracturing shale rock with water under high pressure could revolutionise the UK energy industry.\n\nA technology that had changed the US energy industry and geopolitics with it could provide a bonanza of benefits to the UK.\n\nAs the gas from the North Sea dwindled, fracking would step in to make the UK less reliant on foreign imports that make up 60% of our gas supply.\n\nThis home grown resource would see prices fall and security of supply rise. It would provide tens of billions of new investment and tens of thousand of jobs in areas that desperately needed it and all this could be done safely and environmentally responsibly.\n\nThe NAO report is a hammer blow to those aspirations.\n\nIt found no evidence that prices would be lowered, uncertainty as to whether it could viably produce gas in meaningful quantities, no plan for clean-up if a fracking firm were to go bust, serial breeches of agreed limits on earth tremors, strains on local authorities in fracking areas, and plummeting public support.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (Beis) said: \"The government has always said shale gas exploration can only proceed as long as it is safe and environmentally responsible.\"\n\n\"The Oil and Gas Authority [regulator] will soon publish a finalised scientific assessment of recent industry data and we will set out our future approach as soon as we have considered the findings.\"", "Fylde's Tory MP Mark Menzies has demanded an end to fracking in the area after several tremors\n\nFracking equipment is to be moved off a site in Lancashire where operations have been suspended due to earthquakes, an energy firm has confirmed.\n\nThe process, which releases gas from shale rock, was suspended at Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site after a 2.9-magnitude tremor in August.\n\nCuadrilla said no fracking would take place before its permission to do so ends on 30 November.\n\nA review of seismic activity at the site is yet to be published.\n\nThe Oil and Gas Authority halted fracking indefinitely at the site following the 26 August tremor pending the review.\n\nCuadrilla has now said it was \"demobilising hydraulic fracturing equipment\" at the Little Plumpton site.\n\nAnti-fracking campaigners Friends of the Earth welcomed the announcement.\n\n\"With no more fracking taking place before planning permission expires, and Cuadrilla yet to apply for an extension, work at this site could soon be at an end.\"\n\nA condition of Cuadrilla's current planning permission which relates to fracking and drilling expires in November, although the company is able to remain active at Preston New Road until 2023.\n\nFylde's Conservative MP Mark Menzies demanded an end to fracking in the area after the tremor, saying it was \"unsafe\".\n\nIt was stronger than those that forced Cuadrilla to suspend test fracking in 2011 and came two days after a number of other smaller seismic events.\n\nAny tremor measuring 0.5 or above means fracking must be temporarily stopped while tests are carried out.\n\nIn a statement, Cuadrilla's chief executive Francis Egan said that, \"in the next few weeks\", his company would start testing the flow of gas at a second well that had been partially fractured in August.\n\nHe said he believed it would show it was a \"huge commercial opportunity\".\n\n\"Given the lower carbon footprint of UK shale gas compared to that of gas imported by ship from overseas, it clearly makes sense to look to develop this local resource rather than increasing reliance on imports,\" Mr Egan said.\n\nThe Oil and Gas Authority said fracking remains suspended indefinitely while it concludes a review of the seismic activity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson will not feature in ITV's head-to-head election debate\n\nThe Lib Dems have made a formal complaint after ITV said its head-to-head election debate would only include Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nParty president Sal Brinton said leader Jo Swinson should appear alongside the Tory prime minister and the Labour leader in the 19 November debate.\n\nITV said it intends to offer viewers balanced election coverage.\n\nIn a letter to ITV's chief executive, Dame Caroline McCall, Baroness Brinton wrote \"voters of this country deserve to hear from a Remainer on the debate stage, not just from the two men who want to deliver Brexit\".\n\nThe Lib Dems have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win the election as a majority government.\n\nITV, which announced the head-to-head election debate on Friday, said it would also hold a \"multi-party debate\" before the 12 December poll. The Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, SNP, Brexit Party and Plaid Cymru will take part, represented by either their leader or \"another senior figure\", it said.\n\nThe head-to-head debate will be hosted by news presenter Julie Etchingham and take place on Tuesday 19 November.\n\nAfter the main event, ITV said it would hold a live interview-based programme to allow other parties to comment on the debate.\n\nBroadcasting rules in place during the official election campaign period require producers to ensure \"due weight\" is given to coverage of political parties and candidates.\n\nIn her letter, Baroness Brinton said: \"There is no reasonable justification for excluding Liberal Democrats from the debate. Liberal Democrats are the strongest national party of Remain.\n\n\"We secured more votes than both Labour and the Conservatives in the European elections earlier this year and have enjoyed fantastic local and by-election successes across the country.\"\n\nAn ITV spokesman said: \"ITV intends to offer viewers comprehensive and fairly balanced General Election coverage.\n\n\"This involves a wide range of programming, including a live debate programme in which seven party leaders are invited to take part, as well as a live debate between the Labour and Conservative leaders.\"\n\nPolitical leaders' TV debates have featured in the last three general elections in 2010, 2015 and 2017.", "Work to clean up a hospital bacteria outbreak inadvertently led to more contamination, new documents reveal.\n\nBrain surgery was postponed at Edinburgh's Western General in March after a small number of patients contracted the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bug from showers and taps in a ward.\n\nBut documents released by health watchdogs show this work is believed to have caused further problems.\n\nHealth Protection Scotland (HPS) papers show a shower in the hospital's department of clinical neurosciences twice tested negative for the bacteria following the outbreak, and patients were allowed to keep using it.\n\nBut later tests on the shower were positive for Pseudomonas aeruginosa - a common bacteria that can be harmful to patients who are very vulnerable to infection - and it was taken out of service.\n\nHPS reports, released after a Freedom of Information request, show the \"current hypothesis is that remedial plumbing, extensive flushing and water pressure may have dislodged biofilm (a collection of microorganisms such as bacteria) within the water systems leading to the contamination in the recent samples\".\n\nNHS Lothian said it followed national testing guidelines and the dislodging of the biofilm did not lead to any further patient infections. It added that once the bug was identified, it was immediately taken out of use.\n\nThe department of clinical neurosciences had been due to move into the new children's hospital in July but that move was postponed due to safety fears about the new complex and it is not expected to move there until spring next year.\n\nTom Waterson, Scotland health committee chair at trade union Unison, said: \"The outbreak was a concern for patients and staff alike.\n\n\"They have been desperate to leave that facility because it is in dire need of modernisation and they were meant to have moved out of there months ago.\n\n\"My concern is that we now know there had been doubts about the move to the new building for a long time so why was there not more done on the maintenance of the neuroscience department.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will provide about £6m in funding to help keep the existing Sick Kids hospital and neuroscience department up to scratch until the new facility is open next year.\n\nThe department of clinical neurosciences is due to move into Edinburgh's new children's hospital next spring\n\nA total of 47 patients had elective procedures cancelled and rearranged as a result of the March outbreak.\n\nFurther positive samples for the bug were identified in July and since then 18 samples (out of 2,926 taken) have tested positive for what the health board described as \"very low counts of Pseudomonas aeruginosa\".\n\nA spokeswoman for NHS Lothian said: \"The water sampling regime used is a national protocol for assessing Pseudomonas aeruginosa regardless of how the bacteria entered the water.\n\n\"As part of that protocol, outlets continue to be tested after remedial works have been carried out.\n\n\"On identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in shower water, the shower was immediately removed from patient use so that no patient exposure could occur.\"\n\nIt is not known what happened to the patients who contracted the bug in March as NHS Lothian said it was \"unable to discuss individual patients and their outcomes\".", "Cuardrilla have recently resumed fracking for shale gas in Lancashire\n\nPrevious projections of the potential amount of shale gas under the UK may have been significantly overestimated, according to a new study.\n\nInstead of 50 years of gas at the current rate of consumption, this new research suggests there are just 5-7 years' supply.\n\nBut the UK's fracking industry, which represents companies like Cuadrilla, dismissed the report.\n\nThe said the sample size was too small to draw serious conclusions.\n\nThe recovery of shale gas through hydraulic fracturing or fracking has been a slow moving and controversial affair in the UK over the past decade.\n\nAttempts by oil and gas companies to drill wells and extract gas have been held up by planning issues, concerns about earth tremors and public displays of disaffection over the issue.\n\nThrough it all, the government and industry have maintained faith in the process.\n\nThey argued that there was huge potential for fracked gas particularly in the Bowland shale, a geological formation that runs under Lancashire, Yorkshire, parts of the Midlands and into North Wales.\n\nPlans for test drilling have drawn public protests in a number of locations around the UK\n\nThe optimistic view was based in part on a study published in 2013 by the British Geological Survey (BGS) which issued a very positive report on the likely amount of gas in place under the Bowland.\n\nThat study suggested that it was one of the world's biggest reserves, containing some 1,300 trillion cubic feet of shale gas.\n\n\"To put that in context,\" wrote former Prime Minister David Cameron at the time, \"even if we extract just a tenth of that figure, that is still the equivalent of 51 years' gas supply.\"\n\nBut there were concerns expressed at the time that the estimate was on the high side.\n\nNow, scientists at the University of Nottingham and the BGS have developed a new method for analysing the gas content of shale, which they believe gives them a more accurate estimate of the overall potential.\n\n\"In terms of the total gas in place, the mean value from the 2013 study was 1,300 trillion feet of gas, we are struggling to get anywhere above 200 trillion feet,\" said Prof Colin Snape from the University of Nottingham, the lead author on the paper.\n\n\"The data we've got from the two shales we've looked at are very consistent - and gas companies Cuadrilla and Third Energy have just published two papers in the last year where they have taken core samples and measured the gas that's evolved and that data is very, very consistent with our own data.\"\n\nAccording to the new study, the amount of gas in place, assuming an economic recovery rate of 10% would be a maximum of 20 trillion cubic feet, which would equate to around seven years' worth of gas at current UK rates of consumption.\n\nOther researchers were impressed with the new method developed by the researchers at Nottingham.\n\n\"The results bring bad news to those hoping that northern England is floating on a bed of cheap and abundant gas,\" said Prof Stuart Haszeldine, Professor of Geology and Carbon Storage, University of Edinburgh, who was not involved with the study.\n\n\"Abundant hydrocarbons may have been generated in the past, but have leaked away to the Earth's surface many millions of years ago. Not only have all those hydrocarbon horses bolted, but there is no longer a secure stable door to retain very large quantities of present-day gas in these shales.\"\n\nHowever, some of the leading experts at the BGS were cautious in their interpretation of the study, even though several of their own scientists were involved in the paper.\n\n\"Early indications published today suggest that it is possible there is less shale gas resource present than previously thought,\" said Prof Mike Stephenson, chief scientist for decarbonisation and resource management, at the BGS.\n\n\"However the study considered only a very small number of rock samples from only two locations.\"\n\n\"BGS has continued to study resource estimation in shales over the past 16 years and further studies are still required to further refine estimates of shale gas resources.\"\n\nCuadrilla, the company which has recently resumed fracking a shale gas well in Lancashire, was blunt in its rejection of the new paper.\n\nProtestors have tried to shut down Cuadrilla's fracking operations in Lancashire\n\n\"Those involved in publishing this should be embarrassed,\" said Francis Egan, Cuadrilla chief executive.\n\n\"We hold more data and technical experience of the Bowland shale than anyone else in the UK yet not once did anyone from this research group or Nottingham University contact us for our view or input.\"\n\nUKOOG, the body which represents the UK's onshore oil and gas industry, also rejected the implications of the study.\n\n\"To date we have made significant advancements in the understanding of the resource potential contained within UK shale, with very encouraging results seen at both Springs Road and Preston New Road which have demonstrated properties in line with world class, US shale plays,\" said Ken Cronin, chief executive of UK Onshore Oil and Gas.\n\n\"What we know now is that we have a world class resource which has broadly supported the estimates originally published by the British Geological Survey. Indeed, in terms of potential gas flow indications, the results are at the upper end of our original forecasts.\"\n\n\"The only way to provide accurate estimates of how much gas is likely to be produced is to drill, hydraulically fracture and test many wells,\" said Prof Quentin Fisher, from the University of Leeds, who was not involved with the study.\n\n\"Which is exactly the intention of companies holding shale gas licences in the UK.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.", "Boris Johnson has dismissed suggestions from Nigel Farage and US President Donald Trump that he should work with the Brexit Party, saying he is \"always grateful for advice from wherever it comes\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the Conservative Party leader promoted the withdrawal agreement he had negotiated with the European Union, saying that he wanted to get Brexit \"over the line as fast as possible\".\n\nMr Johnson was also asked about Mr Trump's statement that his Brexit deal meant the US couldn't do a trade deal with the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of independence supporters have heard Nicola Sturgeon call for \"Scotland's future to be put into Scotland's hands\".\n\nThe first minister told a major rally in Glasgow the time would come to break away from the \"chaos of Westminster\" in a second independence poll next year.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said a new Scottish independence referendum was not \"desirable or necessary\".\n\nThe Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats also oppose a further vote.\n\nMs Sturgeon was one of a number of SNP politicians and independence campaigners to speak at the #indyref2020 rally in George Square.\n\nIt was the first time she had spoken at an independence rally since 2014.\n\nThe event prompted a counter demonstration by dozens of unionist supporters who waved flags and blew whistles as supporters of Scottish independence gathered.\n\nThe SNP leader focused on the UK-wide election on 12 December at the event, which was organised by The National newspaper.\n\nShe has made it clear that she wants to hold a poll on the issue next year and said the general election was a \"crossroads moment\" for Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the pro-indy crowds: \"Over the next few weeks, it is our job to convince everyone we know to come out on December the 12th and send the biggest, loudest most resounding message to Westminster.\n\n\"That it is time for Scotland to choose our own future. It is time for Scotland to be an independent country.\n\n\"An independent country that will be the best of friends and family with our neighbours across the British Isles, across Europe and across the world.\"\n\nThe first minister told the crowd the general election was \"the most important election for Scotland in our lifetimes\".\n\n\"The future of our country is on the line,\" she said. \"And there is no doubt whatsoever that Scotland stands at a crossroads moment.\"\n\nThere were boos from the audience when she claimed a victory for Boris Johnson in the election would result in \"a future where Scotland gets ripped out of our European family of nations against our will, a future where the UK turns in on itself, a future of a hostile environment for migrants\".\n\nInstead, she said, there was \"a much better alternative\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"That alternative is not a UK Labour government that can't event make up its mind where it stands on the question of Brexit.\"\n\nThe first minister's speech came after she confirmed that she would send a letter \"before Christmas\" to whoever is in 10 Downing Street, requesting the Scottish Parliament is granted powers to hold another independence referendum.\n\nAsked whether she believed Labour would grant the Section 30 order, Ms Sturgeon answered: \"Yes\".\n\n\"If people in Scotland demonstrate the desire - as I believe they will in this election - for an independence referendum, then I don't believe Westminster opposition to the principle or to the timetable to that will prove sustainable,\" she said.\n\nIn response, Jeremy Corbyn said only a Labour government would be able to boost Scotland's economy and see \"the levels of poverty in Scotland, particularly in the big cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee, being reduced\".\n\nAn unconventional piper joined the pro-independence crowds in George Square\n\nHe added: \"Scottish independence would mean a massive gap between what Scotland raises in taxation and what the Scottish people need at the present time.\n\n\"I think the much better option is a Labour government for the whole of the UK.\"\n\nThe Tories criticised Nicola Sturgeon for prioritising indyref2 \"above all else\".\n\nScottish Conservative MSP for Glasgow, Annie Wells, said: \"While Nicola Sturgeon is banging on about indyref2, I'm out talking to people about the state of their local schools, the drug deaths crisis and violent crime taking over our streets, and the problems at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.\n\n\"Instead of tackling the day-to-day things that Glaswegians care about, Nicola Sturgeon is headlining a nationalist rally.\n\n\"So this election is about stopping Nicola Sturgeon from dividing our communities all over again, and only a vote for the Scottish Conservatives will do that.\"", "More than 1,100 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan from July 1 until September 30 (file picture)\n\nNine children have been killed in a roadside blast in north-eastern Afghanistan as they made their way to school.\n\nThe children - eight boys and a girl aged between seven and 10 - accidentally stepped on a deliberately-planted mine, officials said.\n\nSo far, no one has claimed responsibility for the bomb.\n\nLast month, the UN said 1,174 Afghan civilians had been killed in the three months until the end of September.\n\nMore than 3,000 people have also been injured over this period, the UN said.\n\n\"At 8.30am (04:00 GMT) this morning, tragically, nine school children were martyred in a landmine blast,\" Jawad Hejri, a spokesman for the Takhar provincial governor, told AFP news agency.\n\nHe alleged that the roadside device had been planted by the Taliban, which had taken control of Takhar Province for several weeks before Afghan forces recently regained control.\n\nThe militants routinely plant roadside devices as they leave a district in the hope of targeting advancing security forces.\n\nThe Taliban has not responded to a request for comment on the incident.\n\nLast May, a landmine killed seven children and wounded two more in the southern province of Ghazni.\n\nIn February, seven children were killed and 10 more wounded in Laghman province when a mortar shell exploded as they played with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The young face of a brutal war: Secunder Kermani reports from one of the country's busiest hospitals in the southern city of Kandahar", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Election pact with Brexit Party 'risks putting Corbyn into No 10'\n\nBoris Johnson has rejected the suggestion from Nigel Farage and Donald Trump that he should work with the Brexit Party during the election.\n\nThe Tory leader told the BBC he was \"always grateful for advice\" but he would not enter into election pacts.\n\nHis comments come after the US president said Mr Farage and Mr Johnson would be \"an unstoppable force\".\n\nDowning Street sources say there are no circumstances in which the Tories would work with the Brexit Party.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said the \"difficulty\" of doing deals with \"any other party\" was that it \"simply risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into Number 10\".\n\n\"The problem with that is that his [Mr Corbyn's] plan for Brexit is basically yet more dither and delay,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson also said there was \"no question of negotiating on the NHS\" as part of any future trade deal with the US, but he did not rule out expanding the amount of private provision in the health service in the future.\n\nBut Labour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said the public \"can't trust the Tories on the NHS\", saying they would \"increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump\".\n\nWhen pushed on whether he would rule out a deal with Mr Farage, Mr Johnson replied: \"I want to be very, very clear that voting for any other party than this government, this Conservative government… is basically tantamount to putting Jeremy Corbyn in.\"\n\nThe UK is going to the polls on 12 December following a further delay to the UK's departure from the EU, to 31 January 2020.\n\nThe BBC will be talking to other party leaders during the course of the campaign.\n\nUS president Donald Trump told Nigel Farage's LBC show on Thursday that the Brexit Party leader should team up with Mr Johnson to do \"something terrific\" and he also criticised the prime minister's EU withdrawal agreement.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Farage has called on the prime minister to drop his Brexit deal, unite in a \"Leave alliance\" or face a Brexit Party candidate in every seat in the election.\n\nMr Johnson said there were \"lots of reasons\" why he thought a Labour government would be a \"disaster\".\n\nHe said he Labour government would lead to a renegotiation with Brussels on a Brexit deal, then another referendum.\n\n\"Why go through that nightmare again?\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister also suggested that the US president was wrong to believe a trade deal would be impossible with the UK after Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"proper Brexit\" deal \"enables us to do proper all-singing, all-dancing free-trade deals\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It delivers exactly what we wanted, what I wanted, when I campaigned in 2016 to come out the European Union,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhen asked about the criticism from Mr Trump, Mr Johnson said: \"I am always grateful for advice from wherever it comes and we have great relations as you know with the US and many many other countries.\n\n\"But on the technicalities of the deal anybody who looks at it can see that the UK has full control.\"\n\nThe prime minister is never short of a word or two, never short of a colourful phrase or a metaphor.\n\nWhen we sat down this afternoon there was no suggestion of him being the Hulk, but Remain-tending MPs were accused of \"rope-a-doping\" the government, planning eventually to batter the prime minister and his Brexit deal into submission until he would have had to give up.\n\nBut in Downing Street there is a serious awareness that trademark Johnson verbal gymnastics are no guarantee of success at the ballot box in six weeks' time, no guarantee at all.\n\nThat's not just because there are even friends, like Donald Trump, and of course foes, like Jeremy Corbyn, whose words and actions will hamper his attempt to secure a majority to call his own.\n\nBut also because this is a snap election, not a routine poll, and the public is hardly in a forgiving mood of our politicians right now.\n\nMr Johnson said he hoped the government could get Brexit \"over the line\" by the middle of January if he won a majority, claiming the current Parliament would never have passed his deal.\n\nHe said he'd had \"no choice\" but to call a general election, saying: \"Nobody wants an election but we've got to do it now.\n\n\"This is a Parliament that is basically full of MPs who voted Remain.\n\n\"They voted Remain and they will continue to block Brexit if they're given the chance - we need a new mandate, we need to refresh our Parliament.\"\n\nMr Johnson said his government was determined to increase taxpayer funding of the NHS but said: \"Of course there are dentists and optometrists and so on who are providers to the NHS, of course, that's how it works,\" he said.\n\n\"But... I believe passionately in an NHS free at the point of use for everybody in this country.\"\n\nLabour's Mr Ashworth said: \"Forced NHS privatisation has doubled under the Conservatives and Boris Johnson has refused to rule out expanding this further.\n\n\"You can't trust the Tories on the NHS. They will increase privatisation even further and do a deal with Donald Trump that will see as much as £500m more a week sent to US corporations.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app. England head coach Eddie Jones says his team are ready to produce their finest hour after naming an unchanged team for Saturday's World Cup final against South Africa. Captain Owen Farrell, leading try-scorer Jonny May and prop Kyle Sinckler have all been passed fit after carrying knocks from the semi-final win over New Zealand. Farrell stays at inside centre with George Ford once again picked at fly-half, while scrum-half Ben Spencer is on the bench after flying out last weekend as emergency cover following an injury to Willi Heinz. Jones said: \"We know South Africa are going to come at us, and we're going to come at them even harder. \"I've got no doubt that they'll play better, but we'll play better - we will play with no fear. \"We're confident in the game we have and we're confident in the way we've prepared. \"We're ready to go. Hang on to your seats, because it's the last dip of the rollercoaster.\" England produced what many critics described as the greatest performance in their history to see off three-time world champions New Zealand 19-7 last Saturday.\n• None 'George Ford has moved out of Owen Farrell's shadow'\n• None Wales v New Zealand: Owen Lane to start as one of nine changes The form shown by the 10-12 combination of Ford and Farrell and the outstanding displays of Sinckler, Maro Itoje, Tom Curry and Sam Underhill have persuaded Jones - in his 50th game in charge of the side - to stick with the same XV for the first time all tournament, despite the direct, muscular threat posed by the Springboks. Jones has the highest winning percentage of any coach to take charge of England, and a second World Cup triumph, 16 years after Sir Clive Woodward's team took the first, would be the ultimate valediction for his four sometimes controversial years in charge. He said: \"That was always our aim, to be here on 2 November in the Yokohama Stadium. \"So we've achieved one goal, but we know what's at stake in the final, and we're well prepared. \"South Africa are a different proposition - they're much more physical, they come through you at the front door, whereas New Zealand it's the front door and back door. \"We have to make adjustments, but we're ready for the brutality of the game. \"Our players have had the will to prepare. They've pushed themselves through some tough physical tasks. \"They've worked hard to get the right tactical game and they've worked hard to build the bonds between them.\" Despite the youth of 21-year-old Curry and 23-year-old Underhill in the back row, this is an experienced England side, with a total of 731 caps in the starting XV. Back-row pair Sam Underhill (14) and Tom Curry (18) have just 32 caps between them And on Thursday those players were in relaxed mood despite the biggest game of their lives being just 48 hours away. Jones invited his entire 31-man squad and the English media together for morning coffee before the players were given time with their families and parents to go out around Shinjuku for lunch. On Friday they will go through one last light training run at Yokohama Stadium before returning to their hotel in central Tokyo and a team meeting led by skipper Farrell. It will be Jones' own third World Cup final after his Wallabies side were beaten by England in 2003 and the Springbok team he was helping to advise saw off England in Paris four years later. He said: \"I'll be looking back at the lessons of 2003 and 2007, and even 2011. \"You can never take anything for granted. You have to go out there and take the game. \"You might be favourites, but you have to go out there and win the game, and that's our approach on Saturday. \"I'm anxious, nervous, excited. It's always a blend of the two emotions. I'm sure South Africa are sitting in their hotel thinking the same way.\" Who makes the cut from both finalists?", "Adam Reechard Crespo has been charged in the murder of his girlfriend, Silvia Galva\n\nFlorida police investigating the bizarre death of a woman during a domestic row have obtained audio from two Amazon Echo devices.\n\nSilvia Galva, 32, was impaled by a spear-tipped bed post in a struggle with her boyfriend, Adam Reechard Crespo, at their Hallandale Beach home.\n\nMr Crespo, 43, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. He says her death was a tragic accident.\n\nPolice want to establish if the smart-speaker, Alexa, recorded the dispute.\n\nAccording to the police report, Mr Crespo said he was trying to pull Ms Galvo off their bed during an argument in the bedroom of their Hallandale Beach apartment in July when he heard a snap.\n\nThe police report says: \"[Mr Crespo] pulled the blade out of the victim's chest 'hoping it was not too bad.'\"\n\nBut Ms Galva died with a 12in (30cm) double-sided blade through her chest following the altercation at the flat in a seaside city 20 miles (32km) north of Miami.\n\nA lawyer for Mr Crespo, Christopher O'Toole, told the BBC that Ms Galva's death was unintentional.\n\nMr Crespo was sleeping when \"Silvia came into the bedroom, knocked the door down\".\n\nMs Galva broke off one of the pointy bedposts and \"it ended up inside of her\", Mr O'Toole said.\n\nHallandale Police did not return a request for comment.\n\nAccording to the police report, when Mr Crespo saw Ms Galva had been stabbed he called for a female friend who was in the apartment to call emergency services.\n\n\"He tried to save Silvia's life,\" Mr O'Toole said, \"this was the woman he loved.\"\n\nA police warrant obtained by US media says \"audio recordings capturing the attack on victim Silvia Crespo... may be found on the server[s] maintained by or for Amazon.com\".\n\nAuthorities said Amazon provided multiple recordings, but did not disclose their contents.\n\nMr O'Toole said he supports the use of the audio in court.\n\n\"Ordinarily, I'd be jumping up and down objecting, but we believe the recordings could help us,\" he said. \"If the truth comes out, it could help us.\"\n\nMr Crespo was bailed from custody on a $65,000 (£50,000) bond.\n\nFlorida police believe two Amazon Alexa devices may have recorded the dispute\n\nWhile smart speakers do always \"hear\", they do not typically \"listen\" to conversations.\n\nThe major brands record and analyse snippets of audio internally to detect words like \"Alexa\", \"Ok Google\" or \"Hey Siri\", but if those words are not detected, the audio is discarded.\n\nIf the wake word is said, however, then the audio is recorded and sent to the voice recognition service at the company.\n\nThe big smart speaker companies - Amazon, Apple and Google - all employ staff who listen in to customer voice recordings.\n\nBut security researchers have found no evidence that speakers continuously send entire conversations back to a remote server.", "Hundreds of tonnes of ballast have been used to repair the line\n\nDirect rail services between north and south Wales are to resume after repair works were completed early.\n\nFloods washed away ballast and track foundations under the line in Herefordshire, Network Rail said.\n\nIt meant services using the line between Abergavenny and Hereford had to be replaced by buses.\n\nThe first services will run on Saturday, but Transport for Wales warned there may still be delays due to speed restrictions on the line.\n\nIt asked passengers to check for updates before they set off.\n\nNetwork Rail thanked passengers for their patience while the track was repaired.\n\nIt was originally thought the route could have been closed until Monday.\n\nThe line through Herefordshire is part of the route linking north and south Wales\n\nNetwork Rail said the work needed 300 tonnes of foundation and 600 tonnes of ballast.\n\nChris Howchin, the company's route director, said: \"I'm delighted that we've managed to reopen the line ahead of schedule - restoring a vital rail link for Wales and Borders.\n\n\"The whole team worked tirelessly in difficult weather conditions and it's a fantastic result for passengers.\"\n\nThe Met Office had issued an amber warning and said more than 4in (100mm) of rain fell in 24 hours in some places.\n\nOn Monday, 34 homes were evacuated as the River Wye continued to rise in Monmouth.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Red Rose fans watched as England failed to come close to the World Cup trophy\n\nMillions of England fans were left disappointed as Eddie Jones' men lost to South Africa in today's nail-biting Rugby World Cup final.\n\nSupporters were up early to watch the clash which saw the Springboks defeat England 32-12 in Japan.\n\nThey filled pubs across the country, in the hope the favourites England might repeat their 2003 win.\n\nTens of thousands of fans watched in Japan, alongside the Duke of Sussex, patron of the Rugby Football Union.\n\nThe game, which kicked off at 09:00 GMT at the Yokohama International Stadium, was England's first World Cup final in 12 years.\n\nBut things did not go their way from the start, with prop Kyle Sinckler knocked out in an accidental collision - before England conceded several penalties.\n\nThen the Springboks put the result beyond doubt with two tries in the second half.\n\nEngland captain Owen Farrell (centre) and his team could not overcome South Africa\n\nPubs in London began to empty even before the final whistle, as South Africa's name was engraved on the Webb Ellis cup for the third time.\n\nBut England fans in the Admiralty pub, in London's Trafalgar Square, said, while they were disappointed, the best team had won.\n\nMichael O'Donnell, 58, from Kent, said the Springboks were \"a much stronger team physically\" on the day.\n\n\"While I'm disappointed with the result, nothing fell England's way and they [the Springboks] deserved the game,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week [in the semi-final against New Zealand] we were outstanding, and this week there was a little bit of nerves and it wasn't to be.\n\n\"I'm upset because the players truly believed they were going to win today. They will take it like men. We watched the best team win today.\"\n\nNails were bitten to the quick as fans in London watched the match slip away\n\nPaul Wylie, 57, of Sevenoaks, said South Africa had been \"strong and brutal\".\n\n\"I was worried that we peaked last week because it was a massive thing to beat New Zealand,\" he said.\n\n\"Their game today was too strong for us. They set their stall out and played a much tougher game.\n\n\"Getting to the final is a massive achievement in itself.\"\n\nSome fans voiced their disappointment, accusing the England team of underperforming.\n\nThomas Bishop, 30, said: \"I was expecting England to do better and they underperformed, if anything.\"\n\nDominic Maher, 34, added: \"It's the final and I just came out for the atmosphere, but England massively underperformed. They had a lot of spirit in the first half, but in the second half it went downhill rapidly.\"\n\nAfter the match, England Rugby tweeted it was \"not the result we wanted\", before congratulating the Springboks on their win.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by England Rugby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of politicians commiserated with England on their loss, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn and former Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 4 by Theresa May\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association had predicted an extra million pints would be sold today if England had been victorious. It's not known how many more are likely to be drunk as fans drown their sorrows.\n\nGlum faces at Harpenden Rugby Club the training ground of England captain Owen Farrell\n\nHarpenden Rugby Club - where three of the World Cup team, including captain Owen Farrell, began their rugby careers - hosted an event for several hundred fans.\n\nSo many England supporters turned up, they were forced to watch the game from outside, despite the rain.\n\nTom Stagg, a fly-half for Harpenden Rugby Football Club (HRFC), said the loss was sad, adding it was \"going to end with a few beers\".\n\n\"We have four ex-players from the club in the final, to lose is obviously very disappointing but it has been such a great trip - and it has been awesome.\"\n\nMany supporters, including Mr Stagg, wore Owen Farrell face masks for the final.\n\n\"He was always a hell of a player,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Phil Medlicott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile fans at Crewe & Nantwich RUFC - the club where flanker Tom Curry and his twin brother Ben played up to the age of 16 - donned Tom Curry masks in anticipation of an England win, but were left disappointed on the final whistle.\n\nAhead of the match, vice chair Andy Pemberton, who did some coaching with the twins during their time at the club, said: \"To see one of your guys walking out, knowing he's played at the pitches here at Crewe & Nantwich is something special. The chest puffs out.\n\n\"You see him belting out the national anthem and it brings a tear to your eye.\"\n\nBut what may earlier have been tears of pride later turned to tears of disappointment.\n\nAs England fans commiserated, Springbok supporters celebrated their victory up and down the country.\n\nIn Bristol, hundreds of fans gathered at Ashton Gate stadium to cheer on their teams as they watched the game on the big screen.\n\nBut as South Africa overpowered England, only a handful of Springbok fans, including Sean Viljoen and Mark Tonetti, were celebrating on the final whistle.\n\nSean, 34, said: \"It was a big surprise. At the start of the second half England started dominating but our defence was outstanding.\n\n\"England made a lot of mistakes as well.\n\n\"We're so, so proud of the team. They played exceptionally well.\"\n\nSean Viljoen, 34, left, and Mark Tonetti, 36, paid tribute to the many England supporters who congratulated the pair afterwards\n\nMark, 36, said: \"It was surreal being among so many England fans, especially when there were just five of us singing our national anthem.\"\n\nHe acknowledged the good sportsmanship of many England fans who congratulated them after the match.\n\n\"I've played rugby many times myself,\" said Mark. \"You always have a drink with the opposition afterwards. It's a great game.\"", "Fracking at Cuadrilla Resources site in Lancashire in August caused a 2.9 magnitude earth tremor\n\nThe government has called a halt to shale gas extraction - or fracking - in England amid fears about earthquakes.\n\nThe indefinite suspension comes after a report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said it was not possible to predict the probability or size of tremors caused by the practice.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said it may be temporary - imposed \"until and unless\" extraction is proved safe.\n\nLabour, Lib Dems and the Green Party want a permanent ban.\n\nFracking was suspended at the end of August after activity by Cuadrilla Resources - the only company licensed to carry out the process - at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire caused a magnitude 2.9 earthquake.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said that, after the OGA concluded that further seismic activity could not be ruled out, \"further consents for fracking will not be granted\" unless the industry \"can reliably predict and control tremors\" linked to the process.\n\nHowever, it has stopped short of an outright ban.\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme why that was, Mrs Leadsom said shale gas is a \"huge opportunity\" for the UK.\n\n\"We will follow the science and it is quite clear that we can't be certain. The science isn't accurate enough to be able to assess the fault lines, the geological studies have been shown to be inaccurate. So therefore, unless and until we can be absolutely certain, we are imposing a moratorium,\" she said.\n\nOpposition leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted that the pause was an \"election stunt\" and that Labour would ban fracking permanently.\n\nFormer Conservative energy minister Sam Gyimah, who is now a Liberal Democrat, said Mr Johnson's \"conversion to environmentalism\" was \"skin deep\".\n\n\"It's interesting that just as we approach an election he has decided he is against fracking.\"\n\nAsked whether the UK should explore methods of delivering fracking safely, Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley said fossil fuels \"need to stay in the ground\" and that the government must make an \"absolute commitment\" to end it altogether.\n\nAndrea Leadsom emphasises that this is not a ban - and the government is 'following the science'.\n\nHowever, scientists say it's hard to see a time with our current technology that fracking in the UK wouldn't cause earthquakes\n\nProfessor Richard Davies from Newcastle University says: \"The UK is crisscrossed with faults and it's difficult to avoid them because the current imaging techniques used by the industry do not yet provide enough resolution to detect many of them.\"\n\nThe big question for the businesses working in this sector is whether they are happy to spend any more money in this regulatory environment.\n\nDo they think it's worth investing, in the hope that the \"science\" will one day find in their favour and the regulation could change?\n\nOr will they decide that two moratoriums in 10 years is just too many, and that fracking has no future in the UK.\n\nFriends of the Earth said legislation should be passed to make the fracking moratorium permanent.\n\n\"For nearly a decade local people across the country have fought a David and Goliath battle against this powerful industry,\" said chief executive Craig Bennett.\n\nCharity CPRE said it had long called for fracking to be stopped and said the move would help the UK meet its target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nAnti-fracking campaigner Barbara Richardson, who has protested at Preston New Road, said she was \"cautiously optimistic\", adding that local people were \"worried\" about the impact of fracking.\n\n\"They want this to go away, they want some respite from this, they've been fighting this for five-and-a-half years,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nClaire Stephenson from Frack Free Lancashire said campaigners were celebrating that the fracking industry in the UK is \"finished\", but added that protests will continue until an \"outright ban\" is in place.\n\nSusan Holliday, chair of Preston New Action Group said: \"We will only feel able to celebrate once Cuadrilla start work on decommissioning and the site is restored.\"\n\nFracking is a process in which liquid is pumped deep underground at high pressure to fracture shale rock and release gas or oil trapped within it.\n\nAssessment by the British Geological Survey in 2013 suggested there were enough resources in the Bowland Shale across northern England to potentially provide up to 50 years of current gas demand.\n\nBut research published in August estimated there were only five to seven years' supply.\n\nThe UK's fracking industry, which has said the process could contribute significantly to future energy needs and create thousands of jobs, dismissed the report's findings.\n\nFracking must be halted for 18 hours if it causes a tremor measuring 0.5 magnitude or above.\n\nThe government announcement is the second time it has placed a moratorium on fracking.\n\nThe first suspension, which lasted a year, was in November 2011 during the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.\n\nThe fracking industry has faced fierce opposition from both communities and environmental groups.\n\nLocal communities and environmental groups have protested against fracking\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has in the past supported fracking, writing in the Daily Telegraph that the discovery of shale gas in the UK was \"glorious news for humanity\".\n\nA recent report by the National Audit Office found the UK had spent at least £32.7m supporting fracking since 2011.\n\nAll fracking in Scotland has been suspended since 2013 and the SNP recently confirmed a policy of \"no support\" for the extraction method.\n\nThe Welsh Government has also opposed fracking for several years, with a \"moratorium\" in place since 2015, while there is a planning presumption against fracking in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe suspension in England will put pressure on Cuadrilla Resources which has so far invested £270m in the country's shale gas industry.\n\nCuadrilla Resources has 30 full-time workers but also employs a number of contractors.\n\nThe BBC understands Cuadrilla and other fracking companies were not told of the government's decision in advance.\n\nKen Cronin, chief executive of UK Onshore Oil and Gas, which represents fracking companies, said: \"Going forward, we are fully committed to working closely with the Oil and Gas Authority and other relevant regulators to demonstrate that we can operate safely and environmentally responsibly.\"", "The Thai folk band, Faiyen, are seeking asylum in France, claiming it's dangerous for them to return home.\n\nThe band, who use music to criticise the monarchy and the military, fled to neighbouring Laos in 2014 after Thailand's military coup.\n\nThere they faced death threats, and six other activists in exile with them went missing. Two were later found dead in Mekong River.\n\nBBC Thai follows the band's journey - fleeing from the land of smiles.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are among the candidates competing to be prime minister\n\nThe first head-to-head election debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn will take place on 19 November.\n\nIt will be shown on ITV and hosted by news presenter Julie Etchingham.\n\nThe channel said it also plans to hold a multi-party debate in the run-up to the 12 December poll.\n\nOn Thursday, Labour leader Mr Corbyn challenged the PM to a one-on-one debate, while Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said she should take part in a three-headed encounter with the two leaders.\n\nMr Corbyn welcomed ITV's announcement on Twitter, claiming Mr Johnson had \"accepted our challenge\" for the \"once in a generation election\".\n\nBut pro-Remain parties are not happy, with the Lib Dems criticising the line-up as a \"cosy establishment stitch-up\" and the SNP saying it would be \"deeply misleading for viewers\".\n\nAfter the main event, ITV said it would hold a live interview-based programme to allow other parties to comment on the debate.\n\nThe Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Brexit Party, Scottish National Party and the Green Party will all be represented.\n\nIn a later multi-party debate, the Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, SNP, Brexit Party and Plaid Cymru will take part, represented by either their leader or \"another senior figure\".\n\nITV said Northern Ireland and Wales would have their own debates specifically for the nations, while STV - which broadcasts to parts of Scotland - plans to hold its own debate with Scottish candidates.\n\nThe SNP said it should be included in the principal debate since it could very well hold the balance of power in a Hung Parliament.\n\n\"This debate ignores the half of the population who voted remain and want to see the UK stay in the EU and the majority in Scotland who support independence,\" said the party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford.\n\n\"UK politics has long stopped being a choice between two tired old parties.\"\n\nAnd Lib Dem MP Chuka Umunna said the format was \"undemocratic and wrong\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolitical leaders' TV debates have featured in the last three general elections in 2010, 2015 and 2017.\n\nBut in 2017, the then-Conservative Party leader and PM Theresa May declined to take part, saying she preferred \"to get out and about and meet voters\".\n\nThe then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd stood in for her during a BBC debate.", "The message on the EU's office in North Macedonia reads \"EU for You\" but that is not the message Macedonians are hearing now\n\nIt was the diplomatic equivalent of the EU offering a handshake and then thumbing its nose instead.\n\nNorth Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was left grasping thin air as the prospect of EU accession talks was snatched away.\n\nMr Macron said \"Non\" when all the other EU leaders were in favour of giving the formal go-ahead to membership negotiations with North Macedonia.\n\nNeighbouring Albania was given the brush-off too.\n\nThe EU's snub also sent a grim message across the Balkans - to would-be members Kosovo and Bosnia and even Serbia and Montenegro, which are both many years into membership negotiations.\n\nThe French veto did not exactly leave North Macedonia's leader lying on the ground in a crumpled heap, but it did make a mockery of his assertion that changing the country's name would open the door to accession.\n\nFor 27 years, Greece had rejected the name Macedonia because of its region of the same name. The dispute came to an end only in January after a hard-won agreement and a series of difficult votes.\n\nFor young Macedonians especially the rejection comes as a blow, setting back the European aspirations of a new generation.\n\nMr Macron and Mr Zaev during more optimistic times, at a meeting in May\n\nThe government has already paid the price. It will not see out its full five-year term, but will head into early elections next April.\n\n\"No-one here believed we would become a member state tomorrow, but we were fully prepared for negotiations,\" says Ivana Tufegdzik, an MP in the governing coalition.\n\n\"So many European prime ministers and presidents said that the [name-change] agreement, referendum and constitutional changes would open the door to the EU. Even President Macron said that in a video to the Macedonian people.\"\n\n\"The expectations were so high. And suddenly there was the wrong message.\"\n\nMr Zaev bet all his political capital on the name change putting North Macedonia on the road to EU membership.\n\nNow he faces a massive challenge, convincing voters that he is still the leader to drive the country forward. And the opposition are delighted to portray the situation as a failure for Mr Zaev and his Social Democrats.\n\n\"We said the government in Skopje was not doing enough to persuade the EU to open membership negotiations,\" says Stefan Andonovski, a foreign policy adviser to the leadership of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party.\n\n\"The government has not been listening to the alarms coming from the EU that we really have problems on the inside. The fight against corruption has been stagnant - we have had many scandals. The only reforms have been on the name issue; not much has been done in other areas.\"\n\nSome of these points are valid.\n\nAnti-corruption efforts have been shaken by the arrest of the country's leading special prosecutor. Katica Janeva is facing allegations of abuse of office and accepting bribes. And the EU's commissioner for enlargement, Johannes Hahn, had warned that Skopje's failure to reform the judiciary put EU membership talks at risk.\n\nYet the opposition's comments should also be taken with a pinch of salt.\n\nThe party officially remains committed to EU accession talks. But at the same time, it has a policy of reversing the country's name change. That would end the hard-won detente with neighbouring Greece and scupper any chance of membership negotiations.\n\nThis poster in Skopje rejects the new name, insisting \"Our name is Macedonia\"\n\nDespite the latest knock-back, reactions in North Macedonia have been relatively low-key.\n\nThere have been no large-scale protests or acts of violence. After almost three decades of diplomatic blockage, people have become hardened to disappointment.\n\nBut young people in particular may take the view that their future lies elsewhere, exacerbating the population decline which is already a serious issue.\n\n\"It's devastating for people who hoped we would have quick changes,\" says Blazhen Mileski, who works with youth pressure group Reactor.\n\n\"We will see more direct action from young people to leave, go to the EU and live there. People don't have a clear idea of what EU wants from us. Young people will see their future outside the country, because they don't see an EU path.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. European Council leader Donald Tusk lashes out at EU leaders: \"Personally I think it was a mistake.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called the French veto \"an historic mistake\", warning that it would seriously compromise the EU's influence across the Western Balkans.\n\nThere have already been consequences.\n\nThe leader of the party that won the most votes in Kosovo's recent parliamentary election has suggested scrapping the European Integration Ministry. And Serbia could sign a free trade agreement with the Russia-dominated Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) without worrying too much about the implications.\n\nEver the mischief-maker, Moscow has floated the possibility of inviting Albania and North Macedonia to join the EAEU as well - a suggestion immediately shot down by Mr Zaev.\n\nAll of North Macedonia's political parties insist they remain focused on getting EU membership talks underway. And the confirmation of Nato membership, which should arrive within the next few months, will be a significant consolation.\n\nBut EU accession negotiations were supposed to provide the structure to bring North Macedonia under the rule of law. And as long as Emmanuel Macron remains in charge in France, it is difficult to see how those talks can start.", "Contra Costa County search and rescue officers approach the property in Orinda\n\nAirbnb has said it will ban \"party houses\" after a mass shooting at a California home rented through the company left five people dead.\n\nCEO Brian Chesky said in a tweet the company would take steps to \"combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct\".\n\n\"We must do better, and we will. This is unacceptable,\" Mr Chesky added.\n\nThree people died at the house, in the city of Orinda, near San Francisco, and two more died later in hospital.\n\nThe house was reportedly booked under a pretence for a small group, before being publicised on Instagram as the venue for a Halloween party which eventually drew a crowd of more than 100 people. The host did not authorise the party, Airbnb said.\n\nAll of those who died were under 30. The fifth victim died in hospital on Friday night. By Saturday, police had not arrested or identified any suspects. Officers said they found two guns at the house.\n\nMr Chesky said Airbnb would create a dedicated \"party house\" rapid response team and expand manual screening of high-risk reservations. The company, which is expected to float on the stock market in 2020, would also take action against users who violated its policies, he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brian Chesky This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the mass shooting, California Governor Gavin Newsom called for Congress to pass gun control legislation. \"This will barely make the news today. That's how numb we have become to this,\" he said. \"Our hearts are aching for the victims and all those affected by this horrific tragedy.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter on Saturday, Mr Chesky said: \"What happened on Thursday night in Orinda, CA was horrible. I feel for the families and neighbors impacted by this tragedy - we are working to support them.\"", "John Bercow is demanding an apology from the Daily Mirror over claims he asked for £1m to appear on \"I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!\"\n\nThe outgoing Commons Speaker has accused the paper of \"publishing lies despite being advised of the truth\" and has complained to the press watchdog.\n\nThe Mirror claimed talks between Mr Bercow and ITV broke down over the size of his appearance fee.\n\nIt said it stood by its story, which was based on \"authoritative sources\".\n\nHowever, the newspaper also said it was \"happy to accept\" that Mr Bercow had \"no serious desire to appear\" on the programme.\n\nMr Bercow, who retired on Thursday after 10 years in the Speaker's chair, is understood to be furious about the story.\n\nIn a letter to the Mirror's showbiz editor, he said: \"I must make it clear to you in the most uncompromising terms that I have not had the slightest interest now or at any time or an any basis to go on that programme.\"\n\nHe adds that he \"did not at any time to anybody ask for £1m to go on the show, which I consider to be utterly trashy\".\n\nHe demands an apology from the paper and threatens legal action, if the \"false allegations\" are repeated.\n\nJohn Bercow is waving goodbye to Westminster after 22 years as an MP and 10 as Speaker\n\nThe Mirror suggested representatives for Mr Bercow had been in talks with ITV about him appearing on the next series of the reality show, in which celebrities take part in a series of eye-watering challenges, such as eating insects or being trapped underground with snakes.\n\nIt said Mr Bercow had \"allegedly demanded a £1m fee\" for appearing in the next series, due to start in December.\n\nThis was £400,000 more than any previous contestant had received, the newspaper reported.\n\nIt suggested ITV had confirmed discussions had broken down over the question of Mr Bercow's fee, quoting an unnamed source saying \"he has priced himself out of the market\".\n\nMr Bercow has written to the Independent Press Standards Organisation to claim it is factually untrue and a breach of the editor's code.\n\nIn its response, the watchdog said: \"We are looking at the points you raise, and will be in touch shortly.\"\n\nIn a text message to TV agent Nicki Clarke, who originally approached Mr Bercow with the idea of appearing, ITV talent producer Micky Van Praagh suggested the story was \"obviously nonsense and I have no idea where it has come from\".\n\nShe added: \"ITV has not confirmed that talks broke down because of money. Please can you apologise to John for me for the story.\"\n\nIn an e-mail to Mr Bercow, Ms Clarke, who works for Shine Talent Management, said the story was \"incredibly frustrating\" and she had expressed her \"grave concern\" to ITV about it.\n\nThe Mirror said the story was \"based on information from authoritative sources\".\n\n\"We are confident that conversations took place between ITV and a representative for John Bercow about appearing on I'm a Celebrity and that these talks broke down over money,\" a spokesman said.\n\nA host of politicians have appeared on I'm A Celebrity over the years, including Conservative MP Nadine Dorries and Boris Johnson's father, Stanley.\n\nLast month, Boris Johnson joked that he would like to see Mr Bercow perform the infamous Bushtucker Trial and eat a kangaroo's testicle.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nKyle Sinckler said \"sport is cruel\" after being taken off with concussion in the third minute of England's 32-12 World Cup final defeat by South Africa.\n\nThe prop collided with team-mate Maro Itoje, trying to tackle Makazole Mapimpi, and immediately hit the floor.\n\nThere was a lengthy stoppage as the 26-year-old was assessed by the on-duty doctor, before he regained consciousness and walked off the field.\n\nThe Harlequins front-row was replaced by 32-year-old Dan Cole.\n• None England have been beaten up - expert analysis\n• None The 'unique story' of South Africa's first black captain\n\nSinckler later joined his team-mates on the sidelines after the break but head coach Eddie Jones said the forward \"will go through all the head injury protocol\".\n\n\"You have 23 guys, you lose a guy early and you have got to be able to cover it,\" said Jones.\n\n\"I don't think that was a significant factor in the game.\"\n\nSouth African hooker Mbongeni Mbonambi was also taken off for a head injury assessment after being replaced by Malcolm Marx in the first half.\n\nThe forward did not return to the field and said he \"understands\" why he was \"forced off\" despite not wanting to leave the field.\n\n\"I had concussion,\" Mbonambi said. \"I was arguing with the doctor and I was trying to get the last 20 minutes in because it's a World Cup final.\n\n\"But when a medical team makes a call, you have to respect it.\"", "Facebook says it has taken down government advertising that was accused of targeting voters in marginal election constituencies.\n\nThe social media firm said the ads \"were not correctly labelled\" and did not include the obligatory disclaimer.\n\nEach of the ads in the campaign, first reported by HuffPost UK, said the government was investing \"up to £25m\" in a named town.\n\nThe government said it was always planned to end the promotion on Friday.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government maintains the advertisements were not \"pulled\" by Facebook.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"While the posts are still present on Facebook, they are no longer being promoted as the paid-for campaign has ended.\"\n\nOne Labour MP said it was an \"outrageous\" use of public money.\n\nThe adverts were about \"social issues, elections or politics\", according to Facebook's Ad Library\n\nFacebook's Ad Library says the adverts were run without a disclaimer and were taken down.\n\nThe \"MyTown\" campaign promoted the government's £3.6bn Towns Fund in several key general election battlegrounds, such as Northampton, Milton Keynes and Mansfield.\n\nEach of these contain a marginal constituency, one where there were fewer than 2,000 votes separating the top two candidates in the last general election or parliamentary by-election.\n\nParliament has not yet been dissolved and the civil service has not yet entered the pre-election period, known as \"purdah\", where it is barred from making major announcements that might influence the outcome of the vote.\n\nBut the ads went live on Tuesday, the same day Boris Johnson secured support for an early general election on 12 December.\n\nFacebook said the taxpayer-funded ads \"were not correctly labelled\" as being about \"social issues, elections or politics\", in line with its self-enacted system to make social and political advertising more transparent.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Ads about social issues, elections or politics that appear on our platforms should include a disclaimer provided by advertisers.\"\n\nIt comes as Facebook comes under pressure over its policies on fact-checking political advertising and as rival social media giant Twitter banned political adverts altogether.\n\nLabour MP Ian Lucas wrote to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove objecting to the campaign, saying the targeted areas appeared to be selected for political reasons.\n\n\"It would be an insult to our intelligence to say that this isn't public money being used for political purposes. It clearly is,\" he told HuffPost UK, calling the campaign \"outrageous\".\n\nA government spokesman told the BBC that the posts were published before the election was announced.\n\n\"All towns selected were chosen according to the same selection methodology, including analysis of deprivation, exposure to Brexit, productivity, economy resilience and investment opportunities,\" he said.", "Women were being sold on apps including Instagram\n\nKuwaiti authorities say they have officially summoned the owners of several social media accounts used to sell domestic workers as slaves.\n\nA BBC News Arabic investigation found online slave markets on apps provided and made available by Google and Apple, including Facebook-owned Instagram.\n\nWomen were offered for sale as workers via hashtags such as \"maids for transfer\" or \"maids for sale\".\n\nAuthorities say those involved have been ordered to take down their ads.\n\nThey have also been compelled to sign a legal commitment, promising no longer to participate in this activity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes the buying and selling of domestic workers in the Gulf\n\nInstagram said it had also taken action since it was contacted by the BBC. It said it had removed further content across Facebook and Instagram, and would prevent the creation of new accounts designed to be used for the online slave market.\n\nMany of the most widely used accounts for buying and selling domestic workers appear to have stopped their activity.\n\nDr Mubarak Al-Azimi, head of Kuwait's Public Authority for Manpower, said it was investigating the woman featured in the BBC report who sold a 16-year-old girl from Guinea - whom we are calling \"Fatou\" - via an app.\n\nA police officer who also featured in the report is under investigation by the authorities.\n\nHe said arrests and compensation for the victims were possible outcomes of the action.\n\nKimberley Motley, an American international lawyer who has taken on Fatou's case, said: \"I believe the app developers should definitely provide compensation for Fatou. As well as possibly Apple and Google.\n\n\"On Apple Store they proclaim that they are responsible for everything that's put on their store. And so our question is, what does that responsibility mean?\"\n\nMs Motley also called for criminal charges against those involved in trafficking Fatou to Kuwait.\n\nGoogle and Apple said they were working with app developers to prevent illegal activity on their platforms.\n\nOn Thursday, BBC News Arabic published its undercover investigation which found domestic workers were being illegally bought and sold online in a booming black market.\n• None Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps", "A version of this was first published on 30 October before South Africa's 32-12 victory over England in the World Cup final on Saturday.\n\nYou walk out in a Springbok jersey as a player and you feel history on your back and by your side.\n\nYou stand as South Africa's captain in a World Cup final and the weight is greater across your shoulders and the ghosts crowd in all around.\n\nFrancois Pienaar hoisting the Webb Ellis Cup at Ellis Park in 1995, Nelson Mandela alongside him in his own green number six jersey, happy like a kid who has just scored his first try. John Smit at the Stade de France in Paris 12 years on, left hand around the old gold pot, right hand linked with Mandela's successor Thabo Mbeki.\n\nTwelve years more have passed. Now it is the turn of Siya Kolisi to walk that path. The first black man to captain the Springboks, a kid from nowhere who hopes to go where none have gone before.\n\nRugby matters in many places around the world, but only in South Africa can it change the nation around it. Captains and presidents, politics and power, new dreams and old scars.\n\n\"It was iconic when Francois lifted the World Cup with Madiba, and it was amazing to be able to do it myself with Thabo,\" says Smit.\n\n\"But if Siya touches that trophy on Saturday... I tell you, it will be a far greater moment than 1995. Far greater. It would change the trajectory of our country.\"\n\nThat Kolisi has made it this far is a story of stoicism and self-belief. Born to teenage parents in the poor township of Zwide, just outside Port Elizabeth on the Eastern Cape, he was brought up by his grandmother, who cleaned kitchens to make ends meet.\n\nBed was a pile of cushions on the living-room floor. Rugby was on dirt fields. When he went to his first provincial trials he played in boxer shorts, because he had no other kit.\n\nHis father Fezakel was a centre, his grandfather a player of pace too. Aged 12, the young Kolisi was spotted by Andrew Hayidakis, a coach at the exclusive private school Grey, and offered a full scholarship.\n\nWhen you are from Zwide you step into this other world when the chance comes, but you never leave your old life behind. Kolisi's mother died when he was 15, his grandmother shortly afterwards. When Smit's team was beating England in that World Cup final of 2007, the 16-year-old Kolisi was watching it in a township tavern because there was no television at home.\n\n\"His story is unique,\" Hanyani Shimange, former Springboks prop, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast.\n\n\"Previous generations of black rugby players were not given the same opportunities, purely because of South Africa's laws. He's living the dream of people who weren't given the same opportunities as him.\n\n\"He's got a lot of time for people, probably too much time in some instances. But he's the same Siya he was six years ago. He loves rugby, and the team loves him.\"\n\nKolisi began at school as a small but mobile flanker, good with the ball in hand, learning to be smarter than the stronger kids around him. When a growth spurt kicked in and he got big there was power to go with the finesse.\n\nAs a loose forward he is a significant asset to a Springbok team that at this World Cup has battled through to the final rather than dazzled. Saturday will bring his 50th cap, and his 20th as captain. His impact is far greater than simply what he does on the pitch because of all that has come before.\n\n\"I do not care how the Springboks team does. It is not a reflection of the nation. It is not our team. I support the All Blacks instead. We don't support the national team, because it is a white South African team. It is not a true South African team.\"\n\nThat was Zola Ntlokoma, secretary of Soweto Rugby Club, talking to me before England played South Africa at Twickenham five years ago. It was not an uncommon view, because for all the iconography and sweet symmetry of 1995, its wider effect quickly leached away.\n\nIntegration of black players crawled along rather than accelerated. The World Cup win gave the impression that little more needed doing, and so little was.\n\nWhen the Springboks triumphed in Johannesburg 24 years ago there was just one black player, Chester Williams, in the starting XV. By the time of their second World Cup win in 2007, there were still only two.\n\nIn some corners of South African life, the story of 1995 feels old and frayed. When Williams wrote his autobiography he accused fellow winger James Small of using racially abusive language towards him in a domestic cup match after that World Cup win. Small, who said he had \"no independent recollection of the incident\", in turn felt an outsider even in victory because his native tongue was English rather than Afrikaans.\n\nSmall - often angry at the world, brilliant at his best, the man who helped keep Jonah Lomu tryless in that final - died of a heart attack aged 50 in June this year. Williams went the same way last month aged 49, the fourth player from that storied team - after flanker Ruben Kruger and virtuoso scrum-half Joost van der Westhuizen - to go at an untimely age.\n\nKolisi stands as a critical link between the past and future. He was born on 16 June 1991, one day before the repeal of apartheid - brutal laws that enforced discrimination against black people in every aspect of their lives. Separate land. Separate public transport. Separate schools.\n\nKolisi was there at Small's funeral. Williams' image was on the shirts his team wore for their World Cup opener against the All Blacks. In Kolisi's team, the legacy of that old generation is tangible.\n\nIn the starting XV that beat Wales in Sunday's semi-final there were six black players: wingers S'busiso Nkosi and Makazole Mapimpi, centre Lukhanyo Am, prop Tendai Mtawarira, hooker Bongi Mbonambi, and Kolisi. Of Rassie Erasmus's squad of 31, 11 are black.\n\nThe lesson of 1995 was that transformation is more complicated than a single iconic image. The challenge that lies for the next group of players and administrators will be to create a wider pathway from undernourished grassroots to the elite.\n\nPicking up occasional gems has worked. Kolisi made the jump. Mapimpi is also from the Eastern Cape, and did not go through the private school system. He still made it. There are other black kids, those who don't get the scholarships or find the eyes of a roving talent scout, who are still slipping through the net.\n\n\"If Mapimpi hadn't been in an area where rugby is strong and he was given the chance to play and be signed by other teams, the chances are we would never have seen him,\" says Shimange.\n\n\"It would have taken someone to go and scout him and spot the talent in him and then give him the chance to perform at the highest level.\n\n\"But we had generations of people who couldn't play for the Springboks, who weren't allowed to watch the Springboks, and now you have Siya running out there with his 15 men.\n\n\"Even the thought is incredible. It's why the most important person for the country for those 80 minutes on Saturday is going to be Siya Kolisi.\"\n\nBack in Zwide, preparations are ongoing for a weekend of World Cup parties. The tavern where the teenage Kolisi watched his first final will be open once again. The skipper is only 28, but already he is changing his old home forever.\n\n\"During the apartheid time, we could never look forward to a moment like this, because of our colour,\" says Freddie Makoki, president of Zwide United rugby club, who played with Kolisi's father and grandfather and watched the young Siya grow.\n\n\"We had so many players who could have captained the Springboks, but because of their colour they couldn't.\n\n\"Sport can bring people together in this country. There are places you can't walk at night, because of criminals. Sport is the only vehicle that can change that. If you take those boys and put them in sport it can change them and it can change our society.\n\n\"Siya has been an incredible role model for children here. Whenever he comes to visit you'll see the youngsters coming out to see him. Everyone in the townships wants to be closer to him.\n\n\"He is a son of our soil. If you could have seen how full the taverns were for the semi-final you would not believe it. All of these people are now supporting the Springboks.\n\n\"It makes me so proud to see him in the Springbok jersey, to see the crowds at the game, calling out 'Siya! Siya!'\n\n\"You can see it in the faces of the people of this country how much it meant to have Siya as captain. He is a true hero of modern South Africa.\"\n\nKolisi's father is flying out to Japan to watch the biggest game of his son's life. It is his first trip overseas.\n\nSo too is the country's president. Cyril Ramaphosa called Kolisi on FaceTime after the win over Wales. Now he is coming in person. Captains and presidents, politics and power.\n\n\"Siya has more responsibility than I did or Francois did because he represents more people,\" says Smit, who will also be in the Yokohama stadium, this time for SuperSport TV.\n\n\"Thanks to Madiba, Springbok rugby has been used almost in the opposite way to how it was used in the apartheid era. It's a team that has been able to bring people together. It's grown the country through its ability to win.\n\n\"That's the hard thing to explain to people outside South Africa - what a Springbok win in a World Cup has done in the past for unification, and us continuing on this road to democracy and a new pathway.\n\n\"That's how important this is. Siya's story about where he's come from shows how far the country has come.\"\n\nAnd so Kolisi carries that weight on his shoulders. Dreams and messy pasts, old heroes and deep-rooted struggles.\n\nOnly a game, but so much more too. Ghosts all around him, a new future ahead.\n\n\"I will be wearing my Springbok jersey,\" says 68-year-old Makoki, whose own career in the game was stunted by apartheid, who watched local heroes rise and fall short, who continues to nurse the sport in Zwide township.\n\n\"I'll be thinking about going to OR Tambo airport when they come back with that trophy. If I can be one of those people there to welcome them back I will be truly happy.\n\n\"When the Springboks won that World Cup in 1995, it brought South Africa together. But this would be more, because we have a lot of players who are knocking at the Springbok door. We'd have a lot more black players playing rugby again.\n\n\"I'm telling you! It will be more, it will be more.\n\n\"A black president and black captain, from a small town on the Eastern Cape. I'm telling you - that can save our country.\"", "The public are being asked for their views on how to tackle climate change\n\nLetters are being sent to 30,000 households across the UK inviting people to join a citizens' assembly on climate change.\n\nOnce participants are selected, the assembly will meet next year, with the outcome of their discussions reported back to Parliament.\n\nThe initiative, set up by cross party MPs, will look at what members of the public can do to reduce CO2.\n\nThe UK government has committed to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\nRachel Reeves, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee, one of six select committees who commissioned the climate assembly, said a clear roadmap was needed to achieve this goal.\n\n\"Finding solutions which are equitable and have public support will be crucial,\" she said.\n\n\"Parliament needs to work with the people and with government to address the challenge of climate change.\"\n\nThe invitees to Climate Assembly UK have been selected at random from across the UK. From those who respond, 110 people will be chosen as a representative sample of the population.\n\nThey will meet over four weekends from late January in Birmingham, and will discuss topics ranging from transport to household energy use.\n\nA citizens' assembly has been a key demand of the environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion, whose protests caused widespread disruption this year.\n\nThe group said they welcomed this as a first step, but warned that the assembly should be focussing on cutting carbon emissions to net zero by 2025 not 2050.\n\nSpokesperson Linda Doyle said: \"Waiting 30 years to reach zero net carbon emissions is a death sentence to people around the world and in the UK - it gives us a higher chance of breaching irreversible tipping points as the climate breaks down and it only serves short term 'business as usual'.\"\n\nEnvironmental group Friends of the Earth said citizens' assemblies could play an important part in policy-making.\n\nDave Timms, head of political affairs at FOE, said: \"Tackling the climate emergency with the speed required will require radical changes to our economy, infrastructure and even to society so it's important that there is a consensus among citizens.\n\n\"Much of what needs to be done already commands widespread public support and it is politicians that just need to bloody-well get on with it now.\"\n\nCitizens' assemblies have been used in a number of countries around the world.\n\nIn Ireland, a panel of 99 people was established in 2016 to look at a range of political questions, including abortion.\n\nThey recommended that the country should overturn its ban and suggested a referendum, which went on to support repeal.\n\nIn Canada and the Netherlands, the approach has been used to discuss electoral reform.", "\"Four or five pints down\" is how rugby fan, Rob Lewis, describes himself when his mates set him a challenge last Saturday morning.\n\nThey were watching England's semi-final win over New Zealand in the World Cup when: \"They said 'you wouldn't go to Japan' and I'm like, 'yeah, I would.'\"\n\nSo, Rob immediately booked a flight to Tokyo via Paris for £650. The lack of a hotel room or match tickets didn't stop him, neither did being on crutches after a recent knee operation.\n\nSome might call him impulsive, but Newsbeat wanted to know more about Rob's adventure, so we followed his journey.\n\n\"I got an offer from someone who I believe is a legit seller and handed over £1,000 for two tickets,\" says Rob, 36, who's from Sunbury on Thames.\n\nOh Rob, was that really such a good idea?\n\nHe tells Newsbeat he is nervous, but that he has \"good faith in humanity.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Bit of a disaster this morning - the tickets didn't arrive,\" Rob explains to Newsbeat.\n\nThe courier had been due to deliver them before 10am, but he decided to catch his flight anyway.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rob Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Paris, Rob sounds cheery despite his dilemma.\n\n\"Bonjour from Charles de Gaulle airport. It's flight one of two. The stranger on Twitter I sent £1,000 hasn't been very chatty today,\" he laughs.\n\n\"Watched last year's Rugby World Cup Final on the flight over,\" he tweets.\n\nStill no word on the tickets, but, every cloud Rob, every cloud...\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Rob Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Konnichiwa. I'm in Shinjuku - there are lots of neon signs everywhere, lots of hustle and bustle.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Rob Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"There are a few rugby fans dotted around and now we're going to go on the hunt for some pints. I'll catch you again soon. Sayonara.\"\n\n\"It's been a mad few days,\" says Rob.\n\nBut there was positive news with the ticket seller offering to leave the tickets at the stadium.\n\n\"I still have faith in humanity that these two tickets will turn up,\" Rob tells Newsbeat hopefully.\n\n\"Tomorrow morning is crunch time when I visit the box office in Yokohama.\"\n\n\"The two tickets I got from a stranger on Twitter didn't materialise, I went to the ticket office and they just weren't there,\" says Rob.\n\nHe bought back up tickets with a QR code but they didn't work when staff tried to scan them, he was told to leave the stadium.\n\nBut then he got a message from a lady he'd met earlier and she had told someone about his story.\n\nThrough this woman he managed to get tickets to the game for free.\n\n\"You could not make this up.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Coverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nIf you could choose a combined XV from England and South Africa at this World Cup, you would choose all England players.\n\nSo in Saturday's final, if South Africa play exactly the same as they have done throughout the tournament, I think England can handle it.\n\nI cannot see how South Africa's gameplan is going to work against a side who are going to match them physically.\n\nHowever, there is a part of me that still thinks South Africa are going to do something a bit different. They have been lulling us in, saying they are going to do the same thing all the time.\n• None How Ford has moved out of Farrell's shadow\n• None The unique story of South Africa's first black captain\n• None Class of 2003 give their views on the final\n\nThe Springboks have got players there who can score tries and play expansively. I am not saying that is going to be enough, but England have got to be wary of that.\n\nHead coach Eddie Jones has named an unchanged starting XV for the match, while Springboks counterpart Rassie Erasmus has got wing Cheslin Kolbe back after an ankle injury.\n\nI think these are the six key battles that could decide the game.\n\nPeople would argue you should have scrum-half Faf de Klerk over Ben Youngs in a combined XV, but to manage the game at this level I would have Youngs all day long.\n\nThey have played each other a lot in the Premiership, with De Klerk at Sale and Youngs at Leicester, and I would not be surprised if the latter is thinking, 'why is everyone talking about this guy?'\n\nIf Youngs gets his forwards to dominate South Africa, he could make mincemeat of his opposite number.\n\nIf there is parity, then De Klerk is going to have to bring out some of his magic. He is very good at changing the tempo of the game. We have not seen the counter-attack, quick-tap penalties and quick line-out throws he is capable of yet.\n\nDe Klerk can be a superstar but he can also be a chink in the Springboks' armour. There will be more of Youngs' eye on De Klerk than the other way around and that might be to the England nine's advantage.\n\nSouth Africa number eight Duane Vermeulen has got 53 caps and England's Billy Vunipola has got 50 so they are as experienced as each other and both world-class.\n\nNeither of them have absolutely smashed it this World Cup but maybe Vermeulen has the edge - Vunipola is going to have to step his game up to deal with him.\n\nSouth Africa are going to compete for the ball a lot more than New Zealand did because Scott Barrett, who is usually a lock but was playing at flanker, was non-existent at the breakdown for the All Blacks.\n\nEngland had flankers Tom Curry and Sam Underhill, who were over the ball constantly. Against South Africa, it is more well-matched in that area.\n\nIf either back row is dominant, that will determine the game.\n\nSouth Africa will look to put pressure on the line-outs. If they nick one or two early on, the seeds of doubt will start to grow a bit.\n\nThere will be lots of line-outs because South Africa will kick a lot and England will not be scared of kicking to touch either because they are good in that area.\n\nYou have got two top-drawer second-row partnerships who know the line-outs inside out. But which hooker has got it to nail the line-out throw under the most intense pressure?\n\nIn the middle of the scrum, with South Africa's front row you are going to be at it for 80 minutes.\n\nWhen you are getting scrummaged hard every single time and getting challenged on the breakdown, then you have got to go to a line-out - that is asking a lot.\n\nUnder all that pressure, I would have England hooker Jamie George over South Africa's Bongi Mbonambi but I would not be surprised if the Springboks have George high up on their target list.\n\nWing Jonny May is certainly going to get plenty of opportunities to run at Cheslin Kolbe and I think fly-half George Ford will target him in the air.\n\nMay is so good in the air you would be foolish not to pepper Kolbe a bit and see what his injury is like, whether he is fully fit.\n\nIf England choose to attack down the Springbok's wing, they will make some metres with May. But who knows whether we are actually going to see Kolbe with ball in hand against him?\n\nSo I think May wins this one because England will have more chance to tactically attack.\n\nThere are two brilliant benches but England have by far the better mix and balance of replacements.\n\nSouth Africa go for six forwards and two backs. For this type of game, England have a better split of five forwards and three backs.\n• None 'I was at home feeding the kids when the call came'\n\nI think England will be in the lead and at some point South Africa are going to have to chase. That is very difficult when you have only got two backs on the bench.\n\nIf Kolbe went down early, do you put Frans Steyn - who mostly played at centre before this World Cup - on the wing?\n\nIf he does come on at centre, Steyn will not run round the outside of Jonathan Joseph or Henry Slade - no chance.\n\nWhereas if England need to chase, they have got players who could create something from nothing.\n\nBefore this World Cup, I had South Africa down as my second team because I heard the story about captain Siya Kolisi and his upbringing. It was phenomenal.\n\nEngland are going to have their own emotional motivation. They have not won the World Cup for 16 years and went out at the group stage in 2015.\n\nBut maybe South Africa edge the emotional battle because of Kolisi.", "England fans arrived in Yokohama ahead of the final\n\nEngland fans are glued to television screens up and down the country as 15 men in white line up to face South Africa in the Rugby World Cup final.\n\nThe game, which kicked off at 09:00 GMT, is being played in Japan but almost 6,000 miles away back home excitement reached fever pitch.\n\nEngland were last in the final 12 years ago and last won it 16 years ago.\n\nFans are understandably excited at the prospect of captain Owen Farrell lifting the Webb Ellis Cup.\n\nThe Queen has sent a letter of support via Prince Harry to England's head coach Eddie Jones calling for a \"memorable and successful\" final.\n\nTens of thousands of Red Rose supporters have travelled to Japan with the hope of securing a ticket for the eagerly-anticipated clash.\n\nMillions more will were expected to watch back home, hoping Jones's side can emulate the 2003 vintage led by Sir Clive Woodward.\n\nThese England fans in Japan dressed up as Beefeaters for the much-anticipated final\n\nA group of England fans wait for their train on the way to the Yokohama International Stadium\n\nAs you would expect, a large number of rugby clubs were planning to show the match, which is taking place at the 72,000-capacity Yokohama International Stadium.\n\nThere was extra excitement at Crewe and Nantwich Rugby Club as their former player Tom Curry was lining up for England.\n\n\"We are really excited and are hoping Tom has a great game,\" said coach John Farr earlier.\n\n\"He's had a great tournament so far.\"\n\nTom Curry has played every minute of England's World Cup campaign\n\nMr Farr said there would be \"bacon butties and beer\" and forecast some \"sore heads on Sunday\".\n\n\"We are really, really proud that a player who has taken to the field in a Crewe and Nantwich shirt is gong to go out and hopefully lift the Webb Ellis trophy,\" he said.\n\nA crowded clubhouse was also expected at Manchester Rugby Club in Cheadle Hulme where England's Ben Spencer used to play.\n\nBridgnorth Rugby Club in Shropshire was planning to show the game despite having its marquee wrecked and pitches submerged by flood water in recent days.\n\nPrince Harry met wheelchair rugby players in Tokyo before the World Cup final\n\nThe town that gave its name to the game - Rugby in Warwickshire - was also gearing up for the World Cup.\n\nJames Reeve, the landlord of the Merchant Inn, opened up early and said even Springbok supporters were welcome.\n\n\"I've got some good friends that are South Africans who live in Rugby so I'm really looking forward to that rivalry and banter we'll have,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile in Birmingham, newlyweds Rosie and Ken Marshall were facing an early test of their marriage as they cheered for competing sides, having spent their honeymoon in Japan following the World Cup.\n\n\"Rosie and I will be happy for the other whatever the result - even if bragging rights will be decided for the next four years,\" said Mr Marshall, 37, originally from Johannesburg.\n\n\"It will be a great match and I just hope England win,\" said 31-year-old Mrs Marshall.\n\nNewlyweds Ken and Rosie Marshall will be cheering for opposing sides\n\nBoth agreed that Mrs Marshall would be the loudest of the two during the big match but, as Mr Marshall confided, \"it's her dad and brother that will be unbearable for the next four years\".\n\nEngland Rugby has been getting into the swing of things - much like a sweet chariot maybe - by tweeting videos of the team's previous victories over South Africa.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNot that there's that many at the World Cup, the Springboks having won three of their four World Cup encounters with the English.\n\nBut don't be disheartened, New Zealand had won all three of their previous World Cup games against England before this year's semi-final, which Jones's side won 19-7.\n\nPupils at Moreton Hall Prep School in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, have also voiced their support for England ahead of the game (be warned, they are loud!)\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Moreton Hall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe final also promises to be a particularly memorable occasion in the Van Wellen household.\n\nThe future sporting allegiance of 11-month-old Finley depends upon the outcome of the match - as his parents Kris and Mel support the Springboks and England respectively.\n\nMr and Mrs Van Wellen, who live in Nottinghamshire, have decided Finley will be raised a fan of whoever wins the final.\n\nThe final is a big day for the Van Wellen family\n\nJack Crawford, 21, is planning to get up at 06:00 to start his preparations for watching the game at home in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, with his father Scott, who will have just finished a supermarket night shift.\n\n\"He won't be getting any sleep until after the match has finished,\" Jack said.\n\nNot every fan will be watching though, as some can't bear the pressure.\n\n\"I recorded the semi-final and watched it only once I knew the result,\" said Mandi Allen from Darlington.\n\n\"I just couldn't stand the pressure. Because I did that at the semis, I'm worried about jinxing the final now if I watch it live.\n\n\"I'm so excited though, I reckon England will win 34-24.\"\n\nThe Evening Standard estimates some 2,000 pubs and bars will open early in London to show the game, while Boxparks in the capital will also be showing coverage from 08:00.\n\nThousands of pubs are opening across the rest of the country, from Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle in the north to Gloucester and Cheltenham in the south west.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephen Morris was handed back his violin in a Waitrose car park\n\nA 310-year-old violin worth £250,000 that was left on a train in south London has been returned to its owner.\n\nThe instrument was handed over to professional musician Stephen Morris in a supermarket car park in Beckenham after secret negotiations.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers attended in case the handover went wrong, as the man who had the violin said he had made a mistake and apologised.\n\nMr Morris said having the violin back had not yet \"sunk in\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Morris on the \"shock\" of getting back his violin\n\n\"I feel a bit battered and bruised,\" he said. \"I haven't had a great deal of sleep since it went missing,\" adding that he would have a beer to celebrate.\n\nThe violin, which was made by master craftsman David Tecchler in 1709, was left on the London to Orpington train on 22 October when Mr Morris got out at Penge East with his bike.\n\nStephen Morris had said losing the instrument was like \"having my arm cut off\"\n\nThe 51-year-old from Sydenham, who has played on film scores including The Lord of the Rings and James Bond and recorded with David Bowie and Steve Wonder, was distraught.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) later released a CCTV image of a man believed to have taken the violin as the train approached Bromley South and asked him to get in touch, sparking appeals on social media.\n\nThe violin, pictured here, had recently been restored\n\nThe breakthrough came on Thursday when Mr Morris received a direct Twitter message, which read: \"I recognise the person in the picture. I think it may be somebody I know - I'd like to be of help. I know what it's like to leave valuables on a train.\"\n\nOver the next 24 hours further contact was made with the person who had sent the message - it's suspected that he was in fact the individual who had taken the violin.\n\nCalling himself \"Gene\", which was not his real name, the man agreed to meet Mr Morris on Friday evening at a Waitrose car park near Beckenham train station.\n\nIn an operation co-ordinated by the musician's friend and former police officer, Mike Pannett, a team of plain-clothes officers were placed on stand-by.\n\n\"Mike was the engine room for the whole thing,\" said Mr Morris.\n\nThe violin is marked with Tecchler's name\n\nShortly after 22:10 BST, the police team watched as \"Gene\", in his mid to late 20s, approached Mr Morris, shook his hand and transferred a holdall containing the violin.\n\n\"He was very apologetic, he said he wanted to hand it to me in person,\" he said.\n\nThe violin and bows were intact and \"in tune\".\n\n\"It couldn't have ended in a happier way,\" Mr Morris said\n\nBTP said it would be taking no further action against the man because he had taken reasonable steps to contact the violin owner and had handed it back.\n\nDet Ch Insp Phil Briggs said the message from the start had been \"please return it\".\n\n\"It was a gentlemanly exchange with the victim,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson is facing renewed calls to release a report assessing the threat posed by Russia to the UK's democratic processes.\n\nFormer attorney general Dominic Grieve said its release was vital ahead of the general election because it contained information relevant to voters.\n\nMr Grieve, chairman of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, has accused the PM of sitting on the report ahead of the 12 December poll.\n\nThe report was finalised in March 2019.\n\nCompiled by the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, it includes evidence from UK intelligence services concerning Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.\n\nThe process for clearing it on security grounds was completed in the middle of October, but it has since been with Downing Street for final release.\n\nMr Grieve - who sits as an independent MP for Beaconsfield after losing the Conservative whip - said the usual 10-day wait for release has passed, and if it is not published before Parliament dissolves on Tuesday it will not be published at all.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I cannot think of a reason why he should wish to prevent this report being published.\n\n\"It's very demoralising for us when we find we put in months of work and at the end of it we're not getting an adequate response.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was not aware of any hold-up. Speaking on the Today programme, she added: \"I don't think there's anything unusual about this.\n\n\"Many select committee reports are produced and the government has to respond properly, it cannot respond in haste.\"\n\nDominic Grieve says the report contains information \"germane\" to voters\n\nIt is understood Mr Grieve had been hoping to publish the report on 28 October.\n\nThe committee heard evidence from UK intelligence agencies such as GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 about Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 EU referendum and the 2017 general election.\n\nPrevious disclosures would suggest these Russian activities did not match the scale of those directed against the 2016 US presidential election, and even in that case, there is considerable debate about how far people were actually influenced by these actions.\n\nAsked if there is useful information in the report for voters, Mr Grieve said: \"Yes I think there is. It's about information.\n\n\"I want to emphasise I'm not about to explain what's in the report, I'm not allowed to and I wouldn't dream of doing so.\n\n\"But the report is informative and people are entitled to information. It seems to us that this report is germane because we do know and I think it is widely accepted that the Russians have sought to interfere in other countries' democratic processes in the past.\"\n\nExtensive evidence has been unearthed of Russian interference in US politics thanks to investigations like the Mueller inquiry, but less has emerged when it comes to UK elections, including the Brexit referendum.\n\nAnd that is one reason why this report, simply entitled Russia has been so anticipated.\n\nHow much evidence is there? It may be less than some hope but more than others expect.\n\nThe committee's investigation is set against the wider challenge posed by Russian espionage and subversion directed against the West - which can range from cyber-hacking through social media activity to covert influence through individuals.\n\nThis could potentially mean it treads on sensitive areas politically, but those who want to see the report released believe it is vital for the public to have an informed understanding of what Moscow and its agents are really up to as the UK heads to the polls.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn echoed Mr Grieve's call for the publication of the report, asking what the government \"have got to hide\".\n\n\"Yes it should be released,\" he said on Saturday.\n\n\"And I suspect that the reason it hasn't been published is because they're going to delay it past the dissolution of Parliament on Tuesday and then they can hide it away until some point in the future.\n\n\"If a report has been called for and written, and it should be in the public domain, then what have they got to hide?\"\n\nDuring a campaign visit in Kensington, west London, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson called allegations of Russian meddling in British politics \"deeply worrying\".\n\nShe said Mr Grieve's stressing it should be published had given her \"cause for concern that the government is deliberately hiding it\".\n\nShe added that it \"would be relevant heading into an election that the report is in the public domain\".", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland were \"beaten up\" in their 32-12 World Cup final defeat by South Africa, says former England fly-half Paul Grayson.\n\nThe Springboks dominated the showpiece event in Yokohama as Makazole Mapimpi and Cheslin Kolbe scored the tries.\n\n\"From an England point of view, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong,\" said Grayson.\n\n\"Bus late to the ground, [Kyle] Sinckler forced off after two minutes, every cute play has gone wrong.\"\n• None I'm not sure why we lost final - Jones\n• None Rugby Union Weekly podcast: Where did it go wrong for England?\n• None South Africa's triumph will 'inspire far beyond the rugby pitch'\n\nSiya Kolisi, the Springboks' first black captain, lifted the William Webb Ellis Trophy and Grayson said the flanker's side were \"tactically brilliant\".\n\n\"We said there was potentially a South Africa storm coming, and could England deal with the physicality of the Springboks at fever pitch? The answer is no,\" Grayson, who was part of England's World Cup-winning squad in 2003, said on BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"With the support of the country and what was at stake, South Africa had the emotional energy that England simply could not cope with.\n\n\"England gave them too many gifts, and South Africa played quick when they needed to. They have been brutally physical in the scrum and their defence has never been tested.\n\n\"They were not able to generate the quick ball they did against New Zealand.\"\n\n'One of the greatest World Cup final victories'\n\nGrayson's comments were echoed by former England scrum-half Matt Dawson, who said his countrymen had been \"done and dusted in the classroom\".\n\n\"This is one of, if not the, greatest victory in a World Cup final,\" said Dawson, England's 2003 World Cup winning scrum-half.\n\n\"England gave it everything, but even if you'd said to me that was how South Africa were going to play, I would not honestly have thought they could survive that for 80 minutes, playing in that manner.\n\n\"They've just stuffed England with everything going against them. England were taken apart in many, many areas today.\n\n\"They looked, for the first time in long time, rattled from very early on when they tried to break the line. They made too many errors and they have been bereft of ideas.\"\n• None The 'unique story' of South Africa's first black captain\n• None Relive the action from the World Cup final", "A man convicted of raping and killing a British embassy worker in Lebanon has been sentenced to death, the country's state news agency, NNA, reports.\n\nUber driver Tariq Houshieh confessed to murdering Rebecca Dykes, whose body was found by the roadside in December 2017.\n\nThe 30-year-old had been strangled with a rope.\n\nLebanese judges routinely call for death sentences in murder cases, but no executions have been carried out since 2004.\n\nThe British embassy in Beirut said Ms Dykes was \"much loved and is deeply missed\", describing her as \"a talented, devoted humanitarian, whose skill, expertise and passion improved the lives of many people\".\n\nThe embassy said it hoped the court's decision would provide \"a degree of closure\" for those close to Ms Dykes, but added that the UK government continued to oppose the death penalty \"in all circumstances\".\n\nMs Dykes had been working for the Department for International Development since January 2017, helping Lebanon to cope with the influx of refugees from the war in neighbouring Syria.\n\nShe had reportedly been due to fly home to the UK for Christmas.\n\nBut she was abducted after leaving a bar in the popular Gemmayzeh district of Beirut where she went for a colleague's leaving party.\n\nHer body was found close to a motorway on the outskirts of the city.\n\nPolice traced Houshieh's car on traffic management CCTV and he was arrested days after the killing.\n\nHe had previously served several prison sentences, a senior Lebanese security source told the BBC at the time of his arrest.\n\nA candlelit vigil was held for Ms Dykes outside Beirut's National Museum\n\nHer family set up the Rebecca Dykes Foundation, which aims to continue her work to improve the lives of refugees in Lebanon. In a statement after her death, they said she was \"irreplaceable\".\n\nThe University of Manchester also posthumously awarded her an Outstanding Alumni award in July 2019, saying that her work led to Syrian and Palestinian refugee communities \"becoming more peaceful\".\n\nBefore her posting in Beirut, Ms Dykes worked for the Foreign Office as a policy manager for its Libya team and as an Iraq research analyst.\n\nShe graduated with a degree in social anthropology at the University of Manchester in 2005, and also had a master's in international security and global governance from Birkbeck, University of London.\n\nA former pupil of Malvern Girls' College and Rugby School, she had also taught English at a Chinese international school. On social media, she said she was originally from London.", "Cairney and Jones spent 20 years pretending that Ms Fleming was still alive\n\nThe couple jailed for the murder of Margaret Fleming have been urged to reveal what they did with her body.\n\nPolice issued a direct appeal to Edward Cairney and Avril Jones on what would have been Margaret's 39th birthday.\n\nThe vulnerable teenager was under their care in Inverkip, on the Clyde coast, when she vanished in 1999.\n\nBut Jones continued to claim £182,000 in benefits until it finally emerged Margaret was missing in October 2016.\n\nCairney, 77, and Jones, 59, were ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years after they were convicted at the High Court in Glasgow earlier this year.\n\nFour months on Det Supt Paul Livingstone, the officer who led the investigation, has issued a fresh appeal to the killers.\n\nHe said: \"I would like to appeal directly to Edward Cairney and Avril Jones, on what would have been Margaret's 39th birthday.\n\n\"If you have a shred of decency, you will answer the questions Margaret's family have to allow them to put her to rest.\"\n\nMargaret Fleming's body has never been found\n\nDet Supt Livingstone has lodged formal requests with Cairney and Jones' lawyers asking for information and has reiterated a previous offer for a face-to-face meeting.\n\nHe added: \"Margaret was a very vulnerable young woman when she was abused, neglected, manipulated and murdered. It's only right that her family and friends get the opportunity to pay their final respects.\"\n\nThe senior officer also stressed the fact there has been convictions does not mean police would not act on any new information.\n\nDet Supt Livingstone said: \" It's very important that she is given the funeral she deserves and for her family to be able to pay their respects to her.\n\n\"I would say again to Eddie Cairney and Avril Jones - your lies have caught up with you, so now do the decent thing and let Margaret's family know what has happened to her.\"\n\nMargaret had been living with the couple for about two years when she disappeared.\n\nDuring this time detectives said they subjected her to a \"living hell\".\n\nBut despite a painstaking search of their dilapidated property and its garden and an exhaustive proof of life investigation no trace of her has ever been found.\n\nTestimony from Avril's brother, Richard Jones, was used to pinpoint the last independent sighting of the teenager on 17 December, 1999.\n\nThree weeks later, on 5 January, 2000, Avril told her mother, Florence Jones, Margaret had run off with a traveller.\n\nA major search of the Seacroft cottage in Inverkip, Inverkip was carried out by police\n\nCairney and Jones, who had no previous convictions, then embarked on a cover up which involved bogus letters and erasing all trace of Margaret from their home.\n\nPolice Scotland launched a missing persons' investigation after social work raised the alarm in October 2016.\n\nThe couple were both convicted of murder but only Jones was found guilty of benefit fraud as the teenager's money was paid directly into her account.\n\nDespite no evidence to the contrary they maintained Margaret was still alive and often returned to visit them.\n\nSentencing the pair the judge, Lord Matthews, told them: \"Only you two know the truth. Only you know where her remains are.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Nicola Sturgeon has claimed independence is \"within touching distance\" ahead of a speech to supporters at a major rally in Glasgow.\n\nShe will ask for powers to hold another a referendum on Scotland's future in the UK shortly after next month's general election.\n\nHowever Jeremy Corbyn said a new Scottish independence poll was not \"desirable or necessary\".\n\nThe Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats also oppose a further vote.\n\nMs Sturgeon is one of a number of SNP politicians and independence campaigners speaking at the #indyref2020 rally in George Square.\n\nIt will be the first time she has spoken at an independence rally since 2014.\n\nThe event prompted a counter demonstration by dozens of unionist supporters who waved flags and blew whistles as supporters of Scottish independence gathered.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the event organised by The National newspaper, the SNP leader focused on the UK-wide election on 12 December.\n\n\"This election really is the most important one Scotland has faced in modern times,\" she said.\n\n\"So much is on the line - people are completely fed up with the mess at Westminster.\n\n\"But George Square will be packed as people from all backgrounds join together to demand a better future for Scotland.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added that independence \"really is within touching distance\".\n\nShe had faced criticism by some activists for not attending events such as the All Under One Banner march in Edinburgh last month.\n\nHowever, the first minister did tweet ahead of that march to say she was not able to attend, but would be there \"in spirit\".\n\nPro-independence marchers in Edinburgh last month walked from Holyrood Park to a rally in The Meadows\n\nOn Friday the first minister confirmed that she would send a letter \"before Christmas\" to whoever is in 10 Downing Street, requesting the Scottish Parliament is granted powers to hold another independence referendum.\n\nShe has made clear that she wants to hold a poll on the issue next year.\n\nAsked whether she believed Labour would grant the Section 30 order, Ms Sturgeon answered: \"Yes\".\n\n\"If people in Scotland demonstrate the desire - as I believe they will in this election - for an independence referendum, then I don't believe Westminster opposition to the principle or to the timetable to that will prove sustainable,\" she said.\n\nIn response, Jeremy Corbyn said only a Labour government would be able to boost Scotland's economy and see \"the levels of poverty in Scotland, particularly in the big cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee, being reduced\".\n\nHe added: \"Scottish independence would mean a massive gap between what Scotland raises in taxation and what the Scottish people need at the present time.\n\n\"I think the much better option is a Labour government for the whole of the UK.\"\n\nThe Tories criticised Nicola Sturgeon for prioritising indyref2 \"above all else\".\n\nScottish Conservative MSP for Glasgow, Annie Wells, said: \"While Nicola Sturgeon is banging on about indyref2, I'm out talking to people about the state of their local schools, the drug deaths crisis and violent crime taking over our streets, and the problems at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.\n\n\"Instead of tackling the day-to-day things that Glaswegians care about, Nicola Sturgeon is headlining a nationalist rally.\n\n\"So this election is about stopping Nicola Sturgeon from dividing our communities all over again, and only a vote for the Scottish Conservatives will do that.", "Apple has made some good products over the years, real game-changers like the original 1984 all-in-one Macintosh, as well as all those nifty \"i\" gadgets: the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and so on.\n\nOf course, there have been misses along the way.\n\nAnd what about the 2006 iPod hi-fi? It was the tech giant's attempt to muscle in on the lucrative speaker-doc market. But it was too late to the party, received lukewarm reviews, and was withdrawn a year later. The consumer expects Apple to be a leader not a follower.\n\nThis Friday (1 November) saw the launch of Apple TV+, the company's £4.99-a-month original content streaming and download service. This marks the Cupertino-based company's entry into an already crowded and highly competitive marketplace with established players such as the BBC's iPlayer, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. Disney is on its way too with a back-catalogue that puts Apple's handful of shows in the shade.\n\nIt means the modest amount of initial content Apple is offering will have to be very good indeed to lure punters away from the competition. Or, maybe, boast one of those innovative twists on which the organisation's reputation and fortune are built.\n\nWell, there's not anything particularly fancy about the perfectly serviceable interface and user experience. And judging by the first three episodes of its starry blockbuster launch drama The Morning Show, it could find itself back in iPod hi-fi territory.\n\nThe opening episode is as bad as anything I've seen since we entered this golden age of telly, which, arguably, started in 1994 with Friends (still the most popular show on Netflix).\n\nRachel (Jennifer Aniston) and her sister Jill (Reese Witherspoon - Season Six, Feb 2000) are back in Manhattan together. But they've changed their names to Alex and Bradley respectively and aren't sisters at all, but TV news journalists. Alex is the successful co-anchor of The Morning Show, while Bradley has flown in from West Virginia where she was plying her trade as a reporter with a nose for hard news and an appetite for a fight.\n\nBack in 2000, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel was joined in this episode of the hit TV series Friends by Reese Witherspoon, who played her sister Jill\n\nNearly 20 years on, Reese Witherspoon (Bradley Jackson) and Jennifer Aniston (Alex Levy) star in and executive produce The Morning Show\n\nThe action (I use the term loosely) starts at around 03:00 when Chip Black (Mark Duplass), The Morning Show's executive producer, receives a call bearing bad news from his boss (there are a lot of calls throughout, all on iPhones funnily enough).\n\n\"We're destroyed,\" say Chip gloomily into the receiver.\n\n\"Someone better be dead, buddy,\" growls Mitch, which, to be fair, is exactly my reaction when the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme calls me at some unearthly hour.\n\nAnd then Alex's alarm goes off and she gets up and goes to work in a bit of a daze. Only to be confronted by Chip standing awkwardly with his hands in his trouser pockets making them look like jodhpurs. He is a picture of anguish.\n\n\"Oh my god, who died?\" asks Alex.\n\nSomething much worse as far as Alex is concerned. Mitch, her co-host and \"TV husband\" on the morning news show for the past 15 years, turns out to be a workplace \"sexual predator\".\n\nWe don't know Mitch, we don't know the show (although it appears to be referencing NBC's Today Show, from which host Matt Lauer was fired in 2017 following allegations of sexual misconduct, which he denies), we don't know Alex, and what we've seen of Chip so far is enough to suggest we don't want to know him either.\n\nSteve Carell plays Mitch Kessler, who is fired as The Morning Show's co-host over allegations of sexual misconduct\n\nBecause The Morning Show lurches straight into high-drama mode with Alex taking the lead through gritted teeth and fighting back tears because her beloved Mitch has been summarily fired. Which leaves you thinking... so what. It's all too soon.\n\nWe're not on board yet. We're not invested in the characters or the story. It's only a few minutes in and we don't care.\n\nIt's like having Christmas in July, we're not ready.\n\nThe upshot of which is that the terrible script, laboured directing, and wooden acting are cruelly exposed.\n\nThe dialogue is clunkier than a misfiring moped, written with an ear not of tin but of stone.\n\nI don't know if you remember Victoria Wood's spoof soap opera Acorn Antiques, but if you do it is just like that but not as funny.\n\nThat is to say, it is amateurish, which is remarkable given the cost ($300m, or £232m, for 20 episodes according to Bloomberg, a figure contested by the drama's director Mimi Leder) and the star cast. None of that matters, though, if you haven't got the basics right, which in the world of TV means one thing above all else, and that is the writing.\n\nA script riddled with cliches such as those pouring from Mitch's mouth as he sulks at home with his squad while watching Alex explain to America why he isn't beside her, won't do:\n\n\"Everything's changed and they forgot to send me the memo.\"\n\n\"Since the dawn of time men have used their power to attract women.\"\n\n\"I didn't hold a gun to anyone's head. It was consensual. Most of them came on to me.\"\n\nSteve Carell is a decent actor, but even he cannot make these lines land. Nor can Aniston and Witherspoon when it's their turn to deliver speeches designed to establish their characters but are so inelegantly crowbarred into the boilerplate plot that they have the opposite effect.\n\nThe cliches don't stop with the script.\n\nThe characters are straight out of central casting, which is hopeless given the show's ambition to explore the 21st Century entertainment industry post #MeToo, #OscarsSoWhite and #TimesUp.\n\nWe have Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) the know-it-all male boss who only cares about ratings and his career. We have Alex, seen as an ageing anchor whose vulnerability and newly found righteousness might just be the thing that brings the viewers back to a tired show. And we have the relationship between an older man and younger woman.\n\nThe difference being Network was made in 1976 when a TV newsroom drama felt fresh. Not so much 43 years later, when the subject is so common it has become a genre.\n\nBilly Crudup plays Cory Ellison, the ratings-obsessed president of UBA's News Division, with Mark Duplass, who is Charles Black, The Morning Show's stressed executive producer\n\nIn the film Network, Peter Finch is news anchor Howard Beale, who gets poor ratings and then tells viewers he's as \"mad as hell\"\n\nThe third episode is not nearly as bad. The contrived plot set-ups are in place, the dialogue is more focused, and the characters are beginning to show signs of life.\n\nThis is supposed to be a contemporary piece about gender politics. And yet the two female lead characters are depicted as emotionally volatile women making decisions on impulse, while their male boss from whom they seek to wrest control is portrayed as intellectual, analytical and psychologically stable.\n\nThe show's muddled thinking is evident again when a character is introduced claiming Mitch sexually assaulted her. Surely this provides some real drama at last to lift us out of Alex's tedious contract negotiations? But no. We hardly see or hear a word from the alleged victim. Her story is deemed not important. Instead, it's all about Alex again and how she is or isn't going to handle the interview with Mitch's accuser.\n\nThe poetry of Robert Frost is evoked at one point, and there's a nod towards the famous queuing scene in Annie Hall, suggesting the show's creators know what good writing looks like. But they are woefully short of the mark in the first three episodes that are currently available to see.\n\nMaybe the next seven eps are going to be a knock-out.\n\nIt is certainly moving in the right direction.\n\nBut all I can do at this juncture is paraphrase the old-time Hollywood mogul Sam Goldwyn and say: Apple TV+ has raised writing to a new low.", "Friday's violence came a month after 38 soldiers died in an attack near the border with Burkina Faso\n\nMilitants in eastern Mali have killed 49 soldiers in an attack on a military post in Indelimane in the Menaka region, the army has said.\n\nThis makes it one of the deadliest assaults of the past decade.\n\nThe Islamic State (IS) group said via its self-styled Amaq news outlet it was behind the attack.\n\nMali has suffered violence since 2012, when Islamist militants took over the north. With the help of France, Mali's army has recaptured the territory.\n\nHowever, insecurity there continues and the violence has spread to other countries in the region.\n\nIn a separate and unlinked incident on Saturday, a French soldier was killed in Liptako in the same area.\n\nBrigadier Ronan Pointeau died after his armoured vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb, the French government said in a statement. Brigadier is the equivalent of corporal.\n\nIt was earlier reported that 54 soldiers had died in the attack on the military post, based on a statement by government spokesperson, Yaya Sangare.\n\nReinforcements sent to the post found \"significant material damage\", Mr Sangare said.\n\nThirty-eight soldiers died when two military camps were attacked near the border with Burkina Faso at the end of September.\n\nMali - along with Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger and Mauritania - is part of an anti-insurgency force supported by France known as the G5 Sahel.\n\nThe five-nation group blamed \"suspected members of Ansarul Islam\" for September's attack.\n\nAnsarul Islam, meaning Defenders of Islam, was created in 2016 by the radical and popular preacher Ibrahim Malam Dicko. He reportedly fought with Islamist militants in the north of Mali in 2012.", "Huge waves batter the breakwater in Lyme Regis harbour in Dorset\n\nA woman has been killed by a falling tree which came down on her car amid high winds.\n\nThe woman, who was in her 60s but has not been named, was driving near Verwood, Dorset, at about 08:40 GMT, police said.\n\nWinds exceeding speeds of 80mph have caused damage to property and transport disruption across parts of the UK.\n\nAll passenger services into and out of Dover were suspended for several hours because of high winds.\n\nThe Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for wind along the South East and East coast of England.\n\nFerry operators DFDS and P&O halted all their sailing operations at about 13:00 GMT due to high water and 60 knot winds.\n\nThe first ship back into Dover was the P&O passenger ferry Spirit of Britain, which managed to dock at 17:30 GMT but soon after the company tweeted there were still \"severe sailing limitations\".\n\nIt later described the limitations as \"slight\" and listed delays to services in and out of Dover. DFDS also reported delays and advised passengers to check in as normal.\n\nSeveral cars were damaged when winds ripped scaffolding into a road\n\nBrittany Ferries and Condor Ferries also cancelled some of their sailings from Portsmouth and Poole - passengers are advised to check before they travel.\n\nHovertravel services between Southsea and Ryde have been stopped and Wightlink and Red Funnel ferry routes also face disruption.\n\nCars have been damaged in a street in Dorset after scaffolding collapsed in strong winds.\n\nThe structure was blown over in Dorset Street, Blandford Forum, during the early hours, closing the road.\n\nThe shed ended up in the road on its roof\n\nAlso in Dorset a shed was blown off its base into a road. The large shed ended up on its roof on the A351 Valley Road, Harmans Cross in Swanage.\n\nCastle Road, Bodmin, has been cordoned off after banks at the side of the road collapsed earlier.\n\nPolice have cordoned off Castle Road, Bodmin following the collapse\n\nThe National Coastwatch Institution at The Needles on the Isle of Wight said winds of 109.4mph had been recorded.\n\nIt said the station had been shut and plans to \"safely evacuate the watch-keeping team\" were under way.\n\nThe Met Office said winds of 83mph were recorded in Plymouth and 82mph in Culdrose in Cornwall.\n\nIt has advised those attending or organising bonfire events to be mindful of the strength of the wind before setting off fireworks.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for wind along the South East and East coast\n\nFlood warnings were also issued by the Environment Agency for Preston Beach in Weymouth and Chiswell, West Bay, Lyme Regis and Christchurch.\n\nThe agency also issued 22 flood alerts for rivers across Devon.\n\nIn West Bay, Dorset, strong winds ripped the roof off a seafront kiosk.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said the seafront had now been closed \"in case any further part of the structure should fail\".\n\nThe seafront at West Bay was closed after a roof came off a kiosk\n\nWestern Power Distribution said more than 1,500 properties in Somerset and 3,700 properties across Devon and Cornwall were without power after high winds caused faults.\n\nOn the south coast, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said more than 3,000 homes and businesses, including parts of the New Forest and the Isle of Wight, were suffering power cuts.\n\nThe companies said engineers were working to restore supplies as soon as possible.\n\nA large tree on Hove Recreation Ground in Sussex has been brought down\n\nSouth Western Railway said services between Brockenhurst, Hampshire, and Weymouth had been cancelled or delayed due to fallen trees on the line.\n\nSouthern Railway said high winds were having an impact across the network, with a reduced service running on the Brighton mainline due to a \"National Grid power blip\".\n\nSoutheastern has reported delays and cancellations due to trees on the line at Paddock Wood, Deal and Whitstable.\n\nThere is also severe disruption to Gatwick Express, Southern and Thameslink services.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gatwick Express This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tree hit the bonnet of the car in The Avenue, Southampton\n\nHigh winds have closed the pier in Bournemouth, where staff from the RockReef indoor activity had to be escorted to safety.\n\nIn Southampton, one driver escaped when a tree fell on to the bonnet of his car shortly before 09:30 GMT.\n\nIn Suffolk, strong winds have closed the Orwell Bridge. It is shut from junctions 56 to 57. Diversions are in place via the A1156, A1189 and A1214 through Ipswich.\n\nIn Wales, roads have been closed and rail services affected with two weather warnings in place.\n\nA yellow warning for heavy rain covers 17 of Wales' 22 counties, with Gwynedd the only area of north Wales partially affected.\n\nA separate wind warning runs until 18:00 and covers all southern counties.\n\nHave your travel plans been affected by the adverse weather? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPart of a street in Birmingham city centre was cordoned off after an underground fire reached above the surface in big flashes of flame.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the flames seen on New Street shortly before 17:00 GMT were caused by an electrical fault below.\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service said it had been liaising with power suppliers to deal with the problem.\n\nThere were no reports of injuries, police said.\n\nShoppers and workers who were about to make their way home shared images of the scene, where tram travel was disrupted.\n\nThe fire service said it would tackle the blaze from within a service hatch, once the electrics were isolated by engineers.\n\nA Western Power Distribution spokesman said 103 properties had been affected by a power outage as a result of a fault with a junction box.\n\nHe added that power had been restored to 60 properties by 19:00 GMT, and the remaining properties should have their power restored by 01:30 on Saturday.\n\nPolice officers supported the fire service as it tackled the flames\n\nThe area around New Street was cordoned off by police\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The committee said the Department of Health must take \"immediate action to tackle acute issues facing the health service\"\n\nHealth services in Northern Ireland risk \"deteriorating to the point of collapse\" without a long-term funding strategy to support transformation, a report by a Westminster committee has said.\n\nIt said services are struggling to meet the needs of an ageing population.\n\nThe report added that the services are \"lacking adequate financial support or strategic guidance\".\n\nThe Department of Health said it would carefully consider the recommendations.\n\nThe warning comes as the department spelled out the scale of the budgetary pressures it faces in a letter to Northern Ireland's political parties.\n\nThe Westminister committee report, by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, said key services, \"in particular cancer, social care and mental health\", lack comprehensive strategies to guide their future direction.\n\nIt added that the Department of Health \"must do more to demonstrate its commitment to developing long-term strategies for these services\".\n\nThe committee said the department must also take immediate action to tackle \"acute issues facing the health service\".\n\nThese, it said, include cancer waiting times, shortages in social care staffing and inadequate mental health funding.\n\nThe report said decisions over health services in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the health minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, but that if the Northern Ireland Assembly was not formed by the end of the year, the government will need to take action.\n\nIn a letter to MLAs, the department spelled out how many millions are needed to train new doctors and nurses\n\nA government spokesperson said health and social care services in Northern Ireland were \"a devolved matter\".\n\nThe spokesperson added that Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith had visited a number of health and social care facilities and \"fully understands the pressures that the sectors are facing\".\n\n\"That is why he is doing everything he can to get the Stormont institutions back up and running as soon as possible, in order that local politicians make decisions affecting everyone in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The secretary of state will consider the recommendations contained in the report and respond in due course.\"\n\nThe letter, meanwhile, which the Department of Health sent to MLAs who lead on health in Northern Ireland's political parties, spells out the specific pressures under which it is operating.\n\nSimon Hoare said the committee expected \"more regular updates\" on progress\n\nNorthern Ireland Affairs Committee chair Simon Hoare said the health service in Northern Ireland was falling behind the rest of the UK.\n\n\"An approach to funding that simply keeps things ticking over, and an absence of over-arching strategy in key areas, has left services at breaking point and this situation must end as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"We have called for the government to end the insecurity and set three year minimum budget allocations to give vital services the space to breathe and look ahead.\n\n\"We also expect more regular updates on the progress in developing strategies in key areas, particularly cancer services and mental health.\"\n\nOne of the key findings of the committee was that the \"transformation of Northern Ireland's health and social care services is long overdue\".\n\nThe report said services are struggling to meet the needs of an ageing population\n\nIt said the recommendations of the Bengoa Report and Delivering Together are urgently needed if services are to keep pace with the \"increasingly complex and evolving needs of an ageing population\".\n\nIt said the UK government should also work with the Department of Health and Department of Finance to produce three-year minimum budget allocations.", "Coverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nElite rugby can break bodies and its pressures can make the physically indomitable falter and fall. World Cup finals change lives and that knowledge can shackle even the best.\n\nOwen Farrell will lead England out against South Africa on Saturday as a player who appears immune to all that and so much more.\n\nYou watch Farrell and it all seems so straightforward that you forget how complicated simple can be.\n\nYou can follow him round Japan for seven weeks and still find something unknowable about him, because there appear to be no doubts or darkness behind the unyielding exterior.\n• None Six key battles to decide the final\n\nThe man who started at fly-half for England in their two previous World Cup finals, Jonny Wilkinson, was tortured by his own genius and the expectations put on him, by himself and others, as a result. The dialogue was all internal and you feared for where it might take him when it was all over.\n\nFarrell strips it all back. The team-talks, the interviews, the attitude.\n\nGo harder than the opposition, impose your will upon them. Show no fear. Look around your team and into their eyes, show them what you have and where you want them to be.\n\n\"The only voice I heard in the first training session he had with England was Owen's,\" remembers former team-mate Danny Care.\n\n\"And in the meetings. I was taken aback. I'd never heard it from such a young guy, in an England team.\n\n\"But one training session and I was in. I was fully under his tutelage. Because he is the best, and he was the best, even when he came in at 19 or 20.\n\n\"He knows that every team will come after him, because he's the man. And he relishes it, he loves it, he wants it. He laughs when people hit him hard.\"\n\nSporting leaders are supposed to be great orators, sending their team-mates out with long, stirring speeches, or crashing heads against walls. Shakespeare or blood and thunder, or both.\n\nYou hear Farrell in the huddle at training sessions and it's like a James Ellroy novel. There is nothing loose and there is no fat over the muscle.\n\nTwo days out from the quarter-final win over Australia, down in Beppu, on the southern island of Kyushu - 22 men in muted red and white training shirts gathered around him.\n\nIn that moment, facing the haka, you saw more of Farrell than you might have in the eight years that led to it. No doubts, just a precise statement. 'This is me. What have you got?'\n\n\"I know this is training right.\"\n\n\"Put yourselves in a position today to be brutal.\"\n\nA week on, and three-time world champions New Zealand lie ahead in the semi-final. A midweek training session, Farrell calling the team in and waiting until all were intent on his words.\n\n\"We're going to punish them with good decisions. Right?\"\n\n\"We're going to play this game at our pace.\"\n\nLooks around. No-one moves.\n\n\"Our pace. Not how they want to play it. Right?\"\n\nFarrell came into the England team in the aftermath of their scandal-hit exit at the quarter-final stage of the 2011 World Cup. He was there when England crashed out earlier still in 2015.\n• None How Ford has moved out of Farrell's shadow\n• None The unique story of South Africa's first black captain\n• None Class of 2003 give their views on the final\n\nNow, aged 28, in his prime, he believes this is his moment, and for the team he leads.\n\nAll those years of watching his dad Andy as he played rugby league for Wigan, England and Great Britain, and then Saracens and England again at the 2007 World Cup. His uncle, former Wigan captain Sean O'Loughlin; his grandfather, Keiron O'Loughlin, who played 260 times for Wigan and 119 times for Widnes.\n\nSitting as a kid in a Wigan dressing room containing talents like Jason Robinson, Kris Radlinski and Denis Betts. Watching, learning, growing up like so few others.\n\n\"Owen is out of a proper hard-core, winning rugby mentality,\" says Martin Johnson, the only Englishman to lift the Webb Ellis Trophy.\n\n\"You can tell without knowing him that he's going to perform consistently week in, week out and get better. When you're 20 minutes to go in a Test match, who do you want in your team?\"\n\nChris Ashton, another rugby league kid from the Wigan hot-house to make it in union, sees in it similarly stark terms.\n\n\"Owen is a winner. It's working, it works for the team and you win, so you do what he says. Simple as.\"\n\nBeing kicker as well as captain should layer on a little more pressure again. Saturday's final is unlikely to be the giddy romp that the semi-final triumph over the All Blacks turned out to be. It may be won off the tee, from close in and out wide, when the whole world is watching and your team-mates have retreated.\n\nI once tried to put a piece together about what it's like for a place-kicker in those frozen moments. The game stopped, no-one looking anywhere else than you, the match maybe hanging on what can do in those next few seconds.\n\nFormer England fly-half Charlie Hodgson told me it could feel like the loneliest place in the world. Paul Grayson, third on the list of England's all-time points scorers, once almost walked out of the team hotel before a game because the nerves and self-doubt were so intense.\n\nI put those stories to Farrell and asked if he felt the same. He looked at me as if I was mad. \"No! You're just kicking a ball!\"\n\nHe is the same now on the eve of the biggest game of his life. It is not an act. That childhood, his obsessions, all those crunch games with Saracens that led to five Premiership titles and three Champions Cups.\n\n\"I don't think he was born as good as he is,\" says Jamie George, his team-mate at Saracens and with England, who has known Farrell since the pair were 14 years old.\n\n\"He's honed his talents, incredibly so, and he's developed as a player and a person so much over the past 10 years. That's the impressive thing about him, and he'll continue to develop until he hangs up his boots.\n\n\"He's a proper student of the game. He loves it. That's a large part of why you trust his opinion, because you know for a fact that not only is he the best at doing it but that he's watched more tape and thought about it the most.\n\n\"He leads from the front. He's incredibly committed. His messaging throughout the week is brilliant, and it makes the team feel so ready on Saturday. He builds our confidence up during the week, and a large part of that is down to him.\n\n\"What makes him a great leader? What doesn't make him a great leader? The way he performs, the way he carries himself, day in, day out - that's the sort of person you want to follow.\"\n\nIn his captain, coach Eddie Jones sees much of himself reflected back down the years.\n\nBoth are obsessive. Jones sends emails and texts to his assistants and players as late as midnight and as early as 4am. Farrell tries something for the first time and immediately has to be the best at it: making barista coffee, building a bar in his garden, learning how to barbecue ribs.\n\nJones challenges Farrell. Farrell challenges Jones. In the last team meeting before the final, in the team hotel in Shinjuku on Friday night, it will be Jones who willingly steps aside and lets Farrell deliver the final message.\n\nFarrell has produced the iconic image of England's World Cup campaign this far, when he and his team-mates stared down the All Blacks' haka a week ago and he gave that little sideways smile.\n\nIn that moment you saw more of Farrell than you might have seen in the eight years that led to it. No fear, only a savouring of the challenge. No doubts, just a precise statement. 'This is me. What have you got?'\n\n\"When I saw it, it made me smile,\" says George.\n\n\"Because for me, it was almost Owen saying, you don't know what's coming. And I don't think they did.\"", "Pham Thi Tra My and Nguyen Dinh Luong's families are concerned they may be among the victims\n\nAll 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex were Vietnamese, police have said.\n\nThe victims were found in a container on an industrial estate last week and were initially thought to be Chinese.\n\nBut Essex Police said it was now in \"direct contact with a number of families in Vietnam and the UK\" and the Vietnamese government.\n\nA number of Vietnamese families have previously come forward fearing their loved ones are among the dead.\n\nPham Thi Tra My, 26, sent her family a message on the night of 22 October - the day before the 39 people were found dead - saying her \"trip to a foreign land has failed\".\n\nPost-mortem examinations are being carried out on the 31 men and eight women to establish the cause of death.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Smith said: \"At this time, we believe the victims are Vietnamese nationals, and we are in contact with the Vietnamese Government.\"\n\nHe said police were not in a position to identify any of the victims.\n\nThe bodies were discovered in the lorry trailer in the early hours of 23 October\n\nThe Vietnamese Embassy in London said it was \"deeply saddened\" and sent its \"heartfelt condolences\" to the families of the victims.\n\n\"Specific identities of the victims still need to be identified and confirmed by the relevant authorities of Vietnam and UK,\" it said.\n\nIt said it would \"closely co-ordinate with the relevant authorities of Vietnam and UK to support the families of the Vietnamese victims, if any, to bring their loved ones home\".\n\nThe father of 30-year-old Le Van Ha, who comes from an agricultural part of Vietnam, previously told the BBC he was convinced his son was among the dead.\n\nVietHome, a popular Vietnamese community forum in the UK, said it had passed on the pictures of almost 20 people who have been reported missing to detectives.\n\nEarlier, police in Vietnam's Ha Tinh province said they had charged two unnamed people with \"organising or brokering illegal immigration\".\n\nLe Minh Tuan, pictured here, fears his son Le Van Ha was among the dead in Essex\n\nThe driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson, from Northern Ireland, appeared in court on Monday charged with a string of offences, including 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nExtradition proceedings have also begun against 22-year-old Eamonn Harrison, who was arrested in Dubin on a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nPolice are also seeking two brothers from Northern Ireland, Ronan and Christopher Hughes, who are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.\n\nThis article was based on public announcements and appeals made by Essex Police at the relevant time. Christopher Hughes denies any involvement in these offences and Essex Police has since confirmed no further action will be taken against him. Since the publication of this article, his older brother, Ronan Hughes, 41, and Maurice Robinson, 26, both of County Armagh, have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On 21 December 2020, the Crown Court, sitting at the Old Bailey, found Eamonn Harrison, 24 of Newry, County Down, and Gheorghe Nica, 43 of Basildon, Essex, guilty of manslaughter and Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, admitted assisting unlawful immigration. All defendants were sentenced in January 2021.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "South Africans have been celebrating the country's third World Cup trophy win\n\nAcross South Africa, they've been blowing their vuvuzelas, hugging, crying, grinning until it hurts, honking their car horns, pouring and throwing and spraying beer in all directions.\n\nThey are celebrating a comprehensive victory that seems all the sweeter for being set against a backdrop of economic hardship, rising inequality, populist race-baiting, staggering official corruption and serious concerns about this young, boisterous nation's future.\n\n\"We can achieve anything if we work together as one,\" said Siya Kolisi, South Africa's now iconic black captain after the match in Japan.\n\nAnd in bars, homes, halls, and giant open-air public viewing areas, his words seemed - at least for a moment - to ring true.\n\n\"I have never seen, since I've been alive, I have never seen South Africa like this,\" Kolisi went on, and back home the crowds, black and white, nodded and cheered.\n\n\"I'm so happy!\" screamed a black schoolgirl jumping for joy with her friends at a sports centre in a suburb of Johannesburg.\n\n\"We've gone through so much as a country and this is something positive we can celebrate as a country,\" said a woman watching at a luxury resort outside the city.\n\n\"I feel this win will reunite us as a country. We've been segregated, with so much going on. So this win means so much,\" said her friend.\n\nToday's squad has twelve black players and is a truly national team\n\nSouth Africa has always cherished its reputation for pulling off miracles. After all, this was the nation that steered itself away from civil war and plotted a negotiated path out of racial apartheid towards democracy.\n\nA year later, in 1995, a smiling Nelson Mandela watched the national team win its first Rugby World Cup and used that moment to build on his dream of a \"rainbow nation\".\n\nBut the 1995 team had just one black player and many black South Africans struggled to share the enthusiasm of Mandela, and of their white compatriots so soon after the end of apartheid.\n\nToday's squad has twelve black players and has become a truly national team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We have come a long way from 1995 to where we are today. We are demonstrating to the world that we are a diverse and united nation,\" said President Cyril Ramaphosa, who had gone to Japan to be with the Springbok team.\n\nAnd there were other signs of South Africa's progress on display today. Not just a black captain and a diverse squad, but smaller details like the fact that so many more whites in the crowd now appear to have learned the words to their multi-lingual national anthem - bellowing out all the African verses in the minutes before the match began.\n\nFans have described the Springboks' win as something positive for the country\n\nBut can success in a rugby competition transform a nation's fortunes? Of course not. South Africans are all too aware that, come Monday, their economy will still be on the brink of being downgraded to junk status by international ratings agencies.\n\nYouth unemployment will remain around the 50% mark. The power utility Eskom will continue to deliver blackouts as it hovers dangerously close to collapse. 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